College News, 1925-02-25, Vol. 11, No. 16

              e College News
Vol.-XI.    No. 15
BRYN  MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1925
Price 10 Cents
PLANS FOR STUDENTS'
BUILDING BEING MADE
Necessity for'Two Auditoriums
Hard to Combine With Archi-
tectual Beauty
is
MISS PARK ADDRESSES ALUMNAE
Two related crises, one recent and un-
expected,' the other more remote, were
the subject of President Park's speech to
the Alumnae of Philadelphia last Monday
during a luncheon at the Bellevue-Strat-
ford.
One day Mrs. Collins, the Director of
Publicity of Bryn Mawr College, got in
touch with the insurance company to de-
termine where films of last May day
might be stored: She found that though
the college was totally unaware of^it, new
and very stringent fire laws had recently
been passed, which literally forbade not
only the showing of films in either Taylor
Hall or the gymnasium but which also cut
down the seating capacity for all college
functions.
Miss Park suddenly realized that the
college had been doing something which
she always attempted to avoid. She had
always inveighed against the attitude that
if one were doing anything really wrong,
someone in authority would interfere and
forbid it, and that was the very attitude
that Bryn Mawr had tacitly adopted. Her
decision was that we must have adequate
provisions for student activity in the near
future, but that in the meanwhile there
must be close adherence to regulations at
every point. This results in a warm feel-
ing of righteousness, but a deplorable lack
of hospitality. Even if we could properly
support our Music Department, there
would be no place1 in which it could per-
form to the advantage of outsiders. Presi-
dent Comfort, of Haverford, immediately
upon hearing of our predicament, offered
the use of Roberts Hall, which has been
gratefully accepted for the Glee Club per-
formance of "The Pirates of Penzance,"
but there are obvious practical difficulties
in the way of using it for any extended
period of time.
In Taylor Hall it was formerly possible
to seat :i50, but adherence to the law will
cut that to 290, scarcely more than half the
college. The gymnasium could formerly
be counted upon to seat 1100, while its
new quota is between 500 and 600. A
device to take care of the movable seats
is being installed. How the problem of
announcing the European Fellowship to
an eager college will be solved is as ye"t
unknown. Commencement has two solu-
tions�to radically reduce the invitation or
to t^ke the fearful chance of clear weaher
and use the cloisters.
There are two problems in that a small
room for purely college assemblies is
needed, as well as a larger meeting place
where we can properly entertain guests.
The cost of building both is prohibitive,
and having the music room thrown into
the larger auditorium on occasion is im-
practicable, on account of the sloping
� floor of the latter, so the solution seems
to be that offered by Ralph Adams Cram,
and used effectively by him at Wellesley,
of the architectural gallery, adopted from
the old New England churches, and de-
signed so as to be inconspicuous when
not in use.
The crisis of the fire laws was unex-
pected, but that of the Music Department
was always realized. Its position, depend-
ent on gifts, was ever a precarious one,
and vet this did not cause much excite-
ment  because the project was from  the
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VARSITY DEFEATS BALTIMORE
BANTAMS IN BASKETBALL
Good Shooting of Bryn Mawr Forwards
Helps Team to Victory
In a basketball game, far more hard-
fought than the score of 45-20 indicated,
Bryn Mawr succeeded in defeating'the
Baltimore Bantams on Saturday, Febru-
ary 21.
The game was a swift one, with rapid
passing and good clearing on both sides.
Bryn Mawr succeeded in getting out and
sending the ball up the field in quick
shots from guards to centres to forwards,
who threw baskets with almost automatic
ease.
In the beginning Baltimore's team
seemed surer than Varsity. Hurling the
ball apparently without care, the invaders
seemed to sense their team's positions.
Their weakness lay in their shooting,
which was done almost entirely by one
forward fed by the other.
The first half continued to be under the
control of the Bantams. Then, with a
quick leap, G. Leewitz, '26, intercepted the
ball and gave Varsity the opportunity to
use the almost machine-life pass j/p the
field ending in the inevitable baslfe^Oj
MISS DONNELLY arranges touiH ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE
TO TAKE PLACE IN FALL
OF CURTIS PUBLISHING PLANT
Staff Explains Policy and Cost of Space
in Saturday Evening Post, Etc.
Through the kindness of Miss Donnelly
and Miss Neill and Mr. Lorimer, of the
Curias Publishing Co. staff, the major
English   class   and   the   editorial   boards
of TIk* Lantern and Thk Nkws were
shown through the offices of the Curtis
Publishing Co. on Thursday afternoon.
_ Iher�,some 7 50,000. capies of-'/'/i,- Satur-
day livening Past are turned out daily. The
type is set from perforated manuscript by a
pneumatic device, tons of paper are me-
chanically unrolled, stamped, cut, slid into
ready to mail as The Saturday livening
Post. The plant has a personnel of
:i.">00 who, arranged in shifts, get some 19
and 0-10 hours' work out of the day. For
their convenience there are'huge dining
roofs in an upper story of the building
looking out over the bridges and house-
tops.
One page of advertising for one week
in The Saturday Evening Post costs $7000.
-   r\    "At that the manufacturer is getting his fame
remarkable goal was shot from the side
by Mi^s Bliss, op whose unerring eye and
swift throwing Baltimore's entire scoring
depended.
In the second half Bryn Mawr had the
ball from the first toss-up in spite of the
renewed efforts of Baltimore. J. Huddles-
ton, '28, guard, was remarkably good, us-
ing her head and passing intelligently.
Towards the end the playing became wild-
er, both sides apparently exhausted. Line
"P:____�_
Baltimore�Miss Bliss**"*"*****, Miss
Cottman, Miss Santos, Miss Poe,' Miss
Mackubin, Miss Marshall.
Varsity�C. Remak, �85������M�MM,
F. Jay, �26********, S. McAdoo, 26, S.
Walker, '27, G. Leewitz, '26, J. Huddles-
ton, '28.
MR. ALWYNE AND MR. SASLAWSKY
GIVE PIANO AND VOCAL RECITAL
Russian Folk Songs And Modern Piano
Pieces in Fine Program
Horace Alwyne, pianist, and Boris
Saslawsky, baritone, gave the third concert
of the series under the auspices of the
Music Department on Monday evening,
February 16. in Taylor Hall.
The program was unusually interesting
and had great variety, including piano
pieces by Chopin, Ravel and other mod-
ern composers, songs by living Russian
musicians by Schubert and Brahms, as
well as folk songs of Big and Little Rus-
sia. The whole program was splendidly
performed. Mr. Saslawsky proved him-
self not only a singer with a beautiful
voice and Jine skill, but an excellent
musicians, by Schubert and Brahms, as
audience demanded encores of the "Volga
Boat Song," the delightful folk song about
the old woman who "got tired," and an
encore after the last group of songs. Mr.
Alwyne played as an encore at the end
of the program, a Russian dance of Mous-
sorgsky. The program was as follows:
Rachmaninoff ...."I Am Not a Prophet"
Tschaikowsky ......The Pilgrim's Song
Liapounow  .....'............Night Song
Moussorgsky ........The Child's Prayer
Gretohaninoff  ...............The Steppe
Mr. Saslawsky
Chopin�Berceuse
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cheap at the price.
Miss Neill, who was a Bryn Mawr girl,
said that in policy the Poet aimed to pre-
sent both sides of current questions. Mr.
Lorimer, the editor, personally directs
about one-third of the literary matter of
each issue. For instance, feeling that the
younger generation* needed some sense of
the olden days and the pioneers, he per-
suaded Emerson Hough to contribute his
own memories of prairie schooners and
frontiers, which resulted in "The Covered
Wagon" and "North of 36."
The 'Saturday livening Post is an
American institution and its position, ac-
cording to the analysis for 1924, is largely
due to the personal editorship of Mr.
George  Horace Lorimer.
Miss Park Announces Resignation
of Dean Bontecou, Who Will be
Succeeded by Mrs. Manning
NEW DEAN HELD OFFICE BEFORE
"THE PLAYERS" GIVE COMEDIES
IN WYNDHAM MUSIC ROOM
"The Rehearsal/' and "The Reluctant
Lion" by A. Shires, Well Done
"The Players," a group of undergrad-
uates interested in acting, producing and
writing plays, presented on Friday and
Saturday evenings, February 20 and 21,
a one-act comedy, "The Reluctant Lion,"
by Anne ji^iiras, '25, and a Restoration
comedy, "The Rehearsal," by George
Villiers.*
The choice of the plays for perform-
ance shows the policy of "The Players,"
who wish to produce plays interesting
and valuable to the actor and producer
even if not popularly successful, and to the I
college author a chance to see his own
work on a stage. Miss Shiras' play of
the poet who was a poker-player but not
a lion, and his advice to a charming young
man "in radiators," was clever and amus-
ing, in spite of. several rather trite char-
acters, the lady lion-hunter and her poker-
fiend husband and their dinner guests.
The plot was handled with consummate
skill and the lines were always witty.
"The Rehearsal" was presented with
remarkable zest and humor and a delight-
ful appreciation of the play, imaginative
and almost scholarly in its capture of the
spirit of the period. The "grand manner",
was too ofteo. lacking, but a fortnight of
preparation could not l�e expected to de-
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Miss Kleanor Bontecou has handed in
her resignation as dean of the college. She
will be succeeded next fall by Mrs. Helen
Taft Manning, '13, daughter of Chief
Justice Taft. Speaking a.t the Alumnae
luncheon on January 31, President Park
made the following announcement:     '
"One great change in the college next
year will come when Miss Bontecou
leaves the Dean's office. She came to
Bryn Mawr at the urgent request, of the
college in 1922, the year of President
Thomas' retirement, to fill the unexpired
term of Miss Hilda W. Smith after three
years of onerous and valuable work for
the college she leaves at the end of the
year and enters on graduate work at Rad-
cliffe which foyows the line of her special
interest.
"The office of the Dean has never been
so complicated nor have its interests ever
been so varied as now. This development
of the office will certainly continue and
increase. Dean Bontecou has carried the
laborious and often monotonous duties
steadily and spiritedly. She has contribu-
ted to a high degree Uie intelligence, jus-
tice and generosity wfflch are the founda-
tions of an executive position.
"The loss to me is a great one personally.
Our association has naturally been close
and intimate and I have found her loyalty,
her responsibility and her interest unfail-
ing. The college will miss an abje execu-
tive and a wise counsellor."
M ra. Manning and her husband, Fred-
erick J. Manning, who leaves Yale this
year to become associate professor of
History at Swarthmore, will move to
Bryn Mawr early in the autumn. The
Tamily, which now includes two children,
will occupy a house on the Bryn Mawr
campus.
As Helen Taft, she won the first ma-
triculation scholarship from Pennsylvania
and the Southern States when she entered
in 1908. While she was in college her
father was elected President of the United
States, and at the end of her sophomore
year she went to Washington to help her
mother entertain at the White House.
Returning to Bryn Mawr in 1913 she
took her degree "magna cum laude" in 1915,
specializing in history, economics and
politics. In the fall qf 1915 she entered
the graduate department of history at
Yale and the following June was awarded
her M.A. From 1917 to 1919 she was
dean of the college, and acted as presi-
dent in the absence of President Thomas
in 1919-20.
As an undergraduate, Mrs. Manning
was active in student affairs. She or-
ganized the debating club, and was editor
of the Lantern. She was also a member
of the advisory board of the self-govern-
ment association and the vice president
of the   Christian  Association. A   brilliant
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The editorial board of the News
takes pleasure in announcing that those
who have entered the competition from
1U28 ^are, E. Amran, �C. Asplund, J.
Fetter, M. Fowler, M. Haley, L. Hol-
lander, II. McKelvey, J. Morganstern,
C. Rose, M. Saunders, M. Salinger.
From 1927 they are M. DuFour, V.
Newbold.
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