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VOL. XIV.   No. 3.
.. * BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 26.1927
PRICE,VO CENTS
HEADS OF COLLEGES
URGE FAIR PLAY
Women's    Education    Should
Not Be Handicapped by
Lack of Funds.
PROFESSIONS   SUFFER
Woodward, Cross and Collins
>.   Elected Juiiior Class OMiceri]
The Presidents of the seven eastern
women's colleges, Barnard, Bryn Mawr,
Mount Holyol<e, Radcliffe, Smith, Vas-
sar, and Wellesley, have joined forces
in an article in the November issue of
the Atlantic Monthly. It states the back-
ground of these institutions and tells of
the work they must do and the problems
that confront them.
The first point made is the similarity
of these colleges in geographical situa-
tion, age�none are far from fifty, either
way, "and as they all of them represent
the same period of American educational
history in their founding) they arose
from not dissimilar conditions and dealt
with the  same difficulties."
The early struggles of them all are
sketched efforts to induce schools to give
adequate preparatory work and to create
a sympathetic attitude in the community.
The personnel and the methods of
selection and housing are described.
Then it goes on to say:
"With the students once admitted
... the women's colleges have tried
to see that the work was well directed.
With blood and sweat, presidents or
faculty committees have tried to select
for their faculties proved or potential
scholars, and an effort has been made to
make sure at the same time that these
men and women are good teachers�
that they have both the dream and the
interpretation. On the whole the strug-
gle has availed. The teaching staff holds
a dignified and important part in the gov-
ernment of the college, in the devising
of the curriculum, and in establishing
the experiments in learning and teaching
by which the college is to grow in wis-
dom.
Curricula are of late years forever in
the melting pot. From the time of the
great original experiment which was to
prove that a woman could actually take a
man's education, the women's colleges
have never been afraid-to experiment,
though they have often had to look to
their scanty resources and turn away
from some tempting venture."    �
Here follows a survey of the more
important experiments such as the Bryn
Mawr Summer School, that have been
actually attempted.
Women Are Serious Students
"The libraries and laboratories of the
women's colleges are equal to those of
many colleges for men, and in some
cases superior in their resources. The
work of the students is not seasonal;
the steady routine of the year is not
broken in on by feverish periods of in-
tercollegiate athletics. But beyond and
above all in importance, both to the in-
dividual college and to .the whole group
of women's colleges in the country, is
the fact that, with all individual excep-
tions allowed for, there is a general
understanding between the women's col-
lege and the student that she has come
to work seriously at a long and arduous
task which is important for her as an
individual, but also important because
she ft to be later a member of a commu-
nity to which she must make serious
contribution.    The  undergraduates  now
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Nancy Woodward was raised to the
-high office of Junior Class President on
a wave of enthusiasm at a meeting held
last Wednesday in the businesslike mist
of the Merion smoking room. Miss
Woodward's election is hailed with en-
thusiasm by all political parties of the
class. As chairman of the Glee Club
scenery committee last year she showed
her ability. AH those who recognized
the artistic and engineering triumph of
a gondola which actually floated on and
off the stage will always admire the jtal-
ented adaptor of roller skates as a stage
device. Miss Woodward also scored a
great hit as Call-boy in Varsity Dra-
matics, while as an Athlete�but no more
need be said.
The election of Rosamond Cross as
Vice President also pleased all factions.
Everyone who knows Miss Cross knows
how much time and real interest she
has given to work for the class and the
college.    The wheels  on many commit-
tees have gone around more easily antl
more energetically on account of her.
This year she was on the Membership
Board of C. A. and had a large share
in welcoming/ the freshmen and" seeing
that things raty'smoothly during the first
Changes in Contest
Current Events Examination to
Be on Different Plan and
Made Shorter.
The third annual meeting of the gov-
erning council of the Times Intercol-'
legiate Current Events Contest was held
last Monday, October  17.    Some impor-
rather hectic week.   Besides this it is to taut modifications were made in the ar-
her that we all owe our C. A. girls-
she spent the summer sorting and deal-
ing them out. Miss Cross has" been
Captain of the second-class hockey team
for two years and is manager of her hall
team. This year she is a Junior member
of the  Executive Board of  Self-Gov.
"Kit" Collins was elected secretary
almost unanimously. In her short week
as temporary Keeper of the Minutes and
Poster of Notices she amply proved her
capacity for the job. Miss Collins was
class archery captain in her freshman
year and has always acted as a prime
promoter of the sandwich industry. Var-
sity dramatics practically owes its exist-
ence to her heroic and persistent efforts
in  their behalf.
VARSITY DEFEATED
IN SECOND GAME
Germantown, with Three All-
American Backs, Shows Up
Our Weaknesses.
NECK & NECK CONTEST
Business Board Try-
outs
The try-outs for ttfe Business
Board of Ngws will be con-
tinued for another week. Any-
one who wishes to try out is
urged to consult P. iHeEmfta*
'28, Pembroke East, as soon as
possible.
Although Varsity received its first de-
feat Saturday, October 22, so near the
beginning of the hockey season, the
occasion was not entirely one for regret.
The Germantown Cricket Club has an
unusually strong team, including three
members of the All American Hockey
team, which might almost make us proud
of holding them to a final score of 6-5.
The first half began badly for Bryn
Mawr. The team was constantly
bunched, or out of position, and after a
few minutes, Germantown scored its first
goal. Things did not improve, although
the ball was worried somehow down the
field; there'was a scrimmage in front
of the goal, and Guiterman, with quick
action at a critical moment, managed to
shoot it in. After that Betty Cadbury,
who was the youngest player to go
abroad with the All American team in
1923, took possession of the ball, ran
down the field with it, and shot it into
the goal, over Al's head, and out of
her reach.
Lena Ball, Germantown's center for-
ward, is a new member of their team,
and an invaluable one-^three of their
goals are to her credit. In the backfield
were three All Americans, or ex-All
American members, Kitty McLean, Mary
Morgan, and Helen Ferguson, besides
Dot Schoell, who is captain of the Penn.
team. It is, therefore, a matter of pride
that our forwards were able to crash
through this strong defense as often as
they did. Tuttle, especially, outplayed
herself; and Longstreth was particularly
wily in evading the fullbacks. Guiterman
as usual played a very good game, and
was also as usual dependable in the
shooting circle.
Our team, however, handicapped itself
by fouling rather more than might have
been expected, their favorite failing, that
of being offside at crucial moments. In
the beginning of the second half the
team rallied, and for a time it seemed as
though the game would end in a tie.
However, we were outplayed, and our
weakness shown up for, we hope, our
future benefit.
The line-ups were:
Varsity: B. Loines, '28; S. Long-
stnath, '30*; E. Stix, '30; H. Guiterman,
'28***; H. Turtle, '28*; E. Freeman, '29;
C.  Hamilton, Grad.; J. Stetson, '28; R.
Wills, '29; K. Hirschberg, '30; A.
Bruere, '28.
1 2^...-ntown Cricket CluoV fe'
Thomas, E. Cadbury***, L. Ball***, M.
Sharp, L. Brown, E. West, K. McLean,
D.   Schoell, M. Morgan, A. Boardman,
H. Ferguson.
May Day Costuming
Prizes    Offered    for    Designs.
Materials May Be Had
Now.
Costuming for May Day is always, of
course, a large- order which must be
filled; to our efficiently early beginnings
of this year has been added the design-
ing of costumes, which should be done
by people directly associated with the
college. The sooner this part of the
general plan is completed, the better will
be the organization in the not so dis-
tant  future.
Three prizes have.been offered; the
first of these is to be given to the person
who makes the best drawing for the
"tout ensemble" of a play. This, of
course, must be appropriately done ac-
cording to the date and the manner of
the action, and it must furnish a fairly
adequate idea of the costuming of the
individual characters.
Interesting. Old Document Found
The second of the prizes is offered to
SUMMER SCHOOL
REPRESENTATIVE
the designer of the best standard, to be
carried in the procession of the pageant:
until now standards have only been
flown from the buildings, so a great
many more will have to be made this
year than ever before. Each band of
players will represent a noble house, as
that of the Earl of Pembroke, and each
must have its own flag to fly. The fol-
lowing is an excerpt from an old docu-
ment in the Dulwich Museum, and it
gives an interesting idea of how the
players of old were given a kind of in-
formal  charter:
"Friday the sixth of March certain
players came be-fore Mr. Mayor at High
Hall there very present . . . and Mr.
John Tate and Mr. Worship, who sayed
they were the Earl of Worcester's men.
. . . The Earl of Worcester . . .
hath by his writings dated 14 January,
anno. . . . Elizabeth, licensed his
servantes Robt. Browne, James Turn-
stall, Edward Alleyne, etc. . . to play
and" go abroad, usinge themselves orderly,
etc. . . . These are therefore to re-
quire all suche her Highnes officers to
whom these presents shall come quietly
and friendly within your severall per-
cints and corporacions to permit and
suffre them to pass with your further-
ance, usinge and demeanynge themselves
honestlye, and to give them the rather
for my sake such entertaiyment as other
noblemen's plajjers have." There is still
a picture of Edward Alleyne, who sub-
sequently beeajke quite a well-known
actor, in the iWuseum. . . . Stand-
ards are to be bcVn by groups of arch-
ers, etc., and these must all be designed
and made.
The-third of the prizes is to be given
to  .V.  O /''signs the best - and,^!
most individual costumes, to be worn by
all   members  of  a  typically   individual
populace; the characters must represent
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rangements for the examinations.
Hereafter the local examinations in-
stead of being set independently by the
separate colleges and universities as has
l>ccn the practice in the past will be sc^
by the Executive Committee of the coun-
cil and will be the same for all the col-
leges. This plan obviates the need for
a second examination to determine the
intercollegiate winner. The best paper
in each individual unit will be forwarded
to the Executive Committee which will
then submit the twenty selections thus
arrived at to the judges appointed by
them to make the final award.
The date for the examinations this
>ear ha^been set for the last Friday in
April, the 2Tth. The time of the ex-
amination* was cut, after much discus-
sion. In 1026 the period was four hours,
in 1927 five hours. This year it will
be three. This change was due to the
general impression of the members of
the coifncil that the difficulty of the test
was frightening away some of the best
undergraduate material and defeating the
purpose of the contest which is to en-
courage a general interest in vital news,
and not to create a competition confined
to grinds and specialists in history and
lolitics.
Three Prizes Offered
A chang�-*ras made in the local prize
arrangements as the result of the sug-
gestion from several men who have had
practical experience in handling the con-
test in the colleges, the idea being to
extend the interest to a large number
of students. Instead of one prize in
each institution, the new plan provides
for three prizes equal to the total of the
original money value of the single prize
There will be a first prize of $150, a
second of $75, and a third of $25. The
first prize-winner in each institution will
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FLAWS AND FLASHES
iN LANTERN NIGHT
Effectiveness   of    Singing
Marred by Unruliness
of Audience.
SOPHS    WELL    TRAINED
Lantern Night was Friday, October 22,
in spite of the gloomy aspect of the sky
which threatened to postpone it until
Saturday.
The ceremony this year was marred
by three unfortunate occurrences. In
the period of silence before the Sopho-
mores begin to sing outside the library,
people insisted upon talking and giggling.
No amount of shshing could stop them
though some very good ex-proctors
were numbered among those present.
Then, oh horror of horrors, somebody
tried every light on the library switch-
board, illuminating now this spot, now
that, most distractingly and quite spoil-
ing the atmosphere for the ceremony.
Thirdly, while the Sophomores were
waiting for the Freshmen to go out
singing "Sofias," they moved about and
even seemed, to be trying to "beat their
neighbor to the exit." This was very
disturbing.
The singing of "Pallas" was unusually
excellent. The mutes were scattered
this year instead of being grouped on
the end as last, and the effect was far
better. The Freshmen sang well, until,
wearied out by the continual repetitions,
the, v>�* '-4.<*(t halves of the proces-
sion couT3f" no longer keep in unison.
Also the lanterns on one side were being
swung faster than on the other.
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Actual    Experiences   Become
Part of Required Economics
^           Course.
HEAD  WOr\KS  MIRACLE
�'-�1_
(Specially contributed by'E. Stewart, '28.
and H. McKclvey, '28.)
On the fifteenth of June, 1927, two
energetic "undergraduates" in an ancient
Franklin met twenty-two .trains. Their
object was to gather together the one
hundred and one Summer School Stu-
dents who were arriving in Bryn Mawr
that  day.
These girls, of every nationality, and
every. sort of occupation, came f rom
places as widely separated as York, Eng-
land, and Seattle, Washington. Their
ideas were as varied as their home
towns; heated arguments would arise on
any subject from Socialism to stew
recipes. But from the time they were
brought through Pembroke Arch, they
became, not merely one hundred and one
individual' factory girls, but a unit, a
whole�the Bryn Mawr Summer School
for Industrial Workers, Class of 1087.
It was Miss Smith, the executive head
of the school, who wrought the miracle
of unification. Besides being so impor-
tant an official, she managed to know
every student personally, to know all
about her, what she thought and why
she thought it, and what her particular
difficulties were. She adapted herself
to every occasion, and was indispensable
to the organizers of skits, where she
was equally popular as a street car con-
ductor (in the night watchman's brass-
buttoned coat), or a railroad train, or
even as Pembroke Arch.
President Hiker from Chicago
As for the girls who belonged to the
class, each one should be described In-
dividually, before you can form any idea
of what the Summer School was. The
class president, Alma Polkoff, came from
Chicago on foot. She was a tall, raw-
boned girl, with sandy hair really boy-
cut, and when she strode into the regis-
tration office in her hiking clothes no
one suspected that she was of the
feminine gender. Her masculine appear-
ance won for her the nickname of "Mr.
Miss," and as such she was the re-
spected leader of the school. Her good
sense and infinite patience made the
class meetings, which were apt to be-
come stormy sessions, orderly and fruit-
ful affairs.
Helen Meltzer, the editor of the school
paper, was one of the best educated stu-
dents-, we had. Although foreign-born,
she had gone to school in this country,
and had continued studying with her
husband, who is a lawyer. The two
issues of the Bryn Mawr Echo, which
she supervised, are particularly interest-
ing; they contain many accounts of
actual experiences that tne girls had gone
through, such as first-hand accounts of
the war, and tales of youth spent in
making broom handles.
Some one gave as her conception of a
Radical "one with strange ideas ex-
pressing every time which is con-
venient." Such was Sylvia Zwerin. She
was a Russian girl, made cynical and
bitter by her experiences, and ready with
an opinion on any subject She nearly
broke up one class meeting; at which the
question of whether students should wear
knickers ^to the village  was under  dis-
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Mann Twins to Visit Here
On Monday, October 31st, a tea will
be held in Rockefeller at 430 P. M. for
Klaus and Erica Mann, twin son and
daughter of the dramatist, Thomas
Mann, of Munich, who recently wrote
The Magic Mountain. Erica speaks Eng-
lish, but Klaus, although he has written
a book of plays and two novels, does not
One of his books has been translated into
English and is published by KnqpL� Co.
Both are intensely interested in ttle Oer-
ing the week-tad at college and everyone
man "Youth Movement." They are spend-
is cordially invited to meet them on
Monday.