College News, 1936-03-25, Vol. 22, No. 18

              The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 18
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1936
CopyrlRht  BRYN  MAWR
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Archaic Ivory Trade
Is Traced by Wace
Prehistoric   and   Historic   Eras
In Hellenic Art Connected
By Commerce
SYRIA    BASE    OF    TRADE
Bryn Mawr Faculty Men
Rout   Haver ford   Profs
Gymnasium, March 20.�In a wild
and exciting basketball fray the Bryn
Mawr faculty overcame a lead held
by the Haverford faculty for three-
quarters of the game to down them
to tfie merry tune of 22-16. The
game started at a very moderate speed
and was characterized throughout by
exceedingly odd passwork, especially
on the part of the Bryn Mawr fac-
ulty. Our professors, however, were
hitting a mighty pace by the time the
final whistle blew,�-leaving them well
on the long end of the score.
When the teams lined up (not very
promptly at the appointed hour) B*r.
Nahm drew out a large and eclipsing
pair of glasses guards with which he
covered up most of his face as well
as his glasses. The play at first was
rather slow and exceedingly messy.
Dr. Nahm's fair philosophy students
seemed to expect great things from
him and wild shouts echoed from the
rafters every time he nabbed the ball.
Nor did he disappoint his supporters,
with    accustomed    lightning-like
The Deanery, March 22.�"The
archaic ivory trade bridges the gulf
between prehistoric and historic
Greece and explains the Oriental in-
fluence in Greek art," said Dr. Alan
J. B. Wace, Fellow of Pembroke Col-
lege, Cambridge, Professor of Arch-
aeology at Cambridge and former
Director of the British School of
Archaeology at Athens, in his lecture
on The Ancient Ivory Trade. Ivory
plaques and statuettes bearing Ori-
ental influence have been found in the
Eastern Mediterranean dating from
1400 B. C. in the Cretan and Myce-
naean eras to 600 B. C. in historic
Greek times.
The ancient ivory trade was active
from before the fifteenth to the sev-
enth century B. C. Where the center for
of this trade was raises an important speed he snatched the ball, raced
question. The archaic world presum- i down the field and passed to Dr.
ably got its ivory from two sources,! Blanchard, who was ready and wait-
Africa and Asia, both habitats of the ing. In the wink of an eye Dr.
elephant. In Crete small ivory ob- Blanchard returned it to Dr. Nahm,
jects dating from the Bronze Age have who sank Bryn Mawr's first basket,
been found which bear Egyptian de-1 After this neat work on the part of
signs. These are declared by Sir the biology and philosophy depart-
Arthur Evans, who excavated the ments, the play resumed its wild char-
Palace of Cnossos in Crete, to be acter. The Bryn Mawr faculty de-
Egyptian ivories. Very little ivory veloped an odd habit of standing at
has been found in Cretan tombs until one end of the field and hurling the
before the second period of the Late ball with all their strength to the
Minoan age, about 1400 B. C, but after other end, where the poor forwards
this date the tombs are full of it. At j were seldom able to pick up the un-
Mycenae on the mainland of Greece controlled passes,
the same phenomenon occurs. There All during the first half the score
is a theory that Cretan and Myce- mounted slowly and fairly evenly, but
naean ivories came from Egypt, since always Haverford maintained her
there were fairly strong trade connec-! lead. Dr. Nahm raised another series
tions between Egypt, Crete ami Myce-1 of cheers by sinking a basket f roni
nae, during the reign of Akhenaten \ near the centre Of the floor, and then
in the first half of the fourteenth cen- the whistle for half-time blew, with
turn. This does not, however, account Bryn Mawr's score standing at 7 and
for the large amounts of ivory found Haverford's at 10.
in the tombs which date after the fall After a much-needed rest the teams
of Tell-el-Amarna, Akhenaten's capi-'sct to once more with renewed vigor,
tal.                                                           lit was Haverford this time who de-
The discovery at Mycenae, Cyprus,' veloped the odd tricks, for it seemed
Rhodes and Northern Syria of ivory  to be their idea to have four of the
continued on Paee Five             | team madly rushing around the floor
------------------------                   yelling   "Bill!"   while   Mr.   Cadbury
Bryn Mawr-Bound Oxen           I calmly held the ball and contemplated
c   a        rv        r*  \              'where he would  pass it.    It usually
5>ufter   Dire   Calamities ended up by going t0 none of them>
Continued on Page Five
The four white oxen that were orig-
inally coming to May Day have sev- ^^    Meeting    Urges
erally gone the way of all flesh.   Miss                                �          �
Kitselman went to Maryland to take.              All to Boost May Day
a picture and found that one of the                            ---------
prize pair had "perishing hip" and, Goodhart, March 25.�At a mass-
"perishing shoulder" (whatever that meeting of the Undergraduate Asso-
may be). The second pair dropped ciation, Eleanor Fabyan and Edith
out of the running when one of them, Rose exhorted the undergraduates not
engrossed in dragging a heavy log, to let their enthusiasm for May Day
slipped on the ice and hurt his leg.  lanquish.
A third pair, that was obtained (long Miss Fabyan, who called the meet-
distance) as alternates to the second ing to order, said that in the past two
yoke, proved to be marked with black. | or three weeks twenty or thirty loyal
And, since you cannot satisfactorily and conscientious people have been
separate a yoke, these calamities force spending twenty or thirty of their pre-
us to set out anew in our search.        cious   hours   in   constructing   paper
The quest for white oxen is there- flowers. If, on the other hand, four
fore turning into a serious survey hundred of us had merely given up
of the sources of white oxen in Ame^H*we-"tT*ttri-ee hours of our time, the
ica. Any statements we make aboutsJmw^mount of wojrfj would have been
white oxen are subject to correction, done with little or no inconvenience
but we understand that there is no to anyone concerned. It is purely
regular breed of white oxen in this selfish of us not to be ready to do a
part of the world, and that Maryland small share of the work that neces-
and Virginia white oxen such as have! sarily crops up in connection with
been obtained for May Day are albinos. May Day.
The search has, consequently, been ex- \ At present no promises can be made
tended as far south as Louisiana and; as to whether or not students can
as far north as Nova Scotia (with I take weekends after spring vacation,
well wishers advising us to go to Italy j It will depend entirely on whether
or Burma for the "real thing").        jor not the plays and dances are going
Mrs. Collins has received the help; well. In the last analysis the suc-
of the Pennsylvania State Agricul- j cess of May Day is of more importance
tural College and also time on the j than Princeton house parties!
National Farm and Home radio hour i Miss Rose, as president of Players'
(which you may have heard daily, ] Club, spoke next, telling us that
around noon) to reach far away oxen j numerous rehearsals have been
fanciers, and is advertising in all farm spoiled  by  people  who   cut  or  come
journals of the East.
If you know of any white oxen any-
where, if you have seen any white
oxen recently, or if you see any white
oxen during Spring Vacation, get in
touch with the May Day Director so
that she can arrange to get them here
for May Day.
late. If the people concerned would
only realize how much more important
is the success of May Day than are
the various functions for which they
may cut rehearsals, they would make
the necessary sacrifices to do their bit,
which is all-important for the success
of the whole.
College Calendar^
Wednesday, March 25.�Dr.
Wolfgang Kohler, of Swarth-
more College, will speak on New
Aspects of Memory. Music
Room, 8.15 p. m.
Friday, March 27.�Spring
Vacation begins, 12.45 p. m.
Monday, April 6.�Spring Va-
cation ends at 9 a. m.
Bryn Mawr Organizes
New Home Fire Post
Wives  of  Future   Soldiers   Join
Bonus Movement, Seek Free
Trips Abroad
SPONSOR CONGRESS BILL
A branch, chapter of the Home Fire
Division of the Veterans of Future
Wars, burlesque bonus and peace
movement recently originated at
Princeton, has been formed at Bryn
Mawr. In the first four hours of its
existence here Post Commander Eileen
Sigler, '37, was swamped with de-
mands for membership certificates and
buttons in the new organization,
which proposes a bonus of $1000 to be
paid now to every male citizen be-
tween the ages of 18 and 36, a trip
to Europe to view the future battle-
fields of their present and future chil-
dren for future mothers of future
war veterans, and for future wives a
pension of fifty dollars a month for
life. These proposals "are to be em-
bodied in a bill for Congress, which
Representative Maury Maverick of
Texas promised to sponsor.
The movement has grown so rapidly
that national offices had to be opened
in Princeton to take care of the thirty
existing posts and the hundreds of re-
quests for new posts which have come
from campuses all over the country.
The women's branch of the organiza-
tion was originally called the Future
Gold Star Mothers, but the real Gold
Star Mothers protested that this vio-
lated sacred feelings. The name of
the Women's Auxiliary was then
adopted
A recent editorial in the Herald-
Tribune supported the bonus and pen-
sion movement because "in the first
place it would put that much more
money into circulation, thus at least
doubling the stimulus to trade claimed
for the prepayment of the bonus to
World War veterans. Secondly, it
would educate our youth in the spend-
ing of money against the day when
as pensioners under the Townsend
Plan they must get rid of it on sched-
ule. Thirdly, it would permit them
the enjoyment of the Government's
cash while they are still young, be-
fore, for example, they were killed
in action or badly wounded, or, as in
the vast majority of cases, suffered
the tedium of a training camp."
Dr. Fenwick announced in his Cur-
rent Events talk that two weeks ago
in Washington the idea of a future
war widows' organization had oc-
curred to him, but that he felt that
in the interests of united and mass
action to force Congress to vote this
bonus for future veterans and pen-
sions for future war widows, any
group here should collaborate closely
with the national group. He pointed
out the'fallacy of giving bonuses to
the dead who can never spend them
and urged that the same agreement
be reached as the classification of fu-
ture wives, widows and mothers. Post
Commander Sigler announced that no
stipulation of a proposal or marriage
contract had yet been made for mem-
bership in the Home Fire Division.
Inquiries should be made to the Post
Commander in Rockefeller 52, where
applications should be filed, buttons
received and the salute learned. The
latter consists of right hand out-
stretched palm up and fingers pressed
together in the "Gimme" attitude.
Philosophers Discuss
Paper on Individual
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Common Room, March 19.�The
Philosophy Club held its second meet-
ing this afternoon for the purpose of
discussing Marjorie Goldwasser's pa-
per on "Individual and Internal Re-
lations."
In reading this paper, Miss Gold-
wasser proved that relations could not
be purely external, since whether real
or unreal, they would then involve the
problem of the middle man. If, on
the other hand, relations were consid-
ered as internal but unreal, then the
terms to be related would necessarily
be unreal. As the reality-of the terms
at least must be maintained, a fourth
possibility was suggested to the effect
that relations were both internal and
real. This theory bears investigation
better than the others, yet it, too,
falls down in the end. For this means
that if relations are changed, the in-
dividual is changed. The constancy
and unity of the individual, however,
is a vital belief not lightly to be swept
away. Consequently, the only solu-
tion for the dilemma is the theory that
relations are indeed real and likewise
both internal and external. They ex-
ist internally as traits of the constant
individual; they are seen externally
as they are brought into focus with
another individual. In their inner
aspect they cannot change; in their
outer aspect, the alteration that
obviously does occur is allowed, and
the dilemma disappears.
In spite of Miss Goldwasser's log-
ical demonstrations, her statements
were not accepted by the club without
question. Yet the arguments so in-
duced soon advanced to more general
problems, such as'what constitutes an
individual, when and how an individ-
ual can cease to exist or come to be,
and finally the eternal puzzle of the
immortality of the soul.       w
Miss.Buchanan Gains
European Fellowship
Sixteen Resident Appointments,
Undergraduate Cum Laude
List Announced
SENIORS' AVERAGE HIGH
Bryn Mawr Club Lowers
Price on New Bedroom
The New York Bryn Mawr Club
at the Park Lane, 299 Park avenue,
New York City, has converted the
club dressing room into a bedroom.
It may be rented, with bath, at $2.00
a night for one person and $3.00 for
two, with exclusive use of the room
from 8 p. m. to 10 a. m. and all day
on Sunday. Rental has been fixed at
a low rate because it is necescsary
to use the room as a club dressing
room during the day.
The Park Lane provides hotel rooms
and meals at regular prices. How-
ever, there is a list of tearooms in
the neighborhood where less expen-
sive meals may be procured posted on
the bulletin board. The Bryn Mawr
Club is on the approved list of hotels
at which undegraduates may stay un-
Contlnued on Page Two
Goodhart, March 20.�Dorothy Anne
Buchanan, A. B. Smith College 1930,
M. A. Bryn Mawr College 1931, was
announced by Miss Park in Chapel as
the holder for next year of the Mary
Elizabeth Garrett European Fellow-
ship. Although ordinarily the college
can award three schohirships for
study abroad at this time, the Fanny
Bullock Workman and the Ottendorfer
fellowships have to be suspended this
year for financial reasons. Other col-
leges and associations, however, have
been generous in their awards to Bryn
Mawr graduate students, and seven
of these awards were announced in
addition to a special scholarship of-
fered for study in Athens. Sixteen
resident fellowships have been award-
ed for next year. In closing Miss
Park read the list of those on the
undergraduate honor roll.
The announcement of the European
and Bryn Mawr resident fellows is
one of the great academic occasions
of the college year. The awards are a
recognition of ability, industry and
maturity. The whole college owes a
great debt to the graduate school; the
faculty, the Library and the methods
of working, have a certain fine color
because of it, a color recognized and
found satisfactory by most under-
1 graduates. The advanced under-
graduate students begin to look
through the keyhole at graduate work,
to see the pleasures of independence
and also the stiffer work, the fewer
holidays, the professional responsibili-
ties which the professional student
has.
This year we are particularly aware
of the place a woman can take in the
great field of scholarship. Although
perhaps it is unlikely that out of the
Bryn Mawr awards of any one year
another Emmy Noether will come,
yet the chances for such a student
grow as study among women becomes
more common. Lists of previous hold-
ers of Bryn Mawr graduate fellow-
ships show that they are a useful
group. There are fourteen members of
the Bryn Mawr faculty who were
earlier holders of Bryn Mawr gradu-
ate fellowships, eight on the Smith
faculty, seven at Mount Holyoke, six
at Vassar, three at Wellesley, two at
Barnard and one at Sweet Briar and
Connecticut.
The Mary Elizabeth Garrett Euro-
pean Fellowship, which must be
awarded to a present member of the
graduate school, is the oldest of the
Continued on Page Four
Vociferous Gallery Sees Haverford Win
By 30-22 Score Despite Women's Rules
"Stuff and Stamp"
All of the flowers have been
finished and almost all of the
streamers have been made. A
"stuffing and stamping" tea will
be held on Thursday, March 2$,
from 2 to 6 in the Common
Room.                                     ____
Gymnasium, March 23.�Haverford
College Varsity downed the Bryn
.Mawr team, 30-22, in an hilarious bas-
ketball game in which girls' rules
were more or less adhered to through-
out. The packed gallery of enthusi-
astic Haverford and Bryn Mawr root-
ers lent as much zest to the game as
did the players themselves.
May Day is so thoroughly instilled
in our minds nowadays that it can-
not even lie left out of a basketball
game. The Haverfordians appreciated
this fact and very thoughtfully catered
to our whims by appearing on the
basketball floor gracefully (?) attired
in Elizabethan costumes. Realizing,
however, the great ability of the op-
ponents against whom they were about
to be pitted, they were afraid to sub-
ject themselves to the disadvantages
of playing in such garb. Accordingly
they retired, only to return in a few
moments all dressed in the conven-
tional basketball costume with the ex-
ception of two brave (or cold-blooded)
fellows, whose manly legs were graced
by long woolen underdrawers.
With endless laughing and cheer-
ing and endless substituting and re-
substituting by Haverford, the merry
game progressed until at the end of
the half the score stood at 4-26 in
favor of the men. We felt that if
Marion Bridgman had possessed a pair
of those stilts that reside outside of
Mcrion, she would have been materi-
ally aided in the job of guarding
Sturgis Poorman, her long and lanky
opponent.
In the second half, however, Char-
lotte Peirce brought joy to the hearts
of the Bryn Mawrters by sinking bas-
ket after basket and rolling Varsity's
score up to 15, while in the meantime
only a single tally had been netted
for Haverford...,At this juncture the
men's team began to sit up and take
notice and a few shouts from the raft-
ers demanded boys' rules. Henceforth
the score mounted fairly evenly until
Bryn Mawr had amassed 22 points as
against Haverford's final count of 30.
Line-up:
Haverford    .              Bryn Mawr
Kane.......... r. f..........Peirce
Taylor.........If..........Wilder
Poorman.......j. c.........Jaekaon
Tiernan.......   s. c.......Jennings
Purvis......... r. g..........Haaae
Wengert   .....  1. g.....BridgmBn
Substitutions�Haverford, Duff for
Wengert; Bryn Mawr, M. Meigs for
Jackson, Stone for Jennings.