College News, 1930-10-15, Vol. 17, No. 02

              College, News
VOL. XVII, NO. 2
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDJ^SDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930
PRICE.   10 CENTS
Lantern Night Songs
Again Fill Cloisters
Hymns and Moonlight Combine
Harmoniously at Annual
Ceremony.
CHARM PROVES LASTING
Lantern Night was held in the Clois-
ters l-'riday cvcnin<i.  October  10.
The many years ' of slow evolution
behind our Lantern N'ight have given
to it a depth of feeling and a harmorty
that. make of it not only a living but
a serious tradition and a rare exper-
ience for us today. We are so used to
being amused by the thing called Col-
lege Spirit that it is rather startling
to have to acknowledge something be-
side an aesthetic quality in Lantern
Night.
Lantern Night is not a subject for
yearly dissection. Its hold upon us
lies in no tangible feature of its rites
but in the mood it creates; we did not
go to the cloisters last Friday night
to examine the vocal abilities of the
class of '34. The several aspects of
Lantern Night are quite submerged in
the tradition as a whole.
To look for flaws would inevitably
disrupt (Tie mood which the strange
black semicircle of figures in the dark-
ness of the cloisters is bound to sug-
gest. Yet, on the other hand, any real
incongruities in arrangement would
most certainly detract from the atmos-
phere. But'the two classes are always
so carefully initiated into the ceremony
that blunders- due to carelessness are
virtually eliminated. If the Sopho-
mores, as it happened this year, were
at first unable to co-ordinate the sing-
ing in the two separate aisles, the fault
was hardly disturbing. That the
Freshman hymn seemed richer in in-
terpretation than "Pallas" does not
concern us any more than the fact that
the rendering of the former was at the
very last rather inartistic.
No more need be said than that
Lantern Night has again given us the
experience of its peculiar and lasting
charm.
President Park Explains
Scope of Chapel Services
President Park was the speaker at
a general chapel held in Goodhart
Auditorium Thursday morning. Oc-
tober 9. She spoke of the nature of
the chapel services in this coming year
and in past years, urging students to
make attendance at chapel a habit.
Chapel consisted, originally, of a fif-
teen-minute devotional Quaker meet-
ing held on the second floor of Taylor
Hall. It was and has always been, in
accordance with Quaker principles, an
entirely voluntary service.
In President Thomas' time the
scope of the talks was enlarged; where
there had been only impromptu pray-
ers, everything came to be discussed
from politics and education to '""tin
cans on campus."
Music was introduced into the serv-
ice one fervid Election Day morning
in President Park's time by the spon-
taneous singing' of "My Country, 'Tis
of Thee." Ever since that dramatic
morning hymn- have been sung and.
now, occasionally, Mr. Willoughby
arranges  an   entirely   musical   service.
At other times we have the oppor-
tunity of hearing  various members of
the faculty speak on their own or on
other subject.-. "Dean Manning and
I." President Park added, "like the op-
portunity Of airing our own views and
judgments." The chapel meeting
gives us an excellent, almost indis-
pensable chance to discuss interesting
and educational matters; it is in fact
a  ioriim  for  us  all.
Rennie Smith Analyzes
British Labor Policy
A large number of students crowded
the lecture room of Wyndham last night
to hear Mr. Rennie Smith, M.P. and
Private Secretary to the Under Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs, speak inform-
ally on the subject "Can a Labor Gov-
ernment Splve Britain's Economic
Problem?" Mr. Smith's answer was a
hopeful "yes." He began his speech
by candidly admitting that the Labor
Party has not done all it hoped to do
when it first came into power- eighteen
months ago; in fact, two million
workers are unemployed where only
one was unemployed before. This sit-
uation of unemployment has been
cljronic these last ten years with al-
ways one million and sometimes two
and a half millions of men out of work.
Men are beginning to realize that
this is a new condition in history, not
merely post-war deflation or part of
the industrial trade cycle. A need is
felt for new remedies to cure the physi-
cal, mental and moral evils of unem-
ployment.
Just how similar conditions are in
the United States we cannot say be-
cause of the American optimistic dis-
missal of the unpleasant. In any case
the building of public works in both
countries has been extended and that
of private   works  encouraged.
Although the Labor government
feels strongly the need for co-operation
in private industry, it is in no position
to apply its collective principles. The
largest party in the state, it still, by
no means, contains a majority of the
members of the House. Commission-
ers of Inquiry have been appointed,
however, who, after scientific study,
have strongly advocated national or-
ganization of industry to permit na-
tional planning.
It may be argued that such organi-
zation or rationalization of industry
can only aggravate the situation by
creating fresh fechnilogical unemploy-
ment. This will unquestionably be
its first effect but the subsequent in-
crease in sales and in new popular
wants should more than offset this
temporary disadvantage.
With increased production a better
technique of consumption must be de-
veloped. Enlarging home markets by
increasing wages, shortening the work-
ing day and week, and giving purchas-
ing power to impoverished widows are
some national ways of balancing this
greater productive power.
Leisure is only unemployment plus a
feeling of security. If-there is not
enough work for everyone all the time,
the spare time should be divided into
vacation times with pay. Month holi-
days, old-age, even middle-age. pen-
sions should be the rule and the age
of beginning work should be post-
poned.
Just as it will pay to level up living
conditions at home it is only the part
of self-interest to want through the
League of Nations to level them
abroad where British have lost trade
to people of longer hours, child labor
and poorer pay. Some British econo-
mists have suggested, as another aid
to trade, a high-tariff wall around the
British Commonwealth of Nations in
opposition to those of the United
States and Europe. Better is the abo-
lition of all tariffs, for Britain is eco-
nomically an  international  unit.
It is for this reason that Russia
should be recognized even if not ap-
proved, as well as for the purpose of
mutual  understanding to prevent war.
It  was  discovered  in   1QU  that   lialanrq
Elizabeth Baer, '31
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Baer, Kirk and Mongan
Elected Senior Officers
English Singers to'Open
Music Department Concerts
Elizabeth Baer. Barbara Kirk, and
Elizabeth Mongan have been elected
officers of the Senior Class for the
coming year.
During her Freshman year Miss
Baer was Vice President of her class
and a.member of the. Self-Government
Board. She played on Varsity basket-
ball and class basketball, water polo,
hockey,   swimming,   and-tennis.
of power cannot prevent war. In this
modern society isolation has been
found equally impossible. It is to that
co-operative society of countries, the
League of Nations, that we must look
for economic co-operation. It is to
Premier MacDonald that much of the
credit must be given for the support of
the League.________________
was president of- her class in her
Sophomore year. During 1929-30 Miss
Baer was Junior member of Self-
Government, Manager of Varsity
hockey. Captain of Varsity basketball,
and a member of the Second Varsity
hockey team. For the present year she
is Vice President of Self-Government
and Captain of Varsity hockey and
Varsity basketball, as well as Presi-
dent of her class.
Miss Mongart, Vice President of the
class, is also Senior member of Sclf-
Government.
Miss Kirk was C'ass Secretary in
1930. President of the Art Club in
1929-30, and Chairman of the Sopho-
more-Freshman  Reception in   1928-29.
Varsity Defeated in
Season's First Game
Lack of Co-ordination in Forward
Line Offset by Slow Game
of Yellows.
DEFENSIVE  WORK   GOOD
Before a very small gathering of on-
lookers, the Varsity went forth
against the Philadelphia Cricket Club
Yellows for its first game and returned
with a 4-1 defeat. The fact that we
did not receive a bad beating was due
more to the slow play of the Yellows
than to Varsity's good playing.
Our forward line showed a great
lack of unity which may be partly ex-
cused by lack of practice.
On numerous occasions one person
or another would carry the ball clown
to the striking circle from which posi-
tion she was utterly incapable of cither
carrying it in alone or passing it along.
Unfortunately Allen did not show up
as well as had been expected, but she
still looked like the best of the forward
line material.
During the first half the Yellows
kept the ball down in the Bryn Mawr
defensive zone a large part of the time.
As a result the score at half time was
3-0 in their favor. In this period the
brunt of the work was borne mostly
by the backs. Collins, filling in at full,
made several good plays which helped
keep   the   ball   away   from   the   goal.
Rothermel and Collier were relentless
in their efforts to stop the Yellows.
Collier was the only Varsity player
who really covered her opponent and
it was undoubtedly her playing which
kept Philadelphia from rolling up a
much greater score. Her passing was
more diversified   and   it   was   only   to-
Contiaard  oa  PWca Threa
The Music Department of Bryn
Mawr College takes pleasure in an-
nouncing its series of concerts for the
season 1930-1931. � The scries will con-
sist of four concerts of a very varied
character, the programs ranging from
Elizabethan  Music to the present day.
Wednesday, October 29, 1930, at
8:20 o'clock^ "The English Singers"
of London: Flora Maim, Nellie Carson,
Lilian Bcrger, Norman Stone, Norman
Notley, Cuthbert Kelly.
The Fnglish Singers have made un-
preccdentedly successful tours in Ger-
many, Holland. Austria, Czccho-Slo-
yakia and the United States and Cana-
da, besides their native country, and
this season are booked to give fifty-
concerts in China, Japan, the East In-
dies, Ceylon, Burma, India and Kgypt.
Their programs are made up of Mo-
tets, Madrigals, Ballets, Canzonets
from the Golden Age of Elizabethan
poetry and music and Folksongs ar-
ranged by such consummate adapters
as Vaughan Williams. The Singers,
seated around a table, follow the tradi-
tional custom of Elizabethan times,
when part-singing was a genial after-
dinner rite. Mr. Olin Downes . irt
the New York Times said: "A Concert
by the English Singers is for a listener
a unique and unforgettable experience,
a contact with beauty that is rare and
M. Paul Hazard Begins
French Poetry Series
Flexner   Lecturer   Shows   How
Classicism Hampered Rise
of French Poetry.
HUGO RECREATES VERSE
**"* haunting in interpretation, that in
their particular kind arc unparalleled
on the American concert stage." This
rich collecion of Elizabethan musical
literature has but lately been made
available through the researches of
Canon Edmund Fellowcs of St.
George's Chapel, Windsor.
Thursday, December 4, 1930. at
8:20 o'clock�The Philadelphia Cham-
ber String Simfoiiietta, conducted by
Fabien Sevitzky, and Madame Maria
Koussevitzky, Soprano; Horace AI-
wyne.  Pianist.
The change in date, from December X
to December 4, should be noted-
Owing to the very marked success
of this organization at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege during the season just concluded
the College feels that its re-engage-
ment for the coining season will be a
source of pleasure to the subscribers
to this series. The appearance last sea-
son of two of the Bryn Mawr^tudenis
as co-irttsta with the Simfoiiietta has
helped to create a very delightful feel-
ing of artistic relationship between the
College and this unique ensemble com-
bination. Composed of.eighteen mem-
bers of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the
Simfoiiietta was founded in 1925. by
Pabien Sevitzky who is its conductor.
Mr. Sevitzky has brought his organiza-
tion to a high pitch of artistic excel-
lence and is doing a great service to
the cause of music by presenting to the
public much of the beautiful literature
for"* String Orchestra -which would
otherwise remain unheard, as well as
the more familiar classical masterpieces
written for this group of instrument.
Before coming to the United States
Madame Koussevitzky was one of the
principal soloists in the State Opera
in Warsaw, the Russian State Open in
Baku and the Opera in Mexico City.
Besides giving many recitals she ha>
appeared as soloist with the Warsaw
Philharmonic, and in the United States
with the New York Philharmonic, the
Boston Symphony and Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra, and with the League
of Composers in New York. Madame
Koussevitzky will sing a group of
SOIIgl by Max Mayer, who is recog-
nized by European critics as one of the
greatest song-writers <>f the present
day. These songs of his Master have
been specially arranged with string ac-
companiment by Horace Alwyne for
Madame  Koussevitzky  and  the  Sim-
Vonietta.
Horace Aluyne, Directyt�-oi the De-
partment of Music of Bryn Mawr ( ol-
lege. studied under Max Mayer in Eng-
land and Michael von Zadora in Ber-
lin. A graduate with distinction and
Gold Medallist of the Royal llinche**
ter Cpllege of Music, he has appeared
l'a�a Faar
t Specially  contributed   by   I..  Mandcll,
and I:. l:redericL-, holders of the Hazard
Scholarships.)
The third of the Mary Flexner Foun-
dation lecturers, M. Paul Hazard, began
his series of lectures on "La Poesie Fran-
caise de 1815-1914" Tuesday, October 7,
at 8:30 P. M. in the gymnasium.
M. Hazard opened his lecture by re-
calling that although many efforts had
been made to revive poetry iu France
during the second half of the eighteenth
century, by 1815 poetry was no longer
alive. However, in the eighteenth cen-
tury there had been Rousseau, who, al-
though he wrote in prose, created a
rhythm closely allied to that of true
poetry. He invested with this new
rhythm the lyrics themes of nature, love
and God. Chateaubriand, also, attempted
to recreate poetry. M. Hazard charac-
terized the Memoires d'OuIre Tombe as
"une vaste symphonie avec des orchestra-
tions infinies." These attempts, however
beautiful, were abortive, for, as M. Haz-
ard pointed out, poetry is the result of
continued effort, without which true
poetry could not establish itself at this
time. M. Hazard advanced as reasons
for the sterility of French poetry (1) the
naturally analytical French mind of
which Voltaire is the epitome, (2) the
psychological attitude which considered
poetry a literary form rather than a per-
sonal expression, (3) the rigid adher-
ence to the French classical rules which,
under the influence of a too perfect
modef, destroyed all feeling for poetry
as an art, (4) the historical environment
which demanded stultified occasional
poetry.
The second part of M. Hazard's lec-
ture described the renascence of � French
poetry toward 1820 with the appearance
of Lamartinc who also struggled with
the pseudo-classical rules prevalent dur-
ing his youth. With the awakening of
genuine emotion in the soul of Lamar-
tine, there was a subsequent awakening
of French poetry. In the expression of
his personal feelings he embodied the as-
pirations of the French pubjic of his time.
This is evidenced by the amazing popu-
larity of- his Meditations Poetiques"
(1820).             ^
To these new lyric utterances was
added a new literary technique, with the
appearance in 1822 of the first works of
Victor Hugo, l.r.s Odes et PotSttt Di-
verses. In his Odes it RattaileTTlXZd)
he takes the French verse, changes it,
breaks it up, separates it from mere me-
chanical rime, and moulds it with re-
markable dexterity; in short, he recreates
French verse. In spite of the remnants
of the classical vocabulary still to be
found in Hugo's early work, a powerful
lyricism pervades the whole. With the
fuller development of Hugo's talent,
1828-1829, French p.>ctry has not only
been resuscitated hut has already become
vigorous.
League Pledges
The Bryn Mawr League would like
to call to the attention of its members
the fact that during the coming week
pledge cards will be distributed. The
average amount subscribed is usually
about eight dollars per person, but
those who can give more are urged to
do so, as there are some who cannot
afford this sum. The amount pledged
may be paid at any time during the
year, or may be divided into install-
ments to be paid on each Pay Day.
Th� T_�agi^ ?Ti>� f� contribution*
of money at this time only during the
year, and for this reason it hopes that
its members will be as generous as
possible. The League depends on
these subscriptions for all its work,
including its contributions to Bates
House and to all other organizations in
which Bryn Mawr has a particular in-
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