College News, 1933-03-01, Vol. 19, No. 13

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The College News
VOL. XIX, No. 13
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933
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Copyright  BRYN  MAWR
COLLKCK  NEWS,   1�33
PRICE 10 CENTS
Mrs. Sackville-West
Speaks in Bryn Mawr
Eminent   Novelist   Lectures   on
Virginia    Woolf    and
D. H. Lawrence
TWO     ARE     DISSIMILAR
Thursday night in .Goodhart, Vic-
toria Sackville-West talked, not on
James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, as
announced, but on Virginia Woolf
and D. H. Lawrence. She said that
it was through a mistake of her
agent that James Joyce had been put
on her lecture list and that she did
not intend to read his books for the
sole purpose of rectifying it.
. Of the two authors on whom she
was to lecture, Mrs. Sackville-West
said, "I have been wondering how
possibly to effect a marriage between
these two modern geniuses. There
have been many definitions of the
word 'genius;' none worse than 'an
infinite capacity for taking pains;'
'leaping before you look' is a prefer-
able definition; but the best is that
'genius is the power of seeing life
with your own individual vision.'"
These two writers possess genius of
the last type; that is the main point
in which they are similar, and that
also is what makes them an acquired
taste�like oysters. Mrs. Sackville-
West confessed that she did not like
novels, but added that she has not
missed one by Virginia Woolf or D.
H. Lawrence since acquiring the taste
for their styles.
Although the genius of each is alike
in being individual, their differences
are more striking than their similan
ties. Some might explain away these
divergences on the ground of sex,
supposing the masculine brain to be
coldly intellectual and the feminine
compounded of sensibility and emo-
tion. The reverse is true in this case,
as Lawrence is emotional and Vir-
ginia Woolf restrainedly intellectual.
The cause may instead be sought in
the environments of  the  two.
Lawrence was the son of a col-
lier, who spent most of his life un-
derground. The great superiority of
his mother provided him with a driv-
ing power which sent him through
the State schools and then to a high
school at Nottingham on scholarship.
An atmosphere violently contrasting
with the grey life of Lawrence sur-
rounded Virginia Woolf. Since her
father was Sir Leslie Stephen, she
grew up in a circle where all the talk
was of books, art, and music.
"I never knew Lawrence; I wish
I had, for all that I know of him is
hearsay. He could be almost child-
ishly gay in his more charming
moods. He was a very restless spir-
it, constantly moving about as if
trying" to find peace in some corner
of the world. Lawrence had a tal-
ent for uprooting himself, his few
belongings, and his wife; but was at
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Rules for Freshman Animal
The following rules have been
agreed to by representatives of the
Freshman and Sophomore classes and
apply to all members of those classes
this week:
(1)     Animal must be on campus
within twenty-four hours preceding
the show.                                  *
(2)     Animal tune cannot be orig-
inal.
(3)     Two-thirds "of the class "of tht
entire cast must know the animal
song.
(4)     There must be at least one
rehearsal of the animal song before
the show. The rehearsal must take
place on campus.
(5)     Sophomores are permitted to
search anywhere except top-bureau
drawers.
(6)     Activities by Sophomores stop
when the curtain goes'up on the first
act.
(7)      Sophomores and Freshmen
are requested to be moderate and to
refrain from physical violence.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thurs.�Saks Fashion Show,
Common Room, 2.00-6.00.
Fri.�Dr. Rhys Carpenter
will speak on "When the Greeks
Began To Write." Goodhart,
8.20 P. M.
Sat.�Freshman Show, Heav-
enly Bodies. Goodhart, 8.20
P. M.
Bryn Mawr Defeats
Cricket Club Team
Varsity   Wins   41-35   in   Close,
Hard-Fought Game Against
Experienced Team
SECOND TEAM WINS, 31-27
The Bryn Mawr Varsity defeated
the Philadelphia Cricket Club in a
close-fought game by the score of 41-
35. Dunn was high scorer of the
game with a total of 25 points, while
Collier was next with 22. The game
as a whole was well-played, very close
throughout, and, as a result, extreme-
ly interesting to watch.
Throughout the game, the passing
of both teams was excellent and fast,
and the baskets neatly made. Faeth
started the game with three beautiful
shots and followed them with two
perfect free-throws. The Philadel-
phia team took many chances at first
and missed many goals which might
have been made with the chip-shot.
Collier was a bit slow in getting
started because pf the height of her
guard, but came up in second half to
lead the scoring. Faeth and Collier
played well together, as usual, while
Longacre and Remington in the cen
tral court positions were a deciding
factor in the final socre.
The guards had rather a hard time
against their more experienced for-
wards, especially as Kent was missing
from the line-up. Bridgman and Bow-
ditch, however, played fairly well to-
gether, but the Kent-Bridgman com-
bination has proved to be the most
advantageous, since Longacre has
come back to the center position.
The remaining scheduled games
should provide excellent competition
and plenty of exciting moments. Come
to see them!
The line-up was as follows:
P. C. C.                                B. M.
J. Crawford.....R. F.......Collier
Dunn    .........L.  F........Faeth
M. Crawford   ....C.......Longacre
Taussig .......S. C.....Remington
Donahue  ......R. G......Bowditch
Lalor    .........L. G.....Bridgman
Score�P. C. C: Crawford, 10;
Dunn, 25. B. M.: Collier, 22; Faeth,
19.   Referee�Miss Perkins.
Jitney Players Make
Huge Success of Drama
Murder in the Red Barn is Well
Presented; Entre-Acts
Are Hilarious
DIRECTING    IS    PERFECT
News Tryouts
The College News announces
that competition is now open
for positions on the Editorial
Board. Juniofrs, Sophomores,
and Freshmen are urged to try
out. Those wishing to compete
should see Sallie Jones, Pern
West 8-12, ahy day in .the
week.
The second varsity defeated the
Philadelphia Cricket Club second
team by the close score of 31-27. Only
once in the third quarter, when Anne
VanVechten was lost because of a
strained knee, did the visitors get a
slight lead on the Bryn Mawr team,
and that was soon lost.
Throughout the first half, both
teams had many chances to tally, but
were either entirely inaccurate or else
seriously hampered by the guards.
VanVechten's close guarding kept El-
liott to one lone basket in the first
half. McCormick was often wide
of the rim, and took far too many
chances on long shots. Baker had a
good guard, but managed to make
many pretty shots.
In the second half, Raynor was sub-
stituted for McCormick and therefore
the passes were much quicker and
there was less bunching beneath the
basket. Raynor should have more
confidence, however, because she is
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Resignation
The College News regrets to
announce the resignation of
Leta Clews, '33, from the Edi-
torial Board.
Last  Tuesday evening the  Jitney
Players  presented  in  Goodhart  Hall
their famous melodrama of the 1840
period, Murder in the Red Barn. The
Bryn Mawr audience received it with
the   greatest   enthusiasm   which   we,
have ever seen in that hall.    It was, I
of course, part of the convention that I
the villain should be hissed and the j
heroine   applauded,   but   there   wasi
nothing that compelled  the audience
to writhe in their seats with almost!
painful hilarity or to encore the en-i
tre-act selections time after time. It i
was   really   a   tremendously   sincere]
and    spontaneous    enthusiasm    that
swept  the  group,  and   for  this   the
credit may go to the excellent direc-1
tion   and   talented   performances   of |
the production.
The play  itself was a gem of  its i
kind,   typical   of   the   melodrama   of
its day, but with just enough novelty j
of plot to keep up the interest'of the'
audience in that part of it.   The fact i
that our heroine did not come out on j
the top of the heap in this life, but I
rather found  her reward  in  heaven i
after a most brutal and^ hair-raisingj
murder,   was   in   itself   a   welcome
change.    The same might have been j
Bald for the character of the vindic- j
tive gypsy whose daughter had been I
wronged   by   the  dastardly   William,
and   who   in   order  to   complete   his i
novel revenge stood by and even abet-'
ted William in his vile designs on thej
innocent young daughter of the land-
lord:  watched and aided in William',
fall, deep and irretrievable, into the ;
lowest depths of crime; told fortunes i
that  enticed  the innocent victim  for!
William;   provided   subtle  and   viru-j
lent poisons  at the proper moment;
and witnessed our heroine's innocent |
murder of her child�all, all with a I
noble purpose of revenge in his heart,!
as he called heaven to witness.
The  staging   was   hardly  a  great j
success.    The Jitney Players are, of j
course, famous for their outdoor pro-1
ductions, given in the summer ort  a'
small stage in their own truck.    The!
equipment  they carry  with  them  is.
very  compact,  for  they  must  carry!
all the necessities for their complete
repertory in one comparatively small
truck.     Hence   the   scenery,   which '�
might well have filled a smaller stage,
was inadequate for the large expanse j
of the stage in Goodhart.    Its crude- j
ness was in a way part of its charm,!
and since it was intentional, can only
be criticize  by  the  individual  as   it j
appeals to him.    Personally we were j
surprised at the effectiveness of the'
atmosphere produced in those scenes!
whicn depended on  atmosphere, and)
we were not at all disturbed by the
deficiencies, even of the gibbet which
collapsed as the curtain was falling
on the final tableau.
The direction, ai we have said,
was. the great triumph of the play
proper (for nothing could be said
to approach the entre-act divertisse-
ments), and by direction we mean the
handling of the typed characters so as
to give to them all of the conviction
that they had for the generation that
first applauded them, and yet to make
them supremely comic to the present
audience. They could easily have
been overplayed. It was the fine re-
straint of the director, we believe,
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Sophomores Win
Class Swimming Meet
Wiley Breaks College Record for
4&Yard    Crawl     Event;
blocks 24.4 Seconds
FRESHMEN    WIN    RELAY
Fashion Show
On Wednesday, March 2,
Saks Fifth Avenue will hold a
fashion show of spring clothes
in the Common Room at 3
o'clock. The clothes will be
modeled by undergraduates,
and orders will be taken for
immediate delivery. The top
price on all models is to be $25.
College to Test Methods
of Progressive Schools
In chapel February 21 President
Park announced that Bryn Mawr has
decided to co-operate with the pro-
gressive schools in an experiment
to test definitely the adequacy of pro-
gressive methods in preparation for
college. During a five-year period
beginning in 1935, a small quota of
students who do not meet the ordi-
nary entrance requirements will be
admitted from a selected list of sec-
ondary   schools.
Bryn Mawr, Miss Park said, has
always been entirely satisfied with the
type of student it has attracted, and,
like most of the Eastern colleges, per
haps because of an antipathy for the
"lunatic fringe" of progressive
schools, and a natural tendency to fol-
low trodden paths, has hitherto kept
aloof from radical innovations in the
policy of admission. The frankly
progressive schools have, however,
been impatient for a long time with
the refusal of the colleges to allow
them to experiment jn their uppei
gra'des, and a number of them have,
recently, united to win a hearing.
At a special meeting of represen-
tatives from various colleges, the
schools pointed out that they could,
if allowed to follow out their own
ideas in secondary education, send
even better students to college than
the excellent ones they have sent in
the past. This argument proved bo
convincing that a number of colleges
agreed to co-operate with the schools
for a five-year period beginning in
1035 and ^ecTtot students prepared
as the progressive schools believe
they should Be prepared. The plans
for instruction were to be submitted
for approval to a joint committee of
school and college authorities, on
which Miss Park serves as the only
woman, and with the Princeton Di-
rector of Admissions, the sole repre-
sentative of the extreme right wing.
Harvard, Yale and Princeton refus-
ed to agree to these proposals, but
five women's colleges have accepted
with the reservations that they will
require all candidates to take the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, that every
girl will be admitted on the basis of
her school records, that only a defi-
nite quota of experimental students
be permitted to enter, and that the
number of schools included in the
plan be limited to twenty. Because
of the small size of the freshman
class, the Bryn Mawr quota is likely
to be very small.   -
Although neither the names of the
schools undertaking the experiment
nor the plans for instruction have-
been definitely settled, the proposals
of the schools interested seem to tend
toward either an emphasis on the in-
dividual, or an elimination of the
barriers between related courses. The
experiment, President Park thinks,
may or may not prove a success.
It seems to offer the student little
preparation for the hard steady
work Jone in college, and seems t<>
attach undue importance to the stu-
dent's momentary interest. If, how-
ever, the freshmen admitted from the
progressive schools prove unusually
desirable college students, the experi-
ment may be far-reaching in its ef-
fect on even the most conservative
schools. On the other hand, its sig-
nificance may be diminshed by the
possibility that before the plan goes
into effect, the decrease in the num-
ber of students who are financially
able to attend college may compel a
greater elasticity/ in the whole sys-
tem of college'entrance requirements.
The Class swimming meet came to
an exciting climax on -Friday after-
noon with the sophomores winning
by one point. Wiley, '36. in her first
meet, broke a college record of many
years' standing when she clocked 24.4
seconds in the forly-yard crawl, .4
seconds less than the previous record
of 24.8.
Waldemeyer, '35, came in first in
the 20-yard dash in 13.2 seconds, with
Bronson, '33, in the second place, ana
Taylor, '35, and Whiting, '36, tying
for third place. Torrance, '33, took
first place in the side-stroke for form
with the freshmen representatives,
VanVechten and M. Goldwasser, tak-
ing second and third places, respect-
ively. Meneely, '34, won the crawl
for form with 25 points, but B. Gold-
wasser came in a close second with
24.5 points. Wiley was the highlight
of the 40-yard crawl, winning by 2.2
seconds over her nearest rival, Bron-
son, '33. As was to be expected,
Daniels, '34, won the diving with a
total of 30.65 points. Her running
front was average and she lost to
Messimer, '35, in the jack and tied
j with Butler, '34, for the back dive.
Her half-gaynor, however, was ex-
cellent and gave her 16.15 points, to
lead Waldemeyer by more than five
points in the final score. The meet
came to a thrilling close with the
freshmen winning the relay in 50.1
seconds.
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French Club to Present
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
On Friday, March 17, at 820, the
French Club will present be Hour-
geois Gentilhomme in Goodhart Hall.
This play is one of Molieres's most
hilarious comedies, satirizing the so-
cial climbing of a "nouveau-riche."
The pivot of action and the unity of
interest center in the vanity of Mon-
sieur Jourdain, who strives to imi-
tate his social superiors.   '
The play was written at the com-.^..
mand of Louis XIV, who wanted
merely a framework for the Turkish
ceremony, which burlesqued an em-
bassy of Turks to the French court.
This ballet-aspect was of more im-
portance in the opinion of the court
than the comedy, but Moliere to
modified the material which he was
given, that the Turkish ceremony be-
comes the climax to Monsieur Jour-
dain's vanity.
The French Club is using the orig-
inal music written for the ballet by
Jcan-Baptiste  Lulli.
A modem adaptation of the usual
classic stage set will be used. In -the
classic setting the entrances are from
the back of the stage, but in this mod
ern set, the entrances are from the
side. There will be three steps, the
width of the stage, leading up to a
platform, on which most of the act im.
will take place.
The roles are as follows
Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois,
Olivia   Jarrett
Madame Jourdain. sa femme,
m                       Anita Fouilhoux
Lucile, fille de M. Jourdain,
Alettia A very
Cleonte.-amoureux de  Lucile,
Betsy   Pillsbury
Dorimene, marquise......Jane Fields
Dorante, aimant de Dorimene,
Caroline Lloyd-Jones
Nicole, servante de M. Jourdain,
Lee Mandell
Covielle, valet de Cleonte,
Catherine Bill
Maitre de musique. .Margaret Tylei
Maitre d'armes........Marie Hayes
Maitre  a   danser......Mary   Skeats
Maitre de Philosophic Alicia Stewart
Mademoiselle Rey is directing the
play, as she has, done so competently
for the last three years.      *