College News, 1940-05-08, Vol. 26, No. 22

              The College Mews
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VOL. XXVI, No. 22
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940
Administration
Announces New
Faculty Positions
Four New Wardens Named;
Gray and Miller Retire;
5 Appointments Made
Faculty changes, appointments
and promotions for next year were
recently announced by Miss Park.
Dr. Robert E. L. Faris will suc-
ceed Mr. Herbert A. Miller of the
Sociology department, who retires
at the end of this year. Dr. Faris,
who received his degrees from the
University of Chicago, and has
taught at Brown and McGill Uni-
versities, will act as Associate Pro-
fessor of Sociology at Bryn Mawr.
To succeed Miss McBride, who
is leaving Bryn Mawr to become
Dean of Radcliffe College next
year, the department of education
and sociology has appointed Dr.
Elizabeth V. Fehrer. Dr. Fehrer,
received her A.B. and Ph. D. de-
grees from Bryn Mawr, and her
M.A. from Columbia. She has acted
as psychologist with the Tennessee
Valley Authority and has worked
with the Vocational Adjustment
Bureau in New York City. From
1938-40 she was Instructor in Psy-
chology at Wellesley College.
Mr. Evan C. Horning will act
as substitute for Mr. Arthur Cope
of the chemistry department, hold-
er of a Guggenheim Fellowship for
next year. Mr. Horning, who re-
ceived his BjjS. from the University
Pennsylvania, will receive
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Copyright, Trustee* of
Bryn  Mawr  College,   1940
PRICE 10 CENTS
lo la tithe's Professional Finish Shows            Improvements,
Integration of Acting, Music, Scenery ?haJ??f8' ^rJ?ef
E. Dennis Will Give
Three New  Ballets
of
hie
On Tuesday, May 14 at 8.30
P. M., Estelle Dennis and the Den-
nis dancers will present a pro-
gram of three numbers in Good-
hart Hall. The outstanding fea-
ture of the evening will be the per-
formance of ProkofiefFs Peter and
the Wolf. The choreography of
this orchestral fable has been es-
pecially arranged by Miss Deniffs,
and at its initial presentation in
the Baltimore Museum of Art it
was greeted with such eagerness
and interest that more than 400
people were turned away at the
door.
The program will also include
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Outside Subscribers, Bryn Mawr College
See Formal Opening of Theatre Workshop
Two Monologues
By Miss Skinner and Play
By Caroline Garnet Presented
Theatre Workshop, May 6.�The
Mrs. Otis Skinner Theatre Work-
shop opened with speeches by Mr.
Otis Skinner, Fifi Garbat, '41, and
Marion Gill, 40. Two monologues
by Cornelia Otis Skinner and an
original play by Caroline Garnet,
'40, provided the evening's enter-
tainment.
Fifi Garbat, '41, President of the
Players' Club, devoted her open-
ing speech to the meaning of the
Workshop as an impetus to Bryn
Mawr dramatics. At laot, oho -said,
we have a place in which plays
can be presented and created in an
informal atmosphere. Marion Gill,
'40, as President of the Art Club
spoke on the great advantage
which the workshop affords the
club.
Mr. Otis Skinner spoke of his
wife's activities in Bryn Mawr
dramatics and her dreams for a
Theatre Workshop. The workshop,
he said, is a realization of Mrs.
Skinner's sighted hopes. She had
often thought of the-long narrow
barn as a potential theatre, a
place where theatre production
could  be carried on creatively.
The prejudice which condemned
all actors as "rogues and vaga-
bonds" still infected Bryn Mawr in
fts early years. But with Mrs.
Skinner's encouragement and sym-
pathy, dramatics became more a
part of campus activity. "The final
barriers to the theatre were brok-
en," said Mr. Skinner, "when I
found myself in a box in the Broad
Street Theatre, next to M. Cary
Thomas."
Plays today,  Mr.   Skinner  said,
reproduce life as it exists, rather
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May 5 Opening
Dedicated to Subscribers
Theatre Workslwp, May 5.�A
special opening of the Mrs. Otis
Skinner    Theatre    Workshop    for
outside subscribers and friends of
the Skinners was held on Sunday.
President Park presided as chair-
man of the Joint Committee of
Bryn Mawr College and the Bald-
win School. Mr. Otis Skinner and
Miss Johnson of Baldwin also
spoke.
Miss Park traced the history of
the Theatre Workshop. The idea
of a theatre workshop as a me-
morial to Mrs. Skinner seemed
pertinent because of Mrs. Skinner's
work in Bryn Mawr dramatics and
May Day, and because of the un-
dergraduate's requests for such a
workshop.
Mrs. Skinner directed. May Day
in   1920   and   developed   the  most
spectacular    performance    Bryn
Mawr had ever attempted. In 1924,
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Peace  Group to Give
'Four Hundred Million'
On Monday, May 13, the Peace
Council will present The Four
Hundred Million,' a movie, show-
ing the effects of war upon the
Chinese peopler The movie, a Joris
Ivans production with music by
Hans Dister and comments by
Frederic March, is sponsored by
the Far Eastern Students Service
Fund. Since Dr. T. Z. Koo has
warned that many people con-
sider it propaganda, the Bryn
Mawr audience is urged to look at
it "with discrimination and intelli-
gent" After the movie, Lucy Tou,
the Chinese graduate student, will
speak on the situation in China.
Dr. Heaton Shows
Need For Statistics
In Economic History
Goodhart Auditorium, Tuesday,
May 7. Dr. Herbert Heaton, Pro-
fessor of History at the University
of Minnesota, in his Webster lec-
ture on Clio in Overhalls, set forth
the importance of the use of satis-
tics in economic historical research,
showing its value as a corrective
for accepted interpretations of
economic facts.
Clio, the muse of history, turned
economic when she assumes a work-
ing garb, has seen two generations
of economic historians. In both
England and America the end of
this second generation is at hand.
Professor J. H. Clapham retires
this year from Cambridge, having
just completed his definitive, three-
volume British Modern Economic
History, and leaves the field to a
younger man. Harvard has the
third generation, Usher and his
young colleagues, already at work.
The first generation, represented
by Ashley, Cunningham and Rog-
ers, which took over after the three
formative forces of politics, ped-
antry and prophecy had brought
some- order to the world of econom-
ic thought, concentrated upon the
study of local institutions, such as
the manor, the town, and the gild.
Fact was subordinated to fancy in
interpreting their functions, and
a rigid framework of conceptions
was erected. Economic history was
written in a series of carefully but
conveniently labelled chapters._
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Choruses'     Vocal     Direction
Lauded; Lord Chancellor
And  Phyllis   Excel
Goodhart, May 4.�In lieu of Big
May Day, the Glee Club this year
added lolanthe to Bryn Mawr's Gil-
bert and Sullivan repetoire. The
production was marked above all,
by its combination of amateur en-
thusiasm with an unusual and con-
spicuous professional ease.
lolanthe presents many more dif-
ficulties of production than do its
predecessors: It is slower-paced,
less rollicking and far more depen-
dent upon technical subtleties and
careful handling of production. The
Glee Club took advantage of these
difficulties to bring forth an integ-
rated and finished performance.
The choruses, which ultimately
decide the fate of any Gilbert and
Sullivan production, showed the
fruits of able vocal direction. The
Fairies' chorus, free of all possible
self-consciousness, tripped about
with spirit and ease and provided
pretty contrast to the pompous
magnificence of the Peers. Splendid
of costume and deep of voice, the
Peers were at their best during
their march. The end of the first
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Rules
11:30 Permission for Eating
In Village Unescorted
Is   Proposed
Calendar
Wednesday, May 8.�
Industrial    group    supper
and     Young     Democratic
Club     meeting.     Colonel
Fleming,    Common    Room,
830,
Thursday, May 9.�
Non-resident tea, Common
Room, 4.30.
Saturday, May 11.�
Rhoads     and     Rockefeller
Dances.
Sunday, May  12.��
Art Club Tea 4 30.
Chapel,   Dr.   Glenn,   Music
Room, 7.30.
Monday, May 13.�
Chinese    Movie,    Music
Room, 8.00.
Tuesday, May 14.�
Democratic Club, Common
Room, 4.30.
Current Events, Miss Reid,
Common Room, 7.30.
Estelle     Dennis     Watson
Dance   Recital, � Goodhart,
8.30.
Bigger, Better Plans
Made  for  Infirmary
Now that plans for the enlarge-
ment of the Infirmary are well un-
der way, Rhoads basement is safe
from an invasion of the sick such
as took place this winter during
the scarlet fever scare. Ailing stu-
dents will no longer be housed in
the homey atmosphere of the In-
firmary's old kitchen, but in the
ten new bedrooms-that are to be
added.
The college architect, Mr. Sidney
Martin, has drawn up the plans,
and work may possibly be started
at the end of May. A waiting
room, three cubicles for special pur-
poses, and a separate room for ul-
tra violet ray treatments are
planned. The doctors and nurses
are to have new offices, as well as
a new, much larger, laboratory.
Plans include an isolation unit, and
increased accommodations for the
college employees. In all, there
will be twenty-three beds, some-
thing for which the present Junior
class may be grateful when they
ee the lists of comprehensive read-
ing for the first time.%
At a meeting of the legislature,
four resolutions were formulated
for presentation to the college. The
first two concern amendments to
the student government regula-
tions. Students are henceforth to
be given permission to eat in the
village until 11.30, either escorted
or unescorted. Because of the
dangers of falls and collisions, they
may not ride bicycles off campus
after dark.
The third resolution, proposed by
the Undergraduates Association,
urges that the college join the Na-
tional Student Federation Associa-
tion for next year. The Associa-
tion, which is a clearing house for
information, has a membership of
150 colleges and charges $12.50 a
year' Next year it will hold its
annual meeting in the East.
The final resolution has to do
with the Entertainment Committee,
and suggests that the planning of
lectures, entertainments, and other
extra-curricular events during the
college year be entrusted to a com-
mittee of three, vested with full
I powers, but subject always to the
� authority of the President of the
j College. This committee would be
composed of the Chairman of
the Undergraduate Entertainment
Committee, a member of the Fac-
ulty Committee on Lectures, and a
member of the -Deanery Entertain-
ment Committee. After these reso-
lutions have been voted on by the
college, they will be passed on to
the trustees.
College Republicans
Urged to Campaign
In  Coming Elections
Common Room, May 6*.�The
Bryn Mawr Republican Club dis-
cussed party affairs and vocational
opportunities at a small informal
meeting with Mrs. John Huber,
vice-chairman of the Republican
State Committee of Pennsylvania.
Also present were two members of
the Lower Merion-Narberth Coun-
cil of Republican Women, Mrs.
Carl Zipf and Mrs. Helen Green-
wood.
Students interested in political
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Historic Ghost and Tinkle Bell Philosopher
Unearthed Among Boners of German Oral
By Lenore O'Boyle, '43
The German Oral has come and
gone, leaving in its wake some of
the best boners yet uncovered, and
the German Department is more
than ever convinced that First
Year Philosophy is an excellent re-
quired subject. This was their re-
action after reading the transla-
tions of the proper names, Fichte,
SchelHng and Hegel, as "fur tree,"
"tinkle bell," and "little  cap."
There was the unfortunate girl
who thought "geist" was ghost,
with the following result "Ameri-
can history begins as a ghost story.
Is there, or is there not, an Amer-
ican ghost?" Another, who is ob-
viously not informed about her
country's past, followed this with:
" . . as the Pilgrim father, Sout-
hampton let down the hawser." In
the 'passage  by  Schopenhauer  on
clarity of style, this example of
wishful thinking was discovered:
"If a man could express himself
in clear, comprehensible words, he
could get away from thinking."
On NewtonT theory of color, it
was necessary to call in the depart-
ments of Physics and Psychology
to interpret: "Colors originate
when light passes through trans-
parent and opaque bodies. These
colors consist of visible bodies, so
that these, secreted from white
light, annihilate one color compon-
ent."- A somewhat clearer explana-
tion was found later: "The colors
coming through a transparent and
an untransparent earthy body, that
is, developed from known lights a
single colorful part destroys itself
�other parts which only no more
blend in the right proportion in
order to give knowledge to send
to the eye."