College News, 1929-11-26, Vol. 16, No. 08

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VOL. XVI, NO. 8
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., TUESDAY, NOV. 26,1929
PRICE,   10 CENTS
Miss Park Recommends a
Book With an Idea
"I want to speak this morning about a
book which I have been reading," began
Miss Park in Chapel on Thursday. "It
is Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's
Own and I think that you all should read
it on account of its wit, literary qualities,
its hits at women's colleges, and its-gen-
eral value. Mrs. Woolf wrote this book
from twp papers which she read to the
"Arts Society at Newnham and" the Od-
taa at Girton in October, 1928" when she
was asked to speak on Women and Fic-
tion. Her main theme is that women
cannot write except on �500 a year and
with a room of their own. She says that
this general line was suggested to her by
two visits she made, one to a man's
college and the other to a woman's col-
lege. At the former she lunched on part-
ridges and drank wines "which flushed
yellow and flushed crimson"; at Fernham
she dined on soup, beef, greens, prunes
and custard, and drank water. This led
her to wonder why one sex seemed to
always have safety and prosperty and
the other insecurity and poverty; further-
more she wondered if this had a signifi-
cant relation-to Women and Fiction.
"Going deeper into her subject Vir-
ginia ' Woolf discovered that practically
all the books on women have been writ-
ten by men. 'Sex and its nature might
well attract doctors and biologists; but
what was surprising and difficult of ex-
planation was that sex�woman, that is
to say�also attracts agreeable essayists,
light fingered novelists, young men who
have taken no degree; men who have no
apparent qualification save that they are
not women.' These -books by men were
written in great emotion: 'the red light
of emotion and not the white light of
truth.'
"She goes on to discuss the great argu-
ment she finds in various books that
women are not creative. She tries to
analyze to discover why this is, .especially
in the case of women writers of fiction.
The pictures of women in fiction do not
give us quite an adequate picture of them;
and the writing of women in the past has
been greatly affected by the feeling in
society which was against women writers.
So the women who did write wrote in a
kind of angry passion tempered by fear.
"In the fifth chapter she speaks in an
abstract way of a new novel in which a
woman writes as a woman and/presents
her sex not in relation to men but in
relation to all the other interests in the
world, just as men are presented. 'Give
her a room of her own and �500 a
year�and she will write a better book
one of these days,' promises Virginia
Woolf. 'She will be a poet in another
hundreds years' time.'
"The next chapter contains the idea
that there are really two sexes in every
one's mind, even as there are two sexes
in the world, in the man's brain the man
predominates over the woman, and in
the woman's brain the woman pre-
dominates over the man . . . .' In
Shakespeare we can find such an andro-
' gynous mind, as Coleridge called it. Mrs.
Woolf goes on to hope that when women
have independence and freedom they will
lose the emphasis on their sex and that
there will be more and more of the
androgynous mind.
"What she says marks this book of
Virginia Woolf in my min.d as the first
book which has been written on the sub-
ject without the fear and bitterness of a
woman," Miss Park said. "The author is
humorous, tranquil, witty and one who
makes a most excellent use of quotations
with sly digs in her footnotes. She has
given, on the whole, the best answer I
have ever heard to that current comment
that 'women are not creative.' She shows
the weakness of woman's writing and
parallels it with masculine writing. She
is very modern in connecting morals and
things intellectual with economic status.
In the old days poverty was connected
with good morals, and riches with poor
ones. Now we appreciate the fallacy in
such conception. This makes a stimulus
to urge your generation to change the
character of the economic world. At the
end of her book Mrs. Woolf quotes ""from
The Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quil-
ler-Couch who states:    .... 'the poor
Miss King Tells of
New Collection
A Modern Exhibit Only in the
Pickwickian
Sense.
ART    SHOWS    VERACITY
Professor Georgiana Goddard King
spoke in Tuesday Chapel on the First
Loan Exhibition of the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City. Miss
King began her talk by saying that
the exhibition is modern only in the
Pickwickian sens.e; the youngest of
the artists died before most of us were
born. The little slip presented in-
side the folder points out that whereas
most of the foreign galleries in the.
North have collections of the work
nbfthc men here represented, we have
practically nothing of them on public
exhibition in this country. The exhi-
bition at the Museum of Modern Art
is composed of accessible work by the
greatest men of the second half of the
nineteenth century, and it is made up
from private collections � personal
owners have lent their treasures, which
are some of them famous and all very
beautiful. The exhibition is a mar-
velous benefaction, and is worth the
exertion of a trip to New York; it is
open for nothing at all from November
8 to December 7, every week-day from'
ten in the morning to six at night, and
on Sunday from one to five in the
afternoon: thus every one can go and
see it. The names of the people be-
hind the Museum are 'n the folder;
the patrons are such persons as Dr.
Paul Sachs and Miss Bliss, whose
library was painted by Arthur" Davies,
and who has lent many things.
The Museum.of Modern Art is on
Fifth Avenue among the picture deal-
ers' lairs; it is situated on the twelfth
floor of the Heckscher Building, 730
Fifth Avenue. The whole back of
the floor is given over to Modern Art;
the subdivision into little rooms and
the hangings are done with great dis-
cretion, and there are no incongruities.
The men whose work is on view were
chosen especially because of their in-
fluence on the artists that came after
them; one main interest in the" paint-
ings is to note what debts we can
trace. These Modern Artists of the
last century are Cezanne, Gaugin,
Seurat and Van Gogh.
Cezanne was born first, 1839, and
died at sixty-seven after a long li�c of
laborious painting. Van Gogh was
born in 1853 and died at Byron's age.
Gaugin lived from 1849 to 1903; there
Continued on Pace Two
'American Humor'
American humor is being reviewed in a
survey conducted by the University of
Denver journalism class. Although the
primary aim of the survey is to trace the
course of humor in American literature,
every humorous magazine in the English
language will be studied.
Students will select the best anecdotes,
skits, epigrams and jokes contained in the
funny-bone publications in an effort to
determine just what makes a funny story
funny.
Several members of the class are now
sifting and sorting the contents of the
January issues of "Life" and "Punch".
"Harper's Weekly," from 1870 on, will
contribute representative material of the
last generation.
Periodic reports are being made in class
sessions, but the entire report will Hot be
complete before late next spring.
Sam Jackson, instructor of the class,
believes such research work is as valu-
able as the assimilation of facts.�Denver
Clarion.
poet has not in these days, nor has had
for 200 years, a dog's chance.'
"In conclusion all I can do is urge you
to give this book to your women friends
and to read it yourselves. I only advise
you not to give it to men because it's
very much the sort of book that you can
use and fit in delightfully in dinner con-
versations."
The Independence Hall Group
If you are one of the persons who
suffer from boredom or bewilderment
on exposure to museums, you will find
it wise to take the Independence Hall
group at Sixth .and Chestnut by de-
grees. You will find a little stroll in
the park a great aid in forgetting
Gimbel's Christmas display and the
Maxfield Parish across the street, and
you may find the historical mood
creeping on.
Just look about you and count the
sorry plots of grass and the shabby
trees. Sixteen sections? Fifty-six
trees? Thirteen of those grass bits
represent the thirteen original States,
and the other three stand for Vermont,
Kentucky, and Tennessee, who entered
the Union somewhat later. F-V<*ry one-
of those trie- represents a member
of the Continental Congress." Even
the lamp posts run in a series of fifty-
five, sacred to the Signers of the Dec-
laration.
Now you can enter Independence
Hall and see the Liberty Bell sus-
pended opposite you with, its gallant
crack (which occurred at a funeral in
1835), and its inspiring inscription.
The paneling from floor to ceiling and
the crystal chandeliers are dazzling in
their whiteness, yet the simple dignity
of line and decoration will surprise and
charm you. The East Room, where
the Continental Congress met, and
Washington took the command of the
Army, is lined with the old chairs, aner
on the speakers' dais is a stately Chip-
pendale^ Before it on the table is the
inkstand of the Congress. You may
wander at wilt among the busts and
flags of the State Congress room, and
you will want to see the portrait of
Washington upstairs, a profile view,
realistic even to the pock marks. But
on the' whole yoy will find the East
Room the finest.
In the four adjacent buildings the
museum proper is housed. The ex-
hibits are all of the Revolutionary
period and not a detail has escaped,
from spinning wheels to china. The
West Wing is your proper starting
point, for the fashions of the time are
beautifully displayed there. At the
door stands a successful merchant
with corded knee breeches, a blue silk
coat, intricately flowered vest, and a
handsome lace frill of George Wash-
ington's. Beside him is a lady in a
charming wedding dress, its waistline
directly below her arms, the costume
fussy with tiny pleats and smocking.
A sixteen-year-old lad completes this
fashionable group in silk and satin.
Across the room in quiet dignity
stands a little brown Quaker lady, her
kerchief severely drawn across her
shoulders, and her stiff bonnet fram-
ing her face. You will enjoy the Revo-
lutionary fashion doll, perfect to the
last detail of stomacher and flowing
.cuff.
Upstairs is a collection of old china,
and the glass bottles deserve special
attention. The pictures and maps
along thu walls will charm you even
more, however. Opposite the door is
a representation of the first steam
train, John Bull, whieh is a series of
stage coaches coupled together and
peopled by dignified gentlemen with
high silk hats. At the front and back
of each car sit two of the soberest,
face to face, evidently overcome with
the weightiness of the occasion. A
beautiful allegorical rendering of the
Boston Tea Party is the choicest bit.
In the centre is a tiny teapot with its
lid lifted off in a burst of steam, and
nearby on a book stands a startled
rooster.
The building nearest Sixth Street is
Congress Hall, where the earliest gov-
ernment under the Constitution' was
carried on. EJownstairs there is a
complete story in painting of the his-
tory of America to the time of Lin-
coln, and upstairs there is an inter-
esting but scattered' display of early
silver, watches, currency, and docu-
ments. The East Wing is one of the
finest bits 'of the Museum. The Con-
tinental Army is reflected in realistic
camp groups�a chair with a vest
across it. a table on which spudged
playing cards are  spread,  a svird at
Caattaw* ea Page Twa **T
Varsity Finds Itself
in Swarthmore Game
"Come on, Bryn Mawr," yelled a lusty,
voiced little boy on Wednesday afternoon
as he hopped up and down excitedly along
the sidelines of the hockey field where
the Bryn Mawr-Swarthmore game was
being played. Bryn Mawr did come on,
charging with the ball down to its op-
ponent's goal where three sure shots into
the cage made a final score of 3-2 in Bryn
Mawr's favor. Varsity had found itself!
For almost the first time this year the
team played as a team. Interest in the
playing of individuals, which was of main
importance in last- Saturday's game, was
quite lost in general admiration oT the
smooth working of the eleven as a whole.
In the first half Swarthmore played
a purely defensive game, since Bryn-
Mawr's speedy (they were on Wednes-
day) forwards were most of the time
swarming around her goal.. For Swarth-
more Calwell, Jackson and Booth made
a redoubtable trio, well skilled in de-
fense tactics and a damper to the style
of Varsity's front line. However, despite
such hard fighting of the Swarthmore
backs, Bryn Mawr scored three times.
The second half was characterized by
more general playing all over the field.
Swarthmore's forwards had found "sec-
ond wind" whilst Varsity's forwards ap-
peared to be losing a little of their co-
operative spirit. Yet there was no slack-
ening up on Btyn Mawr's defense;
Woodward, Collier, Ullom, Hirschberg,
McCully and Thomas shared equally the
honors of the backfield and managed to
stop the ball and send it back to their
forwards even when Swarthmore was ex-
erting a tremendous effort�with short
time and the dark against them�to make
the score a tie.
The game as a whole was an excellent
one of fast, snappy playing; a grand and
glorious climax to all the other games
of the season. The line-up was as fol-
lows :
Swarthmore                     Bryn   .Mawr
Walton.........L. W....... Remington
IMckardx........L. I.........  Longacre
Sterling../......C.   F.............   Stix
Jaquette........R.  I.......   Longstreth
T. i in 111..-, n,,......R. W...........Totten
Cleaver.........L. H.......   Woodward
Roberts.......,.C.  H..........   Collier
Howard........R.  H........� ...  Ullom
Calwell.........L.   P......    Hirschberg
JarkHon........R.  F..........   McCully
Booth............G..........   Thomas
Substitutes: Swarthmore, Hurlock for
Jaquette, Willis for Cleaver. Goals*�
Bryn Mawr: Longacre, 1; Longstreth,
1; Collier, 1. Swarthmore: Rlckards,
2.     �
Faculty Eleven
Slips to Defeat
Private    Grudges    Are    Settled
Amiably by Well-planted
Sticks.
ENTHUSIASM RUNS HIGH
'Whads He Give You?'
The A. B. degree given by American
colleges merely indicates that the under-
graduate has agreed with his professors
during his four years in college. Dr. Fred-
crick Rand Rogers, of New York City,
said recently in addressing some 5000
Utah educators in session here.
"Scholastic grades as applied in the
educational sysfefn of America are merely
a substitute for the dunce cap and the
whip," said Dr. Rogers. "Colleges wor-
ship marks."
Grades, he said, make a battleground
of the classroom, and are a disgrace to
scientific education and must be done
away with. The highest grades as a
general rule, he said, go to the student
who is" the best "ape," to the one who
can best imitate his teacher.�Intercollegi-
ate Press.
<AU Wet?'
Down at Williams College in Massa-
chusetts they're taking their baths straight
these days.. "No bath salts for us" the
students have declared. Sparse rainfall
in that- region last summer has badly
affected the water supply, and water at
school is being rationed out for necessities
only. The faculty has voted temporary
rules prohibiting students from using bath
tubs more than once a day. "We can't
afford bath salts with the high price of
water," one student wrote home.�The
Daily Cardinal.
On Tuesday, November 19, Varsity
defeated "the Faculty, 6-2, in a fast, rough
and exciting game which roused the en-
thusiasm of those on the sidelines to its
highest pitch. The technique of the game
was undeniably difficult to follow because
most of the players, particularly on the
Faculty team, seemed unaware that they
were to cover a definitely limited terri-
tory, but the spirit on both sides was
high and determined. It is possible that
occasions were being made and taken for
the settlement of private grudges in an
amiable,  entirely  sportsmanlike  manner.
Faculty surprised everyone after the
first bully by picking up the ball and
carrying it in spite of frantic attempts
on the part of their opponents to the first
goal of the game. Varsity rallied after
the first shock and retaliated with three
goals which Faculty could not stop. The
playing was  not  uneven  but went  back
and forth between the opposing goals,
keeping the -spectators in constant �u�-
pensc. Leuba distinguished himself by
his dribbling and clean attacking of his
opponent. Crenshaw displayed real tech-
nique in the masterly shots with which he
sent the ball flying from the goal he de-
fended,, and Schrader delivered several
telling blows in his position as goal guard.
Carey and Seeley were conspicuous for
their all-around good playing as were the
other players for enthusiasm and energy,
which made up for defects caused by lack
of practice Varsity played a spirited
game, keeping in position as well as could
be expected and doing some very nice
passing Stix deserves mention for her
fast dribbling and hard shooting. The
slippery condition of the field may be
blamed for the several amusing upsets
which gave the sidelines many minutes
of hilarity.   The line-up wqs as follows:
Faculty                                    Varsity
Wldder.........R.   W...........Totten
Metzger........, R. I.......   Longstreth
Leuba..........C. F.............. Stix
Seeley..........L. I.      .....   Longacre
Fieser..........L.  W......   Remington
Morris  .........R. H............  Ullom
Carey......J-----C. H...........  Collier
Broughton......L. H.......  Woodward
Dies............R.  F.........   McCully
Crenshaw.......L.   F......   Hirschberg
Schrader.........G..........   Thomas
Goals: Faculty: Wldder, 2. Varsity:
Stix,  4;  Remington, 2.
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Sophomores Victorious;
Seniors Lose by Default.
The coldest of hockey weather ex-
hilarated the teams of '31 and '32 to a
fast and close contest in which the Soph-
omores came out ahead, at the breathless
finish, with a score-of three goal* t" the
Juniors' two. The Seniors, for whom
l>erhaps the weather had been too much,
defaulted to the Freshman because they
did not have a full team out, and no
competition took place between '30 and
'33. Better. organization of teams was
shown in this game than in those pre-
vious. The playing grew more interest-
ing as the participants warmed up, but
the most spectacular play was the first
point when Blanchard carried the ball
up the field and with a clean shot sent it
into the goal. Waples was fast, and
Blanchard worked smoothly throughout;
McCully played a good steady game, and
StnTiington was very dependable; on both
teams there was successful co-ordination
in the passing' and in the backing-up.
The line-up was:
1931                                                1932
Totten..vC......R.   W.....   Bernheimer
Moore............R. I.........._. Crane
Blanchard...,.. .C.   .�.........   Helden
Waples......   . . . L.   I...........   Moora
Turner..........I.   W...........   Shaw,
Doak............R. H...... Stonington
Tatnall..........C.   H......   Woodward
Ben ham.........L.   H...   .....   Waring
Snyder..........I�. F.............Balls
Baer............R.   F.........   McCully
Thomas...........G.        ..........   Qtil
QoaJa�1931: Blanchard, I. 1I1J:
Holdrn,  2: Crane,  t.
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