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The College News
�xi. VOL. XV, NO. 12
BRYN MAWR (ANI> WAYNE)�, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929
PRICE.   10 CENTS
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CANCER MOVIES
CLARIFY PROBLEM
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Dr. Tennent Talks on Pictures
and History of Cancer
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VIVID
RADIUM   ACTlpN
On Wednesday evening the Canti Mo-
tion Picture of Living Tissue Cultures
was shown in Goodhart under the
auspices of the Science- Club. The film
had been prepared originally as part
of the British Empire Cance* Campaign
arid was loaned to us f<Jr the evening by
the Cancer Research Fund of the Grad-
uate School of Medicine of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Tennent,
.who secured the loan, prefaced the show-
ing of the pictures with a brief historical
outline of Great Britain's work in cancer
prevention from 1905 when Dr. Strange-
ways established a private hospital in a
private house for the investigation of
chronic diseases, until the present time
' when cancer research through study of
tissue cultures is being extensively pro-
moted.
Today tissue culture has a large and-^losophy of life, we are not looking for
growing literature  and a journal all of
its own.   The tissue is grown in a nutri-
ent medium�either blood plasm, serum,
embryonic extract, or a saline solution.
Young tissue is seen to grow more
readily than adult, and during this
growth process every precaution is taken
to avoid bacterial contact on the cul-
ture slides. By skillful use of the nu-
trient medium and careful incubation,
cultures can be kept active over a long
period as evidenced by one which has
been held over from 1912. In this whole
study of tissue cultures it is the accu-
rate precise work and the setting down
of detailed data thereof that achieves
important biological results. For the
Canti Motion Picture, exposures were
taken at intervals of one second for
twenty-seven hours. This action was
greatly speeded up for purposes of pub-
lic showing so that the work of hours
was shown in a few seconds.
"       Radium Round-Up Cells.
The first part of this film was de-
voted to the mitotic divisions and migra-
tions to the explant of cells chosen from
Chick Periosteum and Rat Sarcoma. The
cells for this process were kept in an
incubator constructed with lead to pre-
vent irradiation of radium. However,
in the second part of the film radium
rays were given access to these same
cells. The effect was striking. Wander-
ing cells of Chick Periosteum were seen
to round up and disintegrate; fibroblasts
were least affected in that they rounded
up for a moment and then resumed their
activity. In the Rat Sarcoma all the
cells rounded up and disintegrated. This
clearly indicates that radium is more
effective upon malignant .tissues than
upon   normal cells.
The third and fourth parts of the film
consisted of miscellaneous vie'ws . of 1
amoebae, macroplasms�which are similar
to the white blood cells of man�and
mitachondria. This latter half of the
motion picture was particularly'remark-
able in that dark field illumination was
used. This is a system of indirect light-
ing of whatever one may have tinder
the microscope so that particles are
illumined on a dark field. The very last
reel was an exceedingly recent dark-
field film shown first at the Graduate
Hospital in Philadelphia, with its first
public showing on Wednesday night.
Freshman Show
Judging from the number ot
committees the Freshman show
which is to be given in Goodhart
Saturday night, ought to be an
unusually good one. The Show '
Committee is headed by A. Bur-
jiett*�P. Putnam and I,. Sanhorn,
the costume committee by M.
Waring, scenery by B. Converse,
songs by C. Tyler, the dancing by
, C. Crane and M. Atmore is the
business manager.
We have heard from reliable
sources that there will be many
skillfully trained choruses and three
scenes, one pertaining to cave men,
another in Venice and the. last in
a Russian cabaret. (Heavens, we -
hope it's a  rather tame animal.)
WHATJS0LUTI0N OF
i PROBLEMS
Find SomeP&ttitude of Life to
Help  You   in  Difficult
Situations
CHRISTIANITY    IS    BEST
"When we set out to look for a phi-
LANTERN   CONTEST
The Lantern announces with
pride and pleasure that Mr. Robert
Frost has consented to be the
judge of verse for the competi-
tion. It also takes the opportunity
of reminding the undergraduates
that a prize of $50 is being offered
for the best piece of verse, and
another for the best piece of prose,
appearing in the first three issues,
and that Mr. Christopher Morley
is judging the pro^e.
a complete solution to all of life's intri-
cate problems, but rather for an attitude
of life," said Rev. Pitney Van Dusen,
who spoke in the Music Room of Good-
hart Hall Sunday evening, February 10.
In the first place, Mr. Van Dusen said,
it is impossible to find a complete, com-
pact bundle of philosophy which will act
in the capacity of a guide for all people.
A person who believes he has found such
a panacea will immediately cease to
grow^he will stagnate.
Instead, we are looking for something
infinitely more simple. Some norm, or
stance from which we can view the con-
fusing flux of life, watch the revolu-
tionary ideas around us and decide what
we shall retain and what throw away.
This  attitude of life  will  steady  those
flurries of impulse which go often get
us into such curious situations. This
attitude would be no set formula, no
creed, which might be applied by thumb
rule; but it would be rather like the
sound of a bell, or the note of a tuning
fork, which would be the truest note of
reality in our lives and therefore act as
a guide in perplexity.
There  Are Various  Attitudes.
There are many of these life attitudes
from which we might choose. First,
there is the "laissez-faire" attitude, the
one of least resistance. Then there is
"the stance of convention," or the atti-
tude which thinks of public opinion
before it makes a decision. Thirdly,
there is the "stance of expediency," the
stance of the "go-getter" type. Not the
blustering, red-faced haranguer, but a
more subtle type, who weighs issues with
much regard for the after effect. Fourth,
there is the "stance of beauty," exempli-
fied by the man who does everything in
life with the thought of adding some-
thing to the beauty of the world. And
fourth, there is the "stance of achieve-
ment," the stance of the man who be-
lieves that success is the greatest thing
in life and therefore sets out to attain it.
One of these five attitudes is the Chris-
tian attitud^, which seeps down into the
soul of man and sheds light on all the
issues of existence when they need to be
determined exactly. And of this Chris-
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Impressive Volume Now on Sale
at Publication
Office.
SOCIAL REFORMS STARTED BY
EMPERORS IN ANCIENT ROME
Varsity Basketball Schedule
Date        Visitor         Varsity       2d   Varsity
Sat., Feb. 16. Saturday Morning Club,
Second Varsity.
Sat., Feb. 16. Baltimore,  Varsity.
Sat., Mar.   2. Bpccaneers,  Varsity.
Sat, Mar. 9. Germantown Collegiates,
Varsity.     v
Sat., Mar. 9. Rosemont. Second Var-
sity.
Sat., Mar. 16. Swarthmore, Varsity.
Sat., Mar. 16. Swarthmore, II, Second
Varsity.
Mrs. Collins, ably assisted by Miss Kit-
selman and others, has just launched
upon the world a new masterpiece, the
192U Alumnae Register. This impressive
volume, nearly four hundred pages long,
is no mere address book, although it
contains the addresses of every Alumna
and former student of .the college, not
omitting those in college at the present
time. It is at once a biographical dic-
tionary, a social register, and a scientific
document.
The* register itself consumes the larg-
est part of the space. Information is
given under the unmarried name. Should
you, for instance, be interested in the
fate of'the Costelloes (on whom our
own eye chanced lo fall), you will find,
although they spent here but a single
year, one as undergraduate, the other as
a graduate student, that no part of their
subsequent career is hidden from the
proud possessor of this Register. Miss
Karin Flizabeth Mary Conn CoStelloe,
now living in London, took an M. A. at
Cambridge as a psycho-therapist, and in
1914 married Mr. Adrian Leslie Stephen.
She has twfl daughters. .Three � doors
down the street from her house in Gor-
don Square you will find Mrs. Rachel
Conn Costelloe Stracliey, her older sister,
who went both to Oxford and Cambridge
where she took a number of degrees,
and is now busy as a political worker and
writer, and the mother of one daughter
and one son. This is just an Example of
the extensive research that has been
undertaken by Mrs. Collins in the prepa-
ration of this book.
Next we come upon a study of the
geographical distribution of Alumnae.
We are proud to say that the Bryn Mawr
snirit is being carried to forty-eight
States, and thirty-four foreign countries,
not to speak of the Philippines, Alaska,
and the District of Columbia. Most
thrilling of all are the statistics which"
follow, giving the occupations, number
of husbands and children of every holder
of an A. B. degree. From these we
learn that in the class of 1905, vfor m-|
stance, there arc a research librarian, a
district representative of a department
store, a geologist, an editor, an artist, a
general secretary of the V. W. C. A., a
lecturer, a real estate broker, a writer, an
art student, a Director of Publication
(who can that be?) and a designer in a
manufacturing company.
The marriage statistics are even more
thrilling. The percentage of married
alumnae is growing each year and has
now reached forty-eight per cent. There
are in all one thousand one hundred and
sixty-one married alumnae, with one
thousand twenty-three boys, and one
thousand two hundred and fifteen girls,
a total of 1.9 child per alumna. We hope
the next register will be able to an-
nounce that the missing tenth of a child
has been made up. Did you know, by
the way, that one alumna has ten chil-
dren ?
These are only tantalizing items se-
lected to tempt the palate from the
sumptuous and satisfying fare that is set
forth in the Alumnae Register. We
hasten to announce that the volume can
be procured for two dollars at the office
of  Publications,  Bryn  Mawr  College.
Mr. Stokowski Replies
Miss Park has communicated to
us the following delightful letter
from Mr. Stokowski in regard to
the concert in Goodhart Hall last
semester by which the auditorium
was formaljy, and magnificently,
opened:
January 27, 1929.
Dear Dr. Park:
I have not replied sooner to your
letter because I have been for a
long time out west and have only
just returned to Philadelphia.
I enjoyed more than I can ex-
press To you the opening of the
auditorium and my collaboration
with you and the chorus. I was
very much struck by the wonder-
ful ' concentration and splendid
singing of the chorus of such diffi-
cult works of Bach. The whole
concert was a delight to me, and
I hope some day we can be work-
ing together again.
WishlV\g Bryn Mawr College
still greahtc development and
growth.
Always  sincerely,
(Signed)     Leopold Stokowski.
Contest Saturday
Dr. Wells has announced that
the Intercollegiate Current Events
Contest being held under the
auspices of the New York Times
will take place on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 16, at 9 A. M. in Taylor
Hall. Bryn Mawr is one of twenty
colleges which are participating in
the contest. The winner at each
college receives a prize of $50 and
the author of the best paper in all
tlie colleges will receive an addi-
tional $500.      m^m
The Contest was inaugurated,
say the announcements, "in the be-
lief that a thorough grasp of con-
temporary affairs is a part of the
essential equipment of a college
career." -
What Is Wrong With
today's Ethical Code?
"The ethical code of the present day
has come to pieces," said Mrs. Whiting
White in chapel, Friday morning. Mrs.
White is the head of Peabody House in
Boston and director of the Social Serv-
ice League.
� Mrs. White's topic was "the scientific
method in social work" which is the
study of facts. "What are facts?" con-
tinued the distinguished social worker.
"What facts are we facing? Facts and
problems in relation to an ethical code.
This is what we are trying to find out
in certain parts of the country. The
New York School of Social Work is
doing special experiments along this line.
"One principal approach in this scien-
tific study of social problems is the fam-
ily. Is the fanffly going to pieces? What
are the challenges of the young genera-
tion to the present family system?" Mar-
riage and divorce, said Mrs. White, were
the best scientific material in this phase
of social study.
Another approach is crime study. Said
the speaker: "We social service workers
are very much interested in crime sur-
vey. The law department of Harvard
University is undertaking a -penal sur-
vey in crime. While-the social service
workers have nothing to do with interna-
tional law, they arc interested in munici-
pal courts, especially the juvenile courts.
We question the legal procedure of these
courts. There are certain things that do
not go with the ethical code. Public
opinion has made Harvard University
take up the survey, for actual justice
must be enforced. Or is there such a
thing as influenced justice in municipal
courts? How is Jt that certain people
get away by influencing the judge and
others do not? Why are some criminal*
convicted and others not? These things
were brought forward by the social
service workers. Criminal procedure
rests more with social workers than with
educators.
"But what about the crime wave? Is
there such a thing as the crime wave?
School took up the study of crime, the
social workers found out the decided
effect of defective delinquency upon
crime. So several States passed laws
separating defective delinquents from
ordinary criminals. Certain treatments
were given to the former type of crimi-
nals. The University of Chicago then
carried on an experimental study of
what is called *the habitat of crime.'
A certain area in Chicago was token as
the "crime area, or the primary area.
People who moved into this area from
the so-called secondary areas were
greatly influenced in actions of crime.
This was to prove that there is such a
thing as 'habitat of crime'."
Problems Very Like Our Own
Solved Under Systenr"of "
Monarchy
INDIVIDUALISM
LOST
Dr. Tenney Frank, Professor of Latin
at Johns Hopkins, was introduced by
Miss Park as "a great teacher, a great
scholar, one who has the power of mak-
ing out of old things something new,
some real creation." Dr. frank deliv-
ered the Horace White Memorial lecture
in Goodha* Friday evening on Roma*
Efforts in Social Reform.
We have long known, Dr. Frank said,
that democratic governments are slow
to adopt plans of social amelioration.
Reform often makes more progress
under an autocracy than under popular
rule. The reasons for this are two.
First, a strong autocratic government has '
the power to carry out a large program
of social refprm; second, there is in such
a program,.A certain compensation for
the lost democracy. In the United States
we have been particularly slow in this
matter. For, in spite of the efforts of
certain'New York weeklies, we continue
to elect Presidents who abide by the
principle of laissez faire.
It is interesting to see how the changes
in the form of ancient government af-
fected social reform* The Roman Re-
public was extremely dilatory, but the
emperors launched the greatest state
socialism that the world has ever known.
It ended in disaster. No Government
lias ever been so much like our own as
the Roman Government with so many
of the same problems to be solved.
At first the Romans met together to
decide their own affairs as did the New
England farmers. They were distinctly
individualistic and would have no form
of paternalism. Class legislation was
prohibited. Refusing to burden them-
selves with costly standing armies or
permanent charities, they permitted no
form of trust whatsoever. The old
Roman family was made secure by a
simple contract of marriage between two
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Curtis Institute Artists
to Appear at Bryn Mawr
A concert by artist students of the
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia,
will be given at Bryn Mawr College on
Monday evening, February 18, under the
auspices of the Institute. Admission will
he free, and the concert is one of a series
to \k given before leading-colleges and
music clubs in furtherance of the policy
of the Institute to develop an apprecia-
tion of good music among the public,
according to Josef Hofmann, director.
The Curtis Institute was established
four years ago by Mrs. Mary Louise
Curtis Bok, daughter of Cyrus H. K.
Curtis and wife of Edward Bok. It is
endowed with a gift of $12,500,000, and
lias a limited iiiiinlx-r of students, all of
whom are scholarship holders. Among
the faculty, in addition to Mr. Hofmann,
are such internationally known musicians
as Mme. Marcclla Sembrich, Prof.
Leopold Auer. Efrcm Zimbalist, Felix
Salmond and  Louis   liailly.
The concert n<y[t Monday will be given
by the Swastika Quartet and Miss Jeanne
Behrend, pianist. The Swastika Quartet
is a string ensemble trained by Mr. Bailly,
which has won high praise in concerts
in New York, Philadelphia, Washington
and Boston during the present season.
Miss Bchrend is a pupil of Mr. Hof-
mann, ^�nd has appeared as soloist with
the Stanley Music Club, Philadelphia.
The program will include the Mozart
Quartet in D Minor; a group of piano
compositions played by Miss Behrend,
and the Chausson Concert played by the
Swastika Quartet with Miss Behrend
and Iso Briselli, violinist, as soloists.
Horace Alwyne. director of music at
Bryn Mawr College, is in charge of ar-
rangements.
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