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VOL. XXV, No. 3

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938

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BRYN. MAWR COLLEGE, 1938

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Fiasetice Allen
Gives First of
Shaw Lectures



Freedom and Unity Formed
Underlying Principle of
Constitution



LAWS NOT INFALLIBLE
-NOR. SELF - EXECUTING |



Goodhart, October 24.—Judge Allen
in the first of her six lectures en-
titled The Historical Development of
the Constitutional Powers spoke on

the Constitution as an Instrument of
Freedom. She pointed out that the
underlying purpose of the statute was
to form a government capable of giv-

- ing liberty and unity to its people,

while the economic motive, so often
said to be of primary importance
was only secondary in the minds of
those who framed it.

Since many of the provisions are
powerless as long as the public re-

’ mains ignorant of them, Judge Allen

—

urged that everyone read the Consti-
tution, understand its original pur-
pose and setting. and realizg that it, is
neither infallible nor completely self-
executing. Because the document
alone does not assure that the supreme
law of the land is being carried ‘out
everywhere, Judge Allen* ‘feels that
each generation. must recreate its own
freedom.

The history of the’ ‘American Revo-
lution, Judge Allen pointed out, has
been very dramatic with the hard-
ships of the pioneers, the endurance
of the soldiers and the spirit of free-
dom that permeated all classes, arti-
sans as well as aristocrats. Out of
this struggle came the Constitution
which unified America into a nation.
Such growth makes the noise of his-
tory, the noise, as Victor Hugo says,
of ‘wooden sabbots going up and
silken slippers coming down the steps
of time.”

Before leaving Europe, most of the
colonists had suffered persecution of
some sort ,or another and were de-
termined to establish freedom in the
new world; here they had been thrown
more and more on their own resources,
for when the Indians attacked, the
colonists had only themselves to rely
on. Freedom was in every settler’s
blood and was aggravated by Eng-
land’s numerous taxes and trade re-
strictions.

It is therefore unfajr, Judge Allen
said, to claim that the framers of

“the Constitution, taking part in this

same struggle for liberty, were moti-
vated primarily by the desire to en-
rich their own class.

They too sought
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NEW SCIENCE BUILDING





Miss Park Presents |
Freshmen Statistics



' Music Room, October 18 and Oc-
tober
has devoted two chapel discussions
to freshman statistics, emphasizing
the fact that the large incoming class
has added 25 more students to the
college quota. The construction of
Rhoads, will allow the

continue

the. new hall,
to
which has been progressin’’ steadily
since. the building .6f the first hall,
Merion, and will continue to increase
until 500 students are enrolled. This
is the size Miss Park feels is most
suitable for a small college..

The completion of Rhoads South has
provided room for 84 more students
in residence. The college has living
quarters sufficient to accommodate 409
students now, and the 389 non-resi-

college its expansion,

dent students arid six juniors abroad
bring the total number .of the stu-
Continued on Page Four



COLLEGE CALENDAR

Friday, October 28.—Two one-
act plays to be given by the
Players’ Club. Goodhart, 8.30.
~ Saturday, October 29.—Den-

birch and Merion Hall dances.
Sunday, October 30. — Dr.
Helen Flanders’ Dunbar will

speak in chapel. Music Room,
1 Oa

Tuesday, November 1.—Cur-
rent Events, Mr. Fenwick. Com-
mon Room, 7.30.

Wednesday, November.2.—In-
dustrial Group Supper. Com-’
mon Room, 6.30.”

Thursday, November ik
exander Gettler to speak on
Chemistry in Crime Detection.
Goodhart, 8.30. :

Saturday, November 5.—Latin
Play. Goodhart, 8.30. Square
Dance. Gymnasium, 10 p. m.











iniensateent Impromptu Reveals Mine

Of Talent Amongst Graduate Students



Wyndham, October 23.—Alumnae
Weekend’s gayest entertainment was
International Impromptu, given at the
French House by a mixed group of
graduates and _ undergraduates.
Though it was not entirely impromptu,
it had all the freshness of a quick-
spur-of-the-moment undertaking . with-
out any of its faults; its particular
merit was that it revealed the mine

talent which has been housed in =e

nor like the Fort Knox gold, secure
and unattainable. Diverse accomplish-
ments were woven into a skit by Mar-
garet Otis, 39, who also played the
part of Miss Blinks, an effusive alum-
na, down at the heel but still enthusi-
astic.

Miss Blinks “opened the’ perforniiitice
by stomping in behind her little greup
and explaining to them the sort of}.

“thing that the alumnae would ‘Tike: to

see. Arsenia Arroyo, the Spanish stu-
dent, obligingly~npse to her feet and
accompahied by spirited music, swir-
ling skirts and castanets, danced a

Spanish dance. After she had retired
amid tumultuous: applause from the

Grazia “Avitable and Gavia Fan, the
Italian students, sang blatantly off key
and then accused each other of giving
the wrong impression of Italian opera.
‘Their conversation was put to a tem-
porary halt by the reappearance of
Miss Arroyo, who this time combined

dancing and singing. Another gentle
disagreement arose’ between the Chin-

Woo. Miss Ch’en was playing a very
interesting Chinese melody on a two-
stringed-violin, when Miss Woo. hur-
riéd in and wrested the violin away
from her... Miss Blinks tactfully inter-
vened by“asking the Freneh and Fin-

and Anna Hietanen, what they could
do. Miss Jacquemond was of a retir-
Ling nature, and. Miss_Hietanen, equip-

ped with a hammer and what we hope

belt, had “to zo on a Geology Field
Trip:” For no particular reason, a
‘strange uproar arose after she made
this announcement and it was only
quieted when a messenger came in and

bona fide alumnae, the other Students} 35, ped a telegram into Miss Blinks’

played their parts, each in the peated
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ese students, Agnes Ch’en and Nancy

nish ‘students, Solangé. Jacquemond

wag a Finnish knife dangling from her |,

Lectures Informal
~ At Summer School



Union and Non-Union Workers

20.—This year Presidést.Parkm Enrolled Represent Cross

Section of Labor



(Especially Contributed by Eleanor
K, Tost, 89 and Helen J. Cobb, ’40)

When Judge Allen said Monday
night that the preservation of liberty
needs constant education,’ she touched
on the purpose of the Summer School.
It was founded in 1921 by Pres. M.
Carey Thomas and Dean Hilda Smith
of Bryn Mawr College “to give a pen
and tongue to the Labor Movement.”
Because it was not factional, and be-
cause of the quality of its leadership,
four similar schools dre today serving

‘| workers elsewhere’ in the United
States. Yearly about seventy girls go
from Bryn Mawr with knowledge

which should.make them better mem-
bers of their community.

The Bryn Mawr students are hand-,
picked workers from Y.W.C.A. and
union groups east of Denver and north
of Atlanta, Ga. This year the four
foreign students were from Canada,
England and Denmark. Sofie Fricke,
the Danish girl is now studying at
Pendel Hill near Swarthmore. She
may come to the November 2nd meet-

Continued on Page Five



Expert On Detection’
of Crime Will Speak

Alexander Q. Gettler, chief toxicolo-
gist for the City of New York, will
speak on Chemistry and the Detection
of Crime at 8 p. m. on Thursday, No-
vember 38, in Goodhart Hall. Mr.
Gettler is a world authority on “death
under mysterious circumstances” and
his lecture, sponsored by the Science
Club,. should. interest. lovers~.of-.detee-
tive fiction particularly. A~previous



a male member of the audience
‘fainted.

All deaths in New York City which
are not attended by a physiciah are
reported to Mr. Gettler’s staff, and
whenever the cause baffles routine
analysis, he is responsible for dis-
covering it. Mr. Crenshaw,, of the
themistry department here, says that
reports of Mr. Gettler’s activities,
particularly in poison cases, appear
in the N. Y. Times at least once a
week.

Mr. Crenshaw, who_heard Mr. Get-
tler speak several years ago and
recommended that the Science Club
‘arrange this lecture, says that he
cites many noted murder cases which
his toxicological evidence has solved.
Mr. Gettler’s method of determining
whether a victim has_ been drowned
ih salt or fresh: water jS-uséd all-over

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i ~—~Prize-W inner
Frances Fox, ’38, won a play-
writing competition this sum-
-mer at the Breadloaf School in
Mfidlebury, Vermont. Herprize-
winning play was written” last
- year in the Play Writing course
- conducted by Mr¥. ‘Herbert Mc-

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lecture once became so exciting that.

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Srintce Building Opens Amid

Series of Lectures to Alumnae



‘Norman L. Bowen Speaks

And Geology; Growth of Sciences’ Since -
Pre-Dalton Days Traced

on Alliance of Chemistry



! FACULTY CONDUCT

DISCUSSION GROUPS





October 23—On Sunday morning
four separate conferences were -held
|for the benefit of the alumnae by the
|departments of psychology, physics,
|mathematics and biology. The topic
| discussed was the place of these de-

-|partments in the college curriculum.

3. Psychology

The Library, October 23.—Psychol-
ogy is. by nature. the nucleus of a
curriculum in that it is the meeting
place not only of the. stiences, but also
of the humanities, for it is in psy-
chology that the study of matter, life, |
mind, and _ society converge. Mr.
MacKinnon gave the alumnae this
answer to the question of the’ place
of the Psychology. Department in the
college curriculum. :

Psychology as a science is co-exten-
sive with all other sciences. Roughly
dividing the fields of psychological | t
research into Sensation; Perception,
Learning, Motivation, Personality ‘and
Character, Mr. MacKinnon pointed
out that research in Sensation and

physics, research in Learning and
Motivation with biology, and research
in the fields of Personality and Char-
acter with the hitial sciences.
Students who have taken merely
the introductory first year course are
at onéé’ aware of its many contacts
with their other fields of study. As
Continued on Page Two

|Player’s Club to Give
.° Experimental One-Acts





Comedy and Tragedy Present

Contrast _in__Atmosphere



The Players’ Club will give two
one-act plays on Friday, October 28.

The plays, The Great Dark, by
Totheroh, and The Devil on Stilts, by
Ryerson and Clements, have — been

chosen both with the idea of present-
ing a variety of: problems for the
east and production—staffs_ to solve,
and with the intention of giving the
audience as great as possible a con-
trast in atmosphere. Both are mod-
ern, but the first is a realistic drama,

‘he second is a comedy, lighter and
more urbane. They are being pro-
luced as cheaply as possible, since
their main purpose is to provide ex-

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GOODHART PROGRAM
PRECEDES OPENING .

Goodhart Hall, October 22.—The
New Science Building was. officially’



opened today following a program of
speeches which outlined ‘the develop-
ment of the sciences at Bryn Mawr.
Miss Park, describing the general ex-
pansion in this field since the found-
ing of the college, was . followed by
Miss «Florence. Bascom, professor
emeritus of geoJ6gy, and Dr. Louis
I’. Fieser, associgte professor of chem-
Co at Bryn ‘om 1925 to
1930 and now provesswr of chemistry
| at Harvard University. The exact
significance of the new, building, and
of the whole’ plan for the joint teach-
ing of sciences, was pointed out by
Norman L. Bowen, Ph.D., distin-
guished service professor of petrology
at the University of Chicago, in his
talk on the Alliance of. Chemistry and
Geology.

Miss Park showed how the history
of scientific expansion here, including
present developments; has followed al-
most. exactly the principles laid down
by the founders. Dr. James &,
Rhoads, first president of. the college,
in his 1884 report to the Trustees,
emphasized the interrelation of the
sciences.

Joint Teaching Forecast

“Chemistry,” said Dr. Rhoads,
“which treats of the atomic and mole-
cular relations of matter, is the basis
of ‘allied sciences.” Physics, which
is closely connected with chemistry, is
in js turn necessary to the right un-
derstanding of mineralogy, geology,
and biology. The latter, starting
with the commonest principles of ani-
mate~—action, soon separates into the
great divisions of botany and zoology,
and to the: higher developments of
human physiology and psychology.”

Dr. Joseph Taylor, who gave Bryn >
Mawr its original endowment of one
million dollars, wanted to build a sci-
entific laboratory at the beginning.
This was not found possible, and the
first-courses in chemistry and biology
had to be taught in inadequate labo-
ratories in Taylor.- The physics de-
partment, started in 1887, was housed
inf the small wooden building back of
Merion.

Agitation for a real laboratory went
on, and in-1892 several friends gave
the 40 thousand dollars necessary to
build Dalton. Three years later Miss





At Traditional

‘Freshman Class Receives Blue Lanterns

Ceremonial in Cloisters



Lantern Night is one of the few col-
lege traditions which seems not to
change. Buildings continue to rise on
every hand; hoops are no longer given
away in Senior Row; even the vener-
able busts in Taylor have yielded to
the seemingly -irresistable force of
progress. But ‘still each year, on a
Friday night in October, cap-and-

| gown-é¢lad sophomores, file into the

cloisters swinging lanterns and chant-
Si their hymn of praise to Pallas
Athena, And still the freshman, after
receiving their lamps of learning,
march out singing the same “eopias
philae paromen. -

However, ‘tiacletvs: with visiting

has ‘a long and interesting history. In

EE os the first entering class
rr were sophomores, they decided to give

a play for their bewildered freshmen.
At the end of the show, with great
flourishes and much mirth, the fresh-
men were given tiny lanterns, about
three or four inches high, to guide
them along the tortuous path to learn-
ing and, more specifically, to help
them through college. The gesture was

touched some deep-laid chord of. feel-



alumnae’ reveal that -Lanterm, Night:

intended..as a joke, -but evidently it}



ing in the, freshmen, for the next year
we find them repeating the perform-
ance for the entering class of ’91.
This system of presenting the lan-
terns was still in practice when the
class of ’98 graduated, but sometime
before 1901 the cere ny had been

moved outside. The sophomores now
walked slowly around the campus, in-
toning “Pallas Athena thea”; the
freshmen, upon receiving their lan-
terns, responded by singing their ‘class
song. :

The library was built in 1904, but

apparently it was several years before

anyone realized what a perfect. setting 4
the cléisters would make for-am occa- eee
sion like Lantern Night. Eventually, -
however, the realization came, and the |
ceremony was -again—-changed to fit ——
even. better its new rather monastic
setting. se eas

For some time, the Freshman song
was different each year, but at some
unknown date it was standardized, and
a hymn called “Over the Way to the
Sacred Shrine” became the regular re-
sponse. The sent “Sophias Philae,”

translated from; Pericles funeral ora-
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The Story of Undergraduate
“Who is Undergraduate?” She is primarily a perfectly nice and
normal girl; she ranges between the ages of 18 and 22, and is clearly

marked by: the usual merits and limitations of her sex and age.

But

this raw material has received rather particular conditioning. Under-
graduate has spent a certain number of weeks or months or years at a
university where she is almost exclusively occupied with serious con-
templation of self. She is surrounded by others of her kind, similarly
occupied, and by a smaller group of faculty members whose primary
duty is to take a very particular interest in Undergraduate.

This is probably the only way of running a university: at the
same time it produces a fundamentally artificial state of affairs which
Undergraduate is not likely to experience again, and which she is in

danger of learning to consider*‘as perfectly normal.

She becomes used

to dwelling. rather- exclusively upon* herself: or upon such mind-

‘images as:

Undergraduate makes a bright remark in class;
Undergraduate has Weltschmerz;
Undergraduate undergoes martyrdom because the faculty expects

her to do some work on her own.

As we have said, it is not surprising that Undergraduate should
take herself a bit too seriously; still, unless she shows unusual powers
of adaptation, the winter after graduation will bring her something

in the way of a shock.

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Faculty Conduct
Discussion Groups

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a concrete ‘example of his contentions,
Mr. MacKinnon cited the fact that in
one typical week four girls came to
him for information bearing on their
other subjects. A philosophy student,
writing an ethics paper came with
questions on motivation; a history of
art major wanted to know if any-
thing had been done about recording
the aesthetic judgments of people un-
der hypnosis; a girl preparing a
questionnaire for a sociology survey
to determine the relation of people
in a particular hall as a social group,
asked advice on how it should be done;
“and an English major, writing on De

Quincy, wanted to know about the
‘psychological effects of opium.

First year psychology as taught at
Bryn Mawr is essentially a labora-
tory science, and is, Mr. MacKinnon
says, one of the most extensive ele-
mentary courses in the country. In

many colleges it is a one semester
course, in still others there are no
laboratory periods. One of the most
important aspects of the first year
Bourse is the training it gives in the
Aandling of statistical tools, training
useful in many kinds of work.

Mr. MacKinnon went,on briefly to
describe the plan of study for under-
graduate psychology majors and for
graduate students, characterizing the
~eoritent “of each course offered them
and mentioning its main allies in the
other subjects.

; Physics

Dalton. Hail-—Mr. Walter- Michels, |

w the department of physics, in dis-
_eussing the place of ‘physics in the

Bryn Mawr curriculum spoke chiefly |

of the problems in teaching this sub-

| ject to women. The methods used are,

“jhe said, peculiar to this college. -Ini
| departure from conventional textbook

| physics. teaching, which is designed for
_engineers, the course has been made
The details are omitted where

tram lg fondaton



Suburban Movies

Seville: Tonight and Thursday,
Boy Meets Girl, with James Cagney
and Pat O’Brien. Friday and Sat-
urday: Four’s a Crowd,’with Errol
Flynn and Olivia de Haviland. Sat-
urday afternoon: Kiddies’ Hallowe’en
Party. Sunday: The Affairs of An-
nabel, with Jack Oakie and Lucille
Ball. Monday and Tuesday: Reforma-
tory, with Jack Holt and Bobbie Jor-
dan.

Ardmore: Tonight, Carefree, with
Fred. Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Thursday: Smashing the Rackets, with
Chester Morris, Bruce Cabot, Frances
Mercer and Rita Johnson. — Friday
and Saturday: Valley of the Giants,
with Wayne Morris and Alan Hale.
Sunday,.. Monday, Tuesday. egnd
Wednesday: Four Daughters, with the
Lane sisters and John Garfield.

Anthony Wayne: Tonight, The Af-
fairs of Annabel, with Jack Oakie and
Lucille Ball. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday: Three Loves Has Nancy,
with Robert Montgomery and Janet
Gaynor. Sunday, Monday and Tues-
day: My Lucky Star, with Sonja
Henie.



stressed, and the students have pre-
ferred it.

“When a little girl is so high,” Mr.
Michels said, “she is patted on the
head for looking nice. A little boy of
the same height is patted on the head
for doirig something.” This difference
in background has made the mechani-
cal details of steam engines and gen-
erators meaningless to most women

| students. The rote details of the _AP-

plications of mechanics and electricity
are forgotten “by the first of July. It is

‘the faith of the physics department

that the experience of applying mathe-
matical reasoning to simplified pro-
dlems will last when — details are
gone.

In teaching ‘undergraduates, the
needs of several groups must be con-

sidered. Those who are interested in|

physics are easily dealt with. The
needs of those who are taking the



WIT?S END

DON JUAN
(Canto XVII ‘continued)

Music hath charms to soothe the sav-
age breast,
Or: turn a.charming- breast to sav-
agery.
'Tis said’ that Alexander used to wrest
His broadsword from its sheath,
whenever he
Listened to battle music; or depressed,
Would weep to hear some heavenly
harmony,
Or sleep. It’s curious that the sweet
bard Orpheus
Should rhyme so well with® drowsy
Morpheus.







Music’s like marajuana; you don’t
know
Exactly what will happen when you
take it.
You may start playing on the piccolo
Or kill your uncle with the garden
rake. It
Is a bad habit that will always grow,
‘Even if you try like anything to
break it.
In algebraic language, its effects
Depend upon an unknown, known as x.

After this long preamble, you can
guess
That Juan hearing Juan didn’t ‘stay
The same. He looked the same but
none the less,
Changed in the most extraordinary
way.
e wasn’t wearing military dress
Like all the chic dictators of today;
He looked as mild and grave as Al-
brecht Diirer,
Yet the whole audience rose and
shouted, “Fuerher!”

s

Well, (dedries) I may say I don’t
know how
Juan escaped. What’s more, I don’t
much care.
No doubt he acknowledged with a
graceful bow
The plaudits of the crowd.
whole affair
Is quite beyond me. Juan didn’t allow
People to pinch him or to peu his
hair,
And on returning slept, the ignoramus,
So that, awaking, he could say, “I’m
famous.”

The

At Lantern Night, the cloisters, cold
as stone,
Echoed the mystic question, “Where
is Juan?”
No one perceived him; he was not
alone.
Walking in line he held a light, a
blue one,
And chanted in a haunting baritone
Sopheas philae. It was dark (no
moo-on).
Ah! It was beautiful to hear him
yearning
Either towards his Lantern Girl or
Learning.

(to be continued)



course as an ally with another course
can be; judged from that major. Most
-of the class, however, is composed of
those who are somewhat interested, or
who are taking physics as a required
science, having rejected geology for
its field trips, chemistry for its smells
and biology for its dogfish. It is for the
benefit of this lattér group that the
course has emphasized the develop-
ment of the logical system, rather than
its application. The technical details
appear in the laboratory and more ad-
vanced courses.

_ The problems. of the second year
course are less happily solved, as yet.
Part of the project for joint teaching
of the sciences will call for the division
of the second year work into smaller
divisions. The mathematics student

omitting thermodynamics, while the
chemistry student could omit mechan-
ies. This scheme would greatly in-
crease the service of physics“ to the
other departments, This arrangement

| is still, however, a remote prospect: ”

In- speaking of the graduate depart-
ment, Mr. Michels ascribed all the pro-
blems to the fact. that, “Bryn Mawr is
a small college, trying to be a univer-
sity.” This attempt continues, with or
without funds and -facilities. Where
Princeton has 16 graduates in physics,
we have eight. The result is that the
graduates must’ work extra hard, but
theirs is the reward of university
training. Too Bryn Mawr Ph.D.’s



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could have mechanics -and electricity, |,

| Nucleus Club Shows
Colored Photographs||



Common Room, October 20.—Col-
ored photographs taken this summer
in the Gaspe. peninsula by members
of the club were shown at an open
meeting: of the Nucleus Camera Club.
Coffee was served to the visitors, and
25.new members joined,

In a style unusual for records of
summer trips, the pictures were shown
for their artistic value with only a
necessary minimum of references to
time and place, At present color

played with a projector. The pictures
are in the form of transparencies on
slides, Fairchild Bowler, '40, stated
that within two or three weeks a new
method will appear on -the market
for printing color pictures inexpen-
sively and well.

The beauty that can be recorded
with a color film was remarkable in
the pictures taken at a bird sanctuary,
They were able to come very close to
the nests and the pictures show the
distinction between the white gulls
and the creamy young ones against a
dark background of blue sea. The ex-
cellence. of composition in these pic-
tures: was as impressive as the me-
dium. Among miscellaneous pictures
was: the library, looking curiously
pink in the one snowfall of last
winter.



PRIVATE OPINION







|Dear Girls,

I don’t suppose many of you will
remember Betsy Binks, ’07 (Stinky
Blinks for short), but it was so grand
coming back here over. the Wéek-end
that I thought I’d write you a little
note.

Now I think all those delightful
French girls in Wyndham Hall. would
be interested to know that I headed
five women’s committees in France
last summer for the extension of
women’s property rights. On week-
ends, we organized suffrage parades
and by the end of the season did we
have corns . .. my, my. Then I
stayed over through October as a
member. of the Central European
Unit of the American Women’s Pa-
cifist Commission. We disbanded af-
¢er the Munich agreement, in protest
against a settlement which we felt too
un-American for conscientious ap-
proval. If we had had our way
bombing planes would be flying over
Berlin right now just the way Japan-
ese planes are flying over China. And
I hope you won’t mind if I seem a
little intimate, but I should like every
Japanese ‘soldier to know that Betsy
Blinks and her friends have adopted
the following slogan:

From thighs to toes

We wear lyle hose.

En mardge, my brother, Bert Blinks,
Harvard, ’06, is director of the
Buzzing Blinks Cotton Industry and
if any. of you girls are interested in
a good sound investment... Oh, my,
I seem to be talking business!

What.I really wanted to say was
that it was grand working with you
all. The campus looks just marvelous
now. I spent the night in Rhoads
and it was like being in the movies.
I .want_to come back real ‘soon.

- Yours very truly,
STINKY BLINKs, -207.



in physics have gone on n into other po-
sitions to make an evaluation of their
results yet possible.

The influence of the relativity theory
in the last 30 years has made, physi-
cists more critical of their assump-
tions. In elementary courses, as the
definitions are now set up, the difficul-
ties are pointed out. Mr. Michels finds,
however, that the concepts of relativity
are not disturbing to those who have
received no pre-relativity training.

‘Mathematics

Dalton Hall.—In an informal meet-
‘ing with a group of alumnae, Mrs.
Anna Pell Wheeler, of the department
of mathematics, discussed the place of

| mathematies i in the: ‘Bryn.! Mawr. ese =

‘ulum:~ Later "thé alumnae presen
stressed the cultural value of the sub-
ject to. the average student.

Mawr must serve many purposes.
Three years of mathematics are re-
quired for physics majors, and those
majoring in economics, philosophy
and other. sciences ‘usually take one
or two years. Of those who major
in mathematics, some will. go on into
ceca ce Page Five



photography is most practically dis-

The—-mathematics_courses_at ‘Bryn |



PUBLIC OP{NION

To the Editor’ of the News:

In connection with this year’s plans
of the politically and socially inter-
ested organizations: on the campus, I
think the question of relief in Spain is
an important one. The campus organ-





~/ izations are too willing to take intellec-

tual stands, to pass .resolutions con-
demning or endorsing abstractions of
foreign policy and political theory.
There is need in Spain for concrete
and whole-hearted assistance, based on
the simplest principle of human char-
ity to starving children in both camps.
Speaking as one who is a member of
none of these organizations, I think
this is their chance to improve on last
year’s rather ineffective methods of

to show that their activities can go be-
yond theorizing and investigation into
the realm of accomplishment. .

The American Friends Service Com-
mittee, as everyone knows, administers
relief in the form of food, clothing,
shelter and medical supplies to non-
combatants, especially children, on
both sides in Spain. You can be sure
that they will distribute our contribu-
tions efficiently. They need especially
money to transport large donations of
surplus food to Spain, and to buy
medical supplies for the children’s
hospitals they maintain there. We, who
are so ready to discuss and take sides,
should be ready to help. We should be
able to assure the Friends Service
Committee of a certain sum of money
each month, which they could plan on
as part of the maintenance of a hospi-
tal or canteen. Last year was.an at-
tempt to have a 75 cent donation on
every pay day. It did-not work very
well, and many resented it, although
it was not compulsory. Those who
did resent. it or are not interested
should not give, but they should take
thought and remember that it is not
only the members of the A. S. U., the
International Relations Club, and the
Peace Council who should care about
these things. Perhaps it is none of
their business which side wins, but it
is iter on Hs ae mitigate
the sufferings has caused
Spanish non-combatants. All those

they belongto organizations, shou
try to work out a plan for securing a
monthly donation. They will be taking
no stand but the often neglected one
of human kindness.

HELEN HAZARD BACON, 740



To the Editor of the College News:
As former inmates of the French

. House we look with surprise on the

misleading article in last week’s News.
Those who are responsible for the ex-
istence of the French House and those
who had any connection with it last
year were righteously cane at the
inaccuracies.

Specifically: First, there were origi-
nally 387 applications for admission
where there was room for nine. There
was no “pressure brought to bear” or
“sense of duty”
this day and age “martyrdom,” par-
ticularly that of roommates, is not to
be taken seriously. Third, the kind of
freedom made possible by a small
group is not “laxness.”’ Whereas late
breakfast and lack of specific quiet

cause considerable confusion, they are
luxuries to be appreciated and not
criticized in a house of nine. All other
college and self-government rules were
in effect. ;
The purpose of the French House is
to provide a place in which to learn
and practice the French language. It
served its purpose well last year and

by the presence of Mile. Brée as war-
den. A complimenta#y article-on the
beauties of Wyndham as the new
abode of the French House does not

undeniable advantages and pleasures.
SUSANNE WILSON, ’39 |
ELEANOR SHAW, dvi



4 7

“8 hakespeare Ayiidie -
2 Published

Katherine Lever, a graduate -
student, has had her double ar-
ticle, Proverbs and Sententia in
Shakespeare’s Plays, published
in the Shakespeare Association
Bulletin. The first part ap-
peared in July and the second in
October.









collecting relief money for Spain, and.

who do wish to give, whether or nt

involved. Second, in

hours in a hall: of 75 people would ©

its success again this year is assured ©

call for any belittling of last year’s:

~eiy -

CW


THE COLLEGE NEWS

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BOOK REVIEW





At Midnight on the 31st of Marth

By Josephine Young Case
$2.00

According to the notice on the fly-
leaf, Walter D. Edmonds’ first reac-
tion to At Midnight on the 31st of
March was, “A wonderful idea! I
wish I had thought of it myself.”
This is-an opinion that will probably
be echoed by any Bryn Mawrter who
has read the poem. Her first feeling is
likely ‘to be one of pride that a grad-
uate of the college, and its young-
est Director, should: have conceived
so splendidly original and suggestive
a theme. But her second thought is
more than likely to be an irritated
conviction that .even she. hé€rself
could have dled it better, if she
had only happened to think of it first.

The book is the chronicle of a sin-
gle year in the. tiny New. England
village of Saugersville. It begins at
midnight on the 31st of March, when
the electric power suddenly and inex-
plicably fails, and the people get up

in the morning to find the traffic gone, |

the roads gone, the neighboring cities
gone and unbroken wilderness strech-
ing out on every side of the village.
Their differing reactions to the crisis
and their way of meeting it form the
body of the poem,

It was impossible, in so short and
generalized a work, that these people
should be anything but types. Ex-
cept for the warped and malignant
figure of old Abe Givets, who is more
carefully studied than the rest, they
might all be labelled New England
Characters: the gentle minister, -the
village gossip, the discontented young
man who wanted to go to the city,
the trodden wife of the village bully.
They are as simply and unsubtly pre-
sented as qualities in a medieval mor-
ality play, which is, by the way,
the type of work that At Midnight on
the 31st of March most ‘closely re-
sembles.

Like the medieval writers, Mrs.
Case sometimes slightly overstresses

—

The Directors—

The first meeting of the Board
of Directors of the College for
this year was held at the ye
ery on Thursday, October 20,
five o’clock; the meeting “was
followed by’ dinner at the Dean-
ery. -







the obvious moral of her poem: that
people were much better,and™ happier
in the primitive colonial days, without
the distractions of radios, tourists,
crooners and longings for the city
lights. But also, like the medieval
writers, she brings a simplicity and
directness to her teaching that grace
and disarm it. Nothing so extenuat-
ing can be said about the form Mrs.
Case has chosen for her work.

Blank verse was not an altogether
happy choice, even for the more ex-
alted portions of the book; for the
more. trivial sections, it was simply
disastrous. It transformed the simple
act of turning on the lights into this,

“ , , restless hands reached,: for
the switch; the bulb
As quick and brilliant as a light-
ning flash
Answered obedient and set forth
the scene,”
or discovering that the power was
dead into this,
“No lights answered to the switch
his careless hand
Turned with a habit that required
no thought.
But thought flashed on when no
lights came. to life.
‘He tried again.”

‘

In other parts of the poem, Mrs.
Case proves, and proves generously,
that she can write acceptable and
even excellent blank verse. But these
splendid moments are always either
slumping. back into pompous triviali-
ties or breaking on the harsh New
England dialect, as they do in the
description of Abe Givet’s wife:

“Her eyes were big as rabbits’ and
as soft.







She looked a bigger child among
her own,

As tender,
ORG 2.3

And. few thought twice of her

except to say,

‘She has no easy life that girl I
bet.’ ”

pitiful, and ignor-

of thing might have been excusable

resources of ' prose-insertion,

‘uate
avoid it.

can classic.

to come. i. Me

In the eighteenth century, this sort

of thing. might have -been excusable;
but in the twentieth, “with: all the
free
verse, and meter-variation at Mrs.
Case’s command, it is hard to forgive
the way the form drags down the
originality of the idea, or escape the
conclusion that almost any undergrad-
should have known how to

But through -all these defects of
emphasis and style the theme of. the
book rises still strangely arresting and
fascinating.. These formal faults pre-
vent the poem from being pwhat it
might so easily have been: an Ameri-
They cannot prevent it
from being a deeply suggestive work
and a prophecy, perhaps, of classics|,paps a little better than usual;





The Church of the
’ Redeemer
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Students of the college are
cordially invited to the services.
‘Sunday—8 a.m. and 11 a. m.
Thursdays and Saints Days—
10 8.
Ernest C. Earp, rector.
Ernest Willoughby, organist
and choirmaster.



me





Freshman Class Receives
Blue Lanterns in Cloisters



Continued from Page One

“tion, was first sung on Lantern Night
by the class of 1924.

This year’s Lantern Night had
nothing particularly to distinguish it
from performances of the last few
years, except that a rapid exit of the
unusually large ‘freshman class was
facilitated by the use of three separate
doorways instead of the customary
one. The Freshmen’s song was per-
while
the sophomores sang their longer and
hence more difficult hymn in less per-



“The Alumnae Came

Down—”

Complete statistics on the
number of alumnae attending
the various events of alumnae
week-end are not ‘available, but
215 separate alumnae were at
the college for at least one meal.
These 215 represented 50 of
the 53 graduated classes. .As
far as Mrs.. Bassett could as-
certain, the unrepresented
classes were 1890, 1916 and
1933.



fect unison. Our only suggestion for
improvement is that the withdrawal of
the sophomores to their dark corner of
the -cloisters might be accomplished
rather more quietly—even at the price
of a little loss of time; the present
heavy-footed, noisy rush
breaks the quiet, spell of the rest of the
ceremony. 5

completely’

Varsity Hockey Team
_Ties’ Merion Club, 3-3



Bryn Mawr Leads Opponents Until
Fast Second Half |



On Saturday, October 22, the Bryn
Mawr Varsity. Hockey Team tied the
‘Merion Cricket Club Team, 3-3.

Bryn Mawr kept control in the first
half, scoring three goals. The for-
ward: line played good fast “hockey
andthe defense was also very efficient

1th H. Resor, ’42, breaking up many -

plays.

In‘the second half Merion made all
three of her points. The outstand-
ing player was B. Strobhar who scored
in spite of the valiant defense of N..
Beck, ’40, the Bryn Mawr goal.

The teams were:
BRYN MAWR

MERION
Smith Ho. 6. rR es : Kirk>:
Strobhar ...... “ig Weadock
OOOO kis iee OG cei Stokes
MBIDUR ales he, ee eee Lee
MU ko ev oe Lee ee ara Howard ~
Harding :...... Poh Waples
ee ss Os sia Ligon
MOUS 6 ceca os eee Marshall
EORD. cigs Bo ei Resor
BREE 54s Ves RT uc ee Norris
BING! 65. Cia ves Qe. eee Beck

Umpires: Krumbhar, Turman.

Goals: Merion—Strobhar, 2, Wil-
bur,“ 1. Bryn Mawr—Weadock, 1;
Stokes, 1; Lee, 1



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THE COLLEGE NEWS .





| Science Building Opens

, Amid Many Lectures



Continued from Page One
Florence Bascom came to Bryn Mawr

’ as the first professor of geology. Ex-

ipa:

Miss. Bascom ‘closed her’ history of],

oa

“ must be their first obligation.

_ pansion into the four scientific fields

originally outlined by Mr. Rhoads was
now accomplished.

“Dalton has been used for 45 years
now,” said Miss Park, “and it has
had hard wear.” Despite |overcrowd-
ing, inconvenience, and obsplete equip-
ment, the departments Have grown
yearly and offered more\a more
courses in advanced work.\ The plan
recently evolved by the faculty for
the joint teaching of sciehces in-
creased the need for better facilities.

Alumnae Raised Fund

When the general expansion of the
college was planned in 1931, and the
Fiftieth Anniversary drive. launched
in 1935, the alumnae and the Directors
agreed that replacement of Dalton
By
1936, the alumnae, under the chaiy-
manship of Caroline McCormick
Slade, had succeeded in raising one
million dollars. 332 thousand dollars
went to the new science building; the
Carnegie grant of 150 thousand dol-
lars made possible the joint teaching
of the sciences; and an anonymous
gift of 25 thousand dollars was used
to establish Bryn Mawr’s first re-
search appointment, that of David
Hilt Tennent in biology. 180 thousand
dollars have been set aside for the new
library wing.

Since the facilities for biology,
physics, and mathematics had still
not been improved, in 1938 the com-
mittee decided on a complete rebuild-
ing of Dalton. A bequest from Sophie
Boucher, ’03, which was added to by
gifts of the Directors and others, sup-
plied the necessary 53 thousand dol-
lars. With the invaluable assistance
of Francis J. Stokes, the faculty of
the three departments drew plans for
the rebuilding and, during the sum-
mer, accomplished much of the actual
construction work.

History of Geology Department -

In introducing Miss Florence Bas-
com, Miss Park noted that the pro-
fessor emeritus of geology was not
only the founder of her department,
but also the first woman to receive a
doctorate from Johns Hopkins.
audience, many of them alumnae who
‘had known Miss Bascom, applauded
loudly as she rose to speak.

‘When geology was introduced, said
Miss Bascom, there were 300 students
at Bryn Mawr. Nine of them regis-
tered for the three hour elective
geology course. Since that time 12
women have become _ professional
geologists following their work here.
Five are now professors or instruc-
tors at leading colleges; two are ac-

tive research ists of the crystal-
ine rocks; two are paleontologist (in
me case of. worldwide reputation) ;
me, Margaret Cameron Cobb, Ph.D.,
1922, is a petrolium geologist in in-
dustry; and finally, two are as yet
free lances, destined, Miss Bascom da
_lieves, for professional honers.




~"Geology Graduates Prominent

Ida Helen Ogilvie, who took her
A.B. in.1900 and was ready for a
doctorate in 1903, stands out among
the early graduate students. She was
_tihe founder of the geology department
3 Barnard College and author of

“~gome ten’ scientific. papers. and re-

views. Julia Anna Gardner, A.B.,
1905, was the first distinguished pa-
leontologist produced by Bryn Mawr.

In 1921, Miss Dorothy Wyckoff,
now assistant professor of geology,
received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr
in the department of Latin and Greek.

_ She had taken first year geology—as
" her required scienge.

However, in
1922 she returned as graduate stu-
dent in geology and chemistry, and in
1928 received her M.A. in geology,

-and. in-1932 her Ph.D. Throughout |

this period; Miss Wyckoff continued
her work in art and the. classics..

g geology at Bryn Mawr by’ ‘describing

some of Ahe vicissitudes that hindered
field word in her day. . , These seem to

a re mainly on the. fact that “while



trespassers are not field-geologists,
field-geologists are trespassers.”
Record in Dalton







The

The ‘speaker on the chemistry de-
partment was Dr. Louis F. Fieser, of
Harvard University. Dr. Fieser
studied at Harvard under Dr. Elmer
P. Kohler, who was in charge of or-.
ganic chemistry at Bryn Mawr for
twenty years until he went to Har-
vard in 1912.

“The record of accomplishment. in.
Dalton,” said Dr. Fieser, “is ‘a good
omen for the future. Few colleges
of’ the same or greater size have con-
tributed as much to chemical research
as Bryn Mawr.” He attributed this
success to the “university spirit and
stimulating atmosphere” which at-
tracted brilliant younger men to seek
appointments here. Several of them
have now gone to other colleges or to
industrial jobs. All have made sig-
nificant achievements in research.

Out of 112 research papers which

have come from the chemistry de-
partment at Bryn Mawr, one-third
have been written by Mr. Kohler, who
died last spring. He was known
throughout the country for his teach-
ing methods as well as for research.
Dr. Fieser noted the fact that he was
also one of therfew faculty members
who dared to put up a shadow of oppo-
sition to Miss Thomas.
Dr. Fieser reported that when asked
to discuss the appointment of a new
professor of chemistry, Mr. Kohler,
then an instructor, told Miss Thomas
that he considered himself fitted for
the position. He added that if some
one else were appointed whom he con-
sidered his ‘superior in ability, he
would co-operate gladly. If, however “I
do not consider him my equal, you will
have my resignation.” Mr. Kohler was
appointed.

Geo-Chemical Field Discussed

Dr. Norman L. Bowen of the Uni-
versity of Chicago was selected by the
geology and chemistry departments
to speak on the importance of joint
tedching of sciences, and in particu-
lar on the Alliance of Chemistry and
Geology. e

Although ‘most people consider
chemistry an experimental, and ge-
olegy a natural science, both had a
utilitarian beginning in the attempts

‘of early man to use fire to extract

metal ores from rock. The history of
chemistry until very recently has been
a. series of discoveries of new ele-

/ments present. in the materials found

on the earth: Since then, the dis:
tinction between laboratory science as
opposed to natural science has wid-
ened, but the ultimate materials on
which both work are the same, and
experimental chemistry is important
in checking the theories evolved by
field geology.

Chemistry ~ Tests Field Cticatles

In support of this contention Dr.
Bowen cited several examples. Ge-
ologists haye long studied the flows
of lava—from voleanoesand their
crystallization into various minerals
and rocks. High temperature chem-
istry throws important light on the
forces at work in the consolidation of
rock from these molten lavas. Fluo-
rine, chlorine and other gases present
in lavas are known to be responsible
for. voleanic. eruptions. .
tions can best be studied by use of
the principles of high temperature
and high pressure chemistry.

The lava’ which comes out from
voleanoes js “a mere trickle” com-
pared with the great magma reservoirs
within the earth, which are continu-
ally consolidating into rock. Geolo-
gists have studied these “roots of the
mountains” where they are exposed
by erosion and haye found notable
differences between .these rocks and
those formed from lavas cooling rap-
idly at the earth’s surface. When
consolidation takes place within the
earth, gases remain in the magma
until crystallization is almost com-
pleted. _ These phenomena can _ be
studied more exactly through labo-
ratory experiments with very complex
solutions under moderate temperature
and pressure conditions. ~

mentioned xock- weathering. swhich-is in

‘direction, they are never still.

These. erup-.

‘As “a third ‘example Dr.. Bowen}

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Thanks to Undergraduates
Mr. Rhoads, the chairman of
the Board of Directors, and
Miss Park wish to thank the
undergraduates who did _ so
much to make the exercises con-
nected with the opening of
the Chemistry-Geology Building
and Rhoads pleasant for the
_ guests of the college. The col-
lege is especially in ‘debt to the
students of Rhoads South who
went to other halls for their
meals, in. order to leave the
large room at the Deanery free
for the alumnae, to the ushers
at Goodhart, and to the guides
in the two science buildings and
~~Rhoads. A







International Impromptu
Reveals Mine of Talent



Continued from Page One

news that May Ch@w, ’39, was going
to do her Sword Dance.

Miss Chow entered dressed in a
flaming red tunic and trousers, and
danced unaccompanied by any music.
The movement of the Sword Dance is
abrupt in the sense that it is divided
into short: fluid movements, but, though
the whirling swords may change their
It is
most unusual to see a dance which is
made more effective by the absence of
music. : S

The ppruots, composed of members
of the French and German Clubs, were
attractively livély. The German Club’s
pleasantest contribution was the fa-
miliar oral song, “I Can’t Do It All
By Myself,” rendered into the German
tongue. The German Club is always
full of good spirits, and lederhosen,
and with two accordions and a violin,
they outdid themselves. The French
Club sans native costume, resorted
to caps and gowns, and bounced about
in a cheerful Breton folk-dance, sing-
ing and holding on to their caps as
they bounced.

The reaction of the alumnae and
faculty who crowded the room even to
the window-sills was very enthusiastic.
We hope that: the Internationals will
be inspired to give another impromptu
performance some time in the future,
especially for the benefit of the under-
graduates who were shooed into the
background -on Saturday hight:

M.R.M.



part a chemical process and which is
of primary importance in geologic
study. The products of erosion form
chemical compounds, are carried to
the sea by.streams where they are
precipitated. Many of these com-
pounds, such as limestone, silicates,
and calcium phosphates are of great
economic importance. Chemistry and
geology in co-operation can add
greatly to the data on how and where
they are precipitated.

In conclusion, Dr. Bowen pointed
out that any grouping of sciences
would be valuable since all are in-
terrelated. Students under the new
téaching~plan will become aware of
this and will acquire “a scientific out-
look” which Dr. Bowen believes more
valuable: than too early specialized
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dent body up to 454. In two years, if
25 extra students are added each year,
the 500 limit will be reached.

47 per cent of the freshman class
come from “a large rectangular area
bounded by New York on the north,
Washington on the south, and: Paoli
on the west.” ‘Six members of the
class come from other countries. One
is English and the other five are
Americans who have been residing
abroad, in Germany, Italy, Brazil and
Mexico. There is an unusual num-
ber of transfer students coming to
Bryn Mawr from. such ‘colleges and
universities as Smith, Connecticut,
Swarthmore, Wheaton, Texas;
Goucher, Pennsylvania, Nebraska,
Wells and George Washington.

Approximately half of the fathers
of thd freshman class are in business,
half are professional. 35 per cent of
the freshmen have. college-trained
fathers and mothers, 47 per cent have’
only one parent who has received col-
lege education, and 18 per cent come
from families in which neither parent
attended college. -Fifteen are daugh-
ters of Bryn Mawr graduates.

The average age of the class of
1942 is seventeen years and_ ten
months. This is a new low. In the
years ‘from 1922 to 1927 the fresh-
man class was approximately eigh-
teen years and three months old. Last
year the average had dropped to sev-
enteen. years and eleven’ months.
Eighteen entering students are still
under seventeen years of age.

Miss Park observed that the pro-
portion of public school students is
greater this year than ever before.
In the past Bryn Mawr has had a
higher ratio of girls trained in priv-
ate schools than any other leading
woman’s college. This year only 72
per cent of the freshman class come
from private schools, in contrast to
last year’s 80 per cent. “President
Neilson, of Smith College, says that
public school students are the worst
and the best. We have the good
group,” Miss Park asserted.
~ Most of the freshmen entered Bryn
Mawr by taking college board exami-
nations.
Plan D, which admits students. in the
upper seventh ‘of their high ‘school
classes to college without entrance
examinations, 12 per cent attended
schools in the ‘progessive education
plan.

Miss. Park ended her address with
a few words about the expected aver-
ages of the class of 1942. This
average can be predicted only for
those who *have- taken college board
examinations. 25 freshmen are ex-
pected to have a cum laude average,
and eight are expected to receive
marks of 90 or over.

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MISS HAWES CHANGES

U.S.A. DRESS FASHIONS .



“Fashion is spinach. I say. to hell
with it.”’ This sounds a bit like radical

‘exhibitionism to anyone who knows

nothing about Elizabeth Hawes, a new
American dress designer, but ore can-
not read her book Fashion is Spinach
witheut realizing that it is carefully

aimed at the fashion racket which, for. .

years, has obliterated the most impor-
tant factor of clothes: style. Further-
more, her projectile is shot from thir-
teen years of first-hand association
with every angle of dress designing,
ranging from Paris couturiéres’ to
Seventh Avenue wholesalers.

After graduating from Vassar in
1925 with a definite interest in eco-
nomics and clothes, Miss Hawes
scraped together enough money to
land her in Paris. She arrived sans
money, sans job, sans everything ex-
pay her trip to Paris. She arrived sans
cept a few influential friends.

At the end of two years of work-
ing as sketcher for a copying holse,
fashion reporter and stylist, she came
to this conclusion: “The entire French
legend is built up on a few designers
who design for a small group of a
few hundred or possibly a few thou-
sand women who are chic.” This was
all very well for France where -no-
body cared particularly what the
French peasant. women wore, but
American designing, in which she was
primarily interested, could not afford
to be exclusive in the face of mass
production.

'Miss Hawes came back to America
destined to prove that beautiful clothes
could be born in New York City with-
out. benefit of French parentage. As
she and her shop became famous, Miss
Hawes began to undermine the most
glaring inhibitions of the American

‘trade of dress designing, namely that:

“Beautiful clothes change regularly
every six months,” and that. “All
American women can have beautiful
clothes.” The first of these dogmas was
established to keep business booming
and the second is completely incorrect,
according to Miss Hawes, because
American women think that in ‘“fash-
ion,” which is changing every few
weeks, they are finding “style” which
takes almost seven years to change.
It is style towards which Elizabeth
Hawes is steering American design-
ers, and will eventually steer manu-
facturers and wholesalers. Her in-

fluence is bound to be great because,

it-is based-on- the fundamentally sound
theory that style is a combination of
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CURRENT EVENTS





(Gleaned from Dr. Gray)-
There are three trends noticeable
in contemporary European affairs
which it is impossible to accept with
resignation,

airplane. The second is the loss of

personal rights in many countries:
the denial of the principles of free-

dom of speech, freedom of action, and
racial tolerance. The third is the
refusal of political rights to the. op-
ponents of the existing’ government.

All three conditions have been
brought about largely by military
machines set up to remedy political
abuses. Germany, for instance, felt
after 1919 that she was in an. intoler-
able position. Before the war she
had dominated. Europe; after it, she
had lost her prestige and much of
her territory. It was inevitable that
she should try to regain her political
leadership and to expand economically
in the agricultural regions of the
Danube. As a result, Hitler has
placed Germany in much the same
position that she held in 1914, but on
a much sounder basis, unhampered by
an. alliance with an unstable Austrian
empire.

In the future, Germany, with the
United States and Russia, will prob-
ably be one of the three great conti-
nental powers of the world. Great
Britain and Japan will be almost as
powerful, but hampered by their re-
stricted home territory. France will
probably have less influence than Ger-
many and is likely to be included with
such powers as Italy and Poland.



Faculty Conduct '
Discussion Groups



Continued frdm Page Two

~ graduate research and college teach-

, strongly emphasized.

_

ing, while others must be trained to
teach in secondary schools. Fortu-
nately an emphasis upon’ the founda-
tions is best suited to the needs of all
these groups.

‘In discussing the value of mathe-
matics in other fields an alumna
of the class of ’26, who is now a
lawyer, said that familiarity with
the mathematical method of approach
had been exceedingly valuable to her
in organizing the material of her
cases. Most law schools approve his-
tory as preparation in college, with-
out realizing the value of mathéema-
tical training.

The needs of secondary schools for
better trained mathematicians was
One alumna,
now a tutor, urged the return to the
old special Bryn Mawr examinations
in this field. She was told that many
of the problems taken from them are

included in the new Alpha, Beta and |«

Gamma examinations for college en-
trance. The erroneous ideas that
many students have of important con-
cepts, such as infinity, show a serious
fault in their earlier education. The
cure for this must be found in teach-
ers with a thorough training in
higher mathematics, all the more im-
portant because they are to introduce
the first fundamentals.

Since the mathematics department

_is_limited_to-three-members,-there-are}.

few fields in which much advanced:
work can. be done... Next year, -how-
ever, a course in statistics-is planned,
since this training is bécoming in-

-——-“ereasimgly valuable to job seekers. -

Co-operation of the mathematics
departments among the ‘neighboring
colleges has increased with automobil-
ing. Princeton, the “mathematical
center of the universe” is within easy
distance for hearing important papers
in an afternoon. The mathematical
journal clubs of Swarthmore and the
University of Pennsylvania meet to-

gether with that of Bryn Mawr _ sev-

orn times a yea:

x, Biology.

A Seixas eee

“Miss “itary “Gardiner, in n speaking}

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The first ig the military
‘abuse of such fine inventions as the

‘ing to take the time to study an entire



Skills in Reading

Miss McBride: will speak in
the Common Room on Skills in
Reading, on Thursday, October
27, at 8.30. She will speak espe-
cially to the freshmen, but any-
‘body else who is interested is
invited to come. < ;







Expert on Detection
Of Crime Will Speak

Continued from Page One



the world, and he has devised a way
to .discover elusive causes, such as
suffocation by ether which has since
evaporated.

Mr, Gettler is professor at Wash-
ington Square College of New York
University of toxicology and patho-
logical chemistry, which is the chem-
istry of organisms under abnormal
conditions. He is also advising toxi-
cologist for ‘many important hospitals,
has received a silver medal from the
American Medical , Association, and
probably holds a record for autopsies
attended.



to the alumnae at the biology con-
ference, described the present con-
tent of minor and major biology
courses, with especial reference to
Mr. Tennent’s plan for the joint
teaching of the sciences.

The first year course; which must
be adapted to the needs both of stu-
dents who wish to go on in biology
and of those for whom it is serving
as ,a required science, is taught ac-
cording to the plan first suggested
many year ago by Dr. Edmund Wil-
son. Instead of beginning with the
study of a complex dnimal like the
frog, “‘which is,” said Miss Gardiner,
“more or less like themselves,’ the
course begins immediately with the
observation “of the less-well known
unicellular organisms, and_ proceeds
logically through more and more com-
plicated fornis to such highly de-
veloped creatures as the rabbit.

In second year and advanced
courses, the advantages of study at a
small college become more and more
evident. The biology major receives
instruction at some time from every
member of the department: she learns
to know them well and has an op-
portunity to become familiar with the
research work which they are doing.

In all courses, but especially in the
first year course where it is not so
evident, great emphasis is laid on
the relations of biology to other sci-
ences, Biology and psychology, bi-
ology and chemistry, biology and phy-
sics, biology paleontology—in the bor-
der-line fields between these groups
of sciences there is more and more op-
portunity for research and investiga-
tion. The sciences, after having
diverged from the one all-inclusive
science” of Aristotle’s day to become
the highly specialized fields which
they were until recently; and still
are to some extent, are again con-
verging in an attempt to correlate
their separate stores of knowledge,
and to explain the many phenomena
which seem properly to belong to no
particular field. Mr. Tennent’s plan
will among other things, make it easier
for advanced students to investigate
those parts of other sciences which
seem most applicable to the work in
which they are engaged, without hav-

course.
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Lectures



Continued from Page One

ing of the Industrial group. The girls
represented an excellent cross- “section
of industry. Among them were gar-
ment, textile, steel, automobile, candy,
cosmetics, paper-box, and’ button work-
Domestic workers, large mass-
production plants, sniall factories, A.
F of L., C. I. O., and non-union labor
were all represented. ;
Informality, give and take, and
serious purpose were the key-notes
of the classes. Faculty as well as stu-
dents were there to learn. The faculty
gave the academic knowledge; and the
students contributed their actual ex-
periences. The faculty were mostly
professors from eastern colleges, but
their method of teaching at the Sum-
mer School was not lecturing but stim-
ulating and directing class discussions
in line with the general program. The
girls were so absorbed in ‘their work
this summer—their Economics and
English, their Science and Dramatics,
their library and workshop—that the
residents of Bryn Mawr were scarcely
conscious of the existence of the school.
The six undergraduate assistants
from five colleges lived in Denbigh
with the students. They taught swim-
ming and tennis, arranged picnics and
trips, took care of the cooperative
store, the mimeographing and chauf-}
feuring. They went to classes, talked
informally, danced the Virginia Reel
on the hockey field or lay under the
trees to listen to the new victrola and
Miss Park’s records. Tea at four
every afternoon on the lawn near Den-
bigh refreshed everyone after sports
and gave new life to the discussions
which always followed in the Deanery
Garden or the Cloisters. Undergradu-
ates and students in working and
playing together learned of the others’
unfamiliar world and its pleasures
and problems.
The work in Dramatics was the most
coordinating and cooperative in the
program. Students, faculty and staff,
John Henry the Merion porter, drew
on all their resources in the production
of the two plays. In the first, a his-
tory of the Fair Labor Standards Act,
material from the Economics and
English classes was worked up by the
students themselves in Dramatics
class. On the last night, though rain
drove them from the Cloisters to the
Gym, the work of the summer seemed
finished and unified in the dramatic
history and development of the Sum-
mer School, We Tomorrow. Each mem-
ber went out to become a more impor-
tant and wiser member of her group—
to develope and use constructively the
method of study and thought she had
learned at the Summer School.

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THEATRE REVIEW

Philadelphia is about to be host to
one of the highlights of New York’s
1937-1938 season, The Cradle Will
Rock. This musical production, writ-
ten and composed by Marc Blitzstein,
was ,produced under the auspices of
the Mercury Theatre,’ and has en-
joyed a profitable run on the Broad-
way stage.

The play, performed without. scen-
ery, revolves about the figure of Mr.
Blitzstein, who clarifies what is hap-
pening on the stage for the benefit of
the audience and simultaneously sup-
plies musical aceompaniment on ‘his
piano. The other members of the
cast stand in rows towards the back
of the stage, motionless, except when
they are actually performing.

The Cradle Will Rock is primarily
union- propaganda. It does not pre-
tend to be anything else. The setting
is Steeltown, and all .the characters
have some definite relation to labor,
such as Mister Mister, the big boss,
and his family, Missis Mister, Junior
Mister, and Sister Mister. In addi-
tion are the gold-digging minister, the
parasitic artists, the corrupt college
professor, the street- walkers and
various other personalities, including,
of course, the worker. This young
man is distinguished from the other
people portrayed by his integrity and
true democratic feeling. The general
idea of the thing is that he is the
prophet heralding the triumph of
labor.

The Cradle Will. Rock may be too
class-conscious for part of its audi-
ence. Still, it deserves a good deal
of credit for the force and vigor with
which it is presented and for the dex-
rterity with which Mr. Blitzstein
handles his. material. The Junior’s
Going to Honolulu scene is really
pretty funny no matter how you vote.
The heir of his family fortune, a
plump and_ elaborately repulsive
youth, sits on the edge of the stage
with his equally repellent sister. To
the accompaniment of Junior’s guitar
they sing in praise of Honolulu,
whither Junior is bound for love and
adventure, and, secondarily, to take
care of papa’s business. Junior is
the stock example of one type of rich
man’s son, and carries through his
characterization to the last degree.

The drug store scene is written in
a different mood and shows the strug-
gle of the lower middle classes. It
is above all a superb bit of drama
built—around four vivid_characters;







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announce the resignation of
‘Polly Hager, °41, and Isota
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‘ka Evening Service
~ The’ speaker at the service on Sun-
day will be Dr. Helen Flanders Dun-
bar, graduate of Bryn Mawr College,

Columbia ‘University, ‘Union Theo-
logical Seminary, Yale School of
Medicine.

The Anthem by the Choir is: “Re-
joice in the Lord Alway” Henry
Purcell (1658-1695).

Miss Helen Rice will again assist
at the service, and will play as pre-
ludes, “Larghetto’—Handel (1685-
1759), and Aria, “When Thou Art
Near”—J. S. Bach (from the Anna
Magdalena Clavier Book).

A group of Organ and Violin solos
will follow the address.

Organ: “A Carol” by G. O’Connor-
Morris. “Minuet” by Jonathan Bat-
tishall (1738-1801).

Violin: “Adagio” — Corelli (1653-
1713). Aria from the Suite in D
Major—Bach.



the drug store ‘proprieter, his little
boy and an old, bewildered Swedish .
couple. The mask of satire is dropped
here and one feels that futility and
despair are the real emotions behind
the entire production.

The feeble plot which strings the
skits together is by no means original.
All the upright citizens of Steeltown
have been brought to night court: on
what is obviously a mischarge. While

they are waiting for their attorneys |

to come and have them released, their
individual characters are revealed to
the'audience. The final scene, as one
might expect, brings in the title song
and allows us a peep into the murky
future of high finance. ~ rere is no
denying that this part of the pro-
duction has strong emotional appeal,
although the propaganda seems to be
spread somewhat too thick.

All in all, The Cradle Will Rock
must be taken witfiva grain of salt.
For those who are strongly pro-labor
the whole play will be fascinating.
Others will enjoy Blitzstein’s bitter
humor, and will be.-impressed with the
effective simplicity of the piece as a
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Judge Allen Gives:

had in behalf of freedom. .

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First Shaw Lecture



Continued from Page One

“liberty or death,” and in their fight
against the crown gave up all they

_Judge Allen showed that provisions
protecting this new liberty are an
inherent part of the Constitution.
Property qualifications for voting and
for offices were abolished and Con-
gress is obliged to meet at least once
a year to prevent the indefinite post-
ponement. of meetings and the exac-
tion of special taxes in the mean-



while.as Charles I succeeded in doing
with the English parliament. |

The Constitution abolished bills ‘of |
attainder whereby the property of |
a man convicted for treason could bé
declared the state’s and not be trans-
ferred tothe rightful heirs. The writ
of habeas corpus was granted, and
no one allowed to be convicted of trea-
gon ‘without his own confession or a
statement by two witnesses in court.
The Bill of Rights, though not: in-
cluded in the first draft, was passed

_ immediately afterwards and provided

‘ still further freedom of ‘thought, ete:

The writers of the Constitution,
however, still saw the dangers of a.
monarchy arising from the unrest. of
the American populace” as well’as
from stronger foreign nations. Many
knew from actual experience how weak
and ineffectual the government was
under the Articles of Confederation
when the executive position consisted
of the heads of all the colonies, when
the states alone could tax and when
Congress had no power over domestic
commerce. The framers, therefore,
wished to organize a government into
a strong efficient unit.

According to Judge Allen, the fact
that Congress was granted certain
powers (which seemed to benefit the
ruling classes the most) made possi-
ble the unification of an exception-





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Members of the Players’ Club
have requested that those who
wish to present the participants
in the fall plays with flowers
of*any sort, give the money in-
stead to the Theatre Workshop
Fund. A box for such contri-
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BRITISH PEACE WORKERS

ACT IN LATE WAR CRISIS
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government.
clearest possible example of historical,
retribution and: a clear justification



From Frontier News Service

London.—Led by George Lansbury,
.P., Chairmaneof the War Resisters’
International; a deputation from the
Peace Pledge Union, British section

the W. R. IL. left a manifesto. at

the house of the Prime Minister and

the British Foreign Office, at the

crucial point of the war crisis in late
September, which makes clear the at-
titude of many British pacifists.
Peace Pledge Union is an organization

The

at least 117,000 members. The

manifesto asserted:
'“The sponsors of the Peace Pledge
Union “reaffirm their conviction that
nothing can justify a resort to war.
Thé last great war slaughtered mil-
lions and maimed tens of millions. Its
results appear in the present crisis.
The last war settled nothing.
other would slaughter hundreds .of
millions and still’ settle nothing.
“We condemn and reject the use

An-

violence for any purpose by any
The present crisis is the

pacifist policy. Blame undoubtedly

attaches to Germany at the moment,
but neither this country nor any other
great power ‘is less to blame for the
present situation.

“We believe that we have no moral

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ally large tract of land, the growth
of free trade within the country’s
boundaries, domestic peace through-
out, foreign security and wide spread

liberty.
That the Constitution has its faults
its original framers, even, admit.

hope for perfection.

e

It
grew out of compromise and could not
Its fundamen-,
tal principles—freedom and unity—
Judge Allen claims to be still neces-
sary today; though their. application

right to demand _ concessions from
Czechoslovakia without being ready
to make real sacrifices ourselves. We
therefore urge that our Government
should at once invite the representa-
tives of all the nations to meet in con-
»} ference with the immediate object of
revising existing treaties. Such a
conference can succeed only if the
Government of this country goes into
it prepared to regard the question of
colonial possessions and our own eco-
nomic policy as open to drastic re-

may_have been forced to be extended
to meet new conditions.

Judge Allen urged that the faults
lie not in the documents so much as
in ourselves. The Constitution, pro-
vides for cases to be tried in the
courts and the latter fulfill their du-
ties. But, Judge Allen explained, the
courts can only try those cases which
appear before them and cannot. see
that the supreme law of the land is
everywhere understood.

It should be the duty of every pub-
lic officer to know that the Bill of
Rights-is part of the supreme law
and. to enforce it as such. Almost
everyone understands the red and
green lights of the traffic system but
few,
meaning of the “green light for civil
rights.” The Bill of Rights was put

Judge Allen said, know the}

vision.”
At the same-time, Canon Charles



into the Constitution not because of
the quarrel with England, but as a
stumbling block to future tyrants.

Judge Allen concluded by saying
that liberty
charter,but-must-be- recreated by_each
generation.” Whether or not we have
freedom and to what extent rests
with ourselves.

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perience fof those participating: in
them; consequently there will be no
scenery.

The casts are as follows:

_ THE GREAT DARK
Eleanor Emery, 40 ....Mrs. Garcia
Sarah Meigs, ’89 0.5... Mrs.. Ryan
Carolyn Garnett, 40 ...Mrs. O’Keefe
Connie Stanton, ’41 ..Mrs. Petrovitch
Ruth McGovern, ’41....Mrs. Slunsky
Helen. So0von 744i 68 8 5 3

THE DEVIL ON STILTS
Virginia Nichols, ’41 ..Glenda Craig
Madge Lazo, ’41 Berneice
Charlotte Pancoast, ’40.Mrs. Eldredge

Fifi Garbat, ’41, is directing the first
play; Eileen Durning, ’41, and Anne
Louise Axon, ’40, are directing the
second. Miss Rice. and her. newly
organized orchestra group will play
a musical interlude between the plays.

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IE. Raven,.Rev. Henry Carter, George
Lansbury, Professor G. H. C.: Mac-
gregor, Professor C. H. Dodd, J. Mid-
dleton Murry,.and Canon Stuart D.
Morris, all-.distinguished figures in
British religious, educational, politi-
eal, and anti-war activities, addres

a congress of Christian Pacifists

published a message from the confer-
ence which was unanimously adopted.
“The present situation,” declares the
statement of the conference, “proves





DISCONTENTED GERMANS
From Frontier News Service

Berlin ber of the Nazi party had to cof-
tribute’a mark anda half if: male,. or
half a mark if female; to the cost of
the Nuremberg convention which pre-
ceded the. war crisis. As one worker
asserted, who belonged because of
economic’ necessity, “This special> as-
sessment is taken out of our mouths
to support ostentation and extrava-
gance,” :

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and two scepters, taken from Vienna,
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The policy required would involve ex-
amination of grievances and a just re-
vision of treaties and boundaries,
readiness to submit our own‘ colonial
claims to drastic revision} and eco-
nomie” reconstruction’ so as to raise
the standard of life everywhere. The
congress appeals to the churches to
affirm that war is a flagrant denial
of the Gospel of Christ and of their
own witness, to. refuse to take part
in war, and to follow the way of the
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|the transfer of Austria’s gold to Ber-
lin when the “incorporation” was
made. :

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German people’s féar of war, are ab-'
solutely true./ There is not a ‘small
fraction of the enthusiasm. for~war
which was manifest here before 1914.
The air-raid precautions which affect
every hamlet, have not so much
whipped up war lust as war dislike.
The maneuvers held just before the.
Munich pact were not pleasant’ for
the farmers, whose horses often were -
required, at the time of harvest. The
standard of living, already shrunk
pitiablyfrom war preparations, is cer-
tain to go far lower in war itself, and
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