College News, 1928-03-28, Vol. 14, No. 19

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e College News
VOL. XIV. . No. 19
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA.,   WEDNESDAY. MARCH 28,1928
PRICE,   10 CENTS
"IRISH ANOMALY"
TqjtEVISIT B, M.
Lord' Llunsany,   Well-Known
Playright and Poet, to �
-     Lecture.
READ MSS. HERE IN 1919
Lor'd Dunsany will speak in Taylor
Hall next Monday afternoon at three
o'clock, under the auspices of the Phoebe
Anne Thome School. The college has
not had such an opportunity.of hearing
him since 1019, when the famous "Irish
playwright read some of his own works,
among them the then unpublished play.
'The Compromise-t>f the King of the
Golden   Isles."  from his manuscript.
Lord Dunsany needs little introduction.
We are all of us acquainted wjth 'his
poetry arid his plays. His play belSt
known to us is doubtless "If," a charm-
ing fantasy with a depth of meaning
beneath  its quaintness.
George Russel said of Lord Dunsany
in his lecture on Irish Personalities in
Literature, last month, that "he is an
anothaly, an Irishman unaware that he
has a country. He seems to regard the
universe as a mere excrescence on his
imagination. In his yduth in his an-
cestral castle he lived in a remote world
of his own, of which he used to draw
marvelous maps. He had a great gift
for drawing and for mythological in-
vention, which he combined in pictures'
of the Punishments of .Hell, or of a
man's sins finding him out."
Good Chances!
Mr. Miller Is Encouraging About
Business Openings for
i Clever Women.
"The field for women in business is
new, but not too neyv, to contain excess
competition," said Mr. Henry Wise Miller
in chapel Friday morning. The oppor-
tunities. iiylhis field are considerable and
do not require kmg technical trahihi^.
One. of the best openings for <���-��
is in the banking business. A bank is
a unique institution whose business it is
to obtain money and sell it to investors.
�A banker, therefore, must ,have certain
definite qualities; and- these qualities are
usually' present in women.
The banker's first business is to look
for depositors. Ttiis may be done in
various' ways, but is usually accomplished
by a general canvassing of the com-
munity, followed by : a large amount of
persuasion. The process is very com-
plex. A banker must know an individual's
business better than the individual him-
self knows it. Business men are always
optimistic. The banker .must, therefore,
attempt to strike a happy medium be-
tween what the. individual wants and
what it is advisable for him to nave. This
requires a large number of separate de-
partments for investigation, and it is
here that women are particularly suc-
cessful. General surveys of the situation
show that women are especially well
adapted to this kind of work.
Opening in Investment Banking.
A second opening for women lies in
the Investment Bank. � This business,
very much increased since the war, is
more complicated and requires more
. people. The business consists in buying
up securities wholesale and selling them
retail to individual investors. Here the
banker is the first investor. He must
find out the value of the securities, their
relation to the rest of the market, and
just how and when they will sell. All
this requires experience arid is done by
a large staff of statisticians. A good
statistician, with the common sense to
interpret the ups and downs of the mar-
ket, is priceless. These departments offer
particularly excellent opportunities for
women.
The selling end of the Investment
Bank also requires a large staff. The
position of bond salesman, however, is
not recommended for women. The*"train-
ing is too superficial, and the actual
salesmanship a bit too aggressive.
Perhaps the., most fascinating business
is that done by the stock broker, whose
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Opera Fans, Attention!
Mr. Horace Alwyne will talk
on Wagner's opera "Parsifal"
Monday evening at 8, in tlve
music    room   in   Goodhart.     All
r
those who are attending its pro-
duction by the Metropolitan Opera
Company the following Tuesday,
anc4 Sny others who are inter-
ested are cordially invited by Mr.
Alwyne^
PR0K0SCH LAUDS
IBSEN'S THEORY
Women, Truth and Freedom
Form Groundwork of
"AllLater Dramas,
IDEAS- NOT    OBSOLETE
"To give a long course in Ibsen would
be easy enough, but to speak on him for
ten minutes isliard," said Dr. Prokosch
in chapel on Monday morning. The
essence of Ibsen is that he grew so
much, not in power, '. ' "varied, mani-
fold insight into human life. His great-
est "works. Brand and Peer Gynt, he
wrote at the age of sixty. But it was in
his fifties that he began to unfold. His
first idea was that women were the pil-
lars of society, but this he corrected and
said that freedom and truth were. That
triangle, of women, truth, and freedom,
formed a pendulum which he kept
swinging through the rest of his drama
with the greatest regularity, producing a
play every two years. He thought that
women could be the pillars of society if
you let them, but they must have free-
dom', and there must be truth in all the,
dealings of society, including those with
women. Thus he continued to stress one
problem.
Always New in Fight for Freedom.
There have been many articles in
newspapers and magazines dyring the
past week on the subject of- Ibsen, irri-
tating, supercilious articles that have
spokerf* of mm as. obsolete. This is. ter-
,;:,;.; nonsense, ' True, OTere->was one
problem in which he was more a leader
than any other�the equality of man and
woman. We have advanced so much
that the Doll's House seems obsolete to
us, but it may not in one Or two hun-
dred years; such things go in cycles.
And we are not in the least closer to
actual � freedom than we were irf the
eighties and nineties, when Ibsen was in
the midst of his work. We may wear
short skirts, and we may even smoke,
but these liberties.may be lost. In the
fight for freedom, Ibsen will always be
new. The greatest task of mankind is
the attempt to enslave each other. There
is more danger of this, and hence more
danger to freedom,- in a democracy than
in an  autocracy.
Will Endure Lake Sophocles.
With a few exceptions, Ibsen is not a
writer of social plays. More and more,
at least since the eighties, he became a
writer of individual problems, of which
the highest is the question of one's per-
sonality, what it is, and how it may best
be expressed. He is as little obsolete
in that as is Sophocles in the Antigone,
where he presents the problem as to
whether Antigone can develop her per-
sonality. He is no more obsolete than
any of the great Greek writers, or
Shakespeare or Milton.
Freshmen Champions
'31 Flies Banner With Complete
But Rather Untidy Vic-
tory Over Sisters.
At last the class of 1981 has broken
the spell and won a class championship.
They won the right to fly the flag of
victory by defeating 1929, 14-.J9. It
could scarcely, he, called a brilliant game,
for sloppiness and lack of team work
seemed to characterize the general play-
ing. True, the Junior forwards were
fast whenever they got the ball* and
Humphreys and Sappington were some-
times almost startling in their long
spectacular baskets, but these spurts
were very spasmodic, in the first half,
at least. Packard made more trouble
for the Freshmen in the next half, but
the forwards seemed to realize that they
were in the same room with each other,
and the score benefited accordingly. Fre-
quently walking slowed matters'up a
bit; the Juniors were too far behind to
catch up, and P.oyd's accuracy was only
a swan's song to a rather mediocre
game.
The line-up* was as follows:
1929�Boyd,   Humphreys, .Poe,   Swan.
Balch, Cook.    Substitution,  Packard for
Cook.
1931�Sappington, Humphreys, Thomp-
son, Totten, Blanchard, and H. Thomas.
Sophs  Win   Frec-For-All.
The Sophomore victory was hardly
more brilliant; in fact, 'it was more of
a free-for-all than a. basketball game.
Bethel distinguished herself by very good
dodging and dribbling, but Bruere and
Morgan were not exactly effective when
they did get the ball. Hirshberg and
Sullivan tired each other out by futile
passes which took them ^farther from
the basket than they were at the begin-
ning. Hirshberg, especially, was far too
individual, but it must be admitted that
her rather masculine type of shooting
was remarkably certain. Both teams im-
proved in the second half, but it was
too late to_ counteract the effect which
the roughness and messiness of the first
half had had on the play. The final
score,   1*8-28,  for, the   Sophomores,  was
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Live for Faith
Man for Himself Alone Is Weak,
a Purpose Gives New
Strength.
Political Dinner Invitation
Mr. James T. Shotwell. of Columbia
University and of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace, will speak
at the Bellevue on Friday, March 30, on
a subject of interest to all progressive
students. His talk is in connection with
a dinner given by the League of Nations
Xon-Partisan Association, and will be on
"The Recent French-American Treaty."
Tickets for this dinner, which begins at
six, and will be over at eight, may^e
obtained from Mrs. M. P. Smith, for
two dollars and fifty-cents. All students
who are interated and would like to
find out sometnmg about it are urged to
attend. Dr. Shotwell is probaHy the
person best qualified in this country to
speak on this subject.
"The doctrine of self-sacrifice is the
law of human life." said Dr. Bruce Tay-
lor in chapel on Sunday evening.
Today, as we look about us at the vast-
ness of the world, the crowds of people,
the sea of. industry, wc feel that we are
insignificant. We as individuals a"re im-
pressed with our smallness and wonder
what we are here for. This makes us
order our lives on the basis of our own
importance. We say to ourselves. "This
is my life. It is all I have. Why should
I not work for it. alone?"
If we work tor our lives alone we shall
find that it is hardly worth the trouble.
We cannot seem to realize that we are
only a small bundle of atoms. We have
not yet discovered that our only chance
for recognition is to form an alliance
with the great process of the ages.
Have Courage of Convictions.
J� Both Elijah and Jeremiah gave their
lives, for (he sake of their faith. Other
saints and martyrs have had the courage
of their convictions. Why not all man-
kind? Man for himself is weak and
mean, but man for God is, so great that
only the heavens compare in glory.    .
In our day and generation religion is
smirched with commercialism. Religion is
sold to us as a piece of real estate of a
share of stock. This is obviously a fake
principle. Right should be obeyed whether
it brings reward or darkness. We should
serve God without bargaining with Him
for what we will get out of it.
This docs in no sense mean that we
should give up living a practical life.
Living for oneself is the most imprac-
tical way of living, for we lose the whole
�joy of life and find ourselves old at forty.
Take a new lease on life. Try to find
something worth doing and do it with all
your heart.
Thomas Hardy
Dr. Chew, whose books on
Hardy are well known, will speak
on the most interesting side of.
' this great man in chapel Satur-
day evening, March, 31. After
Hardy's death, Dr. Chew gave his
classes a special lecture, emphasiz-
ing the poetry, and Hardy's life-
long love of it. Whatever his
subject on Saturday night. Dr.
Chew's personal acquaintance with
Hardy will make it of interest to
all   English  students.
JOURNALISM WAS
STARTED IN 1665
Denis  De   Sallo   Edited   First
European Critical
. Journal.
CHAMPENOIS   LECTURES
"You know all about La Fontaine,
Racine and Boileau, but I am almost
certain that you have never heard of
Denis de Sallo," declared M. Jean Chatn-
penois, at the French Club lecture: "Les
Origines des Revues et des Journaux,"
delivered in Taylor Hall on Friday eve-
ning,  the twenty-third.
AMERICAN DRAMA
OF RECENT GROWTH
Since  1920 a Renaissance in
the Theatre Has Been
Effected.  .
O'NEILL    HOLDS    LEAD
M. Champcnois, who is associated with
the Sorbonne, then proceeded to reveal
that Sallo was the original editor of Lc
Journal des Savants. This was Europe's
first real critical journal, and one that
seems to have been eve%wherc enthus-
iastically welcomed by research workers,
who were overjoyed that at last there
was a means of expression for their
work.' It is still published by-the Acad-
amie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres,
although it first appeared some two hun-
dred and sixty years ago: on the fifth
of January',   lf>r>.'>.
"Journal" Surprisingly Modern.
The preface of "the first number of
Sallo's Journal, M. Champcnois found
particularly interesting on account of its
democratic and internatiohalistic spirit
entire1.*- :��consisT*ni. .with seventeenth
centtrrj ideas.- Everything of which any
respectable modern "Review" can boast
was to be found in Le Journal des
Sal ants according to this preface;
panygyrics of learned men who had just
died, with a list of their works; a sort
of question-box, that juggled original
observations on scientific subjects; ar-
ticles on new discoveries, inventions,
mathematic formulas,: and natural his-
tory;   and   finally, ^Aiews  of  recently
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We Must Pass in Quiz
on Human Relationships
"The science of human relations will
progress just as all other sciences and
arts have in the last century* declared
Dr. Horncll I lajt, speaking in chapel on
Wednesday morning, March 21.
At first it is hard to realize that the
rising curve of human progress may be
applied not only to the building of bridges,
but to human relationship. Divorces are
increasing; the relations between em-
ployer and employee are a great fumble;
in spite of the fact that 90 per cent, of
the world's thinking population is op-
posed to war, wc seem unavoidably slip-
ping towards it. Is there, then, any real
in ogress in human relation?
The truth is that we are just approach-
ing the stage where we will be able to
apply the scientific method to human re-
lations. Today all society is built on the
principle of human equality, although it
is obvious that all men are not equal. We
need first a transcendent conception of
human justice, then the ability to form
a society where all the individuals com-
bine for a united effort, without counting
theVost to themselves.
. We arc constantly being subjected to a
quiz on the problem ot human relations:
we pass of we flunk; and the passage of
this quiz makes all the difference of life.
The laboratory method is essential in
solving the problem of human relations.
Courses in the social sciences�psychol-
ogy, history, anthropology, etc., should be
used as tools to help us build a new so-
ciety, v
"Modern American Drama is a phe-
nomenon which made its first appear-
ance only eight years ago, in the middle
of February. 1920, just about three hun-
dred years after the landing of the Pil-
grims." This is the startling statement
with which Mr. Barrett Clark began his
discussion of American drama last
Thursday evening in Taylor Hall. It
was not until later that the audience
discovered that this was the oate of the
production of Eugene O'N'oill's .first long
play.
Three hundred years, said Mr. Clark,
is a long time to wait for the beginning
of an art. Hut it is difficult to find
anything* worth the name earlier than
that. The eighteenth century, so fruitful
in other countries, was not so in ours.
It is difficult for any art to flourish in
a country which is in the throes of de-
veloping its natural resources. The nine-
teenth century was almost equally un-
profitable. The plays of this period are
of value for their historical interest, but
practically none of,them are intrinsically
worth reading nr seeing; Dunlap, a
manager and producer of the nineteenth
century, wrote thirty or' forty plays
which were considered good at the time.
But when '/icy are revived in the pres-
ent day b/college actors only the faculty
go to sejf them. Forrest, the great actor
of the thirties and forties, is still re-
membered, but who-remembers the plays
;n which he acted? Eren the play-
wrights of a still later date, like Bronson
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A Blanket Invitation K'*:-
tended by Bryn Mawr Club
(Specially contributed by Winifred
Dodd, '26. )
Arc any of you interested in and have
you investigated the new Itryn Mawr
Club, which, despite its regulation
brown stone exterior, has, inside, a very
charming atmosphere to offer? The ad-
dress is 213 East Sixty-first street. That
sounds far east, but it is really only
two blocks away from the invaluable
B. M. T. subway that lands you in the
center of  Broadway.
The new house, completely refurnished,
is early American happily combined with
comfortable furniture. The dining
room, on the ground floor, Opens into a
garden which will be used, during the
spring and summer, for lunch and tea.
A little stairway ascends from the gar-
den to a balcony leading into the living
room. where one may sit before a fire
when the weather is too cold to bask in
the sun outside.
In the front arc two rooms, a library
whose shelves are well tilled with new
books, 'and a minute sitting room. The
seven bedrooms, on the next two floors,
although small, are very comfortable.
Each room has a telephone and a good-
sized closet and there'is a bath for every
two rooms. The quaint lamps, old four-
poster maple beds, and chintzes create an
atmosphere quite different from the one
experienced   in  the bedrooms -associated
The prices are very reasonable. Single
rooms are three dollars a night, double
rooms, five dollars; continental break-
fast is thirty-five cents, regular breakfast,
sixty-five cents; lunches are sixty-five
cents and*1 eighty-five cents and dinners
are one dollar ami one dollar and twen-
ty-live cents. The dues., for a resident
member, are two dollars (plus two dol-
lars tax>, and, for-a non-resident mem-
ber, ten dollars (plus one dollar tax).
If a Senior joins her fir>t year out
of college there is no initiation fee and
any Senior who wishes to join next fall
may use the club during the summer
when special rates will be made.
The club noxc extends its privileges to
all   undergraduates and hopes  that they
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