College News, 1933-10-11, Vol. 20, No. 01

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The College News
VOL. XX, No. 1
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1933
Copyright  BRYN  MAWK
COLLEGE  NEWS,  1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Miss Park Predicts
Basic Social Change
Stresses Need for Elasticity, Per-
sonal Adjustment, and
Tested Facts
ANNOUNCES NEW PLANS
At the opening chapel of the col-
lege year, President Park spoke as
follows:
"I am glad to see you here today�
students who are returning and stu-
dents newly come, graduates and un-
dergraduates, wardens, professors,
deans; and to welcome you to Bryn
Mawr at the beginning of its 48th
year. Those of us who came early
were ready to hear the ejaculations
of the returning college and the
trucks clattering up with the luggage.
The swimming moonlight of last eve-
ning, the summer green of the cam-
pus, the red dogwoods and the thorn
tree near the library�proof that this
is after all October�they really de-
mand an audience. Joe Graham said
to me last week, "Certain, it's like
u graveyard with them gone"�and
he is really right.
The year begins well, bright weath-
er, a full college.
To the eye of the layman at least
the state of the world and of Amer-
ica looks no less confused and dark
than in June. Yet we are all aware
of an indefinable and still inexplica-
ble feeling of slowly coming confi-
dence, like the faint lightening of the
eastern sky on one of these last misty
September mornings,�herald � who
knows?�of later clearing. This feel-
ing, if it can be called by so definite
a name, is reflected in our college
numbers. Individuals and families
as the summer went on ventured to
make plans for their daughters before
which spring had found them hesi-
tant. The college begins this morn-
ing with Wyndham open again, with
491 students, graduates and under-
graduates, as against 474 last year,
and an entering class of 124, one of
the largest in the history of the col-
lege. The graduate school, always
slow to register, because many of its
number are teachers in the not yet
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Hockey Veterans Limber Up
College Bookshop Opens
Under New Management
The College Bookshop may not be
under the omnipresent NRA, but it
is engineering a "new deal" on its
own hook. The part that should ap-
peal to the students is that this par-
ticular new deal is for the benefit of
the undergraduate body and has noth-
ing to do with a sliding wage scale
or shoddy manufacturers' code. As
far as possible, prices are being kept
down to a competition-with-Liggett's
basis and such profits as accrue will
go to the Scholarship Fund.
There are several innovations which
should make the shop popular, in
addition to its price-appeal a lend-
ing library has been established with
new, good, and popular books (such
as the notable Autobiography of
Alice B. Toklae), which may be tak-
en out without deposit, and which
supplement the rather static New
Book Room books. Old books, which
include novels and textbooks, may be
bought at cost, and stock from last
year, perfume, stockings and other
articles, will also be sold at cost.
There are some unprecented bargains
in this wide collection.
Although the shop is open from
9.45 to 12.00 in the morning and
from 2.00 to 3.00 in the afternoon
only, there are hall shops, selling a
complete range of necessities, which
are open at announced times. They
are another extremely useful part of
the "new deal," and their managers
will probably be willing to help cope
with any deficiency of supplies, even
outside of hours.
Indeed, the administration should
be congratulated on having presented
the college with a new convenience
and a new way to economy�the Col-
lege  Book  Shop.
�Photo  by  Clark.
Heading from left to right: Svsan Daniels, Barbara Bishop, Marion Bridgman, Sancy Stevenson,
Josephine Tayyart, Elizabeth Kent
Large Squad Chosen
for Varsity Hockey
5   Players   Remain   From   Last
Year's Team; Freshmen
Show Promise
GOOD SEASON EXPECTED
Cloudless blue skies, crisply cool
days when even alumnae sniff the
wind and wish for the feel of a hockey
stick once more, multi-colored tunics
against the green background of a
freshly clipped field�the hockey sea-
son begins once more!
This year's squad, of which only
five were on the 1932 Varsity, will try
to forget former defeats and look for-
ward to what we hope will be a more
successful season.
On the forward line are Faeth,
Brown, Stevenson and Kent, who has
been shifted from inner to center for-
ward. Taggart, Carter, Simons, Boyd
and Perry are out to give Brown and
Stevenson a run for the wing posi-
tions, while Cary, E. E. Smith, Har-
rington and Raynor are training for
the position as Faeth's running mate
at inner. Ballard, a Varsity inner
from North Shore Country Day
School, is giving them keen competi-
tion. Kent's position at center for-
ward is at present challenged by only
me other candidate, Bennett, who will
probably take up that place on the
second team.
Although Daniels is the only vet-
eran left in the backfield, that section
.seems to*be shaping up .much more
luickly than the forward line. P.
Little and A. Van Vechten have both
had experience as substitute fullbacks
'>ut Bucher, a newcomer to the squad,
has been showing exceUent progress
in early practices. ' Bridgman, who
was on the Varsity second team last
year, has only one rival at center half,
Evans, a freshman and former Ger-
mantown Friends' Varsity player. Al-
though Daniels is fairly certain of
keeping one of the halfback positions,
Gribbel, Hemphill, Morgan, Whitney
and Bright, a former Springside Var-
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Business Opportunity
Opportunities in business
training are offered the under-
graduates by the College News.
Working on the business board
will teach you the elements of
advertising management as
well as how to make business
contacts and how to prepare a
paper for press. This valuable
experience will sharpen your
acumen in everyday life and
will assist you hi. securing an
interesting job upon leaving
college. For particulars see B.
Lewis, 38-40 Pembroke East
CALENDAR
Fri., Oct. 13�Lantern Night
in the Cloisters at 8.30 P. M.
Sat., Oct. 14�French Oral.
Taylor Hall, 9.00 A. M.
Sun., Oct. 15�Meeting of the
Women's International League
in Goodhart Hall.
Mon., Oct. 16 � Miss Jane
Addams will deliver the first of
the lectures on International
Relations and International
Peace to be given under the
Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
Foundation. The subject will
be "The Hopes We Inherit"
Goodhart. 8.20 P. M.
Mrs. Underhill Talks
on Mountaineering
Recent Guideless Expeditions in
Eastern Alps Required
Unusual Skill
DOLOMITES GIVE THRILL
"The last two or three years I have
done moetly guideless climbing,"
said Mrs. Miriam O'Brien Underhill
last Friday evening, at the start of
her amusingly illustrated lecture on
"Mountain Climbing in the Eastern
Alps." This sort of climbing, though
necessarily limited, gives a thrilling
feeling of  independence.
Last summer, Mrs. Underhill, her
husband, and two friends, cruised
around Europe in a roadster, piled
high with boots and wet ropes. Mrs.
Underhill did the photography: "You
can always discover something to be
photographed, when a tire has to be
changed." Her pictures reveal the
perils of layers of hairpin curves�
eighty on one of the thirty-five passes
they traversed�which her husband
took in high with a "rhythmic swing."
"He missed the biggest thrill of Al-
pine driving: that of riding in the
rumble seat when he was at the
wheel," said one of his suffering pas-
sengers. Cows were **the chief ob-
stacle on the road. The only way
to get rid of them was to drive them
up the steep roadbanks with an ice-
axe, and pass on, leaving them to
wonder how to get down. When the
car boiled, because of the installation
of valves upside-down by a Swiss
mechanic, it was filled with ice-water
from the mountain brooks and roll-
ed backward down the mountains, un-
til the engine warmed up enough to
start. The roadster was in most
cases driven up to the base of the
mountain. The passengers then dis-
embarked, changed their shoes, and
began their climb.
Snow, encountered in climbing, dis-
pleased Mrs. Underhill.    "Having it
in my shorts for hours on end was
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Dean Manning Announces
Academic Arrangement
In Chapel last Thursday morning
Dean Manning made a number of im-
portant announcements in regard to
courses for this year. All Sophomores
were notified that there will be no
course in Hygiene given this semes-
ter. Those who will be unable to
take it in the second semester are
urged to see the Dean as soon as pos-
sible, because arrangements arc be-
ing made whereby Biology students
may be allowed to work up the Hy-
giene course by themselves.
A Homer course, which will be of
interest to all Greek enthusiasts, is
being offered. Dr. Dulles is giving
an advanced course in Finance at her
office in Philadelphia, which is open
only to those who have had several
years of  Economics.
The Biology Department has found
it necessary to reduce the number
of students enrolled in the First Year
course, because of the inadequacy of
the laboratory to provide for them
all. Several years ago the Science
Department expanded to its capac-
ity, and it will be necessary to limit
the " numbers taking laboratory
courses until the proposed new Sci-
ence Building has become an. actual
fact.                                    ^
The large number of students who
enrolled for the Modern Novel course,
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Duncan Based Style on
Coherent Philosophy
Her   Dancing   is   Not   Natural,
Interpretive,   Greek,   or
Wholly Romantic
TECHNIQUE IS AMERICAN
(Especially contributed by Janet
. Barber)
It is astonishing that we are so
rarely .conscious of our lessons as
lessons in a way of creating:�wit-
ness most of out melancholy infant
musical efforts and, for the purpose
of this article, witness the Duncan
dancing at college. It is too seldom
remembered that this dancing is bas-
ed upon a definite technique created
out of the coherent philosophy of a
single woman (whom, after all, we
might not have liked); that she had
reasons for choosing the movements
that she chose, and reason for choos-
ing; that Miss Cooper has a definite
and conscious relationship to this se-
lection, and that we have or should
have such a relationship also. For to
learn a .technique sensibly, one should
always be sympathetically aware of
the immortal and intimate problems
of artist, material ana expression
which are solved by or still implicit
in that technique. If one accepts as
dogma one does not accept creative-
ly, and it seems rather dull to dance
lor exercise when we are complaining
of the lack of an "American dance."
The usual misconceptions of Dun-
can dancing arise from too romantic
an interpretation of Isadora's accom-
plishment. Unfortunately this inter-
pretation is almost forced upon us.
In the first place there is her sadly,
heroic autobiography which, unless
read with a knowledge of her danc-
ing as a sympathetic guide, is mis-
leading; it is natural that those who
read the book unguided should con-
fuse the active application of her
philosophy, distorted finally to a lone-
ly romanticism by her disappoint-
ments, with its abstract application,
in the aesthetic of her classic danc-
ing. Secondly, if the little dances of
Isadora's which Miss Cooper presents
so exquisitely seem on the surface a
trifle "sentimental," "not of our
idiom,"^'Un-American," we must re-
member that although Isadora helped
form this generation, she was not of
it, but a contemporary of Rodin and
Scriabin, a Victorian rebel with a
nineteenth-century romantic's vocab-
ulary. Thirdly, most of us have an
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Reporter's Curiosity About Freshman Week
Proves Inconsistent With Senior Dignity,
The options of Freshman Week
expressed to this inquiring reporter
ranged from rapt encomium to tact-
ful silence about the whole thing. We
were assured by one freshman that
Bryn Mawr was the answer to a long,
hearty prayer and Freshman Week
just a banquet of delights, by another
one that she suffered from acute bore-
dom for all five days. After both in-
terviews we put our tongue in our
cheek and hurried busily away in an-
other direction. From several very
attractive and creditable sources we
learned that approximately a ton ef
reading matter had Been lugged to
college by the class of '37 as a pro-
tection against ennui during the first
week. (N. B. Perhaps the Freshman
Handbook had better take this matter
up and insert a clause about the Bryn
Mawr library faculties, cramped
though they -be.) Curious as to
whether the books had really been
used, we pressed our inquiry and
learned that they had remained shut.
"Birth of a bad habit," we wrote in
our notebook.
The next advances made to the ma-
triculating class were not definitely
repulsed,  rather,  regarded  with  ap-
athy�"Freshman Week is sort of te-
dious, especially when you've gone to
school in Bryn Mawr. I suppose the
new girls . . ." anTMOTe we stopped.
A brand new girl became the object
of our pursuit. We waited until din-
ner, then sauntered over to the fresh-
man table, trying to look as uncon-
cerned as possible. As luck would
have it, we sat next to the warden and
so didn't feel entirely forlorn. A few
superior glances were cast in our di-
rection which served to convince us
that we were a case of mistaken iden-
tity, that we were being labeled as
the freshman from the Union of
South Africa who couldn't quite get
here on time. Appalled by the idea
that in a moment we would have to
answer questions about the veldt and
how to trek, we started a loud conver-
sation with our friend, the warden,
about the advantages of Freshman
Week. No one seemed electrified by
this attempt, no one except one very
sweet young thing who leaned across
the table and asked us sympatheti-
cally why we hadn't got to college on
time. Somehow, after that, we
couldn't go on, just mumbled some-
thing about every week being Fresh-
man Week to us and fled.