College News, 1932-11-02, Vol. 19, No. 03

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The College News
VOL. XIX, No. 3
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932
PRICE 10 CENTS
Bryn Mawr Votes Republican
Out of 274 Votes, 181 Are for Hoover;
Norman Thomas is Next With 54
Outstanding Majority of Votes on Prohibition Question is Cast
for Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment;
Minority Favors Enforcement
TWO  -  THIRDS       OF       COLLEGE       REPRESENTED;
Bryn Mawr College is standing behind the re-election of President
Hoover. There has been a great deal of bombast flying around the campus
in which all threy^parties have made an equal amount of noise. But when
the results of the straw vote, conducted by the College News, are put into
cold black print, the Democratic and Socialistic fervor turns out to be more
hot air than actuality.
Two hundred and seventy-four ballots were collected, which represent
over two-thirds of the entire undergraduate body. Of these, President
Hoover received approximately twice as many votes as the other two candi-
dates together. The Graduate School proved itself to be Socialistic, with one
more vote foe Norman Thomas than for Hoover and Roosevelt together.
Naturally, very few of these undergraduate votes will be cast in the
Presidential elections on November 8th, since the majority of the college are
under twenty-one years of age; and also because many students are at
too great a distance from their homes to be able to go home to vote. How-
ever, it is significant that of the twenty-six undergraduates who do intend
to. vote on November 8th, sixteen of them will vote for Hoover, six for
Roosevelt, and four for Thomas.
Opinion is generally against a "protest vote," and against the supposi-
tion that these elections will have any
real influence on the course of our na-
tional welfare. The other vote which
stands out almost as decisively as Re-
publican predominance is that on the
ever-present issue of Prohibition; one
hundred and thirty-two votes were
cast for repeal and only fourteen for
enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment.
In .counting the votes wejjnly hope
that we have done justice^to the con-
victions of those people who, unable
to answer a question by yes or no,
wrote political essays on their ballots
-for our edification. Some of them
were amusing, if hard to decipher,
especially in the case of the student
who, instead of checking the party to
which she "normally lent her sup-
port," stated that she had never "leant
her support to anyone;" and another
who said she was voting for Hoover,
ulthough she would much rather have
Thomas for President. We were puz-
zled by one undergraduate who put
Bryn Mawr, Pa., for her class, and
oven more so by one who claimed to
belong to the Class of 2934.
The News, nevertheless, feels that
the results of this straw vote are rep-
resentative of the feeling of the great-
er part of the college, and feels justi-
fied in putting Bryn Mawr on record
as backing President Hoover, the Re-
publican Party, and the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
American Universities
Republican and Wet
The Presidential poll recently con-
ducted by the Daily Princetonian re-
veals the extraordinary strength of
the Republican party among forty-
seven representative American col-
leges and universities in thirty-one
States.
President Hoover led in thirty-one
universities, gaining a margin of more
than 11,000 votes over Governor
Roosevelt. 29,289 ballots of the total
vote of 58,680 supported President
Hoover, while Governor Roosevelt was
niven 18,212 votes; Norman Thomas,
1470 votes, and William Z. Foster,
715 votes.
In the East President Hoover was
supported by twenty colleges; in the
South Governor Roosevelt carried the
vote of eleven colleges, while Hoover
gained the majority again in nine of
I he Mid-Western colleges and in the
Far West
While President Hoover led in
thirty-one universities, Roosevelt
<wept efeven universities. Five uni-
versities, including New York Uni-
versity, Columbia, and the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology were
strong for Mr. Thomas.
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Dr. Swindler to Edit
Archaeology Journal
(Reprint From Nevi York Sun)
Prof. Mary Swindler, who holds
the chair of Greek sculpture and arch-
aeology at Bryn Mawr College, has
recently been made the first woman to
edit the American Journal of Arch-
aeology. This is a signal honor, for
the magazine ranks first of all the
archaeological publications in the
country, since it is the organ of the
American Institute of Archaeology.
Dr. Swindler has been outstanding
in her profession for years. She has
made seven trips to Europe and on
five of them studied the tomb paint-
ings of ancient Egypt, the first Amer-
ican woman ever to undertake this
ambitious work. She has but recent-
ly published a book on "A History of
Painting" and it is being used by the
graduate schools of Yale and Har-
vard.
"It seems to me," said Dr. Swin-
dler, "that archaeology is one of the
best fields open to women today. It
is extremely interesting and gratify-
ing; it presents wide fields for fur-
ther research. And perhaps, best of
all, men welcome and recognize the
authority of women in archaeology,
especially in the field of classical
Greek art.
"I think the reason is that women
are peculiarly fitted for this kind of
work. They do not seem particularly
fitted for the actual superintendence
of excavation work, but when it comes
to drawing, writing, interpreting
findings, they are excellent. They are
more meticulous than men and they
are more willing to take pains with
small things.
"Here at Bryn Mawr the study of
Greek art and sculpture is especially
popular. We have a number of Bryn
Mawr girls studying over in Athens
and in other parts of Europe. I
would encourage girls to pursue this
field, for they will find it highly in-
teresting and instructive. After the
proper college training, they can then
go to certain places to carry on par-
ticular studies in whatever kind of
archaeology interest-them most.
"There is plenty of opportunity in
American archaeology. The surface
has just been tapped, but just think
what we still have to learn about the
cultures of the Indians, the'Mayans
and the Aztecs. Every time another
tomb is excavated and some ancient
pottery and jewels are brought to
light we can write another paragraph
in the history of these ancient peo-
ples and can add something important
to ear own knowledge."
BRYN MAWR NEWS STRAW VOTE
Question                     Pem.    pem.    Den-
For President:                             East   West    bigh    Rock.  Merion    Grad.    1933
Hoover .................    34       39        39        39        30        11        39
Roosevelt  ...............      6       10          9        10          4          4          7
Thomas................'     7         G        12          7        12        16        15
Party   Normally   Supported:
.    Republican   .............    33       38        41         33        :i:>        18        35
Democratic   .............   -10         14            <>          10            5            4          11
Socialist ................      5         1           7          4          4          8          9
For a Protest Vote.........    11       10        26        14        15        13        22
Against a Protest Vote.....    29       34        24        32        30        15        30
Voting on November 8......      7         8          3          5          3        17        22
National Welfare
depends on elections......    20       16        17        23        15          6        16
National Welfare does not �^-
depend on elections.......    25       36        40        31         30        23^       44
18th Amendment:
Repeal   .................    24       37        28        28        15          6        31
Modification   ............. 13         8        17        19        22        19        16
Referendum    ............      8         7        10          8          5          2        10
Enforcement  ............      2         2          5.        1          4          4          4
Undergraduate
1934     1935    1936    Total
. 49   �   37       56        181
8        12        12          39"
6        11        12          54
45	43	Ol	180
10	10	14	45
3	6	3	21
13	21	20	76
43	35	41	149
3	-i	0	26
23	24	29	92
37	39	42	162
28	3.")	38	132
21	14	28	79
10	11	7	38
4	0	6	14
Boiirdeile Described
as Prominent Sculptor
Louis   Reau   Gives   Lecture   on
Artist Who Developed
Structural Style
FELT VARIED INFLUENCES
Contemporary French Sculpture, as
exemplified by Antoine Bourdelle, was
the subject chosen by M. Louis Reau
lor his last Wednesday's lecture in
the Music Room of Goodhart. M.
Heau, who is the director of the Ga-
zette des Beaux-Arts and professor
at the Ecole du Louvre, as well as offi-
cial lecturer of the Alliance Francaise,
spoke under the auspices of the de-
partments of- French and History of
| Art. His talk, which was in French,
was illustrated with lantern slides.
Antoine Bourdelle, said M. Reau,
represents that generation of sculp-
tors which succeeded Rodin. Though
less genial than the latter, Bourdelle
ic-invested sculpture with simplicity,
its purpose being, he thought, to en-
hance the creations of the architect.
Sculpture is the art par excellence
I of  the  French,  and   their  creations
have been the greatest that the world
has produced  since the days of the
Greeks.    Notre Dame has no equiva-
lent, even in Italy, where after a flare
of grandeur in the fifteenth century,
a period of decadence again  set in.
I In  France development was continu-
[ ous, from the Romanesque and (iol.h-
i ic,  through  Jean   Bourgeant  in  the
Renaissance, Versailles in the seven-
teenth century, Houdon and de Fal-
connet in the eighteenth, Rude, Barye,
'Carpault, Rodin in the nineteenth, to
Bourdelle and Despian of the present
day.'
Bourdelle was born at Montauban, a
town between Bordeaux and Toulouse,
the artistic capital of that region.
Montauban itself was well known for
its art in the Middle Ages, and was
also the birthplace of Ingres. It was
at the nearby cloister of Moissac that
Bourdelle first came into contact with
the French sculpture of the Middle
Ages, which was to be one of the three
irreat influences on his work. Bour-
delle was interested, not so much in
the thirteenth century, as in the Ro-
manesque art of the earlier period.
Having served an apprenticeship in
his   home   town�under   Falquiere�
Bourdelle  set  out for  Paris,  as  all
young artists do, alas. There his stud-
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SOPHOMORE ELECTIONS
President: Peggy Little .
Vice - President:    Florence
Cluett.
Secretary:    Elizabeth Kent.
College Calendar
Wednesday, Nov. 2: Politi-
cal meeting in auditorium, 7.30
P.  M.
Thursday, Nov. 3: Banner
Night. Dr. Vaughan Williams
on "The Folk Song," Goodhart
Hall.
Friday, Nov. 4: Miss Susan
Kingsbury will speak on "Rus-
sia."    Radnor, at 7.30 P. M.
Saturday, Nov. 5: Bryn
Mawr Varsity vs. Philadelphia
Cricket Club Yellows at 10.00
A. M.
Monday, Nov. 7: Bryn
Mawr Seconds vs. Main Line
Reserves. 3.00 P. M. Political
Rally.
Ping-Pong Table in Gym
to Satisfy Enthusiasts
Having remained in obscurity all
last year, entirely hidden under May
Day costumes, the ping-pong table has
ugain come into its own, and the Ath-
letic Association hopes that real in-
terest will be taken in this gentle
sport. A manager has been appoint-
ed�Leta Clews � and tournaments
have been planned.
The manager feels that ping-pong
should have a wide appeal; there are
many to whom God did not grant an
athletic frame. There are also those
whom a baseball quite honestly fright-
ens. And we must not forget those
whose feminine charm is wasted on a
hockey field. - While their friends are
prancing down the hockey field, they
must either sit home on a cushion and
grow fat or�play ping-pong. But
ping-pong does more than provide
safe and stimulating exercise for the
feminine, the frail and the muscle-
hound. Despite the opinion of
tennis authorities, it may, on a
small scale, help considerably in per-
fecting the tennis stroke. Moreover,
it requires cleverness, if not strength.
What a boon to the Intellectual!
Again, it can be played in high heels.
Nor is there great need for an ath-
letic costume. People rushing* back
from a week-end could, if they desir-
ed, go straight to the ping-pong ta-
ble. How marvelous if, some day, it
were to be placed among the possible
Required Sports, or made an alter-
nate to Body Mechanics!
The manager, however, hopes that
ping-pong will not appeal only to a
specialized group. She feels sure that
the swimmer, making for the pool,
will enjoy her plunge far more for
having stopped to warm up a minute
at the ping-pong table. Let us, then,
take this newly-rediscovered sport to
our hearts, and make the ping-pong
table in the basement of the Gym a
common meeting ground for all sorts
of people�the short and tall, the weak
and strong, the stiff and limber.
Dr. Vaughan Williams
Gives Second Lecture
Traces Origin of Folk Song to
Excited Speech and Dance
of Plain People
HORACE ALWYNE  PLAYS
"Folk song is a microcosm of all
the arts that go to make up the ar-
tistic construction of music," Dr.
Ualph Vaughan Williams asserted, in
the second lecture of the Flexner ser-
ies. On the Nature of Folk Song,"
which he delivered Thursday, October
27, in Goodhart Hall. In the course of
his address, he traced the origin of
folk music from excited speech and
dance, and discussed its inherent lim-
itations and advantages. To prove
that the modality of folk music has
an appeal for modern listeners, the
i-hoir sang four English folk tunes
and Mr. Alwyne played three exam-
ples of modern modal harmony by De-
bussy, Ravel, and Satie.
As a summary of his last lecture,
Dr. Williams remarked that national
music is not all folk song, but folk
song is national music in the most un-
adulterated form possible, an art in
its own right, perfectly adapted to the
unsophisticated people who use it.
Since "emotion is more primitive than
thought, it does not seem far-fetched
to suppose that primitive song origi-
nated before primitive speech, and cer-
tainly before the most primitive of
instruments.
According to Dr. Williams, song
�rew from emotional, excited speech,
an idea which seems borne out by the
interchangeability of the words for
"say" and "sing" in Old German. A
folk singer speaks of "telling" not of
"singing" a ballad, and the words and
music are so inextricably mixed in his
mind that he cannot hum the tune
without the words.
Song is an obvious way of giving
pattern to words. Before men had
written records, ballads served many
of the functions of modern newspa-
pers and books. Since everything had
to be learned orally, to aid his mem-
ory, the ballad maker (speaking in the
singular for the sake of convenience)
would put his story in a metrical form
and, to increase the emotional value,
would add musical notes.
The first step in  the development
of the four-line folk tune was prob-
ably the use of some stock phrase at
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Resignation
The College Newt regrets to
announce the resignation of
Molly Nichols, '34. from the
editorial staff.
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