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VOL. XXV, No. . awd | : " |
XXV, No va BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1939 ,,0pytlght TRUSTEES OF | PRICE 10 CENTS
League Meeting
Probes Phases
of Social ork
Growth of Volunteer Work
Described by Miss
old
FOR MAIDS, BLIND
Goodhart/, March 4. — The Bryn
Mawr ae th sponsored an afternoon
conferenge to give people interested
in varigus branches of the League’s
their /problems with authorities on so-
cial /work.
The conference opened with a short
talk in the music room by Florence
Newbold on -voliinteer work. After
this, the group broke up into smaller
specific problems. One group was
concerned with adult education, an-
other with recreation and the third
with the Blind School.
Miss Newbold talked about the need
for volunteer workers in the present
system of social. work and gave a
brief history of how social work
grew. The first social legislation
was the. Elizabethan Poor Laws
which were passed in 1621. Social
work on an organized scale began in
the U.S. in.New York City in 1877
when the School of Social Work was
founded. This was entirely volun-
teer aid, more or less on the Lady
Bountiful idea. The professional then
came into the field, attempting to root
out that idea and the volunteer was
looked, on as a nuisance. Now the
volunteer andthe professional are in
harmony, each recognizing the. value
and place of the other in the scheme.
The volunteer must have something
to offer, must.
and,. most important of all, must be
dependable. The volunteer is the in-
terpreter of the social agency to the
community and vice-versa.
The group which was interested in
adult. education _ listened to Peggy
Wood describe methods jn which
workers’ education has been carried
out. She declared ‘that this education
shoutd be more active than passive—
discussion rather than classes—and
that students should help workers in
construétively solving their problems.
Miss Howe discussed the changed
conditions of the maids on campus.
There has been improvement :in their
wages and housing. Since the negro
race has never had much leisure time
and now has more, it is important
that they be taught how to use their
Plays,, singing and classes are
Continued on Page Five
Students To Benefit :
By Hospital Insurance
Faculty Committee Views Plan
Whigh Will Include Services.
Of Staff Surgeon
-A faculty committee has been in-
vestigating various plans of hospital
insurance which can be used by the
students next year. The Associated
Hospital Service Plan of Philadelphia
was considered for the college and the
faculty have already joined the
group. - However, since this plan does
not ‘include the services of a surgeon
during sickness, but covers only hos-
pital expenses, it has begn rejected as
unsuitable for the studynts’ purposes.
Mrs. Manning feels that most bene-
fit would be derived from the insur-
ance in the case.of\ appendicitis, and
therefore it is profitable to adopt a
plan which would. provide for the
services of a surgeon. These benefits
are found only in a hospital insur-
ance plan which originated in Boston
and which is being successfully used
at Vassar. The annual premium of
$15 is slightly higher than that of
the Associated Service Hospital Plan,
but the services include medical at-
tention from a staff surgeon of the
hospital as well as hospital expenses.
The patient is entitled to a semi-pri-
vate room in one of the recognized
hospitals of the association or is al-
lowed a certain percentage of the rate
on a private room. The insurance can
be transferred to apply to hospitals
throughout the country, although the
students will join the group in Bryn},
Mawr. %
The faculty committee had hoped to
arrange’ for the students. to use the
hospital insurance by the second se-
mester, but in trying to find the most
suitable plan-there have been a num-
ber of delays. The plan which de-
cides to adopt will be presented be-
fore May, however, so that it can be
used in 1939-40.
A.-S.U- Sele
For Social Legislation
Student Body Asked to. Endorse
Human Rights Roll Call
(Specially contributed by E. Di-
mock, ’41.)
The A. S. U. is launching Thursday
the Human Rights-Roll Call asking for
broad. student and faculty support
for a legislative conference to be held
next December. The A. S. U. does not
intend to sponsor such a conference
alone, but is urging other student
groups to join with it in the actual
preparation. The objective of this
conference is the formation of con-
crete proposals for liberal social
Continued ‘on Page Six 8
Early Editions of ‘News’ Oppose Limited
Cuts, Support Suffrage, “Beauless Club”
The College News originated in
1914, primarily, we suspect, in order
to join in the war over cuts which
was then being waged. ‘The day when
the faculty were addressed as “au-
gust,” by the Philistine is now past;
instead, they are sharply reprimanded
by the News because they refuse to
state their reasons for supposing that
cutting should not be left to the ma-
ture discretion of the student. The
News holds editorially that under-
corpulsion it has lost ,its purpose.
ant and.cuts were limited.
A sidelight ‘on the fray comes a
few weeks later. A letter from a
student to the News warfis under-
graduates to attend chapel regularly,
for if they do not, the faculty will
Se
Reflections from the war came to
the News almost weekly, in the form
‘as George Macauley Trevelyan, and
also a bee French and Eng-
and others. By
1916 students were ssenalves active
in organizing Red Cross urfits, knit-
ting socks and collecting money. The
question of “preparedness courses”
came up, and after much deliberation,
the faculty decided that, among
others, “a course in farming which
Dr. Gray has offered to give,” would
be acceptable as a substitute for a} '
regular course.
After the war, political feeling still
ran hight’ The “Hoover Club” in 1920
had 85 members. The elections of
1920 gave ‘rise to a Four Party Rally,
at which Dr: Fenwick; characterized’
by’ the News as “a hot. Democrat,”
eulogized the League and Woodrow
Wilson, while Dr..Crenshaw told Stu-
dents to vote for Eugene Debs.
An undercurrent of feeling about,
the orals appears almost every spring
and fall. In 1920, the News sadly
reports that 66 per cent of those re-
taking the German oral failed.
Several of the contestants, were might-
have-been graduates. of the class of
1919.
orts figure ieee ath aa as
well as~quantity. We reproduce a
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Saturday, March 11.—Riders
to the Sea and A.New School
for Wives. Goodhart, 8.30.
Sunday, March 12.—Dr. Doro
Levi will speak on Ndtive Ele-
ments in Etruscan Art. Dean-
ery, 4.30.
Monday, March ° 138.—Violin
— by Marjorie Edwards.
oodhart, 8 30.
Tuesday, March 14.—Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
Room, 7.30. Dance Recital by
Miss Josephine Petts and her
group. Gymnasium, 8.30.
Thursday, March ‘16.—Phi-
losophy Club meeting. Com-
mon Room, 8.30.
Saturday, March 18.—French
movie, Les Perles de la Cou-
ronne. Goodhart, 8 p. m.
Monday, March 20.— Judge
Florence Allen will speak on
The Constitution and Labor.
Goodhart, 8.20.
‘Tuesday, March 21.—Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
_. Room, 7.30. Hampton Dance
Group. Goodhart, 8.30.
Wednesday, March 22.—Judge
Florence Alten will speak on
Democracy and the Constitution.
Goodhart, 8.20.
Players Club Plans
Two One-Act Plays
Haverford Will Fill Male Parts
In Modern Dramas' by Synge
and Kilpatrick
The cause of the Theatre Workshop |
will receive additional support next
Saturday when the Players Club pre-
sents two one-act plays, The New
School for Wives by John Kilpatrick,
and Riders to the Sea by John Synge,
under the direction of, Eleanor Em-
ery, 40, and Pennell Crosby, ’41.
Haverford is supplying male talent
and Maleolm Smith, who -should be
familiar to those who saw him play
| Nicola in the BrynsMawr and Haver-
ford production of Arms and the Man
earlier this year will have the leading
juvenile role in the Kilpatrick ‘play.
Sara Algood,.a member of the Ab-
bey Players, has indirectly contrib-
uted by making recordings under the
supervision of Miss Henderson, of the
part of Maurya in Riders to the Sea.
These recordings are being used to in-
spire the Bryn Mawr production..
As in recent similar presentations,
the scenery for the plays will be kept
fairly simple with realistic properties
and a box set. Vivi French, ’42, who
plays Catherine in the Irish play is
learning how to manipulate the spin-
ning wheel borrowed for this occasion
from the Cottage Tea Room. To give
the produetion added authenticity the
choir will be used for keening.
MARJORIE EDWARDS,
VIOLINIST, TO PERFORM
FOR WORKSHOP FUND
» On. Monday evening,. March 18,
Marjorie Edwards, 16-year-old violin
prodigy, will give a recital in Good-
hart for the benefit of the Theatre
Workshop. Miss Edwards is a Cali-
fornian, and gave her first recital in
San Fratitisco three years, ago where
she was enthusiastically received.
She became known in the East when
her teacher; Kathleen Parlow, was
brought to Pittsfield to take the First
Violin Chair in the South Mountain
Quartet. Miss Edwards’ parents felt
that it was so imperative that she
continue with the same teacher that/’
they moved East with her where her
playing was the sensation of. the Berk-
shire Music Festival.
At a subsequent recital at Town:
Hall in New York the talented young
violinist’. was acclaimed by both au-
dience and critics. The tour. which
she is now on is her first; her other
performances on it have justified the
words of Albert Spalding, who said
of. her, “I consider her unusually
gifted. She shows gualities of heart
and imagination in her playing, added
struggle.
Science Club Hears
Talk On Descartes
Cartesian System Described in
Relation to Later.Math
By Miss Lehr
Common Room, March 6.—Margue-
rite Lehr of the mathematics depart-
ment discussed the historical signi-
ficance of Descartes’ Essay on Geom-
etry at a meeting of the Science Club.
Her
such notions as would occur
presentation was, she said, of
to a
mathematician working on the essay.
_ Miss Leh? showed how the minimum
assumptions-we have made in mathe-
matics by the end of .a year of algebra
and geometry are different from the
common basis in Descartes’ time.
In trying to discern the importance
of this work by examination of it
alone, Miss Lehr stressed the neces-
sity -of distinguishing between the no-
tations ‘Wwe assume today and the dif-
ferent meanings in use in 1687.
Before Descartes’ time, algebra and
geometry; were quite separate studies.
Although negative numbers have been
used to some extent, in terms of debt,
in India six centuries previously, the
‘influence of Greek mathematics and,
possibly, the prevalent awkward forms
of notation, postponed this treatment
in Europe until the seventeenth cen-
tury.
Descartes’ explanation of his
method, which is, Miss Lehr said, as
good today as it ever was, proceeded
as follows. You must first consider
your problem as done and name all
the lines that enter into the final con-
| struection.._Frem—this—write-down “fil
possible relations among the parts:
You must go through these relations
in the order which seems logical until
you find two ways of saying the same
thing. This, says Descartes, will be
called.an equation.
Continued on Page Six
GALA DEANERY PARTY
INCLUDES FIRE EATING
AND SLEIGHT-OF-HAND
Deanery, March 1.—The evening ‘of
fun for faculty and students given. by
the Deanery Entertainment Commit-
tee began with a gala dinner, then
passed through a stage of magic mixed
with gate prizes of candy for the
tickets with the lucky numbers and
ended, more Conventionally, with
bridge. The magic consisted of sword
swallowing and sleight-of-hand tricks
while the dinner had most excellent
food and the bridge, the usual four
suits.
The two magicians were amazing.
So that we might appreciate how
{great an art sword swallowing 16; 28
short technical history was given tell-
|img how the art had begun with fire
eating. The latter skill was handed
down by word of mouth for genera-
tions until finally man so perfected
the art that he could even swallow
swords. One of the magicians then
took some flaming Blte Sufioco and
ate it with. evident relish, advocating
this particular brand of gas:for any
interested in trying the feat.
More remarkable yet, the other man
swallowed a twenty-three-inch sword
which probably sets a new mark in
the history of this art. Part of the
necessary training, said the per-
former, are stretching exercises and
special diets so as to elongate the dis-
tance from the throat to the bottom of
the stomach. , .
The next feat, a combination of
«numbers and_sleight-of-hand work,
“was good but not good enough to es-
Bryn Mawr biologists. Besides this
trick the magicians made red thimbles
appear from nowhere onto their hands,
gu turn up unexpectedly and ropes
was done by only a few wegttites and
one-or tw6 words in Pali, After-these
tricks the guests settled down to cards.
No rumors of the magic being carried
over to this field have been heard of,
except the usual prejudicial opinions
stated in the heat of the bridge
advantage of a poor piano.
| cape detection- by a-group-of-eminent}extra instruetion anda
Fritz Kurzweil,
Austrian Pianist,
_Appears Here
Pt
Varied Program Includes
Selections From Bach
To Prokofieff
Deanery, March 5.—Dr. Fritz Kurz-
weil, an Austrian pianist, gaye an ex-:
tremely interesting piano recital in the '
Deanery Sunday afternoon. Musical
temperament and adequate technique
combined to make the event a real
treat, and all but overcame the dis-
He se-
lected compositions from Bach _ to
Prokofieff, which, while they did not
attempt to depict the development of
music, gave the listeners a-profitable
glimpse into various methods of com-
position. s
-Emphasis was on the shorter type.
With the exception of the “Pa-
thétique” Sonata, the selections-gave——
us quick but memorable impressions
of the different composers. First an
organ prelude, arranged by Busoni, °
presented Bach jn a somber, majestic
mood. It progressed slowly, giving
the effect of compressing tremendous
emotional powers into simple outlines.
Then came .Beethoven’s “Pa-
thétique,” which, perhaps more than
any other of his early works, shows
the individuality which was to. rise
to epoch-making propoPions.. Dr.
Kurzweil’s interpretation\ did, not
shine in-comparison with ra Hess’s
recent performance of it here; al-_
though he did justice to its: spirit one
did not feel that he had made it his
own. At times more moderate tempo
would have’ been more satisfactory.
Next. he. played an Intermezzo by
Max Reger, a composer not well
known here, but greatly esteemed by
the younger generation in Germany.
The composition was full of sound of
the impressionistic variety, yet closely
woven» in emotional content. The
Brahms Intermezzo in E flat’ major
and Rhapsodie in the same key were
beautiful in a more’ solid way. The,
Intermezzo suffered less from the-pi-
ano than did the more vigorous
Rhapsodig. t *
Both here and in the four Chopin
compositions heard next the pianist
Continued on Page Five ©
Rents to be Raised
In Language Houses
”
French, German Halls Considered
Successful Experiment
Music Room, March 23.—In Chapel
Mrs. Manning discussed the revised
plans for residence in the French and
German Houses. She feels that the ©
houses have proved one of the most
successful experiments ever made at:
Bryn Mawr, both from the standpoint
of teaching the spoken language and
that of actual enjoyment. The col-..«
lege feéls, however, that residents
should be chosen for 4 full year and
that the tentative quality in. regard
to the holding of rooms be given up.
‘To make up the deficit in room
rents and to pay for instruction,
$1,696 have ‘been expended on the
French House alone. To avoid the
necessity of having the college budget
bear this expense, it has been decided
that every student shall be charged
an extra 50 dollars. Mrs. Manning
feels that it is only right that this
deficit should be made up» by those
students: who are~ benefiting by e™
ever, exceptions will perhaps pm wails
in the case of certain students who
cannot afford this.
The students favored for residence
in the language houses are upper
classmen, majors in either language,
or those with special ability or need.
Mrs. Manning urged that all applica-
tions be made as soon as possible with
either Miss Gilman, Mr. Diez, or Mrs.
Manning so that the lists may be ten- _
tatively drawn up during the spring —
| toa remarkable facility.”
vacation. —
, Page Two
* ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS
—~y
THE COLLEGE - NEWS
“Published cae eee the College Year (excepting. durin
Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks
‘of Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, —
Mawr College.
The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in
Balter. bs. aa either wholly or.in part without written permission of the
or-in- e
Thanksgiving,
in the interest
Pa., and Bryn
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Mary R. MEIGs, ’39
Copy Editor an
MARGARET MAcG,. OTIS, ’3)_,
; News Editor
’ ANNE LOUISE AXON, ’40
Ass’t News Editor
; EMILY CHENEY, ’40
.) it Editors
Betty LEE BELT, ’41
; Doris DANA, ’41
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Return to Opinion
A man who holds a strong opinion may be tolerant, willing ‘to
hear—and contest—a contrary opinion, or he may be intolerant, re-
fusing to admit that there is or can be a contrary stand. We do not
believe that the label of intolerance can fairly be applied to an opinion |
itself, but only to the holder; and then with extreme care.
The man who understands several conflicting opinions but sup-
ports none is sometimes considered the epitome of tolerance. The
pure intellectual achievement of understanding both sides may be
praiseworthy, but it is rather unproductive unless translated into an
attempt to solve the conflict with a new, more inclusive, opinion.
—___—_Neceessarily,any_positive-opinion—emphasizes-one—phase-of-a-_prob=
lem at the expense of others, and therefore can be called one-sided.
But only some ideal “absolute knowledge” can- synthesize all facts,
with perfect logic. We are very pessimistic about, the possibility of
such knowledge, and therefore believe that expression of all forcible,
coherent, opinions should be urged and encouraged, not hindered by
the shallow label of “partial”—and therefore, “‘intolerant”—which is
apt to be set upon them because of a false identification of tolerance
with impartiality. A dynamic and productive tolerance consists not
of inability to hold any opinion, but of the ability to take a single,
forecful stand and still allow opposition.
May Day Ag gain
We are renewing the ian of Bie tar Day ‘because a suggestion
has been made which had not occurred to us before. We are under-
graduates now, and as such we have the power and the right to say
_whether we want May Day next year. But we have no right to pro-
- pose its abolition, which-rests on the degision f a much larger group.
Last week we asked three questions in preparation for an undergradu-
ate poll, the first of which was: shall we abolish Big May Day entirely?
Since it has been pointed out that we are not in a position to do this,
we must change the question to: shall we have Big May Day in 1940?
The problem of its abolition is insoluble as long as it lies partly in the
hands of future undergraduates who may want it.
Our third question: shall we keep it, but make it less ambitious
than it has been? somewhat obscures the issue.. Our object in making
May Day less ambitious would be to give ourselves more time for
academic work and for the usual extra-curricular activities, which are
swallowed up in May Day preparation. When we visualize a less
ambitious May Day, we see fewer. rehearsals and less intensive prac-
tice for dancing Sellinger’s Round or breaking on the green. But, we
- must realize that the perfection of the pageantry on the green rather
_ than the plays that follow it, is Big May Day, and that simplification
would merely involve less practice with correspondingly less perfection
, and less audience. a
The reason that May Day must be perfect is one of the reasons for
» its being: its appeal to large numbers of outsiders and particularly to
School children who may be, inspired by it to the point of coming to
_. Bryn Mawr. If it were simplified it would lose its outside appeal, and
would turn into an oversized undergraduate enterfainment which
- lacked the encouragement of a good audience. Under such cireum-
stances it would -be valueless except as an unusually ambitious way of]
ane emiege Spire. 8 we nave a Big May Day which. fulfills its
8, must-resign—ourselves to making it as finished as
‘ it “i been in the past tee tin cine hand, we cannot conceive of a
‘simpler mass undertaking which would meet the requirements.of the
anti-Big May Day, pro-spontaneity school. In eliminating the idea
“ a less ambitious Big ie Day, we have — to reduce the :
Forrest: Begins March 13. D’Oyly
|Carte company. March 13, Pirates of
Penzance. March 14, The aes
—: ‘The ee?
WIT’S END!
To sing thy praises in a final eulogy.”
‘He searched him out upon the secohd
‘Said Juan. “Do you mean ewetenens
Chew?
Well, I came back diwectly after
lunch.”
He eyed his watch. “Yes, it is just
on two, _
He’s in the magazine woom wead-
ing Punch.
|The British essence of hilarity.
Sweethearts, with Nelson Eddy, Jean-|
Anita “Louise. —
DON JUAN
(Canto XVIII continued)
Juan arose one morn with tear in eye,
And sorrow furrowing his manly
brow.
“The time has come,’ he thought,
“to say goodbye.
I will be brave. I’ll see Lem first
but how
Can I restrain myself?
cry. |
O Lemuel! O Lemuel! Allow
Me who have followed thee through
- warm and cool (oh, gee)
I know I'll
e
floor.
(Down at the end beside the Eng-
lish sem.)
Sadly he passed full many an open
door,
And looked at each to see it labelled
“Lem,”
All vainly. But it wasn’t long before
A full Shakespearean voite re-
marked, “Ahem,
My dear Doh Jaan, you look.a twifle
vague.”
It was none other ie the spwightly
Spwague.
“Now, Mr. Juan,” he said, “what can
Ido =
For you?” “I’m looking-for Lem
a §©Liggett Munch,”
You know, that’s where he finds his
perfect pearls*
Of wit. Oh, I must go and feed my
squiwels.
I quite forgot.
will be.”
He walked with Juan down the
winding stair.
There in the magazine room just as
he
Predicted; Lem was reading (in a
chair)
“Lem,” said Don Juan, “I am in
despair,
See!. Father Time: is semblance of
‘ a mower
Wields -his two-handed engine at the
door.”
Alas, I’m quite unable to continue,
For. harder e’en than this will be
for Juan
His partings bE ectalaiila by innu-
Endo with Lavender and Miss La-
goon,
Miss Woodwind and, Miss Gryphon,
with a genu- °
Flection to peerless Parka.
soon,
Will Time, the thief of youth, with
cruel. emery
Rub Juan from the annals of their
“memory.
*Pronounced piwels.
_ (To be concluded)
Ah, too
Earnest. The Oscar Wilde comedy
classic with Cliftor. Webb and Hope
Williams. .
Walnut: Spirochet..
Theatre Project.
Suburban Movies
Anthony Wayne: Wednesday. King
of the Underworld with Kay Francis
and Humphrey Bogart. Thursday.
The Storm with Charles Bickford,
Tom Brown. Friday and Saturday.|
Charlie Chan in Honolulu with Sidney
Toler, Phyllis Brooks. March of
Time. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
Stand Up and Fight with Robert Tay-
lor and Wallace Beery.
Seville: Wednesday. “Banjo on My
Knee, Joel McCrea, Barbara Stan-
wyck. Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
The Fedesal
ette. MacDonald. Sunday and Mon-
day. Going Places, Dick Powell,
Tuesday. Devil’s
Island with Boris Karloff.
Suburban: Wednesday and Thurs-
day. . Smiling Along with Gracie}
Fields. Friday and Saturday. Char-
lie Chan in Honolulu and March. of
Time. Sunday.. Arizona Wildcat with
Jane Withers. Monday. Mr., Moto’s
Last Warning with Peter Lorre.
Tuesday. Disbarred with. Gail Pat-
r
News Editor Analyzes.
Big May-Day of 1924|
=! and Problems Sean to
Be Same Then as Now
a
(The following editorial is reprinted
from the News of May 15, 1924. It
{is of interest, as it appeared in the
first issue after May Day.)
“Even the rain which trie@®so ‘hard
Shinto make May Day impossible could
/not dampen our enthusiasm when the
festival took place. With the memory
of the whole glorious performance
vivid in our minds we-feel that May
Day has been worth every minute of
time and every ounce of energy we
have given for its sake. Aside from
the th@ill of those two days when we
carry ourselves and ‘our audience
back to an age when people created
their own amusements—back to Eliza-
bethan England, we are gainers in
countless ways. Those who -selected
the casts and coached the plays have
had an enviable training in the art
of dramatics; those. who acted have
learned the graceful use of their
bodies and -an effective use of their
voices; those who danced upon the
Green have had exercise and a deal of
‘fun. The dutiful persons who worked
on costumes and properties should be
‘| able to answer any question of color,
design, or execution. The business
committee has had valuable experience
‘In management and we have all
learned to make paper flowers. May
Day’s great gift to us as undergradu-
ates, however, is the spirit of unity
born of an enterprise to which each
student must contribute*a part. Dis-
tinctions between the members of the
four classes vanish before the wrath
of a coach ‘to whom priority of age
makes no difference, or before the ne-
+ cessity of making a few more roses.
Instead of having class plays, we
have college plays, and everyone
gains thereby.
“Now May Day has another great
asset—one which is apt to come first!
How hungwy they! | in—our—thoughts,_but—whieh,—we—be-|
lieve, should come last. And that is
the question of money. This year,
with a Studenf’s Building and Music
Department actually looming on the
horizon, we were delighted to see flow
in the dollars which will make them
a consummation. But as more and
more emphasis is placed on the fi-
nancial side of May: Day, and this
tress is laid by means of widespread
advertising and carefully planned
publicity, so, we think, May Day loses
oy becoming’less of a pure joy and
more of a commercial proposition.
Sadly enough, the tendency is just
this way. For as we spend time and
money in preparation for May Day,
we demand more witnesses:
“This cannot go on. That May
Day takes time from other college
activities, pre-eminently studies, is
undeniable, , but what of those are
sacrificed at its altar seem almost
unimportant compared to the fact that
May Day is coming to be viewed by
outsiders as a piece of clever adver-
tising and a money-raising campaign.
If we are to save the charming tra-
ditions which created May Day, which
make it so delightful, something must
be done. With the art of pageantry
yearly growing more complicated, it
becomes increasingly more difficult
for us to create a May Day pageant
and pay any attention to the other
sides of college life. The growth of
May Day—and it grows as any suc-
cessful thing will grow—makes each
of us more of a cog in a machine,
with less share in the thing as a
whole. Moreover it makes May Day
‘less of a student affair and more the
result of the work of other people
interested in the college.
“We cannot give up May Day alto-
gether. As we said at the beginning,
it is far too educational and stimu-
lating as well~as ‘artistically beauti-
ful to cease to exist. But we can
modify May Day in such away that
the present. objectionable features will
|-be-removed. Surely, also, it is the
present student generation which must
consider such a possibility and make
plans for the guidance of the CIARA,
who are to come.
“As our own contribution to such
a_plan we would make the following
suggestions for a simplified May Day.
Give only two or three plays, Robin
Hood, of course, possibly also St.
George and the Midsummer Night's
Dream. By all means keep the Green,
nay make it larger, with several sets
| ofy country dancers and morris-men,
_PUBLIC OPINION
To the Editor of,the College News:
To have written the letter published
in last week’s News, H. M: H. must
have been angry, and I am afraid
that most of the answers she will get.
in and out of the News will only: be
calculated to.make her more so, I
think that any point of view that is
the result of: her strong feeling de-
serves some. respect, certainly it de-
serves understanding.
the Lantern and the News publish
letters from the Young Communist
League member's of the student body,
_and to the fact that. a meeting called
by the A. S. U. (not the Young Com-
munist League) was publicized on
hall bulletinzboards and front doors.
The issue there is one of ‘free’ speech,
and she must know the arguments for
and against as well as I do. One can
only point out the fact that it is one
of the fundamental tenets of our gov-
ernment, for which she seems to, have
very real feeling, and that the Lan-
tern would publish an article: by her
or even by a member. of the German-
American Bund (provided: they met
its literary standards) as readily as
it published Agnes Spencer’s The
Communists and the United, Front.
The News has printed H.'M. H.’s let-
ter as well as the Young Communists’,
and will continue to publish any it
gets. Its letter section is open to all
students. It would be _ worthless,
otherwise, as an expression of campus
opinion.
Two further examples that H. M. H.
gives of what she calls open disloyalty
to God and country are: (1) that the
Star Spangled Banner has been twice
burlesqued by a substantial group. of
people, and (2) that a lecturer in a
required course has denied the exist-
ence of Christ. It strikes me that the
first can certainly be condemned as a
thoughtless and unmannerly mani-
festation: of undergraduate dining-
-xoom-humor, “but hardly as anything
aside the question-of free speech, I
can understand that a professor’s de-
nial of the existence of Christ strikes
one as childish and irrelevant to the
course, but I do not see how it can
seriously be regarded as anything
more than a personal peculiarity.
The most striking thing about
H. M. H.’s letter is that it does not
sound like the work of a studery’, who
should: be interested .in ideas, not
afraid of them. The student’s atti-
tudé’is a luxury we have to give up
student to student is a thing we will
not find outside ~ of ~ college.
stands we take are theoretical, they
do not change our status within the
college nor our relation to one an-
other (unless on personal grounds).
One aim in common is a tie, and the
means we intend to use do not yet
come between us, unless we deliber-
ately choose to have it so. It is in-
evitable, as soon as you think in terms
of systems, that you see the people
in accordance, with you only as the
fit into your system. For H. M.
a communist is a symbol, and, for one
of her violence of feeling, an unfor-
givably vague one. It is too bad
that H. M. H., in a place where
‘the normal relationship is one of per-
son with person, and the fundamental
preoccupation one of ideas, has chosen
to look upon many of_us as the sym-
bols of ideas she has only labeled,
not investigated.
.» DEBORAH CALKINS, 740.
The Green dancing could be worked
in with the athletic program as ‘has
been so skilfully done this year and
with fewer plays there would be more
opportunity for dancing rehearsals in
the gymnasium. Those costumes
which we now possess would be almost
sufficient ‘and any deficiencies could
be readily supplied with the knowl-
edge we have gained this May Day.
Finally we would have absolutely no
only by students and faculty to those
of their friends who would care to
come and would be just enough in
price to cover the expenses of _pro-
duction. Any- publicity which went
out from the college—and it should -
fact that the festival was to be a
small affair. Probably one day would
the first week in
were. Sat
‘May, which
fairly soon; certainly the relation of -
The’
H: M. H. objects to the fact that
be very little—would emphasize the .
suffice for its performance, and if it —
more serious. — For the second, teaving ——
rat
Ladvertising.Tickets_might be sold____ dots
~~
4
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Page Three .
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AY
| CURRENT EVENTS |
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick)
Common Room, March 1.—The
events in the United States were par-
ticularly encouraging to business and
capital which have played. a secondary
role to labor in the program for na-
tional recovery for the last seven
years. Harry Hopkins has been ap-
pointed as the Secretary ‘of Commerce,
and has Piectink i new policy: re-
form is to be secondary to recovery
The taxes which have been imposed on
capital, and which have been re-
sponsible to a large extent for slow-
ing down big business, must be
lightened to give the business men
new confidence.
“There has been, a log-jam of
private investment,”, said Mr. Fen-
wick. “The money and capital must
come out of the bank and get into
circulation.” Harry Hopkins stated
that ‘democracy cannot long continue
in the United States with ten mil-
lion unemployed. Private business,
through utilizing its stored up capi-
tal, can give these men employment.
* Another cause for cheer on the part
of industry is seen in the recent de-
cision of the Supreme Court in the
case of the National Labor Relations
Board vs. the Fansteel Metallurgical
Corporation. The Court declared in
a five to two decision that “sit-down
strikers” committed an illegal act of
trespassing and therefore could not be
reinstated by the N.L.R.B. The Labor
Board claimed the right, under the
Wagner Act, to force the officials of
the Fansteel Corporation to re-em-
ploy their workers who had been dis-
missed after participating in a sit-
down strike in February, 1937. Under
the Wagner Act, and subject to the
control of the Labor Board, Qongress
can regulate interstate commegce.
. This applied to the Fansteel Corpora-
tion. The degision of the Supreme
Court that sit-down strikes. are il-
__legal_abolishes_finally this _trouble-|
g
Choral Program
The Choir of the Church of
the Redeemer, under the direc-
tion of Ernest Willoughby, will
give a program of Music at
Baldwin School on Sunday,
March 12, at 7.30 p. m. Church
music will be represented by
the following composers. Pales-
trina, Vittoria, Morley, Purcell,
Bach, Handel, Mozart, Mendels-
sohn, Elgar and _ Stanford.
There will also be madrigals by
Farmer, Gibbons and... Wilbye.
N Solos will be given by Miss
N-\ Mary Earp and Mrs. Margaret
SAWhiteroft. All students and
members of the faculty are
cordially invited to attend. No
“titkets necessary.
some yet effective practice which has
been employed by labor in the United
States for the past four years. Mr.
Fenwick stressed the importance of
this decision of the Supreme Court.
Abroad, Great Britain and France
have recognized the Franco govern-
ment in Spain. There was strong
opposition to recognition in both
countries, especially in France, but
Daladier and’ Chamberlain carried
their respective legislatures by a con-
siderable majority. Chamberlain,
however, has not said as yet whether
Franco granted him the conditions
which he sought ‘in order to give Brit-
ain’s approval to the new govern-
ment, namely, that the German and
Italian troops shall not be allowed to
remain in Spain, that there shall be
no political control allowed in Spain
from the Germans and Italians and
that Franco shall take no reprisals
upon the Loyalists.
While Chamberlain is still trying to
appease the dictators, he has also be-
gun a strong program of armament.
This presents somewhat of a question
to. Hitler, for the two policies do not
seem compatible to him ‘in themselves,
and especially not to Germany’s wel-
Executives Consider
High School Graduate
Most Likely to Succeed
People in Northeast Have More
Faith in Degrees Than
Westerners
Almost half of the nation’s’ fami-
lies believe!.a college man has the
best chance for success—but execu-
tives, who do the most hiring, think
the experienced high school graduate
is more likely to succeed. |
_ These beliefs were revealed by For-
tune’s latest survey of public opinion
in its February issue.
The questions asked were: ‘Which
d. u think has a better chance of
arate living today—a high school
graduate who has had four years of
experience, or a man*:just out of
college?” The replies were:
High school student....... wee 84.4%
College graduate ............ 33.4
Depends on man and/or experi-
ONOR Fi cick eee eli ye 14.8
Experienced man better at
first, college man better later 9.7
College man gets the breaks re-
gwardiess of merit........... 2.8
DEN RHO Ser hi ve eee cs 4.9
“Thus one-third of the nation’s
families believe that the college man
has the best chance for success,”
Fortune points out. “If the qualified
answers are included—those to the ef-
fect that-the colleg will win in
Continued on Page Four
fare. Mr. Fenwick suggested that
this idea concurred“ with that pre-
sented to Norman Angell in his new
book, Peace with the Dictators. Mr.
Angell suggests that the best method
for the democracies to protect them-
selves for peace is to build up a strong
army and then try to appease the
dictators without having to revert to
this force. The book is on reserve in
the library. -
PUBLIC OPINION
To the Editor of the News:
I disagree with your editorial about
Big May Day, but you are absolutely
right in suggesting. that the question
be discussed now while the class of
1939 is still in college. Faculty mem-
bers and Seniors should write to the
News about May Day for only they
ean tell how it affects the college it-
self. Meanwhile here are the precon-
ceptions of a prospective senior:
I am afraid May Day has become
too large, and will therefore have too
much. red tape, too-much drilling,
paper’ flowers and commercialism. I
fear it will be so stereotyped that it
will lack the “creative talent” and in-
genuity on the part of the students
that it must have had in the days
when the tradition. was started. We
get more now from Freshman shows
and -spontaneous one-act plays. They
may ‘be less polished, but we learn
more because we plan and write them.
‘ Big May Day has the advantages
and disadvantages of the tendency to
absorb. all other extra-curricular ac-
tivities. I am afraid this will hurt
the League and the political clubs, the
Science, Camera and Philosophy clubs,
the language clubs and the Lantern
and the News, for these will have no
function in the program. It will also
hurt the Seniors studying for com-
prehensives. It-will-put Professors in
the position of having to lower their
standards or flunk people. In order
to avoid these evils, May Day would
have to be limited, and Juniors would
have to assume the main responsi-
bility.
Big May Day must become smaller
and run the risk of being cruder than
it was four years ago, or it must be
abolished. I favor abolition or sub-
stituting something entirely different,
because the public expects only bigger
and better from Bryn Mawr. But we
have‘Yeached the bursting point!
oH, J. G40,
|LIGON BREAKS RECORD
AS SWARTHMORE WINS
February 20.—The.
Swarthmore swimming team won a
hard-fought victory against Bryn °
Mawr. The’final score was 48 to 35,
and although Bryn Mawr was on the
short end of the tally, several records
were broken. .C. Ligon, °40, who
broke the 40-yard backcrawl record
in the Vassar meet, 31.2 seconds, bet-
tered her time and brought it down
to 28.4 seconds. The freestyle relay
team, consisting of Waples, ’42, Stur-
devant, ’40, Paige, ’41, and Ligon, 740,
also broke a record.; The record was
formerly 58.5 seconds and the new
mark is 46.4 seconds. H. Link scored
thirteen points for Bryn Mawr.
40-yard Freestyle: 1st, Maguire,
Sw.; 2nd, Ligon, -B. M.; 3rd, Star-
board, Sw. Time 23.2 see.
40-yard Breaststroke: Boal, B.M.;
Herron, B.M:; Tappan, Sw. Time,
34.4 sec.
Diving: Watson, Sw.; Link, B.M.;
Kirk, B.M. >
60-yard. Medley Relay: Wor by
Swarthmore. Time, 39.5 sec.
40-yard Backcrawl: Tappan, Sw.;
Ligon, B.M.; Starboard, Sw. Time,
28.2 sec. ‘
Side for Form: Link, a Wat-
son;-Sw.; Howard, Sw. —
Crawl for Form: Ist, Link and
Starboard; 3rd, Paige and Mayer.
Best for Form: Bullverman, Sw.;
Baker, Sw.; McClellan, B. M.
80-yard Relay: Won by- Swarth-
more. Time, 43 sec.
Swarthmore,
The editér welcomes letters on
timely topics from its subscribers—
-or others.
Resignation
The Bryn Mawr League ‘an-
nounces with regret the resigna-
tion of Marion Gill, ’40, as Sec-
retary-Treasurer. In her place
the board has elected “Nancy
Howard, 741.
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‘PUBLIC OPINION
To the Editor of The College News:
It delighted me to see that there
is someone on the campus who is not
too timid or indifferent to express an
. opinion céntrary to the general one.
H. M. H. will probably be branded
as a tory and a rabid. reactionary try-
ing to still free speech because of her
attempted defense of patriotism and
Christianity.. She is unduly alarmed,
I think, for I, too, thought this place
was a hot-bed of atheism after two
years, while two more convinced me
that: it was simply. suffering from
adolescence.
Of course, it issa bit shocking to an
averagely religious and patriotic girl
to find an entire Freshman English
class given over to praise of strikers
and agitators, to have the Bible called
‘pure propaganda” in that same class
—more so, to have a professor in this
supposedly tolerant college teach his
students that Christ was non-existent,
* and Christianity stupid.' It is also
interesting to find Communistic and
Socialistic enterprises widely propa-
gandized here when they: appear to
form a minority opinion outside our
cloistered walls.
However, I think I’ve found the
explanation. People in this institution
have a reputation to keep up of being
“different.” One way to be “different”
is to have odd religious and political
opinions. It gives a certain distinc-
tion.
.The writer of that letter, I know,
believes in tolerance and free speech.
But she made the mistake of taking
Communistic, Socialistic, Atheistic
preaching seriously. People who want
to-turn our government into one that
outlaws all strikes,* and which. con-
“™* trols all schools through a Board of
Militant Atheists, can hardly be taken
seriously by any advocate of democ-
racy and free speech.
*See Article 131 of.the new Soviet
Constitution; also the December 9,
4932,—issue—of—the—Moscow— Official
Daily recommends that striking work-
ers be “shot and shot and shot.”
B.-G..t
a.
Nw
To the Editor of the News:
_ Greetings to H. M. H., author of a
letter printed in these columns last
week, and a_resounding. Heil! Such
a doughty champion of respectability
deserves not only the fervent appre-
ciation of the Bureau of Press Rela-
tions.of “the- Old s’ Collége,” but
a_truly zesplendent red; white, and
blue bouquet from Martin Diés. When
one considers how many taxpayers’
dollars Congress is forced to spend
through the Dies Commttee to ferret
out nefarious tools of Moseow. gold,
surely the entire country, as well as:
the Bryn Mawr campus, owes a debt
of gratitude to this patriot who volun-
teers her services in the cause of
Americanism.
After all, the task of checking ‘“un-
healthy activities’ on the campus
should not be underestimated. With
. the shining example before us of the
D. A. R.’s barring Marian Anderson,
the great Negro singer, from Consti-
tution Hall, we can scarcely do less
than fire all- the colored maids and
porters who are beneath our roofs, not
for a mere few hours, but week after
week. Naturally, we want “America
for Americans,” so we should in-
stantly purge our fair campus of
those nests of foreign spies and agi-
tators, the French and German
houses. Such alien and un-American
activities as Spanish, Italian, Krench,
German, and even Latin and Greek
courses, should be eliminated, with
courses in Patriotism, Detection of
Subversive Activities, and Military
- Discipline in their place.
The Glee Club and Choir really
* and ‘Sullivan, Bach, Handel, Brahms,|}
“and other tmported alien’ composers|
and sing y The Star Spangled
should cease singing music of Gilbert|’
mn_of the Re-|.
High School Geaduate
Most Likely to Succeed
Continued from Page Three
the long run, or that he will get the
breaks even if he is worthless—then
the potential
would derive from about 45 per cent
of the whtion’s families. eee
“Thg@oretically this potential college
t should exist regardless of the
male college market
mar
economic condition of the people giv-
ing the answers, because the-boy who
raises himself. up from an environ-
mént’of ignorance and poverty, works
his way through college, and returns
home with a cum laude and a mink
coat for mamma, is a tradition.
“Actually, of course, it is mainly
the upper’ income levels that count
statistically as consumers of sheep-
skins. Although there is a great dif-
ference in the distribution of higher
education among the various economic
levels, there is an astonishing uniform-
ity of opinion among them as to the
value of college.
“By sex and age and size of place
the differences are also small, and
variations: Professional people favor
college, but executives, who do the
most hiring, give the high school stu-
dent the best chance by an unqualified
vote of 41.6 per cent, against 28.6
per cént for the college graduate.
“The one big difference shown in
the breakdowns of answers is geo-
graphical: while the Northeast is the
most inclined to believe that the cal-
low A. B. has a passport to success,
only 19.8 per cent of the people on
the West Coast agree.”
public, and an occasional army march.
Not only the Young Communist Lea-
gue, but such dangerous organizations
as the International Relations Club,
the Industrial Group, and the atheistic
Philosophy Club must be dissolved at
once. May Day, a favorite holiday of
nunists as well, as an un-Ameri-
can English erudition, she should be re-
placed by a military parade on Wash-
ington’s Birthday.
I have, of course, only outlined a
few of the numerous things to be done
to make Bryn Mawr respectably loyal
to God and country, for the campaign
will be a long -one. I suggest that
H. M. H. invite Fritz Kuhn, fuehrer
of the Nazi Bund, to open the cam-
paign. And why not have the Bund
stage in-Goodhart.a_repetition_ of its
Madison Square Garden Rertormayes
to raise the money?
JOY ROSENHEIM, 740.
To the Editor of the College News:
It was with amazement and horror
that I read H. M. H.’s letter in last
week’s News. It will be indeed a sad
day when ‘intolerance, prejudice and
regimentation come to Bryn Mawr.
H. M. H. seems to desire that day’s
speedy advent. Far from being un-
healthy, ‘the activities she condemns,
plus many others, are of incalculable
therapeutitvalue in exercising the
minds and creeds of the student body.
Does H. M..H. really need to be re-
minded of freedom of speech, of the
press, of assemblage, of creed? Does
she not know that democracy is the
present form of. government, both
without and within the confines of the
campus?
And as for the shame of spinster-
hood .which she seems to regard as
the supremum malum—far better
that, in the name of liberality, than a
high marriage rate and a notoriously
narrow, bigoted, reactionary reputa-
tion throughout the land.
H. M. H. should not spend her time
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even. by occupation, with some minor|
REQUIRED SUBJECTS
Interview withMiss Gilman of the
French Department.
The language requirements, said
Miss Gilman, affect two sorts of stu
dents.. For certain majors a reading
knowledge of at least. two foreign
languages is an absolute necessity be-
cause of the reference reading. In
this case there can be no question as
to the importance of the language re-
quirements. There are other majors
“or whom this reference reading is not
an absolute necessity, but even for
these students a reading knowledge
of at least two foreign languages is
‘mportant from the point of view of
general education.
We are all likely to come into cir-
cumstances when it is useful to read
a foreign language, whether in a
newspaper or on a signboard. Not
to know a language in common use is
cutting oneself off. It is, moreover,
‘nteresting to see differences between
languages, and translation is liable to
make one think about the meaning of
words.
Miss Gilman, however, does not see
why the student should not choose
which languages she wishes to be ex-
amined in: that is, for; one langua
choose between French and German,
and for the other, choose any. she
wants.
DANCERS’ TRAINING,
TECHNIQUE, OUTLINED
BY MARTHA GRAHAM
Goodhart, February 23.—In.a short
interview immediately following her
appearance, Martha Graham answered
questions about her art, her technique
and the activities of her group. Still
in her heavy stage make-up, and
wrapped in a thick black robe, she
spoke with as much graciousness and
fluency as if she had not been danc-
ing almost «constantly for’ over two
hours.
e-| some~of—the—gizls—in—her group,
she said, have been with her as long| [tempt some of this radical-and-sacri-|—
as six years. Others are only in their
second season, All train every day
for three to five hours, at one and a
half hour stretches, excluding rehears-
als.)
Of-all her dances, she considers the
Emancipation Episode in American
Document the most difficult to do, be-
cause its rhythms are so “broken,
open and_passionate.’’ Air-rhythms,
which: look so hard to the layman,
are actually the easiest for the dancer
to do,
As for the difference between her
own dancing and Doris Humphrey’s,
she said that she could feel the differ-
ence when she watched Miss Hum-
phrey, but could not put it into exact
words. She believes that they have
a different technique in the use of
their bodies, though both regard the
body as “the universal tool,” and both
are primarily the “result of their
time and age.” Bed
mC iat
preaching® intolerance. She should
form her own organization to spread
religion and national-anthem-singing
—and then ‘she should thank God for
a college administration that will per-
mit and enable her organization to
exist without interference or control.
LUCILE SAUDER, ’39.
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Early Editions ‘of ‘News’
Oppose Limited Cuts
Cueitinned from Page One
description “of a’ water polo battle:
with the ball over her head, slammed
in five goals in a brilliant -series of
long throws of more than half the
length of the -pool.”
The suffragette movement had wide
repercussions, extending ever”ta
phenomena known as thé TBeauldes
Club,” whose theme song was:
“We could have rings on our fingers,
and flowers from our beaux,
-Marmons to ride in, and flaunt be-
fore our foes;
But we cast away all suitors—we
do not want a hub,
We're the single, cerebrate, celibate,
._Beauless Club, flub-jub.”
Applicants for admission’ to this “or-
ganization” are severely cross-exam-
ined and the spirit of disdain stressed
as the most important qualification.
Admission is refused to applicants
who correspond with men, receive
gifts from them, or who cannot offer
sufficient explanation for ‘owning
masculine photographs. :
Soul-searching on the subject of
Education -was,rife in the-early ’20s
&&|and blossoms particularly jn 1924
when a series of editorials appear
criticizing the “deadening routine” of
college life. Students are found to
spend their time alternately at movies
and card games, or “grinding” fever-
ishly for the next exam. Editors feel
that education has been chopped into
neat parcels to be consumed before
each exam. We were also mildly
startled to find the News remarking,
on the subject of dissipation, ‘‘The
busy scholar. coming up from the
stacks finds a poker game in progress
within the very walls of the Library:”
Later in the ’20s a dawn of cynic-
ism oyercomes the News board. In
commenting on a battle of utilitarian
versus “pure” education then being
waged between Princeton and = Yale,
the News says, “perhaps if we did at-
legious study of the practical, our
wild and thoughtless generation—
which is doomed to ruin the world any-
way—might step into the traces with
a little more idea of what it is all
about....:-. But far be it from us to
judge between; Yale and Princeton.”
A later editorial begins “So we’re
still paragons of scholarship”—and
follows out the idea.
Probably the thing that made us
regret living in the stolid, 30s most of
all was a description of a terrifying
Denbigh burglary. The News inter-
views a bystanding freshman, who re-
lates how she heard screams late one
night,.and ran out into the hall where
she saw, “a dark figure, a*man with
a hat pulled down over his eyes and
with a steel instrument in his hand.
I shrank into the shadow of the door,
and he rushed hy me down the stairs.
He passed so close to me that I could
distinctly smell the nicotine on his
breath.”
A Pembroker, less
always emo-
tional, witnessed the escape of the
IN THE BOOKSHOP
LENDING LIBRARY
Some Buried Caesar, by.Rex Stout.
“Ti. Rice, ’28, by twisting on her back}:
Some Buried Caesar has already ap-
peared in the American Magazine un-
de? the title of The Red Bull. Those
who’ read it there will remember that
this is the case that forces the great
Nero Wolfe to use all the ingenuity
a|that has so recently been wasted on
such puerile plots as Too Many
‘Cooks. This. time he has, as Sher-
lock Holmes would put it, a foeman
worthy of his steel.
The first question Nero Wolfe is
called upon to solve is whether a bull
‘or a man killed the unpopular ‘son of
the local ‘millionaire when he was
found dead in the pasture.
only the beginning of~a series of
problems. that end with the discovery
of another corpse, a secret engage-
ment, a careless blackmailer and the
falsification of a breeding certificate.
In addition to all this, a youthful debu- —
tante of predatory instincts falls in
love with Archie Goodwin. His strug-
gles to escape her are éven more en-
tertaining than the unmasking of the
murderer himself.
Nero Wolfe, by the way, seems to
have been separated at last from his
own particular house and furniture.
This is the second book in which he
appears without them. The change,
on the whole, is for the better. It
allows Rex Stout to introduce some
charming country scenery and an ex-
cellent description. of a a state
fair.
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was hiding in the bushes under. my
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CURRENT EVENTS
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick)
' Common Room, March 7.—At his
weekly Current Events Mr. Fenwick
began by commenting on Mrs. Roose-
velt’s protest against the refusal of
the D.A.R. to permit the talented
‘Negro contralto, Marion Anderson, to
sing in Constitution Hall. The rum-
pus was caused ‘én the principle in-
volved, and the First Lady registered
her protest by resigning from the or-
ganization, and explaining in -her
newspaper column “My Day” that she
had done so for moral reasons.
Having cited this as an instance of
the American feeling for the necessity
of the equality of races, Mr.’Fenwick
went on {to outline the célebration held
in Washington on March 4 as a coun-
ter demonstration to the Nazi Bund
rally. The occasion was the celebra-
tion'of the 150th anniversary of the
scheduled first meeting of the first
United States Congress on March 4,
1789. Speeches made by the Presi-
dent, Chief Justice and others empha-
sized. the necessity of a stand by the
United States. against ‘Fascism and
other isms. that deny freedom of re-
ligion and race. ,
The celebration was followed up by
a powerful. newspaper statement. by].
Henry L. Stimson advocating an ex-
tended Monroe Doctrine to keep
Europe at home. Mr; Fenwick ap-
proved Mr. Stimson’s statement that
the United States cannot limit her
self-defense to the Western Hemi-
sphere and her own boundaries. Mr.
Stimson denounced dictatorships ' in
the modern sense as destroying by edu-
cation the evolution that people have
gone through to make them able to
have democracies. Children brought
up under those regimes will be un-
able to recognize Any but the rule of
power when they become adult, and
it will become impossible for any re-
“maining democracies as the United
States to deal with them peaceably.
Hence if the United States is to keep
her freedom of democracy, Mr. Stim-
son_feels_it_is_imperative for her to
adopt a policy of boycotting the ag-
gressor in foreign wars.
Turning to foreign affairs, Mr. Fen-
wick mentioned the election of the new
Pope, and the difficulty of the task
before him. Mr. Fenwick considered
it significant that the pontiff should
advocate the united efforts of all
creeds’ of the Christian religion in a
concerted effort for peace.
In outlining the extremely difficult
position of England in respect to
Palestine, Mr. Fenwick said that~ he
was afraid that the propesed inde-
pendent state with an Arab majority
and Jewish minority was the only
solution, although it seemed unfair to
the Jews. He explained that England
must remain on good terms with the
Mohammedans whose states line her
passage to India. »
In closing Mr. Fenwick commented
very briefly on recent revolts in Ma-
drid, and the dispatch of Pepin,
Franco’s military teacher, to Madrid
from France in an effort to sway the
' Generalissimo from Italy and Ger-
many.
League Meeting Probes
Phases of Social Work
Continued from Page One
important in filling in: gaps in: their
social activities.
Miss Plyniire of the Family So-
ciety in Philadelphia related to the
Recreation Group, as a typical: preb-
lem, the story of one family in which
emotional entanglements were more
important than economic disorders.
This is often the case and is usually
solved by individual treatment given
to the family by a_case worker.
Mr. Schmitt; of the Delaware Coun-
ty Recreation Department, stressed
the fact that he felt recreation was
necessary for all social levels.
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A reminder that we would like
to take care of your parents
and friends, whenever they come
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‘visitors to the New York World’s
Jobs AS CHAPERONES
OPEN TO BRYN MAWR
Alison Raymond, ’38, who has or-
ganized an agency for chaperoning
Fair, will be at college March 20 to
interview those who are interested in
doing this type of work next summer.
Appointments with Miss Raymond
may be made through -Mrs. Crenshaw,
Qualifications include a thorough
knowledge of New York, and if pos-
Pines See Srey We -epeen novela end, the intensity of the middle sec-
languages. The work is expected .,to
be strenuous. as the agency must con-
stantly keep in touch with hotels,
steamship lines, and consuls’ offices.
A large proportion of the clientele
will be between fifteen and twenty-
one years of age.
College students who plan to come
to the Fair and would: like to work
for:a short period of time to defray
expenses should also sign:for an ap-
pointment. The work: promises to
provide a certain amount of recrea-
tion as the chaperones will have am-
ple opportunity to visit the Fair and
go to the theatre.
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of accomplishment rather than one
specific objective. Organized play
was first justified as medicine, then
as a way of_keeping the. young out. of
mischief. Now its fundamental im-
portance is in its relation.to child
growth and development. It builds
character while the child is young;
therefore, it is necessary that those
who plan recreation should not be
dominated by ;love of one particular
sport or activity. To be beneficial,
recreation must be well-balanced.
The Blind School has many sur-
prising elements among which are
physical education and college degrees.
Physical education is very important,
especially swimming -and wrestling
which give the blind confidence in
their own ability to move about. The
Overbrook School is for children from
4 to college age. Many go on to col-
lege where they are helped by readers
who are paid by the State. At Over-.
brook_there is no mgney..for_readers,;—
and so they depend on volunteers.
Miss McCloud and Miss Brennan sug-
gested that Bryn Mawr girls might
do some work in transcribing: books
into Braille or working with campfire
groups. The school emphasizes the
problem of helping the blind to find
some means of making themselves in-
dependent.
The three groups came together for
tea and reports of the various discus-
sions. General discussion of the prob-
lem of :helping people to fit into
groups closed the conference.
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seemed to be in his element. His
tec! niqie brought out their. merits
without making them sound ‘oppres-
sively difficult. The Chopin D flat
major Prelude, the least pretentious
of the group, was in many ways the
most: beautiful. Cortot calls it the
Dream of the Scaffold because of the
lullaby quality of the beginning and
tion. The\more ornate F sharp Noc-
turne called for a mastery of the ru-
bato style of which Dr. Kurzweil is
fully capable. Two ‘Etudes, A- flat
majo¥ and C sharp minor were en-
tirely different. The first one Schu-
mann likened to an Aeolian harp
which the artist plays, making the
fundamental tone and the upper voice
‘audible through the embellishments,
and the second ‘reminds another critic
of a duet between voice and cello, the
lower part particularly stressed.
Three more compdsers of a later
school ended the program. Debussy’s
-wove its net
of sound around us, made us feel the
immensity of the cathedral and the
depth of the shimmering’ water.
Ravel’s “Jeux d’eaux,” more pictorial
than impress onistic, painted. faith-
fully the pattering of fountains. Pro-
kofieff provided a most amusing finish
with his ‘Suggestions Diaboliques.”
The abrupt and vigorous little groups
of notes made the music fairly shiver
on the piano.
In response to enthusiastic applause
Kurzweil played an Etude by
esque in heritage, far from the dis-
turbing trends of later works, and
most enjoyable. As his name had led
us to hope, Dr. Kurzweil gave us an
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Swimming Team Ends.
Season With Victory
Penn - Loses 50 to 34 While
” Setting Two New Records
For B. M. Pool
Gymnasium, March 6.—The Bryn
Mawr swimming team ended its sea-
son by defeating the University of
Pennsylvania, 50 to 34. Several rec-
ords ‘were broken in the course of the
meet. The 40-yard freestyle record of
23.3 seconds set by C. Ligon last year,
was broken by P. Evans, of the U. of
P. The new mark is 22.6 seconds.
The backcrawl. record, which was 28.2
seconds, is now 27.2 seconds by virtue
of Allison’s (U. of P.) fine swimming.
The Bryn Mawr’ 80-yard relay
smashed its own record and brought
the time down to 49.3 seconds.
40-yard Freestyle: Evans, Univer-
sity. of Pennsylvania; Ligon, Bryn)
Mawr; Williams, U. of P. Time: 22.3
seconds.
Side for Form: Link, B.M.; Tie for
second, Miller and Crozi.
40-yard Breaststroke: Boal, Her-
ron, Allison, U. of P. Time: 83.0.
Crawl for Form: Paige, Link, Kar-
cher, U..of P.
Backerawl: Allison, U. of P.; Gam-
ble, B.M.; Stepbacher, U. of P. ‘Time:
27.2.
Diving:
Dot P,
Medley Relay:
Time: 43.4.
Breast for Form: MacEwan, U. of
P.; tie for second, McClenan, B.M.,
and Karcher, U. of P.
Freestyle Relay: Won
Mawr. Time: 49.3 seconds.
Link, Renninger, Cleaver,
Won “by U. 6f P.
by -Bryn
‘extremely entertaining afternoon.
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LEAGUE SQUARE DANCE
DRAWS HEARTY CROWD
Gymnasium, March 4.—The League
square dancé approached a state of
equality of. the sexes by importations,
Bryn Mawr and Haverford students,
who danced until they dropped. There
were just enough people to make a
ring that missed the orchestra and
the walls, exactly the right number
for a square dance.
As at most Bryn Mawr square
dances, Christian Sanderson’s orches-
tra provided waltzes and folk music,
while Jesse Slingluff called the figures.
In one. dance, locally called: the Em-
phasize, the most sturdy maidens
could not keep their feet on the floor,
such was the centrifugal force. The
finale was a ring-around-the-rosy that
suddenly degenerated into a hot oven,
More publicity might have brought
more people from Bryn Mawr to the
party. This would have simplified the
problem of changing partners, and —
|bought. more meals for the Summer
Camp: For ~a*-nice country party,
however, the arrangements were ideal.
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timely topics from its’ subscribers—
or others.
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New Book Shelf Opened :
By International Club
Collection Focused Upon World|
| papers with attention this week, and
Policies and Conflicts
The International ’ Relations Club!
has opened a special shelf in the New
Book Room, to provide accurate and|
timély information on international,
affairs. The collection at present con-
sists of ten bocks and a quantity of
-such phamphlets as The Peace Digest
and The Campus: A Fortress of De-| Professor
mocracy.
EXCHANGES
We perused. our
exchange news-
| have-d:scovered an interesting parallel
botween the Swarthmore Phoenix and
| the College News. An article in last
\'week’s issue shows the reactions of
the Swarthmore faculty to Professor
| Bridgman’s manifesto against tatali-
‘tarian vis:tors. Among the opinions
aobed, we have selected two. First,
Professor Creighton says, “I endorse
Bridgman’s action whole
‘heartedly because it is a forceful ex-
The selected books cover almost) pression of American scientists’ dis-
every aspect of the present work)
crisis. They include a new edition of;
the Federal'st; Peace and Rearma-
ment, a collection of the most im-
‘portant recent speeches and discus-
like of the totalitarian spirit and of
their disapproval of the present status
of_scientific teaching and research in
these countries. Moreover a general
refusal of admission to our scientific
sions pro and con, compiled by Julia! laboratories may prevent dictator na-
Johnson; and Union Now, a “proposal
for. a federal union of the leading de-
mocracies,” by C. K. Streit.
mann, analyses the historical back-
' ground of the Sudeten problem, bring-
ing her discussion down to the annexa-
Czechs
and Germans, by Elizabeth Wiske-! Professor
tions scquiring important technical in-
formation.”
In opposition to this point oe view,
Newman says, ‘Professor
Bridgman’s staternent defeats its own
purpose, First, it is directed against
individuals. It w:ll not be the totali-
tion of Austria. In-Government in
Fascist Italy, H. Arthur Steiner wat
fines the nature of Mussolini’s power. |
tarian governments which will suffer
but. individual scientists of those
lands, individuals to whom we must
T. A.° Bisson’s Japan In China| jook for any betterment of conditions
traces the events leading up to: the
conflict, describes its current develop-
ment and forecasts its probable future:
In The Mediterranean In Poli-|
trend.
tics Elizabeth Monroe makes a survey
of the motives détermining the poli-
cies: of Italy, England and France.;
She also describes the situation of the
three lesser powers: Turkey, Egypt
and Spain. &
Cl,de’ Eagleton’s Analysis of the!
Problem of War attempts “to think
through current shallow schemes back
to fundamental American principles.”
W. E. Rappard’s broader Crisis of
Democracy is an analysis that traces
, the rise of democracy in the nineteenth
century, the triumph of the Wilson-
ian variety at the end cf the.war and
the latter’s final downfall, with a dis-
cussion of its probable future.
tn-Our—Frade-With- Britain Percy |
Wells Bidwell examines American and}
English commercial. polic‘es, past noid
present, analyses the trade between
the two countries and suggests the
bases for a reciprocal tariff agree-
ment.
A. S. U. Urges Support
For Social Legislation
‘ . 5"
Continued from Page One
legislation in this country.
The Roll ‘Call outlines general
topics for discussion including the
presence of illiteracy, the irregularity
of, educational opportunity, the threat
to civil liberties and to freedom of
worship and inadequate medical care.
Such conditions are the concern of}
students and educators throughout the
country and they must be c. onscienci-
ously dealt with if American democ-
racy is to prove its ability as a vital
form of government.
The signing of this Roll Call is an
expression of the individual’s realiza-
tion that our established legislative
machinery through active support
and suggestion can improve such con-
ditions. Already leading university
presidents have endorsed the Roll
Call as a worthy effort; Miss Park
and 45 faculty members have done
so at Bryn Mawr and although the
A. S. U. plans to; continue reaching
the faculty the Roll Call is this week
to be circulated among the under-
graduate body.
I. R. C. Elections
The International Relations
Club takes pleasure in announc-
ing the election of Joy Rosen-
heim, ’40, as president, and
samen Seidler, “40, as segnenery:
in the future. Second, we cannot rem-
edy the’r desertion of the,.cause of
intellectual integrity by violating» it
ourselves. Whatever one may have
felt about the Akademiker, of the
German universities, he was truer to
his trad'tion of freedom during the
dfficult war and post-war years than
were any of his fellows in this coun-
itry. Today we respect him for it.
Had we not better keep alive that
spirit of freedom and honesty even
when we regret b'tterly its passing in
jother countries?”
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‘Basketball Téam Downs
| Beaver in Second Half
Bryn Mawr Wins Easily, 23 to 11;
! Waples is High Scorer
Gymnasium, Saturday, March 4—
|The Bryn Mawr basketball team de-
feated Beaver in a fast game, 23 to 14.
At the end of the half, the score was
only 7-4, but during the second half
| both teams picked up points with Bryn
| Mawr on the long.end. Chris Waples,
142, was high scorer of the day by
virtue of her 11 poi ints.
Bryn Mawr Beaver
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TWRUIOR oes : He rane Potten
TOY. i | ere ee Williston
Mi wmeigs ..c.s Poi Potts
POPeer 2. vces [Eas a Jeffers
Martin. g. ... Cunningham
No substitutions.
Points—Bryn Mawr: Squibb, »7;
i Waples, 11; Norris, 5. Beaver: Hous-
| ton, 6; Potten, 2; Williston, 7.
The second team also won its’ game
with a 37-29 score. J. Meyer, °42
‘scored 25 points for Bryn Mawr.
Sarah Meigs, varsity captain, scored
10 points, and Lewis, two.- -
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| PHILOSOPHY CLUB HEARS
PAPER ON CATEGORIES
Room, March 3.—At a
meeting of the Philosophy Club,
Bertha Goldstein, ’88, read part of
her paper on the Categories. She
traced the position of the categories
in the ph:losophies of Aristotle, Kant
and Hegel.
The main subject of the paper, Mis:
Goldstein said, treated the relation of
these. ideas to those of the modern
philosopher, Samuel Alexander,. but
since none of the undergraduates have
studied the works of this man, Miss
Goldstein confined herself to the un-
controversial exposition of the various
approaches of the famous _philoso-
phers.
Common
‘News’ Editor- Analyzes
Big May Day of 1924
Continued from Page Two
ing the nearness of the final examina-
tions, there would be’ the possibility
of postponing it until’the following
Saturday if the weather demanded.
“Such are the outlines of one
‘cheme for simplifying May Day. If
uch a plan could be formulated, and
there seems no reason why it could
not be done by those who have taken
an active part in this May Day, the
present students could pass it down
to those of four years hence with the
weight of experience behind it. _ For
what we all desire, indeed, is to pre-
serve the freshness, the charm, the
joyous spontaneity, as well as the tra-
ditional beauty of our Bryn Mawr
May. Way.”
The editor welcomes letters on
timely topics from its subscribers—
or others.
‘ratics,
Science Club Hears
Talk on: Descartes
Continued from Page Ona
Here Miss Lehr noted that such ex-
plicit
which is today Wholly obvious implied
: : ba ‘ ene
insistence upon a ° definition
some novelty in this concept for Des-
That this is either an
original or a very early use of this
zartes’ time.
form is further borne out when we
see that before writing any equations
‘n symbolic form he states them
verbally.
With the aid of equations, Descartes
‘proceeded to classify geometrical con-
structions by similarity of form in
their equations. He thus unified proc-
esses that had always before been
held separate. It.must be remembered
that Descartes was working through-
jut in terms of lines rather than al-
tebra. Here the development of the
dea of negative numbers as opposite
| directions along a line began to ap-|
In extracting the roots of quad-
Descartes
types in the forms of the original
equations. There were two types that
had one “true” root and one “false,”
and one that had both roots “true.”
He made no mention of quadratics
pear.
recognized three.
that we know to have two negative
roots, Similarly Descartes’ contempo-
rary, Cardano, had come upon the idea
of imaginary numbers but, seeing no
significance in the root of minus one,
had rejected it. Well towards the
middle of the essay; talking of an
equation with one true root he ex-
plains that the other, which is “less
than nothing,” is drawn in the oppo-
site direction. Here is a substantial
hint of the concept we have come to
use. Descartes’ final step towards a
comprehension of negative numbers
came when he saw that it was equally
important to investigate the “false”
roots. of an equation as the ‘‘true.”
Incidental to this development, Miss
Lehr showed that in Descartes’ ex-
plicit identification of aa with a-
squared there was implied a novelty
for his time of this notation also. In
subsequent parts of. the work he re-
verts to the older form.
Before the talk Miss Lehr and Mr.
Forbes of the mathematics department
had dinner in Denbigh with members
of the Science Club. The lecture was
followed by coffee for the club and
those members of the faculty who at-
tended.
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