College News, 1926-12-08, Vol. 13, No. 10

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VOL. XIII.   No. 10.
BRYN MAWR* (AND WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 8,1926
PRICE.   10 CENTS
DISCUSS BYZANTINE
TRECENTO PAINTING
Sorbonne    Professor    Shows
Beauties of Period Usually
. Held Decadent.
WAS     SYMBOLIC     ART
Byzantine painting was the subject
on which M. Gabriel'Millet, of the
�Cole des hautes etudes of the Sor-
bonne. gave an illustrated lecture in
French under the auspices of the His-
tory of Art  Department.
"The fourteenth century is one of
the least known and richest periods of
this art," he began. This was the
moment when the Occident and the
Orient influenced each other.
Until a few years ago it was thought
that Byzantine art was immobile,
never changing, that it reached its
height in the thirteenth century, and
that the fourteenth century was a
period of decadence. But M. Millet
had seen paintings of the fourteenth
century in Mistra. which showed living
architecture and elegant figures. In
1906 he visited old Serbian Scopie,
where he saw great churches, known
to have been built by the Emperor
Milutine, who for a few years in the
fourteenth century reigned . over a
large empire.
Presents Great Problem.
Byzantine art presents a great prob-
lem. It was the first Christian art
modeling itself on ancient art, and
always symbolic, as can be seen in the
Catacombs, where one finds abstract
representations of scenes from the Old
Testament, ideal, abstract, conven-
tional. When the church became no
longer a secret organization, but the
ruling power, the great savants who
knew antique art realized that paint-
ing is a language, and -consequently
they used it to convfiy Christian teach-
ings to the people.
We have manuscripts of this time,
particularly the Vienna Genesis, which
show the method of these later artists.
They were not content to portray the
stories of the Old Testament as they
were related, but added to them, mak-
ing pictures notable for emotion, action
and imagination, together with con-
siderable  realism.
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Sesqui Jury of Awards Gives
Bryn Mawr Medal of Honor
DR. FITCH TALKS ON
MODERN CODES
Conflicting    Loyalties   Are   Cause   of
Trouble.
"The problem of goodness" was the
subject that the Rev Albert Parker Fitch
discussed in Chapel on Sunday, Decem-
ber 5. If we can achieve goodness, he
said, we will get enduring satisfaction; all
of us, young and old, we really want to be
good, although some A>f us hide it.
In the end of Lockhart's Life of Scott,
he tells how the "gentlemen survived the
� genuis" at the end; Scott's last words to
his son-in-law, were "Be a good man,
nothing else will help us at the end." Of
course other things do help; the creation
of something beautiful or great, any
worthy achievement of one's life; but
there is no great beauty without ethical
restraint behind it. The Venus de Milo,
. the Cimabue Madonna in the Louvre,
must have learnt the lesson of selfless-
ness.
Loose Use of Terms, Is Trouble.
Although we all inwardly admire good-
ness, it is something we find very diffi-
cult to achieve. The chief difficulty is
the loose thinking about those two im-
portant terms, "character," and "dissi-
pation." We no longer use our language
as gentlemen; we tinge it with sentimen-
tality and the grotesque. In the correct
sense, a person who has character is one
who lives by a definite code, who has a
philosophy of life. We use it for people
who live chameleon-like, adapting them-
selves to local customs, superficially re-
spectable, but who have no real character.
Dissipation is simply the opposite of
character;' it ""xifittr^' wSt*n<.i�.J, pattern-,
less," and bad cases of it may be the
loose living we associate with the term.
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President Marion Edwards Parks, of
Rrwn Mawr College, has been in-
formed by the Jury of Awards of the
Sesqukentcnnial International Exposi-
tion that the Medal of Honor, the
second highest award, has been given
to Bryn Mawr College for its "con-
spicuous contribution to the higher
education of women," as evidenced in
the exhibit of Bryn Mawr College in
the Palace of Education.
Emphasis is placed upon the con-
tributions which Bryn Mawr has made
to the education of women in that
"Bryn Mawr College was the' first
woman's college to establish self-gov-
ernment, to establish resident fellow-
ships for foreign students and foreign
fellowship for its own students, to
create a graduate department of social
economy and social research, and to
hold on its campus a summer school
for women workers in industry."
In addition to the various charts
and statements showing the growth of
the college in the last 85 years there is
exhibited a model of Goodhart Hall, de-
signed by Mellor, Meigs and Howe, of
Philadelphia, and which is now in the
process of construction. Amongst the
beautiful photographs of the college is
a reproduction of a photograph of
President Park and a reproduction of
the painting by Sargeant. of President
Emeritus M. Carey Thomas, under
whom the college was established and
maintained  for :!5 years.
RECEPTION YIELDS CONCRETE
_     IDEA OF SUMMER SCHOOL
OPINIONS CONFLICT
OVER DROP QUIZZES
Plays Roles of Barometer, Paregoric
and Termagant.
An integration of the opinions of D.
Ames, K. Batch, /�'. Bethel, C. Chambers,
M. J'owler, M. Holcotnbe, M. L. Jones,
M. Pierce, G. Richman, G. Schoff, B.
Simcox, and E. Winchester.
By drop quizzes we mean those
given absolutely without warning, in
courses in which the class can derive
full profit from the lectures or discus-
sion only by a fairly regular prepara-
tion of the work assigned. We as-
sume that the assignments are under-
stood to* be due at certain specific
dates, and that in no quiz will the
students be held responsible for work
not yet due. While we recognize that
drop quizzes may cover the entire
course to date, we prefer to confine our
discussion to the type which includes
only the material treated in lectures,
fliscussion, or outside reading since the
last quiz.
Barometer and Incentive.
Perhaps the most obvious argument
i'n favor of the drop quiz system is that
it enables the professor to see how
regularly the students are doing the
work, and how well they have under-
stood what they have learned. It is
perfectly just for the instructor to
expect his students to be able to take
a quiz which will show them how far
and how well they have progressed,
and, at the same time, will point out to
him the extent to which his assign-
ments have been understood, followed
out and performed. No one who has
studied   a   lesson   ought   to   object, to
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Theatre   du   Vieux
Read Moliere.
Jacques Copeau, producer, dramatist,
critic and actor, will read l.e Misanthrope
by Moliere next Friday evening, Decem-
ber 10, in Taylor.
M. Copeau is identified by Americans
[principally with the Theatre du Vieux
Colombier, which he founded iif 1913.
With the members of this company who
were not mobilized, he came to New
York in 1017 and gave a series of repre-
sentations, which, though financially un-
sucessful, aided greatly in popularizing
French drama in America.
Le Theatre du Vieux Colombier was
started with the expressed object of com-
pletely reorganizing modern French dra-
ma. The "partie prise" was a reaction
against everything current. A different
kind of interpretation, scenery and re-
pertoire was  sought.
Thrilling indeed is the story of its
founding. Single-handed, without any
financial backing whatsoever, M. Copeau
gathered together a group of actors which
he trained with military precision and by-
military discipline. As a preparation, he
even made them undergo a . complete
spiritual retreat.
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M. CAREY SPEAKS
ON SUMMER SCHOOL
Girls Learn Economics and Baseball.
"No one who has spent a month at
the Summer School which is resident
at Bryn Mawr in July and August can
ever look at things in just the way she
did before the experience," said Miss
Milliccnt Carey, now instructor in
English Literature here, and formerly
in the Summer School, speaking in
Chapel on Friday morning, December
3. Contact with the one hundred and
two working girls who in the summer
months invade the halls, and decorate
the Lib with knickers, will inevitably
affect one's sense of proportion, and
perhaps stir a little the feeling of se-
curity that Bryn Mawr undergraduates
are likely to have with regard to them-
selves.
Experience at the school at once
confronts the teacher or the sttjdent
assistant with a whole set of new,and
intensely interesting problems. These
one hundred and two girls, of whom'
no two have just the same family or
educational background, must first in
some way be classified. Many ways
of doing this have been tried, including
mental tests. When the students have
been put into classes the problem of
how *C> 'each them arises. Most of
them have practically no theoretical or
technical knowledge, yet they all have
i
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FRENCH PRODUCER AND
ACTOR TO VISIT HERE
Founder    of    Le
Colombier Wil
MISSPELLED WORD
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Margaret McKec, '28: First
prize.
fe. B. Thrush. '30: Second
prize.
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In the advertisements of last
week's issue of the College News
there were twelve misspelled
words, but no one, not even the
winners of the contest, found
them all. We received nineteen
sets of answers, two of them
being from off-campus subscrib-
ers. Every one'try it this week.
The rules arc on another page of
this issue.
Mental Alertness and Interest
of Girls Surpasses All
Conceptions.     �
SMALL COMMITTEES
TO REMAKE RULES
Resolution V to Be Reworded
in Pursuit  of Com-
promise.
BI-MONTHLY    MEETINGS
DON'T BE INHIBITED
BY FEELING INFERIOR
Cynicism     Is     Temporary     Reaction
Against Feminist Movement
Dean Manning continued her discus-
sion of the position of women in pro-
fessions and industry on Wednesday
morning, December 1, by pointing out
that the decline in the "feminist move-
ment" is only temporary. Since suf-
frage was won. we have been living in
a period, of reaction, which, although
discouraging, is only natural. The
fact that women find it no easier to
get good positions, and have not made
the expected progress, is partly be-
cause at the end of the war many
women had to be turned out of their
jobs. The situation is really no worse
than  before.
Magazines have taken a decided in-
terest in the subject. An article re-
cently appeared entitled "Equality of
Women with Men a Myth;" it said
that women "were a mess," and, what
is more, it was said by women�they
are cynical about themselves. Another
article presented "The Problem of the
Educated Women," which was that
phe does-not seem to get a husband;
the reason for this, it said, is that Col-
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HEAR US!    WE GLOAT
The News is very proud of itself be-
cause today it has more news^BMsisimj,
advertising than have ever appeared in
it in all of its 12 years of life
At a meeting of the Self-government
Association, on November 23, M. L.
Jones '27, President, announced that
only two mass meetings a month would
be necessary to remake the rules instead
of the two a week announced last time.
The lirst important discussion of the
evening centered upon the method by
which the reform is to be accomplished.
Two plans were put forward; one, to
have the Board act as a committee on
proccedure and to submit subjects to the
general meeting for discussion. If the
meeting was at once agreed, a motion
would be passed. 1 f the discussion seemed
to be getting involved, the question was
to be referred to a committee elected for
the purpose.
The second plan, was to have a central
committee prepare a. whole plan in ad-
FIRM FINANCIAL
BACKING REQUIRED
The Summer School in all its phases
and from every point of view, was out-
lined before an enthusiastic audience in
the Deanery on Sunday evening, De-
cember .">, at a reception given by
former president M. Carey Thomas to
inaugurate the Summer School Drive
which is taking place this week.
Miss Thomas, the originator and
constant patron of the school, was her-
self the first speaker, and was intro-
duced by N. Chester, '27, who, as
chairman of the Undergraduate Sum-
mer" School Committee, acted as-
master of ceremonies. Miss Thomas
spoke as follows:
Summer School  Part of Flood  Tide.
"The summer school has recently
completed its fifth year. Its continued
success is but one of the indications
that it is part of a rising tide in human
affairs which has become manifest in
the years since the war�the movement
for the education of adult workers."
When Miss Thomas'was abroad in
1019-20 this educational movement was
already beginning in " England and
Scotland: even in Syria and Egypt, in
Japan and Palestine the women ex-
pressed a desire for free undenomina-
tional education. But along with this
widespread want one felt at that time
the difficulty of its fulfillment. After
the war many women were obliged to
go to work under conditions which
seemed to preclude the possibility of
their having either time or strength for
study.
Idea   Born   in   Sahara.
It was in the same year that Miss
Thomas, filled with a sense of these
difficulties,  first conceived the idea of
vance and present it a large meeting for It,,e   sumn'er   sch�o1   while   crossin*  a
discussion and posible adoption.                omm   �f   ll,c   ******   descrt   wi,h   a
It was claimed that interest would lag
and the meetings become no more repre-
sentative than a central committee if the
first method were adopted. Opponents
of this 'plan stated that discussion must
come before framing of resolutions or
the committee would not be informed of
the state of public opinion. The plan, in
the opinion of J. Young, '28. speaking for
the Board, would defeat its own purpose:
We want the college to feel it has made
the rules, not that they have been handed
down to it."
F. DeLaguna '27, suggested that the
Board, in the first plan, would be just
such a committee, presenting the subjects
for discussion. D. Meeker, '27, stated,
"The central committee would be efficient,
but people as a whole would be thinking
less. The first plan woult be less efficient
but more effective."
Aftee/a good deal of very heated argu-
ment, the first plan w^s accepted.
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MISS HIRTH TO SPEAK
Students Can  Consult   Her on  Voca-
�         tion.
Miss Emma Hirth. Director of the
Board of Vocational Information in
New York City, will be here on Thurs-
day and Friday of this week. At five
o'clock Thursday she will be in Pem-
broke East to meet all those wjio
want to ask general questions about
opportunities for women. In the eve-
ning she will meet students interested
in openings which require Scientific
training, and on Friday afternoon
those interested in Business openings.
Special interviews for Friday morning
may be arranged through the Dean's
office. For any other information, see
M. Chester, head of the Vocational
Committee    of     the     Undergraduate
A ���wiation-
Miss Hirth will speak in Chapel on
F/'day morning.  ^
camel caravan. The afterglow of the
sunset' which suddenly illumined the
desert seemed a- symbol of the way in
which the right kind of education can
fill with light the dark places in the
minds of individuals and in the general
social consciousness; and it occurred
to Miss Thomas that  it was the duty
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PLAYERS PRESENT TWO
FRENCH PIECES
M. Villard's Translations Achieve
Great Success.
The players are still majoring in
French. Gringoire of Theodore de Ban-
ville and Heaven and Hell, by Prosper
Merimee, opened the season in Wyndham
music room last Saturday afternoon, thus
following the production last spring of
Merimee's Etruscan Vase. Evidently the
players have thrown off the eighteenth
century and the Grand Manner, inculcat-
ed by their leaders of 1925, the era of
Varsity Dramatics' School for Scandal,
with The Rehearsal of Villiers and last
fall farewell the Kersey Coal. The-per-
formances of Saturday, especially in the
fine, charming translations of Mariquita
Villard, '27. quite justified the change of
course. .
Beginning three seasons ago, with the
bay-window of Wyndham. one little spot-
light, and several yards of factory cloth,
for equipment, and the production of
interesting plays, especially plays by
undergraduates, as their policy (for they
were conventional enough to have a
policy), the players have quietly gone on.
acting staging and directing for small, in-
vited audiences and a larger public. They
have perfectly demonstrated the ad-
vantages of unorganization and deorgani-
zation. Today, only three of the original
group remain, but their theatre flourishes.
Of the setting, the roast goose of Griu-
goire's banquet was the marvelous detail.
Nothing could be more appropriate in this
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