College News, 1936-03-11, Vol. 22, No. 16

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The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 16
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1936
Copyright  BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Dorothy Pilley Talks
On Mountain Climbs
Mountaineering   a   Safe   Sport
When Care is Exercised, �
Says Devotee
ROPE TECHNIQUE VITAL
The Deanery, March 9.�"Why do
people climb mountains?" asked Dor-
othy Pilley  (Mrs. I. A. Richards)  in
her talk on Alpine mountaineering.
An experienced climber and a devotee
of the sport, Miss Pilley endeavored
to explain what she calls "mountain-
eering madness" by stories of her own
climbing adventures. Her talk was'
illustrated by slides.
Mountain climbing, contrary to the
common belief, is a comparatively safe
sport if care is exercised at all times
and rash climbs are not attempted.
A correct knowledge of rope technique
is essential and the proper use of the
billet must be understood. (A billet
is a crack in the rock or a similar
stable object around which a rope
may be put as a safeguard against
falls.) A fine sense of balance is an-
other requirement, for in scaling rock
walls handholds the size of a dime
must often be used. Climbers should
wear heavy nailed boots to get a grip
on the rock, although in fine weather
sneakers can be used on rock slabs.
Mountain climbing has come into its
own only within the last hundred
years, but owing to its increasing
popularity there are now many or-
ganized climbing clubs. The Ladies'
Alpine Club was founded in the days
of crinolines. The Pinnacle Club, a
British women's rock climbing club
of which Miss Pilley is the president,
has the hardest qualifications of all
similar organizations. Every mem-
ber must be able to be a leader, to use
a rope correctly and to climb safely
without unnecessary risk.
Miss Pilley has climbed in every
part of the world, from the mountains
in the English Lake Country to the
Himalayas. Much of her climbing has
been done in the Alps, which are no-
torious for snow and ice hazards.
Snow and glacier climbing is treach-
erous because of the danger of
crevasses. A thin layer of snow may
completely conceal a crevass, and the
utmost care must be taken to test the
ground as one goes. Miss Pilley told
of a serious accident suffered by a
guide on one of their trips. Three
members of the party, including the
guide, had gone ahead. It was a
stuffy evening and the snow was
treacherous. The guide, although an
old one who knew the glacier, had
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The League Entertains
The Bryn Mawr League is
planning two entertainments
this week for the benefit of the
Summer Camp. On Thursday
at 8 o'clock a group of under-
graduates will present a musical
program. The President's House
will be the scene of the party
and admission will be twenty-
five cents.
On Saturday the Maids' Dra-
matic Club will present Booth
Tarkington's Clarence in Good-
hart at 8.45 p. m., under the
auspices of the League. The
charge will be $.75 for seats in
the first fifteen rows, and $.25
for the remaining rows.
Junior Year Abroad
Discussed by Dean
Music Room, March 6. � Bryn
Mawr's experience with the junior
year spent elsewhere than on the
campus has not been very favorable
except where it was embarked on with
definite purpose, is the opinion of
Dean Manning. There are certain
very great advantages which a year
of study away from Bryn Mawr
affords, but they must be carefully
weighed against the corresponding
disadvantages.
The college grants its degrees on
the basis of a satisfactory completion
of work of a certain well-understood
standard. Our degree is not based on
the best program of general education
and we cannot tamper with our exist-
ing plan because work of this nature
is a prerequisite for graduate study.
Therefore work done off the campus
must be designed to fit into our
scheme of study.
In the past the organization of the
junior year abroad has presented dif-
ficulties which have been very satis-
factorily dealt with by the University
of Delaware organization. There must
be a definite understanding of the
ground to be covered. Also the rules
concerning personal conduct are con-
siderably stricter at foreign universi-
ties. One of the greatest disadvant-
ages resulting from being away dur-
ing the junior year is the serious dis-
arrangement in the preparation for
comprehensive examinations. Required
subjects must be completed in the first
two years at college, thus leaving very
little time available for the choice of
elective subjects.
The opportunities to study abroad,
however, are great enough frequently
to merit the making of sacrifices by
the college. Life with a family .which
has a completely different culture, and
constant use of the language, are two
of the undoubted advantages of study
abroad.
A. S. U. Meeting
Maps Out Progr
To Aid International Relations
Club in Organizing College
Peace Program
MEET EVERY TWO WEEKS
How the Wheels Go 'Round
(This the second of a series of ar-
ticles on the college as a commun-
ity.)
There is no endowment for ice
cream and there is no endowment for
lettuce twice a day. This pronounce-
ment from the Steward shatters once
and for all the rumor popular among
the undergraduates for more than
thirty years that the only plausible
explanation for the phenomena lay
in the whim of a lettuce and ice
cream-starved alumna. This idea is
entirely false and the true reason for
the regular and sometimes monotonous
recurrence of these two foods on the
table lies in the stubborn conserva-
tism of a Bryn Mawr appetite. Vari-
ations were tried in the early days
of the college, and upon occasions
there are still hopeful but vain ex-
periments; but years ago it was dis-
covered that plain lettuce with a very
few varied dressings was definitely
preferred to any other salad. This
simplified life greatly for the dieti-
cian too, because the arduous task of
concocting new salad combinations
was for the most part eliminated.
Chicken, fruit cup and chocolate
dishes are and have been for genera-
tions the favorite college dishes.
In the realm of desserts there is
and has been only one choice�ice
cream with chocolate sauce. Tastes
don't seem to change among the un-
dergraduates of two generations, and
if not ice cream with chocolate sauce
then cream puffs or cakes with choco-
late sauce, or perhaps a chocolate
pudding, is in favor. Chocolate eclairs
have recently been extremely popular.
"Any chocolate food is a success,"
declares Mrs. Robins, the Dietician,
"The only reason we don't serve it
every meal as the students and we
should like, is to keep up the interest
and the feeling of novelty. Other
sauces for ice cream are introduced
simply to keep the chocolate popular."
No one likes the fancy ice creams
without sauce, although they are just
as costly as ordinary ice cream with
sauce. No matter how the college
appetite is teased with black walnut,
mocha and other ice creams, vanilla
with chocolate remains king of
desserts.
All the ice cream is made by the
college, more  precisely  by the  store
room boy in Rockefeller basement on
Tuesdays,   Thursdays   and   Sundays.
Continued on Pare Four
Common Room, March 5.�The re-
cently founded Bryn Mawr branch of
the A. S. U. met, under the chairman-
ship of Martha Van Hoesen, '39, to
discuss points in the program pre-
pared by the Executive Committee.
Twenty-two students were present,
and voiced its concern for the Summer
School, anti-Hearst work and coopera-
tion with the International Relations
Club in its peace program.
The group is keenly interested in
the Summer School project and wants
to have, facts as a*h intelligent back-
ground for discussion and support
of it. Sylvia Wright, '38, was elected
chairman of a committee of two to re-
port to the group at a short meeting
this week.
It is very important that the group
work to express in practical ways its
disapproval of the Hearst press.
They expect to prepare a list of
all such publications, so that it
will be possible to organize a sys-
tematic boycott of the man and his
works. Mary Dimmock, '39, was ap-
pointed with a companion of her
choosing to go to the managers of the
Seville and other local theatres and to
see whether it would be possible to get
them to stop showing Hearst news-
reels. It is important to get the group
and the whole college anti-Hearst. A
bulletin board was suggested on which
the worst articles in Hearst publica-
tions could be posted.
There will be a peace demonstra-
tion held on April 22 by colleges and
universities throughout the country,
and the group planned to offer its
cooperation to the International Re-
lations Club in organizing a college
program.
A literature committee was appoint-
ed consisting of Mary Riesman, '39,
and Jeanne Quistgaard, '38, to see
that good pamphlets are distributed
throughout the college and to sell the
Student Advocate, the publication of
the A. S. U., which costs fifty cents
a year and five cents a copy. Action
against the teachers' oath bill, soon
Continued on Page Six
. College Calendar
..Wednesday, March 11: In-
dustrial Group Supper and dis-
cussion of Government and La-
bor. Common Room at tJ.45
p. m.
Thursday, March 12: Under-
graduate Musicale. Miss Park's
house at 8 p. m.
Friday, March 13: Dr. Mi-
chael Rostovtzeff will speak on
Horace As I See Him. Good-
hart Hall at 8.30 p. m.
Saturday, March 14: The
Maids' Dramatic Club presents
Clarence. Goedhart Hall at
8.45 p. m.
Sunday, March 15: Sir Ar-
thur Willert will speak on The
Press in International Affairs.
Deanery at 5 p.. m.
Sunday, March 15: Faculty
Basketball Game versus Varsity.
Gymnasium at 11 a. m.
Monday, March 16: Mr. I. A.
Richards will give the conclud-
ing lecture on The Interpreta-
tion of Prose. Goodhart Hall
at 8.20 p. m.
Richards  Cites  False
Theories of Metaphor
Not Mere Addition as Aristotle
Said, But is Very Essence
of   Language
NEW      TERMS      CLARIFY
Maids' Dramatic Club
To Present "Clarence"
On Saturday, March 14, the first
production of the newly formed Maids';
Dramatic Club will be presented.!
Booth Tarkington's Clarence, a four-j
act comedy concerned with mistaken j
identity which leads to many and]
varied amusing complications, has been ]
�hosen to demonstrate the dramatic!
ability of the maids and porters. John i
Whittaker, porter in Denbigh, is in
the title role, and Peggy Peyton,!
Rockefeller maid, has the feminine j
lead. Huldah Cheek, '38, has directed j
the production, assisted by Alison Ray- j
mond, '38.
The performance is scheduled to be-
gin at 8.45 p. m.�after the maids have;
finished their various and sundry
chores in the halls. Tickets are sev-
enty-five and twenty-five cents, and
all seats are reserved.
Arthur Willert to Talk
On International Press
Second Movie Program
Will   Show   Narrative
The second of the film showings
sponsored by the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation will be given in Goodhart Hall
on Wednesday evening, March 18, and
will show the development of nar-
rative from 1894 to 1911. The pro-
gram consists %t excerpts from six
films, beginning with The Execution
of Mary Queen of Scots, made in
1893-4, when it was first discovered
that the new invention could recreate
the past."" Wash Day Troubles il-
lustrates one of the first excursions
into the invention of stories for the
pictures. A Trip to the Moon, by
George Melies, and the Great Train
Robbery mark steps of gret-t advance-
ment in moving-picture technique. A
version of Faust made rtf 1905 will
be followed by Queen Elizabeth, of
which Sarah Bernhardt said, "This is
my one chance for immortality."
These excerpts bring a combination of
history and entertainment of the same
sort presented in the last program,
but based on more serious material.
Rehearsal Schedule
The rehearsal schedule for the
following week will be posted
each Friday morning on the
Bulletin Board. It will not be
chalked up on the blackboard
until Monday because the two
Saturday schedules would cause
confusion. Watch the board for
this schedule, for you will be
held responsible for the Mon-
day rehearsals.           ^______
Sir Arthur Willert, a distinguished
British diplomat and publicist, will
speak on The Press as a Factor in
International Relations in the Dean-
ery on Sunday, March 15, at 5 p. m.
Since he has all his life been connect-
ed with the international press, Sir
Arthur brings a mine of knowledge
and experience to his subject, while |
the subject itself is wide enough forj
him to include acute and authorita-
tive opinions on the present uncertain
state of affairs.
As soon as he was graduated from
Oxford, Sir Arthur joined the staff
of the London Times, and after a brief
apprenticeship in branch offices he
was accepted as a member of the edi-
torial staff in London. He was only
twenty-seven when he was appointed
Chief Correspondent for the Times in
the United States. This position he
retained until 1920, except for a year
of service with the British War Mis-
sion in Washington in 1917. In recog-
nition of his work here he was created
a Knight of the Order of the British
Empire, while on his return to Lon-
don he was made head of the News
Department and Press Officer in the
British Foreign Office.
Since then he has been a delegate
to nearly all the Naval and Disarma-
ment Conferences sponsored by vari-
ous countries, as well as a constant
attendant at the meetings of the
League of Nations. His views of Eng-
land's relations with other countries
were expressed in the book he pub-
lished in 1928, Aspects of British For-
eign Policy. The future relations of
these countries he has now predicted
in a book published only a few weeks
ago and entitled What Next in Eu-
rope? In the review in the New York
Herald-Tribune of Sunday, February
16, the book was described as" "sane
but unpretentious."
Goodhart, March 9.�An explana-
tion of metaphor and a refutation of
the mistaken beliefs concerning it
were the subject of Mr. Richards'
fifth lecture in the Flexner series.
The seeds of such mistaken beliefs,
he said, were sown by no less a man
than Aristotle, who, in discussing the
skillful use of language, once wrote
that "the greatest thing by f&j was
to gain control of a metaphor," but
that only a genius could do this, only
a man who had an eye for resem-
blances. Latent in these statements
are erroneous assumptions which from
Aristotle until the present generation
have been accepted and enlarged up-
on while the true use and meaning of
a metaphor has been ignored.
First of the false assumptions so
generated is the idea that some men
have an eye for resemblances and that
some have not. The second is the in-
ference that the control of a meta-
phor, unlike other intellectual arts,
cannot be taught to the unfortunate
individuals who are born without it.
Thirdly, there is the opinion that
metaphor is a special use of speech,
a mere embellishment adding grace
to the main body, but not vital to it.
On these three unjustifiable presup-
positions, the study of rhetoric has
been based for ages, although a mani-
fest contradiction to such a theory
has existed in the fact that historians
of language have proved the deriva-
tion of the meaning in large numbers
of words from nothing but metaphori-
cal usage. Observing this phenome-
non, Bentham conceived the idea that
"mind and all its doings are fictions,"
while Coleridge and F. H. Bradley
went still farther and stated that "all
objects of contemplation are fictions."
Shelley had the same intuition of the
truth when he wrote, "Language is
vitally metaphorical," but neither he
nor any of these men ever put their
insight to the proof or enlarged it
into a doctrine of language. That
must be done now.
If the real function of metaphor is
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Dr.   Fenwick   Instructor
At Vassar Model League
(Especially contributed by Virginia
Sale, '36.)
The Tenth Assembly of the Model
League of Nations last week came to
some stimulating conclusions as the
result of spirited discussions in which,
for the most part, the positions of the
countries were intelligently main-
tained. Dr. Fenwick delivered an
opening address which pointed out
that the difficulties of international co-
operation are not insuperable, since
many of the same objections were of-
fered to the Constitution of the United
States as are today made to the
League.
In the First Plenary Session of the
Assembly the nations stated their pre-
liminary stands and pointed to the
differences which had to be overcome
in the committee meetings which fol-
lowed.
The First Committee, on Technical
Assistance to Backward Nations,
brought in an admirable report ad-
vocating the extension and codifica-
tion of the existing agencies of the
League which provide such assistance.
Provisions for costs of such assistance
and for the independence of countries
accepting it were made. Investiga-
tions made by League agencies were
not to be considered invasions of
sovereignty, and no assistance was to
be given in the name of any particular
state, so as to prevent the exploitation
or conquest of nations in need of aid.
The committee concluded its report
with a comprehensive plan for the
codification and standardization of
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