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VOL. VOL. XXIV, No. 11

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., ‘WEDNESDAY, JAN

RY 5, 1938

Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1937





MID -YEAR EXAMINATIONS ARE TO BE"CANCELLED



Acting Dean Ward
Speaks in Chapel
At 8.45 Tuesday

297 BRYN MAWRTERS |
REPORTED ICEBOUND





Warns Students Not to Try to
Fool Faculty, Dean’s Office
Or Western Union



Goodhart, January 4. — “We as
faculty,” said Miss Julia Ward, “do
not care one bit whether you as stu-
dents WANT to return to college for
your first classes after .vacation. The
fact is. you have to.” The only reason
Miss Ward brought this subject up
at all was because of the sleepless
night. she: spent January 2, 19388;
when, ‘the Bell: Telephone Company,
reports, the line was not busy for only
.ten minutes of the - entire twelve
hours.

“Tf ANYTHING can be gleaned
from the midnight conversations with
isnowbound, icebound students at va-
Isbus points north, it is that the weath-
er ¢onditions are very much more se-

than the weather bureau would
ive us to/believe. As I gaze’oniyour
ealthy faces, I cannot help marveling
at the salittary effects of travel—and
Ad ask ‘myself: ‘where are the Colds
that “yesterday made‘ travel impos-
gible? e
‘Miss Ward said that she had little



/ if anything to say ‘about the™ unveri-

fied |r¢port that_a/maniac was loose
/Erie railroad. “It is my
ion that any aity of two or more




be, able: to cope with such a situation,”
sh ‘said,

As for the doctor’s certificates
which-Mrs. Lisle brought to me this
morning,” continued Miss Ward, “I
feel that the medical profession is a
little. over-precautious. In checking
with Dr, Leary we were mildly sur-
~prised to find that. over half of the
certificates were signed by veteri-
naries.”

However, Miss Ward felt that a
public apology was owed to the stu-
dent who sent a night letter saying

Continued on Page Three



Sse Whitewashes
! Bryn Mawr Cage Team



M. Meigs Wrecks Alma Mater’s
| Prospects by Fumbles



‘The Bryn Mawr cage team opened
the 1937-38 season with a disastrous

‘}four-quarter white-wash by Rosemont

College. _M.-Meigs, ’39, was outstafd-
ingly sloppy, particularly in her drib-
bling. The enormous gallery of Bryn
Mawr rooters went. wild, but Meigs
carried on in spite of jeers, catcalls,
and epithets of “butter-fingers.”’

* Varsity opened with a smashing at-
tack against the petite. Rosemont op-
position. Bryn Mawr’s guards, Meigs
and Willianis, towered above the Rose-
mont forwards, O’Brien and O’Neill,
who resorted to a system ,of under-
handed passes, but seemed unable to
get the ball up to the leval of the
basket. ;

Naramore and Auchinchlo , Var-
sity forwards, quickly piled up a lead
of 12 points. Their well-coordinated,
bullet-like attack was clicking in a
workmanlike fashion.
pared down early in the second pe-
riod when Bryn Mawr’s jump center,
Seltzer, ’37, was out-leapt by O’Shau-
nessy, of Rosemont. The ball flashed
straight into-the arms of Meigs, who
handed it to O’Neill, who shot a bas-
ket.
O’Neill and O’Brien followed this with
six more brilliant precision shots over
the heads of Meigs and Williams,
making the score 14-12 in. Rosemont’s
favor.

In the second half, the play was
concentrated around the visitors’ goal.
Meigs fouled heavily and Rosemont
netted three foul shots. One more
foul and Meigs was out. Unfortu-
nately she did not foul again.

Sarah Meigs took the place of
Auchinchloss, and was able to sink
three close placements, almost even-
ing the score at 16-17. Seltzer seized
the ball and ploughed through the
hard-fighting Rosemont defense to the
Bryn Mawr goal, where the play raged
angrily for several minutes.. A loop-

fing ‘pass down the court to Rose-

mont’s end was snagged by M. Meigs,
who inadvertently shot a basket just
as, the whistle blew.



Dale Carnegie Delivers Flecture Lexner —
On Subj ject of ‘Attitudes and Aptitudes’



Goodhart, Monday, January 3.—
The first Flecture Lexner of the year
was given by Dr. Dale Carnegie, of
the Carnegie Foundation. The title of
his first lecture was Attitudes and
Aptitudes. He summed up ‘his posi-
tion in the following: “Whatever
problem confronts man,—spiritual, in-
tellectual,/or purely practical, man is
always faced with some problem. In
this, qne’s aptitudes for adjustment to
an overcoming cause of these problems
inevitably varies directly in relation to
one ’s attitude.”

“Dr. Carnegie confessed that he him-
self was never happier than when in
‘the course of resolving some: prob-
lem. “I thrive on obstacles,” he said.
Moreover, he pointed out, the future
of all infants depends on whether
they thrive on obstacles, or yield to
obstacles, as when the ancient Greek
and Roman children were exposed on
high places. Their whole future life
depends upon ability to smile in the
face of catastrophe. The whole future
attitude also is conditioned by their
aptitude to come through.

Dr. Carnegie cited the case of Han-
ner to illustrate his primary thesis.
Hanner is a child of fourteen months
who.was presented with the problem

-of eating a bananer which is on a
low tablé three feet away but still

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definitely within her life space. The|

bananer has a positive valence for
Hanner, but she is’unable to walk and
- has never tried bananers so they have
no existential value for her. . She has
been conditioned entirely by Mullins
Strained’ Baby Food and Fletcher's
Castoria. ‘Hanner, ti is pos-



sessed by a strong curiosity complex
and she discovers after several bad
tries that she cah approach the bana-
ner by crawling acrosk.t the floor. This
problem was solved by \Bummi, who
entered Hanners’ life field and took
the bananer justgbefore she achieved
it. Bummi’s aptitude for approaching
the bananer was manifestly more ef-
fective than Hanners, therefore his
attitude toward it was more salutory.

Dr. Carnegie spent a large portion
of his time refuting the conclusions of
Mr. James Thurber in his latest vol-
ume, Let Your Mind Alone. “Mr.
Thurber’s entire argument,” said he,
“is founded on the erroneous: principle
that one’s aptitude is determined by
one’s attitude. The converse is true.”

The whole future course of civiliza-
tion depends upon the proper adjust-
ment between attitudes and aptitudes:
Dr. Carnegie explained his own par-
ticular theory which he calls the as-
cending spiral theory, and by which
a perpetual adjustment takes place by
which man’s attitude toward problems

lis simplified as his aptitude becomes

more complex. The favorable varia-
tiom in attitude in turn conditions
man’s general aptitude, i. e., his. apti-
tude toward problems in general is
derived by the formula: -

\— (quantity 3

‘Dr. Carnegie said he would go into.

further details as to the application] '

of this formula in the next Flecture

Lexner, to be entitled Methotudes and)
Baptists. His final word to the audi-|;

ence was: “Try Flexner’s Castoria.”

Shnpihenhenesemnat

This lead was|,

In‘a sudden burst of inspiration | >



SCOOP!



MISS X, ’
future European fellow, who pre- .
fers to remain. anonymous.



1938 European Fellow
Discovered by ‘News’



While Remaining Anonymous,
‘Shy Winner Reveals Salient
Facts of Her Life



Monday, January 3.—The News has
discovered -who the 1938 European
Fellow will be, by dint: of examining
the files in Miss Ward’s office during
Christmas vacation. - Our reporter
got in the office by using a skeleton
key which she stole from Joe Graham.
Early this morning another reporter
interviewed the lucky student, who
was in rather low spirits. due to her
return after Christmas vacation, but
was, nevertheless, surprized and
pleased to learn that she would win
the coveted honor.

Our heroine wishes.to remain anony-
mous, because her family does not
like her to have her name in the
papers. However, The News is au-
thorized to tell most of the important
facts about her. She is a senior in
the class of 1938, born in,-Orange
County, New York, and lived most of
her life in Houston, Texas, and St.
Cloud, near Paris. She speaks Ffench
like a native, and German with a
slight Swiss accent. She is a product

of the Lincoln School in New York

and Le Lycée de Jeune Filles Sur Lac
in Switzerland.

She came to Bryn Mawr in the fall
of 1934, and majors in philosophy.
When asked what her chief extra-cur-
ricular interest is, she replied: “It
used. to be my studies, but now it is
the problem of the good.” For sports
she has taken swimming, walking,
folk-dancing and sun-bathing. Her
favorite course was freshman English
for two reasons: one, because. she
didn’t have to take notes, and two,
because in the springtime they ‘sat out
in the sun, She thinks every student
should take freshman English, as it
teaches one to express oneself.

' Miss X, the lucky European fellow
has an average of 89.9. She says it
is a point of honor with her not to
have a high credit average. Besides,
The News investigations reveal that
the nearest competitor. has an aver-
age of 87 point something. Miss X
wanted us to be particularly careful
to emphasize that she is not counting
her chickens before they are hatched.
She knows-that-it-is_perfectly possible
for some dark horse to catch up with
her at Comprehensive time. She
doesn’t worry much, though, because
has her major subject
hand, and is ahead on




NeXt year, Miss X expects to go to
the Sorbonne, and after

bition is to be an Oxfofd do



Slaw Ye! Hear Ye!
On January 6, at 4.30, Marjorie
is, author of Live Alone and Like
; k to the Science Club on
n in the Unnucleated Cell.




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Christmas Eve Finds.
Vulgar Room Crowded



U. S.’A., National Interrelational
And Relational Clubs Merge



24.—On
Christmas Eve at.a joint meeting of

Vulgar Room, December

‘|the U. S. A.; the National Interrela-

tional Club, and the Relations Club,

:|recently formed by. a small group of
| :| relations, a motion was moved by an

interested freshmtn, ’41, that more

‘|interest be taken on campus in inter-
esting national interrelational affairs.
‘|She suggested that.a club should be
'}formed of the groups represented for

“oreater interest on campus in inter-

./esting national interrelational affairs.”

The chairman of the meeting, K.
Lawrence Stapleton asked, “Is there
a member of the Piece Council pres-
ent?” The freshman allowed modestly
that the said Council had gone to
pieces, and sat down. ‘Since there
was, therefore, to all intents arid

-| purposes, no such member. present, al-
‘|though as Miss. Stapleton said,

“Tn
the final analysis everyone here is a
member of the P. C. Heh, heh,” it was
voted by the group present that the
Piece Council be roughly glued to-
gether again by the freshman, ’41.
The freshman said, “I will be glad to
glue any little thing I can for the
gloup.”

A vote of thanks to the Soaitianat
’41, was proposed by the chairman
and voted by the gloup. The gloup
under the instigation of the Under-
gradual Society moved a motion to
amalgamate and form a club to be
called. the. Gradual Interrelational
Piece Club for more and bigger re-
lations on campus. Meetings willbe
held daily and. will be addressed. by
members of the faculty who have
relations, and those of the studious
body who may be selected piecemeal by
the central executive gloup (of which
the chairman is an ex-officio member )..

It is hoped that everypne on campus
will sign up for the club on the in-
teresting little purplish-bluish-red
cards that are being passed around
the halls ‘by interested freshmen, ’41.



Time, Space and Such



Philosophy Club Hears Problem
Later Drinks Coffee



Common Room, December 25-Janu-|
ary 1.—Time, space and such attri=|_
butes of the space-time world, said
| Bernard --Gosgrove: MeIntosh, of Rol-
lins College, at a recent meeting of
the Philosophy ‘Club, are’due to one
principle of differentiation, that of the
unity of participation of the animate-
inanimate as “that which is both ani-
mate and inanimate at one and the
same time and continues so infinitely
in Euclidean space.”

The problem -comes up, said Mr.
McIntosh, when Euclidean space is
transfinite. Now the peoples of Aus-
tyalia, according to the work of Ru-
ben Heim in sociology, consider all
space transfinite. Epistemologically
this is not indicative of idealism, but
both. logically and metaphysically it
does imply an idealist bias.

According to Descrates’ statement

of the nature of identical particles of
indiscernible elements, space is both
transfirtite and limited. This theory,
recently taken up by Miss sapdente
Bella. Cynwid, of Yale, has receiv
| grédve: Es “theory ‘of
the nature of the identity of indis-
cernibles.
- The future of philosophy lies in
the reconciliation of these two theories
with each other and with the Darwin-
ian evolution.



Coffee was served.



Recent Radical Change Will.
Substitute Three-hour Quizzes



Exam Period is Found
Too Strenuous on All



A statement has been released by
the faculty to the effect that the mid-
year exams have been caricelled. In
their . place will be put. three-hour
quizzes (two-hour quizzes for % unit
courses). As this decision has been
made so soon before the examination
period, there has been no time to print
new schedules. ,So the schedules. al-
ready printed and posted have been
changed by Miss Lisle to read “Sched=
ule for Mid-Year Quizzes” in. place
of the previous “Schedule for Mid- °
Year Examinations.”

The faculty have issued the follow-+
ing statement: “For many years: we
have felt that the Mid-Year Examina-
tion period is a strain not only on
the faculty, but also on the students.
We also have realized that the weight-
ing of the year’s marks has‘ been
askew in having the examinations
count one-half of. the semester’s*mark.
The. quizzes will only count ‘fifty -per
cent of the semester’s mark.”

The News has sent out a question-
naire to members of the faculty. of
various colleges reading: “What is
your opinion of Bryn Mawr’s new
quiz plan?” Among the answers are
notably the following:

“Practical at Bryn Mawr, but not
at Harvard.” President Conant of
Harvard.

“Our girls going wild over your
plan. We will adopt it for the 1938-
39 season. Thanks for idea.” Presi-
dent, Lee of Bennington,

The News received one answer in-
the form of a question. “Consider
new plan a stroke of genius. Wire
collect by Western Union whether you ©
would consider it feasible in a coedu-
cational college.” - Hamilton Holt, :
Rollins College.

A statement was received from
Sing Sing prison, to whom no ques-
tionnaire was sent.
lenience undermining the college sys-
tem. Joe ‘Sluggish’ Blackby, our
most. notorious inmate, started his
career in crime in his college days at
Duke. _ Stop this killing of the

Continued on Page Four

MARRIAGE QUESTIONS



ny tye NSWERED BY NEWS

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Due to One Principle id



“All ‘eh college news boards :
were sent the following questionnaire
by the :Ladies’ Fireside Companion.
The answers represent the majority
opinion of the board. — ,

Q. Do you. believe in divorce?

‘A Vese!: We have actually: seen 4 it
happen. anlar

Q. Do you think most marriages
fail today because of unhappy sex, re-
lations?

A. We frown on sex relations in
marriage.

Q. Do you think most marriages
fail today because of unhappy sex re-
lations s@BWween husband and wife?’ * ~~

A. Well, that’s a different matter.

Q. Do you favor the Wasserman
test at Bryn Mawr?

A. Not if it is to be averaged in
with our semester marks. «&

Q. Do you consider that marriage
between childhood friends is a good
thing?

A. No; we feel that nothing should
come-between childhood friends.

Q. Do you believe in. mixed mar-
riages? ~
A. With what?

New Rush In House.

The- power plant has been converted



nto a Russian house, where vodka wit ~,

be served nightly at 12. . Theme song:
Dynamo, Is There Any Mo’ Finer?
The members of the new house are:
Naomi Coplin, ’38; Sylvia Wright, ’38;
Augusta Arnold, ’38; Mary Dimock,
89; Agnes Spencer, °39, = Jane
Carpenter, 38.



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}better-on-the stage.



Choir Boys’ Program
To Include Operetta



Twenty Vienna Choir Boys
will give a recital of songs and
costumed opera for the. benefit
of the Bryn Mawr Hospital on
January tenth in Goodhart Hall.
They are members of the old-
est existing choral organization,
founded nearly 500 years ago by
Maximillian the First. Haydn,
Schubert, Mozart’and other emi-
nent composers have received
training at their Saengerknaben
Institution.

These boys from eight to
twelve years old, who are mak-
ing the choir’s sixth annual tour
to the United States, are mem-

_bers of a group of 62 whose
headquarters are in Vienna. The
organization is self-supporting,
and much of its revenue is de-
rived from their summer hotel
at Hinterbichel in the Tyrol.

“Their program will consist of:

I.
Haec' Dies (8parts)
Jacobus Gallus (1550- 1591)
Duo Seraphim (4. parts) ~ ~—
Th. L. deVittornia (1545- -1611)
Laudate Dominum (Soprano
solo and chorus)
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)
150th Psalm
Max Springer (1877)
II.

“On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Operetta in One Act
Music by Johann Strauss

Ill.
Ribbon and Thread (Bandl und

Zwirn. comic rondo V

~ W. A. Mozart

Song of the Nightingale..(1598)

Girometta..Old Italian Folksong

Waltz-Suite.....Johann Strauss

Musical Director: Victor Gom-
boz

Dean: Rector Josef Schnitt

’

* In Philadelphia
Movies
Aldine: The Hurricane, or The Year
of the Big Wind: the picture of the
moment—a tremendous drama of the
titanic struggle‘between the might of

-|man and the fury of nature, with Jon

Hall and Dorothy Lamour. Beginning
Thursday: Aiming At a New High,
or Hitting a New Low: the musical
hit of the day—light! daring! capti-
vating! with Lily~Pons and Jack
Oakie.

Arcadia: Ebb Tide, a tremendous
drama of the titanic struggle of ele-
mental men filmed amid the glamour
of the South Seas—definitely the pic-
ture of the week!—with Frances Far-
mer. ¢

Boyd: Tovarich, or Tonight’s Our
Night Out, the picture of the month,
perfect, captivating, a romance that
bloomed even in the kitchen, with
Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
Beginning Friday: Ssh—The Octopus:
in eight parts, with Hugh Herbert and
Allan Jenkins.

Earle: Thrill of a Lifetime, Ea
down of a Lifetime, of Eleanor Whit-
ney and the Yacht. Club Boys; ~~

Europa: Peter the First: the second

dramas. “The greatest picture ‘we
have seen in years.—The New Masses.

Fox: Rosalig: a tremendous drama
of, the singing West.Point cadet who
dared to love-Eleanor Powell... The
greatest picture of the century! with

1 Eleanor POwell_and Nelson Eddy.

Beginning Friday: Wise Girl, or
Who’s Your Father?~ With Miriam
Hopkins and Ray Milland. were

Karltén: First Lady, played by Kay
Francis; Daughters of the American

evolution, played by Vera Teasdale.
This play, unlike Screen Door, was

‘Keith’s: Love and ‘Hisses, 3 a comedy

jwith Bén Bernie, Walter Winchell

and Simone Simone. Why isn’t it

_jealled Love and Kisses?

Palace: It’s Love I’m After, or Wait

-|For Me, a farce, with Leslie.Howard,\

Bette Davis, and Olivia de Haviland.
Stanton: The Bad Man of Brim-
stone, a Wild Western comedy, with
Wallace Beery and Virginia Bruce.
Stanley: Phew Confession, continu-
ing the current vogue for lunatic com-



OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

‘}* dents. If ‘anyone is unable to



of the fifth series of Russian historical .

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COLLEGE CALENDAR

Tuesday, January 4.— Open
meetinggof the Peace Council—
4.30.

Wednesday, aay 5.—Lord
Marley\speaking on the Panger
of War. Goodhart. 8.30.

Snnday, January 9.—College
tea. Common Room, 5 p. m.

Monday, January 10.—Vienna
Choir Boys. Goodhart. 8.20:

Tuesday, January 11.—Voca-
tional tea. Mrs. Herbert Mac-
Aneny, will speak on the theater.
Common Room. 4.80. Recep-
tion for: Mrs. Gilbreth. Dean-
ery. 8.30,

Wednesday, January 12.—In-
dustrial Group Supper. Com-
mon Room. 6.30 p.m.»

Friday, January 14. — Last
day of lectures.

Monday, January 17.—Mid-
year examinations begin.

Mrs. Gilbreth Returns

Wednesday and Thursday,
January 5 and 6, Mrs, Gilbreth
will return’ to the campus to
give vocational guidance to stu-



make an appointment with her,
please, notify the Dean’s office.

a

Vocational Tea
Mrs. MeAneny will speak on
The Theater at a vocational tea
. on Tuesday, January 11, in the ©
Common Room. . Tea will be
served at 4.30, and the talk
will begin at 4.45.




















Thornton Wilder to Speak

Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Hotson
cordially invite Bryn Mawr stu-
dents to hear Mr. Thornton Wil-
der who is lecturing at Haver-
ford College, on Novelist vs.
Dramatist, on Tuesday evening,
January 11.

Victoria: The Last Gangster, or It’s
About Time, a melodrama with Ed-}
ward G. Robinson,

Theater

Chestnut: Wine of Choice, or Name
Your Poison, 8. N.. Behriian’s com-
edy, with ae Hopkins, Leslie
Banks, and Alexander Woolcott. Final
week, Beginning Monday: Shadow
and Substance, a play about modern
life in Ireland, with Sir Cedric Hard-
wicke.

Forrest: Babes In Arms, or The
Patter of Little Feet, the Rogers-Hart
musical hit, with Mitzi Green and
Duke McHale. Final week.

Erlanger: Having Wonderful Tipe,
and so does the audience.

Locust: Brother Rat, the George
Abbot production of the V. M. I. com-
edy. Mickey Mouse short.

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Orchestra —

Wednesday: Boston Symphony Or-
chestra: Serge Koussevitzsky conduct-

ing, Haydn: Symphony in G Major,
‘No, 88; Prokofieff: Lieutenant Kije;

Brahms: “Symphony*No. 1 in C Mi-
nor: ‘

Ballet |
Thursday: Uday Sham-poo and his
Hindu“Ballet: Shan-Kar and Sanka:
Radha and Krishna \(The Suzy-0);}§
Zohra and Uzra: Varsha. Mangala;

Shan-Kar:-The Snake Charmer; Mad-

haven: The Hunter's Tragedy; Shan-
Kar and Rabindra: The Devil Dance;
Entire Company: The Harvest Dance;
Simkie: Marwari; Yuddha Yatra

(The Big Apple).

Local Movies .

Ardmore: Wednesday, Fifty-second
Street, with Greta Garbo and Paul
Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, The Firefly, with Lily Pons and
Grace Moore.

Seville: Wednesday, Conquest, with
Jack Oakie.and Mar Raye; Thurs-
day, Topper, with Lucius. Beebe; Fri-
day.and S~“--te~ ale Bod ;
Town, with George Ar iss.

Wayne: Wednesday, Lancer Spy,
with Gary Cooper and Richard Crom-
well;-Thursday, Friday and Saturday,




Second Honeymoon, with -C. Aubrey}

Smith and Flora Robson,
“Suburban: Tuesday to Saturday,

Second Honeymoon, with ©, Aubrey.

Smith and Flora —_—.

FACULTX NOTES

Mr. Herben has feen posing for a
new design. for. the Smith Brothers
‘cough drop box. Mr. Herben is the
Smith brother on the left.

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Miss Stapleton spent the vacation as
social. secretary for Elsa Maxwell.
And, by the way, Miss Stapleton has
a message for all you girls. She has

|. discovered the Alice Foote McDougall *

Tea Rooms, where she. ate , lunch
every day» To quote Miss Stapleton,
“the food was yummy.”

“ * * *

Miss Mary Catherine Woodworth
and her sister, Miss Allegra Wood-
worth, had a small luncheon for their
friends in New’ York at Schrafft’s,
39th St. The menu was as follows:

Fruit cup
Chicken patties
Shoestring potatoes French peas
Hot rolls
Waldorf salad
“Vanilla ice cream
After-dinner Nuts
*

Coffee
ok
Miss Linn has been doing research
on a special assignment for Heywood
Broun estimating the hairs on Er-
nest Hemingway’s chest. The well-in-
formed student will recall that Miss
Linn and Mr. Hemingway are at pres-
ent collaborating on a new novel ten-
tatively entitled A Farewell to Fleas.
*. *
Miss Reed has joined The Book-of-
the-Month Club.

x *

Miss Van Hook and Mr. Wethey had

*

in the Iridium Room of the St:Regis
Hotel under the names of Yolez and
Velanda.
. *

M. Guiton substituted for the statue
of Prometheus, in Rockefeller Center,
while it was being cleaned. M. Gui-

ton is now being cleaned,
* * * :

* *

Miss Terrien spent the vacation in
the Whispering Gallery competing in
an intercollegiate whispering contest
participated in by librarians of all lib-
eral arts colleges. We are proud to
announce that Miss Terrien came in
third. The medal which she won will

be taken out of Ae in the Spring.
*

*

Mr. Lattimer and Mr. Cameron are
working on a series of magazine arti-
cles to be published under the title
of TJ, Sappho.

ie

Mr. and Mrs. Chew entertained an
old friend of Mr. Chew’s, Mr. Robert
Suthie IV. Mr. Suthie pronounces his
name Southey.

* *

Mr. and Mrs. Dryden, of the Ge-
ology Department, spent the holidays
at Peckett’s-on-Sugar-Hill pecking for
sugar in the surrounding territory.

* *

Miss Henderson has been studying
the development and use of the flash-
back, the throwback, the drawback,
and the backside in the motion pic-
‘ture. She has prepared a short lec-
ture on Donald Duck as a Moral Force
in the Modern Cinema. The lecture
will be illustrated by lantern slides.

* * *

Mrs. Manning is taking a sabbatical

year.

*

*

On. Christmas Eve Mrs. Woodrow
trounced Mr. Hotson, of Haverford,
in the annual battledoor and shuttle-
cock tournament at the Merion Crick-
et Club. Mrs. Woodrow is “quoted as
saying — isa aye battle cock.”

* -%

Miss Ward ‘has ‘been proofreading
Miss Park’s new book Mein Kampus,
which-is a life of Miss Thomas.

f "= 6 ‘

' Mr. and Mrs. Anderson~spent the
holidays -in-the Keynes suite of the
Hotel Biltmore, revising the third re-
vision of Taussig. They worked like
beavers. Mr. Anderson is now going
through a siege with his dentist.

* *

“Mr. Veltman hung-up-his-stocking-
at the foot of an infirmary bed on
Christmas Eve. He received a dozen
American Beauties from the Shut-in

Society.



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CURRENT EVENTS

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Due to the Panay incident, now}

what’s it all about? First, Joseph P.
Kennedy has been sent ‘to England, a
clever, very clever, move on the part
of big business which have been meet-

_ing under the auspices of the Pan-

Ameri¢an Committee on Trade, the
PACT so-called by our president.
Moreover, the captain was knocked
out as the first bomb struck, and he
really doesn’t know what it all means,
so how should we?

Mrs. Simpson has surprised her old
friends in America by posing for a
full-length picture for Vogue, wear-
ing a charming dinner dress by
Chanel. The creation, which features
a fascinating short jacket bearing the
Coat of. Arms of the British Royal
Family, is done in baby blue and deep
purple, This is particularly appropri-
ate because Mr. Simpson, Mrs. Simp-
son’s husband, was once almost King
of England.

Sidk stockings are going up in price.
(Has anybody ever thought of wear-
ing lisle-—Ed.)

The price of gold is going down...
down,..down...stop me, someone...
DOWN! The significance of this?
Well, everybody knows that when the

price of gold goes down, down, DOWN,

gold is less expensive to buy because
the price is lower. By the law of sup-
ply and demand, combined with hu-
man nature, you can expect to see the
boys at Washington buying lots of
gold at the new low price. Members
of the more conservative factions are
rumored to be building deposit vaults
in their back yards.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt has an-
nounced that fhe “does not choose to

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that she had broken both her legs
skiing and would have to walk ‘5
miles to the train. “I wired back col-
lect: telling her that she’d better come
along on down anyway. I must say
I hada little misgiving,” said Miss
Ward,” when I saw her stumbling into
my office on crutches after her first
class, explaining that she had missed
the train.”

Miss Ward suggested that students
whose parents are in Europe remem-
ber the fact that their parents’ where-
abouts are filed in the Acting Dean’s
office, and that Western Union is glad
to co-operate with us in detecting
whether cables are actually cables or
telegrams from New York City.

Miss Ward wished to quote in con-
clusion @ telegram whi¢h she received
Monday at a quarter of nine:

“Sorry, went down with Panay.
Will miss first class, but am swimming
as fast as I can’ somewhat hampered
by ski boots. Stop.”

“This seems rather remarkable,”
said Miss Ward, “because as the, well-
informed student will recall the
Panay sank over a week before vaca-
tion.”



run” for the presidency of the United
States of America a third time. Mr.
Roosevelt’s very apt phrase was used
once before, but he could not remem-
ber ‘when.





PUBLIC OPINION

To the Editor:

I am particularly concerned of late
by the ubiquitous spread of that sor-
did and unhealthy pastime of cig-
arette smreking. At the beginning of
the last decade, smoking was first per-
mittéd at the request of the under-
graduate body. But in the peshannee
granted by the trustees and facu
and the late President Thomas, it .was
specifically stated that smoking would
be allowed only on condition that it
would not be carried to extremes. . It
is my deepest regret that the. phrase
was not defined. ,s







Smoking one or two cigarettes a day
cannot hurt anyone who has a healthy
constitution. But smoking ’to excess,
lighting one cigarette on the butt of
another, buying cartons of cigarettes
at a time and so forth, is not only
unattractive in girls, but makes for
nervousness and a chronie condition

‘| of enervation.

Recently I have learned of the dis-
astrous, not to say. catastrophic re-
sults of such a_ habit formation.
Marihuanas, otherwise known as lo-
coweed, hashish, reefers, soon take
the place of the usual cigarette.

A committee of faculty members
interested in this problem have called
in the Davey.Tree Experts to exam-
ine flower pots and weeds found grow-
ing unobtrusively in the windows in
various dormitories. The results of
the investigation have not yet been

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backing a eollege rule abolishing
smoking entirely. ‘Whether or not the

‘| Davey Tree Experts’ investigation re-

veals that the growing and smoking
of so-called dope is actually carried on
in the college, the very fact that
such a situation is possibly consequent
on the ordinary smoking, gives us,
we feel, sufficient justification for
recommending a rule against the lat-
ter.
Signed;

R. SEASIDE, ’40

T. WIDENER, ’40

A. STONES, ’40



is
To the Editor of the College News:

Dear Editor:

All my little friends tell me their
is no Santy Claws. My _ professor
says that whatever I read in the News
is true. What I want to know is, is
there a Santy Claws?

’ Signed, .
Mary L, HUCKLEBERRY, aged 5.
Hortense, your little friends are
wrong. There is a Santa Claus. No
one who has seen the cheery, red-coat-
ed figure in Gimbel’s, could doubt that.
No one who has seen the tawdry lights

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could doubt that there are Christmas
trees, that there is therefore a Christ-
mas spirit, that there is, in brief, a
Santa Claus.

No one who has envied the new lisle
stockings on girlish legs; no one who
has noticed that their friends’ book
cases have been swelled within the
last two days not only by unreturned
library books but also by handsome
gift copies of The Arts; no one who
has seen the self-conscious emergence
from the showers of new wrappers
with zippers; no one, in short, could
fail to believe that Santa Claus is not
only a spirit but an active force
among our girls. Don’t be sceptical,
Hortense, do nét yield to the destruc-
tive atheism of your little friends.

Believe in Santa Claus, and believe in

your professors, and you will find that
the world is a far better and wiser
place. Yours,-

THE EDITOR,

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and other tobacco experts, prefer Luckies... ;

“I’ve been auctioneering for 20 years,” says
Mr. Cooper, “in Georgia, North Caro-
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bacco Lucky Strike buys at auction after
auction. It’s the best in smoking quality.

“Luckies suit my throat, too, as well ab
my’ taste. Even after crying out bids /7
hours a day, Luckies never bother my
throat in the Ieast.” (Reason: the exclu-
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irritants found in all tobacco.)

“In every section of the Tobacco! Belt
where I auctioneer,” Mr.Cooper adds, “I’ve
noticed tobacco men smoking Luckies..”

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Theater Review

not, while Mr. Gielgud is tragically
torn between his desire for a gin sling



Worms I Have Known—Paul deKruif.
This is a series of penetrating es-
says dealing with the childhood of
characters famous in life and art.
Among the’ worms that Mr. deKruif
chooses to portray so sympathetically
are Madame Butterfly; Keats, Hiro-
hito, the original Japanese silk worm;
Martin ‘Luther, who as Mr. deKruif
‘points out so clearly, reverses the
usual order and becomes a worm due
to the chemical action of his food.
Mr. deKruif’s hypothesis is that all
perséns who were originally worms
can never quite banish the taint from
their personalities. ‘Victor Herbert
was a worm” he says in the essay on

}

I’d Rather Be Tight, with Kather-
ine Hepburn, ’28; John Gielgud, 22
(five feet eleven inches, fajr hair, blue
eyes), and Isabel Seltzer, ’37—going
on ’38—opened before a stunned audi-
ence at the Casanova Theatre, 46th
Street, on December 31.
ters around Miss Hepburn, who would
rather, and Miss Seltzer who would

The plot cen-

and his artistic temperament. It is
this that stuns the audience,

The triangle is dramatically brought
to a climax when Katie, as Cloey, a
stewardess on the submarine Amphi-
tryon 88, brings. Gielgud, as John, a
second lieutenant, his gin, “and finds
his artistic temperament in the arms
of Miss Seltzer, who is playing the
part of the captains’ wife, Mrs. Mur-
-|phy.. Cloey, in a burst of fiery



porary figure, conies out in front of
the orchestra and raises his beautiful
hands, the crowd thrills and is silent
until, and sometimes for a long time
after, his hands stop moving.

Current rumor has it that Stokow-

anguish—for she is also in love with
John—slings the gin at Mrs. Mur-
phy, who runs screaming from the
cabin, leaving Johfi to plead heart-
breakingly with Cloey in moving vers
libre.

When this is over, and the audience



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course has been changed from:
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Functions in Dancing to Good
‘Bodies Through Functional





Movements in Dancing.



The curtain falls as he is leaving—We
know he will never return.

The symbolizing. of the theme in
the characters is dynamically yet sub-
tly worked out by the actors, Who in-
termingle modernity with a certain
mysticism, which forms a striking con-
trast to the heinous atrocities. of ‘the
Indians .in trench warfare, which are

‘ ping”’

¥

Exam Period is Found
Too Strenuous on All



Continued from Page One
morale.” Signed, Warden Lawes of
Sing Sing. .

A cable from Oxford was mislaid.
The .editors remember the cable as

reading either “Bloody” or “Topping.”

Mrs. Wrench remembers it as ““Top-
and feels it unnecessary to
check with Western, Union.

Among other results of this radical
chahge have been the facts that Life
has sent down a photographer to take
pictures of the quiz schedule and
that . Mrs. Manning. wires from
Swarthmore “It’s a wow!”





ski, lovingly called “Stoko” by some}¢jjeq with emotion, the Amphitryon
of the undergraduates, is engaged to lands, and John joiris the troops and
the cinema actress Greta Garbo. We goes to the front, while the women

Te that G. G. and Leo would find become nurses. The final scene is in
great happiness with each other, be- a bar; all three meet and make love,

éauge they. are both geniuses. Greta and John also makes up another poem.
Garbo is a genius as evidenced by

the famous novels that she has been
asked to reproduce for the film audi-
ence, such as Mati Hari and Anna Ka-
renina. And we all know that Sto-}
kowski is a great genius because Law-
rence Gilman, music critic of the New
bong ‘ne’ ee eae os art York Times, says EAAREONS Stokowski
facts to support my hypothesis. [|is 4 great genius.
feel_that I have succeeded,” Mr. de-
Kruif quotes supporting / pn “Its
feet were tied with a silken thread of

my own hands’ weavin

' Of Hirohito, Mr. Kruif says’ “a

typical example of sis The boy-
]

also portrayed from time to time. The
whole is an appalling commentary on
the complexities of modern life, and
Miss Hepburn, carrying the audience
with her, runs the gamut of human
emotions from A to Z.

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Madame Butterfly. “To have cori-
ceived of the character of Madame
Butterfly means only one thing; that]
Herbert desired to become himself a
butterfly. His worm childhood, i
since forgotten, was still woven inex-
tricably about his mind. |

In refeFence to Keats, Mr. deKrujf
says “my first inkling of this phen
enon came to mé one night. while read-
ing Keats. That night I came /upon
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“ eott on Japanese k recently pro-
posed will be disastrous to Hirohito—
and to how many more of the Jap-

‘ anese worms I gannot predict.”

Mr. deKruif’s/ style is earthly. But
the style does not conceal the tedious-
ness of the subject matter inching its
way through/page after page. Aside
from this fact, bookworms will eat it
up and all/who wish to own it in its
first editign should remember the old
motto about the early bird.





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Tu¢ked away in a remote corner
of Chestnut street, in historic old
Philadelphia, is an old Neo-Graeco
Roman Building called the Academy
of/ Music. Many, many, many people
ffom Philadelphia and its suburbs,
ind even from New York, come sFri-
/days, Saturdays, and Tuesdays, to

/ hear the Philadelphia Orchestra, con-

/ ducted by Iturbi and Leopold Stokow-

/ ski. This Philadelphia Orchestra is

j housed in the Academy of Music. The

/ orchestra is an excellent one, as proved

/ by the many people who come from

/ Philadelphia and its suburbs, and even
iL: from New York, to hear it.

It has often been said that music
hath charms to tame the savage in
his breast. No one could doubt this
if they could see the many people
lined up Fridays, Saturdays, and
Tuesdays, waiting for any place, even
standing room, in the great dome-like
main hall of the Academy of Music.
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