College News, 1936-03-18, Vol. 22, No. 17

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The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 17
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936
Copyright BRYN  MAWR
^COLLEGE NEWS. 1936
PRICE 10 CENTS
Comic Spirit Smiles
As Maids Perform
Tarkington's Play
Clarence   an   Excellent  Vehicle
�   For Humorous, Well-Acted
Portrayals
ENJOYMENT OF ACTING
IS    BASIS    OF    SUCCESS
To give a sincere performance is a
work of merit. To give a felicitous
and humorous performance without
the conscious stage tricks of the pro-
fessional actor or the over-trained
and underdeveloped amateur is the
work of actors who enjoy life on the
stage as much as they do off the stage.
This enjoyment of acting was the
basis of the college maids' and porters'
performance of Booth Tarkington's
Clarence. The play was not only well-
chosen and acted, but excellently di-
rected by Huldah Cheek, '38. The
comic spirit has rarely smiled so
benevolently and naturally on Good-
hart stage. Nor did its smile de-
crease; rather it grew broader and
provoked the kind of hearty laughter
which was directly in keeping with
the ease of the play.
Humorous portrayals of characters
in natural but often overwrought fam- j
ily relations often provide the flavor |
of Tarkington's comedies. In this
particular play, the group is centered
around the mysterious Clarence, of
whom no one knows anything, but who
has the imaginative capacity to tell
convincing fish stories and the ability
to drive a mule without swearing.
Whittaker's performance as Clarence,
together with his other talents, might
recommend him for a part in Porgy
and Bess (but we do not wish to put
any ideas into his head). He was ex-
cellently cast and gave a humorous
and charming performance from his
first appearance as an unemployed
soldier who sagged to one side because
his liver, to the final disclosure of his
identity as Dr. Smith, the famous
coleopter or beetle specialist. Every-
one in the Wheeler household suc-
cumbed to Clarence's army experience
and noncommittal ability to befriend
everyone, until he succeeded in car-
rying off Miss Pinney, the governess
with whom all the male members of
the play were in love. Miss Pinney
was the only truly unrattled person
in the play
Hilda, as Cora Wheeler, was a
typical spoiled brat, the nuisance of
her pretty governess, susceptible to
anything in pants, but still a quib-
bler and a tattle-tale. Her perform-
ance was exquisitely pert and fluttery;
she was weeping one minute, laugh-
ing or dancing about in a scatter-
brained fashion the next, and always
wondering what was happening. She
portrayed a real, unartificial ingenue
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Group Speakers Discuss
Regulation of Industry
Common Room, March 11.�At the
last supper held by the Industrial
Group Miss Fairchild and Mr. Ander-
son discussed the problem of regula-
tion of industry, with special refer-
ence to the New Deal. Both agreed
that some sort of government regula-
tion was necessary to ensure the
equitable distribution of reduced
profits and to impose uniform condi-
tions on all industries and trades.
They felt that the New Deal failed
to do these things, although they ap-
proved of some of its measuresj such
as the refinancing of mortgages,
building and repair loans and labor
union provisions. Mr. Anderson par-
ticularly emphasized the fact that in
a depression '"the number of apples
to go around," is smaller and it is
necessary to reduce interest rates, as
well as wages, in order to stimulate
industry and to have a reasonably
fair and even reduction of profits.
Miss Fairchild opened the discus-
sion by describing some of the social
effects of the New Deal. In 1932 pay-
rolls were down to forty-six per cent
of what is considered the normal (the
average of the years 1923-1925), and
were forty per cent less than in 1929.
Employment was also down to sixty
per cent of the normal. The New Deal
tried to increase purchasing power
by raising wages with its minimum
wage provisions, and to end unem-
ployment by maximum hour regula-
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Richards Completes
Series  of  Lectures
Miss Park Discusses
Summer Schopl-Work
Music    Room,    March    17.�"More
Tenor   and   Vihicle"   Rhetoric than money is involved in undergradu-
Is Applicable to Philosophy
of Life
ate contributions to the Bryn  Mawr
Summer School," said Miss Park in
chapel this morning. "Such contribu-
j tions show that we are attempting to
METAPHOR   IS  VARIABLE | meet one of the most dangerous, com-
plicated and pressing problems of the
day�the part that workers are to take
in government in the future."
That Bryn Mawr's effort to solve
this problem took the form of a sum-
mer school  for women  workers  was
A. J. B. Wace to Discuss
Ancient    Ivory    Trade
The speaker next Sunday afternoon
at the Deanery will be Mr. A. J. B.
Wace, Professor of Archaeology at
Cambridge University, England. For
many years Mr. Wace was Assistant
Director of the British School of
Archaeology at Athens, where he
gained a great reputation for his work
on the chronology of the Mycenean
age. In his excavations he sought
for and found information supple-
menting the work done by Heinrich
Schliemann at Mycenae.
Several years ago Mr. Wace lec-
tured on his findings in America, and
attracted a great deal of attention.
During his years in Greece he became
interested in modern Greek textiles,
and (became such an authority on the
subject that, when he left Athens, he
was offered the position of curator of
textiles in the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London. The position he
now holds as Professor of Archaeol-
ogy at Cambridge is one of the most
important accessible to an English
archaeologist.
The subject of Mr. Wace's talk next
Sunday will be The Ancient Ivory
Trade.
Willert Thinks War
In Europe Unlikely
England Holds Balance in Crisis
Caused by Breakdown of
Security System
LEAGUE  SUPPORT VITAL
Goodhart, March 16.�Mr. Richards
concluded his series of lectures on the
Interpretation of Prose with a con-
tinuation of his discussion of meta-
phor and  with  a  final  proof of  the
relation of rhetoric to a philosophy >d~ t^in^i*^ Mils Thomas',
of life. He distinguished certain types who conceived the idea in 1921> her
of metaphor and demonstrated the ,a8t year as President of the College.
great importance of the part they play she organized a board of representa-
tive use of language as an aspect of tiveg from the co]lege and from the
existence.                                                  workers themselves, with the members
Metaphors   must   be   distinguished ] from Bryn Mawr at first predominat-
according to whether they are based jng> and,finally with an equal num-
Horace Spokesman
of Equitcs, Roman
"City  Bourgeoisie"
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Dr. Rostovtzeff Describes Him
as a Progressive Farmer
and Reformer
POETRY SHOWS PUBLIC
OPINION OF HIS TIME
on a direct resemblance of one thing
ber from  both  groups.    Since every
The Deanery, March 25.�Britain
holds the key to the problem of peace
or war in Europe today, in the opinion
of Sir Arthur Willert, K. B. E., Head
of Publicity in the British Foreign
Office until April, 1935, now Washing-
ton correspondent for the London
Time.*, and author of What Next in
Europe? The present crisis is built
upon fear and discontent and it lies
within England's power through her
participation in the League of Nations
to combat these two trouble-breeding
elements.
The real problem behind the threat
of war is how to make Europe feel
safe. The answer lies in the proper
participation of England in the police
system of the League of Nations. Eu-
rope has given up expecting America
to take part because of her own diffi-
culties in her own hemisphere. If
Britain, however, can play a leading
part in organizing security, war may
be successfully avoided. Captain
Anthony Eden, Foreign Minister and
one hundred per cent League man,
is doing his best to draw England into
the collective security system. Eng-
land realizes the likelihood of war and
the impossibility of neutrality. That
she feels that the League is the best
way to prevent' war was shown by the
Peace Ballot of Lord Cecil in May,
1935, in which an overwhelming num-
ber of votes were in favor of strong
participation in the League.
All the troubles of Europe are due
to the breakdown of the security sys-
tem. The system provides that the
League shall function like the sheriff
of a frontier posse, calling on any
country for aid in emergencies. The
fact that America in 1919 refused to
join altogether and Britain took a
compromise position has made the
League ineffective in doing police duty
and maintaining security. At present
France, Russia and the Little Entente
oppose Germany, while England and
the United States stand aloof and
Asiatic and African races hover in the
background. War is not likely to come
in the immediate future if the present
crisis is surmounted, as Sir Arthur
feels it will be.
In trying  to avoid  war the back-
ground of the European crisis must
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to another�that of the tenor to the phase of labor and education was rep-
vehicle�or whether they are connect- j resented on this board by a separate
ed by a common attitude which is an delegate, the whole committee was
attribute of each. For example, we j enormous. It consisted of about forty
may connect two things metaphoric- j members. Yet in spite of its awk-
ally because we happen to like themiward sjze jt continued in this form
both, although  they have no distinct | until 1927.
intrinsic resemblance. This resemb-| The faculty has consisted of mem-
lance may be called the "ground ofjbers as distinguished as its director,
the shift," and can be found in all; Although both Miss Fairchild and
metaphors, although itVay actually' Mrs. Kirk from Bryn Mawr have
be hardly perceivable and leads to the taught at the Summer School, the pro-
false assumption that if we cannot see | fessors have generally been selected
how the metaphor works, it is thereby from other colleges,
proven unworkable.
A particular word is not confined to
one  metaphorical  meaning,  but  may
be metaphorical in different ways, and \ (^Qlincil  Finds Cut&lfl
may even be metaphorical and literal I                                                         o
simultaneously.    A metaphor may in- j    Rehearsals    is    SerioilS
elude a tenor and a vehicle which are,
in    one    sense    indistinguishable,    in \
which case the expression  is literal; \ Unavoidable Changes in Hours
on the other hand, there may be meta-1        Scheduled for Rehearsals
phorical interpretation of a word or                   Cause  Trouble
phrase as well.    A simple illustration                            ______
of this theory is the use of the word;CARE   QF  GRASS  URGENT
"leg."   If connected with "table" and|
with "horse," it will appear that "leg"
is metaphorical  in the first  instance
The word "experiment" is truly the
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since it has not all of the character-
istics of the second.   If we apply "leg" ]
President's House, March 11.�The
progress of May Day plans, the prob-
lem of undergraduate papers and re-
, ports, and discussion of certain diffi-
to the appendages of a starfish   ,t >s,culties connected with M      Day were
difficult to tell whether we are being ^ q{ ^             ^ ^ by the
metaphonca   or literal   and similarly. Co�        Coundl &t ^ recent sesgion
we scarcely know m what category to;The condition of the grags was also
i.l.w...     n     "utAAHon     loor "        I no    Iqttov    1� .
place a "wooden leg."    The latter is
: brought up with  the urgent  request
actually an example of the simultanc-. that            one on campug shou,(| use
ity of the literal and the metaphorical, i the         ,ar        hs and thus saye ^
The purely literal is very rare in any^            fls  much ag          ^    Certain
thing but a specialized scientific dis-.tudente   haye   faeen           ided   with
course; the majority of ordinary sen-! whjstles ^ mn offcnders am| rf
fences turn out to be metaphorical.
have   been   erected   at   points   where
A    metaphor   necessarily    involves,      hs are bejng worn
comparison,  but  may  be  approached,     May   Day               are            essinfc.
from  several  different   angles.     The,           we�   and   are  geUinj?  on   fflr
eighteenth century rhetorician., M|farter tnan ha(, becn cxpccted. The
represented by Dr. Johnson, confined. uestjon of cuttjng rencarsals nas
themselves, according to their beliefs, j,^^ serjouSi however> in the
to metaphors which called attention
to resemblances between two objects.
Modern theory is diametrically op-
posed to this principle; thc^super-
realists, whose leader in France^fpday
is M. Andr6 Breton, attempt to seize
upon two objects as remote from each
other as possible and bring them to-
past ^week. Two or three rehearsals
were completely broken up by the un-
explained absence of one or more of
the key characters. If this continues
and proves to be genuine disregard, it
is probable that drastic action may
have to be taken against those who
cut    Mrs. Collins  felt that the cut-
gether in a striking manner, holding j tjng wflg not due gQ much to the stu.
that this is the highest task to which
poetry can aspire.- Both extremes
have grave disadvantages. Actually
metaphors are as�dependent on the
dissimilarities of their component
parts as upon their resemblances, but
the super-realists mistake the strain
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College Calendar
Wednesday, March 18: Nar-
rative Series of Films from the
Library of Modern Art. Good-
hart, 8 p. m.
Friday, March 20: Announce-
ment of Graduate European
Fellowships. Goodhart, 8.45
a. m.
Sunday, March 22: Dr. Ar-
thur Wace will speak on The
Ancient Ivory Trade. Deanery,
5 p. m.
The Reverend Alexander Za-
briskie will speak in Chapel.
Music Room, 7.30 p. m.
Monday, March 23: Varsity
Basketball game versus Haver-
ford College. Gymnasium, 8
p. m.
dents as to changes in the hours
scheduled for rehearsals. Much of
this was unavoidable, but in the fu-
ture misunderstanding will be elimi-
nated by allowing no changes once
the schedule is posted. The coaches
may cancel rehearsals, but they will
not change them to another hour.
The plays are fully understudied
and rehearsals will be held for the
understudies after vacation. Mrs.
Collins pointed out that these people
are making a great sacrifice of time
and energy and it is only fair that
if regular members of the casts cut
frequently their parts ought to be
given to the understudies.
The choice of places to have the
wagon plays is causing the committee
in charge of May Day quite a little
trouble. Mrs. Collins said that she
would be glad to receive any sugges-
tions as to possible places to have
these plays. The location must be
one which is accessible for the wa-
gons, which will each be drawn by a
pair of horses.
The plans for properties and coJ-
tumes are progressing very well. This
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Goodhart, March 13.�A new con-
ception of Horace was presented by
Dr. Michael Rostovtzeff in his lecture,
Horace As I See Him. This year
is the two thousandth anniversary of
of the birth of the Roman poet and
it is especially interesting, to read his
work now, for, as President Park
pointed out in her introduction of the
lecturer, Horace lived in a "broken
world," and the social disorder he
knew was not unlike our own times.
Dr. Rostovtzeff thinks of the poet as
being primarily a spokesman for the
great class of "city bourgeoisie," Un-
known before Hellenistic times, who
were the backbone of Italy and were
responsible for a new civilization of \
the Romans.                                            \
Horace was born a provincial, the
son of a freed slave, and was educated
in Rome. He derived his income solely
from his Sabine farm, which was more
than the residence of a grand seigneur
or the log cabin of an American pro-
fessor, to quote Professor Greaves, of
the University of St. Petersburg, but
was a fundus comprising both grain
and grazing lands. The building that is
called Horace's villa today is certainly
not the original farmhouse, but dates
from later Flavian times. Horace
was a careful, progressive farmer,
economically independent.
Before the first century B. C, Italy
was composed of many towns loosely
bound together, each with its own way
of living. During this century there
occurred the miracle of a new Italy
with a cultural and political unity
emerging from the chaos of tribal
differentiation. The Italian people
were proud of being Romans and of
being rulers of the world. Contact
with the East led to the importation
of Hellenistic civilization, which was
not imitated but continued and Latin-
ized by the "city bourgeoisie," who
were responsible, furthermore, for de-
veloping industry and commerce. As
a political class these equites standing
midway between the senate and the
proletariat, ended the dominance of
the senatorial nobility.
Horace is representative of this
class; in his work he tried to go back
to his Greek forerunners, whom he
knew especially from his journey to
Greece as a soldier under Brutus, but
he never lost his Latin flavor. He
was a master of the handling of his
language and of many phases of poetic
writing. His chief interest for Pro-
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Heidelburg University
Offers 5 Scholarships
The University of Heidelberg is
offering to Bryn Mawr students three,
tuition scholarships for their summer
courses, June 29 to August 8. 'The
total �expenses (round trip, board and
room) will be $250 for students join-
ing the Heidelberg party sailing from
New York on the S. S. Deutschland
on June 18 and returning August 21.
This includes the following pro-
gram: language courses, reading and
composition, from eleven to one o'clock
daily for six weeks (students who
have had elementary German are eli-
gible) ; lecture courses on German
literature, music, art, history and
politics.
Week-end excursions will be plan-
ned to Kloster Maulbronn and Schloss
Bruchsal, to the cathedral towns of
Speyer, Worms and Mainz, up the
Neckar valley and through the Oden-
wald, through the Black Forest to
Lake Constance, to Friedrichshafen,
the Zeppelin plant, Reichenau and the
falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen.
Heidelberg University will celebrate
its five hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary on June 27 to 30.
Students  will  get  their board  and
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