College News, 1934-11-14, Vol. 21, No. 05

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VOL. XXI, No. 5
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1934
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Marriner Considers
Beethoven as Titan,
Music  Emancipator
Expression of Emotion, Thought
Is of Primary Importance
in Beethoven Music
FORMAL INNOVATIONS
IN   AIR ' VARIATIONS
Mr. Guy Marriner opened his lec-
ture-recital on Beethoven the Til an
Tuesday afternoon in the Deanery by
playing the second movement, Adagio
cantabile, from Beethoven's Pathetique
Sonata. It was the third lecture in
a series tracing the development of
piano-forte music through the works
of its' greatest exponents. Beethoven
was a titan of art and the emanci-
pator of music. With him the thoughts
and the emotions were of first import-
ance, the form was secondary. He
broke through the limits of form im-
posed by Mozart and the earlier mas-
ters to express himself and humanity
with a power and imagination that
eternally widens the hearer's sphere of
emotions and experience.
* Beethoven was born in Bonn on the
Rhine in 1770 and spent 40 years in
Vienna until his death in 1827. These
were storm-swept years of general so-
cial, political, philosophical, and artis-
tic revolution, and the spirit of this
awakening of man to his emotional
and intellectual possibilities is embod-
ied in Beethoven. Both his musical
and personal lives were rich and var-
ied, but they were overshadowed from
the age of thirty by his gradual loss
of hearing, which ended five years
before his death in total deafness, so
that he had to look at his audience
to see if it was applauding. His piano
sonatas comprise the New Testament
as contrasted to Old Testament in
Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord, and
in this series extending over his whole
lifetime he reveals his own life, emo-
tions, and feelings, and proves him-
self a master of the piano.
There were three phases in the mu-
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College Calendar
Wednesday, November -14.
Gertrude Stein on Poetry and
Grammar. 8.20 P. M. Good-
hart.
Thursday, November 15. Dr.
Veltmann. 4.30 P. M. Com-
mon   Room.
Saturday, November 17.
Varsity Hockey vs. Swarth-
more.    10.00 A. M.
Sunday, November 18. Sun-
day Evening Service conducted
by Dr. Suter. 7.30 P. M. Mu-
sic Room.
Monday, November 19. Sec-
ond Team Hockey Game vs.
Germantown Friends' Alum-
nae.    4.00 P. M.
Mrs. Dean's third lecture,
Thunder in the Far East. 8.20
P.  M.    Goodhart.
Tuesday, November 20. Con-
ference with Mrs. Dean. 2.00
P. M.    Deanery.
Guy Marriner on Schubert,
Schumann, and Field: the Ro-
manticists. 5.00 P. M. Dean-
ery.
AlumnaevCouncil Held
on College Grounds
Fund   for   Science   Building   Is
Debated, Scholarship Fund
Has  Increased
URGE CAMPUS CONTACT
Varsity Wins Second
League Championship
The Bryn Mawr second team
clinched the championship" of the
second team league in an exciting
game on Monday afternoon against
the Philadelphia Cricket Club Blacks,
who were tied with the Yellow and
White combination before the start
of the game, which ended with a
score of 2-1. The play was fast and
hard throughout, although it took
both sides some time to warm up.
To the Varsity defense should go
a large measure of praise for its out-
standing part in the victory. They
played with their usual vigor and in-
dividual effectiveness, but in addition,
were quite good at getting passes
through to their own forwards and in
anticipating the intentions of the op-
posing line. The forwards were not
so effective as in past games, particu-
larly in the first half, when at least
two easy shots were missed. It must
be remembered that they were play-
ing against an extremely strong de-
fense, and one which marked very
closely. This meant that there had
to be more passing and co-operation
between the forwards and fewer indi-
vidual plunges down the field.
During the second half the for-
wards seemed to realize the necessity
for a change in tactics, and began a
concerted drive on the Black's goal;
this resulted in a pretty shot by Bake-
well, who was playing left inner. Bryn
Mawr was now in the lead two goals
to one. The play surged back and
forth as each team made repeated
efforts to score again. The match
ed with the ball safely in mid-
after a rather dangerous attack
the Bryn Mawr goal, which had
sidelines in breathless suspense
that the tying tally might
ored. The second team is to be
tulated on its excellent record
ear and on the winning of a
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The Alumnae Council meeting of
the past week brought both Under-
graduates and Alumnae to an under-
standing of the importance of the re-
lationship of the college as it now
is, to the Alumnae. The Council has
always been an organization designed
specifically to consider the welfare
of Bryn Mawr from the impartial
view of the outsider and at the same
time the interested point of view of
the graduate. The interests in the
Alumnae Council have always center-
ed in the activities on the Bryn Mawr
campus: the first meeting of an
Alumnae body in 1920 was held to
raise funds to increase faculty sal-
aries and thereby insure the bringing
of the most able men and women to
Bryn Mawr as professors.
This year's Alumnae Council meet-
ing naturally has meant more to the
Undergraduates as well as to the
thirty members on the Council, be-
cause it met on the campus. It met
to discuss the means by which to
raise one million dollars for a new
Science building, to report on the
successes in providing funds for Re-
gional Scholarships, and to seek new
ways by which Alumnae might be
kept better informed of the college
and more closely in touch with the
actual staff of Bryn Mawr.
The reports of the District Council-
lors on their work in providing funds
for scholarship students and their
methods of choosing scholars from
their districts show their generous
and thoughtful attitude in regard to
Bryn Mawr Undergraduate activity.
In almost every report an optimistic
note predominated, and in the few in-
stances where there was mention of
difficulty, an opposing determination
was evident. The results were in all
cases splendid, and showed an un-
flagging zeal and work for Under-
graduate scholarships.
The scholarship situation is much
more encouraging than it was last
year; in 1933-34 120 out of the total
Undergraduate registration of 385
were on scholarships; this year only
106 out of 388 students are on schol-
arships. This ratio of scholarship to
non-scholarship students for 1934-35
more nearly approaches the norm, al-
though there is still much demand
and need for funds. In the face of
this situation, one of the district
councillors, for example, reports:
"We have very little trouble'getting
our money, as we have extraordin-
arily loyal and interested chairmen in
our various well-organized districts.
Each district makes a pledge and
then proceeds to collect, or give
bridge parties or concerts, or have old
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One-Act Plays Gain
Well Merited Acclaim
Repression   Complexes,   Magic,
Murder   and   Villainous
Wiles Fdrm Themes
ACTING     IS     EFFECTIVE
The four plays presented at Good-
hart Saturday evening were of vary-
ing types ann were extremely enter-
taining. There were, in order: a
play concerned with the supernatural,
The Karsitch, by Diana Tate-Smith,
'35; a dramatic pantomime, Benito,
by Margaret Kidder, '35; a fantas-
tic romance, Olim, by Mollie Nich-
ols, '34, and a melodrama, Bianca
or The Poisoned Cup, by Louisa May
Alcott. The casting was good, the
scenery adequate, and the plays
themselves most amusing.
The Karsitch is a warning to all
Bryn Mawr students who are inclin-
ed to consider facts before phantoms.
The story of four people engaged
in scientific research concerning mys-
tic rites, it shows the dire fate in
store for those who refuse to ac-
knowledge the existence of the super-
natural. Marian, the Bryn Mawr
graduate, played by Alicia Stewart,
two other factual females, played by
Margaret Veeder and Elizabeth
Washburn, and Marian's husband,
flayed by Margaret Honour, use in-
cantation�or invocation?�to arouse
the mysterious Karsitch. Their ef-
forts are successful � far more so
than they had dreamed of�and they
are dragged one by one realistically
off the stage by the invisible mon-
ster, as a result of this curiosity.
Marian is the last to feel the effects
of the research, and as she is pulled
off, she shows her true Bryn Mawr
spirit by gazing intently at a large
book and ignoring all else. The in-
vocation scene, too, was especially ef-
fective: the unbelievers skipped mad-
ly about a bucket of water, waving
wet pine branches, and repeating
"Iskavitch Karsitch!'' in tones rising
from a whisper to a shriek.
The dialogue of The Karsitch is
extremely entertaining, leading up to
the climax effectively. By the con-
versation, the characters are portray-
ed satirically and amusingly. The
play's action is swift, its plot con-
struction well-knit, and the whole is
an interesting and screamingly fun-
ny  piece of dramatic  writing.
Miss Kidder's pantomime, Benito,
offered a new method of solving mur-
ders, through the agency of a parrot,
We are now firmly convinced that if
everyone had a parrot as an insep-
arable companion, there would be no
more unsolved murders. The char-
acters were: First Actress, Gerta
Franchot; The Parrot, Doreen Can-
aday; Benito, Miss Kidder, and Sec-
ond Actress, Josephine Ham. Miss
Franchot is especially to be commend-
ed. Her movements and her varying
inflections of "Benito," the one spok-
en word in the play, were extremely
praiseworthy. Miss Canaday made a
most realistic parrot, playing a diffi-
cult role quite well, and her imitation
of parrot-noises was highly convin-
cing.
Benito is a wpll-witten panto-
mime. At no point does the interest
of the audience lag, and the climax
is extremely effective and unexpect-
ed. The idea contained in it is un-
usual.
Olim, by Molly Nichols, is the story
of a girl who is kept firmly tied to her
family's apron strings. She is made
to sew ceaselessly until her longings
for a greater world are forced, ap-
parently forever, between embroidery
rings. Finally she is rescued by a
persuasive Gardener Boy; played by
Barbara Merchant, and leaves her
parents sitting in stolid astonishment
at her choice.
Olim does not seem to us to be up
to the standard of the other plays.
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Resignation
The College News regrets to
announce the resignation of
Letitia Brown, '37, from the
Editorial  Board.
Lantern Elections
The Business Board of the
Lantern wishes to announce
the election of Eleanor Tobin,
'37, as Treasurer, and of Bar-
bara Colbron, '37, as Adver-
tising Manager. The Board
also announces at this time the
resignation of Polly Schwable,
'36.
Senate Handles Cases
of Failures, Overcutting
For the benefit of those curious in-
dividuals who are somewhat in doubt
as to the function and composition of
the Senate we should like to announce
that the Senate is a separate body
from the Faculty. All full professors
who have been in the college for more
than three years besides the Dean and
the President are members. There are
two standing committees reappointed
each year, the Executive and the Ju-
dicial, who meet and carefully con-
sider individual cases before reporting
or making any recommendations to
the Senate as a whole. The Senate
and its committees have to deal only
with the academic life of the students.
The Executive Committee handles
almost all matters of deficient work
on the part of the students. Cases of
failures, conditions, failure to get the
required merits, overcutting more than
four classes are among those consid-
ered by the Executive Committee. Not
every case brought before the com-
mittee is reported to the Senate. The
Senate then, acting on the recommen-
dations of the Committee, issues warn
ings or special penalties, such as can-
cellation of work or expulsion in ex-
treme cases of cutting. In cases in-
volving the requirements for the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts the Faculty
as a whole acts.
The Judicial Committee of the Sen-
ate handles only regulations involving
written work. It is these rules con-
cerning plagarism, cheating, and copy-
ing of' another's work that are read
before each examination period.
The point system of office holding
and its enforcement comes finder the
administration of the Undergraduate
Association, while problems ebneern-
ing the extra-curricular work of cer-
tain cases is generally handled direct-
ly by the Dean's office, although they
can be referred to the Senate if neces-
sary.
Mrs. Dean Reviews
European Prospects
of Peace and War
Nazi Foreign Policy and Italianf^/
Attitude to League Cause
New Alignments
SMALL STATE FREEDOM
UNFAVORABLE TO WAR
The foreign policy of Nazi Ger-
many, which-aims to include all Ger-
man-speaking peoples in the Third
Reich, has sharpened the struggle be-
tween the revisionist and status quo
countries of Europe and produced far-
reaching readjustments in the Euro-
pean balance of power, stated Mrs.
Vera M. Dean in her lecture on Eu-
rope: Peace or War? delivered No-
vember 12, the third of the Anna How-
ard Shaw lecture series. This strug-
gle has been bitterly waged around
the League of Nations, regarded by
both groups as the last bulwark
against revision of the peace treaties.
The struggle also represents a funda-
mental conflict between the methods
of an international organization
founded on democratic assumptions,
and the foreign policies of states com-
mitted to authoritarian doctrines.
The Nazi foreign policy has occa-
sioned fears of war generally through-
out Europe, despite Hitler's avowed
policy of peace, and the withdrawal
from or demands for reorganization
of the League by Fascist governments
have occasioned not only the forma-
tion of regional groups of small states
removed as far as possible from the
influence of the great powers, but the
attempts on the part of the great pow-
ers to win the support of one or more
of these regional groups. The situa-
tions in the Saar, in Austria, Hun*
gary and Poland, and the allegiances
of the Little Entente, the Balkan bloc
and the Baltic state bloc, of Bulgaria
and Albania, are matters of immense
concern to Germany, France, Italy and
Russia.
The European situation looks as
troubled as it looked in 1914, domi-
nated as it is by doctrines of extreme
nationalism and territorial expansion,
and threatened by the vast powers of
dictatorial governments. But the de-
sire of numerous small and newly-cre-
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Biology Department Needs Funds and Room
Because of Increased Experimental Study
The Biology Department needs op-
portunity to make use of the equip-
ment and the teaching facilities it
now has and to develop more ade-
quate facilities. Bryn � Mawr must
be a place, as Dr. Welch, of Johns
Hopkins, wrote to the Alumnae Bul-
letin in 1933, where women can be
"well trained in the natural and physi-
cal sciences as teachers, assistants,
technicians, and special workers."
The  Department of  Biology wants
to safeguard the facilities it now has,
but to modernize and improve these
facilities.    The  Department    has    a
green house, in which to ""v"" pl>wto|
....;......;�.gicai  material,  and cultures
of protozoa. For several years, how-
ever, the green house has been out
of repair. During the winter, snow
melts on the roof, and the icy water
drips in through it and kills the ex-
perimental material.
For the courses in Physiology, the
Biology Department needs more room
in which to keep animals under ex-
periment. There is one small room on
the top floor of Dalton, which would
be excellent for the work of one per-
son. It is now used by Dr. Tennent's
students as well as Dr. Blanchard's,
and is greatly overcrowded.
The department has a library, with
a particularly valuable collection of
scientific journals. Almost all the
money the department has for books
is spent on these journals, so that it
is impossible to buy works on separate
subjects. Also, the books in the Dal-
ton biological library are being dam-
aged by the water which constantly
pours down through the ceiling, be-
cause the plumbing is faulty.
Some years ago, the students of Bi-
ology were given a very fine collec-
tion of birds and bird skins. There
is no place to exhibit them; there is
not even a place to keep them in good
condition. They are simply packed
away as safely as possible, and there-
fore are of no use to anyone.
The department does work in micro-
photography in connection with its ex-
peri mental_work. Increased facilities
for this work are greatly needed.
Since Biology was first taught at
Bryn Mawr, the method of presenta-
tion of the subject has changed: at
ii.si it was whwSIy uescriptive; now it
is largely experimental. The depart-
ment needs more space and more
equipment to offer undergraduate stu-
dents work in tissue culture, bacteri-
ology, and biophysics, which would
entail the employment of several new
instructors. Besides the new work
in bacteriology and biophysics, the
work of the bio-chemistry and physi-
ology courses should be extended.
The work in Biology was started at
Bryn Mawr by a member of the orig-
inal faculty, Dr. Edmund B. Wilson,
now Professor Emeritus at Columbia.
He was interested from the beginning
in requiring laboratory as well as lec-
ture work. Dr. Wilson was succeed-
ed by Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, who
taught here in the field of experimen-
tal zoology from 1891 to 1904, and who
is now working in Pasadena on "germ
plasm as the bearer of hereditary
I characters." In 1891, Miss Thomas
brought a brilliant teacher to the Bryn
Mawr Biology Department, Dr.
Jacques Loeb, of Zurich. He was here
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