College News, 1931-10-28, Vol. 18, No. 04

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The College News
Vol. XVIII, No. 4
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA� WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931
Price, 10 Cents
Bates House Allure
Is Depicted by M. Lee
Taking Care of the  Tenement
Children Is. as Amusing
r.           as Beneficial.
MORE TEACHERS NEEDED
(Specially Contributed by
Murjorie Lee, Assistant to Bates House)
"'Come play with us. teacher," shouts
a chorus of lusty young voices, while
large black eyes, quick to sorrow, if
�refused, dance and sparkle with pre-
meditated mischief.
After the first day, when the effects
of a long, hot train-ride from the city
have worn off in a thorough scrubbing
and clean Bates House clothes, the
Italian tenement children are rushed
merrily into their daily round of
swims in the ocean in the morning,
swims in the afternoon, and strenuous
playing in the backyard, on slide and
Swing and see-saw.
The sun and the salt air have a
magical effect. During nap time,
which is extended as long as the
"teachers'* see fit for disporting them-
selves in the Long Braijch vil, sonic
of the children have been known to
sleep so soundly that when they woke
up they askeil if they must brush their
teeth now, before breakfast. And at
night there is even less trouble over
getting to sleep, so that, after a story
or two, "teacher" is quite free to go
off and admire her "favorite movie
hero, exchanging, on the way, humor-,
ous anecdotes of the day with her
boon companions. Two girls, of
course, arc left in charge of the little
Sinisgalis and Padulas, but fheir turn
at the movies, or the amusement and
the boardwalk, will come the next
night. During the day, too, each
"teacher" has several hours to herself
when it is not her turn with the chil-
dren.
Some girls go down to Bates House
from college for clean-up week, right
after exams, and give their minds full
opportunity for recovery from recent
mental strain by freshening the place
up with paint, and laying out rows of
white combs and toothbrushes, night-
ies and pajamas, for the coming
throng.
For those who go for two weeks
with the children�and you can stay
longer�life is a succession of amusing
incidents, quite novel in their unex-
pectedness. Vou will hear weird leg-
ends about things and proud boast-
ings of how one's father is a policeman
or a fireman, and of their doughty
deeds. And, you wjll notice the enor-
mous devotion . of small sister, four
and a half, for big brother aged eight;
i >r the tyrannical rule of ..'little brother
over big* brother, who, though gentle
enough to members of his own fam-
ily, is not averse to an occasional trial
of fists with anybody else's big brother.
The origin of all this was the gift
of a house at Long Branch, N. J., by
Mrs. H. Roswell Bates, to be used, in
memory of her husband, as a vacation
home for tenement children. The
financial end of it is fairly adequately
accounted for by our share of the
League pledges, and by the proceeds
from the sandwiches sold on campus.
The real, problem in collection with
Bates House is the lack of "teachers"
(girls from college, who go for two
weeks or more to take care of the chil-
' dren). It is a pity that more people
do not realize how extremely inter-
esting it is, and thus .miss the unique
experience to be found at Bates House.
Who' would not like to'meet a Billy
J'adula who said one night that he
couldn't go to sleep because "Miss
Connie was giggling too hard."
Summer School Has Own
Lantern Night Ceremony
Probably few undergraduates are
aware of the existence of another Lan-
tern Night, which is no less impres-
sive and possibly more significant than
ours, although very different. For the
summer school it symbolizes the eight
weeks spent at Bryn Mawr.
On the last evening, as Miss But-
terworth tells us, there is a banquet in
Pembroke dining room. Then, just
before dark, the girls go to the
Library. The guests sit on the grass
between the fountain and the Library
side of the Cloisters, while the girls
enter singing:
"With   eager   feet   we   come   to   thine
altar,
Lanterns arc lighted from every land."
They wear bright-colored dresses and
walk slowly, though informally, to a
stone altar covered with ivy which is
in the center of the Cloister lawn.
They are met by a figure representing
Wisdom. Then she and four hand-
maidens, tall girls with good voices,
hold a dialogue with Font others in
bright tunics, who represent workers.
By now it is completely 'dark. The
handmaidens kindle, their torches from
Wisdom, and then fire the altar, from
which the girls then light their blue
lanterns. They walk out singing -the
school Spug which is to a Russian
folk-tune.                                  __^___
Elections
At the Sophomore Class elec-
tion held last Wednesday, Har-
riet Mitchell, Rockefeller, was
chosen   President.
Anne Hawks was � elected
Freshman class chairman for this
week.
There are no trained voices, but
many born singers; the school has a
number of Russians - and Germans.
They know their songs well, having
sung them often at the evening gath-
erings  irt   Denbigh.
The next morning they leave in
buses. But, however different their
future life from that of the recreation
and study at Bryn Mawr, the -memory
of Lantern Night is inspiration in
their struggle for improvement.
Abbey Players Return
After Seventeen Years
Having closed the famous Abbey
Theatre in Dublin for the season, the
company that has sustained the high
repute of that great playhouse, directed
by the manager and director of the
Abbey Theatre, "Mr. Lennox Robinson,
is in America for the season and will
appear here in "The Playboy of the
Western   W Odd,"   November   10.
Seventeen years have elapsed since
the Abbey Player? last visited Amer-
ica, yet their wonderful acting and the
vivid realities presented by their un-
usual plays are still poignantly re
membered by all who heard them.
Founded by Lady Gregory, William
Butler Yeats and.others, the Abbey
Theatre has been for over twenty
years a cultural center for the Irish
people. Here many of the greatest
plays pf the Irish dramatists have had
their first offering, including tome of
Bernard Shaw's, most pf .1 M. Synge's.
Lennox Robinson's. Lady Gregory's,
,Sean O'Cascys, George Shiel's. Wil-
liam Butlet Vests', T. C. Murray's,
St. John Irvine's and of many- others.
As literary and cultural ambassa-
dors from a small country to a large
one comes this group of inspired play-
ers of inspired plays. Every player
is as nearly perfect as it'is possible to
be; every play in the repertoire of the
company is a gem.                ' '.
When the Abbey Players visited us
seventeen years ago. despite the pres-
ence in the company of Arthur Sin-
clair, Maire O'Neill. J. If. Kerrigan
and Sara Allgood, the Abbey manage
metit insisted that "there are no star-
in our cqmpany." Despite the fact
that the players now here include F. J.
Erratum
The News wishes to correct an
error in the interview with Miss
King, published last week, and
which Miss King has called to our
attention. The sentence reading
"Madame, it would not be good for
you that Germany should perish,"
Should read. "Madame, it would
not be good for,Europe tnat Ger-
many should perish."
To Restore Radiance of
Faith Is Christian Problem
Art Club Organized
The Art Club has been reorganized
after a temporary lapse of activity last
year. It meets Saturday mornings
from 9:30 to^ 12:30. There is no in-
structor, because of�the difficulties and
expense involved in procuring one.
The members thus feel free each to
follow her own individual manner ana
technical method. There is a model,
obtained usually from among the itu-i
dents at college, at' every meeting, and
the mediums used are charcoal, oils;
water colors and colored chalks. The
club is being run on a semester basis
because of the possibility of May Day
in the second semester, and the dues
are. four dollars for painting this se-
mester and three dollars and fifty cents
for. charcoal work.
Exhibit Held P^ere of
's Art
Three   Works   Show   Greatness
and Personality of Man
in Miniature.
MEXICAN   ART   IS   GOOD
McCormfck, Eileen Crowe, Barry Fitz-
gerald, Maureen Delany. P. J. Carolan.
and others, the Dublin management in-
sists there are no "stars." An Ameri-
can producer 'would advertise in big
letters and electric lights�"An All-
Star Cast." It is this system of "no
stars" that has produced this great
company of great players. Even the
Art Theatre of Moscow under Stanis-
lavsky has never matched the virile
acting companies of the Abbey The-
atre. Critics declare this organiza-
tion to be the finest acting company
in the  English-speaking  world.
( Specially contributed _ by
Mr. Warbutg)
It is not often that the work of an
artist of the \ew World can cause the
Old World to stop and take notice.
Too often they find in our productions
nothing more than an Americanizing
of one of their themes. The American
note in painting is as difficult to isolate
as is the real American. We find it
perhaps in men like Eakins. Burchfield.
Homer. Kuhn and Martin, but even
then we hesitate to hold their works
up against the works of the front liners
abroad. Our melting pot civilization
seems to be melting too slowly for us
to expect a really clear-cut national art
such as we find in France and Ger-
many today. But if we can stretch
national pride into. Continental pride,
as present circumstances rather fprcc us
to do, we gladly seize the opportunity of
claiming the works of the forerunners
of Mexican art of-today as "American"
in this larger sense. For through the
constant political upheavals Mexico
has developed Character-., characters
who. unlike our countrymen, glory in
their differences \s individuals they
seem to realize that "he who follows is
always necessarily behind." So that
Mexico at best is never a unity but
tends towards a  union of differences.
The Mexican art is truly Mexican
if we think of it in that way. It is
highly romantic in its propaganda and
tends to be classical in its architectural
design. It does not retire from this
world to interpret the realms of mem-
ory and hope nor to idealize the pres-
ent,"' but rather grabs the bull by the
horns and shows us the very realistic
present." One cannot help feeling how
close this is to the point of view of
Daumier but unlike the latter it not
only shows us the present (or rather
shows up the present), but also hints
rather broadly at the remedy. It is
here in the various artists that we find
Chapel was opened Sunday evening
with the* processional, followed lrya
prayer by the speaker of the evening,
the Reverend Mr. W. Brooke Stabler,
director of college work at the Church
of the Mission, New York City. After
an anthem, in which the choir dis-
played a real feeling for shading and
antiphonal effect, the speaker read his
text, which was taken from the sixth
chapter of the second Epistle to the
Corinthians.
Mr. Stabler chose as his theme, the
history of the cross and its importance
and influence in modern life. Religion,
he points out, is not a losing cause,
around which a few emaciated saints
rally hopelessly. There has never
been a greater need for religion than
there is in.the-world today.
Exposition, not defense, is the prov-
ince- of the Christian minister today,
Mr. Stabler believes. The history of
the cross is as true now as it was two
thousand years ago. Dogmatic Phari-
sees, cynical I.scariots. Saducee-, Hcr-
ods, and Pontius I'ilates, besiege the
church from within;." while without
there are the million who |>a- un-
moved by this "most dramatic of all
dramas"�the   cross.                      �*
As a Hioneru
it: every man carries within him a
throne and a cross. It" self is on the
throne, Jesiis will be on the cross,
while if Jesus is enthroned, self must
be crucified. The problem facing each
Christian is to overcome the gloomy
pessimism of the agnostic, and to re-
store the lost radiance of the faith.
To do this one must take religion as
a great cosmic adventure, not as a
spiritual security. "One cannot re-
move the cross and put in cushions."
The danger today IS that with the
great number of books and periodicals
that do our thinking for us, we may
become parasites on the church, tak-
ing all and giving nothing. One must
be willing to spend and be spent on
the moral struggle; or. in the words
of Foch, "One must fight with the
scabbard   when   the  sword   is   broken."
Freshman Statistics
Are Given in Chapel
Miss   Park   Discusses   Training,
and Environment as Well
as Scholarship.   �
Hawaiian Graduate
Student Interviewed
the different political and social beliefs
manifesting themselves and we can but
be amused at their childish idealism.
But it is not because of this that they
command world attention but more for
their skill in the organization of this
subject matter iiito excellent design
physically and mentally. The result-
ant order has character. As such we
respect it. irrespective of our beliefs
or tastes. If the character displea-rs
us we can, as we do in any other
branch of living, say "Not for me!"
but by so doing we do not lessen our
Continued   on  Page   Foar
Kazuko Higuchi conies to the. Bryn
Mawr Graduate School from Ililo,
Hawaii, the largest and least civilized
of the   Hawaiian   Islands.     The   island
is   covered   with   forests,   not   wlmil-   ,i
we think of them in the United States
but  wild jungles, active  volcanoes,  and
old   temples.      Formerly   these   temples
were refuges for criminals and in their
services human sacrifices were offered.
Even   today    iri    these   primitive   sur-
roundings   old   religious   customs   still
persist,    especially   the   belief   in   evil
spirits.     When   someone   die-   it   i-   lie
lieved tliat the spirits of their enemies
have     come     and     taken    them    aw .v.
Above   all.   nature   is    vox   clone   and
present,    The dampness of  the air cai-
rns  the  fragrances  of plant- and  then
is    the    continuous    motion    ol    lava
"crawling over everything like dragons'
heads."
When   Miss   Higuchi  came  to this
country she noticed cliiclly that n-11
Northerners are in a hurry all of the
time. She went to Oberlin Collegi
in Ohio where she specialized ill SO
ciology and political science.- This is
her first year in Bryn .\rawr and she
is doing graduate work in history of
art. Her first impressions of Bryn
Mawr arc that because it is not a co-
educational college, we are not over-
burdened with extra-curriculum activi-
lies and as a result we study hard and
a great deal of the time.
Miss Park's ehapel last Tuesday and
Thursday was devoted f� the statis-
tics of the entering class, taking up
not only the question of their scholar-
ship but also of their parentage, train-
ing and environment. "If we should
draw a circle with Bryn Mawr as its
center and a radius of fifteen miles,"
Miss Park began, "nineteen per cent,
or about one-fifth .of the homes of the
frcshutan class would be included.""
If the radius of the circle were a hun-
dred miles, sixty-three per cent, of the
freshmen's homes would be included.
This means that only two-fifths of the
class come from homes more than
three hours distant from Bryn Mawr
and that one out of every five of them
whom y'ou*ineet is brought up in this
same bnarpatoh and it is only two out
of. the live whom you would expect.
as Miss Park said, "to have a foreign
accent." Three-fifths of the class come
from large cities and the remaining
two-fifths from smaller cities, towns
or  even   the  country.    .
A large percentage of the stock of
the class on both the father's and the
mother's side are. pure British but
there are some (jcrman. French.
Dutch, Chinese and Japanese, while
one-(|uarter combines British, (icrnian.
French and Dutch. Sixty-seven of the
freshmen have parents and' grandpar-
ents on both sides American born;
fifteen have one grandparent born
abroad and only six have one or both
parents horn out of America. About
three-tenths of the class are daughters
of college-trained parents and one-half
of the class have a college-trained
father only, leaving two-tenths of them
daughters of parents neither of whom
has hail a colrege education. And now
for the statistics of the class itself.
The average age of the freshman is
eighteen years and two months, al-
though there is not as wide a range
in their ages as there often is. Twenty
per cent, ol them came in with credit
averages in their examinations and
with good school records and scho-
lastic aptitude tests. Those who enter
with a credit average are as follows:
Credit  Averages  of   1935
Phyllis Walter (loodhart, Catherine
Adams Bill. Betty Clark Little, Elea-
nor Favill Cheney, Nancy Fay Nicoll,
Elizabeth Monroe, Diana Tate-Stnith,
Frances Cuthbert Van Keuren, Nancy
Leslie Rutherfurd Bucherj Nancy
Tucker Briggs, Elizabeth Margerj Ed-
wards. Beatrice Hamilton Blyth, Kvf-
lyn  Hastings Thompson.  Mary  Pauline
Jones. Ren rude Van Vraidcen Priw
chot. Elizabeth Maunsell Bates.
Rebecca Perry, Amu t assel Holloway,
Nora MacCurdy. leannette Morrison.
Matriculation   Scholarship  Awards
Nancy Fay N'iColl, Phyllis Walter
Goodhart, Catherine Adam- Bill, Betty
(lark   Little.                                       ,
r"*          Honorable   Mention
Elizabeth Monroe. Frances Mar-
garet Hall, Eleanor Favill Cheney,
F.li/abeth    MacLeod   Culver.
Additional material about the enter-
ing class which Miss Park did not
have time to give in chapel is that the
one hundred members of the freshman
class have been prepared by seventy-
one different schools. Where there is
so much' similarity in the provenance,
geographical and educational of the
class this scattering among a large
number�rrf�si'litm!*1�rs�an�excellent------

Advertising Talk
Mrs. Monica O'Shea Muray.
Bryn Mawr. 1917. will speak on
the opportunities for  women in the
field of advertising in the Common
Room. Cioodhart. on N'ovcinln-r J,
Mrs. Muray is with the J. Walter
Thompson Company of New York.
Tea will be served at 4 :30 before
Mrs. Muray's talk, and all inter-
ested are invited to attend.
variation. It means, conversely, that
no large number enters from any single
school. Six were prepared by the
Brearley School; five each by the Win-
sor   School.   Ethel   Walker  and   Kent
Continued  on   I'acr  Three
	News Election
The  N'kvvs announces with pleas-	
ure the	election of  [anet Marshall
as Juni	>r member of the Editorial
Board.	
	
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