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BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1929
PRICE.   10 CENTS
SPRING PROGRAM
FULL OF INTEREST
Lectures Announced  as Well
as Patience and Varsity
iDramatics.
'29 COMMENCES THE 5TH
The long pull'is practically over. After
spring vacation only the spurt remains.
And this' spTrtg promises to be particu-
'� laVly crowded with events and activities.
^�T*he week after we get back, besides
offering., the charms of make-up exams,
shows scarcely a day without something
to do besides study. .We are due back
at nine "o'clock on the morning of April
8th. On April 10th Mr. Henry Wise
Miller will speak on Finance in the Com-
mon Room in the afternoon. On the
eleventh Mr. Breasted will deliver the
first of his series of lectures in Goodhart
Hall at 7.15 P. M. As originally an-
nounced this will be on the subject: "The
Place of the Near East in Human De--
velopment" However, the last details are.
not -yet complete. Mr. Breasted lands in
New Ybrk sometime this week, returning
from abroad.                                   :      ~
On April 12th Professor Singer, will
speak in Wyndham on some subject con-
nected with philosophy. This lecture has
been arranged by Mrs. Delagujia.
.Finally, on Saturday will be Varsity
dramatics, and the tea-dance.
The program of the busy weeks that
follow will include Dr. Breasted's other
three lectures, on April 19th and 26th,
and on May 7th; an address by M. de
Lamix, who is coming on April 16th in-
stead of March 27th as originally an-
nounced, and Glee Club on May 4th.
Little May Pay will actually be on the
first of May, on a Wednesday instead of
the traditional Friday. (Warning to
the authorities! Remember the chipped
beef.)
And so it goes. On Wednesday, the
fifth of June, the class of 1929, as much
of it as is left, will receive its degrees.
Something New For
. Jaded Appetites
We are blase young things. We
have sometimes suspected it, and now
� Miss Carey has told us right to our
facts. Our appetites are jaded.' There
is no doubt of it, sad as it may seem.
Basketball, sunbaths, and Drop the
Handkerchief no longer satisfy us as
� amusements. We crave always some-
thing new, something different, some-
thing . . . etc. F.xcitement: that
is what youth lusts for in these days of
nervous strain and super-acceleration.
�W/uid^w we have found it. Our jaded
appetite has been stirred to its shallow
depths, and we. gladl& pass on the
secret.               '�*�''
The new "sport ftt technically known
as Bathroom Hunting. New houses
(doubtless the Realtors prefer the term
rjonies) spring up like mushrooms
over night in this locality. Where yes-
terday was a clump of violets, or an
unsullied dump-heap, today is an Eliz-
abethan Manor, or a Colonial Home-
stead, or a French Chateau with its
paint still* wet, and its lawn still un-
extricated from the mind of God. Each
and every one of these new houses has
a bathroom. That is but simple logic.
As a matter of fact each and every one
has at least three or four bathrooms.
The search for, the discovery of. and
the inspection of these bathrooms is
the^ essence of the new sport which has
so thrilled a few of our choicest spir-
its. No one, however blase and fed
up with .what life has to offer, could
fail to respond to the charm of these
bathrooms. Each one is unique. They
never duplicate. The ingenuities of
design are awe-inspiring, and even ter-
rifying. There are some with orchid-
colored tiles, others are blue with
purple stripes chastely following the
window and all other outlines. There
are cream-colored ones, saffron ones,
salmon ones. There are chequered
floors and striped floors, marble tubs,
light fixtures dripping elaborate "^tass
ear-rings,  and  mirrors  of every   con-
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We Elect
The News is pleased to an-
nounce its elections for next year.
Erna Rice, '30, has been elected
Editor-in-Chief and* Catharine
Hove. '30, Copy Editor. \T, Ho-
bart, '31, and V. Shryock, '31, were
promoted to the position of Editor.
D. Cross, '30,'was elected Business
Manager and E. Baxter, '30* Sub-
scription Manager.
Professors in Despair
at Lessening of Lessons
"They are called lessons because
they lessen every day.'.* said the mock-
turtle to Alice.
With this quotation'from the well-
known epic of childhood, Miss Carey
began her chapel talk on Friday. March
22nd.
Every year. Miss Carey continued,
one hundred and twenty, freshmen
enter this institution- of learning. All
of them are filled with speculation;
some of them with doubt. A small
portion comebecause of the intellec-
tual urge; a stifc smaller group come
because their families want them to;
�the general mass "just comes."
Whatever the cause of their advent
they are all filled with a feeling of
freedom. Freedom from the close
supervision of schools: freedom from
the eagle eye of the parent. They are
consumed with a sort of madness, the
cause of which they are slow to divine.
We have no rules to speak of. We
have, supposedly, reached an age of
discretion. But the lack of any super-
vision whatsoever causes, in the first
five or six weeks of college, a gradual
slackening on the part of college fresh-
men.  �
This situation is not new. It has
been observed for years with no par-
ticular alarm. But should this general
slack be allowed flTlast tod long? If
it does we may be breeding scoffers.
By the fall �of Sophomore year,
things have" usually taken a lunge for
the worst. The sophomore feels she
knows her way aroitnel. She i- no
longer awed. Her required courses
bore her to extinction. She has.the
prerogative of being no longer "on
trial."
What is there left to do? She smks
into an indifferent coma from which
she emerges only long enough t� play
a rubber of bridge.
All this is'but natural. And, too.
perhaps some may emerge more ma-
ture "and with some**idea of the true
meaning of college. If this_b_e true.,
we can endure the first frenzy and
boredom. In many cases this first
period of uncertainty is n*6t undergone
at all. But in the majority of cases
one feels little firsthand interest in
work.    The professors  are in  despair.
The real trouble lies in the fact that
it is no longer fashionable to be en-
thusiastic over the education of women
for the world. We used to believe that
we were the future "men and women
of our country." but now it is almost
never said to us. The upper classmen
think, rather, that they are doing the
college a great honor by attending the j
courses it offers for their approval.
The privilege of college life and Edu-
cation is little realized by most of us.
We slide rapidly over the fact that only
one-half of oner.per cent of the young
people in the country are able to at-
tend  college courses.
They are indeed "called lessons be-
cause they lessen every day," said Miss
Carey to us.
Personal Religion   i
Christ  Shouldered ..the  Sins of
Others and Gave Self
to World.
Sunday evening chapel in the Good-
hart Music room was led by Dr. Henry
Sloane Coffin, of the Union Theological
Seminary. The key to the address was
a vivid sentence from the first epistle of
Peter, a sentence which Dr. Coffin con-
siders a summary of what has been
thought abbut the crucifixion through the
centuries: "Who his own self bare our
sins in his own body on the tree, that
we being dead to sins should live unto
righteousness, by1 whose stripes ye were
healed."
Christ at Calvary bore sin in three
senses, closely related to the eight
factors' in Judea which composed the
crucifixion. Men of prayer were the
first factor, men who, with missionary
zeal. Were pushing religion ahead and
yet were Christ's most vigorous oppo-
nents. The Pharisees, the "accidental
priests," were another clement; their
religion was simply lucrative in aim:
when Christ, "the upstart," upset the
money-changers, it was something not
to be tolerated and the good feeling,
engendered between the Romans, and
Pharisees by the political plans of the
Empire, determined" Christ's removal.
The Imperial government was repre-
sented by Pilate; this system of gov-
ernment required cruelty, yet Pilate
tried every device to escape condemn-
ing Christ until the, Pharisees touched
his patriotism and prevailed upon him.
Then again there was Herod Antiphas,
the gay young man of the world, who
"togged out" Christ for the benefit of
his men of war: if ever there was a
"vacant life" in  need of Christ, it was
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MISS SCHENK IS APPOINTED �.' t
DEAN OF GRADUATE COLLEGE
Dramatics Cast    . .
Announced
The following people have been
chosen by the Varsity Dramatics
'Cotrfmittcc to take part in their
production, with the Theatre In-
time' of Princeton, of Barrie's
Admirable Chrichton:
Lady Mary.Lasenby, k
Ethel Dyer, '31
Lady Agatha Lasenby,
~                          \ F; Hand, '29
Lady Catherine Lasenby,
B. Humphrey, '29
Tweeny ..........M. Drake, '31
Lady  Brocklthurst,
E.  Bigelow, '30
Fisher  .......<M. De Vaux, '31
Simmons  ......C.  Compton. '32
Jane ............M. Turner' '31
Mrs.   Perkins   ....A. Burnett, '32
Jeanne   ..........E.  Young, '32
The male members of the cast
have not been announced as yet.
Radnor Goes Graduate in Ef-
fort to Strengthen
School.
Current Events
Sophomores and Seniors
Triumph in Basketball
Monday afternoon the sophomores
added another victory to theiaalready
full quota' They defeated the Fresh-
men 22-18. The floor must have been
very slippery because most of the play-
ers spent at least a few moments re-
clining. The game was snappy and
amusing. Every one on the field
seemed to be enjoying herself and
the spectators were awarded for their
loyalty. Thc^last quarter was* the best.
The players joined in-with the onlook-
ers and shouts arose from every direc-
tion. It didn't matter who had the
ball or what was being done with, it;
a> long as there was action of some
sort the cheering lasted.
Both teams played well, but the
freshmen were a little nervous and
1981 had the advantage of experience;
the result was the 22-18 score.
Tha line-up was:
Hi.il: Tottc'n. 223888; Adams ?22:>2:
Thompson. Dixon, Baer, Blanchard.
Substitutes: Thomas for Dixon. Baer
for Thompson,  Moore /or  Baer.
19:t2: Ranch, 22; Engek -12222;
Haylis, Keinhart, McCully, Moore. Sub-
stitutes:   Hardenberg  for   Rasch.
STEP      IS      IMPORTANT
Nina Perera Lectures, Dances
Nina Perera, Bryn Mawr, '28. gave a
lecture, illustrated by dances, on "The
Expansion of Personality in Italian
Sculpture"-at Columbia University on
Tuesday evening, March 19. under the
auspices of the Italy America Society,
and the Casa Italiana of the Univer-
sity.
The illustrative dances were com-
posed and danced by Miss Phoebe
Guthrie, Miss Gertrude Prokosch, and
Miss Perera.    -.- * /.
Fenwick Likens Contest to Race
With No First Place
Taken.
""In Chapel on Wednesday the rT-
! sult> of the Current Events Contest"
were announced. Breathlessly the
audience followed the progress of the
participants in the contest as their
strainings and Struggles were reviewed
by  Dr. Fenwick assisted by Dr. Wells.
"It was a disappointment that there
were >.. U� Carries in the race;"" Dr.
Fcuwrajj began. "Of course that made
the size of the.field small, but appar-
eutly.fadid not detract from the excite-
ment- of the whole affair. The course
�which was-a-father still one�con-
sisted o� four raps. On the first and
second^here were .several difficult post
and rail jumps: on the third round
thefe were three small water jumps, a
brush fence jump, and a large water
jump; the last Tap was almost a
straight stretch where form and skill
in getting-around corners and patches
of woods counted almost more than
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The seven contestants in the race
managed this course with varying de-
grees of success on the different laps.
At times the race was exceedingly
close; but at last, when the dust at the
finishing pole cleared away, the judges
announced that Miss Fain had won the
race and that the steady runner, num-
ber 206�Miss Shaughnessy�had gained
second place by a neck
It was a hard race. Perhaps it was
on that account that the judges found
the time unusually poor. Indeed this
year, on account of the lack of speed,
no first prize was given. The second
prize   was awarded   to   the   winner  of
the   first  place and  the  third  prize to j *&*&!   afternoon.   I
the   second-place   winner.     To   better
The Seniors covered themselves with
glory Monday afternoon when they de-
feated the Juniors, 52-27. Freeman
succeeded in mixing all the spectators
up by playing forward, but their sur-
prise and wonder soon' gave way to
admiration. Think what yarsity has
been missing all these years! The poor
Juniors were sunk from the very first.
1929 played a splendid game and the
sophomores, i/ they .have to play them,
had better watch out. Freeman is
alltlOSt better as a forward than she is
as a guard.
The line-up was:                 �----->�
1929: Freeman, 2222222222222222-
2222; Henry, 222222; Swan, Balch,
Wills, Barth.
1930: Johnson, 2222222222; Sullivan,
2221; � Stokes, Seligman, Martin,
Loomis.
Substitutes: Zalesky for Sullivan,
I.ongstreth for Seligman.                     *
To make the account complete past
week's games are included also.
Two announcements of the greatest
significance to the future of- Bryn
Mawr were made by Miss Park in
chapel on Monday morning to the^js-
sembled graduates and undergraduates.
To carry out more effectively the
established policy of the college in
regard to the graduate school, to es-
tablish its organization on a firmer
basis, and to increase its benefits both
to individuals and to the college, the
following steps have been taken.
First, Dr. Eunice Morgan Schenk has
been appointed Dean of the Graduate
School, and second, it has been decided
to turn Radnor into a Graduate Hall.
In preface to these announcements,
Miss Park summed up the function
and character of the Bryn Mawr grad-
uate school. It is a source of great
advantages, and o^ great disadvantages
to the college. The first of its disad-
vantages is its expense. It raises the
per capita cost pf each student at Bryn
Mawr by one-third, and, correspond-"
ingly. owing to the policy of charging
a minimum rare to graduate students,
it brings in very little. Another draw-
back is that it lessens the thrill with
which the faculty might otherwise em-
bark on such a policy as Honors
Work.
Hut the advantages of the Graduate
school far outweigh these considera-
tions. It provides the opportunity for
advanced graduate students to, study
in a small residential college, where#
the seminars contain a very few stu-
dents. :and Where quiet and pleasant
living Conditions afford the best pos-
sible atmosphere. It brings to Bryn
Mawr teachers who would otherwise
be most unlikely to come here. It
furnishes individual attention to every
student; and its foreign fellowships in-
troduce a stimulus which is a great
spur to good work.
For the undergraduates there are the
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1931 and 1932 Win First
Interclass Games
'   Old age is sad thing.    The poor Sen-
iors  tottered  nobly  about  the floor  on
our time next year perhaps it might be
a good idea to attend Tuesday evening
Current Events talks. In these, numer-
ous "tips" are given, and by a
regular attendance of such informal
weekly meetings and a discriminating
perusal of the newspapers, undoubtedly
one could "pick a winner" in the next
contest.
The judges were Dr. Fenwick, Dr.
Wells. Dr. Chew,. Mrsr Smith and Miss
Taylor.
understand the virile onslaughts of the
Freshmen. Youth had its day and 1929
was forced to bow_ its proud neck to a
42-17 defeat. The seniors went down
fighting, however, and their- brave efforts
were furiously applauded by their sister
class and attendant spirits.
The line-up was:
Seniors: B. Humphreys. 2222: C.
Henry. 22221: C. Swan. K. Balch, R_
Wills, J. Barth.
Freshmen:     Engel.     222222;     Rasch.
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Tea-Dance to Be Given
Before Varsity Dramatics
On Wednesday, March 20, the
I'ndergraduate Association held a
well-attended meeting in Room F to
discuss the question of dancing.
The most important decision arrived
at was that a tea-dance should be held
on April l.t, from four to seven in the -
afternoon before Varsity Dramatics,
under the auspices of the Undergradu-
ate Association. This will be the first
dance ever held at Bryn Mawr, but it
will be of a very mild and informal
character. A substantial enough tea
will be served to enable'the guests to
survive without dinner, it was an-
nounced. Rockefeller Hall will be used
for the dancing, and an orchestra will be
provided. Tickets may be obtained from
Miss Kitselman. The total price for
play, supper, and dance for two is six
dollars. A place will be provided for
the gentleman to dress before the play.
Girls are to cut in, and may attend ,
without escort.
Not a dissenting voice was raised
against the proposal for the tea-dance,
and a large majority of those present
announced their intention of inviting
a guest. A less popular measure was
the plan for installing i~ victrola in
the May Day room, where girls may
take their friends to dance on Friday
and Saturday evenings However, in
spite of a number of "noes." a sub-
stantial majority favored this idea also.
However, it was decided that while the
plan is being tried out. a victrola from
one of the halls will be used. - Then if
things go well, a new and superior
one. perhaps an orthophonic. will be
installed.
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