College News, 1934-04-25, Vol. 20, No. 21

              The
News
VOL. XX, No. 21
BRYJst M^WR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934
Copyright  BRYN  MAWR
COl.I.KC.l-:   NEWS,   1934
PRICE 10 CENTS
Americas Described
by Mr. Culbertsori
He Hopes for an Ideal World,
To Be Built by Visionaries
Among All Men
TALK IS DREAM VOYAGE
Mr. William Culbertson took us
upon a delightful imaginary flight in
his lecture, "Vistas and Dreams Over
the Americas" on Tuesday, April 17,
in the Music Room. As he talked,
we saw beneath us wide expanses of
country, reaching over the two Ameri-
can continents. He asked us to im-
agine a world that has never existed,
but some day may come to be: an ideal
world where the different nations will
be united in peaceful friendship.
First he took us over our own coun-
try, describing for us the great Rock-
ies and the wide rivers and the
prairies dotted with cities of all sizes.
We saw the sources of the rugged
strength that lies behind the civiliza-
tion of the United States. Then he
took us southward to Mexico, the land
where Montezuma ruled and Cortez
conquered the ancient Aztec and the
Indian, the land which we see now as
a great country of the Americas.
Among the jungles of Yucatan stood
the rich old ruins of the Mayan civili-
zation. We traveled farther south-
ward and passed over the Isthmus,
where winds the band of the Panama
Canal, "the greatest liberty man has
taken with Nature." We flew low
and passed ships from many lands,
and sniffed the pungent air of the
tropics, with its brilliant flowers.
Mr. Culbertson led our imagina-
tion on to the wilds of South America,
where we saw Venezuela and the
mountain highlands of Colombia. To
the east were the vast pampas of the
Orinoco, to the south the Amazon Val-
ley. Peru of the ancient Incas spread
in outline beneath us. There lay the
crumbling ruins of Chan Chan. Very
interesting textiles and potteries are
being discovered there, belonging to
an older race, even than that of the
Incas. We saw Cuzco, the glorious
Inca capital, where the ancients wor-
shipped the Sun God in their stone
temples. Mr. Culbertson told us that
these people had codes so modern that
they are used even today.
We left the land of Pizarro and flew
on over the Cordillera Range. To the
west lay the desert, ribboned with
streams fed with the snows of the
Andes. There were also the nitrate
and copper mines of Chile, and the
Desert of Atocan, which kills any man
who walks upon it. To the east lay
the jungles and the coffee plantations
of Brazil; to the south, the Argentine
of the Gaucho and "the thousand cat-
tle." We traveled above the tall,
magnificent Cordilleras till we reach-
ed the famous valley of Patagonia,
mentioned in Shakespeare's The Tem-
pest. In Shakespeare's day, the sail-
ors and explorers brought back many
tales of the Patagonians with their
"big feet" and of that "land of mys-
tery and storm."
We came to the Tierra del Fuego
and followed the trail of Darwin on
his expedition of a century ago. Fin-
ally we reached Cape Horn, "taking
pride, like the devil, in its bad reputa-
C'ontinued on  I'ape Seven
Exam Schedule
In order that the examination
in Freshman English may come
on Thursday and not on Friday,
it has been decided to shift the
last two days of examinations so
that all examinations at present
scheduled for Friday, June 1,
will come on Thursday, May 31,
and all examinations at present
scheduled for Thursday, May 31,
will come on Friday, June 1.
A revised schedule of exami-
nations is being prepared, and
serious conflicts should be re-
ported immediately at the office
of the Secretary and Registrar.
Mr. and Mrs. Hotson
Sing Old Madrigals
Elizabethan    Melodies    Are
Marked by Rhythmic Beats
and    Contrasts
STUDENTS SING ROUNDS
On Sunday afternoon at the Dean-
ery Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hotson, of
Haverford, gave an informal presen-
tation of a group of Elizabethan mad-
rigals written mostly for community
singing. Ballads and madrigals of
this sort have been made very popular
within the last few years by the Eng-
lish Singers, and it was with the idea
B. B. Elections
At the basketball dinner on
Monday night, Betty Faeth, '35,
was elected captain and Marion
Bridgman, '36, manager, for the
1934-35 season.
The following teams were an-
nounced by Mary Boyd:
Varsity�Boyd, captain, r. f.;
Faeth, manager, 1. f.; Jones, c;
Lamed, s. c; Bridgman, r. g.;
Kent, 1. g.
Second Varsity� Pierce <Mc-
,.C"*mi?k� ,T, Li P&p, ,\. /.;
Meirs, c; Rothermel, s. c;
Washburn, r. g.; Bishop, cap-
tain, 1. g.
Substitutes � Varsity: Jar-
rett. Second -Varsity: E. E.
^.Smith, Bennett.
Squad: Evans, Stone, Jack-
son, E. Smith, Howe.
Miss Ely Advises
Political ActivitV �^ ^urt*ler popularizing the informal
' i singing of these songs that Mr. Hot-
|son, a professor at Haverford College,
The Rising Position of Women and author of several books on the
Will Assure Their Success       I Elizabethan period, and Mrs. Hotson,
in Government                 | singer of madrigals  to  the virginal,
�-�>                              ! came to Bryn Mawr.   The pieces they
MAY   MEET   OPPOSITION **ng *nd *ose .in which thev asked
I the college to join were characterized
...      �.            ,.             �,__       �  ' by simple, very rhythmic melodies and
Miss  Ely, speaking  on   Women  m   ��        H   *      *   **�  JT"
r� !���     �      �_      i      %u      j       a     ., extraordinarily beautiful words.
Politics in chapel on Thursday, April                         J
19, emphasized the difference between1 First they san* four canzonettes,
being interested in politics, and act- j madrigals written for two voices, each
ually becoming a candidate. The Part of a so,� in ltse,f s0 that the two
League of Women Voters was found-!Parts blend in * balanced cadence. All
ed in order that women might get aiof the canzonettes had very simple,
non-partisan view of the problems of b�t very beautiful words, and the two
women in politics. It is surprising P""^ were so arranged as to separate
how confused people are even about the Phases by a strong rhythmic beat,
registration. If they wish to vote for Th* first two of this group were by
a candidate they know is a Democrat, Thomas Morley, "When Low By Break
they suddenly remember that they are �* Morning" and "Sweet Nymph Come
registered as Republicans, or wonder T� Thy Lover" Both of these selec-
whether they are registered at all. tions were serious in content but sung
Miss Ely prefers the title "Women 'fchtly. s0 that thev attained to a lyric
in Government" because government flow of words and music- The th,rd
is the background of politics, and of the canzonettes, "Sweet Kate,"
ideally the only reason for politics. written by Robert Jones> was much
However, many people "in politics" more humorous in mood; the words ex-
think very little about government.;             Continued on Pago Seven .
Their problem is:    how am I going |         __
to make an impression on my party? Dr- Knauth Investigates
How much graft am I going to get?!                   Criticisms of Infirmary
One politician said:    "I have gotten !                          �---------
where I am now by handing out the [ As was announced in chapel before
dollars." New-comers are told that the spring vacation, Dr. Marjorie
they must do that too if they want to Strauss Knauth, of the class of 1918
get anywhere.
-Many women now take an active
part in politics and government. Only
lately, however, a woman who had
never voted before "went to the poles
of a very Republican county, and said
that she wanted to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. "Sorry, this is the wrong
day," said the man to whom she had
spoken. We have, nevertheless, come
a long way from the days when wom-
en speakers were asked to sit down
when they made gestures like those of
the men. Now women are not just
taken into a party and given positions
on committees. Roosevelt's choices
were significant. They are chosen for
ability and quality. They are women
who can be trusted because they have
a knowledge of their subject, a disin-
terested view of it, and are determined
to do something in that line.
Often a story or an accidental inci-
dent causes one to take an interest in
politics. .When Fiances Perkins was
walking through a factory one day,
she saw a girl's hand cut off. From
then on, she was interested in govern-
ment. It is necessary to have, as she
had, the sense of always putting two
and two together, the imagination to
look further. She inquired, and found
that there were no laws to protect
workmen in factories. Industrial men
have always fought them. It is the
women, and above all the younger
women, who ask for child labor laws,
and demand of candidates what they
are going to do about relief or wheth-
er they are going to fight for a mini-
mum wage law. It is they who are
interested in the control and manu-
facture of arms. They do not expect
any gain if they stand for something,
and go at the problem tmmediately.
A woman candidate has to meet with
-^r^prasi^fcn ojulHpuhl *u,*n 8 man,     Dr.  Knauth  will  probably be visit
whom the voters know "goes along,"
whom   they   can    trust.     A    woman
might think up something!
Summer Camp
Elizabeth Meirs, '35, has been
elected Chairman of the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp.
of Bryn Mawr College, and of 1923 of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, and the chairman of the Alum-
nae Health Committee, visited the
campus on March 22 and discussed
some of the criticisms which had" re-
cently been made of the Infirmary. Dr.
Knauth has written to Dean Manning
as to the results of her interview witn
the students and her investigations at
the Infirmary. She discussed five or
six specific cases which the sturients
brought to her attention, and com-
ments as follows:
"I listened to the history of each
case and we discussed the points which
they felt had been unsatisfactorily
dealt with. Three of these involved
one of the girls present. I told them
that I would look into the records and
report to you. I spent two hours with
Dr. Wagoner Thursday evening going
over the medical aspects and the fol-
low-up. I found no evidence of medi-
cal mismanagement in any of the
cases discussed. A difference in meth-
od of treatment from that of the fam-
ily physician did not fall outside the
bounds of good medical practice,, in
the cases where the students were able
to give me any detailed report. . . .
A number of their criticisms were
based on misapprehensions and ignor-
ance, which were quite easy to clear
up.
"Before leaving, the students sug-
gested that better co-operation be-
tween the students and the infirmary
would promote understanding and
confidence, and to that end they sug-
gested that early in the year Dr. Wag-
oner explain the infirmary and its
methods to the freshman class, and
that the undergraduates elect repre-
sentatives through whom the infirm-
ary problems could pass.
ing the College"1 again in the spring
and would be glad at any time to dis-
cuss the college health organization
with representatives of the students.
She herself suggested that it might be
well to have a student committee on
health matters in order to present the
student point of view to Dr. Wagoner
and Dean Manning.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 25: Dr.
Arthur H. Compton on "Do We
Live in A World of Chance?"
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Saturday, April 28: Junior
Language Examination in
French. J Taylor, 9.00 A. M.
Tuesday, May 1: Little May-
Day and Chapel, announcing
Undergraduate Scholarships.
Goodhart, 8.40 A. M.
Wednesday, May'2: Varsity
Tennis Game vs. Merion Cricket
Club.   4.00 P. M.
Professor Blanchard
Speaks on "Truth"
Coherence   Theory   of   Truth,
First Developed by Hegel,
Is Defended
JUDGMENT IS STANDARD
Professor Blanchard, of Swarth-
more College, spoke Thursday after-
noon in the Common Room on "What
Is Truth?" He stated and defended
his own conception of the theory of
truth, the coherence theory, which was
started by Hegel and Bradley, and ig-
nored all other contemporary ideas.
Dr. Blanchard said, "That proposition
must be accepted as. true which is
attested by the present body of our
knowledge."                             �
Truth must be defended by evidence
which meets the standard of truth it-
self, for there is no distinction be-
tween the test of truth and the knowl-
edge of it. "Down in our hearts, we
all agree on what we believe is true,
although our formations of it may be
different." To argue would be impos-
sible, if we did not implicitly refer,to
the same things.
Dr. Blanchard admitted that the
same standard or test might make a
proposition appear true at first
thought which with later knowledge
would be proved false. The coherence
theory proves a proposition true by
means of present knowledge and all
possible ultimate knowledge.
According to Dr. Blanchard, there
are three ways-of judging truth. The
judgment of abstract necessity proves,
for example, that 10 x 10 equals 100,
because all arithmetic and existing
knowledge must otherwise be thrown
away, and we should be compelled to
accept contradiction.
An example of the historical judg-
ment is that, through the testimony
of eye-witnesses, of historians, of doc-
uments, and also through the subse-
quent actions of the governments of
Europe, we must believe that Napol-
eon lost at Waterloo. In an histori-
cal judgment, the appeal to consistence
is essential.
The perceptual judgment is not to
be tested by the standard of coherence,
but by closer observation. A compari-
son is made between the mental judg-
ment and the physical observation;
both are true if they tally. The per-
ceptual judgment brings in the corre-
spondence theory of truth, in opposi-
tion to the coherence theory. In the
correspondence theory, truth is not
considered as brute fact unchanged by
any mental action, but the informa-
tion gathered by the senses is made
the basis for the first mental judg-
ment, to be checked by the second
mental judgment. It is most import-
ant to remember that in the corre-
spondence theory of truth, judgment
is always proved, not by brute fact,
but by further judgments. Coherepce
enters into the correspondence theory
because sense perceptions have to be
proved by it as a standard; the scien-
tist will not accept observation unless
it fits into his accepted system. For
this reason, scientists rejected Sir
William Crooks' photographs of spir-
�itua'ristic phenomena.'
In order to produce a true judg-
ment, not merely the fact which is in
doubt, but the principles on which the
fact is judged must cohere with the
principles of judgment. Science has
to revise its old theories to receive new
facts, as the Newtonian laws were
altered for Einstein's physics.
Carrier Recital Is
Unusually Versatile
Dancing   Is   Modern,   Original,
rUses Acting to Interpret
Personalities
HANDS    ARE    EFFECTIVE
Jacques Cartier, in his dance recital
in Goodhart Hall on Thursday eve-
ning, convinced an enthusiastic audi-
ence that he is not only an unusually
able and versatile dancer, but also an
actor of great distinction. His flair
for original color combinations and
dance steps startled the spectators,
who applauded each succeeding num-
ber with increasing approval.
Mr. Cartier is modern in every
sense of the word. Without conform-
ing to any school of the dance he has
absorbed influences from all of them,
particularly Mary Wigman's, and yet
maintains an amazing originality in
his strong, masculine dance. Appar-
ently, he believes that dancing should
include more acting and direct inter-
pretations of moods and personalities
than would be admitted by the rigid
artistry of the ballet or the "flashes of
the sub-conscious" Wigman schools.
He has far to go in developing this
middle path of intelligible and free
dance, but certainly Thursday eve-
ning proved to Bryn Mawr that, even
if he is never a great artist, he will
always be a brilliant dancer and a fine
entertainer.
The most striking thing about his
dancing, next to his lithe grace and
muscular control, was the expressive
use of his hands. In every dance he
secured extraordinary effects with his
strong and delicate hand movement.*.
In the "Borgia," he created almost the
entire emotional crescendo by folding
and spreading his hands. This sensi-
tive use of the hands was the link be-
tween the varied numbers on the pro-
gram.
"Fada Fiesta," the first number on
the program, was very poor compared
to the later ones. Almost musical
comedy in spirit, with ballet, acro-
batic, and clog steps cleverly inter-
woven, it lacked both distinction ind
originality. A "Dance At Night" was
in the tradition of Wigman, from the
black, bat-like costume to the swish of
bare feet on the floor and thcsilhouet-
ted angles and curves. Here Mr. Car-
tier's unusual hands were first iucd
for their artistic effects. In "Donini-
can," the dancer strode onto the stage
with magnificent devotion, dressed in
a white monk's cassock with a red
cross on it. Then, with a quick series
of movements, he clearly portrayed
the intellectual idea of the pious
monk's surrender to earthly joys in
life. But there were rough places in
this dance because Mr. Cartier tried
too many contrasting effects und too
many abrupt changes. "Sevillianos"
was probably the best actual dancing,
as the theatre knows it, on the pro-
gram, because of the clear lines, the
careful contrast of slow and stamping
steps, the active control, and the flut-
tering and spread hands. But its lack
of inspiration revealed Mr. Cartier's
frequent lack of emotional power.
"The Love Song of Dante to Bea-
trice" began sentimentally, but by the
end worked up to a sustained depth of
emotion. Near the end, the held pose
on tip toe with the silver costume
sparkling in the red light had a spec-
tacular effect. "The City Song" was
the finest mechanistic dance this critic
has ever seen. The bright colors �
blue, red, yellow, and white � the
j sharp, cubistic outlines, the perfect
I timing, and the hard foot and arm
work gave a splendid interpretation of
city life.
A  Japanese  actor,  a   Borgia,  and
Louis XIV were the three well varied
"Portraits for the Theatre."    As the
Contltitwd on  Pafi Svv.n      -    �.
The Friendly Arctic    �i
Vilhjalmur Stefansson is go-
ing to give an illustrated lecture
on "The Friendly Arctic" on
Friday. April 27, at 8.15 P. M.,
in Roberts Hall, Haverford Col-
lege. The admission price will
be one dollar.
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