College News, 1937-02-24, Vol. 23, No. 15

              College News
VOL. XXIII, No.
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937
Copyright
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BRYN
TRUSTEES   OF
AWR   COLLEGE,   1937
PRICE 10 CENTS
Fascism No Solution
To Spanish Problem,
Says Mr. Slocombe
-
Neutrality   Pact,   if   Enforced,
Should be of Assistance
To ^Government
COMMUNIST �ARTY NEW
Deanery, February 2w>*-Speaking
, on the Spanish Situation and Its
Repercusaiona, Mr. George Edward
Slocombe emphasized the point that
fascism is not the means for a peace-
ful Europe, and that the international
pact of neutrality, effective midnight,
February 20, should, if rigorously up-
held, aid the Spanish government.
Fascism breeds and is bred by exces-
sive nationalism. It leads to an ag-
gressive national rivalry taking
offense at any real or pretended slight.
With the cessation of the influx of
foreign troops in accordance with a
neutrality pact, a condition of sta-
bility will be reached affording the
government time to train its army
for the recapturing of the towns now
held by Franco.
Mr. Slocombe gave a brief resume
of the history of Spain up to the out-
break of the revolution in July, an
outbreak which was carefully planned
by Franco, the would-be dictator of
Spain in collusion with dictators Hit-
ler and Mussolini.
Although the clergy are, on the
whole, following Franco, religion as
such plays little or no part in the war.
The struggle is one of democracy ver-
sus the church, the army, and the
aristocracy desiring to re-establish the
autocratic rights held before 1930.
Lately its ferocity has abated, for af-
ter the first serious bombing of Ma-
drid, rebel airmen refused to massacre
further, and all subsequent attacks
have been accomplished by Nazi and
Italian fliers. This refusal on the
part of the rebels is a sign that men
are coming to their senses. Mr. Slo-
combe feels that the national pride
of the Spaniard will come to his aid
to speed the end of hostilities.
Many people believe that the Span-
ish struggle is communism versus
fascism. The argument that the
Spanish government is red, so fre-
quently uttered by Hitler and Musso-
lini, is historically untrue. Up to last
September ^he Madrid government
was composed of Republicans and
Democrats. In the February last
elections, the Democratic coalition re-
ceived the greatest number 'of seats
in the" Cortes, and was supported by
the left parties. In September, the
government, unable to organize its
defense without leftist aid, took into
its membership communists, syndi-
calists and socialists.
Communism per ae is new in Spain,
and a loyalist victory does not, mean
Continued on Page Four
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, February 24.�
The sixth lecture on The Nature
of Man by Mr. MacKinnon. Mu-
sic Room.    7.30 p. m.
Saturday, February 27.�Mer-
ion Hall dance.    9.30 to 1.00. *
Monday, March 1.�The sev-
enth lecture on\T/ie Nature, of
Man will be giveiV|by Mr. Weiss.
Music Room.   7.30 p. m.
Tuesday; ''March 2.�Andres
Segovia, guitarist, will give a.
concert.    Goodhart.    8.30 p. m.
Wednesday, March S.�The
eighth and last lecture on The
Nature of Man by Mr. Weiss.
Music Room.   7.30 p. m.
Friday, March, 5. � League
Musicale.    Deanery.    8.00 p. m.
Saturday, March 6.�Rocke-
feller Hall dance.    9.30 to 2.00.
Sunday, March 7. � Leonie
Adams will read selections from
her poetry.   Deanery.   5 p. m.
Monday, March 8.�Dr. Wal-
ter Livingston Wright, Jr., will
speak on American Campuses in
the Near East.
Miss Lake will give a lecture
on Roman theaters. Room E
Taylor.    7.30 p. m.
Tueaday, March 9.�Bridge
tea for the benefit of the Alum-
nae Regional Scholarships of
Eastern Pennsylvania. Dean-
ery.   2 p. m.
Segovia is World's
Greatest   Guitarist
New    York    Critics    Unanimously
Praise New Technique
The general conception of guitar
playing entails a group of Hawaiians
strumming against a background of
palms in a travelogue. Andres
Segovia's playing is as far removed
from this as a flute is from a saxa-
phone.
Segovia was born in Spain and has
made concert tours both in Europe and
the United States.
Olin Downes, of the New York
Timea, says of him: "Andres Segovia
belongs to the very small group of
musicians who by transcendent powers
of execution, and by imagination and
intuition, create an art of their own.
He is a wholly exceptional artist, a
man of mark among musicians." Law-
rence Gilman, formerly of the Herald-
Tribune, said that "he gave one of the
most extraordinary and engrossing re-
citals of music that has ever taken
place in a New York concert hall."
Praise like this from two such compe-
tent critics is particularly valuable.
Segovia's playing is apparently com-
pletely unexpected and completely
new. His skill transforms the guitar
into a sublime instrument, something
which is made possible only through
his purely personal technique.
M. R. M.
Americanization School Includes Students
Resembling K*a*p*l*a*n of the New Yorker
' "Italianization" .Often a Feature
Of Bright Conversations
During Evening
The Americanization School at
^-Uryn Mawr resembles nothing so
.much as the Night Preparatory
School for Adults of which Mr. Park-
hill is a preceptor, and well-known
Hyman Kaplan an ardent student. Its
purpose, ever in the minds of those
who go to teach, is the Americaniza-
tion of a group of Italians, young and
old, who may be roughly divided into
two factions: the hopeless faction,
eager and willing, to be sure, like
Mr. Kaplan, but permanently ungifted
with a "bosse des langues," and th*
hopefuls, who correspond approxi-
mately in mental calibre to Miss Mit-
nick.
To begin with, Americanization is
an unfortunate word. Our Italian
friends are too thoroughly Italian;
they will never have more than a thin
linguistic varnish of Americanism un-
der which their birthright is but poorly
hidden. One notices it as soon as one
enters the building; groups of them
glancing mischievously from a door-
way and pushing each other about like
schoolboys. One can see in all their
faces quick laughter, ready to burst
out at any moment, as if all their ele-
mental Italian emotions had suddenly
come together to produce a small
spontaneous combustion.
To the first group belong Dan and
Nick, who are so unbelievably hope-
less that they must be taken sepa-
rately. They both think that life is
a joke that's just begun, Nick in par-
ticular. He is undaunted, unimpres-
sionable, and charming. He must be
the life of the Italian colony of Bryn
Mawr. He can count to ten, and that
is all he wants to know.
Dan is cast in a more stolid mold.
He admits with a distinct gleam in
his eye that his lessons in an Ameri-
can history book are too hard, and we
turn to a primer, a primer to end all
Continued on Page Four
Notice!
The next issue of the College
New8 will be a special edition
coming out Tuesday morning,
March 2. All announcements
and material for publication
next week should be in the hands
of the editor  by  Friday  noon.
Miss  DuBois Offers
Psychic Unity Thesis
Concept Presents ("Reservoir of
Potentialities"    to    Deal
With Social Parallels
FIELD    WORK    EVIDENCE
Music Room, February 17. � An-
thropological processes can be under-
stood through the concept of the
Psychic Unity of Man according to
Miss Cora DuBois in her second lec-
ture on The Nature of Man, the fourth
in the series. This psychic unity may
be understood as a "reservoir of po-
tentialities" occurring as a group
phenomenon and allowing for differ-
ences among individuals. Offered as
an alternative for the earlier concep-
tions of the social and psychic evolu-
tion of the race, the concept of the
psychic unity explains more sinTply
than the former the parallels between
institutionalized forms of behavior
and the behavior of certain children"
and psychiatric cases. Such parallels
as-the covarde, or of animism in prim-
itive men and children have long been
overlooked by anthropologists, but are
highly important.
Just as this concept explains paral-
lels between institutions and individ-
uals it provides an excellent.�lopl_ for
the anthropologist who 'laces the
challenging problem of the influence
of culture on personality.
It may perhaps assist the compara-
tive psychiatrist to say how far ab-
normalities can be explained in social
terms, and how far the normal per-
sonality ideal is defined by social in-
stitutions. A society may foster ab-
normalities, as In the schizoid Bud-
dhist; and the stress of society on a
personality may produce psychic ma-
sochism or externalization of the
stress, as in some criminals and re-
formers. Institutional stress upon in-
dividuals is of three main types: that
of institution against biological
growth as seen in the late age of
marriage in the West; of institution
against institution as in our society
where aggressive, competitive teaching
conflicts with Christian doctrines; and
of institution against practice, or of
actual against possible practice so
acute in the unemployment neuroses
prevalent today.
The hypothesis of the psychic unity
of man is supported by the experience
of the field worker in anthropology
who recognizes a certain likeness in
all individuals and by the ability of
individuals to adapt to new cultures.
No example of this last is so striking
as that of the.Japanese in the last
century. As yet no differences have
been discovered in testing which can-
not be explained away by the inade-
quacy of the test or by differences in
cultural emphasis. Certain dreams
dealing with the fundamental physical
experiences of man are constant to
all mankind,. There are, further, con-
stancies in institutional forms, such
as language, marriage and incest
rules, aesthetic expression and re-
ligion, in spite of differences of treat-
ment. These might be explained by
diffusion were it not that such con-
stants show such vast differences in
their natures that a single historical
source seems highly improbable.
The doctrine of psychic evolution�
that a child or a patient is undergoing
a recapitulation of the history of the
race�has no anatomical evidence to
support it. Social evolution as shown
by remains of such .cultural evidence
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Chapel
Miss Park will giiie a special
chapel   service   Tuesday   morn-
' ing, March 2, at 8.15.    All stu-
dents are requested to attend.
Li
Sense of Showmanship and Originality
Is Keynote of Success of "Forty Bust"
Caricatures of Professors Are Hilariously Presented; Pelvic Girdle
and Pan Drops, Costumes, Songs, Lines Reveal
Artistic Talents, Humorous Bunkum
BURLESQUE OF T. S. ELIOT IS HIT OF THE EVENING
Forty Bust, the freshmen'* maiden  Class  was  a  devastating  medley   of
venture, was launched before an all-
female audience last Saturday night
with a surprising show of originality
and finish. It is generally understood,
in the case of shows put on by non-
professionals, that as the material be-
hind the footlights is essentially crude,
the enthusiasm and good will of the
participants will counterbalance any
messiness in the production. But
Forty Buat was put on with a good
sense of showmanship, care for details
and a cleverness that tended to for-
sake the classical field of college
humor.
The connecting thread that ran
through all of the skits was the en-
gaging idea that the busts in Taylor
Hall left their pedestals and wandered
from room to room, taking a friendly
interest in the classes. The scenes
themselves, each of which represented
a different class, were on * the whole
witty, well directed and to the point,
providing an opportunity to present a
series of portraits of the faculty which
were much appreciated by the audi-
ence. There were certain high spots
to be Remembered with particular
relish: the tough truck driver who
pedalled cheerfully in and out of the
Geology Field Trip scene; Dr. Hegcl-
stotle's (Jane Harvey's) voluptous
enjoyment of "a certain sensuous feel-
ing, of why-ness which is none the
less invisible"; Cicero's (Terry Fer-
rer's) song and agreeable rendition
thereof; the Latin teacher's (Vrylena
Olney's) enthusiastic approach to the
subject of Cicero in his bath. The
last two skits were well placed in the
order of events, as they formed a Tit-
ting climax to the evening's entertain-
ment.
The poetic dialogue of the English
Unconscious Treated
In   Psychopathology
Psychic  Determinism  Suggested
By MacKinnon in Third
"Man" Lecture
CLINICAL   WORK   IS   AID
WlMJO Room, February 22.� Mr.
MacKinnon, the third .lecturer in the
series on The Natum of Man, dis-
cussed the region of psychology be-
tween the rigidly experimental study
of individuals, on which Mr. Helson
spoke, and the social science field of
Miss DuBois. He emphasized in par-
ticular the three important contribu-
tions of psychopathology to an under-
standing of the nature of man: in
demonstrating the role of psychic
factors in health and disease; in
demonstrating the existence, of un-
conscious psycbhr~pT0Cesses -in man,
and the necessity of takin^K,these into
consideration in a study of man's
psychology and behavior; and, finally,
in broadening the field of psychology
by suggesting a complete psychic
determinism.
Although the early psychologists
found it necessary to renounce gen-
eral metaphysical questions* Mr. Mac-
Kinnon thinks that they were unduly
restrictive, limiting themselves largely
to an investigation of problems of
consciousness.      Later1   psychologists
and, still later, undertook to study
the pioblems of behavior. Psychology
tried to make itself adequate to in-
creasingly complex problems in the
investigation of which different tech-
niques had to be developed. Mr. Mac-
Kinnon showed how the problems of
psychology now range from those in
which the psychologist is closely allied
with the physicist to those in which
he is closely allied to, the social
scientist.
Mr. MacKinnon added to Mr. Hel-
Contlnued on Page Six
Eliot, Shakespeare, Keats and various
notables, and was tempered by a good
measure of the purest bunkum.    To
quote:
"An accident.    A  feather gone with
the wind
And sorrow let her tell tomorrow.
She may borrow brown fox into her
eyelids
Glistening with frost let her tell most
Of life and love, let her tell,
.   Let her
Let."
The scene closed with a catchy song
that   was   encored   three   times   and
sported  a  chorus,  quoted  almost  di-
rectly from Eliot:
'     "WomMCorae and women go.
<rtntey"talk of Michel Angelo."
The   success  of   the   skit,   entitled
Dancing  Class,  depended  upon   phy-
sical gyrations and facial expressions
rather than on the lines.   Miss Stepps
(Camilla Riggs) went through several
amazing exercises, which  included  a
Continued on Page Four
a Foi
^7:
Miss King to Return
To Live in Bryn Mawr
Is Creator of Art Department,
Distinguished as Authority
In Several Fields
TRAINING   WAS   DIVERSE
When Miss Georgiana Goddard
King leaves for California next week
it will have been almost 45 years
since she entered Bryn Mawr as a
freshman. Except for seven years'
teaching at a school in New York
she has devoted her energies to the
college from that time to her retire-1
ment this spring as student, fellow,
reader in English, lecturer in com-
parative literature and in art, and
for 22 years as professor in History
of Art. Of the present faculty she
has been longest with the college and
has published the greatest number of
works, 'the department is almost en-
tirely th� product of her energy and
learning. Distinguished as an au-
thority i several branches of her
subject, ': he stands almost alone in
her knowledge of Spanish Roman-
esque architecture. But to generaV
tions at Br^n^Mawr Miss King*
greatest gift to the world will always
be her ability to teach. While no ex-
planation of this great gift could be
given, some hint of its source may lie
in such diverse statements as: "I have
always given everything I had (to
my classes); we all do that"; "I have
never taught the same course in quite
the same way. I have never planned
a course as thoroughly as I might
have desired, because the course al-
ways depends on the people who are
in it"; "I have frequently felt that I
don't know anything about that sub-
ject; I think I'll offer a course in it
next year."
Miss King has taught every aspecf
of the field of art from the cata-
combs to the moderns, with the ex-
ception of late German art. But
where the range of subject has been
wide, the wealth of background
brought to illuminate it has been far
wider�a constant source a^^omier-
ment and stimulation to her classes.
investigated  higher mental  processes ^v   thJs   some   explanation   may   ^
found  in her preparation.
Intending as a freshman to major
under   Paul   Shorey,   Miss   King   #r-
rived .too  late for  bim  and  after  a
Continued on Page Three
Snapshots, Please!
If anyone has any snapshots'
of faculty members or seniors,
clear enough to be used in the
yearbook, will she show them"to
to Anne Marbury, Rockefeller?