College News, 1938-11-10, Vol. 25, No. 06

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College Council'
Discusses Group
Insurance Plan
Audit      of     Undergraduate
Organizations' Books
Proposed
METHODS OF RAISING
MONEY     SUGGESTED
Salzburg Trapp Choir
ft ill Sing in Goodhart
Program   Will   Include   Classic,
Folk Music; Block-Flutes
To be Played          ^
College Inn, November 9.�The sec-
ond College Council meeting of the
year was held last Wednesday at the
College Inn. The main topics under
discussion were: group insurance for
students, auditing of the books of un-
dergraduate organizations, money
raising and the college movie.
An insurance company has7 offered
a group policy to the college at the
cost of 6 dollars per person, which
would cover accident or illness for a
year whether the student is in coll#�e
or not. The plan has been effectively
used in the past by members of the
Delaware Group. It was suggested
that the insurance be optional and
that it be referred to parents rather
than to the students themselves.
There was general agreement that the
idea of group insurance was gooa.
The account books of campus or-
ganizations were formerly officially
audited at the.end of each year. If
such a systemAvere resumed, treasur-
ers could pass on their books in an
organized anl understandable form.
Mr. Hurst could simplify it by in-
structing the treasurers in methods of
auditing. If organizations make
their budgets public, as the Bryn
Mawr League has done, it will be of
general interest to the college.
Continued  on  Page  Four
Mr. Fenwick to Brdadcast
Mr. Fenwick will speak over
the radio program Town Hall on
the Air, on Thursday night, No-
vember 17.
On November 11, Mr. Fenwick
was one of four speakers at the
Brearley School. Nine prepara-
tory schools were assembled and
the topic chosen was "Czechoslo-
vakia: Was there justification
for demanding her safrrrjtcesaml
urill they be a permanent con-
tribution to a just peace in
Europe?" Mr. Fenwick was
asked to prepare this subject
from the point of view of a
"convinced believer tin collective
securities." TJje f^ur speakers
on the Panel were followed by
open discussion from the floor in
which the 400 or more girls pres-
ent in the audience were invited
to take part.
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On Monday, November 28, the
Trapp family, known as the "Salz-
burg Trapp Choir" will performjjn
Goodhart. This entertainment prom-
ises to be unique, for not only does
this talented family sing classic mu-
sic and folk songs, but gives the
only public performance of music
played on "Block-Flutes." These
flutes provided the most popular house
and church music from the fifteenth
through seventeenth centuries; they
are constructed on the same principle
as the organ, and sound somewhat
like it when played.
The whole atmosphere created by
the casualness, yet general excellence
of the choir's music, resembles that
.of musical salons of Bach's time.
The Trapp Choir, composed solely of
the members of one family, have
earned the praises of the severest
critics in Europe. They are renowned
for the trueness of their pitch (it is
given them just once at the beginning
of each number), and their diction is
good in several languages, including
English.
The third part of the program con-
sists* of a selection of Austrian and
Bavarian folk-songs from the-collec-
tion which the Trapps have been mak-
ing since 1900, and which includes sev-
eral types of yodeling. In addition
to enthusiastic outside reviews the
Trapp Choir is highly recommended
by Mr. Alwyne.
Miss Perkins,
Miss Bondfield
Speak on Labor
Joint ^ction   of   Employers
And Workers Urged
i ' For Stability
RECENT LEGISLATION
IS BRIEFLY OUTLINED
THE SALZRURG TRAPP CHOIR
Mr. Fenwick Appointed
To  Attend  Conference
Cites Talk of Fellow-Delegate About
Fascist Menace
Mr. Charles G. Fenwick, of the de-
partment of political economy, has
been asked again to be a delegate to
a conference of American states. He
will leave for Lima the day after
Thanksgiving, not to return until
January. In 1936 he attended the In-
ter-American Conference for the
Maintenance of Peace, an "extraordi-
nary" meeting which took place be-
tween these International Conferences
of American States, usually scheduled
regularly every five years.
The aim of these conferences is to
promote political, economic and cul;
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Squash, Badminton
Courts Are Planned
Donations Have Been Received
From Fathers; Large Gifts
Badly Needed
Conferences
Paul Green, who is lecturing
on the American Theatre to-
night, will talk with under-
graduate conference groups in
the May Day Room in Goodhart
on Thursday and Friday at 4
p. m.
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Bryn Mawr Archaeological "Dig" at Tarsus
Finds Traces of Culture of Bronze Age
To the . unarchaeological Bryn
Mawrter, the Tarsus "dig" is remote
and unconnected with college life, but
to Bryn Mawr it is one of the most
important items on its list of mar-
ginal undertakings. Started in 1935
by Miss Hetty Goldman, '03, it has
become increasingly interesting as the
digging has proceeded through six
levels of culture to the Bronze Age of
the Hittites.                   .    .
Miss Goldman is the only woman
member of the Princeton Institute of
�Advanced Study. She made a pre-
liminary reconnaissance of the land
around Tarsus in 1934, and chose two
mounds for excavation. A Turkish
law states that although two may be
reserved, only one may be excavated
at a time. Miss Goldman and her
staff of six, in digging the first
mound, found six levels: Turkish
graves, Islamic houses, Roman re-
mains, Greek remains, the Iron Age,
and finally Hittite remains dating
from about 3000  B.  C.     Miss Gold-
man had also expected to find a
Mycenean stronghold, but the Hittites
were^ so strong that they had kept the
Myceneans out.
The object of the excavation was
to find this prehistoric Hittite mound,
not evidences of Hellenistic culture,
which may be seen all over the town.
The basins in the Turkish baths, for
instance, are-*Hellenistic column capi-
tals, wprn away by years of flowing
water. The most interesting Hittrte"
find was a crystal statuette of a man,
now in the museum at Istanbul. Others
are a pair of heavy, red-gold, pre-
Hittite earrings, a gold pendant
shaped in the form of twisted leaves,
sandstone molds for bronze chisels
and axes, and the tools themselves.
For the most part, however, the dig-
ging produces broken pottery which is
carefully mended and put into the
room which is used for a museum.
There   are   100   workmen:   Turks,
Arabs   and   Kurds,   rough   mountain
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A committee Headed by Anne J.
Clark, '39, is now conferring with
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins on plans for
building squash and badminton courts.
They also hope to include a recrea-
tion and tea room which will be
planned, owned, and run by the stu-
dents. A. J. Clark empnasized par-
ticularly the fact that the whole pro-
ject is intended to provide under-
graduates with an amusement place of
their own. It is not to be connected
with the department, of physical edu-
cation.
"Students would then have a place-
to entertain guests on weekends, play
squash and badminton, and have tea.''
The hockey, basketball, swimming and
tennis varsities also need a room of
this type in which to entertain visit-
ng teams and serve them lunch or tea
after the matches.
A. J. Clark reported that during
the past few years, letters have been
sent to fathers of every undergradu-
ate asking for small donations with
the hope that all or part of the squash
courts could be built in their name
Two thousand dollars have been re-
ceived from them, to which the Ath-
letic Association V|ias added another
thousand. It is estimated that 17
thousand dollars more will be needed
which the committee hopes to receive
in several large gifts. They urge that
all students suggest the names of pos-
sible donors to a member of the com-
mittee, which consists of: A. J. Clark,
'39; Barbara Auchincloss, '40; Con-
stance Ligon, '39; Edith E. Lee, '41;
Margaret Macgrath, '42. They are
anxious'to receive any suggestions on
plans or finances.
College Money J)rive
Is Long Term Scheme
Fire-Year Plan of 1929 Covers
All Recent Developments
At  Bryn   Mawr
Money-raising at Bryn Mawr, far
from being done in a haphazard fash-
ion, is part of a long-term scheme
which was definitely organized in 1929.
At that time, a committee was formed
to draw up a plan for the future de-
velopment of the college under a live
year program. The committee was
headed by Mrs. Alfred B. Mac-Kay,
and included Mrs. F. Lois Slade, Mrs.
Thomas Streeter, Mrs. James Chad-
wick-Collins, Mrs. Rustin Mclntosh,
Mrs. Everett N. Case, Mrs. Edmund
\\. Wilson and Miss Florence Lexow.
Ilefore 1929, money was raised by
(he alumnae according to the wants
of the college. Having raised 2,000,-
000 dollars in 1920 to increase faculty
salaries, they realized that theif-next
objective must combine three specific
needs. The first was a students'
building; to finance this project they
had started the tradition of liig May
Day in 1912 and intended to use tin
profits of all subsequent May Days
to this end.
The .second was an auditorium.
The immediate need for such a build
ing was,brought home to the college in
1924,*when stringent fire laws wire
passed restricting the use of the old
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MISS   WISKEMANN
TO TALK ON NAZIS
Kreisler to Present
Benefit Performance
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On Thursday, December first, Fritz
Kreisler will give a violin recital in
Goodhart Hall. The recital will be
for the benefit of the Tarsus "dig,"
which needs 25 thousand dollars to
cover its expenses for the year. The
maximum profit made if all seats in
Goodhart are sold out will be 600
dollars. - Prices for seats nave been
purposely" kept low so th* students
will be able to go.
Prices start at three dollars and 85
cents for rows A through Z, three
dollars and 35 cents for AA through
CC, and two dollars and 85 cents for
DD through HH. For the college
only, the first two rows of the balcony
will be two dollars^nd the next three
rows one dollar and 50 cents. To
students only, 30 one dollar tickets for
standing room in the balcony will be
sold in advance, on condition that
these students are really unable to
afford to buy seats.
Miss Elizabeth Wiskemann, of
Newnhan College, Cambridge Univer-
sity, will give a lecture on The Nazis
in Central Europe in the Music Room
of Goodhart on December first at
four-thirty. The lecture will deal
in particular with the Nazis in Czecho-
slovakia.
Resides being a lecturer, at Newn-
han College, Miss Wiskemann is as-
sociated, under the direction of Pro-
fessor Arnold Toynbee, with The
Royal Institute of International Af-
fairs" which produces the most schol-
arly interpreters of modern po-
litical problems. She has spent much
time gathering material in Czecho-
slovakia, Poland and Hungary, and
has supplied information to Runci-
man during the recent crisis. In July,
1938, she published one of the best
existing studies of present problems
Tim Czechs and Germans.
No More Re,gutar
Skating
The Athletic Association re-
grets to announce that- due to
higher prices and lack of outside
help it is unable to sponsor the
weekly skating hour this year.
The Philadelphia Skating Club
is, however, very glad to have
the Bryn Mawr students skate
during their open hours. Tick-
ets for this are quite reason-
able. See A. J. Clark, German
House, for further information.
Goodhart, November 10.�In an
auditorium crowded with outsiders as
well as students, the Honorable Fran-
ces Perkins, Secretary of Labor in the
United States, and the Right Honor-
able Margaret Bondfield, former Min-
ister of Labor in England, spoke on
the Relation of Government to Organ-
ized lAibor. Although each presented
the point of view of her own country,
the fundamental principle expressed
was the same: 'stahjMty of jobs and
incomes cannot*"15e expected unless
there is mutual cooperation between
the worker and employer.
Miss Bondfield kept this principle
constantly before her in describing
briefly the background of the English
labor movement, in pointing out th\s
present political importance of the La-
bor Party (as an alternative to the
Conservative policy and as an organ
through which citizens can speak)
and in explaining the recent legisla-
tion in behalf of labor.
Miss Perkins, besides stressing the
importance of balance between the
worker and the employer, explained
the differences iir*ihe development and
the relationships of organized labor
here and in- England^ She pointed
out the movement during the last 30
years toward minimum legislation for
labor and the realization of the need
of a central institution to make our
state, laws uniform.
Because of the recent increase of
American social legislation, Miss Bond-
field believes the history of the Eng-
lish Labor movement should be of par-
ticular interest to us. In her brief
summary of this history, Miss Bond-
field mentions, as the first positive
legislation in favor of labor, the Trade
Union Acts of 1876. About this time
the Trade Union Congress, consisting
of both employers' and workers'
unions, was founded. Not until 1889
did the unionization of the unskilled
laborer begin, resulting in an organ*
ization resembling the C. I. O., and
arising because of the great exploita-
tion of this class, which not only
affected the wages of the laborers
themselves, but also those of the
skilled workers. The craft unions,
through the Trade Union Congress,
continued to work very closely with
this C. I. O. organization.
In  1906, after one union had suf-
fered  a  suit of  23   thousand   pounjiu
.for an unauthorized strike, an'aet��.
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Friday, November 17.�A. S.
U. meeting. Common Room,
7.30.
, Monday, Novemper 81.�Sec-
ond Anna Howard Shaw Lecture
by Judge Florence Allen.
Goodhart, 8.20.
Tuesday^ November 88.�Cur-
rent Events, Mr. Fenwick. Com-
mon Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, November 8S.-~
Thanksgiving vacation begins,
12.'45..A   '
"Monday,   November   88.-r-
Thanksgiving  vacation  ends, 9.
a',   m.     Salzburg  Trapp   Choir.
Goodhart, 8.30.
Wednesday, November SO.�
Dr. Salmony will speak. Dean-
ery. 8.30. f
Thursday, November 1.�Eliz-
abeth Wiskemann will give the
Mallory Whiting Webster Lec-
ture on National Socialism in
Central Europe. Music Room,
4.30. Fritz Kreisler to give vio-
lin recital.    Goodhart, 8.30.
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