College News, 1931-03-25, Vol. 17, No. 17

              The College News
Vol. XVII, No. 17
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931
Price: 10 Cents
Paul Hazard, Mary Flexner Lecturer This
Year, Gives His Impressions of Bryn Mawr
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News Reprints Article Taken From Revue des Deux Mondes in
Which Well-Known Critic Describes College
Traditions and Activities.
ARTICLE, IN FRENCH, WILL RUN FOR TWO ISSUES
Aujourd'hui, tout est a l'aigreur; quel
pays en aime vraiment un autre? En
rentrant a Paris, je m'apercois que pour
etre a la mode, il faut dire du mal de
l'Amerique; pour etre a la mode, il fallait
l'exalter sans mesure, il y a trois ou
quatre ans. Le vent a tourne; si cela
continue, il n'y aura plus de fripier de
village, egorgeant son cochon dans sa
cour, qui ne parle avec mepris des abat-
toirs de Chicago.
Pour ma part, je raconterai ce que j'ai
vu, dans mon petit coin.
Vous arrivez a Philadelphie; vous
prenez un train local, et vous descendez
a Bryn Mawr, qui, des temps anciens
de la colonie, a garde son nom gallois.
Bryn Mawr a ses garages, son cenema,
son golf miniature et son bazar a cinq
sous. Mais ce qui fait sa gloir^ c'est son
college de jeunes filles. Ef tout de suite,
evoquez un ensemble tres different de ce
que It mot represents d'ordihaire a notre
esprit. Point de cloture ni de grilles;
point de porte verrouillee, ne s'ouvrant
que pour la promenade du dimanche, triste
a  voir.    Point  de ces  vieux  batiments
onastiques, ou de ces ^batiments a bon
marche qui, tout neufs, sont decrepits.
Imaginez, bien plutot, un immense espace
vallonne, des gazoris, des pelouses, des
massifs, des bouquets d'arbres; et dis-
perses dans la verdure, des pavilions
recouverts de leur robe de lierre, et dont
le seul aspect est seigneurial. Imaginez,
en pleine nature, toute une cite dediee aux
etudes et au bonheur.
Dediee au bonheur, j'en suis sur, meme
Interesting Lectures
Promised for April
Maurice   Hindus   Will   Discuss
Russia; Liberal Club Has
� Norman Thomas.
ANGNA  ENTERS COMING
On Tuesday, April 7, Maurice Hin-
dus, the brilliant young Russian and
author of "Humanity Uprooted,"
"Earth" and ARed Bread," will lecture
on Russia and the World. Mr. Hin-
dus was born in a Russian village and
came to America at the age of fourteen.
He has visited Russia annually since
1923, wandering about the cities and
villages of Siberia and the Caucasus,
the Volga region, the Ukraine, the
Crimea and the Far North. Of Rus-
sia Mr. Hindus says: "For good or for
evil, Russia has plucked up the old
world by its very roots and the party
in power is glad to see those roots wilt
and turn into dust. Hardly an institu-
tion�property, religion, morality, fam-
ily, love�has escaped the blasts of the
Revolution." Mr. Hindus is presented
by the Pennsylvania League of Wom-
en Voters, arid the proceeds of the
lecture will be used to further the pro-
CoDtlnned on Paice Three
avant d'avoir pris contact avec celles qui
seront, demain, mes etudiantes. Sur les
murs du cloitre gothique qui regne der-
riere la bibliotheque, je lis des inscrip-
tions. Reconnaissante, cette ancienne
eleve a fonde un chaire; cette autre a
donne des bourses d'etudes pour aider ses
camarades de l'avenir; cette autre encore
a voulu qu'elles eussent des jardins plus
vastes, des edifices plus beaux. Toutes
ces pierres se sont elevees, tous ces en-
seignements ,se sont etablis, toute cette
vie s'entretient grace a l'initiative privee.
Une sorte de piete se mele au souvenir
des annees que les etudiantes ont ici
vecues; il n'en est aucune qui ne cherche
a rendre au college, en generosite, ce
qu'elle a recu en bonheur.
Des differences psychologiques qui nous
separent des Americains, celle-ci est
assurement l'une des plus marquees.
Nous avons beau alleger nos programmes,
nos jeunes filles, nos jeunes gens rostent
surcharges; ils n'ont pas le temps de
vivre, tant ils sont occupes a se preparer
a la vie. Je connais une gamine de dix
ans qui est alourdie de devoirs a faire
quand elle rentre de la classe, et qui
veille en peinant sur ses, cahiers. Et
qu'est-ce que sa vie d'ecoliere, sinon la
fatigante succession des heures de cours?
Comment, lorsqu'elle aura fini ses etudes,
emporterait-elle un souvenir heureux?
La-bas, on ecoute mieux cet appel au
bonheur, qui est comme la vocation
spontanee de l'enfance et de la jeunesse.
Libres, inatalles dans leur republique, que
les aines ont le devoir d'entretenir, mais
qu'ils n'ont pas le droit d'opprimer, les
adolescents vivent par eux-memes et pour
eux-memes. Une education serait nian-
quee, qui ne laisserait' pas apres elle
l'image eclatante d'une ile fortunee dont
le rayonnement se prolonge sur toute
l'existence. Les notres sont plus savants,
ceux-la sont plus heureux.
LA RUCHE
5 octobre 1930.�Cela ne veut pas dire
�qu'on neglige le travail, ici.
Certes, les jeunes filles de Bryn Mawr
sont libres de leurs mouvements; elles
vont et viennent a leur guise; il faut
seulement, qu'elles soient rentrees a dix
heures et demie; marge genereuse, dans
un pays ou Ton dine deux heures plus
tot que chez nous. Elles habitent cha-
cune leur chambre; elles la meublent, elles
la parent a leur fantaisie: et ce n'est
pas une petite affaire. Elles pratiquent
le sport, elles se divertissent.    Bien plus,
Continued on  Page  Failr
Elections
The   News . announces. its  new
boards for 1931-32:
Editor-in-Chief, Rose Hatfield,
'32; Business Manager, Molly
Atmore, '32; Copy Editor, Susan
Noble, '32; Subscription Mana-
ger, Yvonne Cameron, '32.
A. M. Findley, '34, and S.
Jones, '34, have been elected to
the editorial board, and C. Berg,,
'33; M. Meehan,' 33, and J. Han-
nan, '34, have been elected to the
business board.
Angna Enters Coming on April  11
Library Open Sundays
Word has been received from
the Board of Directors that after
'Easter the reading room and the
reserve book room will be open
on Sunday mornings. If the ex-
periment is a success during the
rest of this year, the arrange-
ments will be made permanent.
(Signed)
Secretary of the College Council.
College Council Revises
Curriculum Committee
Old Body,  Because  Unyielding,
Is Discarded for One More
Representative.
HALLS   ELECT    MEMBERS
(Contributed by Curricultrtn Committee)
At a recent ^fciHg of the College
Council Miss ParkTfhd Mrs. Manning
suggested that the Curriculum Com-
mittee be revised. As it now stands,
it is inadequate in.many respects. Be-
cause of its large size it is impossible
to get unity of opinion and action, and
it is too. unwieldy to make discussions
with the Faculty Curriculum Commit-
tee easy or useful. Besides, as Miss
Park pointed out, it would be very
helpful if there were a small commit-
tee to which she could turn for actual
information on student opinion. From
the point of view of the students, it is
weak in that it does not actually rep-
resent the widest cross section of un-
dergraduate opinion. This is because
when the committee was first formed
it was suggested that the members be
chosen for "the value of their opinions
upon academic matters.rather than as
a representative group." It has become
generally recognized throughout the
college, however, that the committee�
though  it if desirable that  it should be
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Dance Club Recital
Delights Audience
Naivete and  Spontaneity  Mark
Performances�Unity of
Rhythm Obtained.
ATMOSPHERE   INFORMAL
The annual recital* of the Dance
Club and the ^Dancing Classes was
held, in the gymnasium on March 17.
Although it would seem that natural
dancing exists primarily for the per-
former himself, it also appears that it
may give pleasure in an entirely objec-
tive fashion, as the large audience of
Tuesday evening may testify. The in-
formality of the atmosphere was well
in accordance with, the nature, of the
recitaj. and the simple though effective
lighting and the background of grey
for the kaleidoscopic dancers was espe-
cially appropriate to their technique, if
one may speak paradoxically, for* this
technique seems to consist in the very
lack of it as it is Commonly understood
in dancing. There was no pointing of
toes, or drooping of hands,or other
grace-imparting formulae: these belong
to a later and more artificial stage in
the evolution of the dance. Hence the
simplicity, almost naivete. j>i. the
dances themselves as well as of ttof in-
terpretation,   as,   for   example,   in   the
Crfflinfi  of  th-   R^giiining  C\aa    nr  ill
Continued on Pace Three
Self-Gov. President
Alice L. Hardenbergh -has
been elected President of the
Self-Government Board for 1931-
32. The results of the other elec-
tions are not yet complete, but
will-be announced later.-----------
Graduate Fellowships for Study Next Year
in Europe Are Announced by Miss Park
New  Faculty  Appointments,   Seniors  in  Line   for  Degrees  With
Honor, and Recommendations for Junior Year in
France Are Also Revealed.
REPRESENT B. M.'S EFFORTS TO KNOW EUROPE MORE
Left  to   Right�Edna   Caroline  Prederick,   Ruth   M.   Collins   and
Marie Helene Schneiders.
"From Bryn Mawr's Victorian days! holds the Fellowship in Latin at Bryn
up to 1931 the college has made steady
and deliberate efforts to induce its stu-
dents to know Europe at close char-
ters," declared President Park in open-
ing her address in chapel, Friday,
March 20, in which she announced the
Graduate European Fellowships and
Faculty changes for next year.
To this end many of its faculty have
either been Europeans themselves or
have completed their training abroad.
Again, since 1892, there have always,
been European scholars studying at
Bryn Mawr on fellowships provided
for that' purpose by the cpllege. But
the most definite step the college has
taken toward its objective is the official
sending of its own students abroad for
study. Four graduate students and
onfc-'senior are chosen each March by
the faculty to live outside America, to
work in Europe's libraries and mu-
seums and to become acquainted with
modern civilization other than our own.
From now on. the Senior European-
Fellow will not be, announced until
commencement in order to give the
faculty more time to form an estimate
of the student's ability. This change
brings with it the abolition of two age-
old undergraduate traditions* that of
attempting to intercept the _fafulty
inail, and that, of the President'* at-
tempting to prolong her announcement
to the length of a Senatorial filibuster.
The Helene and Cecil Rubel Foun-
dation Fellowship to the value of $1500
is to be given for the last time this
year. The generous terms of itl award,
it is to be used anywhere in any intel-
lectual pursuit, have made ij one of the
most interesting fellowships open to
women in America. It is awarded this
year to Ruth Mulford Collins, of Pied-
mont. Calif.. M.A.. Bryn Mawr. 1930.
Fellow and Instructor in English. She
will work in England on the poetry of
Charles Doughty, the author of Ai
Deserta, on manuscripts placed at her
disposal by his wife.
The   Fanny  Bullock  Wurkifian   Fel
lotvship. also to "*he value of $1500,
was founded rive years ago by a be-
quest of lit*. Workman, herself an
eminent scholar, to be used "by a stu-
dent of proved ability who i- working
for a Ph.D.. and who could not have
the advantages of such a year without
assistance. After long agonies of in-
decision, it has been awarded to Char-
lotte E. Goodfellow. of Coatesville. Fa.,
and-to Anne Leigh NichoUott el Mores-
town, '!�.   J.     Miss   Goodfellow   now
Mawr.   and   her   principal   subject    is
Roman    History,, her   thesis   subject.
"The Spread of Roman Citizenship in
Empires."     She   plans   to   study   in'
Munich, Rome and Greece.
Miss N'icholson received her A.B. at
Bryn  Mawr,   1930. and  is getting her
M.A. this year.    She plans to work at
the, University of Copenhagen in Phys-.
ical Chemistry. .-�
The Mary E. G.arrett European Fel-
lowship to the value of $1000, awarded
.annually to a student still in residence
who has completed at least three
semesters of graduate studies at Bryn
Mawr, is to be applied towards the ex-
penses of one year's study and resi-
dence at some foreign university. The
Fellowship has been awarded consist-
ently since 1894, and is being given this
year in French. It goes to Edna Caro-
line Frederick, of South Hadley Falls,
Mass., M.A.. Bryn Mawr. 1930. and
Paul Hazard Scholar in French. 1931.
Miss Frederick has chosen as a thesis-
subject the development of the plot in
comedy between Moliere and Beau-
marchais. in which she is promised the
friendly guidance of Monsieur Hazard.
The Anna M. Ottendorfer Fellow-
ship in Teutonic Philology, to be held
at a German university, has been
awarded to Marie Helene Schnieders.
candidate for M. A. Bryn Mawr, this
year, part instructor in German, and
graduate student. 1928-29.- and Fellow
in German, 1931.
The   Helen   Schaeffer   Huff   Fellow-
Contlnurd  on   I'acr   Two
Calendar
FRIDAY,   MARCH *7�Spring
Vacation begins at  12:45   1'   M
TUESDAY,    APRIL    7�Spring
Vacation ends  at  9:00  A.   M.
8:15�Maurice   Hindus   lectures
OH   Russia   and   the   World   in
Goodhart.
THURSDAY.    APRIL    J>-
man Thomas-will speak at 8:00
in Goodhart, under the auspice -
o! the Liberal Club, on Socialism
in  America.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10�Dr. Harold
J. Laski will lecture on The
I:uture, of Parliamentary Gov-
ernment  in  En aland at 8:15   in
. -Goodhart.
SATURDAY.  APRIL  11�Mon-
day classes will be held.
8:20�Angna Enters will give a
program    in   Goodhart    Audito-
rium.   �-------^�
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