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BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1928
PRICE.   10 CENTS
GGODHART'S DEBUJ
IS GREAT SUCCESS
Audience    Unprecedented    in
Size    and   Enthusiasm
.   Transforms Hall.
'BEGGARS OPERA" GAY
The "Beggars Opera" lias come and
gone, and Goodliart Hall has made its^
how. And a very nice how it was, too.
The auditorium tilled with people had
a very different air ilian when empty
and brooding. One forgot all pne's
cold criticism. The glamour of the,
crowd, a well-dressed, chattering, pro-
fessional crowd, made one forget^or
rather, made one change one's opin-
ions. No longer <Jid the hall seem too
hare and self-assertive: no longer did
the arch of the ceiling seem an ugly
one: no longer did'the pink plush seats
and barber-pole striped supports seem
the least hit tawdry. The fuiilding had
awakened to life, had become a thea-
ter for better or for worse, instead of
being merely the bloodless realization
of an architect's dream. �*
Aud it was people, it was the crowd,
that accomplished the transformation.
For the first time a production aJJJryn
-Mawr bad drawn a' professional, no
an amateur, audience. Not collegiate,
not academic, not, silent, not sparse.
No, it was an alive audience, an ovw-
howing expansive audience, Itfpoured
in the front doors: it left its wraps in
the ncver-before-used cloak rooms; if
flowed in a welf-dressed streanfWdwn
the aisles, shepherded by equally well-
. dressed and transformed ushers. Once
seated it chattered instead of rustling;
it caught the spirit of the players, of
the play  on  the   stage,  instead of   re-
'maining aloof ami critical; it snatched
the well-worn jokes from the very lips
of'the actors, tossed them and laughed
and applauded.    Yes, Goodhart's debut
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French Try-Outs
La Revolte, an "idea-play" of
del.isle-Adam, and Le Professcur,
a refreshing comedy of Duvernois
that was given for the first time aF
the Grand Guignol this summer,
are the plays selected by the
French Club for presentation on
Saturday, December 8.
Tryouts will begin on Wednes-
day, November 7, for both plays.
All members of the- French Club
are urged to evaluate their his-
trionic ability. .
LAST RALLY IS
NOISY AS FIRST
Come to Bates!
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New York and Philadelphia Chil-
dren Strengthened
There.      '
Bates House, past, present, and future,
was discussed by Kdith Baxter in Friday
morning chapel. "Bates" was originally
the Long Branch vacation house with
which in the summer the Rev.. H. Ros-
well Bates supplemented his East Side
New York settlement work. Bryn
Mawr's connection with Bates originated
when a niece of "Mrs. Bates began taking
her friends down to help work with the
children. And after Mr. Bates' death,
the house was given over to Bryn Mawr
students, for two months during each
summer, while August was still left for
the mothers and the children of the
Spring  Street Church.
During Bryn Mawr's period of admin-
istration two groups from New York
and two groups from St. Martha's House
in Philadelphia- usually about one hun-
dred "and sixty children in all�spend two
weeks each in this large' house at the
seashore. Here they enjoy a sandy
beach, sunshine, pure air. plenty of sleep,
food and milk. Thus they are built up
to withstand more ably contagious dis-
ease during the rest of the ye,ar.
The Bates House organization, pro-
vided to care for these children, consists
of a head worker�who is either a grad-
uate or undergraduate of Bryn Mawr;
a permanent worker�usually an under-
graduate; a nurse�preferably one who
has had some Bryn Mawr affiliations;
and the teachers, who are volunteer
workers recruited from any of the under-
graduate classes. The only qualities
necessary for a teacher are a sense of
humor and an ability to get along with
children. If yOu have these come to
Bates; and maybe�as in the case of one
teacher�when Tony and Caesar catch
you in London Bridge you'll be asked to
choose between God or Jesus�a dreadful
decision; however, they'll probably make
N it a bit easier for you: "Hey, teacher,
we've changed it. Now which do you
want:  God or the Devil?"
Watson Is Coming
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Behavioriat,   Author   of   Many
Books, t,o Speak Here
Soon..
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Dr. James Broadus Watson, known
to us particularly as the g'reat exponent
of Behaviorism, will speak in Goodhart
Hall next Wednesday evening at 8.15,
under the auspices of the Undergraduate
Association. Dr. Watson, although he
was until 1920 a teacher of psychology, at
present devotes only his evenings to
psychology, except in as far as he applies
its principles to fits business, which is
the manufacture and sale of cosmetics.
tnce 1924 he has been vice president of
the J. Walter Thompson Co.
Dr. Watson received his Ph. D. from
the University of Chicago in 1903 and in
the same year published his thesis in a
hook, entitled' "Aitimal Education." After
teaching 'in Chicago for four years. Dr.
Watson went to Johns Hopkins, where
V remained until 1920 as Professor of
Experimental and Comparative Psychol-
ogy and Director of the psychological
laboratory. Now, retained by his busi-
ness in New York, he is a lecturer in
the New York School for Social .Re-
search and editoF of The Journal of Ex-
perimental Psychology.
Among Dr. Watson's books on psy-
chological subjects, all of which, except
the "Animal Education," have appeared
since 1914, are Behavior, Suggestions trf
Modem Science Concerning liJiiaiMj,
isychology From the Standpoint of the
Behaviorist, and, most recently, Bcha~> -
mrism, published in.l92!>.
wish to get a summary view of Dr. Wat-
son's principles are referred to the short
discussion "An Exposition and An Ex-
posure," which has been placed in the
New Book Room. It is an exposition of
iiormic versus behavioristic philosophy,
one side being presented by Dr. Watson
:.nd the other by Dr. McDougall.
i:k"~      -.Hoover   and   Smith
Speakers Carry on Amid
Interruptions.
DEMANDED
DIPLOMACY
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The enthusiasm of the young ladies
cannot be dampened. The "public spirit"
of the college was aroused last week by
the Smith contingent no more than the
Hooverites succeeded in rousing it on
Wednesday night. The band was there
(it must find it advantageous to be a
non-partisan organization) ; and the
! screaming, hopping about, and other
dignified manifestations of interest in
national affairs were not wanting. The
Hooverites were asked to sit on the left
and the Smittfites on the right, with the
Socialists in the aisle, but the latter sur-
rendered their position "on the fence" by
scattering themselves equally on both
sides.
Miss Howell introduced the various
speakers with due solemnity, the first of
whom was Dr. Cadbury, speaking for
the Socialist candidate, Norman Thomas.
He seemed a bit perturbed at having to
hurl together a few scattered facts very
hurriedly in the event of the absence of
the expected speaker for the Socialists
Vote for Thomas Is Not Wasted.
Amid numerous interruptions by Dr.
Fenwick and other vociferous Smith
arguers, Dr. Cadbury gave a brief state-
Fenwick in Chapel
Dr. Fenwick has consented to
speak -in commemoration of
.Armistice day in chapel on the
morning of Monday, N'ovemln. "*
11. It is the tenth anniversary
of the end of tl.. great war and
tlfe first time that' Bryn Mawr
wilj. have found itself not in the"
classroom at 11 o'clock. Another
advantage of the new schedule.
Dr. Fenwick will probably speak
about the League of Nations.
ORCHESTRA TO PLAY
WITH GLEE CLUB
Stokowski    and    ML' **Park
Combine to Give Final
Halo to Goodhart.
NO     TICKETS    NEEDED
the guest of honor at the French Club's
first function of the season on Wednes-
day afternoon, October 31. A tonsider-
able crowd both of members of* the
French Club and people interested in
archaeology were gathered at Wyndh'am
for tea and to hear M. de Montauzan tell
the exciting story of the supposed neo-
lithic remains unearthed at Glozel, near
Vjchy in Southern France.
� M. Montauzan, while he did not actu-
ally commit himself as to whether the
Lits of pottery, stone work and inscrip-
tions found by the Fradin family on their
small farm were authentic or faked,
nevertheless marshalled an array of facts
which seemed to point indisputably to
ment of  the   Socialist candidate's  plat-  their having been tampered with in some
Kvery   week,   in -the   orchestra   pro-
gram,  we  have been  reading  the an-
nouncement that the Philadelphia Sym-
pony  Orchestra  would  play  at   Bryn
Mawr on December 4.    But not until
this week has the news been definitely
and formally connrmed by Miss Park.
, Last spring Miss, Park began to think
of tfie  best- way-to crown  Goodhart
M. de Montauzan, professor of archae- j Hall with   glory   in  the  sight  of  the
ology at the. Universite de  Lyons, wa* � college and its, friends.    And the only
perfect manner of doing so seemed to
her to be.by a concert by the  Phila-
French Club
M. de Montauzan Describes the
Doubtful Discoveries
in France.
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form and theories. The platform may
best be explained .by comparing it to an
a la carte dinner which is noticed with
relief on the menu after perusing the
vsrious "special dinners" and finding it
impossible to decide betweeu them. The
;. la carte   dinner  combines the best of
way. The boy who made the discoveries,
and who has been showing them to
crowds of visitors at four francs admis-
sion fee, is now about to go on trial in
France on the charge of having imposed
fraudulently on the public. The authen-
ticity, of the Glozel findings, is. and has
delphia Symphony. She suggested the
idea to Mr. Meigs, who heartily con-
curred, and it is largely through his
efforts that the fairy dream has been
realized
What seemed like ^m impossibility,
-nd what stllTseems so to most of the
incredulous who hear of it, will be an
accomplished ' xt on' December 4. Mr.
Stokowski will conduct, as we should
have said in the fir.-t place, "except that
e is so much a part of the orchestra
that we cannot conceive of it without
him. Moreover, Bryn Mawr will not
merely be looking on at the glory
from without; it wilf itself contribute
to the whole. Mr. Alwyne* will play
the concerto; and the Gtec Club will
sing. � The exact program, to be fixed
on in collaboration with Mr. Stokow-
ski, has not yet been decided.
No tickets will be issued for this
baptismal ceremony, but the whole col-
the two in every respect (groan> from been fop four years, the subject of a I Icgc, undergraduates and faculty and a
Dr. Fenwick). Thomas, Dr. Cadbury . bitter and widespread controversy in'j selected list of donors to the college,
went on to assert, is not conspicuous in the newspapers and scientific circles of will be asked, as'many as Goodhart
the public eye, but for many years he has ! France. An international commission de- j can accommodate. The whole affair
been consistently on the right, minority dared the remains to have been faked, marks a new era in the relations of
side of every issue. He started out in that some eminent scientists, and a num- Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr: Good-
lift as a Presbyterian minister, but soon ber of newspapers, especially the�V./r- hart will fulfill to the highest degree
gave-up this idea becaiiw of' firs grow �' cu,e de France, are ready F/o defenS the its greal purpose offiiiking the college
ing concern for^ unpopular causes, lie Clozel discoveries with their- heart's to what is best in the outside world.
Students who | wishes the prohibition amendment to be blood. �M, Montauzan described a scene ,
subjected to, a popular referendum, the j j� the nothing rain when the Glozelians
result of  which both parties  will agree  puid a  formal visit to the scene  of the
excavations and in a ceremony almost re
bgious  in  its solemnity reaffirmed  their
confidence.                                    �               '
Doubtful Decision Rests on Trial.
It  is a curious  fact that  the inscrip-
to.    As to his'foreign policy, it is more
liDeral   than    that   of   Hoover,   who.   it
stems,   has   a   wide  outlook   from   the
standpoint of economic necessity alone.
If you cast your vote for Thomas in
Summer School Speaks
Thomas and His Platform
Presented by Miss Carey
the election, your vote.will not be wasted,   tions,   which   now   contain   nearly   2000
characters and which the Glozelians held
to be proof positive that the alphabet was
| Rather   will   it   make   for   the   progress
j which always comes eventually as a re-
ult
Miss Carey begad her talk on Norman
Thomas in-chapel on Monday morning
by saying that she felt like a priest call-
ing us all to an eleventh hour repentance.
She then went OTl to sa\ that when she
first considered why Norman Thomas
*ra| her choice, it seemed nothing more
than an emotion, but � in fact there- are
many good reasons, and it is not easy
to have the point" of view of the third
party; first you are called a parlor bol-
-lievist by your family, then you are told ;,.c tending, by
that the title of Shaw's latest -book has
caught you. and then, worst of all, Dr.
Kenworthy has said that voters for
Thomas are mental cases of tffe rebellion
complex.
P. H. Douglas, in The New Republic,
went on Miss Carey, has, said that it is
a waste for a liberal t<| vote for anyone
but Thomas, ana* surely almost everyone
would claim that he or she were liberally
minded.
Thomas has been highly educated; he
is a man -of great personal integrity; he
is a good speaker, and a pacifist. For
the latter he was not put in prison dur-
ing the war. but was nearly ostracized
by the church, for he was a minister at
that time.
Miss Carey then pointed out the fact
that the people who had spoken for
Smith and Hoover in chapel had - ad-
mitted that they did not approve of the
entire platform of the candidate of their
choice, and so each is voting for what
she   considers   the   candidate   with   the
of   the   intelligent   minority   vote.
Economic Issue Is Only One.
The next speaker was Mr. Lewis
Jones, Fellow in Economics at Columbia
and one of the editors of the Information
Service, published by the Foreign Polic\
Association. Mr. Jones/ speech for Mr.
Hoover consisted mainly in a review of
that candidate's ability along lines purely
economic. The only real issue of. the
>_|^ampaign, Mr. Jones said, is that con-
cerning economy and government. Grad-
ually capitalistic and industrial systems
the use of mass produc-
Miss Smith and Two Students
Tell Story and Value
of Work.
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The   Sunday  evening   meeting
L'ryn   Mawr   League  was  held
of
in
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the product of the Occident, not of the
Orient, are a mixture of almost all the
ancient alphabets, instead, of forming a
jingle homogeneous system. The first
inscriptions closely resembled cursive
Latin, and were thought by one authority
to be the incantations of a mediaeval
witch. The young Fradin thereupon pro-
duced some characters resembling the
Phoenician alphabet, a distinctly more
ancient one. But when scientists pointed L*^
out that even these characters were too
latt for the neolithic period, bits of stone
were   unearthed   bearing   a   still   earlier
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the
the
Common Room of*Goodhart Hall. The
meeting was in 'the form of an informal
discussion group, in which the Bryn
Mawr Summer School was put before
our eyes by two of the students them-
selves and Miss Hilda Smith, who for
I0�� years has been head of the Summer
School movement. The meeting was
opened by Miss Biddle with one of the
songs written for the Summer School
ly Miss Smith, after whjch Miss Au-
gusta Popkin, one of the  summer stu-
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Freshman Deadlock Broken by
Choice of Davis as President
Rebecca Hemphill Davi* was chosen president of the Freshman Class
on Monday night. On Tuesday afternoon Rhoda Walker was elected vice
president   and   Klcanor  Piukerton secretary-treasurer.                                 -s'
The Freshmen, imbibing the spirit of political controversy from the
example of the three upper classes, and perhaps from the national election,
were a week in choosing their chief executive. The two meetings last week
resulted in a complete deadlock, with the class divided almost exactly in half.
The week-end was fraught with the activities of campaign managers and
house-to-house canvassing. On Monday night, however, the knot was miracu-
lously cut by a motion to reopen the nomination. Mi�s Davis's name appar-
ently brought all parties to a common ground, and she was enthusiastically
elected. So general was the rejoicing that the clas> forgot to name its other
officers and b>d to meet again on Tuesday to do so
. Miss Davis went to the Bryn Mawr school in Baltimore, is aged 18 and
was in the upper ten of her class in entrance averages. She now lives in
Radnor.
Miss Walker comes from Miss Chapin's school in New York while Miss
Pinkerton. like'Miss Davis, is a graduate of the  Bryn   Mawr school.    The
BaMrnofC '�!  � is apparently strong in the Cla�s of *32.
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who is a milliner in New York,
gave us a very good idea of what the
school has done for her and all with
whom she has come in contact.
It is so thrilling to come back to Bryn
Mawr, Miss Popkin told us, after the
wear and tear of city industrial life. And
it is even more delightful to be able to
get away from the sweltering heat of the
rity during the summer months. No one
will ever know-what the Summer School
means to girls working in the factories,
who, before they were given, the chance
to come to Bryn Mawr, found their work
only an incessant drudgery. We worked
bf.cause we had to work and if never oc-
curred to us that we should know any-
thing more about the industrial and eco-
nomic problems of the day than we did.
An.d we knew little enough. Through the
Summer School we were taught what
ought to be done, ami what part we could
play in the making of better industrial
conditions for the working girl. In the
class room hordes of questions are
thrashed out as the result of the most
varied opinions anywhere^ expressed.
!�'very one has a different idea and wants
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