College News, 1936-04-22, Vol. 22, No. 21

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The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 21
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936
Copyright  BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Dramatic Courses   ,
Added to Program
For Coming Year
Arthur Sprague, Harvard Ph.D.,
Joins English Department
As   Associate
OUTDOOR PRODUCTION
DIRECTED BY WYCKOFF
Music Room, April 21. � Before
making known the faculty appoint-
ments for 1936-37, Miss Park an-
nounced the Commencement speaker
in chapel this morning.
The address is to be made this year
by Dr. Alice Hamilton. Dr. Hamilton
is a graduate of the University of
Michigan Medical School, and was
resident at Hull House for a number
of years. From 1911 to 1921 she
worked on a government commission
for the Investigation of Industrial
Poisoning. Beginning in 1919 she
was Professor of Industrial Medicine
at Harvard Medical School, from
which position she retired in 1934.
During 1936 she has been Consultant
on Industrial Poisoning to the De-
partment of Labor.
The four members of the faculty
who have been on leaves of absence
this year will return to the college
next September. Miss Georgianna
Goddard King, Head of the Depart-
ment of History of Art, will teach
again her first year course in this
subject. She will also conduct a
graduate seminary. Dr. Harold
Wethey will assist Miss King in the
conferences for the first year class,
in addition to carrying on his own
work.                  I
Mrs. A. P. Wheeler returns to the
Department of Mathematics to resume
her work, which has been given by
Mr. Jacobsen this year.
Dr. Herben will also resume his
work, which in his absence has been
carried on by instructors in the Eng-
lish department. He has recently
finished a paper on Armor in Chaucer.
Miss Robbins, after a year spent
in England preparing for publication
a diary concerned with eighteenth
century economics, will return to the
department of history. During her
leave of absence, Miss Robbins com-
pleted plans for a new course in the
department which she herself will
teach.
Mile. Soubeiran, of the Department
of  French,   will  go  to  France  next
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Rules Here Lenient,
Conferees   Discover
(Especially contributed by Marion
Bridgman, '36.)
The Conference of the Five Col-
leges, Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke,
Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, was held
this year at Mount Holyoke. Bar-
bara Colbron, Esther Hardenbergh
and Marion Bridgman were the repre-
sentatives from Bryn Mawr. Ques-
tions of academic and social regula-
tions were discussed, and the dele-
gates met members of the faculty at
tea and President Wooley at dinner.
Although many of the problems of the
larger colleges do not pertain to us
because of our small size, these con-
ferences are nevertheless very helpful.
In general Bryn Mawr is more leni-
ent and has less rules than the other
colleges. The students here are al-
lowed to stay out later at night and
there is no differentiation between
week nights and Saturday, nor be-
tween freshmen and upperclassmen.
Our system of unlimited weekends
and a small number of cuts is just
the opposite from that of the other
colleges, .with unlimited cuts and a
Continued on Pago Six
Self-Gov Elections
The Self-Government Board
takes pleasure in announcing
the election of Eleanore Tobin
and Rachel Brooks as senior
members and of Suzanne Wil-
liams, Virginia Hessing and
Abbie Ingalls as junior members'
for next year.
Committee   Proposed
To Plan Engagements
Council Hears That Quota Rules Are
To %&&?&�---*
President's House, April 15.�Re-
ports on the progress and final plans
for May Day, discussion of a planning
committee for general engagements
next winter, and an explanation of
how appointments of the faculty are
made at Bryn Mawr occupied the Col-
lege Council at its April meeting.
The May Day news was made public
to the college on Thursday morning in
chapel (aw the Director's Page). Mrs.
Manning reported that from the early
returns on the survey sent to the mem-
bers of the faculty concerning the con-
gestion of reports near the examina-
tion periods, it seemed in most cases
impossible to move the dates for re-
ports back into the semester. Further
discussion was postponed on this ques-
tion until all the returns from the
survey are received.
The proposed committee for plan-
ning engagements for the year, par-
ticularly for planning weekend events
and spacing them between lectures,
should be small, it was suggested.
Frequent meetings were proposed as
often as new engagements or ideas
make it necessary. Mrs. Manning,
Mrs. Collins and Miss Ward would be
on "the committee and student mem-
bers would be selected either one from
each hall or each class, or from each
organization, such as the Athletic As-
sociation and Varsity Dramatics.
Other people would be called in when-
ever their advice was necessary.
Eleanor Fabyan reported on the re-
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Art Part of Formal,
Rational Side of Life
Function  of  Artist   to   Present
Perceptions Which Science A
Cannot Grasp
DR.  WEISS  READS  PAPER
Common Room, April 15.�Reality
has two sides, explained Dr. Weiss
this evening when speaking to the
Philosophy Club on Art and Aes-
thetics. There is the extensive side,
that about which rational propositions
can be made, and there is the inten-
sive side, that at which one can only
point to expres/its^ejcistence formally.
In the former afield philosophy works,
and within philosophy, aesthetics,
which seeks to unite in its scope all
the principles of art. Art, however,
belongs to the latter division of reali-
ty; it is that which endeavors to
make intelligible the intensive nature
of the experienced, and in such a way
that every other experienced object
can be found within it.
All perception contains as a back-
ground of the articulately known a
unique and unrepeatable intensity of
being that mere science can only
recognize but never know. Even when
lived through and felt, the individual
concreteness peculiar to each sepa-
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56 ENTER CONTEST,
LISTS REMAIN OPEN
Fifty-six undergraduates have en-
tered the Time Current Events Con-
test, and the lists will remain open
until the day before the test is given.
Room F in' Taylor will be the scene
of action at 11.30* on Saturday morn-
ing, May 2. Samples of the type of
factual test to Ve given will be placed
upon bulletin boards in the halls and
Taylor.
The $75 in prize\ioney will be di-
vided up into at least ten prizes. If
the number of freshman entrants war-
rants it, one prize of $5 will be re-
served for the highest freshman scSre.
$25 or $15 will go to the highest scor-
ing paper, and the remainder will be
divided into $5 prizes. In addition,
any non-prize winning paper which
scores at least 90 per cent wins a
year's subscription to Time magazine.
No preparation is neowary. For
further details see last week's News.
Historian Requires
Imaginative  Power
Notestein Comments on Vaiv*9-
And Uses of the Imagination
In Composition
CITES  VARIED  METHODS
Goodhart Hall, April 18.�Professor
Wallace Notestein of Yale University,
the Mallory Whiting Webster Memor-
ial Lecturer this year, gave an inter-
esting and psychological interpreta-
tion of the Uses of Imagination in
History. His analysis of the way in
which historians can employ imagina-
tive power in the application of known
facts and his intense advocation of
the use of the imagination, confirm the
fact that Professor Notestein believes
in dynamic not passive history.
An aspect of historical method
Professor Notestein cited is guess-
work in locating oneself in a particu-
lar area. Three doubtful points whose
relationship to one another is to be
found are taken together; at certain
angles they corroborate each other
and give one a fair idea of one's lo-
cation.
Professor Maitland, of Cambridge
University, who wrote Doomsday
Book and Beyond, uses his excellent
imagination in this way. Many facts
and a projecting mind are necessary
for its basis. For instance, Mr. Mait-
land had ample material on the year
1086 and very little for the early
Anglo-Saxon period. He imagined
situations in the Anglo-Saxon period
by projecting his mind into the dark
past. The points, related to and cor-
roborating each other, convince the
reader of customs and situations of
three hundred years earlier. Mr.
Maitland with his projecting mind and
faculty of interrogation had, as Plato
says, "half the knowledge."
Advantages in the use of the
imagination can be noted in several
historians. Brunei', a German his-
torian, wrote in 1870 one famous
article on the origin of the relation
of land to military service, which is
the essential element in feudalism.
The one new relation which he dis-
covered in the midst of old facts is the
test of true scholarship, for readers
wonder why they have not thought of
it before.
Sorel, who wrote L'Histoire de
Continued on Pace Six
Faces at Window Haunt
Gay  Rockefeller   Dance
First Party of. Kind is Pronounced
Successful Experiment
New Courses for Next Year
Professor Lograsso is giving
a course in Dante in English
Translation for the first time,
which will be open to everyone
and should be of special interest
to the students of literature.
Professor Sprague, who has
recently been appointed to the
English Department, is giving
a new elective course in mod-
ern English drama, which will
be scheduled at nine o'clock
Mondays and Thursdays." He
is also giving an advanced
course in English Poetry from
Spenser to Donne, which will
naturally include material for-
merly given in other English
courses. This course will be
scheduled at twelve o'clock
Tuesdays and Fridays and at
five  Wednesdays.
The    following    courses    are'
scheduled  for  next year  which
are not given in every year, but
which have been given before:
History of religions, prob-
ably by Dr. Howard Brinton,
who gave it in 1934-35.
Greek literature, by Dr. Rhys
Carpenter, as it is being given
this year.
Playwriting, by Miss Latham
and Mrs. McAneny.
Modern English history, by
Miss Robbins.
This list is by no means ex-
haustive, but the courses are
mentioned about which there
has been a certain amount of
doubt. Information about other
courses may be obtained from
the Dean's office where the proof
of the catalogue may now be
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April 18.�The chances are that
the inquisitive residents of other halls
peering throughS. the windows of
Rockefeller soon reltvanvy eclipse
their curiosity, for all ninety persons
present at the first hall dance were
obviously very enthusiastic about the
experiment.
Considerable pains had been taken
to decorate the hall attractively with-
out interfering with the limited space.
Accordingly, only floral arrangements
were used. A buffet supper was
served.
It must be admitted that when,
half an hour after the appointed
time, half of the six piece orchestra
had failed to arrive, the high spirits
of all were a bit shaken. However,
they did come shortly later, explain-
ing that they had thought the danc^
to be at the Nurses' Home of the
Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Infected by the general excitement,
several of the more reluctant mem-
bers of the hall scurried about to
make last-minute arrangements. As
a result, there were thirty-two cou-
ple and eighteen stags present. The
faculty who served as patrons and
patronesses were: Dr. and Mrs.
Blanchard, Dr. and Mrs. Cameron,
M. Guiton, Miss Richardson and Dr.
and Mrs. Weiss. The extreme success
of the undertaking, the hall feels, is
in large part due to the efforts of the
hall  president, Lucy  Kimberly, '37.
Nancy Wilson Plays
With Varied Quality
After  Poor   First   Piece,   Shows
Excellent Technique and
Interpretation
BACH AND TURINA BEST
(Especially contributed by S'aomt
Coplin, '88.)
The Deanery, April 19.�The 'cello
recital given by Nancy Wilson was
an unusual combination of a com-
pletely unpromising start and a com-
pletely satisfying ending.
The recital found an unfortunate
beginning in a Sonata in G Major by
Sammartini, a piece that seemed lack-
ing in any depth of meaning, or even
in the requirement of any particular^
mastery of the instrument.
Nejther did Miss Wilson put any-
thing into it (if that was at all pos-
sible) that might have made it a lit-
tle more significant musically. The
Sonata remained colorless, unimpor-
tant, an almost non-existent thing
which left the audience quite unim-
pressed and out of touch with the mu-
sician. Not because of any worship
of the canonized, or any excess rever-
ence for names however great, but
merely in terms of art values, it seems
a pity that this pointless composition
should have been played when there
was available a good deal of really
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MOORISH AND SPANISH
DANCES ON SATURDAY
Of unusual interest to the college
is the announcement of the coming
of Senora Carola, a well-known Span-
ish dancer, who will present a pro-
gram of interpretive dancing In Good-
hart Hall on Saturday, April 25.
Dancing in the style of LaArgen-
tina, she will interpret old Moorish
types of Spanish dances, including
one character dance. There will be
thirteen other dances in elaborate cos-
tumes appropriate for the different
interpretations which Senora Carola,
bringing her own accompanist, will
present.
Senora Carola was first taught to
dance by her Spanish mother. She
attended the Irwin School in Phila-
delphia. Formerly associated with
the Littlefield Ballet, she was pre-
sented last fall to the enthusiastic
youth of Philadelphia in the Academy
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Unexpected Death
Of Samuel Emlen
Shock  to College
Notable   Germantown    Realtor
Member of Trustee Board
4   ^ Since     1929
HEAD OF BUILDINGS,
GROUNDS COMMITTEE
Tlesday, April 21.�The college was
informed by Miss Park of the death
of Samuel Emlen, a member of the
Board of Trustees and a prominent
citizen of Philadelphia, who died as a
result of complications following a re-
cent operation. From the time of his
entrance to the board in 1929 he
showed an active and constructive in-
terest in college problems, especially
those concerning the care of buildings
and grounds.
Mr. Emlen was born in Germantown
on March 27, 1880, and received his
education at the Germantown Friends'
School. Upon graduation he entered
the foreign trade office of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, but in 1910 left the
company to manage a farm in Rail-
way. New Jersey. In 1919 he entered
the real estate business in German-
town. He was elected to the State
Legislature in 1927 and to the City
Council in 1934, where he was a strong
supporter of economy and reform. In
addition to his interest in public af-
fairs, Mr. Emlen was a member of
the Society of Friends and took an
active part in Friends' projects. He
is survived by his widow, Marian
Haines Emlen, Bryn Mawr, '02; six
children, his father, two brothers and
a sister.
Mr. Emlen became a member of the
Board of Trustees in May, 1929, and
was immediately made chairman of
the Committee on Buildings and
Grounds. Combining a practical
knowledge of the field of real estate
with sound common sense, he ren-
dered invaluable services - to Bryn
Mawr. He well understood all the
problems which arose in the care of
the buildings and spent many hours
a week at the college straightening
out minor difficulties. He was to
have assumed the supervision of the
construction of the new science build-
ing.
Of. Mr. Emlen Miss Park said:   "It
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Mass Meeting is Held
For Peace Promotion
Goodhart, April 22.�The decided
support of the majority of the campus
in the promotion of peace was evi-
denced at a well-attended mass meet-
ing held today at twelve o'clock, too
late for a thorough report at this
time. The demonstration, held under
the combined auspices of the Ameri-
can Students Union and the Interna-
tional Relations Club, was led by Miss
Elizabeth Wyckoff, '36.
The organizations directing the
meeting invited Miss Helen Dorio,
Philadelphia, city secretary of the
American League against War and
Facism, to be the guest speaker. Miss
Eleanor Fabyan, '36, and Miss Mary
Dimock, '39, also discussed current
problems relating to the maintenance
of peace.
The following professors excused
their classes for the occasion; Dr. Da-
vid, Dr. Max Diez, Miss Donnelly, Dr.
Helson, Dr. Lattimore, Dr. Nahm and
Dr. Wethey.
During the afternoon a group of
students attended a meeting at Rey-
burn Plaza in Philadelphia. Miss
Sylvia Wrights ^38, spoke in behalf of
the Bryn Mawr chapter of the Ameri-
can Students Union.
Summer School Application
Will all those interested in ap-
plying for the position of under-
graduate assistant at the Sum-
mer School please see Eleanor
Fabyan, Pembroke West, Agnes
Ilalsey, Pembroke West, or
Margaret Honour, Rockefeller,
as soon as possible.
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