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VOL. XXVI, No. 10

Copyright, Trustees of
: Bryn Mawr College; 1939





6 Day Week
Considered
- By Council



Theatre Workshop Opens,

Alumnae-College Panel
To. be Planned

VACATION SCHEDULE
OPEN TO PETITION





“IT. suppose the time has come
for the bomb to. drop,”
Mrs.
Council

remarked
Manning at the last College
16.

“The question of Saturday morn-

meeting, December

ing classes has been raised by the
faculty.” A model of the probable
six-day schedule is now being
drawn up by the Dean’s office,
while a committee is investigating
systems in use at other colleges.
Many of the Bryn Mawr faculty
are still opposed to the idea.

Miss Park stated that the pro-
posal was in no way a criticism of
week-ends, but was suggested only
as a means to lessen the extreme
pressure of what is now a four-
day week with a complete cessation
every Thursday. The change, if
instituted, would affect mainly
freshmen and sophomores, . since
they have the most classes, and it
would be valuable in helping them
to regularize their own work after
the school study hall system.

Other subjects discussed by the
Council were: the plans for the
opening of the Theatre Workshop,
a joint meeting of the Alumnae
and College Councils, the student
mimeographing machine, and the
scheduling of vacations.

The Theatre Workshop.-is now
complete. At a meeting of the di-
rectors of the Workshop, on Mon-

Continued on Page Three

Rev. Noble to Hold

Evening . Services





Mr. Grant Noble will speak
on Fundamental Laws _ of
Life and on Life and Living
at two Sunday evening serv-
ices in the Music Room of
Goodhart Hall, January 14
and 21. He -will discuss
“Christian ethics, especially
as applied te men and Sommer
before and after marriage.”









Picasso Stresses
Emotion of Painting



Clifford Traces Different
Styles of Artist’s Work’
Chronologically



**Music Room, December 18.—Pi-

casso believed that it was not
necessary to understand his paint-
ings, that one should be impressed

merely by the emotion of the paint-

ing, said Mr. Clifford, assistant
curator of the University Museum
in Philadelphia. “Mr. Clifford re-
peated Picasso’s dictum that every-
one wants to understand art, but
that the attempt to do so is just
as sensible as trying to understand
the song | of-a bird.

The lecture: traced chronologi-
cally the different styles in Picas- |
so’s painting, of which there were:
some 20 in 40 years. All thes
styles, said Mr. Clifford, are prob-
ably of equal importance, although
in his discussion of the painting
Demoiselle...d’Avignon, he desig-
nated it as one of the epoch-mak-
ing canvasses of the twentieth cen-
tury, one which probably more
_han any other of Picasso's works
has helped to turn the course of
modern painting.

Whenever Picasso tried a thing,
said Mr. Clifford, he went a little
further than anyone else and usu-
ally succeeded better than anyone
else. But because he has so many
styles he is perhaps one of the
most difficult of modern ‘painters
to understand.

Continued on Page Three

Workers, Students
Report Qn Problems
Of Nation’s Health

Common Room, December 13.—
The Industrial Group held a panel
discussion on health, in coopera-
ion with the Science Club and
workers from the Kensington Y. W.
C..A. Reports were centered
around: the National Health ~pr6-
gram outlined by the Federal In-
terdepartmental Committee to co-
ordinate. Health and~Welfare ° Ac-
tivities.

‘ Miss Eloise Spencer, who is in
charge of health work in the Ken-
sington Y. W. C. A., began by out-
lining the problem, and by report-
ing on the recommendations of the
Technical Committee on Meédical
Continued on Page Five







Maids’ and Porters’ Repertoire Grows;
‘Porgy and Bess’ Production is Planned



Tuesday, December 19.—The an-
nual carol singing by the Maids’
‘and Porters’ Glee Club, directed|—

by Meg ‘Wadsworth, ’41, was
marked by several: innovations in
the program. Lo, How a Rose,
Coventry Carol and Oh, the Holly
and the Ivy were added to the pro-

[Fairchild Discusses
Value of Students’

Active Contribution



Goodhart Hall, December 19.—
Miss Mildred Fairchild of the So-

for the discussion method in educa-
tion, pointed out the advantages of
student participation’ in confer-
ences. Assuming that each student
will make an active effort, the con-



|50 percent of the resident students

ference system can be extremely
valuable. The opportunity for rais-
‘ing questions, for the expressiow of
\individual opinions is provided;
Onis these ideas each student may
reason out problems for herself.
One of the chief difficulties in ed-
ucation Miss Fairchild believes to
be the fact that students often de-
mand an education which they can
absorb passively. From the ages of
16 to 18 students may be justified
in this attitude, but by the time a
Continued on Page Five

CAMPUS OFFERED
HEALTH INSURANCE







Policy Made to Cover
Many Extra Expenses



In answer to requests from the
student members of the Council, ar-
rangements have now been made by
the college for health insurance for
graduate and undergraduate stu-
dents. The students Reimbursement
Policy, offered by the Connecticut
General Life Insurance Company of
Hartford, covers medical, surgical,
and hospitalization-expenses up to
the maximum of 500 dollars in case
of serious illness. _

In order that the student body
may avail themselves of this plan,
applications must be received from

by January 25, 1940. A full de-
scription of the policy, and applica-
tion blanks, have been sent to all
students -and their families. The
cost for one year is 15 dollars and
includes protection during all vaca-
tions as well as the summer recess.

As arrangements were not com-
pleted in time to offer this plan to
the students at the opening of col-
lege for 1939-40, the Connecticut
General has now offered to accept

applications for policies dated Feb-
Continued on Page,Two “

CALENDAR
From Dec. 20—Jan. 19





Thursday, December 21.—
Christmas Parties in. the
halls, 6.30.

Friday, December 22.
Christmas, vacation begins
"12.45 p: m.



lent Night are still the favorites of
the club, however.

~ Monday, January 8.—
Christmas .vacation ends, 9
a. m.

Tuesday, January 9.—Cur-
rerit-Events, . Mr. Fenwick,
CUD 2 | \\ Feanemgentye
Friday, Jcmmcee 12 ie

Singewald will speak on Eco-

nomic Geography of South

America, Goodhart Hall, 8.30.

Sunday, January 14.—Rev.

A. Grant Noble, Music Room,

7.30.

Tuesday, January 16.
_.Current._Eyents, Mr. Fen-_



On January 8 the Maids’ “an
Porters’ Glee Club will hold cathe
for a musige version 6f Porgy and
Bess which
stead of the usual play. Fifi Gar-
bat, ’41, director of the production,

Continued on Page Two



gram. -Days of Christmas and Si-|

,

nae

is to be presented in-|

wick, 7.30.

Wednesday, January 17.—
Schuyler Ladd, 4th event in
entertainment series, Good-
hart Hall, 8.30.











cial Economy department, speaker *

i|that she was forced: to approach

} she’d:-volunteered_ to take her sister:

Debate | Continiied
~ By Panel and Floor

Stimulus Derived From Two
Methods is Compared
by Students



Goodhart Hall, December 19.—
Membeis of the Curriculum Com-
mittee led the panel on discussion
and lecture classes as teaching
methods. The committee was rep-
resented by Mary Kate, Wheeler,
chairman; Anne Louise Axon,
Marian Gill, Peggy. Eppler,; Vivi
French and Jane Klein.

Anne Louise Axon. opened. the
meeting with a brief explanation
to the professors for the seeming
audacity or impudence of student
discussion of teaching methods.
The purpose of this panel on lec-
ture and discussion. classes was to
clarify the ideas of the students
about the methods of education,
while it is realized that the faculty
have far more experience of the
problem. “We, as students, want,”
she said, “to get information .about
our own field, and ‘information
about. others, to think clearly, to
interrelate the ideas which we have
formulated, and to cope with the
facts we will meet later.” For this
reason the question of the manner
Continued on Page Five



Far East Situation
And Effect of War
Discussed by Chang

The nationalistic spirit of -mod-
ern China crystalized by the Far
Eastern conflict cannot be sup-
pressed now even. by the military
conquests of Japan, said Professor
P. C. Chang, speaking on the Far
Eastern Conflict and the European
Situation. Mr. Chang outlined the
background of the conflict and its
relation to the present European
war. 4

The growth of a unified indus-
trial China has been slow chiefly
because of her huge population and
her slow-moving democratic spirit.
From 1900 on, the new China has

Continued on Page Five



ASSEMBLY CONTRASTS VALUE

OF LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS

Sloane States Need
Of Lecture System
For History of Art



the only one possible in the Bryn
Mawr Art Department,*said Mr.

Sloane, in the discussion of the
Curriculum Committee on the value
and application of lecture and ‘dis-
cussion methods of teaching. He
clarified his opinion by the use of
exemples of lecture and discussion
methods at Bryn Mawr and Prince-
ton. :

The method of teaching art in
Bryn Mawr is based on an attempt
to give a clear analysis of man’s
culture by means of the art he has
created. In order to do this a
great deal of background material
must be covered, including history,
philosophy and _ literature. Art is
taught mainly by the use of photo-
graphs and ‘textual material, the
photographs supplying the visual
education “without which people
look un-understandingly~ at art.”
The literature, Mr. Sloane ex-
plained, is often too short to fur-
nish good analysis, or too long to
be covered satisfactorially. Thus
the position of the lecturer is that
of one who has read widely’ and
can select for presentation to the
students those ideas which come
closest to the subject of a course.

Mr. Sloane outlined the confer-
ence system used in Princeton,
where conferences are composed of
not more than seven students. The
one. difficulty, he pointed out, was

Continued on Page Six

ART CLUB EXHIBITS
FRENCH PAINTINGS





Common Room, December 17.—
Marian Gill spoke on the revolu-
tion in French painting, at the tea
opening the first of five Common
Room exhibitions to be presented
by the Art Club together with the
History of Art Department. . The
current exhibit consists of 18 ex-
cellent reproductions. It is a rep-
resentative collection of the most

Continued on Page Six





Mammoth Spider Boy

cotts Freshmen

Long Papers ok English Basement



By Olivia Kahn, .’41

Long freshman English papers
were due Monday morning, Decem-
ber 11, and Marilyn O’Boyle duti-
fully trotted over to the |English
basement to leave, her handiwork
in Mrs. Cameron’s box. It still
amazes her when. she remembers

the box on her hands and knees.
The basement, she recalls with awe
when prompted to a discussion of
the matter, was filled with a mam-
moth spider _web of colored threads,
red, green and blue. The threads,
shoulder high and tightly _inter-
woven, ‘climbed up the basemfiént
stairs and clung firmly to the door
of each instructor. “I had to get
down and crawl,” exclaimed Mari-
lyn. The worst part of the whole
affair in her private opinion is that

Lenore’s paper over with her, and
since Lenore ‘is in Miss Linn’s sec-
tion, Marilyn was forced to strug-
gle from one end of the basement
to the other.
ies ambitious, other txéghinan



turned away from the basement,
papers in hand, refusing to enter
the maze. The activity reached its
height when the freshman English
department arrived. The first pro-
fessor to enter was trapped in a
sea of multi-colored strings and
had to be rescued with a pair of
scissors. There was some compen-
sation, however, for the vandals
had left a lollypop in each office.

The News decided not to print
the details of this story last week,
but to wait until the mystery was
nearer its solution, All the loose
ends have not been brought to-
gether yet, but our fund of knowl-
edge is considerably widened. .Miss
Linn and Miss Koller have devoted
much time and thought to the
problem and feel they are pretty
close to the truth, altH®ugh they
are not yet prepared to give their
final opinion. —It--was--MissLinn.
who. first. put us on the scent of
the story and suggested various
sources of information. Miss Ward,
she thought, should be questioned

because she knows more than any

Continued on Page Four

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Away in a Manger

Christmas is a nice season—with its. gayety 8, frivolity and

rustle of long papers.

Thisewetk part of the News board sat-down

here chirruping like a fairly maudlin bird, the prevalent spirit be-

ing one of “hi-ho, hack the day, what have we got to lose.”

The

other part: of the board—the drudgés with two. papers or more to

write—we sent. home because they
Dreary girls.

didn’t seem to be very chirrupy.

All in all our sincerest happy yules goto the border-

line mempers of the board ‘who had only one or two papers due.
They stayed right with us—and took it like little Santas.







In Philadelphia





THEATRE

FORREST: George White’s
Scandals.

MOVIES

ALDINE: Basil Rathbone, Boris
Karloff, and Ian Hunter in grue-
some drama The Tower of London.

BOYD: Remember, a comedy-
romance with Greer Garson, Robert
Taylor and Lew Ayres.

CAPITOL: Main Street Lawyer,
with Edward Ellis and Anita
Louise.

FOX: Barricade, with Warner
Baxter and Alice Faye.

KARLTON: We Are Not Alone,
with Paul Muni and Jane Bryan.

KEITH’S: That’s Right—Yow’re
Wrong, with Adolphe Menjou and
Kay Kyser and his band.

NEWS: Barbara Stanwyck,
Anne Shirley, and John Boles in
Stella Dallas..

PALACE: The Private Lives of
Elizabeth and Essex, with Bette
Davis and Errol Flynn.

STANLEY: Another Thin Man,
with William Powell, Myrna Loy,
and Asta, the dog.

STANTON: The Cisco Kid and
the Lady, with Cesar Romero and
Cris-Pin Martin,

STUDIO: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street, with Tod Slaughter
and Ewe Lister, and The Return of
the Frog, an Edgar Wallace
mystery.

SUBURBAN MOVIES
ARDMORE: Thursday: Jehn
Payne and Jane -Wymar in Kid
Nightingale.’ Friday and Satur-

‘Hobson. ‘Sunday and
On Dress - Parade. Tuesday and

First Love.
SEVILLE: Wednesday: Little
Accident, with Florence Rice, Rich-

Million Deller Lege.ie



Thursday: 20,000 Men A Year,

| with Randolph Scott and Marjorie

Lindsay. Friday and .Saturday:
Bad Little Angel, with Ian Hunter
and Jean Reynolds.

WAYNE: Wednesday: Mysteri-
ous Miss X, with Mary Hart and
Michael Wayland, and Two Bright
Boys, with Jackie Cooper and Fred-
die Bartholomew. Thursdayand
Friday: 20,000 Men A Year. Sat-
urday:: Honeymoon is Over, with
Stuart Irwin and Marjorie Weaver.



Health -Insurance-Policy '
Offered to Bryn Mawr

Continued from Page One



ruary 1, 1940 and expiring Sep-
tember 30, 1940 on the pro-rata ba-
sis of the annual premium, or 10
dollars for the 8 months. Renewals
of these policies will be dated Octo-
ber 1, 1940 and expire on Septem-
ber 30, 1941; premium, 15 dollars.

The insurance does not cover any
loss for infirmary care to whieh
students are already entitled under
the college health service. Also ex-
cluded are any costs for dentist’s or
occulist’s services, and the first 10
dollars expense for any illness.

Propaganda Tricks



In Student Reports

sor Chang’s discussion, Helen Bow-
den, ’40, and Peggy Eppler, ’40,
spoke before the International .Re-
lation Club in the second session on
Propaganda analysis. Taking her
and| material: from Mein Kampf, Miss

propaganda. Miss Eppler spoke
generally of the seven most com-
mon devices of propaganda and
how they are, used.

“Bad names” and “glittering|
| eeieralities” mle ch ft"



_ Thursday: - M
with Betty Grable and Jackie|

r, and Mr. Wong ‘in China





Analyzed by I. R. C..

rennet
Common Room.—Before Profes-

| Bowden described Hitler’s theory of,



“TDheatre.

The World We Make Pictures
Complicated Modern Life
In Symbolic Form ©





The realism of Sidney Kings-
ley’s play, The World We Make,
adapted from The Outward Room,
by Millen Brand, has. been fre-
quently commented upon ‘in the last
few weeks not only by New York
drama critics, but by the author
himself. The play deals with the
readjustment: of a mentally unbal-
anced girl to the unromantic life
of a factory worker. But, as Mr.
Kingsley points out in an article

Times, it is a symboli¢ rather. than’)
a literal representation of the coni-t
plexities of modern life.

The theme of The World We
Make is important and fresher
than many of those which have
found their way to Broadway in
recent years. On the whole, Mr.

|| Kingsley has done an excellent job

of transporting Mr. Brand’s book
to the stage, but has unfortunately
failed to remedy its lack of tem-
poral unity. The story is snapped
so often by fragmentary sceries
that one’s interest is weakened.
There are eight scenes plus a pro-
logue, and the incessant raising
and lowering of the curtain be-
comes monotonous.

Mr. Kingsley says in his article
that much attention has been cen-
tered upon the settings of the play,
designed by Harry Horner. The
World Wide Laundry set of Act I
is an especially huge and intricate
composition, crowded. with ma-
chinery. The scene is -arranged
on a vertical rather than a hori-
zontal plane, with workers stand-
ing at various levels: a skillful ex-
aggeration of actual conditions, to
convey an impression of constant,
wearisome labor. The. prologue in
the Greendale sanatarium was
made equally significant by the use

“Virginia McKay (Margo) is seen
escaping through a series of shad-
owy doors.

Margo gives a splendid perform-
ance in the leading role. The
scenes in which she shows the first
signs of mental recovery or is in-
troduced to the mysteries of “pish-
getti” are good. The hfsterical
scenes are less satisfying. There is
something distasteful about aban-
doned hysteria on the stage. Paos-
sibly the play: would have been
stronger if her approaching aberra-
tion had merely been suggested
and the action had not been car-
ried to an uncomfortable climax.

The members of the supporting
cast contribute some fine perform-
ances. Tito Vuolo, Kasia Orza-
zewski, Harold Stone and Thelma
Schness are delightfully warm and
sympathetic as Virginia’s Italian
and Polish neighbors, and add im-
measurably to the quality of the
production. Herbert Rudley is
somewhat less inspiring as John,
the young man who helps Virginia
from herself, and is in fact eclipsed
by his brother Jim (Joseph Pev-
ney), who plays a smaller role with
more feeling.



Maids and Porters Plan
Musical ‘Porgy and Bess’



Continued from Page One

is planning a combination of the
George Gershwin opera and the
Dubose Heyward play. There will
be seven. ‘singing solo parts, seven

1d us of as’
many as possible. Katherine Ham-
ilton, ’41, will design the costumes
assisted by a Maids’ Comntittee,
yand Jerry Catron, ’42, is doing the
lights.



‘

which appeared in last Sunday’s}’

of translucent walls, behind which |‘

Women in Learning

On January 2 at 2 p.-m.,
the N. B. C. series: on’ “Gal-
lant American Women” will
deal with “Women in Learn-
ing.” Miss Thomas is to be
included and Pallas Athene
may be played as incidental
music.





ag

Opinion

.







‘One Who Never Speaks’
Explains Silence
In Class

Re the College News:

' As often happens, the minute -I
walkéd out of the discussion meet-
ing Tuesday morning, I thought of
something I should have said; so
I’m taking this late opportunity to
speak my mind. ‘

The point was brought up that
class discussion usually leads no-
where, and I realize that I am one
of those to whom Miss Stapleton
referred when she said that there
was a large group of students who
never hdd and ,who never would
contribute to a class discussion. I
don’t know how many people I am
speaking for, but let me explain
what fetters my. tongue on such
occasions.

When I speak I want to have
something to say.. (But, please,
don’t throw that statement back at
me at some inopportune moment.)
No one likes to be thought ridicu-
lous. As is often the case, if a girl
jumps to her feet immediately when
an idea .pops into her head, and
speaks it out, the professor not too
subtlely scoffs at it. She has not
had time to correlate her ideas in
order to rebuff the come-backs of
the professor, and therefore sits
down in shame and confusion. On
thinking™.it over afterwards, she
either decides it was a rather fool-



ish idea which should never have
been mentioned, or else she thinks
of wonderful rebuffs which she
could have hurled back at the pro-
fessor, but didn’t. In either case,
she determines never to open her
mouth again.

~The same idea holds for the dia-
bolical practice of calling on people
in class: A-student réally has no
time to think thé question through,
so is apt to give some answer, for
which she has no grounds whatso-
ever. Perhaps my mind works un-
usually slowly, but what I need is
time to think, and encouragement
when I finally do speak.

I’m afraid this point does not
help the curriculum committee a
great deal, for I have no remedy,
but this is the “why” from “one
who never speaks.”

Louisa Alexander, ’42.

Newly Intelligible Lantern
Left Her Out

To the Editor of the News:

Poets must speak. Particularly
at a time like this when all values
are challenged, mankind awaits
this message, Despairing of the
Lantern which has suddenly be-
come intelligible; I submit these
soul’s gropings to the News, hop-
ing that I may not have spoken in
vain.

“Genevieve St, Vincent Benet”
Unpresaged sense, - “
inarticulate to feel

ond pain, | !
internally tangent to the mind’s —
impotence of action —
in the face of the heart’s hazard,
dangerously unable—
still uncatalyzed





| | by elemental shock.



ieaaheavs, one new with the. club
year, n

evasion something which belongs



rection? of Mr. Wells. More ex-

famples were brought forward of|
the seven propaganda devices. “An-

alysis of Propaganda” will have its
third panel on Tuesday, January 9,
when it will take the place of Mr.





7 on a

WIT’S END

Wassail’s the Matter With
You, Anyway?

Once upon a time there were two
girls, one of whom spent all of her
time at Haverford, and the other of
whom spent all of her time studying
in the library. And everyone kept
shaking their heads and saying,
“Well!” Now the girl that stayed
in the library worked and worked,
and when Christmas week came she
had so much work to do that she
couldn’t tell whether she was going
or coming. The-other girl went
home for Christmas, too. And the
library girl had eight papers to







stocking while the other girl spent
all morning drinking milk punches
and couldn’t even see her stocking
to put it on.

Now, the library girl kept right
on . studying .even until the mid-
year and the other girl picked up
her hangover and went right
straight back to Haverford. Wells:
finally came the day of the examin-
ation and guess what happened—
(this’ll kill you): The Haverford
girl failed her examination and was
able to leave college, while the li-
brary girl not only had to stay at
college but was asked to do honours
work.

The morale. of this story is that
it is very difficult to make sunshine
out of hay, in case you were think-
ing of trying it.

L

News Item: Election

From the Philadelphia Bulletin
of December 19:

suggested asthe next president of
Bryn Mawr College.

Some prominent alumnae, it was
learned today, are urging her as an
excellent choice to succeed Dr..
Marion Edwards Park who is due to
retire after next year.

The choice of..Mrs. Roosevelt, it
was added, would, among other
things, depend -on whether or not
President Roosevelt becomes a can-
didate for re-election next year.

According to a radio broadcast it
is:rumored that Mrs. Roosevelt re-
fused the position which was pre-
maturely offered to her.

4

My Day

The seniors came over for ‘break-_
fast this morning. We started with
baked apples, then sausages with
scrambled eggs, and cocoa. The
apples were sent to me from Mrs.
Drew’s farm in Washington. It is
refreshing to get the undergraduate
point of view on the current Euro-
pean situation. My husband brought
the cocoa in and stayed to chat with
the girls. ~

I had a busy morning. My sec-
retary greeted me with a sheaf of
mail gaily covered with stamps
from all parts of the world. It is a
thrill to be president of this famous
college. “I can’t wait until spring.
I know I'll feel nostalgic when I see
the cherry trees in bloom. I gladly
welcomed Miss E--’s invitation to
lunch. Her house has a cosmopoli-
tan atmosphere unusual in these
suburban surroundings, There
seemed. to be quite a number of

conversation proved stimulating..
' Sistie and Buzzie came over in
the afternoon and we all went
horseback riding. At five o’clock I
turned over the first shovelful of
earth for the new gymnasium. My
husband put in a gold brick,

In the evening we had an at-home

jand the. Dean came in with her ~

brothers who are fine looking men.
The conversation was enlightening.

How thankful I am I have re-
ceived this opportunity. It is in-
spiring to follow the development

-|of American womanhood.



The president and vice-president
of the Radcliffe A. S. U. are fining
each other a nickel for each men-
tion of the words “peace” or “de-

a ocracy.”

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Picasso Stresses.
_ Emotion of Painting



Continued from Page One

The lecture was illustrated by
representative examples of the
work of Picasso in the different
periods of his development, tabu-
~lated for convenience uhder the
colors he used.

A short discussion of modern
painting in general was prefaced
to’the analysis of Picasso’s work.
It must be remembered, in consid-
ering) modern art, said Mr. Clif-
ford, that a picture. before being

' a representation is a plain surface

covered with a pattern of colors.

Both Matisse and Picasso have to
answer criticism for bad drawing.
Matisse contended that’ his poor
drawing was intentional and was
for the purpose of recapturing the
freshness of vision of a very young
child.

During the first of Picasso’s im-
portant periods he drenched his
paintings in a deep blue to express
the disillusionment and sadness of
his early days in Paris. Later on
a similar sadness is shown by the
use of monotone. The finest paint-
ing of the Blue Period is the Blue
Boy, which by its greater bright-
ness already shows the transition
to the Rose Period. A Family of
Harlequins, the crowning work of
the latter period, marks the end
of representation in Picasso’s ear-
lier work. He later returned to it
after excursions into the simplifi-
seation of the Negro period, and
into various types of cubism, sur-
realism and classicism.

Following the Rose Period, Pi-
casso, influenced by the Negro art
so fashionable at the time (1906-
1907), tended more and more to-
ward simplification of the subject
and breaking up of the background.
The Demoiselle d’Avignon shows
the culmination of this in the be-
ginnings of cubism. The Man with
a Guitar is the most extremely cu-
bistic of Picasso’s work, almost all
elements of representation having
disappeared from it. The paint-
ings of this period take on a great
deal of feeling and depth, compar-
able to that found in music.

Following the period of extreme
cubism, Picasso became interested
in textures and then in a new kind
of analytical cubism. At this point
he was returning to representation
and color. There are works, how-
ever, in a style that might be
called rococco cubism and synthetic
cubism and the masterpiece of the
period is- The Three Musicians, a
work of synthetic cubism. After
1921 Picasso passed into a group
of periods which he carried on si-
multaneously. Almost each new
painting could be called a different
‘period between 1925 and 1935.

" BRRATA.

The News regrets to announce
that the by-line on the choir review
last week was omitted. The article
was by Mary Moon, ’39. In the
article on fencing the following
names, Jane Nichols, Lucy Smith



and Margaret should have read],
Virginia Nichols, Dorothea Smith] ;

and Margaret Magrath.



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May Day Not Dead

The Undergraduate Asso-
ciation wishes to emphasize
the fact that the May Day
vote. did not “abolish” May
Day, but only decided against
it for this year. Another
vote as to wihfther to hold
the pageant can be taken
next year, or in any succeed-
ing year. Students are re-
quested to make this clear
to any alumnae and .others
who may ask during vacation.





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College Council Hears
Of 6 Day Week Plan

Continued from Page. One



that the formal opening should in-
clude a talk by Mr. Skinner and by
John Mason Brown, and a mono-
logue by Miss Skinner. The date
of the formal opening is still un-
certain,

@

Mrs. Collins reported that the
Bryn Mawr half of the hall was
without chairs and light dimmers.
A hundred and fifty-two chairs are
needed and can be obtained at 3.50
dollars apiece if the college order
goes in with that of Baldwin, while
the two dimmers needed cost 100
dollars each. It was agreed that
the freshman class, which has not
yet been asked to subscribe to any
college building, should ‘be asked
to agree to raise the money for the
chairs. Miss Gill .suggested that
the senior class might be willing
to give a dimmer. :

Miss Park suggested that the
Alumnae Council, a representative
advisory body made up; of mem-
bers of different groups through-
out the country, should hold a joint
meeting with the College Council.
Some members and heads of clubs
not represented in the ‘Council
would be asked to describe their
organizations briefly. Miss Park
believed that this would prove
much more interesting than the
past meetings where only the presi-
dent of the senior class spoke to the
alumnae. In addition, undergradu-

‘ate members of the council might

be invited to hear the reports of
the heads of the regional alumnae
committees.

An additional mimeographing
machine has been resurrected from
the gym and set up in Taylor base-
ment. N. Y. A. workers will be
fouxd to run it, so that pressare
on the college office will be relieved.

Mrs. Manning reported that va-
cations are scheduled so as to di-
vide up the year as evenly as
possible. The faculty are always
willing to consider any petitions
from students as to adjusting the
vacations in particular years, or
changing the general system. |

On the subject of penalties for
cutting classes. before and after
vacations, Mrs. Manning stated

that the notices of which examina-

tions were to be deferred were
sent to the students on the last
day. of classes before the exam
period.

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By Rebecca Robbins, ’42

Early Jast week City Council,,
aiming desperately at a balanced
budget, ordained an income tax:
Into the city treasury goes one and
a half per cent of all money earned
in Philadelphia.

At an open hearing before pas-
sage, the: Council asked for ob-
jectors to come forth (speak now

jor forever appeal: to the courts).

No. one came, and the proposed
bill became ‘a reality. Labor now

‘rumbles its complaints, since it was

not sufficiently well organized to
object at the time of. the hearing.

Vague dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed among other groups as
well., Murmurs of ‘“unconstitu-
tional” are amplified as Philadel-
phia lawyers become delicately le-
galistic, and argue:

(1) That. the, new city ordi-
nance provides that the tax be col-
lected by employers, who deduct
the desired one and a half per
cent, then hand over the rest to
the employees. And that there is
a state law forbidding employers
to make check-offs from employee
pay envelopes. This does not seem,
however, a very strong objection.
One can throw up against. it:
What is a check-off? Is an invol-
untary check-off a true check-off
—in the spirit of the state law in
question?

The second objection ‘is:

(2) That the tax is not uni-
form. This conclusion arises from
the distinction that the municipal
law makes within itself... It pro-
vides that current salaries be taxed
currently, But sit. provides that
businessmen and men in the pro-
fessions pay the tax this year on
their incomes of last year. Thus
the two groups are being taxed on
different bases.

Possibly, someone will appeal to
the courts, in order to test the
new law’s constitutionality. Pos-
sibly the law will be voided by the
court’s decision. I’ve given up
wondering why the Council, before
passing a Monumental Measure to
Restore Balance to Philadelphia,
doesn’t take a look at the more
abvious loopholes in—its—measures.
I’ve given up wondering whether
the Council remembers in ’389 what
happened in ’38,

Last year also, Philadelphia
passed an incomg tax. Generously,
as she excluded incomes’ under
1,000 dollars. The ordinance or-
daining “income tax!’ was con-
tested and found to conflict, in
effect, with the provision in the
Pennsylvania State Constitution
forbidding gradations in taxes.
Said the Philadelphia Council: We
didn’t consider that there was a
gradation. The Council didn’t rea-
lize that others might so consider.

Or might wish so to consider. The

bill was left wide open on a minor
point—minor because the sum of
taxes on incomes under 1,000 dol-
lars would not be highly significant.
The bill of ’88, embodying a prin-

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meeting of the yeax, at which
Mr. Helson will. .speak on
“Coloy,” is scheduled for
Monday, January 15, in the
Chemistry-Geology Building.







ciple that was well-intentioned and
necessary under present condi-
tions, was sunk into oblivion, be-
cause of unnecessary carelessness.
It would be pathetic, but typi-
cally Philadelphian, if the present
law were declared unconstitutional
on the grounds offered by the two
non-essential clauses described.
Possibly the present. ordinance
won’t be contested: \Certainly, the
dissatisfaction of this year is not
the rioting in City Hall courtyard,

that accompanied the bill last year.
Philadelphia columnists explain
the lack of excitement by murmur-
ing “Christmas shopping and Yule-
tide spirit,” This columnist ex-
praise) socio-psychological
home truth: Resistance to a new
idea is definite and strong, simply
because: it is new. Repetiti of
the idea, especially after afin
causes no sharp reaction; terest
is worn out. ;
Nevertheless, some new tax on,
Philadelphians must go through.
Philadelphia carries a_heavy an-
nual burden. The city’s ‘annual
debt service (interest plus amorti-
zation) is 36,000,000 dollars, al-
most half the annual income-outgo.
The Federal government passed a
law, awhile ago, permitting” muni-
cipal corporations to. reorganize,
call in their bonds, and float a new
issue at one and a half percent.
Philadelphia goes lumbering on,
|drained by debt-service; the city
pays four per cent on bonds,..most
of which are held by banks and
insurance cdmpanies. (We trust
you get the implication of pressure
by bond-holders on the Council.)
I’ve given up wondering whether
Philadelphia will ever accept the
only possible solution, declare
bankruptcy, and so be able to re-
organize and proceed: with her im-
possible debt-service halved. I’ve
given up half-hoping. As _ for
Philadelphia passivity, obviously,

the floods of letters to Couricilmen, |



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THREE CHOIRS JOIN
IN CAROL SERVICE



Rev. Lewis Interprets |
Meaning of Christmas



By Alice Crowder, :’42
Goodhart Hall, December 18.—
Sunday evening tHe combined
choirs of the Church of the Re-

deemer, Haverford, and Bryn
Mawr, directed by Mr. Ernest Wil-
loughby and accompanied by Mr.
Lindsay Laffoid provided the music
for the annual Christmas chapel
service. The program of Christ-
mas music included selections from
Lang, Palestrina, Holst, Stanford,
and Bach, the Gzech' carol, Sleep
Baby Sleep, and Mr. Willoughby’s
carol, Joseph Came Seeking, set to
a text by Canon Earp of the Church
of the Redeemer,

The sermon, given: by Reverend
Leicester C. Lewis of the Church
of Saint Martin’s in the Fields,
Chestnut Hill, was an interpreta-
tion of the meaning of Christmas
based upon a comparison of three
texts: one that of a writer of the
fourth century B: C.; one, that of
Nietsche, “The Gods are dead.
Man is God;” and finally a text
from the gospel of John, “The
Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us.” :

Considering the lack of time the

choir had to prepare for the con-
cert, the music was extremely fin-
ished, with well chosen numbers
and excellently coordinated voices.
The soloists, Miss Mary Earp, Mrs.
Margaret Whitcroft, and Mr. Er-
nest T.,Freas were not only in-
trinsically fine singers, but their
clear rounded tones stood out effec-
tively against the volume of the
choirs.
Perhaps the most perfectly blended
singing was in the first two num-
bers, Lang’s Tres Magi de Genti-.
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Dramatic, Poetic arid

Skill

Faculty

Roused by Christmas Party Turmoil



Thursday. night, December 21,
the college halls will celebrate the
Christmas season and the begin-
ning of vacation, with dinners,
skits, carols and general gaiety.

All plans ‘for the Denbigh
Christmas dinner are in the hands
of the sophomores. Peggy Long
will be toastmistress and the fac-
ulty guests are Miss Lehr, Mr. and
Mrs. Nahm, Mr. and Mrs. Sloane,
and Mr. Grey. The three men will
make speeches and Whittaker and
the Porters’ Quartet will add to
the entertainment. But the most
original touch will be poetic place-
cards.

‘The French House has emerged
from an avalanche of papers and
quizzes long enough to invite Miss
Marti, Miss Brée, Miss Laurent
and Miss Rey, and to buy qa Christ-4
mas tree, “autres choses dependent
sur vos pocketbooks,” Helen Bacon
was heard-to-murmur;--The~Ger-
man House is having a gay, in-
formal evening with songs, games,
a Christmas tree and snappers.
They have invited Mr. -.and Mrs.
Diez, Mrs. Michael, wife. of the
new German instructor—Mr. Mi-
chael is ill—and Valentine Miiller,
who, they hope, will tell them
about his trip to South America.

Merion’s Christmas party will be
very, very informal, with no toast-
mistress or speeches. ‘That’s one
of the reasons the faculty like to.
come here,” Merion says. Mr. and
Mrs. Wyncie King, Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson, and Mr. and Mrs. John
Miller are invited to this dinner,
with no strings attached. Christ-
mas carols and extra special silver

promised, but, despite sophomore

heckling, the traditional freshman
is still a sécret.

Mr. MacKinnon, Mrs. Manning,

Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Oxtoby and Miss

Ely will talk down evergreen

in Pembroke East a
to Mrs. MacKinnon,
Miss Gardiner, Mr. and

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Crenshaw. Anne Denny ant Har-
riet Case are the freshmen in
charge of the entertainment. “It’s
a song acted out,” they said; after
further prodding they admitted it
wasn’t Christmasy, but was “meant
to be funny.” Camilla Riggs, ’40,
will be toastmistress.
| The toastmistress of the Rhoads
‘Christmas dinner is Emily Cheney.
| Besides being egged into trying to
provide a little original humor of
her own, she will entice speeches
from. -Miss Koller,. Miss Robbins,
Mr. Sprague, Mr. Cameron, Mr.
Soper, Mr. Dryden gnd Mr. Her-
ben. -Though there was some talk
of having southern Christmas dec-
orations (beach chairs, striped um-
brellas and fireworks), the ‘sopho-
more committee finally decided to
decorate the dinner table in a man-
ner which would combine both the
classic and modern traditions. The
skit will be given. by the freshmen.
Le Tombelor de Notre Dame, an
anonymous 138th century French
miracle play, will be presented in
Rockefeller, under the direction of
Elizabeth Pope, ’40. It is the story
of a strolling acrobat who retired
to the monastery of Clairvaux. As
he watched the monks he,. too,



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As preliminaries to the Flexner
series on colonial literature in Latin
America during the second semes-
ter, two lectures will be held. after
Christmas. On January 12 ‘in
Joseph T.
Singewald, professor of Economic
Geology. at Johns Hopkins, will
speak on “The Economic Geography
of South America.” It is expected
that he will describe the physical
features, natural resources, and
mineral deposits and discuss their
influence on the economy and popu-
lation movements of the continent.

“South American *Archeology”
will be the topic of Dr. Wendell C.

‘++ Bennett, professor of Anthropology

at the University of Wisconsin, on
February 16.



was so ppor and uneducated that
he had only one thing to offer—his
tumhling.. So he tumbled surrepti-

tiously before the statue of the|

Virgin, until one day two spying
acolytes saw him fall to the ground
exhausted, and as he lay there the
Virgin descendéd and wiped his
brow.

The background of the play is
a medieval shrine before a stained
glass window. The main difficulties
have been the angels’ wings and

restrictions against real candles.

Pennel Crosby, ’41, who plays the
title role,-has learned tumbling es-
pecially for the occasion.

The toastmistress at dinner will
be Lillian Seidler, ’40, and the
guests are Miss Agnes K. Lake,
Mr. and Mrs. William Doyle and
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wells (Dr.
Olga C. Leary).

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Spider Web, Spread
_For English Basement



Continued from Page One

one else about campus intrigues,
But Miss Ward, when questioned,

merely smiled evasively and, al-|

though she admitted she had seen
a group of freshmen “gamboling

on the green” Monday morning,
she denied further knowledge of
the affair.

Two anonymous notes arrived in
campus mail to complicate matters.
The first, printed’ in elegant pur-
ple letters, was signed “From a
Stool Pidgeon’? and addressed to
“Olevia Kann, Very Private.” Its
message was brief, “Ask the Lan-
tern Man,” and up in the right-
hand “corner crouched a villainous

red. spider. The second note, which

arrived a few hours later, said:
Dear O. K.:

You are all wrong as-to the
spider’s scent. As Joe would
tell .you, the culprit is mostly
feet. The. culprit lies ensnared
in Rock. Long red hair and ,
braid around her head.

PUBLIC BENEFACTOR.
Questioning of suspected indi-
viduals_revealed nothing but con-

| ceivably guilty consciences. In

desperation we went to Miss Kol-
We asked
her to tell us more about the lolly-

pops. “It was infuriating,’ she
shid. “They left only root beer
and cocoanut. Of course, we

couldn’t eat them.”

That seemed like a good clue,
but, unfortunately, the book store
carries both flavors and there is
no way of checking the purchase
of penny candy.

There are additional clues in the
hands of the self-appointed detec-

18th Century Course
. Inspires New Poems



The 18th century ‘students, in
their never ending search for
Truth, have evolved a series of
rhymes with which to elucidate the
subject of Banks. They are built
on the scheme of that old nursery
favorite:

A promisSary note is a promise

to pay

A certain sum of money on a

specified day.
5]
The others, to date, are:
« The South Sea Bubble was a
speculation-

Damm" near busted the British

nation.

' A Dill of exchange is drawn
by Sonny
Against a guy what owes him
money.
When a funded debt has done:
been made:
An annuity is the interest paid.

The Bank of England was an

institution
Had nothing to do with the
Revolution,
or: It sprang up after the Revo-
lution.*

In the 18th Century there was
* life and thought,
But books on the subject. in
vain were sought.
*Confusion of authorities, br
revolutions. is



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the unraveling of the problem very
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By Elizabeth Crozier, ’41

To misquote a misquotation by
a scribe from New York, John
Kieran, “How sharper than an un-
grateful tooth it is to have a ser-
pent’s child.” Even after their
parents sent them to Bryn Mawr
for four years, the seniors are
still unwilling to follow their
families’ wishes as to what they
are to do next’ year. Everywhere
there is stark disagreement, no
matter how choice the vocation the
parents suggested.

In all 72 seniors were inter-
viewed. Of these 11 reported that
their parents wanted them to stay
at home, and 19 wanted them to
get jobs near home. Twenty fami-
lies don’t care (their offspring
said), haven’t been asked, or think
it is up to the girl to decide. Nine
daughters are to do graduate work,

atid the reznaider should get jovs:

ranging from teaching to arch-
aeology work in a museum to de-
partment store work.

The results cannot really be gen-
eralized because each hall turned
in different answers. Merion Hall
has at last been explained. Six
of the nine families don’t care what
their daughters do next year. The
remaining three suggested jobs,
but don’t care what kind. Den-
bigh’s families also are not par-
ticular, “within reason.” Two of
the seniors plan to be married and
the others to get jobs. 4

‘One Pem East family want their
children “to do something ‘con-
structive’.” Another showed a
minor conflict with their child’s de-
sires, the difficulty and solution
being “they want me to get to
know some men. What I wantito
do is sleep. They. are willing to
provide the bed.”

Three Pem West families are
against teaching lest their daugh-
ters “be single for life.” (A
thoughtful consideration, dealing
with a problem which was men-
tioned-in only one of the 22 Rhoads
interviews. It may be that Rhoads
does not consider it polite to talk

about men and marriage.) . Five
Pem West families want. their
daughters at home, while one “‘com-
ing from an old southern family”
is not to be “on the loose.”

In Rockefeller eight out of 14
families want their daughters to
do graduate work. (not at home)
and four more expect them to
work any way.

Rhoads shows a definite desire
for their children to stay home
except for one poor anonymity who
is decidedly not wanted. The
wishes of more than half of the
families conflict with their daugh-
ters’ aspiration. . For instance, one
family urges joining® the “Junior
League and the girl-wants to be a
big-business woman.” “My family,”
another girl said, “say they want
me to get a job, but they secretly
hope I won’t be good enough to be
given a jov, 30 that then I'll have
to stay at home: I want to go
away!” *

One case history showéd a marked
difference of opinion between moth-
er and father. Father won’t let
girl live at home in New York
without a job because he is afraid
she will go on the manhunt. Her
mother, on the other hand, wants
her to get a job—as a housewife.
As for thé girl herself, she thinks
that’ New York is a very good
hunting ground. And—“the more
time the. better the hunting.”

4a
Hence no job.

The variety of occupations pre-
saged for next year’s alumnae in-
dicates that more new fields will
be added to the ever-broadening
gamut of vocations followed by
Bryn Mawr graduates. Barbara
Auchincloss wants to be a trapeze
artist, and her- family. is willing
that she do whatever she wants.
Another girl’s father specifies a
dignified job. Said girl plans to
take up animal: husbandry. Be-
sides raising horses and putting
spiggots on cows, she wants to
propagate earthworms. You dig
them up, she says, cut them in half,
‘and you have two earthworms.



Health:.Plan Outlined
By Industrial Group

Continued from Page One



Care. This committee consists of
experts and representative laymen
who have reviewed the work of the

Federal government in health
services. The findings of the com-
mittee and their program of

recommendations were presented to
the National Health conference
held in Washington in 1938. The
committee advocated the expansion
of general Public Health services
and hospital facilities, medical care
of the medically needy, and insur-
ance against loss of wages during
sickness.

The recommendations were to be
the basis of a plan to combat the
problem of the nation as a whole,
but the most acute needs arose
from the low income groups. One-
third of the nation has inadequate
medical care, and the frequency
and severity of illness is uniformly
higher in 4 ioe. marginal in-
come families.

Kathleen Kirk, ’41, ussed So-
cialized Medicine, bringing out the
fact that socialized medicine al-
ready exists in the form of clinics,
group hospitals, medical insurance
plans and the activities of many
small communities.

According to a survey of 5,000
doctors, the profession’s objections

to Federal Socialized Medicine are

made on the grounds that its berie-

~ fits are conferred on the under-

privileged, in the form of care

. for those already ill, rather than
—-on-—-more~ permanent preventative

measures. Although doctors are in
aceord with the Public Health pro-
gram, they believe that all plans
sRould be fluid and elastic, and that

' “medicine should be socialized, not

the doctor.” “We hate to be pushed

around and legislated at,” Dr.
Leary put in, “we’ll probably come
around to it eventually.” :
Reporting on Industrial Hygiene,
Betty Clement spoke of the increase

in héalth provisions on the part of
industry. Measures for health pro-
tection are profitable economically,
since as disease becomes eradicated,
the cost of incapacitated labor to in-
dustry becomes reduced. Several of
the workers reported on occupa-
tional diseases in their plants. One

bestos creates a fine invisible dust,
which causes the workers to cough
continually, and forms a tubercu-
losis hazard. Many dust-produc-
ing machines are, now equipped
with vacuums. ‘Another reported
a factory in which girls working
with pineapple juice could hold
their jobs for only two weeks. at a
time, because, despite their rub-
ber gloves, the acid ate away the
skin of their fingers. The problem
of safety devices was also con-
sidered. Several accidents men-
‘tioned were caused when piece work

{employees refused to use a safety

device which slowed them up.

Discussing Maternal and Child
Health. services, Helen Cobb, ’40,
emphasized the large number of
maternal deaths in the low income
groups. The need for doctors is
most acute in the South. Special-
ists, nurses, and child clinics are
needed as well as health consulta-
tion‘ centers . under public health
Supervision.

in the Philadelphia General Hospi-
tal, said that one floor of the P.
G. H. was closed although - there
is a large waiting list. Equipment
is poor and some of the buildings
are so old that they were used as
Civil War barracks. Admission is
based on the immediacy of the ili-



ness, and most of the patients do

the talks by Miss Fairchild and

girl works in a shop where as-|

‘Georgia Kirkpatrick, who works}:

Debate C oe

By Panel and Floor|:



Cont‘nued from Page One

of teaching has been brought up.
“The mehtod 4uSed,” she further
stated, “is determined by the ma-
terial covered, by the students and
the professor.”

In a panel discussion following

Mr. Sloane, members of the Cur-
riculum. Committee presented fur-
ther interpretations of the issue,
Vivi French, ’42, supported the
comprehensive advantages: of the
lecture system, through correlation
and interpretation by the. profes-
sor. The student may also be stim-
ulated by ideas gathered from a
lecture and the extra time which
would be spent in preparation for
a discussion class might be used
for indépendent -work on ideas in-
teresting to the student.

Jane Klein,. ’40, argued that



there was seldom time or opportu-
nity to follow up such ideas. Tak-
ing notes becomes mechanical and
individual thought is “discouraged.
Peggy Eppler, ’40, demonstrated
the failure of the lecture system
to give the student training in the
technique of attacking problems.

That discussion stresses the most
significant facts and ideas was
argued by Mary Kate Wheeler,
’40.- It was pointed out, on the
other hand, that students could
form their own opinions from lec-
tures and that interesting connec-
tions could- be made between related
courses.

The panel discussion was fol-
lowed by opinions from the floor.
Miss Swindley suggested the possi-
bility of combining lecture and
discussion methods, while students
pointed out the difference between
the functions of first and second
year courses, and the. increased
opportunity.for discussion in more
advanced work.

Both Mrs. Manning and . Miss
Stapleton stressed the fact’ that
student discussion is apt to be
poor. This was blamed by Miss
Stapleton on lack of initiative and
spain, Mrs. Manning ex-
plained that discussion has proved
successful in certain . colleges
where the amount of material cov-
ered has been limited.



not come of their own accord, but

| are sent by Social Service agents.| * :
this Eastern conflict and the pres-

Sixty per cent ar negro, most are
on relief. They are charged from
10 to 25 cents a visite”Many are
treated as out-patients.

Dotty Eberhard discussed” the
costs of the health project, which
are estimated at 850,000,000 dol-
lars annually. One-half is ‘to be
met by the government, beginning
with small outlays. The remain-
ing- half may be raised through
taxes, insurance, or a combination
of the two. Temporary - disability
compensation, patterned on unem-
ployment compensation, would in-
volve a cost amounting to 1 per
cent of the employee’s wages, while
insurance against permanent dis-
ability (disability lasting over 26
weeks) would be financed like old
age insurance, and would start at
a cost of 0.1 to 0.2 per cent of
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French Club Pleases
With Nativity Play

Wyndham Music Room, Decem-
ber 15,—The French Christmas
Play, La Mystére de la Nativité,
under the able direction of Caro-
line Garnett, ’41, and Deborah
Caulkins, ’40, was a charming pre-
A simple but dignified

atmosphere was provided by -the
scenery which consisted of Herod’s
throne set among pine boughs and
in a corner, the manger.

Louise Classen, ’42, gave a very
moving performance as the Virgin
Mary, while Betsy Peirce, ’42, as
the tyrannical king Herod had an
appropriately menacing manner.
Pleasant musical interludes were
provided by the angels, Edna Scul-
ley, 742, and Helen Bacon, ’40.



sentation.



Far East Situation «

Discussed by Chang
De



Continued from Page one

been progressing rapidly with the
outbreak of the war in 1937 uni-
fying the many disorganized,. in-
dividual factors of the new move-
ment.

During the war China’s indus-
trial development has increased
rather than decreased. The main
fighting is done now in gorilla war-
fare, and the Chinese armies have
been increasingly successful. In
the few large battles, Mr. Chang
explained that at the beginning of
the war, losses were two to one in
Japan’s favor. Now they approxi-
mate two to one in China’s favor.

Compared to: China’s huge popu-
lation, the opposing forces are in-
adequate, and cannot be increased
very much further as Japan can-
not continue indefinitely to take
men from industrial work without
serious ‘ consequences. Japan is
ready, Mr. Chang believes, to set-
tle the conflict provided she retains
her present ‘holdings, and can at-
tain an agreement with the United
States.

According to Mr. Chang, a
treaty between Russia and Japan
is an impossibility and is merely
propaganda to scare the rest of the

world, particularly the United
States, into granting Japanese re-
quests.

Illustrating the relation between

ent European situation, Mr. Chang
described the shift in balance of
powers’ in the East. Since Eng-
land’s and America’s rearmament
programs, and prior to September,
1939, these two countries became
increasing check to Japan’s

power in China. Now, England’s

checking influence has been with-
drawn, while the influence of the
United States has increased. With-
out meaning: to criticize American
policies, Mr. Chang pointed out
that Japan is now receiving a large
percentage of her supplies from





1726 CHESTNUT ST.







Fairchild Argues Value



Of Student Discussion



Continued from Page One

person, i is 18, she should be respon-
sible for contributing actively to
her own education.

Under this obligation a student
should take part in conferences as
an active agent, capable of inde-
pendent thought, even though she
cannot argue from as well founded
a background as the professor. It
is the professor’s duty to furnish an
incentive and a guidance to discus-
sion and to encourage practice by
the student in formulating opinions.

Miss Fairchild also mentioned
some of the drawbacks of the con-
ference method. A wide array of
facts and theories cannot be prez
sented in.discussion, which must be
limited in scope. Facts cannot be .
well-ordered, nor is precision pos-
sible. The student lacks a complete...
grasp of the significance of past
events. "Bat-in’ tie field of “sdcial
economy at least, a variety of view
points, on legislative issues especi-
ally, proves most valuable.



us, that the presence of our Navy
in the Pacific Ocean might be’ a
very great restraining influence,
and that Japan is hardly in shape
to force us into any policy. :

The active war belligerents are
more interested in changing the
direction of Japan’s forces than in
preserving any balance of powers
in the East. America’s influence, .
China’s increased strength, and
Japan’s ambitions are- the unbal-
anced forces contending in the
Fast.

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Sisais Finds ‘ears
System Needed in Art



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Continued from Page One

that the students were often not

‘ - sufficiently prepared to gain much

from the discussion, and that, in
such cases, the conference -turned

into a lecture. In-considering the

discussion method alone for teach-
ing art, he said that the amount

-of' material covered in conferences
is always limited. But since con-
ferences helped to clarify the stu-
dents’ ideas and opinions, Mr.
Sloane concluded that in teaching
art, the most adequate method was
the system of lectures supplimented
by conferences. But the staff*re-
quired to teach art in this manner
is so great that it is impossible
financially at Bryn Mawr. There-
fore the lecture system is the only
answer at present in the Art De.
partment.

M. Gill Outlines Phases
"In Pre-War Frencn Art





Continued from Page One

famous pre-war French painters.

The century of upheavel outlined
by Miss Gill won the artist the
right to paint anything he chooses,
and freed him from the obligation
to. give any information whatso-
ever. Illustrating the phases of
the struggle with the pictures in
the exhibit, she pointed out Corot’s
Fisherman’s Hut as an example
ture,” pis Haste classic rules.

The impressionists, Miss Gill
pointed out, went farther.- They
painted their landscapes entirely

of doors.





en plein air, and tried by scientific
study of color and light to. repro-
duce on canvas the brilliance of
natural outdoor light. The River
at Argenteuil, an early Monet, was
done before the artist worked out
his system of broken color strokes,
but the Pavers, by Manet, is in
broken pure cei

‘However, Renvir, Manet and De-
gas, Miss Gill maintained, were not
strictly impressionists, though they
are the most famous names con-
nected with the movement, because
they all eventually discarded the
divided color technique. But they
concentrated, like’ the impression-
ists, on the observation of everyday
life, evident in the lifelike gestures
of the Degas jockeys and in the
placing of one horse, which is cut
off by the picture frame, as _ it
would be cut off by the eye or
camera lens.

The impressionist technique was
carried to. the extreme by the neo-
impressionist Seurat, who applied
‘o the canvas tiny dots of pure
colon intended to blend at a dis-
tance. But Seurat’s Dimanche 4
la Grande Jatte, in the exhibit, was
no hurried “impression” done out
The painter made studies
of the landscape alone, of the
groups, and then put the whole to-
gether with repeating patterns, like
the parasol and the monkey’s tail,
echoed in the background.

The readsion against impression-
ism, expressionism, was the logical
result, Miss Gill believes, of the
philosophy that the world is only
the vision of the mind. Gauguin
and Van Gogh used pure color not
to. show the visual effect of nature
accurately, but to represent the
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outstanding event in the European
conflict. The battleship Graf Spee,
after a fierce struggle with the
British ship Exeter and two small-
er ships, the Achilles and the Ajax,
was forced to retire into the harbor
of Montevideo, Uruguay. The un-
expected climax of the event was
the sinking,ef the Graf Spee in the
harbor under order of the German
Government. What was the reason
for this? Either the Germans did
not want the secrets: of her manu-
facture divulged or feared an ig-
nominious defeat’ at the hands of
the English, probably the former.

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tion?” If Russia wins, the intelle-
gentsia will be wiped out and only
peasants and Finnish adherents of
the Communist régime set up in
Finland will remain. The Russians
choose to say they are not “at war,”
and on that ground the United
States is able to give the Finns
credits,

Germany, however, has not re-
vealed her attitude towards Fin-
land. Two equally astounding spec-

‘ulations on the subject have been

put forward: first, that the Nazis
wish to encourage Russia so that
the French and English will be-
come involved as Finnish support-
ers; second, that Germany wishes
to gain.French and English support
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of Russia ‘in the Baltic.

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clared his Sitttanioend to be nomi-
nated. However, this declaration is

Garner neither comes from a piv-
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ficiently commanding personality.
Other outstanding candidates arevin
the government service and so are
unable to explain their- intentions
until the President makes clear his
position, which will probably be
sometime next spring.

One of the most important con-
siderations of the coming presiden-
tial battle, Mr. Fenwick believes, is
the attitude toward foreign. policy.
Traditional part.y conflict has
caused each party inevitably to op-
pose all. its opponents’ theories. It
would be a grave mistake if; purely
because of the necessity of rigid
party line-ups, Mr.. Hull’s trade
treaties were scrapped. An ideal
improvement in our governmental
system would be to have it possible
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Tus HIT OR MISS METHOD of tobacco

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