College News, 1929-10-09, Vol. 16, No. 01

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VOL: XVI, NO. 1
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9. 1929
PRICL.   !0  CENTs
Fine Points of Cut
System Explained
(Specially contributed />y M. McKtlvey,
1931.)       v
There ar* many misunderstandings
about the cut system, and these should V
cleared up at the beginning of the year.
First, students' are all >wed fifteen cuts
a semester. "When family circumstances
necessitate the absence of a student, it
is not always possible that cuts be ex-
cused. Illness, death in the immediate
family, or weddings in' the immediate
family are the only reasons for absences
being excused�while absences for legal
l -oceedings. etc.. should be planned for
in advance and cuts saved for such emer-
gencies" All excuses are obtained from
tHt Dean.
A student taking excess cuts up to and
including two and two-thirds shall be
placed on Student Probation. That is.
the number of excess etits up to and in-
cluding one shall be quadrupled and de-
ducted from the student's next semester's
cuts. The number of excess cuts from
one through two and two-thirds shall
V tripled and deducted. A student over-
cutting more than two and two-thirds is>
recommended for Senate Probation, and
is allowed no cuts for the next semester.
A student -taking more than twenty-five
cuts cancels the  semester's  work.           I
Any student who over-cuts because
she does not expect to return to college
the following year "v. ill be asked to leave
immediately rathw than stay and .not
attend classes.
Students are advised' to keep a record
of their own cuts, t>> be compared in
case of error with the cut records of
the Dean's office. Unless this is done,
no' corrections wUf be made after the
cuts are recorded at the end of the month.
Any student who is not in her right
scat when attendance is being taken, or
who is out of the room at that time,
should report immediately after class to
the Dean's office.
Winners Announced
The Lantern takes pleasure in an-
nouncing Christopher Morley's judg-
ments of its last year's prose competi-
tion. The prize of fifty dollars was given
t^ Charlotte F.insiedlcr. 1932, for hef
article on Mary Webb. Honorable men-
tion was given \u Katharine Batch, 1929,
for Bin Bog,,                .
The prize in verse, as announced in
the last issue of the N'kws. went to Elisa-
beth Linn. '29, late editor-in-chief of the
CoLLBOB N'kws, for a pom which ap-
peared in the [)eceml>er Lantern entitled
Late Autumn, Honorable mention was
awarded   to   Anne   Burnett,   '32,   whose'
Busy Freshman Week
Prepares Newcomers
Brilliant Class of 1933 Has Same
Interests as Prede-
cessors.
Competition
SPLENDIDLY       EQUIPPED
The COLLRGB N'l.ws wishes to
announce a competition for candi-
dates for the Editorial Hoard
which will be open to members of
the Sophomore, Junior and Senior
classes. Aspirants should consult
E. Rice. 23 Pembroke East, as
so. m as nonJMft
Miss Park Hails
the Multitude
Ultra-New Graduate School and
Brilliant Freshmen Are
Impressive.       c^
(Specially  contributed by
(.'.  Bancroft,  '3<h
"Not in entire forget fulness
And not in utter nakedness
Rut   trailing clouds of  glory  did   tlicv
come." '
One hundred and twenty strong they
poem, .' Jcicclcr's Window, appeared in   arrived.   September   2^.-  19,29,   in   time
the   February   issue.     The   seconc
orable   mention   went   to   Vaung
Bang,  '30,   for  a  poem   which  appeared
in the same issue as Miss Burnett's.
for dinner in Pembroke, to be met
there by the Sell-Government Cony
inittee and the three presidents of the
other major organizations, all wearing
yellow ribbons and possessed of a
strong curiosity to know this excep-
French   Educator  Gives                 tional   Freshman   Class  of  intellectual
�   �   _                , v           j       | glory.     Reports   of   its   brilliance   had
hoik bongs ot Yesterday emulated during the summer with the
rapidity   of  all   other   Bryn   Mawr   ru-
An entertaining lecture-recital oil  Les   ��;�.   gl.eat   was   the   gcneral   relief
Chansons l'of>ulaircs I'rancaises was when it was discovered at the parties
given by II, Petit Dutaillis in the given for its members in the halls that
Music Room of Goodhart Hall on Fri-   evening,  that  they were quite normal.
.------L�-��'.-�:-----,--------    with   the   same   passionate   interest   in
day evening.    M. Dutaillis is a director ' ..                              ,
discussing    mutual    acquaintances    as
of all the international work done  by . that of a]1 preceding freshman classes,
the French Department of Education, I    0ll Thursday the serious business of
and just now he is really on a mission
in America from the Minister of Pub-
lic   Instruction   of   France.     However,
Freshmen Entertained..'
. .    at Formal Receiption
The newest coiners to Bryn
Mawr were officially welcomed by
the Self-Government Association at
a reception on Saturday night. Oc-
tober 5. jn the (jyninasiuni. Grad-
uate students and freshmen with
their student advisers were wel-
comed by Dean Schenck of the
Graduate School. Mrs. Collins,
Miss Collins. Miss .Gardiner, and
the presidents of the undergraduate
activities, who* formed the receiving
line. The introductions performed,
old- students and itew engaged in
dancing to the music fnrnislied by
Thomas Gardner's "Demons" of
Syncopation." The guests of honor
were excellently taken care of by
.solicitous S. A. girls, who kept their
charges rotating rapidly among a
number of upper classmen. Greet-
ings were exchanged and names
forgotten in quick succession, until
the dancers paused and assembled
on cushions to hear Dean Schenck
and    Mrs.   Collins
Dean Schenck gave a most en-
tertaining account of the college of
her day, and kept her hearers in
gales of laughter over the pompa-
dours and trains of 1902. Her self-
portrait as a honvsick Freshman
willing to "stick it out till Thanks-
giving" was particularly amusing to
the very jolly Freshmen of 1929.
Miss Stokes then introduced
Mrs. Collins, who up to that time
had been known to the Freshmen
only as vaguely connected with, the
May Day oxen. Mrs. Collins
speedily became a most vivid per-
sonality to all her audience, who
quite took to heart her excellent ad-
vice, and will strive to avoid both
press and police court from now on.
No reckless drivers are expected
to appear, and all post 10:30 activi-
ties will l>e carried on inside the
campus, not opposite Mrs. Collins'
.home.
Punch, ice cream, and cookies
added to the hilarity of the recep-
frcshman week begun. From then on
interviews, speeches, meetings, inter-
views, examinations, moral, mental and
, physical, and interviews were the order
having been  happily endowed   with   ai   f ..      .          �     �,    .   �   ,        . ���
ft                 vv '                                   of the day.    President   Park and Miss
most   excellent- voice   in   addition   to  Carey worked untiringly from Thurs-
those   talents   which   make   an   educa-' day   to  Monday.     They   spoke to  the
tional administrator, M. Dutaillis came
to us in the much less august capacity
of an authority and a singer of old
French popular songs.
These songs, which charmed his au-
dience on Friday evening, have arisen
very much as the few native songs of
which we can boast�from the history
and life of the people. To illustrate
this point, M. Dutaillis sang two songs;
freshmen collectively and interviewed
them individually. The health depart-
ment weighed, measured, tapped and
recorded. Mr. Willoughuy searched
for and discovered mutes. The Presi-
dent of the Athletic Association spoke
and gave swimming tests; the Presi-
dent of the Self-Govcrnmcnt Associa-
tion spoke, and gave an examination
on the rules; the President of the Un-
dergraduate Association spoke, and
mca*ured   for caps   and   gowns.     The
Ointln
iMsd   on   I*hk� Four
one very old indeed, of Gallic origin; | Wyndham   picnic   took   place  on   Sat
and another which was probably com-] nrda>'   evening.    It  was  followed  by
posed   sometime   after   the   Hundred
Year' War and which contains an  al-
lusion to Jeanne D'Arc.
It is exceedingly difficult to know ex-
actly to what century these songs be-
long, lint among those of ancient
Origin "Chansons de Fetes" must al-
ways be included. These songs�one
of them with a" pleasing lilting refrain,
"C'est le Joli Mois de Mai," were sung
on May- Day by the poorer folk to ob-
tain money from the lords and ladies
who lived in the great chateaux.
Songs Originate in Country.
Indeed, very soon it was only the
peasants in the little villages who con-
tinued to compose music -spontane-
ously. Such popular music was aban-
doned in the cities,  although  still  re-
Provinces. In each of these, charac-
teristic spngs were developed: In Brc-
tagne, sad songs and amusing rounds
some   most    successful   instruction   in
college songs.
Sunday, "for the most part was a day
of unorganized rest from examinations
and assiduous upperclassmen. In the
afternoon .Miss Park gave a most de-
lightful reception in Wyndham. An
informal chapel service in the evening
at which Mr. Willoughby played the
organ to a pleasantly well-filled music
room, and Dorothea Cross spoke, coin-
Continued on Pace Bw
When to Go
The organization.of the Dean's office
for the year 1929-30 is as follows:
Freshmen and Seniors are to see Miss
Carey on all questions connected with
their academic work.    Miss Carey's of-
fice   hours   are  from  8.30  until   10.30
maining  an   important   feature   in   thc-fcvery   morning, and   on   Tuesday  and
Thursday   afternoon   from   2.30   until
4.00.
Sophomores and Juniors itt To see
for dancing; in   Normandy, more vig-| Mjss Gardiner on questi0�s in connec-
orous tunes   of  a   moderately   ribald
type.    Everywhere in the country there
arose working songs  which   the peas-
ants used to sing in the  fields, often-
tion with their academic work. Miss
Gapdiner's office hours are from 9.30
until 10.30 on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday mornings, and from 12.00
until 1.00 on Thursday and Friday
mornings.*
For all matters not connected with
academic work, such as excuses, or ill�
nesv.tll students should consult  Miss
times�as George Sand mentions in
"La Mare au Diable"�to encourage
the animals; in contrast to these are
the songs for soldiers and sailors,
marches or sad dirges; and finally,
there  were  sentimental  love songs or
comic tunes of marital life such as the j    arey'        _____________
amusing "Good-wife and the Donkey"                          ~"~
song with which M. Dutaillis regaled   Wyndham Garden a Memorial
his audience.                .                �                  A number of the friends of Katrina
"Today the French popular tonga Fly Tiffany inside and outside pf the
have become very much a thing of the college have contributed to a fund
past," concluded M. Dutaillis. "The which will endow the present Wynd-
great war, which was more tragic than ham garden .as a memorial to Mrs.
those which preceded it, failed to in-
spire many songs; the old ones are
fast disappearing and now serve only
to be made into a collection or as ina-
And the Sophomores
Didn't Learn a Thing
Parade Night�a muddy Wednesday
instead of a pouring Tuesday ceremony
�was a serious occasion for 1932, as
1933 had chosen to emulate 1930 and
hold Out against their Sophomores. The
self-sufficiency of '32 was stumped by
that self-sufficiency of '33.
At 8 o'clock; Wednesday, October
2, the Band exploded under Pembroke
Arch, and Sophomores made their
muddy way to the lower hockey field
(where it was discovered by them that
a small spark may become a bonfire
when encouraged with, kerosene).
1932 was quite worn out from skip-
ping, when flares from the hill dis-
turbed them, and the strange sounds
of arriving Hand. Freshmen and
Parade Song, floated down: "Hcigho,
the Dcrry O, We're '33 by Jingo"!
Then Sophomore arms were pulled
from their sockets, and the ' mob
crashed through to the fire.
What followed exhausted all, inside
of five nfinutes�even the half a dozen
Juniors skipping furiously around the
outer ring. And so it happened that
'32 quieted down and moved uphill,
and '33 quieted -down and moved up-
Jiill, and a short time later there was
sung under the Arch: *----------�
You'll never learn a thingo
Of the. Freshman and their lingo,   .
Heigho, the Derry Ol
We're '33, by Jingo!
to which the Sophomores replied with
a cheer.
Miss Park formally opened college
in the Goodhart auditorium, on Tues-
day morning, October 1. The address
had so much of interest to everypne
connected with the college that we
.print the whole text below:
"It is'hard to believe  that  %nly to-
day  the  college  year begins.    A  few
weVks ago I was looking at Cape lire-
ton bays set like sapphires in their gray
rocks, or the clear pools of rivers, fill-
ing and  emptying with  the  tide  and
watching eagerly,'  laid  in  against   its
northern background a life which dis-
appeared    from    New    England    fifty
i years   ago.   laborious   enough   but   un-
I complicated   and   leisurely,     I   thought
[of  Mrs.   Chad wick  Collins  thirty-two
times as   I   drove   for   three hours be-
turers.
Tiffany. Work on the garden is to be
begun this fall. The size of the garden
will remain unchanged and in its cen-
ter there will be an inscribed memorial
terial for savants, learned men and lee- -to Mrs  Tiffany.    The form lift* not yet
been decided,   obn.
'
fc
Mjss Carey Announces
New Points of Interest
. Comparing herself and Miss Gardi-
ner to the Walrus and the Carpenter,
Miss Carey continued the metaphor in
Chapel on October 3 by bewailing the
amount of sand encountered in- work
in the Dean's office. In an attempt to
clear away as much of the sand as
possible, she repeated and stressed
several important announcements made
elsewhere. Miss Carey's and Miss
Gardiner's officc^JiQurs have been
changed and are pasted on the bulle-
tin boards. Sophomores and Juniors
are to take any difficulties in their work
to Miss Gardiner, but Miss Carey
Stands ready to assist them as .well as
her own Freshmen and Seniors in com-
plications of any other sort.
Some important changes have been
made in the Infirmary rules also. The
new office hours are from 9 to 1 and
2 to 4 every day, Saturday from 9 to
12, and Sundays by appointment. A
new head nurse and night nurse have
been added to the staff, which allows
us to expect increased efficiency from
these new arrangements.
Students are asked to read the re-
vised health rules and general infor-
mation slips, paying special attention
to the italicized sentences. Those reg-
ulations which are most important fol-
low :
Students with colds who are con-
fined to their rooms by the Associate
Physician must stay in quarantine for
the period indicated. Other students
who break the quarantine will be fined
$5.00.
Students who have been directed by
the College Physician to stay in the
Infirmary or to go home, should re
port to the Warden of their hall and
the} should also notify her when the)
return.
Student-   who  are   UIKXpeCtedl}    de
laved in returning to the halls should.
,i-    root!   as    possible,   tele; hone   the
Warden personally.
tween Annapolis and   Varmouth, for  I
passed thirty-two teams of oxen on the
oad!     With   a  sudden  understanding
of why my grandmother was a better
woman   than   1 .but not  being able to
use  the   revelation   profitably,   I   came
back to   (he   machine'age.     In  an  in-
stant, in   the  twinkling Of an  eye.  we
were again shoes to the telephone, to *
the post  box collection and the power
house siren.     The noise  of the grass
cutter without aiuf the vacuum cleaner
within  has   tilled   our   heads;   eleventh
hour bath-tubs have clanked into Pem-
broke.     Freshmen's   trunk*   and   tele-
grams, finally the Freshmen themselves
have   come   a...I   somehow   distributed
themselves and the time of the college
offices   has   already   for   a   week   been
bent   twenty-foil*  hours a  day on  the   '
Freshman registration.    I Am driven to
remember   my   old   Ford.     There   has
been  such a clatter of everything's be-
ginning at once  that   it is hard to be
reminded    the   college   year    has   not
moved  officially,   that  so   far   we have
heard onlv the noise of the starter, and
that the journey  is not brilliantly be-
gun!    It is with this ininute finally that
we launch on the ofticfal year's round
and   from   now   on' the   entering  class
takes its own place and  only  its own
place in the pattern of the \ ear.
Important Feature of Graduate School..
"The really  new  figure in  that pat-
tern is the Graduate School in its new
hall, with its new olficer�its individu-
ality   about   to   form.     In   separating
graduate and undergraduate students a
tradition   well   pedigreed -from   Cam- ~~
bridge and Oxford and long cherished
was   broken   and"  in   no   Bryn   Mawr
breast was there a unanimous vote in
favor of the change�or rather perhaps .
our sentiment voted mutinously against
our sense.    For undeniably the good
of the Graduate School is the good of
each member of the college, and un-
deniably for the good of the school a
well-considered afFd a resolute step has
been   taken.     Where all   education  of
graduate  and   professional   students  is
expensive,  such education  in a small
college  is   overwhelmingly  expensive;
it cabbages a large sum for fellowship
and scholarships   (at   Hryn   Mawr the
income   of   $700,000);   precious   class-
room space is devoted to relatively few
students"   it   sends   up   the   bills   for
teaching, for books, for equipment.
"If I should paint Bryn Mawr as
Atlas, the world on his shoulders
would at different times bear different
labels, but sometimes, and especially
when I was in financial depression, it
would be labeled the Graduate School.
And it is true that it is possible now
as it was not once for women to study
in the advanced courses of American
and foreign universities Why, then,
with this year is the Graduate School
made still more important? With hon-
iralltl    reaSUII*    for   giving   it   up.   for
< iifilliiiiril   on   I'Mcr   I'our
� Calendar
Friday.  October  11�Lantern   N'ight
Saturday. October 1.'   French Oral. ;
9-10.30 A.  M.

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