College News, 1929-10-30, Vol. 16, No. 04

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VOL. XVI, NO. 4
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE^PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30,1929
PRICE.   10 CENTS
A nnouncement
The College News takes pleas-
ure in announcing the addition to
the    editorial    hoard    of    Celeste
Page,   '30.     Miss   Helen   Pascoe
� will � be  the  Graduate  Editor  on
.this year's  board.    We  feel  that
the  addition of   a  member of  the
Graduate   School   to   the   editorial
board of The News is a distinct
and welcome step towards the con-
summation of the new relation* be-
tween   the  two   student  bodies   of
Bryn Mawr.
Varsity Loses But Shows
Improvement in Game
Although the hockey game with
Merion Cricket Club on Saturday, Oc-
tober 26. resulted in a 2-4 defeat for
Varsity, the Bryn Mawr team showed
a remarkable gain over their playing
of the previous week. There were a
number of radical changes in the line-
up, and the forwad line in particular
gained in speed and strength. Blan-
chard played in her last year's position
at left wing, and recovered the dodging
and hard shooting which have always
made her a strong point of the Bryn
Mawr attack. Longslreth shifted to
center to take Bouchard's place, and
although Sally1 is more effective in her
own placets inner, the change resulted
in a gain for Varsity. Longacre, a
freshman, was' thus brought into the
game, and she proved to be the fastest
and pluckiest of the forwards. Her en-
thusiasm and speed dominated the
game, and held the entire line to a
higher level than they reached at all
last week. Unfortunately her passes
and dodges were poorly directed, so
that what she won by good dribbling
and persistent tackling back, she lost
by ineffective shots. With practice in
teamwork and passing, Longacre
should rise above mere good fighting
and become an aid in scoring for Var-
sity.
The backs were as reliable a.s usual,
the play of the first half being faster
and more on the attack than last week.
Remington, as center half, played a
beautiful alert game; McCully was on
hand and steady, and Kate Hirsch-
berg's game was, if possible, better
than last week. She attacked farther
up the field and *was infallible in in-
tercepting dodges and passes. Her
combination of speed, excellent drib-
bling, and well-distributed shooting,
cannot be emulated as "yet by any of
the forwards.
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The play was evenly distributed from
goal to goal, backs and forward line
. -having-equal chances-at the Mil; Vai-
sity's remarkable gain in speed.and tUzJ
thusiasm went hand in hand with a
gain in wind and endurance. Not until
the second half, and the halves are 35
minutes long this year, did Bryn Mawr
show signs of faltering. Late in the
game passing became undirected and
the gap between forwards and backs
had to be filled by Hirschberg alone,
as in the Main  Line game. ' Merion's
Continued on Pace Fonr �
Actress Presents Dances
For  Scholarship Fund
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Angna Enters, "actress, dancer, an
supreme mime in one" will present her
"Episodes" and compositions in dance
form at Goodhart Hall, on Friday eve-
ning, November IS. The entertainment
is to be'gi'en under the auspices of the
Alumnae Association of Eastern Penn-
. sylvania and Delaware, and it is to be
given for the benefit of the Regional
Scholarship Fund.
Miss Enters' dances have been given
the most enthusiastic acclaim by such
people as Olin Downes, Paul Rosenfeld,
Stark Young and Louis Untermeyer; her
"compositions" are set to a background
of Debussy, Beethoven, and Sousa, to
give an idea of their variety; the cos-
tumes are designed and carried out oy
Miss Enters herself. The whole gives
the impression of a complete and unified
art; this will be an entertainment that
one should not miss.
President Cites
Freshmen Records
Statistics   Reveal   Character
Distinguished Class,
of 1933.
of
iass
1-5 FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
"There are 120 freshmen this year,
the smallest class except one (that,
four years ago), since I have been at"
Bryn Mawr. It fits in with a sopho-
more class of 118, a junior class of 77,
and a senior class of 91 to make up a
corpus Bryn Mawr census of 406. First
concerning their geography.
"If a circle with a radius of 100
miles were drawn with Bryn Mawr as
its centre, the homes of only 49 would
fall inside, for the most part Philadel-
phia^, New Yorkers and Baltimoreans,
of course. This is, I believe, a smaller
number of nearby students than usual
and besides tho.se in the middle dis-
tances there are definitely far travelers:
Twenty-two from the Middle West-
Five from the South.
Five   from   Colorado.   Oregon,   Cali-
fornia.          .
"There are, as usual at Bryn Mawr,
an urban, class.   If we set. .thpse �coming. America.- fi�ve   m.  c HheeptiOrr of" tlie
from: New York, 22; Philadelphia, 20;
Boston, 11; Chicago, 8; Washingtqn,-6;
Baltimore, 4; Pittsburgh, 3; Cleveland,
3; Portland, Oregon, 3; St. Louis, 2;
Buffalo, 2; Denver. 1; Omaha, 1, to-
gether, they would be 86 as against 35
from smaller cities, towns or country-'
side.                                                          a
"Next   their  heredity:
The two parents apd the four grand-
parents of 74 out of 120 freshmen were
born in the United States. This figure
is always high at Bryn Mawr�I be-
lieve much higher than in similar
groups in the men's colleges.
"Further, of the 120 fathers, 73 are
of what we_, oddly . call "American"
stock, i. e., the original emigrants came
from Great Britain�English'' proper,
Scotch or Welsh. The second fraction
of fathers, and, in number, far below,
is of German origin, and 35 arc de-
scended in part or wholly from emi-
grants of European countries other
than  Great  Britain  and   Germany.
Of these 120 gentlemen, 72 married
wives of British stock, 10 vi German
and 38 from other Kuropeah stock
wholly or in part.
"To sum up, about threeTfifths of the
class are solidly transplanted English,
Scotch,- or Welsh, and at least three-
fifths are of the third American gener-
'ationV These two fractions Tiappen to
_b,e_ab;lrp but44 .:*-�?( course �bv:cas>tkG'.
the individuals who contribute to the
two fractions may be different; that a
strain of Dutch stock, for instance,
may have been nine generations in the
United States and another of English
stock may have barely come to Amer-
ica to live.
"The variation in Bryn Mawr blood
is slowly increasing, and it should con-
tribute something to variety of point of
view, and particularly perhaps to artis-
tic expression in music, art and drama,
in which we of the stolid majority for
years have never been strong.
Occupations of Fathers <
xN. "The fathers of the freshman class
>r aM two-fifths of them professional men
�half of these lawyers and half en-
gineers, physicians or surgeons, clergy-
men, professors; another two-fifths are
in business of various kinds and wide
range. The fifth one-fifth scatter more
widely. I have always wondered why
more Bryn Mawr graduates did not go
into the law. This year, with the heavy
registration of what-might be called, I
suppose, fathers-in-law, I shall wonder
more why there is_ no movement to-
ward the legal profession. Some suc-
cessor of mine will make'a similar table
of the occupations of the mothers of
the freshmen, and Bryn Mawr will be-
gin next year to put in a space for that
information on  its card.
Education of Parents
"One-fourth, 26 pairs of parents, are
Miss Ely Gives Her
Impressions of League
Miss Gertrude Ely, who has recently
returned from a summer spent abroad,
has been kind enough to-tell a-repre-
sentative of The News some of her
most outstanding impressions of the
three'weeks which'she spent at the
Tenth Assembly of the League of Na-
tions. She was present in Geneva dur-
ing all but the last few days of the
meeting.
To Miss Ely, the most encouraging
and outstanding impression of her visit,
was the fact that the League seems -to
be so very well established. It has
decidedly taken on the appearance of
an institution which is in gqod working
order, and there is no more of the
feeling thatchings will be done, "if only
the League can live." Miss Ely said
that in none of her other visits"to Gen-
eva, during the .past ten years, had she
had this feeling so strongly. Even the
sceptics of old seem to have been con-
vinced; they see that the League has
taken root, and trfey finally realize that
there now exists in (the world a world
organization which will give the time
and attention of the best minds of the
world, to the problems which most
concern the world.
Again,   Miss   Ely   felt   that   we,   in
importance placed by. European peo-
ple upon the Kellogg treaty (or, as it is
more often called abroad. "The Pact of
Paris"). The signing of the paper
which we are so apt to look upon sojely
in the light of a nice, politic gesture,
has had an enormous influence upon
the procedure of the League commit-
tees. They feel that things can be
speeded up, and that their work can be
put through safely, with a great in-
crease in rapidity of accomplishment.
The "Pact" is, in fact, looked upon so
seriously, that people are already dis-
cussing which articles of the Covenant
of the League will have to be changed
so as to be in accord with the latest
document of peace. This latter is
thought to put a new responsibility
upon mankind; it is hoped* that now
the articles which recommend force in
the repression of war may gradually
be replaced by something more in
keeping with the spirit of. a world or-
ganization. Count Bern6dorff went so
far as t6 tell Miss Ely that the Com-
mittee on Disarmament, of which he
is the chairman, had been ready to
report itself as unable to proceed- be-]
fore the'signing of the "Pact"; now,
however, they are going on with their
work, and are seriously discussing the
feasibility of all possible plans. M.
Briaodfc^'d of it, is his mMmm t<> the
Assembly:
"We have the 'Paris Pact' which may
perhaps have seemed to be outside the
Continued on Page Three
League Musical Service
Was Unusual  Success
Continued ob P��e F�ur
The -Sunday evening meeting of the
Bryn Mawr League was a musical serv-
ice held in the Music Room of Good-
hart Hall, Sunday, October 27. The
meeting was led by Dorothea Cross, '30,
and an unusually pleasing musical pro-
gram was given, by Mr. Willoughby and
the choir. The program was as follows:
Processional     Hynui:     "Through,    the
Night of Doubt and  Sorrow."    Tune
"St.  Asaph."
'Organ'.   "Bourrce   in   D"   (from   fourth
Orchestral   Suite),  Bach.
Choir:    "O'er    the    Smooth    Enamelled
Green" (from Peasant Cantata), Bach.
Chorale   (a  cappella),   "Now   All   the
Woods Are Sleeping," Bach.
Organ:   "Air"   (from the   Suite  in   D),
1   Bach.
Prayers                                              '
Hymn: "Now Thank We All Our God."
Tune  "Nun  Danket."
Choir:     (Chorale    with    Obligato    for
Organ), "Care and  Sorrow   Flee Be-
fore Thee," Bach.
Organ: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor,
Bach.
Recessional Hymn: "Rise Crowned With
Light."    Tune "Russian   Hymn."
Stainer Sevenfold Amen.
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Vera Strelska in Chopin tyaltz
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Our Peripatetic Existence
Brought Under Fire
"One of the most curious phenomenon
of existence," beVan .Miss Carey in
Chapel on Thursday, "is the fact that we
get into trouble of our own making, and
then cannot get ourselves out. There
are few of us as. wise as the man who
jumped into the second bramble bush.
Most of us instead rush round and round
the same bush, in a circle which is_ in-
deed vicious because it makes us miser-
able, and because no matter how hard
we try, we cannot break  it.
"So it is with the kind of lives we
build up for ourselves at college. We
have entered, what is often called, some-
times not without scorn, a cloistered life.
Certainly we have withdrawn from the
more turbulent aspects of the world. But
do we. e|yoy;.n,"'a;v" :i'A ftjuieir*1-s�0 we
have   time   tor   reading   and   untruul>l�"d   -
Gavrilov Ballet
Presents Fantasies
' -
Amateurish   Interpretations   Re-
deemed  by  Artistic
Effects.
UNCERTAINTY    OBVIOUS
The Gavrilov Ballet Modcrne, first
event of the much-heralded Bryn
Mawr Series, was presented Friday
evening.__ October 25, in Goodhart
Auditorium. The program, consisting
almost entirely of fantastic interpre-
tative dances, gave promise of a very-
splendid performance which was not
entirely fulfilled^ The main difficulty
,1�mH tn be�the "unfamiliarity of
dancers   wifb   llu-_ (ilu-"l,v>^fc|fc^^Tl:
�� ^alk?    HaVc* we "any leisure to do what
we like with? No need to ask for re-
sponse to questions the answers to which
are  so oovious.
"When we stand off for a moment and
analyze bur situation, we' soon find a
rather puzzling state of affairs. Even
those who work hardest do not study all
day and night. There is plenty of time
allowed for meals, and no one to hurry
us through. We live in Iwautiful sur-
roundings with plenty of books, plenty
of comfortable chairs, and even fire-
places before which we may sit. What
do we do with surroundings so clearly
conducive to a thoughtful existence? We
rush through our meals as if our life
depended on our spending only ten or
fifteen minutes on eating; we shriek at
the top of our lungs in the dining room.
Continued on P��e Three
CALENDAR
Sunday, November 3�The Rev.
Ernest S. Farpp will speak at
chapel in the Music Room.
Goodhart, at 7.30 in the eve-
ning. The anthem by choir is
"How .Lovely Is Thy Dwell-
ing Place." Brahms.
Tuesday, November 5 � The
Senior tea for the Freshmen
will be held in Wyndham at
4.30 in the afternoon.
Andre Siegfried will speak un-
der the auspices of the Under-
graduate Association in Good-
hart. at 8.1S.
i> dimensions, but this couH^hot ac-
count for the amateurishness which
was most characteristic of the eve-
ning. Alexandre Gavrilov himself ap-
peared aware of the general uncer-
tainty and had none of the assurance
which one expected of him. However,
in many of the dances compensation
for faults in technique was found in
the pleasure obtained from the beau-
tiful scenery, picturesque costumes,
and artistic lighting.
The first number,'"'Pancake Holi-
day," was probably the least satis-
factory as an example of dancjng
skill, and only Vera Strelska seemed
sure of herself and her proper posi-
tion in relation to the other dancers,
yet the scenery and the bright clothes
of the peasants created a charming
effect. The second dance. "Kids, a
Cat and a Witch." >vas a delightful
fantasy in which the extremely active
witch and the surprising cat com-
pletely   captivated   the   audience.
The second part of the program
contained several short numbers, most
of which were in no way original or
novel. In this group "Bas-Relief," a
series of poses arranged after the man-
ner of the Greek pediment*, stood out
as the most artistic and graceful of
the offerings. The gray-blue lighting
on the tight-clad figures was particu-
larly effective. Gavrilov did a very
dainty and clever dance of the top
hat and cane variety, and Vera Strel-
ska executed a charming toe-dance to
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