College News, 1939-01-11, Vol. 25, No. 10

              The College News
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VOL. XXV, No. 10
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1939
Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN   MAWR  COLLEGE,  1938
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Parallel Drawn
Between Yoga
And Surrealism
Non - Physiological   Medium
Used by Both to Express
Sensations
MEANS OF TWO ARE
SAME; AIMS  DIFFER
Deanery, Jan, 9.�In his lecture on
Yoga and Surrealism, Dr. Spiegel-
burg said that, despite the many dif-
ferences between these two movements
and the fact that neither claims any
relation to the other, he believes a
comparison would be interesting and
helpful to a better understanding of
both. The most important common
factor is their same projection plane
for psychic experiences. Both at-
tempt to describe a schematic pattern
of our sensations by some better vis-
ual medium than that offered by
physiological concepts.
Pictured by Max Ernst, an embrace
consists in unconnected lines whose
stresses, depressions and convulsions
represent the sensations as felt.with-
in the embrace itself. The lines are
no more connected with the shape of
the human body than the sensation
of "a pumpkin painfully in place of a
head" is connected with ^he actual
physical cause of the headache. The
picture represents the surrealist's at-
tempt to describe a state of sensations
in a new medium which is still un-
clear.
In Yoga art, there also exists the
description of a state of sensation in
a medium other than that of physi-
ology. The spinal column is not ex-
pressed by vertebrae, etc., but by a
series of wheels, shaped like the lotus
flower, continuing up to the top of
the head where the symbol frequently
appears on the surface. These wheels
are connected by a tube through
which the serpent, or giver of life,
is supposed to breathe and thereby en-
dow each wheel with the power to
realize its particular sensation.
Many of the critics of surrealism,
Dr. Spiegelburg said,, are not unlike
the Indian Yogi, who, on dissecting a
frog and finding that the backbone
-was not in the form of lotus wheels,
disclaimed Yoga art. "Realism is the
dandelion blown by the woman in the
front of, dictionaries."
One form of Indian art, similar to
that of neurotic patients, is Mandarla
and consists of circles, squares and
triangles drawn in a symmetric way
about a center and bound in by a
line. This type of art represents a
mirror of the momentary state of the
painter's soul.   "��
Surrealism   is   in   contradiction   to
such ornamental or abstract art which,
resulting from some repression, "Hies
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Workers Tell Trials
of New Hosiery Union
Common Room, Goodhart^Hall, Jan-
uary 6.�Representatives of the Girls'
Division of Branch 1, of the Hosiery
Workers' Union which is affiliated
with the C. I. 0., and representatives
of the Industrial Group of the Ger-
mantown Y. W. C. A., attended the
supper and discussion meeting of the
Bryn Mawr Industrial Group on Fri-
day evening. The Problems of New
Unions was the discussion'subject,   �j
A knitter from a mill employing
only 21 workers told how her shop
was organized by her employer and
the local union less than a year ago.
The local union appointed a chair-
man whom his fellow workers did not
want.   But when the local representa-
tive came to hold an election^ he dis-
couraged secret balloting, and the
same man was elected. There had
been no strong opposition because
none of the workers knew any more
about conducting a union than he. To
date, the union has given the em-
ployees nothing more substantial than
promises.
Anna Geisinger, who came with the
Girls' Division group, gave an account
of the struggles -of her union when
it was new. She also gave a summary
of the process of making hosiery.
In 1907, Anna Geisinger said, seven
men began work to interest people in
the forming of a union of full fash-
ion hosiery knitters. It took two
years before the union was chart-
ered.
In 1909 girl "toppers" were taken
in.    Women outnumbered men five to
one in this trade.    Between 1914 and
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday,   January   IS.�Mr.
Fenwick will speak on The Lima
Conference.   Goodhart, 8 p. m.
.   Friday,    January    13.�Yale
Puppeteers.    Goodhart, 8.30.
Sunday, January IS.�Ronny
Johannsen will give a dance re-
cital.    Gymnasjum, 4 p. m.
Monday, January 16.�Sir
Ronald Storrs will speak on The
Problem in Palestine. Good-
hart, 8.80.                  #
Tuesday, January 17.�Cur�
rent Events, Mr. Fenwick. Com-
mon Room, 7.80. A. S. U. meet-
ing.    Common Room, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, January 18.�
Humphrey-Weidmann dance re-
cital.   Gymnasium.
Thursday, January 19.�Nu-
cleus Camera Club darkroom
party, Room 102, Dalton, 7.30
p. m.
Two Styles Seen in
Roman Architecture
MISS WOLFF TO TEACH
MUSIC    APPRECIATION
'Mr. Horace Alwyne has been
granted leave of absence from the col-
lege for the remainder of the aca-
demic year. Mr. Willoughby will be
in charge of the department during
Mr. Alwyne's absence, and will give
first and second year History and Ap-
preciation of Music until the end of
the first semester.
In the second semester these courses
will be given by Miss Katharine Wolff,
a B.A. from Swarthmore College
with a certificate in music from the
University of Pennsylvania, and a
graduate of the Ecole Normale de
Musique in Paris. She was formerly
a pupil of Constantine von Sternberg
and Nadia Boulanger, and assistant
teacher with Mile. Boulanger.
The third year history and appre-
ciation of uidsic will be given through-
out the remainder of the year by
Miss Florence Fraser (Mrs. William
B. Mudge, Jr.), a graduate of the
Curtis Institute of Music and former
pupil of Natiia Boulanger and Yvette
Guilbert.
Facts About Faculty Children Exposed;
v    Reporter  Identifies Campus  Small  Fry
Dr.   Boethius   Shows   Unclassic
Forces Developed Within
Imperial Rome
Deanery, January 8.�In his lec-
ture on the importance of the archi-
tecture of imperial Rome on the Mid-
dle Ages, Dr. Boethius, of Goeteberg,
Sweden, stressed the fact that the un-
classic forces that produced the archi-
tecture of the Byzantine and Mediae-
val periods developed within Imperial
Rome itself. An unclassic style ap-
peared first as a parallel to the con-
ventional classic, and finally as its
equal and Superior. The unclassic
influence also shows in sculpture. Dr.
Boethius illustrated this with slides
of heads of Constantine, and a late
Roman head from Ostia, which differ
markedly from the "civically" noble
style heads of Augustus.
The arch of Septimus Serverus of
203 A.D. was the first public monu-
ment to show traces of this changed
style, although there had been earlier
unsophisticated illustrative paintings
on the outside of house and shop walls
in Pompeii necessarily before 79 A.D.
Many of the reliefs on the arch show
the predominate Roman interest in
narrative, and perspective and propor-
tion have been almost completely sac-
rificed. That this style was complete-
ly self-conscious, is shown by the ap-
pearance of conventional classic mo-
Contlnued on Pare Four
Bryn Mawr Summer School
Will Move to Site on Hudson
New Location at West Park Will Give Freedom to Meet
Changing Needs; Board to Include More Labor Members
ORIGINAL INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL BEGAN IN 1921
The v idea of a short term school
for young women in industry"' to be
held on the summer campus/of Bryn
Mawr originated with Miss M. Carey
Thomas, then President or the Col-
lege, in 1921, and the organization
was due to a group of college women,
and women in industry whom she
called together. Miss Hilda W. Smith,
at that time Dean of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, resigried her college position to
accept the directorship of the school,
which she held until 1933, when she
was appointed Specialist in Workers'
Education of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration.
. The school has been open to .from
60 to 100 students each summer, its
faculty has been drawn from many
colleges and universities, and its ex-
perience in the methods devised in it
has been uswd by other similar schools
connected with colleges and universi-
ties, by workers' education in gen-
eral, and in particular by the division
of Workers' Education under the W.
P. A. Among its 1500 students many
have proved themselves intelligent and
interested leaders, followers in their
union organizations, therY. W. C. A.
industrial groups and in* their com-
munities in general. There have been,
including several foundations, groups
'of college undergraduates, trade
Continued on  Page Two
SESSIONS THROUGHOUT
YEAR    ARE    SUGGESTED
Storrs to Discuss
Near East Problem
Sophisticated   Puppets
To Play at Bryn Mawr
Yale   Puppeteers  Will   Present
Headline  Characters
if
With spring here, for the time be-
ing, it is appropriate to study the
young things that are beginning to
bloom about the campus. Tricycles,
wagons, bicycles, roller skates and
scooters will soon encumber the paths,
propelled by a horde of faculty chil-
dren. And if winter comes, we should
be able to identify the marauders who
hurl snowballs in the general direc-
tion of us as we pass and then flee
to safety behind some tree. What
might be called the auntly instinct
has instigated this investigation of
the names and activities of the 6ff-
spring of the Bryiv Mawr faculty.   �.
Cartreff and Ddlgelly are the usual
headquarters for this category, which
is chiefly feminine and under 13. The
varied status of their parents pre-
vents absolute statistics, but at least
twenty can be counted without argu-
ment. A generous list can be made
from the personnel of Miss Park's
spring party. This is the event of
the year, and involves balloons in the
garden, as well as new dresses and
patent leather shoes.
As of January 11, Steven Lattimore
is the youngest of the faculty chil-
dren and Frederika De Laguna the
most illustrious. Steven was born
last spring, under auspicious circum-
stances for a scion of the Greek de-
partment. His return from the hos-
pital to Low Buildings was attended
by a record-breaking thunderstorm.
It struck the building and nearly ex-
^rmjnated Mrs. Wheeler of the math-
ematics department, all in the best
tradition of classical  omens.
Miss De Laguna has spent her
time, before joining the faculty, in
watching the arrow point to murder
and other archaeological pursuits. Her
return to Bryn Mawr provides an
example of the good European tra-
dition of parent and child on the same
faculty. Philosophy, as a study of
all aspects of reality, can perfectly
well   mother  anthropology.
Continued on Pare Four
The Yale Puppeteers. will come to
Bryn Mawr on January 13 with their
production of It's a Small World, a
topical musical revue written especial-
ly for the puppet stage by. Harry
Burnett, Forman Brown and Richard
Brandon. The performance is being
given for the benefit of the Eastern
Pennsylvania Alumnae Regional
Scholarship Fund.
When the Yak Puppeteers first be-
gan to plan their new production they
decided to invade the field of sophisti-
cated satire, a thing unheard of in
this country but done for years in
Europe. Forman Brown, in writing
lyrics for It's a Small World, has
combined the modernism of Cole Por-
ter with the quaintness and liveliness
of Gilbert and Sullivan.
The puppeteers have chosen as their
characters people in the headlines, and
plan  to  add  new  personalities   from
time to time to keep up with current
events.    Among this year's cast are:
Mrs.   Roosevelt,   singing   in   Eleanor
blue about My Day,  John  L.  Lewis
ccVjgorting  with  angels,  and   George
Bernard Shaw in heaven, Arturo Tos-
canini,   Martha  Graham,   the   Lunts
and   Whistler's    Mother,   and    Mrs.
Harkness' baby panda.
Continued  on Pace Four
Sir Ronald Storrs, who will lecture
here on Monday, January 16, on the
problem of the Near East, is unusu-
ally well qualified to speak on such a
subject. For almost thirty-years�
from 1904 to 1932�he heldjoffice un-
brokenly in Egypt, Palestine and Cy-
prus, and knew intimately the char-
acter of the men and policies that
formed their history.
He was oriental secretary in Cairo
to Sir Eldon Gorst, Lord Kitchener
and Sir Henry*McMahon in turn. In
1917, he was sent to Mesopotamia as
political officer, and in 1918 he became
the Military Governor of Jerusalem,
and remained in Palestine as Civil
Governor of Judea for nine years. He
was then made Governor of Cyprus
and held office there until 1932.
In Palestine, his unparalleled op-
portunities to watch the development
of the conflict between the Jews and
the Arabs make his discussion of the
timely problem particularly absorbing.
His study of Zionism in the book of
memoirs called Orientation is said to
be "the most picturesque and human
account that has yet appeared."
Besides his memoirs, Sir Ronald is
the author of Handbook of Cyprus
(1930) and the Chronology of Cyprus
(1929).
(The text of Miss Park's speech in chapel
will be found on page 5  of this issue.)
The Board of Directors of the Bryn
Mawr Summer School for Women
Workers in Industry has taken the
lease of two houses at West Park
on the Hudson, New York. This an-
nouncement was made following a
recent meeting of the Executive Com-
mittees of the Board of the Summer
School and of the Board of Directors
of Bryn Mawr College in joint session.
The Summer School will have its per-
manent home at West Park, and its
summer session will be held there
beginning in 1939 instead of on the
Bryn Mawr campus, where it has been
for the last eighteen years. There
will be room at the new school for
about sixty-five students.
To meet the desire of the Summer
School Board, the school is leaving
the campus in order to have its own
home where not only summer but
winter sessions can be held, where
institutes for labor groups may meet
and where, through experimentation,
the school may meet the changing
needs of labor.
The present Board of the Summer
School, including representatives of
Bryn Mawr College, labor groups and
faculty and students of the school
will continue in office, birfthe Board
will be increased to include a larger
representation of labor, and a council
of advisors headed by President Mar-
ion Edwards Park, of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, will be appointed to widen the
support and emphasise the impor-
tance of the school. The director of
the school will be Miss Jeaa Carter,
who has been connected with the
school for several years and- has been
its director or associate director since
1935.
At the joint meeting of the Execu-
tive Committees, the Summer School
Board presented the following reso-
lution:                 �   . �'..
"The Board of Directors of the
Summer School wishes to express to
Continued on  Page Pour
Mrs. Kelly Laments Fate
Of   Basque   Provinces
Noted Author Describes Customs of
Spanish Mountaineers

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Miss Kraus Honored
Miss Hertha Kraus, of the so-
cial economy department, has
been invited to be a member of
the Cdfhmittee on Social As-
pects of Public Housing of the
National Conference' of Social
Work for the coming year. She
is also a member of the Amer-
ican section of the International
Conference of Social Work, to be
held in Belgium, in 1940, and
has been asked to be a member
of the Coordinating Committee
for Student Refugees, formed
under the direction of the In-
stitute for International Educa-
tion.
Deanery, January 8.�In speaking
on the Basque Country, Helen Mer-
cine Kelly, whose articles in the Sot-
urday Evening Post are widely known,
deplored the death of old Spain, which
in the words of Mistral has "passed
over the mountain" with its king, Al-
phonso. The Basqucprovinces them-
selves, though still unconquered, have
suffered terribly at the hands of the
Insurgents, and have sacrificed count-
less women and children, who insisted
on defending their country as soldiers.
The Basque people are an entity,
speaking French, Spanish and their
own tongue, and claiming descent
from the people of the island of At-
lantis. It is easy to distinguish them;
they are generally large, square-
shouldered, and grey-eyed, different
from the Spaniards in every way.
They are industrious, with little pov-
erty and no unemployment, rarely go
to bullfights, and for their national
game play la pelotte. Their songs arc
usually marTh>l~and their dancing is
athletic. It is not unusual to see two
girls or two old women dancing with
each other. They lead an extremely
vigorous outdoor life, skiing, hunting
and fishing in the treacherous Bay of
Biscay, whose whale industry has
now been replaced by sardine^Jjsh-
eries.
Basque  families,  said  Mrs.   Kelly,
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