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VOL. XXVI, No. 22

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940

Segyriant, Trustees of
Bryf Mawr College, 1940

PRICE 10 CENTS





Administration
Announces New
F aculty Positions



Four New Wardens Named;
Gray and Miller Retire;
5 Appointments Made



Faculty changes, appointments
and promotions for next year were
recently announced by Miss Park.

Dr. Robert E. L. Faris will suc-

~ ceed Mr. Herbert A. Miller of the

Sociology department, who retires
at the end of this year. Dr. Faris,
who recéived his degrees from the
University of’ Chicago, and has
taught at Brown and McGill Uni-
versities, will act as Associate Pro-
fessor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr.

To succeed Miss McBride, who
is leaving Bryn Mawr to become
Dean of Radcliffe College next
year, the department of education
and sociology has appointed Dr.
Elizabeth V. Fehrer. Dr. Fehrer,
received her A.B. and Ph. D. de-
grees from Bryn Mawr, and her
M.A. from Columbia. She has acted
as psychologist with the Tennessee
Valley Authority and has worked
with the Vocational Adjustment
Bureau in New York City. From
1938-40 she was Instructor in Psy-
chology at Wellesley College.

Mr. Evan C. Horning will act
as substitute for Mr. Arthur Cope
of the chemistry department, hold-
er of a Guggenheim Fellowship for
next year. Mr. Horning, who re-
ceived his B.S. from the University

of Pennsylvania, will receive his
Continued on Page Four





E. Dennis Will Give
Three New Ballets

On Tuesday, May 14 at 8.30
P. M., Estelle Dennis and the Den-
nis dancers will present a _ pro-
gram of three numbers in Good-
hart Hall. The outstanding fea-
ture of the evening will be the per-
formance of Prokofieff’s Peter and
the Wolf. The choreography of
this orchestral fable has been es-
pecially arranged by Miss Denrfts,
rand at its initial presentation in
the Baltimore Museum of Art it
was greeted with such eagerness
and interest that ‘more than 400
people were turned away at the
door.

The program will also include
Continued on Page Three







‘Outside Subscribers, Bryn Mawr College
See Formal Opening of Theatre Workshop



Two Monologues
By Miss Skinner and Play
By Caroline Garnet Presented



Theatre Workshop, May 6.—The
Mrs. Otis Skinner Theatre Work-
shop opened with speeches by Mr.
Otis Skinner, Fifi Garbat, ’41, and
Marion Gill, 40. Two monologues
by Cornelia Otis Skinner and an
original play by Caroline Garnet,
40, provided the evening’s enter-
tainment. :

Fifi Garbat, ’41, President of the
Players’ Club, devoted her open-
ing speech to the meaning of the
Workshop as an impetus to Bryn

we have a place in which plays
can be presented and created in an

_informal atmosphere. Marion Gill,

’4A0, as President of the Art Club
spoke on the great advantage
which the workshop affords the
club.

Mr. Otis Skinner spoke of his
wife’s activities in Bryn Mawr
dramatics and her dreams for a
Theatre Workshop. The workshop,
he said. is a realization” of Mrs.
Skinner’s sighted hopes. She had
often thought of the~-long narrow
barn as a potential theatre, a
place where theatre production
- could be carried ‘on creatively.

The prejudice which condemned
all actors as “rogues and vaga-
bonds” still infected Bryn Mawr in
But with Mrs.
Skinner’s encouragement and sym-
pathy, dramatics became more a
part of campus activity. “The final
barriers to the theatre were brok-
en,” said Mr. Skinner, “when I
found myself in a box in the Broad
Street Theatre, next to M. Cary
Thomas.”

Plays today, Mr. Skinner said,

reproduce life as it exists, rather
Continued on Page Five

May 5 Opening
Dedicated to Subscribers



Theatre Workshop, May 5.—A
special opening of the Mrs. Otis
Skinner Theatre Workshop for
outside subscribers and friends of
the Skinners was held on Sunday.
President Park presided as chair-
man of the Joint Committee of
Bryn Mawr College and the Bald-

win School.. Mr, Otis Skinner and
Miss Johnson “of Baldwin also
spoke.

Miss Park traced the history of
the Theatre Workshop. The idea
of a theatre. workshop as a me-
morial to Mrs. Skinner seemed
pertinent because of Mrs. Skinner’s
work in Bryn Mawr dramatics and
May Day, and because of the un-
dergraduate’s requests for such a
workshop.

Mrs. Skinner directedyMay Day
in 1920 and developed the most
spectacular performance Bryn

Mawr had ever attempted. In 1924,
Continued on Page Five



Peace Group to Give

‘Four Hundred Million’

On Monday, May 13, the Peace



_|. Council. will present. The Four

Hundred Million,’ a movie, show-
ing the effects of war upon the

Hans Dister and comments by
Frederic March, is. sponsored~ by
the Far Eastern Students Service
Fund.
warned that many people con-
sider it propaganda, the Bryn
Mawr audience is urged to look at
it “with discrimination and intelli-
genee,” After the movie, Lucy Tou,
the y, Cee graduate student, will



speak on the situation in China.

Chinese people, The movie, a Joris}
| Ivans~ production’ with~ music by

Since Dr. T. Z. Koo has



Dr. Heaton Shows
Need For Statistics
In Economic History



Goodhart Auditorium, Tuesday,
May 7. Dr. Herbert Heaton, Pro-
fessor of History at the University
of Minnesota, in his Webster lec-
ture on Clio in Overhalls, set forth

the importance of the use of satis-
tics in economic historical research,
showing its value as a corrective
for accepted interpretations of
economic facts.

Clio,-the muse of history, turned
economic when she assumes a work-
ing garb, has seen two generations
of economic historians. In both
England and America the end of
this second generation is at hand.
Professor J. H. Clapham retires
this year from Cambridge, having
just completed his definitive, three-
volume British Modern Economic
History,-and leaves the field to a
younger man. Harvard has the
third ‘generation, Usher and his
young colleagues, already at work.

The first generation, represented
by Ashley, Cunningham and Roz-
ers, which took over after the three
formative forces of politics, ped-
antry and prophecy had brought
some. order to the world of econom-
ic thought, concentrated upon the
study of local-institutions, such as
the manor, the town, and the gild.
Fact was subordinated to fancy in
interpreting their functions, and
a rigid framework of conceptions
was erected. Economic history ‘was
written in a series of carefully but

conveniently labelled chapters,
Continued on Page Six

Calendar

Wednesday, May. 8.—
Industrial group supper
and Young Democratic
Club~ meeting, Colonel
Fleming, Common Room,
6.30.

Thursday, May 9.—
Non-resident tea, Common
Room, 4.30.

Saturday, May 11.—

Rhoads and Rockefeller
Dances.

Sunday, May 12.—

.« Art Club Tea-4.30.

! Chapel, ‘Dr. Glenn, Music
Room, 7.30.——__
Monday, May. 13.—
Chinese Movie,

Room, 8.00.

Tuesday, May 14.—
Democratic Club, Common
Room, 4.30.

Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30.



Music

Estelle Dennis Watson
Dance Recital,* Goodhart,
8.30.











lolanthe’s Professional Finish Shows
Integration of Acting, Music,

Scener

ra
Choruses’ Vocal Direction

Lauded; Lord Chancellor
And Phyllis Excel

Goodhart, May 4.—In lieu of Big
May Day, the Glee Club this year
added Jolamthe to Bryn Mawr’s Gil-

bert and Sullivan repetoire. The
production was marked above «all,
by its combination of amateur en-
thusiasm with an unusual and con-
spicuous professional ease.
Tolanthe presents many more dif-
ficulties of production than do its
predecessors: It is slower-paced,
less rollicking and far more depen-
dent upon technical subtleties and
careful handling of production. The
Glee Club took advantage of these
difficulties to bring forth an integ-
rated and finished performance.
The choruses, which ultimately
decide the fate of any Gilbert and
Sullivan production, showed the
fruits of able vocal direction. The
Fairies’ chorus, free of all possible
self-consciousness, tripped about
with spirit and ease and provided
pretty ‘contrast to: the pompous
magnificence of the Peers. Splendid
of costume and deep of voice, the
Peers were at their best during

their march. The end of the first
Continued on Rage Six







Bigger, Better Plans
Made for Infirmary



Now that plans for the enlarge-
ment of the Infirmary are well un-
der way, Rhoads basement is safe
from an invasion of the sick such
as took place this winter during
the scarlet fever scare. Ailing stu-
dents will no longer be housed in
the homey atmosphere of the In-
firmary’s old kitchen, but in the
ten’ new bedrooms—that are to be
added.

The college architect, Mr. Sidney
Martin, has drawn up the plans,
and work may possibly be started
at the end of May. A _ waiting
room, three cubicles for special pur-
poses, and a separate room for ul-
tra violet ray treatments are
planned. ° The doctors and nurses
are to have new offices, as well as
a new, much larger, laboratory.
Plans include an isolation unit, and
increased accommodations for the
college employees. In all, there
will be twenty-three beds, some-
thing for which the present Junior
class may be grateful when they
see the lists of comprehensive read-
ing for the first time.”

| Improvements,
Changes, Urged
In College Rules



11:30 Permission for Eating
In Village Unescorted
Is Proposed

“At a meeting of the legislature,
four resolutions were formulated
fon presentation to the college. The
first two concern amendments to

the student government regula-
tions. Students are henceforth to
be given permission to eat in the
village until 11.380, either escorted
or unescorted. Because of the
dangers of falls and collisions, they
may not ride bicycles off campus
after dark.

The third resolution, proposed by
the
urges that the college join the Na-
tional Student Federation Associa-
tion for next year. The Associa-
tion, which is a clearing house for
information, has a membership of
150 colleges and charges $12:50 a
year. Next year it will hold its
annual meeting in the East.

The final resolution has to-do
| with the Entertainment Committee,
and suggests that the planning of
lectures, entertainments, and other
extra-curricular events during the
college year be entrusted to a com-
; mittee of three, vested with full
powers, but subject always to the
jauthority of the President of the
| College. This committee would be
composed of the Chairman
the Undergraduate Entertainment
Committee, a member of the Fac-
ulty Committee on Lectures, and a
member of the Deanery Entertain-
ment Committee. After these reso-
lutions have been voted on by the
college, they will be passed on to
the trustees.

Mal







College Republicans
Urged to Campaign

In Coming Elections

Common Room, May 6.—The

| Bryn Mawr Republican Club dis-

cussed party affairs and vocational
opportunities at a small informal
meeting with Mrs. John Huber,
vice-chairman of the Republican
State Committee of. Pennsylvania.
Also present were two members of
the Lower Merion-Narberth Coun-
cil of Republican Women, Mrs.
Carl Zipf and Mrs. Helen Green-
wood.

Students interested in political
Continued on Page Six





Historic Ghost and Tinkle Bell Philosopher
Unearthed Among Boners of German Oral



By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43
The German Oral has come and
gone, leaving in its wake some of
the best boners yet uncovered, and
the German Department is more

than ever convinced that First
Year Philosophy is an excellent re-

quired subject.» This was. their, re-

action after reading the transla-
tions of the proper names, Fichte,
Schelling-and Hegel, as “fur tree;”
“tinkle bell,” and “little cap.”
There was the unfortunate girl
who thought “geist” was ghost,
with the following result. “Ameri-
can history begins as a ghost story.
Is there, or is there not, an Amer-
ican ghost?” Another, who is ob-
viously not informed about her
country’s past, followed this with:
“ |, as the Pilgrim father, South-
hampton let down the hawser.” In
the ‘passage by Schopenhauer, on

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clarity of—style,_this_example of
wishful thinking was discovered:
“If a man could express himself

could get away from thinking.”
On Newton’s-theory of color, it
was necessary to call in the depart-
ments of Physics and Psychology
to interpret: “Colors originate

colors: consist of~visible’ bodies, so
that these,
light, annihilate one color compon-
ent.”.. A somewhat clearer explana-
tion ‘was found later: “The colors
coming through a transparent and
an untransparent earthy body, that
is, developed from known light, a
single colorful part destroys itself
—other parts which only no more
blend in the right proportion in
order to give knowledge to send
to the eye.”



Undergraduates Association,

of

in clear, comprehensible words, he |

‘when ‘light: passes. through. trans- ~
parent and opaque’ bodies. These

secreted from white




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Count Us Out

The statement made in our last editorial that “little good can
be done-by us in- Europe until peace is declared”
clarification if misunderstandings are to be prevented.
ment opposes two frequently expressed views; one, that we should
go to war immediately in hopes of being able to force through a
more permanent peace treaty than that of 1918, and two, that we
should enter “into. European affairs just as soon as a truce is con-
ceivable and with our objective outlook act as an international judge.
These two opinions seem to us exceedingly presumptuous and im-

possible, _

“Doing good in Europe,” by which we mean helping to work
out some possible-means for-real peace, does not seem feasible, un-

til the belligerents have secured

Even more strongly we feel that war is no way to establish dem-
ocracy. By the statement we previously made that democracy is
we meant that for a’country to conduct a war
_ many fundamental democratic principles-must be-sacrificed, atleast
temporarily, to achieve efficiency. The country itself must be roused
to hate the enemy as Duff Cooper admitted doing in his speech.
When a country does face such an internal attitude what kind
It does not seem to us complacency to
suggest that neither belligerent ean be expected to be in the frame
of mind to allow mercy to the yanquished.
were fighting, she too would face the same internal pressure for

“doomed in war”

of a peace will she make?

indemnity.

For these reasons therefore we hold that the United States po-
sition now should be to stay out of.the European war and strength-
en her own democratic machinery. When peace is declared, then it
would be up to us to try to influence Europe directly or indirectly
for real peace through trade practices, cultural interchange and_co-

operative movements.

requires further
The state-

some treaty among themselves.

If the United States



Once More Unto-the- Breach, Dear Friends .. .

The time has rolled around once more when we must decide
the eternal question of Big May Day, removed by one more college
generation from all contact or direct knowledge of that vast and
undeniably glamorous undertaking. There has in the past been
overemphasis on the expense, overwork and sleeplessness produced
by Big May Day. It is time, that we re-examined it according to
basic standards of enjoyment, universality and achievement.

A production like Bartholomew Fair although it may carry its
own measures Of success, is robbed of a good part of-its-signi-

‘
ad

ficance when it is not enhanced

must face the tremendous odds confronting any small enterprise.
Survival of the fittest is a process in which individual talents may
oN pass unnoticed and unemphasized.
catalyst offers protection and importance to ‘small groups; it draws

into a common project those whose interests outside of curricular

4 affairs need the: energetice stimulus. gi
Weare in favor of siezing an oppor

- which represents the biggest-and-best- of Bryn. Mawr tradition.

by a larger setup, and when it
May Day, acting as equaliser and

all-inclusive ug adertaking,

‘unity “\whiclt © “unique and

|| empire”’

6 inton

Mile. Bree Condemns News

Editorial on America







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To the Editor of the
College News:

I was greatly interested in last
week’s News entitled
“Peace for Democracy,” which be-

editorial

gan, “We do not want America to
join the war.” I heartily agree
with that sentence. I speak as an
-of course,

of

independent individual,
not in the name of France,
which I am a citizen.

timent surprise me. I expected
something different — influenced
perhaps by what is being written
and said in Europe: “we must find
a way to solve world problems
without destruction—war is not a
solution. but. an .aggravation of
those problems, etc.” However, I
read, “We hold that little good
can be done by us in Europe until
truce is declared”’—and at the end
of the article, “Our sympathies do
not_warrant war to save England’s
; with the second state-
ment I feel safe;—as I turn over
in my mind the history of Empire-
and of the alliance of Empires,
I find it very unlikely that any
American will find himself fighting
only “to savé England’s- Empirg”
(whatever the word save may
mean). As for “doing good in
Europe” after a truce, it may be
as well to put it off till then; Eu-
rope “itself will probably be too
busy to reciprocate and do all the
good it can-to America.” It might
be as well to examine this idea of
“doing good”; I am afraid it will
have to be given up and is as naive
as the one that we fight for some-
one else’s empire; we may go the
length of hoping thet“our govern-
ments may find, after a truce, the
good of the nation they represent,
within the limits: of the common
good of the nations of the world
in which I suppose the state may
be included; but-if America fights,
she will—there is no doubt of that
—be fighting for herself; and if
she helps with the peace it will be
for America’s sake; that all the
nations conegrned should know that
world peace is their salvation in-





NEWS: Next Time We Love,
with Margaret Sullavan and. James
Stewart.

PALACE: It’s
Deanna Durbin,
and Kay Francis.

STANLEY: The Doctor Takes a
Wife, with Ray Milland and Lor-
etta Young.

STANTON: One Million B. C.,
with Victor Mature and Carole
Landis.

STUDIO: The Story of a Cheat,
starring Sacha Guitry, and The
Ware Case.

SUBURBAN

ARDMORE: Thursday, Ray-
mond Massey in Abe Lincoln. in
Illinois... Friday . and Saturday,
Laurel and Hardy in A Chump at
Oxford. Sunday and Monday, Mae
West and W. C. Fields in My Little
Chicadee. Tuesday Wednesday and
Thursday, Mickey Rooney in
Young Tom Edison. :

SEVILLE:

a Date, with
Walter . Pidgeon

Thursday, The

Grapes of Wrath.» Friday and Sat-
urday, Spencer Tracy and Robert
Young in Northwest Passage. Sun-
day, Young As You Feel and The
Aton: ‘Who Wouldn't Talk. Monday















In Philadelphia

MOVIES
* ALDINE: My Son,
with Brian Aherne and
Carroll.

Son!
adeline

ARCADIA: French Without]

This does not represent the opinion of the entire “News” Board

‘Drew.



Tears, with Ray Milland and Ellen

_ BOYD: mhocicccnielaiatipieloslanaic
EARLE: Johnny Apollo, with
Tyrone Power and Dorothy La-
meour.
KARLTON: Til We Meet Again,
with Merle Oberon and George

| Olivia’ de a Raffles. -

SUBURBAN: Thursday, The
Night of Nights, with Pat O’Brien,
Olympe Bradna and- Roland
Young. Friday for a week; Bing

-+Crosby~and--Dorothy._Lamour._in]] .

The Road to Singapore.

“ WAYNE: Thursday, Spencer
Tracy and Hedy Lamarr in J Take
This Woman. Friday and Satur-
day, Raffles. Sunday, Monday and





-[Tuesday: The Road to Singapore.









1} “irgton has been awarded to

The reasons underlying this sen-

Scholarships
Two additional scholarships
have been announced since
May Day chapel.’ The re-
giowtl scholarship for’ Wash-

Patricia McKnew, ’48. Lois
» Hassler received the Joseph
~ W. Catherine Memor ial

cya Fe by the

P Teachers Association

of the Philadelphia High

School for Girls. Genieann

Parker won the Dr. Hannah

E. Longshore Memorial Me-

dical Seholarship which she

will use at John Hopkins

University next year.







dividually and not only the other
man’s, might be a step forward.

But the statement, “We _ hold
that littlé good can be done by us‘
in Europe, ete.,” is interesting
coupled with: the following one:
“Neither. side (when the ‘war is
over) will wish to maintain the
ideals. of self-determination by a
free people.” The picture: is luck-
ily naive and well meant—; other-
wise I am afraid that nothing
short of aggressive complacency
and stark insolence would describe
it. I presume that the expression
“self-determination by a free peo-
ple” has a clear and definite mean-
ing as applied to the nations. of
the world today, in the writer’s
mind. I may add that as a proph-
ecy it is somewhat simple—as an
opinion acceptable as all opinions
must be—as a statement of fact
senseless! . America. against the
presumed wishes of the nations of
Europe will, I take it, maintain
their “self-determination.”

And I turn over in my mind the

familiar sequence “to do good in

Europe,” “self-determination of a
free people,” ‘Versailles’”—some-

‘thing is missing: The League of

Nations—and its subsequent his-
tory; a democratic and strong con-
ception born of the last war; its
defeat a world defeat—not merely
“European.”

Let me now take over the fol-
lowing statements reading the
“we” as “we’—France and Eng-
land, not the States. “To defend
another-democracy when we are
not attacked is a very different
question; it would mean the crea-
tion of one more totalitarian State
and no further advancement of
peace” — Austria — Spain, Czecho-
slovakia—Poland, Denmark, Nor-
way—Did I read “To defend”? In
the facts of the last years I also
read “Not to defend—.” Was that
put forward as a fact? an opinion?
In any case, something is wrong
in the argument; the conclusion
holds with diametrically opposite
premises.

I firmly believe in peace as a
force, not only as.a passive desir-
able state; what I wish to say is
that there are ways of talking of
peace that smack of complacency
and self-righteousness and prepare
war. “The spirit of democracy is
doomed in war” is a fine sentence,
an easy slogan, and very near to
being utter nonsense; it is a super-
ficial, unthinking, frivolous. com-
ment in the face of the bitter
struggle and suffering now involv-
ing millions of your and my fel-
lowmen, who in Norway, for ex-
ample, die for what is to them
“the spirit of —democracy” and
whose responsibility in this war is
no greater and no smaller than
our own; it is utter nonsense in
the face of facts in past history.
War I hope will not touch Amer-
ica; but if it does and succeeds
in killing what you call “the spirit
of democracy,” then that spirit is
Lvery near being dead already. _
‘GERMAINE Bree,

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Correction

Last week the love we
_ bear our tennis team blinded
us. to the truth. Our belief .
that Bryn Mawr had beaten —
Swarthmore 5 to 3 was hal-
luncination. We must face
_ the cold light of day. They

beat us 8 to 2.







|OUTRAGED PEERS

DEMAND WALTZES

On Saturday night after Jolanthe
the revelers repaired to the gym



which was miraculously trans-

formed by leaves on the walls and

streamers on the ceiling. Every-
one seemed to be enjoying himself
or herself. The stagline which was
spread thickly across the center of
the floor -was enlivened by several
erstwhile fairies and peers. The
orchestra seemed highly satisfac-
tory while it was playing, but there
was a slight. eonflict of opinion.
People kept demanding waltzes and
it was quite obvious that the or-
chestra fancied itself as being on
the hot rather than on the Vien-
nese side. There was a surprising
absence of male crashers. Some-
one was wandering around with a
small dreamy boy in tow saying,
“Does anybody want a date?” but
there were no takers and so he dis-
appeared back into the
whence he came. _—



Fresh Dramatic Criticism
Needed for Plays



fo the Editor of the College News:

In the past three or four years
college dramatics have been trying
to get a new lease on life and there
should be an arrangement whereby
they might be assured good and ac-
curate criticisms in the News. This
point has beer labored so often be-
fore that it is hardly necessary to
reiterate that everything produced

the light of its particular purpose
before it can be fairly. criticized.
The criticism of Bartholomew Fair
which calls forth this particular
moment of moaning seems to me
to have been singularly inadequate
for the very reason that the pur-
pose in its production were totally
ignored.

When it began it was meant to
be something that would compen-
sate a little for the loss of Big
May Day; that.is, it was to involve
people who like to be in plays once
in a while but don’t want to make
dramatics a particular job in col-
lege; it was to include dancers and
music and best of all it was to be
given_outdoors. As it-grew older,
the important point about it was
cooperation of the group and the
enthusiasm of a few individuals
who inspired that cooperation
against what seemed to be almost
overwhelming odds— “The People
yes — they organized!” ‘Therefore
it seems to me that the first point
which should be emphasized is the
somewhat ethical one of the suc-
cess of the play as a Group Project.
There were certain specific rea-
sons of course why the Group was
able to succeed. Vivi French re-
fused to let a thing once begun go
unfinished and Emily- Cheney took
the play in hand and cut it down
to a skeleton which was possible
to‘comprehend in the time given—
(and it didn’t rain.) When Miss
Cheney and Migs French had given
material evidence, that the play
might be possible, individuals in
the group began to work on making
it pleasurable as well! The result:
A prologue by Miss Tucker and
Miss Kirk, lemonade by Rhoads
Hall and finally the results of able

by as well as some really delight-

actors,

Miss’ Kirk, Miss Garnett and
Miss French were particularly de-
lightful but criticism of acting is
so much a matter of personal taste
that I hesitate to include my opin-
ion. .in..a letter pointing out »the
deficiencies. in. the~ News article,
However, the phrase “her acting
was positively. colossal” must I
think be particularly unsatisfying
to Miss Follansbee as an estimate
of her interpretation of Ursula. It

|is an indefinite, empty, and untrue

statement. The adjective “colos-
sal” might be applied to the physi-
cal Ursula, but hardly to acting,
and certainly not to the unfinished
burlesque which was inevitable in
Continued on Page Three









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Faculty Overwhelm
Varsity; Score, 14-6



Girls’ Team, Hitless Wonders,
Score 3 Runs on No Hits;
Cope, Doyle Fan 13



By Elizabeth Crozier, "41
Hockey Field, May 5
Cope, today pitching a fast ‘ball,
and Dogfish Doyle, the curve, car-
ried the Faculty into a 14-6 victory
in the first Varsity-Faculty base-

ball game of the season, yielding
only four hits and chalking up 13
strikeouts. The Faculty batsmen
flailed the offerings of MacIntosh
and, Matthai to lay down a barrage
of 15 assorted hits.

By taking advantage of Faculty
errors and several of the 14 free
tickets to first, the Varsity scored
three runs before they got their
first hit.

The Varsity got off to a flying
start in the first frame, when
Waples, leading off, was walked. by
Cope and sent home on three quick
errors by Not-so-Chunk, Bruiser
Broughton, and Eddie Watson. But
the game tightened up somewhat
after that, with both sides pecking
away at each other to make the
score 6-5 in favour of the Faculty
going into the eighth.

In this frame the Faculty initi-
ated a blitzkrieg to put the game
on ice. With one out, Not-so-Chunk
dropped a single into short right
field. Anderson was hit by a pitch-
ed ball, and after Watson hit a pop
foul to Waples, Violet Ray Zirkle
walked another pitched ball—it
looked intentional—to load _ the
bases. Then Bruiser Broughton,
striding to the plate in the clutch,
drove in two runs with a hot single
salvoed into left. Chesty Miller’s
hit sent Zirkle home with the third
tally, and Broughton scampered
across the plate when MacIntosh
muffed..Dazzler.Dryden’s-roller..to
the mound, to make the score 10-
5 for the Faculty:

The Varsity could manage to
pick up only one ryp in their half
of the inning, and the Faculty
came right back in the last stanza
with four more runs when_ Violet
Ray Zirkle thundered out a triple
to drive in three runs, and came in
himself a minute later on a wild
pitch with the last score of the
ball game. é

.—Curveball

Best defensive plays of the
game: A_ beautiful off-balance,
over-the-shoulder running catch

by Squibb in the third inning to
rob Dryden of a home run. For
the Faculty: After Gumbart
reached first in the fifth inning on
Dryden’s error; Doyle struck out
the next three batters in rapid suc-
cession.

Technically, the Faculty lost the
game in the second inning. They
changed their batting order.

Best crack of the day, by Wat-

n: “What do you pay eer ath-
ais fees for?’
THE LINEUPS:

Losing pitcher: Matthai. Win-
ning pitcher: Cope.
Faculty Varsity
Watson, 3b Waples, c
Zirkle, Lb MacIntosh, p, rf

Gumbart, 1b
Chester, 2b

Miller, ss
Dryden, 2b

Cope, p Finger, 2b

Doyle, p Fleming, 3b

Sloane, If Motley, ss

Nahm, e Squibb, rf

Anderson, cf Dethier,-rf, cf

Broughton, rf Riggs, rf
Matthai, cf, p
Mott, If

Hutchins, lf



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At Swimming Dinner



“ Common Room,
26.—This year’s swimming team
finished off the season with a din-
ner, movies and the giving of cups.
Based on the three meets held this
winter within

the college, . four

cups were given, three to individu-
als and one inter-class.
Those who competed in the first

two. meets, which .excluded_ the
Varsity, were eligible for the non-
varsity swimming cup and the non-
varsity diving cup. Swimmers get-
ting first or second place in these
meets, and those: on the squad
could go in the third meet, com-
peting for the Varsity cup. The
sophomores snatched: the inter-class
cup from the freshmen, who were
ahead in the first meet, only to
fall in the second and third.

For the Varsity swimming cup
63 points were the greatest ‘pos-
sible number, and Bobby _Link,.’40,
won the cup with exactly that num-
ber. Because of her astounding
record since she has been at Bryn
Mawr, the team—also-gave her—a
special present never before given.
She has piled up 144 out of a pos-
sible 155 points in her four years,
with 26 firsts and all the rest sec-
onds out of 31 competitions. Boal,
’42, and Gamble, ’42, were elected
as captain and manager. for next
year,

Varsity Swimming

Results Points
aes oa rete 63
O. ROBL (42 oes ec we 32
& (gone 40 6 ii cee 25
Non-Varsity Swimming
1. Hardenbergh,’43°...: 19
2; \COBNg. 48 iii aes 13%

oy. Mubony, “42 2 oi eee 13
Non-Varsity Diving

L) Mupony,. 42) «455.054, 10

B. TUOWis) Oe ei vii 3

BO, Chester, 42's. 2%



. Curriculum Committee

The Curriculum
tee takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the—eleetion of
Martha—Kent,.’41, as chair-
man and Lili Schwenk, ’42,
secretary. The members of
the committee for 1940-41
are: Anne Campbell, ’42;
Peggy Copeland, ’42; Hester
Corner, ’41;-P. Crosby, ’41
Martha Dewitt, ’41; J. Flem-
ing, Srsal K. Pos; 438: V,
French, ’42; E. Fribley, ’41
A. Harrington, ’41; Susie In-
Galls, ’41; Martha Kent, ’41;
Betsy Kerr, ’42; H. McIntosh,
’41; Kitty McClellan, ’42; J.
Schaeffer, ’42; Peggy Short-
lidge, °41. Anyone who has
“suggestions for changes or
improvements in curriculum
is asked to communicate with

Commit-



Thursday, April!





| ment of



one of the members.



©) inton —

Continued from Page Two

Bartholomew Fair.

Moreover, in a cast of 30 people
it is hard to pick out specific peo-
ple “and say “she was this and she
was that’’ and not recognize that
somebody else was quite as equally
something else. A sort of auto-
matic scale of requirements for
acting in a specific play should be







established and then an estimation,

made of how far the individuals
fulfill these requirements. For ex-

-ample, I would choose three points

to consider for the actors in Bar-
tholomew Fair: (a) characteriza-
tion, (b) could*she be heard, (c)
did she act with the whole group.
Miss Kirk, Miss Garnett and Miss
French seem! to me to have fulfilled
these best of all while- the rest of
the cast was uneven, often excell-

}ing in one of the. three points to

the detriment of the others.

There was. further evidence of
carelessness in the statement “the
added attraction of .a musical ac-
compainment for the dancing.”
Music and dancing struggle for
existence on the campus and- when
they have“a chance to be seen it
seems to me that they should be
given’ more than the vague con-
sideration vouchsafed above. The
Modern Dance Group under their
director did the Pavonne and Miss
Grant directed the Folk dancers.
Miss. Rice has. done-a great. deal to
stimulate and organize student mu-
sicales and was generous in con-
tributing her time to this produc-
tion. It was significant that music,
dance and dramatic groups were
all working together and the point

2\}ought' to have been emphasized.

Of course it is impossible to
mention everything, but it is hot
impossible to include several points
which were important and choose
the most important of those ‘for
the-emphasis of the article. I am
also aware that this. particular
article had to be written in a mo-
strife and complication
but there were certain important
generalities about the play which
were as obvious in the dress. re-
hearsal as in the final production,

-and if the reviewer could have had

a few confirmed imprefions from
seeing the performance perhaps
twice, her review would have prof-
ited,

I am using this particular in-
stance of bad dramatic criticism in
the News simply as an illustration
of a case which seems to me to be
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Auidine Committee

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The possibility of a music major,
discussed by the undergraduates
last fall, is being considered by the
Academic Committee of the Alum-
nae Association. Each year ‘this
committee studies certain immedi-
ate college problems, suggested by
the undergraduates or the admin-
istration, and reports on its inves-
tigations to the college.

At the meeting of the committee
held two weeks ago, no decision was
reached on tlie question of a music
major, but the committee plans .o
continue its work on the problem
during the coming year.



E. Dennis Will Give

Three New lets



Continued from Page One

Synchore or a Ballet for Peace? In
this number the antagonism of na-
tions, today is symbolized by the
conflict between the ballet and
modern schools of dance. In con-
clusion, the dance group will offer
a second work by Prokofieff, whose
versatility satisfies both the .mod-
ernists and the traditionalists. This
number, Classical Symphony, is
modeled on Mozart’s style.

Any profits from the perform-
ance will be given. to the fund for
the new Science Building.



are a natural branch of the life
of-every community and should be
given as careful-consideration as
the other branches (Political dis-
cussions, athletics, etc.) Once
again I voice a plea for a special-
ized dramatic critic, who if she
is taking part ina particular play
herself, can appoint her job on that
play to some one else. And may
the organizations who give plays be
allowed to give the critic some idea
of what they want the play to do
(entertain, inform, impress,;—ete.)
so that she can have some basis
on which to begin what she has
to say! ;
Sincerely yours,
‘PUELLA AMORE THEATRI.

Vassar Bats B. M. c:
Tennis Varsity, 4-2,
In Hard-Fought Play

Having been rained off the var-
sity courts Bryn Mawr was de-
feated by the Vassar tennis varsity
2-4 on the Pennsylvania Athletic
Club’s indoor court:\The ‘composi-
tion court made for hard and fast



play.

Hubbell, showing -beautiful .con-
trol of e A remake drives gave
Waples, ylittle chance to yeach

the iy of th place’ her return.
Though re much “give and



take’ »Massar Won the first tennis
singles easly 6-2, 6-2..

Auchincloss, ’40, used strong of-
fensive tactics to score over Prindle
6-2, 6-1 Prindle was unable to
control. her shots under the steam
and effective placement of Auchin-
closs’s drives.

Meyer, '42, faced the closest op-
position, losing the third singles to
Tuttle in-a hard fought maéch, 6-4,
1-6, 6-3. Both were hitting well al-
though as their pace was slower
their rallies were longer. Tuttle
won-on steadier playing. Wharton
trained on California’s hard courts
had no difficulty in defeating Fleet,
43, 6-2, 6-1.

Auchincloss and Waples lost the
first doubles 3-6, 3-6 to Hubbell and
Prindle who proved the steadier
pair. Meyer and Mathai, 43, de-
feated their Vassar opponents in
three long sets, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, pull-
ing ahead in the third®set with
forcing drives which Vassar could
not handle.

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Bustling Hard Working Bryn Mawr Gained

Combine Book and Pansy Sales With Shows



By ili Bogatko, *41
- The Bryn Mawr Alumnae in the
past yedr raised 14,010 dollars for
46 Regional Scholars. In Eastern
Pennsylvania most of the money

was collected through the sale of
pansies, forget-me-nots, and del-
phinium. Every spring in different
parts gf Philadelphia, baskets and

baskets of these spring flowers are’

sold not only to passers-by, but by
order, to a long list. of subscribers.
Pansies have proved to be so in de-
mand that their sale has spread to
Cleveland and St. Louis.
Another method of raising
money which is used in Montclair
and with even greater success in
Princeton, is the sale- of second-
hand books. This business is one
of pure profit and every year hun-
dreds of dollars are made by. book
sales. Most of the books:are fairly
worthless, but every once in a
while a first edition turns up. It
is interesting to note that the
worse a_ book is the more money_it
makes. The truly horrible volumes
are turned back year after year,
until they crumble into the dust.

In Washington and Chicago, ben-
efit performances are given every
year. In Chicago this year, a bene-
fit lecture was given by Eve Curie.
In Boston, Dr. Blodgett spoke on
invisible glass with. tremendous
success. Money is made thugh
dances, bridge parties, cake and
candy sales, and white elephant
auctions.

In St. Louis, one year Margaret
Hines McKenzie exhibited her col-
lection of 500 dolls of all nations.
Besides. the exhibition itself, there
was a talk for children on. cos-
tumes as related to the customs of
different countries..In California,
there was a “save your pennies for
Bryn, Mawr” plan. Although all
the money raised in California was
not done in this way, the pennies
formed a considerable bulk.

The Alumnae Regional Scholar-
ships committees cover seven main
geographical divisions and _ their
sub-divisions. The committee picks
their own scholars. and takes a
warm, motherly —interest—in-—their
progress. The first Alumnae
scholars were sent to Bryn Mawr
in 1922.



Prize Essays Wanted
About Utopian World

Prizes of three hundred dollars,
two hundred dollars and one hun-
dred dollars are being offered by
the Committee for the Organiza-
tion of Peace, for an essay on “The

World We Want.”’ The committee,
of which Mr. Fenwick and Dr. Jes-
sup are members, broadcasts as the
Student Forum on the organization
of peace over the Columbia Broad-
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after a future war. With Louise
Morley as its guiding spirit, a
group comprising those students
who went to the Model League and
belong to the International Rela-

tions Club has based its essay plan
on three main problems. A com-
promise of the League’s adoptions,
it proposes a peaceful change, re-
gionalism as far as it is feasible,
and an international legal organi-
zation—according to the Bruce
Committee’s proposals.. The group
must base its theories on the as-
sumption that it cannot be sure
which side will win and that a
treaty will not be the.thing which
will build peace. In this case, the
group defines peace as Utopian,
not.as a respite between wars or
as__a_settlement— which will sow
seeds for another war. Anyone who
is interested in. helping should
communicate with Louise Morley

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Shifts in Faculty Are

Announced for ’40-'41



Continued from Page One

Ph. D. from the University of II-

linois this year. He has been as-
sistant instructor in chemistry at
the University of Illinois, and was
a DuPont Fellow in 1939-40.

Miss Mary Henderson and Miss
Mary Meigs, ’39, have been ap-
pointed instructors in English for
next year. Miss Henderson, form-
er Warden of Pembroke West, and
instructor in English artd diction
at Bryn Mawr from. 1936-39, will
replace Mr. Theodore. Steele who
plans to do graduate work at
Columbia University. Miss Meigs,
who received her A.B. at Bryn
Mawr in 1939, will be a reader in
English for the first semester, and
will take part of Miss Laurence
Stapleton’s work during her leave
of absence in the second semester.

Mr. Howard L. Gray of the his-
tory department will retire at the
close of the year. No. full time
appointment will be made in his
place, but Mrs. Manning will con-
duct a seminary on England in the
19th century, in addition to the
courses she has given this year.
The advanced course on Europe
since 1870 will be taught by Mrs.
Cameron.

Faculty promotions announced
were those of Mr. Edward H. Wat-
son as full professor of geology,
Mr. Paul Weiss as full professor of
philosophy,. Mr. A. L. Patterson as
associate professor of physics and
Mr..R. E. Zirkle as associate pro-
fessor of biology. Miss Frederica
deLaguna will act as full time lec-
turer in anthropology next year.

The new wardens for 1940 have
also been announced. Ruth Law-
son, -warden-elect of Pembroke
East, has been a graduate student
at Bryn Mawr, and from 1936-40
has taught economics and political
science at Sophie Newcomb Col-
lege, Tulane University. Warden-
elect of Merion Hall is Alice Gore
King, of the class of 1937 at Bryn
Mawr, and now assistant in psy-
chology at the Brearley School in
New York. Nancy Cooper Wood,
‘39, will be warden of Rhoads
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The exhibition which the Art
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put up last Sunday, to be on view
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faculty art collections for help.

The Art Club contributions run
to color, fall scenery and girls in
gay skirts as the most favored sub-
jects. There are also numerous ac-
tion poses. Particularly good are a
watercolor of a student sketching,
very true to life, and a woman’s
head modeled in clay.

Sherry Pancoast’s photograph,
“to the glory of Bryn Mawr,”
strikes a familiar note, with a view
of Taylor tower as it looks to a
person running to class. The first,
second, and special awards of the
Nucleus Camera Club, however,
went to G. Hambridge, Jr., for
three really outstanding pictures.
The third award went to Doris
Turner for “Wind-Blown,” a study
of winter trees against the sky.

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Continuea from Page One cellent, and Miss Emery handled
than lifé as‘a dramatist would like

We ‘have left ‘Alice in

the cockney twang effectively. The|the Prince of Wales nerve No. Hei
es {

did NOT lend them*to me!” Fin- | Bureau and

Committee: G.

to see it. characters of the play.were well







Dr. Glenn Will Conduct
Sunday Evening Chapel



The speaker at chapel on Sunday

Wonderland’s dream world behind.
Despite the difficulties facing the
modern theatre, drama can return
to its old position of cultural im-
portance through such projects as

defined and well contrasted. Ser-
ina’s slow whine pointing up Jeff's
vivacious optimism. The play, es-
pecially the manipulation scene was
timed and 4€l]d in good proportion,
lapsing only in some of Grandma's

ally buoyed by a double scotch,

the giggling lady marches “into
the jaws of Hell - The
kan!”





Nebras-



Trainer.

New Book Room:
ner.

Record Library: N. Spiel-
man.

H. Cor-

evening, May 12, will be the Rev-|the Theatre Workshop. | Soliloquies. Wor shop Subscribers Ania Committee: M.
erend Leslie C. Glenn of Christ East River, a play. by Caroline Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner, yee Formal Opening oye oL

. i ‘ daughter of Mr. Skinner, brought Common Room Exhibit.
Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Garnet, ’40, followed on the pro-| 4, i : : : \ Pomme: A ae 7
Dr. Glenn has ’ the evening to its climax with two Continued from Page One , + ae Se

spoken at Bryn
Mawr several times in the last few
years and he is also known to
many girls who have been to
Northfield Conferences.

69th ST. THEATRE



gram. The play was presented ex-
actly as it would have been in play-
writing class. The author described
the the
beating on the window, and intro-

setting, imaginary rain
duced the characters. Eleanor Em-

ery, ’40, played Grandma Calkins,

entertaining monologues, Times
Square and Being Presented. In
the first, Miss Skinner managed to
be gypsy, dope-fiend, opera goer,
and chorine in quick succession.
Her characterization was achieved
largely through subtle and skillful
use of voice and detailed gestures.

she was again Director, and insti-
tuted a May Day which served as
a pattern for all those. succeed-
ing it.

She was a strong believer in the
possibilities of amateur dramatics
and coached Dramatic Club plays





im

sitions
in 5 weeks: .

UPP ; . |both in Bryn Mawr and Baldwin. CORD
ER DARBY an old Englishwoman.: who had |Most..of the characters. in this|,, ~ ees » THAT'S THE AMAZING REOU In-
: g ’ , CL ek was plkkaanus teead Her home. on Gulf road served as} ? sraduates of last seasons NSN oe

emigrated to New York. Vivi)" ring y typed ancl rehearsal stage, a dye house and tensive Secretarial Course fo

“GONE WITH





French, ’42, played Jeff, her- full-

easily recognized.







a meeting place, for the young the-















n request).
Women. (Details ecUTIVES FOR

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THE WIND” blooded son, while Julie Follans-{ AS 4M encore, Miss Skinner gave) +1. enthusiasts. dag secretarial training ies
bee, °41, ‘took the role of Serina,|@ Sketch depicting a Nebraskan! m4. Baldwin school offered the best initial equiprise best) “channel
4 days only Jeff's thin, whining wife. The ac-|Woman dressing for her presenta-|..6 of the building in May, 1937.]) SPRsining™ thereafter. But it rere
WED.. THUR., FRI. SAT.) ‘rs read their parts informally ie at Buckingham Palace. The! cince then the serbiiey Yak el becficen —* sd
+s > oT ¢ : ‘ 7 ‘j ;
M BO. i. itth from scripts, and availed them- efeathered lady’s hard American a joint venture of the school and > DAILY Sept. 3—Jan. Wf iia.
oe . . selves of the audience’s imagina- humor and deprecating, self-just- of the college payable In instrocker $16. Member
; , ‘ ifvi ips thole " : ks, supplies, CA $1.
Matinees: Cont. from 9:30 A. M. tion for any detailed properties, proda a bet whole proced-| 4 Jife-size photograph of Mrs. ship in Centre Oe sl
eC as «: - M. an : Ape e ke e audience in apprecia- | q,; : ee en
wae “ae complete show ‘. costumes or scenery. — . P pp Skinner and an oil painting of Cor- neers SUMMER shorthand | 990)
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around Grandma Calkins who has

j won ten thousand dollars in the

Irish Sweepstakes. The querulous

Throughout the play she is manip-
ulated by Jeff and Serina. Unwil-
ling to leave her grandchildren or
to sacrifice her dominant position
in Jeff’s home, she finally puts the
money behind a tug-boat venture of
Jeff’s, and returns.to her rocker





“Speed wins in motor

MOTHER’S DAY
MAY 12

from

JEANNETT’S

















gifts which have been given to the
workshop. The oil painting given
by Miss Edith Emerson has been

Skinner’s personal vitality and in-
fluence. Mr. Skinner spoke on his
wife’s interest in college dramatics
and the future of the modern thea-
tre. Mr. Charles Hansen Towne
read one of his poems written to
Mrs. Skinner. =












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Page Six, -

Production of ‘Iolanthe’ |
Shows Skill and Finish

Continued from rage One





by. considerably more action, and
the second act song, “In Vain to Us
You Plead,” was spoiled by ineffec-
tive stagework. Aside from these
shortcomings, there was an ex-
tremely well-maintained balance
between chorus and principals, ap-
parent both in singing and in
acting.

Terry Ferrer, ’40, innit, as the
Lord Chancellor, a thorough and
excellent mastery of the D’Oyley
Carte mannerisms and added much
to the professional finish of the
production. Her light and distinct
rendition of the incredibly difficult
“Nightmare Song,’”’ was one of the
evening’s high—spots:

The part of Phyllis was beauti-
fully sung by Louise Allen, 742,
who placed equal emphasis upon
the vocal and ‘dramatic implica-
tions of her role. Keynotes of the
production were Miss Atlen’s self-
assurance and evenness of per-
formance.

Virginia Sherwood, ’41, was an
excellent Earl Tolloller, refusing to
smile at any provocation and
adorning her part with the neces-
sary nonchalance and poise. Mary
Newberry, ’ 40, as the Earl of
Mountararat, did not give quite as
distinct a characterization, but the
solos of both “bluebloods’” were
smoothly handled.

‘The Fairy Queen, although ably
sung by Margot Dethier, ’42, did
not do full justice to the comedy of
the role. Iolanthe was charmingly
played by Ann Updegraff, ’42,
whose voice possessed an unusual
and lovely quality. Carla Adelt,
’43, as Strephon, handled a difficult
singing part with ease, although
her acting was unsure.

Two portrayals redolent with
Gilbert and Sullivan spirit were
those of Ann Denny, '48, as the
Lord Chancellor’s nimble _ train-
bearer and Eleanor Emery, ’40, as
the capering guardsman. Miss
Emery’s solo at the. beginning of
the second act and her sturdy foot-
work during the trio were su-
premely satisfactory.

The climax of the evening was
the second act trio by the Lord
Chancellor and the two Earls, who
sang and_ skipped their way
through four encores.

Miss Rice to Head

Amateur Musicians|
|







Next year, Miss Rice, who will
be living in New York, will con-
tinue her work with Bryn Mawr’s
amateur musicians. She feels that
it is a shame for girls who play a
musical instrument to give it up
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HORIZONS

@ College women with
Katharine Gibbs secretarial
training look out upon broad
horizons. Many a Gibbs-
trained secretary. starting
@s an understudy. has
steadily advanced to an ex-
ecutive position of her own.
@ Special Course for Col-
lege Women opens in New
York and Boston. Sept. 24.
-@ OPTIONAL—AT NEW
YORK SCHOOL ONLY-—
same course may be started
July 8, preparing for early
placement.

Ask College Course ‘Secre-
tary for “RESULTS.” a book-
let of placement informa-
tion. and illustrated catalog.

BOSTON, 90 Marlborough St.
NEW YORE. 230 Park Ave.

KATHARINE GIBBS

|









Junior Prom

The Junior Promenade
Committee wishes to an-.
nounce that supper will be
served between the sixth and
seventh dances and that the
third, seventh and eleventh
dances will be waltzes.







Heaton Stresses Value
Of Historical Statistics



Continued from Page One

Despite its shortcomings, the first
generation left the second a good-
ly heritage. But the new historians
faced their subject quite differ-
ently,— with a skepticism, and with
new material offered by new and
more numerous sources and with
the skill of three new tools: geog-
raphy, technology and statistics.
Geography. proved the fallacy of
many, too-general beliefs, showing,
for instance, the impossibility of
holding that the open-field system
was géheral in England—the “typ-
ical village” could not exist, econ-
sistently, in swamps and on moun-
tains. Technology, the knowledge
of methods of industry, can enlarge
and clarify economic - conceptions
immensely, as.the research: of Nef
of Chicago, on England’s 16th cen-
tury coal industry, shows.

The science of statistics is, how-
ever, the most important of the
modern economic historian’s new
tools. Statistics are the chief char-
acteristic of our age—we think,
speak and act statistically. The
quantitative, the definitive, are
now to be desired. Thus the old
statements of cause and effect will
be questioned.



for four years, and realizes the
difficulties of carrying on without
some organization and guidance.
Miss Rice plans to be at Bryn
Mawr from Sunday morning until
Tuesday afternoon of each week.
‘This year, informal concerts
have been held every Sunday
morning. The most regular at-
tendants are: Athleen Jacobs, '41;
Julianna Day, ’41; Margaret Spen-
cer, 48; Helen Garth, Anne Wil-
liams, ’43, and Harriet Case, ~’43.
A string quartet of Henrietta But-
ler, °42; Eleanor Benditt, Helen;
Bacon, 40, and Naomi Coplin, meets
on Tuesday afternoons.

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College Republicans
Urged to Campaign



Continued from Page One

work were urged to join some Re-
publican club, and to do summer
work if possible. There is a great
demand for college graduates who
can type and take dictation, and
political jobs at 2000 dollars a year
are practically guaranteed to those
who can fill these qualifications.
Volunteer assistance would also be
appreciated in working at the polls
on Election Day.

On May 18 the Republican State
Committee meeting, to be attended
by the 72 Pennsylvania delegates
to the National Convention, will be



held in Philadelphia, with the pur-
pose of organizing a_ platform.
The Pennsylvania Committee will
probably be influential at the Con-
vention, since it is not pledged to
any candidate. The Pennsylvania
Republican party is further dis-
tinguished by the fact that it has
broken away from the New Deal,
and has actually carried out its
platform. :
Georgia Trainer, president of the
Bryn Mawr club, urges the mem-
bership of all campus Republicans,
so that the club may join the Col-
lege Republicans of America, with

‘the, advantages of receiving edu-

cational material and notices.



The editor welcomes letters of
constructive criticism.



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