College News, 1934-02-14, Vol. 20, No. 13

              Th e College News
VOL. XX, No. 13
BRYN MAWR AND WAYfjlE^PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934      ^^"nwmS?           PRICE W CENTS
Viennese^ChoirvBoys
to Sing in Goodhart
Organization  Founded in   1498
Is Famous for Quality
of Performances
MEMBERSHIP   IS   HONOR
Goodhart Hall will welcome the Vi-
enna Choir Boys on February 22.
This is the second journey of this
famed organization, the Wiener
Saengerknaben, across the seas. In-
deed, it was not until quite recently
that the organization conceded to an
increasing demand that they appear
jn public concerts. Now their tours
are of such length as to include
nearly every country in Europe, where
the unique quality of their perform-
ances are unanimously acclaimed. Not
long ago they sang at the Vatican in
Kome, where Pope Pius awarded
them with an inscribed parchment eu-
logizing tJieir voices as "flute-like and
sweet as those of Angels' in heaven."
The Vienna Choir Boys are mem-
bers of a musical hierarchy that was
founded in 1498 by the imperial de-
cree of Emperor Maximilian, when a
group of boy singers were ordered to
sing a dftily mass under the aus-
pices of the Court Orchestra of Vi-
enna. For nearly five hundred years,
up to the present time, the traditions
of this organization have been kept
intact and their ideals inviolate. The
members of the Saengerknaben live
today, as always, in the ancient im-
perial castle, the Vienna Hofburg,
which was built in the eleventh cen-
tury, and in whose chambers once
lived the nobility of the Hapsburg
dynasty.
Eligibility to membership in the
Saengerknaben is subject to strict
standards. Applicants must not only
show marked vocal and musical abili-
ties, but must manifest high qualities
of character. Only forty of them are
housed in the castle, after rigid com-
petitive examinations. At a recent
election when only three places in the
choir were vacant, more than six hun-
dred boys clamored for admittance.
Boys are rigidly investigated before
they are admitted to this venerable
organization. Social position of par-
ents is neither a recommendation nor
a detriment. Mozart, Schubert and
Haydn were once members of the
Saengerknaben, and it is the dream
(if countless thousands of Austrian
boys to be invited to join. The aver-
age age of the boys is twelve years.
When their voices begin to change
and grow husky they are assigned to
clerical institutions and their, main-
tenance paid for a period of three
years. They are paid nothing dur-
ing the period of their membership,
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Miss Park Discusses Plans
for New Science Building
President Park described the three
great needs of Bryn Mawr, in Chapel
last Thursday morning. Bryn Mawr
needs facilities for work which will
permit of ^more work and which will
be of greater assistance in the kind
of work now being done; she needs
more space for books; and she needs
more money, so that the professors'
salaries can be increased.
President Park discussed only the
first of the needs last Thursday; the
two others will be explained in later
chapels. A new Science Building is
needed because Dalton is so badly
overcrowded that students cannot be
allowed to choose their sciences free-
ly, and because it is inadequate in
space and apparatus for any form of
advanced work. Bryn Mawr's two
long suits have always been science,
and art, and archaeology, and the fac-
ulty wishes especially to encourage
advanced work in science.
Dalton could not be rebuilt on the
same site, because the space is too
limited. Accordingly, the plan is to
divide the sciences, and rebuild Dal-
ton for biology and geology, while
putting physics and chemistry, which
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CALENDAR
Wed., Feb. 14. Mr. Shane
Leslie, noted British literary
and historical authority will
speak on Swift. Goodhart Hall
nt 8.20 P. M.
Thurs., Feb. Id. There will
be an exhibition of the .works
of Georges Braque and Jean
Lurcat in the Common Room of
Goodhart at 4.30 P. M. Miss
G. G. King will speak on Gcr-
tnde Stein and Modern French
I'n inters.
Sat., Feb. 17, Basketball.
First and second Bryn Mawr
Varsity vs. Philadelphia Crick-
et Club first and second team.
Gym at ,10.00 A. M.
Sat., Feb. 17. The Red Gate
Shadow Puppets w�U be pre-
sented at the Deanery at 10.30
A. M. and 3.00 P.-M. The af-
ternoon program is for adults
and tea will be served for $0.25
per person. For the benefit of
the Bryn Mawr Chinese Schol-
arship Fund.
Sat., Feb. 17. Buffet supper
for Princeton Glee Club. Dean-
ery at 7.00 P. M. The charge
will be $0.75 per person. At
8.30 P. M. the Glee Club will
trive a concert in Goodhart Hall
k and a dance will follow in the
Gym until  2.00 A. M.
Sun., Feb. 18. Chapel. The
Rev. John W. Suter, Jr., will
conduct a short service. Music
Boon at 7.30 P. M.
Mon., Feb. 19. The Oxford
University Press will hold an
exhibition of old books and
manuscripts illustrative of the
history of printing. Deanery
at 4.00 P. M. Dr. Herbcn will
speak.
Varsity Basketball
Takes First Games
Bryn Mawr, Effectively Utilizes
Direct Passes to Combat
Ursinus' Speed
iOOD SEASON INDICATED
On Saturday morning, the Varsity
basketball teams took their first
^ames of the season against the Ur-
tiniu contingents, 31-1G and 40-25.
In the first team game, Varsity
bad the advantage of height, a factor
which proved to be of great help in
bi caking up the superior passwork
and speed of Ursinus. On the whole,
;he few passes directly from the cen-
ters to the forwards were much more
effective than "the roundabout way
used by Ursinus to get the ball into
scoring position.
In the second half, however, when
the toss-in system was used, the Bryn
Mawr centers had difficulty in getting
the ball to their forwards, and, in-
stead of trying shorter passes, they
continually passed the ball under the
basket, where it was usually inter-
cepted by the opposing guards who
by that time had got on to the sys-
tem. In spite of their splendid work,
however, height remained a decided
advantage and Ursinus ended the
game on the short end of the score.
The Bryn Mawr guards stood up
splendidly against the opposing for-
wards' rapid passing and juggling of
the ball and succeeded in breaking up
many of their attempts to score. We
did notice, however, that out-of-bound
plays were tjken much too slowly by
the team as a whole and that a great
deal of defense passing was done
directly across the basket.
A shifting of players in the last
few practices has resulted in a team
which should go through the season
undefeated. Boyd and Faeth have the
regular forward positions, Jones and
Lamed occupy the center, and Bridg-
man and Kent the guard berths. A
strong defense, combined with a fair-
ly accurate offense, should provide
sufficient opposition for future oppon-
ents and enough excitement for the
gallery.
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Fellowes Tells Story
of Flight Over Everest
Expedition Required Special Ap-
paratus for Heat and
Oxygen Supply
MOVIES  SHOW   SCENERY
Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes
by his explanation and by the pictures
he showed in Goodhart, the evening
of February 7, described the purpose,
lhe difficulties and the achievements
of the Houston-Mount Everest Flight.
The adventure was undertaken not so
much for the sake of the thrill of
conquering the highest mountain in
the world, although the spirit of ad-
venture moved them incidentally, but
lor scientific investigation in and
about the only important geographi-
cal objective still unattained in li*33.
In view of this scientific purpose
the expedition involved careful plan-
ning against possible risks, discom-
forts and adventures. The mountain,
discovered to be the highest in the
world only in 1852, and then by sci-
entific computation, has been shroud-
ed in mystery and glamor ever since
the first attempts to scale it. The
Indian natives, for one thing, have-
always regarded Everest as the home
of their gods, as is shown by their
tailing it the "Goddess Mother of
Mountains" and by their proverb "if
i bird Hies so high it becomes blind."
It is because of this Indian .super-
stition that the natives attribute their
recent earthquakes to the flights in
.he vicinity of the mountain. The
prevalence of such supersition from
I he first necessitated going through
many technicalities with the govern-
ment concerning the flight through
Nepal, and allowance for guards to
keep the equipment from the hands of
Indian agita'tors, even after the or-
ganizers of the expedition had gained
the finaneial'support of Lady Houston
and the sympathy of English authori-
ties.
The next difficulty the sponsors in-
curred lay in the climatic disturbances
of the particular season, of the region
around the Himalayas, and of the
altitude at which they needs must fly
to clear the summit of Mount Everest.
The men had only obtained the need-
ed money by November 16, and the
job had to be completed by April 15;
the equipment had to be bought, ex-
nerimental training had 1o be provid-
ed for the members of the expedition,
nil the equipment had to be taken to
India and there reassembled before
the actual flight.
When the members arrived there
they realized the anxious wait for
favorable atmospheric conditions that
was in store for them. For days
rlouds would obscure the mountains,
thus preventing the extensive photog-
raphy demanded in the interests of
the expedition, and when these coluds
cleared away the velocity rose to 70-
80 miles per hour, a speed much too
high to allow the plane's ready pas-
sage in the face of the wind without
its carrying an enormous fuel sup-
ply.
Even allowing for their luck so
far as the weather was concerned,
however, they had to take innumerable
precautions for men and equipment to
work at that high altitude. Everest
is 29,141 feet high, and at the height
of only 26,000 feet a man dies from
lack of oxygen. The lack of oxygen
causes a very queer sensation, uncon-
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Elections
Varsity Dramatics announces
the election of M. Kidder, '36,
as President of the Board, "and
N. Robinson*, '35, as Business
Manager. These elections were
held in pursuance of the new ,
policy of electing officers at
Midyeais instead of in the
Spring.
Princeton Glee Club t6 Sing
for Its Supper�Then Dance
No less than sixty of the cream
of Princeton University, Princeton,
N. J., are to be on hand for the dance
which is to follow the concert of the
Glee Club of that prominent institu-
tion on Saturday, February 17, in the
Gym. The concert will be given in
Goodhart Hall at 8.30 P. M., follow-
ing a buffet supper for the Glee Club,
which is to be held in the Deanery
at 7.30 P. If., and which Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins beseeches all Bryn
Mawr maidens possessed of $0.75 and
an evening dress to attend. The tick-
ets for the concert and dance com-
bined are $1 for stag and $2.50 for a
couple.
The dance committee hopes more
fervently than it will admit that the
majority of the college will come-
to the dance in solitary splendor, as
the sixty" Tigers will present a con-
siderable housing and maintainance
problem if there are not enough Main
Line sophisticates to go around. It
is hardly necessary to extol the infi-
nite charms and attractions of this
breath-taking group, as their repu-
tation has preceded them wherever
they have gone for many years. If
further information is sought by timid
individuals they may either write or
go in person to any member of the
undergraduate dance committee or
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins' own commit-
tee. Tickets for the various events
tn be run off by the contestants on
Saturday, February 17, may be ob-
tained in the Publication Office any
day after 2 P. M. The chairman of
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins' committee is
Polly Barnitz, Pern West. The Un-
dergraduate Dance Committee, of
which Betty Perry, Rock, is chair-
man, is composed of Rosanne Ben-
nett, Florence Cluett, Adeline Fur-
ness, and Marion Mitchell.
Archeological Project
Discussed at Chapel
Bryn Mawr Alumna Will Head
Excavations at Promising
Cilician Site
COLLEGE     IS    HONORED
Tue day morning in Chapel, Dr.
Swindler gave an account of the pro-
jected Bryn Mawr Excavation in
Asia Minor. For some time Bryn
Mawr has been longing to have an
exeayation; but the idea had always
been to excavate in Crete, in the Ho-
meric city of Cydonia. Later devel-
opments have, however, led the De-
partment of Archaeology to believe
that excavation. in Cilicia in South-
eastern Turkey will be more fruitful
of results.    .
Not long ago, the President of the
Archaeological Institute of Amerioa
made Bryn Mawr the proposal of join-
ing in an expedition; and the Insti-
tute voted its approval on December
27. Since the Institute co-operates
only with the best universities, "This
honor which has come to Bryn Mawr
places us in a class in which we like
to be placed."
Not only does Bryi. Mawr have
the honor and pleasure of joining
with the Institute in an excavation,
but a Bryn Mawr alumna, has been
chosen to head the expedition. Miss
Hetty Goldman, '03, Field Director
for the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard
University, will head the expedition;
a choice extremely acceptable to the
Institute. It is an especially excel-
lent idea to have Miss Goldman as
head of the expedition, since she is,
besides being an excavator of great
experience, a woman who will pub-
lish it scientifically and give the ex-
cavation  the publicity it deserves.
The question of the site has been
as satisfactorily solved as the ques-
tion of the directorship of the expedi-
tion. The spot that has been chosen
in Cilicia has attracted much atten-
tion lately, through the findings of
English and Swedish archaelogoists.
Mounds have been discovered in that
region in which Mycenaean has been
found. This circumstance leads to
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Read as You're Walking, Read When Riding;
But Ever Try to Escape from the Siding
Musical Events
In Chapel Tuesday morning,
President Park announced that
Mr. Alwynne has consented to
give a piano recital this year;
and that it is scheduled to come
within the next three weeks. A
series of concerts of chamber
music will also begiven in Good-
hart some time in the near fu-
ture through the gift of Mrs.
Coolidge, a well-known patron-
ess of music.
(.Miss Park very kindly eontribuU
kI iin following pieces unitUm )'<>> he-
while she mas teaching school in
Colorado.)
Narrow Escapes
Escapes sometimes, that is, very
narow indeed. A narrow escape is
at the point of danger, such is, there
are one like being on the track as
a cow or horse and the train is very
near, why, their escape is very nar-
row indeed.
Escapes are awful to think of, but
It can't be help, as it is over with, and
can't be help, it is awful to think of,
and, another thing, a person is at
the point of death and he has went
the wrong way, it is to late, but it
can't be helpt when it is to late.
One evening, there were people,
out riding, and the train came, the
horse got frightened, and it was just
at the end of the bridge and if it
wasn't a narrow escape. There is
such an awful escape that is to say,
a house on fire, and is 7 or 8 stories
high and people is boarding or room-
ing and they are in the very highest
part and they haft to jump or give
up their lives, and that is something
terrible to haft to speak about let
alone having an awful thing happen.
There is such another as drowning
and it is terrible too. There was at
a time three at a time all in the same
family and one in another and just
to think about it, is enough, but hav-
ing it happen would just set a person
crazy or wild. Like going to school
there is such a narrow escape as if
you have the chance you ought to go
but not stay back or anything of that
kind but go. If you* don't you will
see where: you narrow escapes.
Reading
I should say there is nobody who
lias not anything by which he will be
interested. What they are interest-
ed in is not same thing. There are
several kinds�some one may say
sports; another excursions or music.
etc.  .   .   .
If let me say about it, I shall Dot
hesitate to offer "reading books"�
Now, so-called leading books make us
ha-vc more knowledge and feel bo in-
teresting that I cannot state here. We
must, however, notice that there are
various kinds of book to read. I should
not say**to read such a hateful bunk
as to injure our moral character.
Head the books which make us,more
noble or give us more knowledge, 1
dare say. To read books, however,
there is a way. If it is the way to
nad only attention to them, it would
i be far better to read something like
joke. When we read books, we must
be understood clearly the real idea
of its author. If physical science
have to be pried its reason. If moral
action must practice it, and then, we
would be able to get the efficacy and
its pleasure. Here, I shall intro-
duce that though it is very useful
thing in using right way, if we use
it in wrong way, we would feel �o
convenience with it. This is true in
any time at anywhere. Now the rea-
son which I like to read books is just
this point. I should advice the men
who wish to be interested by reading
books; "Don't fail its right way, then
you may taste its real idea." Read
books, read books, whenever you have
time, then you will get more knowl-
edge and more pleasure.
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