College News, 1928-05-23, Vol. 14, No. 26

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BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE).  PA.   WEDNESDAY. MAY 23,*1928
PRICE.   10 CENTS
HAMPTON SINGERS
CHARM COLLEGE
Will Spiritual Endure in Fu-
ture as Living Form of
Art?
INSTITUTE      DESCRIBED
Wait 'Til I Put on My Robe.
Ezekial Saw the Wheels.
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The Hampton- Quartet returned to
its usual enthusiastic audience at Bryn
Mawr on Thursday evening, M#ay 17.
The quartet, consisting of W. E.
Creekmur, first tenor; F. W. Crawley,
second tenor;, Jeremiah Thomas, first
bass, and J^. H. Wainwright, second
bass, sang the following spirituals:
Group 1�
1.    Roll, Jordan, Roll.
2.    Zion, We Blow.
3.    O'ld Sheep Don't � Know. the
Road.
4.    I Want to Go to Heaven When I
Die.
Group II�
1.   Joshua   Fit   the  Battle  of  Jeri-
cho.
2.
3.
4.   Juba.'
Group III�
1.    My Soul Is a Witness for My
Lord.
2.    How I Long to See That Day.
3.    Take Me Home.
Group IV�
1.    O Lord, Have Mercy, If 'You
Please.
2.    Will Go, Shall Go, See What the
End May Be.
3.    Swing Low. Sweet Chariot.
Encore: Hallelujah, Praise the Lord.
Between   Groups    I    and   II,    Mr.
Ketcham, the leader of the quartet,
gave" a brief s'urTimary of the develop-
ment of the negro spiritual. - All the
songs have not developed from songs
of worship; some were songs of every
day life corresponding to the English
ballads. The books written on the
subject are of little value in that they
consistently contradict each other.
One author maintains that the spirit-
uals are a reaction from the slavery
period and that no more will be pro-
duced. Another says that the negro
must sing in order to live and therefore
the spirituals will beproduced for ages.
Both opinions have elements of truth,
for, Mr. Ketcham told us, although the
past output of spirituals cannot com-
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And How?
This is an exam number** At
times like this we can only think
in terms of questions and answers,
moK questions than answers. One
of the most difficult questions for
the editor is: Are Exams News?
You kuow the old criterion: If
a professor flunks a student, that's
not news. But if a student flunks
a professor, that is news. Get
busy, students!
Class Parties
Who   Can   Deny  Our  Brilliant
Success in the Social/*.
Whirl?
Most of May Day Profits
to Buy Stage Equipment
Stirred by a last-minute report-that
May Day profits would reach or even
exceed the sum of $5000 the Under-
graduate Association yesterday after-
noon revised its original plan for the
expenditure of the money. The meet-
ing, a remarkably large one for the first
day of exams, was called by-petition to
reconsider the plan drawn up last week.
Contrary to expectation, however, the
original scheme was left almost un-
changed and the second meeting 'de-
voted itself merely to the consideration
of what should be done with surplus.
The present plan of expenditure is
as follows:
For the organ pipe already installed
in Goodhart, $500.
For the curtain also installed, $600.
For  stage  equipment  and  activities
of  Varsity Dramatics connected  with
Goodhart, $1400.
For the Bryn Mawr Art Club, $500.
For Bates House, $300.
For summer school, $200.
All the rest of the- money will be
devoted to stage equipment for Good-
hart Hall. After the deduction of the
above sums the first surplus will be
used for the purchase of a moving
picture projector large enough to show
movies in the auditorium of C00(mart
Hall. A good projector, with a col-
lapsible fireproof booth, can be in1
stalled for $1150, it was announced.
Reels can be rented for the evening for
no more than $20 and shown with fbe
projector for less than $5. This addi-
tion to the equipment of Goodhart
should prove a source of much pleas-
ure as well as profit to "the college.
When in Paris Why Not
Attend C. I. E. Conference?
In chapel Friday morning Miss Elaine
Lomas, Bryn Mawr, '25, described the
C. I. E. Congress in Paris this summer.
Each year since its inception in 1919,
the-C. I. E. has held a congress during
the summer in one of the capitols of
Europe. This year it will be held from
August 15-24, immediately after the
ending of the Olympic games at Amster-
dam and Paris has been selected as a
place especially convenient for those
wishing first to attend the games.
Each of the thirty-two national unions
of students, members of the confedera-
tion, send five official delegates to the
congress, but besides these there are
always a good many representatives from
other student organizations, not .mem-
bers of the C. I. E., and all students
belonging to any of the countries rep-
resented are welcome to attend as ob-
servers. The observers and outside
guests take part in all the social events
and may attend all the sessions of the
council and the commissions.
Five Commissions in Congress
The main work of the congress is
carried on by five commissions which
draw up the various resolutions and
these are then approved by the plenary
session, of the council, the procedure
being exactly like that of the League of
Nations. The first commission deals
with the questions of organization and
policy and is probably of greatest inter-
est to those unacquainted with the routine
work of the Confederation. Among the
subjects which will be discussed in the
coming congress by this commission will
be the admission of the Deutschenstu-
dentenschaft, the student organization of
Germany, a national union which has so
far not been quite in accord with the
statutes of the C. I. E., the relations of
the C. I. E. with other international stu-
dent ,bodies and with the Institute of
Intellectual Co-operation of the League
of Nations. � Upon the last question there
will be an interesting address by a mem-
ber of the Institute. It is- well to realize,
however, that the C. I. E. is in no way
an organ of propaganda for the League
of Nations, and that its only affiliation
with the League is through the Insti-
tute of Intellectual Co-operation, which
has no political activity. Attendance at
these discussions is probably the best
means   of  getting  an   insight  into  some
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Junior-Senior Banquet, hazy with tra-
dition and glazed with sentiment, dcew
the upperclassmen to the gym on Satur-
day night. A kind of glamour was given
the dinner by the glittering raiment ot
the revellers and innumerable balloons,
but even this glamour could not prevent
trie discovery that we were eating after
all �nly a very ordinary college dinner
transposed to a more festive scene.
After the consumption of this doubtful
feast, dancing began. The orchestra was
very good, and hilarity waxed rife and
wanton. Or didn't it? We forget. 0ur
memory became rather confused in the
daze of happiness.
The great occasion was consummated
by the beautiful and time-honored daisy
ceremony; and holding hands and sing-
ing "Auld Lang Syne" we said good-
night, and went home, tired but happy.
Sophomore Banquet Successful
The Sophomore class banquet went off
with rather a flourish in Rockefeller
Hall.
As was the food, so was the entertain-
.ment: way above the average, and when
all was said and done, we were quite
certain that we were not enjoying a
Sunday meal. Gertrude Bancroft, as
toastmistress, performed most admirably,
and introduced, quite gracefully, the
well-known Elizabeth Bradford Fetter,
Hygienic writer. Miss Fetter was sup-
ported in a very moral skit by the tal-
ented Sylvia Knox. Their performance
was greeted by^ the serious reaction of a
class who had missed its traditional
course of Hygiene, in the interests of
May Day.
Next came announcements from the
chair,   and   a   most   spirited   reply   from
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PHOTOGRAPHERS SNAP SCENES
_k_ OF TYPICAL COLLEGE LIFE
Has Peace Been Declared?
Freshman Night cropped up in a most
irregular form last Friday night. There
were no parodies and no battles for the
possession of Taylor steps, which re-
mained empty all evening except for a
large �� red sign saying SOLD. When
Freshmen in one of the halls turned
their backs on childish things and sang
in chorus
"Our upperclassmen are all such bricks,
We aren't going to play them any tricks,"
it was generally thought that the old
tradition would be allowed to die. But
irreverence   never   went   with   restraint.
The younger generation, as many upper
rlassmen now know to their sorrow, have
their own ways of sowing their wild
oats. It was a night of secret crimes
and indignant retaliations. At midnight
someone saw rockets in back of Merion
and someone else heard a snatch of im-
passioned oratory in the same quarter.
The true history of those events will
never be written. But this much is a
fact. If the custom is ever wholly dis-
continued, it will be upperclassmen who
do it. Treat them as kindly as you will,
Freshmen will never knowingly let such
an opportunity go to waste.
Model School Children
Please with Singing
On Wednesday morning, May 16, the
college was entertained in chapel by the
musicaj element of the Thome School.
The first number on a rather varied pro-
gram was. a lullaby from Act two, Scene
three, of A Midsummer's Night Dream.
The songsters were all dressed in blue
tunics, and performed in a most ad-
mirable manner. We were both sur-
prised and pleased to hear a solo part
which kept  its melody.
The second main part of the program
contained sundry and amusing folk
songs. Each was announced by one of
the singers, who , summarized the con-
tents of the offering. Incidentally, we
suggest this method as a most practical
innovation in more ambitious efforts!
She who announced then led the song,
and the methods of beating time, and
keeping the chorus to the rhythm were
well worth a more minute study than
we can afford to give them here. .Among
the company was one lone boy; his bass
voice, we regret to report, did not carry
above the high sopranos of the female
singers.
The first song was "Twinkle, Twinkle,
Little Star;" wherein (for the benefit of
those poor innocents whose mothers
never told them) a little boy sees, from
his bedroom window, a star that looks
"exactly like a diamond." The next song
was called "If I Were a Little Elfin."
Here, a lady tells a little boy about aji
elf who is "just exactly the size of a
flower." The third song concerned the
difficulties of a \rM and a man; a rooster
advises them, aip the result is that "she
will dance without her shoe." The
fourth folk song was done interpretively;
it was about butterflies, one of whom
leaves a lovely garden for no known
reason; we were thoroughly instructed
in the gentle art of playing butterfly.
The last number was an Easter carol,
to be sung, most appropriately, in the
springtime. The children rose gradually
from the earth (which was really the
chapel platform, you understand) and
pretended, most effectively, to be little
flowers blooming in the rays of God's
own sun.
The whole program was very nicely
done, and we were frankly amazed that
such very little people could sing so well.
^re^Exams Strength-
ening?
The after effects of exams may
In- fatal to health, hut anticipation
of "them seems to be decjdedly
bracing. At three o'clock on Mon-
day afternoon of this week there
was not a single undergraduate
occupying a bed in the infirmary,
and only one graduate student.
This. is an almost unheard-of sit-
uation in the annals of the in-
firmary, and the nurses, as one of
them remarked, to the last patient
as she took her departure, are
going to advocate having Finals
six times a year instead of only
twice.
Last Chapel Makes Kiown
Gift for Lectureship
Another magnificent gift has been pre-
sented to the college. Miss Park an-
nounced last Saturday morning in chapel,
in the form of fifty thousand dollars,
given by Mr, Bernard Flexner in honor
of his sister," Miss Mary Flexner, of the
class of 1903. This money is to be used
to obtain each year a lecturer, American
or European, of widest renown and ex-
cellence. The lectureship is to be con-
fined to Literatures. Philosophy, Psychol-
ogy, Mathematics. History and Art.
These lecturers will be directly connected
with Bryn Mawr for six weeks. The
lectures will be published each year as
Bryn   Mawr lectures.
The President then announced several
honors which have been won by Bryn
Mawr graduates. Miss Salinger, of the
cfass of 1928, won a prize given by the
College Art Association. The examina-
tion given the contestants covered the
history of Art from Ancient to Modern
times. Miss Salinger's was the second
pfize�live hundred dollars. The first
and third prizes were won by Princeton-
students.
Miss Belle Boonc Beard has been
awarded a fellowship of twelve hundred
dollars by the Judge Baker Foundation
of Boston to carry on research in the
Child Guidance Clinic. An anonymous
gift of five hundred dollars has in-
creased the fellowship awarded by the
American Association of University
Women to Miss Mildred Fairchild to
fifteen hundred dollars. Miss Harper
has also received a foreign  fellowship.
"The time has come," Miss Park then
said, "when I for the last time this year
roust stop speaking." The President
briefly sketched the outluyk for the com-
ing year. Honors work, long planned
and long hoped for, will be inaugurated.
There are grants for increase of the
salaries of the faculty, Goodhart Hall
is completed, its youth full of surprising
possibilities.
Miss Park admitted that she was a
little sentimental about leaving Taylor
Hall. But she concluded her last talk in
its traditional walls in saying that it was
fitting there to discuss plans for going
ahead.
How Can the Seven Women's
Colleges Be Brought to
Eye of Public?
MOVIES SOLVE PROBLEM
Mr. Alwyne Honored
Mr. Horace Alwyne, the Director f
the Department of Music at Bryn
Mawr College^.has received the honor
of being made President of the Con-
temporary Music Society of Philadel-
phia. The Society gave three most
successful concerts last season, of
which the April one at which were
given works of Stravinsky and Hinde-
mith was especially important and for
which the Broad Street Theater was
filled.
Mr. Alwyne wjll play at the dedica-
tion of Goodhart Hall on June 2. sail-
ing for England immediately after-
wards where he has been engaged as
soloist   with   the   Bournemouth   Sym-
Bryn Mawr has become a second
Hollywood. To carry out the publicity
program1 of the seven women's colleges .
which have banded together to further
their interests among the public and add
to their endowment funds, moving pic-
tures are being taken of many phases
of college life, and will be released all
over the country this fall, along with-
similar pictures of life at Vassar. Smith,
Barnard, Wellcsley, and Mt. Holyoke.
During the past winter a committee of
representatives of these colleges, on
which Bryn Mawr is represented by
Mrs. Learned Hand, has been active in
New York finding out ways and means
of bringing before the eyes of the nation
the past histories and future plans of
fhesc institutions. The articles now ap-
pearing in the Sunday Times are one
feature of this program. Now the num- .
her of people who can be reached is to'
be increased from those who read and
to listen to those who sec.
Not long ago the Metro-Goldwyn had
a film in mind which would deal with
life in a gtVl's college. An alumna of
Barnard was so impressed with the seven
college campaign that she proposed to
Mr. Will Hayes that a film should be
made of the most interesting activities
of the college. Mr. Hayes "snapped
up" the idea. Ii) due time it was put
into practice. Last Thursday, Mr.
Dubreuil, Mr. Hayes' right-hand man,
met "with a committee of Undergraduates
headed by V. Fain. '29, to decide on the
activities which should be photographed.
Since Saturday the cameras have been
busy.
New Tradition Is Founded
The cameras first appeared on- the
occasion of the Seniors' farewell to the
halls, when the whole college dutifully
ran into the camera, and a new tradition
was established' for the satisfaction of
the movie-going world. As the proces-
sion of Seniors filed into the arch^he
big blue banner of 1928, suspended from
the dining room windows by Stokes and
Ropes, was allowed to flutter ignomini-
ously to the ground as a symbol of the
passing of the class. Thus traditions are
born.
On the same afternoon a lacrosse
game was staged for the omnivorous
camera, and the chemistry class was
photographed prosaically undergoing a
Lab quiz. This aspect of science was
chosen perhaps in the hopes of an ex-
plosion, after a plan for a closeup of
geology "^Students starting out to collect
fossils and skeletons had been regret-
fully abandoned.
Resurrections
In the evening Lantern Night. was
resurrected, and on Monday Robin Hood
rose from its gravfcs in the library and
the old clothes closet, and May Day,
to which we had sung goodbye on Sat-
urday, reigned again for a hri*f moment.
Only certain scenes from the play were
finally taken.
Other scenes were:                           �
Miss Park coming down the Music
Walk with the new Building as a back-
ground, greeting students from Poland,
Russia, France. Germany, England,
Japan and China.
Dean Manning coming across, the
campus with her two small daughters (a
feature which we defy the other c6lleges
to equal).
The May Day Tumblers doing their
most spectacular tricks.
The I'Kturcs from all the colleges will
be shown together with a general cap-
tion of one hundred and- twenty-five
words, which is being comjwsed by the
committee. Each college will also have
a .separate caption of no more than
twenty words. The Bryn Mawr caption,
if the present plan is adhered to, will be:
"Bryn    Mawr.    resident    college    for.
Mr. Alwy-ne's winter' engagements
include being the soloist in February of
the Detroit  Symphony Orchestra.
phony Orchestra, in which will be con-
ducted by -Sir Dan Godfrey, in August.' women in beautiful Philadelphia suburb*.
graduates    and
classes.,     high
faculty."
undergraduates,     small
standards,     remarkable