College News, 1936-11-11, Vol. 23, No. 06

              College News
VOL. XXIII, No. 6
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936
Copyrljht  BRYN  MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS. 1936
PRICE IfCENTS
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Getting Jobs Needs
Definite Technique,
Says Mrs. Gilbreth
Sees    Increasing    Opportunities
In Non-Productive Fields
* .         Such as Stores
POTENTIAL WRITERS
MUST SEND MATERIAL
The Deanery, November 5. � An
ability to do work of high quality, a
readiness to work hard, and the power
of adaptability are the most desirable
qualities for any type of vocation,
said Mrs. Gilbreth, in her informal
speech to the seniors and a few grad-
uate students. Opportunities are
steadily increasing now, especially in
"non-productive" fields such as per-
sonnel work, which has had to be cur-
tailed in past years. Now many large
stores are eager to take on new peo-
ple, and there are great possibilities
for working to the top, if one is pre-
pared to lead a hard and demanding
life at first.
There is a definite technique which
can be used in looking for a job, and
it is a good idea, if possible, to gain
practice by spending a few days dur-
ing a vacation in being interviewed
for one job or another even if one is
not ready to take the work. Poise
and ease of manner are essential, and
one should go to an interview with a
list, either mental or actually on
paper of all one's assets. An inter-
viewer usually wishes to know about
the background and experience of an
applicant, and many things which
seem unimportant may be exactly the
sort of thing which is needed in the
position. One must be ready to tell
"of extra-curricular activities, the lan-
guages one is familiar with, and to
answer pleasantly all questions,
whether or not they may sound im-
pertinent. An interview is always a
helpful experience.
Secretarial work, as an end in it-
self, or as an entering wedge, is inter-
esting and as a field is not too
overcrowded. Teaching should be con-
sidered as a life-work, and not merely
as a last resource. Here one's non-
academic interests are important and
a girl must face real competition from
active young men who are making
teaching their chief interest. Appren-
ticeship is valuable training, to ease
one into the work, and to give one
practice under the most favorable con-
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, November 11.�Col-
lege Council Meeting. Miss
Park's house.    6.30 p. m.
Thursday, November 12.�A. S.
U. meeting. Common Room.
8 p. m.
Saturday, November 14.�Var-
sity hockey game versus Phila-
delphia Cricket Club. Lower
hockey field.    10 a. m.
Sunday, November 15.�James
G. McDonald will speak on
European Realignments.
Deanery.    6 p. m.
Wednesday, November 18.�Paul
Hazard will speak on Un
Pre-Romantique de 1730 �
I'Abbe Prevost. Goodhart.
8.15 p. m.
Thursday, November 18.�Var-
sity and second team hockey
games versus University of
Pennsylvania's first and sec-
ond teams. Lower hockey
field.    4 p. in.
Dr. Alice Solomon will
speak on Social Workers I
Have Known. Social Econ-
omy Seminary.    8 p. m.
Saturday, November 21.�Var-
sity hockey game versus
Merion Cricket Club. Lower
hockey field.    10 a. m.
One-act plays. Goodhart.
8.30 p. m.
Sunday, November 22. � Rev-
erend Henry P. Van Dusen
will conduct chapel service.
Music Room.    7.30 p. m.
Wednesday, November 25. �
Thanksgiving vacation begins.
12.45 p. m.
Editors of 'Lantern'
Praised and Warned
Stories From "School and Shop"
Considered Examples of Good
Workmanship ^-\
BOCK'S   PLEA   ENDORSED
SIX    PROFESSORS    GIVE
CURRENT EVENTS TALKS
NUCLEUS HEARS TALK
ON FILM DEVELOPMENT
Undergraduate Room, November 10.
�At the first afternoon lecture meet-
ing of the Nucleus, campus camera
organization, Mr. Walter Mirhels
spoke to a small but enthusiastic
group on the Theory and Practice of
Development, outlining the principal
methods, and concluding his talk with
an actual demonstration.
Following the lecture a short busi-
ness meeting was held, at which Mar-
garet McEwan, '39, was elected secre-
tary-treasurer. The possibility of
using a room in the basement of Tay-
lor for developing and printing is
being investigated.
The next meeting of the Nucleus
has been tentatively set for Novem-
ber 17, at which time a demonstration
of printing will be given. The mem-
bers of the club have decided to meet
on alternate Tuesdays, instead of
weekly as was at one time planned.
Billet Doux Cause Breathless Silence
Among Participants of Scavenger Unit
Gymnasium, November 7. � The
scavenger hunt, given by the seniors
for the freshmen, was not only suc-
cessful but revealing, mainly of the
love letters, but also of freshmen in-
genuity in deceiving the judges.
Nine teams of six freshmen started
from the Gym at 8.30 Friday evening
and returned at 9.30 with a rare as-
sortment of God's creatures and manu-
factured objects.
The list of miscellany was devised
by Elizabeth Washburn, '37, and
a committee. The judges who exer-
cised their jurisdiction altruistically
were Miss Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs.
Max Diez and Mr. Watson.
The period devoted to the reading of
the love letters was worth the whole
evening. Each team was obliged to
bring a billet doux, preferably genu-
ine, and the denizens of the Gym were
breathless. Unfortunately names
were scratched out so that there is
no reference on hand for the follow-
ing "best blurb" of the evening.: "It
was such wicked fun, you delightful
seducer of susceptible men." The
French lettre d'amour sounded more
like a midwestern college man who
had once taken French than a wicked
loreignitf---., "rt*BsTinr� eopsfe que
vous trouverez quelqu'un y vous don-
nera tous l'amour que vous ne voulez
pas me donner."    This excerpt lacks
that universal je ne sais quoi. (But
this column does not profess to be a
court of love.) One freshman cer-
tainly put away her pride when she
produced a letter which ended "to the
girl who smiled in vain." Another
more flattering version of the same
is "to the girl on whom / smiled in
vain."
The judges deemed that one of the
best displays, for "the funniest thing"
was the mirror in which they were
supposed to see their own reflections.
The idea itself is not very original,
but the judges liked the principle of
the thing. Another entry in this class
was a youthful village pickaninny
dressed in a gym suit. He was em-
barrassingly noncommittal even with
the refreshments.
Besides letters, funny things and
hairs, night watchmen in flannel pa-
pamas appeared and foreign flags, one
which was white ^with a swastika
painted on it. This was not allowed
because it was "synthetic." There
were several small live dogs, includ-
ing a setter for "exotic contrast." In
general the pictures of Haile Selassie
and Mahatma Ghandi depicted the
subjects as footsore and worn. The
best "long-handled spoon" was a
shore!.
The group which won the first prize
received a basket of forty suckers and
the boobies won she baby dolls.
(Especially contributed by Karl T.
Anderson.)
To attempt at one turn of the
press to convert a magazine notorious
for its "pupe, aloof asceticism" into
a journal for the discussion of real
affairs is a bold step. For having
taken that step the editors of the
Lantern must be commended. But
they must also be warned. For in
making so revolutionary a change
they court two great dangers. There
is, first, the risk that fervor will get
the better of skill. The editors will
not find it easy to remember and to
make the contributors remember that
writing, no matter what it is about,
is still writing, and that it must be
done carefully. Second, there is the
danger, both treacherous and immi-
nent, that in encouraging the Lan-
tern in its effort to "encounter the
deep and the hard" people will forget
the necessity for uncompromising
criticism. The new policy is too good
a one to be allowed to drift. Hence
the apparent harshness of the re-
marks which follow.
The center of the current issue is
given over to four articles setting
forth the platforms of as many po-
litical groups. I cannot give them
much praise as examples of thinking.
Democrats may be pleased to learn,
however, that despite the careful
silence of the party on the matter,
the administration really has the
constitution in mind and is prepared
to favor a "clarifying amendment"
(p. 14). They may be relieved to know
also that Mr. Landon talked about
the constitution only to fill up the
time; his real worry was only the
extravagance of Mr. Roosevelt,
(p. 19.) Everybody will be glad to
know that the Democrats have a way
to increase foreign trade, while at
the same time carrying out the great
Republican desire to protect thor-
oughly the domestic market, (p. 13.)
In the Socialist ranks the company is
more discriminating. The author sees,
at least, a few of the defects and
deficiencies in the platforms of the
"capitalist" parties, and she is not
afraid to mention one or two of the
evasive tendenies of Mr. Thomas,
(p. 24.) With the Communists dia-
lectic is dead. The new Communism
(American model) can work in a
capitalistic frame, and it can find the
blessing of Marx for charging inter-
est on loans to farmers who safely
may be allowed to own privately their
land and other instruments of pro-
duction,     (p. 26.)
Now political platforms are no
great credit to the intellect; they are
only vote-getting instruments. It is
inevitable that the writers presenting
the several platforms should be com-
pelled to sacrifice intellect. My point
is not, then, that they do the job
badly, because with one exception
they actually do it well. My point is
that the whole matter might be at-
tacked differently. It is our particu-
lar privilege to be able to view affairs
through the eyes of a student rather
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PROTEST SENT BY A. S. U.
Common Room, November 5.�A let-
ter was formulated at a meeting of
the A. S. U. to be sent to Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
University, as a protest on the Bob
Burke case. This deals with the ex-
pulsion of a student who spoke
against Columbia's representation at
the 600th Anniversary Celebration of
Heidelburg University. The A. S. U.
throughout the country is campaign-
ing for his reinstatement.
This Thursday the A. S. U. will
have as guest speaker Carlos March,
who will speak on Cuban student
movements.
While Mr. Fenwick is away on his
South American diplomatic mission,
the weekly Current ^vents lectures
will be given by various members of
the faculty, each of whom will speak
on a single topic of contemporary in-
terest. During the presidential cam-
paign, domestic questions naturally
overshadowed foreign affairs; but now
that the country is in the post-election
doldrums, it seems appropriate to give
more attention to foreign problems.
For this reason, the series will in-
clude four lectures on foreign and
two on domestic subjects. The time
will continue to be Tuesdays at 7.30
p. m. and the speakers have been
instructed to close promptly at eight
o'clock. The program as arranged is
as follows:                      r
November 10�"The Election in
Retrospect."    Mr. R. H. Wells.
November 17�"Spain Today." Mr.
J. E. Gillet.
November 24�"Th^ United Front
in European Labor." Mrs. M. P.
Smith.
December 1�"The New Russian
Constitution."    Mr. H. A. Miller.
December 8�"The President's So-
cial Security Program." Miss Hertha
Kraus.
December 15�"The New Constitu-
tion of India."   Mr. W. R. Smith.
HAZARD TO LECTURE
ON   L'ABBE    PREVOST
Paul Hazard, who is to lecture here
on November 18, is one of Bryn
Mawr's favorite speakers. This opin-
ion is reflected in his own France,
where he was the most popular lecturer
at the Sorbonne. From there he was
called to the College de France, and he
has been exchange professor at Har-
vard, the University of Chicago and
Columbia. He was the second Flex-
ner lecturer here. Harvard honored
him in September with the decree of
Doctor of Laws.
Mr. Hazard's field is that of com-
parative literature, especially in the
Italian field, and he is extremely
popular in Italy. His chief work,
which appeared in 1935, is La Crixe
de la Conscience Europeenne. Among
his other books is the Etudes sur Ma-
non Lescaut, and he will present in
his lecture here some new material
concerning the author of this delight-
ful eighteenth century novel. He de-
livered the same paper on the occa-
sion of the Harvard Tercentenary,
where it had great success. The sub-
ject is Un Pre-Romantique de 1730:
Abbe Prevost.
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Holiday" Selected
By Varsity Players
And Cap and Bells
Play   is   Sophisticated   Comedy
On Pre-Depression Troubles
Of Idle Rich
REHEARSALS ALREADY
WELL UNDER CONTROL
Rehearsals are well under way for
Holiday, the comedy by Philip Barry
which Varsity Players and Haverford
Cap and Bells are giving as their fall
play. A notoriously successful pro-
duction, it was first produced on
Broadway in 1927, and treats of the
re-depression troubles of the idle rich.
The dialogue is swift and sophisticated
and the problems are not social but
personal.
The entrance of the fiance of one
of their daughters into tha life of the
well-established Seton family brings
about a conflict between the ideals of
Linda, the older girl, and the rest
of the family. Linda's sister, Julia,
returns from a visit to Lake Placid
engaged to Johnny Case, an attrac-
tive young man who is determined to
lead a life entirely different from the
Seton's. He wants to "retire young
and work old," and has no desire for
wealth as an end in itself. Linda is
completely in sympathy with his de-
sires and promptly falls in love with
him. Julia, on the other hand, dis-
covers that she cannot understand him
at all, which discovery gives rise to
a further set of complications. The
play ends happily, but the solution is
not an obvious one.
There are two sets, both interiors,
of the Seton's New York establish-
ment; the decor is of the Stanford
White period. The two scenes are
contrasted with each other, for the
first is the richly paneled living room,
whose furnishings discreetly exude
wealth, while the second act is laid
in the children's old playroom on the
top floor, the only room of the house,
according to Linda, in which any one
has ever had any fun. Haverford
will cooperate with the staging of the
play as well as with the acting.
The cast follows:
Julia Seton..............Edith Rose
Henry, the butler.....Tillman Saylor
Johnny Case..........William Clark
Linda.................Isabelle Seltzer
Ned Seton.............Crosby Lewis
Mr. Edward Seton........Amos Leib
Seton Cram.........Daniel G. Santer
Laura Cram
Mary Hinckley Hutchings
Susan Potter............Olga Miiller
Nick Potter..........Robert M. Bird
Bryn Mawr Ties Unbeaten Swarthmore
Team, 2-2, in Season's Most Thrilling Game
In the most exciting game of the
hockey season, the Bryn Mawr Var-
sity tied Swarthmore, 2-2, thereby
winning a great moral victory, since
the Swarthmore team up to that time
had been undefeated, untied and
scored on only once.
Five minutes after the opening
whistle Weadock, our right wing,
dribbled the ball from the fifty-yard
line to the shooting circle, found a
hole in the opposing ranks and shot
the ball through it into the goal. It
was a difficult shot to accomplish, but
the timing and angle of direction were
so perfect that the ball went into the
goal almost untouched by the oppon-
ents. The half ended with Bryn Mawr
in the lead, 1-0.
In the second half our goal was
threatened more than in the first
period. Once the ball faltered on the
edge of the white line, finally deciding
to roll out of bounds. However, it
was not long before E. Jackson,
Swarthmore's captain and center for-
ward, was rushing the goal to tie the
score,
The gallery was wild by this time.
Swarthmore had various male contin-
gents scattered over the" sidelines to
root for them, but we too had some
bass support from members of the
Haverford student body.
In the middle of the half Beniutt
shot a nice goal past the goalie who
had come out to meet her. We were
again ahead. The question was,
could we hold the lead? There were
still ten minutes to play.
E. Jackson, followed by the rest of
the Swarthmore forwards, rushed an-
other shot into the goal and the score
was tied again. Either team could
win with some eight minutes left to
play.
Bryn Mawr made a last valiant
threat to score, but the Swarthmore
goalie held her ground and the final
score was 2-2, an ending which sat-
isfied Bryn Mawr sympathizers be-
cause it had been brought about by
brilliant playing on both sides. Bryn
Mawr functioned as a formidable
unit. Not only was there coopera-
tion among the forwards, but also be-
tween themselves and the backs,
among whom Bright and Norris were
outstanding.
The spirit of the team, as in other
Swarthmore games, was considerably
better than usual. Might it be due to
the rallying effect of an audience or a
cheering section to encourage the play-
ers? This seems to have had some-
thing to do with it, however small a
part it played.
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