College News, 1931-10-21, Vol. 18, No. 03

              The College'News
Vol. XVIII, No. 3
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931
Price: 10 Cents
Dr. Hart Works on
Hoover Committee
Sabbatical Spent in London and
Capital Deals With'
Social Trends.
DEPRESSION     DISCUSSED
Dean Explains Policy
on Which Orals Based
Dr. Hart spent a part of his last
rear's sabbatical working in Washing-
ton for "President Hoover's Committee
on Social Trends." He was at the
head of one of the thirty projects
which   the   committee   is   conducting.
He was asked by Mr. W. F. Ogborn
whether it would be possible to de-
termine any changes in quantitative
measures of changes since 1900, with re-
gard to such matters as the alleged de-
cline of belief in religion, the looseness of
morals, and the attitudes toward isola-
tion in the field of international politics,
and toward preparedness versus disarma-
ment. The report will he published in
the spring.
Pr. Hart dealt mostly with period-
ical literature at the Library of Con-
v. gress. He had a small staff and enjoyed
his work, approaching shelves of
bound volumes as "a geologist ap-
IM-oaches the strata of the earth's sur-
� face."�^----------                r
Dr. Hart spent the other part of his,
sabbatical in   London,  doing work  for
11imself,......He.__finds. ..h,Qwe.yer,   (hat
Bryn Mawr, with its beautiful campus,
is also very favorable.to work. His
l)ook, The Technique of Social Progress,
which was published in September, it
the result of work done here, and
might be called a general survey of
social trends, to which his studies for
President Hoover provide an intensive
supplement, dealing as they do with
recent social trends on the socio-psycho-
logical side."
Although the depression is more an
economic than a social problem, Dr.
Hart said that his studies had given
him one slant: before the war there
was a great wave of social reform in
America. Afterwards, however, when
Europe went socialistic, we went in the
opposite    direction;    we   adopted    the
Continued  on Face Five
Since there has been a great deal of
misunderstanding about the orals Dean
Manning explained to the Junior
Class on Thursday the policy_ on
which they are based. The language
examinations were started with the
idea that the French and German
' 'languages should be known- by all
Bryn Mawr graduates. The student
had four chances to pass an oral ex-
amination in both during her Senior
year. Objections were raised after a
time that this spoiled the student's
Senior year at college. A new plan
was begun, based on the idea that the
burden should not be left until the
student's Senior year. Everyone
should have at least tried both exams
by the spring of her Junior year and
passed by the fall of her Senior year.
Exceptions were made in borderline
cases on the condition that the Senior
attend a tutoring class and spend at
least two and one-half hours a week
in preparation for this class. The col-
lege gives ibis course out of the good-
ness of its heart, as if were, and every
student is expected to keep up with
the work, it is by this plan that the
orals are.conducted. The cqllege has
under its consideration requiring only
one modern language examination
from those who entered on Greek, but
this has not been definitely decided.
Dean Finds Too Much
Time Spent on Work
1930-31    Statistics   Show   Over-
Work; New Recording
Requested.
CHANGE QUIZ SCHEDULE
courses than  was allowed them.    Last
year with the new schedule there may j their   sister   class   with   a   bright   green
"nave"been   some overwork due to  the | banner   according   to  the  custom   of  the
Dr. Frantz Speaks on__
a Career in Medicine
Japanese Freshman
Describes Her College
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It is always interesting to learn the
point of view of the foreign student
who has worked under educational
systems differing from those in Amer-
ica. Shizu Nakamuara. the Japanese
girl in the FYeshtnan Class, describes
for the News the college from which
-he came:
"Before I came to America I was
in Tsuda College in Tokyo which was
founded thirty years ago by Miss Unit
Tsuda who had been "a student, and a
demonstrator in the biological labora-
tory at Bryn Mawr. It has now about
400 girls, and this fall it moved to the
suburbs of Tokyo, to the new beautiful
buildings and campus, given by
alumnae, and friends: but while I was
there the college was still in the city
and .more than half of the students
came from the city and its vicinity;�
the dormitory was about a mile away
from the campus. Therefore the main
college life went on during the day,
mtt&lly from nine to three in flic iirit'r-
nooh, when the student went home.
We had ten minutes of recess every
hour and one hour after lunch and we
utilized the time as -much as we could,
discussing literature, philosophy, inter-
national relations, economics, sociol-
ogy, etc., as the courses of the college
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were along these lines and also it was
then that we talked about what had
happened and what we had done while
we did not see each other over night."
When asked for her experiences in
this country and her ideas about col-
lege Shizu continued, "When ' I left
Japan last year I had quite a definite
idea that I shall study economics and
sociology here, but while I was. pre-
paring myself for College Boards at
the   Kirk's   School  last   year,   I   found
Caatlaacd oa  Pmje Faar
Medical  Instructor  Explains  Its
Nature,   Requirements
and Interest.
DISCOURAGES FEMINISTS
On October 15 Dr. Virginia Knee-
land Frantz, Bryn Mawr, 1918, spoke
on "What medicine has to offer in
general." Dr. Frantz said that while
she knew what the young people of
1890 and 1910 were after, she is not
sure whether we of 1931 are looking
for mere entertainment, for intellectual
satisfaction, or for service to mankind.
Medicine fills all three of these needs.
For entertainment it supplies work and
leaves no time to be unhappy. One
meets pleasant, though not often
learned, people both in the research
laboratory and in clinical practice. A
man can make a good living in medi-
cine and a woman a fair one. The
intellectual side of medicine is. in teach-
ing. There is HO chance for a very
high position but a high position would
probably be much less interesting.
For the curious, laboratory research
would   hold   intellectual interest,   ami
also clinical practice if one is able to
detach one's mind from the personal
interest and keep to the problem of the
disease. . Those whose interest lies in
personalities do not contribute much
constructive thought Today there is
none of the call to serve mankind that
was roused by the war. and if W� have
that motive in our nature any profes-
sion is as good a medium of expres-
sion as medicine.
To go into medicine one should have
good health and enough money to dis-
count the necessity of working to pay
one's way. Women must remember
that they have to be relatively better
than men to get ahead. Very few
poor men really succeed in medicine.
and     practically     no     women.      One
In chapel last Tuesday Mrs. Man-
ning made a statement of the number
of hours spent by each student on her
lessons for each week according to the
undergratuate statistics taken las!
year. These statistics were made up
from the work of an average group
of students and showed about six hours
per week over what the Dean's office
expects the students to spend on work.
Mrs. Manning said that it would be
advisable to take off this extra work-
ing time if the College expects to keep
up its physical education and extra
curriculum activities. It is also quite
obvious that the student who studies
continuously does her work far less
perfectly than the one who takes time
for recreation.____                          .
These statistics also seemed to mean
that   more   work   was   put   on   certain
Junior Skit Is Take-
Off  of Smoking-Room
The Lowest Depths, given by the Jun-
iors on Banner N'ight. was a great suc-
cess, although it has usually been the
custom to have a faculty skit. Ostensibly
the play was written by Anton Chcck-Out,
which was the Juniors' manner of
acknowledging their debt to the famous
champion of the commonplace; in reality
each actress created her own part, which
took its place in the whole by means
of two practices under the direction of
I.eta Clews. The result was a skit full
of decided and natural characterization
worthy of Checkov himself. The seri-
ous students of Bryn Mawr found them-
selves quite capably mirrored in the wis-
dom of Miss Brues, the sarcasm ,and
cynicism of Miss Yeakel, the didacticism
of Miss Kindelberger and her satellite
Miss Chalfont and the aestheticism of
M iss Busscr. On the other hand, this
imposing array of intellect $was relieved
by the complete "otherworldliness" of
Miss. Dodge and Miss Webster and the
bouncing qualities of the "brat." Miss
Lee. The atmosphere of the smoking
room in which the scene was laid be-
came <|uite convincing and amusing al-
though it was not particularly an atmos-
phere of exam times as the Juniors would
have us think.
After the  skit  the  Juniors  presented
Remove Week-end Ban
as Epidemic Ceases
Aspects of the Infantile Paralysis
Are Explained by Dr.
Wagner.
should be able to afford good food and
living, no extra work, and an intern-
ship in a good hospital, many of which
pay nothing. One must be slightly
democratic and able to get along with
the people one works on, for, and with,
both instructors and patients. Most
of all, one should not go into medicine
unless one simply cannot help it. We
all have a certain amount of curiosity
about it as children but  it often does
not  last.    Medicine  is not  one of the
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Coattaaed  on  Pace   Foar
fact, that harder combinations of
courses were taken, although there may
not have been any change, in the ac-
tual hours  spent on  the  work.-------�
"There � are two points which I
should like to bring up this morn-
ing.'' continued Mrs. Manning, "and
they are the two things we have been
working for recently." First, the
Dean's office is desirous of making
all the first year courses of the same
difficulty. It would like to have the
students spend the same amount of
time on Freshman English that they
do on First Year History and so forth.
Secondly there is a new <|uiz schedule
going into effect this year whereby they
are all finished by the Thanksgiving
vacation. Unfortunately it i.s only the
good and fortunate students who will
have the time between Thanksgiving
and . Christmas free as there will be
requizes for those who condition the
first ones. On the whole, however, this
time may be used for reading and re-
ports so that they will not conflict
with  the quiz schedule.
Mrs. Manning desires the further
co-operation of the students in keeping
another series of work slips that will
be handed out by the L'ndergrad. As-
sociation for the three consecutive
weeks during and before the quiz
period this term. It is unfortunate
that the actual slips and recording of
them from' last year have been lost;
and for this reason there must be an-
other recording before the Dean's O.f-
fii'e can be sure just which depart-
ments are causing the most overwork.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Manning would wel-
come any general suggestions regard-
ing the college schedule a- a whole
which she realizes is not idual. Ill
spite of the many advantages of the
small college there are certain diffi-
culties such as the inflexibility ili the
size of classes that are sure to arise
that one would not find in a target
college. The original Bryn Mawr
schedule had a meat simplicity and
consistency that we arc losing as the
classes grow   larger anjl the coiuv-^-fliv
increased    'The News will be glad to
print   any   discussion  or  opinions  on  the
subject of the Curriculum.
Entertainment Com. Explained
There    was    some     misunderstanding
about the Committee on  Entertainment
announced la�t  wwk in the  XbwWi�This
committee was appointed at the request
of Mrs. Chadwkk-Cotlhu by the presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Association.
Denise (iallaudet. as undergraduate
assistant to Mrs Chadwick-Collms, was
a pi jointed chairman. Miss Park. Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins and the president of
the Undergraduate Association are mem-
bers ex-pfficio. This committee is en-
tirely separate from the Speakers' Coin
mittee and is an independent appointive
committee under the Undergraduate
Association
odds.
?i
Curriculum Committee
Has Been Reorganized]
Unlimited Cuts and Methods of
Marking Are Among Topics
to Be Studied.
URGE    MORE    CONTACTS
The Curriculum Committee organ-
ized under the new system adoptee
last spring, with the class, hall anc
major  subject  of each  is  as. follow-:
E. Byrne, 1932, Rock, Economics.
E. Hanan, 1934, I'em West, History.
Moore, chairman,   1932,   Merion.
it
4000 CASES IN NEW YORK
(Specially Contributed by Dr. Wayner)
The recent .epidemic of infantile
paralysis, the second Largest recorded
in the history of the disease, is one of
those exacerbations in -virulence and
frequency which have characterized tin-
disease since it assumed w idespTeail
and pandemic proportions. Beginning
early in July and virtually ended at the
present time, it numbered about 400(1
cases in New York alone. Other
centers for the outbreak, much less
sorely afflicted, but still suffering to
distressing degree, were parts of
Massachusetts. Connecticut. New Jer-
sey. Michigan. Wisconsin. Illinois and
Pennsylvania. Complete records for
all areas are of course not yet avail-
able. But .compared with the 191 f>
pandemic which swept the United
States and numbered 29,000 cases with
oOOO deaths, the present epidemic has
been   small   in   number   and   milder   in
Economics and Polities.
J. Parsons, 1934. Merion, Biology..
E. Paxson, 1932, Denbigh, Eco-
nomics and Politics.
E. I'inkerton, Executive Committee.
1932. I'em West, Art and  Achcology.
E. I'leasants. 1932. I'em West. His-
tory and  Politics.
M. Reinhardt, 1932. IV.n East, Eng-
lish.
\� Richardson.  1933.  Kock^icrman.
I.. Sanborw; H\cctttive Committee,
1932. Merion. Psychology.
I". Taggart. 1932. I'em East, Latin
E. Yeakel, 1933. Denbigh. Biology.
Freshmen members will be added
after   mid-years.
The   first   meeting  of   the   committee
character.
The epidemic has served to re-
emphasize the mysterious and baffling
aspects of the disease and has put the
problem of bacteriologists and epidc
ologists in the minds of all thinking
people.
It has made many non-medical i�eo�
pie ask and subsequently turn over in
their minds the known facts about the
disease and. its occurrence that may be
the clues to our final understanding of
it. Some of these facts are very inter-
esting and most suggestive*
It is now known for instance that
the disease is an  infection, due to the
Alterable virucs of a micro-organism.''
This was proven as recently as 1909
when Landsteiner and Tapper in
Vienna and Flexner and Lewis in this
country successfully transferred the
disease to .monkeys. Up until that
time the disease was classified with
the    noil-infectious    nervous    diseases.
Continued   on   Vngr   Five
Miss King Compares French
and German Beggars
The N'kws has been very fortunate in
receiving from Miss King, who has
been in Central Europe, Italy, and
Prance this summer, her igiprflssiiinir i
of life and condition- in Germany dur-
ing June and July.
Germany was, from the artist's point
of view, enormously delightful, Miss
King declared, but Baroque a.rt anil
princely cities could not conceal the
prevailing misery of those distressing
days.     The  waiter,   the   bootblack,  and
all  those   not   bedizened  for  the  for-
was   held Jast  Thursday.     Following|^^  8poke wjt)l (.Ntra�r(|ma,v (.;ill.
dour, and often with the poignancy of
real   literature.     As   one   man   said   in
asserting   thai   they   could   stand   no
more taxe-: "Madame, it would not
be good for you* if Germany should
perish."
It    was    white-collar   begging   which
was   most   noticeable,  begging   by   men
of  one's   own   da--,   who   had   been   in
the   civil   serrtcc.   or   m   banking,   ami�
were   now    without   proper   food,   their
backs against the wall.   A man with a
Mrs, Manning- -ugges^iou ill chapel
it was agreeil that the first work of th"
year will be to get records ol the stu-
dent-' time for three consecutive
week-, beginning ( >ctober 25. The
purpo-e of this is to sec if courses
have been altered this year to make
the work correspond more ctosel] with
thaamount of credit given.    Everyone
.'JL college is rec|Uested to kcey. these
records in order that a true cross-
section of college work may Be ob-
tained These records will i>e seen by
no one outside of the committee.
(Those last year were not -ecu by any
one except the coinmitte.i All that is
wanted by the administration is the
totals   and   average-   of   the   hour-   of
work. The only reason that signatures
are requested i* to lend authenticity to
the records.
The committee is also interested in
the questions of unlimited cuts: of
methods'of marking; of increase in the
credit given for certain courses, and rji
the possibility of introducing new-
courses into the curriculum. Anyone
with ideas on the-e subjects or on any
other..subjects connected with the cur-
riculum is urged to talk with the niciii-
Coatlaaed  aa  P��*  Three
f'ontlniied   on   l'ttzt   Five
Irish Players Give
Synge Play
The Abbey Theatre  Irish  Play-
ers. ifhder the personal direction
of Lennox Robinson, will give �
performance hi'Goodhart Hall on
Tuesday.    N'ovember    10.      This
..famous acting company, CO which
only the Art Theatre of Moscow
i- comparable, will present "The
Playboy of the Western World."
by I. M Svuge. for its DryII Mawr
engagement      The  Syuge  play is a
comedy  which  has  been  sai<r$>
be a satire against the Irish nation