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VOL. XXV, No. 9

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938

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E. Emory Stars
As Catharine
In Shaw Play

Players Club and. Haverford
Collaborate in “‘Arms —
And the Man”

DRAMA PROVES TOO
SUBTLE FOR GROUP

Goodhart, December 10-—~The Play-







ers’ Club in collaboration with Hav-| :

erford’s Cap and Bells, presented:
George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the
Man, Saturday night, as-the- major

_ attraction of the Bryn Mawr theatri-

eal season. Gertrude Leighton; ’38,
assisted by Fifi Garbat, ’41,: handled
the directing of the play carefully
and conscientiously, and with the ex-
ception of a few unfortunate. lapses
of memory, the actors- played their
roles creditably.

‘The finest piece of acting was con-

tributed hy Eleanor Emery, 40, who,

as Catherine Petkoff, mother of the
heroine, captivated the audience with
hér expressive eyes and voice. Miss
Emery, more than any other member
of the cast, caught. the mood of the
play and gave her performance just
the right amount of burlesque. She
seemed completely at ease, possibly
“because she really understood.and ap-
preciated Shaw’s satire. Somehow
when Miss Emery came on stage even
the duller spots of the play were
brightened. She was especially good,
as was most of the cast, in the second
act. :
Sarah Meigs, ’39, played Raina
gracefully. Her insight into the char-
acter she was portraying was less
keen than Miss. Emery’s, but in sev-
eral places she proved herself to be a
skillful comedienne, as in the scene
where Raina regales Bluntschli with
a description of her cultural back-
ground. Unfortunately there was
nevér any development of Raina’s af-
fection for her chocolate. cream sol-
dier. Miss Meigs diligently followed
the script and did succeed in estab-
lishing her own character, but -at the
close of the play it was hard to be-

lieve that she and Bluntschli were des-.

tined to a long and happy life to-
gether. Nevertheless, Miss Meigs
helped immeasurably to make ~ the

. play, as a whole, light and. charming.

Phyllis Wright, ’41, added consid-
erable life and vitality to the produc-
tion in the role of Louka, Raina’s
thaid. She was at the peak of her
performance in her scene with Ser-
gius, Raina’s fiancé, in the second
act, and slightly less good in the third
because she seemed to be trying too
hard.

The five men’s roles dere taken

with varying degrees of skill by mem-
Continued on Page Four

Art Club Opens Series
1. OE Illustrated Lectures





Louise Thompson, 739, Discusses
Paintings of Breughel



Common Room, December 11.—In-
augurating a new series of four. lec-
tures sponsored by the Art Club, Lou-
ise Thompson,’ ’39, spoke on the work
of Pieter Breughel the elder. Repro-
ductions of the artist’s work, lent to
the cgllege by Raymond and Raymond
of New York, wére exhibited; and
with*these’Miss Thompson es st
her lecture.

Miss Thompson ‘epphasinel: the fact
that Breughel, himself of humble
birth, painted of and for the Flemish

“middle classes of the sixteenth cen-
_ tury. He was interested in represent-
ing them in-their daily work and at
their festivals, as in the series of four
_ paintings called The Seasons. More
than. that, he used for his subject

matter the fairy. ae and oe

GERMAN CLUB GIVES
CHRISTMAS TABLEAU



Common Room, December 13,—The

German Club Christmas tableau, en-'

Luke, combined effective pantomime
and_ beautiful singing of traditional
Ellen ‘Matteson, "40, directed

the program, which was opened by
Louise . Herron, ,’39,.
Waples, .’42,- who played the .ddagio
movement..of*the’‘Bach double’ con-
certo as a violin and flute duet.
After the townsfolk entered,. sing-
ing ‘Adeste Fidelis, Mary and Joseph
eamé tothe stable, and were soon
followed, during’ the singing of Stille
Nacht, by the ‘shepherds and then the
angels. Among the most familiar
carols sung were: Es ist ein Reiz, O
Jesulein .zart, and In Dulce Jubilo,
and. at. the approach of the three
kings, the less well- Knows Wir kom-
men daher. r

car ols.

acted from the second chaptey of Saint |.

and : Christine | '



Our Village Rehearsal











Miss Linn and Mr: Steele



Faculty

~and Students Produce Skit,
“Our Village,” for Benefit of Peace Chest

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Gymnasium, December
ceded by an appeal for someone to
play a Spanish dance, and some others
to pay their admission fees, the atmo-
sphere of Our Village was quickly set
by the entrance of Barbara Bigelow
as stage-manager ip the true Wilder
tradition.

“This play is called Our Village,”
she announced flatly, and then pro-
ceeded to describe the scene and. intro-
duce her characters as they appeared.
Mrs. Woodrow, cast as Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins, was the first. The part
had been written with more spirit than
accuracy as that of an ebullient pub-
licity agent.

The entrance of the “élite” ‘of our
village, consisting of Miss Henderson,
Miss Gardiner, Miss Terrien, Mr.
Weiss, Mr. Cameron and a body of

10.—P oo was followed by the arrival

of Miss Frances Perkins, who, seated
on a ladder, was acted by Miss Linn,
with violent agitation of the right foot
and both hands. The climax of the
first scene was reached when Paul
Green, Mr. Steele disguised in black
hair, took his seat on the second lad-
der. In the debate which ensued be-
tween the two, on the relative efficacy
of “minimum standards of housing
versus dreams and the frontiersman’s
axe, we were finally persuaded that,
even in the intellectual unity of our
village, the ‘economist and the poet
live on different planes.. _
Disillusioned Youth appealed to the
godlike Mr. Green from the depths of
its tired, collectivesoul. “While Ca-

milla. Riggs gave throaty expression
Continued on Page Three



Michels Spins Top
_In Name of Science



Science Club Observes Unusual
Demonstrations Confirming

Physics Theories



Dalton Hall, December 7.—Walter

©. Michels, of thesphysics department,
speaking to the Science Club on Spin-
ning Tops, regretted that he had no
cat to drop in order to demonstrate
'the conservation of spin in an isolated
system... The behavior of spinning
bodies was otherwise-amply shown in
demonstrations that included, besides
tops, a mono-rail car that walked the
tightrope, and a mysterious suitcase
that swerved sideways when lifted.

The ject had been chosen chiefly
for the variety of striking experi-
ments possible for demonstration.
Afterwards the faculty and students
in’ the audience were permitted to ex-
periment further with a spinning
chair and the gyroscopes. The infor-
mal atmosphere of the meeting was
promoted by dinner in Denbigh, held
beforehand, where two tables were
taken over by Mr. and Mrs.. Michels,
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, and the. Sci-
ence Club. ce é

» In any ore system there is only: al

given amount of this “spin,” which
does not change. When. you: start: a
top. spinning, you are giving the earth
an equal and opposite spin, although
because of the. relative sizes of the
two bodies the preciable. The behavior of a spinning
| body depends upon the speed, the
‘mass, and the effective distance of the | a
mass from the axis of rotation.

The action of the mysterious suit-

+ease and of gyroscopes, in general is

due to a property of spinning bodies.
When an object is spinning it can be



considered as exerting a force along

= Contineed co Fae S|

‘| erosion, and the artifacts found there



ness of America’s pedigree.

intet lacial man.

‘vis, Mexico.

Roolaae ‘Dam assdviates man with the



Early Man is Traced
To Extinct Mammals



Arizona Evidence Indicates His
Appearance in America Was
In Pleistocene Age



Deanery, Dec. 8.—In his lecture on
Eatly Man in America, Dr. Strong
explained the present anthropologic
controversy as being due to the new-
“In spite
of conflicting theories, however, cer-
tain important conclusions about the
early American have been reached.
His association with extinct mammals
has been repeatedly verified and the
probability of the Pleistocene age
fully proven, thereby dating the
American man’s appearance as 15,000
B.C. . Moreover, recent discoveries
have substantiated the: possibility of
a continuous civilization and of an

Two of the most important sites for.

establishing the New Worlds’ pedi-
gree are at Folsom, Arizona, and Clo-
In both of these were
found spear heads (called Folsom
points) that date back to the close
of. the. Pleistocene age and were con-
nected with such ‘extinct animals. as
the bison and the. ancient horse.

‘The high»plains near Long’s Peak,
in Denver, offer a comparatively new
field for investigation. These areas,
now mostly dry waste lands, were once
well watered lake regions. The sites

are in the few sections preserved from

e post-Pleistocene age.
-of the Gypsum cave near

are wd

giant sloth, while at Salt Lake, Ugah,

a site was. discovered ‘tracing the se-
neler on Page sas

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Graduate Day, Chapel,
Discussed by Council



Provisions for Undergraduate
Discussion of College
Problems Urged .—



President’s - ~House, December NY Ponce
The Wain topics under discussion at
the meeting of the third College Coun-
cil were: methods for obtaining un-
dergraduate opinion, the question of
Graduate Day, and the announcement
of scholarships on little May Day, the

problem of a different arrangement| -

for morning chapel, and the Refugee
Scholarships.

At the last ‘Council meeting it was
decided ‘that undergraduates would
feel more closely connected with the

| aims of the college if they could play

a larger: part in the discussion of its
problems. ' This could be done by hold-
ing a general meeting of the Under-
graduate Association where the dis-
cussion could"take place, and by elect
ing representatives who would meet
in a A and in their halls to. talk
over plans.

So far, nothing has been done about

this, except the publication in the
Continued on Page Two



Dean Foresees Danger
In Emotional Politics



Communism and Fascism Neutralize

Each Other



Music Room, December 8&.—Dean
Manning, in concluding her. remarks
on the dangers.of Fascism and Com-
munism in the United States, said that
the real danger lay in the interaction

»|of these two revolutionary theories o1

each other, working on the minds of
Americans excited by watching the
course of events in other parts of the
world. It seems likely that the hatred
of Nazi doctrines: and practices as
exemplified by the persecution of the

Jews in Germany will lead to a great,

increase in the enrollment of young
people in this country in Communist
and semi-Commufiiist organizations.

On the other hand, any proof, 01
even any rumor of the success of Com
munist activities, especially in the
ranks of labor drganizations, will lead
to a-tremendous increase in_ the
activities of such ‘reactionary and
semi-Fascist groups as already exist.
Although it has been shown again and
again that such organizations as the
Ku Klux Klan and the Vigilantes die
a natural death because of their pure-

ly localized and temporary character,
Continued on Page Four

TWO CHOIRS SING
IN CAROL SERVICE

Goodhart, December 11.—On Sun-
‘day evening the choirs of Bryn Mawr
College and the Church of the Re-
deemer combined to bring us one. of
the loveliest Christmas Carol Services
ever given here. ‘Under the able di-
rection of Mr. Willoughby they sang
familiar carols, selections from the
Messiah, and, of special interest, Mr.
Willoughby’s, Joseph Came Seeking,
set to-a tft by Canon Earp. |

The sermon, based ‘on the Bible
story from Luke, was also given by
Canon Earp.

- Particularly beautiful were the ren-
ditions with solos. Margaret Whit-
croft sang the contralto recitative
O Thou That Tellest, and Mary Earp,,.
There Were Shepherds, both from
Handel’s Messiah. ..A Czech, Carol
was doné by the Bryn Mawr. Choir
alone, with Margot Dethier, ’42, sing-
ing a delicate soprano above the other
voices. Masterful precision and real
musicianship in shadings marked the
whole program. The Wassail Song,
too, produced a most enjoyable effect:
starting with a thin “Wassail!” in
fifths by the men’s voices, it werked
up to a full climax and died out as
it began. Mr. Willoughby deserves a





great deal of credit for turning out}--

such a finished performance ‘by stu-
dents ~ with But~ few ‘additions from

outside. ; Peers :
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a .
deeming feature.

Draper Enacts .
Varied Program

of Monologues

choir Diseuse Presents
Lengthy But Skillful

Performance

MANY CONTRASTING -
FIGURES DEPICTED

Goodhart, December 12,—On Mon-
day night, Miss Ruth Draper, in her
first Goodhart appearance,- presented
a series of five monologues.* As usual,
Miss Draper gave an entertaining and
highly-finished performance,’ proving
once more that besides being a skil-
ful actress she is a magician, able to
create a roomful of scenefy and per-
sonalities out of a chair, a table, and
a shawl.





If any criticism of her performance
might be advanced, it would be that
each monologue, with the exception of
Vive la France, was too long. The
task of a diseuse is to present a per-
sonality through its subtle rather than
through its obvious’ idiosyncrasiés.
Miss Draper solved that problem at
the outset of each monologue with -
the utmost ‘skill and perception, and
with that insight into character in
which she excels.

When this happens, it is necessary
for the substance of the lines to make
up for the resulting anticlimax. Miss
Draper’s second monologue, Doctors,
showed the lack of this necessary re-
After the shallow,
gossip-loving, gullible nature of Mrs.
Grimmer had been set forth in Miss
Draper’s best style, the lines were not
sufficiently good to save the monologue
from monotony.

In her first monologue, this fault
was by no means so apparent. Open-
ing a Bazaar succeeded where Doctors

-had failed in partially sustaining its

humor throughout._Miss Draper gave
a richly humorous burlesque of an
English lady living through the hor-
rors of,a.country bazaar, gallant and
resignéd, through long years of ¢x-
perience, and completely in command
of the situation at all times.
chief props were an austere pair of
lorgnettes and an eloquent feather -
boa, both of which she manipulated
with infinite poise and dignity. A
memorable picture created in this
scene was that of the centrepiece of
the cake-table, a bust of the Princess
Elizabeth ‘done in butter, my dear.”
* The monologue which best conveyed
Miss Draper’s power of strong dra-
matic emphasis was the brief; tragic
Vive la France. By reason of its
brevity it displayed an intensity of
feeling which was_ unrelieved, \yet
never overdone, and which grew
rather than deteriorated as the scene
progressed.

In Three Women and Mr. Clifford,
Continued on Page Two







COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, December 15.—
Christmas. Parties in the halls,
6.30..
_ Friday, December 16. —Christ-
mas Vacation begins, 12.45.
Tuesday, January ,3.—Christ-
mas Vacation ends, 9 a.m. Mr.
Miller will speak on- the Signifi-
cance of the Mexican Revolution.
Common Roon, 7.30.

Friday, January 6.—Indus-
trial Group Supper. Common
Room, 6.30.

Sunday, January 8&—Axel
Boethius will‘speak. Deanery,
4.30.. G. Buttrick will speak in
chapel. Music Room, 7.30.

Monday, January 9.—F ried-
rich Spiegelberg will speak,’
Deanery, 8 p. m.

Tuesday, January '10.—Sher-
man Oberly will speak. Music
Room, 4.30. Current ,, Events,
Mr. Fenwick. Common Room, _|
7.30. International Relations
Club’ Meeting. Common Room,
8 p.m.









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Snowed' Under

As the Christmas holidays approach, we look forward to them as
_an optional réading-period, and back on the most crowded three weeks

we have ever spent,—the first being a corollary to the second.

If

the time between Thanksgiving and’ Christmas was ever meant to be
a breathing-space after midsemesters, it has come very far from its

original purpose.

Not only did unscheduled quizzes rain.on us last

week and continue this week, but. every college organization is enter-
taining in its own way, and naturally insists on tlie merits of its own

entertainment.

As far as we can see, this concentration of activities is harmful
from almost every point of view. It is harmful to us because we must
neglect one thing for anothér, it is harmful either to our work because
it is neglected, or to the entertainments because they have poor audi-

“. ences.

must take the blame for renouncing extra-curricular interests.

If we decide that the greatest harm is academic neglect, we

No

matter how we decide we are at a disadvantage.
There is no real reason why the weeks after Thankegiving should

be more crowded than any others.

why they should be more crowded this/year than last.

In particular, there is no reason

We do not

know. whether it is because the college is larger, but there is more

specialization this year and a more intricate division of labor. Instead]

of contenting ourselves with one Christmas Play, we must have one
for every hall and in every language; instead of a single dance, we
must have two on the same day. Even if our lives are only moderately
well-rounded, if we go to the faculty-student skit, the Varsity Play, the
Christmas Service, Ruth Draper, and the Christmas eosin we have
only two free nights out of a whole week.

In considering this acute situation, we would: like to denies
first of all. that midsemesters, however unpalatable, are less.so than

quizzes coming in the last two weeks before the holidays.

The fact

that they are unscheduled does not mean that they demand less
preparation. We would not be so concerned about them if we did not
suddenly remember papers due almost immediately after the holidays:
Our alternative suggestion is to limit the entertainment output or to
_space it more intelligently. The first is tantamount to-putting a little

oil in an outworn machine; the second means the harder task of select-
. ‘| finish of her art.

ing a new, streamlined model.



In: Philadelphia

‘Aldine: The Cowboy and the Lady,
comedy with Gary Cooper, Merle
Oberon and Patsy Kelly. os

Arcadia: The Great Waltz, Johann
Strauss musical with Fernand Gravet
—- Luise Rainer.

Boyd: Dramatic School starring
Luise Rainer and Paulette Goddard.

Earle: Say It in French with
Olympe Bradna and Ray Milland.

Fox: Angels-With Dirty Faces, the
Dead End Kids in another melodrama

Kariton: Annabel Takes a Tour,

_ comedy with Lucille Ball. and Jack|-

Oakie.. .
ea Keith’s: . Spring Maibnber; comedy
starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew
Ayres-and Burgess. ‘Meredith, .. .
~ Stanley: Out West With the Har-
dys, a with —

Theatres
Walnut: One Third of a aslo,
Federal Theater eee









_ Seville: Tonight, Drums. Friday
and Saturday, Joel McCrea and An-

sdrea, Leeds. in Youth Takes a Fling.

Suburban: Tuesday and Wednesday,
Suez with Tyrone Power, Loretta
‘Young and Annabella. ;

Wayne: Tonight, Sons of the Le-
gion. Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, Wallace Berry and ——
Rooney in Stablemates.

Draper Enacts Varied
Program of. Monologues





“Continued from Page One
Miss Draper's feeling for “dramatic
contrast was: consistently apparent.

.| Through the portrayals of three: ens!

‘tirely different women she mariaged |
to give with extraordinary clarity and
depth of perception the character of
‘the invisible Mr. Clifford. ~ 2

On the Porch, in a Maine Coast Vil-
lage was a straightforward study
which did‘ not require so many of the
subtleties of character portrayal to
make it effective, and which was com-
pletely convincing in its simplicity.
Especially amusing was the declara-
tion that a “beautiful,” fashionable
—_—*: — carted away ange





|WIT?S END







DON JUAN
(Canto XVIL coritinued),

| The night was Friday; Juan ‘took a |

stroll.
The moon. was: like a teacup in the
sky;
No, it was
The fog, I mean.
far fr )
ist,” said Juan thoughtfully.
“It’s co-ol- .
D. and lonely here,” said Sgmeone in
reply.

,—Juan saw it roll;
(The grass was

|Juan peered through the darkness

(bitter pill),

And saw his deadly rival, Theo. Still.

iy

| His flaming hair was covered with a

dark
Wig, but Don Juan knew him any-
way. -

|'“Theo, old’ man,” he said, “Just for

a: lark,
Let me be in this peeudo-Wilder
- play.
Our Village, I could be a g Miss
Park,

I could be anybody, I may say.”
Said Theo, “You’re not bad, to hear
you talk,
But let me see you do the Lambeth
Walk.”
.
Immediately. from. nowhere came a
_ tune,
In the fatmiliar cinema tradition.
Not so familiar, though, to poor Don
Juan,
Who found himself quite without
reason wishin’ —
That an enormous unforeseen monsoon
Would come before he made an ex-
hibition
Of himself. He sighed, “I do not know
this numba,
In Spain we only dance the Spanish
rhumba.”
“Juan!” said Theo, “Are’ you: on the
level?
Did you say Spanish rhumba? What
a pity
We didn’t know before.”
in ‘Seville,’
Don Juan murmured, “in my native
city,
I was a carefree youth; I used to
revel |
With Julia. What a rake I- was,
how witty.
Yes, there’s no doubt that I was as
disturbin’
As anyone before the time of H——.
z x
‘Now as myne auctor Lollius has said,
Tomorrow and tomorrow; oh, you
know,
It' ‘doesn’t need to be interpreted.
I’ve interrupted Juan, but only so
That he can také a holiday: instead.
Of talking till the New Yeart
Roosters crow.
“Then -what’s the use of adding fire
to fuel?”
Said Juan rudely. All right.
Yule.

“Ah, yes,

”

Happy



aay

buckets of swill.”

The lengthiness of Miss Draper’s
program was undeniable, but it could
not détract from the brilliance and
Hers is a talent
which-cannot be marred. by this fault
and which has rightly gained: for her
the rank of foremost diseuse of our
‘time. *Vv. CS.

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Graduate Day, Chapel,
' Discussed by Council





Continued from Page Ope

News of an article on college ex-
penses. Further articles are to be
published on similar subj nd also
the budgets of undergraduate organ-

Of. izations. The plan for. getting at un-

dergraduate opinion was further elab- |’
orated ‘at the: meeting. ‘One ‘sugges-



-question of, Graduate Day,
chick: usually takes place in: early
March, was brought up next. The
Graduate member of the Council em-
phasized the fact: that Graduate Day
is made tedious by the endless Fel-
lowships — outside of Bryn
Mawr. Members of-. the Graduate
School would like to build up Gradu-

The same problem of length applies
to the little May Day Chapel, which
includes the announcement both of

Srpmnete and undergraduate Scholar-



==

ate Day-around- their own fellowships. |





Dr. Boethius to S peak

' On Sunday, January ‘8, Dr.
. Axel Boethius, of Goteberg,
Sweden, /will lecture on The
Influence of Roman “Imperial
Architecture on the Middle
Ages, at 4.30 p. m. in the Dean> .
ery. /Dr. Boethius was director
of. the’ Swedish Archaeological
Institute in Rome for a number
of years.’ The lecture will be
illustrated and all who are in- |
terested are cordially invited to
attend.

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The Horse and BuggyDoctor
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It may lack-the breadth of An Ameri-
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of The Healing Knife; but is’ has a

certain rural and corncob charm pe-
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Most of this charm is due to the
personality of its author. By this
time, most readers. must be fairly
familiar with the. Victorian surgeon
whe, wore: a Prince Albert goat and
stuck his needles in the lapel; they
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circumstances by the flickering light
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has nothing new to add to these stand-
ard anecdotes; he~-merely repeats

‘them as they occurred in his own life

and practice. Their originality is
wholly dependent on the style of the
narrator, and what gives the book
its vitality.is not: primarily the sub-
ject-matter, but the character of the
writer.

Dr. Hertzler probably never sat
down deliberately at his desk to create
a portrait entitled “American Doctor
of. the Old School.” This, however, is
what actually emerges from his

‘| memoirs, a figure at once curiously

learned and curiously limited. He
has sympathy, but no imagination; he
considers the dramas of real life in-
finitely greater than those of fiction,
and frankly calls Shakespeare’s tra-
gedies “foolishness” beside them. His
style is of the “yes-sir-ee” school, and
it: ishard to refrain from wincing
when he begins to talk about his little
daughters or his nurses, whom he de-
scribes as a “fine bunch of Kansas
girls.” With all this provinciality,
however, there’ goeS a depth of. real
medical knowledge and sound common
sense, united with a hearty and vo-
ciferous: contempt for quackery and
an intense pity for genuine suffering.
The combination is: enough: to make
one feel a kind of regret for the
days of the horse and buggy.
The Code of the Woosters
by P. G. Wodehouse—$2.00

By this time, any real criticism of
P. G. Wodehouse has become almost
impossible. All there remains to
do is to answer the question: Is it up
to the usual standard and what, is it
about this. time?

This time, Mr. Wodehouse is con-
cerned with the dreadful misadven-
tures. of: Bertie Wooster and the im-
peccable Jeeves at Totleigh Towers, a
chase that began with Bertie’s cour-
teous: offer to sneer at a silver cow-
creamer for his Aunt Dahlia and
ended only after he had been. black:
mailed. by. a. curate’s- fiancée, impri-
soned by a Scottie, and threatened
with death by the leader of the young.
Fascist. party in England. The book
is well up to the highest. Wodehouse
adeaemncetianed mean, yes; definitely.

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ships “and Fellowships.
The third question before the Coun-
cil was that of early. morning chapel.
Mrs. Manning pointed out that the
most faithfyl audience was the. choir,
who come because: attendance is re-
quired. The chief obstacle: in the
way of attendance is-¥he earliness of
the hour. The chapel system may be
changed so that there will be six re-
quired chapels in the year scheduled
for some hour in the middle of the
morning.., ;
The Curtis String Quartet has
offered to give. a concert
Mawr for the. benefit of the Refugee’
Scholarship Fund. The. Graduate

Student. has abenaile 9 arrived: and the |!



PUBLIC OPINION







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To. the: Editor of the College News:

Since Miss. is let-
ter in last week’s copy e College

News would appear to be based on. @

|.misunderstanding of the effort being
|made by the Athletic Association to
‘raise money for a new recreation

building, it seems worth. while to em-
phasize that the plan outlined’ in the
News of November: 16 was drawn up

| to meet’ a need of very long standing.

If many of the Bryn Mawr commuv- -
nity knew nothing of it until the,
article appéared; their ignorance was:

due to the fact that the memory of
the college is short-lived in’ such
matters and: has to’ be’ strenuously re-
vived if money is to be raised.

Ever since the plan: for the new
dormitory and the iricrease-of the un-
dergraduate body took on @ definite
form it has been. evident that there
must be more space for recreation
and: ‘exercise’ indoors: during the

winter months, Everi' with three hun-,

dred and’ seventy-five undergraduate
students: the: Gymnasium. was hope-
lessly overcrowded and: the scheduling
of basketball, dancing - and other
forms of winter exercise became ex-
traordinarily intricate. The desire
of the Athletic Association, the
Physical Education’ Department and
the student body as a whole to di-
vergify the games and forms of exer-
cise . available on the campus has
merely made the situation more com-
plicated. If everyone in college were
compelled to take Swedish gymnastics
three times a week at hours. deter-

mined by the Dean’s Office the present .

Gymnasium might possibly accommo-
date’ five hundred. undergraduates;
but with everyone agreed that it is
pleasanter and more effective to have
basketball; several forms of dancing,
badminton, squash and other sports
available as they become popular, it is
self-evident: that one large room is
insufficient. The present plan for a
building. in which squash courts
would occupy the ground floor and
there would be a large room above
available for dancing classes and bad-
minton has been worked out on the
most economical lines which could
possibly have been devised. The
building is to be constructed of inex-
pensive. materials and is to be so
placed. that its architectural beauty
or the xeyerse will be of no particular
importance. The special features of
a lounge and tea pantry could* prob-
ably be added with very little extra
expense, but I should like to’ empha-
size that. they do not constitute an
integral part of the original plan and
were added merely as attractive
features. :

My main point, therefore, in answer
to Miss Bigelow’s fulmination is that
an annex to. our present gymnasium
facilities is an absolutely indispens-
able part of the plan for the en-
largement of the college to an under-
graduate body of five hundred stu-
dents. I realize that there will
always be a considerable part of the
student body which, being deeply.
moved by the sufferings of their fel-
low humans in other parts of the
world, are indignant at the thought
of trying. to raise money for their
own needs. I think they should re-
member at this crisis in history, how-
ever, that. unless we in the United
States continue to develop our own
interests: and “Bttivities in a normal
and healthy way; we cannot be of
miuch’ real’ assistance to the rest’ of
the world. Prosperity;, we hope,’ is
returning slowly ‘to American com-
munities,: and: even: our modest build-
ing. program on the. Bryn Mawr

‘campus has: its: place in’ the national

effort: to: stabilize economic conditions
in this: country, so that we may. be
stronger: and. better: able to care for

| the refugees: from. revolution and de-.
| pression’ in other countries.

HELEN TAFT.. MANNING.



undergraduate: is expected: after the
Christmas holidays: The ~1700 dol-
lars which has: been raised will not
only provide for the two students this
year, but will cover their expenses
for part: of a second year.



Engagement
Mary Eliot Frothingham, ’31,
.to Charles Jackson, Jr., of Do-
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Early Man is Traced |
~~ To Extinct Mammals



\ Continued from Page One

quence of civilization.from the Folsom
period to the later horizon of the In-
East to the Great Basin be-
tween the Rockies and the Sierras
nething of importance has been dis-
closed. '

“From Abilene, Texas, comes new
evidence connecting the American man
with the Anterglacial period, 75,000
years ago. The evidence has been
verified by a glacial scientist but is
not. yet widely published nor fully
tested. :

The desert districts near Clear-
water, California, whose evolution: is
similar to those near Denver, and
various regions on the Eastern séa-
board provide further proof of the
Folsom culture and of man’s: connec-
tion with extinct mammals.

Although it is generally believed
that the ancestors of the American
Indian came from Asia across the Ber-
ing Straits, -the finds in the region of
this gateway have failed to throw
light on early man’s history;.. The
river beds ffere are continyally shift-
ing and great erosion has taken place
in the valleys. As a result, excursions
under Herdilicke,. Collins and. Miss
de Laguna have been able to obtain
valuable information’ only about the
Eskimo and Indian and. as ‘yet have
found little evidence of early -migra-
tions.

At the other extvein, the tip of
South America, a recent site shows a
sequence of development ‘similar to
that at Salt Lake though perhaps of
an earlier origin. Thus Dr. Strong
showed the divergencies of dates with-
in the pedigree ofthe New World—
from three or*foyr thousand B.C, in
the extreme south to the dividing line
or even the early A.D.’s in middle
America, from 15,000 B.C. in the high
plateau regions, again to the divid-
ing line in the far north. Only the
beginning of the pedigree, however, is
known as yet.

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‘PUBLIC OPINION

v

To the Editor of the News:

The editorial titled Peace—or De-
mocracy that appeared in last week’s
edition of the College News. shows
some“ confusion as to the position
taken by the Young Communist
League on the ASU Armistice Day
resolutions, as well as to the relation
of democracy and peace.- It would
seem from the heading of the editorial
that the News finds a certain incom-
patibility between the two concepts.
The position of the Communist Party,
however, is that peace and democracy
are not incompatible. Although de-
mocracies are sometimes compelled to
defend themselves by arms, as Spain
and China are doing today, they are
actually protecting. the peace of other







nations by stopping the spread of ag-|

gression. We can help them prevent
the further spread of war by withhold-
ing economie aid from the fascist pow-
ers, as suggested in the resolution.
Surely everyone will agree that it. is|
the faseist states, not the democracies,
which are the sources of war. - ‘
Fascism is. essentially a war ma-
chine because it. represents the most
extremg stage of imperialism, when
new markets and’ colonies must be ob-
tained by violence. On the other hand,
the more democratic imperialist pow-
ers are, relatively, forces for peace
because they have not yet reached this
acute stage and because their peoples,
who desire peace, retain some degree
of control over the governments. But
nc capitalist democracy has been able
to throw its whole weight on the side
of peace, as the USSR has consist-
ently done. The reason is that the
Soviet Union, a socialist state, has
eliminated the causes of war latent
in even the most democratic capitalist
nations. World peace can. never be
a reality until world socialism has
been achieved. The Communist pro-
gram includes both these:..aims. We
support collective security because it
coincides with a small part of our



Program. But since collective security

is primarily designed for capitalist
‘nations, we do not regard it as a per-



might be done under the auspices of

manent solution to the question of
péace.

Hence we approve of the ASU reso-
lutions,“inasmuch as they are intended
to impose restriction on fascist and
imperialist governments and __ to
strengthen the for of democracy.
But they obviously} cover limited
phases ef the present situation and
fail to provide a-plan of future action.
These reso}uftions could be a first step
in a more comprehensive program, in
which the demésxatic nations use eco-
nomic means to Stop fascist aggres-
sion while such means ‘are still in
their. power. The halting of fascism
will secure peace for the present and
‘will enable the world to make progress
in understanding and eradicating the
deep-rooted causes of war.

We should like to clear up another
point in. the editorial which has been
widely misunderstood by the campus;
that is, the interpretatioif our pre-
vious statement that. “Chamberlain
was working hand in glove with Hit-
ler and Mussolini.” Here we do’ not
imply that Chamberlain was actuated
by love of fascism or by personal am-
bition. No doubt he was influenced by
many motives which cannot be ex-
plored hefe—the class motive, the
Rule Britannia motive, the peace at
any price motive; but we doubt very
much whether his actions sprang from
a corrupt or self-seeking motive. The
fact remains‘that, willingly or unwill-
ingly, he did exactly what Hitler
wanted him to do. Chamberlain at
Munich met the acid test by turning’
blue; we must draw our own conclu-
sions concerning his future reactions.

To the"N@ws we wish ‘to offer a sug-
gestion. Siftce we have stuck” our
necks out by giving our opinion on
practical methods for obtaining peace,
and are inviting and receiving much
helpful criticism, would: it not be an
interesting idea for the News to ore
ganize a peace forum and encourage’
contributions from other schools’ of
thought on the campus? Perhaps this4



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* Continued from Page’One

to: their embitterment: “Oh, Mr.
Green, we’re just lost in a me
Miss Perkins smiled and posed for
the press photographer, Doris Turner.
The apparent lack -of communion be-
tween Fame, Youth, the Press, not
to mention Communism, disappeared,
however, in the gay maytime rendi-
tion of the Lambeth Walky‘fn which
everyone joimed at the~close of thé
scene, a
second scene was a touching
number in which Senora Manning and
Sener Crenshaw blew . roses*at one
another and adopted a child. Appar-
ently this was Senor Crenshaw’s in-
fant, and its mother was repeatedly
reported “dead in the baggage car
ahead.” The scene was made even
more-appealing by the nonchalant at-
tempts of Senor Crenshaw to. control
a small but agile mustache.

In’ the fimal scene Disillusioned
Youth, who had come down to the
station to see Miss Perkins and Mr.
Green off on the train, were: delighted
and surprised when the faculty in-

formed them that in their spare time
Continued on Page Five



the Peace Council. Such a forum
would provide an opportunity for those
who have had no previous chance at
self-expression to get their opinions
read and considered by the. student
body as a whole. It is shown by the
number of arguments heard all over
the school that Bryn Mawr students
are by no means uninterested ‘in for-
mulating a practical peace program;
but as a rule only a minority of the
current opinions are voiced in public.
The News would be doing a great
service not only~to this campus but to
others throughout America if such a
forum could be set up. We have cer-
tainly posed enough leading and per-
tinent questions in this letter to pro-
vide material for discussion, and we
regret to leave the subject with so
‘of its implications Tarelv





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To the Editor of the College News:

A senior is theoretically entitled to
use any steps to Taylor which strike
her*fancy. But the only ones which
are really convenient to the great
majority of classrooms are those on
which smoking is permitted. Unfor-
tunately these steps are alWays com-
pletely blockaded by students enjoying
their between-class cigarettes. We
are therefore confronted with two
equally distasteful alternatives:

(1) use Senior steps which take us
out of our way and, consequently,
make us late to classes.

(2) fight a terrific battle to mount
the convenient steps, a struggle which |
takes. so. long that we are late to
class, anyway.

In the case of (2) ‘the vhyaiend
struggle is so great that both stu-
dents and professors have to take a
10-minute siesta in order to recover
from their exertion.

The other side of the controversy
is that smoking is a noble institution,
in addition to being the college girl’s
salvation between classes. Any at-
tempt: to do..away with smoking in

front of Taylor would undoubtedly re-

sult in a revolt of Bryn Mawr stu-
dents compared with which the terrors
of the French Revolution would seem
mild.

The solution to this problem is sim-
ple—let the smokers enjoy their
smokes on the gravel path in front of
Taylor. Is it really necessary to loll
all over the steps to get the full en-
joyment ofethe weed? If they would
smoke standing in front of Taylor in-

‘stead of reclihing on the steps like

decrepit Greek philosophers, both™fac-
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' Eleanor Emery Stars in
“Arms and the Man”









Continued from Page One

‘bers of the Cap and Bells Club. The
grossest.“piece of niiscasting in the
play was that of giving the role of
Bluntschli to Gove { Hambidge,. Jr.
Bluntschli is one of Mr. Shaw’s finest
and subtlest characters. Mr. Ham-
bidge seemed merely to be repeating
his lines, mechanically smiling and
crossing ‘his legs whenever the plot or
_ the directors forced him into it.. He
_ played the whole first act as if Arms
_ and the Man were a play with a
message, and never seemed to relax
the tenseness of his expression, look-
ing self-conscious and embarrassed
whenever any of his lines-provoked a
laugh from the audience. Si Simmons
was not much better as Major Ser-
gius Saranoff,' speaking those lines
_ which -were intended” for farce in the
manner-we may’ suppése he used somne-
what earlier while leading his faméus
cavalry charge. =~
Malcolm” Smith. and Lowell King
did their best to redeem the male
honor. Mr. Smith was a lean and
efféctive Nicola and had more stage
presence than bis fellow Haverford-
ians. He nevetstole the attention of
the audience from the “main actors
but filled in many gaps in the action.
Lowell King, who played Major Pet-

koff, was a little nervous, but other-||

wise good. He managed to supply
almost everything which his part re-
quired, and did not weaken it by add-
ing»any more. His straightforward-
ness and simplicity were in excellent

' eontrast to Miss Emery’s Catherine.
' Miss Leighton did as well as,could
™ be hoped for with the production, but
perhaps in the future Players’ Club
should avoid putting on plays as diffi-
‘cult and subtle as Arms and the Man.
This was an interesting and worth-
‘while presentation, but there was a
large amount of material undeveloped.
The: costumes were rich and dis-
tinctive and were principally responsi-
ble for the impressién ‘of lavishness
mpon which the play depends. The
sets were experimental, those of the
- first and third acts less successful
than that of the second. Separating

_the brilliantly colored flats of the first’

~ gét with neutral curtains made the set
disorganized rather than giving it the
ludicrous appearance required by Mr.
Shaw. The colors used throughout
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‘|To the College’News: -

@pAs anyone would tell me, this is a
fine time for anyone to: get homesick.
The height-of Genevese social life is
about to begin with the Consul’s-ball
for all Americans tomorrow night at
the Hotel des Bergues, ‘an affair to
which everyone in Geneva goes
whether they’re American and know
the meaning of Thanksgiving or not.
Then there will be all the celebrations
for the Escalades the eleventh of De-
cember, and after that everyone will
be having. Christmas parties before
we all go ‘away for vacation.

into the house and see shades of the
porch of old Merion dance before my
eyes, or go. down to the: University,
jleap off my bike and tear into class
just about on time with a sort of lone-
some feeling due to the absence of
anything resembling the Taylor Hall
busts which always solaced me with
their silent presence when there was
no one else in the hall as T slipped
into class. Therefore, my reaction
has been that the only sensible thing
for me to do to cure this rising
nostalgia is to write some exerpts
from exile, reminisce.a bit, put my-
self in a good humor, and then be

Still)
this is the time of year when I come

thankful for my blessings. After all,
we have got a lot in Geneva, that
Bryn Mawr hasn’t got. ~~

This morning riding down the hill}

from the League Library we were
comparing Geneva weather to that
in Philadelphia and along the Main
Line, It was pouring rain at that
moment, as it does quite often around
here. But this afternoon the sun is
out and it feels like spring. The
roses which keep on blooming coura-
geously in the gardens at the League
and in the park around the Interna-
tional Labor Office look more sprightly
than usual. As a matter of fact it is

‘not inspiring, when we- consider all

ee plans we’d made for skiing in
the Swiss Alps. It looks now as
though we are going to have the same

Dean Foresees Danger
In Emotional Politics



Continued from: Page One
et

there may be a much more important

forces of reaction if the fear of Com-
munism ig increaged by a recrudes?
cence of sit-down‘strikes or other rad-
ical demonstrations which can be in-
terpreted as an attack on the rights
of property.

Mrs. Manning believes that Com-
munism, like Fascism, is a philosophy
based on divisions and conflicts which
have a long historical development in
Europe but which were transplanted
only partially and in much less serious
form to this country. In America

ttouble we had last year in the States\¢fiere has never been a governing

unless “the weather turns a little
colder.

However, despite the strangeness of
the climate, the Grand. Passage, Ge-
neva’s Wanamaker’s, is all decid
for Christmas. The array of Christ-
mas balls, tinsel, and toys would
make one feel one was in the center
of the most Christmassy of towns,
but we are all making vigorous pl a ns
for leaving the first thing after our
last class, as you probably are, and
rearriving in Geneva) in timd for |the



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Mrs. Manning would like to cor-
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her chapel talk last week. She did
not say that America has less race

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EXCERPT S from EXILE

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Continued from Page Four

We are now undergoing what our
French professor calls a “Turquisa-
tion” anyway;. as some of us have
been learning “Turkish from some. of
the Turkish: students down" at’ the

Maison Internationale and’ we come
back flaunting our’ knowledge of.two
or three terms.’ It reminds me of
Merion’s flair for Russian last year
after Mertimac came’ home from: va-
cation with a Russian: grammar.

‘I must say that it will seem funny
to go to classes as usual tomorrow
which is. Thanksgiving; for the: first
time in my life. And then we are
obliged’ to eat two turkey dinners: to

never had to do that in the’ States,
Still it will comfort me for my in-
ability to hope that one of the bal-
loons irs the Macy Parade would fall
in my backyard.. And. then we still
place cele si the football games
even thou are far away. Last
Saturday night we tried desperately
to get the Harvard-Yale game over
the radio. We failed and went. out
and enjoyed the Swiss atmosphere

instead: No » are all on edge
about the Perc ornell game,.as there
are loya erents of. beth factions
around. We'll Know the results far

sooner than you: get’ this letter, but
still. It doés seem far away at

” present.

While: in‘the midst’ of dutuinn and
winter festivities, European enough
to keep us awfully happy, and Ameri-
can enough to keep us from forget-
ting about life chez nous, I can’t seem
to help myself from” wishing either
that alk Bryn Mawr were over here
or that I’ weré over there just for a
week or so: just forthe time when we
have all the Hall dances, the Varsity
Players’ big night, the Maids’ Glee
Club serenades, and the big Christmas
dinners. Then there are probably all
sorts of special things that I’m
missing like the famous faculty skit
last year. However, I’ll bet that
there are a lot of you who’d be willing
to change places with those of us in
Europe.

Repercussions of the international
situation are felt quite yiolently here
in'Geneva. It is hard to realize how
much more vivid they become when
you are far more conscious of what
goes on behind the headlines.

Last--week shortly after the an-
nouncement of the new laws in Ger-
many, one of the professors of Ger-

man law down at the University was |

talking about property rights, and
stated that they no longer existed in
Germany. The course was one given
in German for the benefit of the large
number of ‘German students here. One
of the students arose and asked him
to repeat. He did so and the éntire
class walked out. As one or two who

were not Nazis cdénfessed later on,|

well when seventy per cent of a class
leaves, what can you do?
it was the end of the course in Ger-
man~law. The large number..of
Nazis here, many of them for propa-
ganda purposes, is counteracted -in,
their influence by the number of
refugees, that all the humanitarian
organizations are trying to swell.
"Stories of what is happening in Ger-
g@many are so much worse than one

‘could think. Many of our friends

with families in Berlin are terrified.
News has already come to five that
their fathers are in concentration
camps.

Changes in the map, persecutions
of whole peoples and the visible fail-
ure of the international machinery.
established here in Geneva has become
far more vivid to us. If we get home-
sick from time to time, it is because
the awakening, is not altogether

t, the necessary adjustment of
one’s philosophy on the hope for the
international situation on - basis

| Faculty - Student Skit ,
Given for Peace Chest

'the train. Ft

‘perhaps’ this: is' Belittling the physical
| exertions of. those who pustied, as Mr.

‘we have left you some dreams!” From

.we want reality.””
avoid hurting‘ people’s feelings. I'|'

‘along with students of six. nationali-

opinion was to the Swiss.

Anyway :



Continued from Page Three

“we get a kick. out of you.” The
word “kick” may have had more than
one meatling, but here produced noth-
ing but harmony between the faculty
‘and student body. At last Miss Per-
kins and Mr. Green arrived to catch

Finally the train drew out, though

Green made his last appeal, “I hope

Agnes Spencer;;’39; the Red; came the
stoney reply, “We don’t want dreams,

The play, which was: written -by
‘what was: called) an! “anonymous
group,” was’ given for the’ bénefit of
the Peace Chest.. Spanish children’s
drawings, Chinese Christmas cards,
and Bryn Mawr. sandwiches and. cider
were also seld: Elizabeth: Dimock,
’41, engineered Mr. dnd Mrs: Diez‘ into
paying five dollars for a toy horse
which: made no’ pretenses’ of having
been produced’ by anyone but possibly
F. W. Woolworth, Inc.

E. C.



a radio broadcast. Armistice Day

ties, I found it hard to swallow the
-bitter pill: of censorship for the first
time. ~ I had not realived how dan-
gerous’ “the liberal: expression of
In fact,
my ideas had-always been considered*
reactionary by the Bryn Mawr A.-S.
U. And: although: it is amusing to
defend in French one’s’ rights of
freedom of. speech under the Ameri-
can Constitution while the radio an-
nouncer tells you. “Oh, no, you
mustn’t mention Spain, nor . China,
nor the League! Comme vous étes
dangereuse, Mademoiselle,” it was
definitely sad when I thought of: the
absolute freedom with which the Bryn
Mawr students who took part. in the
broadcast against Swarthmore last
spring expressed their opinions.
Nevertheless, despite this long-
winded letter giving you a rough idea
about the mingling of nostalgia with
the newly awakened consciousness of
the marginal utility of an American
passport, the. inevitable longing of an
American for her family and friends
and for her college in our most im-
portant: of seasons, I would not have
missed. the opportunity to be here



CURRENT EVENTS





for anything in the world. I am only





Common Room, December, 13.—In
the settlement of America, according

‘to Miss de Laguna, the Indians were

forced to accept the hardest deals and
thé greatest losses. By 1870 the white
people had taken into their own hands
méstof the property, and cultivated
for their own uses the waste lands
which had been used before for hunt-
ing. - A tremendous feeling of antago-
nism was aroused, and there «were
continual flare-ups of old hatreds. A
new religion was formed, the general
concept of which was that the buffa-
loes would eventually return to de-
stroy the whites,. and to bring _—
the old wild’ freedom.

The tribal wars continually ce
place_did little to help matters, while
the Indians’ claims against the gov-
ernment still: remained. The Allot-
ment Act of 1887 was undisputed rob-
bery of the Indians and left them in
possession of only one-third of their
former land area. They found it quite
impossible to learn how to farm the
desert land, which was’ all that re-
mained for them. Added to these
agricultural and economic’ problems,
the Indians were treated as potential
enemies, even if they had previdusly
proven to' be friendly.

The Indian «Organization Act of
1934-was designed to prevent further
land allotments, so that the tribal
lands might remain as such; and to
provide money for education and for
the buying of cattle, farm implements
and other necessary equipment.

Miss de Laguna, who gave the first
part of the lecture, turned the meet-
ing over to Miss Underhill, who is

‘active in service work for the Indians.

She told how the attempts to educate
them have not been very successful
because wrong methods have been



sorry there isn’t more time to each
day, there is. so much to learn in
so short a time. So it’s by long dis-
tance that I send my greetings to
everyone, my best wishes for a pleas-
ant vacation, for swell Hall dances,
and a good time for everyone. Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year.
LovuIsE MORLEY.



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‘Yoga and Surrealism’.

On Monday, January 9; Dr.
Friedrich Spiegelberg, formerly
of the University of Dresden
and now at Columbia Univer-
sity, will speak, in the Deanery
at, 8.30 o’clock on Yoga and
Surrealism.







used. People forget that. the tran-
sition cannot be immediate and it
will take time before the Indians will
come to want any improvement. The
best that can be done is to demonstrate
the advantages of civilization rather
than to force their adoption. The In-
dians are being taught how to get
the most out of what they have, and
to see the value of efficiency and good’
training. One of the worst educa-
tional errors to date has been the
teaching of skills which are of little
practical use.

Bryn Mawr Author

Elizabeth’ Kent Tarshis, ’35,
has just had published Young
Sailors of Sidon, a historical.
novel’ for children; It is her
first major work, thou the
literary tradition is stif@ng in
the Kent family. Mrs. Tarshis’
mother is Louise. Andrews Kent
of Brookline, a writer of chil-
dren’s books.

Mrs. Tarshis majored in his-
tory at Bryn Mawr and has al-
ways enjoyed writing. She be-
came so interested in the ancient .
Phoenicians that she determined
to tell of Sidon and its life,
interpreting it for modern chil-
dren. Her principal chgracters -
are Hamilcar, the great sea gen-
eral, and Hanno, his nephew.









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Drawings by Spanish
Children, Are Shown



Parallel _of Artistic Development

In Child and in Civilization
Made by Diez
Common Room, December 8.—At an

Art Club tea, Mr. Diez spoke on the
Art of Young Children in connection
with the exhibition of the drawings
and paintings of. Spanish children, in
the Common Room, The pictures, —

loaned’ by the Spanish Child Feéding
Committee, were for sale for the
benefit of non-partisan child-relief in
Spain, to be distributed through Quak-
er relief stations. ee

Mr. Diez. began with the interesting
statement that the development of art
in civilization parallels the artistic
development of the average child from
the time it makes its first attempts
up to the age of fourteen. As soon
optical: sense of the child de-
velops, and until it reaches the age
of six, it draws almost nothing but
human figures which are.all frontal.
By the ninth or tenth year the figures
are in profile, and turned to the left.
Finally between the ages of ten and
fourteen, the child understands “phe-
nomenal representation” and gives its
figures movenient. H@re the develop-
ment of the child in the field of fig-
ure representation will stop unless ‘it .
has peculiar talents.

Animal drawing and plant drawing
are not as common in original “child
art.” The animals are all in profile”
and very few of them have any indi-
cations of movement.

Spatial effects are drawn better
from memory than from nature.

First attempts at perspective are
Continued on Page Six

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available? Drop a hint’ by telephone.

Is that favorite boy or girl-friend going to be
all dated up when you arrive? Make your. dates

‘in time by telephone.

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| All Well With Undergrad. Dance Despite

Untimely Aberrations _of Half the Band).



: Gymnasium, December 10.—In spite
of the whforseen difficulties which

arose, one of the most successful

dances ever held on campus took place
after the Players’ Club’s production
of Arms and the Man.

Disguising a gymnasium is an
almost impossible. feat, but Emily
Tuckerman, "40; chairman of the
Dance%: Committee, accomplished it
with very striking and beautiful dec-
-orations. The Christmas motif pre-
vailed, with dozens of Christmas trees
covered with snow banked against the

walls and around the orchestra, and.

miniature trees and boughs along the
balcony. A large Santa Claus was
placed at one end, and most effective
of all, the ceiling glittered with red
and silver stars which reflected the
floodlights. Scattered around the
room were attractively decorated ta-
bles at which couples ate doughnuts,
coffee and punch.

The size of the orchestra seemed
small at first until an announcement
was made that four out of the. seven
players had got lost and would
arrive shortly. The surviving three

a

pieces “swung” with remarkable vi-
tality—in spite of the fact that only
one of them had ‘sheets of music!
Time passed and still there s no
sign of the missing members; finally,
it was r nnounced that they had run
into a*truck, and, since they were
driving. without a license, had been
dragged off to jail. At quarter of
two, their arrival was greeted . with
shouts and. cheers. Having been hap-
pily reunited, the orchestra obligingly
played an extra fifteen minutes to
make up for the faux pas.

A large number of male stags ap-
peared mysteriously without benefit
of escort, and caused much confusion
as to just who should do the cutting.
Those who seemed to have no reason
for being present, were -gently but
firmly ejected. A cértain amount of
tact was also required to get rid of
an hilarious group of these males who

‘tried to crash the doors of Merion

after the “dance.

Notwithstanding these problems, it
was a fast moving, not too crowded
dance, which was thoroughly enjoyed

by everyone.
N.-S.



Drawings by Spanish
Children Are Shown

Continued from Page Five



given’ by several views of such re
jects as houses, tables, chairs, on ‘the
same plane; this is called the informa-
tive style and appears also in ancient
Egyptian and Chinese art. The final
problem is ‘the representation of dra-
matic action,, This is done in three
general ways: first, the representa-
tion of one significant moment; sec-
ond, that of the action divided into
several moments, each containing the
main actors; and third, that of the
repetition of the main actors in one
and the same scene.

Mr. Diez compared the art of the
children with reproductions of mod-
ern conscious primitives such as Pi-
casso, Mirault, and Paul Klee. He
cited several exhibitions of original
art of untrained children in America

as evidence of interest in the free

artistic development of the child.

Michels Spins Tops

In Name of Science





Continued from Page One

its axis. The direction of this force
can be told hy the direction in which
- a corkscrew wotld -proceed if rotated
similarly. Any change of the per-
pendicular of a body can be consid-
ered as a:spin. When a spinning
body is thus moved, unless the direc-
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sideways to adjust itself to a line
between the two original forcés;

As an example ofthis, Mr. Michels
Wung a spinning bicycle wheel which
was suspended from the ceiling. When
the axis of spin of the wheel was
parallel to that of the swinging mo-
tion, the system behaved like an or-
dinary pendulum. “When, however,
those two axes were at an angle, the
wheel jerked and seemed to writhe in
a mystifying fashion.’ It could be
recommended as equipment for a
haunted house. The explanation of
the mysterious suitcase is similarl,
one of spins’ that are not parallel.

In . another demonstration, Mr.
Michels stood upon a -platform that
was free to rotate (like a Lazy Su-
san). No twisting could change the
‘rection in which he faced. When
‘he took a weighf™in one hand and
swung it horizontally around his head
the platform turned around in the op-
posite direction, the total spin of the
system remaining zero, This is the
method that a cat uses when falling
The rear part of its body is rotated
one way to bring the front: part, by
opposite Piation, into the desired po-
sition.

A bar, with a gyroscope at one end
spinning in a vertical plane, ‘was





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Continued from Page ‘One

among the people, and he himself was
probably connected with: political af-
Near the end of his life he
moved from Antwerp to Brussels, a
city less disturbed by political up-
heaval, and spent the rest of his life
there. It is not definitely known why
he moved, but it is possible that he
was forced to do so because of his
anti-Papist sentiments.

fairs.

Miss Thompson pointed out that].

through his master, Jerome Kock,

Breughel became a member of ~the

leading intellectual group of his day.
To further elaborate upon his interest
in philosophy, Miss Thompson spoke
of Breughel’s Fall of Icarus,’a paint-
ing based on Ovid, and presenting the

theory that “one who dares to try|.
to put himself above humanity is|_



mounted on-a swivel, On this Mr.
Michels showed that if. a force were

applied sideways the. bar moved. ver-f:
tically; if a weight.pushed down on| :

one end, the other end did not rise
directly, but started to move*in a ris-
ing spiral.

The * mono-rai] car carried two
heavy wheels, spinning in a vertical
plane. Whenever the car started to
tip, the resultant twist in the angle
of these wheels counteracted the cap-
sizing force; after a few seconds the
car reached an equilibrium and pro-
ceeded smoothly across the desk to-
wards Cartreff. This. system, said
Mr. Michels, works perfectly as long
as it works. At present, however, the
impractical feature in a mono-rail car
is the uncertainty of where, on a trip
from Bryn Mawr to Thirtieth Street,
it would fail and tip over.

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oon

| bound to fall—and the event.is ‘not

of great importance to the rest of
the world.”

The paintings of this master, since

they were drawn from legends and
dreams of the people, have-a large
amount of unusual iconographical de-



a

tail. Miss Thompson. explained. the
derivation of some of the more famil-
iar points. This group of paintings
breaks away entirely from fhe usual
laws of composition, but was, very

popular with the people who’knew and

told the tales that Breughel’ depicted.



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