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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



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~ 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



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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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Resignations
The College News regrets to
announce the resignation of
‘Polly Hager, °41, and Isota
Tucker, ’40, from the Editorial
Board.







‘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
whole.

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