College News, 1940-02-14, Vol. 26, No. 12

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VOL. XXVI, No. 12
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940     Bcr;Pyfl&V ^gSTA     PRICE 10 CENTS
B. M. LEAGUE CONFERENCE
ANALYZES ITS ACTIVITIES
Value of Volunteer
Work in Social Field
Cited by D. Hankins
Goodhart, February 10. � The
Bryn Mawr League and the Un-
dergraduate Vocational Committee
presented a joint conference de-
signed to acquaint students with
the various activities of the League,
to bring about a closer coordina-
tion of the League activities, and
to relate these activitfes to social
work as a career. The first two
objectives, were considered in the
afternoon conference, and the last
in an evening address.
Miss Dorothy Hankins, of the
Child Guidance Clinic, opened the
�conference with a short talk in
the Music Room on volunteer work.
The group attending the confer-
ence then broke up into five com-
missions concerned specifically
with the Blind School, child wel-
fare work, adult education, refu-
gee work, and clinic work. The
commissions presented their re-
ports afterwards in the Common
Room where tea was served. An
address by Miss Hankins in the
�evening on the career of social
work completed the program of the
conference.
In her speech on volunteer work,
Miss Hankins attacked the prob-
lem of evaluating such work from
a fourfold point of view: the value
to :the receiver, to the agency
through which it is .done, to the
community, and to the volunteer.
The value of the work to the re-
ceiver and to the agency depends
upon the amount of judgment ex-
Contlnued on Page Three
Office  Hours
Dr. Torres-Rioseco, Flex-
ner lecturer, will hold office
hours in Mr. Gillet's office in
the**library at the following
times:
Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday:  10-11 a. m.
Tuesday and Friday: 12-1
p. m.
Tuesday afternoon: 2-4
p. m.
Need Professionals
For Public Service
Common Room, February 10.�
As the closing address of the Bryn
Mawr League Conference, Miss
Dorothy Hankins, of the Child
Guidance Clinic in Philadelphia,
gave a short talk followed by dis-
cussion on Social Work as a Ca-
reer. She stated that social work
is definitely a profession and, as
such, requires training although
that aspect is a recent development.
'One-half of the social work in
the United States is still done by
those with no training except that
on the job," but the demand for
trained workers is increasing.
Schools have been established
for that purpose and one of theft-
basic principles is to combine the
theoretical and the practical side
of social service. Some of the
training time is spent in classes
and some in field work.
Courses in personality, behavior,
case work, labor and economics are
given. Because they are closely
connected with the student's actual
work, they differ from an under-
graduate's college course.
Salaries have a wide range, run-
ning from 1200 dollars to 3600 dol-
lars a year. The promotion pos-
Contlnued on Pace Four
PHILOSOPHY  POST
GRANTED E. FRANK
Bryn Mawr is fortunate this
semester in having Erich Frank as
visiting lecturer in the Philosophy
Department. Mr. Frank was ap-
pointed under the auspices of
Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr and the
Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Society. Mr. Frank
will lecture and hold seminars at
Bryn Mawr for the first six weeks
of the semester and will go to
Swarthmore for the remainder.
Mr. Frank was born in Prague
in 1883. He was educated in Ber-
lin and studied philosophy, the
classics, and ancient history at the
universities of Berlin, Vienna,
Continued on Pas* Four
Demented Students Scour for pure
s# To Restore Sanity of Pre-Midyear Low
By Agnes Mason, '42
A problem with personal appeal:
what does the Bryn Mawr under-
graduate do to revive her health
and disposition after the curse of
mid-years has been lifted? Well,
she goes north, south, to New York
City, or home. She also stays at
college to the amount of two
tablesful at the Pembrokes, one
and a half tablesful at Rock, one
at Merion, one at Denbigh, and
three at Rhoads. And that is gen-
eral information, but individual
activities are more enlightening.
One senior went coasting all
week-end and broke two pairs of
glasses. A certain junior went
skiing at North Conway, N. H.,
and broke her leg. The doctor who
ministered unto her had but a few
hours before been much captivated
by a Rhoads sophomore who had
twisted a knee and sprained an
ankle. To elaborate on the brqken
leg story�the poor girl was flown
home in a plane and now has the
most enormous and efficient wheel
chair. Another of the skiing stu-
dents  was  insured  by her family
and didn't even have the decency to
acquire a minor abrasion.
On February 3 at 3.30 p. m. one
undergraduate saw Greta Garbo on
Fifth Avenue opposite Radio City.
She was "striding" north, a man
on either side. The men wore
black hats and coats. Greta had
on a royal blue velvet hat, a black
coat, and no make-up. Another
student caught sight of Alan Mow-
bray crossing Park Avenue at 65th,
also on February 3. Among other
celebrities noticed were Tyrone
Power and Annabella. Tyrone
shyly raised the collar of .his coat
when recognized and deftly buried
his nose. "The Angel" appeared
to one young lady on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
A recover^'from "scarlet fever
was celebrated by five and one-half
cocktails and a permanent wave.
The recipient looks fine. One of
Mr. Gray's greatest admirers went
to "the big city" and drank (not
too much) from Thursday till Mon-
day. Another student brazenly ad-
mitted that she went to Baltimore
to drink (orange juice )and see a
Continued on Pa*e Four
CALENDAR
Wednesday, February li.
�Industrial Group Meeting,
Common Room, 6.30. Phil-
osophy Lecture, Dr. Erick
Franck, Music Room, 7.30.
Thursday, Febr\iary 15.�
International Relations Club,
Common Room, 7.30                    IL/
Friday,    February    16. � S
South American Archaeology,
Dr.     Wendell     C.     Bennett
speaking, Goodhart, 8.30.
Saturday, February 17.�
Swarthmore Basketball
Game, Gym, 10.00. Dances,
Pembroke-and Denbigh, 9.00
to 1.00.
Monday, February 19.�
Flexner Lecture, Colonial
Culture and Literature in the
Seventeenth Century, Dr. Ar-
turo Torres - Rioseco speak-
ing, Goodhart, 8.30.
Tuesday, February 20.�
Mr. Fenwick on Pan-Ameri-
can Problems and the Euro-
pean War.    Goodhart, 8.00.
Wednesday, February SI.
�Philosophy Lecture, Dr.
Erick Franck, Music Room,
7.30.
Mexican Literature
And Art Discussed
Torres-Rioseco Opens Flexner
Series, Describes Aztec,
Spanish Cultures
Goodhart Hall, February 12.�
Mr. Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Flex-
ner. Lecturer for 1939-'40, opened
his series of lectures on Latin-
America with a discussion of
Colonial Culture and Literature in
16th Century Mexico. Mr. Torres
considers Mexican colonial culture
as Spanish culture and Mexican
literature as Spanish literature.
Describing first the Indian civiliza-
tion as it was in 1620, he showed
how within a few years it was
destroyed and replaced by the
Spanish.
The chief activities of the Az-
tecs were religion and war, and
their system of education aimed
"to build a fanatic soul and an
iron body." The Aztecs had a
horror of vice. The worship of the
gods, truth, justice, obedience and
consideration of the poor were the
primary virtues. The masses re-
ceived no education, although there
were schools for the nobles' sons.
The Aztecs made books which cov-
ered  a great  variety Jof  subjects.
The art of the Aztecs was based
on a religious conception of the
universe, not on canons of beauty.
Architecture, incorporating sculp-
ture and painting, was the most
important art. The pyramids and
temples were elaborately decorated,
and in these temples, built like
fortresses, the common aim of the
priest and warrior is seen. Gods,
demons and symbolic masses
Continued on Pas* Five
Bennett  to  Discuss
Andean Archaeology
On Friday, February 16, Dr.
Wendell C. Bennett will present a
lecture on Sou th% American archae-
ology in Goodhart Half^aV 8.30.
Dr. Bennett, formerly at the Mu-
seum of Natural History in New
York, is professor of anthropology
at the University of Wisconsin.
His lecture, which is to be illus-
trated with slides, will be espe-
cially concerned with Andean
archaeology.
Dr. Bennett's talk is to be given
as a supplement to the Mary Flex-
ner lectures, presented this year by
Dr. Arturo Torres-Rioseco, on the
literature of Spanish America.
FINLAND, YOUTH CONGRESS
STIR CAMPUS TO ACTION
Bryn Mawr Joins
In Trek to Capital
Washington, D..C.�4,400 youth
of the nation milled through the
White House gates, scattered 6ver
Washington, and filtered in and out
of the Labor Department Auditor-
ium in the past week-end's Youth
Congress. Drawn from unions,
schools and religious groups over
the< country, the delegates listened
together to Mr. Roosevelt's speech
of quiet reprimand, and applauded
C. I. O. Leader John L. Lewis' re-
tort to the President. The Phila-
delphia district sent in the second
largest group of delegates, among
whom were nine from Bryn Mawr.
In his address to the Youth Con-
gress, President Roosevelt warned
the group that it should not expect
overnight remedy of problems
which require thorough scrutiny
and investigation. Such social leg-
islation as the Old Age Pension
Act, the President declared, is as
pressing a problem as the unem-
ployment of youth.
"In the case of jobs for young
people, let me make it very clear
in the beginning that it is not at all
certain that your opportunities for
employment are much worse today
than they were for young people
10 years, or 20 years, or 30 years
ago." But the problem is getting
a chance today as it never did un-
der times of conservative govern-
ment, to be stated to the American
people.
"I suggest," said Mr. Roosevelt,
"that on social and economic mat-
ters you and I are substantially in
agreement as to the objective, but
Continued on Page Six
Student Panel Cite
Pro and Con Views
Of Loans to Finland
February 9, 191,0.�On January
23  many of the faculty signed  a
\ telegram, which was sent to Wash-
ington, declaring their approval of
jthe   United   States   granting   war
loans to Finland.    On January 28
i there was a small meeting of fac-
ulty and students at which it was
� decided that a series of discussions
! should   be   held   to   help   students
j crystallize their opinions.   The first
�general   meeting  was  held  in  the
Common   Room,   Friday   night   at
17.30 The aim of the discussion was
! to ascertain the different students'
�attitudes  toward   the  question   of
granting war loans to Finland.
The speakers:   Helen  Cobb,  Re-
becca Robbins, Ruth Lehr, Leonora
lO'Boyle,  Bissi  Smith,  Mary Gun-
; bart, Peggy Eppler, Miss Northrup
and  Mr.  Anderson,  presented  the
| following arguments  of their dif-
fering  opinions.    "Among Ameri-
cans today, there is a sympathetic
feeling toward Finland which did
' not   exist  to   any   similar   extent
I when   Germany   invaded   Poland,"
j Helen Cobb '40, said in opening the
! discussion.    This   feeling  may   in
jpart be due to the fact that Fin-
i land   alone  has   been   consistently
paying the installments on her war
I debt as they fall due.   Also it prob-
j ably is caused by the fact that Fin-
j land is a small, democratic country
'. trying to withstand the invasion of
| Communistic Russia.
The past few years of American
liberalism have brought about a re-
Contlnued on Pace Four
J. Iturbi Exhibits
Precision, Contrast
And Delicate Touch
By Terry Ferrer '40
Goodhart, Thursday, February 8
�A recital by Jose Iturbi, conduc-
tor-soloist of the Rochester Sym-
phony Orchestra, was the fifth
presentation on the College Enter-
tainment Series. This distinguished
artist showed individual interpreta-
tion and a style which is clear-cut
and precise combining understand-
ing of the composer with an excell-
ent technique.
The first selection was one of the
best, Mozart's Sonata in F Major
K. 332. Mr. Iturbi's rendition had
all the brilliant technical ability
and delicate touch essential for a
sympathetic interpretation of Mo-
zart. In the long and difficult runs,
each note stood out separately and
yet without a feeling of dryness.
The crescendos and diminuendos in
the first movement were marked by
swelling, liquid passages which
welded the notes together, a method
opposed to the precise runs. Mr.
Iturbi kept these two sides of his
style in juxtaposition in all of his
pieces.
The familiar Sonata in F Minor,
Op. 57 (AppoMsionata) by Beet-
hoven offered an excellent contrast
to the Mozart. Mr. Iturbi played
the piece with all the fire it de-
serves, often accentuating the
harsh discords. The forceful theme
was brought out clearly whenever
it appeared, and again the light
arid precise touch offset the heavy
chordal passages. The Interpreta-
tion was strictly Mr. Iturbi's, work-
ing up to a terrific climax at the
Continued on P��* Three
Poet Defines Place
Of Art During War
i
Deanery, February 11.� Dis-
i cussing the possibility of a poetry
i that is creative in the face of war,
Louis MacNeice stated that this
possibility can best be realized by
poets who, like Auden, take modern
society for their subject. His talk
on the younger English poets was
restricted to a criticism of the Au-
den group, which includes Spender,
Day Lewis and MacNeice himself.
Later in his discussion, Mr. Mac-
Neice evaluated the four accusa-
tions usually brought against the
school: based on obscurity, gloom,
political propaganda, and the use
of personal trivia.
Confronted with the fact of a
European war, the Auden group
have been led to a reassessment of
poetry in immediate relation to life.
It would seem at first that the
reality of war refutes poetry. But
there are degrees of reality. The
Auden group is conscious that
"one's presentation of the world
need noxbe dictated by mere facts
in the bleak, barren sense of the
term." Mr. MacNeice holds out
hope for a poetry, during a war,
that will be neither escapist nor
cynical, that can avoid Rupert *
Brooke-isms and can be critical of
life.
The attitude of the Auden group
toward  war should  be  much  the
same as  its past attitude toward
what   one   hears   generally  called
Continued on Pace Five
Philosophy Club
The Philosophy Club takes
great pleasure in announc-
ing the election of Ruth
Lehr, '41, as president.
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