College News, 1930-04-16, Vol. 16, No. 19

              The College. News
VOL. XVI, NO. 19
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930
PRICE,   10 CENTS
Student Government
Conference Is Held
Delegates  From  the  'Big  Five'
Meet Here to Consider
General Problems.
BRYN MAWR LESS STRICT
(Specially contributed by Olivia
Stokes, '30.)
Amid the general excitement in
Goodhart Hall there was also held
there, in the News Room, on \JjYiday
and Saturday the Fourth Annual Con-
ference of the Five Colleges on Prob-
lems of Student Government. Each
college was represented by the incom-
ing and outgoing presidents of its stu-
dent governing body% The delegate's
were:
Bryn Mawr�O. Stokes, chairman:
L. Thurston.
Mount Holyoke � E. Virginia
�Grimes, Frederika Critchet.
Smith � Penelope Crane. Harriet
Loutrel.
Vassar�Cornelia Anderson. Eliza-.
beth Runkle.
Wellesley�Margaret Clapp. Vir-
ginia Chapman?-----------��-----~-~
E. Baer substituted for L. Thurston
at one meeting and E. Perkins was in-
vited to another as the functions of
our Self-Governmeiit and Undergrad-
uate Associations are combined in one
organization at the other colleges.
The meeting Friday afternoon dealt
with the broader aspects of regula-
tions in women's colleges. The chair-
man referred to an article in the April
number of the Atlantic Monthly in
which, the Assistant Dean of Radcliff
questions the real grounds for the
�need of women having special regu-
lations in their colleges. In discus-
sion it was found as usual impossible
to make a blanket statement as to
what women go to college "for, and
therefore how much studious atmos-
phere should be made for them by
regulations. It was decided, however,
that until parents and especially board-
ing schools gave girls greater free-
dom and responsibility certain regula-
tions were necessary at least for
freshmen. Safety of the individual
was considered the really vital motive
for any regulations. The need of the
�college out of self-protection and for
financial reasons not to antagonize the
conservative public opinion was also
recognized as a motive, though some-
what more reRictantly.
Continued   on   Page   FWe
Ex-Editor
ERNA  RICE,  '30
Currents Events Contest
Won by Shaughnessy, '31
At Thursday morning chapel, March
27, in the Music room of Goodhart,
Dr. Fenwick announced the winner of
the Current Events Contest at Bryn
Mawr. This contest is sponsored by
the New York Times and the winning
paper here was sent on to the intercol-
legiate  competition.
Dr. Fenwick compared the contest
to' a horse race which, he said, was
�"thrilling beyond all expectations" and
so close that it was almost impossible
to judge the winner. About eight
horses were in the running�tall, short,
sorrel, etc. With great vivacity and
spirit Dr. Fenwick described the race
which consisted of an unusual number
of jumps and obstacles requiring both
skill and endurance. After a few
'tense and breathless moments the last
stretch was run and No. 203, M.
Shaughnessy, '31, received the flow-
ered horseshoe, i. e., the Bryn Mawr
first prize of $100; Dorothea Jenkins,
'31, won a close secsnd with Elizabeth
Cook, '31, only a hairsbreadth behind.
Registration of Courses
Discussed by Miss Carey
The registration of courses for next
year is beginning two weeks late, and
with the difficulties of putting the new
curriculum into effect, it will he a
rather complicated affair. Miss Gar-
diner and I are therefore anxious to
have the undergraduates take as much
responsibility as possible for planning
their courses. So that the appointment
with her or me need take only the
minimum amount of time.               �r"
Registration will begin next Mon-
day, and appointment slips will be
�posted tomorrow. No student may
have a second appointment until all
first appointments are completed: and
anyone who fails to come without
sending a substitute will be fined. You
are urged to come on time with your
plans made.
� All Sophomores,' and Juniors who
have changed their majors, must see
their professors beforehand and have
their plans of work approved. You
are all asked to take responsibility for
your own schedules and for your al-
lied subjects. Copies of the new
schedule will be posted in the halls
this week. You need to study the
subjects in the different groups, and
to choose only one subject from each
group. Then make out the schedule of
your week and be sure that you have
a well-proportioned  program.
Freshmen do not need to see their
professors before coming to me.
Those who are perfectly sure of their
majors may do so if they wish: but
even then it is not necessary. The
Freshmen appointments are lpnger
than the others, and you will have
plenty of time to discuss your whole
course with me.
Message of Passion Week
Stressed by Dr. Stere
The Passion Week, and particularly
the story of Jesus in the Garden of
Gethsemane. provided the subject of
the sermon by Dr. Stere, Professor of
Philosophy at Haverford College, at
the Palm Sunday Chapel service".
The Story of the Passion Week lives
because it is the drama of the human
soul. It calls out sbme will deep
within everyone which plays upon our
lives but conies out only in flashes
because most of our life is concerned
solely with surface desires. Jesus is
pre-eminent in interpreting this will
by holding up a mirror to the rest-
lessness in us, the restlessness which
is most typical of our generation. We
stand between the old and the new
and. though it is fashionable to criti-
ciae and* smile at the nineteenth <�n-
tury, the Victorians possessect^ome-
thing we have lost (or the moment,
namely .respect for the eternal pos-
sibilities of life.,                           f i
Perhaps the challenge of the Oxford
scholar who said: "Study as if you
were   to   live   forever   and   live   as   if
The College has received a
letter from the Red Cross tell-
ing of the recent disaster caused
by the explosion of the Fire-
works Factory at Devon. The
organization desires a relief fund
of forty thousand dollars.
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Explanation of Changes
Made in Curriculum
An account of the reasons for the
Curriculum changes was given by
Acting President Manning in Tues-
day Chapel. There was no need, Mrs.
Manning said, to go over the ground
in detail as an exact statement of the
changes had been written by Miss
Carey for the College News.
The new rulings constitute a real
break in "the historical tradition. Since
Bryn Mawr opened, the five-hour
block has been kept to. But the idea
was gradually abandoned under the
pressure of students desiring to take
shorter courses. The first break came
when three-hour courses were insti-
tuted. � The five-hour block divided
the student's time neatly into three
parts. The student studied in three
subjects at the disposal of three de-
partments. Many people objected to
the five lectures in one course a week,
and as a result the departments broke
up the work into two and three courses
instead of one in five hours.    Students
Continued   ��    Pag*   Severn
I
you were to die- tomorrow." is artifi-
cial, but living in the surface of the
stream we have lost this foreshorten-
ing and insight, the realization that
each moment supremely counts in
writing the destiny of the universe.
Jesus took life so seriously, and with
such a sense of its possibilities for
Himself and for all those with whom
He came in contact, that His message
quickened. in worthless lives a respect
for life. Not satisfied with the sur-
face dictates which urged tfre expe-
diency of escape. He plunged in
deeper and let the deeper will, the
sense of the eternal, take coirimahd.
"Not my will, the surface will look-
ing exclusively toward consequences,
but the deep dictates of the divine will
Continued   en    Pace   Seven
Announcement Made
of Faculty Changes
Professors   Donnelly,   Tennent,
and Hart Granted Leave
of Absence.
SIX NEW APPOINTMENTS
A number of" changes are 'to be
made in the Faculty for next year.
Professors Donnelly, Tennent and Hart
have been granted leave of absence.
The following members of the Faculty
are not returning: Professor Fieser,
Ernst Diez, Billings and Schrader, Dr.
Dulles, Dr. Merlino and Dr. Holland.
In the absence of Miss Donnelly
and Dr. Tennent. a number of adjust-
ments will be made in the English and
Biology departments. In Advanced
English (the present Second Year
English). Professor Chew will give
the Elizabethan Drama (three hours a
week), and Dr. Enid Glen will offer
the Seventeenth Century (two hours a
Continued oa  Pace Sis
The New Board
The News announces the fol-
lowing elections and changes in
its Board:
Editor-in-Chief � Lucy San-
born-, '32.
Business Manager � Dorothy
Asher, '31.
Copy Editor�Virginia Shryock,
'31.
Subscription Manager � Mary
Frothingham,   '31.
Editors�Rose Hatfield, '32,
Dorothea.Perkins, '32.
Librarian�Celeste   Page,   '30.
Miss Betty Kindelberger, '33,
has been elected to fill the place
left vacant by the resignation of
Miss Hobart.
Princeton and Bryn Mawr PlayersReach
High Water Mark of Histrionic Skill
ETHEL CHOUTEAU DYER, '31
Medieval Ideas on
Women Formulated
Miss Power Explains Theories of
Pit and Pedestal in
_____Early Church.      ...... -
CULT OF LADY*STFRESSED
The .saying that the position of the
women in any age is the test by which
the civilization of that age may be
judged is a difficult one to apply since
women's position is nevertheless the
same in theory, under law. and prac-
tically. The most important factor
is to consider the prevalent theory
about women, and in the Middle Ages
this means the masculine ideas about
them. Miss Eileen Power, who gave
the Mallory Whiting "Webster Memo-
rial lecture in History last Monday,
is especially qualified to speak on the
subject, of Medieval- Ideas about
Women since she is visiting lecturer
in History at Barnard College and has
written a book on medieval women in
nunneries.
The question of who formulated the
characteristic medieval ideas is impor-
tant. They were the results^ of the
theories of the articulate minority,
the church and the aristocracy. The
clexkjy order was celibate and had an
escetic inheritance, the aristocrats be-
longed to a narrow cast holding
woman as an ornamental asset sub-
ordinate to . the land. In marriage
women were in subjection to men and
were not complete individuals but only
members of a sex. There was also the
counter doctrine of the superiority of
womeii,   the   cult   of   the   Virgin   in
Coatlaaed on Pace Eight
Lecture to Celebrate
Vergil Bi-Millennium
The fifteenth of October. 1930. will
be the two thousandth anniversary of
the birth of Vergil. For the past year
or more committees ajl over the coun-
try have been arranging for celebra-
tions of the great event. Schools and
colleges have been asked to put all
the - emphasis possible on his works.
As a result many schools have given
some sort of performance in his hon-
our. The play of "Dido and Aeneas"
which the Shipley School gave a few
weeks ago was only one instance of
many. Perhaps it is easier to rouse
an interest for such things in a school
than in a college. For one thing one
is nearer to the idea of Vergil there
than one is once the college entrance
exams are past. It is also easier to
stir a small class to th� pitch of. en-
thusiasm where they will be willing
to give a play or hold any sort of
celebration than it is in a community
where   every   one   is   busy   about   her
Coatlaaed �� Paca Tn
Parts in 'The Constant Nymph'
Well Cast and Acted With
Competent Ease.
SETS     WELL      DESIGNED
(Specially contributed by Dr. Stephen
J. Herben.)        _
Those who saw the performance of
the Vanity Players and the Theatre
Intime in "The Admirable Crichton"
were virtually unanimous in their opin-
ion that, given a "medium that was
worthy of the efforts of the combined
companies, there might sometime be
a production which would satisfy the
most fastidious. Every promise- was
given in the first, and necessarily ex-
perimental collaboration, of much
greater things to come, were the at-
tempt repeated in another year. How-
ever, there were some misgivings and
a good deal of surprise when it was
announced that the vehicle this year
would be "The Constant N'ymph." It
was,certainly an ambitious undertak-
ing; twenty-three parts to be mas-
tered, rehearsals few of necessity and
the Princeton group engaged with the
production of Othello. There were,
moreover, four sets to be constructed,
one of them of the most complicated
order. How well justified was this '
ambition on the part of the produc- �
ers was demonstrated on Saturday
night when the audience sat ' silent *
after the final curtain Reserving their
applause 'until the house-lights went
up and b/oke the spell which held them
fast.
It was a beautiful performance. One
wondered just how it could have been
brought about, considering how little
opportunity there had been for the
cast to rehearse together. But the
production should not be judged with
the mental reservations that it was an
amateur company working under dif-
ficulties: no such special considera-
tion is necessary. From any critical
standards but one decision can be
reached, that it was a splendid accom-
plishment and a credit to everyone
who took part in it.
It is the pleasant but difficult duty
of the reviewer to express apprecia-
tion of the competent playing of the
cast.    The  parts were  numerous and
Coatlaaed  on   Pace Viva
National Characteristics
Hamper Naval Conference
On Thursday morning, April 10. Dr.
Gray, of the History Department,
spoke in Chapel on the London Naval
Confyence. His talk included the
reasons for the failure of the Confer-
ence-with regard to the question of a
five-power treaty, why the three-
power treaty resulted instead, and the
extentto which this treaty will be of
importance and value.
"It was-a foregone conclusion." be-
gan Dc. Gray, "that if there was a
three-power treaty there would not be
a tag to it. That was the drawback
to a three-power conference. Here I
will indulge a little in generalities,
which I' distrust always; but here is
one for what it is worth: ever since
the war there has been disturbance of
European affairs turning upon three
characteristics of three different na-
tions."
The first of these characteristics. Dr.
Gray Continued, made itself felt at
once after the war and was especially
in evidence at this conference�French
timSurousness. Another national char-
acteristic is our own. and the most
kindly expression for it is perhaps "the
Contiaaed oa Paso Two
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k  lication Office, on Thursday morn-
ing, April 17, for the cast, and on
Friday morning, April  18, for the
rest of the college.
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