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VOL. XXIV, No. 1
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1937
BRYN MAWR
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COLLEGE, 1937 PRICE 10 CENTS
Doris Humphrey
To Conduct Series
Of Classes Here
_Well-Known. Dancer’s Coming!’
Arranged Through Efforts
Of Danicer’ s Club
PLANS BEING renin
FOR DANCE SYMPOSIUM}
| Gesdnge.
its second year, the
Dancer’s Club has been -fortunate in
Beginning
arranging for a series of classes to be
given. by the well-known modern
dancer, Miss Doris Humphrey. - The
group meets this Thursday at 4.45.
Miss Humphrey. is one of the three
leading American dancers, and a lead-
ing choreographer of the couptry.
She is a member of the faculty. of
the Bennington Summer School, now
recognized as the center of the modern
dance during the summer. John
Martin, prominent authority on the
dance, says of Miss‘Humphrey’s work
in his book, . “America Dancing”;
“Her New Trilogy is of epic propor-
tions » it is the most important
composition yet produced in the
American dance.” Her classes here
mark a radical change in the dance
policy of the college, as previously,
only Duncan technique has _ been
taught. y
The class is an extra-curricular ac-
tivity, and a part of the attempt by
the Dancer’s Club to bring various
types of dancing to the campus. Plans
fer a symposium on the dance are
already under. way.~ Lectures and
demonstrations will constitute part of
the club’s ambitious program. Much
later in the year,.they will present
their work to the college.
With the club as its nucleus the
Humphrey group has been thrown
open to the college at large. An
amazing and gratifying number of
students have applied. To date, there
are forty members. It is hoped that
enough students will apply to warrant
the formation of two groups,: a be-
ginners and an advanced.
A fee of fifteen dollars a semester
is being charged all members of the
group. This sum is necessary to
cover the expenses of bringing Miss
Humphrey to the college. Once the
required quota is passed, there is the
possibility of giving dancing scholar-
ships to those who otherwise could
not join the class.
-|some_ difficulties.
Self-Government Gives
Square Dance Party
C. -Sanderson’s Music Enlivens
Reception for 1941
Gymnasium, October. 2.—A valiant
-| upheaval in the tradition of. Self-Gov-
ernment parties occurred Friday night
when the gym resounded with mingled
strains of rural rhythm and German
A medley of
dirndls and dungarees swirled around
peasant
the room to the steps of Pop Goes the
Weasel, Comin thrw’ the Rye, the Vir-
ginia Reel, and. the more companionate
form of Emphasize which seemed to
be a rather alarming combination of
an Indian war dance and ring-around-
a-rosy. The Big Apple was an-
nounced, anticipated, awaited, and
finally . arrived in a small area in
the center of .the floor, bringing with
it a savage desire in the uninitiated
to master the art of “trucking” and
to acquire rhythm at any cost.
Misinformation concerning names
and. addresses: of orchestras led to
It was only after
innumerable communications that, the
following conversation occurred:
“T want to speak to Mr. Christian-
son of Chadds Ford.”
There is an ominous silence fol-
lowed by much clicking on the other
end, The operator begins asking per-
tinent questions.
“Is this Mr. Christianson?”
“No, this is Christian Sanderson.”
The Bryn Mawftyr: gasps, for she
has. overheard the conversation. It
continues unabated.
“Who’s calling?”
“Bryn Mawr.”
“Oh, do they want an orchestra?”’
At this point poor Bryn Mawrtyr
is, practically frantic. She shrieks
“ves” into the mouthpiece and waits.
All is well. She is talking to an or-
chestra leader.
“Can you play for a square danec)
to-night?”
“To-night!’’ he echoes.
“Ves,”’
“Well, I was going to Southern
Maryland for the week-end.”
There is an awkward pause. “Ah,
about the money.”-He-clears-his voice
significantly. “I usually get 17 dol-
lars.” There is another pause. “But
do you suppose I could have 19 if I
stayed home for week-end?”
Bryn Mawrtyr burbles-vaguely in-
to the ’phone, “You can have 20, if
you'll only come.”
Sympathetic Survey of
Freshman Facts |
Reveals a Preponderantly Pigtailed *41
This- Year’s: Class Busy Doing
“Big Apple” and Wrestling
Philosophically
From a close observation of those
" featherless bipeds, the Freshmen, and
from certain revealing self-analyses
which they have made, we have been
enabled to compile Advanced Statis-
tics, or a Sympathetic Survey. We
cannot reveal the names of the eleven
with predicted scores of ninety and
above, but we can say confidently that
if they were stood one above the other
they would only reach the third floor
of Taylor, which proves again the
triumph of matter ove d.
In general, the FréShmen are tall
and fair, or perhaps short and dark,
with a preponderance of long hair
wound coil-like about their heads.
Interestingly enough, Freshmen pig-
tails, and some of them have two,
could be used as a rope for Taylor
bell, extending to.a convenient point
somewhere on Senior Steps.
But fair coiled hair does not prove
Nordic descent. Nobody can be sure
(until the Statistics appear) what
the percentage of Southerners is, only
that._their influence . is..dangre--*5*
insidious. Rumor has
twenty-six of the Merion freshmen
“truck” twenty-four hours a day, and
rumor certainly had it right at the
Square Dance, where there was a
large ring, not of upperclassmen,
“shining” ‘with the — of pa
covert practice.
“Git that at if
Aside from having a poorly-hidden
yearning for the “Big Apple,” the
Freshmen are a questioning lot. Most
of their mots or boners, as the case
may be, are couched in the interroga-
tive, and are curiously philosophical,
ranging from, ‘‘Don’t you think phil-
osophy -is getting more and more im-
partial all the. time?” (a naive search
for truth of the class: or lecture
variety), to the confidential statement,
probably tendered on the other bench
where we ‘make our friends, ‘The
dean said philosophy would ‘stretch
my mind.” Then there is the un-
mentionable pun on Aristotle, which
we will -not mention.
ere is something truly pithy, al-
most New Yorkerish, from a written
effort entitled Phrases Fraught with
Finesse for Freshmen. . Contributed
by a member of the class of ’41:
“TI forgot sneakers, too. (You can
yead in ‘soap,’ ‘socks,’ ‘sun-glasses’ or
‘hockey: sticks’ for ‘sneakers.’) Will
you please call Whittaker? My win-
dow is stuck.. (This may be warjed to
read, ‘my trunk-key got lost,’ or ‘we
have no bottle-opener.’)””
From this we gather that some, ‘or
* “ofthe Freshmen became
involved in inextricable difficulties. No
sneakers, no trunks, no hockey-sticks ;
Freshman week must -have been. an
orgy of lending by the unfortunate
few. At the moment, however, we see
them well provided. Short and fair,
and tall and dark, they pursue their
Continued on Page Four
ee
Parade Night Bonfire
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Monday, October 11.—Non-
resident Tea. Common Room,
4.30. First. Flexner Lecture.
Goodhart, 8.20.
Friday, October 15.—Lantern
Night.
Friday, October 15, Sunday,
October 17.—Alumnae Weekend.
Wednesday, October 19.—In-
tertiational Club Tea.
Varied Work is Planned
By Bryn Mawr League
Maids’ Classes, U ion Contacts
And Am icanigation Work
Among-Interests
—_——_—
|CARDS NOW DISTRIBUTED
(Especially contributed by Mary
Whalen, ’38, president of the Bryn
-|Mawr League.)
‘The Bryn Mawr League has dis-
tributed interest cards to all graduate
and undergraduate students and hopes
sincerely that it will receive: active’
support in all its objectives. These
are: intentionally varied, so that
everyone may take a working interest
in the league. Although Freshmen
are not allowed to parficipate in ex-
tra-curricular acthyj until after
Thanksgiving} : them to sign,
so“sthat we may* know what their
interests are.
The plans for Sunday : services hive
been-largely guided by the results of
the questionnaire taken last year, a
detailed account of which will appear
in the next issue of the News. We
hope to appeal to a wide circle of
students by inviting ministers of
various denominations to come. Alison
Raymond, ’38, who is chairman of
this branch of the League also prom-
ises to make-more attractive the room
where the services are held, and she
also hopes to get suggestions for new
hymns. A box will be placed outside
the ‘Music Room-for hymn requests.
Those who are interested in the
place of women in industry should
look to the. Industrial Group and
Summer School.
Freshman Song Found
‘By Sophomore Sleuths
Hockey Field, September #27.—The
Class of 1940 retrenched its defeat of
last yea? by capturing the freshman
Parade Night song. Gathered around
the bonfire on the hockey field, they
chanted a tell-tale parody at the Class
|of 741, who were escorted down from
Pembroke Arch by their sister class
and the Bryn. Mawr Firemen’s Band.
The freshman song, to the tune of
The Caissons Go Rolling Along, is as
follows:
“From the east, from the west, north
and south and all the rest,
We have come ‘to develop our minds.
Rut we’ve lost all our wits, and we're
suffering from fits of a hundred
and forty-four kinds.
“But .the year will come nineteen
hundred forty-one,
When we'll no- longer be at sea.
Then we’ll all crow, and say we told
you so—
When we’ve climbed io the top of the
tree.”
The sophomores discovered the song
by the same.ruse used by the Class of
39 ast year. One of their number
pretended to be a freshman. The
result:
Continued on Page Three
CUT COMMITTEE CALLS
ATTENTION TO RULES
(Especially contributed by Eleanor
Taft, ’39, chairman of the Cut Com-
mittee.) :
The Cut Committee feels that
while ‘explaining the’ cut system to
the Freshmen, it should bring it again
to the attention of the whole college.
The rules are the same as last year
with the exception ofthe new diction
ruling. ...No..student..may_cut..diction
without special permission from the
dean, ‘and no cut allowance is ‘given.
Each student is allowed as many
cuts per semester as she has regular
hours of recitation per week. This
The fo ---kapes, te §_.an, pverage of fourteen cuts
make contacts this year with” SMe eiccstee. Unit courses give fiiree
of the important unions, and to have
members of the student body go with
union girls to union meetings. These
will be reported by the individuals
who attended, and discussed by the
whole group. Supper is served be-
Continued on Page Three
cuts, as they meet three times a week,
and half. unit-courses-meeting—twice;|—
give two cuts, First and second year
science courses, such as chemistry and
biology, give five cuts as each labo-
ratory hour counts as one-third of a
Continued on Page Three
~
Miss Park Opens
College Year With
Unusual Optimism
ei
Additions Justified in College’s
Aim to Serve Ametican
Institutions
CHANGES IN FACULTY
REHEARSED: IN CHAPEL
Goodhart, ‘September
Park assumed her position as the offi-
cial opener of the fifty-third. academic
year of the.College with an admit-
ytedly. rare optimism. “No speech this
morning,”
put, can be dull. It must reflect the
almost universal stir and change on
the campus, .the increased current
turned on at all switches, the break-
ing through of old limits, the advance
in many directions at once.”
A rehearsal of the recent develop-
ments in the physical aspect of the
ampus finds the sctence building peer-
ing over its green fence, and the new
dormitory “spreading over the slope
southwest of the Deanery in a “mazeé
of pegs and string.” The hall will
be ready to hold: 113 ‘students by Sep-
tember, 1938. , Although the addition
of the Quita Woodward wing’ to the
library has been postponed until” the
‘residence: hall-is under way and per-
haps until we acquire 100,000 dollars,
there has been a significant contribu-
tion to that same house of learning.
“You have probably all seen,” said
Miss Park, “that across. the front of
the library has been cut this summer
the inscription promigg@@¥o President
Thomas at the cefemonies of the Fif-
tieth Anniversary, connecting forever
her great’ name with: the treasure
house of books which she thought of
as the heart of the college.”
' Alofie with Mr. Nahm and Mr. Wat-
son, who return from leaves of ab-
sence,xycomes a new Assistant Profes-
sor of Biology, William Lewis Doyle,
Ph.D., of Jéhns Hopkins University
and General Educational Board Fellow
at Cambridge University in 1935-36
and at the Carlsberg Laboratory, Co-
penhageh, in 1936-37. Mr. W. Cabell
Greet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
English at Barnard, replaces Samuel
Arthur King as non-resident lecturer
in English Diction, and Professor
Henry Bradford Smith, reinforcing
Continued on Page Four
News Reel Documents
a ._ Opening Week Events
Grinding Cameras Interrupt Life
On Bryn Mawr Campus
The activities of the first week, and
the drama of the return of the classes
to Bryn Mawr, were immortalized in
celluloid this year, when Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer made a record of two days’
incidents last week for Hearst-Metre
tone News. . This sequence, symboliz-
ing the reopening of schools and col-
leges all over the country, will be
released in the vicinity of New York
and Philadelphia Friday, October 8.
Two seniors reported their sensa-
tions to us somewhat as follows: En-
terin e Pembroke dining-room we
found oprselves compelled to look nat-
ural, arid walk to our seats in a blaze
of glorious light. Only sevep maids
tripped on the wires, only one senior
got any lunch. The candid camera
continued .to catch life as it wasn’t,
forcing us to take down our curtains
hung with much pains freshman year,
and to be photographed’ putting them
down from the attic and two girls im-
ing neither right, nor left, to carry
books across the room, and the same
books, arranged differently, back
again. We. todk..dowr -ths->teteam
for close-ups. |
walking, playing hockey, measuring
refractions were interrupted by, “Hold
it please,” and a long tjme later,
“O. K.”
aon
28.—Miss
she said, “however: feebly .
era
Br; Mawr was. the only college pho-
up: Strange trunks” were™ brought
ported to pack and then unpack, look- -
and put them up once more, this’ ‘time
All day long,. girls, -taking ore =
eed
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IN MEMORIAM
_Mademoiselle Madeleine Soubeiran
Associate Professor of French
Died in Montpellier, France, on July 7, 1937, after a long illness
To the Class of 1941
As the editorial column of the News comes to your notice for the
first and perhaps the last time, we feel that we should say,some words
especially for you, even if there is nothing to say but i reiterate
- welcome. This is a word and a sentiment which has been expressed
to your ears many times in the last two weeks, and we are fully aware
of its repetition. We warn you, however, that now is probably the
last time you will hear it. 7
For two weeks you have been the- object. of the whole attention,
first of the admittistration and undergraduate welgoming committees
then of the entire three upper classes. Now the situation is reversed.
You as Freshmen were the’ center of undergraduate attention—but
now we are no longer preoccupied with your aggregate appearance, and
expect. general interest to shift back to ourselves, as upper classmen.
This. is,.of course; because as a class your personality will not.be
defined for some time, and you are already, in a general sense, absorbed
into the college community. From now on you should expect to find
us more gradually interested in’ you as individuals.
Undoubtedly the hest way to get along with a particular social
group is to conform, that is, to-imitate the habits of the others. This
may be a disconeerting piece of advice from members of what you have
been led to visualize as anenlightened society. But a college is at the
same time one of the most ‘rigidly organized and the most. entirely
unrestricted kinds of living groups known. Therefore, it takes a cer-
tain amount of observation and experience to adjust oneself to its aims,
and at the same time to benefit from.its variety. We do not mean, of
course, that we desire you to imitate our manners, or to subseribe to our
ideas, but to understand the traditional,conventions which we have
found the most convenient basis for successful college life. To become a
part of the college as a whole is to be sociqlly adjusted. To conform to
its intellectual purposes cap be an even greater thing.
- Miss Park pointed out, one year, in welcoming the entering class
that modern colleges have been criticized for the rigidity of their educa-|
tional policies, inherited from the medieval universities. eg been |
said that liberal arts institutions are not in touch with thedifé of their
students. Nevertheless, at college, as Miss Park emphasized; pee.
a certain combination of things is offered, a certain set of possibilities
surround a student which offer a chance so valuable that one success
is worth the risk of a hundred failures. The student may. begin to
ee .. to become “. . . in a world full of what is unreal and
second hand, a fal and inv hand person, a person who has ceased to:
repeat, a person who, however feebly, creates something.”
_. The tradition of the college has convinced most of us that the best
"way to take advantage of its various aspects, is to assimilate the experi-
ence of those who have gone before. That is why we don’t think we
are merely being smug in saying: “Be like us.”
Or :
The old campus just doesn’t look the same any more with such a
huge, great, big, old, brown, black, red and golden haired, blue, brown,
grey and black-eyed, red and pink cheeked Freshman class. Yow’ ve
__no idea what-a difference it. makes to have so many happy, cheery, new,
red and pink cheeked faces around. The old eee er we said
that: before).
bs Anyway, we just can’t wait to say WwW inne: Walooie: WELCOME
to this new, jolly, cheery, brown, black, red and gold haired, ete., , Fresh-
man class. Welcome! - pase: ‘
_And as for the new science building with the roof that's going
ae —
ni te Seach
Ps eee Goodhart and the Deanery, and as for the new library wing
| -which is also going to be between Goodhart and the Deanery—the old}
__. eampus just doesn’t look the same any more. And as for the new barn|
which we are sharing with the Baldwin School—we regret to say that
=
IWIT?S END
Twelve freshmen hung out of the
third floor windows of Merion Hall
regarding -open-mouthed . the black
Bentley (?) with an excessively long
hood which had just spurted into the’
drive. A slim long-nosed man _ with
primrose-colored hair and dressed in
impeccable gray was debouching from
the front seat. He was whistling gay-
ly under his breath a hunting song of
the reign of Henry VI which had been
in the Wimsey family for generations.
“That must be Lord Peter,” they
murmured, “Self-Gov. sent for him to
investigate the matter of the phantom
rings on the bath tubs in the third-
floor john.
-Two..minutes later the slim long-
nosed man was being ushered into
the warden’s presence by a taciturn
maid.
“Oh Lord Peter,” she - murmured,
‘‘Won’t you take this chair?”
“For God’s sake let us sit upon
the ground and tell sad stories of the
phantom rings,’’ murmured the noble-
man in a light tenor voice.
She suggested going outside-and_sit-
ting on Merion Green but Peter made
a deprecating gesture and they, clesed
the glass doors discreetly. \
There was a_ perceptible: flutter in
the ranks of sprawling females when
the slim primrose-thatched shoulders
followed the warden to the coffee table
after dinner.
“T hope you don’t.mind a littl
healthy undergraduate idolatry,” mur-
mured the warden. “Your reputation
has preceded you.”
“Enter rumour painted full of lies,
murmured Lord Peter, peevishly, “and
don’t put sugar in my coffee.”
(To be-continued)
”
In Philadelphia
“Movies ~
Aldine: Dead End, a drama of the
New York slums, with Sylvia Sydney
and Joel McCrea.
Arcadia: The Good Earth,
Paul Muni and Luise Rainer.
Boyd: The Life of Emile Zola, a
biography of the great French novel-
ist, with Paul Muni.
Earle: Jt’s All Yours, with Made-
line Carroll and Francis Lederer:
Etropa: The Golem, a fantastic
drama, with Harry Bauer.
Fox: Life Begins at College, a com-=
edy, with the Ritz Brothers.
Karlton: Lost Horizon, with Ronald
Colman.
with
Keith’s: Wife, Doctor, and Nurse,
with Warner Baxter. and Loretta
Young.
Stanley: Big City, another romance
in the slums, with Spencer Tracy and
Luise Rainer.
Stanton: Back In Civilization, with
Pat O’Brien and Joan Blondell.
Theatres
Erlanger: Tobacco Road, with John
Barton. Beginning Monday: The
Passing of the Third Floor Back, with
Walter Hampden.
Chestnut: Leaning on Lefty, a com-
fedy, with Charlotte Greenwood.
Local Movies
Ardmore: Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, Broadway Mel-
ody of 1938» with Robert Taylor and
Eleanor Powell;~Sunday and Monday,
Confession, with Kay Francis; Tues-
day, Talent Scout, with Donald Woods.
Wayne: Wednesday, King Solomon’s
Mines, with Paul Robeson; © Thurs-
day and Friday, Between Twa Wom-
en, with Maureen O’Sullivan and
Franchot Tone; Saturday, Sunday,
and Monday, Love Under Fire, with
Don Ameche and. Loretta ‘Young;
Tuesday and Wednesday, Manhattan
Melodrama, with Clark Gable, Myrna
Loy, and William Powell.
Seville: Wednesday, Michael O’Hal-
loran, with Wynné Gibson and War-
ren Hull; Thursday, King Solomon’s
Mines, with Paul. Robeson;.. Friday.
with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and
William Powell;
Tuesday, You Can’t Have Everything,
with Alice Faye afid Don Ameche;
with The Jones Family.
Suburban: Wednesday, Thursday
jand Friday: Wee Willie Winkie, with}
Shirley Temple; Saturday, Sunday,
Monday, and Tuesday, Love Under
| Fire, with Loretta Young and. Don
Ameche; Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, Charlie Chan on Broadway,
_ doesn’t make any change on the-old campus ; but still; Welcome.
with Warner Oland.
CURRENT EVENTS
EXERPTS FROM EXILE
and’ Saturday, Manhattan Melodrama;
Sunday, Monday and,
Wednesday and Thursday, Hot Water, -¢
The President has found his 4at-
tempt to reform the Supreme Court
difficult sliding. His appointment of
Hugo L. Black was intended to place
a liberal justice on the bench, but
the recent papers have shown what a
storm has fallen upon the Capitol as
a result. ‘
Also figuring on the -front page. is
the Spanish Conflict. It seems that
the civil war just about borders on
an international conflict, with many
French, British, American, Italian
and German volunteers in Franco’s
ranks and with the Russians support-
ing Valencia. :
A patrol was established around the
Spanish Coast, but a new apparition
appeared in the form of pirate sub-
marines’ which busied themselves in
sinking vessels bound for’ Valencia.
Britain immediately called a confer-
ence at Nyon where Mussolini, after
some hesitation, was represented. It
seemed that the magic word was
spoken, for no cases of piracy have
appeared since the conference,
But a neW shadow has darkened
the horizon. An Italian high official
has announced his intention of send-
ing a few battalions to Spain to end
the conflict. .If this happens, France
will open her borders to volunteers
and supplies bound for Valencia. The
result would most probably be a
major European war.
No one is really anxious for war,
however, Mussolini visited Hitler for
the second time, and_ international
circles are asking will the Rome-Ber-
lin axis hold? But evidently no other
country intends to turn around that
axis;
The other» great feature on the
front page is Japan’s aggression in
the Far East. As far as the attitude
of the United States is concerned, Sec-
retary Hay’s note in 1898 established
the policy of an Open Door in China.
Japan quietly waited until the World
War got under way, and then brought
forth 21 demands which were aimed
at political control of China.
Upon the. protest of the United
States, the fifth section of these de-
mands was modified. But in the un-
fortunate Lansing-Ishii Treaty, Sec-
retary Lansing admitted that-Japan
had certain interests in China be-
cause.of her proximity. Japan’s next
step was to get control of Shantung.
After the World War, Secretary
Hughes prevented Great Britain from
renewing her alliance with Japan,
and the Washington Conference was
called ‘which resulted in the Nine
Power Treaty. This compact stated
that the sovereignty, independence
and administrative integrity of China
must be respected; that there should
be no interference in China’s govern-
ment; and that if there is any doubt as
to the interpretation of these points,
there should be free and open discus-
sion by all the nations concerned.
Once more Japan took advantage
of a world crisis when the depression
} struck, when she. proceeded to annex
Manchuria, rename it .Manchukuo,
and set up a puppet emperor.
this time Secretary Stimson declared
the United States would not recog-
nize annexations contrary to standing
treaties.
In 1933 Jehol and Chahar went the
way of Manchuria, and now that
Europe is so 400i néerned over Spain
and the United States is worried
about neutrality, Japan’s armies once
more stand at the gates of China, this
time in open though undeclared war-
fare. The Japanese, in flagrant vio-
lation of international law, are bom-
barding open towns and non-com-
batant sections for the purpose of
intimidating the Chinese and forcing
a surrender.
Pacifists are clamoring for the
United States to apply the Neutrality
Act, but this act will decidedly favor
Japan and allow the crime against
China to spread. However, the United
States as an advisory member of the
O~-* i geetetmegaiyethree, has ap-
proved t “the condemnation of Japan’s
methods of warfare.
England is considering boycotts
against Japan and the American.
Federation of Labor has voted in
favor of this measure. It remains to
be seen how much progress can be
‘made in bringing Japan to her senses |
through the boyeott.
At.
Le groupe Delawah has now learned
from a great variety of sources:
(books, lectures, conversation), that
among the French, Tourraine is gen-
erally supposed to be an indolent and
peaceful country whose soothing semi-
tropical climate invites repose and
calm; C’est la jardin de la France!
I find that the accumulated effects of
the ‘most hectic of New York week-
ends are negligible as compared to
any weekday in Tours. To illustrate:
‘I am awakened at 8 by ‘the sudden
impact of tray on stomach. This
sounds decadent but I think you will
eventually understand why breakfast
in bed is more of g necessity than a
luxury. I take brea t as calmly
as possible, g¢ generally trying to read
a book at the same time. In future
years I will be able to tell, when I
read which books by the kind of jam
that is spilt on, them.
At 8.45 the mad dash to the Institut
through storm and wind begins. This
is as much as your life is worth. I
think the .trucks of Tours have a
friendly rivalry to see how many
bicyclists they can smash by swoop-
ing suddenly around corners. The.
trolley technique is to come up silently
and swiftly from behind. As an ap-
propriate undercurrent to all this ex-
citement,. the streets are unevenly
paved with small, nubby cobble-stones
so that bicycling is a constant jangle.
jangle jangle bang, fatal to delicate
American. nerves.
The Institut consists of two floors
of rooms named after famous people
who lived in the Tourraine. Dr. Hock-
ing and his flock of secretaries have
‘their headquarters on the first floor
and the 50 odd members of the group
spend a large part of the day track-
ing these secretaries down and finding
out what they are meant to do next.
This is an exhausting and almost
heart-breaking form of exercise, $0
some prefer -to decipher the notices
posted on’ the bulletin-board. The
general conversation centered around
any secretary is pure French, but as
the radius widens the French gradu- |
ally blends into pure English. The
general atmosphere is one of mutual
misunderstanding which- at an early
hour in the morning verges on cold
hatred.
Once the zero hour has passed by,
life is suddenly brightened by the ap-
pearance of.a dynamic, double-jointed,
Gothic-gestured Monsieur who infuses
the digest of dictées with a dramatic
quality, and runs through the whole
gamut, A to Z, daily when he reads
Britannicus.
late to lunch, with emotions wrung
dry, ill-equipped to battle with the
strain of conducting a -conveYsation,in
French during the ensuing meal.
licious food, my household invariably
organizes a game of billiards immedi-
ately after coffee. The object of this
variation of the usual game is to
knock balls into holes of different
importance without” knocking _ down
two spindly pegs, which are in the cen-
ter of the board. The nervous ten-
sion of this is terrific, but nothing
compared to that of the enormous
games of pounce which are ‘celebrated
in the evenings. These last until all
hours of the night and reduce Amer-
cans to a sort, of imbecilic, drunken
condition, but any French child comes
out unscathed.
On every side, there
movies and a pdtissier to every block.
To play terinis one bicycles any num-
iber of kilometres to the Pare des
Sports, and after having rested suf-
ficiently to start playing generally dis-
covers that it is time to go home.
The movies begin at 9.15-and last until
12.15, which is quite in» keeping with
the endurance of the natives, but, as
I have pointed out before, hard on
Americans.
The first week was the. most difficult, .
but since then we have gradually be-
come trained and acquired an energy
‘and stamina almost equal to that of,
the feebler inhabitants of the city.
While some achieve this by eating
and drinking large quantities of local
chocolate. (which is excellent) .and
others by silent, philosophic=medita-; .
tion, as a whole we are confident that” 9
we shall beable to continue om the
upward trend and possibly look back _
on Tours as a deliciously quiet “Tittle -
spot. However, K still feel that we
shall never enjoy that serisation of
j calm content as we do our présent
state of excitement. _ - Ewes
MARGARET OTIS, .
The class finally leaves, -
As
an antidote to the. plentiful and de- -
is tennis,
chcteins
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Page Three
Miss Ward Outlines
Curriculum Changes
Diction Requirements and Data
On Course Cards and Dean’s
Office Given
N.Y.A. WORK RESTRICTED
Goodhart Hall, September 28.—
With a reminder of the five dollar
finé for course-slip changes, Miss
Ward began a list of announcements
concerning the’ routine of classes,
courses, and conflicts. The Dean’s
office has been reorganized due to the
absence of: Mrs. Manning, now on
sabbatical leave. Her work has been
divided between Miss Josephine M.
Fisher, who is assisting Mr. David
with mediaeval and modern European
history, Miss Dorothy Walsh, who is
interviewing the three upper classes
about their studies, and Miss Ward,
herself, who is interviewing freshmen
and who has taken over the regular
duties of the office. All students must
go to the divisions and conference
sections to which they have been as-
signed. Any conflicts Should be_re-
ported at once to the Dean’s office.
Certain corrections were made in
the catalogue, principally that so-
ciology is now offered as a major.
Also continental history from six-
teenth to the eighteenth century and
civilization of the ancient world are
not being given this year. Students
may make any changes necessitated by
these corrections without charge pro-
viding they do so immediately.
A new diction course has been ar-
ranged under Dr. William Cabell
Greet. It is required for all fresh-
men and transfer students yho have
not already taken a course in this
subject. There are two divisions,
three to four and four to five on the
first threé Fridays ‘in October. .No
cuts may be taken without special peér-
mission.
The N. Y. A. work at 50 cents an
Freneh Club Elections
~ The Frenche Club takes great
pleasure in announcing the élec-
tion of Boone Staples, ’38,
president, and Dorothy Grant,
38, secretary-treasurer.
N. Y. A. WILL CONTINUE
TO AID POOR STUDENTS
Washington, D. C.—College stu-
dents continue to be among the re-
cipients of Federal benefits along
with farmers, the unemployed, the
aged, the blind and other groups that
are on the receiving end of Federal
aid.
Of counse, the cash that goes to
college students is not as much as
~~ which goes to the tillers of the
soil and the needy unemployed but,
at that, the young people do pretty
well for themselves. Twenty million
dollars,” the amount the National
Youth Administration is this year
paying to students, is a long way
from small change.
The students perform specified
services’ at the schools and colleges
and in return receive funds from the
N. ¥.cA,
Slightly over $10,000,000 will go to
college students and the remainder to
high school boys .and girls. This
$10,000,000, if paid out in the form of
scholarships, would provide $500
apiece for 20,000 college students.
However, being. distributed, as it will
be, in amounts of about $15 a month,
this sum will help pay the bills of
around 75,000 young men and women
during the current academic ‘year.
a
hour will continue this year but a
greater restriction has been put on
the students who may apply. A de-
tailed form musé be filled out by her
parents stating the exact amount of
money needed and must be further
vouched. for by the college. When send-
ing in your application, indicate the
job you want. The work begins next
week.
Cut Committee Falls :
Attention to Rules
Continued from Page One
cut.
Students who are doing Honours wérk
Two cuts are given for hygiene.
are allowed unlimited cuts. within
reason.
The following penalties -arg-inflicted
on those who overcut.
(1) .A student shall be placed on
Senate Probation if she takes more
than four cuts above the allowance
made to her: This means that during
the following semester she will not be
permitted to cut any classes.
(2) Any student who has taken
more than ten cuts above the allow-
ance which has been made to her,
shall have a part or all of the sem-
ester’s work cancelled.
(3) Any student whio overcuts by
one the allowance ‘permitted her shall
have three cuts deducted from her al-
lowance for the next semester, and
shall be on Student Probation. Simi-
larly two..overeuts entail six to be
deducted the next semester, and three
overcuts entail nine. A student who
overcuts up to and including four is
on Student Probation; a student who
overcuts beyond four is ‘on Senate
Probation as above.
(4) Any student who overcuts be-
cause she does not expect to return to
college the following year will be’
asked to leave immediately.
All excuses for illness or emergen-
cies are obtainable from the Infirmary
or the Dean’s Office.
Auditors get gounted | for cuts;
visitors do not. —
. Students are advised to keep .a
record ‘their own cuts, to be com-
pared ‘incase of error with the cut
records of the Dean’s Office. Unless
this is done no corrections will be
made after the cuts are recorded. at
the end of the month. Any error
must be reported within three days.
The cut allowance for each student
will appear on her first cut-card. If
this does not tally with her own
calculation she must report immedi-
ately to the Dean’s Office.
weeks and their
INTERNATIONAL CLUB MEETS
Common Room, September -29.—
The International Club held a short
meeting to reorganize the club and
to elect officers for this year. A new
constitution, drawn up by ex-presi-
dent Eleanor Kellogg Taft, ’39, and
Louise Morley, ’40, was accepted
without change. The results of the
elections were as follows; president,
Louise Morley, ”40; ™vice-president-
treasurer, Bertha Raugh Cohen, .’39;
secretary, Joy Rosenheim, ’40. The
central topic of the fall program will
be the war in the Far East.
Varied Work is Planned -
By Bryn Mawr League
Continued from Page One
fore these meetings each month in the
Common Room,-and we hope that
even those who do not wish to enter
the discussion will come and listen.
This committee has many other plans
which, will be announced in the course
of the year.
Closely allied to this is the Summer
School. This endeavor which was be-
gun by President Thomas in 1921 was
the’ first co-operative venture im
workers’ edtreation between groups of
industrial workers and *a women’s
college.’ The students come for six
chief interests are
usually economics, public speaking
and English. There is always an
undergraduate representative .at..the,
school. The chairman, of this eommit-
tee is Sylvia Wright, ’38.
The Maids’ Committee takes charge
of classes for the maids in such activ-
ities as knitting, sewing, dramatics
and music. Last year they gave a
mystery play, The Cat and the Canary,
which was enthusiastically received,
and We hope to follow with another
success. At the moment however, we
plead for volunteers_to& teach knitting
and sewing, so please come to our aid,
and speak.to Barbara Steel, ’40. This
year Geniann Parker, ’40, is going to
resume the maids’ vesper service, and
volunteers are needed for this work
F reshman ‘S. ong F owt
Continued from Page One
“From the east, from the west, ‘north
and south we are the best!
Oh. the Sophomores: will . always pre-
vail,
From, the east, from the west cotton
states and all the rest,
We will make all- those ‘freshmen
hearts quail.
“Though your numbers are stfrong,
we'll be stronger all along,
So sing out our praises loud and
cleaar—NINETEEN FORTY!
When you put it to the test,
The blue is always best, and the
Sophomores will always prevail.”
also.
Very little need be said here-about
ported in the News very soon. Those
interested can help in teaching the
children or supporting the project
during the year by selling sand-
wiches ‘and attending the square
dances. ~~
Blind school needs no explanation.
Signing ~up indicates willingness ‘to
read to the blind at the-Overbrook
School. _ Christie. Solter, ’39, and
Mary Macomber, ’40, are in charge.
Haverford Community Center is a
school for the poor children of the
area, and we assist at their. play
hours. This is a good experience for
anyone and not at all limited to those
who anticipate a teaching career.
Americanization means teaching
foreigners to speak English. We send
students twice a week, and they do
not need previous teaching experience
in order to participate. We are going
to outline the work more definitely
this year in order to make it more
beneficial for both teachers and for-
eigners.
The interest cards wil help the
chairmen of various branches to focus
and yours
make their work more
effective.
sss.
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course in“‘Swing-ology”’ as
taught by that inimitable
master, Benny Goodman.
Try to keep your feet still
when the Goodman quar-
tette gets “in the groove.”
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Bryn Mawr Attracts
Vacationing Faculty
e
Paris Exposition Draws Many;
' Papers, Museums, Travel
Occupy Others
CHEW TAMES CHIPMUNK
Bryn Mawr was represented by its
faculty in a large and widely-scat-
teyxed number of places this summer.
Statistics have not yet been completed,
but it is thought that one of the most
popular places was what Mr. Charles
Fenwick called “that delightful and
healthful summer resort known as
Bryn Mawr.” While there, Mr. Fen-
wick worked on a manuscript collec-
tion of cases on constitutional law.
Also in Bryn Mawr, Mr. Broughton,
of the Latin department, worked on a
Study of the Economics of Asia Minor
under the Roman Empire.
Miss Elizabeth Ufford worked in
Bryn. Mawr on her dissertation, spend-
ing the remainder of her vacation in
the Pocono Mountains. Mr. Samuel
Chew, of the English Department,
spent the summer in Bryn Mawr, en-
larging his house and reading. the
proof of The Crescent and The Rose,
to be published by the Oxford Univer-
sity Press in November. Mr. Chew
also edited an anthology of Tennyson,
_ which _Doubleday..Doran—will—publish
_ this winter; in‘his opinion, however,
his most important achievement was
successfully taming a_loeal chipmunk.
.« The Paris Exposition attracted
many of the faculty. Miss Wood-
worth, who attended, also traveled in
England. Mr. Jean Guiton visited the
Exposition and the Bibliothéque Na-
tionale, and spent the remainder of
‘ the summer reading, sailing, and
camping, with his confreres. Miss
Margaret Gilman, in France for the
summer, collected material on Beaude-
laire. Mrs. Frank, also of the:French
department,..hadProverbes en.Ruines
published and was an editor of the
publication committee of the Modern
' Language Association. Mlle. Ger-
maine Brée spent three weeks in
France after teaching at the Middle-
bury Summer School. -
- The Exposition also attracted Mr.
Valentin Muller, who included it in his
travels in. France, Belgium, Holland
and — northern Europe. Mr. Ernst
Diez finished a work on the civiliza-
tion of Iran which will be published
as—one-of--a~series of college text-
books o?ancient civilizations. Mr.
Diez also studied baroque architecture
in upper Italy.
Mr. Harold Wethey, of the History
of Art Department, visited the Neth-
erlands, Belgium, and Paris, and
studied Tintoretto paintings in Venice.
. Miss Katrina Van Hook, traveling
with the family of an art critic of the
New York Times, visited museums in
the southwestern and Pacific states.
Others who vacationed in America
were Mr. and Mrs. Karl Anderson,
who spent time in Ottawa, New Hamp-
shire, .and- Iowa. . Mr. Anderson
worked on a paper on the Australian
tariff. Mr. Arthur: Colby Sprague
continued research in thé Harvard li-
brary on a forthcoming Shakespear-
| ian work. Mr. Gillet, of the Spanish
department, attended a meeting of the
Committee on Research Activities of
the Modern Langtage Assocfation of
America in New York.
Miss Lehr spent the summer in her
new house in Maine, and Miss Koller
worked in the Huntington Library in
Calfiornia. Mr. Mackinnon’ spent
some time in Harvard where he at-
“tended a meeting to celebrate the tenth
anniversary of the founding of the
Harvard Psychological Clinic, read a
my paper on the Dynamics of Humor, and
taught summer school. In September,
Mr. Mackinnon attended a meeting of
rainy
Survey of Freshmen
Shows Many Braids
“Continued from Page One
serene way from library to laboratory
(and, by the way, count ten before
wounding their sensitive feelings by
ribald allusions to “lib” and. “lab”).
One feels that Whittaker has pre-
sented each with a free bottle-opener
and a skeleton trunk-key, so self-
possessed are they. But whatever one
does not know about them, one does
know that’ they must not be offended,
because their strength, besides lying
in yet uncharted places, obviously lies
in numbers, and anybody can _ see
what a difference that might make.
M. R. M.
sia was studied by Miss. Fairchild
from a sociological point of view. Miss
Kraus led an institute in Chattanooga
on Problems of Public Welfare.
Miss Lanmin, of the.Department of
Chemistry, spent her summer in Mex-
ico°and Maine. Mr. Crenshaw also
spent some time in Mexico, as_ well
as in Bryn Mawy.. He collaborated
with Miss Edith Sollers on a paper
on disassociation processes, which will
be published in the October issue of
the Journal of the American Chem-
ical Society.
Miss Walsh spent a month at her
horhe in Dublin, and did research work
for the British Museum for two
months. “Miss Lake, having finished
reading College Board Examinations,
visited her. home in England. She
spent a week in Rome and later col-
lected material for a paper on Relig-
ious Development during the second
Punic war. The highlight of Miss
Taylor’s vacation was a cruise to Ber-
muda and Quebec—the rest was spent
in Bryn Mawr, where, she says, “it
wadyery hot.”
Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Wells mo-
tored with their daughters for six
weeks in the British Isles during the
early. part of the summer. Mr. Wells
has just completed an article, The Fi-
nancial Relations of Church and State
in Germany, 1919-1937. He also signed
a contfact with the McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co. to write a book on
American local government.
The Diezes (M. and. M..M.) spent
seven weeks in Germany, visited “nu-
merous friends, uncles and aunts, con-
ferred with aba aie of the Junior
Year in Munich and the Munich Sum-
mer School Courses, took a double dose
of Wagner-Festspiele in Munich and
Bayreuth, and devoted a considerable
time -to a forthcoming opus on the
poetic language of Richard Wagner.
AS AMERICA’S:
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and smoothness.
STARTING PEN
Whether for class or “lab” or “dorm,’’ Waterman’s
“offers students an edge of advantage. It starts fast,
saves time and effort. That’s because of Waterman’s
famous Super Point of 14-K Gold, tipped with
ifidium. 80 separate operations and-hand polishing
under a magnifying glass give it outstanding speed
Match a Waterman’s against any other pen. See
how much faster it starts. Size for size and price for
price, Waterman’s Ink-Vue Pens also hold more ink,
1941 Makes Many Faux
Pas in Self-Gov. Quiz
Show Mixture of Tact
And Confusion
Boners
Boners in this year’s’ Self-Govern-
ment Examinations. for Freshmen
were chiefly confined to the answers
of four questions, 8, 11, 12, and 14,
according to Suzanne Williams, 38 |
the President of the Self-Government
Association.
was caused by Number 11: “What is
the jurisdiction of Self-Government?”
The greatest confusion
Among the various answers: “Self-
Government has jurisdiction over the
entire student’s body,”—“The jurisdic-
tion of Self-Government is the entire
college except for the faculty,”—“‘Self-
Government has established laws only
to safeguard the girl in| the case Wf
emergency,”—‘“The jurisdiction of
Self-Government is that the President
can suggest to the President- of the
College the expulsion of a student any
time she sees fit.”—“The jurisdiction
of Self-Government is to call meet-
ings.”
Number 14—Mrs. Collins’s address
—proved *to».be another stumbling-
block. One student answered in- ap-
parent surprise, “I never heard of
Mrs. Collins.” Another merely wrote
tactfully, “I’ll look it up right away.”
Number 8 was a series of questions
on_late-permission;~-It-seems that two
o’clock permission may be obtained,
according to one student, for “informal
dances on approved public dance-
floors,” and ‘for dancing at places
listed in books (something, gardens,
etc.”’) One girl, however, thinks that
the two o’clock permission should be
extended, “for traffic in Philadelphia
is fairly heavy and it takes pretty long
to get cars brought around from the
parking-lots.”” If you are delayed,
another girl says, you should telephone
your warden, “in the first place be-
cause courtesy requires it, and in the
second place, because the rules require
it.”’ .And when you do get back ‘‘you
must record the gnanner of locomotion,
etc.” Another student, describing per-
mission for neighborhood dances, de-
fined the “vicinity” as “Princeton and
Wainwright.”
In answer to Number 12—-“In what
ways do you consider the system of
rules illogical or unnecessary ?’’—one
student answered that she found them
very _fair—and— lenient, but why
couldn’t we have double’ sockets?
Another student cannot see whySun-
day should be an exception to. 12.15
permission. . “However,” she adds, “I
do not object.” si
WATERMAN'S SCORES
ee
= dim
Camera Club Elnasiiaas
The #amera Club’ wishes to
announce the election. of. the
following officers: President,
Doris Grey Turner, ’39; vice-
president, Catherine Hemphill,
39; +secretary-treasurer, Fair-
child Bowler, ’40.
President Park Opens
College Year 1937-1938
2 a
Continued from Page One
the Department of Philosophy, comes
from the. University of Pennsylvania
to give the major course in Logic.
During the first semester, Richard
Salomon, University of Berlin 1906-14
and Hamburg University 1914-33, will
give a course in Russian history of
the 19th.and 20th centuries.
From France comes. news of. the
death of Madeleine Soubeiran, Agre-
gée de 1’Université, University of
Paris, 1927, Associate in French at
Bryn Mawr 1929-35 and Associate
Professor, 1935-37. Of Mademoiselle
Soubeiran Miss Park said, “She- was
as her students know a gifted scholar
and wonderfully effective teacher. She
was as much at home it‘art and music
and modern literature as in her own
field of 16th Century French Litera;
ture, gay, brilliant, full of sensitive-
ness and life.”
Miss Park here announced various
activities of graduate and undergradu-
ate students, some studying in other
institutions, some coming here from
other colleges and universities. Be-
sides the 14 Bryn Mawr resident fel-
lows and the 28 graduate scholars,
cial scholarships to study here. Most
noticeable among undergraduate ac-
tivities is the first Italian venture
which has sent three students to Flor-
ence.
The functioning of the French and
German houses has made an opening
for the influx of undergraduates.
With the use of the new residence
hall next year 25 more may be added,
so that, by plain arithmetic, with an
equal growth each year, by 1940 the
population of resident undergraduates
may increase from 400 to 500.
As soon as the necessary fund of
20,000 dollars has been raised the Col-
lege will acquire in the Mrs. ‘Otis
Skinner Theatre Workshop not only a
small theatre but studios for the Art
Club which will be “adequate, con-
venient and permanent.”
“Now faculty, graduates and un-
dergraduates of Bryn Mawr in this
annus mirabilis, slightly inconyeni-
enced inhabitants of Paradise-in-the-
there are five-students who hold spe-}
Evidently not ~
Mrs. Manning nor Mrs. de Laguna
making, who are we?”
nor Mr. Weiss,-all of whom are so-
journing on sabbatical leave. In their
stead we find. Miss Ward as acting
dean and Miss’ Walsh as her assist-
ant, and as Mrs. Manning departs,
Miss Schenck, Dean of the Graduate
School, returns to find this tribute in
scribed on the wall of Radnor’s dining
room: :
The windows in, this dining
room were enlarged and enriched
atectohonour= of . Eunice phe a
Schenck of the Class of 1907,
A.B. and Ph.D. of Bryn Mawr
College, Chevalier de la Legion
dHonneur, Professor of French
and First Dean of. the Graduate
School to commemorate the con-
tribution made by her scholar-
ship and affection to the life of
this college and to mark the be-
ginning of her twenty-fifth year
of teaching, 1937.
In speaking of the plan of the Final
Examination first attempted last year
Miss Park said, “I thought myself—
from the vantage point of neither
giving nor taking the examinations—
that the whole college was jacked up,
that faculty and students found them-
selves thinking in fresher and wider
ways on subjects which had seemed
familiar or limited.”
Meanwhile the Department of Social
Economy and ¥en Research an-
nounces an undergraduate major in
Sociology; the Graduate School makes
a beginnjng in the new requirements
leading to the Master of Arts degree,
and Mr. Tennent, who is primarily re-
sponsible for it, assumes his position
as*director of the plan for the joint
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“But what of all this?” What is
the justification for all this develop-
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Miss Park, “that the leng-time pur-
pose of the college in the period of its
history which it was entering might
crystallize into some service to Amer-
ican institutions, the self-governing in-
stitutigns which we like to think may
be if they are not now a high mark
in the tide of: civilization.”
- As for the ‘individual student, “Un-
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the whole of the students’ own mind
turn, it is useless, sounding brass.
... The passage to the world of the
sober and practiced thinker is no light
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Theater Review
For a reason, as yet uncertain, but
assuredly decadent, The Lady Has a
Heart is a continental favorite. Equal-
ly uncertain is the flabby handling of
its author. Ladislaus Bus-Fekete, in-
sufficiently. possessed as he is by a
succession of political, pseudo-philo-
sophical and social opinions, finally |
——lieeemnelals amaiistnnsestitcsibmas
Forward at Once .-
The following communication
was received by the News:
“Dear Sir:
“On 9/17/37 we ‘ordered 1
Rhys-carpenter; the easthetic
basis of greek art.
"On 9/22/37 ‘we reordered.
We now ask that without du-
PUBLIC OPINION
To the Editor of the College News:
I know that - financially speaking
BOOK REVIEW
Let Your Mind Alone, by James
Thurber, Harper and Bros.
Most humorous books, that is the
kind~that are composed of a number
of comie articles; get pretty tiresome
publicity is extremely important to
any college. I have been told that
Big May Day invariably ups the ap-
..and his movie shorts are rare and
after the first 20 or 30 pages, and
the articles themselves are usually
best appreciated when read at inter-
vals in magazines. Robert Benchley,
for example, is very funny and pleas-
ant to read when he writes the weekly
theatrical criticism in the New Yorker,
wonderful comedy; but there is noth-
ing as dull as his humor collected in
a book in the. form of unleavened|
lumps, sans subject, sans application,
sans sense, sans anything. James
Thurber is probably the only living
funny man who can 4write a_ book,
without a plot, which will induce a
reader to continue for any length of
time, and come away from it in a
good humor. Not only do his readers
come away ina good humor, they come
away in a sprightly humor, imitating
Thurber in their conversation.
Thurber’s art, or shall we say style,
has been described by many critics as
profound and philosophical, according
to the writer of the blurb inside the
Mr.
Amoeba Expert Joins
Biology Department
Year
Doyle Studied Last
At Carlsberg Foundation
Early training in cytology, and
later study of. biochemistry peculiarly
fit Mr. William Doyle, assistant pro-
fessor-elect of biology, to help carry
jacket of Let Your Mind Alone,
over,- his work is supposed to have
“swept intellectual America.”
out at Bryn Mawr the new plan for
coordinated teaching of the sciences.
Mr. Doyle received his Ph.D. at
plications for entrance the following
year, but I feel that the type of pub-
licity. which the college has. recently
been using can not help it financially
and may prove detrimental in the end.
By this I mean the movies for the
newsreel made here and the pictures
of undergraduates which have been in
several of the Philadelphia papers.
1A tO
familiarize the name Bryn Mawr to
But what
is pictorial Bryn Mawr doing filled’
with undergraduates peering through
The only gain from. this
a wide number of people.
hoops for fun, eating lunch self-con-
sciously, pseudo sunning in attractive
It is the life of the
“college girl” advertised in every
New York store: “She loves her plaid
dress‘ with swing skirt,” -ete. All
very 1937, but just alittle beneath
the dignity of Bryn Mawr.
In - publicizing ourselves in May
Day we are showing an excellent,
finished production. This recent pub-
licity is the result of the photog-
postures, etc.?
exhausts his immature little comedy in
the triteness of picturesque sentimen-
tality.
Elissa. Landi (as Countess Ka-
tinka), the daughter of an Hungarian
count and occasional prime minister,
is the only nimble character in the
dully
fore she necessarily appears over-re-
sponsive, despite the attractiveness of
her cunning rages or girlish sweeps.
realized hodge-podge. There-
It is at once obvious to all but the
naively slow characters that she is in
love with Jean,
Jean is to all intents an automan.
But not to all purposes, for he must
develop political aspirations. and tal-
ents which appear uncontrollable un-
til they are suddenly and entirely de-
serted forthe very Hungarian ro-
mance,
This might be endurable and even
pleasant in its would-be Molnar-touch-
es. However, while blankness is cor-
rect for a valet it is entirely contra-
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plicating, you forward the book
and send us a bill or cancel the
order and report to us at oT,
with reason of your inability to
supply.
her’‘father’s valet.
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dictory when found in the statesman
and exasperating in the lover. Vin- |
cent Price (of Victoria. Regina
fame), playing Jean, realizes this
even less than does Mr. Ladislats
Bus-Fekete.
The Countess Mariassy, Katinka’s...
mother, is another too” tranquil of
action -for the theatre. Her mind,
susceptible to romance, gush and _lit-
tle else is delightfully translated by
Hilda Spong.
In addition to the actors who form
a_ slightly animate background for
Miss Landi’s winsomeness, thére is an
appropriately ‘well-bred and even elab-
orate setting. M..C. H.
Johns Hopkins University in 1934 for
his study of -the cytology of — the
amoeba. The following year, as Gen-
eral Education Board Fellow, he
studied cell physiology at, Cambridge
under Professors Needham and James
Griiy.
Last year Mr. Doyle: was engaged
in micro-chemical research especially
on the study of micro-enzymes, at the
Carlsberg Laboratorium in Copen-
hagen. This city is rapidly becoming
a scientific center, and the Carlsberg
Foundation there supports two insti-
tutions, the Carlsberg Laboratorium
and a eancer research station. An
increasing number of Americans; Mr.
Doyle said, go to the laboratorium to
learn the new micro-technique, called
the “Linderstrom Lang and. -Holter
Technique,”
Mr. Doyle found the Danish people
exceedingly cordial. Almost every-
one in Copenhagen speaks at least
three languages, and all are so eager
to speak English that his only diffi-
culty, he said, was in learning Danish.
- At Bryn Mawr Mr. Doyle plans to
carry on research in the application
of micro-chemistry to cell physiology.
He will give his courses both from
the cytological and biochemical point
of view.
seems odd, because in our mind he
appears. to-have-more~literary~ gifts
than philosophical, more the virtues
of a columnist than of a rationalist.
His most important gifts are an ear
for phrases and cadences and a ca-
pacity for detecting the absurdities of
thinking in logical sequences. His
method of -ridicule is reductio ad ab-
surdum. Thus, he uses the conven-
tional circumlocutions of contempor-
ary speech in exposing the irrational
aberrations on which conventional be-
havior is founded. Incongruity lies
in the simplicity of the so-called com-
mon-sense idiom as it describes the
complexities of “common-sense” action
and thought. But Thurber’s sophisti-
cation does not imply a dislike of this
kind of action and thought. On the
contrary, he enlivens ingenious trite-
ness by over-emphasis, implying that
his*own kind of stubborn, passive hu-
mor lies behind the irrational conser-
vati®® habits of the ordinary male
mind. In fact,;he glories in the irra-
tionality, convervatism, and maleness
of his own prejudices. He is fond
of expounding his reasons for hating
women, and _ all their -non-masculine
habits, as well as parties, snobs, and
literary people. Sometimes he uses
the simple technique of pretending to
write seriously on some subject.and
saying nothing but what is supremely
; significant for its lack of import. This
system, of course, is out and out satire
on the usual treatment of the subject.
Such an article is the one on Thur-
ber’s associations which D. H. Law-
rence, a take-off of many autobiogra-
‘phers’ accounts of their relations with
- the literary and social gibt, In such
a manner Thurber obviously glories in
the fact that he considers himself a
little man... This persistent mannerism
becomes at times almost as irritating
as those of so many other writers
who make it plain that they consider
Themselves great.
Thurber’s particular . affectation
often takes the form of an elaborate
pretense at not being able.to under-
stand scientific explanations, particu-
larly psychological, and most particu-
larly when intended for the popular
intelligence. He usually affects to be-
lieve that such works reveal psycho-
logical peculiarities on the part of the
authors, and that they would not have
been scientists or psychologists if they
had not. had some abnormal mental
quirk. This suggests speculation as to
whether Thurber would have been a
comic writer if he had been born
Smith or Robinson, and if an inferior-
ity complex resulting in over-compen-
sation had not impelled him~to take
rapher’s--search~for--a—‘good- camera
face.” It reminds me-of movie pre-
views advertising ‘“cuddy co-eds.”
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Lantern Opens Prize Competition
The Lantern announces a competi-
tion for the-best short story, the best
poem, and the best satire for each of
which a five dollar prize will be pre-
sented. Contributions must be type-
written and must be handed to’a mem-
‘ber of the Lantern Board or put-in
Room 23, Pembroke West, before Oc-
tober the twenty-fifth. i The competi-
{tion is open to everyone except mem-
bers of the Lantern Board.
Dinner
Engagements
Peggy Schwarz, ’40, to Edwin
Stern, Jr.
Doris Hastings, ’39,
ard Darnell.
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Swing has been a campus institu-
tion for some two odd years, but this
fall it will invade an Eastern lecture
hall for the first time, cloaked in the]
scholarly robes of university curri-
culum. New York, University has
added to its faculty’ Vincent Lopez,
popular baton-slinger who titles his
brand of dansapation, “sophisticated
swing.” Professor Lopez begins his
lectures on popular music next month,
and his band will lay it in the groove
at the University Chapel in No-
vember.
In a similar vein the CBS Satur-
day Night Swing Club will go educa-
tidnal. ‘In addition to the regular
jam-sessions, vocalists, instrumen-
talists, et al., heard previously, the
‘Paul Douglas show will inélude ‘lec-
tures by arrangers and well-known
CLASSICAL soloists and conductors.
Yascha Heifetz and Leopold Stokow-
sky are said to be slated for early
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Glee Club Elections
The Glee Club announces the
resignation of Helen Shepherd,
38, and the election of Huldah
Cheek, ’38, as president.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
s
| i BOOK REVIEW
a
Collected Poems, by James Joyge, The
_ Viking. Press. /
James Joyce’s poems, which were
mostly written in his young manhood,
are now published in one volume for
the first time. It would even be easy
to believe that they were written in
his adolescence, for their whole tone
is as frail asthe inspiration of first
love. The beauty of -girlhood and
love are the principal subjects, with a
sprinkling of nature pieces all. of
which, with the possible exception of
the beauty of girlhood, seem to be the
sort of subjects on which a typical
young man might write poetry. In
some cases the book’s contents are so
reminiscent of such youthful poetry
te that they seem’ to be invested with a
- nostalgic quality which is itself poetic
in effect. This would not be the case,
of course, without their craftmanship,
and their occasional startling original-
ity of image.
The emotional or psychological
quality of the poetry is hard to con-
vey-—probably béeause although much
of it is written in the vocative, as if
addressed to a particular person, it
nevertheless seems far removed from
the scene of the original emotion. One
of the particular talents it reveals is
for an exactitude of phraseology,
which also’ contributes to the “emo-
tion recollected in tranquility” effect.
Despite Joyce’s peculiar use of words, |'
these verses are in the traditional
mode. There is no modern intrusion
of up to date devotion to reality and
documentation; and the vocabulary of
the lover is so sold that its terms seem
more symbolic than accurate. In the
same way, naturé imagery is used in
symbolie sense, as well as to evoke
mood. This removal from reality
without loss of intensity gives a some-
what mytserious emotional effect—like
that of hearing an almost inaudible
voice—such as is considered typically
Trish.
Pomes Penyeach, the second divi-
sion, are more varied, less traditional,
and more interesting than those of the
first section. In them Joyce perfects
his technique of emotional transition,
a sort of skipping from impression to
climax, with breaks in the thread of
Marriage
The marriage of Miss-Gladys
Leuba-to Mr. Richard Bernheim-
er has been announced.
Resignation
The editorial board of The —
College News regrets very much
to announce the resignation of
Jean Mor 39.
This.may be derived from his
experience in playwriting or in his
understanding of his contemporary
drama. The theory that the mental
energy required to understand a poem
as a factor in its emotional impact,
may account for the greater effective-
ness of the last part of the book.
The interest of the -poet through-
out is not, however, primarily in sense
but rather in rhythm, rhyme and asso-
nence. . His ear is extremely sensitive
and his rhymes and phrase lengths
are excellent for their clarity and
variability. The following lines are
from A Flower Given to My Daugh-
ter:
sense.
&
“Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave
| Whole soul is sere and paler
Than time’s wan wave.”
Senior: Elections
The class of 1938 takes. pleas-
ure in announcing the following
elections: President, Mary
Sands; vice-president and treas-
urer, G. Alison Raymond; -sec-
‘ retary, Alice Chase; song mis-
tress, Helen Shepherd:
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Imagination Takes Precedence Over
Exactitude in Exams :
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With each year’s Oral, examination
we become increasingly conscious of
the obtuseness of the German lan-
guage and particularly of the difficul-
ties it presents to Bryn Mawr stu-
dénts.’ Making up for a lack of wh-
‘derstanding by an excess of imagina-
tive interpretation, they have ‘again
produced ingenious boners.
Striving toward a better interna-
tional understanding, one optimist
writes: “As I have seen a skyscraper
and ence rode on a subway in New
York, I believe that the United States
has hit the nail on the head.”
The seemingly simple phrase, Das
Fleisch muss reifen, brought forth:
“The flesh must travel.” “The enjoy-
ment of meat in the festive position is
higher than in the fresh state.”
“Butchering requires a refrigeration
‘of 0 degrees in a dark cell.” “The
cold preservation of meat is, if it man-
ages to stay in sick bed not a longer
time than six weeks, relatively simple,
then already retard a cooling off of
0 degrees the process of decomposition
stiff in the cell.” “Otherwise it is on
the contrary with far over seas move-
ment.” “Chilled very. deeply.”
“Crowds of potassium or sodium ni-
trate.”
Das Amulett likewise inspired “Gre-
cian amylon signifies a particular spot
cian tended in olden time, an artist
rStarkemehl, with every kind of paste-
ware set forth, which found various
usefulness to the physician. The Latin
development ‘“amulmetum” means:
Nourishment of wheaten starch. This
substance was looked upon more like
our camolile-tea than (Allheilmittel).
—The starch was immediately devel-
oped into abstraction and finally sig-
nified Amulett—already .a foreign
word — ——a— — —....”
Bringing a new and _ surrealistic
trend. to.the time-honored field of
lexicography, this crop of _ papers
offered the following translations to-
ward a revised’ (and perhaps much
needed) dictionary: Wolkenkratzer—
airplane, vulcanic crater, crowd. of
people, crater of clouds, cloudburst,
folk mixture, cloud formation. What,
on the island Chiog where the physi-
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