College News, 1930-10-29, Vol. 17, No. 04

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VOL. XVII, NO. 4
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930
PRICE,   10 CENTS
Miss Park Reveals
Freshman Statistics
Entering Class Represents Nine-
teen    States   and
England.          <
25% HAVE CREDIT AVES.
The annual statement of the sta-
tistics for the Freshman class was the
occasion for a little quiet rejoicing on
the part of President Park since the
class of 1934 represents a further ad-
vance in the realization of two of her
most cherished aims. Over one-fpurth
of the class entered with a credit aver-
age, and the proportion of students
entering from public schools is rising,
in comparison to the proportions
found in the-ftlasses of '29, '30, '31 and
'32. President Park devoted the chapel
periods of Tuesday, October 14, and
Thursday, October 23, to a detailed
discussion of the subject.
The Freshman class represents
nineteen States, with one member
from England, but sixty-six of these
Freshmen come from Pennsylvania
and its boundary States, New York,
New Jersey and Maryland. That is,
over one-half of the class lives within
two and one-half hours by rail of the
college. If southern Connecticut, on
the north, and Washington, on the
south, are added, three-fourths of the-
class is accounted for. New England
has contributed fourteen students, the
Middle West nine, the South five, the
Pacific Coast two, and England one.
The reasons for this small geographi-
cal distribution of, students, which
means a large group from nearby, and
little variety in the student body, are
fairly clear.    The State universities of
other  sections  of the  country  are  in
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Liberal Club Announces
Industrial Discussions
The first meeting of the Liberal Club
was held October 22, and there are now
over fifty members. The Executive Com-
mittee'this year is as follows:
President, Annamae Grant; Frances
Robinson, Virginia Butterworth.
MiSs Grant spoke about the purpose of
the dub and the plans for the year. The
club is for the discussion of political and
social problems and international rela-
tions. There will be several speakers,
� probably one a month, and regular meet-
ings of the group to discuss the speeches
and other questions in which they are in-
terested. The program for the first three
meetings will be given over to a discus-
sion of communism, the "new capital-
ism," and socialism as possible remedies
for our industrial difficulties. Mr. Scott
Nearing, on Friday, October 31, at 8:15
in the Commons Room, will give the first
of these lectures, Communism in America.
The Liberal Club is affiliated with the
League for Industrial Democracy and the
Foreign Policy Association. The club
should be of the greatest importance to
students because it is the only campus
organization wherein they can find con-
tact with the important social changes
with which they will later be� faced.
There is a growing consciousness in
Young America that all is not right with,
the world, and Jhat students must be
brought together to investigate the pres-
ent evils and find some sort of remedy.
Membership in the Liberal Club is open
to all those who are interested.
The Liberal Club of Swarthmore Col-
lege is sponsoring a conference on the
bituminous coal industry Friday evening
and Saturday, November seventh and
eighth. The speakers are the foremost
American authorities: Norman Thomas,
F. G. Tryon, Oscar Ameringcr, H. S.
Raushenbush, Arthur Garfield Hays, and
eight others. There will be a dance fol-
lowing the Saturday evening session.
Programs are posted in all the halls. ]
Everyone who wishes to go may spend
the week-end at Swarthmore College.
The fee is one dollar for the week-end.
See Annamae Grant, 56 Rockefeller Hall,
for registration cards.
Teachers at Bates House
Lead Adventurous Life
(Specially   contributed  by   Patsy   J.
Taylor, '31.)
"Bread, Teacher, bread," is the daily
thrice repeated chorus at Bates House
on the Jersey coast. The Italian tene-
ment children whom we take there
during^ June and July love the sea
and tlje sun, but are mortally insulted
because they are made to finish their
green vegetables before they can have
a chance to fill up on their beloved
bread.
A few girls from College always go
down there for clean-up week right
after exams, and enjoy a delightful
change from intellectual labor when
they freshen up things about the house
with paint, and lay out rows of combs
and tooth brushes for the horde which
is to come.
Then the young element from
Thompson Street arrives�dyked out
in all the finery which their fond
mothers have been able to scVape to-
gether, clutching all-day suckers,
sneakers (to be used to save their
shoes) and their nearest of kin in
their hands. Some are -boisterous,
some are solemn, some arc tearful, all
are a good deal the worse for the in-
evitable train soot. Before the day is
over, however, they have had theft
baths, and in the clean Bates clothes
are hardly to be recognized as the same
children. From then on their days are
filled with eating, sleeping, and play�
both at the beach and in the back yard.
Of course each teacher has several
hours a day when she is not expected
to be with the children, and at night
there are always the movies and the
amusement pier on the boardwalk after
stories have been told and each room
of children has promised that they will
not make a sound.
The whole two weeks that you are
there�and you may stay more�is a
succession of completely surprising
events. The children are unlike any
you have probably ever seen before.
They tell you wierd legends about
things, they have a most original code
of honor�if it can be called that�
and now and then one will confide in
you that his father runs a saloon be-
hind so-and-so's father's barber shop.
An uncle on the police force or in the
taxi business is looked up to with
great admiration. All this is perfectly
natural to them, but they cannot un-
derstand why we smoke. A little boy
remarked very scornfully one day, "I
wouldn't let my sister smoke cigarettes.
It isn't nice."
�The origin of all this was the gift
some years, ago of a house at Long
"Branch by Mrs. H. Roswell Bates to
be used during the summer by Bryn
Mawr as a vacation home for tenement
children in memory of her husband.
The financial end of it is cared for
fafrly adequately by our share of the
League pledges and by the proceeds
from sandwiches. The real problem
in connection with Bates is one with
which we were confronted more than
usual this last summer. It is the lack
of "teachers" (girls from College who
go for two weeks or more to take care
of the children). It seems a pity that
more people do not realize how ex-
tremely interesting the whole thing is,
and thus never have the unique ex-
perience to be found at Bates. Who
really wants to miss knowing children
who, when told to go back to bed,
reply as did Billy Padula, "I can't go
to sleep, Miss Connie is giggling too
hard"?
The Foreign Students
Five Foreign Students
Have Varied Education
Competition For Lantern Board
The "Lantern Magazine" announces
its competition for new members of
the Business Staff. Will, all those in-
terested please come to see the Busi-
ness Manager, E. Sussman, in 44
Rockefeller, between 6 and 6:30
Wednesday evening. November 5.
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From left to right: Odette Thireau. Fricdcl Roelnrte. Mrs.
Miskolozy and Mary Margaret Allen.
Baudelaire Initiates
Symbol of Sensation
Character   Supplants   Beauty   in
Strange    and    Frightful
Psychology of Death.
POE   AIDS   INNOVATIONS
(Specially contributed by /.. Mandell and
E.  Fredrick.)
M\ Hazard began hisTourth lecture on
"I-a Poesic Francaisc cntre 1815 ct 1914"
with an account of the life of ISaudelaire,
which, he said, was inseparable from his
work. Born in 1821 at Paris of a father
too old to give him any companionship,
and of a mother who remarried soon after
her husbands death, liaudelaire exper-
ienced a most unhappy childhood. As a
child he knew the violent emotion of
hatred, for he was in open revolt against
his stepfather. He wastxpelled in 1839
from the lycee Louis-le Grand, despite his
brilliance as a student, and his stepfather,
to prevent his frequenting the quarticr
latin, sent him off to the Indies. Before
reaching his destination, he decided to re-
turn to Paris, where, after having dissi-
pated a small fortune, he was forced to
earn his living as a hack-writer. From
1848-1857 he experienced some strange ad-
ventures. At the end of this period he
began his chef-d'oeuvre, Les I'lcurs du
Mai. the publication of which brought
upon his head a fine and a condemnation.
He died in 1867 after an attack of paraly-
sis.
The second part of M. Hazard's lecture
was concerned with a discussion of Bau-
delaire's psychological development which
was complex and contradictory. He was
passionately fond of the arts, especially
music, which heretofore had not received
much attention in French literature. In
his work there was a strange psychology
at the same time artificial, ridiculous, and
frightful. The idea of death became with
him a veritable obsession.    In his desire
to throw off this nostalgia he took refuge
in dreaming and in traveling on sea and
land, but nothing gave him a sane and
whole inner life. He wanted to know
everything: souls, nature, and even God.
In hi* desire to attain the infinite he was
comparable, in the words of M. Hazard,
to "une cloche felee."
CaaUaard  aa   Pace Thrr*
Major Subject Discussed
in Chapel by Mrs. Manning
On Tuesday, October 2H. Mrs. Man-
ning spoke in Chapel concerning the
change in emphasis in the curriculum in
the past ten or fifteen years. The origi-
nal system of a major group of two
subjects based on the Johns Hopkins
plan, laid but moderate emphasis on a
given field. The first change came six
years ago when'students were required
to take a single major, with allied work
grouped arouitd the subject chosen. At
present, under the new curriculum, three
jrers of work i- required in the major
instead of two. During the third year.
the student advances from the examina-
tion system with rote learning of the
course to the individual collection and
arrangement of data for reports. Honors
work goes still further in this line. A
merit average in the major is also re-
quired by recent changes,
The emphasis on the major, as shown
by the three years of required work, aims
at inculcation of, <>r acquaintance with,-
advanced scholastic methods, not at spe-
cialization of the individual student. Her
third year gives the student a chance to
work with previously collected material,
moulding it in her own way. She ob-
tains a knowledge and experience of
mctliodv a sense of tln-ir dreariness and
inadequacies perhaps,-which is invaluable
if she desires or, does not desire, to go
on.
The individual is free to change her
major as often as she wishes, provided
that she can include in her schedule three
years' application to the subject she
finally chooses. The faculty make allow-
ances for indecision and changes. The
three years of work should be considered,
not as a training in one's life work, but
as an introduction to scholastic method
and as affording an inside view of a
more intimate familiarity with the work
being done in one field of knowledge.
Two   Holders   of   Scholarship*
Combine   Practical   With
Theoretical Work.
VALVES    IN    STATISTICS
The holders of the five Bryn Mawr
scholarships for foreign  women; Miss
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Allen, Miss Boehnie, Miss. Liesveld,
Mrs. Miskolozy and Miss Thireau, rep-
resent five different Furopean coun-
tries: Fngland. Germany, Holland,
Hungary and France. While one is
forced, this early in the graduate year,
to confine any article concerning these
students to the >tatistics of their edu-
cation, the statistics have the iiiV liliil
possibility of embodying, for the
American student, conditions and a
background richer and. if not richer,
at least quite different from the condi-
tions of study over  here.
Miss Mary Margaret Allen, of
Hornclnirch. England, studied at the
London School of Economics, the.Uni-
versity of London, and received the
degree of B.Sc. (Econ.) there in 1930.
She was interested in athletics as well
as economics during her undergraduate
years and intends to do both here.   At
Collier, Williams and
--------Berkeley Elected by '33
The class of 1933 has elected officers
for the coming years as follows: Presi-
dent, Margaret Collier; Vice President.
Josephine .-.Williams; Secretary. Ella
Berkeley.
During her Freshman year Miss Col-
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Caatlaard ��  I"a�� Tar*
present, she is working in the depart-
ment of Politics and she is doing a
certain amount of practical research,
outside .of Bryn Mawr, on the Depart-
ment of Public Works in Philadelphia.
Miss Fridcl Boehnie. from Dresden,
Germany, attended the Hohere Maed-
chenschulc in Dresden from 1920 until
1926 when she received the Reifezeug-
nis. From April to October of 1920,
she did practical work in the export
and accounting department of the
Metal Art Manufacturing Company.
During the rest of 1926 and part of
1927, Miss Boehnie spent two se-
mesters in the department of economi-
cal sciences at the Technische Hoch-
schule fur Welt-handel at � Vienna.
From 1928 until 1930, she spent five
semesters at the University of Cologne
in the Social Economics department
(jo'd. in February, 1930, she received
the Diplom-Kaufmanu from the Uni-
versity of Cologne. Unlike Miss
Hoeluiie, Miss Diederika Liesveld, of
Holland,* studied exclusively at one
place, the University of Amsterdam,
and has her degree of Doctor of Liter-
ature from there. She has studied
Philology extensively but plans to de-
vote her time at Bryn Mawr to Litera-
ture, especially to carry out her plan
for a dissertation on the subject of
Hymn's Influence on Swedish Literature
under the direction of Dr. Chew. Mrs.
Martine Andree Miskolozy, from Buda-
pest. Hungary, studied until 1918 at
Kolozsvw (now Cluj Koumania).
Since then her work has been highly
varied, divided between the practical
and the scholarly. She has been an
assistant at the University of Buda-
pest in the Department of Social Eco-
nomics and Social Politics and has
studied social conditions in her own
country. In the field of practical ex-
perience, she his occupied the position
of secretary in the first social school
in Budapest. In that city she was
also honored with the position of chief
of the Red Cross Industrial Research
Department and, in addition to her ex-
ecutive positions, she belonged, as a
member, to several organizations for
International Relations in Hungary.
At Bryn Mawr. she plans to study
American methods of industrial re-
search and to travel with the intention
of ^inspecting the well-organized fac-
tories in America. Finally, Miss
Odette Thireau, of Joigny, France* at-
tended the University ot fans from
1925 until 1928 and worked in the de-
partment of Chemistry. From 1928
until 1930, she studied at the University
of Nancy and received the Cicenciee es
Sciences there in 1929 and the degree
of Ingenieur Chimiste in 1930.
Because the year is so young,  it is