College News, 1940-01-17, Vol. 26, No. 11

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VOL. XXVI, No. 11
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940
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Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn  Miwr Collage, 1939
PRICE 10 CENTS
Recital Shows
Menuhin's Art
More Mature
Brilliant Technique Proved
In Difficult Sonatas
Of Franck, Bach
By Terry Ferrer, '40
Goodhart Hall, December 20.�
As the third artist on the College
Entertainment Series, Yehudi Me-
nuhin made his only Philadelphia
appearance of the year. Brilliant
technique, combined vsith I10M
touch and" good expression, insure
Mr. Menuhin an even greater place
among top-ranking violinists than
he has won before.
It is not often thai� a child
prodigy so completely fulfills his
youthful promise. After each per-
iod of study and rest since his
first concert at the age of seven,
Mr. Menuhin has shown heightened
ability and more mature grasp of
his music. It is not fair to say
that his technique has improved
since his last visit to Philadelphia:
it was excellent then. But jn ex-
pression the whole approach is
more rounded, more sympathetic.
This advance in interpretation
stood out in the Cesar Franck So-
nata in A Major. The familiar
theme of the first movement was
extremely beautiful on Mr. Menu-
, hin's Stradivarius, and piano and
violin parts blended well through-
out. In the last movement the dif-
ficult notes of the upper register
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Science Club Hears
Helson Define Color
Background    and    Selectivity
Of   Illumination   Found
Vital in Color Vision
Paul Hasard Elected
To French Academy
Paul Hasard, who held the Flex-
ner Lectureship here in the autunm
of 1930, has just been elected a
member of the Academie Fran-
caise. M. Hasard is an eminent
authority on French literature.
Since he lectured here he and Mme.
Hasard have been most kind to
Bryn Mawr students in Paris. Ac-
cording to Dean Schenck, their
house has been practically "a Bryn
Mawr extension."
The Flexner Lectureship is a
guest lectureship which lasts for
six weeks. A visiting professor
speaks once a week for a public
audience and gives a seminar for
graduate students. This year Ar-
turo Torres del Riozico will hold
the lectureship.
Color is defined as a psychologi-
cal experience which is aroused by
a small band of physical wave
lengths, said Mr. Helson in his lec-
ture on color to the Science Club.
The source of light, the objects in
the, field, consisting of samples of
colored paper, and the eye are the
three essential factors in color ex-
perimentation. Because it intro-
duces, top great a complication, the
i/ram'*H excluded in calculations
and its influence is reduced to a
minimum by preventing the subject
from knowing what he should see.
The tri-linear mixture diagram !
has been devised to specify colors
in mathematical terms, and to
make accurate predictions. The
tri-linear diagram is an equilateral
triangle with red, green and blue
in the apexes^^ie x, y, and z speci-
fications whose sum equals one. In.
the center is the point of equal en-
ergy, equal proportions may be
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Iolanthia
At today's meeting of the
Glee Club it was announced
that Gilbert and Sullivan's
Iolanthia would be givenTthis
year for their annual light
oflfcra production.
MR.   WELLS   SPEAKS
ON POLLS AS GAUGE
OF PUBLIC OPINION
Common Room, January 9.�Mr.
Wells, combining Current Events
with a meeting of the International
Relations Club, discussed, as his
final lecture of the series on propa-
ganda analysis, various methods of
determining public opinion by
means of polls.
The first experiment in gauging
public sentiment was begun in 1900
by the New York Herald, which
had a poll before the election of
that year. The practice spread to
many newspapers throughout the
country and in 1916 it was begun
by the Literary Digest magazine.
As the newspaper polls had per-
mitted ballot stuffing, the maga-
zine tried to get a .closer estimate
by mailing cards to a selected
group of people. This brought the
returns to within 30 or 40 electoral
votes of the1 number received at the
actual election.
In 1936 their prediction was com-
pletely wrong, partly because they
were dealing with a political over-
turn and partly because their list
largely represented the upper
classes and not a real cross-section
->f the voting public.
In 1935 Dr. Gallup founded the
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Hemolytic   Streptococcus   Promotes
Speculative Harangues on Antibodies
By Virginia Sherwood, '41
Authoritative sources indicated
here last week that hemolytic
streptococcus (scarlet fever) was/
reported to have broken out among
the students. The official commun-
ique issued by high medical author-
ities stated that: "Ann Murray El-
licott of the Class bf 1942 has con-
tracted scarlet fever. Anyone who
has seen her at any time during
the past three days must report to
the Infirmary at once."
As the ominous red and white
notices were tacked up on doors
throughout the college, a low,
anxious murmur was set up and
grave concern was written on each
face. There was, however, no in-
dication of rioting or other un-
pleasantness.
Later in the day discussion be-
came more rife, and speculation
appeared to be running wild. Odds
of three to one were being offered
on    the   possibility   of   acquiring
curly hair if and when the disease
were contracted. One unreliable
source had it that a positive Dick
test would indicate the presence of
antibodies in which case almost
anything might happen. Appar-
ently not much credence was given
to this theory and the night passed
without furthect disturbance.
Next morning, queues formed
early outside the Infirmary and in
record time Dick tests were admin-
istered to an unascertained number
of persons. It was a colorful and
moving spectacle, as young and old
mingled together in the cause of
science.
Later, when the results were
made known, some were sent home,
some caught more cold and Man-
ning, Dean was listed as a double
plus. No further developments
have taken place, beyond an uncon-
firmed report that the victim has
begun to lose her hair and is grow-
ing less pink.
COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, January 17.�
Industrial Group Supper,
Ccmmon Room, 6.30.
Thursday, January 18.-y-
German Reading, Dr. Die'z,
German"~House, 8.30.
Sunday, January 21.�Rev.
Grant Noble, Chapel, 7.30.
Sunday, Jatu<ai:� .?"-    'Sjit'jf
Club   Tea,   Common   Room,
4.30.
Thursday, February 8.�
Jcse Iturbi, pi&dio recital,
Goodhart Hall, 8.30.
Saturday, February 10.�;
Bryn Mawr League Confer-
ence, Goodhart Hall.
Sunday, February 11. �
Louis MacNeice, Deanery,
4.30.
Monday, February 12. �
Arturo Torres del Riozico,
first Flexner Lecture, Good-
hart Hall, 8.30.
Mozart, Beethoven
Sonatas Scheduled
For Iturbi Concert
Jose Iturbi will give,a piano re-
cital in Goodhart on Thursday,
February 8, at 8.30. Iturbi is
celebrated here and in Europe as
a truly great musician.
In 1929 he made his first ap-
pearance in America and has been
greeted enthusiastically each suc-
cessive season. He conducted for
the first time in Mexico City in
1933 and has since led the New
York Philharmonic-Symphony Or-
chestra, the,Philadelphia Orchestra,
the Los Angeles and Detroit Phil-
harmonics, and has been perma-
nent conductor of the Rochester
Philharmonic since the season of
�936-'37.
Mr. Iturbi will offer the follow-
ing program on February 8:
I.
Sonata in F major, K. 332
Mozart
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro assai
Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (Appas-
sionata)   ............Beethoven
Allegro assai
Andante con moto
Allegro ma non troppo
Intermission
II.
Fantasie-Impromptu)
Scherzo, B-flat minor)   ....Chopin
Serenade a la poupee-----Debussy
leux  d'eau   ...............Ravel
Dance of Terror)
Ritual Fire Dance)
from "El Amor Brujo" .DeFalla
PUBLIC FLEXNER LECTURE
TITLES ARE ANNOUNCED
Singewald  Outlines
Economic Geography
Goodhart, January 12. Mr. John
Singewald, head of the department
f Economic Geology at Johns Hop-
kins, spoka on the economic geog-
raphy of South Ameiica in a lec
ture preliminary * to the Flexner
series. Mr. Singewald, who ac-
companied Lincoln Ellsworth on
an expedition to Sooth America
gave an account of the climate,
population and resources of the
ten South American countries.
His talk was illustrated by slides.
The South American countries
vary widely as to development and
geographical characteristics. The
average population is about 12
persons per square mile and Brazil
is the most densely populated. The
white inhabitants are predomi-
nately Spanish, with a smattering
of immigrants from Germany and
Italy.
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S. LADD PROGRAM
MARKED BY WIDE
VARIETY OF SKITS
B.    MK   Alumnae
Win Public Notice
Pauline, ReI yea Anderson,
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, 1937, has
been awarded the Beer Prize
for this year for her pub-
lished dissertation, The Back-
ground of Anti-English Feel-
ing in Germany, 1890-1902,
written under the supervision
of Professor Gray. The Beer
Dr. Martha Tracy (Bryn
, Mawr, 1898), Dean of the
"Woman's Medical College in
Philadelphia, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Director of
Health for the City of Phila-
delphia for a four year term.
Schuyler Ladd presented a pro-
gram of monologues and short
skits as the fourth offering of the
College Entertainment series. The
sketches treated a variety of sub-
jects ranging from the life of
Stephen Foster to the love affairs
of Louis XIV, and from A Vignette
of Old China to a scene in a small
American town.
It is difficult for a monologist to
hold the attention of his audience
for an entire evening. Mr. Ladd
was at an additional disadvantage
because his material was thin and
fairly uninteresting. The Chinese
scene was amusing, but the Ste-
phen Foster sketches were awk-
ward and on the whole the evening
was probably as uncomfortable for
Mr. Ladd as it was for his audi-
ence.       .                              *
League Plans Next
Semester Outlined
Dr.  Torres-Rioseco
To Cover Literature
Of Spanish America
The six Flexner lectures on the
Literature of Spanish America,
presented this year by Dr. Arturo
Torres-Rioseco, are the first series
to be devoted to a field not offered
undergraduates at Bryn Mawr.
The speaker is professor of Span-
ish-American literature at the Uni-
versfty of California and was Vis-
iting Lecturer at Columbia Uni-
versity,  Semester 1, 1939-40.
The first lecture, on February
12, will cover Colonial Culture and
Literature in the 16th Century; the
second, on February 19, Colonial
Culture and Literature in the 17th
Century; the third; on February
26, The Revolutionary Spirit and
Romantic Literature; the fourth,
on March 4, The National Move-
ment and Gaucho Literature; the
fifth, on March 11, The Cosmopoli-
tans: Ruben Dario and Modernism;
the sixth, on March � 18, Social
Trends in the Spanish-American
Noi>el.
Besides the preliminary lecture
on the economic geography of
South America, a second lecture
on South American Archeology will
be offered in conjunction with the
series on February 16. The speaker
will be Dr. Wendell C. Bennett,
professor of anthropology at the
University of Wisconsin.
Wells Advocates
Local Participation
in U.S.Government
By Louise Morley, '40
President of Bryn Mawr League
In the interests of. its ardent
supporters and of its ardent sup-
porters-to-be among the class of
1943, the Bryn Mawr League has
developed an expanded program
for the spring semester. This is
to help people fill the void left by
the absence of Big May Day from
our plans.
First of all there will be a con-
ference on social work on Satur-
day, February 10. The conference
is sponsored by the Undergraduate
Vocational Committee as well as
the Bryn Mawr League and will
treat both social work as it can
be done with the Bryn Mawr
League and social work as a ca-
reer after college. Saturday after-
noon there will be a speech on the
conditions in the Philadelphia area
warranting the work which the
League attempts to do, and then
separate discussions in commis-
sions on the various phases of
League activity: Child welfare,
adult education, refugee work,
blind school work, and finally the
possibility of clinic work. Clinic
work is rapidly developing into a
real possibility and no longer re-
mains in that category of an un-
fulfilled figment of the imagina-
tion;  for it seems that the Com-
Contlnued on Pa�e Four
By Janet Meyer, '42
Mr. Wells, in his recent publi-
cation, American Local Govern-
ment, concentrates his analysis not
on local government as a distinct
unit, but as a composite part of a
tangled pattern in which state and
federal authorities are equally in-
volved. His book was published
in December, 1939, as one of the
McGraw Hill series of studies in
political science.
"American governmental struc-
ture like all Gaul is divided into
three parts, the federal govern-
ment, the 48 states, and lastly, as
a tertium quid, local government."
This "tertium quid" is itself di-
vided into rural and urban govern-
ment. Because of industrial de-
velopment' and the mobility of the
American people, urban govern-
ment controls the preponderant
part of the population.
This migratory impulse has fre-
quently uprooted the foundations of
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Industrial  Group
To Discuss Health
The Industrial Group sup-
per this week at 6.30 Wed--1
nesday. January 17, in the
Common Room, will be for
the purposei of discussing
health problems in Philadel-
phia. This will be the second
discussion on the general
theme of public health, the
first one having covered the
problem of public health in
the nation. Miss Gertrude
Landesser, of the Visiting
Nurses' Association, � will
speak on public health and
Miss Ellis will discuss the
question of what happens
when sickness strikes a low
income family.