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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1933  i ^ft'&V8��*'��1
COLLEGE  NEWS.  1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Faculty is Engaged
In Varied Research
Many Books and Articles Arc
Scheduled for Publication
In Near Future
DEAN   WRITES   HISTORY
Faculty answers to a questionnaire
sent out recently by the Publication
Office show the members of the Bryn
Mawr academic staff engaged in re-
search on a wide variety of problems.
A number of books and articles have
appeared this fall, and others will
be published  in  the  near future.
Dean Manning heads the list with
her volume on British Colonial Gov-
ernment After the American Revo-
lution (178t-l8S0), the writing of
which has occupied much of her spare
time during the past twelve years. It
is scheduled for release by the Yale
University Press, November 21.
A volume by Dr. Carpenter on The
Humanistic Value of Archaeology
was published in September by the
Harvard University Press. The bdok
is the fourth in the series of Martin
Classical Lectures, which are deliv-
ered annually at Oberlin College. Dr.
Carpenter is Charles Eliot Norton
Lecturer for the Archaeological In-
stitute of America, and Dr. Swindler
i~ editor-in-chief of the American
Journal of Archaeology.
Dr. Cad bury is preparing for the
publication of the annual catalogue of
George Fox;
One of the new volumes of the En-
cyclopaedia of the Social Sciences,
now in press, contains an article by
Mrs. Forest on pre-school education.
In its current issue the PMLA
(Publications of the Modern Lan-
guage Association of America) runs
an article by M. Canu entitled "Lit-
terature et Geographie," and another
by Miss Frank on "AOI in the Chan-
son de Roland."
Dr. Max Diez's College German,
which is to be issued by the Oxford
University Press, has already been
mentioned in the News. The Modern
Language Association is printing a
series of four articles by Dr. Diez on
Metapher and Marchengestalt (Fort-
setzung), and an article entitled "The
Principle of the Dominant Metaphor
and Werther" is scheduled to appear
in the Journal of English and Ger-
manic Philology.
In the Geology Department, Dr.
Watson has nearly finished his mono-
graph, The Petrology of the San
Carlos Mountains, Tamaulipas, Mex-
ico, which will probably be issued this
winter by the University of Michi-
gan. Dr. Dryden has completed the
manuscript fer his Geology of Charles
County, Maryland, and is half
through work on The Stratigraphy of
the Calvert Formation. Both will
appear as publications of the Mary-
land Geological Survey. Dr. Wyck-
off is doing the petrographic work for
a paper being prepared in collabora-
tion with Professor Meyerhoff, of
Smith College, on the geology of the
Arecibo district, Puerto Rico. The
New York Academy of Sciences will
be the publishers.
Dr.  David's edition of De Expug-
natione   Lyxbonensi,   which   he   has
prepared for the Columbia University
Records of Civilization series, is now
(Contlnuea  on   Page   Five)
Student Industrial
m Miss Gladys Palmer, a teacher at
the Bryn Mawr Summer School, led
a discussion on the NRA at the first
meeting of the Student-Industrial
Group, held last Wednesday evening
in the Common Room.
Nobody, Miss Palmer declared, has
suffered so much from the depression
as the industrial worker. At the peak
of unemployment last May, 40 per
cent, of all those usually gainfully
employed in Philadelphia were with-
out jobs. Only a third of the popu-
lation was working as usual. The
NRA was intended primarily to re-
lieve the emergency. The workers
present told how the NRA has af-
fected hours, wages, and conditions
of employment in their industries.
Dr. Grenf ell Comments
On Labrador's Wealth
Grenfell  Mission  is  Trying  to
Place Country on Sound
Economic Basis
STOCK      IS      EUROPEAN
In Goodhart Hall, Friday night, Sir
Wilfred Grenfell, who has given for-
ty-one years of his life to enriching
the life of the people of Laborador,
gave^an illustrated lecture on this
little-known coutry in an effort to
raise money for the Grenfell Associa-
tion.
Labrador is on the continent of
North America, approximately oppo-
site England and Scotland, but much
colder in climate because of currents
from the Arctic regions. That it
once had a large population is prov-
ed by the fact that the early colon-
ists from England and France found
it inhabited by great numbers of
Mongolians, Eskimos and Indians.
This civilization was apparently de-
stroyed by the European fishermen
who fished in great numbers every
summer along the coast, and by the
fact that the natural resources of the
land were cruelly wasted. Forest
fires laid waste the great wooded
tracts; there were no game preserves
and the fisheries were not conserved.
"Labrador was the pathway through
which Europe came to America," and
the impoverished state of the present
inhabitants, many of them of English,
Scotch, French and Irish stock,
points to the vandalism of the col-
onists who passed through on their
way south and west.
The Grenfell Association is endeav-
oring to bring the schools, hospitals
and churches of civilization to this
region, which is not far geographic-
ally from the centers of our modern
life, but which is totally ignorant of
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CALENDAR
Thurs., Nov. 16. Shaw lec-
ture conference. Deanery, 2 to
4 P. M.                                �
Sun., Nov. 19. Chapel. Mu-
sical service�anthems by the
choir and organ solos of com-
positions of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Music
Room, 7.30 P. M.
Mon., Nov. 20. Second team
hockey vs. Philadelphia C. C,
4.00 P. M.
Mon., Nov. 20. Fourth of the
Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
lectures. Mrs. Slade will speak
on The Far East.
Tues., Nov. 21. Shaw lec-
ture conference. Deanery, 2 to
4 P. M.
Tues., Nov. 21. Meeting of
the International" Relations
Club. Tea at 4.30 in the Com-
mon Room.
Thurs., Nov. 23. Shaw lec-
ture conference. Deanery, 2 to
4 P. M.
Fashion Show Emphasizes
New Vogue for Elegance
The forecasts for winter weather
in women's fashions are not so
stormy as we were led to believe ear-
lier in the season from the influx of
Trotesquely pointed hats and the Mae
West fad for feathers and ruffles. At
least Wanamaker's Fashion Show,
held in the Common Room last Thurs-
day afternoon, presented no more in-
timidating aspects than the "big, bad
wolf" motif in everything from
'ports clothes to evening wraps.
The authorities on sports clothes,
we conservatives are pleased to note,
still include as acceptable the eminent-
ly practical twin sweater set and the
full cut swagger coat for general
wear. We have the added boon this
winter of imaginative design and col-
or in these as well as in costumes for
skiing  and   skating  enthusiasts.
More formal wear also shows an.
nmiable whimsicality among the de-
signers; we are to romp Sunday
night in dresses of inconspicuous col-
or and line enhanced by decorative
treatment at the shoulder, neck, and
down the back. Satin flowers and
hows in constrasting color, and sil-
ver buttons, spangles, and bugles
are used to gain an effect of ele-
gance.
Evening dresses, however, give
freest rein for originality. The de-
�i�*ners run riot with velvets and sliv-
ver satins, and then cut them flatter-
msrly to emphasize such" glamorous
strains as Andalusian costume tra-
ditions and the Marlene Dietrich
mode. Clips and bows are again pop-
ular in formal fashions as decora-
tions for the neckline, which this year
is hieh in front, most frequently de-
scending from covered shoulder lines
to a low, sauared decolletage. Then,
to top all of this, ingenious designers
give us choice between such fetching
evening wraps as a botw cape of
black velvet and a Viennese wrap in
dark red velvet, carrying out the
"big, bad wolf" Idea in its full cut
shoulders and adding a touch of medi-
eval demureness by attaching a
monk's hood as a collar to the coat.
Art Club Gives Members
Real Practice in Drawing
(Especially Contributed by Ellen
Stone, '36)
The Bryn Mawr Art Club origi-
nated in 1926 as a small group of
interested students who wanted to do
.some practical work in drawing and
painting. The club was successful
and managed to acquire an endow-
ment fund, an enrollment of forty
members, and an instructor.
This year, the Art Club has re-
turned to a more modest program.
The idea is to get some real practice
in drawing. The group meets every
Saturday morning in the basement
of the gym. So far, it has worked
from life, being fortunate in having
a model. This life drawing, and also
modelling, will be varied With draw-
ing or painting from the head and
from a costumed model.
The attention of the Art Club has,
thus far, been concentrated on draw-
ing. It is felt, however, that work
in painting could also be accomplish-
ed, studies of the head, and sketch-
ing  trips  in  the  near  vicinity.
Also, if any member has an inter-
est in any other branch of art such
as etching or block print work or
modellings, the club is more than
willing to help. The supplies of the
club, at present, are limited, and it
is felt that for this year at least
members will have to furnish their
own equipment for work in oils or
etching.
As the Art Club has some capital,
besides the dues of the members, it
may seem contradictory that it should
not be eager to undertake more am-
bitious flights in the realm of art.
But, after all, college is not an art
school. Those people at college, in-
terested enough in art to make time
for it, are interested zealously, and
there is no better training for any
branch of work in art than actual
and continued practice in drawing.
The club hopes soon to be able to pro-
cure the criticism of an instructor, if
only for part time. It hopes to in-
clude both those who want to contin-
ue and improve their work in art.
and those who are interested but who
have had little or no experience.
To sum up: the Art Club wel-
comes new members, with real inter-
est the only qualification for member-
ship; and it welcomes new ideas. It
is trying to make possible real work
and practice in the essentials of art
which are possible to get at college
and, at present, is not trying to fill
the place of a full time and many-
sided art school.
NEWS
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Mrs. Dean and Dr. Fairchild Agree Russia
Is Stable at End of First Five Year Plan
Program for Industrialization Has Been 93.7% Successful; Soviet
Is Emerging From Isolation and Assuming Destined
Role of Great Power
DIPLOMACY   AIMS   AT   MAINTENANCE   OF   PEACE
"Today the Soviet Union is emerg-
ing from the comparative isolation
to which it had been condemned by
economic weakness and world hostil-
ity, and is assuming the role of a
great power," declared Mrs. Vera
Micheles Dean, in her lecture which
followed that of Miss Fairchild on the
Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia in
the Period of the Five-Year Plan.
Improvement in the agricultural sit-
uation has given the Soviet Govern-
ment greater freedom in the conduct
Of international relations.
At the close of the war, Soviet
leaders were convinced that capital-
ism had reached the last stages of
decay, and that a new world struggle
would soon arise, culminating in
world revolution. They consequently
welcomed all attempts at proletarian
revolts in neighboring states, notably
Germany and Hungary, and with the
aid of the Third (Communist) Inter-
national, established in Moscow in
1919, fostered Communism through-
out the world. Soviet championship
of wqrld revolution from 1917-21 was
not calculated to win the friendship
of capitalist states, which sought to
combat the menace of Bolshevism by
subjecting Russia to a form of inter-
national quarantine.
By 1921, the Soviet government,
having curbed all efforts at civil war
and intervention, was ready to em-
bark on a far-reaching program of
economic reconstruction. Self-suffi-
ciency at that stage of Russia's eco-
nomic development, however, could
have been attained only by perpetu-
ation of a backward agrarian econ-
omy and indefinite postponement of
industrialization. Such a course was
opposed by Lenin, who advocated col-
laboration with capitalist states dur-
ing the reconstruction period, and
utilization of foreign capital and for-
eign exports.
The Soviet decision to seek econom-
ic collaboration with the capitalist
world came at a propitious moment.
The Allies were willing to resume
economic relations with a country of-
fering an unlimited market for man-
ufactured goods; the Genoa and
Hague Conferences, of 1922, however,
failed to bear fruit. Russia then turn-
ed to Germany in 1922 and to Fascist
Italy in 1924, offering to espouse the
cause' of the anti-Versailles powers.
Fearing that Germany would obtain
exclusive control of the Soviet mar-
ket, Great Britain then recognized
the Soviet Government in 1924, and
Prance, under a Radical ^Socialist
cabinet, followed suit in the same
year.
From 1925-1928, Germany definite-
ly turned its face away from the
East, and adopted Western orienta-
tion. The fiasco of Communist rev-
olution in China, which broke off re-
lations with the Soviet Union in
1927, diverted Soviet attention from
the Far East. Above all, the inau-
guration of the Five-Year Plan In
1928 required for its fulfillment a
shift of emphasis in Soviet foreign
policy from revolution to internal re-
construction; and made it more than
ever advisable to cultivate friendly-
relations with capitalist states.
The first effect of the Five-Year
Plan was to revive anti-Soviet sen-
timent in the Western world. The
capitalist states which in 1919 feared
the spread of Bolshevism, now ar-
gued that the Five-Year Plan might
flood world markets with "dumped"
goods -produced by "forced labor."
The Soviet, on the other hand, be-
lieved that the capitalist world, un-
der the leadership of France and its
Eastern European allies, had launch-
ed a new plot against the Soviet
Union.
In   1933,  the    Soviet    attitude    to
France underwent a radical change.
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"Russia's economic structure is
probably sounder today than ever in
her history," said Miss Mildred Fair-
child, Associate in Social Economy
and Social Research at Bryn Mawr
College, beginning her lecture on the
Economic Situation of Soviet Russia
at the End of the First Five-Year
Plan, in Goodhart Auditorium, Mon-
day night, November 13. She has
had no unemployment since 1930; she
has defaulted no payments contract-
ed since October, 1917. Her period of
experiment is now concluded; here-
after the economic organization of
the Soviet Union will be relatively
stable.
In the year 1928, to the astonish-
ment and contempt of most of the
world, the plan was undertaken. Sov-
iet Russia had but recently recov-
ered her pre-war status in productive
capacity; industry regained equili-
brium during the fiscal year, 1926-
27; agriculture had not entirely
reached its pre-war height. In 1928
the New Economic Policy, initiated
by Lenin in 1921, still held sway;
Stalin was not established, as the lead-
er of the Communist party; predic-
tions of a Russian return to capital-
ism were rife.
For the peasant, life had changed
little since Czarist days. His land-
lord had disappeared, and his hold-
ing become theoretically nationalized,
but his farm remained subdivided
into narrow, often widely separated,
strips of land, his plough little more
than a wooden stick, his quarters a
tiny and overcrowded hut, where pov-
erty still lurked behind the door and
famine hovered constantly on the
horizon.
Out of 25 million peasant house-
holds, only 2.5 per cent, had adopted
the government project of collective
farming for increased production.
Economically, peasant agriculture had
made small advance. Industrial towns
needed more and more food; the threat
of famine from the limitations of
peasant cultivation loomed darkly
across their pathway, and Soviet pea-
sant agriculture continued to have
little of the necessary surplus.
Into this picture, not too happily
contemplated by the most enthusias-
tic member of the Communist Party,
was flung the Five-Year Plan. The
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Musical Service to Feature
16th and 17th Century Works
The Bryn Mawr College Choir, un-
der the direction of Ernest Willough-
by, College Organist and Associate
in Music of the Department of Mu-
sic, will present a musical service on
Sunday, November 19, in the Music
Room of Goodhart Hall. The Pro-
gram will feature compositions of
the sixteenth and seventeenth cen-
turies. The choir will render the fol-
lowing selections:
Gibbons........"Love of the Father"
Tallis   ............"Nunc   Dimittis"
Purcell,
"I Did Lay Me Down to Take Rest"
Purcell. ."Rejoice in the Lord Alway"
Bach,
(Chorale)   "Ich  ruf  zu  dir,  Herr
Jesu Christ"_________________�
Vittoria,
(Chorale)   "Jesu  dulcis   memoria"
Palestrina   .........."O bone Jesu"
Palest rfna    ............"Crucifixus"
The program will be rounded opt
with the following organ" solos, to be
played by Mr. Willoughby:
Handel,
"Air,"   "Hornpipe"   and   "Finale"
(from the "Water Music")
Bach   .............Chorale Preludes
Corelli   ..............   "Sarabande"
Zipoli.................... "Gigue"
Couperin   ........."Soeur  Monique"
Purcell   ......"Trumpet   Voluntary"