College News, 1933-01-11, Vol. 19, No. 09

              The College News
VOL. XIX, No. 9
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933
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Varsity Swimmers
Hold First Practice
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Successful     Season     Predicted
With Many Former Members
Back This Year
MISS   BRADY   IS   COACH
'The first regular practice of the
Varsity swimming squad was held on
Monday, and although it is very early
in the season to make predictions, we
are tempted to prophesy a successful
season for the team. A large propor-
tion of last year's squad returned this
year and there is excellent material in
the Freshman class from which Miss
Brady should be able to develop some
�excellent performers. Also, a great
cau.e for general rejoicing is to be
found in the removal of the beam
from over the diving board. For
years this beam has glowered down
upon divers, limiting the height of
dives and doing untold damage to the
general morale. The college has re-
moved it and the opportunities for
improved diving are unlimited.
The only outside meet scheduled is
with Swarthmore on March 17, and
the team will point for that under the
coaching of Miss Brady, assisted by
Captain Jo Bronson and Susan Dan-
iels, manager. Although it is dan-
gerous to count on individuals so
early in the season and on the basis
of so few practices, it is possible to
form a tentative idea of the strength
in the various departments.
Frances Messimer is the greatest
loss suffered by the team over the
summer, but the threatened with-
drawal of Marion Mitchell, high scor-
er in last year's meet with Swarth-
m<J*e, will be a far heavier blow. Miss
Mitchell is at present convalescing
from an attack of pneumonia, and
the possibilities of her swimming this
year are very remote.
The 40-yard dash material is com-
posed almost entirely of Freshmen,
with Wylie, VanVechten, Stokes and
Porcher representing the class of '36.
Goldwasser, '34, has shown notable
Improvement in this event.
In the 80-yard dash there is Dan-
jpls, who placed second against
;Swarthmore, and Bronson, who took
third. In this event VanVechten and
\\'ylie are also showing up well.
In the 40-yard back stroke the best
performances so far have been turn-
ed in by Porcher, '36, while Jarrett
would be a definite contender with
more practice.
Waldenmeyer, '35, who took first
plat:? in the Swarthmore meet, is the
leading candidate in the 40-yard
breast stroke. Torrance, '33, who
placed third, is also back.
In the medley relay there are no
definite stars at any style, but several
people are well qualified in more than
fine stroke. C. Stone, '36, does both
the crawl and side stroke, and Hemp-
hill, '35, is reliable in both trudgeon
and side stroke. M. Righter, '34, was
� member of the squad who showed
up well in the trudgeon last year,
but as yet she has not attended a
practice this season. Other candidates
for places in the medley are Bill, '35;
Bridgeman, '36; Taylor, '35; Tyler,
; '33, and Page, '35.
-j&onson and Messimer were the
outstanding combination in the tan-
' demVc/awl last year, but with Messi-
mer. gone the honor passes to Daniels,
'34, and Meneely, '34. Bronson will
undoubtedly find a partner and get
into form soon.
(Continued on   Page Three)
Infirmary
There is not as yet an epi-
demic of the flu or grippe, but
all precautions should be tak-
en to prevent catching cold, and
the proper treatment should be
given all ailments, however
slight. Students are urged to
report even the earliest mani-
festations of a cold to the in-
firmary, so that it may be treat-
ed immediately. In staying
away from the infirmary stu-
dents not only endanger their
own health, but that of their
companions. Before exams the
health of the student body is
a very important consideration
and everyone should co-operate
with the infirmary in its at-
tempt to keep down colds and
other illness.
William Beebe to Speak
in Goodhart Hall
! Lecture to be on Half Mile Dive
Beneath Ocean -in
Bathysphere
ILLUSTRATED  BY   SLIDES
Fire in Power House
On Thursday evening, January 19,
j in Goodhart Hall, Dr. William Beebe,
| noted scientist and explorer, will de-
liver   an   illustrated   lecture   entitled
"Beneath   Tropic   Seas,"   under   the
auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club of
Philadelphia.    There is no one more
thoroughly qualified as a speaker on
I this subject than Dr. Beebe, who holds
ithe deep sea diving record of nearly
! half a mile.    In 1930 Dr. Beebe as
itounded  the world  by descending, to
, .                            . .                   � a depth of a quarter of a mile in a
LlOeS Lvlttle Uamage | specjaiiy constructed -bathysphere, but
I this feat was surpassed on September
Professors   Dismiss   Classes   to
Attend   Early vMorning
Fire on Campus
22, 1932, when a descent was made
of 2,200 feet. The lecture to be de-
livered on Thursday will be concerned
with a deseription of the descent and
r-rr�cii*civT ua\/c Tnr\riDir!o{ the strange fish and deep sea ani-
FIREMEN HAVE TROUBLE mals seen by the scientist during the
CALENDAR
Sat., Jan. 14�Mr. Ephraim
Lipson will speak on The Eng-
lish Labor Movement in the
Nineteenth Century. Goodhart,
8.20 P. M.
Sun., Jan. 15�Chapel. Rev.
Dr. George Wood, Dean of St.
Matthew's Cathedral, Dallas,
Texas, will speak. Music
Room, 7.30  P.  M.
Dr. Grierson Speaks
on Poetry of Burns
Contribution of Burns to World
Poetry is His Zest
for Life
GREATEST SCOTCH POET
Last Friday evening Dr. Grierson,
of   Edinburgh   University,   spoke  at
Varsity Dramatics Buys                 ' Bryn   Mawr   on   Robert   Burns,  and
Modern Lighting System read some of his poetry in its origi-
nal dialect.
Varsity Dramatics is pleased to an-
Burns,   Dr.   Grierson   said,   is   the
nounce that they have been able to'greatest poet Scotland has fever pro-
buy what the several lighting men duced, great not only among Scotch
consulted have' outlined as the abso-! Poets, but among world poets. In
lute necessities of a modern lighting; his anthology, The Spirit �>/ Man,
system for the stage in Goodhart. It' Robert Bridges includes four Lines of
is unfortunate that when the lighting � Burns and forty lines of Shelley, but
was installed it was not done alongthis is not at all the true relation
more modern lines, and that succes-|of the two poets. Unless one looks at
sive generations of Dramatics did not. P^try "entirely from the point of
install work upon which- the next jv'ew of vegetarians and prohibition-
group could build instead of patching i �ts," one must realize that the Scotch
the  holes  in  the  equipment  as  best have contributed to poetry the spirit
,_,             .        .....        .v   ' time spent under water.    Dr. Beebe
From a formal point of view, the  .             ..             ,                     .. . _.,_.
^         i�   �-., t vs.                       li           is an authority of repute on all forms
Dramatic Club Dance was our big so-
authority of repute
of ocean life, and the new discoveries
he made concerning sea life at great
depth should be of great interest to
veryone.     The  lecture  will   be  illus-
holidays and the hour before a quiz,  .    ._,-.,                                  . .
! trated with moving pictures of  how
the  dive   was   made,  and   of   life   be-
cial event, but there were more peo-
ple at the fire. We were there, too.
Although it was the Thursday before
we  were there.
Running  figures  passed  us  on  all
neath   the   surface.     Animated   tar-
sides as we hastened to the scene. toons wiU show in action fish that
The scene wasn't much, just smoke ,ive SQ deep no camera can photograph
piling out of the power-house and a | them> but which Dr. Beebe has seen,
few people standing around, looking j Accompanying the pictures will be
grim. That puzzled us until we heard j the scientisfs description of these
hoarse yells. We ran in the direction j "phosphorescent creatures that at in-
of the yells and found the college! ^^ studded the black dt.pths wilh
standing in a semi-circle back of the; pojnts of ,ight hke stars in a clear
power-house. They were looking up!gky-� Fish of g length o� six feet
at the roof where a desperate strug-; were attracted Dy the light of the
gle was going on between a fireman j sphere and rammed their noses
and the water from a hose. The I against the p^ holes. Part of these
hose had a hole in it, so the fireman | experiences were described by the ex-
lost-                                                         I plorer during the descent itself over
There was more cheering as he de-1 a nation-wide radio hook-up and those
scended, quickly quieted in the inter- j that listened in need no introduction
ests of order.   Water was everywhere, to Dr. Beebe, and no further recom-
they could and making it do. This
year's group, with a number of people
vitally interested in the problems of
stage lighting, found itself badly han-
dicapped by out-worn and out-dated
of enjoying life. Shelley and his com-
patriots sigh over death and days
gone by, but the great Scotch poets,
Hume, Burns, and Scott, write with
a "zest for life," in which lies their
but it was mis-directed becaiJse there
were so many holes in the body of the
hose. We found ourselves wondering
whether the inefficiency of the hose
had anything to do with the color of
the fire-engine, or vice-versa. It was
green.
The eclat of the gathering was in-
creased   by   the   number   of   faculty
mendation of him as a speaker and
narrator.
. All seats are reserved and tickets
are on sale at the Publicity Office.
The regular price is $2.20 for the
front section, and $1.65 for the back,
but the balcony seats are available
to students at a special price of $0.85
and  may  be  put on  payday.    It  's
equipment and a lack of funds to buy greatness,
any other type. When the need bc-j One side of Burns* poetry concerns
came so pressing that the Board felt nature, not scenery for itself, but
it was better to sacrifice other^ pro- \ nature as it enters into the lives of
jects than to continue so limited, they j his people, with its inclement as well4
decided that no matter what the pres-l�s it" artistically picturesque aspects,
ent inconvenience, they would buy | His Holy Fair includes both the de-
only such material as would provide j scription of the "simmer Sunday
a good foundation for the further de-1 morn, when Nature's face is fair,"
velopment of the lighting system. In! and a 8reat deal more of human na-
other   words,   when   another   group ture.   of   coffers   and   farmers   and
finds itself in possession of sufficient
"chosen swatch, wi' screw'd-up, grace-
present and the number of classes! hoped that as many students as can
given cuts to come to the fire. We will take advantage of this reduction
couldn't help thinking to ourself as, in price and attend what will un-
we toiled back to our hole in the Lib | doubtedly prove to be one of the most
>1 how much better a morning fire is ] interesting and absorbing lectures of
than one in the afternoon or at night,  the year.
Sirens in the morning stir us out of,------------------------
a  grey  somnolence;   at  other  times' Miss Levy Speaks on
they    seem    like    interruptions.    Of j                    Commercial Designing
course, we don't like fires.
Bridge Party
�The -Eastern Pennsylvania
Scholarship Committee is giv-
ing a bridge party in the Com-
mon Room, Wednesday, Janu-
ary ISthi.at 8 P. M., for the
benefit of this year's Regional
Scholarships.          �
Two prizes for high scores.
. Regular   price,  $4   a  table;
HALFr PRICE} to students.
Tiekets  are  on  sale  in  the
Publication Office.
We dis-j
approve of them deeply, and we wish!
to present our condolences to the col-
lege authorities, as well as to the
fireman who got wet.
Prize for Poem or Story
In order to stimulate undergraduate
writing in the United States and to I coming under this classification
On Thursday afternoon, January 5,
Miss Florence N. Levy, Supervisor of
the Vocational Service Department of
the National Alliance of Art and In-
dustry in New York, spoke on Ddsign-
ing and on the opportunities in the
many more or less  specialized fields
In
discover new talent that can be de-
veloped for American letters, the edi-
commercial art the main qualifications
are ability to carry out instructions
tors of The Hound a Horn are post- I and add one's own personality at the
ing its first annual prize of one hun-
dred dollars for the best piece of fic-
tion, and a prize of fifty dollars for
the best piece of verse, by an under-
graduate of any American college or
university. The winning story and
poem will be published in the Sum-
same time.
Besides the more obvious possibili
ties of teaching, writing, lecturing, or
doing museum work in this field there
are the opportunities for creative
work in the specialized classes of com-
mercial   art.    Among  these  may  be
funds  to  extend  the equipment now I Proud   faces."    The  epistles   contain
provided, they  can take  the  matter; turns'  most purely/>etical   love of
up where this year's Board has left j his country, as inrthe EpistU to Wil-
it, without having to begin  anew asj'""" Simeon of Ochiltree he writes
they have done.                                       of:
It was a very difficult task with the I
small funds available to do any really! "Her   moors   red-brown   wi'   heather
constructive work, as it was necessary             bells,
to rewire the whole switchboard, an!   Her banks an' braes, her dens an'
undertaking of considerable expense.:            dells,
We are also lacking in so many really.       Whare glorious Wallace
necessary items that it was hard toj   Aft bure the gree, as story tells,
choose   what  should   be  bought.     Itj       Frae  Suthron  billies."
was finally decided when it was found i
that the fall play, The Royal Family,      Bums  shared   Dr.  Johnson's  view
had cleared a  profit which could be that the country  was all very  well,
added to the money already set aside I hut that one liked to have company,
for this purpose, to buy and install J a"d   this   he   expresses   in   the   Holy
series of X-ray borders and two new-[Fair, in  Tim O'Shanter, and in the
type hanging flood-lights. These, with j closing chorus of the Three Jolly lieg-
the   material  already  on   hand,   will! oa�, all of which bear out the pre-
provide   adequate   lighting   for   the cept of enjoying life while you have
stage,   although   new   footlights   and | it.   Many poets have put passion into
expensive  shiftings  of  some  of   the \ love   poetry,  but   Burns,   more   than
fixed spot-lights in the auditorium will j anyone   else,   has   put   passion   into
be necessary before the stage can be I every aspect of common life.
lighted     properly     and     any     real;     Another side  to  Burns'  poetry  is
beginning on experimental work along satire.    A Scotch farmer in the 18th
these lines made.                                   I century had a great reason to be bit-
^jr-    He   saw  his  country   poverty-
t-�     t-     I       a_      :_*-J ._                stridden  and   bullied  outrageously  by
Dr. Taylor Appointed to               i       ... .       .,                 , . ,      *
'    7  ,        �     I         .    _           the Kirk in the name of John Knox.
American Academy in Rome Yet Burns has none of ^ w�erness
Z�~!       ,      ,    ,   .    'of Swift or even of Pope.    It is told
Dr. Lily Ross Taylor, head of the |that   when    he    was    ^.^    Tam
Latin department, has just been an-. 0<shanler his wife �oand him with
pointed Annual Professor of t.he; tears of ,aught-er stre�Dung down his
School of Classical Studits at ^\tece: When orib reads Demth and Dr.
American Academy in Rome for her, Hwnbook one. re^ni^s that there
sabbatical leave in 1934-35. Other
members of the Bryn Mawr faculty
have taught at the Academy, but, as
the trustees of the Academy remark-
ed, Miss Taylor's appointment is par-
is always more mischief than hatred,
more fun than bitterness in his
satires.
Finally,  the  love  songs  of   Burns
, are unequalled by anyone.    The ma-
ticularly  notable  because she  is ��|Jority of them were originally much
first woman upon whom the honor has
ever been conferred.
(Continued  on  Page   Four!
The   American   Academy   is   main-
tained   by  contribution   from   leading
Wyndham Opened
Wyndham   is   being  opened   as
American   colleges   and   universities,  refuge for the convalescents who are
and gives graduate courses in archi-  ready to leave the infirmary but who
mer 1933 issue of The Hound a Horn,   listed  working  on   individual  pieces,
The competition will close April
first. No manuscripts with envelopes
postmarked later than that can qual-
ify. The manuscrupts must be type-
written, accompanied by  a  stamped,
such as painting and scultpure, as-
sembling arts such as interior deco-
rating, landscrape .gardening and
architecture, work on two-dimensional
objects�the graphic arts, particular-
self-addressed envelope for reply, and   ly   advertising   and   newspaper   and
addressed  to Undergraduate Contest   magazine   illustrations,   modelling  in
three-dimensions of architectural
models and models of new products
or machines, and lastly styling�the
design of clothes or furniture, for
(Continued on   Pare  Four)
Editor. The Hound a Horn reserves
the right to purchase manuscripts
other than those selected for the prize
for the regular issues of the maga-
zine.                               -
I
tecture, archaeology, and the classics.
Miss Taylor's duties will leave her
plenty of time for travel and research
on whatever subject she may choose.
Bryn Mawr, as one of the colleges
which contributes to the support of
the Academy, has had a number of
students and faculty members con-
nected with it. Dr. Tenney Frank
was Annual Professor in 1916-17,
while still a professor here, and Dr.
Rhys Carpenter received an appoint-
ment for 1926-27. In fact, the com-
(Onn'.lnuea   on   Page   Four)
are not ready to'go back to work.
This measure is being taken not be-
cause the number of cases of influ-
enza has reached alarming propor-
tions on the campus, but simply be-
cause Dr. Wagoner wishes to be free
to admit everyone who ought to be
under observation. Wyndham will be
in charge of a trained nurse, and the
infirmary rules will be enforced there.
There have been twenty-three cases
of influenza or grippy cold since the
vacation, but the greater part of
them have, been very mild.