College News, 1938-01-05, Vol. 24, No. 11

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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1938    .^tfTJflflJ,JR^oLLEEaE,�Tti7     P**1^ 10. CBNT3
MID-YEAR EXAMINATIONS ARE Tb BE-CANCELLED
Acting Dean Ward
Speaks  in Chapel
At   8.45   Tuesday
297 BRYN MAWRTERS
REPORTED ICEBOUND
Warns Students Not to Try to
Fool Faculty, Dean's Office
Or Western Union
Goodhart, January 4- � "We as
faculty," said Miss Julia Ward, "do
not care one bit whether you as stu-
dents WANT to return to_college for
your first classes after vacation. The
fact is you have to." The only reason
Miss Ward brought this subject up
at all was because of the sleepless
night she spent January 2, 1938;
when, the Bell Telephone Company,
reports, the line was Jiot busy for only
ten minutes of the entire twelve
hours.
"If ANYTHING can be gleaned
from the midnight conversations with
snowbound, icebound students at va-
rious points north, it is that the weath-
er conditions are very much more se-
vere than the weather bureau would
give Us to believe. As I gaze on your
healthy>�aces, I cannot! help marvelling
fat the salutary effects of travel�and
Jl ask myself: 'where are the colds
that "Yesterday made* travel impos-
sibler"       I
Miss Ward said that she had little
/ if anything to say about the" unveri-
fied ! report that a maniac was loose
on ithe . Erie railroad. "It is my
opmion that any party of two or more
Bryn Mawr undergraduates should
be able to cope with such a situation,"
shq said.
"As for the doctor's certificates
which Mrs. Lisle brought to me this
morning," continued Miss Ward, "I
feel that the medical profession is a
little over-precautious. In checking
with Dr. Leary we were mildly sur-
prised to find that over half of the
certificates were signed by veteri-
naries."
However,  Miss  Ward  felt  that  a
public apology was owed to the stu-
dent who sent a night letter saying
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Rosemont   Whitewashes
Bryn Mawr Cage Team
M.   Meigs   Wrecks    Alma   Mater's
Prospects by  Fumbles
The Bryn Mawr cage team opened
the 1937-38 season with a disastrous
four-quarter white-wash by Rosemont
College. M. Meigs, '39, was outstand-
ingly sloppy, particularly in her drib-
bling. The enormous gallery of Bryn
Mawr rooters went wild, but Meigs
carried on in spite of jeers, catcalls,
and epithets of "butter-fingers."
' Varsity opened with a smashing at-
tack against the petite Rosemont op-
position. Bryn Mawr's guards, Meigs
and Williams, towered above the Rose-
mont forwards, O'Brien and O'Neill,
who resorted to a system .of under-
handed passes, but seemed unable to
get the ball up to the levM of the
basket.            .                         \         .
Naramore and Auchinchlose, Var-
sity forwards, quickly piled up a lead
of 12 points. Their well-coordinated,
bullet-like attack was clicking in a
workmanlike fashion. This lead was
pared down early in the second pe-
riod when Bryn Mawr's jump center,
Seltzer, '37, was out:leapt by O'Shau-
riessy, of Rosemont. The ball flashed
straight into the arms of Meigs, who
handed it to O'Neill, who shot a bas-
ket. In a sudden burst of inspiration
O'Neill and O'Brien followed this with
six more brilliant precision shots over
the heads of Meigs and Williams,
making the score 14-12 in Rosemont's
favor.
In the second half, the play was
concentrated around the visitors' goal.
Meigs fouled heavily and Rosemont
netted three foul shots. One more
foul and Meigs was out. Unfortu-
nately she did not foul again.
Sarah Meigs took the place of
Auchinchloss, and was able to sink
three close placements, almost even-
ing the score at 16-17. Seltzer seized
the ball and ploughed through the
hard-fighting Rosemont defense to the
Bryn Mawr goal, where the play raged
angrily for several minutes. A loop-
ing pass down the court to Rose-
mont's end was snagged by M. Meigs,
who inadvertently shot a basket just
a�s the whistle blew.
Dale Carnegie Delivers Flecture Lexner    *-
On Subject of ' Attitudes and Aptitudes'
Goodhart, Monday, January 3.�
The first Flecture Lexner of the year
was given by Dr. Dale Carnegie, of
the Carnegie Foundation. The title of
his first lecture was Attitudes and
Aptitudes. He summed up his posi-
tion in the following: "Whatever
problem confronts man,�spiritual, in-
tellectual, or purely practical, man is
always faced with some problem. In
this, one's aptitudes for adjustment to
an overcoming cause of these problems
inevitably varies directly in relation to
/    one's attitude."
Dr. Carnegie confessed that he him-
self was never happier than when in
the course of resolving some prob-
lem. "I thrive on obstacles," he said.
Moreover, he pointed out, the future
of all infants depends on whether
they thrive on obstacles, or yield to
obstacles, as when the ancient Greek
and Roman children were exposed on
high places. Their whole future life
depends upon ability to smile in the
face of catastrophe. The whole future
-�attitude also is conditioned by their
aptitude to come through.
Dr. Carnegie cited the case of Han-
ner to illustrate his primary thesis.
Hanner is a child of fourteen months
who was presented with the problem
of eating a bananer which is on a
low table three feet away but still
definitely within her life space. The
bananer has a positive valence for
Hanner, but she is unable to walk and
has never tried bananers so they have
no existential value for her. She has
been conditioned entirely by Mullins
Strained Baby Food and Fletcher's
Castoria.    Hanner, however,  is  pos-
SCOOP!
MISS X, '38
future European fellow, who pre-
fers to remain anonymous.
1938 European Fellow
Discovered by 'News'
While   Remaining   Anonymous,
Shy Winner Reveals Salient
Facts of Her Life
Recent Radical Change Will
Substitute Three-hour Quizzes
Christmas   Eve   Finds
Vulgar Room Crowded
U.   S.   A.,   National   Interrelational
And Relational Clubs Merge
sessed by a strong curiosity complex
and she discovers after several bad
tries that she can approach the bana-
ner by crawling acros&jthe floor. This
problem was solved by Bummi, who
entered Hanners' life field and took
the bananer just^before she achieved
it. Bummi's aptitude for approaching
the bananer was manifestly more ef-
fective than Hanners, therefore his
attitude toward it was more salutory.
Dr. Carnegie spent a large portion
of his time refuting the conclusions of
Mr. James Thurber in his latest vol-
ume, Let Your Mind Alone. "Mr.
Thurber's entire argument," said he,
"is founded on the erroneous principle
that one's aptitude is determined by
one's attitude.   The converse is true."
The whole future course of civiliza-
tion depends upon the proper adjust-
ment between attitudes and aptitudes.
Dr. Carnegie explained his own par-
ticular theory which he calls the as-
cending spiral theory, and by which
a perpetual adjustment takes place by
which man's attitude toward problems
is simplified as his aptitude becomes
more complex. The favorable varia-
tion in attitude in turn conditions
man's general aptitude, i. e., his apti-
tude toward problems in general is
derived by the formula:
i� (quantijy)= X
E
Dr. Carnegie said he would go into
further details as to the application
of this formula in the next Flecture
Lexner, to be entitled Methotudes and
Baptists. His final word to the audi-
ence was:  "Try Flexner's Castoria."
Monday, January 3.�The News has
discovered who the 1938 European
Fellow will be, by dint of examining
the files in Miss Ward's office during
Christmas vacation. Our reporter
got in the office by using a skeleton
key which she stole from Joe Graham.
Early this morning another reporter
interviewed the lucky student, who
was in rather low spirits due to her
return after Christmas vacation, but
was, nevertheless, surprized and
pleased to learn that she would win
the coveted honor.
Our heroine wishes to remain anony-
mous, because her family does not
like her to have her name in the
papers. However, The News is au-
thorized to tell most of the important
facts about her. She is a senior in
the class of 1938, born in, Orange
County, New York, and lived most of
her life in Houston, Texas, and St.
Cloud, near Paris. She speaks French
like a native, and German with a
slight Swiss accent. She is a product
of the Lincoln School in New York
and Le Lycee de Jeune Filles Sur Lac
in Switzerland.
She came to Bryn Mawr In the fall
of 1934, and majors in philosophy.
When asked what her chief extra-cur-
ricular interest is, she replied: "It
used to be my studies, but now it- is
the problem of the good." For sports
she has taken swimming, walking,
folk-dancing and sun-bathing. Her
favorite course was freshman English
for two reasons: one, because she
didn't have to take notes, and two,
because in the springtime they sat out
in the sun. She .thinks every student
should take freshman English, as it
teaches one to express oneself.
Miss X, the lucky European fellow
has an average of 89.9. She says it
is a point of honor with her not to
have a high credit average. Besides,
The News investigations reveal that
the nearest competitor, has an aver-
age of 87 point something. Miss X
wanted us to be particularly careful
to emphasize that she is not counting
her chickens before they are .hatched.
She knows that it is perfectly possible
for some dark horse to catch up with
her at Comprehensive time. She
doesn't worry much, though, because
she knows she/has her major subject
pretty well iif hand, and is ahead on
her outsidft^eading.
NexT'year, Miss X expects to go to
the Sorbosine, and after ^ha^ her am-
bition is to be an Oxford don.
Vulgar Room, December 24.�On
Christmas Eve at a joint meeting of
the U. S. A., the National Interrela-
tional Club, and the Relations Club,
recently formed by a small group of
relations, a motion was moved by an
interested freshman, '41, that more
interest be taken on campus in inter-
esting national interrelational affairs.
She suggested that a club should be
formed of the groups represented for
"greater interest on campus in inter-
esting national interrelational affairs."
The chairman of the meeting, K.
Lawrence Stapleton asked, "Is there
a member of the Piece Council pres-
ent?" The freshman allowed modestly
that the said Council had gone to
pieces, and sat down. Since there
was, therefore, to all intents arid
purposes, no such member present, al-
though as Miss Stapleton said, "In
the final analysis everyone here is a
member of the P. C. Heh, heh," it was
voted by the group present that the
Piece Council be roughly glued to-
gether again by the freshman, '41.
The freshman said, "I will be glad to
glue any little thing I can for the
gloup."
A vote of thanks to the freshman,
'41, was proposed by the chairman
and voted by the gloup. The gloup
under the instigation of the Under-
gradual Society moved a motion to
amalgamate and form a club to be
called the Gradual Interrelational
Piece Club for more and bigger re-
lations on campus. Meetings will be
held daily and will be addressed by
members of the faculty who have
relations, and those of the studious
body who may be selected piecemeal by
the central executive gloup (of which
the chairman is an ex-officio member).
It is hoped that every/me on campus
will sign up for the club on the in-
teresting little purplish-bluish-red
cards that are being passed around
the halls by interested freshmen, '41.
Time, Space and Such     .__
Due to One Principle
Philosophy    Club    Hears    Problem
Later Drinks Coffee
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
On January 6, at 4.30, Marjorie
Hil'.is, author of Live Alone and Like
It, will apeak to the Science Club on
Reproduction in the Unnucleated CelL
Common Room, December 25-Janu-
ary 1.�Time, space and such attri-
butes of the space-time world, said
�Bernard Cosgrove Mclntosh, of Rol-
lins College, at a recent meeting of
the Philosophy Club, are � due to one
principle of differentiation, that of the
unity of participation of the animate-
inanimate as "that which is both ani-
mate and inanimate at one and the
same time and continues so infinitely
in Euclidean space."
The problem comes up, said Mr.
Mclntosh, when Euclidean space is
transfinite. Now the peoples of Aus-
tria, according to the work of Ru-
ben Heim in sociology, consider all
space transfinite. Epistemologically
this is not indicative of idealism, but
both logically and metaphysically it
does imply an idealist bias.
According to Descrates' statement
of the nature of identical particles of
indiscernible elements, space is both
transfinite and limited. This theory,
recently taken up by Miss Barbara
Bella Cynwid, of Yale, .has received
greavex ^.J^-th^W theory of
the nature of the identity of indis-
cernibles.
The future of philosophy lies in
the reconciliation of these two theories
with each other and with the Darwin-
ian evolution.
Coffee was served.
Exam Period is Found
Too Strenuous on All
A statement has been released by
the faculty to the effect that the mid-
year exams have been cancelled. In
their place will be put three-hour
quizzes (twO-hour quizzes for hi unit
courses). As this decision has been
made so soon before the examination
period, there has been no time to print
new schedules. ,So the schedules al-
ready printed and posted have been
changed by Miss Lisle to read "Sched-
ule for Mid-Year Quizzes" in place
of the previous "Schedule for Mid-
Year Examinations."
The faculty have issued the follow-v
ing statement: "For many years we
have felt that the Mid-Year Examina-
tion period is a strain not only on
the faculty, but also on the students.
We also have realized that the weight-
ing of the year's marks has been
askew in having the examinations
count one-half of. the semester's mark.
The quizzes will only count fifty per
cent of the semester's mark."
The News has sept out a question-
naire to members of the faculty, of
various colleges reading "What is
your opinion of Bryn Mawr's new
quiz plan?" Among the answers are
notably the following:
"Practical at Bryn Mawr, but not
at Harvard." President Conant of
Harvard.   �
"Our girls going wild over your
plan. We will adopt it for the 1938-
39 season. Thanks for idea." Presi-
dent Lee of Bennington.
The News received one answer in
the form of a question. "Consider
new plan a stroke of genius. Wire
collect by Western Union whether you
would consider it feasible in a coedu-
cational college." Hamilton Holt,
Rollins College.
A statement was received from
Sing Sing prison, to whom no ques-
tionnaire was sent. "Regret to see
lenience undermining the college sys-
tem. Joe 'Sluggish' Blackby, our
most notorious inmate, started his
career in crime in his college days at
Duke. Stop this killing of the
Continued  on  Page Four
MARRIAGE QUESTIONS
ANSWERED   BY   NEWS
All eligible college news boards
were sent the following questionnaire
by the Ladies' Fireside Companion.
The answers represent the majority
opinion of the board.               s
Q.    Do you believe in divorce?
A. -Yes,; We have actually seen jt
happen.                 '"�', ,
Q. Do you think most marriages
fail today because of unhappy sex re-
lations?
A. We frown on sex relations in
marriage.
Q. Do you think most marriages
fail today because of unhappy sex re-
lations hJIkecn husband and wife?
A.    Well, that's a different matter.
Q. Do you favor the Wasserman
test at Bryn Mawr?
A. Not if it is to be averaged in
with our semester marks.    �.
Q. Do you consider that marriage
between childhood friends is a good
thing?
A. No; we feel that nothing should
come between childhood friends.
Q. Do you believe in mixed mar-
riages?
A.    With what?
New Rush In House
The power plant has been converted
into a Russian house, where vodka win
be served nightly at 12. Theme song:
Dynamo, Is There Any Mo' Finer?
The members of the new house are:
Naomi Coplin, "38; Sylvia Wright, "38;
Augusta Arnold, '38; Mary Dimock,
'39; Agnes Spencer, '39, and Jane
Carpenter, '38.              '  �