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VOL.-XXI, No. 17

BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935

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Copyright BRYN MAWR
NEWS,

PRICE 10 CENTS

1935





Students Suggest
Competitive Sport
And Social Games



Questionnaire Answers Reveal
Golf and Squash Favored
As_ Additions



TENNIS CONGESTION
SHOULD BE ALTERED



The sports writers on the College
News were more than pleased with the

response shown to the questionnaire
which was circulated last week-end.
We have long planned to conduct a
survey of college sentiment on athlet-
ics, and we chose this occasion as a
parting fling before our departure into
the shades of grateful retirement. The
intention of the questions was to get a
general expression of undergraduate
sentiment about the purpose of,an ath-
letic prégram and to attempt to find
out what other sports. students would
like to have provided if it could be ar-
ranged. We did not undertake the
survey in a spirit of criticism, but sim-
ply as a matter of interest, and the
results should be interpreted in this
light.

There are those who feel that inter-
est in athletics is at a fairly low ebb
at present and who look to the ‘‘good
old days” when everyone came out and
cheered for their class teams and great
throngs attended varsity contests —
shades of the poor forlorn gatherings
we have occasionally seen observing
some of our recent contests. Perhaps
athletics were overemphasized then,

_ but they are if anything underempha-

sized now. We can speak with a fair
measure of authority for we received
149 answers, which represents rough-
ly 40 per cent. of the college.

Students in general expect to get ex-
ercise, enjoyment, health, and training
in sports which will be useful: after
college from the program in athletics.
Several people took occasion to have
their fling at required athletics, and
six-said that they thought they should
be eliminated. One of them felt quite
strongly that college studentapierre
“past the age of co-operation”
therefore organized sports were, a
waste of time.
times when the authorities think th
we are past that age, but as a general
rule we like to think that most of us
are still willing to work with others.

Continued on Page Five i‘

yannounced the féte to be
-Rockefeller Center in New York City

Doubtless there are
| parts of the





Vocational Tea :

- Dr. Mildred Loring Sylvester,
Executive Officer and’ Examin-
ing Psychalogist of The Psycho-
logical Laboratory and Clinic of
the University of Pennsylvania,
will speak on Clinical Psychol-
- ogy in the Common Room, Good-
hart Hall, Monday afternoon,
March the twenty-fifth, at‘half-
past four. Tea will be served at
four o’clock. Aryone who is in-
terested ‘is cordially invited to
the meeting.







Drive Is: Publicized
in New York Papers



Bryn Mawr’s Million Dollar Drive
is on its way to winning a million dol-
lars’ worth of advertising as well. On
both March 17 and 18, the New York
Times and the New York Herald-Trib-

une. printed accounts of our money-

raising activities and displayed pic-
tures of our committees.

In the Sunday Herald Tribune, a,
photograph of the New York mem-
bers of the Undergraduate Drive Com-
mittee held a prominent place. The
Sunday Times included, besides this

same picture, a detailed report of

campus projects for winning funds.
Not even our sacrifice of desserts was

forgotten in the long list of enter-

prises intended to contribute towards
the undergraduate quota of $20,000.

On Monday, the alumnae program
received its share of attention. The

Times and the Herald Tribune both
held at

on April 16. This celebration in honor
of Bryn Mawyr’s 50th anniversary will
be only a part of a series occurring
on that same day in different cities
throughout the country—in Chicago,
San Francisco, St. Louis, and Port-
land, Oregon.

In the féte sponsored by the New
York alumnae, the feature will be the
opening of a Garden df Nations on an
outdoor terrace of the RCA Building.
d| Bridge games, a buffet luncheon, a
fashion show and reception will all be
going on at the same time in different
guilding. As guests of
honor there will be present many ce-
lebrities of the stage and screen, and
to entertain them the New York alum-
nae will be hostesses.



Fortune Scrutinizes Bryn Mawr to Find
Us Free, Nonchalant, And Well-Dressed



The college can scarcely have failed
to get wind of the fact that there is
an exciting new project in progress on
the campus: Bryn Mawr is being in-
vestigated! Mrs. Standen and Mr.
Hobson of the staff of Fortune, with
the able assistance of J. Hopkinson,
35, and P, Little, ’35, are rounding
up the students to pose them queries
of a most entertaining nature. Be-
fore the question, “What is your chief
interest?” many an undergraduate has
come to a full and baffled stop, and
many more will doubtless feel a like
embarrassment before the ten days of
Mrs. Standen’s visit are unfortunately
over. We have heard rumors, which
Mrs. Standen firmly denies, that
among-the questions are, “Are you a
Pacifist? Are you a Communist? Has
your opinion on these matters chang-
ed since you have come to college?” but
even if this is not the particular in-
formation which she is seeking, all of
her questions are carefully calculated
to give us to pause and think.

Mrs. Standen’s present impressions
of the Bryn Mawr girl, which she ad-
mits have been gathered ‘in a day and
a half, and will-doubtless.be revised by.
the end of the ten days, are that she
is rather individualistic in the sense
of doing what she likes, and that she
is not opposed to the college authori-
ties. She is singularly free of rah-
‘rah college spirit, and, contrary to the

popular impression of Bryn Mawr, is

not. particularly badly dressed. She

has also the advantage of being almost
completely left to nar own devices by

the college.



Mrs. Standen herself has led a va-
ried and far from monotonous exist-
ence. She has lived all over the Conti-
nent, has studied in Geneva, Berlin,
and at the London School of Econom-
ics, and has worked as a reporter for
an official news. agency at Geneva. For
three or four years, she reported the
international, disarmament and rep-

arations conferences, and then because‘

of her extensive knowledge of Italy
gained from having lived there, she
was secured by Fortune last year to
assist in preparing their Italian
number.

In view of Mrs. Standen’s apparent
ability to secure work of a most inter-
esting nature, she was immediately
pressed for Advice to the Young in
Quest of a Job. She believes that the
most important tool any young person
can have is an efficient knowledge of
shorthand and typing in several lan-
guages. For her own type of work
this knowledge has been essential, and
with it, plus the asset of a college edu-
cation, everyone is well prepared to
seek a job in newspaper or magazine
work. ¢

An unusual | point of view with re-}
spect to giris “was-cJineed by Mrs.
Standen, when she expressed her belief |
that women would profit more from a
college education if they had worked
before they came to college, and were

College Calendar
Thursday, March 21. Chapel.
All students are requested to at-

tend. Goodhart. 8.45 A. M.

_ Friday, March 22. Square
dancing. Gymnasium. 8.00
| ea.

Saturday, March 23. Basket-
ball game with Rosemont. 10.00
A.M.

French Club Play, La Soeur
Béatrice. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
» Dance after French Club
Play. Deanery.

Sunday, March 24. Poetry re-
cital by Mrs. Henry P. Van
Dusen. Deanery. 5.00 P. M.

Sunday evening service con-
ducted by Dr.* Suter. Music
Room. 7.30 P. M. ;

Wednesday, March 27. Dance
_recital by Miss Petts, Miss Tag-
gart, Miss Converse and the col-
lege dance group. Goodhart.
8.30 P. M.







College Council Votes
For Library Reforms



Suspension Penalty Proposed
For Misusing Reserve Room
Book Privileges



POLITICAL CLUB URGED



President’s House, March 13.—The
College Council has voted to suggest
that
the illegal removal of books from the

two innovations to the college:

Reserve Room and the Art Seminary
should be punished in the future by
and that a

Political Union, probably modeled on
the Oxford Union, and aiming to train
women by means of lectures, debates

suspension from college,

and discussions to take part-in poli-|

tics, should be organized this spring.
If the misuse of Reserve Room and
Art Seminary books is not completely
stopped by this new measure, the pos-
sibility of having all books checked
by the librarians.as they.are-removed,
will-be brought before the undergrad-
uates for discussion. -The Council also
decided that the faculty should be en-
couraged to urge the students to buy
more books, and discussed the ques-
tions of Big May Day, the Greek play,

and smoking in the Deanery. No ac-:

tion has yet been taken by the faculty
on the abolition of scheduled quizzes.

The college authorities feel very
strongly that the problem of misusing
books is serious: a student who is
either so careless or so dishonest that
she inconveniences the rest of the col-
lege by removing books which are in
demand, is not fit. to be a member of
the college community.. One student
was discovered to have twenty-seven
books missing from the Reserve Room,
the stacks, and the Hall library in her
room, and another illegally removed a
book which was in great demand from
the Aesthetics reserve. Both students
have been warned that if they offend
in this way again, they will be asked
to leave college, in the first case per-
manently, and in the second tempor-
arily. A chapel announcement will be
made that in future this ruling will
apply to the whole college, and that
it will be invoked for first offenders
without further warning. ©. @&

If this measure does not prove suf-
ficiently effective, the undergraduate
body will be asked to consider the pos-
sibility of ngt allowing the students
to enter the Reserve Room or Art
Seminary, but of having librarians in
both places who will get the books for
the students and make i be any
one student gets only the books she
has reserved. While it is possible that
this measure might delay the ten
o’clock removal of books for overnight,
a similar procedure is followed in
Hmany other colleges and works with
considerable rapidity, because the li-
brarians are swifter in finding the
books than the students. - It would be
highly undesirable to lock up the
stacks in the same way, since freedom

consequently more mature. The enter- pot f the stacks is a necessary privilege,
u

ing age could profitably be raised to19
or 20, so that women could learn to
form a sound opinion rather than
spend = in accumulating a
large num of facts. wm



t the Reserve Room and Art Semi-
nary books are more nearly the prop-
erty of the entire college. In any case;
a graduate student has been delegated

Continued on Page Six



Isabel S. Stearns, Student of Philosophy,

Will Be Mary E. Garrett European Fellow |



I, A. Richards, Fellow and Lecturer in English at. Cambridge,
Will be Mary Flexner Lecturgr For 1935-36 and Speak
On The Philosophy of Style



PICTURE BY MARIAN MacINTOSH,

90, RECEIVED



Goodhart, Mate} 15.—Miss Isabela

Scribner Stearns: has been awarded
the Mary E. Garrett European Fel-
lowship, the only graduate European
fellowship to be given for next year,
announced Miss Park in chapél, .who
also read the list of resident fellow-
ships for and the “cum
laude” list of undergraduates. Miss
Park also said that Mr. I. A. Rich-
ards, fellow and lecturer of Mag-
delan College, Cambridge, has ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the
Mary Flexner lectures for the year
1935-6. The College has also been
given a picture Boats at Gloucester,
by Miss Marian MacIntosh, of Prince-

next year

ton, a Bryn Mawr alumna of the
class of. 1890, and a_ well-known
American landscape painter. The

picture was given by Dr. Ethel Dun-
ham,
hung in Pembroke East.

The Mary E. Garrett European
Fellowship was established when the
college was only nine years old to
enable a graduate student to study
and travel abroad for a year. This
student lives as a resident at a
strange university under teaching



French Play and Dance

Will Aid Alumnae Drive



(Especially contributed by
E. Thompson, ’35)

The French Club of Bryn Mawr
College will present on Saturday,.
March 23, in Goodhart Hall, its an-
nual play, to be followed by a dance
in the Deanery. The performance
this year will be Maurice Maeter-
linck’s Soeur Béatrice, directed by
Mlle. Maud Rey. It is an ambitious
play for amateurs to attempt, _be-
cause it involves such deep religious
feeling, such delicacy and poignancy
in its emotional conflict. It is the
well-known legend of a nun who for-
sakes her duty to the Virgin. The
scene is laid in a convent of the
fourteenth century throughout all
three acts. The changes of light up-
on the set, the light of the lamp
hanging by the image of the Virgin,
the light that comes at dawn through
the rich stained-glass window and
falls like jewels on the statue, the
moonlight and the snow seen through
the open door, the unearthly light of
the miracle which shines about the
Virgin, all-produce—variety— of effect
and accompany the changing moods
of the play. - All the richness of de~

‘tail is contrasted with the simplicity

of the play’s skeleton. The detail of
the costumes of the period, the bells,
the chanting of plainsong, the won-
ders of the miracle itself, with its
light, music, and sudden burst of
flowers, all are to be worked out with
care. This play, under the capable
direction of Mile. Rey, should be very
beautiful and moving.

The lighting for this presentation
is in charge of Sophie Hemphill, ’37,
and Elizabeth Webster, ’38. Scen-
ery was designed by Rebecca Davis,
31, Alice Shurcliff, ’38, Mary Hutch-
ings, ’37, Anne Reese, ’36, and Ann
Fred, ’38. E. L. Davis, "37, and
Anne Edwards, ’37, ‘are in charge of
the props. The costume: designing
was done by P. Majiship, ’36, M.
Lewis, ’37, E. Bryan, ’38;.and A. A.
M. Graves, ’37, and the stained glass
window by S. Morse, ’35. I. Ferrer,
37, arranged and directed the music,
while Laura Richardson is the organ-
ist. M. Whalen, ’38, J. Stern, ’36,
and H. Harvey, ’37, are directing the
publicity. “

The tickets for Soeur Béatrice are
$1.00 and $.75, with a $.25 reduction
to students: For the following dance,
the tickets are $2.25 a couple and
$1.00 stag. All the proceeds of the
play and dance will go for the bene-
fit of tie Fiftieth Anniversary Fund.

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of New Haven, and has been,



far different. from
The
stir of unfamiliarity invariably gives

and Srey Ones

those she has known before.

her work a vividness and new ap-
proach which results in. better work
than would be possible if the old
routine were not broken and old

habits were not disestablished. This
fellowship, a magnificent gift to a
good. scholar, has been held by many
distinguished members of the facul-
ties at ten of the prominent . colleges
in America. Miss Stearns, who re-
ceives it for this year, obtained her
A. B. at Smith College ih 1931, and
her M. A. at Bryn Mawr in 1983.
In 1933-34 she was a graduate schol-
ar at Radcliffe and during the past
year she has been a graduate student
and reader in Philosophy at Bryn
Mawr College. She proposes to
study at, Oxford and at Edinburgh
with the great English and Scotch
students of Plato, Aristotle, Kant,

and Hegel. Letters overwhelming in
their “commendation ‘were written
from Snfith, Harvard, and Bryn

Mawr, including one from Professor
Whitehead who declared that Miss
Stearns was “receptive, critical, and
speculative, and a difficult philosophic
adversary,”

Because ‘of the drop in the income
of the fund it is impossible to award
the Fanny Bullock Workman Schol-
arship, a great catastrophe because
three of the candidates recommended
‘are of unusual promise. But two
European Fellowships have been
awarded to Bryn Mawr graduates
from other sources. Miss Ruth Whit-
redge, “Fellow in French, has. re-
ceived the Fanny Bullock Workman
Scholarship of $1,200- at Wellesley
College which she will use for re-

search in Paris. Miss Mary, Zelia
Pease, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, 1933, has
been awarded the Alice Freeman

Palmer Fellowship of $1,500‘ by the
American Association of University
Women, which she will use for study
in Greece of Imitations of Attic and
Corinthian Pottery.

Mr. Richards was ‘selected by the
English Department when it was an-
nounced that Mr. Lowes, who was to
have delivered the Flexner lectures
for this year, was as yet too ill to
make any engagements for next year.
Mr. Richards is a brilliant and prov-
ocative writer and lecturer in the
field of English criticism whose
especial interest is the influence” of
language upon thought. The subject
of -his’ lectures; to be delivered over
a period of six weeks’ residence on
campus in February and March, of
1936, will be. The Philosophy of Style,
in connection with which graduate
and undergraduate courses will be
arranged. In 1931, Mr. Richards was

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Pirates Report Great Progress

Glee Club officials report that great
progress has been made in getting the
Pirates of Penzance chorus and cast
in shape for actual work on the stage.
Practically the whole first act and a
good deal of the second have been
learned and many of the principals
know their parts very well. The pro-
duction is going so well that it is run-
ning ahead of schedule. The police-
men’s chorus has been chosen and con-
sists of Sally Park, Sally Howe, E. C.
Smith, M. M. Smith, Lucy Fairbank,
Betty Reed, Naney Bucher, Esther
Hardenbergh, Lydia Hemphill, Naney -
Lane, and Virginia Hessing. :

The set is being designed by Edith.
Rose and Olga Muller, both of whom
have done work for Varsity Players’
Club and for Glee Club before. The
actual work of construction is in
charge of Sylvia Evans. Work on the
stage will not start until after vaca-
tion, but-many recruits will be needed.
All volunteers please see S. Evans,
Denbigh. _