College news, February 17, 1937

#



- Peace Movements

“the

' often brings suggestions,



OLLEG



*
7s









VOL. XXIII, No. 14

we

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937

Copyright TRUSTEES OF
--BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1937



—— -



+

_ Need Cooperation
Of All Students



Mr. Jacob Suggests ‘Members|

_ Of Campus Organizations
Form Committee -



APRIL DEMONSTRATION
MORE: WIDELY BACKED



‘Common Room, January 11.—With
such varied organizations as the Y. M.
C. A. and Y. W. C. A., the. Foreign
Policy Association, the International
Club and the A. S. U. supporting .it,
this year’s April Peace Demonstration
should be far more intelligently di-
rected and more effective than ever be-
fore, Mr. Philip Jacob, a member of
Emergency Peace Campaign,
stated. In addition to work on the
demonstration itself, efforts are being

* concentrated on spreading of general

information about the need for active
measures, such as pressure on Con-

gressmen, to maintain peace.

Because of the increased number of
organizations partaking in the demon-
stration, Mr. J#€®ob urged that Bryn
Mawr interest both faculty and
campus at large in ‘the drive. He sug-
gested that we form,.as Vassar has, a
central committee composed of mem-
bers of various organizations such as
the League, Players’ Club, the News,
the International Club, and the A. S.
V. We would then be so organized
that interesting, as well as successful,
peace education could be fostered on
the campus by debates, war plays, re-
porting, field work, and _ outside
speakers. Inter-collegiate discussion
and Mr.
Jacob proposed that various repre-
sentatives from Bryn Mawr be ap-
pointed to a committee conference
which meets in Philadelphia. _

The Emergency Peace Campaign,
which is under the leadership of
Harry Emerson Fosdick, is formulat-
ing plans for next summer, somewhat
parallel to those they carried out last
season. Two hundred and fifty stu-
dents were sent into rural areas to
guide people in active campaigning
for peace. Having had two .week’s
training at the Institute of Human
Relations in Washington, they were
able systematically and. effectively to
approach their subject. Despite op-
position from such groups as the D.
A. R. and the Américan Legion, their
results were encouraging. Volunteers
are asked for again this year.



“Cat and the Canary”
First Try-Outs Are Held

Maids. and Porters Will Present
Second. Play, on May 8

: ‘ae

For one evening in May the fever-
ishly studying students will have a
rare opportunity for diversion. No
ene who witnessed the performance
of Clarence, given by the maids and
porters last spring; will allow herself
to miss The Gat and the Canary,
which will be given on May, 8. Try-
‘outs are’ well- under -way~and- will be
terminated, the League committee
hopes, erly this week. The director
of the production is again Huldah

Cheek, ’38. She will be assisted. by
Eleanor Taft, ’39, who has been in
charge this year of the Maids’ Activi-





_ ties under the auspices of the League.

Catherine Hemphill, ’39, will head the
Lights Committee. Work on costumes
will probably not demand a separate
committee, as the .cast, furfiishes its
ton : |

The play, which was chos¢n by Hul-
dah Cheek, is an old favorite and its
horrors last long in the memory of
the audience. We suspect that:in this
°ecase its terrors will be doubled and
that the campus will be severely
shaken in the days following the per-
formance. The play was written by
Willard and was first produced in-New

,Continued on Page Four

PRR POP NR tae Ee RL RRM fer h RSLE Cc CE seh RR ROR AM



~ COLLEGE CALENDAR



Wednesday, February 17.—
Miss Cora DuBois will give the
fourth lecturé on the Nature of
Man.: Music Room. 7,30 p. m.

Friday, February 19.—Swim-
ming Meet at. the Baldwin
School. 4.30.p. m.

Saturday, February 20.—
Freshman Show, Forty Bust.

’ Goodhart. 8.30 p. m.

Sunday, February 21.—
George Edward Slocombe will
speak on The Spanish Situation
and Its Repercussions. Dean-
ery, 5 p. m.

Madrigdls. Deanery. .1 p. m.

Monday, February 22=
Chapel Services conducted ~by .
Elmer Thompson. ,

Monday, February: 22.—
Mr. MacKinnon will deliver the
lecture on: The Nature of Man.
Music Room. 7.30 p. m.

Tuesday, February 23.—Phi-
losophy Club meeting. Common
Room. 8 p. m.

‘Wednesday, Febriary 24.—
Mr. MacKinnon will deliver the
sixth letture on The Nature of
Man. Music Room. 7.30. p. m.

Saturday, February 27.—Mer-
ion Hall dance. 9.30 p. m. to
1.a..m.

Monday, March 1.—The sev-
enth lecture ‘on The Nature cof
Man. Music Room. 7.380 p. m.

Fuesday, March 2.— Andres
Segovia will give a guitar con-







cert. Goodhart. 8.30 p. m.



Human Activities Are
Psychologist’s Reality



Range of Human Adaptibility

Demands Broad Explanation
Of Behavior



CONCEPTS ANALYZED



_ Music Room, February 10, 1937.—
In the second of the lectures on The

Nature of Man, Mr. Helson, of the}

dealt with
the results of experiments which treat
man as a natural object in a natural
world and at the same time attempt to
do jus ice to his more complicated,
higher responses. The fundamental
reality for the psychologist consists
in the products of human activity and
he therefore must deal also with the
imaginations, hopes, beliefs, and atti-

Psychology » Department,

tudes that make up human nature.

Since technical findings have shown
that the human organism exceeds all
other organisms in its capacity for
registering and responding to stimuli
and- since man’s unique . range of
adaptability and modifiability, make
new’ ways of behavior almdst un-
limited, one must not restrict thé “ex-
planatory principles of behavior too
narrowly, or to .an_ over-simplified
theory. In the last-century psychology
has borrowed from physiology and
employed the neurone-synapse and re-
flex arc theory as a basis for the ex-
planation of behavior. This theory
proved insufficient to deal with more
complicated--forms of “behavior © and
therefore other’ physiological hypo-

theses have been formulated to supple-|_

ment these. The latter may in turn
be proved wrong.

Among the ,mofe general ond dy-
namic concept§ recently proposed for
the explanation of human activities,
such concepts as closure, symmetry,
and simplicity have been found sug-
gestive because of their wide range
of applicability. Concepts like these,
having applicability to both psycho-
logical and physiological events, _may
be more fruitful in helping us to
understand human ‘nature than-even
direct recording of. electric currents
from the brain, valuable as the latter
may prove to be.

_ The lecturer demonstrated how a
concrete experimental approach can
be made to problems involving episto-
mology, aesthetics, and certain prac-
. Gentinusd | on Page Four ~

e 3 . " te
CT ae RS Bg a ’

Anthropology Divided
Into Three Main Fields



Miiss Cora du ‘Bois Emphasizes
The Cyltural Implications
Of Geological Finds



ceapctll papain
Music Room, February 15.—In her

first talk on the anthropological ..ap-
proach to :the nature of man, Miss
Cora du Bois, of Hunter College, dis-
cussed the main fields of anthropology
and its historical development, Her
lecture was the third of the series on.
The-Nature of Man, sponsored by the
Departments of. Psychology and ‘Phi-
losophy.

The science of anthropology is com-

paratively new and from the first has
been highly specialized. It has re-
solved itself into three main fields of
research: .Physical, linguistic and
cultural.
"Physical anthropology can be di-
vided into two aspects: comparative
zoology and racial problems. Com-
parative zoology is biology -in » the
evolutionary sense-and includes a
study of fossil man, and what is
popularly known as: the “missing
link.” Discoveries iy this realm are
increasing by leaps and bounds, the
latest being the “Pekin man,’ + dating
from the Early Pleistocene Age, un-
earthed in the late 1920’s. Not only
must finds in this field be fitted into
the evolutionary scale, but their cul-
tural potentialities and implications
must also be observed.

The racial angle of physical anthro-
pology consists of the static science
of classifications, or anthropometrics,
and the more dynamic study of the
importance of anthropometrics work-
ing with environment in the physical
and cultural development of man.
The former %endeavors to evolve. ra-
tios by which to judge and establish
racial differences, such as the.relation
of the length of the’ head to its
breadth, while the latter applies them
to the observation of such problems
as racial in- “breeding and cross-breed-
ing.

The branch of anthropology which
falls under the head of linguistics is
fairly obvious in its extension, but
confines itself chiefly to the philology
of unwritten language. It is only
artificially separated from cultural
anthropology. and in a broad’ defini-
tion of the latter must be considered
as a subdivision of it.

Cultural anthropology deals with
archaeology, especially in the prehis-
toric and New World phases, and so-
cial. anthropology. Social anthro-
pology in turn has a series of subdi-
visions of “increasing scope: ethno-
graphy,-the record of the behavior of a
people; ethnology, the comparison of
the behavior'.records of several peo-
ples; and social anthropology proper,
an ambitious study .of the intricate
relations of society in general.

All three branches, physical, lin-
guistic and social, are dependent to
a gféat extent upon other fields of
learning, including geology, biology,
geography, history, sociology and
psychology. In their development, a
set of abstractions have: evolved with
which each field must work and which
have lead to the drawing up of re-

” Continued on Page Four :

OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
OF MISS. THOMAS

(Excerpt fom rea Alumnae -Bul- |:
letin.)

The official Slices of President
Emeritus M. Cary Thomas. will be
written by Edith Finch, 1922.

Miss Finch has consented to do this
at the request of Miss Thomas’ liter-
ary, executors, who have put at her
disposal the notes made by Miss
Thomas. herself, as well as many let-
ters and documents she had collected
in preparation for. the autobiography
she had planned to write. Miss Finch
has just completed the life of Wilfrid |
Scawen. Blunt. —,

‘In view of the importance “of ‘the
undertaking and the number of docu-
ments involved, several years will be.
required for the preparation of the







phocraehy..

3 *
eS f
Ret arse a AS Se

RACE PROBLEM STUDIED

Prominent Journalist e
: bs Speak in Deanery



Author ee “Crisis hh Europe”
To Speak ¢ on Spain



Mr. George Edward Slocombe will

_| speak in the Deanery on Sunday, Feb-
ruary 21, at five o’clock. His subject|
is to be The Spanish Situation and its
Repercussions, outlining the history of

the struggle between Fascism and
Democracy from the time of Spain’s
first: modern dictator, Primo de Rivera,
to the pr esent.

Mr. Slocombe is generally consid-
ered an irftpartial authority on Eu-
ropean affairs. Leland Stowe says of
him, “I know of no British journalist
who is so well-equipped to give’ the
American public a graphic and
authoritative summation. of develop-
does he

ments abroad. .- Not -only

represent the highést standards of

British journalists—he is a World
citizen as well.”
At present Mr.
Foreign Correspondent for the Lon-
don Daily Herald and Foreign Editor
of the London Evening Standard. He
is best known for his persuasion of
Mahatma Ghandi to attend the Lon-
While
in India, reporting on the Civil -Dis-
obedience Movement in 19380, he suc-

Slocombe is chief
ver at 2. ad

don Round Table Conference.

ceeded in interviewing Ghandi in pri-
son and getting him to agree to peace
terms on which the British Govern-
ment was later able to negotiate with
the rebels. Aside from his journalis-
tic work, Mr. Slocombe is the author
of several important books. His
Crisis in Enrope eaused much discus-
sion because it predicted the assassina-
tion of King’ Alexander of Jugoslavia
in 1934, which occurred four days
after the publication of the book.

L’Ecole- des. Maris
Is French Club Play





Moliere’s Vehicle to be Given
With 17th Century Costumes,
: Perhaps a Ballet’



MLLE. REY IS DIRECTOR

L’Ecole dés Maris, the play by
Moliére which.the French Club is pre-
senting on March 29th, has gone into
rehearsal with a very promising cast.
There was so much good material dis-
covered at the try-outs last week that
the casting was exceedingly difficult.
Last year, because of May Day, a
troupe of French: actors was imported
for the annual play, but now Bryn
Mawr Francophiles come into their
own again. Every ‘attempt is ‘being
made to give the play as true a seven-
teenth century atmosphere as possi-
ble;; costumes, scenery, music and
even: dancing will be arranged. with
that aim in view. Mademoiselle Maud
Rey, Professor of French Dicfion at
college, and onetime pupil of Jac-
ques Copeau in Paris, is the director.
“The single set will be varied by
raising house facades to show interior
scenes and by lighting arrangements.
Costumes will be hired in Philadel-
phia or New York, with some work
done by the students themselves. An
orchestra tomposed of students will
play for the overture and entr’actes,
and will accompany occasional songs
on the stage. .There i$/a possibility
of a ballet as.well.

The cast, including only the main
roles, is as follows:



Sganarelle pes eae Margaret Otis, ’39
Artiste ...... Mary H. Hutchings, ’37
Isabelle ..... '. Catherine Richards, ’39
PE kcvecuces Nancy Wood, ’39
Bisebte: cis es Mary Riesman, '39
Valére ....+..++ «. Jane Nichols, '40
Ergaste..<~- -Priscilla Curtis, ’40
. Scenery

Design ......+++++ : Margaret Otis
‘Construction ........ Anne Wyld, ’38|
Costumes.........-. Mary Whalen, '38
Lighte. 5... ss Catherine Hemphill, 39
OOS ee ern



Madge Haas, '37

|The Players’

Mr. Wyckoff Plans”
Stage Laboratory



Practical Work is Included as
Well as Theory in Each
Of the Fields



COMMITTEE TO HANDLE
ACTING SEPARATELY



Common. Room, February 16.—Mr.
Alexander Wyckoff was the guest of
honor at a‘téa given by Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins. this afternoon for stu-
dents. who...were interested in. Mr.
Wyckoff’s course in play production,
which will begin’ next Tuesday. Af-
ter tea was served, Mr. Wyckoff ex-
plained his plans for a_ two-hour
weekly~tetture and laboratory survey
of the problems of professional pro-
duction. “About 35 students enrolled
informally by declaring their willing-
ness to spend a certain amount of
time weekly actual working on stage
and scenery.

The semester’s work will consist of
one hour of lecture and” discussion
each week, supplemented \by back-
ground reading and ‘stage experience
in the production of a program of one-
act plays. After discussion with Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins and the officers’ of
Players’ Club and the Dancers’ Club,
Mr.: Wyckoff recided to. begin work
immediately on a proposed spring
production. Specifically, the course
will deal with directing, stage-man-
aging, lighting, scenic design, costume
design and construction. A number

terested in all these fields, and will
try their hands at different jobs in
connection with different,plays. Afte®

rest of the students expe to work
more or less independently on par-
ticular technical problems that in-
terest them.

‘ Mr. Wyckoff hopes to have chosen
the plays, which. will be presented

three weeks, and all work will sub-
sequently be concentrated: on ‘them.
Club- has agreed to
choose an acting committee which will
take care‘ of the casting. and rehears-
ing independently -of the di ame
work.

Before the tea in the Comssil
Room, Mr. Wyckoff. visited Miss

to see four original one-act plays. It
is possible that his class may choose
one of them to begin work on, or to
discuss in connection’ with certain
production problems.



Freshman Show thcvailies
Taylor Hall Impedimenta



the

Scenic Decorations Reflect
. Surrealistic Influence



Members of the Freshman Show
Committee, after going through the
usual pre-production depths, are now
well on the way. to a successful. per-
formance. Scheduled for 8.30 on Sat-
urday, February 20, in Goodhart Hall,
the various acts are being whipped
into shape with alacrity.

Parodies have been written.on the
impedimenta in Taylor Hall, the Ge-
ology Field, trips, Freshman Composi-.
tion, philosophy and other courses.
Terry Ferrer, Deborah Calkins, Polly
Olney, Eleanor
Tucker are responsible for the script;
Camilla Riggs, Julia Martin and Janet.
Russell have written the songs which,
with many dances, are: scattered
throughout the acts.

The scenery, under the direction of
Marion Gill, and influeneed by the

surrealist touch. The sets are origi-

tion. Members of the. aesthetic dane-
ing group plan to disport before a
huge pelvic, girdle.

of the soil.

From all indications, the paver a
tion of smart ,script, clever songs,
good dancing and extraordinary sets
seems bound to “do 1940 wi erst .



}

In Novel Course.

of students ‘professed themselves in-~

some time in. May, within the next.

*

Emery and _ Isota ©

work of Dali, will have: a definitely —

nal in concept and artistic in execu- |

assignments are begun, some of the ,

re

Minor W. Latham’s Playwriting class —

PRICE 10 €ENTS |

The geology set, i
is a composite portrait of all strata








ie ee Seo

¥ 7 soomperar an smine ewrnan Deine NEROA SPN ncn ner one thevermgme cher sovenencne om Sthcosipdnine te

| tee, : : ~~

THE COLLEGE. NEWS*

eave















, THE COLLEGE NEWS”

(Founded. in 1934) Z

wm eo



at Xena

uring—F
chet in the interest
Pa.,. and Bryn

~published weekly during the Colfege Year- a taaniclalitteiie
~Chriatinas and Easter Holidays, and during examination
of Bryn. Mawr College at ee eens Building, Wayne,.
Mawr College. m



' The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears in :
it.may be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission of the
Editor- sal Chief. nd

: a

Editor-in-Chief
HELEN FISHER, '’37



Copy Editor .
’ JANET THOM, ’88

News Editor -
E. JANE SIMPSON, 737

Editors

Mary R: MEiGs, ’39

JEAN MORRILL, 39

MARGARET OTIS, ’39

LUCILLE SAUDER, 39
‘ SUZANNE WILLIAMS, ’38

CATHERINE- HEMPHILL, ’39

Advertising Manager.
MARY WALKER, ’38

ELEANOR BAILENSON, ’39
MARGERY C. HARTMAN,-’38
MARGARET Howson, 38
Mary H. HUTCHINGS, 37
ABBIE INGALLS, ’38

Sports Editor,

Business Manager
AGNES ALLINSON, ’37

Assistants
ETHEL HENKLEMAN, 38

Subscription Manager Assistant
DEWILDA NARAMORE, ’38 Mary T. .RITCHIE, ’39

© Graduate Correspondent: VESTA SONNE

‘Louise STENGEL, 87

2

SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 MAILING PRICE, $3.00
SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BEGIN AT-ANY TIME

Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office.











. Novae Res y
Although this fifty-third academic year is only half gone it has
innovations in the college as the fifty-second
On every front the college as.a whole and as
individuals is striking out into new fields. ‘The latest development of
rich promisé:is*the course in Stagecraft to be given by Mr. Alexander
Wyckoff who contributed greatly to May Day’s success last spring.
For years it has been the hope of the college administration to provide
a workshop for all kinds of practical experiments in art, particularly
in stagecraft. This course is the first weserial impetus which the idea
has received since the Art Club took gn new life and a room of its;own
in Goodhart. To date the stageerfft course is the most promising
because it will reach every student in college,
the actual work or indirectly through the entertainment stimulation
of the rest of the college. .The college may well expect this course: to
opeh exciting new fields before future undergraduates. a

The cooperation between the matiy groups whose interests con-
verge in stage production is a prominent feature in the plan. Players
Club members have volunteered to provide actors for the visible pro:
duction results of the course later in the spring. Dance Club members,
who are particularly interested in lighting, will join the course. Origi-
nal material from the Playwriting Course may be used as new prob-
lems. Members of these three groups will naturally form the bulk of
the new class. It is this kind of cooperation between groups- whose

interests are parallel or complementary that yields the best results for

the. college as a whole, Extracurricular activities are growing in scope
and seriousness, yet’ ther two evils-are inadequate instruction and
seattered activities. _lndaion then, to its own intrinsic merits the
new course will combine and foeus varied and undirected interests on a
single preject under: expert instruction.

The work this spring is naturally in large part experimental. It
is looked upon merely as the beginning of what should become an
essential part of the college extraeurriculum, The work is planned to
combine theory with practical “laboratory” experience and to focus the
entire work ona definite produetion at the end. Such laboratory work

«already seen as many
heard congratulations.

has proved profitable in other colleges, and in all instances has enriched:

the undergraduate life. Whether such opportunities may be perma-
nently-open to undergraduates here does not rest entirely with the
students. But the success of the auspicious beginnings this spring may
bring the needed means for a continuation, even perhaps an expansion,
of this stimulating new work.



Design for Living
The constant. wonder of the undergraduates is that sub-freshmen
who have seen the public rooms in the dormitories ever have the courage
to undertake four years’ social life in their bleak surroundings. Loud
and chronic are the wails against the dead-oyster color tones, the Vie-

torian stiffness unrelieved with comfort or ¢harm in both smoking rooms

_ and show cases. In the autumn the News flew its banners for a com-
fortable and airy game room in whi¢h to entertain visitors, and while
persistent rumors still float about, there is as yet no definite progress
to report. In the meantime the news that Denbigh has embarked on a

program of refurnishing its smoking room, turns attention to the whole
___problem of héw to make joes surroundings-ef-our gregarious hours more:

attractive.
Imperviousness to dirt and wear are two major limitations to pro-

~ ducing the comforts of home - ‘in the smoking rooms—but among the

hundreds of critics who every week shower: -invectives on the _inani-
mate fixtures there must be some who are decoratively minded, In
their moments of sitting over cigarettes th

_ ment and limited budgets allow. “If every hall were to form an informal

- committee to work out such ideas and present them to the business and

the hall managers, many of the present eye- and back-sores might be

replaced with more attractive fixtures. There is no reason to expect

' busy hall managers who’ do not use the rooms to be full of ideas about

their furnishing. But there is every reason to expect those who use

the rooms to turn some of the time and energies now spent in ‘eriticism

here for those restless ioe who continually ‘protest that.



either directly through |

y might well apply their
'. energies to working out a pleasant color scheme and sturdy but attrac-
_ tive materials to achieve as much livable femininity as rigorous treat-|;

apg “managers, many of. the- present. eye and back-sores might be}
d construetive planning for the hall as a whole: There is a ew



Public Opinion .



'| To the Editar of -the-College-News:—}*—

ae clarification of the position of the
Amey
ity is necessary in relation to the. let-
ter of W. Hustace Hubbard in your
issue of. Wednesday; February 10. As
an organization ‘the A. S. U. is op-
posed to war and fascism. The diffi-
culties which arise in consideration
of this policy in connection with the |

the position of the’A. S. U. has been
established only after discussion of

|the situation with a full realization

of these difficulties.

We would like to point out the ‘in-.
accuracy of the following quotation |4

; from Mr. Hubbard’s letter as a de-

scription of the Spanish ~ situation:
“Class war which has. as \its, object
the seizure of power by the. pro-
letariat, in which’ any degree of

fied.” Occasionally, as occurred -

the recent election in this ihe.
the large mass of the people express
and carry through their political pref-
erences legally. This was the case in
Spain. When a democratic govern-

4 elected by a-majority vote is

attacked by an uprising of a _ well-
‘armed ° minority financed by fascist
powers, the war that results can
hardly be called a “seizure of power
by the proletariat,” but is rather an
attempted seizure of power by fascists.
Nor can the proletariat be accused
of believing that “any. degree of
violence regarded as helpful is justi-
fied” when the violence was instigated
and carried out by their enemies.

The A. S. U. supports the Spanish
Government for various reasons. We
believe that the success of Franco in
Spain in strengthening fascism, may
precipitate a World War; we believe
that the repurcussions of such a suc-
cess in Sa Oma would be harmful
to ferican democracy; and we
question .. the valu of .“‘absolute

pacifism” at the presént time although
we endorse the ideal behind it whole-





Before considering these points
separately we would like to state here
that there are A. S. U. members who
do not agree with ‘this policy. The
A. S. U. does not state its position
ads an absolute and final one. It was
only endorsed after careful thought
and after a vote taken in the recent
A. S. U. convention. We do not state
our point of view as ultimately valid,
but we regard it as the best method at
this time of avoiding the pitfalls of
the inactivity inherent in the attitude
of absolute pacifism. Ideally we re-
gard this attitude as highly commend-
able. We consider; however, that it
is weakened intellectually when it is
defended by attacking the supposed
desire of the proletariat and the sup-
posed desire of the A. S. U. to agi-
tate’ for violence. Neither of these
inferences are established as true by
this attack. Such an attitude as Mr.
Hubbard and many A. S. U. members
take should be defensible from its own
standpoint and not from Newton D.
Baker’s.

We believe that in the event of the
success of the rebel forces in Spain,
fascism in Europe would be consider-
ably strengthened. To establish the
position of Hitler and Mussolini in
this way would increase the surety
of fascist aggression in the future—
aggression which even now shows
definite signs of resulting in an inter-
national war. Obviously there would
be no such threat of_wat at the pres-
ent if these countries-had taken the
attitude of France and refused to send
their troups into Spain. We are not
in a position to prophesy whether or
not the United States could long re-
main uninvolved in such a conflict.-. It
seems, however, clear to us that in
opposing the belligerence of fascism
at this time we are attempting- to
delay the time when fascist countries |
will precipitate world war. We be-
lieve ‘also that the elements of fascism
in this country—in such men as Mr.
Hearst, and such legislation as the
Industrial Mobilization Plan—would
be considerably encouraged by the suc-
cess ‘of Franco in Spain.

We do not follow absolute pacifism
in this.case because we find that such
pacifism condemns us to inactivity in



Such, pacifiam now would mean that



eutral-

Spanish situation. are obvious, and |.

violence regarded as helpful is oo

the face of forces which we consider |
foreign to all-our ideals and desires. ||



In Philadelphia



Theaters

dice, through Saturday.

Forrest: Hamlet, with John Gi elgud;
through, Monday. 5

Concert.
Liadow: Eight Russian Songs; Sibe-
lius:
and orchestra; ‘Brahms:
No. 4 in E minor.“ ~

Movies

Arcadia: Camille. Nothing is more
trite than. a discussion of the triteness
of Camille, but this was an important
problem. in the production of the
movie. _Rather than skimming apolo-
getically ly over the sentimental aspects
the: theme, the directors un-
ashidshedty gave every teary scene its
due and achieved a picture that is
genuinely moving. | Their success
would probably have been only mod-
erate if they had not secured Greta
Garbo for the leading role and given
N|this an importance which would have
beeri out of all proportion on‘the stage.
The development of the tragedy lies

om a

Symphony

face, and it is recorded with a charm

of musty melodrama.

Aldine: You Only Live Once, with
Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda.

Boyd: Lloyds, of London. This
is an historical drama that: seems to
have aspired to epic heights and failed
very noticeably—perhaps because of
the steady ‘oscillation between © ex-
traordinarily imaginative interpreta-
tions of historical events and sudden
shovelfuls of historical baékground.
A typical “background shot’. is the
sequence when Samuel Johnson greets
Benjamin Franklin at the coffee-
house with, “Allow me to present my,
friend Mr. Boswell.” Freddie Bar-
tholomew, drawing card No. 1,. inter-
prets the part of a small ale-house
ruffian in so faultlessly a Fauntle-
roian manner that one wonders why
little Horatio Nelson was forbidden
to consort with him. The subject, as

old theme, the British Empire. While
it fails as an epic, Lloyds, of Lon-
don, is colorful, the excitement sus;
tained, and Tyrone Power in the lead-
ing part is almost convincing and at
any rate attractive.

-Earle: The. Great O'Malley, with
Humphrey Bogart.

Europa: Slalom, a German skiing
picture.

Fox:* The Plough and the Stars,
with the Abbey Theatre Players and
Barbara Stanwyck.

Karlton:..More Than a Secretary,



protest, but would submit to the vic-
tory of methods which we cannot con-
sider as anything but universally de-
structive. We support this position
even in the realization that “making
the world safe for democracy” has
not succeeded in the past.
We cannot close..this--letter” without
reference to the situation: in Bryn
Mawr itself. We collected old clothes
and canned goods, and drank tea,
which could hardly be considered. a
“demonstration,” since we were not
parading our opinions in front of any-
one who did not want to look at them.
Nor did we consider at the time that
two cardboard boxes of old clothes and
condensed milk considered in any con-
nection whatever could involve the
United States in an international war.
We recognize: that our position is
comparatively unintelligible to those
who do-not believe’ that the’ Spanish
Government is fighting for political
freedom vital to the development of
the individual and the ultimate—wel-
fare of society. It is this inability to
separate the subject of neutrality from.
political and economic opinions which
makes it difficult to conceive of ‘direct
and useful action for peace which
would leave out these conditions, ex-
8 in the case of propaganda for the
stract ideal of peace which we con-
sider valuable but unspecific. This is

tion, and we would like to assure Mr.

Hubbard that we have done it consci-

entiously. SYLVIA WRIGHT, ’38, |

On behalf of the Executive Com- ©
mittee of the Bryn Mawr Chap-

: ter of the A; S. U. :

> —_ ; : 2 : . i
Philosophy Club M. eeting
Gertrude Leighton, ’38, will
-read- her paper; Contact - in
Aristotle, at the meeting of the
, Sellen Olah’ on Sttecide







Chestnut Street: Pride und Preju-|

Concerto in: D minor for violin}.

in the changing expressions. of. her’

and. sensitivity that dispels any. trace

may be seeti, 18*taken-from that, raré.

why the A. S. U. has taken its posi-.




jearved Egyptian scarab.
4 coat pocket and h





with Jean Arthur and George Brent.
Kéeiths: Champagne Waltz,
Gladys Swarthout and Fred MacMur-

FR a inttic
Palace: ‘The Piston, “Although

of Lincoln’ s conference with his cabi-
net, ther eis no danger of its becoming
an American version of a. British-
Saumont production. We aré dealing
with a straight Wésterti which makes
a, direct appeal to all of our. baser
instincts through the beat of the tom-
tom, the thud of galloping hoofs and
the presence of Gary Cooper himself,
But it is a Western in a very high
stage of development. The tom-tom is
used -sparingly* and’ with good effeet,
the galloping-horse sequences are well
photographed, and Wild Bill Hickock,
as played by Gary -Cooper, is not
purely ornamental,’but. a real and ap-
pealing charactey,

Stanley, Nineteenth and Market:
On the Avenue, with Dick Powell and
Madeleine Carroll.

Stanton: Man of the People, with
Joseph Calleia.

Victoria: College Holiday, with Jack
Benny and Burns and Allen.



Local Movies

Ardmore: Wednesday,
Gil in Town, with Gene Raymond and
Anne Sothern; Thursday, Wanted:
Jane Turner, with Lee Tracy; Ffiday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday arid Tues-

liam Powell and Myrna Loy.
Seville: Wednesday, One in a Mil-

lion, with Sonja~ Henie;, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, Great Guy, with
Go West, Young Man, with Mae West;
Tuesday and Wednesday, Wings of the
Morning, with. Henry Fonda; Thurs-
day, Weck-end Millionaire, with
Buddy Rogers.

.Wayne: Wednesday, Jungle, Prin:
cess;, Thursday: and ‘Friday,
brandt, with Charles Laughton; Sat-
urday, General Spanky, with Spanky
MacFarland; Sunday, Monday and

Tuesday, The Gay Desperado, with
Nino Martini;

and Friday, Great Guy, with James
Cagney.



ALGAE RETURNS



[In response to a request from many
students, Algae returns this week to
teappear spasmodically in the future
until further notice from his pub-
lic.—Ed.]

The Personal Peregrinations of Al-
gernon Swinburne Stapleton-Smith,
or Lost in a London Fog.

The return of Algae
One of the first things that Algae

did’ on his return to London was to

try to get in touch with Mary Anne

Linsey-Woolsey. But her mother,

Mrs. Wellington Linsey-Woolsey,: who

had just defied convention by opening

a fashionable Ladies’ Millinery Shop

in Old Bénd Street, informed him,

when he dropped in at Chapeaux

Parisiens, that Mary Anne had re-

turned to the estate of her Aunt

Agatha Exchequer at Piggetts, Bax-

ton, -Thixton, Haggetts, Woods Hole;

Surrey, England. Moreover, Algae

learned with acute nausea, Virgil El-

well was also the house guest of Lady

Exchequer for the remaining week of

August. Algae saw red. He strode

down Old Bond-Street in a blue funk,

and in. his-preeccupation quite acci-
dently trod on the toe of a heavily
veiled young woman.

“Oh, I say,’”’-he ejaculated at once,
“I. do beg your pardon. Frightfully
clumsy of me.’

The young woman_ bowed’ silently,
and, as Algae peered under her hat
brim he caught a ‘glimpse of large

with silky lashes. and an untroubled
brown brow. She did not speak, but
turned around immediately .in a swirl
of silk veils. Something impelled Al-
gae to follow her, and she led him
quickly through the crowded streets.
Unfortunately he was delayed at one
corner by a bobby who held him up;
and he gazed hopelessly after her ad-

in the throng of Piccadilly Circus. A
wave of futile lonéliness shook him,

Belgrave Square,

inthe gutter below him. Upon ex-
amination is proved to be a ——



slipped it meditatively into is —
to ring
up an acquaintance of h

eign Office. —



with -

Smartest

day, After. the Thin Man, with Wil-

James Cagney; Sunday and Monday, >

Rem--

Wednesday, In His .
‘Steps, with Eric Linden; Thursday

burning brown eyes heavily fringed °

vancing head till he lost sight of her’

and he was about to turn back toward’
‘when -he caught ~~
sight of a bright blue stone glittering ;

at the For-

4






ca v1

vo

THE COLLEGE NEWS

eee : Page Three





’ Montgomery County

Holds Relief Forum

Goodrich. Plan Loaiiittgalod by

Citizens’ Committee on
Public Assistance

PRESENT SYSTEM WEAK

Deanery, February 13.—An all day
forum was held here by the Mont-
gomery County Citizens’ Committee
on Public Assistance to study the
Goodrich Plan, of which Miss Park is
chairman. -The committee explained
its purpose as an effort not only to
investigate the Plan itself, but also ‘to
inform Montgomery County citizens
about the Plan and its various ad-
vantages and disadvantages.

The forum opened at 10.30 a. m.
with a lecture by Miss Hertha Kraus
who discussed the background of pub-
lic assistance since its beginning in
i795, why a new system is needed to
replace the old, and how the Goodrich
Plan will: accomplish the needed. re-
form.

After luncheon Miss Mildred Fair-
child discussed the personnel problem
in public assistance. The question of
political patronage was brought up ‘in
connection: with the hope of the Good-
rich Plan to establish the personnel
problem on: a strictly merit basis.

Following Miss Fairchild’s talk the
forum broke up into. two: -discussion
groups under the leadership of Miss
Abigail Brownell and Dr. Amy E,
Watson, ‘who is. Special ASsistant in







Research on, the Technical Staff of
the Pennsylvania Committee on Pub-
lic Assistance and Relief. After an

| hour for discussion—the-two~groups

assembled again-for-a-panel debate in
which the mai? points of the previous
lectures and discussions were brought
forward and summarized.

The relief system as it stands today
is badly in need of-repair as shown in
Miss Kraus’s lecture to the thirty
women who are potential county work-
ers. These women are preparing to
go out into. the community in which
they live to educate the people in the
present public relief system and agi-
tate for the passage ofthe Goodrich
Plan in the Pennsylvania Legislature.

The main points.in the present Stu-
ation which need remedying are: first,
the obsolete» form of: Poor Boards
which have remained the same in ad-
ministration since their inception in
1705; second, the Mothers’ Assistance
Board, which was cut away. from the
original Poor: Boards in,1913, has not
been sufficiently “deyloped to take
care of its two hae itional categories,
the’Blind Assistance and the Old Age
Assistance; third, the new Old Age|s
Insurance system will -undoubtedly
conflict with the present Old Age
Benefit system. Their functions must
ve more. clearly
make each effectual. “Fourth; WPA
work. and the Emergeney Relief as
set’ up in President Roosevelt’s FERA
are only temporary. . Some policy
must be worked out to take care of
those who are dependent on_ these
agencies. Fifth, the present. system
is unfair because of the unequalized

defined in“ order to?

standards and qualifications set: up
by the independent agencies; sixth,
the public does not know. what agen-
ciés ‘to go to.
from one to another and finally énd
up in the hands of the Poor Board,
which is actually the least capable of
taking care of “them

Because of the above situation a
committee on Public Assistance and
Relief was appointed by Governor
George H. Earle; of Pennsylvania.
~Headed by Herbert F. Goodrich, dean
of the Law School of the University
o: Pennsylvania, the committee has
been active in research for over a
year and has brought forth the Good-
rich Plan which has six underlying
principles:. First, create a County
Board of Public Assistance. to handle
all types of relief except institutions,
which-can-be carried by the State;
second, create a permanent State
Board of Public Assistance, which
will take over Some of the functions
of the State Welfare
third, let. the State finance relief en-
tirely, with supplementary aid from
the Federal government | when, neces-
sary; fourth, equalize Standards by
merging varying services on a sound
general basis, that they will be
accessible to everyone, without letting
categorical priviléges*be-taken away
fifth,

so

choosing of personnel; sixth,

community cooperation by creating a} Eugenia Coburn,
board of citizens w ho. are interested} Anderson were the only members of
and will see to it that the|the faculty present, as both Mr.

im relief
agencies are functioning properly and



well.

Department?

They aré often referred |:



4

safeguard this standardization!
by applying the merit basis to the} by Josephine Hant, ’37, hall president,
get| assisted by Catherine Corson,

Private Dinners Precede



Self oe Extends Time Limit to
One, as Experiment

On a weekend made additionally fes-
tive by the second League square
dance of. the season, Denbigh gave the
second dance in its history. Spurred
on by a ‘successful first affair in No-
vember, .member's-of-the hall had been
insistent in their demands for another
dance before the spring vacation.

This time a.dinner was not given
in the hall. Those who had guests
dined out, returning at 9 o’clock to
join the orchestra and stag line.

a special experimental dispensation }

from the Self-Government’ Association
the dance was allowed to continue
until one o’clock.' Previously all hall
dances had been restricted to the
hours befare .12.

The dining room was’ decorated for
the. occasion with red and white bal-
loons, alternately round and sausage
shaped, which were tied in bunches to
the chandeliers. Over the fireplace
was a large red heart, edged in rows
of lace paper, on which a gold cupid
aimed his. fatal arrow. The arrow
was lighted with electrie lights;

Gefieral arrangements were made
38, and

39. Mr. and Mrs.
and
Mrs. Dryden and MY. Fenwick were

unable to attend.



Second Denbigh Dance

By |'

'| JESSUP SHOWS DANGER

OF YOUTH MOVEMEN TS

New York N. Y.— (ACP) —The
“newer youth movements” are de-
signed_as “short cuts to power or to
change,” is the theme of the annual
report of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching deliv-
ered by the Foundation’s president,
Walter A. Jessup.“

“In all’ too. many instances,” said
the. report, ‘it, is apparent that these
newer youth movements are really or-
ganized by adults who know what they —
want and to whom youth is a reservoir
of advocates readily influenced.
“Shifts in social, economic or po-
litical outlook. are quickly reflected. in
the pfogram set up in his behalf,” ex-
plained “Mr. Jessup... “Witness the’
youth movements under Hitler, Musso-
lini and Stalin, not to mention our
own National Youth Administration
in America,

“Although we look with horror at
the child crusades of the Middle Ages,
may not some future historian chal-
lenge some of the current youth activi-
ties? Just now we hear much about
youth as a factor in bringing about
a-new order in society. ~

“So much is said about youth today
and so much emphasis is laid upon it
that it might, seem that preceding gen-
erations. had overlooked youth. _ The
schools are not by any means our sole
provision for youth, even in recent
times. We-have encouraged for him
an endless number of extra school or-
ganizations,” continued the report.







“IT WAS A BREATHLESS DASH,” said Méss Dorothy
Kilgallen, famous girl reporter, back at work (/eft) after”
finishing her assignment to circle the world by air in rec-
ord-breaking time. (Right) Her exciting arrival at Newark

Airport.

“I snatched ‘meals anywhere,”

she says,

ee

ate’

all kinds ‘of food. But Camels helped me keep my diges-
tion tuned up. ‘For digestion’s sake—smoke Camels’
meant a world of comfort to me. I’ll bet on them any time

—=for mildness and for their ‘lift.’ Camels set me right!

COSTLIER TOBACCOS
_ Camels are made from finer, MORE

EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS ~Turkish and
Domestic —than any other popular brand.

“JACK OAKIE’S COLLEGE’”’

Full-hourgalashow withJack Oakiein person!
Benny Goodman’s'‘Swing”’ Band! Hollywood
comedians and singing stars! Special college
amateur talent every week! Tuesdays—9:30 pm
” E.S.T., 8:30 pm C.S.T.; 7:30pmM.S.T., 6:30
prh P.S.T.,over ae raaromennreS Network.



\

“| GET MORE ENJOYMENT from Camels,” says Arthur H. Waldo, Jr,
College Class of ’38. “I’ve found that. Camels\ help offset the strain of
long hours of study. Working out a tough assignment often can make
me; feel tense inside. So at mealtime, you'll see me enjoying my Camels.”

Yes, Camels. speed up the flow of digestive fluids — increase alkalinity.

| ead

SHOOTING

T.N.T. “My business makes me
mighty careful about nerves and

digestion,”



ka



AN OIL-WELL with

™~

says B. C. Simpson.

“Camels have what I like. They
don’t get on my nerves. And they
puta heap more joy into eating.”






v e

I!

NN er



PORN ye

ect 00:







Sa ' “

"Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS



yon ers







._ Leave Thirtieth Street...

- ing with family history.

vance of American civilization.

‘ABROAD AT HOME—SKI TRAINS





-Poconos—One-day trips every Sun-

_.day during Pébruary and “March;
also holidays, February 22 ‘and March
26. $3. 00 round trip from Philadel-
' phia.

Leave 30th St. Station.... 7.56 a.m.
* Revive Crea 6... 6.502 es 11.26 a. m.
. Arrive Mt. Pocono ...... 11.42 a.m.
Arrive Pocono Summit... 11.49 a.m.

Arrive back at 30th Street — 7.53 p. m.

For longer -visits: °
Philadelphia to Cresco, $4.60 round
iin, =": :
Philadelphia to Mt. Pocono, $4.90
round trip.

Philadelphia to Pocono Summit, $5. 00 |

round trip.
Bear Mouritain—One-day trip. No
direct train after February 14.

_ February 28—Take regular 8.00 a. m.

train from Philadelphia to New

York. Then transfer from Pennsyl-

vania Station to foot of West Forty-

second Street for connection with

West Shore Railroad trains to Ptaal

Mountain.

Norfolk, Panbobicbs events 28.
$4.25 round trip from Philadelphia.
7.04 a. m.
Arrive Norfolk 12.03 p. m.
Back at Thirtieth Street. 10.20 p. m.

Within \ five’ minutes’ walk” from
snow train station: Two practice
slopes, three downhill courses, cross-
country trail of four Ailes, and ‘a
junior: jump.

February 28—-Exhibition ski jumps.

Gore Mt. (North Creek, N. YJ—
Week-end trains: February 26 and
March 5. Tentative Schedule:

ey ee ee en ee

Leave Grand Central Terminal about

midnight Fridays, returning to New
York at 11.30-p. m. Sunday nights.
$7.50 round trip from New York.
Pullman rates, round trip, $2.40 upper
per person, $2.80 for two people.
$3.00 lower per person; $3.50 for
two people.
- Great Barrington, Mass. — Every
Sunday from February to March.
$2.50 round trip from New York.



_ “THREE. BAGS FULL,”-NOVEE

OF FAMILY LIFE

Three Bags Full, by Roger Bur-
linghame, is the answer to the prayer
of all those who love long novels deal-
This is a
hearty book describing the- founding
and improving of the village of Glen-
vil in upper New York state by the
line of the ._proud Van Huytens and
their friends. Through five genera-
tions the two branches of the family;
the aristocratic ‘“Huytens”. and the
degenerate “Hootens,”’ react upon each
other and upon the inhabitants: of: the
lake settlement which
fate of so many brave frontier towns
which lost their earlier individualism
with the invasion of the ‘summer
devils” and of the twentieth century
“modern improvements.”

The treatment of the family traits

of character is the most important |

aspect of the book.” Mr. Burlinghame
evidently believes in. the- influence
of environment predominating over
heredity for the most part, for it is
only after four generations that the
force of character which is so clearly
shown in the first pioneer reappears
in the man whose prime belongs to

- the nineteen-twenties, and.even here
“it is misdirected by his upbringing

and surroundings. The.characters are
strongly and sympathetically done, so
that each -one stands out clearly,

‘whether he is attractive to the reader

or not.

Contemporary events are unobtru-
sively used as a- background for the
action within the book, but it cannot
be said to be an historical novel. ‘The
scene and movement- are plainly
typical of many: settlements. of: like
nature—the author admits, of course,
that Glenvil is an imaginary place,
but authenticated as a type by many
histories and records. He has docu-
mented his text carefully, but he
clearly shows his opinion of the ad-
Per-
haps it is because he seems so much
in sympathy with the earliest mem-

bers of the family that the book loses

something of its interest toward the
end—or perhaps because one’s love
of the picturesque is greater than the
appreciation of the much-calumniated
modern generations. M. H. H.

suffered the

Leave New York ........ 7.45 a.m.

Arrive Great Barrington . 11.03 a.m.

Back in New York ...... 8.45 p. m.
South Lee,

from February to March. $2.50 bomne
trip from New York.

Leave New York......... 7.45 a.m
Arrive South Lee........ 11.25.a,m
Back to New York....... 8.45 p. m.

Pittsfield, Mass. $2.50 round trip

from New. York.

February 21—Leave New Took 7.45
a.m

Arrive Pittsfield 11.45 a. m.

Any other Sunday but February 21,
take 7.30 train, which arrives in
_ Pittsfield at 11.15 a. m.
Catskills—W oodstock and Phoenicia.

Every Friday to March 5, inclusive.

Tentative schedules:

Leave New York (West Forty- second
Street), Fridays, 7.25 p. m.

Arrive Woodstock, 9.50-p.m.

Arriver Phoenicia, 10.30 p. m.

Returning Sundays, leave Phoenicia,
4.30 p. m.

Leave Woodstock, 5:10 p.m.

Arrive New York (Forty-second
Street), 7.30 p. m.



“Virginia Reel’? Favored
At Gala Square Dance



Overalls and Dirndls Featured ‘in
Informal Evening



Gymnasium, February 12.—The sec-
ond square dance given this year. by
the League for the benefit of the Sum-
mer Camp proved to be another smash-
ing success. Crowds from Haverford
and Bryn Mawr arrived promptly and
stayed until the band stopped playing
at 11.30. So great is the enthusiasm
for this kind of entertainment_ that
people are already hounding the com-
mittee, demanding another dance in
the immediate future.

By this time most Bryn Mawr stu-
dents realize that the squaré,.dances
are fun. On these. occasions an air
of delightful informality pervades the
Gym and overalls and peasant dresses
or dirndls are in order. Experi-
enced square’ dancers “shuffle” . ex-
pertly; beginners “cast off” and swing
their’ partners with commendable
abandon if little skill, guided by the
voice of Mr. Jesse Slingluff,- who calls
and explains the dances~...

The Girl I Left Behind ie. and
The Spanish Caballero were compar-
atively new-to-those-at-the dance Fri-
day night, but the couples quickly
learned. them and danced them as
readily as the better known Comin’
Thro’ the- Rye and. Pop. Goes the
Weasel. The real favorite, danced
at two different times during the eve-
ning, was the familiar Virginia
Reel. Music for the dancers was sup-
plied by Christian Anderson’s band.



Nucleus Plans Tea for Faculty

After several months of interrupted
activity the Nucleus Camera Club is
now ready to begin work in earnest.
Dues have been collected and the sup-
plies: developer, hypo, papers, toners
and so forth, will be installed in the
new darkroom as soon as_ possible.
in the near future, before Dr. Watson
leaves, they hope, the club will have a
tea for the faculty photographers.



Prizes Offered for Poems, Stories

The Prose Poetry Guild, publishers
and booksellers of 75 Fifth Avenue,
New York City, offers five five-dollar
prizes for the best unpublished poems
and short short stories by known and
unknown writers. Poems and stories
will be included in the,Guild Antho-
logy. The manuscripts cannot be re-
turned, and the entries close March

| Anthropology Divided —
Into Three Main Fields),

Mass.—-Every Sunday |®"* -similiar—catagories.--——~



Sontinued from Page One
igious systems; systems~of- saci

Anthropology is often considered a
synthetic sciencé, and has been ac-

cused. of being “a morbid escape from
our own social problems” and a pre-

dilection for the “problems of. anti-
quarianism.” . It has, however, one
important body of knowledge, that of
illiterate primitive peoples: It dis-
passionately ‘watches cultures taking
shape; and by assuming a compara-
tive approach, an alternative for éx-
perimentation, it develops a relativis-
tic point of view. - It looks at society
“in terms of” and acts as a corrective
on over-generalizations in other fields.

Historically speaking, systematic
anthropology is one of the youngest
sciences. It received its first real
stimulus, in 1865 when E. B. Tyler
published: his Researches in the De-
velopment of Mankind. Appearing
six years after the Darwin theory, it
showed a strong Darwinian influence,
and applied oe evolution to
society. ‘

From’ this siiniedad the sosialc
evolutionist school, which énvisaged

‘| society as.a.cause-and effect sequence,

bound together by the psychic unity
of mankind. It treated: human insti-

and considered the psyche of man as
preordained to develop from the-sim-
ple to the complex. Against this
belief the criticism was immediately
directed that some institutions be-
longing to highly-developed societies,
such as monogamy, are also found
among the most primitive peoples.
The social-evolutionist approach was
obvious ‘ethnocentric, and for that
reason, both non- relativ istic, and non-
historical.

Natfrally enough, there was a re
volt against the evolutionist attitude,
| which led .to the founding of an his-
torical-reconstructionist school. This
school of thought progressed from a
heliocentric movement, which under
the leadership of Eliot Smith sup-
ported the theory that; all culture had
emanated from Egypt, to a type char-
acterized by the American, school of
historical-reconstructionists in which
Boas of Columbia has played an im-
portant role.

The historical-reconstructionists are
interested in: similarities and their
distribution through space; for dis-
tribution leads to diffusion, which in
turn~leads to historical -continuity.
They follow biology.as their leading
light, and are concerned with such
problems as: the biology of age-area,
or the distribution of animals in its
chronological aspects; discontinuous
distribution, or independent invention
as seen in the development of agricul-
ture in the Old and New World, with-
out any historical connection; paral-
lelism, or the appearance in different
places of similar causes producing
similar effects; convergence, or differ-
ent historical stimuli, converging into
a similarity; and patterning, or the
means by which a diffused trait is
absorbed bya different culture.

The historical - reconstructionist
school works in terms of cultural pro-
cess and abstraction. It reached its
height..in the period from 1910 ‘to

- -|1920, and still thrives in a moderated

form. The problems which naturally
arise in connection with its scientific
approach have caused dissensions, but
none of the departures from the move-.

ment have solved them. |

SS ee a a a
male





BLAIR’'S



15, 1937.



Meet your friends at the” ~~

Bryn Mawr Confectionery
(Next to Seville Theater Bldg.)
The Rendezvous of the College Girls

Tasty Sandwiches, Delicious Sundaes
Superior Soda Service







Featurin}“ Specials This Mouttd
in all

PERMANENT WAVES

64 E. Lancaster Ave. Ard. 3181

ll a i A a a i a i





-Music—Dencing fe gies cl













_JEANNETTE’S —— -
, Btyn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc.













MEET "YOUR FRIENDS -

The Bryn Mawr College ‘Tea Room
~ fora

SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION.

Hours il Service: 7.30 4 M —7.30 P. M. ‘2









|
















oe

Ror Special Paticn, Call Beyn Mews 386.







tutions,-as well as material culture, |:

an Maids and Porters to

_ Present S econd Play



Continued from Pa e One

that time by Henry Hull and Flor-
ence Eldredge.
excellence and requires some compli-
cated staging, including various slid-
ing panels and secret cupboards, ter-
rifying scratching at the doors, flash-
ing jewels and dead bodies. To say
more would but disturb our readers
ahd spoil the anticipation of the per-
formance.

, The interest shown by the- maids
and portefs has been most gratifying
and there are several more recruits
than there were last year. Work on
the play is even more prolonged than
in the dramatic efforts of the -under-
graduates, for at the beginning the
cast of. The Cat and the Canary will
rehearse twice a week for the first
few weeks and after that every night.

The following. members of the cast
have been chosen up to date:

ROY: Survies sees Richard Blackwell
NDE hips vines 0 Paes ah John Whittaker
MOIy oes ys TAT Emmet Brown
i Ver eo gee ON ee Minnie Newton
Susah-we ia RT Doris Davis
OUST oeiaic bs cp ceveneevaga Mabel Ross
ANVGDCUE (6000s icc cee Hilda Grene

_ Property Committee —Eva Tyson
and Mary Jackson.



WPA THEATRE PROJECTS
ARE POPULAR SUCCESS

New. York City—More than. 5,500,-
000 persons attended 9,280 perform-
ances of WPA Federal Theatre ,Pro-
ject plays in New York City during
the past year, according to the pro-
ject’s first annual. report, which. will
be made public next week.

The report, which marks the pro-
ject’s first anniversary, encompasses
all New York City Federal Theatre
activities, including plays presented
at permanent..theatres, along. with
vaudeville, marionette, circus and out-
door performances.

Hitherto unknown attendance and
employment statistics are revealed in
the report. Breaking down the major
attendance figure into specific cate-
gories, the report says that 2,900,000
saw WPA dramas, 732,000 attended
Federal Theatre vaudeville shows,
415,000 followed the WPA circus and
1,468,009 attended marionette per-
formances.

The longest continuous run for
WPA Federal Theatre plays was cred-
ited to the Broadway production of
It Can’t Happen. Here, which has
played more than 90 performances to
date. The unique all-Negro produc-
tion of Macbeth, which. toured the
country following its successful en-
gagement in New York,’ actually had
the longest run, giving 144 perform:
ances in 27 weeks. 7 :
Murder in the Cathedral, T. S.
Eliot’s poetic drama, and the current
revival of Dr. Faustus have received
accolades of praise from critics and
public alike. Both have been hailed
as among the most artistic achieve-
ments of the last two years.—(WPA
Release. )









York in_19227 ft is interesting to note
“lthat the leading roles were taken at

‘to come up before Congress.





Formal A. Y. A. Petition .
_' Needed, A. S. U. is Told



Common Room, February 10. fea. 9a mE

liam Hollister, field worker of the
national A: S.‘U., emphasized the im- —

: ; :
It i ig.a melodrama bar portance of students’ formal declara- —

tion of their desire for the new
American Youth Act, which is ‘shortly
For this
purpose a pilgrimage of American
students from all over the country will
gather i in Washington February 19, 20
and 21. Petitions and letters to Con-
gressmen will reflect the opinions of
those who cannot attend.

As a result of impressive Poe
testimony rendered by hundreds of
needy students last year, the National
Youth Act has. been redrafted into a |
More specific bill with several new .
features. Federal scholarships, the
revision of high school and _ college -
grants, and an increased appropria-
tion of 150 million dollars added to
last year’s 350 million are some of
its measures.

Interviews with Congressmen will
take place’ on Friday, which will be
the most important day of the pil- .
grimage, Saturday the meeting will
be addressed by President Roosevelt,
and conferences and entertainment
will compose the rest of the three
days’ schedule.

In such. national movemenits Phila-
delphia’s geographical position in re-
lation to New York and Washington
makes it a peculiarly important post.
Members present at the meeting vol-
unteered a certain amount to pay each
month toward the upkeep of the city
committee. Under its direction, vari- |
ous college members are visiting high
schools and helping students to. or-—
ganize their chapters. Volunteers for
such activities: are requested. .—/

An alumni banquet of members of
students’ movements, some dating back
to 1867, will meet in New York on
March 2. Undergraduate members of
the A. S:-Usare invited to attend.



Psychologist Bases Reality on
Results of Human Activity



Continued from Page One”

tical fields of interest. The psycho-
logical contribution to the study of
man is thus seen to lie not only in the
many’ specific contributions to knowl-
edge ‘and practical affairs, but'in the
application of experimental methods
to,the understanding and control of
aspects of human nature which at
present are regarded as aeinine the
pale of science.

ll A TN



W. G. CUFF & CO.

Electrical Contractors
BRYN MAWR, PA. :
4 :
VICTOR RECORDS _
RADIOS

Portable Victrolas—
Sold and Repaired





Phone Bryn Mawr 823
@ ?











2 Rs ‘ “ oom
‘ 2 y-,







es What are you doing Sunday?”

“For one thing, I’m: going to
call home at the reduced
Long Distance rates.”

@ You'll be surprised to find how little -
it costs to call. home after seven.-
any night or any time on “Sunday.

rom

THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA .


































x
ing .‘ “THE COLLEGE NEWS “Page Five
~. Bryn. Mawr, Laing New. Guarding System, Class wy 40 Carries eto Webster, '38,/ "Four Howes” to Sing
Beats U. of P. in Strictly. Refereed Game} Off Swimming. Honors! freshmen scored “again-in-the| ._Madrigals._in_ Deanery .
crawl for form and the backstroke.



Gymyasium, February 18.—=In a
game. marked chiefly. by the strictness
of the referees in calling fouls and
‘smaller violations, Bryn Mawr beat
the University of Pennsylvania var-
sity’ 18-12. used their

new system of zone guarding,

Bryh Mawr
in
which one guard stays back under’ the
basket ‘as a- safety man, to take the
ball from the Penn forwards and rush

it down to their own end of the court:.:

At the end ofthe first quarter the
score stood 8-2 in favor of Penn and

they held gn to a slemder one-point
lead until the half. Then, with the
score 6-5 against them, the | Bryn
Mawr players rallied. De Chadenédes
jumped forthe ball as it came down
from the: basket and shot it neatly].
into the net to put Bryn Mawr ahead.
Nice passing from a guard to Bake-
well to Hoagland and back to Bake-
well résulted’ in another goal, and a
few moments later Hoagland brought
thé score to 11-6, while the Penn team
was unable to tally. Washburn, with
perfect” timing, several. times suc-
ceeded in knocking down the ball just
as-heyv opponent shot for the basket.

Line-ip
BRYN MAwR U,. 08 -P
Bakewell ........ Beis cet yaw ate Conlin
De Chadenédes .. f ..... Daugherty
Hoagland ...... Tis ek Collins
Washburn ..... ee McGinnes
vackson .. 5... Qvsevas Hennessy
E.Smith ....... Qivescisvene Genet

Goals—Bryn Mawr, Bakewell (2),
De Chadenédes (8), Hoagland (3),
Bridgman (2). University of Penn-
sylvania—Conlin, Collins- (2), Me-
Ginnes (3), Hénnessy. Fouls—Bryn
Mawr, Bakewell, Hoagland (4),
Washburn, Jackson (2). University
of: Pennsylvania — Daugherty (2),
Collins (2), McGinnes (3), Hennessy.
Substitutions—Bryn Mawr, Bridgman
for De Chadenédes. University of
Pennsylvania — Roberts for Genet,
Hood: for Collins. Referees—Hallen
and McKinney.



- TANGO. DEMONSTRATED
BY “MR. HERBERT .WARE



Gymnasium, February 9.—Mr. Her-
bert Ware and his partner, from the
Arthur Murray School in New York,
gave an exhibition of-four ballroom
dances before a large and interested
‘audience.

The first dance shown was_ the
waltz, which was fairly slow, ,and
ended in a series of graceful whirls.
The foxtrot, next on the program,
was more lively. As their third num-
ber Mr. Ware and his partner danced
the rhumba. There’are many varia-
tions of this.dance, which, because of

the simplicity of its steps, and _ the}

small amount of space needed for its
execution, is extremely popular. Their
dance was an adaptation of the Mexi-
can and Cuban rhumbas,'and showed

the small amount of movement neces-|'

sary in a step of this kind. The last
dance, and by far the most interest-
ing and lovely to watch, was the Ar-













SECOND TEAM GAINS |
VICTORY FROM PENN



Gymnasium,

duplicated the performance of«the var-
sity, beating the University of Penn-
sylvania seconds, 18-11. The game
was slower than-the varsity match,
but equally marred by many penalties
for fouls,

Line-up: ‘

BRYN MAwr U.or P.
Whitmer..... LOPWEIG 6 6s scares Park
Sovipiog, oss POVWAYR sca ve "Or lady
Bridgman.... forward ....McFadden
M. Meigs...... RUBTG fo scliaca Hine
Oo; MeATUN, . 55 i guard Botehlo
hr POSTER i es GUNG Cccin Meyers

Goals—Bryn Mawr, Whitmer (5),

S. Meigs (2), Bridgman (8); U. of P.,
Park, Orlady, McFadden (4). Fouls
—Bryn Mawr, S. Meigs, Bridgman
(2), M.- Meigs; U..of P.,.MeFadden,
Botehlo, Meyers (2), Croll. Substitu-
tion—Croll- for. Hine. __Referee—Hal-
len and McKinney.



gentine tango, exceedingly graceful
in its movement. This dance takes
too much space to be popular for use
in the usually over-crowded ballrooms
of today.

February 13..— The|”
Bryn Mawr second basketball team,



—

R, Penfield, - ’40, ‘Wins Diving

Event; .V. Lautz, ’37,
Is Runner-Up



PLACES:

.Gynnasiuni, February 16—In an,
atmosphere of gaiety and friendly
competition provided by class ban-
ners festooning the walls of the pool
room, the freshmen, glass, of 1940,
romped away with most of the honors
in the first interclass swimming meet.
They made-a total ‘score of 38 points,
more than twice the rating’‘of ’39, who
followed with 16 points. The seniors’
were third. with 138, one morvé than
the juniors,

The, freshmen started out strongly
by capturing the relay race with great
ease. Penfield, the last man on their
team, was streaking’ down the last
lap as her opponents were still going
the other way. Webster, 738,’ just out-

lasted the final spurt of. Ferkyser
’39,°to: place second.

In the diving event four dives were
required: standing front, running
front or swan, jacknife and one op-
tional. dive. All .the divers chose
either the back dive oy the front flip
for the latter. Penfield gained first
place in the diving with a total of 19
points; Lautz, ’37, was second with

1939 SECOND



In the first-of these Axson, ’40, led

‘with 20 points, Sioussat, ’40, tied Bin-
| gay for second place.

McClellan, ’40,
easily won the backstroke -race in..17.2
seconds,- more than a second faster
than her nearest rival, Webster, 38.

The seniors’ and sophomores ‘gained
one victory apiece, .Bingay, ’37, won

the. sidestroke for form, while Peck,

39, and Hutchinson, ’40, tied for sec-

ond. In the 40-yard dash Ferguson
and McEwan, both ’39, secured the
first ‘two places, and Arnold, ’40,

placed third.

Last on the program was the “Mys-
tery Event,” which turned out to be
a variation of what is familiar to
many as the peanut-scramble. When
all the representatives of each class
stood ready around the pool, quanti-
ties of marshmallows were strewn up-
on the water. Taking them one at a
time, the teams were to deposit them
at their 6wn corner of the pool. A
tidal wave arose as thirty swimmers
plunged. into. the water together and
battled against each other, trying to
grasp the elusive and slippery marsh-
mallows. ““When \the marshmallows
were gathered in-it was found that
the class of 1940 was again the vic-
tor. They managed. to. secure

competitor, the class of ’388, and, they
vies annexed 5 points for having the
ost. swimmers in this event.

Concert is for Benefit of the
_ MacDowell Music Colony . ©



On Sunday, ebruary 21, the “Four
Howes”—Mrs. ‘Howe and’ ‘her three
children, Molly, Bruce and Calderon, —

of Washington, D. C., will"Sing madri-



gals at» one o’clock in the Deghery.

Mrs. Howe-is—well-known as a com-
poser. Her cqmposition, “Sand,” was

vplayed by the Philadelphia Orchestra
some years ago in Washington.’ _

Their program .is entitled “Madri-
gals and Old Music for’ Recorder and
Virginals”; the. madrigals are almost
entirely by "Thomas Weelkes and
Thomas Morley,- with a Sonata of
Handel’s and some short pieces.

The concert is for the benefit of the
MacDowell Colony. at Petexsboro,
N. H. =

You will want to knit a sweater
to match your tailored skirt.
We have a full selection of
domestic and imported. yarns,

Our directions insure



79 |
marshmallows, to 47 for their nearest |

satisfaction ,
ALICIA MARSHALL, INC.

42 E. Lancaster Avenue

Ardmore, Pa.













~ Barbara Stanwyck s: says: :















An independent survey was made recently



Luckies—a li







“Luckies make a hit with -
my thro at

99

.

**When talking pictures arrived, my

stage experience on Broadway gave |

me my chance on the screen. Taking
care of my throat became. serious’

business with me, so. I changed to
At smoke. Of course I
smoke other cigarettes now and then
but sooner or later I come back to
Luckies. They make a hit with my
throat and\also with my taste.”

RKO RADIO PICTURES’ STAR
NOW APPEARING IN
“THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS”





among: professional men ahd women —lawyers, “
doctors, lecturers, scientists, etc. Of those who said
they smoke cigarettes, more than 87% stated they
personally prefer a light smoke. _
his : = e e ss
Miss Stanwyck verifies the wisdom of this pref-
erence, and so do other leading artists of the
Tips for Dermnde- bound radio, stage, screen and opera. Their voices are
PS ees ‘ e acd :
Shorts, says Vogue, should be their fortunes. That’s why so many of them
» e ; ° _ *
Bermuda length: is two. inches smoke Luckies. You, too, can: have the throat pro-
t er
(that, according to ‘the law). tection of Luckies—a light smoke, free of certain |
' t ash- ‘ ae
ion and ‘government regulations harsh irritants removed by the exclusive .process : a?
. as do our fine English goods : THE FINEST TOBACCOS-
. our Aquascutum suits and “It’s Toasted”. Luckies are gentle on the throat. “THE CREAM OF THE CROP”.
_ coats ... our mouth-watering
sweaters .. . all designed to
mane you fox — al
ing, tailored self. Our “What to
“do*in Bermuda” booklet i . ‘
Good guide for getting around | oA Light Smo ec | |
small enough to fit into your bees ‘
purse but ee gn ee ; 9
_You may have it by writing | ~ P ti ti
R ag 1270 Sixth A iy ameel oy
- odaaeatens Game | 5 S Toasted’ Your Throat Protec ion
THE 0
- English Sports Shap is AE IRRITATION—AGAINST COUGH i ,
. HAMILTON, BERMUDA ~ : pniaanintiaues ee ~ een tnncemn
: ce SR SETS RR Soupeageraiae ie a eT =










Page Six

~~

THE COLLEGE NEWS ”
4



7

|





LEAGUE NOTES - - |





The ‘sale of Grenfell articles this’

year eovered a period of six weeks in-
stead of the usual two, but conversely
the net result was less than ‘last year.
Since this is true also of the Grenfell
Shop iM Philadelphia, that. news i#
not as discouraging as it appears.
The falling off is attributed to . the
lack of Labrador weather. A suni

of over $100 was “made this year:

As always, the League is in need
of more help in the shape of volunteers
among the undergraduates. for. its
various activities. This is especially
true of the Americanization Commit-
tee, headed by Catherine Richards,
’°39, which has been. robbed: of two.
active members by the*French Club
play. Eight people. are required and
. she ‘hopes that ‘two’ volunteers will
“. eome forward to replace those who are
not strayed but stolen.

The Haverford Community Center
has been functiéning with the help of
WPA workers, but students who can
plan their time: to go regularly are
‘still needed. The chairman, Virginia
Hessing, ’38, is counting on the help
of the freshmen once the, Show is a
thing of the past.

The new. chairman ,of~ the Blind
School, Jane Braucher, ’39, reports
that so far the work has been very
successful. A special effort is to be
made this year to continue the reading
to the blind up to the last passible
minute before the final examination

ose
as







‘
Report Entertainments!
The P-+anwit-g—Committee _

wishes to remind all under-

graduates who are presenting
atty type of public entertain-
ment on the campus that they
must report to a member of the
Committee.

A







Faculty at Large.



Dean Manning left Monday, Febru-

pary 15, to attend the meetings of the

National Association of Deans of
Wemen in New Orleans and will go
from there to Washington for meet-
ings of the Alumnae Council on Feb-
ruary 25, 26 and 27.

Miss Dorothy Walsh, of the Depari-
ment of Philosophy, has had The
Philosophical Implications of Histor-
ical Enterprise in the February 4 is-
sue of the Journal-of Philosophy.



period.

The Maids’ Activities, under Elea-
rior Taft, ’39, will be concentrated on
the play under the direction of Huldah
Cheek, ’38, but classes are held for
them now in knitting and gymnasium
work. . One maid is anxious for music
lessons, but it has not ‘as yet’ been
possible to Srange this.

The Bryn Mawr Camp fund was
materially increased by the proceeds
of the Square Dance on Friday. The
Committee, headed by Mary Eliza-
beth Reed, ’37, assisted by Anne
Ferguson, ’39, cleared between 45 and
50 dollars.



oye ti imma am

Theater Review



“Maxwell Anderson’s Tlié “Masque of
Kings is a good play, well acted, which

\moves to a powerful conclusion, al-

though the direction which the trag-
edy is to take is not clear unt1 late
in the action. The play is essentially
the personal tragedy of Rudolph, the
heir to the Austro-Hungarian. Empire
and the destruction of his ideal. _
Partly from the disinterestedhess of
this ideal, which is to rule with jus-
tice and tolerance for all, and partly

from a _ poetical standpoint without
ever losing, dramatic power, the play



derives.a certain dignity which. adds
to its tragedy. «

This personal tragedy involves the
empire, personified by the Emperor
,and Empress, and in an entirely dif-
erent way, by Rudolph’s mistress. It
is the presentation of the separate
goals of these three secondary people

ning. The first thought presented in

Empress to leave the Empire to a
capable heir, and the second is Ru-
dolph’s superficial desire to escape all
responsibility and to_live only for his
Reb, The central theme, Rudolph’s
ideal, enters when he is persuaded to
revolt against his father to seize the
crown. The second act ends with the
material success of this plan.

The fact that his‘ideal still awaits
trial i is somewhat obscured by the fact



from its language, which is very fine |



| wipe out. opposition—that any man in

which weakens the play at the begin-

the. play is. that of the Emperor and |



New History Society
Offers Essay Prizes



ae"
Subject is
Lisarmament be Achieved?”



‘In the belief that the silent popula-
tion of the earth has been too long

acquiesent, the New History Society|

is offering the’sum total of ‘five thou-
sand dollars to the entire population
of. the globe for the best papers of not
more than two thoysand words, on
the subjcet: ‘How Can the People of
the .World Achieve’ oo Dis-
almament?”’

The prizes offered are as follows:

First world prize ...1,000 dollars



cessor seems to be fulfilled. To hold
his position with any. degrée of safety,
Rudolph realizes he must ruthlessly

his or his father’s position must be
a tyrant in order to maintain security.
He refuses to accept this imposed
condition. and gives tp the revolt.
His one remaining support—love—is
knocked from under him on’ discover-
ing that his mistress ‘was first sent
to him by -his father as a spy on his
activities.

His mistress, who depended entirely
on his love, kills herself when he loses
faith in her. Rudolph refuses to re-
turn to. cqurt as the heir, to join
the “masque of kings,” and completes
his death, which has already been

‘“How Can Universal

2.



League Election.
The Bryn Mawr League takes
_ pleasure in announcing“the elec-
tion of Jane Braucher, ’39, as
chairman of the Blind School
Committee and Christie Golter,





39, as assistant. te

600 dollars
400 dollars
Six continental prizes of two hun-



Second world prize..
_ Third world prize..

dred dollars each will be awarded '

for the best papers respectively from
Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and
New Zealand, Mexico, South and Cen-
tral America and North America.

with no restriction as to age, nation-
ality, race or religion and regardless
of academic or educational affiliations.
The last date on which papers may
be submitted is May 1, 1937.

Further information may be -ob-
tained from Jean Morrill, ’39, Den-
bigh.

i) ao
GREEN HILL FARMS





City Line and Lancaster Avenue
( reminder that we would like
jo take care of your parents
and friends, whenever they
come to visit you.

L. ELLSWORTH METCALF

























say...

Mild, ripe home-grown a aromatic Turkish tobaccos. «:~
aged three years... make Chesterfield an outstanding

a - eae pe ena jore pleasing baste and a aroma.

: @.

t-

Heres aroma

jor You

vert picture of Chesterfield
tobacco just as it comes out of
the 1000 - pound wooden hogs-
heads after ageing for three years.

. M
¢hat the Emperor’s wish to leave his}mentally and emotionally effected. eT
power in the hands of a.capable suc- At cS
®
See

If you céuld be there when these hun- -
dreds of hogsheads are opened up

- if you could see this mild pe.
tobacco, prime and ready to be made-
into Chesterfield Cigarettes . . . see the
golden color of the leaf...
whiff of that delightful aroma...you’d

P=

and get a ,

“Delicious . . . makes me

think of fruit cake.”





The competition is open ‘to anyone

eens