College News, 1939-11-08, Vol. 26, No. 05

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BRYN MAWR and WAYN^, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1939
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Adler States
Faith-Reason
In Harmony
States  Thomistic  Solution
Of Problem Essential
In Religion
Common Room, November
"The single greatest
of St. Thomas Aquinas was the per-
fect solution of the problem of faith
and reason," declared Dr. Morti-
mer J. Adler, associate professor
at the law school of the University
of Chicago, in an address before
the Philosophy Club. "tfr. Adler
sauI thai this problem is possibly
more important than any other to-
day, although one tendency of mod-
ern philosophy is to deny its exis-
tence. He insisted that such denial
is a worse error than a false solu-
tion.
It is impossible to maintain the
validity of faith without reason be-
cause "faith presupposes reason as
grace presupposes nature," Dr. Ad-
ler stated. Where there is an ap-
parent conflict between faith and
reason, reason is conflicting with
itself. Faith is possible because
reason recognizes its own limits
and also because reason has the ap
petite to know more than it can
know. The existence of faith itself
can never be argued or proved by
reason.
There are certain truths, such as
the existence of God, which belong
both to faith and reason.   Although
reason is here a preamble to faith,
all men are not sufficiently rational
Continued on Page Three
By  Rebecca   Robbins,  '42
(Contributed   in   News  Tryouts)
At   ten   o'clock   on    Wednesday
morning  Dr.   Fenwick  was  called
to Washington.   At 11.45 Miss La-
grasso rushed up to Louise Morley
in the stacks, and, bre'athless and
'~Y fkTsh'eoV.with triumph, burst forth,
Rookie Louise -Morley Oust?
Mr. Fenwick From Rostrum
achievement) r   ~    i-*
with   no  punctuation   but   a   final
vcrwhelming    exclamation    point,
"You're   Louise   Morley   I've   been
looking for you all morning but I
didn't   know   who   you   were   Dr.
Fenwick went to   Washington  and
he wants you to take his class the
president and foreign relations!''
Miss Morley's only background
for a 50-minute "lecture on the
president and foreign relations
was a page^of notes from an ab-
stract seminar discussion woven
intricately around the subject, and
first year classes are notoriously
full of shiny, blonde, and realistic
fresh men"*who want facts, one, two.
three. By trrr"lhe rules of aca
demic tradition, notebooks tor firs!
year courses should be fat, pat
and prim.    No doodles allowed.
So Morley went to Ogg and Ray
Ogg and Ray is a fat and factful
text, that tells you all you need to
know about Your Government. To
a first year pol. student, Ogg anji
Ray is merely something divisible
into weekly stints, on which you
take notes. Morby figured (cold
logic): 1. I take notes on Ogg and
Ray; 2. I recite them (with occa
sional humorous touches); 3. The
freshmen (et al.) take notes.
Five  after  ons.     Voila   Morley,
Continued on Page Three
WYNDHAM TO HOLD
ANNUAL 'CONCOURS'
Entrants to Present
Discours for Judges
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Saturday, November 11.�
Hall dances in Merion and
Rockefeller. Non - resident
dance  in   Common  Room.
Sunday; November 12. �
Marcella Denya, French
singer,  Deanery,  4.30.
Monday, November IS.�
International Relations Club
Meeting, Common Room, 7.30.
Tuesday, November H.�
Current Events, Mr. Fen-
wick, Common Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, November 15.
�Industrial Group Supper,
7.00, followed by government
- movie on housing and discus-
sion.
The annual ^'Concours Oratoire"
for a medal awarded by the Comite
F ranee-Amerique will be held at
the French House on Monday, No-
vember 20, at 4.30 p. m.
The French Department an-
nounces the following legulations:
1.  The conconrs" is open to all
undergraduate students, whether in
the French Department or not, and
to all graduate students who re-
ceived the A. B. degree in 1939.
2.  The discours shall he not less
than 10 and not more than 15
minutes in length. Speakers will
be stopped at the end of 15 minutes.
The discours may not be read but
brief notes, may be referred to if
necessary.
3.  Each competitor shall give her
discours at a concours preliminaire
to be held on Thursday, November
16, before the French Department.
The Department will choose those
discours which it considers the best
Continued on Page Four
Required Kultur, Not Entertainment,
Blights Lives of Early Bryn Mawrters
By Emily^<Cn�ney, '40
In the days when it was as-
sumed that the adolescent female
didn't know her own mind, but
that anyway Kultur was good for
it, there used to be a three dollar
a year charge on pay-day for
every adolescent female in Bryn
Mawr, so that Kultur could be in-
jected at Goodhart at regular in-
tervals.. That is, about three suit-
able, refined lecturers and artists
were brought to college and paid
for out of the dues, and out of
admission fees approximately equal]-
to those now charged for the en-
tertainment series!
In 1936, these dues were finally
abolished, and a small committee,
consisting of the president of Un-
dergrad. and a couple of friends,
consulted with Mrs. Collins on the
selection of entertainers.
Result: a very nominal victory
for No - Taxation - Without - Rep-
resentation addicts, in that the flat
charge was removed. On the other
hand, the cost of- bringing single
performers and depending solely
on the gate receipts forced admis-
sion charges of $2.50 a seat in the
balcony, and up. This meant that
struggling individualists could not
get Kultur.
Herein lay the germ of the series
thought. If you bring in six
artists, half of them floodlight na-
turals like Menuhin and Iturbi,
and half of them rising but not yet
full power (read 'contract') stars
like Carol Glenn, you can. reduce
the price to approximately one dol-
lar balcony for each of six great
events,  (six).                       '
Result: Kultur restored to Gen-
eral Public at moderate fee. pnly
possible because a flat rate charged
for the whole series, instead of hav-
ing admissions jacked up on those
performers people are most likely
to want to see. Additional Note:
encouragement of struggling tal-
ent � Marjorie Edwards, 1939,
Carol Glenn, 1940.
With the old pendulum swinging,
last spring the Entertainment Com-
mittee was increased from select
handful to a more representative
25. Anticipated result: greater de-
Continued on Page Six
MUSIC FOR MAJOR
GAINS   APPROVAL
Tuesday, November 7. � In the
vote taken on the question, Are you
in favor of a Music major? 331 stu-
dents answered Yes, 20 said No,
and approximately 150 did not vote.
To the second question, Woultl yen
have majored in Music if it had
been offered! 241 answered No, and
75 Yes.
The vote in Denbigh is not en-
tirely accurate, since no negative
was entered on the ballot, but those
who voted* "undecided" in othcj
hairs were^Jounted among the'rTos.
A few of the students who voted
Yes to the second question -aid
that, on general principles,, they
were opposed to the major.
Art   Club   Benefits
From Drive Surplus,
Will Finance Exhibit
At a meetingof the Administra-
tion Board of the Activities Drive
held on November 2, the Art Club,
represented by Marion Gill, '40,
presented its case for a portion of
the Drive's surplus. As a result
the Art Club has been alloted 42
dollars of the surplus fund.
The expenses of the Goodhart art
exhibitions, explained Miss Gill, are
very high for they must cover in-
surance, shipping charges, and
rent, as well as the minor costs of
the teas themselves. Last year,
The President's Fund and admis-
sion charges supported these exhi-
bitions, hut this year the Art Club
must raise the money itself. With-
out a generous gift from Mrs. Man-
ning and the annual Goodhart fund,
the exhibitions would be non-exis-
tent. As it is, Miss Gill concluded,
admission will have to be charged
unless the Art Club receives help
since four big exhibitions are plan-
ned and must be paid for. Because
the art exhibits are attended by a
great number of undergraduates,
the Administration Board felt it
would be to the general interest to
make these exhibitions free.
Miss McBride
The November issue'of the
Radcliffe Alumnae Quarterly,
features an article on Kath-
erine E. McBride, associate
professor 'of education and
dean-elect of Radcliffe, writ-
ten by Miss Park.               �
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Mile. Denya to Sing
At Lecture Recital
Star of French  Opera Films
To Illustrate Development
Of Vocal Music
Mile. Marcella Denya, of the
Theatre National de l'Opera and
the Opera Comique in Paris, will
give a lecture-recital in the Dean-
ery on Sunday, November 12, at
1.30 p. m. Mile. Denya is one of
the few French singers who were
invited to take part in one of the
official festivals in Salzburg, where
she sang in 1937. She has played
the leading role in two French
operatic films, A Caprice of Ma-
dame de Pompadour and Strauss'
opera Die Fledcrmaus.
During a visit to this country.
Mile. Denya observed that the
knowledge of French music in
America was "narrowed down to
the same group of musical composi-
tions." Her own deep interest in
the music of France prompted her
to appear as guest artist in a series
of vocal recitals at -a number of
American colleges and universities.
Preceded by a short talk in Eng-
lish on the development of French
vocal music, the program will il-
lustrate this development in songs
from Lully to Debus*sy and Ravel.
At the request of Mr. Alwyne, Mile.
Denya will include one or two songs
Continued on Page Four
All Forecasts Point
To Social Week-end
Around Bryn Mawr
By   Judith   Bregman,   '42
(Contributed in   Xeivs Tryouts.)
Latest weather reports indicate
that the coming weekend should be
one of starry skies and a full moon.
This is forecast by the approaching
social "high." Dispatches from
Rockefeller, Merion and the non-
residents tell of dances planned for
Saturday night.
The only explanation for the oc-
currence of these phenomena is that
the two halls have traditional fall
dances, Rockefeller with dinner at-
tached, and that the non-residents
had so much fun at last year's
dance that they want another.
This sort of high is usually con-
fined to a limited area, but the non-
resident dance is open to all. Some
of the prevailing faculty winds will
shift during the course of the eve-
ning, from dinner in Rockefeller to
dances in Merion or the Common
Room. The prevalent atmospheric
conditions attendant upon the highs
vary according to locale. Merion
will decorate only with flowers be-
cause "you can't do anything with
the showcase." The Common Room
also awaits flowers for "it needs no
more," while Rockefellerites will
dance amid autumn cornstalks and
will lounge in the combined easy
chairs of the whole hall, brought
down to the smoking room for that
especial purpose.
All forecasts seem to be hopeful.
Merion, wanting better food and
more of it, is adding the money for
a hall tea to its usual refreshment
allottment. The non-residents hope
to get a profit as they did last year.
Good turnouts are expected since
"the freshmen will come just to see
what it is like." In fact, the only
cloud on the horizon is that Merion
may have to use either the ^German
Club piano, which needs tuning, or
rent one in Philadelphia.
Ludeones Hit
New Heights
In Latin Play
Spontaneity in Acting Linked
To Knack of Modernizing
Classic   Comedy
LUDIONES HIT ALLTIME .
HIGH   IN   LATIN   PLAY
By Elizabeth Dodge. '41
Virginia Sherwood, '41
Goodhart, November I.�The an-
nual Latin comedy, translated this
year by Betty Frazier and Louise
Allen, both '42, drew an audience
large even for Goodhart. The play
concerned itself with the peregri-
nations of the Menaechmi twins,
better known as the boys from
Syracuse. It was evident that the
experience and skill acquired by
the EUdiones in the past has en-
abled them to reach a new peak
in skill and ease in handling.
The Ludiones seem to have cap-
tured permanently a knack for
modernizing Latin comedy. On
Saturday night this modernizing
process was adroitly applied to a
stereotyped classic plot and was
only overdone, occasionally, in the
dialogue. The whole possessed
spontaneity, combined with care-
ful production, excellent direction
under Miss Lake, and a sustained
sense of comedy on the part of
the actors.
The plot consisted of-a pleasant
jumble of mixed identities. Me-
naechmus I (Terry Ferrer, '40),
having been kidnapped from the
ancestral bed and board in Syra-
cuse, is leading a hen-pecked life
with a fretful though well-to-do
wife. His troubles are alleviated
by the charms of one sinuous Ero-
tium (Louise Allen, '42), who car-
ries on her shady practices across
the street. Hell breaks loose when '
Menaechmus II (Camilla Riggs,
40) arrives in search of his long-
lost brother, only to fall into a
series of haywire contretemps with
people who think he is the other
Menaechmus. The brother, mean-
while, has his own troubles as a
result of the intrusion of the for-
Continued on Page Five
Mrs. J. Crenshaw
Represents College
At Job Conference
Mrs. James Crenshaw, director
of the Bureau of Recommendations,
will represent Bryn Mawr at a
conference to be held at Washing-
ton, D. C, November 10 and 11, on
the college graduate's opportuni-
ties in public service. Under the
auspice s of the Institute of Wom-
en's Professional Relations, Fed-
eral, State and municipal officials
will lead discussions with voca-
tional advisers of 38 women's col-
leges and universities. The aim
of the conference is to relate "sup-
ply and demand for specialized
abilities," according: to The New
York Times of October 28.
Discussions will�he, led by au-
thorities on fields in civil, service,
some not yet 6pen to women. Miss
Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor, George Gallup, American
Institute of Public Opinion, Sena-
tor Chandler of Kentucky, Mi--
Mabel -Boardman of the American
Red Cross, and John M. Hamilton,
chairman of the Republican Na-
tional Committee, are included
among the speakers.
Mrs. Lillian M. Gilbreth, voca-
tional adviser to Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, is a member of the board of
the Professional Relations Insti:
tute.