College News, 1935-11-20, Vol. 22, No. 06

              The College-.News
VOL. XXII, No. 6
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Tuesday   To   Lecture
Author  of  The  Great  Illusion
Is Famous For Advocation
of World Peace
RECEIVED   NOBEL   PRIZE
On next Tuesday -.evening the col-
lege is extremely fortunate to be
able to welcome Sir Norman Angell,
noted British author and advocate
of international co-operation. ' Sir
Norman will speak in Goodhart Hall
under the auspices of the Under-
graduate Association; his topic has
not yet been announced. Students
will be admitted free and outsiders
will be charged a nominal sum.
Sir Norman is an economist of
note whose books are widely known
in this country. He has often been
accused of being an impractical
dreamer because of his theories on
war. Against all opposition he car-
ried on, and in January, 1931, was
knighted by King George because
of this very work for international
peace. In 1933 he was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Born in England, educated in
France and Switzerland, he later
spent several years of his youth in
America, and therefore is able to
grasp our point of view and treat
his subjects in a manner both under-
standable and interesting to an
American audience. He has an un-
usual aptitude for answering ques-
tions ; his ideal lecture is "a conversa-
tion with the audience."
Sir Norman has secured for books
dealing with politics and economics
the equal of sales of best sellers in
fiction. The Great Illusion alone has
sold well over a million copies and
has been translated into twenty-five
languages. The Unseen Assassins,
published in the fall of 1931, out-
lined his theory of the cause of
modern war and proved to be a
strong appeal to the common sense
of  mankind.
Mr. Angell's first lecture tour in
this country was made under the
auspices of the Carnegie Endow-
ment. During the course of that
tour he lectured at most of the
larger American universities and
colleges.
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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1935
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Copyright  BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE    NEWS.    1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
/lfl�tLs Reveal   *     *S
No Serious T. B. Cases
On October 24, 1935, 194 students
and 110 employes were X-rayed at
Bryn Mawr College. It gives the De-
partment of Heal h much pleasure to
announce that in no case was suf-
ficient evidence of disease found to
require that the individual concerned
should leave college. 2.06 per cent of
the students and 3 63 per cent of the
employes who were X-rayed showed
slight abnormal shadows in the lungs.
In most instances these shadows were
so slight that no definite diagnosis
could be made from them. The indi-
viduals in question have all been
called to the infirmary, notified as to
the findings and advised to get more
rest. They will be seen at least once
a month, for chest examination and
weighing. In three months further
X-rays will be made, and there is
hope that the shadows may have de-
creased or disappeared by that time.
The survey has been of the greatest
value in assuring the college that more
than 97 per cent of the students and
96 per cent of the employes are free
from any question of serious disease
and in locating the few individuals
who need further observation.
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College Calen
Thursday, November 21: Var-
sity Hockey Game vs. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania at 4 P. M.
Friday, November 22: Voca-
tional talk by Mrs. Lillian Gil-
breth in the Deanery at 8.30
P. M.
Saturday, November 23: Var-
sLy Hockey Game vs. Faculty
(unofficial) at 10 A. M.
Sunday, November 24: Dr.
Rufus M. Jones will conduct the
Sunday evening service. Music
Room at 7.45 P. M.
Monday, November 25: Var-
sity Hockey Game vs. Haver-
ford College Soccer Team at 4
P. M.
Monday, November 25: Latin
play, The Menaechmi. Good-
hart at 8 P. M.
Tuesday, November 25: Sir
Norman Angell will speak in
Goodhart at 8 P. M.
Wednesday,. November 27:
Thanksgiving Vacation begins
at 12.45 P. M.
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^Thirty - � r&Ll~~ Artist Seeks
Essence In Abstract
Students Seeking Work
Colorful Group Square Dances
Gymnasium, November 15. � The
Square Dances which were given last
year to raise money for the under-
graduate quota of the Fiftieth Anni-
versary Fund were considered so suc-
cessful that another series is being
held this year for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp. At the
first dance approximately fifty Bryn
Mawr students, most of them clad in
flowing India print dresses or German
~ostumcs, correct even to the hat,
danced to music provided by the in-
defatigable Farra Boys. A brave
band of Haverfordians gave a mascu-
line note to the occasion. One of them
was especially decorative in a German
costume consisting of white wool socks,
shorts and a bright blue linen jacket.
Several professors and their wives,
including Dr. and Mrs. Lattimore, Dr.
Boinheimer and Dr. Ernst Diez,
jo'ned (he danc:ng with enthusiasm
and skill. The ignorant were in-
structed in complicated steps by Sil-
vine Savage and her husband, both
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Caps, Gowns�Originally Worn for Warmth�
Are Today  Mark of  Academic Distinction
The magnificence and the numbers a long closed sleeve with a slit above
of the gowns and hoods at the recent
academic procession raised the curi-
osity of the students about the why's
and wherefore's of caps and gowns,
particularly those of American uni-
versities. Today the gown has only
two great uses: to add a note of fel-
lowship and pageantry to official cele-
brations and processions, and for
undergraduate raincoats. In mediae-
val times and for centuries afterward
the gown was an enforced mode of
apparel for all scholars. Warm
gowns and hoods were first worn be-
cause mediaeval castles were damp
and drafty, and the first academic
cap was the warm skull cap of the
scholar-monk. By 1321 the Univer-
sity of Coimbra required gowns to be
worn by all "Doctors, Licentiates, and
the elbow for the arm. The ends of
the master's sleeves are seuare with
an arc of a circle near the bottom.
The doctor's gown alone may be made
of silk and may have trimmings. It
has an open front faced with bands
of velvet and open round sleeves with
three cross bars of velvet. In all
cases, the color of the gowns must be
black.
Hoods in American colleges and uni-
versities are of the same material as
Longer College Year
Allows For May Day
College  Council Asks Self-Gov
To Consider the Publication
of Big Cases
ART WORK SHOP NEEDED
Miss Park's House, November 13.�
May Day plans, the Commencement
Week program and the need for pub-
lic knowledge of certain types of
penalties imposed by Self-Government
were the main topics discussed at the
second meeting of the College Council
held this fall. Entertainment and
speakers for the rest of the semester
and the need for a separate art work-
shop also took a prominent part in the
proceedings of the evening. Miss
Park announced that Dr. Rufus M.
Jones, president of the Board of Trus-
tees, has accepted the invitation of
the senior class to give the Baccalau-
reate address.
The undergraduates on the Council
were united ;n expressing the hope
that there might be some way of
avoiding the great consumption of
:me which the making of paper
lowers caused in the last May Day.
Mrs. Collins suggested that there is
a possibility ef getting some of this
work done by the company from
which the paper is bought.
Thirty-two undergraduate students
arej now engaged in work which is
being financed by the National Youth
Administration. Of these students,
nine are working for the science de-
partments in Dalton, for the most part
on projects which involve heavy
manual labor and not infrequently the
accumulation of a good deal of dirt.
Much-needed inventories and classifi-
cation of supplies and collections are
being produced for the four science de-
partments.
Six students are working for the
language departments, for the most
part as typists or assistants in re-
search. Two students are working in
the education department, one in the
psychology department, one in the
economics department and one on sta-
tistical work in the social economy de-
partment. Four students are work-
ing in the Library in addition to the
students usually employed there.
Three students are to act as telephone
operators in Rockefeller basement at
hours when the college operator is not
on duty. Two students are working
in the Alumnae Office for Miss Hawk-
ins, and one student is doing statis-
tical work for the College Registrar.
There is a great variety in the kind
of work which is being done, ranging
from the care of white mice or the
dusting and sorting of rocks in Dal-
ton to conducting a choir of German
singers. There is also considerable
range in the amount earned per hour,
which varies in accordance with the
type of work.and the current rates on
the campus. Departments and of-
fices have expressed great satisfac-
tion with the efforts of this new corps
of workers, and in every case the
work done seems to fully conform to
the requirements of the Youth Ad-
ministration that it shall be "socially
useful."
Rowley Outlines Slow Evolution
From Symbolic to Realistic
Attitude in Art
LINEAR RHYTHMS VITAL
Poetry Ball and Pageant Arranged
The American Academy of Poets is
presenting a Poetry Ball on Wednes-
day evening, November 20, in the
Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel in New York City. The
ball is being given as part of a drive
to raise funds for an endowment to
reward outstanding people with po-
etical genius in the United States with
one-iyear fellowships to aid their study
and writing. � The academy itself is a
comparatively new organization and
'.his is the first b'f; program it has at-
tempted. It was founded in Novem-
If someiber, 1934, in New York and has al-
work must be done by students, it will I ready Become of widespread na'.ional
b? planned that those who do not have importance in its service to education
large parts in plays or who arc serv- and the fine arts.
in-r  on   very  active  committees  will;     The ball promises to be one of the
Deanery, November 17, 18, 19.�
Contrary t3 the usual opinion of
occidentals that all Chinese art is
unrealistic, George Rowley, Curator
of Far Eastern Art and Associate
Professor of Art at Princeton, as-
serted that Chinese painting clearly
shows an evolution from the "arch-
aic and symbolic to a realistic atti-
tude toward experience." In three
succinct lectures Mr. Rowley sur-
veyed the "sweep of history" in
Chinese painting, its evolution and
its peculiar racial qualities, and
illustrated his statements with lan-
tern slides. The racial characteristics
which make a painting Chinese are a
direct outgrowth of Chinese thought,
which never developed a science or a
logic, but which developed in painting
an emphasis on the spirit or the inner
content of the object, and created not
an imitative representation of a plas-
tic entity in space, but rather an ideo-
graph in linear rhythms, pervaded
throughout by the very life rhythm
of the universe itself, or the Tao.
Mr. Rowley believes that in study-
ing the art of a people of any age
there are two principal elements to
be considered. If art is viewed as a
representation there is an evolution
in the visualisation of art objects from
the archaic silhouette to the final re-
alization of the object. The other ele-
ment is imagination, the essential ele-
ment in any racial art. In China these
racial traits are infinitely more im-
portant than and completely different
from anything we know in western
art. The Chinese had no interest in
representation and cared nothing for
the outward particularities of mani-
festation of an object. His only care
was for the inner essence. This
emphasis on the content and mean-
ing connected painting with cal-
ligraphy and led to the expression of
art in rhythms drawn by lines and
washes. These rhythms in lines and
washes express no tangible material
reality, but rather create only a sug-
gestion of the reality; the spectator
must complete the work of art.
An Oriental would deny that there
was any such thing as evolution in
art form. But to western connois-
seurs there is in Chinese art a definite
evolution which follows the general
rules of development from primitive
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do it. The three upper classes voted
last spring in favor of having Big
May  Day,  but  in  order  to  be  sure
loveliest given in recent years. Many
prominent debutantes in New York
are   helping  to   plan   the   festivities.
operating   with   advertising   and
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dia
Bachelors."   In England in the second | ferred.    The edging of the bachelor's
the gown and are black in color.   The question of the proper way of inform-
length of the bachelor's hood is three
feet, of the master's, three and a half
feet, and of the doctor's,  four feet.
The doctor's hood alone has panels at
the side, which with the hood  itself
are edged in velvet of the color of the
faculty in which the degree is  con-
that   the   whole   college   is   behind   it,(Sores   throughout   the   city   are   cc>-
the Council asked the freshman class
president  to  hold   a' vote  among  the
class of 1939 on this si.bjrc' as soon
as possible.
At both meetings of the Council the
ing the undergraduates of the action
taken by Self-Government in cases in-
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half of the fourteenth century,
statutes of certain colleges forbade
excess in dress and prescribed the
wearing of a long gown. In the Lau-
dian days at Oxford it was prescribed
that any tailor who departed from the
authorized design "even by a nail's
breadth'' in making a^ollegiate cos-
tume should be punished by the vice-
chancellor.                                        -
European institutions still show
great diversity in their academic
dress, but in 1895 a conference at Co-
lumbia outlined specifications that
have since been standard for most
American universities and colleges.
The undergraduate gowns which
come out like mushrooms in the rain
are modelled after the OxforoT schol-
ar's gown, made of black serge with
an open front and short open sleeve.
The bachelor's gown has a long point-
ed sleeve, and the* master's gown has
hood is two inches in width, of the
��aster's, three inches, and of the doc-
tor's, five inches. At Bryn Mawr the
bachelor's gown is trimmed with white
for and the master's, with white vel-
vet. The hoods are lined with the of-
ficial color or colors of the institution
conferring the degree, this lining to
be charged with a chevron or chevrons
if there is more than one official color.
Bryn Mawr hoods have yellow linings
crossed with white chevrons. Harvard
hood I'n'ngs are crimson, Johns Hop-
k up. old gold and black; Princeton,
orange and black. Although it is per-
missable, it is an outworn practice to
wear the hood of the institution with
which one is offirially connected
rather than the one from which the
degree was received. Fellows at Bryn
Mawr wear bachelor's gowns and
white and yellow hoods.
Continued on  Page Four
Vocational Talk
Mrs. Manning is inviting the
seniors and graduate students
who are interested in jobs for
next year to meet Mrs. Lillian
M. Gilbreth on Friday evening
at the Deanery. Mrs. Gilbreth
is the president of Gilbreth, Inc.,
consulting engineers, and is Pro-
fessor of Management at Purdue
University. She is a graduate
of the University of California
with the degrees of B. Litt. and
M. Litt. In 1915 Brown Uni-
versity conferred on her the de-
gree of Ph. D. Dr. Gilbreth
is one of the two originators of
G:lbreth Motion Study and Job
Analysis.
Mrs. Gilbreth may be able to
stay on on Saturday and to talk
individually with seniors about
their plans for next year. Ap-
pointments should be arranged
through  Mrs. Crenshaw.
Exhibition of Persian Miniatures
An exhibition of twenty Persian
Rook Illuminations is now being dis-
played in the Common Room. The
paintings were selected by Dr. Ernst
Diez  from  the  collection  of  Mr.  H.
Kevorkian, of New York, who kindly  at -Poughkeepsie, N. Y.;  Scripps Col-
Carnegie Fund Awards
Bryn Mawr #150,000
Hi, rinted  frim   ihi   Now  York
Tribinu
The Carnegie Corporation of New
York, in the belief that women's
colleges in general are underfunded,
voted grants totaling $575,000 yester-
day to Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn
Mawr, Pa.; Smith College, at
Northampton, Mass.;  Vassar College,
gave his consent to have them shown
at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Diez
himself will give an introductory talk
on the illuminations on Thursday
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The paintings range in date from
the fourteenth century, when the Per-
sian book illuminations, as far as we
know them, began, to the eighteenth
lege, at Claremont, Calif., and Sweet
Briar College, at Sweet Briar, Va.
These grants, made in the centen-
nial year of Andrew Carnegie's
birth, are "in recognition of the high
quality of the work" of the institu-
tions, and, according to the announce-
meit, "it is hoped that the grants
will call attention  to the desirability
century.   Since then book painting has j of  pr>re  generous  public   support   of
still continued, as there are always
more customers for them than origin-
als. The collection contains charac-
teristic examples of most of the im-
portant schools of Iranian book paint-
ing. In the selection Dr. Diez did
not forget the bias of the undergrady-
educational   institutions of this char-
acter."
Bryn Mawr will "receive $150,000
for endowment; Smith, $175,000 for
library development; Vassar, $160,-
000 for library endowment: Scripps,
.'�10,000   for  development   of   its  edu-
ates here for Tyrolian hats with long "atiqnal program, and Sweet Briar,
feathers; and he therefore chose some '50.000 for endowment. During the
portraits of European diplomats who last ten years the corporation, great-
lived at the sumptuous court of Shah' est of the philanthropic enterprises
Abbas in Lsfahan and wore similarly of Andrew Carnegie, has made other
shaped feathered hats. The evidence grants aggregating $435,000 to worn-
that such hats with their bearers Wev i en's colleges. Among the recipients
admitted to court may, he felt, add to of funds from this sum are Benning-
their    dignity
campus*
cty  the   Bryn
Mawr   ton.      Mills,      Milwaukee-Downer,
I Mount Holyoke, Welles'ey and Wells.