College News, 1930-11-12, Vol. 17, No. 06

              College News
VOL XVII, No. 6
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1930.
PRICE   10  CENTS
Paul Hazard Concludes
French Poetry Series
Flexner Lecturer Explains Traits
of Symbolists and Con-
temporaries.
PAUL   CLAUDEL   GENIUS
(Specially contributed by L. Mandell ami
Ji. I'redericl*. holders of the Hazard
Scholarships.)
Monsieur Hazard's eighth lecture ex-
plained the theories of the Symbolist
school of French poetry, a school which
was the result of a continuous stream
wi-developmciit present ever sinc�-Freuch
Romanticism. According to the program
of the Symbolists, poetry should be: (1)
secret and incomprehensible to the aver-
age man, (2> it should have a sense sub-
ordinate to the music, (3) which in turn
should be subordinate to the imaginative
quality of a poem. In short, Symbolism
i> in poetic fashion a suggestive picture.
# To name an object is to suppress it.
One should take one of the qualities of
an object and describe that alone in order
^describe the whole object.
This doctrine was realized by its leader,
Sfephane Matlarmc, who, neither an ac-
cursed poet like Baudelaire, nor a revo-
lutionary like Vktor Jfugo, had a true
love for words. Mall irme delighted in
translating everything into poetry and
like the true artist was possessed with
the idea that nothing but perfection should
come from his pen. In 1887 was pub-
lished his Poesies Completes, a volume
which exerted a great influence on his
followers. One may interpret his poetry
� in one of three wax-.: one may consider
it contemptuously, one may try to find
its meaning�a vain attempt, or one may
try to understand it not rationally but
merely listening to it and abandoning
one's self to it as one might to music.
What, more precisely, was Mallarme's
influence on French poetry? He was the
first to bring in the idea of the necessity
of conscious co-oi>eration on the part of
the reader in order to understand poetry;
the idea also of the difficulty of compo-
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Main Liners Fail to
Score Against 2d Varsity
In the warmth of a salubrious Mon-
day afternoon the second Varsity de-
feated the Main Line reserves, 3-0.
�The game was Uneventful, there being
neither any outstandingly good playing
nor any extremely bad playing.
In the first half Hellmer and Smith
each made a goal, but in the second
period  the   Main   Line  fullbacks  stiff-
ened and only 'one score was made.
Main Line Reserves              2d Varsity
Folwell..................R.   W...................Leidy
De Lone................R.   I................Gerhard
McHugh................C. "F...................Smith
Shillein..................L. ' I...�............Hellmer
Reinhold................L.   W...................Boyd
Davis.....................R.   H.................Jarrett
(Miles)
Swain....................C.  H...................Collins
Wilkis...............,....L.. H,...........'.......Watts
Hallahan.............R.   F....................Bishop
Rumpp..................L.   F.......................Baer
Brill........................G.........................Jones
Referees�Miss Wilkis, Miss Grant.
Time: 25-minute halves. Score: B. M.
C: Hellmer, 2; Smith.
1932 and 1933 Victors
in Class Games
Dean Manning Offers Advice
to Job-Hunting Seniors
Oti Thursday. November 6. Dean Man-
ning spoke in chapel on the subject of
"Getting a Job." She began by saying
that jobs are harder to get now than she
ever remembers their being before, but
that the college will always feel respon-
sible (or helping its students to get them.
In order to advise student and pros-
pective employer tin1 JK'rsonnel bureau
must have information. College and
school records" are an index of general
intelligence and, to a surprising extent,
of ability to see things through, but they
_du not nei-ess.-irily .show � the student's
tastes or t\pe of thinking. Last year's
Freshman Questionnaire was intended to
fill this need in part.
As students differ so do the jobs they
demand. Some think along practical
lines, in concrete images. Others think
in abstract images and see always the
idea l>ehind the act: it is a more delicate
job finding positions for these. Some
like intellectual jobs, others jobs of or-
ganization. Some work best alone;
others are naturally gregarious.
The chief difficulty with vocational ad-
vice is that no one wants Ao take it.
Students have different but unchanging
attitudes in choosing what they will do.
Some are pliant; in a family of doctors
they are doctors; in a family of lawyers,
lawyers. Others, among them Mrs. Man-
ning, are contrary, choosing the untradi-
tional occupation. Some are swayed by
sentimental considerations to choose jobs
for which they are not practically or
temperamentally suited. Most people are
unwilling to pre|�re for the technical job
which is easiest to get. When one has
mastered it thoroughly, one will usually
find that intellectual interest may be
squeezed out of it.
If one is sure of one's general fiyld it
is best to take the best job one can find
in it and not expect too much at first.
The contact with concrete example is
whaf is most needed. Mrs. Manning laid
special emphasis on the importance of
always seeing through jobs undertaken.
She stressed too the importance of being
healthy. The time and money lost from
sickness of employees, women especially,
is very great and employers are rightfully
prejudiced  against  the  chronically   ill.
All students were urged, in conclusion,
to register at the ^Bureau of Recommen-
dations so that there will always be on
hand at the college reference material to
use in getting a job.
Guest Rule Extended
The., guest rule was expanded
last spring to include sisters and
friends of resident students. This
change was made not in order to
provide a place for people who
merely wish to fulfill social en-
gagements in the-neighborhood,
but to allow students to have
guests who really wish to see
them and the college.
Students are asked to inform
their frieuds that the halls close
at 10:30 and that guests should
arrive before that hour and
should not stay out late unless
they are accompanied by their
college hostess.
League Official
Defends Federation
Administrative    and    Technical
Burden to Be Assumed
by Secretariat.
BRIAND PLANS NEGATIVE
"There is not "arid "Will not be, such a
thing as a Federatfoif of Europe," said
Monsieur Pierre de Lanux, Director
of the Paris Information Office of the
League of Nations, Thursday after-
non in Goodhart. "But something
should be established which is federal
in scope; and it is only lately that this
has been brought down to a practical,
political and statesmanlike plane, by
Hriand."                                  �_
Briand wishes to give no more than
the impulse; knowing intuitively that
the "man of the streets," the non-
political voter, all, over Europe, is in
favor of the idea, he nevertheless wants
the people to work it out for them-
selves. Afraid of the responsibility, it
is against his will that he is giving
out more detailed memoranda.
These memoranda arc of a negative,
not a positive, character. In Europe,
there is a greater need for barbed wire
to be pulled 'down than to be estab-
lished, for there are twenty-seven
states, with corresponding borders,
frontiers and tariff barriers, which
leaves everything paralyzed by an ob-
solete and difficult situation. Briand,
speaking in the name of these twenty-
seven states, and as a result of the re-
plies received over the summer, pro-
poses the following plan: Periodic
meetings, a permanent secretariat, and
a method of work which allows of reg-
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First Italian Armistice
Described by Dr. Taylor
Dr. Lily Ross Taylor was the
speaker �'' Chapel on Tuesday, Armis-
tice Day, and her subject was the first
Armistice Day on the Italian front.
\t the time, Dr. Taylor was a worker
in the chemical laboratory of the Uni-
versity of Padua, which had been
turned into a surgical dressing and hos-
pital supply room. The roar of the
\�K guns slackened on Saturday, after
a particularly active week, and on Sun-
day morning, November 4, the work
women brought in the news of peace,
which was shortly confirmed by the
Red Oos's. And then the cefebration
began.
"The workers all went on a holiday of
song, wine and Lucky Strikes, but for
Dr. Taylor and a small staff, among
them supposedly the trusty Giovanni,
who was discovered some time later
rather worse for wear, having done
some personal celebrating. In the eve-
ning. Padua was flooded with light, in
gay contrast to the preceding time of
darkness.
In concluding, Dr. Taylor spoke of
the disillusionment of the days follow-
ing the Armistice, and of the general
restlessness that inevitably set in. She
touched on the vivid feeling borne in
after the war that men who had come
back from the front had suffered far
more than even the most active women
workers. And the last, and one of the
greatest evils which Dr. Taylor dwelt
on was the danger to the integrity of
a people that arises from living on lies
of propaganda and politics for a period
as long as the war.
Mind of New China
Shown by Dr. Chang
Chinese Attitude Toward China
Evolves from Self-Conceit
to Reorientation.
IDEAOLOGY    IS    STRONG
Bryn Mawr League Musical
The second of the series of musical
services "will be held on Sunday next,
November3 16, in the Music Room at
7:30 P. M.   The program is as follows:
Organ solos: Chorale in A Minor
(No. 3), Cesar Franck; Pastorale
(from First Sonata), Guilmant;
Marchc Upon a Theme by Handel,
Guilmant. Choir: "Now All the Woods
Are Sleeping," Bach; "Tenebrae
Factac Sunt," Palestrina; "O Vos
Omnes," Vittoria; Psalm 148, "Lord
Who Hast Made Us for Thine Own."
A special "Welsh Melody" will be
sung to the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of
My Soul," in which the audience is
asked to take special part while the
choir sings a descant above the actual
hymn tune.
The next of these musical services
will be on Sunday, December 14, at
7:3_Q,P. M- This will be in the nature
of a special Christmas Carol Service.
Announce Details of First National Contest on
V           the League of Nations for Colleges
Dr. P. C Chang, Professor at Nan-
Kai University,, Tientsin, China, and
visiting Professor at the University of
Chicago, for the second semester,
1930-31. spoke on "Whither China,"
in the music room of Goodhart, on
Monday evening. November 10.
China. Dr. Chang began, is a chaU -
lenging but confusing subject. It is a
large country, comprising a fourth of
the world's total population. It has
behind it ;< continuous and distinctive
culture�the only culture that has
lasted more than four thousand years.
Yet China is undeveloped 4fl the mod-
ern economic senses of the word, and it
has still to find a solution to its prob-
lem as the largest potential market in
the world. Further Dr. Chang em-
phasized the fact that' an analysis of
the present situation *in China should
involve* much more than the single
phases as reported by Western inter-
preter-, who seldom--even- know the
Chinese language. It is far more im-
portant for us to understand the
Chinese mind, and the transitions that
are going on in that mind than to un-
derstand the war reports that occupy
the  newspaper  headline-.
In order to understand fully the
China of today we must also examine
the pad eenturies of its history; we
must see both how China has been
looked at by the outside world, and
how China has been looked at by the
Chinese themselves. The attitude of
the, West in regard to China has
passed through three phases: Eigh-
teenth century and earlier contacts;
nineteenth century misfortunes, and
twentieth  century readjustments.
China's early contacts with the West
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The clas- names .were continued on
Thursday. Playing a messy game,
1933 defeated the Seniors, 4-2. The
best playing was shown by Baer. She
consistently stopped the Sophomore
forward line from breaking through
and covered her opposing inside, never
oner giving her a chance to break
away with the ball. There was no one
particularly outstanding for the Sopho-1
mores; in fact they were all poor to-
gether. It was only because of sev-
eral lucky breaks the Seniors did not
pile up a greater score.
>URMt*Pi
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PAGE
The first national contest for college
students for colleges on the League
of Nations will be held this win-
ter under the auspices of the League
of Nations Association. The first
prize consists of a trip to Europe, in-
cluding a stay in Geneva and an op-
portunity to study the League of Na-
tions at work; second and third prizes
consist of cash awards of $100 and $50
respectively. Local prizes will prob-
ably be offered by various branches of
the League of Nations Association.
Registration blanks should be obtained
at once from the League of Nations
Association, Inc., 6 East 39th Street,
New York. The first prize will be
awarded for the best thesis on one-of
the following subjects:
1.    A critical survey of the political
and economic aspects of the proposed
federation of European states.
2.    An estimate of the value of the
mandate system.
3.     Disarmament: obstacles, accom-
plishments and prospects.
4.    An economic program for the
League of Nations, designed to pre-
vent world-wide economic depressions.
5.     Harmonizing the League Cove-
nant with the Pact of Paris.
6.    Growth of international co-oper-
ation through the League of Nations.
7. An evaluation of the effective-
ness of the League of Nations as the
guarantor of the rights of minorities.
If there are other topics in which
students are particularly interested, and
on which they would like to write, they
may submit such topics to the Com-
mittee on Award. If approved, the de-
sired subject may be submitted for one
of the above.
Conditions of the Contest
1.    Any regularly enrolled under-
graduate student in a university, col-
lege or junior college (an American
citizen living in the United States) may
compete.
2.     Ony registered students may
submit theses to the Committee on
Award. The enclosed registration
blank should be sent to the First Na-
tional College Contest, League of Na-
tions Association, as soon as possible.
All registrations must-be in by Feb-
ruary 2, and the theses themselves
must be mailed by March 2d.
3.     A bibliography listing all mate-
rial used must accompany each thesis.
4.    Three, thousand words are sug-
gested as a minimum and 5000 as a
maximum. These limits, however, are
only suggestive and not arbitrary. Stu-
dents need not feel bound strictly by
them.
5. Theses must be typewritten in
double space on one side only of paper
8'/2"xl\". The pages should be num-
bered.                                              4-*------
6.     The student's name must not ap-
pear on the thesis. There must be a
blank sealed envelope clipped to each
thesis containing typewritten the name,
age, class, home and college addresses
of the student, name and address of
the college and a statement signed by
the student and the faculty member
responsible, to the effect that the thesis
is the original unaided work of the
student. Form* for this statement will
be furnished on registration.
7.    Theses will be judged on (a)
knowledge of the subject, (b) judg-
ment shown, (c) organization of ma-
terial and (d) style. It is important
to confine the papers strictly to ap-
proved topics and to see that the whole
topic is covered.
8.    Theses must be mailed not later
than March 2, to Committee on Award,
College Contest, League of Nations
Association, 6 East  39th Street,   New
,York,  N. Y.
9.     Lists of League of Nations docu-
ments, pamphlets and selected books
will be sent on receipt of registration
blank.
-Calendar
Thursday, November 13 � The
Graduate , Club presents Dr.
Mildred Fairchild. Associate in
Social Economy and Social
Research, who will speak on
,"A New Industrial Order in
Russia," in Goodhart Hall at
8 P. M.
Saturday, November 15�Varsity
hockey game with Swarth-
more.
Sunday, November 16�A Me-
morial Service for Dr. Theo-
dore de Laguna will be held in
the Music Room at 5:15.
A musical service of the Bryn
Mawr League will be held in
the   Music  Room at  7:30.
Monday, November 17 � The
Parents' Association of the
Thome School will hold fhe
first of three Round Table Dis-
cussions on the vital subject
of "Creative Activity in Life,
Jn Art and in Education," led
by Dr. Ella D. Kilgus. at 8:15
in Wyndham. The other lec-
tures will be on Monday, No-
vember 24, and on'Tuesday,
December 2.
Varsity hockey game with Rose-
mont at 4.
Wednesday. November 19�The
Industrial Group Supper will
be held in the Common Room
at 6:30.
Saturday, November, 22�Varsity
hockey with All-Philadelphia.
Sunday, November 23 � The
service of the Bryn Mawr
League will be led by Samuel
M. Shoemaker in the Music
Room at 7:30.
Monday, November 24 � The
Graduate Club will hold an
informal discussion on Russia
at 8 in  Goodhart Hail.
Wednesday. November 26�
Thanksgiving vacation begins
at 12:45 P. M.