College News, 1933-05-10, Vol. 19, No. 21

              News
VOL. XIX, No. 21
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1933
Copyright   BKYN  MAWR
COLLEOK  NEWS,' 1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Little May Day Held
According to Tradition
Innovations Introduced in Spe-
cial Folk Dancing and
Breakfast Menu
GREEN   FESTIVITIES GAY
The celebration of this year's Lit-
tle May Day, held Friday, May 5,
was from the first.favored by extra-
ordinarily clear, spring weather.
Following the traditional ceremony,
the sophomores woke up their .sister
class at six by singing-their waking
song through the halls, and individu-
ally waking each senior by pausing
before her door, while a sophomore
entered with a May basket. The bas-
kets this year were gold, decorated
with red ribbon; and some of them
were filled with wild flowers, some with
daffodils, daisies, jonquils, and tulips
from florists. The seniors, after a
hasty breakfast of coffee and buttered
rolls prepared by* the sophomores,
presented Miss Park^ith a May bas-
ket, and then sang \heir Magdalen
College Latin hymn to the sun from
Rock tower. This ceremony, impres-
sive as always in the still, fresh dawn
of a May morning, was followed by
the crowning of the May Queen. Miss
Josephine Williams, President of the
Senior Class, was crowned accord-
ing to the tradition, by the President
of the Class of 1935, Peggy Little.
Tradition gave way to taste in the
��arrangements for breakfast this
year, and breakfasts varied in the
different halls, some retaining the old
strawberries and chipped beef, others
changing to sausages or French
toast.
The festivities on the green were
especially enjoyable. There was more
impromptu gaiety in the "one-two-
three-hopping" behind the village
band on to the green than last year,
when the Big May Day grandstand
was there fof staid "sport specta-
tors." And the five Maypoles on the
green, wound simultaneously, lent a
carnival touch to the scene. Miss
Park's presentation of a red necklace
to Josephine Williams, included a
generous reminder of Bryn Mawr's
never-changing welcome to returning
alumnae.
An innovation this year was the
introduction of country dancing af-
terward. Four dances, Newcastle,
Confess, Peascods, and Sellinger's
Round, were done, the last named be-
ing joined spontaneously by the col-
lege at large, forming a large outer
circle in addition to the two smaller
ones of the dancers.
Chapel followed, with Miss Park's
annual announcement of the various
fellowships and scholarships for 1933-
34. After chapel, the seniors rolled
their hoops down Senior Row, pre-
senting them^to'their undergradu-
ate friends. Then the four classes
formed a quadrangle to sing May
Day songs, before proceeding to the
business of the day�classes.
Marianne Gateson
Participants in Fencing Meet
Those who fenced in the meet Wednesday, May 4, are: Front row, left
to right: Misses Douglas, Hayes, Coxe, Gateson. Back row: Messrs.
Agnew, Fiems, Herben, Shakespeare, Kolb.
College Fencing Champion
Gateson Wins College
Fencing Championship
Exhibition Matches by Experts
Show 3 Types of Fencing
Brought to Fine Art
NEXT MEET IS WITH N. Y.
Summer School College Week-|
End Will Vitalize Economics
I.chigh Students Pay Visit
The Robert Blake Society, a philo-
sophical society of Lehigh Univer-
sity, at Bethlehem, paid a brief visit
to Bryn Mawr on Friday, April 5.
Arriving in the morning, the body of
students, thirty strong, including two
professors, inspected the two psy-
choloeieal laboratories and paid a
brief visit to Taylor Basement to see
the white rats.
The society then adjourned to the
Common Rflom, where they heard a
lecture on religious beliefs, given by
Dr. Leuba. Members of the faculty
and eighteen Bryn Mawr undergrad-
uates received them afterwards at a
tea in the Common Room. They were
escorted by some of the undergrad-
uates about the campus and were
then led to Wyndham. At a dinner
given in Wyndham at six o'clock
Friday evening, the society returned
its obligations to the Bryn Mawr
faculty.
As a result of the intramural fenc-
ing meet on Thursday evening, May
For college students whose knowl-, 4, Gateson came out college cham-
edge of economics is purely academic, pion, with Douglas, runner-up, and
the conference to be held at the Bryn ' Coxe and Hayes taking third and
Mawr Summer School over Fourth \ fourth places, respectively. The
of July week-end offers an unusual j meet was directed by Mr. Agnew, of
opportunity to meet members of a j the Sword Club, with Dr. Herben and
cross-section of American industrial Mr. Shakespeare assisting as judges,
life. Particularly for Bryn Mawr j The following are the results:
students, who must clean out their j Gateson: Defeated Douglas, 5-2;
closets in June, the college confer- Coxe; 5-2; Hayes, 5-2.
ence means an opportunity to dis- Douglas: Defeated Coxe, 5-0; Hayes,
cover to whom they will their campus 5-4; 'ost to Gateson, 2-5. ��
during vacation, and to what pur- Coxe: Defeated Hayes, 5-4; lost to
"pose they make their annual contri-i     Gateson, 2-5;  to  Douglas, 0-5.
butions.
Each year six undergraduates are
chosen  from   as  many'different  col-!
Hayes:     Lost   to   Gateson,   2-5;   to
Douglas, 4-5; to Coxe, 4-5.
M. Fiems, professor of fencing at
,  the college,  when  asked  to  give  his
leges  to   attend the  Summer  School                    ..                 ,   �       ,    ,,�,
views on  the meet,  declared:  "Tous
session and assist the faculty in vari-; Ies assauts fUrent disputes avec une
ous ways.    Sylvia Bowditch was the vigueur  et une courtoisie a citer hors
Bryn Mawr representative last sum-
pair.    La prudence et l'efficacite du
mer and  Esther Smith will hold the Jeu de Mlle- Gateson, la technique de(
�,.   ! Mlle.    Douglas,    l'ardeur    de    Mile,
same    position    this    summer.     The-         . ,   ^          ,    ....     �
i (7oxc, et la fugue de Mlle. Hayes out
large number of students, however, donn6s lieu au cours des assauts a
who cannot enjoy this opportunity! des passes d'armes tres variees et
and yet would like to acquire a first agreables a suivre.
hand knowledge of the school, may "Toutefois des le debut des assauts
do so over the Fourth of July week- Mlle. Gateson montrait assez de
end and learn just why the Bryn technique et de connaissances de,
Mawr Summer School is'considered l'escrime pour parvenir a battre ses|
one of the most interesting and sig- j adversafres et remporter ainsi le]
nificant educational experiments in; championnat des Seniors pour cette.
America.       ""^^"                                annee.    Le nombre de touches recues
In accordance with the plan of thejde ses adversaires n'etant que 6 hors
initial conference held last summer,! de 12 possibles confirme la maitresse
the    week-end    guests    will    occupy  de son jeu."
rooms  in   Pembroke,   attend   classes,;     In the course of the evening, exhi-:
meet the faculty, and for a time fol-: bitions were given in foil, epee, and;
low the regular routine.    Bryn Mawr: sabre.    M.   Fiems  and  Mr.   Shakes-!
students, as well as those from other  peare gave a pretty display of what'
colleges,  will  find their visit an  en-  fencing  can ^be   when  brought  to  a
.tirely new experience.    The  novelty  fine art.    The bouts in epee, between |
nes not so much in the use of Den-  Dr.   Herben   and   Mr.   Agnew,   were
bigh  dining-room  for  assembly,  and hot and lively.   In this weapon, there
the opening of the Deanery garden, are no rules-; one can touch  and be
as  in   the  unconyentional  aims   and  touched anywhere on the body, and,
methods  of  instruction.    No  attend-  formerly,    one    touch    decided    the
ance is lever taken, and the student's^jnatch, although the new rules have
experience in industry is used a^an  extended  this to three.    Matches in
approach to the study of economics, sabre, as in  foil,  submit to  conven-
Room   D   in   Taylor   is transformed  tional rules, and are for the best out
from  an  ordinary  classroom  intone,  of nine touches, but in this case the
-; target includes every part of the body
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social   science  workshop^whe.
(Continued  on   Pafee  Two)
Cale
Wednesday,
ty Show,  R
Goodhart, *.0
Saturday^Ma
Language
A. M.
Sunday, May
Rev. Dr. Alexander MacCall
will conduct the service. Music
Room, 7.30 P. M.
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iy 10:    Facul-^
\nt Necessary.
M.
13:    German
lination,    9.00
14:    Chapel.
A. A. 'Elections
President: Susan Daniels,
'34.
Vice-President: Betty Faeth,
'35.
Treasurer: Viyig-Yuin Ting,
'35.
Secretary: Frances Porch-
er, '36.
Sophomore Member: Mar-
ion Bridgman, '36.
Glee Club Will Present
Patience May 19 and 20
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,
1 Patience,   will   be   presented   by   the
I Glee Club on the evenings of Friday
'�� and  Saturday,  May ID and  20.    As
this year's offering of the Glee Club,
' Patience has created a great deal of
interest ever since its production was
; begun at the end of March.   The cast
i is as follows:
Colonel  Calverly,
Caroline Lloyd Jones, '33
Major Murgatroyd. Helen Ripley, '35
I Lieutenant, the Duke of. Dunstable,
Susan Morse, '35
Reginald  Bunthorne,
Rebecca Wood, '33
I Archibal Grosvenor,
Margaret Righter,  '34
I.ady Angela......Jane Parsons, '34
Lady   Saphir.......Betty  Davis, '35
j Lady  Ella......Eleanor,  Cheney, '35
Lady Jane_____Henrietta  Scott, '36
i Patience.......Junia  Culbertson, '34
Most of the cast has already serv-
ed in Glee Club choruses and Re-
becca Wood played The Mikado in
the 1931 operetta. She will also de-
sign the scenery.
A Glee Club production of Patience
mot with great success in the spring
of 1929 and the operetta seems pecu-
liarly suited to Bryn Mawr talent.
The alternative title of the piece' Is
Bunthome'8 Bride and Gilbert and
Sullivan used Reginald, a fleshly poet,
whose prototype, by the way, was
Oscar Wilde, and his Patience, a dairy
maid, as a means of laughing at the
aesthetic movement which swept the
English intelligentsia at the end of
the last century.           Both perform-
ances will be given for the benefit of
the Bryn Mawr Scholarship Fund
and it is a good idea to get your tick-
ets early, because the front sections
are going fast. The tickets will be
on sale at the Publication Office at
1.30 on Thursday and Friday.
The Undergraduate Association is
giving a dance from ten till two after
the Saturday night performance. It
will be in the gym and the individual
table system which proved to be so
popular at the winter dance will be
used. The tables will be along the
wall so that there will be ample room
for dancing, and it has been decided
that the refreshments will be served
on the roof, where there will be seats
and room for walking or talking be-
tween dances. The committee is glad
to report that it has secured an ex-
traordinarily good orchestra, with
Noble Sissle, of the Park Central,
New York, and formerly Les Ambas-
sadeurs, Paris, in person. The com-
mittee consists of A. Fouilhoux,
chairman; M. Nichols, B. Korff, M.
Cornish, L. McCormick, A. Hawks,
B. Perry, E. Pillsbury and E. Put-
nam. Tickets will be on sale on Mon-
day and tables may be reserved then.
Revolutionary  Leaders
Were Not Provincial
Washington's  Transatlantic In-
terests  Surpassed  His
Interest in West
EARLY COLLEGES LIBERAL
"Important as the western horizon
appeared to eighteenth century
America, the leaders of the Revolu-
tion lived in an Atlantic rather than
a strictly western world," said Dr.
Evarts'B. Greene, professor of his-
tory at Columbia University, deliver-
ing the Mallory Whiting Webster
Memorial Lecture in the Music Room,
May 5, on "American Horizons in
the Days of Washington."
"Every historian wishing to get
below the surface," Dr. Greene de-
clared, "must reproduce the Wcltnn-
schauung, the outlook on. the world,
of earlier generations, and avoid the
tendency to interpret the past accord-
ing to the ideas of the present." Cir-
cumstances determine men's vision
and the greater part of our national
history has* been determined by con-
flicting horizons.
After the opening up of the trans-
Allegheny country, the gaze of many
prominent men for the first time
turned toward the West. Benjamin
Franklin promoted the Grand Ohio
Company. George Washington, as
soldier and surveyor, early acquired
a knowledge of frontier life and con-
tinued his interest in the West
throughout his career.
Washington was, however, primar-
ily a planter of the southern tide-
water, and as such his trans-Atlantic
interests were of more vital import-
ance to him. A decade before the
War of Independence, half his let-
ters were written to Europeans who
handled his commissions, for buy-
ing and selling abroad. The problems
of a practical planter stimulatd his
interest in scientific agriculture, so
that he studied Priestley's chemical
analyses and corresponded with Ar-
thur Young, the leading agricultural
writer of the time. In the army he
made enduring friendships with Con-
tinental officers like Lafayette and
Rochambeau, and later'relied on them
for first-hand information about Eu-
ropean affairs.
For   business , world,   the   Atlantic
horizon was even more alluring than
for the agriculturist.   The volume of
"eighteenth   century  commerce   seems
(Continued  on  rage  Three)
Scholarships
Lack of space prevents the
printing of the scholarships
and prizes announced at Little
Mayday, but they will appear
in full in next week's edition.
M. Canu and Dr. Hedlund
Receive Special Awards
The students of Bryn Mawr are
not alone in celebrating scholarship
and prize awards just now. Dr. Hed-
lund has recently been granted a
Nations,! Research Fellowship for
mathematics by the National Research
Council. IJe will have leave of ab-
sence next year to study in Prince-
ton.
A magazine article by M. Canu
has won him the Strassburger Foun-
dation's annual $1,000 prize. The
following account appeared in the
Xew York Times, May 6:
"The Strassburger Foundation's an-
nual $1,000 prize for an article or
articles appearing in the French
press calculated best to serve Franco-
American friendship was awarded to-
day to Jean Canu for his articles en-
titled 'The United States By Auto-
mobile,' which appeared in Je Suis
Partout. M. Canu is now professor
of French literature at Bryn Mawr
College.
"This is the fifth time the prize
has been awarded. It is given on
the anniversary of the conclusion of
the treaty of alliance between the
French Government and General
Washington's army. Seven distin-
guished Frenchmen of letters serve
on the committee that chooses the
prize winner.
"Tkfs year, M. Canu got three
votes; Pierre de Noyer, New York,
correspondent of Le Petit Parisien,
two, and Odette Pascaul, one. One
judge was absent."