College News, 1937-03-17, Vol. 23, No. 18

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The College News
VOL. XXIII, No. 18
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1937     m�SEf12l&Zn}S�&&m0W~m,
PRICE 10 CENTS
Personal Comment
Voiced by Faculty
On  Man Lectures
.Spur     to     Discussion     Praised,
Opinions Vary on Success
OF Integration
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
WISH TO CONTRIBUTE
There seems to be unanimous agree-
ment among faculty members about
the success of the lectures on man.
In their individual comments they
stressed first of all the value per sc
of such experiments and the stimulus
they give to outside discussion. Their
reasons for the former were varied,
some closely related to their own aca-
demic fields, some stated as personal
points of view.
Mr. Anderson, of the Department
of Economics, thinks that the lectures
started discussion which would not
otherwise have taken place, and that
for this reason they were important
and extremely successful. He does
not mean the discussion that took
place after each lecture, but the talk-
ing over between students of the prob-
lems presented by the speakers. He
thinks that another series of the same
sort would be a good idea, but, he
adds, by people of the same compe-
tence.
In this he was seconded by Mrs. de
Laguna, of the Department of Phi-
losophy, who suggested a new series
another year and on another subject.
She is equally enthusiastic about the
lectures as a whole and approves of
the discussions, which seemed to her
to show real interest on the part of
the students. In this case she thinks
the idea of an outside speaker was
a good one; but that the integration
of the lectures was not wholly suc-
cessful.
It is interesting to note the differ-
ences of opinion on this point. In-
tegration was Miss Fairchild'8 espe-
cial problem. There seemed to her
to be a decided attempt to achieve
this between the subjects of Miss Du-
bois and Mr. MacKinnon. Miss Du-
bois's representation was particularly
valuable to the Department of Social
Economy because of its interest in
anthropology. In future lectures this
department would like to take some
part itself, and is in favor of as much
integration as possible in the field of
the social sciences. This sort of in-
tegration could be worked out, and in
fact, is going to be worked out in an
v"T experiment of the same kind�the
coming of Mrs. Wooton, who will at-
tempt to tie together the work of dif-
ferent departments.
Mr. Michels, of the Physics Depart-
ment, saw one very interesting result,
which is related to Miss Fairchild's
Continued on Pare Four
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, March 17.�Mov-
ies, Emil und die Detektive.
Goodhart, 8.30 p. m.
Philosophy Club meeting.
Common Room, 4.30 p. m.
Thursday, March 18.�Concert �
by   Miss   Myra   Hess,   pianist.
Goodhart, 8.30 p. m.
Friday, March 19.�Announce-
ment of Graduate European
Fellowships. Music Room, 8.45
a. m.
Swimming meet with Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Gymna-
sium, 4.80 p. m.
Saturday, March 20.�French
Club play, L'Ecole des Marie.
Goodhart, 8.30 p. m.
Dance following play. Gym-
nasium.
Sunday, March 21.�Dr. Chris-
tian Brinton will speak on Art
Kin the Soviet Union.    Deanery,
5 p. in.
Sunday service, with talk by
Mrs. Harper Sibley, of Roches-
ter, N. Y.
Monday, March 22.�Gordon
Childe will speak on Indus Civili-
zation.     Goodhart, 8.15.
Tuesday, MarcfSsS.�Current
Events.    Common Room, 7.30.
Philosophy Club meeting.
Common Room, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, March 24.�Miss
Cornelia Otis Skinner will pre-
sent a group of modem mono-
logues and the Loves of Charles
II.   Goodhart, 8."30 p. m.
Thursday, March 25, or Fri-
day, March 26.�-Spring Vaca-
tion begins.
French Club Drama
Is Typical Comedy
Of   Classic   Period
SENIORS MUST TAKE
EXAMS IN REQUIREDS
Monday, March IS.�Mrs. Manning
sent the News the following announce-
ment regarding final examinations for
seniors:
"All seniors who are doing satisfac-
tory work are excused from their
course examinations in the second
semester except those in required
�Courses. Psychology counts as a re-
quired course for students majoring
in philosophy.
"Quizzes to cover the work of the sec-
ond half of the semester may be re-
quired of seniors and will be scheduled
for the second week of the examina-
tion period. The procedure with re-
gard to these quizzes will be very
much.the same as in the first semester.
"Seniors who must take course ex-
aminations because their work in the
course has not been satisfactory will
receive a notice to that effect from
the Dean's office.                      �       � -
"In general, the schedule for the final
examination in the major subject will
run from Monday, May 17, to Monday,
May 24, inclusive. Further details
with regard to this schedule will not
be available un^il after the spring va-
cation."
Opening Setting Will Represent
Authentic Street Scene
of 17th Century
"TRUE LOVE" EMERGES
VICTORIOUS  IN   PLOT
League Pushes Drive to Collect Clothing
For Bryn Mawr Hospital Thrift Shop
Sale at Minimum Prices Serves
Two-Fold Purpose of Economy
For Clinic and Buyers
From now until Spring vacation be
on the lookout for sweaters, skirts,
blouses, anything you might wish to
exclude from your wardrobe. Some-
one else can use them. The Bryn
Mawr League' is sponsoring a drive
for the Thrift Shop of the Bryn Mawr
Hospital. They need the clothes and
we can undoubtedly supply them.
The Thrift Shop sells articles of
clothing to the poor at prices lower
than the stores. The idea is not to
get money from the poor, but to help
them maintain their self-respect by
putting the clothes at a price within
their pocketbeoks. People hate to
take charity. The Hospital realises
that and is doing its best to dispense
with UV
The money they get from the
clothes is used to maintain clinics and
to provide milk for babies in the baby
clinic Therefore, a two-fold benefit
is reaped from the maintenance nf the
Thrift   Shop.    Anything  the   under-
graduates can do to give the shop more
material would be helping not only the
poor buyers, but also the Hospital.
The Hospital, needless to say, is a
great advantage to the College. Only
half a mile away, it stands ready for
any emergency which may confront
us. It has served us numerous times
and has never asked us for any help
in return. For this reason, both Mrs.
Chadjwick-Collins and the Bryn Mawr
League wish this drive to be success-
ful, and it will be only if supported
by every student in the College.
There will be representatives in
each hall to whom you may bring
your contributions. If for no other
reason than to clean out your closet
or wardrobe, get rid of your old
clothes now, even if it -puts the rag
man out'of work.-Wie following are
representatives for the drive:
Letitia Brown, '37�Merion.
Virginia Hessing, '38�Denbigh.
Christie Selter, '39�Pembroke �ast.
Sylvia Wright, '38�Pembroke West.
Allison  Raymond, '88�Rockefeller.
Barbara Aachincloss, '40 � Wjmd-
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When the curtains part on the
French Club production of Moliere's
UScole des Maris next Saturday eve-
ning a street in seventeenth century
Paris will be recreated. All the var-
ied traffic, including mischievous gam-
ins, flirtatious vegetable vendors, cob-
blers and tinkers, pass across the
stage as they once thronged the busy
Pont Neuf. Against this background
the course of true love runs somewhat
roughly for poor Isabelle and her de-
voted lover, Valere. They at last
succeed in duping ber stern guardian,
who has taken it for granted that his
love for Isabelle is requited. In the
meantime the gentler methods of
Sganarelle's brother, Ariste, who has
brought up Lenor, sister of Isabelle,
are justified when Lenor assures him
of her scorn for young gallants such
as her sister finds so intriguing and
of her love for him. In the end every-
one is so happy, save for the disil-
lusioned Sganarelle, that they join in
a merry dance before they go off to
be entertained in the house of Ariste,
and the crieur des heures passes to
wish the audience a good night.
L'Scole des Maris, although it is
given less often than the classic ex-
amples of Moliere's theater, is never-
theless an excellent example of the
classical French theater in its more
comic form. Moliere is perhaps best
known as a satirist of the less com-
mendable characters he saw about
him; and Sganarelle (whose name is
a favorite with Moliere) is quite as
detestable and unfortunate as any
character "he drew.
The scenery was designed by Sgana-
relle himself�Peggy Otis�and has
been constructed under the direction
of Anne Wyld and Jeanne Quiatgaard.
Costumes have been obtained from
Christie's in New York for the lead-
ing roles, and the others made by
Mary Whalen and Anne Axon. Kate
Bingham has assembled the properties.
The orchestra, which plays three over-
tures of the time of the play, includes
Madge Haas, Naymi lijpplin, Louise
Herrony4lelen ifamiltort and Helen
Cobtt^
^The songs ai/d street dries are the
result of careful research by the di-
rector, Mademoiselle Rey, and are en-
tirely authentic They are taken for
the most part from descriptions of
the Pont Neuf, which in spite of its
name, is the oldest bridge in Paris;
it was the center of the city in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
SOVIET ART WILL BE
REVIEWED BY BRINTON
Mr. Christian Brinton, internation-
ally- known critic and author, will
speak on Art in the Soviet Union on
Sunday, March 21, at 5 p. m. in the
Deanery. His talk will be illustrated
with lantern slides,
Mr. Brinton will discuss what social
stabilization in Russia and the initi-
ation of the two Five Year Cultural
Plans have done for the progress of
art in the Soviet. He has traveled
extensively in the U. S. S. R. and has
made a detailed first-hand study of
modern Russian painting. This lec-
ture is one of a series of six which
Mr. Brinton is presenting on various
phases of modern art, with emphasis
on the Russian. He is sponsored in
this talk by the America^ Russian In-
stitute.
Reserve Book Room Fines
A fine of $2.00 will be imposed
for fiaeh bo*>k taken from the
Reserve Room, for Spring Va-
cation, which is not retained en
time. All books are due at 9
a. m. on Monday, April 5.
Lois A. Reed,
Librarian.
News Elections!
The Editorial Board takes
great pleasure in announcing
the election of�
Janet Thorn, '38�Editor-in-
Chief.
Margery Hartman, '38�Copy
Editor.
Abbie Ingalls, '38�News Edi-
tor.
They will take charge of next
week's issue.
New members of the Editorial
Board:
AnneXouise Axon
Emily Cheney
Elizabeth Pope
Barbara Steel
Isota Ashe Tucker
All are members of the Class
of 1940.
Haniel Long Analyzes
Own Creative Method
Main   Interest is  in  People  in   All
Walks of Life
Deanery, March 11.�Frankness and
self-confidence characterized Mr. Han-
iel Long's approach to an analysis of
his creative method in Pittsburgh
Memoranda. The theme, the care, the
research and experience which went
into its composition show why the
book has been termed "an exciting
dossier of American times." Mr.
Long's main interest is people, and
particularly the people of Pittsburgh,
in all walks of life.
Two prologues were composed before
Mr. Long felt that he had successfully
stated his theme, his purpose in writ-
ing the book as shown in the last lines
of the present prologue:
"  . .  . we to explore and hope,
making the  filaments  of a  new
compass out of our need to come
to terms with ourselves, with the
others who live life with us, and
th<* life that lives all."
The   first   prologue,   completed   in
1915, was considerably influenced by
Santayana's Three Philosophical Poets.
Eight years later he returned to the
philosophy he had learned from James
and  Royce while  attending  Harvard
because he felt that  Santayana and
these three great poets on which he
had written could not help him visu-
alize  pictures  of  the  city  which  he
wished to portray in poetry.
The second version included a pro-
logue making "objective comments;
characters from Dante, Goethe and
Lucretius, as well as a presentation
of the inside of the city which was
closer to reality than the previous pro-
logue. H* felt that he must see all
parts of the city through his own eyes.
During its composition he wtft aided,
but not satisfied, by Sandburg's Chi-
cago poems and Master's,Spoon River
Anthology.
Before the third version of the
"Memoranda," Pittsburgh began to be
documented. Mr. Long selected rec-
ords and letters of men during
emergencies when they are most them-
selves. Homestead, a record of the
famous-strike, rs written in three di-
visions: the first gives prose records;
the second, background^ the third,
poetic comment. As Mr. Long says,
these accounts of Carnegie, Frick and
Berkmann show a remarkable beauty
even though it is cruel.
A first, draft of the memoranda in
blank verse proved unsatisfactory be-
cause it involved changing the exact
words of records and letters which
have been selected to give each sec-
tion a quality of its own. Feeling that
what the modern poet has to say is
of a complicated nature because it
includes many fields, Mr. Long feels
Continued on Pace Klva
PHILOSOPHY CLUB MEETINGS
Leigh Steinhardt,"^?, will read a
paper on Time at a meeting of the
Philosophy Club Thursday, March 18,
at 4.30 p. m. in the Common Room.
After Current Events on Tuesday,
March 23, a second meeting will be
held at which Helen Fisher, '37, will
read a paper on Coming Into Being.
The two papers present opposite
points of view and,will be followed
later by a similar pair of conflicting
opinions.
Council Discusses
Problems Involved
In   Press   Board
Value
In
of     Honor     Averages
General Work Will
Be Considered         ' v
PLANS FOR SCIENCE
BUILDING ARE SHOWN
Miss Park's House, March 11.�To
the March meeting of the College
Council Miss Park showed the present
blueprints of the new science build-
ing, announced that ground would
probably be broken by the end of this
year. The Council discussed at length
the advantages to students and the
disadvantages to the college of a press
club and proposed that the issue be
shelved for a year until student in-
terest and the new publicity director
should decide one way or the other.
Miss Park asked all members to think
over the value one way or the other of
general honors (cum laude, magna
cum laude, summa cum laude) with a
degree and bring their opinions to
the May meeting.
Mrs. Collins explained that a press
club is a student organization which
writes up the releases from the
college to newspapers. At Mount
Holyoke where the press club is the
most satisfactory, the publicity di-
rector supervises the gathering of the
news, teaches journalistic writing to
board members and approves all re-
leases before they are sent out. Each
student is paid by space by the news-
paper to which she sends her stories.
At present all news from Bryn Mawr
is written and sent out free of charge
by the Publications Office. Letters
from other college press boards point
out that there is no advantage to the
college publicity in a press club, but
that it does providej>ractical training
for students interested in journalism
and in some cases limited sources of
income for needy students. It gives
students a feeling of greater respon-
sibility and interest in the college,
while it would not change the college
publicity in the eastern .pjtiea, it might
spread information about the college
in cities and towns of the Far West.
The issue is a difficult one the Coun-
cil believes, because Bryn Mawr has
never  permitted  idle  personal  publi-
Contlnueil on Page Six
MIKADO STAGING WILL
FOLLOW D'OYLY CARTE
With the date of the production of
The Mikado only six weeks away,
definite _plans are being completed by
the costume and scenery committees
with an eye to making the college ver-
sion of the operetta appear as much
like a professional job as possible.
Mr. Alwyne, who is directing the
production, wants the scenery design
to be traditional, and has given the
committee headed by Anne Wyld, '38,
pictures of the latest sets used by the
D'Oyly Carte'Opera Company. Jeanne
Quistgaard, '38, is copying these de-
signs. She explains that there will be
one basic set, consisting of a painted
panoramic backdrop and side flats.
The committee hopes to be able to
rent the backdrop somewhere in Phila- .
delphia, but if they can't find a proper
one they will paint one themselves.
Costumes, too, are to be copied af-
ter those recently used by D'Oyly
Carte Company. The traditional ki-
mono, sash, and chrysanthemum com-
bination, is to be replaced by a richer,
more realistic costume. Anne Louise
Axon, '40, chairman of the committee
says that the women will wear long
tunics covered by richly decorated ki-
mono-like robes; their hats will � be
similar to those worn by Chinese
coolies. The men will be dressed in
full bloomers, and will have fantastic
headpieces.
Self Government Election
The Self-Government Associ-
ation takes great pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Suzanne
Williams, '38, as President ef
the Board.