College News, 1928-11-28, Vol. 15, No. 08

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BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, N($.V$MBER 28, 1928
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PRICE.   10 CENTS
COLLEGE CHARMED
BY MISS MILLAY
Lyricist      Reads      Selections
From Several Books and
One Play.
TWO    ENCORES    GIVEN
� "Sh�h�h�h," whispered sterner mefh-
l.crs of the great audience in Goodhart
at twenty minutes past eight on Thurs-
day evening. Immediately everyone was
quiet, and had turned to sit stiffly straight
in their seatsyfocusing their eyes on the
two wonieif^whom the curtain had just
let'through: the President and Miss
Millay./ Very hriefly she was introduced
sis M/ss Edna St. Vincent Millay. the
s^ketman of the younger generation,
and then she was left quite to her own
devices.^                                     �
FirstTtif all she wove a magic charm
with her long scarf; spellbound, the audi-
ence watched her unwind .it from her
ne>k and drape it carefully over a chair
before she began to speak in her pleas-
antly resonant voice. "When I tell you
that I am, very happy tQ be-here tonight,"
sie declared earnestly, "you must not
th'nk that' 1 am but running through pal*
oi my nsual program. As a matter of
."act 1 don't say that very often. I have
always wanted to come to see Bryn Mawr
because Bryn Mawr is such a beautiful
name. Only very wise and beautiful
beings could move behind such a name.
Of course I have not been. here long
enough to see everything, but already  1
�have found the most exciting kind of tree
just outside the window of my room at
jour President's house. However, now 1
must start out to do what I'm supposed
to be doing: reading you my poemi, or
rather 'saying', them to you�unless I
suddenly get an awful spasm of forget-
fulness,"    *
Her Personality Captures Audience.
But naturally enough no such disturb-
ing feature ruffled the smoothness of
M-ss Millay's program. Though she
seemed small against the grand. back-
ground of Goodhart's stage, through the
all-too-short hour and a half of her reci-
tations she held the audience in a truly
" marvelous manner. She caught them
whh the wiles and caprices of an artistic
tem]>erament: one moment she was inti-
mate, and the next she was smiling
critical smiles from' Olympian heights
Some resented this and called it affecta-
tion : others thought it innate and natural.
And after she had thus caught them she
].'; ycd upon the keyboard of their emo-
tions with a musical reading of her
already highly lyrical poems.
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Calendar
Tuesday cvcniiiy, November 27�Debate in Common Room at �.<K).   .
Tuesday evening, December 4�The Philadelphia Orchestra will play in Go'od-
hart Hall at 8.15.
Saturday morning, December 8�Varsitj^pHockey' vs. Germantown, postponed.
Saturday afternoon�Circus in  Goodhart  Hall,  given  by   the   Phoebe. Anna
Thome School.
Saturday evening�"Le Professeur" by Duvcmois will be presented in Wynd-"
ham under the auspices of the French Club.
CHRISTIANITY IS
REVEALED IN PAUL
Dr. Lodholz Speaks
Physiological Outlook of Person-
ality Told, Defends
Suppressions.
"A physiologist is not a psychologist"
and "the physiologist is a defender of
suppression" were the two things em-
phasized by Edward Lodholz, of the
Medical College of the University of
Pennsylvania, speaking in Goodhart Hall
Wednesday evening,  Noverrfber 20.
Physiologists do not like the words
which the psychologists use. "For." said
Dr. Lodholz, "introspection, a word com-
mon to the psychologists, is the poorest
tool that a scientist can use. It means
a projected self, a term which the physi-
ologist doesn't like.   Xow again, the word  "M- '
rf-
'soul' as the psychologists use it has co:
nection with human entity. It tits in
concept with immortality. The physiolo-
gist, however, finds no help in that. The
physiologist is not Interested in the
corpse. He is only interested in life,
change* Rut he could not know life or
change. So the soul seems a corpse to
him. However in the dynamic' concept
off the soul, the mind comes in. And the
mind is more useful to the physiologist.
It has fundamentals for its basis."
In announcing the subject of the eve-
ning, "the Physiological outlooks of
Personality," Dr. Lodholz said that the
word personality" is deliberately taken.
It is a new word . It means everything
that happens in the human being."
"I am afraid you won't like it," con-
tinued Dr. Lodholz. "For the subject
is extremely physiological. I am only
going to deal.with a phase of the prob-
lem. It involves that which is extremely
materialistic. Nevertheless it has a posi-
tion in the study of the problem."
2d Varsity Ties S. M. C.
in Inefficient Game
The second varsity game Saturday
against the Saturday Morning Club was
a disappointment, and not nearly as ex-
citing as a 0-0 score would seem to indi-
cate. Both teams were badly crippled.
The visiting team struggled in half an
hour late and then discovered that they
had only ten players. Stonington gener-
ously agreed to play goal for them.
�Roth forward lines lacked speed and
push. Totten and Packard worked hard,
but there was little co-operation. The
backfield was steadier. Boyd's lunging
was a pleasure to watch. Considering
each player individually no one playeth)
very badly. It was the general bunching
and lack of team work which was so
disheartening. There was no spirit in
the playing. Perhaps anticipations of a
gloTiortr week-end catrsed the dazed ex-
pressions and disjointed playing. There
must be some excuse.
The line-up was:
Bryn   Mawr.       Sat. Morning Club.
Adams                       Ashby
VVaples                       Davis
Holden                       Lightcap
Packard                     Macrier
Totten                        Turner
Benham                      Larson
Boyd                          Sharpe
Balis                   . %    Lowrie
Woodward                Newcombe
Ralston                       Waters
Baer                           Ston'mgton
Tuesday's Debate Decides*
on Emotion Vs. Intellect
Undaunted by a veritable. Hood of ac-
tivities, the Debating Club has adhered
to its purpose of holding a debate Tues-
day evening, the last night before
Thanksgiving Vacation. The commit-
tee.'at a meeting which was held to de-
cide on the speakers and the subject,
also laid plans for a third debate, to
take place soon after Thanksgiving.
The subject of the debate on Tuesday
night will lit-: Resolved: That emotion
has done more for the world than intel-
lect. The emotional element in the con-
troversy will be V. Fain, '39, and R. Stix.
The intellec-
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tuals arc C. Hand and M, Gclhorn. '30.
The subject has sufficient scope to afford
opportunity for all varieties of tactics and
talents, and great things are expected.
The third debate, the date of which
will l>c announced later, is to be on the
topic: Kesoh cd: That the movies arc
pernicious and should be suppressed.
The* debaters whose names have been
suggested 4>y the committee for this meet-
ing are: ('.. Bancroft. J. Bunn. M. Pat-
terson and E. Dyer. Members of the
college arc urged to go to the movies
every night between now and the debate
so that they will.have ideas to contribute
on the subject. We take the precaution,
kowevcr. to disclaim all responsibility for
possible scholastic results.
Moth debates will take place in the
Common Room in Goodhart Hall.
Varsity Dramatics Cast
Announced, Give Resume
The cast for the Varsity Dramatics
play, Bcllairs, which will be presented on
December IS, 'has been selected through
the tryouts last week. As announced by
the committee, the cast is as follows: .
(in the order of appearance)
Betty Barclay .........Mary Drake. W
(A pretty girl of the working class)
Barclay   .................... R.  Yerkes
(Her"father, a stout red-faced man
in shirt sleeves)
Dorothy   Bellairs........E.   Perkins, 'a'.)
. (A  pretty   girl of   a very   different
class)
Matthew Bellairs   .........C. Reiser, ':tl
(A stoutish middle-aged man with
eye-glasses hanging from a narrow
black ribbon, neatly dressed in con-
ventional clothes)
Giovanni Lanza .........H. Thomas. '31
(Dark, good-looking young man; at
first glance^rather�a tough cus-
tomer. Some original breeding mani-
fest but roughened and defensive)
Diana Martin   ...-----B.  Humphreys, '29
(About forty-five, well-dressed and
still good-looking)
Mortimer Scrope   ..........E. Dyer, '31
(About fifty, kind, rather diffident, in
well-worn   grey   clothes,   with tonly
the collar to mark his calling)
Mathilda Bellairs n i..-.-P. Weigand, '30
(No description available)
The play is in three acts, two in a gar-
den and one in a studio.    Its subject is
"the Humours of Character."  An elderly
painter, long separated from his  family,
and wedded to his habits, receives a series
of   assaults   upon   his   peace   of   mind;,
wherein   appear   certain    passages   of   f
surprising nature, his late-found affection5
for his daughter, his dread of his wife,
and   his   sentimental   relations   with   one
Diana, an old   friend;  with  other  mat-
ters of no consequence whatever.    (We
have it  on the authority  of  the author,
Mr. Halcott Glover.
Breasted Accepts
Lectures to Be on Rise of Man
From Savagery to Civ-
ilization.
It was. announced a few weeks ago
that Professor James H. Breasted, the
Director of the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago, had accepter! for
this year the six-weeks' resident lecture-
ship provided ' for by the Flexner foun-
dation. In a letter to President Park.
Mr. Breasted has suggested as subjects
for the four formal lectures which he
will deliver between April 8 and May 17
thq .following :
The   New  Crusade.
I.    The Place of the Near East in
Human   Development.
II.    The Scientific Responsibility of
America in trie^few East and the Sal-
vaging of the Evidence.
III.     The Evidence and Man's Con-
quest of Nature.
IV.    The Evidence and the Emergence
of Social Idealism.
These subjects suggest every variety of
excitement aiul interest. The letter con-
tinues: "The logical development of the
above subjects is, I hope, obvious from
the titles themselves. I might further
state that what I am trying to do is to
make evident the imposing process by
which man has risen from savagery to
civilization, and behind this process and
underlying it I am at first giving some
account of the vast body of evidence and
our responsibility to save and study it.
I should endeavor not to make it jnerely
technical, but  a really human  story."
"The second of the above suggested
lectures might be divided into two, the
first on the scientific responsibility of
America in the Near East, and the sec-
ond on salvaging the evidence. I am
under the impression, however, that a
good deal of additional discussion wilt
be suggested by the lectures, and. this
might be taken up in a series of informal
conferences with your graduate students,
and the undergraduate honor students in
archaeology.
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Dr.     Sclater     Analyses     the
Spiritual Development   x
Saint.   *
CONFORM     TO     FAITH
"A Christian is a man who acts as if
he had a comrade in time of need," said
Dr. Sclater in the Sunday evening meet-
ing of the Bryn Mawr League, held in
Goodhart,   November 2.">.
Dr. Sclater is Minister of the Did St.
Andrew's Church in Toronto, Canada.
I rid is well known to all Bryn Mawr
students as one of the jnost delight-
ful speakers  of last year.
"Whateil a Christian really like?" Dr.
.Sclater asked us. For answer he pre-
sented us with the life of the' Apostle
Paul, than whom there is no per-
ron more worthy of representing the
Christian who is at the same time a
human being, with the temptations and
diificiiltics which are still prevalent in the
lives of men.
Paul went through various stages dur-
ing his lifetime that arc almost identical  �^''1""
with  stages which   we go through from
the   so-called   "age   of   innocence."   Dur-
cliildhood  to old age.     First,  there  was
ing that time Paul tells us that he never
bothered to think  about   vital, questions.
He .was  "alive,  but  without   law."  And
then   there   came to  him the  realization
� In t  he   was required   to  awake  to the
demands   of a  moral law.    There were
certain things in the community in which
lie lived that demanded his attention. And
quite naturally he felt inadequate to live
lip to these demands,    lie felt there was
a   something   within   him   which   made
li'm   desire   to   do   what   he. knew   he
� iiould   not., An evil pressing upon  the
icrimetcr   of  his   life..
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Goodhart Concert Holds
Pleasure for Everyone
The program which will be given by
the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Bryn
Mawr (lice Chili and Mr. Alwyne. M
soloist, in Goodhart Hall on December
4 has at length been decided on by Mr.
Stokowski, (he Music Department and
the. Publicity Office. Consisting entirely
of Wagner, Liszt, and Bach, it is cal-
culated to'delight all classes of music
lovers, from the erudite and technical
follower of the score, to the simple lis-
tener who knows what she likes when
she likes it.
The program is as follows:
The   Philadelphia   Orchestra,   Leoi>oId
Stokowski. Conductor:
Wagner�Prelude  to "Lohengrin."
Liszt�Concerto   in   K " Plat    Major   for
Piano and Orchestra.
Horace   Alwyne.
Wagner�Prelude and   Love-Death   from
Tristram and Isolde.
Intermission.
Bach�From    Part   Two   of  the  Christ-
mas Oratorio:
Break   forth,   oh   beauteous   heav-
enly light.
Within yon gloomy manner.
C.lory to God.
With   all  thy   host*     �
Bryn    Mawr   College   Chorus   trained
by Ernest   Willoughbv�
Bach�Toccata and Fugue in  D Minor.
The Glee Club rehearsed in Goodhart
Hall on Sunday under the baton of Mr.
Stokowski. Scouts rejKirt that they art
in a state of mind where they will cither
do or die.
1.
:t.
4.
Mr. Willoughby Plays Schubert
An organ recital in celebration of the
Schubert Centenary was given by Mr.
W-lloughby in chapel on Friday. Since
Schubert wrote no music for the organ,
the four pieces played were "either
transcriptions or arrangements of various
works of his which have been found
mc st suitable for the instrument." The
program was as follows: March Mili-
tate, Moments Musicales, Ave Maria, The
Dance of the Shepherds and Shep-
herdesses taken from the Operetta
Ro<amunde.

Bryn Mawr Produces
'I he Age of Innocence, a drama-
tization of Edith Wharton's novel
Mawr, litoti (we think we have it
right at last) opens at the Empire
Theater in J#ew. York Tuesday
cvciintR.^ovcjhbcr 27. ft is flic
second titqc this month that we
have had occasion to call attention
to Mrs. Barnes' prowess as an
author. Her volume of short
stories. "Prevailing Wimb," ap-
liearcd a few weeks ago. Kathc-
rinc Cornell has the leading role in
� the play, and Margaret Barker,
cx'-'llO, is a member of the cast? ,
The Seniors Receive
Unusual   Reception   Presents   a
Really Good Skit, Food
and Games.
The Senior Reception to the Freshman
last Saturday night was somewhat of a
surprise in various ways. It wa;*, not a
dance: the guests were asked to wear
campus clothes; and the skit was good.
We arc so used to having mediocre home
talent presented to us that when we see
really   good,   we   are   aston-
Thc stage setting in all college skits
is a joy to the play-lover, and this time
the presence of a magnificent loud
speaker announcing the results of the.
college campaign for President, necessi-
tated by the ifntimely death (it turned
out to have been murder) of Miss Park
was the crowning touch of realism. A
special actor devoted herself entirely to
the production of static, enchanting the
audience   with   her  dissonant   realism. -
The repercussions of the recent elec-
tion, of our late psychological experi-
ences and of our classroom experience
were all evident in the development of
the plot. The play opened with a faculty
meeting to nominate a new President,
amid weeping and wailing, for the last
incumbent Unsuccessful in their at-
tempts to agree t on a candidate, the
faculty decided to refer the election to
the students: always a wise course, when
in doubt.
Scene two begin* on  a note of tense -
emotion.    Intoning their campaign songs,
the  faculty gathered to hear the returns '
come in over the radio:  from Pembroke,
from  Merion, etc.    Amid static and song
the votes came in; but no sooner was the
election decided than it was learned that
the   successful   candidate   was  the  mur-
derer   of   the  deceased   President,    The
meeting broke up in confusion.
- - Faculty Is Reunited.
Last came the trial   for murder.    The
fluttering prisoner was brought in and
confronted with witnesses. An eloquent
defense was lade by her attorney. But
at the last'moment incontrovertible evi-
dence of her unreliable character was
produced, and she was carried off "a
broken woman." The jury, turning into
an electoral convention, immediately- pro-
posed a substitute, whereupon the student
body fell into a tit (a very good fit, by
the way). The faculty, however, demon-
strated  its renewed  harmony in song.
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Work in Honor Dept.
Proves to Be Successful
In view of the fact that this year is
the first time that the system of Honors
Work has lieen attempted, the number
of students who arc now taking honors
is surprising and delightful. Not only
is the special work being given in de-
partments where the college has been
able to add another instructor to share
in the (caching, but also in four other
departments the members of the Faculty
have added Honors work to their al-
ready onerous duties without any special
assistance whatsoever. The list of de-
partments of students who are now tak-
ing  honors is as  follows:
Advanced I,atin�Special work with
Dr. Taylor: F. Frenayc. A. K. Lake.
X.  S. Skidmore.
Honours in English�Professor Don-
nelly and Dr. Herben: J. Beckett, H.
Wright. A. Learned.
Honours in English�Dr. Chew: E. S.
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