College News, 1936-12-02, Vol. 23, No. 08

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College News
VOL. XXIII, No. 8
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2,  1936    �&&f&�WrfV[F         PRICE 10 CENTS
COLLEGE NEWS. 1936
Romanticism Cited
In Spirit, Method
Of Prevost's Work
His  Figures Are  Precursors  of
The Early 19th Century
Literature
PAUL HAZARD EXPLAINS
BREAK    WITH    CLASSIC
Goodhart, November 18.�Paul Haz-
ard, one of Bryn Mawr's most beloved
lecturers, demonstrated conclusively
in speaking on Un Pre-Romantique
de 17S0: I'Abbe Prevost that the es-
sential character of the romantic
hero, as found in the literature of the
early nineteenth century, can be dis-
covered in the figure created by the
Abbe Prevost. Not even Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, whose influence on roman-
ticism was of "the greatest importance,
is closer to those later types than are
the persons of the Chevalier des
Grieux, hero of Manon Lescant; the
�"English philosopher" Cleveland and
the other characters of his novels.
The Abbe Prevost made a direct,
though unconscious, break with the
ideals of classicism: stability, method
and conduct dictated by a firm belief.
The romantic spirit appears with him
society once he has destroyed it and
in all its essentials. His people believe
above all else in the power and per-
fection of love, which excuses and
transcends all else. His heroes reflect
in their lives his own spirit of inces-
sant restlessness, which never permits
them to remain long in one place or
in one state of mind. As the Abbe
was himself primarily an adventurer,
so are they. He began his studies
with the Jesuits, ran away to the
army, returned to the Benedictines,
ran away again, narrowly escaped
death by hanging and wandered all
over Belgium, Holland, Germany and
England. In all his work he shows
his close relation with the English,
especially in his history of the "philos-
opher Cleveland."
Further resemblances to the roman-
tic character of the nineteenth cen-
tury are manifested in his characters.
The ennui and the melancholy, involv-
ing a distaste for the present and a
search of some unknown good, are
joined to a love of solitude and even
of things lugubrious. This is shown
in its full horror by the behavior of
the Homme de Qualite when, after
losing his beloved Selima, he shuts
himself in a black-draped room with
the heart of Selima enclosed in a
golden casket. The Abbe Prevost is
a master of imagination; the fantastic
adventures of Madame riding among
the primaeval terrors of the African
jungle are witnesses to that. Some-
times his imagination carries him
along false roads, for although he
claims to believe only in the truth
which is guaranteed by historical fact,
his documentation was often woefully
erroneous.
In some respects it is possible to see
in the work of the Abbe Prevost a
Continued on Page Pour
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, December 8. �
Sylvanus Morley will lecture on
New Mayan Excavations. Good-
hart, 8 p. m.
Thursday, December 3.�Sum-
mer School tea. Common Room,
4.30 p. m.
Mr. Charles Bakewell will ad-
dress the Philosophy Club. Com-
mon Room, 4.30 p. m.
Friday and Saturday, Decem-
ber U and 5.�Players' Club will
present Barry's Holiday. Good-
hart, 8 p. m.
Saturday, December 5. �
Undergraduate dance. Dean-
ery.
Monday, December 7. �Mr.
Henry Woollman will speak on
the Horseshoe Trail. Common
Room, 5 p. m.
Tuesday, December 8.�Miss
Kraus will give the Current
Events talk on The President's
Social Security Program. Com-
mon Room, 7.30 p. m.
Wednesday, December 9.�In-
dustrial Group Supper. Com-
mon Room, 6.30 p. m.
Thursday, December 10.�In-
ternational Club meeting. Com-
mon Room, 8 p. in.
Saturday, December It. �
Dancing Club Christmas re-
cital.    Gymnasium, 8 p. m.
Sunday, December 18.�Dr.
Alfred Salmony will speak on
The Ancient Art of Siberia and
Its Influence on Chinese and Eu-
ropean Art.   Deanery, 5 p. m.
Christmas Carol Service. The
Reverend Andrew Mutch will
conduct the service. Goodhart,
7.30 p. m.
Tuesday, December 15.�Cur-
rent Events. Mr. Smith will
speak on The New Constitution
of India. Common Room, 7.30
p. in.
Wednesday, December 16.�
Dr. Thomas Reed Powell will
speak on The Constitutional
Problems of Roosevelt's Second
Term.   Taylor, Room F, 2 p. m.
MR. CHARLES BAKEWELL
TO SPEAK ON ARISTOTLE
At 4:30 p. m. on Thursday after-
noon in the Common Room, Mr.
Charles Bakewell, Ph. D., will lecture
on Aristotle before members of the
Philosophy Club. The ambitious are
urged to look over the books on the
Philosophy Club reserve in prepara-
tion for the discussion.
Excluding Mr. Bakewell's philoso-
phical prominence, he is well known
at Bryn Mawr. From 1898-1900 he
was here as Associate Professor of
Philosophy. During this time he
married Madeleine Palmer, '99, who
was president of the Philosophy Club.
Their daughter, Mildred, is a junior
at Bryn Mawr. In addition many of
Mr. Bakewell's books are in use on
the campus, notably the Scribner edi-
tions of Plato's works, edited by him.
In 1933 Mr. Bakewell retired after
28 years of teaching at Yale Univer-
sity. He has lately been active in
Connecticut politics.
Open Window is a Hit;
Actors   Aft   Excellent
Type    o�   Play    Proves    Handicap
in Barbara's Wedding
Masculine Rooters Cheer and Catcall
As Soccer Players Befuddle Varsity
Haverford   Scores   Six   Times:
Bryn Mawr Makes Lone Goal
In First Half
November SO.�The lower hockey
field resounded to the cheers and cat-
calls of masculine rooters as Haver-
ford's soccer team trimmed the Bryn
Mawr Varsity in hockey, 6-1. Haver-
ford got off to a slow start; but as
they warmed up and got on to the
game, they managed to keep the ball
at the Bryn Mawr end of the field
much of the time, where they com-
pletely befuddled the backs to score
again and again.
The Haverford cheering section en-
thusiastically supported their team,
and vehemently protested when the
referees gave free hits to Bryn Mawr
after fouls. There were cries of "We
were robbed!" as Haverford failed to
score on what appeared to be a goal
and Bryn Mawr was given the ball,
and equally loud shouts of laughter
as one over-earnest soccer player pre-
cipitated himself into the hedge be-
hind the Bryn Mawr goal.
The single Bryn Mawr score was
made early in the first half by Wea-
dock. Towards the end of the second
half the Haverford goalie left the
cage and joined in the play at mid-
field, rushing back when the goal was
threatened.
Meirs, center forward on the Hav-
erford team, accounted for four of
their goals, and with the Evans
brothers formed a fast combination
on the forward line.
See Page 8 for line-up.
Goodhart, November 20.�The sea-
son for one-act plays as a^ means of
gaining coveted entrance into the
Players' Club was officially opened by
the presentation of a dramatization
of "Saki's story, The Open Window
and Barries Barbara's Wedding.
Both plays were done entirely by in-
terested students and were given only
a week's preparation before being
performed.
The Open Window, with its absurd
situation culminating m a veritable
coup de theatre, proved itself excel-
lent material for the stage, in spite
of a definite lack of action. The
necessary lines with which Anne
Goodman, '38, and Janet Thorn, '38,
supplemented the "Saki" dialogue,
were witty and quite in keeping with
the spirit of the story. The three
leading characters showed an under-
standing and control of their parts
which in view of the short rehearsal
period was truly remarkable. The
combination of Winifred Safford,
'37, as a little girl with aggressive
self-confidence and an amazing abil-
ity to deceive; of Elizabeth Wash-
burn, '37, as a young man with a
nervous complex and no poise; and of
Jeanne Quistgaard, '38, as a practical
lady with a boundless wealth of small
talk was extremely funny. These
characters were able to sustain the
humor throughout the piece and to
overcome the disadvantage of a play
without action.
The second play, Barbara's Wed-
ding, by James Barrie, was a less
fortunate choice for the hasty pro-
duction necessary. One of Barrie's
most sentimental ventures, it cannot
be considered a "sure-fire" success
with the average audience. Aside
from the question of appeal, it in-
volves definite problems of produc-
tion which can hardly be solved in a
week of preparation. Infinite care
is needed in rehearsal and a light
touch must be felt throughout the per-
formance. The part of the old Col-
onel, valiantly attempted by Jean
Hoagland, '39, is a difficult under-
taking for any young person. It must
be said that the producers of Bar-
bara's Wedding overshot their mark,
but under the circumstances they did
a very creditable job. The most out-
standing person in the play was Jul^a
Harned, '39, who in the role of Ellen,
the Colonel's wife, showed consider-
able acting ability.
Cooperative Efforts of Three Professors
Inaugurate Promising Series of Lectures
Cora DuBois, Anthropo.og.si rroin Hunter,  is Invited to Join
Messrs. Helson, MacKinnon and Weiss to Present
Aspects of The Nature of Man
MISS PARK SEES UNITY OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Bail-Room   Dancing   Demonstration
A teacher from the Arthur Murray
School in New York will give a demon-
stration of ball-room dancing in the
Gymnasium on Tuesday, December 8,
at 7.30 p. m. Everyone is cordially
invited. Come prepared to dance. If
enough interest is found the Physical
Education Department plans to start
a class with a teacher from this
school.
Mr. Woollman to Speak on Hiking
Mr. Henry Woollman, founder of
the Horseshoe Trail from Valley
Forge to Manada Cap, will speak on
the advantages of the trail for week-
end hiking or riding on Monday, De-
cember 7, in the Common Room. The
lecture will be illustrated with moving
pictures. Tea will be served at 4.30
and the talk will begin at 5. Every-"
one is urged to come.
Mrs. Gilbreth Returns
Mrs. Gilbreth will come to the
college again next week on De-
cember 9, 10 and 11. She will
see students on Wednesday and
Thursday mornings and after-
noons and on Friday morning.
The list of appointments is out-
side Mrs. Manning's office. Mrs.
Manning and Mrs. Crenshaw
will give a reception for the
freshmen to meet Mrs. Gilbreth
on Tuesday evening.
Music Room, November 2U.�A
novel idea of great possibilities will
be realized next semester in a series
of lectures on the general subject,
Man, Miss Park announced in chapel.
The proposal, which marks a new co-
operation among the departments of
the college, is the joint effort of Mr.
Helson and McMacKinnon of the Psy-
chology Department and Mr. Weiss
of the Department of Philosophy.
They have asked Miss Cora DuBois,
a- scientific anthropologist of Hunter
College, to present another and vital
point of view of this fundamental
subject. Each i speaker will in two
lectures approach the subject of man
from his special field and attempt to
relate it to the other three and to
the interests of the undergraduate
body as a whole.
Miss DuBois received her doctorate
at the University of California and
has worked at Yale and in the De-
partment of Psychology at Harvard.
She has been highly recommended by
a number of independent informants
as a scientific anthropologist with
psychological training, as an excellent
lecturer and as a person of broad
general culture.
"This is one of those new ideas,"
said Miss Park, which "have a kind
of fruitfulness attached to them,
which take with them a new kind of
life and tend to make things happen.
The results of this interesting experi-
ment may take shape in various ways:
it may lead to a new field within the
college, to new teaching methods, to
a new uniting of resources. I see in
the future a possible combination of
fields in a new way as an outgrowth
of this lecture series.
"This is not a survey. Each
speaker proposes to draw from his
own special field, and deepiy; and to
move out to touch the next field.   Mr.
Helson will begin the series with a
picture of psychology and physiology
as accepted on February 1, 1937, and
will discuss not only the positive side
of the subject, but also the limits of
psychological methods and what rea-
sons there are to expect the present
barriers to break down.
"Miss DuBois will pick up that
material and discuss the origins of
that nature of man and will point out
I the limitations of psychology in ac-
I counting for the development of man,
and what anthropology coming from
a historical point of view has to add
to the field.
"Mr. MacKinnon will take both the
preceding points of view and bring
them back to the present and social
side of man. He will then present a
psychology of the individual and of
man in a social environment and will
point out where to attack the limits
of the field."
Mr. Weiss will try to uncover the
implicit but common grounds and
methods of the previous speakers, to
remark on the fundamental diversities
and to suggest a means for their
eventual integration and development.
Then he will attempt a speculating
characterization of the nature of man.
The lectures will be given on Tues-
day and Thursday evenings at 7:30
in the Music Room. After each lec-
ture there will be discussion in the
Common Room. They will be given
during the first four weeks of the
second semester. These lectures are
intended for the college air large and
Continued on Page f'our
Dr. A. Flexner to Make
Commencement  Speech
Speaker   at   Baccalaureate   Will   be
Dr. John E. Park
Dr. Abraham Flexner, prominent
educator, has been chosen as the Com-
mencement Speaker for this year, it
was announced by Miss Park in
chapel. Dr. Flexner has, since 1930,
been director of the Institute for Ad-
vanced Study at Princeton University.
Having received his A. B. degree
from Johns Hopkins, he holds in addi-
tion an A. M. from Harvard and
from the University of Berlin, an
LL. D. from Western Reserve Univer-
sity and Swarthmore and an M. D.
honoris causa from the Universities
of Berlin and Brussels.
In 1927 and '28 Dr. Flexner held
the Rhodes memorial lectureship at
Oxford, and in 1928 the Taylor lec-
tureship. In 1929 he was lecturer at
the Foundation Universitaire, in Bel-
gium.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered by Dr. John Edgar Park,
president of Wheaton College. Pre-
vious to his connection with Wheaton,
Dr. Park was pastor of the West
Parish Church in Andover, Mass., and
the Second Church of Newton, in West
Newton.
Born in Belfast, Ireland, Dr. Parlc
studied at New College, Edinburgh;
the Royal University, Dublin, and the
Princeton Theological Seminary. He
was ordained into the ministry in 1903.
In 1923 he'received the degree of Doc-
tor of Divinity from Tufts College,
and in 1927 the degree of Doctor of
Letters from Wesleyan.
Miss Park/Announces
Summer School Plans
British,    Scandinavian    Women
To Join American Workers
In '37 Session
REGISTRATION     LIMITED
A. S. U. Speaker
Mr. John W. Smith, a striker of
the International Seamen's Union,
will speak on Monday, December 7,
at 8 o'clock in the Common Room in
an open meeting of the A. S. U.
Music Room, December 1.�The
Executive Committee of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School will invite two
British and two Scandinavian women
to attend next year's session, said
Miss Park in Chapel. This arrange-
ment will serve to illustrate that
workers in other countries act in the
same ways as Americans but from
different points of view.
There will also be six second year
students returning to the Summer
School from previous years and from
schools in other colleges. In addition,
the Director is proposing that ten
second year students be brought back
on working scholarships to assist as
servants in the halls. A more ad-
vanced course will be instituted for
them and their presence will offer an
opportunity to discuss the problems
of domestic workers.
The registration of students will
again be limited to 60 because of the
greater advantages in a smaller
group where individuals can give
more to others and can more know-
ingly discuss their problems from a
varied outlook. The plan of focus-
ing upon a course in economics in or-
der to bring out the personal relation-
ship of the worker to her studies and
the occupation will again be employed.
Out of the eight weeks that classes
are in session at least one or two
weeks are given up to academic ad-
justments. In order to reduce this
difficulty a conference to discuss
methods of procedure will be held in
the spring with the faculty and staff �
members attending who will then
have been chosen. As usual the fa-
culty will come from other colleges
and if necessary a teacher from a
secondary school will conduct the
course in General Science which is
worked out much better in lower in-
stitutions than in colleges.