College News, 1935-10-09, Vol. 22, No. 01

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The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 1
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935
Copyright   BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE    NEWS,    1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Far Points Attract
Student Wanderers
Western America, Rural England
Are Favorite Rendezvous
For Motorists
SEVERAL STUDY GERMAN
The scattering of college students
to the far corners of the nation ahd
of the World and the annual gather-
ing of them, complete with new ex-
perience*, into the campus fold is one
of the most fascinating aspects of life
these autumn days. The stay-at-
homes listen hungrily to others and
plan trips of their own, the returned
travelers discourse learnedly and
lohgingly of the amazing things they
have seen and done in Paris, Buda-
pest, Heidelburg or Santa Fe. "What
did you do this summer?" is a fasci-
nating game for all.
The broad highways of western
America and the narrow lanes of Eng-
land shared honors as the most fa-
vored resorts of travelers. Certainly
from the reports brought home no one
could accuse the Bryn Mawr girl of
hurriedly skimming over the High
Spots.
Traffic on Route 30 must have been
at a standstill while Sally Park, Mar-
garet Halstead, and Eleanor Fabyan
made their breath-taking dash from
New York to Denver, Colorado, in ten
days. The cause of this new long-
time motor record seems to be the
fascination which every State fair,
village museum, and auto camp ex-
erted on the motorists. They later
pushed on bravely to Santa Fe, where
they found the Fiesta "horribly
crowded but great fun." Agnes Al-
linson also saw America first from
an automobile, but took the return
trip from sunny California by boat
through the Canal. Irene Ferrer and
Beirne Jones preferred train rides to
. their western sightseeing. Beirne was
so enthralled with the Colorado Rock-
ies that she motored there for many
weeks, while Irene made the return
trip from Banff and California via
the Panama Canal. Gertrude Right-
er reversed and extended this order,
going through the Panama and on
to Honolulu, where she swam and
played on the most perfect of beaches
for two months.
Many took their summers seriously,
or at least intended to do so when they
left for vacation. But impressions
which they have carried home from
Germany and New Mexico are lures
Continued  on  Page  Two
Self-Government Dance    '
Mixes Advice With Frolic
The Self-Government Reception for
the freshmen on Saturday evening
was a great success, from Dean Man-
ning's suggestion that she and Miss
Park should replace their speeches by
a tap dance or a duet to the unrivaled
grace of the winners- m the Dance
Competition, the Misses Tobin and
Pierce. The freshmen and their Stu-
dent Advisers were regaled by Miss
Park's account of her well-filled day
in which a Finnish luncheon and a
liqueur known as an "Arctic Bram-
ble" played ah important part. Both
Miss Park and Mrs. Manning, in more
serious vein, urged the freshmen to
begin at once to take advantage of
the opportunities offered by Bryn
Mawr, either indirectly through the
marvels of Philadelphia or directly
by contact with other students and
with the faculty. It is advisable to
avoid if possible the shyness which
often results in an upsidedown kind
of snobbishness and the tendency to
limit one's circle of friendships to
those contemporaries who seem to
have the same type of interests. The
exchange of ideas with those who may
be of tflrite a different background or
generation is invariably valuable to
both sides.
After the speeches the orchestra
proved to be in its usual stimulating
form and several Paul Joneses suc-
ceeded in mixing the company up most
effectively. The guests departed most
reroetarrtly after having passed a very
enjoyable evening.
Sophomores Miss Song
As Fire Burns In Rain
The fire hazard on the lower
hockey field Parade night, Tuesday,
October 1, was practically eliminated
by a steady rain that started about a
half-hour before the time-honored cele-
bration  was  to  begin.    The  juniors
rushed about trying to cancel the ar-
p
rartgements   with   the    Bryn    Mawr
Band, but were uhabie to intercept
them before they arrived on campus.
The-'sophomores gathered at the site
of the constructed, but unignited,
pyre, and waited for twenty minutes.
They never discovered the cause of
the delay of the arrival of the fresh-
men, who had assembled by Pembroke
Arch almost an hour before. The as-
sistance of a man was required to
light the great bonfire, but it blazed
up despite the heavy downpour. The
sophomores formed a ring around it
and soon were assailed from above-
by burning brands, as well as by
streams of water.
Members of the class of nineteen
thirty-eight had heard vague rumors
about the proposed tune of the Parade
Song of the freshmen. Some people
who lived in Rockefeller, had heard
echoes of Cheek to Cheek emanating
from the freshmen bedrooms. A
parody was written to that tune which
was appropriate also to the weather:
"You're in College�you're in College,
And  the  sophomores  have  got  your
song insane,
And  we're sorry that  you've caused
yourself the pain,
Of  coming out  here  singing  in  the
rain."
Unfortunately the freshmen came
over the hill to the tune of "The Old
Grey Mare" and broke into song
(having already broken into the inner
circle beyond the sophomores), to the
tune of "Show Me the Way to Go
Home," of which the words follow:
"We've worked our way through school
And now we're in Bryn Mawr.
We*U_jiever be a sophomore's tool,
'Cause sophs go just so far.
"Wherever you may sleuth*
'Neath bed or telephone booth,
In all our rooms
No Sherlock Holmes
Will ever discover the truth."
A long snake dance covering the
area of the whole field took place
next, and was participated in with
great abandon by all four classes.
After a suitable interval everyone ad-
journed to Pembroke Arch, the fresh-
men vowing to detect the Parade song
of the class of nineteen-forty.
The new seniors took the steps of
Pembroke West for the first time and
called for Parade Night, class songs,
and finally put an end to the sodden
party with the singing of "Thou Gra-
cious Inspiration."
Miss Thomas Thanks Students
The following letter was received
by the President of the Undergradu-
ate Association in answer to the tele-
gram of congratulation which Was
sent to President-Emeritus Thomas
on the morning of the first day of the
fifty-first academic year:
Oct. 3, 1935.
The  President of the  Undergraduate
Association of Bryn Mawr College
Dear Miss Fabyan,
Please express to the Undergradu-
ate Association at its next meeting my
sincere thanks for its message of ap-
preciation and good wishes. One of
the things I have missed most since
retiring from the presidency of the
College is losing touch with youth.
The undergraduates were my exceed-
ing great reward.
With best wishes for a very success-
ful college year.
Yours very sincere!. P
M. CA1WT THOMAS.
College Calendar
Friday, October 11: Five Col-
lege Conference in the Deanery.
Saturday, October 12: French
Oral, Taylor Hall, at 9.00 A. M.
Saturday, October 12: Var-
sity Hockey vs. West Jersey at
10.30 A. M.
Sunday, October 13: Chapel
* Service with Dr. John W. Suter
at 7.30 P. M.
Monday, October 14: Second
Team Hockey vs. Country Club
2nd at 4 P. M.
Faculty Flock South,
West During Summer
Students   Shown   Advancement
of Modern Russia/Finland
by Dr. Miller
EDITING ABSORBS MANY
"There was a great westward
urge"�thus did Mrs. Nahm explain
the fact that many of the Bryn Mawr
faculty members were to be found in
southwestern America during the sum-
mer. Equal to the number of those
succumbing to the lure of American
mountains and deserts, was the group
of faculty members who spent the
summer abroad, either on short vaca-
tion trips, or on final tours of Europe
after a winter passed abroad on leave
of absence. One member of the col-
lege became so enarrtored of Switzer-
land that he refused to return to the
United States�Styx, to our intense
regret, will no longer be with us.
Mrs. Manning was in New Mexico
for six weeks, where she saw many
Bryn Mawr professors and alumnae.
Dr. and Mrs. Dryden set up house-
keeping in their trailer in her front
yard, and in Dr. Nahm's back yard.
Mr. Manning went to California by
way of the Panama Canal, joining
Mrs. Manning in San Francisco,
whither she had gone by train�"by
the quickest route." Mr. and Mrs.
Manning motored through California,
and recall as the outstanding point
of that trip, the crossing of the Im-
perial Valley of California. Miss
Lehr and Miss Brady were also in
New Mexico. Dr. and Mrs. Nahm
spent the summer with Dr. Nahm's
family and toured about to "sec all
the sights."
Dr. Mtiller visited the Rocky Moun-
tain National Park, Boulder Dam, and
Honolulu; he saw the Grand Canyon,
enjoyed Arizona and New Mexico,
and examined the cliff-dwellings. He
went through Santa F6 and Kansas
City, where there is a new museum,
before returning to Bryn Mawr
through the southern states, of which
Georgia and Carolina were included
in his itinerary.
Dr. de Laguna was in Bryn Mawr
until August, working on an article,
Knowing and Being, which is to be
published in the I'hilonophical Review.
In August, Dr. de Laguna went out
to Wyoming to join her son, who is
doing geology work for his disserta-
tion at Harvard. With her son and
his wife, a Bryn Mawr graduate of
the class of '32, Dr. de Laguna went
on camping trips and "helped geolo-
gize."
Continued on Page Three
Haverford Freshmen Mob College
On Friday night any one who
chanced to be journeying to the vil-
lage after supper encountered a large
swarm of Haverford College fresh-
men having a cheer practice and some
sort of mass mobilization outside Rock-
erfeller Hall. The only flaw in the
proceedings was that they were giv-
ing Bryn Mawr cheers and forming
large circles around such unfortunate
females as they chanced to encounter.
When the tumult and the shouting
died we learned that they were visit-
ing us as part of disciplinary meas-
ures imposed by upperclassmen. We
are sure it Was all in the spirit of
good, clean fun, but during the mo-
ments when we were being more or
less swept off our feet we had occa-
sion to wonder who was being discip-
lined, the Rhfi..#s or the Bryn Mawr
girls.
Changes In Courses,
Hours Are Announced
Goodhart, October 3.�The compar-
atively few changes in courses were
announced in Chapel by Mrs. Manning
and the college was reminded oi bock
of the new elective courses described
last spring. Mrs. Manning also ex-
plained the college rules for written
Work, and''Said that the college hopes
to get paid work for some students
from the Federal Youth Administra-
tion.
Dr. Bernheimer*s course in German
Art will meet on Tuesday and Thurs-
day at two, and will be an elec-
tive, not an advanced, course. The
elective course in Greek Literature
will meet on Monday and Thursday
at three. Miss Roller's new writing
course, open particularly to Sopho-
mores, will be similar to Miss Meigs'
Kxperimehtal Writing course. No
special style will be cultivated, and
the course will be called Experimental
Writing, Division Two. It will meet
on Thursday afternoons at two. The
Music Department is offering three
courses in the theory of music: Ele-
mentary Harmony, meeting Tuesday
and Friday at eleven; Elementary
Counterpoint, meeting Monday and
Thursday at two; and Advanced Har-
mony, meeting on Friday at ten and
occasionally on Thursday at three.
Dr. Veltmann's course in the Philos-
ophy of Nature is an elective open
only to students who have had some
philosophy and science. It will meet
on Tuesday and Friday at twelve. In
the regular philosophy classes the
conference hours are being planned so
as not to conflict with other classes,
since the conferences should be attend-
ed by all students.
The college rules on written work
are usually explained by the wardens
toyihe Freshmen, but there are spe-
cial difficulties which must be clearly
understood. The fact that college
work is different from school work
often causes misunderstanding, as
does the fact that students who miss
lectures often copy, quite legitimately,
the notes of another. College work,
however, consists mainly in "digest-
ing" the words of another, or putting
their thoughts into one's own words,
and this must be an individual proc-
ess. One's own understanding of
hooks and one's own observations in
the science labojmtories arc neces-
sary, though on<Ps own ideas are not
essential. The process of reducing
books to a simpler form is the Opposite
of the procedure in a Ph. D. thesis,
in which one must quote accurately.
Whether the task be one of digesting,
Continued on  Pa^e  Three
Alumnae Aid  Chapel  Committee
On Sunday evening, October G, the
Rev. John W. Suter, Jr., held the first
of four services which he will give
this month at College. His coming
has been made possible by the gen-
erosity and interest of several people,
many of whom are alumnae. The
chapel committee wishes to express its
gratitude by announcing to the under-
graduates the list of names of those
who have contributed: Mrs. J. Wiley
Brown, Miss Adelaide Case, Mrs.
Herbert S. Darlington, Miss Katherinc
Lord, Mrs. Frank W. Moore, Mrs.
Henry Hill Pierce, Miss Isabelle Pet-
ers, Miss Adelaide Simpson, Mrs. F.
Louis Slade, Miss Florence Wade and
Mrs. George Woodward.
These people have made their gifts
in the belief that it will bring to the
College excellent speakers who will
stimulate interest on campus and gain
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Thinkers Must Act
To Save Democracy
World Must Take Middle Path
Between Rash Extremists,
Says   Miss   Park
DRIVE   FUND   INCREASES
Goodhart, October 1.�The fifty-
first year of Bryn Mawr College be-
gan today with a warning and a chal-
lenge. President Park in her chapel
address called the ordinary year at
Bryn Mawr "satisfactory rather than
eventful; as historical material, hard
on the historian." But, she specified,
this year of 1936-1936 is to be no
ordinary one.
Although our corr .i or the world
may be tranquil, the rest of it is in
an increasing turmoil. Consequently
our future when we leave this tran-
quility becomes increasingly doubtful,
for "that future, both near and dis-
tant, depends on political and eco-
nomic events whose nature and out-
come no one sees to the end." While
we are still beyond "the violence, the
panic, or the suffering, which makes
normal thinking impossible," we must
surely clear our thoughts on the prob-
lems ahead of us and determine on a
sane course of conduct and action.
America is, however, not accustomed
to such thinking and acting; we as a
nation have not liked the discipline of
cooperative thinking, with its argu-
ment and discussion; and what think-
ing we have done, we have failed to
connect with personal action. There-
fore we now lack any sure technique
with which to meet even the simplest
of the complex problems facing us.
There are two easy philosophies
which even the untrained can  follow
if they will------either conservatism or
radicalism. One clings completely to
the past; the other breaks with it
completely, yet the methods and cmo-
tionalization of both are similar, and
in history, one has almost always
given birth^to the other. Many think-
ing people, however, have hoped that
civilization could advance on a motjp
reasonable middle line, but these sane
observers have often stopped with
hoping, where extremists of both sides
have taken aggressive action.
Most of us  belong to this  middle
party, and it is imperative for us to
realize that our day is over unless we
apply our theories to actual practice,'
Continued  on   rage  Five
Senior Students Favor
Junior Year In France
The practice of allowing certain
French majors to take their Junior
Year in France is a well-established
one and is worthy of. some notice.
Last year two girls from Bryn Mawr
joined the Delaware Group, made up
of some thirty-five juniors from many
colleges all over the country. These
two, Alethea Avery and Helen Kel-
logg, have returned with a boundless
enthusiasm for their junior year and
some interesting comments on it as
well.
The Group spent September and
November in Tours, working atvthe
Institut de Touraine. They were di-
vided at first into two groups de-
pending on their college standing.
The groupe supirieure were allowed
to attend more advanced courses; but
for both groups the groundwork at
Tours inWnt a, review oi grammar
with some composition. The work at
the Sorbonne in Paris, which they be-
gan in November, was more advanced,
particularly for the groupe supirieure,
who were admitted to the Cours de
Faculte as opposed to the Cours de
Civilisation, which is for foreigners
only and therefore presupposes a
much less comprehensive knowledge
of French. Besides the formal courses
the Delaware Group provides private
instruction to supplement the courses.
The work done by the members of the
Group is only a part of this activity.
The Group provides tickets for the-
atres, concerts and exhibitions and
gives its members an opportunity to
learn beforehand about what they are
going te�-se*.
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