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The College News
VOL. XIII.   No. 26.
BRYN MAWR .(AND WAYNE), PA..   WEDNESDAY. MAY 18, 1927
DR. DIEZ REVIEWS
ART EXHIBITION
Suggests   That   Art   Students
Choose Subjects Native
to America.
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INDIVIDUALS ARE GOOD
(An open letter to tlu art students of
Bryn Mawr on the occasion of their ex-
hibition, by Dr. E. Dies.)
As you wish to know my opinion about
your exhibition, I should first like to say
something in general about the study of
art No doubt, what is learned depends
greatly on the teacher, but, on the other
hand, sometimes the teacher is in a cer-
tain sense dependent on the pupils. . . .
Mr. Young apparently worked with suc-
cess in furthering your individual pre-
dilections for the various branches of art.
It is only the question, whether in the
coming years a uniform, systematic train-
ing would not be more profitable than the
individual one. Fortunately you did not
follow the old methods of art teaching,
which one still sees practiced in nearly
every museum of this country I mean the
copying of antique statyary, which is
rather useless. But I even doubt the ad-
visability of drawing from .the nude, as
it has been practiced till now. If bne
starts with figure drawing at all, one
should begin wjth the hand or the foot
and continue till every part of the body is
well understood. Leonardo and Durer
practiced like that. But the question re-
mains, as to whether figure drawing (or
sketching, as it is done for the most part)
is of fundamental importance for begin-
ners. Behind this old international art
academy practice too, lies the anthropo-
centric point of view, which we took over
from the old Southern cultures though
it has nothing to do with the innermost
aims of our Xorthern culture, so far as
it is indigenous.
Landscape Practice Essential.
The adequate expression �ior Northern
feelings in drawing and painting is the
landscape. The German peoples had no
Raffael and no Michelangelo. But the
Italians had no Altdorfer, Durer, Ruysdal
or Rembrandt. Therefore landscape
drawing and painting should be taught
in every art school first of alL,
But landscape painting too needs its
methods of training. It should not be
begun with complexes, but with the ele-
ments, with the trunks, the branches and
the leaves. Those of you, who attended
my classes of Far Eastern art will guess
what I mean. If I had brought one of
you, who are going to practice art to the
"leaf," it would be more satisfying for
me, than all the names and dates, which
you deliver me in your quizes as a proof
of your knowledge of the subject. Names
and dates are not much more then means
of understanding a certain historical sub-
ject, but the essential value lies behind
them. And the essential value of old
Chinese painting lies for us in learning
from them by studying their method, as
they have been the only people in the
history of art with a perfect method of
landscape drawing.
This is one of the many ways in which
we can learn from one of the old Oriental
cultures and perhaps the most useful and
striking one. I am not going to deal
with this method in this letter. Permit
me only to quote a sentence from Petruc-
ci's French translation of the "Kiai-tseu-
yuan-boua-tchouan." the great encyclo-
pedia of Chinese painting (which some
of you know, and which you can look
through   in   our  Art-Seminary).     There
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A. Bruere and R. Wills to
Head Athletic Association
Alice Bruere, '28, has been elected President of the Athletic Associa-
tion for next year. Miss Bruere has been on the Athletic Bcfcrd since
her Freslugan year, and last year served as V ice-President. She has
also played on the Varsity hockey, basketball, and water-polo teams.
Miss Bruere has won the right to wear a yeliow blazer. The blazer system,
recently established, may be largely credited to, Miss Bruere. who worked out
the details with the utmost efficiency.
Rebecca Wills, '2�J, was elected Vice-Presidcnt. She has been swim-
ming captain and gym captain for her class and played on the Varsity
hockey team.                                              "        � -
*   Helen  Louise Taylor, '30, was elected Secretary, and Carla Swan,
'29, Treasurer.   The Sophomore member is to be Louise Littlehale, '30.
PRICE.   10  CENTS
PLANS FOR FINAL
WEEK ANNOUNCED
Alumnae   Reupions,   Athletic
Events and Ceremonies
to Take  Place
1897   IS   COMING   BACK
Prize Offered Collegians
Prize has. been offered by Albert and
Charles Boni for the" best essay by a
college student on "Springboard" by
Robert Wolf. The New York Times
in reviewing this novel called it "The
best college novel yet written by an
American." The essay can be either
an affirmation or a denial of this state-
ment. It should be not longer than
3000 words and must be sent, marked
� Springboard Prize Committee, to A.
and C? Bwtin.6/ "'" * �nue, Nev/
York Cky, before July 1, 1927. Hey-
wood Broun will be the judge and the
prize winne \ will be awarded $150.
This spring marks the twenty-fifth re-
union of the class of 1902 and the thir-
tieth of 1897. Festivities of all sorts,
for both graduating class and those re-
turning for reunion, include several re-
ceptions at the home of Miss M. Carey
Thomas, and a tea followed by inspec-
tion of Goodhart Hall. The headquar-
ters for the classes holding^reunions are:
1897, in Pembroke' West, managed by
Mary Campbell; 1902 will be in Merion;
1908 in Pembroke East, and 1909 and
1910 in Denbigh; 1911 in Pembroke
West; 1925, under the management of
Caroline Remak, will be in Pembroke
East, and 1926, under Winifred Dodd, in
Wyndham. Helen Rice, '28, will be Man-
ager of Games.
The program for commencement week*
is as follows:
The Deanery Garden will be lighted
every night, weather permitting, from
8.30-11.00 o'clock.
Saturday, May 28th
3.00 P. M.�Water polo practice.
3.30-6.30�P.    M.    President    Emeritus
Thomas at home at the Dean-
ery,   very   informally.     (Tea
to be served in the garden.)
4.30 P. M.�Basketball practice.
6.30 P. M.�Class Suppers�
1908�College Inn.
1926�Wyndham Garden.
8.00 P. M.�Class Suppers�
1902�Radnor
1909�Denbigh.
1911�Merion
1925�Rockefeller.
Sunday, May 29th
President   Emeritus   Thomas   at   home
10.00-12.00   A.   M.;   3.00-6.30
P.   M.   (Tea   served   in   the
garden), and 8.30-11.00 P. M.
in the Deanery sitting room.
5.30 P. M.�Memorial service for Alice
Day    Jackson,    1902,    Leila
Houghteling,   1911,   and   Ka-
trina Ely Tiffany, 1897, in the
Cloisters. Speaker  from each
of these classes.
6.30 P. M.�Supper   served   in   Wynd-
ham for 1897.
8.00 P. M.�Baccalaureate    sermon    in
the gymnasium.
The Rev. H^iry Pitney Van
Dusen,   D.D.,1   Professor    at
Union  Theological  Seminary,
New    York.     Admission   by
ticket only.
Monday,   May   30th�Alumnae  Day
10.00 A. �Alumnae   procession   in   cos-
tume.
10.30 A. M.�Alumnae   vs.   Varsity   bas-
ketball game.
2.30 P. M.   �   Scholarships   committee
meeting  with  local   chairman
in Denbigh.          ,
4.00 P. M.�Tea in honor of Mr. Ar-
thur I. Meigs of (Mellor.
Meigs and Howe, architects
of Goodhart Hall), in Rocke-
Fenwick Explains Wilson
a/id Foundation Prize
The Wilson Foundation, an endowment
created by voluntary gifts from people
all over the United States was discussed
by Dr. Fenwick,in chapel Friday morn-
ing. May' 13. The interest from the en-
dowment is used for a prize to men and
women between the ages of 20 arid 35 for
the best essay written on the subject:
"What Woodrow Wilson means to me."
The prize, of $25,000 each is given to
the man and woman who submit the
best essays on this subject. "The reason
for such a discrimination," said Dr. Fen-
wick, "is because it is humiliating for a
man to be beaten by a woman." The
essay must be only twenty-five hundred
words in length; too %hort, therefore, to
enlarge upon any definite ideas. It can-
not be a biography, but merely an inter-
pretation and explanation of what Wood-"
row Wilson's principles mean to you.
The purpose of great men in the prog-
ress of the world is to give directions
tn the oncoming generation. Wilson's
principles were not wholly original, but
he was endowed with a marvelous gift
�of writing and keen interpretation. When
he went over to the peace conference at
Versailles he discovered that we, as a
country, were more aloof and more de-
tached from the difficulties in which other
countries found themselves involved. For
this reason it became necessary for him
to make innumerable compromises which
made this country feel that his ideals
could never accomplish a purpose.
It cannot be definitely stated of his
greatest achievement, the League of Na-
tions, whether or not it will survive. At
any rate, the address in which he voiced
his cherished hopes for its rapid promo-
tion in world importance marks a turning
point in   modern  history.
ITY WRESTS
HARD VICTORY
Palache        Offers,     Exciting
Match�Swan's  Consist-
ency Wins Long Game.
rain is no Hindrance
spection of Goodhart Hall.
7.00 P. M.�Alttmnae   supper   in   gym-
nasium.      Theresa    Helburn.
^,,1908,    director    of    Theater
'Guild.    'New^jrtYyfls.     ?""it-
mistress. Speakers:  President
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Science Club Picnic
Triumphs Over Showers
Amid lowering skies and gloomy
prophecies from Dalton soothsayer, the
Science Club started out on its famous
annual picnic. In spite of imminent
showers, with no adequate and recom-
pensing hope of May flowers, spirits were
blithe and attendance heavy. Never did
we realize before quite what an interest
in science the college had. We noted
people who had majored in Chemistry^
others who had taken Biology for a week
(up to the angle worm to be exact), and
still others who were planning to take
geology next year. A democratic and
happy gathering, indeed. The Science
Club settled down in a lush pasture not
far from the campus. Ascetic professors
rolled up their sleeves and chopped down
trees to feed the fire, sweet and girlish
students threaded hot dogs on willow
withes, all was contentment, even bliss!
Even the gods smiled. It did not rain,
neither did it pour. After refreshments
were partaken of. the less-gorged entered
into a baseball game. After two and one-
half ecstatic innings with no particular
termination, both teams simultaneously
disintegrated and sang sentimental songs
until the moon rose from behind the dark
trees.
Bryn Mawr's tennis team, "� though
crippled by the absence of both Miss
Slingluff and Miss Pitney, was able to
wrest a difficult victory from German-
town Cricket Club on Wednesday after-
noon, May 11, winning four matches out
of  seven  from  the  invaders.
Germantown's star player. Mi*. W. P.
Xewhall. whose left-handed serve is one
of the most, redoubtable ever seen on a
court, defeated Frances Bethel, '28, 6-1,
6-2. While Mrs. Newhall was distinctly
the better player ,it must be admitted that
Miss Bethel was somewhat off her
game; had she been playing as she has at
other times this season, the score .would
certainly have been much less one-sided.
As it was, Mrs. Newhall's unerring
placing had her beaten before she was
able to find her stride. It rained at inter-
vals but not enough to stop the playing.
Right Couple for Doubles.
By far the most exciting match was
that between Miss Palache, '28, and Mrs.
Wallace Brown. The two were so
evenly matched that every (joint was a
battle, and almost every game a deuce
one. Mrs. Brown, however, starting
with a rush, took four games before
Miss Palache took one. Then the latter
rallied and evened the score. Mrs.
Brown, serving wildly, gave .Miss Palache
the next game','>nd by a heroic struggle
the latter won the* set, after a deuce game
lasting at least twenty minutes. The last
set was equally hectic. Twice Miss
Palache came within a point of win-
ning, and twice the indomitable Brown
saved the game. But the third time,
after a long rally, Mrs. Brown's ball
went outside, and the match was a vic-
tory for Miss Palache and Bryn Mawr.
Miss Palache's game is a good deal
letter than her form, which is cramped
and lacks freedom. Hut her serve is
strong and steady.
Another epic contest, even longer, took
place between Carla Swan, '29, and Miss
Gladys Cortwright, of Germantown.
Even to read the score, 5-6, 8-6, 7-5, is
exhausting, and the match itself was a
gruelling one, during which Miss Swan
remained calm and unruffled,' although at
one time Miss Cortwright seemed likely
to win. The latter played continually to
Miss Swan's backhand, avoiding the
strong drive which is the best feature of
her game. Both parties showed good
form without great speed, but consider-
able accuracy.
A swifter game, but less successful for
Bryn Mawr was that between Olivia
Stokes, '30, and Miss Agnes Bergen. Miss
Stoke's game was erratic, and she showed
a tendency to put her returns into the
net; she has a strong stroke, however,
and plays intelligently. But Miss Ber-
gen's speed and steadiness was too much
for her, and she was defeated, 6-4, 6-2.
Mary Hand, '27, defeated Miss Leslie
Hawes, of, Germantown, without much
difficulty. The first set was 6-1, and
the second 6-4, more because it was too
Please Answer Pleas
There is still time to sign up to
go to Bates'House this summer,
and the committee is eagerly
awaiting an opportunity to add
your name to its listtt^If you can
go please see M. G^iMard. 18, Pern
West. Workgu are most needed
during the lasjfweek in June and
the beginning of July. The house
is to be under the management of
Belle Boone Beard, graduate
student, with B. Howe, '24. as
medical supervisor.
Save your old clothes for the
junk committee! At the end of
the year they will send a box to
Dr. Grenfell ^Labrador. Help fill
it with warm, useful clothes.
Books and magazines, however out
of date, will be welcome also.
Take your contributions to any
member of the junk committee or
notify D. Cross and they will be
called for.
SENIORS SOAK
SINGING FRESHMEN
Fireworks and Fighting Make
1930's Freshman Night
a Success
CLOCK     STOPS     AGAIN
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Lacrosse Captains Elected
The  lacrosse  captains  for  next  year
will \k  M.  Fowler for 1928   (who won
feller   Hall,  followed  by in-1the championship this season), R. -Gross
for 1929, and L. Littlehale for l9::o.
1928 Elects
1928 has elected M. Coss unanimously
for Senior Song Mistress, and J. Young
'-"� undergraduate representative to an
alumnae meeting in Richmond, Va., nexU
fall.
Model School Children
Sing Original Songs
On Wednesday morning, May 11, the
children of the first, second and third
grades of the Thorne School entertained
the delighted college with songs, some of
them original. Class One and Two sang
little nursery rhymes and one French
song, the chorus being led by one of their
own numbers.
Class Three then proceeded to sing,
with appropriate gestures, original songs,
some of them to original tunes. Each
child stood up and with surprisingly little
embarrassment told the name and ex-
plained the subject of her song; then,
turning, led the whole class in singing.
The lays were short and rather incom-
sequential, but delightful and whimsical,
larj<L.the most charming thing about the
performance^was the ro�'�* '�^ "f 'elf-
consciousness.
Taylor clock was again forced to stop
in its course, so surprised was it at the
doings of the Freshmen on Friday eve-
ning. May 18.
�Activities   began   about   supper   time,
when   the  Freshmen   (for  it   was  their
Night)   took  possession  of  the  Senior
tables in almost every hall appearing in
gowns and pajamas. After supper, Senior
singing   was   the   center   of   attraction;
from  Taylor steps, the  Freshmen  sang
their parodies, all quite according to tradi-
tion, until a subdued stirring was noticed
among the Seniors.   Incensed by the dis-
covery of Limburger cheese and garlic
in their pillow cases, their mattresses, and
(we hesitate to reveal it), in their hair
brushes, certain  Seniors disappeared in-
side of Taylor.   It was expected that they*
would  crash  through   the   door  to  the
steps,  from behind; but, no, some time
passed without a sign from the missing
Seniors.    Just   when   they   had   almost
been  forgotten,  a  window   in  the tower
flew open,  and  a bucket of  water  de-
scended on the heads of the unsuspecting
Freshmen below; this  was  followed by
another, and another until the less agile,
or the more defiant, were soaked to the
skin.     Some   Freshmen    felt   that   this
should be  stopped, so  they  ascended to
the tower  room,  where  heads of strug-
gling rivals could be seen from time to
time.  .After  all  the   Seniors   had  been
routed, it is rumored that as protection,
the Freshmen tied one Senior across the
trapdoor in such a way that if any one
tried   to  lift  it,   she   would  be  quietly
strangled.
After this dramatic occurcnce, parodies
were sung again, and all seemed very
mild. The best parodies were those to
''Ink Unit said Little Mr. Bull Frog,"
"When Betsey was young" and "Like the
Wind." The words to the first might
be called "the serf's report to her mis-
tress;" after a very dutifufl list of the
things she has done, the serf expresses
her feelings, in the line' "Thank God, uh
huh. the day is through." Betsey, at col-
lege, discovers that "Senior's smiles are
like china rare, always bestowed with the
greatest of care."
Senior singing ended peacefully
enough; some may have been disap-
pointed that there was no fight on the
steps, but the water hurling episode was
ample compensation. The campus was
a model of orderliness (if one overlooks
the strings of tooth brushes and combs
festooned here and there, and the pajamas
swaying gently from a tree), until 10
o'clock. Just as the bell began to ring, a
loud report was heard from the cloisters,,
and terrified figures rushed from the
library. Soon shots were heard on every
side, and the bolder remained to discover
that they were giant firecrackers. These
were followed by an exhibition of Roman
candles on Merion green, after which the
party broke up� a -good time was had by
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