College News, 1932-10-19, Vol. 19, No. 01

              The 'College Newf
VOL. XIX, No. 1
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932
PRICE.-?? CENTS
Dr. Carpenter Returns
From Leave of Absence
Has Headed American Schools
of Classics at Athens
and Rome
EXCAVATED AT CORINTH
For six years Bryn Mawr students
have been hearing the name of Dr.
Rhys Carpenter, of the Department of
Archeology, mentioned as that of one
of their niost distinguished professors,
but the phrase "on leave of absence"
has always been regretfully appended.
Now he has returned, as President
Park said, "trailing clouds of glory
in his wake."
In 1926 Dr. Carpenter was went
to Rome to fill the post of Director of
the American Academy at Rome. The
following year he assumed the duties
of Director of the American School
of Classical Studies at Athens, which,
by arrangement with the Greek Gov-
ernment, besides heavy administrat-
ive work, and such miscellaneous
functions as upholding Greek morals
by continued digging during the seven
weeks of earthquakes at Corinth, and
large scale collecting of wheelbar-
rows. The School, now preparing to
celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, is
maintained by the universities and
colleges of America; Bryn Mawr,
however, has long been one of the
two principal feeders, and Bryn Mawr
students, in open competitions, have
obtained more fellowships than stu-
dents from all the other colleges put
together, so that it is quite fitting
that a member of the Bryn Mawr fac-
ulty should have served as director
and make so many important finds.
� Among the most important of these
was the unearthing of the Sanctuary
of Asklepios, which served as the
Athenian City Hopitat about the year
350 B. C. The building consistld of
a small temple with balcony and
� sleeping rooms around it, on the walls
of which were found life-size terra
cotta images, of legs, arms, noses, ears,
� and eyes, which patients had present-
ed as offerings of gratitude for the
cure of these parts. Often the act-
ual disease, as for instance, a car-
buncle on the hand, were shown in
the images.
The exposure of part of the great
wall around Corinth, was another not-
able discovery, which settled the long-
standing archeological dispute as to
whether mud brick was used in build-
ing Greek fortifications.   Also at Cor-
inth, he found the ruins of the old
workshops where the famous Corinth-
ian vases were made.   The remains pf
several   hundred   thousand   of   these
were found,  and  will  be  studied  by
Agnes    Newhall    Stillwill,    a    Bryn
Mawr fellow.   The results of all these
p investigations will be published in the
*' American Journal of Archaeology and
"Plater in a book to be called The Ex-
4- eavationa of Corinth.
J   Dr.  Carpenter   has  now  definitely
~given   up   any   further   digging   in
J Greece.    Instead,  he  will devote his
J3- talent for reconstruction and restora-
tion  of old things to his new home.
j near Downingtown, an old farm house
n built in 1730.
^-    Six   years   of   strenuous   activity
"abroad makes it quite unlikely that
Jjn the quiet academic routine of the
^tJryn Mawr campus he will miss the
excitement  of   earthquakes   and   the
fascinating possibility of new discov-
ery.
FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE HOCKEY SQUAD
*           Extra Week
At a meeting of the faculty
on last Friday it was decided
to make up in June" the week
of classes lost by the postpone-
ment of the opening of college.
A week will be added in June,
thus retarding the date of grad-
uation. Neither the dates of
Christmas nor of paster vaca-
tion will be affected, but mid-
years and finals will be ad-
vanced by one week. The date
of graduation will be announc-
ed later.
�College News Photo.
First row, left to right: Faeth, Varxj, Brown, Hellmer, Longacre,
Remington, Hirschberg. Secoiid rote: Jackson, BQthcrmcl, Bow-
ditch, Collier, Vllom, Bishop, Kent, Collins, Whitney.
Aims and Opportunities of
Summer School Described
(Especially contributed by Sylvia
Bowditch)
No one has any idea how many
trains a day come from Broad Street
to Bryn Mawr until one plans in cold
blood to meet every single one of
them. All day long on Friday, June
10, girls arrived by train and bus
from all parts of the country; from
as far west as the Pacific.Coast and
as far south as Alabama, beside one
girl from Sweden, one from Germany,
and two from England, for the
twelfth opening of the Bryn Mawr
summer School. With very few ex-
ceptions all of them had had some
industrial experience. This, and the
fact that they were all interested in
studying labor problems, were about
the only things fhey had in common.
Of the 110 students, fifty were for-
eign born. In accordance with their
abilities in English, the school was
divided into five groups. These
groups met in informal classes, in-
doors or out. Each student contrib-
uted, either her own personal experi-
ences or those of her friends, to con-
firm or criticize what .was being said.
Often arguments that started in one
class would spread over and involve
the whole school before a conclusion
was reached. Many girls came with
certain ideas firmly fixed in their
minds, and. when two girls with dif-
ferent ideas got together, a heated ar-
gument would almost certainly ensue.
Gradually each would realize that the
other had some good arguments on
her side' and that perhaps her own
were not so hole-proof as^he had pre-
viously thought. Tolerance and open-
mindedness were far more in evidence
at the end of the summer than at the
beginning.
Besides the regular worK in eco-
nomics and English the girls could
chose other subjects in which they
were interested. Room D in Taylor
Hall became the Social Science Lab-
oratory, where maps and charts of
every description were made to illus-
trate topics under discussion. There
was also an art workshop, in which
block printing, modeling and char-
coal drawing was done. With a lim-
ited equipment the science lab was
turned into a miniature museum,
where ingenious models of the solar
system were shown with flashlights
and tennis balls. By this novel meth-
od of presentation interest in the
"hows and whys" was aroused.
This summer the School held a
College Week-end Conference, at
which a group of college graduates
and undergraduates had the opportun-
ity of visiting the school, attending
classes, and meeting the girls. The
conference afforded such a splendid
opportunity for obtaining a first-hand
understanding of industrial questions
that a similar one will probably be
held next year.
The conference members obtained
only a slight glimpse of the oppor-
tunities which the six undergrads en-
joyed for two months. One works
and plays with the girls, and learns
from them about their homes and
their families, their friends, and their
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Bowditch Outlines
Sports Program for '32
Athletics Are Under Way After
Disadvantage of Late
Start
WILL BE FACULTY GAMES
(Especially   contributed  by  Sylvia
Bowditch)
. The Athletic Association of Tlryn
Mawr welcomes the Freshmen and
upperclassmen and hopes to see many
of them participating in the various
forms of sport which are provided.
Varsity hockey is already under
way. Though we have suffered one
defeat, the prospects are quite hope-
ful and the games will undoubtedly
be well worth watching, so we are
hoping for more galleries of the size
that turned out last Saturday. Class
games will begin in a few weeks and
we hope that the Freshmen and
Sophomores will each have at least
two teams.
Due to the lateness in opening there
will be no regular instruction in ten-
nis this fall, but there will be Be-
ginners, Intermediate and Advanced
classes in the spring. We hope that
there will be many people interested
in tennis so that we may have inter-
class matches in the spring as well
as varsity matches.
As soon as the quarantine is lifted
the swimming pool will be opened.
There will be several different swim-
ming classes and a plunge hour twice
a week, when anyone may go in.
Class meets and at least one outside
meet will be held in February.
All those interested in fencing will
be disappointed to hear that Mr.
Boeckmans cannot be here because of
his health. However, he has sent Mr.
Fiems to take his place. Mr. Fiems
has coached at Yale and in St. Louis
and is willing to speak English to
those who don't like French and Ger-
man. He will give an exhibition next
Thursday night at 8 P. M. in the
gym and everyone is cordially invited.
Basketball is the major sport dur-
ing the winter term. There will be
first and second Varsity team games
almost every Saturday morning after
midyears. Generally we have had a
round robin class tournament in which
each class team plays each other class
twice. Each class has two and some-
times three teams so that everyone in-
terested in basketball has a chance
to play on a team.
Lacrosse practice begins in the win-
ter when the fundamentals are learn-
ed. During the spring term real prac-
tices are held and if enough people
show sufficient interest at least one
outside game will be arranged.
A class in Folk Dancing is to start
very soon and one in tumbling will
begin in the winter term.
We generally play the faculty  in
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Dr. Vaughan Williams
to Lecture on Music
"Nationalism in Music" Will be
Subject    of    Flexner
Lectures
MR.  ALWYNE WILL  PLAY
News Board Elects
The College News is pleas-
ed  to  announce  that  Dorothy
Kalbach,  '34, has been elected
to its Business Board.
15^222
Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams will
give a series of lectures on "Nation-
alism in Music" at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege under the Mary Flexner Lecture-
ship which provides for a distinguish-
ed scholar in the field of "The Hu-
manities" to be in residence at the
college for a period for the purpose
of contact with the public, the fac-
ulty and the students. The first of
the series will be an introductory lec-
ture on Wednesday evening, October
19th; the second and third, on Thurs-
day evenings, October 27th and No-
vember 3rd, will be "On the Nature of
Folk-Song;' the fourth lecture will be
"Folk-Song As It Affects the Com-
poser," on Wednesday evening, No-
vember 9th; the fifth will he an "Na-
tionalism in Music," on Wednesday
evening, November 16th, and the last,
on Monday evening, November 21st,
will have for its subject, "The Value
of Tradition in Art." The lectures
will be illustrated by Mr. Horace Al-
wyne, Professor of Music and Direc-
tor of the Department of Music at
Bryn Mawr College, and by the Bryn
Mawr College Choir, conducted by Mr.
F. H. Ernest Willoughby, Associate
in Music. There will be no charge
for the lectures, which will be open
to the pubic.
Dr. Vaughan Williams, one of the
foremost living English composers,
was born in the West Country at
Down Ampney in 1872. His early
training was at the Royal College
in London and the Berlin Akademie
and also under Max Bruch. Later, in
order to familiarize himself with the
methods of impressionism, he worked
for some time with Ravel in Paris.
He is a graduate of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and received the Mus.D.
degree from Cambridge in 1901 and
from Oxford in 1919. He was for sev-
eral years Extension Lecturer for Ox-
ford University and Head of the
Composition Department of the Royal
College of Music.
He has always been a great enthu-
siast on folk-music and has edited
many collections of English folk-songs
for the Folk-Song Soeiety, of which
he is now president. He is the com-
poser of a large number of works in
all forms. His operas have been pro-
duced in Germany and England and
his symphonies played by the leading
orchestras in Europe and America.
A whole program was devoted to his
works by Sir Henry Wood in Lon-
don last year and many of them have
been performed at the leading Festi-
vals of Europe, his two works, "Job"
and "Benedicite," being chosen by the
International Jury for "performance at
last year's Contemporary Music Fes-
tival at Oxford.
He is an uncompromising Nation-
alist in music and his influence is
among the most powerful forces in
contemporary English music, with his
large human otltlook and disregard
of all but the essential, the absence
of every form of rhetorical address.
His music is deeply tinged with the
spirit of English folk-music, of Eng-
lish national character and of Eng-
lish musical tradition and ideals in
particular. A. E. Fr4)ickinson says:
"I feel, though I cannot prove, that
Vaughan Williams' music is likely to
make a special appeal to the men and
women of fierce ideals, to the explor-
ers, to the people whose experience in
the last ten or twelve years has taught
them the grave danger of playing
with safety, whether in art or in the
ordinary walks of life. Moreover, for
those who, reacting from the crude
sensationalism of the day, are try-
ing to refit their minds for the more
permanent ecstacies of the emotions
felt, or at any rate crystallized, in
tranquility�for these Vaughan Wil-
liams can present, with the freshness
of a vital experience the eternal beau-
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Freshman Welcomed by
Miss Park in Chapel
Awakening of Sense of Citizen-
ship is Urged as
Noble Aim
DEVELOP    INITIATIVE
On Monday, October 17, President
Park officially opened the 48th aca-
demic year at Bryn Mawr with a
chapel address in which she wel-
comed faculty and students, and
stressed a deeper sense of the re-
sponsibilities of citizenship on the
part of college graduates as essential
for the survival of democratic gov-
ernment. The text of her speech
follows:
"Absence makes the heart grow
fonder" and each September comes
a time when to those of us who are
already here the green summer cam-
pus begins to look empty and dull.
In this particular year, when infan-
tile paralysis in Philadelphia and the
Lower Merion district caused a post-
ponement of our opening date, no one
can doubt the genuineness of our wel-
come to faculty and students, gradu-
ate and undergraduate, old and new,
all bursting on the same train, so to
speak, into the cheerful chaos of this
morning.
Our late opening will necessitate
some slight inconvenience in the fu-
ture. As. our ordinary working year
is unusually short compared to that
of other colleges, and as we oannot
consequently afford to lose a whole
week, the faculty and the Undergrad-
uate Association must.arrange for the
making up of this lost time.
One other genuine disaster has be-
man Week had to be abolished and
it will be necessary for the freshmen
to keep their "appointments for the
testing of the brain, the back, the
voice, the social life, the nerve, while
the bell on Taylor Hall clangs them
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Abuse of New Book Room
is Serious Problem
We would like to call the serious
attention of everyone to the New Book
Room. The New Book shelf is con-
sidered one of the most thoughtful
and by many one of the most appre-
ciated privileges given us by those in
charge of the library. New books are
placed on this shelf as they are bought
so that anyone may see, not only
what is being written from week to
week, but what books ^he library is
adding to its shelves. These books
are marked in the back not to bo
taken out of the New Book Room for
two weeks, so that everyone may see
that they are there. After that they
are released for circulation.
This privilege is being outrageous-
ly abused by people taking these new
books out of the New Book Room be-
fore anyone else has had a chance
to see them and while they are still
quite visibly marked not to be taken
out of the room. In some cases these
books have never been returned. This
abuse cannot be blamed on absent-
mindedness or inability to read no-
tices, and we can only appeal to the
consideration of students not to take
these books out until they are released.
Quarantine Lifted
Owing to the fact that there
have been no new cases of in-
fantile paralysis in Lower Mer-
ion Township since October the
fourth, the Health Department
of the Coilege has decided to
lift the quarantine against
Bryn Mawr village. Students
may now go to Bryn Mawr,
Haverford and Ardmore. Young
people under the age of eight-
een from these neighborhoods
may visit the campus. The
quarantine against Philadelphia
is continued for the present,
and students should not use
trains or buses, even in this im-
mediate neighborhood, unles;
special permission  is given.