College News, 1932-03-16, Vol. 18, No. 15

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VOL. XVIII, No. 15
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932
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Concert by Glee Club
Well Chosen and Sung
Great Improvement Over Last
Concert   Seen   in   Prompt i
Response to Directing
BELOV QUARTET ASSISTS
' On Saturday evening the Glee Club
gave the concert which in May Day
year replaces the usual Gilbert and
Sullivan opera. Those of us who re-
member the concert of four years ago
were impressed by the progress which
has been made since then. This was
a much more ambitious program, and
i he excellence of performance was
only hinted at by the radio broadcast
last week.
Granted the obvious drawbacks of
a chorus of- women's -voices, the con-
trast of tone color was exceedingly
well managed, and the lower register,
which was somewhat lost in the radio
concert, was brought out in Goodhart
Hall by an intelligent balance of dy-
namics and appropriate arrangement
of a variety of musical material.   The I Varsity Swim Xe�UTl
achieved    an    exquisite
Dr. Kuehnemann Calls
Goethe a Modern Man
Bryn Maurr Belles and Fortunate Friends�"Theirs T^ot to Reason Why"
pianissimo
l>eauty at times, and the forte pas-
sages were not strained.
The concert began with four Bach
chorales, which were "sung simply and
with feeling. The more complicated
and contrapuntal group by Byrd fol-
lowed and showed a presentiment of
the inherent qualities of the chorus
which were to unfold as the concert
progressed.
The first group ended with an an-
them by Vaughan Williams, who is
to be at Bryn Mawr next year as the
Flexner lecturer. The Belov String
Quartet, which provided 'admirable ac-
companiment to the chorus, next
payed the Mozart "Hunting Quartet."
The second group sung by the Glee
Club consisted of Palestrina, Vittoria
and .Beethoven. "Tenebrae Factae
Sunt" and "Adoramus Te," both fa-
miliar to us, were performed with the
usual smoothness and finish. If there
was deviation in the pitch, it was
somewhat recompensed by the parity
of tone and excellence of diction. The
Vittoria "0 Vos Omnes" had even
rounder tone, and the balance of in-
terweaving voices with the effect of
the whole was maintained throughout,
well chosen as the climax, brought
the first half of the concert to a close
on a jubilant note. Except for a
slight shrillness in one or two places
in this piece, the first sopranos sang
consistently better in this concert than
ever before.
The second half of the program
was of a lighter nature. Starting
with Elgar's "The Show," the chorus
displayed an excellent legato in the
sustained lyricism of this piece. Next
came four Russian folk songs from
the Liadov collection, arranged by Mr.
Swan. In these short, almost frag-
mentary pieces was a variety of
moods. The plaintive "Elegy" was
followed by the spirited and humor-
ous "Apple Tree," and in contrast,
again, came the "Lullaby" and then
the lively "Peasant Boy." The diffi-
cult Hungarian folk song which ended
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Loses to Swarthmore
Several Records Broken�Races
Closely Contested�Team Has
Balance and Power
MITCHELL, DANIELS STAR
First Glee Club Dance
Proves Great Success
CALENDAR
Wed., Mar. 16, 8.20�Jennie Lee,
Labor M. P., will speak in
Goodhart on "Is Westminster
Played Out?"
Fri., Mar. 18, 8.40 A. M.�Grad-
uate European Fellowships
will be announced in Chapel.
Sun., Mar. 20, 7.30�Musical
service in Chapel. The speak-
er will be Rev. Dr. Nathaniel
B. Groton, rector of St. Thom-
as' Church, Whitemarsh.
Mon., Mar. 21, 8.20�Robert Ed-
mond Jones, theatrical design-
er, will give the Ann Eliza-
beth Sheble Memorial lecture.
His subject is "Some Thoughts
About the Theatre."
Fri., Mar. 26, 12.46 P. M �
Spring vacation begins.
Despite two excellent performances
by Marion Mitchell, Bryn Mawr star
performer, the Swarthmore swim-
mers defeated Varsity swimmers on
Saturday by the close score of 46 to
39. In a meet which was featured
by several broken records and closely
contested races, the final outcome of
the contest was in doubt until the
relay, which went  to Swarthmore.  '
The scoring honors of the meet
went to Mitchell, of Bryn Mawr, who
took the 40-yard back crawl and the
crawl for form. Mitchell proved her-
self the best all-around swimmer of
the day by her easy victories in these
events and by her performance in
the relay.
The first record-breaking perform-
ance was made by Waldemeyer, of
Bryn Mawr, who did the 40-yard
breast stroke in 32, thereby lowering
the existing record by 2 seconds. She
sJ.took the lead at the whistle and was
never headed by Legate, of Swarth-
more, who  finished   second.
Jackson, of Swarthmore. hung up
an almost unbreakable record for the
80-yard crawl when she covered the
distance in 0:58.6, 6 seconds under the
old record of 1:4.0. She also swam
the anchor leg on both the medley
and crawl relay teams, and in each
case her finishing spurts won the
event for Swarthmore. Iji the mid-
ley Bryn Mawr siw a. comfortable
lead hung up by Hemphill, swim-
ming trugeon, vanish in Jackson's
final sprint, .and again in the crawl
relay, Jackson picked up the length
which Highly, her teammate, had
dropped to Messinicr. In the crawl
relay the Swarthmore team lowered
their,record of 2:3.8 to 2:2.6.
Michael, of Swarthmore, won the
40-yard crawl with comparative inso.
Messimer, swimming her first race
for Bryn Mawr, seemed affected by a
case of nerves, and her performance
in capturing third was not up to her
usual standard. However, she came
back to swim two fast lengths in the
relay and give Bryn Mawr its only
lead in the race.
* In the tandem crawl, the novel
event of the afternoon, Legate and
Heathcote, of Swarthmore, set back
Messimer and Bronson, of Bryn
Mawr. The teams worked their arms
and legs co-operatively and the gen-
eral effect produced was that of a
side-wheeler proceeding downstream
at full speed.
In the diving, Daniels, of Bryn
Mawr, hung up an easy victory over
Michael, of Swarthmore, by a score
of 46.6 to 39.9. Daniels owed her vic-
tory largely to two very difficult and
- There can be no doubt of the con-
trast between the first and last parts
of Saturday's entertainment. The
change from an atmosphere of Chor-
ales and String Quartet to the more
blatant one in the gymnasium was
quick and thorough. We are sure
that everyone enjoyed the Glee Club
dance, where there was noise if not
beauty for the music department, and
no end of revelations of interest to
a student in psychology.
The most strikingly successful de-
tails of-the dance were the orches-
tra, the decorations, and the melee
in the corners. The committee which
transformed the gymnasium into a
ballroom with the aid of balloons,
crepe paper and a lot of labor, arc-
certainly to be congratulated not only
on the effect that they created, but also
on ^the bursting success toward the
end of the evening. The gymnasium
lioor, hazardously slippery in spots,
for the first few dances, improved BS
the evening went, on. Even though
the room was decidedly crowded and
cries of abandoned males and fran-
tic females arose from all sides, the
orchestra was persistently and audi-
bly rhythmic. The dancing of the
Whittaker brothers was "sort of, you
know, unusual," according to a stag
Wo overheard and helped to provide R
professional touch that was. on the
whole,   missing.
This is the first dance of its kind
in the history of the college and we
hope a precedent rathe%than an ex-
ception has been established. We can
claim that it's better- not In put the
wax on the floor till you've tried mid
found that it Is needed, and that each
girl acted as her own floor commit-
tee, but next year we may change
the system.. ,The final verdict on the
dance seems to have Ix-cn that we're
glad we're not men; we sympathize
whole - heartedly with the man
who "couldn't find you:" and we will
wear bright red to every prom we at
tend for the rest of our lives. We
wish a pleasant journey home to those [
from South Africa and Australia,
and better luck to him from'Ossining.
Did anyone dance with Eltwr Zilch?
The efficient powers beh               throne
were ' as follows:
Barbara Kortf. '33, I hairman:
Junia Culbertson, '34, Dec-orations;
Gerta Franchot, '35, Food; Cornelia
Drake, '33; Adeline Peek, '33; Anita
Fouilhoux, '34; Marian Mitchell, '34;
Ann Lukens, '35; Adeline Furncss,
'35.
Bryn Mawr Basketball
Team Loses First Game
Rosefnont   Takes   Hard-Fought
Game, 38-36, in Last Minute
Despite Varsity Threat
SECOND      TEAM      WINS
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Editorial Board Elects
The Editorial Board* of The _
College News takes great pleas-
ure in announcing the election
of the following members: E.
Hannan, '34; N, Hart, '34; C.
Robinson, '34; G. Rhoads, '35,
and P. Howe, '36, as sports
editor.
Last Saturday was an eventful day.
Not only did it see the first dance to
be held in the gym, but also the first
defeat in basketball for the Varsity
this year. It was a meeting of two
undefeated teams. A close-fought
game was played, and Rosemont, as
the better team, well deserved its
hard-won victory, which it took 38-36.
At the end of each of the first two
periods Rosemont led by four points.
Although there was no poor playing
on the part of any particular indi-
vidual, the Varsity as a whole seemed
to be below its normal ability.
The forwards were just a little off
on their shooting and .therefore were
not able to capitalize their chances.
Nyemetz and Creamer, at guard for
Rosemont, were the toughest proposi-
tion the forwards have met so far.
They stuck very closely, breaking up
countless passes, and gave Collier and
Boyd little opportunity to shoot. Un-
used to such close guarding, the for-
wards were not able to get their
passes workirtg as they always have
done before. Boyd did not show her
all-around shooting: ability, but tell
back into her last year's game of
shooting from only one spot on the
right-hand Side of the basket. Collier
was not able to hold her passes, and
she also tended to fall down -which
is quite unusual for her.
In the center there was more hot
competition. Both Rosemont players
were right on the ball, and passes had
to lw "very accurate to get by them.
The jump seemed to be about even,
sometimes   going   to    Longacre.   but
often to Toebe. Remington, well
covered by Hamilton, did not show
her usual ability to get free. How-
ever, when she got the ball, her passes
were good, except for a few wild ones
deep under the basket. She played
a creditable game, doing a large- share
of the work in the center during the
last part of the game. Longacre did
not seem to have control over the
ball at all times, for on quite a few
passes she failed to hang on to it
because she was looking for someone
to whom to throw it. She was quick
at getting free and took most of the
passes from the guards.
Moore and Mi-Cully were given a
tough day's work. Boniwell, who has
been playing for Rosemont for three
years, was having a field day and
scored from anywhere on the floor.
If they were successful enough to
keep the forwards away *from the
basket, Boniwell would loop one in
without even using the backboard.
At the start of the game the guards
were rather slow and tended to get
Greatest     Self-Educated     Man
Achieved   Perfect   Unity   of
Faith and Free Thought
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Goethe, because he was the greatest
self-educated man in history, belongs
n the modern rather than in the
medieval world. This was the sub-
ject of a lecture by Dr. Eugen Kueh-
nemann on Monday. March 14.
The medieval world into which
Goethe was born had a knowledge of
truth which we have not. . They
learned it through revelation, while
we can only reach it through reason
based on science. Self-determination
is om truth today, and for the har-
mony and unity that we have lost we
have gained free thinking.
Goethe, the son of a rich man,
studied at Leipsig. The literature of
his time and surroundings was one
of imitation, and he became a master
of its forms. With this background
he came under the influence of Her-
der, whose whole teaching�to be.a
genius�was the one thing needed to
develop the originality of Goethe's
brilliant mind, the most famous in
German literature. His greatest work
is "Faust," which contains two trag-
edies�one of man and thought, the
other of woman and love.
As he worked, Goethe almost con-
sciously developed a new soul in him-
self�a soul of resignation and self-
sacrifice. He became the leading biol-
ogist of his time, and in order to
unify biological principles he studied
aboriginal phenomena, unities and
creative ideas of God. He Went to
Italy to study not only art but the
nature from which it is derived, and
he discoveYod that he and the world
ware one and the same thing. His
self-education w;as not selfish, but
making the most of himself as a mir-
ror of truth for others. When he
returned to Germany Goethe found
himself a stranger, having left his
real intellectual home behind in Italy.
The one great happiness of his life
was his friendship with Schiller and
the understanding which came to him
from Schiller's conception of the phil-
osophy of Kant. The perfect unity
of Kant, Goethe and Schiller was the
highest point  in German  thought.
Goethe's later poetry is Greek in
its purity and simplicity of form, but
German in its fullness of the soul's
life. Old age fell swiftly on Goethe
after Schiller's death; at first he tried
to do the work of both men. In 1809
he published a novel and a poem,
"Pandora;" then he began work on
his autobiography. He had a group
of poems which from their beauty
were always thought to be his, but
which turned out to be written to him
by a woman whom he left so as not
to break up her marriage. When he
was 74 he proposed to a girl of 19,
and when they parted, this eternal
youth in his heart also left him. He
wrote his first social novel, "Wilhelm
Mcister," and a few weeks before his
death, at the age of 83, he finished
"Faust,"�a poem which ranks with
the "Iliad," the "Divine Comedy."
"Hamlet" and "King Lear" as one of
the world's great poems.
From self-education the law of self-
determination has made a new social
and economic order. The quest ion is
whether we are to have a personal"
life or merely be a part of a machine.
Goethe is the answer, for he made of
his life a work of art. He achieved
a perfect unity of religion and knowl-
edge, which is the union of medieval
faith and modern free thought.
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Business Board Elects
The College News takes pleas-
ure in announcing the election
of  Peggy   Little,   1936,  to  the
Business Board.
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