College News, 1936-04-15, Vol. 22, No. 20

              The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 20
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936
Copyright  BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Miss Park Outlines
Plans for Location
Of Science Building
Greater Space  to  be  Provided
For Faculty to Carry Out
Research Work
REJUVENATED DALTON
TO  CONTINUE  IN  USE
Music Room, April 9.�Theresa Hel-
burn, 1908, has consented to be Queen
Elizabeth in May Day, Miss Park an-
nounced in chapel, before making pub-
lic more definite plans for the new
science building.
It has been necessary to change the
original plans for the science build-
ing, since only about $320,000 of the
$925,000 already raised for the drive
has been given without restrictions
as to its use. The building will be
smaller and less expensive, but the
interior and the equipment will be as
modern and as advanced as had been
previously planned. Since the Geology
Department requires less space than
any other science department, it, to-
gether with chemistry, will move to
the new building when it is ready for
use in October, 1937.
The rectangular building will be situ-
ated where the faculty apartments,
Dolgelly and Cartref, are now located
and will be in the same style as the
other buildings on campus. The ex-
terior will be very simple, in order to
save money for the more important in-
terior.
The two departments will each have
about half again as much space as
they have now for three important
reasons. First, the college plans to
increase the number of undergradu-
ates approximately twenty-five in each
class, making a total of 100 more stu-
dents. Second, it wishes to double
the number of graduate scholars and
fellows, who need special apparatus
for research. Third, it wants to in-
crease the amount of space given to the
faculty for individual research work,
which has always been encouraged at
Bryn Mawr.
As soon as this building is complet-
ed, work will be begun on the inside
of Dalton, which will be entirely re-
constructed during the summer of
1938 in order to be as adequate as the
new building. The money for the re-
making of Dalton has not yet been
raised, but the alumnae feel confident
that they can procure the required
amount. There is no money as yet
for the scientific equipment or for a
maintenance fund, both of which are
necessary.
College  Calendar
Wednesday, April 15.�Meet-
ing of the Philosophy Club. Dr.
Weiss will read a paper on the
Art and Aesthetics. Common
Room.   8 p. m.
Thursday, April 16. � The
May Day Director will speak in
chapel.    Goodhart.   8.45 a. m.
Liberty League meeting. Room
A. Taylor.    1.30 p. m.
Non-resident supper in the
Common Room.    6 p. m.
Saturday, April 18.�Dr. Wal-
lace Notestein, Mallory Whiting
Webster Lecturer in History,
will speak on The Use of Imagi-
nation in History in Goodhart
Hall.    8.20 p. m.
Informal supper dance at
Rockefeller Hall.    7 to 12 p. m.
Sunday, April 19. � Nancy
Wilson, 'cellist, will give a re-
cital.    Deanery.    5 p. m.
Summer School Head
Will   be   Jane   Carter
Sixty Women to be Chosen Chiefly
From Industrial Centers
The executive board of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School, of which Miss
Park is the chairman, decided that the
term for the coming summer is to
open on June 13 and will extend to
August 13, a period of eight weeks.
It also appointed Miss Jean Carter
as director for the coming season.
Besides four years previous experi-
j ence at the Summer School, Miss Car-
ter has been head of the Department
[of   English   in   the   Rochester   High
|School for ten years and has taught
! at Barnard College during the sum-
j mer.    She  is  being  released  by  the
affiliated  schools,  with  which  she  is
at present connected, in order to ac-
cept this position.
A lack of funds prevents the usual
j number   of  students  from  being  se-
I lected from the west and south.   It was,
j however,   decided   that  of   the  sixty
women to be chosen, five are to come
from abroad.   Two students will rep-
resent Porto Rico, and England and
the Scandinavian countries are each
to  send   one  delegate.    The   largest
percentage of students will come from
the east.    The  industrial  centers  in
Massachusetts and Connecticut, Read-
ing,  Scranton  and   Wilkes-Barre
i among the Pennsylvanian cities, and
i Akron and Toledo, Ohio, are expected
I to contribute the greatest number of
I members.    A  special  effort  is being
made to equalize the number of union
1 and non-union students.
Scholarships, Deanery, Filing of Records
Major Business of Alumnae Association
Mute but vital testimony of the ex-
istence of an Alumnae Association is
offered to thirty-seven undergraduates
in the form of Regional Scholarships,
but the undergraduate body as a whole
is unaware of the enormous amount of
activity that goes on through the As-
sociation's office in Taylor Hall.
The office itself was established in
1919, in connection with a $2,000,000
drive for endowment, the first con-
certed effort of the alumnae; but an
organization known as the Alumnae
Association of Bryn Mawr College,
duly approved and chartered by the
County Court, has been in existence
since 1897. Before that time the as-
sociation was a more loosely organized
group, formed by the class of 1889
shortly after their graduation from
college.
The purposes of the organization
were at first purely social, to keep up
a connection with the life of the col-
lege after graduation; but the energy,
interest and generosity of this early
group soon engaged them in numerous
collective enterprises which have since
become indispensible to the mainten-
ance of Bryn Mawr as we know it.
Today, in addition to the management
of its own internal affairs of opera-
tion, the association raises money for
its Regional Scholarships and selects
jth& .fetipients for them, provides a
Loan Fund for additional aid to stu-
dents, publishes a monthly magazine
and maintains the Deanery, whose
Entertainment Committee has this
year brought such speakers as Louis
Untermeyer and John Mason Brown
to the college, and whose facilities as
an inn are available to the parents of
undergraduates as well as to alumnae
at any time.
Despite the diversity of the activi-
ties of the Alumnae Association, the
Alumnae Office itself is a business
office. It acts as a general clearing-
house for information in regard to
the above alumnae enterprises, and
performs all the clerical work made
necessary by them. Its principle
function, however, is to keep records.
In a complicated system of files and
cross files some record is kept of every
girl who has ever attended classes at
Bryn Mawr. If a girl did not com-
plete her course, or has failed to join
the Alumnae Association, the record
is necessarily less complete, but her
name at least appears in what Is
known as the Master File. These rec-
ords have grown more complicated
with the years until today, if some
erstwhile undergraduate decides to
make a stab at matrimony, changes
�must be made in at least ten places.
Approximately one-third of the filing
cards must be changed every year.
Alumnae are listed alphabetically, by
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Cash Prizes Offered
^or Factual Tests
Events   of   Past   Four   Months'
Are Covered by Questions
In Varied Fields
Queen Elizabeth
HELD AT TEN COLLEGES
Dr. Fenwick and the College News
will act as joint sponsors for a Cur-
rent Events Contest organized by
Time to be held at the college on Sat-
urday, May 2, at 11.30 o'clock. The
contest, for which seventy-five dollars
in prize money is being offered, will
be held at this time in order not to
conflict with either German Orals or
May Day rehearsals.
Composed of simple factual ques-
tions on the period from January 1
to April 15, the test includes items on
National Affairs, Foreign News, Busi-
ness and Finance, Transport, Science,
Books, Music and Art. Sample ques-
tions like the following are included
in the book of directions for the con-
test: criticism of the Federal Govern-
ment followed'the last Florida hurri-
cane because most of the victims were
(1 Red Cross workers, 2 subsistence
farmers, 3 Indians, 4 school children,
5 occupants of veterans' camps). It
has been made as comprehensive as
possible in order to interest the larg-
est number of students in the ten
colleges where contests have been
arrange dj
Registration blanks will be posted
on the bulletin board in Taylor until
Saturday of this week. They will also
be distributed in Economics, Politics
and History classes. Those interested
are urged to sign the lists as soon as
possible.
It is still undecided how the prize
money is to be divided. The sponsors
would be interested to know whether
one large prize of fifty dollars with
fewer smaller prizes, or a twenty-five
dollar first, a fifteen dollar second, and
several prizes of five dollars each
would be preferred by prospective par-
ticipants. Special prizes of yearly
subscriptions to Time will be awarded
to everyone making an honor score of
90 per cent or more.
Theresa Helburn
Notestein Will Examine
Imagination in History
Yale   Professor   Scholar   of   British
Parliamentary Records
The Mallory Whiting Webster Mem-
orial Lecture in History will be given
this year on Saturday evening, April
eighteenth, at 8.20 p. m., in Goodhart
Hall, by Professor Wallace Notestein,
of Yale University, who will speak on
The Use of Imagination in History.
Professor Notestein, in addition to
his post at Yale, is a member of the
British Commission on the House of
Commons Records and is the foremost
American authority on parliamentary
records of the seventeenth century.
He has also recently edited the jour-
nal of Sir Simon d'Ewes, which is one
of the principal sources for the his-
tory of the House of Commons before
the Puritan revolution.
Miss Burnham Holds
Watercolor   Exhibit
Prominent Chicago Artist Honored
In Paris When Thirteen
(Especially Contributed by
Jean Lamson, '37)
The current exhibition of water-
colors which is to hang in the Com-
mon Room until April 20, affords an
opportunity to Bryn Mawr students
to see the work of one of the ranking
artists in America today: Carol-Lou
Burnham, of Chicago, Illinois.
Ml/s Burnham, the youngest person
ever to have exhibited in the Spring
Salon in Paris, achieved that distinc-
tion at the age of thirteen. She first
studied at the Art Institute of Chi-
cago, where she won a scholarship
to Fontainebleau. Having completed
courses in oil painting, watercolors
and fresco (there is a fresco of hers in
the Royal Palace), Miss Burnham
then received personal instruction
from several prominent artists in
Paris, among whom were F. Leger,
Andre l'Hote and Maurice Schwartz.
Miss Burnham is considered today
one of the finest artists working in
Chicago, both from the point of view
of technique and of creative imagina-
tion. Although she is only twenty-
seven years old, her art is at once
remarkable for its variety and inde-
pendence; it is completely free from
the imitative tendency prominent
among the younger artists today.
We are hoping to add further to
the twelve paintings now hanging, by
the end of this week.
Theresa Helburn,
Of Theatre Guild,
Is to Play Queen
Famous Bryn Mawr Alumna Was
Member of Lantern Board,
Editor of Tip
IS VERSATILE AUTHOR
AS WELL AS DIRECTOR
Theresa Helburn, executive director
of the Theatre Guild of New York
and one of the most famous Bryn
Mawr alumnae, will have the part of
Queen Elizabeth in the May Day page-
ant on May 8 and 9.
Miss Helburn has been executive di-
rector, casting director and a member
of the Board of Managers of the The-
atre Guild since 1920. She is also an
executive of Columbia Pictures Cor-
poration in Hollywood.
In addition to directing, Miss Hel-
burn has written a number of plays,
among them Enter the Hero (1916),
Allison Makes Hay (1919) and Den-
bigh (1921); with Edward Goodman
she was co-author- of Other Lives,
written in 1921. She is also a lectur-
er on drama and poetry and has con-
tributed verse and articles to Harp-
er's, Century Magazine and The New
Republic.
Miss Helburn was graduated from
Bryn Mawr in the Class of 1908.
While she was at college she was
editor-in-chief and managing editor of
Tipyn O'Bob, contributing light verse
and short stories as well as plays to
this periodical and to the Lantern, of
which she was also an editor. She
was a graduate student at Radcliffe
in 1908-1909 and studied at the Sor-
bonne in Paris during the year 1913-
1914.
PEACE    DAY    PROJECTS
TO ATTACK MILITARISM
May Day Chapel
The May Day Director will
speak in chapel on Thursday
morning at 8.30 to announce the
final arrangements that are
being made for May Day.
CELLIST PLANS SOLO
RECITAL IN DEANERY
Nancy Wilson, 'cellist and former
student of Bryn Mawr, will give a re-
cital in the Deanery on April 19 at 5
p. m. While in college she often ap-
peared in informal recitals given in
Wyndham. Miss Wilson has since
studied under Lieff Rosanoff and made
hei debut at Town Hall in New York
City. She later appeared in solos in
New York, the South, the Middle West
and California.
In 1929 Miss Wilson went to Eu-
rope and worked under Pablo Casals
in Spain. She spent two years at the
Ecole Normale de Musique studying
with Diran Alexanian and was gradu-
ated with the "Licence du Concert."
While in Paris she began her col-
laboration with Genia Luboshutz, who
will also appear in the recital at the
Deanery. Their last public appear-
ance together was in a sonata recital
at Town Hall in November.
Miss Wilson has played in solo con-
certs  in   New  York,   New   England,1
Washington, Baltimore and Richmond
and on the radio in solos, sonatas and
chamber music.
PROGRAM
I
Sonata in G major.......Sammartini
II
Seven variations on A.....Beethoven
Theme by Mozart, in E fiat
III
Apres Un Reve...............Faure
Menuet ....................Debussy
Papillon.....................Raurp
IV
Serenata Espagnola.......J. Cassado
Jeudi Saint a Minuit.........Turina
Requiebros..............G. Cassado
Taylor, April 15: The International
Relations Club and the American Stu-
dent Union held a joint meeting to
consider plans for the observance of
Peace Day, April 22, in which it is
estimated that over 300,000 students
throughout the nation will partake.
Rehearsals and the fact that one free
cut on Armistice Day has already
been granted in this particularly full
year make it impossible to select a
time when the whole college will be
free to attend the meeting. Finally it
has been set for 12 o'clock next
Wednesday.
Martha Van Hoesen, '39, and Elea-
nor Sayre, '38, who led the meeting
emphasized the fact that the Peace
Day Meeting is in no way a strike
against the college authorities. The
faculty is most sympathetic with the
motives of the students which is to
convey forcefully their desire /for
peace.                                            y^
An outside speaker will addresx_the
meeting on student action in regard
to current forces which are believed
to touch the problem under considera-
tion. The Nye-Kvale amendment, for
the institution of voluntary instead
of compulsory R. O. T. C. member-
ship; the increase in military appro-
priations; the influence of Hearst
publications, and the Oxford Oath are
some of the subjects which will be
treated.
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Publication Office Renovated
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins' office in Tay-
lor Halloas recently been redecorated
and/new cabinets have been put in
to ^ contain the voluminous cor-
respondence which is received by the
office of the Director of Publications.
The ancient piece of black paper which
has long shut out all light that might
have entered the room through the
transom has been removed, new lights
have been installed and the walls have
been freshly painted.
Registration of Courses
The order of classes for the
registration of wjtrk for the aca-
demic year 1936-37 has been
altered- this year, with sopho-
mores registering first from
April 15 to May 1. Sophomores
are urged to have their slips
signed by the head of the de-
partment in which they intend
to major. Sophomores who are
uncertain of their majors and
wish to see the Dean before de-
deciding should make appoint-
ments at the Dean's office. This
change has been made in order
that the departments may have
more time in which to prepare
plans and reading lists for the
comprehensive examination for
the present juniors.