College News, 1930-03-19, Vol. 16, No. 17

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VOL. XVI, NO. 17
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930
PRICE.   10 CENTS
Swarthmore Meet
Closely Contested
Victory in Relay Results in 27-24
Win   For   Visiting
Swimmers.
FRESHMEN   MAKE   GOOD
A crowd of swimming enthusia>t>.
undampened by the meniBv of a 37-
13 defeat last year, thronged to the
pool on Friday. March 14, to witness
the Swarthmore meet. Both tram-�
Swarthmore in their garnet suits, and
Varsity, resplendent in yellow caps and
new insignia�were properly applauded
as they marched forth to take their
places on the benches under the clock.
The first event, the 40-yard (cee
style, went to Swarthmore, with a sec-
ond to Bronson, of Bryn Mawr. The
breast stroke followed, and Torrance,
who recently broke the college record,
and Bernheimer. who scored first
against Swarthmore last year, both
came in before Biddle, of Swarthmore.
thus putting Varsity four points ahead
of their opponents. The score was
more than evened in the 40-yard back
stroke, where both places went to
Swarthmore. When Bronson and
Grassi captured first and second in the
85-yard free style, Bryn Mawr was
again put in the lead witlv a score of
20-16.
The diving on both sides lacked in
the finish and grace essential to pretty
work. Nickol's Flying Dutchman won
the applause ot the spectators as the
most ambitious attempt of the day.
Geare, who placed third last year, came
in fieet over Frothingham and Jackson
for Bryn  Mawr.
The score, which was 24-21 for Var-
sity when the relay started, was turned
by Swarthmore's success into a vic-
tory. The meet was closely contested,
and was a great satisfaction after last
year's defeat. Varsity is to be highly
congratulated on such a splendid show-
ing. Kruse deserves special mention
for continuing nobly in the relay after
she put her knee out.
The events were:
40-Yard Free Style�Won by Jack-
son, Swarthmore. 25 sec; second,
,            Bronson,  Bryn  Mawr; third,  W'ardell,
Swarthmore.
40 Yard Breast Stroke�Won by
0 Terrance, Bryn Mawr, 35 sec: second,
Bernheimer. Bryn Mawr; third, Biddle,
Swarthmore.____________------------�
40-Yard Back Stroke�Won by
Geare. Swarthmore, 31 sec; second,
Walton, Swarth�nor�f-4h+rd, -Tay4�F,
Bryn Mawr.
85-Yard Free Style�Won by Bron-
son. Bryn Mawr, 1 min. 4 sec; second,
Grassi. Bryn Mawr; third, Dewees,
Swarthmore.
Diving�Won by Geare, Swarth-
more; second, Frothingham, Bryn
Mawr; third, Jackson, Bryn Mawr.
Relay�Woirby Swarthmore, 2 min.
3  4-5  sec
Total points�Swarthmore, 27; Bryn
Mawr, 24.
The News Elects
The great question is settled at
last. The News takes pleasure
in announcing that S. Noble, '32,
and L: Clews, '33, have been
elected to the Editorial Board.
Miss Palache Talks on
Women in Economics
Music By Choir Lacks
Co-operation and Finish
Discusses Organization of Stev-
ens and Clark Investment
House.
TRAINING COURSE GIVEN
Varsity Wins Easy
Victory Over Baltimore
The week of March 9 saw two glori-
ous victories for Varsity, after the ap-
palling defeat by Rosemont the week
before. On Wednesday night, March
11. the Buccaneers bowed to Bryn
Mawr to the score of 87-11, and on
Saturday. March 15. the Baltimore
"Gold Diggers" were overwhelmed
45-18.
In the Baltimore game, although vic-
tory was too easy to try their mettle,
Varsity played good, if rather slow,
basketball. Owing to the weakness in
the center in passing. Bryn Mawr's
guards were kept.busy, and they did
beautiful work in intercepting passes
and preventing scores. Their team
work was excellent, and they were fast
and sure. The forwards were equally
good, playing a steady, ^well-balanced
game and scoring on a large majority
m their shots._______
C�nti�ued �� Pin
Under the auspices of the Bryn
Mawr League, a musical service was
given Sunday evening in the Music
Room of Goodhart Hall.
� The general run of these musical
services has been very enjoyable at
each presentation, and jt is with s\)me
regret that we cannot say as much for
the more recent ones. The musical
numbers were chosen with great fore-
thought, and. had they been rendered
in the usual excellent nimner by the
choir and organ, the result would have
been entirely successful.
It seems a pity that the pleasantest
services should be ruined by poor de-
livery. We realize, of course, that this
cannot all be remedied. The organ,
for instance, seems to need more radical
attention than any one of us. or Mr.
Willoughby, can offer. But the choir!
Surely a little hard work, combined
with a little co-operation in presenta-
tion, woul.d show an almost miracu-
lous improvement.
The program this week wa* as fol-
lows:
Processional  Hymn  \'o. 89�
"Saviour  when  in  dust lorfl'hee
"lo   we   bow   the   adoring   knee."
(Tune  "Spanish  Chant")
Organ�"\\'ater N Music"              Handel
I.    Allegro  vivace
II.    Air
III.     Hornpipe
IV.     Minuet
V.    Allegro maestoso (Finale)
Choir�"OVr the Smooth Enamelled
Green"   (from   Peasant   Cantata),
Bach
O'er the smooth enamelled green.
o'er the green
Where no print of step hath been,
follow me as I sing,
Touching the warbled  string,  under
the shady roof
Of branching oak and elm star-proof
I' will bring you where.she sits, clad
in splendor on her throne,
Such a charming rural Queen all Ar-
cadia  hath  not seen.
Choir�"The Lord Is My Shepherd",
Schubert
(Words are taken from Psalm 23)"
(Sung at Memorial Service of former
President    William    Howard    Taft,
� Gootrhart-HahY Bryn-Mawr College,"
Continued on Pace Two
On Monday afternoon. Majeh 10.
Miss Alice Palache. Hrv^slviawr. '28.
addressed a group of students inter-
ested in Economic Research. For the
past two years Miss Palache has been
connected with the Stevens and Clark
Investment Counsel House in Bos-
ton. This firm ajso has offices in
New York. Philadelphia and other
cities, and expects to take on four
girls  this   summer.
Miss Palache spoke first of the set-
up of the office, the most important
department of which is the research
department on which all the work is
founded and all opinions on securities
are based. This is the highest paid de-
partment, but is unfortunately closed
to women. There is also the depart-
ment which deals with clients. In this
department reports are written on the
accounts of clients who have a cer-
tain sum which they do not know how
to invest. The report is based on the
size of the sum and on what the client
wants: as hig}< an annual income as
possible or air investment to increase
the principle or whatever the objec-
tive. The >tew Reports Department
applies the opinions of the firm to in*
dividual situations. There is oppor-
tunity for women here and a good
cliance to learn the business.
The report is sent free of charge to
the client" and if he decides to take the
investment counsel service, another
department is responsible for the buy-
ing and selling as recommended in the
report. The accounts, which are sub-
ject to constant change, are gone over
by consultants at least once a month.
There is the greatest opportunity for
women as assisting consultants. The
assistants go over the accounts, rec-
ommend improvements and make tab-
ulations which are shown to the
consultant. The assistant then sends
out letters to the" client with sugges-
tions about his investments. Consid-
erable routine is attached to this job.
but there is >plendid opportunity for
a woman with initiative and a quick
mind. The salary at the beginning is
twenty-five dollars a week with ad-
vances depending upon the abilities of
the individual.
"Stevens and Clark conduct a Train-
Cuntinurd on  Page Four
Business Competition     %
Competitors for the Business
Board are: Cecelia Candee, '33;
Rosamond Robert, '33; Esther
McCormick, 33, and Eleanor
Veakel, '33. Results of the com-
petition will be announced next
week.                      "
Dr. Hamilton Against
Capital Punishment
Electric Chair Not Effective as a
Deterrent From
Murder.
BLAMES   LEGAL   SYSTEM
History and Purpose of Junior Month
Explained; to Choose Representative
(Specially contributed)
THE TIME HAS COME
The walrus quoted above had not
heard about Junior Month, unfortunately
for him, but let's not go, so far in our
sympathy that we forget about it our-
selves. Too many people who should
know Better at Bryn Mawr are in ex-
actly the same state as the walrus; they
can talk about shoes and ships and seal-
ing wax with perfect equanimity, but
when it comes to something which they
should know about, i. e., Junior Month,
they are in a state of abysmal ignorance.
Inasmuch as the representative of the
Junior Class, who is to be sent this year,
will be chosen before spring vacation or
immediately afterward, a little reminder
of the salient facts isn't untimely.
Junior Month was started about twelve
years a>jo by the Charity Organizations
Society -of New York. The plan was
to make the undergraduates of the coun-
try better acquainted with the aims and
the methods.of modern social work. A
junior is sent from each of the leading
colleges of the East, Bryn Mawr, Vassar,
Wellesley, Goucher, etc., to spend the
month of July in New York as the guest
of the society. All the expenses are
paid, including room and board at the
Women's University Club (on the fash-
ionable East Side).
The   work    is   done   on   the   project
method, the time being about equally di-
vided, between listening to short.talks,
then going to see the things <hat you
have heard about, and case work that
you do yourselves on families who are
assigned to you. The largqj^ part of the
time is spent in studying the Case Work
method in social work and in practising it
on your families. The main idea is that
it is both short-sighted and ineffectual
to try to divide people who are in need
of help into any main classes. Every
person has an individual problem and the
only way to help them is to study the
facts of that particular case and to work
out a solution for the difficulties in the
light of any individual needs that there
may be. Each Junior is given one fam-
ily to start with and. when she becomes
more used to the~work; is given one or
two more. She works at first under the.
direction of the District Supervisor who
gives her suggestions if she needs them
or else merely approves her ideas.
In the short talks such subjects are
covered as Medical Social Service, the
problem of the homeless, work with men-
tally and physically handicapped, work
with delinquents, child placing, immigra-
tion problems, the negro question in New
York and in the north generally, etc.
The*peoplc who speak have not a merely
theoretical knowledge of their subjects,
C*ntlaa�4 oa Pace Two
"Now this is one subject of which
I cannot speak with scientific detach-
ment," said Dr. Alice Hamilton at the
beginning of her talk on Capital Pun-
ishment in chapel on Thursday morn-*
ing. "It is a* problem which has en-
tered into the realms of my emotions,
perhaps because it is possible for me
to go back in my mind to the day
when capital punishment first became
a reality to me."
Dr. Hamilton, who is Professor of
Industrial Medicine at Harvard, then
told of a visit that she and her sister
made to a little jail some years ago to
investigate for the" Woman's Club of
Chicago the case of an Italian woman
who was held for murdering her hus-
band. "When I saw her crossing the
courtyard," Dr. Hamilton explained,
j "it suddenly came upon me that this
was an unspeakable horror to reduce
to a lifeless corpse a creature so full
of life and strength." The Sacco-Van-
zetti case was the next outstanding
murder trial to arouse Dr. Hamilton's
concern, and she was one of those who
went to Governor Fuller at the Jast
minute to beg a stay of the execution.
"So you see tlvat when I speak of capi-
tal punishment it is a very real thing
to me," she declared. "The question
is, why do we still have it?"
First of all, Dr. Hamilton said, it is
because people have a vague horror of
those who commit murders. They
adopt the wrongly conceived notion
that a murderer is an individual dis-
tinctly different from themselves. Sec-
ondly, the idea of the electric chair is
considered to exercise an important
check .on crime. Supposedly, if the
man remembers the seriousness of the
punishment, he will not commit the
unorder. Actually, this method of reas-
oning does not enter into a murderer's
calculation at all, since he usually be-
comes a criminal only because he is
carried away for the moment by rage
or panic. "In this connection it is
worthy of note," remarked Dr. Ham-
ilton, "that the States which have cap-
ital punishment do not show any bet-
ter record thau those which do not
have it. Theoretically to justify capi-
tal punishment the former States
should be able to point to a real and
marked difference. Howerer. to my
mind, it is a more monstrous thing
for an abstract body like the State to
take a life deliberately in cold blood
than for a hot-blooded man to do so."
Dr. Hamilton vehtjmently disagreed
with an editorial printed in The World
during the Gray-Snyder murder trial
in New York. The writer of this ar-
ticle expressed the hope that execu-
tions be brought back once more to
their former dignified plane. Opposed
to this, Dr. Hamilton championed the
tabloid news sheets where all the lurid
details of the execution were given,
and thus the horror of capital punish-
ment was impressed on the mind of the
layman.
The antiquity of out" legal system
was another reason given by Dr. Ham-
ilton to explain why we are still using
capital punishment. In Illinois the
people are living under a code of laws
originating in the time of Charles 1-1.
We have changed in the deepest and
most fundamental relations of life; we
have begun a science of_ niotjves, and
are every day Improving medicine, but
CMtlaaoa1 oa Paso Foor
Schoenemann Talks on
Culture in Germany
Universities    Confronted    With
Depleted State Funds and
Crowded Classrooms.
YOUNG   IDEALISM   GOOD
"1914 was the end of a period in
German history and the beginning of
one in a political, economic, and cul-
tural way, but war's effects are not
to be over-rated although it destroys
and halts culture�time fqr perspec-
tive must be allowed in order to feel
wad's influence." So Dr. Friedrich
Schoenemann. of the University of
Berlin, and sometime visiting profes-
sor of Harvard University, introduced
his subject, "Cultural Tendencies in
After War Germany." at a lecture on
Wednesday evening?* March 12. The
Germans "have been left with a spirit
of defeat and a despondency which
arises from taking everything, them-
selves included, too seriously. They
like the word "problem" and enjoy
doing things in a complicated way
rather than simply. Their isolation
and moral condemnation because of
"war guilt" makes them anxious in
the presence of foreigners.             arp=�=
The war brought a�fcvolution which
shook the Empire to its foundations,
but that has survived as a guaranty
for the future, a State-frame for de-
mocracy* .The monarchy was over-
thrown and with it disappeared the
spirit of "noblesse oblige" on the part
of the dynasts who were very inter- -
ested in the universities. It is neces-
sary to have the courage of a super-
man to face Germany's problems�the
chaos of transition, loosened discipline,
educational conflicts, changing re-
ligious beliefs, and socialism. The
much-talked-of reactionary spirit is in
the minority and will not win against
the progress in the new order, where
the young men are happy in their work
for better conditions of life for the
great majority. Most of the Socialists
believe in State life though they are
working toward Marxism, and the
middle classes are fighting those radi-
cals who wish to socialize everything
�they are inclined to a national in-
terpretation of things. There is still
trouble in the facts that the Socialists
do not wish to give up their powers,
the Germans are as yet unaccustomed
to the new party government, and the
corruption in Civil service is such that
Germany _sceuis Jikely- to out-Chicago
Chicago. It is apparent that this new
political structure is not all stable and
strong.
The war made a new social structure
necessary also and caused important
economic changes. Germany's colo-
nies were taken away, and the country
was thus deprived of certain raw ma-
terials. With the loss of foreign mar-
kets came a general industrialization;
industry felt the new high tariff bar-
riers. Severe suffering was the result,
which added to the social unrest'and
caused some of the losing classes to
obstruct all reform movements.
Money inflation raised another prob-
lem. The Socialists tried the eco-
nomic socialization of Germany, an
attempt to establish collectivism, which
added to the economic misery. With
the present Americanization of Ger-
many by the introduction of American
capital a new spirit of co-operation is
starting. America in applying Ameri-
can experiences must study German
markets and needs, while German busi-
ness m'ay benefit by learning Ameri-
can   methods.
The cultural tendencies arc best
seen in the problems .of the universi-
ties which were" greatly changed in
personnel by the war. The students
who went back to the universities to
continue their educations were very
serious-minded in their efforts to get
back to books and peace. A collection
of their war letters IBOWl what the
war meant to them, but they were not
overcome _ by despair, as Remarque
Caatlaa** oa  Paaa Faar
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