College News, 1926-05-19, Vol. 12, No. 26

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The College News
VOL. XII.   No. 26.
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY. MAY 19. 1926
PRICE.   10 CENTS
HAULS TO BE OPEN TILL 18 DUR-
ING  COMMENCEMENT  WEEK
Students  Must  Be in Promptly  Then.
By a Special agreement between the Col-
lege Authorities and the'Board of the Self-
Government  Association, the  halls  will   be
kept open until 12 o'clock on Saturday, May
29, Monday. May 31, Tuesday, June 1, and
Wednesday. June 2.   Students are expected
to uphold their side, of the bargain by being
in   promptly at   12 o'clock.
PRESIDENT PARK UNVEILS BUST
OF JONATHAN EDWARD&ATN.Y.U.
Many Great Americans Are Honored
by Place in Hall of Fame
ANNOUNCE ELABORATE
PLANS FOR REUNIONS
^Complicated Program Covers Alum-
nae and Undergraduate Ceremon-
ies for Six Days
1904 OLDEST CLASS REPRESENTED
The program for the Alumnae reunions
will be unusually elaborate this year.
1904 is the earliest class to hold its re-
union, and will have its headquarters in
Denbigh, Jeanette Hemphill Bolte being
manager. 1905 will have Pembroke West
as headquarters, and Caroline Morrow
Chadwick-Coilins is manager. Pem-
broke East is to be honored as the head-
quarters for the class holding its twen-
tieth reunion. The manager for 1906 is
Louise Fleischmann Maclay. 1907 will
gather at Radnor under the management
of Esther Williams Apthorp. Merion
will be the headquarters for 1924 and
Marthe Elizabeth Howe will be man-
ager, while 1925 will gather at Rocke-
feller under the leadership of Susan Ca-
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President Park took part in the cere-
monies of enlarging the Hall of Fame of
N. Y. U. on Wednesday, May 12. She
unveiled a i>ust of Jonathan Edwards, her
great great grandfather, which was the
gift of the Presbyterian Church and pre-
sented by Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, of
Philadelphia.
Other great Americans honored at this
time were Daniel Boone, Edwin Booth,
Chancellor James Kent, George Peabody,
Augustus Saint Gaudens, Daniel "Webster,
Eli Whitney and Roger Williams.
PLAUTUS SPEAKS IN LOCAL SLANG UNDER
>      ' AUSPICES OF MAJOR LATIN STUDENTS
CAMPUS RIFE WJTH TOWN AND"
GOWN DEMONSTRATION OF 1936
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GERMAN REQUIREMENT REVISION
SUGGESTED BY QUESTIONNAIRE
Only   One   Vote   Supports   Present
System as Adequate
The following statistics and suggestions
have been gathered since the German
oral:
Of those who flunked 18 did not drop
extra-curric and worked on the average
three hours per week. Of those 18. 14
took supervised reading and did on the
average 3.8 hours of work per week.
Of those who passed two "passed on
only extra-curric and supervised reading,
working respectively 2]/i and 3 ft hours
per week the first year and 2J4 and
6J-S hours per week the second year. All
the others either tutored or took baby
German or had some previous knowl-
edge of German.
Suggestions (taken from the remarks):
1.   16 want a required credit course in
German.
2. ^2 want German required for * en-
trance.
3.    9 want some adjustment made for
those who flunk in the fall.
4.     2 want class work to be taken into
account in grading the oral.
5.     1 wants German required instead of
Latin.
fi. 1 wants part one of the oral omit-
ted and notes taken on part two.
Objections (taken from the remarks):
1.  21 said that with a regular 15-hour
course there was not enough time to pre-
pare for the oral.
2.    3 said that it had wrecked their
junior year.
3.    9 said that the oral required more
than a reading knowledge.
4.    4 objected to the expense of tutor-
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BASKETBALL PALM GOES
TO SENIOR
On Wednesday, May 12, 1926 defeated
1927 with the score of 39-29. The team*
were fairly evenly matched and the plaj
was uninteresting. The game was marked
5y a great many fouls on both sides,
which slowed up the action.
The line-up was as follows:
1926: E. Musselman, 12122222; F. Jay,
22211222221222: M. Tatnall, V. Cooke, E.
Nichols, G. Leewitz.
1927: S. Walker, 1211^. B. Pitney,
J122212; C. Chambers, J. Seeley, Z. M.
Leary, C. Platt.
Substitutions, 1927: B. Pitney for
Chambers; V. Capron, 112222, for p. Pit-
ney.
Final Game.
1926  won  the first team championship
in  basketball by defeating 1927 a second
time, on Friday. May 14, with a score of
48-29.    The game  began with the teams
nearly even, and at the half, 1926 was only
a few points ahead.   The Dark Blue drew
ahead  rapidly,  in   the  second  half,   how-
ever,   and   completely    outdistanced    the
Green.
The line-up was as follows:
1926:      F.   Jay,    2122222222222:^2;
Musselman,  222222;   M.   Tatnall,   12;
Cooke, 22; E. Silvius, G. Leewitz.
1927: S. Walker, 122222212; B. Pitney,
22; C. Chambers, M. Cruickshank, M.
Leary, J. Seeley.
Substitutions: B. Pitney for C. Cham-
bers, V. Capron, 22122, for Pitney; E. Mor-
ris for M. Cruickshank.
Nine Vestals of Old Bryn Mawr Pledge
Faiths on Taylor Steps.
* 1926 has effectively proven the fallacy
of an old maxim that a house divided
against itself cannot fall, for who will
deny that 1926 was not divided last week
and who will dare to deny that 1926 is
not standing?                                      -.
All last week the Seniors so far forgot
their dignity as to indulge in the indelicate
sport of tearing off each other's gowns.
Whenever coolie coats were substituted,
they met the same dismal* fate. Demon-
strations of this sort were especially fre-
quent in the environs of the library.
It is rumored that one member of this
class was pursued hy another from Pem-
broke to the far confines of Rockefeller
where there ensued a merry game of hide;
and-seek for hours.
One by one the gowns disappeared, but
whether through Houdini or the less
subtle    means    of    begging,    borrowing
or�;------, others soon reappeared in their
stead. Most of them finally sought refuge
in Pembroke East where they experienced
the pressure of a imich-needcd iron. But
one was found tightly wedged in the
crown of a bridesmaid's hat. Just what
this signifies is yet to be ascertained.
Below is printed the song which the
nine greatest *martyrs made public at
Senior singing last Thursday to the ap-
propriate tune of the Prisoner's Song:
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Callidamates    Reels   'Realistically
While Tranio, Sharp Wits,
Supplies Comic Touch
at
AUDIENCE    AIDS    ATMOSPHERE
COLLEGES ARE CONSIDERED
DANGEROUS BY MILITARISTS
War a Melancholy  Necessity  for
Christians Asks Dr. Harlow
E.
V.
LEPREUVE CHOSEN BY FRENCH
CLUB FOR PLAY Of* JUNE 1
B. Ling, 'S6, to Play  Comic  Part in
, Production.
On the afternoon of June 1 the French
Club will give Marivaux's delightful play,
I.'lifreuve. As everyone probably knows, it
is a fanciful, humorous romance, all about
a gentleman and his servant who exchange
costumes, and a lady and her maid who also
dress in each other's garb and the remark-
able results that thus ensue. The French
Club has decided that the out-of-doors is the
only' fitting background, but on just what
part of Uk campus is still an open question.
Barbara Xing, *25, is featuring in the cast,
another example of the loyalty and interest
of the Alumnae.
The cast is as follows:
Lucidor  ....................K. Morse, '26
Frontin  ............_........E. Nelson, "27
M. Blaire....................B. Ling, '25
Lisette  ......................S. Morse, '26
Angelique   .................E.  Perkins, "29
Helene Grayson, '26, is directing the per-
formance.
Military leaders feel that colleges are
dangerous places, said S. Ralph Harlow,
Professor of Biblical Literature and Com-
parative Religion, Smith College, speak-
ing in Chapel on Sunday evening, May 16.
The doors of New York schools are
closed against speakers connected with
certain organizations such as the "Civil
Liberties Union," the "Reconciliation
L'nion," and the "Youth for Peace" move-
ment. It is because Bryn Mawr and other
colleges are interested, in these move-
ments that they are considered dangerous
places.
Ten years of experience showed what
war meant. Mr. Harlow lived through
five wars in the Near East, and witnessed
the massacre and deportation thereat the
beginning of the world war. Women and
children were gathered in the ruins of
the school, ordered to be at the station
in one hour, and they asked Mr. Harlow
to pray. He said that at first, although
an ordained minister, he felt a cynical
sneer at the thought of praying�then.
But as they all knelt there, a peace seemed
to fill the place, and he realized that God
was the great reality. "They might tear
our bodies, but they could never get at
our souls."
Later he went up into the ipterior, and
told a German major there that some day
Germany would come before the world's
bar for this. The major replied that he
had seen worse things still, but that Ger-
many had a military alliance with Turkey,
and "We will let nothing stand between
us and our military alliances."
When America went into the war, Mr.
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To thelhtense activity in dramatics of the
past year, the Major Latin Class made its
contribution with the Moslellaria of Plautus,
given last Thursday afternoon at the Presi-
dent's House. With class plays, Varsity
Dramatics, French Club, Players and Rad-
nor Thalians we are all familiar; Latin
comedy is, as far as we know, something
previously left by Bryn Mawr to Haverford
and  its  Classical Club.
Professor Swindler and her "Major Stu-
dents of Latin Comedy" well deserved the
applause and the cheers (the latter were
unappropriately in Greek!) with which the
audience responded to this presentation of
Plautus in the "American language," as the
translator, Helen Hook, '28, put it. With
the difficulties of small stage room, the
usual two houses needed, and the significant*
directions of entrance and exit of Latin
comedy to be followed, these actor-mana-
gers coped splendidly. In fact, the late
arrivals among the audience added to the
bustling atmosphere of the street scene, and
its comedy. Several distinguished members
of the audience appeared suddenly from the
right, the direction of the Forum; several
more stole in from the Harbor.
Real American Slang.
The Mostellaria or "Ghosts" had its own
bit of appeal to the undergraduate "sense of
recognition;" for it recalled the truth.
"When the Cat's away, the Mice will*play."
The sudden return of the Cat in the middle
of a playful party, somehow is not unknown
Moreover all those colloquial constructions
(for which that training of a purist in
Caesar never fitted one!) were in fluent
American slang, with certain epigrams in-
serted, such as "It's done in the best Boston
families." As a matter of fact, the slang
was just a little over-done; there were far
too many "Goshes," for example.
Riotous Acting.
The actors seemed to be thoroughly en-
joying themselves. The drinking party was
especially good. E Clinch, '26, as Calli-
damates, the l,.iil> Kill-'i. and L. Andrews,
'26 as his Sweetie, Delphium, were a riotous
pair. Callidamates' drunken good-nature,
uncertainty, and pompousness were delight-
ful Tranio. Sharp-wits, as played by B.
Sindall, '26, was thoroughly comic in every
detail. So also was the Scapha, Tippler, an
old servant of Philematium, the heroine; in
this part, B. Cushman. '26, was excellent. H.
Scott, '29, as Theopropides. Prophetson, the
old father of the erring hero was properly
upset at the state of things, and with
difficulty won over by the charming Calli-
damates.
Gestures Unnatural.
The effect of the play as a whole would,
we believe, have been more comic and more
telling, in the circumstances, if the actors
had used their slang of today with gestures
such as they would themselves use with the
slaug; that is, if the gestures had been
more natufal, more casual. But we respond
eagerly to the hero's final word: "Give us
your applause."        *�             "             �
Beliina Linn, 26.
The cast was as follows:
Act I, Scene I
Grumio,  Clod, Slave of Theopropides,
S. L. Hoeffer, 192S
Tranio, Sharp-wits. Slave of Theopropides,
B. Sindall, 1926
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