College News, 1922-04-19, Vol. 08, No. 20

              Copyright, 1922, by The College Niwt
News
Volume,VIII.    No. 20.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL" J9,  1922
Price 10 Cents
SENIOR PLAY GIVEN NEXT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
College   President and   Deans Will
Attend Friday Night Performance
WILL    PRESENT   IBSEN    PLAY
In giving Ibsen's Lady of the Sea, a mod-
ern psychological play, situated in Norway,
as Senior Play, 1922, will depart from its
"mid-victoriari tradition.
Leading lady, Mrs. Ellida Wangel, Dr.
\\angel's second wife, will l>e .played l>y
O. Howard, who has starred in both her
other class plays and in May Day, as an
old man. E. Hobdy, as Dr. Wangel, a dis-
trict physician, will have a man's part as.
l�fore; and S. Hand and J. Burgess as
daughters by a former marriage, are play-
ing customary types. K. Ptjfik will appear
as the school master Arnholm; E. Hall, as
the j^jther nonsensical Lyngstrand; M.
Anderson as Ballisted, a young man; and
F. Bliss as the stranger. Minor parts are
the tourists: A. NicoJJ, M. Vorhees, A.
Gabel and A. Orbison.
The first performance of the play will
take place on Friday night and be attended
by (he Junior class and by the presidents
and deans of several colleges, who are
meeting at the Deanery in the afternoon.
The Saturday ' night performance will be
for the public; ticket"can he obtained from
M. Kawson, 49 Pembroke-East; they are
a dollar or seventy-five cents for outsiders
and seventy-five or fifty cents for the
College. �
� M. Rawson is the manager of the play,
the   committees  are:
Play, E. Hobdy, chairman; E. Finch, V.
Grace, K. Peek, D. Wells.
Casting, O. Howard, chairman; F. Bliss,
S. Hand, E. Hobdy, V. Liddell, M. T.ucker.
Scenery,' P. Smith, chairman; E. Don-
ahue, A.  Fountain, J. Palache.
Costumes, M. Hay, chairman; E. Hall, F.
Fisher.          Properties, G. Rhoads.
Scene Shifters, M. Kennard, chairman;
E. Finch, P. Necl, C. Rhett, M. Speer, H.
Stevens, L Wyckoff.    Lights,   I.   Coleman.
MANY STUDENTS 1M GENERAL INFORMATION TEST
Although the fifth General Information test was "very uninteresting," according to
ope of its inventors,' it was "very amusing," according to the competitors, The results
have not yet� been announced by the Judging Committee, Professors Crandall, -Schenck,
and Crenshaw. There will be three prizes of ^eventy-five, fifty and twenty-five dollars,
given by President Thomas, for the three best papers. t
The first of these information tests was given in 1917-18, and was judged by Pro-
fessors Donnelly, Kingsbury and Gray; they have been continued ever since, although
f�in the year of President Thomas' absence no prizes were given,
The test this year was as follow:
MODERN MUSIC SUBJECT
LAST LECTURE RECITAL
Compositions of Debussy, Ravel, Cesar
Cui and Rachmaninoff Performed  ,
mr: alwyne the only player
1.    What time of day is it at the North
Pole? What is the difference in time be-
tween New York and San Francisco?.
2.  .What is the l�th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United  Sates?
3.   Give the singular Torm of each plural
in the following list (if there is one), and
the plural form (if there is one) of each
singular: lice, dice, locus, genus, genius,
\irus, data, viscera, pleura, Pleiades, court-
martial, cupful, people, two. Is measles
singular or plural?
4.    If   a   period '(. )   in   this   s%*<T typjjd
represents the earth, draw a circle to repre-
sent the sun on the same scale.
5.   Name two oratorios by different com-
posers and the composers.. Name three
composers of famous symphonies; three
composers of famous" songs; and three
composers known chiefly f% piano com-
positions.
6.   Define the following legal terms:
grand jury, petit jury', indictment, misde-
meanor, felony, "a true bill," receiver,
executor.____
7.    Name five members of , President
Harding's cabinet.
8.    When did Jefferson's Republican party
become the Democratic party?
20.    Who rs the world's champion in ten-
nis,   billiards, boxing, l>aschall?
21.    VVhaT novels include among their
characters the following: George Wash-
ington, Erasmus) Savonarola?
22.    Mention three novels by authors of
ilmc (lilkrtnl 'nationalities that are sej in
the Napoleonic era.   .    <y
23.    What literary associations have the
following:
Abbotsford
Chelsea                                  ,'    '      �*"
Camden
. Missolonghi
Weimar
Ichabod
Honest                                        .   .  .
�I'mblc
Jolly
Nexermore
Excelsior
O Richard, 0 mon roi!
24.   Give the equivalent in English meas-
ure of kilometre, centimetre, litre, kilo-
gram. Define a league, a furlong, a
fathom.
25.   Define and give the origin of the
following: boycott, bowdlerize, fletcherize,
Rhodesia, gerrymander, bunkum, Chain in-
9.   Name two islands in the Pacific animism,  Twelfth  Night, masculine  rhyme   (or
DOROTHY MESERVE TO HEAD
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Vice-President   is   Estner   Rhoads
E. Lawrence Succeeds E. Ives
Dorothy Meserve, '23, was elected presi-
dent of the Christian Association to suc-
ceed M. Speer, '22, at the elections held
before the spring vacation. E. Rhoads, '23,
the new vice-president, succeeds M. Kaw-
son, '22, and E. Lawrence, '25, succeeds E.
Ives, '24, as secretary.
Miss Meserve has held several important
offices since she has been in College. In
her Sophomore year she was class secre-
tary and on the Membership .Committee.
This year she has be.en on the Christian
Association Board, chairman of the Pub-
licity Committee, leader of the Student Vol-
unteer Conference held at Princeton and
head  proctor of   Pembroke-West.
Miss Rhoads was Freshman member of
the Christian Association Board, secretary
and chairman of the World Citizenship
Committee and leader of the Student Vol-
unteer Conference at Easton last year, and
Junior member of the Board and under-
graduate member of the I. S. C. A. for
Bryn Mawr this year.
Mi�� I^wrence has been on the board of
the school paper at the Irvvin School and
was associate editor year book last year.
H. Hoyt, '23, and H. Price, '23, have
been elected Senior members of the Chris-
tian Association Board and M. L White,
'24, and M. Fairies, '24, are Junior members.
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two   in   the   Atlantic   that   belong   to   the
I'nrtcd States.
10.   What is meant by fall wheat, selling
short, spot cotton, "bull" and "bear," on
the market, cumulative stocks, "bucject
shop," assets, liabilities?
11.    Why does a thermos bottle keep
things hot or cold?          �
12.   Name five tribes of American
Indians.
13.   What instruments usually make trp
a string quartet? Name some specific types
of music included under chamber music.
14.    Name in order the seven colors of
the  rainbow.
1#.   What are primary elections?
16.   Why is leap year so called? Why
are leap years necessary? What is the
Harvest Moon? What is, the Hgnter's
Moon?
17.    Distinguish between a humanist and
a humanitarian; mystic and mysterious;
amulet and armlet; annual and annular;
hypercritical and hypocritical; stocks and
bonds; plurality and majority; telescope
and horoscope; talesman and talisman;
apocalypse anl apocrypha.
18.   What books are included in the
Hexateuch? Name five books of the New
Testament, not including the Gospels.
19.   In what centuries did the following
live: Rousseau, Marx, Copernicus, Mo-
hammed, Dante, Cleopatra, Hannibal, He-
rodohis, Galileo, Praxiteles, Magellan,
Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, Alexander,
Attila, Wallace, Aeschylus, Buddha, Euclid,
Darwin, Constantine, Xenophon, Roger.
Bacon, Gregory the. Great, "Archimedes,
Saladin, Charlemagne, Plato, Marco Polo?
ending), feminine rhyme (or ending).
26.   What houses are on the thrones of
Spain, Italy, England? Give the name of
the kings of Spain, Italy, Egypt, of the
Pope, of the late Pope. Describe the proc-
ess of electing a pope. What dethroned
monarchs of Europe are still living?
27.    Explain the following abbreviations:
I H S, & P Q R, Oxon., P & O, LXX,
Cantab., K-G, aq., q. s., F R. S., K. C. B.
28.   Identify, define or explain Palladium,
idols of the cave, roaring forties, to box
the compass, saltpetre, Basque, Carlisls,
Orient Express, Shepherds Hotel, Peninsu-
lar War, centigrade     *
29.    Who received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1921? .What Americans have
received Nobel prizes?
30.   What uses have'the following stones:
pumice stone, limestone, Roserta Stone,
brimstone, blue stone?
31.   What names arc most intimately as-^
sociatcd with the founding of the following
sects:   Quaker, Baptist, Presbyterian,  Uni-
tarian, Christian Scientist, Methodist? Give
a distinguishing feature of each sect.
32. � Where are most of the Parthenon
sculptures? By whartame are they known.
and why? Where is the Hermes of
Praxiteles? the Blue Boy? Leonardo's Last
Supper?                 ^
33.   Name and locate five of the world's
greatest picture galleries.
34.   Who are or were: Dreyfus, Ras-
putin, Ferrefo, Rodin, Saint-Saens, Kro-
potkin,  Sudermann, Sir   William  Ramsey?
3F>. Name four Arctic explorers and tell
whether they are living or not.
News  Chooses   Freshman   Member
The News takes great pleasure in an-
nouncing that Jean Gregory, '25, has
been admitted to the business board;
Miss Gregory is the fiist member of
1925 to be taken on this board.
Seniors Vote to Give Up Flowers
The Senior Class has voted to give
up flowers for the Senior playT   They
hope   that   the  money  otherwise  spent
on these flowers.will be given to Bates
llouse.
Modern 'French and Russian Music was
the subject of the sixth and last" lecture
recital, which took place in Taylor Hall last
Monday night.-
Mr. Surettc, director of the Department
of ~ Music, began by giving a "di'scriptive
and analytical sketch of present day music
in France and Russia." "Modern music,"
Mr. Surette said, "is difficult for us to
understanl and study, and the composers
arc ahead of us. We can do"no more than
note some of its idioms, that it is free
harmonically, has a continued flux and to
on. Its most characteristic trait is, perhaps,
its absolute freedom, and that we find no
such grotesque development as, for in-
stance, the cubists' work in painting, is due
only to the good sense of the conductors
who weed out the most unfortunate idiosyn-
crasies. We are able to distinguish certain
definite things that have happened, the Ma-
jor third has become familiar, contrapuntel
harmo.ny has developed, overtones are used
everywhere in new relations, and expres-
sion   is through harmony."
As to the .difference between French and
Russian music, Mr. Surette said: "Ercnch
music is the outgrowth of centuries of
tradition, it is small, beautiful, delicate and
subtle. France is now experimenting with
technique, and the result is glowing, tender
and irridescent; it is beautiful but it must
be taken for what it is. Russian music,
on the other hand, is young, bold and
rough, goring new vitality and inspiration."
Mr.'Alwyne, associate professor of music,
then gave the following program:'
I.   Debussy
Prelude in A minor.
Reflet dans l'Kau.
La Fille aux (heveux de Lin.
Dante de Puck.
II.   Rogcr-Ducasse
Deux Esquisscs              %
(a) Sans  lentcur.
Ravel
(h)  Sans lenteur et gaiement.
Menuet
De Severac
En Tartane
Arrivee en Cerdagna
Prelude in "A flat
Novelette Op. 11
Poeme Op. 32 No. 1
Paeons Op. 28 No. 2
(An essay in obsolete rhythms.)
IV.    Rachmaninow,    Barcarolle   Op.    10,
Prelude in  B minor Op. 32, Polichinejle.
III. Cesar Cui
Rimsky-Korsakow
Scriabin
Arensky
COLLEGE ATHLETIC DIRECTORS
TO MEET AT BRYN MAWR
y
Demonstration Water Polo Game to
be Staged on Friday
The sixth annual meeting of College Di-
rectors of Physical Education for women
will,be held at Bryn Mawr on April 27
and 28.
Conferences on physical training will take
place during the" meeting, and on Friday
evening a demonstration water polo game
will be played, as water polo has l>een at-
tempted by no other college except Barnard.
The delegates have also asked to sec a Bryn
Mawr* hockey game and apparatus.
This meeting, which warr-'at Vassar last     ,
spring, is held at a different college every
year.   Eastern colleges only are represented.__
I irU-gates, who will be here, are from Vas-
sar, Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke,
Wells, Goucher, Bates, Syracuse, Barnard,
Radcliffe, and Coston University.
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