College News, 1935-01-16, Vol. 21, No. 11

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College News
VOL. XXI, No. 11
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935
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American Ballet Will
Give "Alma Mater"
Million Dollar Fund Committee
Sponsors Program by New
School of Dance
WARBURG IS A FOUNDER
On Thursday and Friday, February
7 and 8, Bryn Mawr is to have the
great privilege of witnessing the sec-
ond performance of the newly organ-
ized American Ballet. The Ballet,
which was founded in January, 1934,
is giving these two performances hero
before its New York debut, and is be-
ing brought here through the agency
of the Philadelphia Committee of the
Million Dollar Drive.
The School of American Ballet is the
first of its kind to be organized in
this country. It is making a very dis-
tinguished contribution to American
creative art and its progress is being
followed with keen interest, not only
by Americans, but also by Europeans
who heretofore have been responsible
for every new development of the
dance. The idea of the American
School of Ballet originated with Ed-
ward Warburg and Lincoln Kerstein,
graduates of Harvard, '30, but it was
not until a year ago that the Ballet
was organized with the aid of George
Ballanchine and Vladimir Dimitriew.
The American Ballet had its pre-
miere at the Avery Memorial Theatre
in Hartford, Connecticut, on Decem-
ber 7 and 8. It was enthusiastically
received by critics as an epoch making
event. The repertoire included Mo-
martiana, with music by Mozart and I
costumes by Charles Berard; Alma
Mater, with book by E. M. M. War-
burg, music by Kay Smith, and set by
John Held, Jr.; and Transcendance,
with music by Franz Liszt, arrang-
ed by George Anthiel, and costumes
and set by Franklin Watkins. It is
the plan of the founders to have as
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COLLEGE   NKV.s.   1934
PRICE 10 CENTS
Decision on May Day,
Comprehensives Made
The. Faculty has decided that the
system of Comprehensives will not be
inaugurated next year (1936) regard-
loss of whether Big May Day is held
or not. The Faculty also requested
with regard to Big May Day, that if
it is to be held, the students should
work out the year's schedule of hours
so that no actual hours of class or
laboratory work will be cut by the ar-
rangement of rehearsals.
The official statement of the Fac-
ulty is as follows, that if the students
vote to give Big May Day, they will
be asked to submit before March 1 a
plan by which preparation for May
Day be modified so that it does nol
necessitate loss of hours of lectures or
laboratory.
New Formulae Tried
In   Recent   Lantern
Miss King Finds Modern Spirit,
Writing For Its Own Sake
In Quarterly
SPONTANEITY      PRAISED
Yale Men Want to Know
Our "Ideal College Man'
We have received the following com-
munication from the Yale News Board
and feel that enlightening information
should be solicited from the college on
the  requested answers.    Letters will
be gratefully received.
Editor Bryn Mawr News,
Bryn  Mawr  College,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Dear Madame:
(Especially contributed  by   Professor
Georgiana Goddard King)
Last year, in a review of the open-
ing number of the Lantern it was�
in a way � suggested that no one
should write for it except such as
could not possibly be prevented from
writing. The recommendation seems
to have been apprehended and�more
or less�this year, tried.
In the December number, certainly.
Of course, the trail of the formula is
over it all�if one looks�but they are
the new formulae, and that betrays
the spontaneity. To use the new for-
mula, is to be modern, to accede to
the irresistible.
Take the surprises: in Lea Cloches,
the breakfast table is a supper ta-
ble, the mother is unmotherly, the
close is on a note of pain; in Viola
the hairdressing, the touch of pity,
the appearance of the Blessed Virgin
Mary,�all unexpected! The metre of
Artemis is a revival like a costume
play, but suited to the theme, and the
caesural pauses enter with real and
unexpected delicacy; in They Would
Sing, the elisions and inversions play
a large part in communicating the in-
tention but a greater part the heavy
and obstructive though never unpoetic
diction. It is of today. The essay on
John Donne and T. S. Eliot is a close
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Mr. De Loache Sings
Diversified ^Program
Fine Quality of Voice Is Suited
To Brilliant, Dramatic Music,
Interpretation
SPIRITUALS     EXCELLENT
CAROLINE McCORMICK SLADE
Mrs. Slade Appeals
for �1,000,000 Drive
More Students, New Dormitory
Proposed in Seven Year
Plan for College
STRESS     SCIENCE     HAL1
The Yale News Board is preparing 1^ rather excjtjnK analysis and dis-
an article by soliciting information I proof of a critica, commonplace, and
from the editors of the various woiu-!tho outcome is onlv not too pood for
ens college newspapers. We would L� undergraduate publication because
appreciate your co-operation in an- [nothinJ?) really ^ theoretically, could
swering the following questions:         k, too good for.that.
1) General student opinion as to of the Extractl1 from a Da�book
the relative popularity of the leading itherc is eithep too much or too litt!o\
mens colleges.                                         tll(1U(rh u js fu]| of vivid stuff     Th(,
(2)     Which men's college students\mMm for Nov. 24 and Nov. 30 aro
are most frequent visitors to your di8proiKWaonate, while including sub-
campus.                                                   !|ilizings;   if  these   paragraphs   were
(3)     Wh.ch  men's    college     house jomitted the pillow would  still not   ,�.
party or particular week-end
popular with your students?
is most
left unique,  for  there  would  be  still
the entry of Nov. 19; but only four
(4)     Which men's college students JlonRer sections wouJd reniain   Somo_
are most aggressive when on dates?   L,.      ^ mipht hjyc taken th(i p,aoo
(5)     Would you be in favor of de-'  f  thosc  that  drap     By  the  samf>>
veloping    a    method    of    arranging[oertrude Stein:  this  is  primarily  a
blind dates" for the backward ifo- \Hon           but secondarilv> and morP
dents?
l6) Do you think it would be ad-
visable to set aside one week-end each
year to have the students dutch date?
(7) What is the "ideal type of col-
lege man" to whom your women show
most  preference?
(8) Describe, in less -than ten
words, your opinion as to a "standard-
feed college man" from Yajei Har-
vard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Wesle-
yan, Williams, Amherst, Holy Cross,
and Brown.
Your answer to these questions, to-
gether with reasons for the formation
of your opinions will aid us greatly
in compiling our data.
Any statements on these questions
that you might obtain from other im-
portant women on the campus would
also be helpful.
Many thanks!
to the purpose, it is both just and
vivid, lucid, communicating the feeling:
of a crowd, in spots subtle. Lastly
The Billfold is something done, that
could not have been done in any other
way, and that was worth doing.
Everything in this Lantern, then, in
somehow modern, somehow worked
out for its own sake.
College Calendar
�Thursday, January 17. Chris-
topher Morley on Stream Lines
in Literature. 4.15 P. M. Dean-
ery.
Friday, January 18. Vienna
Choir Boys. 8.20 P. M. Good-
hart.
Monday, January 21. Mid-
Year Examinations  Begin.
A Million Dollar gift to celebrate
the Fiftieth Anniversary of Bryn
Mawr  College!
That was the vote of the Alumnae
Association at its annual meeting
last June, And now that the anni-
versary is less than a year away,
plans are being laid to turn this
high   hope   into  a   reality.
Two questions are before us:
Where can we find so vast a sum in
these days; and what will be done
with it when it is found?
Because of the splendid organiza-
tion of the Alumnae Association
throughout the country, the ground-
work is already laid, and district
quotas have been assigned and ac-
cepted.
The National Committee will have
various plans and suggestions to
offer from time to time,- and will
always be ready to co-operate with
all the districts; but every district
will make its own plans and reach
its goal in  its own  way.       ji-
After all, one million do.Tiis di-
vided between the years of Bryn
Mawr's � ^xis^ence means twenty
thousand dollars for each year. One
million dollars divided among Bryn
Mawr's five thousand alumnae is
t\vo hundred  dollars  per capita.
Bryn Mawr's immediate need is
a new Science Building. To any-
one who has been through Dalton in
these Jast- yeaia, no -words are "heed-
Chairman of Alumnae
Fund   is   Organizer
Caroline McCormick Slade Will
Bring Record of Success
to the Drive
IS BRYN MAWR DIRECTOR
To Caroline McCormick Slade in
October, 1934, the Executive Board
of the Alumnae Association sent its
President, Elizabeth Bent Clark, to
beg her to assume the leadership of
the Fiftieth Anniversary Fund Cam-
paign. That Mrs. Slade was per-
suaded to accept was due we
think to the argument that if she
refused after her two successes in
1920 and 1925 it would be because
she felt it was impossible to raise
a million dollars now. Be this I In
reason or not the fact remains that she
has    accepted.      For    those    of    the
(Especially contributed by Liuntt
Richardson, '30)
On Wednesday evening, January 9,
Benjamin De Loache gave a recital in
Goodhart Hall to a small but enthusi-
astic audience. Mr. De Loache, who
won the Atwater Kent radio award
several years ago and subsequently
held a scholarship at the Curtis Insti-
tute, has been heard a number of times
with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He
has a baritone voice of fine quality
which is especially well suited to bril-
liant and dramatic music, but his in-
telligence and good taste stand him in
good stead in the more subdued type of
song and compensate to a large de-
gree for the loss of roundness and
richness of tone quality. Maurice Ja-
quet, pianist, provided sympathetic ac-
companiments throughout the evening.
The proc-ram opened with the Han-
del aria, "Revenge, Timotheus Cries."
"Mr. De Loache sang with dramatic
fervour, but sacrificed none of the
smoothness'so difficult to achieve in
long'melismatic phrases. The second
song. "Nina," of Pergolese, was con-
trastingly subdued and lyrical. Here
Mr. De Loache seemed strained and
inclined to sing sharp. This was un- �
douhtedly due to nervousness. The
scattered audience, which was swal-
lowed up in the size of the auditorium,
gradually moved into a more compact
body in the front section and the rap-
port between singer and audience be-
came noticeably more sympathetic.
The aria "Non piu Andrai" from
The "Marriage of Figaro," by Mozart,
concluding the first group of songs,
was sung with clarity of diction and
verve.
The second group of songs was de-
voted to songs of Schubert and Rich-
ard Strauss. Of the three Schubert
songs, "Der Sturmische Morgen,"
from the Winterreise Cycl#�, seemed to
suit Mr. De Loache's voice the best.
His tone was brisk and incisive with-
out being strident, whereas in "Der
Neugierige" and "Wanderer's Nacht-
lied" there was some huskiness in
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Concert Will be Given
By Vienna Choir Boys
The Vienna Choir Boys, who com-
pletely won the praises (if Hryn Mawr
lasfwinler. will sing in GbodhaFl Mall
again this year on the ni^ht of Fri-
day, January the 18. This is the
third year that this famous musical
organization   has  consented   t<>  make
younger generation who have yet to:.,,, Amel.ican tour and theil. p,(pU|;lr.
work with her we mention some of ity is constantly increasing Audi-
her  life history as found   in  "Who's (,nces and the p,.ess ,.v,.1.yw|1(.1,. MilV(.
Who."
Mrs. Slade is a Director of Bryn
Mawr Coyege, Vice-Chairman of the
Board     of    Directors     and    of     the
acclaimed them as "the most beloved
choir in the world," while the talent
and excellence of their performances
have excited   world-wide   praise   from
Executive Committee and  a member I the critics.
ed   to   explain  that   it   i�  pujtgrown, .*><    the    Hoover
inadequate, and unequal to flie re-
quirements of the first-rate scientific
work which from the beginning of
the  College  has  been  outstanding.
President Park has outlined for
us the new and vivid approach to
science which Bryn Mawr can inau-
gurate; and this makes more than
ever immediate the need for an ade-
quate and modern science building.
The outright purchase of Wynd-
ham has waited for this anniversary
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of the Finance Committee. She was
one of the most energetic leaders in
obtaining the vote for women, hav-
ing worked as a member of the
Equal Suffrage League and as Vice-
Chairman of the Woman Suffrage
Party of New York City. She is
a rofcmber of the New York League
of Women Voters. She was President'
of the Junior League of New York
City from 1915 to 1917. Mrs. Sla<J<.
was active in war releif work, hav-
ing been Chairman of thfe Women's
division of the War Work Council
of the Y.  M.
Gr-Ar-and-a" -member century.    Mtrcart,   HaydtL and   Shu-
er     European     Relfef bert   have  aTl  been   members   of  this
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Vienna Choir Boys
Tickets for the concert of the
Vienna Choir Boys are available
at the Publications Office for
$1.00 in the first section, $C.7;>
in the second section, and $0.50
in the balcony. Tickets must be
paid for at once and may not
be put on /ay day.
This organization, the Wiener San-
i/erknaben, was founded by the im-
perial decree of" ErrpfJi* Maximilian
in the year 1498. Ever since tiieH ~
the traditions and ideals of the choir
have been scrupulously maintained.
The boys are selected from hundreds
of applicants all over \-ustria for tSfcf*
particular VoCaV and* musical talents
and. iheir fine personal characters.
Only forty are admitted after rigid
competitive examinations, and these
live in the old Vienna Hofliurg cas-
tle,  which   was  built   in  the  eleventh
venerable organization.
It is maintained by the State with
the purpose not of making profits but
of rendering good music. The life of
the boys is full nf tjie fine musical
tradition of half a millenitira; ItJS\_
only very recently that they have con-
sented to appear in public concerts in
answer to tremendous demand. The
average age of the boys is twelve
years, for after their voices begin to
deepen they are placed in clerical in-
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