College News, 1935-05-08, Vol. 21, No. 23

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The College News
VOL. XXI, No. 23
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 19J5
Copyright iikyx MAWR
COl.LKCK
NEWS,     1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
A. MacLeish Reads
Selections Chosen
From Own Poetry
Sheble      Lecturer      Emphasizes
Need of New Verse Form
For Theatre
HISTORY, ART, SATIRE,
APPEAR IN HIS WORK
Goodhart, May 1.�Mr. Archibald
MacLeish, in giving the annual Sheble
Memorial Lecture, formulated this
maxim: "When a man who writes
verse is asked to speak in public, the
only honest thing he can do is to read
his poetry." Mr. MacLeish proceed-
ed, therefore, to read his own poetry.
Since he felt that such a plan of ac-
tion might be construed as self-indul-
gence or as too great self-apprecia-
tion, he offered the apology that a
criticism of his contemporaries, which
was the only alternative procedure,
would actually amount .to no more
than talking of himself at second
hand. But by talking of himself and
his writings at first hand, he could
give authoritative information; he
could explain the relation of his mate-
rial to his verse and describe the
structure and purpose of the poems
he read.
First he spoke of the preface to
Conquistador. This is the story of
the Conquest of Mexico told through
the mouth of a humble fighting soldier,
Bernal Diaz. Just as he relates them,
these deeds were really done, for Diaz
was an actual historical figure. Al-
though he marched in all the early ex-
peditions into Mexico, and was one of
the troop who occupied the chief city,
Colua, he received no recognition for
his services. After petitioning the
Spanish government for years, he was
at last granted a barren little farm
in Guatemala. There he returned in
despair; he married a native woman
and forgot his days of battle. But a
musty student called Gomara, who
knew nothing of the old campaigns,
undertook to write their history in
such a way that all glory went to Cor-
tez, and none to the soldiers who hail
fought and endured. Indignantly,
Diaz, half blind, ancient, and feeble
Continued  on  Page  Five
LECTURE ON MAYA
The Philadelphia Committee of tin-
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding
of Bryn Mawr College announces a
lecture by Mr. Sylvanus Morley on
The Maya, The Mont Brilliant Civili-
zation of Ancient America, on Mon-
day, May 13, in Goodhart at 8.20. The
lecture will be illustrated by colored
lantern slides.
Mr. Morley has been director of the
project of the Carnegie Institute of
Washington at Chichen Itza in Yuca-
tan since 1924. He is one of the lead-
ing archaeologists in the middle Amer-
ican field. He took his A.B. degree at
Pennsylvania Military College in 1904
and received his Ph.D. there in 1921.
He also holds an M.A. degree from
Harvard. He has had long experience
in the practical side of archaeology
and among other things he worked
from 1909-1914 in Central America
and Mexico for the School of American
Archaeology. He has been an associ-
ate in the Carnegie Institute since
1915 and is in charge of the expedi-
tions to Central America.
Mr. Morley is particularly interest-
ed in Maya hieroglyphic writing and
in general problems in middle Ameri-
can archaeology. He has been trying
to determine the Maya manner of
speaking, a subject which is not yet
very well developed. Some of his
most exciting archaeological finds in-
clude some beautiful turquoise mo-
saics. He has written several authori-
tative books on his subject � among
them An Introduction to the Study
of Maya Hieroglyphs, air~�**e 3nd
Inscriptions at Copan, in 1920.
This lecture promises to be inter-
esting not only to all those working in
archaeology, but also to the layman;
Mr. Morley is a brilliant and lucid lec-
turer, and has done some significant
work which he will demonstrate with
his slides and lecture.
Self-Government  Ideals
Discussed by Miss Park
Goodhart, May 7.�Miss Park com-
bined several different topics in her
address in chapel. She read first a
tribute to Dr. Emmy Noether, pub-
lished by Professor Einstein in Ihe
New York Times. He says he, consid-
ers Dr. Noether the greatest woman
mathematician since the day when
women were first given the opportun-
ity of higher education. She develop-
ed new methods in her own field of
modern algebra which have been in-
valuable to mathematicians. Her stu-
dents in Gottingen have become dis-
tinguished under her guidance. After
Germany had ungratefully dismissed
her because of her Jewish parentage,
she spent two happy and fruitful
years in America.
There were several further scholar-
ship announcements made. Vung-
Yuin Ting, of the Class of 1935, has
been awarded" a four-year scholar-
ship at the Medical School of the
University of Michigan. Five stu-
dents are to study at various univer-
sities in Germany this summer. They
include Adelaide Mary Davidson,
Graduate1 Student; Sarah Helen Todd,
'88; Catherine Adams Bill, '35; Louise
Atherton Dickey, '37, and Jeannette
Morrison, '35. These scholarships are
given by the Institute for Interna-
tional Education.
The general theme of Miss Park's
address on "Self-Government" was:
"In time of peace, prepare for war."
At this moment when there is no spe-
cial case of infringement of the Self-
Government regulations, it is wise to
discuss the importance of these regu-
lations. For 44 years Bryn Mawr
students have been governed by them-
selves. The immediate problems of
life in a community such as this are
embodied in the words of a set of
rules, which are important as means
to the end of controlled college exist-
ence planned to give maximum liberty
to the individual and minimum fric-
tion to the community.
Curriculum schedules are planned
and adhered to in order to assure thai
each student will receive that for
which she comes here. Rules arc
made and followed for the care and
feeding of babies and children in order
that they may receive the attention
necessary and proper for their best
development. Self-Government ref-
lations have always been, from their
beginning under President Thomas,
for that purpose. The achievement of
this purpose depends on an intelligent
public and a few careful officers. The
responsibility which must fall on each
student cannot be set down in the
rules themselves, but is self-evident in
the whole governing body.
SUTER TO RETURN
In a year when the Alumnae As-
sociation is contributing so much to
the college, it seems suitable to an-
nounce now one more addition to the
steadily increasing number of gifts.
Donations from individual members
of the Association have made it pos-
sible for the Sunday Service Commit-
tee to invite Dr. John W. Suter, Jr.,
rector of the Church of the Epiphany,
New York City, to hold seven serv-
ices during the coming winter. Dr.
Suter has chosen to, come for four
Sundays in October and three more
in the spring. The Committee wishes
t� thank the Alumnae Association
for making this possible.
Because the Committee feels that a
greater interest and enthusiasm for
Chapel develops when a ^ninister is
on the campus for more than one
Sunday, it has been able to arrange
to have Dr. Alexander C. Zabriskie
of the Theological Seminary, Alex-
andria, Virginia, and Dr. William
Pierson Merrill, rector of the Brick
Presbyterian Church of New York
City, come to the campus for three
Sundays each. This means that the
main interest in Chapel will center
around these three ministers, but a
few outstanding speakers of other
denominations will be invited to fill
ojit the quota of services.
SARAH   FLANDERS,
LETITIA  BROWN.
College Calendar
Friday,  May  10:     The  Glee
Club  will   present   The  Pirates
of   Penzance.,     Goodhart,   8.20 '
P.  M.
Saturday, May '11: Varsity
Tennis Match with Vassar, 10
A. M. Pirates of Penzance.
Goodhart, 8.20 P. M. Spring
Dance.    Gym  10 P. M.
Sunday, May 12: Music
Without a Ticket by Catherine
Drinker Bowen. Deanery, 5
P. M.
Monday, May 13: Mr. Syl-
vanus Morley will give an il-
lustrated lecture on The 'Maya,
The Most Brilliant Civilization
of Ancient America. Goodhart
8.20 P. M.
Tuesday, May 14: Mr. Guy
Marriner will discuss and play
selections from Modern French
Composers.     Deanery,   5   P.   M.
Dennis Dance Group
Gives Varied Recital
Selection, Use of Music Superb
In Faithful Interpretation
Of  Mood,  Rhythm
MANY INFLUENCES FUSED
(Especially Contributed  hy  Mama
V. Brady)
Variety characterized the program
of dances presented by Estelle Dennis
and her Concert Group in Goodhart
Hall, on April 13. Miss Dennis be-
lieves that there is a place for lyric
as well as angular and distorted
movement in the dance today, and
demonstrated that her group can do
both exceedingly well.
Impromptu danced by Dorothea
Brinkmann and the Conceit Group,
was a study in movement and group-
ing to music by Reger.
Love For Three Oranges, one of
the high spots of the evening, was
danced by Estelle Dennis, assisted
by Tom Mele and Dorothea Brink-
mann. Miss Dennis has a definite
feeling for the mood of Prokofieff's
music and her choreography was
well-adapted to it. As a dancer she
is gifted in expressing the mock un-
couthness and the humorous quality
of this composer's work. The unique
costumes of greenish tights and yel-
low cellophane were designed by
Miss  Dennis  herself.
Gymnopedie, a line study by Char-
lotte Boekel and Dorothea Brinkmann,
was a series of statuesque poses con-
nected by a sustained movement. The
dance took place on a small platform
against a back drop of black, and
was illuminated by a bluish light
which gave the dancers' bodies the
appearance of marble.
In the Scriahin Prelude Opus 11�
Etude onus 8, interpreted as "doom-
ed" and "rebellion," Miss Dennis
showed she had a controlled body at
her command. Her movements were
not ultra-modern, and she used her
hands well. The dance itself was
less subtle in interpretation and ex-
pression than some of her others.
The Chopin Waltz, a purely lyrical
garland dance done by the Concert
Group, was welcomed by the audi-
ence for its feeling of joy in move-
,      Continued  on  Pane  Six
Guy Marriner Discusses,                 '
Plays Modern Composers
Mr. Guy Marriner, in the first of a
series of lecture-recitals on Modern
Composers, discussed the revolution-
ary work of Debussy in the develop-
ment of Impressionism and the penta-
tonic and whole-tone scale, and con-
sidered briefly the woi�k of Ravel, es-
pecially in its use of the major sev-
enth. These two composers, in at-
fempting to express their own artistic
ideals as completely as possible, con-
tradicted all conventional rules of
rhythm and harmony.
Debussy was born near Paris in
1802 and after studying priVately he
entered the Paris Conservatory, where'
he shocked his masters and fellow-
pupils by writing strange harmonies
in utter defiance of all the traditional
rules which were taught there. When,
like Beethoven, he was advised to curb
his experiments and relinquish his
wild ideas, he insisted that so long as
the sound was not unpleasant there
was no reason to abide by harmonic
rules. When he was awarded I he
Prix de Rome he used this opportun-
ity in the Italian city to work out his
novel ideas. Shortly after his return
he visited Bayreuth, where he was
impressed by Wagner's work, but was
unable to give it his unqualified ad-
miration. Boris Godouuov had a more
profound effect upon him. By this
time Debussy was completely cut off
from all his musical colleagues be-
cause of his new theories of harmony.
His sympathies drew him to the poets
and painters whose conceptions were
similar to his own. Many of these art-
ists were attempting to separate the'ed. Elizabeth Kent and Evelyn
reactions of sense and reason, and to-J Thompson, 1035, divided the President
League Elections
The Bryn Mawr League takes
pleasure in announcing the fol-
lowing elections for the year
1935-30:
Secretary-Treasurer � Eliza-
beth Bingham, '36.
Chairman of Summer Camp�
Katherine Docker, '36.
Chairman of Sunday Services
�Letitia Brown, '37.
Blind School�Irene Ferrer,
'37.
Haverford Community Center
�Esther Morley, '36.                ,    , �
TT       t        '
Americanization � Helen
Adler, '38.
Maids' Chairman � Alison
Raymond, '38.
Publicity � Cordelia Stone,
�37.
Miss Park Reveals
Scholarship Awards
In May Day Chapel
Hinchman Memorial Scholarship
Goes to Elizabeth Wyckoff
For Major Work
KENT, THOMPSON WIN
SENIOR   ESSAY   PRIZE
Goodhart, May 2.� A list of sixty-
live undergraduatei^Rcholarships, thir-
ty-one graduate^cTiolarships, nine spe-
cial scholarships and prizes, and seven
fellowship and scholarship awards
was made public by Miss Park, at
Ihe annual May Day chapel service.
The appointments of Ethel Glancy and
Catherine Bill, both seniors, to teach
next year at New York University and
the Lycee de Jeunes Filles at Bourg-
en-Bresse respectively, and the grad-
uate fellowship in history at Rad-
cliffe College awarded to Jean Morri-
son, 1!>35, were also announced at
ihe same time.
The Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship for the student who has
shown the greatest ability in her
major subject went to Elizabeth
Wyckoff, iaS6, for her work in Greek.
The Leila Houghteling Memorial
Scholarship, which is awarded to a
Freshman every three years to be held
for three years on the basis of schol-
arship, integrity, and public spirit,
was awarded to Mary C. Sands, 1988.
In the field of English, five prizes
or special scholarships were announc-
give pm-e artistic impression � by
avoiding direct representation. .This
was the beginning of Impressionism
into which Debussy entered with all
his soul and energy. Henceforth he
attempted to create the emotions re-
sulting from thought, sound, color,
scent, and similar sensations as dis-
tinct from the direct representation
of these experiences. He developed
his idiom from chords of the seventh,
Continued on  I'aee  Four
M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize for the
student whose writing is the best in
the Senior Class. A poetry prize,
given _ib/s year as a special honor
through   Miss Lucy Martin   Donnelly.
of   the   English   Department!   was
awarded to Gertrude V. V. Franrhot,
of the Senior class. The Sheelah Kil-
roy Memorial Scholarships in Fresh-
man, Sophomore, and Advanced Eng-
lish were awarded to Mary Mesier,
Continued on  l'ane Three
Seniors Scramble For Hoops In Goodhart
As Rainy Dawn Fails To Damp May Spirit
At precisely 5.30 A. M. on the morn
mg of May 2, the campus rang with
ilie raucous cry of alarm-clocks, and
ihe class of l'.).!7 rose to greet a gray
and dismal morning. Donning any-
thing white that happened to be hang-
ing out of a bureau drawer or lying on
the closet floor, they jammed a few-
wilted apple blossoms into their lit-
tle yellow May-baskets, plastered gen-
ial smiles upon their wan coun-
tenances, and made off in the direc-
tion of the fearful din that they rec-
ognized as the rest of their class and
the waking-song. In a few minutes,
every undergraduate, freshman as
well as senior, was sighing blissfully
as the pleasant tune gently called her
from an unregretted slumber. Almost
an hour must have passed before a
slight agitation became noticeable in
the smoking rooms, and the gracious
seniors descended to their coffee and
rolls. After a leisurely repast, they
garbed themselves in caps and gowns.
and set off to wake the President with
The Hunt Is Vp. We must congratu-
late Miss Park on being a most rapid
dresser; in no time at all, she was
being conducted by the hungry hordes
on the way to Rockefeller.
Here, the seniors scrambled up Ihe
lower stairs, and assembled on the
arch roof. They shuffled their feel.
cleared their throats, and stand at
their song-books; in vain they tried
to spot the sun to whom the soifg was
dedicated. They were very much mis-
tresses of the moment, however; al-
though realizing that Jhere was no
sun, with all the savoir faire in the
world,   they   burst   forth   with   their
,.Latin song.      -.
When they we're finished, they trip-
j ped down once more from their lofty
situation.    Joining the undergraduate
j jumble in Rockefeller, they watched
with interest, as Miss Edith Rose, of
Mexico City, crowned Miss Betty
Lord,  of  Peoria, queen  of the  May
Close on the heels of this ceremony
followed a stampede for breakfast in
Ihe various halls, and for a moment
the campus was conqmratively silent.
At eight, the college was out again,
milling about Taylor in noisy antici-
pation of our seniors' antics. Profes-
sional photographers were draped over
Taylor steps, while the amateurs eag-
erly occupied themselves with poses
of the Misses Gardiner. Suddenly, we
were aware of a strange thumping in
the distance. "A Communist Pa-
rade!" a freshman shrieked, but a
motherly sophomore quieted her. and
explained that it was just the band
that had played for her on Parade
Night.    Then, with a giant blare, the
band itself appeared, playing the fa-,
miliar strains of the Morris On.
In front of the band, Peggy Little
was executing her one-two-three hop
to perfection. Behind it, we were
conscious of somewhat similar leaps
and bounds on the part of her class-
mates, who were very cleverly swing-
ing their May-baskets in time to the
music. They rounded Taylor corner
accurately, and then made for the low-
er campus, carefully avoiding Senior
Row and the grass-seed as they did
so.
As we skipped around the dancers
winding the May-poles, we had a mo-
ment to think. We realized that the
lower campus is just made for Little
May-Day; at the same time, we could
not help formulating an axiom to our-
selves, namely, that ability in May-
pole winding varies inversely with
learning, and with experience, for
-..mellow, the young bloods managed
lo turn out poles that were very well
done-tip. whereas those belonging to
Ihe graduates and seniors reminded OS
strongly of youthful attempts at Cat's
: Cradle.
Then, under the big May-pole. Miss
. Park presented Miss Lord (again of
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