College News, 1935-01-09, Vol. 21, No. 10

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The College News
VOL. XXI, No. 10
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935
lopyrlght  BKYN  MAWR
COLLEGE   NEWS.   1934
PRICE 10 CENTS
Varsity Dramatics Is
To Be Reorganized
Players' Club to Elect Officers
of Dratnat Board and Make
First Play Choice
COLLEGE  CHOOSES  PLAY
(Especially  contributed    by   Mar-
garet Kidder, '38.)
The Varsity Dramatics board is an-
nouncing a change in the organization
of dramatics at Bryn Mawr. We
should like to form a dramatic society
to represent the college. The produc-
tions of this society should be, in a
general sense, the concern of the col-
lege as a whole, not the work of a
group of anxious individuals offered
to the college for criticism. The mem-
bers of this society will necessarily^!
only those undergraduates who ta^l
an active interest in the many sides
of play production. But interested
spectators should be able to feel thai
the fullest use is being made of the
dramatic potentialities of the college.
This society shall elect new members
from the succeeding classes; and it
shall be governed by officers elected by
itself and for itself. We hope that
the Varsity Players' club, under a
new regime, will become such an or-
ganization.
The present dramatic organiza-
tion has always aimed at represent-
ing the college; but its organization is
rather ambiguous. The requirements
for a dramatic society at a college
must change as the undergraduate
body changes and individuals rise and
disappear. The history of dramatics
at Bryn Mawr is a singularly varying
one. The present organization is;
comparatively recent and appears to
be a combination of two elements that
do not combine. There are two sepa-
rate entities, the Varsity Players
Club and the Varsity Dramatics,
board, which represent two distinct
and separate executive forces, a small
committee that increases itself by se-
lecting new members sparingly from
the different classes, and a large soci-
ety, of undergraduates interested in
Dramatics, with a president elected by
themselves. But the members of this
society are selected by the Dramatics
Board. It is difficult to understand
the function of one of these bodies
when one considers the existence of
the other.
The dramatics board is self-perpet-
uating, like the editorial boards of
the College News and the Lantern.
It is not a closed corporation nor one
little group of serious thinkers; but
the choice of its members is a difficult
problem since there are no general
try-outs as in the case of the Lantern
Continued on Page Three
College Calendar
Wednesday, January 9. Vocal
Recital by Benjamin De Loache.
8.20 P. M.   Goodhart.
Friday, January 11. Mrs. Lil-
lian M. Gilbreth on ways and
means of getting jobs. 8.00
P. M.    Deanery.
Sunday, January 13. Sunday
Evening* Service conducted by
Dr. William Pierson Merrill.
Tuesday, January 15. Julien
Bryan. Motion pictures on Rus-
sia and Siberia. 8.20 P. M.
Goodhart.
" Thursday, January 17. Chris-
topher Morley. 4.15' P. M.
Deanery.
Library Rules Made
For Use of Readers
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N. Y. Bryn Mawr Club
Gives Vacation Tea
The Park Lane, January 3.
The Board of Governors of the Bryn
Mawr Club of New York entertained
the undergraduates at a tea in honor
of the members of the classes of 1933
and 1934. The club rooms were pleas-
antly crowded with many undergrad-
uates and graduates living or vaca-
tioning in New York, who attended.
The members of the Board of Gover-
nors who gave the tea were as follows:
Mrs. Howard T. Oliver, 1916, the
President of the Club; ftjrs. Richard
N. Pierson, 1923; the Misses Kath-
arine Van Bibber, 1924, and Katharine
C. Ecob, 1909; Mrs. Albert Clay,
1924; Mrs. Orson L. St. John, 1930;
Mrs. Gerald Cutler, 1922; Mrs. John
C. Jutting, Jr., 1927; Miss Helen C.
Schwarz, 1919; Mrs. Louis J. Darm-
stadt, 1927; and the Misses Caroline
F. Lexow,-1908, ftndTmogen R. Rich-
ards, '.930. Mrs. Henry E. Stehli,
1927. of the _ Membership Committee,
assisted those of the Governors who
received, while Miss Ella Katherine
Berkeley, of the Class of 1933, the
Misses Mary Nichols, Barbara Smith,
Nancy Stevenson and Marion Hope,
of the Class of 1934, and the Misses
Diana Morgan and Sarah Flanders,
of the Class of 1935, formed the re-
ception committees of recent gradu-
ates  and of present undergraduates.
New Rules for Honor Students
to Extend Time for Books
Instituted   .
POLICY    AGAINST    FINES
The library has in recen* years tried
to make its rules lenient enough to
give all of Bryn Mawr full use of its
books, with as much convenience to
its readers as is possible. At the same
time, the librarians have found that
to maintain the most efficient and con-
venient service it is necessary to en-
force th^* rules rigidly. Consequently
an -explanation of the library rules
and of the policy behind them is nec-
essary at intervals.
To prevent popular books from be-
ing taken out of circulation too much,
a student may take only one New
Book Room book at a time, and from
the regular stacks she may take out
two books of general reading and more
books if they are needed for a report.
Books must be returned at the end of
two weeks, and may be renewed for
another two weeks only if they are
returned on time (i. e., before the re-
ceipt of a first notice) and if no one
else wishes to use them. If books
are not returned on time and a notice
has to be sent for their return, they
may not be renewed but must be left
in the stacks for three days before
they may be taken again. If a sec-
ond, as well as the first, notice for the
return of a book is disregarded, the
stack privileges of the student are
withdrawn for two weeks. This means
that all stack books must be returned
and must be used in the Stack Room
for that period. These penalties are
necessary to prevent undue carelss-
ness in the use and return of books
and to give all users of the library a
�fair chance to use the books. The
policy of the library has always been
against penalizing late return of books
by money fines because of the ex-
pense to scholarship students; and
the removal of stack privileges was
adopted as a fit penalty in that it did
not actually deprive the student of
the use of books, since she might still
use books at the tables provided in
the stacks proper.
Since the institution of the Hon-
ours system, the library has extended
its rules so as to permit Honours
students to use books over a- longer
period of time. Such students are al-
lowed to take as many books as is
necessary for their .work, not exceed-
ing thirty at a time, and to keep them
for one semester. When signing the
bookcards they must, however, desig-
nate that they need the material for
Honours. Otherwise, they come un-
der the same rules as the other stu-
dents. Also, students other than Hon-
ours students who are working on
long reports may ask for and receive
the-"long-time" privilege. Permission
has to be given, however, because
many books are of a reference type
and they should not be kept from gen-
eral circulation indefinitely.
Hockey Elections
Barbara Cary, '36, and Sylvia
Evans, '37, have been elected
Captain and Manager respect-
ively of the hockey team for
1935.
Mr. Julien Bryan Will
Show Russian Movies
Marriage   and  Divorce   Courts,
Homes, Prisons, Theatres,
Aviation  Pictured
SIBERIA      IS     FEATURED
Julien Bryan, photographer and
lecturer on Russia, is coming to talk
and show motion pictures under the
sponsorship of the Bryn Mawr Com-
munity Center in Goodhart, Tuesday
evening, January 15. The picture
which he is going to show, Russia and
Siberia, is the sequel to Russia As 11
Was; Russia As. It Is.
Mr. Bryan is just returned with
this amazing new record of Russian
lifejfrom a four-months' trip, his fifth
visit to the Soviet Union. He spent
the first two months of last summer
photographing in and around Moscow,
Leningrad, ancient Novgorod and
along the Volga. Finally, leaving these
better known parts of Russia he went
to Karelia to see the White Sea-Baltic
Canal, scene of Madame Tchernavin's
Escape from the Soviets, and 4,000
miles to eastern Siberia to Buryat,
Mongolia. After a stop at Irkutsk,
the well-known stopping point of
round-the-world flyers, Mr. Bryan
chartered a small fishing boat for a
two weeks' trip to the fishing collec-
tives of beautiful Lake Baikal, a
journey that nearly ended in tragedy
during a severe storm such as is fre-
quently encountered on the lake, one
of the most dangerous lakes and one
of the largest inland bodies of water
in the world. From there he contin-
ued with much difficulty over the
steppes and through the swamps to
the northern Reindeer country of the
primitive Tuturi Tungus, a Mongol-
ian tribe that migrated into north-
ern Siberia from Manchuria a thou-
sand years ago and now lives there in
a primitive and semi-nomad state.
The movies he is planning to show
include pictures of homes, hospitals,
baby clinics, marriage and divorce
courts, actual trials in the people's
courts, Ambassador Bullitt and the
Embassy, Czarist prisons in Siberia,
Soviet aviation, Maxim Gorky, Nov-
gorod and its churches, Soviet sur-
gery, the new experimental theatres
where actors mingle with the audience,
the remarkable children's theatres,
Lama temples and strange religious
Continued  on  Page  Four
College Calamities
The yawning trench in front of the
Library which startled the eyes of
returning students is the result of a
college calamity. Last Friday a steam
pipe burst and repairs were under-
taken at once in order to insure heat
for the halls. The men worked night
and day, so that the repairs are now
nearly completed. Mr. Dougherty, the
college superintendent, fell into the
hole while supervising the work and
was  painfully injured.
The unusually dull lighting in the
halls which met us on Sunday night
was the result of a grounded electric
cable. The college was forced to rely
on reserve supplies of electricity and
fearing that the reserves might run
out "candles were supplies to light us
to bed. This precaution, however,
proved unnecessary.
Oxford Bows to Girls
e American Rhodes scholar. *"-
Larson, from South Dakota,
:ed a century-old Oxford Uni-
versity tradition recently, when he
forced the famous Union debating so-
ciety to open its rooms to women stu-
dents for the first time in its history.
At the same time, Oxford men m*.ut
it plain that their interest in co-eds
was purely financial.
Larson, as treasurer of the Union,
persuaded its 800 members to let girls
buy breakfasts and afternoon teas in
the club's halls, because their shil-
lings are needed to help finance a pro-
posed $7,500 dining room. His pro-
posal was accepted only after the
American had promised that women
"will never be allowed to roam all over
the place" and that a special entrance
would be provided for the feminine
invaders.
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Engagements and Marriages
The Christmas vacation seems to
have been most prolific in producing
engagements, not to mention a mar-
riage. Louise McCormick, '34, was
married to Montgomery Orr at a
small wedding in Chicago on January
4. Elizabeth Eaton, '35, has announc-
ed her engagement to Lyman Butter-
field. Eleanor Cheney, '35, has an-
nounced her engagement to Robert
Graves. Katherine Gribbel, '34, has
announced her engagement to Ray-
mond Carter,, and Leidy B. Saul, a
former member of the class of *35
and now a Senior at Radcliffe, has an-
nounced her engagement to Frederick
Vandenberg. Katherine Pier, '33, has
announced her engagement to Fred-
erick Farwell.
Investigation Shows
We Are Jazz-Hounds
Merion Has Largest Collection
With Rockefeller Second
in Song Hits
PEM    PREFERS    CLASSICS
Hats off to Merion for the largest
and most varied collection of Jazz
hits,�some, we must confess, in a
sad state of disrepair. We would
place Rock second, since it has a cou-
ple of drawers of discarded favorites,
besides the more recent songs. Den-
bigh, though equipped with a smaller
collection, is reasonably up-to-date.
For classical music, however, we must
go to the Pembrokes, East especial-
ly, where several students have pri-
vate collections of the great compos-
ers. Wagner and Tschaikowsky are
well represented, we found, while
some students enjoy German songs
and yodelling in their lighter mo-
ments.
The ideal Bryn Mawr Jazz-lover, as
Plato might say, goes in for astrono-
my. Almost anywhere one may hear
the wheezy hall victrola, generally
greatly in need of a new n^edlf", croon-
ing Stars Fell on Alabama, I Saw
Stars or Stardust. In most o� the
halls we also frequently hear Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes and Love in Bloom.
Much to our surprise we found that
the hall traditions in victrola playing
vary considerably. All the halls ex-
cept Pern West have an officially pub-
lic vie, but not all have public collec-
tions of records. The latter is not
such a bad idea we think, as we re-
flect on some of the distinctly obnox-
ious nieces hanging on in the more
economical halls. An inspection of
the record depositories in the halls
which have them reveals that Pu-hvzi
Mr. Hemingway was once a univer-
sal favorite. At least two of the halls
own such out-dated numbers as Kan-
sas City Kitty and Seven Years With
the Wrong Woman, besides newer se-
lections like Here Comes the British
Continued on Page Three
Ossinsky Describes
Planning in U.S.S.R.
Statistics    from    Industry   Are
Correlated to Form Basis
of Yearly Plans
LIT
NG STANDARD RISES
Deanery, January 7, 1935.
Before a large and interested gath-
ering, Mr. V. Valery Ossinsky de-
scribed How Plans Are Made in Sov-
iet Russia. Mr. Ossinsky is director
of the National Bureau of Economic
Accounting which forms one of the
two main divisions of the central plan-
ning body, the Gosplan.
In order to discuss planning as it is
done in Russia, something must be
said of the social background of plan-
ning. The most imperative need in
Russia has always been the necessity
for a rapid advance in industrial pro-
duction. The first step in this direc-
tion is the socialization of all means
of transportation, production and dis-
tribution. The second is a central-
ized control of planning under a spe-
cial commissariat for each 'economic
group, leading up to a central plan-
ning body. The third requirement is
the abolition of classes and social di-
visions of labor. An important corol-
lary of this is the raising of the
standard of living of the wage earn-
ers.
Planning cannot be either accurate
or useful unless there is a correct sta-
tistical estimate of the state of the
country preceding the' plan, and these
figures must form the basis of com-
parison for future progress. In Rus-
sia there is a special department
which collects and edits these statis-
tics, directly connected with the Gos-
plan. Each economic unit has to send
statistical reports to this department
on specific dates in the year. The re-
ports go to the commissariat for each
industrial group. The commissariats
send summaries of these reports to
the Central Bureau, which edits them.
The Gosplan also analyzes the signifi-
cance of the statistics and makes them
the basis of future plans. In this
way the second Five Year plan came
into being.
After correlating the statistics, the
Gosplan gives them to the Central Po-
litical Bureau, which defines the limit
figures of the future period. This
must be done as concisely and accu-
rately as possible, and the statistics
are then re-expressed to dramatize
the aims and purposes of the plan.
The foundation of the first plan was
the building up of a sound basis for
the social economy. The most im-
portant method of achieving this was
the stimulation of production in the
heavy industries, or the so-called
Group A. The second plan aims at
a    completed    social    economy    and
stresses particularly the greater de-
Contlnued on  Page  Four
All We Know Is That the Papers Say
We "Barked" Alarm at Our "Peeping Tom"
There seems to be no getting away
from the old proverb to the effect that
it's a wise event that knows its own
write-up. Once again its truth ha�
been proved, and that on the Bryn
Mawr campus. ^
The night  bJtore  Christm&S  vaca-
tion at about the hour of midnight,
a  student  was  packing  in  anticipa-
tion of the morrow, her mind flitting
giddily over the high spots to come.
Suddenly  her  train   of thought   was
rudely arrested by a cu'riQyafcscraping
sound outride her* window.    She tore
oimrghtway to the smoking room and
eventually, after several unsuccessful
attempts, and one solitary return, per-
suaded the students there to return
with  her.     They  all  saw  a  shadow
behind the curtain; gettinc lotre*
they counted ten an�#
pulled the curtain ba
you pretty creatur
upon thewindo
casually abouj|
man, surveyii
The warder
man  called,
but firmly rei
they departed in the general direction
of the jail. Shortly thereafter, the
watchman phoned to say that the man
had escaped, bio one went to bed un-
til the wardeA^id tf^jjajhonod and
'^)een, tt�ld that the man was "Hriiiij
clasped again in the bosom of the law.
It is with much amazement that
we read in the newspapers that the
prowler had been observed for more
thin a month, looking in windows and
climbing campus trees. With even
more astonishment, we learn that "ten
college watchmen tried to capture the
intruder," and that "dogs, the pets of
students, barked an alarm." Now we
don't know what to think. We're
worried about the increase in the
number of watchmen: it is a bitter
iliyate window-
bjMiurt,
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