College News, 1939-03-22, Vol. 25, No. 17

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Allen Traces
Humanization
of Civil War
History   of   Supreme   Court
Shows Little Prejudice
Against Labor
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
APPROACH SOLUTIONS
/Goodhart Hall, March 21. � The
crux of Judge Allen's fifth lecture on
The Constitution and Labor, was the
vast advance made in the last century
in^furthering the amiable relation of
capital and labor, upon which so much
of the prosperity of modern industry
depends. Although it has been charged
that the Supreme Court is anti-labor,
the facts do not bear out the case.
On the contrary, the Court has often,
and in the'most important cases, sus-
tained the contentions of labor.
One of the drawbacks in our at-
tempts to lessen the difficulties be-
tween capital and labor is the idea
that because a law is called uncon-
stitutional, it cannot be put into
effect It seems strange that we
should resort to legislative compulsion
to solve the problems of employer and
employee.
Capital and labor in England and
Sweden do not attempt to interfere
with or to break each other's power.
These two countries are aware of the
interdependence of their industrial
systems and recognize the advantage
of voluntary collective bargaining and
of working under laws made by trade
"unions. This country is at last on
its way towards working out a system
of this nature. In the totalitarian
states, labor has no rights.
There has been an application
against employees of the Doctrine of
Assumption of Risk, the Doctrine of
Contributory Negligence and the Fel-
low Servant Doctrine, in order to
eliminate the chance of recompense
for injury and death in an industrial
accident. Industry and, through it,
society itself then has to pay the cost.
The Doctrine of Assumption of Risk
is to the effect that one who works in
an industry assumes the hazards of
that industry. The Doctrine of Con-
tributory Negligence stipulates that
if the injured has contributed to the
cause of his injury, he cannot combat
or sue another who was equally at
fault The Fellow Servant Doctrine
carries out the theory that a man will
be more careful if he knows that he
will not be recompensed by his em-
Contlnued on Pag* Five
Holzworth, Lever, Dickey Win
Three Graduate Scholarships
Dr.  Clark States That the Creative  Powers  of  Women
,  And Their Capacity to Learn Now Established
'        In the Scientific Field
TWO OF THE SCHOLARS
REVEAfc FUTURE PLANS
Retiring News Officers
Mary Mcigs,  '39
1936-37: Elected to the News board
in the fall of her sophomore year;
made constant, but usually fruitless,
search for Faculty Notes; became in-
volved in a psychological write-up of
one of the Lectures on Man.
1937-38: Theatre and book reviews,
features; elected editor-in-chief,
March, 1938.
1938-39: Editor-in-chief of the
News; resigned March 15, 1939.
Journalism Demands
Pertinacity and Wit
Newspaperwoman Virginia Pope
Charts Basic Qualifications
For Reporters
Common Room, March 20.�In-
genuity, personality and contacts were
named as the three basic requirements
for newspaper work by Virginia Pope,
fashion editor of the New York Times,
in an informal talk on Opportunities
for Girls in Journalism. A new idea
will always sell, the speaker said, and
openings are manifold for the appli-
cant who has something original to
sell.
Using the Times as a typical exam-
ple, Miss Pope outlined the various
fields of work open on a large paper.
At present there is only one woman
reporter, but the travel, society, educa-
tion and illustration editorships are
all held by women, as well as various
jobs in photography, advertising, pub-
licity, research and secretarial work.
From any of these positions it is
possible to "push beyond the typewrit-
er" if you are interested and willing
to work, Anne O'Hare McCormick,
well-known   political .columnist   and
first feminine staff editor, began by
Continued on Pas* Four
New Feuows Are Feted at Gala Dinner;
Graduates Exult With Poetry and Song
Rhoads, March 17. � This annual
Bryn Mawr Fellowship dinner occa-
sioned a brilliant display of extra
curricular talents. By a hiihiane ar-
rangement, the new fellows, Jean
Holzworth and Katherine Lever,
though guests of honor, were excused
from speaking and enjoyed an evening
of inspired academic frivolity.
Members of the faculty and of Rad-
nor provided the entertainment. Mrs.
Manning spoke on her recent travels,
reporting that Italy's best seller was
Via Con Vente�by Margaret Mitchell.
Mr. Herben and Mr. Nahm performed
a duet that was the high spot of the
evening. This song was born as a
barber shop quartet in the 1935 fac-
ulty show. Mr. Herben refused to let
the News see the song, prohibiting
even delicately chosen excerpts as un-
representative. By undercover meth-
ods it has been ascertained that one
verse dared to mention the Gr�ks.
Fantasia for the Fellows, for two
voices and recorders, was composed by
Helen Garth, This surrealist master-
piece presented a falsetto conversation
between professor and student, with
interpolated flourishes on the record-
ers. Later in the program a second
piece was played by the same com-
poser.   The Anglo-Saxon Trilogy drew
its inspiration from three words en-
countered in a course. Mundbyrd
means peace. Wergild is the amount
a man is worth in money, or cows. A
Wapentake is a measure of land.
Helen Rice and Helen Garth per-
formed the trilogy as a violin duet,
asking the audience to visualize a
peaceful cow, grazing in a meadow.
The geologists are said to spend
their field trips making up songs.
Their Chant of Geologists, which had
won the Radnor Laundry prize for
the best song encouraging neatness,
was repeated by popular request.
Mollie Stewart, a philosopher, recited
a mystic poem, in style strongly remi-
niscent of T, S. Eliot and the Lantern,
under the title, My Heart Belongs to
Radnor. Toastmistress Elizabeth Meirs
had opened the program with a clas-
sical, though unintelligible, Ave in
impressive Latin. Her subsequent
quips so aroused one faculty member
that he rose crying "You can't do
that." Later he was heard to murmur
"Thank...she is in none of my
courses!" Ultimately she concluded
with an Atque Vale.
The dinner was held in Rhoads, to
complete the festive atmosphere, which
explains the crowd at the Inn Friday
evening.
Margaret   Otis,  '39
1935-36: Elected to the News board
in the spring of her freshman year;
wrote In Philadelphia and Wits End.
1936-37: Theatre reviews.
1937-38: Foreign correspondent for
the News from France; elected copy
editor, March, 1938.
1938-39: Copy editor of the News;
resigned March 15, 1939.
Primitive   and   Modern
Rhythms  Mark   Recital
t
Hampton   Group   Portrays   History
Of Racial Dance Forms
Goodhart, March 21.�The series of
African dances that opened the recital
of the Hampton Institute Creative
Dance Group it UM (if the best, and
certainly one of the most impressive,
groups that they'did. The rhythm of
these dances appeals naturally to the
Negro race, and with an added dig-
nity the Hampton dancers matte*.them
realistically convincing on the stage.
In the first scene the king is borne
in on a hammock palanquin by eight
bearers, who do a shuffling dance with
the hammock swinging between them,
to the thump of the tomtoms. In the
Continued on Page Five
COLLEGE^ CALENDAR
Friday, ' March 24.�Spring
vacation  begins  at 12.45  p.   in.
Monday, April S.�Spring va-
cation ends at 9 a. m. First of
Lectures in. Art Symposium,
Representation in Art, by Mr.
Richard Bernheimer, Music
Room, 8 p. m. Discussion in the
Common Room.
Tuesday, April 4.�Current
Eveirte, "Wr.-^Fenwick. Common
Room, 7.30. Illustrated lecture
on Carl Akeley's Africa, by Mrs.
Carl Akeley. Goodhart Hall,
8.20.
Wednesday, April 5.�Second
af Lectures in Art Symposium,
Representation in Art, by Mr.
Rjchard Bernheimer. Music
Room, 8 p. m. Discussion in
the Common Room.
Thursday, April 6.�Amateur
Night, Goodhart Hall, 8.30.
Friday, April 7.�Industrial
Group Supper, Common Room,
6.30 p. m.
Sunday, April 9.�Art Club
Tea and exhibition of reproduc-
tions of Cezanne. Common
Room, 4.30 p. m. Mr. Sloane
will speak.
Monday, April 10.�Dr. Helen
A. Field to speak on Teaching
as a Profession. .Common Room,
4.45 p. m. Third lecture in Art
Symposium, Archaeological Apr
proach to Art, by Mr. Rhys
Carpenter. Music Room, 8 p. m. 1
Discussion in the Common Room.
Tuesday, April 11.�Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
Room, 7.30. All-Chopin Piano
Recital, by Josef Hofmann.
Goodhart Hall, 8.30.
Wednesday, April 12.�Fourth
lecture in Art Symposium,
Archaeological Approach to Art
(continued). Music Room, 8 p.
m. Discussion in the Common
Room.                    .   i-
From Wednesday until Friday of
last week, Jean Holzworth, winner of
the Mary E. Garrett Graduate Euro-
pean Fellowship, and Katherine Lever,
winner of the Fanny Bullock Work-
man .Fellowship, faced a difficult situa-
tion. According to the traditions of
the college, they were allowed to tell
only one friend of their good -for-
tune, and to allay suspicion, adopted
expressions of deepest graduate gloom.
Miss Holzworth has a flair for the
spectacular. During her senior year
at Bryn Mawr she won the Horace
Contest run by the University of
Cincinnati for the Horace Bi-niillen-
nium. The award specified a year of
traval in Italy or Greece, so last year
she set out to the American Academy
in Rome. When asked if Mussolini
caused her much trouble during her
visit, she replied modestly, "Confi-
dentially, I don't think he paid mqch
attention to me."
On her return, she decided that she
wanted to take a course in medieval
studies and a special scholarship was
created for her. At present she is do-
ing work in Middle English, Medieval
Latin and Medieval History.
�Next-year she expects to study in
Paris, Oxford, Zurich and Cambridge
Continued on Pace Six
Four   Sided   Symposium
'"On Art to be Presented
Music   Room   Series   Will   Parallel
Forum Given on 'Man'
The history of art department will
present a symposium similar to the
one held by the philosophy department
two years ago. Arranged at Miss
Park's suggestion, it will consist of
seven lectures to be given on Monday
and Wednesday evenings in the Mu-
sic Room at eight o'clock.
The speakers will include Mr. Rich-
ard Bernheimer, lecturer in history of
art; Mr. Rhys Carpenter, professor
of classical archaeology and Greek;
Mr. Milton Nahm, associate professor
of philosophy, and Mr. Kurt Kofka,
professor of psychology at Smith.
Each speaker will treat the subject
in the light of his own particular
field so that the audience will get four
distinct points of view. The historical
development will be treated by Mr.
Bernheimer, and the archaeological
approach to art by Mr. Carpenter,
while Mr. Kofka will deal with
psychological aspects. In conclusion,
a metaphysical analysis of the content
of the foregoing lectures will be pre-
sented by Mr. Nahm.
Since both Mr. Helson and Mr.
Continued on Pace Six
Important  Notices
To Appear in 'News'
Up to the present time many
important college notices, for in-
stance those announcing faculty
or staff changes, the appoint-
ment of lecturers, the changes in
curriculum, new courses, re-
quirements for scholarships, etc.,
have been first announced by
the president or dean at chapel
and repeated as a report from
the chapel in the News.
With the experimental change
to a monthly Assembly, many of
the notices will be sent direct to
the News from the ckllege offices.
Students will be responsible for
realizing the importance of such
statements in their plans since
attention will no longer be called
to them by any oral announce-
ments or explanations.         � _
FIRST OF ASSEMBLIES
GIVEN TO GRADUATES
Goodhart Hall, March'17.�Inaugu-
rating the first of the special morning
assemblies, Miss Park announced to-
day the award of the Mary E. Gar-
rett European Fellowship, highest
honor open to graduate students, to
Jean Holzworth, '36, at present gradu-
ate scholar in medieval studies. To
Katherine Lever, Swarthmore, '36, and
graduate scholar in Greek since that
time, the Fanny Bullock Workman
Fellowship was awarded.
Louise A. Dickey, '37, M.A., '38,
won the Ella Riegel Scolanhip in clas-
sical archaeology. She is already
studying at the American School of
Classical Studies in Athens, where
she will continue for the coming year.
After these announcements, the as-
sembly was addressed by Dr. Janet
Howell Clark, Bryn Mawr, '10, and
present dean of the women's college at
the University of Rochester. Speak-
ing on Women in Research, she
stressed her belief that women had
not only the power to lea,rn and ob-
serve accurately, but also the rarer
gift of creative  imagination.
In opening the program, Miss Park
said, "It is appropriate that the first
of these experimental morning assem-
blies should be given over to-Jbe in-
terests of the graduates. Their in-
terests are those of the whole college."
The standards of independent work,
and the attempts at the interrelation
of all knowledge, which the graduate
school carries on, she continued, were
also the standards of the undergradu-
ate college.
Introducing the speaker, Eunice
Morgan Schenck, Dean of the Gradu-
ate School, summarized Dr. Clark's
achievements and her connections with
Bryn Mawr. After graduating from '
Bryn Mawr in 1910, she took her doc-
Contlnued on Pace Six              .
STAPLETON ADVOCATES
DEMOCRATIC IDEALISM
FOR EDUCATION TODAY
Common Room, March 17.�Educa-
tion has two major aspects, one the
discovery of truth and continuation of
knowledge, and the other the training
of citizens," declared Miss Stapleton
in her speech, Democracy and Educa-
tion, addressed to the members of the
Bryn Mawr American Students'
Union. Miss Stapleton defined de-
mocracy as "a state where the people
may exercise their will and achieve
the power to choose their plan 8f ac-
tion when this will can be ascertained.
The majority will not take from the
minority the right to live as human
beings."
It is dangerous to support democ-
racy merely as a defense against
something worse. We should support
it rather because we believe it is the
best form of existing government.
Ideally, democracy and education
should be mutually dependent
Democracy is the best environment
for the discovery of truth, but not
the only one. No matter what re-
strictift^may be placed upon the ac-
tivities^H universities and students,
as in present-day Germany, "truth has
eternal patience and remains to be
rediscovered." Unbiased scientific
knowledge developed under one kind
of government is equally valuable un.
der another. However, democracy
does have a definite advantage because
to obtain objective truth one must
have 'wide experience and a variety
of solutions to choose from.
One fault in our modern system of
education lies in the fact that the
people searching., for truth are not
those who are training young Ameri-
cans to be citizens. Consequently, this
training has lagged behind the
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