College News, 1929-03-13, Vol. 15, No. 16

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VOL. XV, NO. 16
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13,1929
PRICE,
10 CENTS
RUSSIA, OLD AND
NEW, PRESENTED
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Progress in Modern Russia Is
Hindered by Ignorance
of People.
MOSCOW   IS   CROWDED
"The Bolsheviks." said Brent'Allinson,
speaking in Goodhart Hall on Saturday
evening, March 9, "maintain that Amer-
ican universities are the last and invinc-
ible stronghold of bourgeois culture."
Speaking, supposedly, on a subject en-
titled. "Behind the Face of Bolshevism,"
Mr. Allinson went on in a vein, described
by Dr. Gray, who introduced him, as.
elaborations on the theme of "The Vaga-
bondage Incidental to the Acquisition of
a Social Philosophy." Mr. Allinson is a
young journalist who, apparently, had
always wanted to see the world; he has
just returned from a year spent in seeing
Soviet Russia.
One of his most interesting experi-
ences was in the district of Mingralia.
in Transcaucasian Russia, and approxi-
mately on the location of ancient Colchis.
There he had gone to find what truth
there was in the legend of Jason and the
Golden Fleece. A very old custom among,
the mountaineers, he found, was to mine
gold by means of sluicing the currents
of the mountain streams, and running
the water over a series of sheep skins.
The gold was thus caught in the fleece,
and when the skins were- later burned,
the gold was collected in vats. �' It is
from such homely practices that our most
delightful myths are developed! An expe-
dition sent by the Bolshevik Department
of Education to Kutaos, in the highlands
of Swanatia, found this means of mining
still in use today. The population of
some 10,000 people fs cut off entirely
from the outer world for a good part of
the year; the expedition wastesent to
make films of their life and customs, to
furnish a kind of object geography les-
son in the Bolshie schools of more cen-
tral Russia. The expedition, incidentally,
also found that these people, though
Greek Catholics in name, were still wor-
shipping a goddess, Dali. to whom they
sacrificed cattle at stated times! These
people had never really been Russianized,
and their language (a conglomerate of
Russian, Tartar. Greek and others), had
probably never been reduced to waiting!
It is this sort of place, cut off from
the world, and known as a "Death Vil-
lage,'' which, to Mr. Allinson, represents
a strong influence on the typical Russian
soul. "One feels that it is a helpless
country that invites tyranny and patiently
permits its exercise. These people do
not understand the language of the
West; in Russia the individual has never
Wen born."
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Junior Month Connects
Theory With Practice
Miss Clare Tousley. assistant direc-
* tor of the Charity Organization, spoke
about Junior Month, of which she has
heeljin charge for seven years, in Chapel
on Wednesday. During the seven years
the number of Juniors has increased
from five to 12, and 20 other colleges
have applied for membership. These
applications have had to be refused,
however, because 12 is about as many as
can be herded around the city with com-
fort.
The girls come to New York in the
first week in July and stay at the Wo-
men's University Club for five weeks.
The purpose of Junior Month is to tie
tip realities with theories, to see how
the things learned in sociology courses
jibe with actual experience. The ex-
penses of the girls are paid to and from
their homes if they live no further from
New York than the locations of their
colleges, and also their expenses in New
York except for the extra-curricular ac-
tivities. They are selected by a Junior
Month Committee in each college, a com-
mittee consisting of two faculty members
and several undergraduates. Going to
Junior  Month  involves one in no more
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Stokes, Bancroft and Cross
to Head Self-Government Board
Self-Government elections have registered the first hint of "out with old
and in with the new." When the three high officers who were elected on Mon-
day and Tuesday of this week are Tnstalled in their new functions, the sceptre
will hate passed from the hands of 1929 to the grasping fingers of 1930.
Olivia Stokes �m be the next prestutiri of the Self-Governmcnt Associa-
tion. Miss Strikes has been a member of the Board since her Freshman year, and_
also held a position on the old Christian Association. When that dissolved and
the Bryn Mawr League was formed Miss Stokes was elected to head its study
and discussion group. She was class basketball captain in 1927-28. and has
been on Varsity tennis teams,since her Freshmen�\ear. Last year she was
secretary-treasurer of  1930.                            �
Gertrude Bancroft, who was elected to the Board early this year, was chosen
to be next year's vice-president on Tuesday. Miss Bancroft is active in the
work of the Bryn Mawr League and is hall-president of Rock.
Dorothea Cross in assuming the position of senior member is keeping up
nthe family tradition of useful activity.    She is also treasurer of the Bryn Mawr
League, a member of the Junk Committee and a valued member of the Business
Boartl of the College News.   In fact, she seems to hold a number of hard jobs.
The outgoing officers are: Rosamund Cross, president; Elizabeth Fry, vice-
president, and Barbara Charming, senior member.
Rosemont Wins
Second   Varsity   Is   Beaten   in
Spirited, Exciting
Game.
Saturday morning, March 9, Rosemont
defeated Second Varsity 21-20. The de-
feat was deserved because the visitors, in
spite of frequent fouling, showed more
spirit and teamwork than varsity.
There was very little co-operation on
Bryn Mawr's part during the game;
Hardenberg, who began at side center,
was wild: Thompson was slow, Engel
was blatantly careless in her shots. Mc-
Cully and Young, however, snowed up
doubly well by comparison, uhey both
played a superb game. stickingSclose to
their forwards and succeeding in Re�f>ing
down the victor's score. They also de-
serve added praise because Williamson
and Garbey, forwards for Rosemont,
were exceptionally good. Williamson
was the real  star of the game.
The second half was more exciting
than the first. Johnson, who had started
in at the beginning of the second quarter
and almost immediately been taken out
on account of a rather jarring fall, went
back in and helped considerably to bring
up Varsity's score.
The last minute of the game was in-
tensely exciting. The score was 21-20
in favor of Rosemont. Someone called
time out for about 15 seconds. Time in
again and about 30 seconds to play! The
ball went down to Varsity's goal. The
�fcectators held their breaths. But it
wasn't a movie and the ball was fumbled
�the score stood 21-20.
The  line-up  was:'
Varsity�Engel. '32, 22112; Rasch. '32.
11; Thompson, '31; Hardenberg. '32:
Young, '32;'McCully, '32. jfr ' t'tWliniM
�Johnson for Rasch, Rasch for Harden-
berg; Hirschberg for Johnson. 2; John-
son  for Hirschberg, 2222.
Rosemont�Williamson, 22222221111;
Garbey, 21; Lewis. Mollay. Paden. Do-
ran.    Substitutions�Nvmetz for  Doran.
DUNCAN DANCERS   .
. INTERPRET RUSSIA
Simple  Effective  Setting  Re-
lieves Monotony of the
Classic Dances.
IRMA        IS        DYNAMIC
ANDREWS, EX-BRYN
MAWR, WILL SPEAK
Colonial    Period.   Subject    of
Former Head of History
Department.
NOW   YALE  PROFESSOR
A Letter From McDonald
President Park has communicated to
us the following letter which she received
from Mr. McDonald, chairman' of the
Foreign Policy Association, a few days
ago.
My dear President  Park :
Ever since I was up at Vassar as a
kind of technical adviser for the Model
Assembly of the League of Nations, I
have intended to write you a note to tell
you how much I was impressed by the
Bryn Mawr delegation.
Miss Gelhorn made a brilliant attack
on John Rockefeller's report on the Sec-
retariat and was ably supported by her
colleagues. Miss Fain, Miss Hand and
Miss Linn.
No other form of college activity with
which I have had anything to do in re-
cent years seems to me so full of possi-
bilities as these Mode.1 Assemblies, par-
ticularly when, as in the case of that at
Vassar. they are arranged and carried
through by the students themselves.
Verv sincerely yours,
j. s. McDonald,   .
Chairman.
On Wednesday evening, March 6, the
Isadora Duncan Dancers were presented
in Goodhart Hall. The young dancers,
bred in the atmosphere of both the Dun-
can school and Revolutionary Russia,
were especially fitted for the symbolic
Russian dances as well as the familiar
Duncan figures.
Simplicity characterized the setting and
the program itself. Simple costumes in
pastelle shades of red were .set off
against pale bluish-gray curtains and a
strange spot of light was sometimes cen-
tered nil the stage; the piano was Set iii
full view to one side. The program was
opened by a solemn but appropriate slow
Sclfubert inarch. The graceful and beau-
tifully poised movements of the dancers
were almost hidden, unfortunately, in the
long grayish draperies; although their
young faces and cropped hair made a
peculiar contrast to their robes, the whole
was pleadingly remindful of a Greek fes-
tival. Tlie dancing-of Irma Duncan her-
self was more dynamic, but not as inter-
esting.
The whole first part of the program
was merely combination and recombina-
tion of the patent Duncan �dancing;
smooth-rounded motions, rippling and
pattering of feet, waving of arms and
arching of knees became rather monoto-
nous when repeated through ten num-
bers; nymphs and dryads are not enough
for sophisticated modems. But even in
the sentimentality of these idylls there
were many original and charming touches
and the graceful handling of their bodies
was especially interesting in the'line of
body mechanics.
The fourSjhuhert waltz movements
which followed luesSchulwrt march were
brightened by the lively and only too
short Eccossaise: "Under the Scarf" wa�
not very smooth, but in "Game of Ball"
Irma Duncan had a delightful time with
herself and the Three Graces made a
pretty attempt- The Schubert-Liszt waltz
was more complicated and overdone.
The program then broke into Chopin
music, but continued in much the same
manner with Prelude in E Minor, Three
Mazurkas, two Valses and the hackneyed
Polonaise, danced in a mock, heroic mili-
tary style.
Continued on Page Three    '
Close Race
The following are still in the
competition for the" Editorial
Board of the College News:
� .Dorothea Perkins. Rose Hatfield,
Patricia Stuart. Lucy Sanbom,
Virginia Butterworth.
The race grows hot. Next week
the names of the elect will be
blazoned in this very same spot
"Our Colonial History" is the some-
what vague and unsuggestive. title which
cloaks what ought to he a thrilling lec-
ture scheduled for Saturday evening.
Professor Charles Macl.ean Andrews.
Farnain Professor of American History
at Yale, and sometime professor of His-
tory at Bryn Mawr, \i\\ deliver'the Mal-
lory Whiting Webster Manorial lecture
in History in Goodhart Hall at ftlfl
o'clock on March 1(1.
Dr. Andrews succeeded VVoodrow Wril-
son in the Bryn Mawr Department of
History in 1H89. Wilson had taught all
courses in the departments of History,
Economics and Politics. Professor An-
drews was the first man to rule the His-
tory department when it set up by itself,
and for some years he taught majors,
minors, post-majors and graduate stu-
dents. A member of the faculty who
studied under him at Bryn Mawr reports
that he was adored by bis students and
all his sayings faithfully transcribed in
their notes. He made a romantic mar-
riage with an alumna of the college, and
the two dogwood trees on the hill were
planted" for his 'two children who were
born here, pink for John, and white for
Ethel.
In 1908 Professor went to Johns Hop-
kins, where he remained until 1910, when
he became Farnam Professor at Yale. It
is peculiarly appropriate that *he should
have that position, as he was born in
Connecticut, and has made a special study
of its early history. His first book, pub-
lished in 1889, was called "River-towns
of  Connecticut."
Dr. Andrews' special field "of study,
however, is the one on which he will
speak on Saturday evening. He has in-
vestigated all the materials relating to tlie
Colonial period of American history
which arc preserved in the British Mu-
seum, and the State papers in the Public
Record Office in London. He has pub-
lished two volumes on Colonial Self-Gov-
ernment in the American Nation. Series,
and his Colonial Backgrounds oi the
American RevolutionTwbich ap|>earcd in
1924, contain the most modern develop-
ments on the causes of the American
Revolution. It will lie no old and out-
worn point of view which Professor An-
drews will set forth on Saturday night,
but the latest conclusions of modern his-
torical scholarship, as regards the hidden
springs of the American movement for
independence.
Play With Princeton
Vanity Dramatics, with the ap-
proval of the college authorities,
has taken a considerable step: as
it "now appears, and as everyone
hopes, a step forward. In its next
production it will collaborate with
-the Theater  Intirnc oX Princeton.
' This means that men can now take
the men's parts in plays, given a^,
Bryn Mawr, instead of their being
more or less inadequately repre-
sented by girls. In order to make
this arrangement possible the date
of the next Varsity Dramatics pro-
duction has been set for April 13,
tlie Saturday after vacation, in-
stead of the date originally plan-
ned, which was March Mi, Try-
outs will begin at the end of this
week. The play, which was de-
cided upon at a meeting of the
committee on Tuesday evening,'
will be "The Admirable Creighton."
1931 Triumphs
Sophomores     Win     Swimming
Meet, But Wills, '29,
Takes Cups.
Interest Increases in
Prevention of Disease
In Chapel on Friday morning Dr. Alice
Hamilton spoke of certain poison men-
aces "in the industrial world. Several
years ago the bath-tub trade was one of
the worst offenders in this respect. Lead
was, used for tlie inside coating of the
tubs antf^he fatal lead poisoning .was a
common disease among the men who
worked on such a job. Recently a-sec-
ond investigation of the bath-tub industry
has been made, and the conditions were
found to be much better. Leadless
enamel is being used more extensively;
indeed, one-third of the manufacturing
plants are using it, while the remaining
concerns that still use lead arc very care-
ful to protect their employees from its
disastrous effects.
Whenever we manage to get rid of one
industry another one pops up. Now-a-
days people are using blue, green, red
or yellow enameled stoves in their
kitchens. This enameling process is an
easy one: the enamel�which contains
lead�is sprayed on the surface of the
stoves. For this job employers of the
stove industries are using women and
girls. Very few know of this new de-
velopment in the manufacture of stoves.
It  is  one of  the things that must  be
.  continued on Page Tbnm
On Friday evening, March 8, the sec-
ond swimming meet of the season was-
held in the Gym. The unusual clearness
of the pool's green waters may have had
something to do with it, for the con-
testants were singularly lithe limbed and
swift. So cleanly did each dripping
maiden cut the waves that not one mem-
ber of the crowded gallery was touched
by a drop. Usually we come away
drenched and irritated.
The events, well-entered and well-done
in every case were as follows?
40-yd. free style�Zalesky, '30. 30.1;
Willets. '32. 31.2.
20-yd. breast stroke�Totten, '31, 60.1;
Burrows, '31, 60.2.
Crawl iof form�Gallagher, first;
Wills, second.
20-yd. back stroke� Baer, '31, first;
Paxon, '32, second.
Diving�Wills, '29, :j� points; Bur-
rows. '31, -35 points; Totten, '31, 34.9
points.
Relay�1932. first: 1930, second; 1931,
third.
Both   the   swimming  and  diving  cups
for the season went to Rebecca Wills,'29.
vThe rest of the final scoring for the two
meets was as  follows:             ___,
40-yd. free style�Zalesky, '31, 30.1;
Levy, Froth ingham and West, tied for
second place at 3 U Willets, '32, 31.2.
20-yd. breast stroke-^-Burrows, '31,
I...1; Totten. '31, 16.3; Bernheim, '32,
17.2.
Crawl    for    form�Wills,    first;   Gal-
lagher, second; Bernheim. third.
'Back stroke�Levy, '32.  15.1; Taylor,
'30, 15.2J Paxon, '32, 16.1.
Side stroke for form�Baer, '31, first;
Paxon, '32. second: Totten, '31, third.
Diving�Wills, '29, 39 points; Bur-
rows. '3i, 35 points: Totten, '31, 34.9
points.
The class cup was won by 1931 with
a total of 24.1  points.
Choir and Organ Take
Parts in Vesper Services
The Sunday evening meeting of the
Bryn Mawr League was held on March
11 in the Music Room of Goodhart Hall.
The service was a musical one in which
the following program was given by Mr.
Willoughby and the choir:
Processional Hymn�"Savior When in
Dust to Thee".........Spanish Chant
Organ�"First   Organ   Sonata,"
Mendelssohn
"Allegro   Maestoso"   ......Mendelssohn
"Andante con moto" ......Mendelssohn
Prayers
Hymn�"Forty Days and Forty Nights,"
"     Tune  "Heinlein"
Choir� Chorale (Organ Obligato) "Jesu
Joy of Man's Desiring"  ........Bach
"150th Psalm" ............Cesar Franck
Organ� (a)   "The  Question,"     ________
Wolstenholme
(b) 'The Answer" '......Wolstenholme
Variations on the tune "Austria" .Haydn
Recessional Hymn�"Rise, Crowned
With Light"  ...j.....Russian Hymn
Stainer Sevenfold   Amen.