College News, 1923-02-14, Vol. 09, No. 14

              The College
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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 1923
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HISTORY OF THE SONG
TRACED IN RECITAL
Miss Madge Fainax Illustrates with
Songs.    Mr. Aluryne's Corn-
posit on Applauded
The subject of Mr. Thomas Whitney
Surette's "fourth lecture recital last Mon-
day evening, at which Miss Madge Fair-
fax, mezzo-soprano, sang, accompanied at
the piano hy Mr. Horace Alwyne, was
"the development of the song."           �
Mr. Surette ga>e a descriptive and
analytical sketch of the development of the
song from Folk Songs to those of Rach-
v         maninow,   Gretchaninow,   and   the   present
day. Miss Fairfax's songs illustrated his
thesis.
"An Autumn Song," by Mr. Alwyne him-
.         self, illustrating the modern products, was
received by the audience with great accla-
mation.
There arc, said Mr.. Surette, three ways
of tracing the development of the. song..
The first is by noting ihe connection be-
tween sense and words. In Mozart and the
folk songs the music expressed any mean-
ing; a sad tune did for gay or sad words.
Now a song-writer, has no desire for mu-
sical coherence. His motif fits his mean-
ing and changes with it. In the second
place, song has developed in connection
with its accompaniment. A folk song had
no accompaniment. Hut Brahms and
Strauss have very complicated accompany-
ing motifs. In the third place, the song
has developed in the melodic complexity of
line and phrase.
Aside from these three points, the per-
sonality of the singer must be taken into
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UNUSUAL   ATHLETIC   MEET
HELD IN GYMNASIUM
Graduates  and  Seniors  Grapple to
Win First Place
Seniors and graduates, dressed in gym-
nastic costume, rivaled one another in rope
Jumping, reeling relays, hop-scotch, and
other events of the Athletic Meet given to
1923 by the Graduate Students in the Gym-
nasium last Saturday night.
First in the list of sports came the ob-
stacle race, in which the contestants >cram-
bled under mats, pushed dumb bells with
their noses, and finally crawled to the finish
on all fours. In the reeling relay, which
followed   when  everyone   had  caught   her
. breath, each runner was provided with an
umbrella, which she carried furled across
flic gymnasium, where she opened it and
after pivoting around twice with her nose
on the handle, closed it again and dashed
back to hand it to the next in line. Turtle
race, tape races, rope jumping, hop-scotch
and jack-stones came next. The jack game
was perhaps the most popular until Miss
Young proved herself such a skilled player
that no one could be found to compete"
with  her, but the hop-scotch field  was at
. all times very crowded.
After the scores were reckoned at the
end of the meet the Seniors who were
judged victorious, gathered under their
banner and cheered their valiant oppo-
nents who lowered their emblem, a pink
banner with white numerals, reading 1776.
An athletic wedding, in which the bride
wore a badminton-net veil and the service
was all written in athletic terms, made a
fitting end for the strenuous meet. A wed-
ding breakfast, consisting of ice cream
cones and crackers, was served to the
weary but happy competitors. ;
PHYSICAL WELFARE EXHIBITION
GIVEN IN THE GYMNASIUM
Vassar and Wellesly Among  Number
to Lend Posters
� Various aspects of physical welfare were
demonstrated to both Undergraduates and
Model School students in the Gymnasium
during the past week. A large collection
of posters, charts and pictures," lent (o
Miss C M: fcC. Applebcc, Director of
Physical Training, by welfare organiza-
tions, colleges and industrial plants, were
hung around the walls.
On the hack of the Gymnasium were
posters showing ' the work done among
children hy**the Philadelphia Dairy Coun-
cil. Diet, regular sleep hours, cleap teeth
were all enforced by means of competitive
games. A "Sleep Tower," painted on a
large piece of cardboard, with every brick
marked off, is in the possession of all
ekisses at Narberth Public School. A
child who has had a full ten hours sleep
the night before may write his name on
one of these bricks and so help to build
a towet higher than that of his rival class.
Similar methods have been devised to en-
sure that every girl or boy eats'a green
vegetable a day and drinks at least four
glasses of  water.
The health work done among women
was exhibited at the Merion end of the
Gymnasium.  The Woman's Foundation for
calth, first formed after the war from
the Council of all Women's Organizations,
proposes to do among woman also what
is being done How only for children. Pic-
tures of the Wellcslcy showers, their crew,
and of an original method of correcting
fallen arches by a tug of war with feet
were"shown. Added to this were-photo-
graphs of "How the men's colleges in-
crease physical fitness," the work of the
Y. W. C A. among Industrial girls, and
of the chair founded at the Woman's
ledical Collect of Pennsylvania for pre-
ventive medicine, by the Anna Howard
Shaw Memorial Fund. Vassar sent posters
showing its tests for posture and an ac-
count of their drive. This w4s a compe-
tition for good postures lasting a week,,
at   the end of   which   forty-three  students
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UNDERGRADUATE COMMITTEE TO
INVESTIGATE CURRICULUM
Two Thousand  Dollars on C. A.
Budget
Pledges for the Christian As-
sociation Budget, amounting to
$2677.72, part of which was col-
lected on Pay Day yesterday are:
Student Friendship Fund. .$757.97 Jfc
Hates   House   ............603.75
Community Centre  .......    94..iO
Dr. James Hospital.......    85.75
Miss Tseuda's School  .. . ." 62.50
I'nassigned         . ..,,........607.25
ADELPHI DEFEATED BY VARSITY
IN BASKET BALL
Skillful   and   Intelligent   Playing   by
S. Leewitz and M. Palache
THREE HUNDRED ALUMNAE
AT ANNUAL GATHERING
Foundation  of  An   Alumnae   Fund
Main Topic of Discussion.
Miss lodd is Chaiiman
DINNER HELD IN ROCKEFELLER
Report Recommending Changes to be
Made to   Faculty
The student members of the college
council have appointed a committee which
will investigate the curriculum and look
into the general matter of college courses,
to make a report to the Faculty who arc
at present working along the same lines
and who will consider this report before
making any changes in the curriculum. The
committee will probably divide its investiga-
tions into two parts. First, they will give
special attention to required work, and the
rearrangement of present courses, and try
to work out some good basis for the group
system. Secondly, they will consider tenta-
tive suggestions for an honor system and
comprehensive examinations. The commit-
tee will write to other colleges for sug-
gestions, and in order to get the opinions
of everyone in college one person in every
hall has been appointed from each class to
submit any suggested changes to the com-
mittee.
The members are: F. Martin, '23, ex-
ofhcio chairman; A. Howell, "23; E. Page,
'23; E. Requa, '24; L. Ford, '24; M. Faries,
'24; E. Glessner, '25 and E. Nichols, *26.
Varsity defeated Adelphi College, Krookj-
lyn, last  Saturday, with   a score of 36-15.
The victory was accomplished not so
much by the offensive of the forwards as
by the defense of the guards and by the
quick and accurate passing in the center.
Hither because of a characteristic and es-
tablished independence in playing, or be-
cause of the comparative novelty of the
combination, C. RenTak, '25, and W. Dodd,
'26. were conspicuous for their lack of co-
ordination. To say that each played an in-
dividual game is hut an insipid expression
of .the truth. Repeatedly they made long
and wild shots for the basket which did
credit more to their imagination than to
their judgment, instead of pursuing the
safer if less exciting course of passing. It
is true that the* score mounted, but this was
Adelphi's fault more than Hryn Mawr's
virtue as far as the forwards were con-
cerned. Either Adelphi's guards were phc-
nomcnally close or clse^arsity's forwards
were not at all elusive, for it is certain
that neither Dodd nor Kcmak were free
so often as they might and should have
been for the passes from the center. It is
noteworthy that not'once did Bryn Mawr
intercept a ball thrown in by the Adelphi
guards, nor the' ensuing pass, until it got to
the center.
But   if the   forwards,   in   view   of   their
past  performances, were a disappointment,
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Seventy fonr alumnae attended the Alum-
nae Dinner, held, on Friday, February 2,
in Rockefeller cHaTl. The dinner was given
especially for class collectors" and editors, %
but as many other members of the Alum-
nae Association were welcomed as seating
capacity permitted. Mrs. Gerard Fountain,'
mother of O. Founanin, '24, was toast-
mistress, and the speakers were Miss Anne
Hampton Todd; President of the Alumnae.
Association; Miss Martha (J. Thomas,
Difector, and until last month Chairman of.
�he Finance Committee; and Mrs, Shep-
herd Morgan, of New York, a member of
�he Finance Committee. The question dis-
cussed was the Alumnae Fund. After
dinner a play was given by Serena Hand.
'22, Beatrice Nathan Church wood, '13, R,
Maude Dessau, '13, and a Scotch Terrier
from Shipley School.
Miss Anne Hampton Todd presided at
the meeting of nearly three hundred alum-
nae on Saturday morning. The Committee
reports, except those of the Directors, the
Treasurer, and the M. Carey Thomas Prize
Fund, were included in Miss Todd's re-
port. Mrs. Leonard Hand, of New York,
made the report of the Alumnae Directors,
and Miss Bertha Ehlers, Treasurer of the
Association, presented the Treasurer's re-
port, which showed that this year there
was a balance in hand of $902. which will
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ARMENIAN   OFFICER   IN   RUSSIAN
ARMY  SPEAKS  IN  CHAPEL
Describes Wretched Condition of
Starving  Countrymen
General Azgapetyan, a graduate 6f
Robert College, Constantinople, and of
Geneva College and Columbia University,
and a veteran of the Russian army, spoke
in chapel last Friday morping, appealing
for   funds   for  the  Near-East Relief.
"During the Great War a call came from
the Allies to the Armenians," l>egan Gen-
eral Azgapetyan. "We listened to this call
of the Allies and trusted them. We came
forward and did our duty well, taking
part in all the battles of the war in Europe
M wall as in Asia. Twenty thousand Ar-
menians were in the American Army and
200,000 in the Russian army. The infuri-
ated Turks massacred the Armenians left
at home and devastated their lands, while
the few able to escape had to seek refuge
in other countries. At the end of the war
other people were allowed to return to
their devastated lands, but the Armenians
had no Such opportunity. Instead the
Turk was given a chance to resume his
work of destruction.
The General concluded his talk with an
appeal to send money, to the starving Ar-
menians. Five dollars, he said, will save
a child for one month.
FRENCH ACTRESS GIVES SCENE *
FROM MYSTERE, AND OLD PLAY
Rise of Drama in France Described
by Mme. Rey, Pupil of Copeau
I Pressed in a medieval gown of richly
brocaded satin and speaking in the slow
clear French of a trained actress, Mme.
Maude Rey, pupil of the famous Jacques
(Opeau, gave a triply illustrated sketch of
the development of the drama in F'rance,
in Taylor Hall last Friday evening under
the auspices of the French Club. Using
lantern slides of early settings as a back-
ground for her acting, Mme. Rey ren-
dered scenes from a "mystere" and from
an early comedy. r
Thc-first dramatic productions were held
inside the church, and, as dramatizations
of Bible scenes, formed part of the service.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
eagerness for this kind of expression in-
creased until the performances were taken
outside of the church, and church schools
became interested in writing pieces in the ^
vulgar tongue. With the development of
the miracle and mystery play, pageantry
grew in importance. The stage was en- -
larged to make room for the increased
number of actors, all of whom remained in
sight during the whole performance,
Heaven," Hell, Jerusalem, the Temple of
Solomon, the Golden Gate, and other stock
sites came Jo have � conventional place
in the setting. On a terrain in front of
the temple the actors strode up and down
to denote a journey by land, while by
stepping into a boat upon a small pond,
they took an ocean voyage. Their cos-
tumes were cut in -contemporary style, tike
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