College News, 1942-02-18, Vol. 28, No. 15

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VOL. XXVIII, No.   15
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1942
aynor
Dorothy M
Sings With Fine
Control of Voice
Copyright,  Trustee* of
Bryn   Mawr   College,   1942
PRICE  10 CENTS
Technical Ability, Strength
Demonstrated  Through
Program
By Anne Denny, '43
Goodhart Hall, February 16.�A
small,   but   appreciative   audience
heard Dorothy Maynor's concert on
Monday night.    The extent of the
program provided many opportuni-
ties for this talented artist.    Miss
Maynor's    technical    ability    was!
demonstrated at the beginning in j
the   songs  by   Handel   where   she,
showed   remarkable  control.     Herj
full,   strong   voice   was   perfectly
tuned to the soft notes of "0 Sleep, |
Dost Thou Leave Me."
But the expressive quality of her:
voice was not  really brought  out]
until she sang Franck's "Oh Lord I
Most Holy."    Here the violin and!
the voice do not blend but the high
violin part and the low voice part
complimented   each   other   in    an
effective  manner,  and   Miss  May-
nor's full tone was appropriate to
the religious character of the song.
The "Ave Maria," though perhaps
a little less inspiring, again gave
evidence of excellent control.
"Widmung" by Schumann pleas-
ed the audience more by its own
melodic beauty than by the expres-
sion of the singer, but Miss May-
nor's voice showed dramatic quality
in the German lieder as well as in
the French songs. The program fol-
lowed the course of the develop-
ment of the song in the history of
music with a few exceptions. In
general, the singer showed more
talent in the romantic and dramatic
types of songs. The French songs
"Adieu de 1'hostesse arabe," by
Bizet, and "Depuis le jour" from
the opera "Louise," were done in
good taste and with more ease than
were the more serious parts of the
program. Miss Maynor seemed to
interpret the mood of the French
sentiment more easily than that of
the lieder.
The modern songs were the least
striking of the program although
the two Rachmaninoff pieces gave
Continued  on   Pane   Four
Calendar
Thursday,  February   19
College Council, 6.30.
Philosophy   Club   Lecture.
Mr.  Weiss,   Why  I Am a
Pacifist.     Common   Room,
8.00.
Friday,  February 20
Anna Howard Shaw Lec-
ture. Manley O. Hudson,
The Legislative Extension
of International Law. Good-
hart, 8.30.
Saturday, February 21
Freshman Show, Love,
Fret,   and   Cheers.    Good-
hart, 8.30.         |
Hall Dances.
Sunday,  February  22
Mile. N a d i a Boulanger,
Some Aspects of Twentieth
Century French Music.
Music Room, 5.00.
Monday, February 23
Art Club Tea.   Mr. Sloane.
Common Room.
Tuesday, February 24
Current   Events,   Common
Room, 7.30.
Mrs. Cameron Outlines
4 Factors Affecting
Peace of Versailles
Common Room, February 17.�
Four important factors were in-
strumental in determining the Char-
acter of the Versailles Treaty, Mrs.
Cameron said in the second lecture
of the course in Post-War Recon-
struction. Two of these principles
�Wilson's 14 Points and the Pre-
Armistice Contract, were sabotaged
by the other two factors�the secret
treaties and the House Gloss of
the 14 Points.
The famous 14 Points were an-
nounced eleven months before the
Armistice and were accepted by
Germany in the Pre-Armistice Con-
tract as a basis for peace. The
Pre-Armistice Contract reached
(with the Reichstag government of
Prince Max of Baden assumed a
peace of justice along the lines of
the 14 Points, Mrs. Cameron said.
The Allies, however, agreed to Wil-
son's program only reluctantly and
with reservations.
Continued on  rage  Four
Barnes Stormers Briefly Glimpse Priceless
Modernistic Art Treasures of Argyrol King
By Barbara Cooley, '42
"The Barnes Foundation is not
a public gallery. It is an edu-
cational institution with a pro-
gram for systematic work, organ-
ized into classes which are held
every day, Snd conducted by a staff
of experienced teachers.
"Admission to the gallery is re-
stricted to students enrolled in the
classes."
In Philadelphia and in art cir-
cles all over the country the
Barnes collection is notoriously the
most inaccessible gallery in the
world. Large iron gates bar this
Merion estate from all intruders.
To get accepted as a member of
one of the courses you must submit
to an investigation of FBI thor-
oughness climaxed by a probing in-
terview. Few reporters, art crit-
ics, college students or professors
have ever-seen the collection. No
one has ever dashed in uninvited.
No one from Bryn Mawr has ever
been invited.
Yet we got through the gates, up
Three-College Professors Have Established
New Retail Co-Operative on Lancaster Pike
By Barbara Hui
tore  �n
The co-operative store An the
Main Line in Bryn Mawr has Mr.
Helson, of the college Psychology
department, as its president. He
succeeded Mr. Michels, of the
Physics department. A group of
professors at Haverford, Swarth-
more, and Bryn Mawr, under the
leadership of Mr. and Mrs. Stiers,
of the Haverford faculty, were in-
terested mainly in the philosophy
and economics of the co-operative
movement, and finally established
a working example. The first co-op
was   started   in   Swarthmore.     It
specializes in groceries and meats,
although there are some toiletries
and cosmetics. Many co-ops include
garage service, auto supplies', and
the like. This co-op will grow, said
Mr. Helson, only as it is financially
able to expand. Prospects are good
and more than $150,000 worth of
business is carried on each year.
Five per cent interest is paid on
money invested. This is a high
rate, since co-ops often pay as low
as 2 per cent. Receipts of pur-
chases are kept and a "patronage
refund" is returned in proportion
to   each   one's   purchases   over   a
proved  a   success.     Thus   encour- given period.
aged, the founder launched another
in Bryn Mawr in March, 1939, with
goods stored in a garage and de-
livery service only. Membership
grew by leaps and bounds, and last
December headquarters were moved
to 778 Lancaster Avenue, just
across from the railroad station.
It now has a membership of 364,
with an average of one new mem-
ber each day. There is delivery
service to customers from Wayne
to Overbrook and even into Phila-
delphia.     The  Bryn  Mawr  Co-op
The important thing about a co-
operative is that the customers
themselves'own it. Each buys one
or more shares at $5 apiece, and
each shareholder, no matter how
much he has invested, has only one
vote. Customers may criticize the
service, prices, or policy, and can
be sure that something will be
done about it. One of the big
advantages of a co-op is that the
grade of every product is clearly
designated, and there is no doubt
as to dependable quality.
the drive, in the doors. Once up
the marble steps, it was easy.. We
were in a long gallery lined by
primitive sculpture and hung with
Picasso tapestries. Room after
room opened from it filled with
paintings. Row after row, per-
fectly hung, perfectly lighted. The
most magnificent paintings, the
most comprehensive collection of
modern French art in the world.
Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes work-
ed his way through school and col-
lege here and abroad studying
chemistry. While working as a
chemist he discovered the formula
for argyrol and proceeded to
make millions. In 1917 at the age
of 30 he began to collect paintings.
In 1923 he returned to the
United States with his 3,000,000
dollars, but still embryonic, collec-
tion and announced that he was
going to build a 500,000 dollar mu-
seum to house the paintings in
Merion, Pennsylvania, which would
become public property. When the
public was finally admitted, the
furor of criticism began. Art
critics all over the country jubi-
lantly informed Dr. Barnes that he
had been duped into buying the
worst conceivable collection of
trash. Among the loudest voices
seems to have been the misguided
Bryn Mawr art department. Cha-
grined the Argyrfl King folded his
tents and locked the massive iron
gates.
A few years later the threat of
small homes being erected next to
his estate, brought forth a counter-
threat of turning his museum-ex-
Continued  on   rage   Two
Improvements Offset
Damage in Pembroke
Repairs for the Pembroke fire
have led to several improvements.
The damages were mostly due to
the water, and the cost, somewhat
under ten thousand dollars, was
fully covered by the insurance.
As a part of the process of re-
conditioning the kitchen, the roof
has been insulated both for protec-
tion and coolness. A partition with
many windows has been introduced
into the kitchen itself, forming an
extra room which will be used as a
dining room for the maids.
Minor improvements in light fix-
tures and locations are also being
made.
Price Control Vital
As  Inflation  Check
Says Dr. Clair Wilcox
*        � �
Advocates   Selective   System,
Taxing to Absorb Surplus
Buying Power
Roberts Hall, February 11.�
Price control is the only measure
to restrain rising prices in this
time of war, said Clair Wilcox, in
his lecture, Can We Check Inflation
by Controlling Prices? But price
control mechanisms should not be
used as a method of achieving
other economic or social reform.
If prices were left to take their
natural course, rising prices would
not apportion goods fairly among
all income groups. As for the
theory that production would be
stimulated should prices be un-
controlled, Dr. Wilcox said that
rising prices would not increase
production in proportion to the
price increase.
Mr. Baruch advocates an overall
ceiling on prices, freezing all
prices, rents, and wages on a given
date. He argues that since prices
are interrelated, it would be unjust
to control the finished product with-
out controlling costs. This plan
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Juniors to Make
Nominations for
Campus Positions

Voting by Ballot to Follow
Description of Offices
In News
The election of officers for the
chief undergraduate^ositions for
the year, 1942-43, will start next
week, to continue until spring va-
cation. The following procedure
for the voting has been planned:
After nominations a description
of the duties of the offices will ap-
pear in the News, along with pic-
tures and brief write-ups of the
college activities of the candidates.
The following week elections will
take place in all the halls directly
after lunch. Voting will be by
ballot, and all undergraduates will
be required to sign their names as
they cast their votes. Non-Resi-
dents are urged to be at college for
lunch on days in which elections
occur.
If any candidate receives 15
more votes than the sum of all the
other votes cast, she is elected. If
no candidate gets this plurality, a
second poll will be held the next
day between the two or three high-
est  candidates.    Here  the  winner
Azorin, Spanish Critic,
DisCUSSed    by    SalinaS mus* nave 20 more votes than the
*                          runnpr-nn.
February 12th�Mr. Pedro Sal-
inas of Johns Hopkins University
djscussed "The Protagonist of
some Essays of Azorin." In quot-
ing from two essays by Azorin, a
Spanish essayist of the early twen-
tieth century, Mr. Salinas extract-
ed the main themes of all his
works.
Azorin was one of a group of
writers who reacted against for-
eign interests. They aimed at
turning Spanish interest toward
Spanish things. Azorin, as Mr.
Salinas pointed out, believed that
one could encounter this purely
Continued on m��> Four
runner-up.
Schedule of  Nominations
February   23.    Nomination   for
Undergraduate  Association   Presi-
dent  (by Junior Class).
Self - Government    President    (by
Continued on Page Three
Erratum"         .
Last week's item on the
Model League Assembly ne-
glected to mention that Dr.
Helen D. Reid has been chair-
man of the Model League
Assembly Continuation Com-
mittee and is Faculty Advisor
to  this year's  Conference.
This Evolution of Freshman Show Animals
Beats Darwin;  From  Griffin  to Amoeba
By Anne Denny, '43
Freshmen go through amazing;
hazards to keep their animals a
secret�rbut "did you hear about
the amoeba that got drunk?"�not
that it indulges in stimulating bev-
erages, but it was on the stage in
forms. The biological tendency
reached its climax when '29 gave
The Dog-fish Receives, but the
drunken amoeba ought to discour-
age the idea in the freshmen's
choice of animal for the future.
of
The   "changing   legs"   of   Bryn
a glass of water and somebody was I Mawr are a most interesting phe-
aw fully thirsty .... Thus, the mi-
croscopic tendency of freshman an-
imals was nipped in the bud. In
the old days extinct species, prod-
ucts of the imagination, appeared
in a slightly over-stuffed form, but
now we have real animals, like
Western Union boys.
Long ago, Freshman shows were
far from our present idea of glam-
our. Broadway influences were
somewhat curbed by the fashion-
able hips of those days. After a
few Ziegfeldian attempts the trend
shifted toward a rather naive fan-
tasy type. The class of 'nineteen
was frowned upon for its jazzy
show with the song, "I didn't raise
my girl to be a chicken." The re-
action to this show forced the next
few classes into allegorical refei -
nomena. In the early days, when
the Freshman Show was still a
short skit presented in return to
the sophomore play, the legs were
pretty well covered. As skirts be-
came shorter, leg action played a
larger part in the Shows until in
'28's show, the big hit was a dance
involving "a kind of circular col-
lapse of the knees."
In *he beginning, the freshman
Show was held in tlufgym. Added
attractions were student and pro-
fessional orchestras and food serv-
ed between the acts. When Good-
hart was first used by the class of
'32, these tricks were replaced by
more elaborate staging. Coinci-
dently, 1932's. show was the first to
be thoroughly "panned" by the
News for having a little too much
ences to the campus, appearing in , v*illanova, and not enough  coher-
the middle of the Egyptian deser ' ence.
or Alice's Wonderland.       /
Fashion in fantasy has definite!/
changed from *23's gree/f;griffin to
last year's mixture of Walt Disney
and the lobster. Biology is an in-
evitable source of material, and
constantly   reappears   in   various
Nowadays, the shows rely op bi-
ology, personalities, and Haver-
ford. The departure from this for-
mula in the direction of The Land
of Oz or crusading knights hava
only resulted in an audience "as-
leep and better to be that way."
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