College News, 1931-04-22, Vol. 17, No. 19

              The College News
Vol. XVII, No. 19
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA� WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22,  1931
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Price: 10 Cent*
Excavations in Asia
Minor Are Described
Orientalist   Shows  Moving and
Stereopticon Pictures of
Anatolia.
LOCATE NOMAD REMAINS
M. Carey Thomas Award
to Go to Jane Addams
On Tuesday, April 14, 1931, Dr. Von
der Osten, of the Oriental Institute,
explorer and excavator, spoke in Good-
hart Hall on the subject of* the. exca-
vations in Hittite, Asia Minor, in which
he has collaborated during the past
four or five years. The greater part
of the lecture was accompanied by
moving pictures of the archaeologist's
camp, of their finds and, principally, of
the excavating and excavations them-
selves. In introduction, a chart giving
the age and depth of the settlements
uncovered was shown. At the close,
stereopticon pictures of typical exam-
ples of pottery of neolithic to modern
times were thrown on the screen.
Dr. Von der Osten, who is German,
spoke in English very well but with
some accent and slowly (especially dur-
ing the not infrequent pauses resulting
�from trouble with the stereopticon and
moving pictures).
Asia Minor, Dr. Von der Osten
began by explaining, is a bridge con-
necting the Mediterranean with the
Far East. Through it many people
have come from the North traveling
eastwards. All of them have left re-
mains. Mounds of the deposits of
many settlements are to be found. In
these mounds years are measured by
fractions of inches.
The mounds which Dr. Von der
Osten excavated are in Anatolia., The
remains of the most recent settlements,
modern Armenian, Turkish, Seljuk,
Byzantine and Roman, are easily dis-
tinguished. The remains just below
these (200-700 B. C.) are of settlements
on three different sites. This compli-
cates considerably the ascertaining of
dates. Constant checking and re-
checking of specimens from different
parts of the excavations is necessary.
The specimens consist mostly of pot-
tery, although a few pieces of jewelry
and some neolithic wooden implements
have been found. Common examples
of pottery are the big jars in which
the dead were put for burial. In order
that all pottery may be ascribed to its
proper period the excavations are kept
very neat. At the end of each day's
work every fragment is removed to
leave the field clear for the next day's
work. From fragments, with infinite
patience, original vessels are recon-
structed. The Turkish government has
allowed the expedition a very fair share
of its finds.
The remains of from 1600-1200 B. C.
are those of the New Hittite Empire.
These are the earliest Iron Age re-
mains.    Below them lie what is left of
Continued on  Pago Foiir
In 1922 the Alumnae Association of
Bryn Mawr College raised $25,000 in
honor of President M. Carey Thomas.
This sum was to be held in trust and
the interest was to be awarded at in-
tervals as a prize of $5000 to an Ameri-
can woman who "has achieved emi-
nently" and who "has opened the way
to a fuller life for all women."
The prize was first awarded in June,
1922, to M. Carey Thomas, Ph.D.,
LL.D., L.H.D., Dean of Bryn Mawr
College from 1884 to 1894 and' Presi-
dent from 1894 until her retirement in
1922.
This year the prize is being awarded
for the second time to Jane Addams.
Miss Addams lived and went to college
in the Middle West. She began work-
ing among the poor of Chicago and
with a small house started the settle-
ment that has since grown to be Hull
House. She formed bonds not only
with the people for whom she was
working, but also with the most in-
teresting people in Chicago. She
underwrote, at great cost to herself,
women's ideas on_ji�ac� and democ-
racy in days when the holding of such
ideas caused an unpleasantness which
it took courage to face.
On the committee in charge of the
award are: Miss Cecilia Beaux,'Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Rosamund
Gilder, Mrs. C. Townsend Ludington,
Miss M. Carey Thomas, Mrs. Thomas
Raeburn White, Mrs. Edmund Beecher
Wilson and the Chairman, Miss Marion
Edwards Park. The prize is to be
presented   to   Miss  Addams on  Satur-
Contlnued on  Face Five
Calendar
Wednesday, April 22: Halide
E d i b, Turkey's foremost
woman, speaks in Goodhart
Auditorium on "Turkey Faces
West."
Friday, April 24: Professor Paul
Shorey will speak on Lucian in
Taylor Hall at 12 o'clock.
Saturday, April 25: Liberal Club
Conference on "The Economic
Status of Negroes." Begins at
10 A. M.
Tea dance in Pembroke dining
room.
"The_ Enchanted  April,"   pro-
duced by Varsity and Haver-
ford players.
Monday, April 27: Dr. Winifred
Cullis, President of the Inter-
national Federation of Univer-
sity Women, will lecture in
Goodhart Auditorium under
the   auspices   of   the   Science
Churchill Comments
on World Peace
Conservative's Son Thinks Wo-
man    Politically    Incompe-
tent�Charm Her Power.
Twelfth Night,' a Poor
Choice, Not Popular
Simplicity   of   Scenery   Focuses
Attention on Lines Weil-
Spoken by Cast.
SHOW     IS    AMATEURISH
Sir Philip Ben Greet's theory that
"the stage should stimulate and in-
spire rather than relieve the imagina-
tion" has been a password to his many
successful performances of Shakespeare
in England and America. Whether the
average Bryn Mawr student's imagi-
nation is incapable of stimulation or
whether we all look for relief on the
stage late Friday night is a question,
but certainly "Twelfth Night" did not
meet with the enthusiasm which Sir
Philip's productions are wont to in-
spire.
One set of drapes, several arrange-
ments of a few simple benches and .a
table sufficed for the scenery through-
out the play, which enabled the audi-
ences to give its entire attention to the
lines. The strongest side of the Ben
Greet players was their extraordinary
ability in the art of speaking. Their
diction and inflection was such as to
satisfy the most exacting taste.
There really was no exception to the
proficiency in the art of speaking in
the Ben Greet players, and, as is true
of most English companies, the minor
supporting parts were admirably taken.
For that matter the principal roles
were exceedingly well enacted with one
exception. Unfortunately the unosten-
tatious scenery threw so much respon-
sibility on the players that there was
bound to be a disclosure of the weak
spot in the cast. Still more unfortu-
nately, this weakness was concentrated
in one of the leads, in whom any slight
departure .from grace seemed grotesque,
�>�
and whom we hope was merely poor'
cast. Sir Philip gave an interpretation
of the self-loving Malvolio which only
a true actor and an authority on Eliza-
bethaifDrama could give. Sir Toby
and Sir Andrew were admirably done
in truly Shakespearian manner. Miss
Enid Clark as Olivia supplied any
decorativeness which the scenery may
Continued on I'age  Three
B. M. Sends Delegate
* to Barnard Meeting
Last week-end, April 18 and 19, rep-
resentatives from the undergraduate
bodies of Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount
Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith. Vassar and
Wellesley gathered in New York at the
invitation of Barnard to discuss how
undergraduates might further the work
of the Alumnae, Committee of Seven
Colleges. Miss Mildred Akin, from
Vassar, attended; Miss Helen Bell and
Miss Harriet Moore, from Bryn Mawr;
Miss Frances Freeman and Miss Aimee
Bouneuf, from Radcliffe: Miss Eleanor
Best and Miss Helen Gunner, from
Wellesley; Miss Elizabeth "Alkire and
Miss Louise Wilde, from Mount Hol-
yoke; Miss Lorna Macdonnell and
Miss Carolyn Sherwood, from Smith,
and the Undergraduate Officers from
Barnard.
On Saturday noon the Barnard
trustees, the undergraduate delegates,
and the members of the Alumnae Com-
mittee were entertained at luncheon at
Barnard. In the afternoon all attended
Greek games, the classic festival Bar-
iard presents every spring, and fol-
lowing that, a formal tea was .held in
the College Parlour, Barnard Hall, at
which Mrs. William Franklin Eastman,
Chairman of the Committee, talked to
the girls on bow they might help the
cause for which the committee was
founded.    Mrs.  Eastman is an alumna
Bryn Mawr Engages
Haverford in Debate
Poised    Delivery    and    Humor
Mark Amicable Combat Over
Woman's Emancipation.
SPEAKING   IS   INFORMAL
VIEWS
IMPERIALISTIC
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Randolph Churchill, son of Winston
Churchill, the former Chancellor of
the Exchequer of England, told his
opinion on the British Empire and
World Peace, Monday evening, April
13, at the Library in Bryn Mawr. He
is nineteen years old, fair-haired with
blue eyes, and spoke with the colorful
rhetoric and manners of his father.
Using picturesque phrases and apt
American slang from start to finish his
reasoning followed the Churchill im-
perialist lines. As a Conservative his
speech was filled with invectives
against the present ruling powers with
slashing criticism of disarmament and
"that sort of thing." His strongest
point was the necessity of navies in
order to defend ourselves and maintain
world peace in the future as we have
certainly done many times in the past.
When' he was asked what place
women had in politics, his answer was,
"They have yet to prove their com-
petence. Joan- of Arc was the only
woman who ever proved herself
capable of leading men, and she was a
fanatic. A woman's influence is in-
direct. As soon as she loses her charm
by an attempt to become /nasculine,
she loses her power."         /
Mr. Churchill has been'�in America
for   nine   months   and   has   found   the
Continued   �n PliRe   Four
of Radcliffe.
"In all the work the Alumnae Com-
mittee has planned," Mrs. Eastman
said, "no part of it has yet related to
the student body in the colleges. This
committee was founded by the presi-
dents to bring the attention of the pub-
lic to the needs and achievements of
the women's colleges in or^ler that
more generous endowment might flow
from that, public into the coffers of the
women's colleges. Alumnae have an
important place in this appeal, for our
presidents have said that if only 'every
graduate would remember, when she
makes her will, that she is a graduate,
her alma mater would eventually have
plenty of money. The place to begin
this remembering is in college, at least
this is the time to grow conscious of
what one's college contributes to one's
enjoyment of the whole of life. Al-
most every one knows that no student
pays in full for her edu<a1ioiTr~Th><vcn-
dowments are essential to a collegCo
the first rank. You girls can talk about
this, can instill into Your friends that
they and you have a happy obligation
to your alma mater, and that you may
sometime be in b position to discharge
this obligation in Substantial terms.
The.n when you are graduated, if you
have really talked about it. .enough, if
you have considered it soberly, then
you will not forget it. One day when
the opportunity comes to you to influ-
' Continued   on   I'ajf   Five
Undergrad Bodies Announce Elections of
Field, Moore, Milliken, Lloyd-Jones, Meneely
Marjorie Field, '32, lias been re-elected president of the Bryn
Mawr League for the year 1931-32.    Miss Field went to Night-
ingale School in New York City and has been tennis manager and
-president of the Bryu Mawr League this year.
Harriet Moore, '32. was unanimously elected president of the
Undergraduate Association for next year. Miss Moore graduated^.
from the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka. Illinois.
Her sophomore year at Bryn Matvr she was treasurer of the Self-
Government Association and this year she is president of the junior
class, captain of both the basketliall and hockey teams, and vice-
president of the Undergraduate Association.
Ruth Milliken, '32, was elected vice-president of the Under-
graduate Association for 1931-32. She comes from NoithDigh-
ton, Massachusetts, and went to the House in the Pines School.
Her sophomore year at Bryn Mawr she was treasurer of the Under-
graduate Association, and this year she has been secretary.
The Self-Government Association has elected for next year
retard�Miss Lloyd-Jones grad-
Caroline Lluyd-Juiics, '33. for seen
uated from Wisconsin High School in Madison, Wisconsin. She
is in the Glee Club and the choir and this year was on the varsity
basketball squad and acted in the French Club play.
Louise Meneely, '34, has been chosen treasurer of the Self-
Government Association for next year. She comes from Troy,
New York," and went to the Ethel Walker School in Simmsbury,
Connecticut. She is in the choir and the Glee Club and was business
manager of the Freshman Show.
On Thursday, ApTil 16, 1931. Bryn
Mawr began her maiden voyage (as
far as we know) on the seas of debat-
ing. Two members of Mr. McKean's
class in Public Speaking and Debate
faced an equal number of opponents
from Haverford College across the
platform of none other than our own
dear Room F in Taylor. But if the
battlefield was worthy the marshalling
of such a splendid army, the cause was
even more so, for, by concerning the
position of women today, it touched
vitally upon the question of college (in
which we are, or have been at some
time, interested). And that, gentle
readers, was what started it all, and
brought peace-loving Miss Clews and
Mi-s Peterson out of their lairs to
bristle at Mr. Grasimer and Mr. Rudge.
N'ot that Miss Clews and Miss Peter-
son bristled. Oh, no, we would not
hare you think that*--' Rather, Miss -
Clews and Miss Peterson purred, per-
haps, .because of their size, possibly in-
imitarton of a war-horse's battle snort.
And their opponents purred back.
Even-the audience, gathered in antici-
pation of amicable combat, joined in
the good, clean purr. When all the
purring was over, Mr. McKean an-
nounced the subject. Resolved: that
the emergence of woman from the
home is a depressing feature of mod-
ern life. Bryn Mawr, he said, would
take the negative. But that, of course,
was to be expected. Miss Clews and
Miss Peterson both being true daugh-
ters of their Alma Mafer. There
seemed, however, to have been a slight
mistake as to the subject, as Mr.
Grasimer observed upon commencing
fire. We thought at first that he must
be referring to the fact that he and his
colleague had also taken the wrong
side, for he began with an approval of
woman's emergence from the home.
We soon discovered, however, that it
was all a snare and a delusion, a sub-
jeyice to entrap the young. For
when/Jfr. Grasimer thought he)>hnd
gone far enough into the negative, he
began to recede like a crab, and hav-
ing retraced his steps to the zero point,
then went on into the affirmative side, '
thus covering a lot of ground, and most
of it-hit opponents'. In other words,
after admitting the value, and in some
cases even the necessity. Of woman's
emergence from the home into artis-
tic and commercial fields, Mr. Grasi-
mer, and later Mr. Rudge, went on to
say that woman's influence exerted
from the home was an even greater
one. We could not make out exactly
how this was; we caught the words
philosophic and social, and, surpris-
ingly enough, something about the
sanctity of motherhood. But per-
haps we are prejudiced. At any rate,
both gentlemen made their subject
matter as painless as possible; their
delivery, poised but natural was really
quite superb, and was in perfect ac-
with the informality and
humor of the ipeeche*. The illustra-.
tion-. whether original or not. were
made exceptionally amusing. For ex-
ample, the story of the neglected little
Reflection ot the Nurse's Training, who
Contlnurd   on   Tuge   Five
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Reserve Book Room Saturday
evening arc to be returned Sun-
day at 2 P. M. if previously re-
served. If hoi reserved they will
be due Monday morning at 8:30.
LOIS A. READ.