College News, 1935-11-13, Vol. 22, No. 05

              The College News
VOL. XXII, No. 5
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1935
Copyrlfht  BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE    NEWS,    1935
pfclCE 10 CENTS
George Rowley To Be
Chinese Art Speaker
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Eminent   Connoisseur,   Lecturer
Will Bring Original Paintings
to   Deanery
STUDENTS   ENTER    FREE
Mr. George Rowley, M. F. A., Cura-
tor of Far Eastern Art and Associate
Professor of Art and Archaeology at
Princeton University, will come to
Bryn Mawr for a series of three im-
portant lectures on Chinese painting,
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, No-
vember 17, 18 and 19. The lectures
will be given in the Deanery at 5
o'clock in the afternoon of each day.
The first and second will be illustrated
by lantern slides and the third with
original Chinese paintings which Mr.
Rowley has obtained for the series
from the DuBois Morris collection.
This important lecture series is being
sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship
Committee, the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation and the Entertainment Com-
mittee of the Deanery.
Mr. Rowley is one of the most emi-
ment connoisseurs of Chinese painting
in America. He has done much by his
work at Princeton and by outside lec-
tures to increase and stimulate inter-
est in the subject in America and to
make the ideals of the art understand-
able to Western students-. He is
known as one of the most stimulating
lecturers at Princeton, and among his
eminent pupils are the Directors of
the Worcester Museum and of the Far
East Department of the Brooklyn Mu-
seum. At one time he taught the
course in Art of the Far East here at
Bryn Mawr.
Last autumn Mr. Rowley gave an
intensely interesting lecture on Chi-
nese painting in Goodhart, in which
he emphasized the importance of the
Eastern view of nature and philosophy
in the painting. The Chinese artist
sought to express not the likeness but
the essence of the object contemplat-
ed, and to do this an exquisite linear
technique was developed. Brush
strokes of the greatest delicacy and
subtlest shading are the essential ele-
ments of this technique. The harmonies
of the Tao, or the universe, were to the
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Canaday Peace Delegate*'
*     At Swarthmore Meeting
Bryn Mawr was not the only local
college to hold an Armistice Day pro-
gram. Swarthmore College devoted
its morning Collection to speeches on
the subject of peace. Representatives
from neighboring colleges attended
and spoke to the students. Doreen
Canaday was the delegate from Bryn
Mawr.
The speakers were introduced by
President Adylotte, who spoke briefly,
and then turned the meeting over to
the first of the guest speakers, Cyril
Riley, a senior at Lincoln University.
Mr. Riley urged students to gain a
real appreciation of the importance
of peace and to work hard to make
war an impossible thing in the future.
The next speaker was Doreen
Canaday, a member of the class of
1936 here, who emphasized the neces-
sity for understanding the causes of
war before striving to secure peace.
She stressed the lack of proportion
between the overpopulation of the Eu-
ropean countries and the distribution
of wealth, which is one of the main
causes of war. Another great factor
which, encourages war is the human
urge to fight. This difficulty .can be
surmounted by making peace a con-
cern worth fighting for. Miss Cana-
day ended her talk by taking an active
stand in favor of the entry of the
United States into the League of
Nations. The United States, by fail-
ing to join this body at the time of
its organization and its subsequent
refusal to participate in many of its
most important activities, must take
a large share of the responsibility for
the present ineptitude and collapse of
the League.
Robert Wolf, of Haverford College,
closed the ceremonies. He began by
remarking that it must be an Armis-
tice Day indeed if it were possible for
a Haverford student to address a
Swarthmore audience in such a peace-
ful fashion. This remark completely
won the attention of his hearers. Mr.
Wolf pointed out that the number of
students who are peace advocates is
constantly growing. The force of
their conviction is even greater than
that of past peace advocates because
they argue for peace without any pre-
vious experience of what war is like.
College Calendar   �
Saturday, November 16: Var-
sity Hockey vs. Swarthmore, at
11 o'clock.
Sunday, November 17: Mr.
George Rowley will give an il-
lustrated talk on Chinese Paint-
ing.   The Deanery at 5.00 P. M.
Sunday, November 1J: Sun-
day evening service led by the
Rev. William Merrill. Music
Room at 8.00 P. M.
Monday, November 18: Var-
sity Hockey vs. Merion C. C.
Second Team � vs. Manheim
Blacks, at 4.00 P.  M.
Monday, November 18: Mr.
George Rowley will speak on
Chinese Painting in the Deanery
at 5.00 P. M.
Tuesday, November 19: Mr.
George Rowley will complete his
talks on Chinese Painting. Orig-
inal paintings will be shown.
The Deanery at 5.00 P. M.
Progressive Teaching
Principles   Discussed
Miss Katherine Taylor Believes
Children Ought To Express
Ideas In Work
Beauty, Intellect Harmoniously Combined
At Bryn Mawr, Writes French Magazine
With what pleasure and amusement
did the editors of The College News
read the article reprinted below in its
original form! We publish along
with it part of the letter in which it
was enclosed. Catherine Bill, .'35,
sent us the clipping, which she found
in  a weekly French paper:
"Considering the enclosed article
entirely newsworthy, perhaps also
valuable as propaganda for Body Me-
chanics, I am sending it to you in
case you agree- It is the third of a
series of articles, entitled "Style and
Beauty in New York." The first was
a most illuminating description of a
cheap New York hairdresser with her
wonderful friends and artistic way of
making up her customers. The sec-
ond is an alluring account of Eliza-
beth Arden's reducing camp in
Maine. The third contains an appre-
ciation of Bryn Mawr. Apparently
the theme of the author is to en-
courage French women to copy the
'belle Americaine' in sensible diet, in
sports, in bright colors, in calmer
make-up. Her one criticism so far
has been that American women over-
dress a good deal of the time. Other-
wise the article is unadulterated
praise. If New York copies Paris,
Paris copies New York with twice the
� fervor and with much more sincerity.
In every article written for women,
the author is exhorting the women of
France to become conscious of 'la
ligne.' It is strictly nationalism. The
French Academy of Beauty, unof-
ficially, is worried because French
women are no longer the most beau-
tiful in the world. Bryn Mawr ap-
parently has the lead!
"The paper that published this is
called Marianne and is a weekly. It
is one of the most popular weeklies
because of its clever cross-word puz-
zles and ai'ticles by Andre Maurois.
Conclusion: Most of France knows
of Bryn Mawr as the spot where
beauty and intellect are harmoniously
combined."
We reprint below the part of the
article which pertains to Bryn Mawr
College. The author is Madame
Auclair, whom students may remem-
ber from her visit to the campus. The
article is reprinted in French, so get
out your dictionaries and incidentally
get some practice for the French Oral
next spring!
"J'ai eu le temps de visiter le college
de Bryn Mawr, qui rouvrait juste
avant mon depart. C'est le college
de filles le plus intellectuel de l'Ameri-
que, ses eleves sont reputees pour etre
plus savantes que sportives. Alors, que
sont les autres? Je n'ai vu la que
jeunes filles fraiches et magnifique-
ment baties; on ne saurait les prendre
pour des souris de bibliotheque.
"J'ai interviewe la directrice de l'edu-
cation physique, miss Josephine Petts.
Elle m'a montr� les fiches ou Ton en-
registre poids et mesures de chaque
eleve, defauts a corriger, sports qui
conviennent le mieux a son type et a
ses besoins, et oil l'on prend note des
progres accbthplis. Elle s'excusait en
me montrant le pavilion des sports:
il parait que ca n'est pas moderae,
mais pas du tout...                       %    . *
"J'avais bien bonte:-laquelle de nos
ecoles ne serait fiere de la piscine de
Bryn Mawr?... Cette grande piscine
toute scintillante de carrelages purs et
d'une eau verte? A cote, le vestiaire:
les maillots de bains, fournis par le
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APPRENTICE   JOBS   OPEN
Common Room, November 7.�Prin-
ciples of teaching in progressive
schools and opportunities afforded to
apprentice teachers were discussed by
Miss Katherine Taylor, of the Shady
Hill School, Cambridge, Mass., in the
first vocational tea of the year. She
emphasized the attempt of the teacher
to relate the varied studies pursued
by the children and to hold their in-
terest by carrying over the ideas de-
devolped in one course into others.
Attention to the individual needs
and capacities of the children is an
important principle. Miss Taylor
showed some interesting drawing work
to illustrate this. The youngest pupils
are taken out into the school yard and
set to work drawing some such com-
monplace object as the school build-
ing. Each one is encouraged to draw
exactly what he sees. The differ-
ences among the drawings were amaz-
ing, not so much in quality as in the
varied impressions of the same thing
recorded by each child. The work in
drawing is continued until the sev-
enth^or eighth grade and follows the
line of? individual development.
Science is taught in much the same
way. Everything is illustrated by
visual experience and by laboratory
experiment. The children do not draw
volcanos after reading about what
they are like; instead, they build a
working volcano out of plasticene.
Every chance idea advanced by a
pupil which has a possibility of prac-
tical use in the class is taken over
by the teacher as an aid in leading
discussion or in developing some new
topic. If one of the pupils mentions
reading something about the League
of Nations in the paper, the teacher
brings the matter up in history class
and describes how the League came
into being. Then, perhaps, a problem
for the English class will arise
through attempts to write an account
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Miss Park Urges All
To Keep Off Grass
Goodhart, November 7.�The recent
Fiftieth Anniversary celebration, the
tuberculin tests and the grass were
the subjects of Miss Park's speech in
chapel. She urgently requested the
college to remember that the grass is
one of the most decorative features
of Big May Day, and that every care
must be taken to have it look as well
as possible. Experts say that walk-
ing on/ttie grass does not hurt it when
the jsoil is hard and dry. In wet
weather, however, all walking on the
grass, particularly with sharp heels,
is injurious because it breaks off the
outer skin and prevents the grass from
growing again. One must also be
very careful not to walk on the grass
during thaws, when the ground is
soft.
The, Fiftieth Anniversary celebra-
tion deserves several comments. Miss
Park particularly wished to thank the
undergraduates for their share in mak-
ing the*week-end a success. In par-
ticular she thanked the Rockefeller
students for giving up their rooms to
the guests of the college; the decora-
tors of the gymnasium, who success-
fully used leaves and flowers to beau-
tify it; the ushers at the various pro-
grams, and the students who sang in
the "Historical Sketches."
The Fiftieth Anniversary cere-
monies were remarkable, because
while celebrating the achievements of
the present, we still had our hand
on the beginning of things. The pres-
ence of Miss Thomas and of twelve out
of thirty-two members of the class of
1889, emphasized the bond that unites
the present with the past. This par-
ticular bond, in the natural course of
events, can never be so vividly rea-
lized at any future celebration.
It had been hoped that the whole
college could be present at the Satur-
day morning program, but this proved
impossible. It was through a misun-
derstanding and a mistake in dates
that the announcement was made that
Cornelia Otis Skinner would give a
monologue on both nights. She at
first accepted for Saturday night
alone, and then when she found that
she would be free on Friday only, she
accepted by mistake for the dinner on
Saturday instead of Friday. Only
after the announcement had been
made did she explain that the Satur-
day  performance  was impossible.
A letter from Dr. Charles Hatfield,
head of the Henry Phipps Institute
for the Study, Treatment and Pre-
vention of Tuberculosis, was also read.
He regretted that he had not been
able to hear Dr. Sabin, and praised
Continued  on  Page  Four
Speakers Name Many
Methods To End War
Professors,    Students    Proclaim
Unanimous Desire For Peace
At    Mass    Meeting
NATIONALISM IS MENACE
Goodhart, November 11.�A univer-
sal desire for peace and various meth-
ods of attaining that desire were ex-
pressed by the seven speakers at the
college mass-meeting lor peace. All
agreed that nationalism is an unjusti-
fiable evil, that peace must have more
stable foundations than artificial trea-
ties, and that the winning of peace de-
pends not so much on talking as on
acting. The moment for this action
is not in a year or so when we are out
of college, but right now!
Eteanor Sayre, president of the In- '
ternational Relations Club, introduced
the seven speakers, who represented
various departments and interests
among the faculty and students. Dean
Manning referred to the argument for
pacifism which Norman Angell pro-
pounded in his book, The Great Illu-
sion, published a few years before the
war. Today we are returning ta his
argument that war is unprofitable
for everyone, victor and victim alike.
Directly after the Great War, it was
claimed that the world was now safe
for democracy, but events have con-
tradicted this. Similarly, the stress
on pacifism because of the horrors
of war has lost its force. Today na-
tional rulers are still claiming that
they must make war to gain some-
thing for their people. Actually, the
people gain nothing. The history of
colonization shows that the problem
of o%'erpopulation and unemployment
is never solved by colonization or ex-
pansion. In two cases, those of Great
Britain and New England, the people
are worse off than before. England
is commonly called a supersaturated
nation; but the United States is in
the same situation, and it rests with
us, therefore, to take the responsibil-
ity which we are now shirking. By
our reluctance in this instance to take
part in the struggle for peace, we are
bringing on another World War.
Eleanor  Fabyan,  president  of  the
Undergraduate   Association,  put  her
question:    "Are we willing to pay the
price of peace?"   Both individuals and
Continued on rage Three
Powerhouse   Troubles
Cause Candle Revival
Sunday Movies on Main Line!
It will be noted by those who devote
themselves to the perusal of the news
of the local movies in this newspaper
that the Seville and Anthony Wayne
theatres have scheduled regular
screen performances on Sunday after-
noon and evening at regular weekday
times. The new system goes into ef-
fect this week.
This is the beginning of a new era;
from now on movies will be shown at
2, 7 and 9 o'clock every Sunday. The
law that makes this possible is a State
statute allowing the towns to make
their own decisions in the matter of
Sunday movies. The results of the
recent local elections made the pos-
sibility a reality. This is the first
time in the history of the Seville that
a regular non-benefit performance has
been given on Sunday. The movie
scheduled for next Sunday is Fred
Astaire's latest masterpiece, Top Hat.
The eastern end of the campus was
plunged into darkness last Thursday
night on two separate occasions. The
first time occurred at about 6 o'clock,
when the lights suddenly went out in
Dalton, Denbigh, Pembroke East, the
Infirmary and Dolgelly for a space of
fifteen minutes. These buildings ex-
hibited signs of life, however, as
candles which had long been used for
decorative purposes alone were draft-
ed into use. The fire captains thus
I had a busy time seeing that no fires
I were started by this means.
After the lights came on there were
1 many queries about the cause of all
; the trouble.    No one seemed to know.
| Mr. Dougherty was busy trying to re-
pair the damages.    During supper it
was announced that the lights would
go off again  and  students hurriedly
assembled    candles    for    the    tables.
| When  the  lights  went off they  pro-
ceeded to enjoy the rest of the meal
by   candlelight.     Those   in   Denbigh
were  so  pleased  with the  idea  that
they want to eat dinner once a week
by candlelight, because of its civilizing
effect!
The most profound research by
members of the News board, however,
has not revealed the cause of the
trouble and all we could find out is
the rather obvious fact that something
somewhere was wrong with the wir-
ing.
Academic    Processions
Are Arranged By Rank
The occurrence of a history-making
academic procession at Bryn Mawr a
week ago has sent a wandering report-
er out to gather the facts on how such
processions are arranged. The prob-
lem of placing notables in their proper
rank must have been an extremely
delicate matter before a fixed system
was established. Now at Bryn Mawr,
the Baccalaureate procession is ar-
ranged in order of descending rank,
the president walking at the head of
the procession. For Commencement
the order is reversed, and the pro-
cession goes according to ascending
rank, with the higher ranking digni-
taries marching toward the end of the
line and the president last of all. It
was the Commencement order which
was followed at the Fiftieth Anniver-
sary celebration.
As is the custom, visiting dignitaries,
such as the representatives of colleges,
universities and learned societies at
the recent celebration, are arranged
in chronological order of the founding
of the several institutions which they
represent. The faculty of the college,
led by the two deans, line up in con-
formity to the alphabetical order of
the department in the college, and
within that by rank of. professor and
instructor. If a member of the fac- ^,
ulty is also a representative of an
institution, he may walk in whichever
position in the procession that he
wishes. In the recent ceremony there
were some alumnae who were both \
representatives of their classes and
members of the Board of Directors,
hut chose to walk with their classes.
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