College News, 1939-05-01, Vol. 25, No. 21

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VOL. XXV, No. 21
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., MONDAY, MAY 1, 1939
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BRYN   MAWR   COLLEGE,   193�
PRICE 10 CENTS
New Faculty
Appointments
Are Disclosed
Torres - Rioseco   Announced
As M. Flexner Lecturer
For   1939-40
Visiting lecturer under the Mary
Flexner lecturership in 1939-40 will
be Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Ph. D.,
"University of Minnesota 1930, special-
ist in Spanish American literature.
In connection with the Mary Paul
Collins scholarship for foreign wom-
en, also to be offered in the depart-
ment of Spanish, Dr. Torres-Rioseco
will conduct a series of seminar meet-
ings on the Spanish Drama in Latin-
America during the Colonial period.
The � subject of his public lectures
has not yet been announced.
Faculty appointments in the depart-
ments for next year are to iifclude:
Alexander Coburn Soper, III, M. F.
A., associate professor of History of
Art; Mildred Benedict Northrop, Ph.
D., assistant professdr of Economics;
John Chester Miller, Ph. D., assistant
professor of History, and John Corn-
ing Oxtoby, M. A., assistant profes-
sor of Mathematics.
Mr. Soper first took his M. F. A.
degree in architecture and was an in-
structor in the Princeton School of
Architecture from 1929-30. Leaving
this field, he went to Columbia to
study Chinese language- and litera-
ture, and later took his second fine
arts degree in History of Aft. For
the following three years, Mr. Soper,
with *his family, lived in Japan,
where he has been working mainly on
Oriental architecture.
Mr. Miller, who is to teach Ameri-
can History, has traveled widely. Be-
fore going to Harvard, in 1926, he
traveled with a band around the
world; after' graduation he was
awarded Seldon Fellowship for travel
and study in Europe, with which he
went to the Mediterranean and North
Africa.
Upon his return, Mr. Miller, was
made a junior Fellow of the Society
of Fellows started by President
Lowell. This award allows for lib-
eral study, with no requirement that
the holder work for his doctorate.
During this time, Mr. Miller gave
the Lowell lectures in Boston, and has
since published the work in the bio-
graphy, Sam Adams, which in 1939
was also accepted, as his treatise for
the doctor's degree.
Continued on Pace Six
MORLEY GAINS CHARLES HINCHMAN HONOR
WURSTER ^INS BROOK HALL SCHOLARSHIP
Academic  Awards
Also Won by Bacon,
Axon, Pope, Hooker
Goodhart Hall, May 1.�Announce-
ment  of   the   two   highest   academic
honors   for   members  of   the   Junior
Class was  made by  Miss Park.    To
Marie   Wurster   goes  the   Maria  L.
I Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial Schol-
arship,  awarded  to  the  junior  with
highest   average,   while   the   Charles
S.   Hinchman   Memorial   Scholarship
to   the  student  whose   record  shows
I the greatest ability in her major sub-
ject is awarded this year to Louise
, Morley, politics major.
The inherent difficulty of balancing
| work done in entirely different fields,
said Miss Park, always contributes
,to_make the award of the Hinchman
Scholarship a difficult decision. This
year four other students of excep-
tional ability were nominated by
their departments: Anne Louise Axon,
ARE ANNOUNCED phys'cs: THelr Bhacon' Lati,n and
Greek;   Joy   Rosenheim,   social   econ-
FOR COMING YEAR omv> and Marie Wurster, mathemat-
ics.
,.   .            .   ~        .            .     ,-.�       Comparison    was    rendered    more
Major curriculum changes for 1939- djfficu]t by th<j fact ^ ^ ^^
MARIE WURSTER
Brook Hall Scholar
COURSE CHANGES
40 are found in  the  sciences, where    . ...       .              ,  M.      w�   .�� ,,�
,,         ..          ,  .    of Miss Axon  and  Miss  Wurster do
the attempts to coordinate the work in
different  departments   are  being  ex-
tended to undergraduate courses.
The calendar for 1939-40, released
this   week-end,   announces   the   new
courses and requirement changes.
A new course, Comparative Z8ology
and Paleontology, required as part of
the second year work for both biolo-
gists and geologists, will co-ordinate
the work of the two departments. It
will be taught by Miss Gardiner, Miss
Oppenheimer and Mr. Dryden and a
special lecturer in geology will be ap-
pointed to give ten or twelve lectures
and hold conferences during the first
semester.
This course "is designed to give to
the student of biology a knowledge
of comparative anatomy and of the
geologic history of the animal groups
now living, and to the student of
geology a knowledge of paleontology
and of the muscles, nerves and other
soft parts seldom preserved during
fossilization. As often as time and
weather permit, field trips to study
animals in their natural surround-
ings, and to collect fossils, will be
substituted-for laboratory work."
not lend themselves to papers under-
standable by the layman. The paper
presented by Miss Morley, "Les Re-
percussions Internationales de la
Guerre Civile en Espagne," was writ-
ten at the University of Geneva,
where Miss Morley is taking her jun-
ior year.
Four Juniors Honored
To Helen Bacon, who also submitted
a paper, entitled "Maecenas: Poet
and Patron of Poets," was awarded
the Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship
for excellence of work in foreign
languages and also the new Tenney
Frank prize.
The Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholar-
ship for excellence of work in a sci-
ence was won by Anne Louise Axon,
physics major.
Elizabeth   Pope  was   awarded   the
Sheelah Kilroy Memorial Scholarship
for the best work done in advanced
or second  yeaf  English,
will take
The Elizabeth Duane Gillespie
Scholarship in American History was
awarded to Bettie Tyson Hooker-------L-
Freshman, Senior English Prizes
To Sheila Gamble and Nancy Nor-
Sleuth Unearths More
'Dig'; Relics of

The dusty peace of Taylor Hall,
Merion basement and the power house
having been already invaded, we de-
cided to finish up the job and expose
the library cellar. So, dedicating our
curiosity to the cause of journalism,
we descended the spiral staircase op-
posite Miss Reed's office.
A quiet purr first attracted our at-
tention, and Was traced to a door-
way consisting of a built-in, thin net
screen. A large thermometer hung
before it registering a temperature of
eighty-two degrees. We took off our
coat. Behind the screen loomed a
formidable complex of belts and mo-
tors surrounded by several more pend-
ant thermometers, temperature eighty-
two; �-
The whitewashed Stone wall of the
corridor was interrupted by occasional
expanses of beaver board, which, upon
investigation, appeared to be remov-
able. With a vision of trap-doors, we
took one. down. It revealed a dark
nest of pipes, one tin window box, a
broken ladder and two Eveready bat-
teries.
Turning a corner, we stumbled over
three large piles of Spanish news-
print, El Sol, dated 19X7, and a desk.
The desk was piled in a confusion of
black rubbers, photographs of wres-
tlers and fish hatcheries, directions
for What to Do In  Case  Of  Fire,
Scholarship, given annually to the
freshman who has done the best work
in required composition. The Presi-
dent M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize
was awarded to Mary Meigs, senior.
Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate
Scholarship Announcements
For  1939-40
Busts in Library
Later Ages Also Found
two cans of Briggs tobacco and one
bottle of iodine. There was a copy of
The Youthful Woman, too.
Past the desk, We came upon sev-
eral boxes of dixie cups, a collec-
tion of mops, a package of familiar
green blotters and a bookcase contain-
ing D. H. Newman's Parochial and
Plain Sermons, and "the Annal of Eco-
nomics. Beyond this the wall broke
into another gauzed doorway, behind
which hummed a second maze of
wheels and thermometers, tempera-
ture seventy-seven.
Further into the darkness was a
table scattered with musty copies of
The Nation, a calf-bound Italian vol-
ume entitled La Vita Nuova, a few
magazines concerning aesthetic theory,"
some French * novels and a book on
Practical Nursing. ^_     -,,
Two %oiemn, stoney figures stood
brazenly at -the end of the corridor.
More basts, we assumed; but these
were hardly in the discreet tradition
of Romanesque figures. They proved
to be two thick-lipped legless Egyp-
tian statues fn long pharonic head-
cloths, and it took a feminine sneeze
to remind us that we were behind the
stacks and not in Tutankhamen's
tomb.
No one Seems to know much about
the statues. Miss Terrien says they
Continued on Pace 8lz
Scholarships Held at Bryn Mawr College
But Not in the Award of the College
UDIE  C.   BOWER  SAUL  SCHOLARSHIP
Contlnuec. on Page Four
CURTIS QUARTET
TO GIVE BENEFIT
On Monday, May 8, the Curtis
String QfcarHet will give a perform-
ance for the benefit of the fund for
refugee students in Goodhart Hall, at
8.30 p. m.
The members of the quartet are
young graduates of the Curtis Insti-
tute in Philadelphia. They are noted
not only for their own skill, but also
for the beautifully balanced tones of
their instruments, which were assem-
bled by their patron, Mrs. Bok.
These include two Stradivarius vio-
lins, a Montagnana cello, and an
Amati viola. Newsweek of April 24
reports, in addition; that this is their
tenth year of touring, and that they
are now being honored at a musical
festival at Bowdoin College as the
representatives' of contemporary
American chamber music. Tickets
may be obtained from the College
Entertainment Committee in Taylor
Hall, at $1.50 and $1.
Ferrer Excels
In Production
Of Gondoliers
Goodhart Hall, April %8 and 29.�
With traditional care and elaborate
preparation the Glee Club again pre-
sented a Gilbert and Sullivan master-
piece, The Gondoliers. The gay and
charming operetta, more suitable, per-
haps, to college talent than Patience,
was enthusiastically received by the
audiences at both performances.
Terry Ferrer, '40, wRb is an old
land at the game, came very close
to stealing the show. She undoubt-
edly would have succeeded had it not
been for the excellent performances
of Camilla Riggs, '40, Louise Allen,
and Anne Updegraff, both '42, plus
the vivacity and vocal prowess of the
chorus of Contadine. The scenes domi-
nated by these players were the high
spots of the evening. It is relaxing
to watch an actor who knows his
Louise Morley, winner fii the] business.
Charles   Hinchman   scholarship   and^     Miss Ferrer was, as usual, in fine
LOUISE MORLEY
-Hinchman Scholar
MORLEY, BURSTER
TAKING ADVANCED
WORK  THIS  YEAR
student at the University of Geneva
for her junior year, was recommended
for the honor by Mr. Anderson of the
economics department and  Mr.  FeiF" -Gilbert   patter   was   blurred.     Her
wick and  Mr. Wells of the political graciousness ^of movement, moreover,
cience department.   According to Mr.
Fenwick her paper, Lea Repercussions
Internationales de la Guerre Civile en
Espagne, deals with one of the most
lifficult problems of present interna-
tional relations "for up until now
there have been few rules of interna-
tional law governing the effect of
civil war on other members of an in-
ternational community."
Marie Wurster,. winner of the Maria
L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship, awarded to the member
of the junior class with the highest
average in her college record, was
also nominated by the Department of
Mathematics as their candidate for
the award for greatest ability in the
Continued on Page Five
W. H. Bragg to Talk
On Crystal Analysis
Sir William H. Bragg, who will
speak on the Structure of Organic
Crystals, Thursday, May 4, at 8.30,
in Goodhart, has been called the "god
of crystallography." With his,son,
Sir William L. Bragg, he was award-
ed the Nobel prize in 1S�15 for pre-
liminary work in the field. At the
same time, Sir William, senior, is
noted for his Children's Christmas
lectures, where he has explained the
theories of light and sound in a form
intelligible to his "juvenile auditory."
Sir William expects a general audi-
ence at Bryn Mawr, and will assume
it has no previous knowledge of crys-
tal structure. Mr. Patterson, of the
physics department, who worked with
Sir William, in London, in 1924-26,
assures the public that the lecture wilT
be Intelligible to "anyone who can un-
derstand a tiled floor." It is not diffi-
cult but complicated. A collection of
Sir William's popular books are on
the New Book Room table, and may
be used for Supplemental^ Informa-
tion.                                               >
With the lecture, Sir William will
show *' ^nlcolor movies of Some of
the properties of soap films. Mr.
Patterson, who has seen similar dem-
onstrations, reports that the colors
are beautiful.                *
Crystal analysis has developed
somewhat' In reverse. Von Laue first
used crystals to diffract a beam ot
X-rays in order to study the disputed
nature of these rays. Once this was
well established, the Braggs studied
the distinctive diffraction patterns
that X-rays made in passing through
different crystals, In- order to dis-
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Riggs  and   Supporting  Cast
Contribute Vocal Talent
� And   Vivacity
OPERETTA    RECEIVES.
ABUNDANT APPLAUSE
form, and her singing was doubly
enjoyable because she snapped out
the words so crisply that none of the
made her performance sure and pol-
ished. It is unfortunate that this is
the last time we shall have the pleas-
ure of seeing Miss Ferrer grace a G.
and S. production.
Camilla Riggs as Marco Palmieri
was somewhat handicapped by a re-
cent cold, but nevertheless, did a
splendid piece of work. Especially
commendable was her rendition of
Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes which
she had to repeat several times before
the applause subsided.
Louise Allen and Anne Updegraff,
brides of the gondoliers, sang beauti-
fully and easily filled the require-
ments of their roles. Blond and
small, they furnished the proper con-
trast to their sea-going husbands.
Perhaps their voices, and in particu-
lar Miss Allen's, were the bestjn the
cast. They acted as well as they
sang and both showed a decided flair
for comedy.
Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisi-
tor, was expertly played by Eleanor
Emery, '40. Miss Emery makes little
claim to an unusual singing voice, but
what she lacked musically she more
than made up for with dramatic abil-
ity. Whether leeringly patting Miss
Allen's hand or thumping her cane
despondently, Miss Emery was with-
out parallel. What might have been
a small, unimportant role was a vital
part of the operetta.
The girls' chorus deserves as high
Continued on Page Five
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Tuesday', May *.�Dr. Hetty
Goldman en Southern Anatolia,
Music Room, 4.30. Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick^. Common
R%oom, 7.30. W. H. Auden,
Deanery, 8.30.
Wednesday, May 3.�Philoso-
phy Club, Mr. Rufus Jones on
The Nature of the Mystical Ex-
perience,   Common Room, 8.15.
Thursday, May i.�Sir Wil-
liam Bragg on The Structure of
Organic Crystals, Goodhart
Hall, 8.30.
Saturday, May 6.�Player's
Club, Hiawatha Pullman, Good-
hart Hall, 8.30. Square Dance,
Gymnasium, 10.30.
Sunday, May 7.�Chapel, Dr.
Hornell Hart, Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, May 8.�C u r t i s
String Quartet, Goodhart Hall,
8.30.                                          /-
Tuesday, May P.�Dr. Hefty
Goldman on Western Anatolian,
Music Room, 4.30.