College News, 1936-11-18, Vol. 23, No. 07

              The College News
VOL. XXIII, No. 7
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA> WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1936    c&yLr{?^EB^s%T6R            PRICE 10 CENTS
College Council
Deals First With
"Finals" in Majors
Consider Students' Request for
Room for Entertaining
Of   Friends
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
FOR NEW BOOK ROOM
Miss Park's House, November 11.�
A general request for clarification on
the exact nature of the work to be
done for the final examinations in the
major subjects occupied the greater
part of the second meeting of the
College Council. The new policy of
the New Book Room Committee in
placing on the shelves books drawn
from the stacks on special subjects
such as Spain, dancing or similar
topics of general interest, was an-
nounced by Miss Park. Esther Har-
denbergh voiced students' request for
a room in which to entertain groups
of friends. Barbara Colbron an-
nounced that the Self Government
rules were being revised, and Miss
Petts suggested that classes in ball-
room dancing might be given this
winter.
Referring to the examinations as
"finals" rather than as "comprehen-
sives," Mrs. Manning pointed out that
this year there is necessarily great
uncertainty in working out the new
system, but that she would speak to
large numbers of seniors in order to
find out where their difficulties lie.
Whether the work for the examination
should include new material or con-
sist only of review was a debated is-
sue, but the understanding of students
and administration is that the work
shall vary with the needs of each de-
partment, including in general new
material on a more mature basis in
a correlation of the background ob-
tained in the previous years' major
work. Mrs. Manning said that she
will make every effort through con-
ferences to iron out any misunder-
standings of objectives between de-
partment faculties and their major
students. Each department, however,
has given such an examination before
and has worked with each student be-
fore, so that there should be few dif-
ficulties.
The question of mid-year examina-
tions in major courses which end at
mid-years was raised. Many students
and faculty have felt the need for
such an examination, but this might
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, November 18.�
M. Paul Hazard will speak on
Un Pri-Romantique de 17SO�
I'Abbi Prtvost. Goodhart. 8.15
p. in.
Thursday, November 19.�
Varsity hockey game versus
University of Pennsylvania.
Lower Hockey Field.   4 p. in.
Dr. Alice Salomon will speak
on Social Workers I Have
Known. Miss Kingsbury's house.
8 p.m.
Thursday, November 19.�
Philosophy Club meeting. Com-
mon Room. 8.30 p. m.
Friday, November 20.�One-
act plays.   Goodhart. 8.30 p. m.
Saturday, November 21. �
Varsity hockey game versus
Merion. Lower Hockey Field.
10 a. m.
Sunday, November 22.�The
Reverend Henry P. Van Dusen
will conduct Chapel service.
Music Room.   7.30 p. m.
Monday, November 23.�Var-
sity hockey game versus the
Faculty. Lower Hockey Field.
4 p. in.
Tuesday, November 2U.�Cur-
rent Events, The United Front
in European Labor, by Mrs.
Smith. Common Room. 7.30
p. m.
Wednesday, November 25.�
Thanksgiving vacation begins.
L2.46 p. m.
Monday, November SO.�
Thanksgiving vacation ends. 9
a. m.
Tuesday, December 1.�Cur-
rent Events, The New Russian
Constitution, by Mr. Miller.
Common Room.    7.30 p. m.
Wednesday, December 2. �
Sylvanus Morley will speak on
New Mayan Excavations. Good-
hart.    8 p. m:
NOTED ARCHAEOLOGIST
WILL   SPEAK   ON   MAYA
Mr. Sylvanus Morley, rioted Ameri-
can archaeologist, will speak in the
auditorium of Goodhart Hall at 8 p.
m. Wednesday, December 2. His sub-
ject will be New Mayan Excavations.
Mr. Morley since his graduation
from Harvard in 1907 has done work
in the field of Central American
archaeology and is now one of the
foremost authorities on Mayan hiero-
glyphics. From 1909 to 1914 he did
field work in Central America and
Mexico for the American School of
Archaeology and in 1924 was associ-
ated with the Cichen Itza project.
Feline Dragon Guards Hole in Pern West
Wall; Has Been a Resident Five Years
Attack   of   Scotties   Results   in
Howling Pursuit of Cat
After Aggressors
Occasionally, while walking past
Penn West to the Lib, we have noticed
two or three little kittens playing on
the grass. Our curiosity piqi";'. by
these sudden feline appearances, we
decided to make some inquiries. First
questions drew a blank, but we finally
made up our minds to pester Miss
Ferguson, manager of Pern West.
From her we learned much. Miss
Walsh is reported to be the guardian
of the cats. Every time a stranger
draws near their domain, she calls
out warningly, "No!"
The mother cat appeared five years
ago. How, or under what circum-
stances, no one knows. She just "ap-
peared." Since then, periodically,
broods of kittens have "appeared."
The family lives in the cellar-est part
of the Pern West cellar, a part into
which the desecrating foot of man
rarely goes. Any approach on the
part of workmen repairing the venti-
lator fans often results in an attack
from the irate mother.
Food is left for them in the cellar
by the maids. But never have the
cats called for their dinner when any-
one was around. Although their pres-
�enc� is known, rarely are they seen.
Attempts to bring them  out by not
giving them food for several days
have been unsuccessfu In previous
years, the mother or some of her
brood have been known to come up
the steps into the kitchen. The.cook
heard her one night; and on another
night, an unsuspecting student in the
pantry was badly frightened by an
animal jumping past her. She thought
it was a mouse, but it proved to be
one of the kittens. Now, however,
there are screen doors on the steps,
and there is no more promenading
in the kitchen.
Last year the mother decided to
follow the Bryn Mawr custom and
take her children up on the roof for
a sunbath. But one unfortunate kitty
fell between the walls. Workmen
were needed to break the plaster to
rescue him. No longer do the kit-
tens sun on the roof. Instead, after
the campus dogs had left last spring,
they sunned on the lawn. But this
fall the dogs have again discovered
the cats' bailiwick, and no more do
they play on the Pern West lawn.
What happens to these successive
generations of kittens when they
grow up? No one knows. Do they
hunt cross-country, hitch-hike on
Montgomery Pike, seek adoption by
adoring children, or may there be
some truth in the report that the
intellectual stratum of the village
feline society is Bryn Mawr born?
It is all very puzzling.
Action Necessary
To Maintain Peace
Miss  Park  Sees  Peace  as  Best
Method of Solving Human
Difficulties
IDEAS
CONTRADICTORY
Music Room, November 11.�Sneak-
ing in chapel last Wednesday on peace
and war, Miss Park said that "before
man is life and death and whichever
he liketh shall be given unto him."
A decisive action for peace is impera-
tive, she believes, because only through
it can the same solution be reached
for those problems which govern
human survival.
Miss Park said that she was not
discussing war and peace as a series
of events or defining them as passive
things�war, the breaking of peace,
or peace, the absence of war. She
was speaking of them rather as al-
ternative methods of dealing with
great human difficulties, economic, po-
litical, religious�alternative devices
to put control in the right hands. Up
to the present, war has taken first
place as a method of settling problems
and as a method is still hardly shaken
in the world.
War and peace go along with defi-
nite and unlike ideas and opinions held
by individuals, by groups, small or
larpe. These unlike and contradictory
ideas are also present simultaneously
in our own minds. Mis? Park then
stopped to identify those ideas which
connect themselves readily with the
two alternative beliefs for action: that
difficulties can best be settled by war
or that they can be settled peaceably.
Those convictions which tie up with
war are: (1) That the individual
commands little respect per se, that
respect is called out only with regard
to his power; (2) that an individual
group or nation is important to the
exclusion of other individuals or
groups or nations, and that this sig-
nificance must be recognized by others
and privileged; and (3) that the truth
reached by the mind is not the final
authority, this conviction accompanied
by a distrust of the use of mind and
an admiration of power as the highest
thing.
The convictions which lead to a use
of peace as the best method of deal-
ng with human difficulties are: (1)
that variety and difference are good
and rigidity and monotony bad in
individual groups, that an individ-
ual commands respect per se; (2)
that there should be an equality of
opportunity, that the individual should
be limited as little as possible (3)
that creativeness is the cutting edge
of civilization, and that this cannot
continue when human life is regi-
mented; and (4) that difficulties over
differences of ideas are best met by
the thought of single individuals or
by interchange of thoughts between
individuals.
If peace is not only an absence of
war and not an emotional reaction,
but rather a method of solving human
problems associated with certain con-
victions, Miss Park said we must in-
quire into the character of these con-
victions. They are connected with the
biological development of the human
race, with the slow forward move-
ment. They are connected, Miss Park
thinks, with what is fruitful in art,
with what trains and sharpens the
inquisitive spirit of man and with the
groping of human beings towards each
other which makes credible the final
organization of human life.
League Grateful for College Support
Dear Editor:
The League wishes to thank the col-
lege for its generous response to the
drive. Because the pledging among
our undergraduates was both univer-
sal and liberal we raised $1300.
This sum represents a return to
normal after two difficult years. The
results show that the Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp can continue because
the undergraduates are willing to make
its finances their responsibility. Wc
are more than grateful for this re-
newed assurance of college support.
Letitia Brown.
Speaks on Realignments
James G. MacDonald
Desperate Conditions
In Cuba Are Revealed
March   Solicits   Students'   Aid   for
Political Freedom
Common Room, November 12. �
Under the auspices of the A. S. U.,
Carlos March spoke in behalf of the
Cuban student movement, of which
he is a leader. In a semi-fascist
country where only 20,000 of forty
million inhabitants voted in the last
elections, and where secondary schools
and the university have been closed
for the past six years, the educated
individual's responsibility is signifi-
cant.
The present crisis has culminated
from twelve years of depression, di-
rectly arising when the sugar market
narrowed after the close of the World
War and the allies began to raise their
own supplies again. American banks,
who own the sugar fields which almost
exclusively form the source of liveli-
hood for the Cubans, immediately re-
duced wages when prices catapulted
and even today a laborer must pick
2500 pounds of sugar a day to earn
40 cents. The C. F. L., to which all
professional people as well as labor-
ers belong, is attempting to have a
one dollar minimum wage law ac-
cepted by these monopolies.
In 1933 the populace overthrew the
Machado regime, which had granted
itself new leases of power simply by
its own authority, and set up their
own government under a former uni-
versity professor, Martine. America
failed to recognize this new govern-
ment and by a blockade on sugar bo
intervened in Cuban affairs that the
people's government was paralyzed
and eventually fell.
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MR. FENWICK WRITES
FROM   ABOARD   SHIP
November 7
Aboard American  Legion
Sailing New York
Dear College News:
It is mean of me to send you a line
from the boat, rousing all sorts of
jealousies, but so far we have met
only fog and chill, no sunny seas to
be envious of. I thought the students
would be interested to hear that I
was met at the boat by a student dele-
gation, the head of which, a young
woman from Columbia, exhorted me
on to high purposes, to stop the sense-
less slaughter of youth by their fel-
low youth. I replied in kind, promis-
ing to do my best, etc.�not to bring
back a mere paper treaty, but a real
change of purpose. All the while I
was remembering my own student
days when I made similar addresses,
but not to delegates who had them-
selves been students�that is the
change that has taken place and a
very heartening one. The goal is not
out of reach, it is really attainable if
we are only ready to work for it as
the youth of today seem to be.
Sorry you all can't be along�First
Year Pol. on the upper deck.      .
As ever,
Charles G. Fenwick.
Mr. McDonald Sees
Imminence of War
Within   Few   Years
Great   Britain's   Evasive   Stand
May Encourage a Dangerous
Venture From Mid-Europe
U. S. POLICY DOES NOT
INSURE   NEUTRALITY
The Deanery, November IS.�Re-
alignments in Europe today are so
dangerously similar to those of 1914
that war is viewed as an imminent
possibility by James G. McDonald,
who spoke upon the new alliances of
foreign nations. England's feverish
rush to create a powerful air corps
is one example of rearmament among
the nations because of the complete
failure of any action of the League
of Nations or application of the Four-
teen Points.
Disarmament has served only as a
means for the victors of the last war
to disarm the vanquished and keep
the lid down upon the status quo until
it blows off. The main reason for
the present state of affairs is that Wil-
son's famous Article 19, which pro-
vided for flexibility in the revision of
treaties, has in fact never been seri-
ously invoked. As a result Germany
has rearmed in spite of all limita-
tions placed upon her and has with-
drawn from the Disarmament Confer-
ence and the League of Nations.
The first blow which precipitated
the downfall of the League occurred
in the spring of 1932, when no action
was taken to prevent Japan from
practically making Manchuria its own
possession. This display of weakness
opened the way for Italy's violation
of the League, which today is no
longer a reliable political instrument.
With this decline in power other
countries have launched upon an
armament race, the full measure of
which is seen in Britain's frantic ef-
forts to prepare herself for air at-
tacks. In order to complete these
operations as swiftly as possible,
Great Britain is buying planes and
.    Continued on Page Pour
Aspiring Directresses
To Give One-Act Plays
Vehicles Are "Barbara's Wedding"
And "The Open Window"
Two one-act plays will gladden the
hearts of quiz-surrounded students on
Friday evening, November 20th.
The first is classified by its directors
as a curtain-raiser, but it promises
to be very interesting. It is a drama-
tization of a story by "Saki," entitled
The Open Window. Anne Good-
man, Dorothea Peck and Janet Thorn
will present it, with the following
cast:                                     .      ' .
Vera.........Winifred Safford, '37
Framton Nuttell
Elizabeth Washburn, '37
Florence Sappleton                        -
Jeanne Quistgaard, '38
Herbert Sappleton, Dorothea Peck. '39
Ronny........Betty Lou Davis, '37
Joe............Anne Goodman, '38
The dramatization was done by
Anne Goodman and Janet Thorn, who
are also directing the production.
Properties are in charge of Anne
Wyld, '38, and lights will be handled
by Janet Thorn and Margaret How-
son, '38.
The second play, Barbara's Wed-
ding, by Sir James Barrie, will be
presented by Jane Braucher and
Myrtle Niccolls, both of the class of
1939. They are handling the direct-
ing and the scenery, while Nancy
Toll, '39, is in charge of lights. The
all-sophomore cast is as follows:
The Colonel..........Jean Hoagland
Ellen*, his wife.........Julia Harned
Deering  ............Caroline Shine
Carl    ...............Jean R�ub
Barbara   ........-----Grace Dolowiti
Billy ..............Laura Estabrook
Both plays will have been in re-
hearsal only one week before the pro-
duction.