College News, 1938-02-09, Vol. 24, No. 13

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VOL. XXIV, No. 13
Freshmen Devise '
Original and Almost
Wild Plot for Show
Characters   From   All   Epochs
Emote Against Background
of the Crusade
STRANGE POSTERS ADD
AN AIR OF MYSTERY
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The Freshman Show, Asleep and
Better to Be That Way, has been born
of a class struggle. The Class of lSXt
was split into two almost equal parts
mainly on the question of whether or
not the play should be about college.
The majority opinion was against any
reference to college whatsoever, in
spite of 17 sophomores who appeared
at class meeting in time to vote for
college material. The factions are now
partially resolved and at work on the
writing and production of a, highly
original and, from all accounts, almost
wild plot.
No one seems to know definitely who
the author is. Ann Harrington, Chair-
man of the general committee, says
about 200 people have worked on the
lines. It is based on the argument be-
tween Richard the Lion-hearted and
Philip Augustus, on King Arthur and
Frederick Barbarossa, Mrs. Roosevelt,
Berengaria and Eleanor of Aquitaine;
but all the characters are fictitious.
The play consists of two acts and three
scenes during two days in Palestine
on a Crusade. Berengaria and Eleanor
become blase about the Crusade, the
crisis hinges on a ping pong ball, and
someone at some point in the play is
heard-to roar: "Holy Grail!"
The cast has evidently been deter-
mined with one eye to appropriateness
and the other to incongruity; as Rose-
mary Sprague, who is actually de-
scended from Eleanore of Aquitaine,
plays that part and Ernestine Gallucci
is playing Berengaria because she
played Uriah Heep in school.
The News considers the best recom-
mendation of the show to be the pos-
ters, done by Jane Harper and her
committee. Jane herself did the cow,
the lion, and the volcano posters. The
music committee, headed by Helen
Mclntosh, has been at work on two
original songs, and composing new
words to songs recruited from football
seasons, camp life, the Follies, and
Gilbert and Sullivan. The dance com-
mittee, headed by Alice Lee, has so far
done its work in deepest secrecy.
Frances Levison and Eileen Durning
who are, respectively, Business Man-
ager and Stage Manager are quoted
as saying, independently, "It's a hell
of a job."
LouisrI
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1938
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN   MAWR  COLLEGE,  1938
PRICE 10 CEN1S
Morlcy Speaks
At Peace Conference
Talks on Pacifistic Organizations
On Bryn Mawr Campus
On January 21, Louise Morley, '40,
president of the International Rela-
tions Club and of the Peace Council,
made a speech at the National Con-
ference on the Cause and Cure of War
which was held in Washington. Her
speech was entitled A College Woman
Looks at the Peace Problem, and con-
cerned peace organizations at Bryn
Mawr: the International Relations
Club, the Peace Council, and the Bryn
Mawr delegation which is going to
represent Russia in the Model League
of Nations Assembly at Rutgers on
April seventh, eighth, and ninth. Ex-
cerpts from the speech follow:
"The International Relations Club
at Bryn Mawr is only one of those in
many colleges that owe a great debt
of gratitude to the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace. Not
only does this organization supply
books and bibliographies and a fort-
nightly summary of important world
events, but it also holds annual re-
gional conferences for the various
clubs in a district.
"The annual Model League of Na-
tions Assembly, held under the aus-
pices of the League of Nations Asso;
ciation, brings students of various
colleges together, but in a somewhat
different atmosphere. In these model
assemblies, the different colleges in a
region represent the various nations
in the League of Nations. Weeks of
preparation bring delegates together,
each well up to date on his nation's
foreign policy and also" prepared to
attempt to reach some agreement with
other national delegates on three
major issues before the real League
of Nations. There are generally six
members to a delegation, two to work
on each of the three commissions that
discuss the problems before the As-
sembly. Plenary sessions which open
and close the Assembly follow closely
the procedure of the League of Na-
tions Assembly, but just as at the
League itself, it is in Commissions
that the real work is done. Here,
after discussions and debates from
the various national points of view,
concrete proposals for presentation
to the whole model assembly are drawn
up.
"International Clubs and the vari-
ous branches of the American Student
Union, provide a means of activity
^for those whose interests are actively
aroused. The problem of arousing
the latent interests of other students
is more complicated, and we have
found that the best means of doing
Continued on Paso Three
Joys for Scientific Hearts Concealed
Under Austerity of Dalton's Successor
Secrecy   Shrouds   Developments
On the New Residence Hall,
Workmen  Silent
Two centers of mechanical construc-
tion, in different stages of develop-
ment, under_ different management,
and for different purposes are now in
progress on campus. They are the
almost completed science building and
the new dormitory. Both will be ready
for occupancy next year but mean-
while drills and hammers make the
days hideous for the Deanery and
Low Buildings.        t
The science building, to the untu-
tored eye, rises a mound of yellow
brick as impersonal and blank as any
rural high school. But only to the
untutored eye, the amiable boss ex-
plained. Before giving any details,
however, he insisted that we mention
the architects, Thomas & Martin Co.,
end and windows reaching for two
stories from floor to ceiling. A gallery
where maps will be kept, extends
around three sides of the room.
The chemistry section is walled with
hollow glazed tile as additional fire
protection. It is supplied .with eight
pipe lines carrying anything from gas
and compressed air to hot lemonade.
There are dark rooms, special vaults
for acid storage, research rooms,
offices and even a drinking fountain in
the front like the one at the Central
Park Zoo.
Most unique are the windows of a
design never before used this side of
the Mississippi, or almost never, any-
way. They are made up of small
oblong panes set in steel frames. By
turning one crank the top sections
open to give no-draft ventilation. If
anyone feels faint, another crank
swings them all open.
and the contractors, BixiU., '�~:^CHP�>dditional    wonders    are    display
He, himseK>�nrefers to remain anony-
mous.
The building, which is of the most
modern construction available, has
three fire-proofed floors. The geology
department will occupy the east sec-
tion, chemistry the west. The central
part of, the second floor and above is
given over to an enormous library,
with large marble fireplaces at each
rooms for rocks (the geology depart-
ment can come into the open at last),
a system of pipes to carry away dis-
agreeable fumes created by chemical
novices, a vacuum line, a hand oper-
ated elevator and an office for Mw
Watson that rivals II Dace's in Rome.
The front door at the building is
pressed steel set in snowy Indiana
Continued on Face Two
Miss Lake Criticizes
Midwinter Lantern
Thinks   Summer  School  Work
Out of Place Where Style
Is Emphasized
EDITORIAL AND POETRY
OF H. CORNER LAUDED
(Especially contributed by Minn
Agnes K. Lake.)
. The mid-winter issue of the Lantern
is opened by an editorial on Education
in Philadelphia which seems admirable
in its common .sense. How adequately
the measures proposed would meet the
situation I am in no position to judge;
but that there is serious need of action
is obvious. It is pleasant to see the
Editors taking an interest in local
problems as well as in the more dra-
matic catastrophes of the world-at-
large.
Elsewhere the Editors have not been
quite so successful. The Theatre Re-
view, Susan and Jupiter's Miracle,
seems like the result of an illspent
week-end, topped oft" by an indigestible
dinner. It is an attempt to blend
Susan and God, Father Malachy's
Miracle, and Amphitryon in a tech-
nique perhaps inspired by the Bryn
Mawr production of Hamlet. The re-
sult fails because if lacks the wit
which, on the basis of past experience,
we are justified in expecting from the
authors.
There is little point in reviewing
book reviews, but does not a new book
by a scholar like Mr. Chew deserve
something better in the way of criti-
cism than a glorified table Of contents^
No attempt has been made to evaluate
the contribution of The Crescent and
The Rose. J. G. has done a more useful
piece of work in trying to estimate the
significance of Robert Browning and
Julia Wedgwood. In Aldous Huxley's
Ends and Means, 0. Sheep seems, not
unnaturally, a little out of her depth.
Miss Nichols' sketch, Cross Town, is
a clever piece of writing. She has suc-
ceeded in giving us a full length por-
trait of Mr. Kingsbye, although she
has limited herself to his 20 minutes
at a news reel. Practice will eliminate
the technical faults in her style, which
come from a tendency to be over-
explicit, too great a dependence on the
use of adverbs to point the meaning
which should be implicit in_�the verb,
and a habit of stating wha\ has al-
ready been implied.                 \
Miss Calkins (who usually spells
her name without the "u") in We
Hated Her, tells us an anecdote of
childhood in Italy which is going to
stay in my mind for a long time. The
helplessness of children in the face of
their peculiar terrors is described with
complete understanding and no over-
statement. Only the very end seems
somehow not to ring true. Ginny's
words have a stilted sound which is
not characteristic of Miss Calkins'
style. I imagine that the half dozen
mistakes in the Italian phrases can
be blamed on the proof-reading rather
than on the author.
Miss Kirk's amiable little picture of
domestic poisoning suffers by contrast
with the other contributions. Sad re-
flection as it may be on the human
race, the subject is hackneyed and thw
treatment is not original. Some of the
phrases are vivid, but the style is
marred by the inaccurate use of words.
"Socketed," for example, is not a
synonym for, "embedded," and, to be
Continued on Page Pour
GLEE  CLUB CAST
The cast of the Glee Club's produc-
tion of Patience has been chosen as
follows:
Colonel Calverley. .Ruth Stoddard, '39
Major Murgatroyd
Mary Elizabeth Wickham, '40
Lieut, the Duke of Dunstable
Matilda JajmrfTyltx,   .'
Reginald Bunthorne.Terry Ferrer, '40
Archibald Grosvenor
Cornelia Rogers Kellogg, '39
The Lady Jane                                i
Camilla Kidder Riggs, '40
Patience ..........Anne Kidder, '41
The Lady Angela
The Lady Saphir
The Lady Ella
......................To be chosen
COLLEGE CALENDAR
* Friday, February 11.�Square
dance, Gymnasium, 8.30 p.m.
Monday, February 11,.�Philos-
ophy Club meeting, Common
Room, 8 p. m. Isabelle Stearnes
will speak.    .
Tuesday, February 15. � Mr.
Fenwick will speak on current
events, Common Room, 7.30 p. m.
International Club meeting,
Common Room, 8 p. m.
Thursday, February 17. � A.
S. LJ. meeting, Commtfn Room,
8 p. m.
Saturday, February 19. �
Freshman Show of the Class of
1941, Goodhart, 8.20.   ,.
Sunday, February 20. � The
Making of a Picture, lecture by
Mr. Maulsby Kimball, Deanery,
5 p. m.   .
Monday, February SI.�Mal-
lory Whiting Webster Lecture in
History by Dr. Bertha Haven
Putnam, Goodhart, 8.20 p. m.
Tuesday, February 22. � Mr.
Fenwick will speak on Current
Events. Common Room, 7.30
p. m.
Wednesday, February 23.�
Recital by Paul Hindemuth,
^Goodhart, 8.20 p. m.
Big Majority Approves
Senior  Reading  Period
Mucjv-Time Used For Other Work,
Not for Comprehensives
The News questionnaire on the sen
ior reading period shows that an over-
whelming majority favor the period
on the whole, but that almost half of
the class could not use the time for
Comprehensive reading. Catching up
on regular reading, papers and quizzes
and examinations occupied a large
part of the time for most.
The questions asked were: "Did you
spend most of the reading period
studying at home or elsewhere? Did
you spend most or all of the time on
quizzes, on examinations, or on papers?
Did you waste the entire reading pe-
riod? Do you feel that it was valuable
f6r whatever reason?"
About a quarter of the 77 seniors
questioned were away from college
most of the time, but 19 of them were
studying while away. Two seniors
stated that they wasted most of the
period. One of these, and two others
thought the time was not valuable for
any reason; a brave four said not
enough was assigned, and many
recommended that the period be later.
The consensus of opinion was that
the time was valuable for catching up,
coordinating, and at least getting
some idea of what should be done for
the remainder of the year. Twenty-
seven of the seniors spent at least part
of the time preparing for current
quizzes and examinations, while 22
were writing papers or honors reports
at least half the period. More exactly,
this means that only 17 of the class
spent most of the time doing assigned
Comprehensive reading and review.
MISS FAIRCHJLD, TALKS
ON NEW LABOR LAWS
Common Room, January 26.�At a
meeting of the Industrial Group, "kiss
Fairchild spoke on Labor legislation,
its history and the implications of cer-
tain issues. Greatest emphasis was
put on the Wages and Hours Bill, un-
employment compensation, and the
attitudes of the A. F. of L. and the
C. I. O. to Labor legislation.
The Wages and Hours Bill, "at-
tempting to put a ceiling above hours
and a floor beneath wages" is under-
stood to have various possible results.
An editorial in the Philadelphia Pub-
/tc^*jte"Sta1*d that labor legislation
serves to raise costs, an action which
employers combat by raising prices
and installing new machinery. How-
ever the advantage of Federal legis-
lation over trade union regulation is
that it'eliminates the moving from
state to state.
-   Since the A. F. if L. stands oat
against   Federal   legislation   and  the
Continued en Pace Threw
E. Fabyan Speaks
On Experiences
In Peiping Siege
After  Capture   of   City,   Press
Stifled, Chinese Welfare
Work Stopped
JAPANESE ATTITUDE TO
FOREIGNERS CHANGED
Common Room, February 1.�"I
don't think I ever dare go to China
again," said Miss Eleanor Fabyan,
'36, speaking on her experiences of
last summer during the taking of
Peiping. Miss Fabyan, who was in
China as secretary to Owen Lattimore,
editor of Pacific Affairs, suggested
that her presence in China always
seemed to bear a distinct relationship
to an immediate outbreak of viblence
wherever she happens to be. She ar-
rived in Mukden on September' 18,
1931, and the same night Manchuria
was taken by.the Japanese. Cm her
second visit to China, she was in Peip-
ing during the siege and capture of
the city.
Explaining that American news-
papers carried more exact reports of
the war than could be obtained in
China last summer, Miss Fabyan de-
clared that she would confine her
talk chiefly to personal reminiscences.
She said that her first knowledge of
the fighting came in the early morning
of July 8, when her amah heard the
distant sound-of guns. This noise
continued and grew louder and
louder until some 20 days later, when
the fighting was right outside the
gates of Peiping, and there were
planes flying over the city every few
minutes. All foreign citizens were
ordered into the foreign quarter. Miss
Fabyan received the notice one morn-
ing to move into the international con-
cession by noon the same day, bring-
ing as little luggage as possible. In
spite of the fact that the embassies
were crowded and people were living
in tents inside the foreign quarter,
and also in spite of confusion and ex-
citement, there was not much fear,
that the Japanese would bomb Peip-
ing. The reason for this is that
everyone knew the city was easy to
take, and would not be able to resist
long. It is not in a very strategic
position, and is a very ancient and
beautiful city which the Japanese
would probably hope to exploit as a
tourist center. The only danger was
that the Japanese troops might run
Continued on Page Four
City School Children
Investigated by A. S. U.
Small    Delegation    Sent    to    Talk
With Governor Earle
Present conditions in Philadelphia
schools were investigated by the A.
S. U. A delegation of four members
�Eleanor Bailenson '39, Agnes Spen-
cer '39, Emily Doak '39 and Eleanor
Sayre '38�consulted with Governor
Earle along with similar delegations
from Swarthmore, University of Penr\
sylvania, and Temple. If conditions'
remain as they ate now there will be
a reaction oh the rating of the high-
schools which will disqualify their
pupils from eligibility for scholarships
to first-rate colleges.
As a result of depreciation in real
estate values the schools are facing a
deficit of from six to seven million
dollars. This will undoubtedly in-
crease because of a recent State Su-
preme Court ruling that the Board of
Education cannot raise the taxes on
property, since it is an appointed, not
an elective, body. Unless higher tases
can be levied, however, there is no
chance to make up-the deficit.
Governor Earle's answer to a re- ,
quest for a special session of the <>...�
legislature to pass effective measures
was that a special session would not
only involve great expense but also
would probably be fruitless since leg-
islators are now concerned with their
own local problems. He implied, how-
ever, that if they felt that the people
would support new taxes the measure
might succeed in the next meeting,
Oaotlnued on Pace