College News, 1935-02-20, Vol. 21, No. 13

              The College News
VOL. XXI, No. 13
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1935
Copyright   BRYN  MAWR
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PRICE 10 CENTS
Pro Ar(� Renders
'   Excellent Concerts
Mr. Alwyne In Franck Quintet
Assists With Splendid Quality,
Ensemble Work
INTERPRETATION SUPERB
Goodhart Hall, Feb. 13.�The dis-
tinguished Pro Arte Quartet of Brus-
sels gave a superb performance of the
famous Schubert Quartet in D Minor
("The Death and the Maiden") as the
opening number on the program. This
quartet, regarded as the composer's
finest in this form, received an exqui-
site and beautifully interpreted rendi-
tion by the artists, who have been
drawing increasing audiences as the
scries has progressed.                   �  �
In their performance of this piece,
the quartet again revealed chose quali-
ties which have made them justly
world-famous among chamber music
groups for their perfection of ensem-
ble playing and the finish of their
technique. Their interpretation of
the Schubert piece brought out all
the emotional as well as the exquisite,
musical contents of the composition.
The work is great not only for its
beautiful melodic material and techni-
cal treatment but also for the excel-
lent balance among the four move-
ments and among the four instru-
ments. The particularly fine rendi-
tion of the variations of the "Death
and the Maiden" movement, the spirit
of the Scherzo, and the glorious Finale
caused the audience to recall the quar-
tet many times at the conclusion of
the piece.
The second number was a modern
work, the Quartet in F Major, of Vit-
torio Rieti, the contemporary Italian.
This piece is dedicated to the Pro
Arte Quartet, which is renowned for
its championing of the cause of the
moderns and the ultramoderns. The
Pro Arte revealed once again their
great ability to render the moderns at
their best in this quartet in the dia-
tonic scale. The second movement, a
finely written Nocturne for the muted
strings, was particularly outstanding
both from the side o�_musical content
and superb performance.
For the last number the Brahms
quartet in C Minor, op. 51, No. 1, was
substituted for the Stravinsky pieces
Continued  on  Page  Four
Literary Digest Poll
Gives College Opinion
The semi-final returns of the Col-
lege Peace Poll conducted by The
Literary Digest contain answers by
more than 90,000 students from�115
American colleges and universities.
On the question of entrance into the
League of Nations,�an issue which
has received more attention since
the Senate's vote against entry into
the World Court, the vote was about
evenly split! 57 colleges voted for
entry, 57 against it, while the vote
in one was tied. 50.17 per cent of
the total vote was cast in favor of
United States entrance, while 49.83
per cent was against it. In most of
the individual colleges the vote was
also fairly evenly divided, but Bryn
. Mawr recorded 114 votes for en-
trance and 52 against it. A similar
poll is being conducted in Great Bri-
tain, and 97 per cent of the votes
already cast advocate the League.
The colleges decided by a vote of
2 to 1 that the United States could
stay out of another war. Bryn
Mawr was less unanimous in its
opinion, since its vote went 84 that
war could be avoided and 83 that
it could  not.
By far the majority, 83.60 per
cent, voted for fighting if the United
States were invaded. Since, how-
ever, the votes were negative by the
same per cent on the question of
bearing arms if the United States
were the invader, we may conclude
that the colleges as a whole are
pacifistically inclined. Bryn Mawr
voted 104 to 55 to bear arms in de-
fense of the United States, while 140
out of 160 votes negatived the policy
Continued on Page Three
A. E. Newton Will Speak on Novels
Mr. A. Edward Newton is'coming
to the Deafiery on Thursday evening.
February 28, to lecture on The Deal
opment of the English Novel. Mr.
Newton, famous as a raconteur, is
well qualified to speak on the English
novel from the knowledge he has
gained in writing and collecting books.
Hi! owns a library of about 10,000
books, many of which are first editions
of important English works. He is
also known as a frequent contributor
to the Atlantic Monthly and other
current magazines, and as the author
of the very humorous A Tourist in
Spite of Himself, the play, Doctor
Johnson, and The Greatest Book in
the World and Other Papers, This
Book Collecting Game, and End
Papers.
Difficulty, of Giving
Bi'g May Day Shown
Mrs.   Manning   Explains   Need
of Making Full Preliminary
Arrangements       *
INFIRMARY   FEE    RAISED
Goodhart, Feb. 14�Dean Manning
announced in Chapel that the new
plan for the Infirmary, which was out-
lined in last week's News, is to be put
into operation. This plan provides for
an increase in the Infirmary fee and
a consequent increase in the privileges
of sick students. Mrs. Manning also
announced that we will definitely not
be able to give Big May Day this
year for the benefit of the Million
Dollar Drive, as has been discussed,
because we lack a competent director
to organize it.                  .
By the new Infirmary plan, students
will pay a five-dollar increase in the
fee; for this, they will be able to
spend a week in the Infirmary free of
charge, instead of the four days un-
der the old system, and the charges
after that will "be three dollars a day.
Other charges will be cut down. This
may be considered a sort of health in-
surance. In the fust diagnosis, Dr.
Sharpless, as experienced and well-
known a physician as any in the neigh-
borhood, consults with Dr. Leary. Af-
ter that, a specialist is called in on
the case, and his charges, of course,
are paid by the student^ The Infirm-
ary fee for this year has been in-
creased by four dollars. The non-resi-
dent students are to pay five dollars
for medical care in the dispensary.
They may also stay in the Infirmary
for a day or a night, if it happens to
be convenient for them.
Often alumnae and students have
resented the Infirmary fee. We must
regard it, first, as health insurance,
providing us with physicians and
nurses, and second, as the fee of a
Continued on Page Three
Bryn Mawr Dig Given
Sites   for   Excavation
Traces of Early Cilician Culture
Found in Mounds at Tarsus
and Kar/iduvar
EARLY   PERIOD   STUDIED
College Calendar
Wednesday, February 20. Pro
Arte Quartet Concert. Ameri-
can program. 8.30 P. M. Good-
hart.
Thursday, " February 21.
Sheila Kaye-Smith on Pioneer
Women Novelists. 8.20 P. M.
Goodhart.
Friday, February 22. Profes-
sor Alfred C. Lane on The Age
of the Earth. Illustrated by
lantern slides. 8.20 P. M. Music
Room.
Saturday, February 23. Var-
sity Basketball Game vs. Phila-
delphia Cricket Club. 10.00
A.  M.
Freshman Show, National
Recovery Act. 8.20 P. M. Good-
hart.
Sunday, February 24. Sun-
day Evening Services conduct-
ed by Canon Eirp. 7.15 P.*M.
Music Room.
Monday, February 25. Mr.
and Mrs. Jean Piccard on Ex-
periences on a Stratosphere
Flight.   8.30 P. M.    Goodhart.
Thursday, February 28.' A.
Edward Newton on The Devel-
opment of the English Novel.
8.30 P. M.    Deanery.
The expedition to Cilicia in Asia
Minor which is being made by Bryn
Mawr. College, the Archaeoloe;ical In-
stitute of America, and Harvard Uni-
versity, has just been granted two
very important sites through the
courtesy of the Turkish Government
and of Dr. Hamit Subeyr Bey, Di-
rector General of Antiquities for the
whole of Turkey. The sites are Tarsus
and Karaduvar. Tarsus was the larg
�st town in Cilicia in the third and
iecond century B. C, and was als<
famous at the time of St. Paul in the
first century A. D.; Karaduvar is sup-
posedly the site of ancient Anchialc,
and lies near the sea, not far from
the harbor of Mersina. The Assyrian
King Sennacherib is said to have gel
up in ancient Anchiale a stele com-
memorating his conquest of Cilicia.
It is the hope and intention of the
expedition to carry on work in Cilicia
for some time to come and to make
a thorough study, on the basis of arch-
aeological material, of its culture and
history, with especial emphasis on the
early periods. The early periods are
at present practically unknown, as up
to now no archaeological field work
has been carried on in this region. In
all, observations have been made and
pottery collected on forty-two Cilician
mounds by the expedition.
The mound of Karaduvar lies near
the coast between Tarsus and Mer-
sina. It is about half the length of
the Tarsus mound, but of almost equal
height, and is undoubtedly of grcal
importance. It is undisturbed, and
pottery of Mycenean type, both im-
ported and of local manufacture, has
been found in it.
Soundings were started on the
mound of Dua Tepe, which is at the
southwest corner of the city of Tar-
sus. Dua Tepe is twice as big as any
other mound in the Cilician plain, and
the greater number of the Cilician
mounds are less than one-third its
size. The western end of Dua Tepe
has been cut down to provide a level
space for a modern school building,
and in the cutting it is possible to sec-
strata which date from Roman to
early prehistoric times. Tarsus, ac-
cording to ancient records, was the
capital of Cilicia in the second cen-
tury and possibly earlier. To exca-
vate it thoroughly would be an ex-
pensive and prolonged undertaking,
but undoubtedly if there were writ-
ten records and government archives,
they would have been located in
Tarsus.
In taking the soundings at T;n
sus, the trench on the summit was
sunk in a disturbed area, but the gen-
eral succession of ceramic stules could
nevertheless be determined. For the
first time Arabic material was found.
Part of a villa was uncovered. The
pottery consisted of thin-walled clay
vessels with impressed designs and
lead-glazed wares. A second trench
was dug at the steepest point on the
side of the hill, and here in a small
but completely undisturbed area a
depth of some 14 meters was reached.
The town of the Greek period found
in this trench produced pottery of the
Cypriote Iron Age, and at the lowest
level red polished ware with white-
filled incision and black slipped ware,
both strongly reminiscent of the early
and middle Bronze Age of Cyprus,
were discovered. The Mycenean per-
iod was again represented by a single
vase and a fragment of another, this
Continued on  Page Three
Freshman Show Committee
This year's Freshman Show is to
be a musical comedy, National Recov-
ery Act. Its plot sounds most in-
triguing: the Old Ladies' Home kid-
nap a young Junior League member
;uid force her to procure for the n th
noney for a trip to Florida. They
plan to find the elixir of you'h, and
eventually do so, with very amusing
results.
The author and director is Huldah
Cheek. The assistant director is Mary
Whalen. The heads of the various
committees are:
Properties:    Whalen and Walker.
Lights:    Webster.
Costumes:    Bryan.
Dancing:    Mann.
Song:    Shepard.
Construction:    Shurcliff.
Publicity:    Fales and Bingham.
Posters:    Chase.
Madame Sikilianos
Tells Plans for Play
Her Presentation of Bacchai of
Euripides Is Differentiated
by Stressing Chorus
MUSIC WOULD BE MODAL
New Literary Trends
Stress   Subjectivity
Older Authors Follow Tradition,
While Modern School Drifts
Away   From   Realism
WORK    LACKS   MEANING
Deanery, Feb. 14. � Madame Sikil;
atlOS (Bryn Mawr, 1900)  spoke to thi-
st udents interested in the possibilities
of   a   college   presentation   of    Tin
Bacchai of Euripides, which is being |
considered in connection with the Mil-
lion Dollar Drive.   Madame Sikilianos j
is  one  of  the  authorities  on   Greek,
tragedies and has been reviving their
presentation   in   Greece     for     many |
years.     Her  special  interest   lies   in
the   chorus,   which   she   wants   to  de-
velop as a protagonist in the drama
In Greek plays, particularly in their
choruses, she feels that the  Platonir
unity of poetry, music, and gymnas
tics finds expression.
Beginning  with   a   brief  summan
of  the traditional  presentation  of a
Greek play, Madame Sikilianos point
cd out that it is the actors who are
usually emphasized.    The chorus has ;
been a rather mechanical affair, 12 to j
15 people divided into two groups, and
has done no acting.    The  music,   if
there has been any, was not connected
either with the thought of the play or
with  Greek  musical theory.    In   her
work at Delphi, where she now lives.
Madame Sikilianos has tried to make
the  chorus  the   "exciting  center"  <>'
the play.    The traditional conception |
of a chorus of 12 to 15 people has only i
one   source,   apparently,�the    12   old |
men who speak in the Agamemnon <>(
Aeschylus, whereas-a large chorus of
Continued  on  Page  Four
Deanery, Feb. 18 � Mr. Desmond
MacCarthy, prominent English writ-
er and critic, described the Litvrnrii
Climate in England at the present
Moment as "rather foggy," like her
weather. He pointed out that in giv-
ing the "psychological map" of creat-
ive literature for the past 10 or 15
years it is most important to consider
the enormous effects of the war. All
changes in art are caused by changes
in beliefs and morals, and the disil-
lusionment of young England after"
the peace treaty destroyed their re-
spect for authority in all fields, in-
cluding that of literature. In both
prose and poetry this has resulted in
a drift away from realism to extreme
subjectivity and efforts to "put moods
under the microscope." The writers
of England in the past decade or so
fall into two groups; older men who
had reached their stride before the
war and so are out of touch with the
post-war generation, and the younger
group of authors and poets, repre-
sented by Huxley, Woolf, Eliot, and
Joyce.
Mr. MacCarthy began with a brief
discussion of the older literary men,
Galsworthy, Bennett, Shaw, and
Wells, who have continued since the
war along their old lines. It is not
the methods but the relevance of their
criticism which has changed. Gals-
worthy still presides "like a kindly
magistrate" over the social scene, but
he is less at home than formerly. IBs
calm verdicts on the young are beside
the point, while his irony about the
older generation seems obvious and in-
adequate. His theme,�the philistine,
middle-^class backbone of England�is
no longer apropos, since this class has
lost its self-confidence.
Probably Arnold Bennett's pre-war
novels, Clayhanger. and Old Wives'
Talet are his best works, but his post-
war stories, Riceyman Steps, Pretty
Lady, and others, also show his excel-
lent literary characteristics. These
books are still as honest and full of
minute details as before, but he illus-
trates postrWar emancipation by dis-
cussing sex relations with greater
freedom.                                                    ,�
H. G. Wells remained unchanged
by the war. He was a "thermometer
under the public tongue" because of
his intense emotional receptivity. It
is this characteristic which has en-
Continued  on  Page  Flv�
Hygiene Examination Reveals Air Explodes
in Lungs, Cow Is Given Against Small Pox
Garden Party Decision
The class of 1935 has voted
not to give Garden Party this
1 year. Instead, a tea will be giv-
en in the Deanery, to which the
faculty, parents and friends will
be invited.
The hygiene examination this year
produced a great amount of charming-
ly expressed misinformation. Many
things are made clear to us, such as
why old w;pmen dye their hair and
wear absurd clothes, how best use may
be made of a cow, and what happens
to oxygen in the body. These arc
things we have always wanted to
know, and to have them expressed so
lucidly and attractively pleases us
immensely. For the benefit of all hy-
giene students, past, present and fu-
ture, we publish below a list of defini-
tions and explanations which enable
one to pass the course.
The lungs provide a place for the
gases to operate. The oxygen we
breathe passes through the veins, a
complicated network, and eventually
explodes, becoming carbon dioxide.
The lungs are two bags connected
wilh the body by tubes, the trachea
and the brachea. A relatively simple
organ.                                                 *
The lungs are bag-like structures
within our diaphragms.
Projection is a mental mechanism
devised to avoid something you don't
like. It is most easily seen in babies
when they push away something they
don't like.
Projection is when the eggs from
the female ovary are thrown into the
abdominal cavity, from there passed
on to the fallopian tube, and, if fer-
tilized, imbedded at last in the lutein
walls of the uterus.
Regression is deliberately forgcttiriK
things that happened long ago, and
the result is strange phobias.
In adult infantilism the individual
has either grown physically and not
mentally, or when grown up likes to
affect youth,�the kind of thing that
makes old women dye their hair, wear
absurd clothes, etc.
The defense reactions of the body
against injury are:
(a)     inflammation
(b)     fever
(c)     increased production of whiter
blood cells
(d)     bacteria
One is vaccinated against smallpox
by giving one cow.
Menstruation occurs to permit fe-
male ovas to be fertilized by the male
sperm.
The insulin gland which is in the ab-
domen produces insulin.
The pancreatic gland produces in-
sulin. This is roughage. It goes down
through the intestinal track.
The pineal gland produces insulin
which enables men and women to bear
children.