January 16, 1935

              Skidmore News 
VOLUME TEN	SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1935	NUMBER THIRTEEN



Specific Suggestions for Bringing N.S.F.A. Closer to Skidmore

Discussion Club May Absorb Activities of N.S.F.A. Committee

By ELIZABETH NORLANDER
  
Because the N.S.F.A. is an organization, established and maintained by student leaders, and acting as a representative cross-section of student opinion in this country, the Federation must of necessity endeavor to reach all students on every member college campus. To do this, there must be on each campus a mechanism to further the work of the Federation.
  
Today many colleges are faced with the supreme problem of over-organization. There are already too many clubs, functioning with too little student interest, Our own campus, although not faced with this problem in its worst form, cannot hope to set up another organization, or to enlarge on the N.S.F.A. committee instituted here. Most of you are not aware that we have such a committee, composed of a chairman, the President of College Government and the editor of the newspaper. The work of this committee has never been well defined and thus has not been able to reach the student body. The suggestion may therefore be advanced, that the activities of the N.S.F.A. committee be absorbed by Discussion Club, which in its program of yearly activities shall specifically provide for ample opportunity for cooperating with the Federation in bringing the benefits of its activities to this campus.
    
The National Student Mirror 

The subject of the National Student Mirror is not a new one to you, but the lack of warmth with which you have received suggestions of subscriptions proves, not that you are not interested, but that this magazine is not yet an efficient mouthpiece of student opinion. Before you condemn its existence, reconsider its possibilities. It is urged since Skidmore is awake to many subjects which are of real interest to the American undergraduate body, that students here make a vital and purposeful effort to contribute to the National Student Mirror, thus attempting to aid in making this magazine representative of student sentiment.
    
Student Speakers Advocated 

On this campus there has been little attention given to the possibilities of exchanging student speakers with other colleges. With the establishment of a central students’ speaker? 

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Second Exhibition To be Presented By Dance Club
  
On January 21 on the Little Theatre stage the members of Dance Club will present the second exhibition of a series of programs through which it hopes to help the college understand and appreciate “the dance.” This exhibition is to show the use of fundamental body movements in the emotional experience of a person.
  
The exhibition will be divided into five groups of emotions. The first group will express excitement, disgust, jealousy, hate, and fear. The second group will portray joy, elation, and hope. The third group will picture how the two experiences of the overcoming of fear and the delight to disappointment might be changed and used in “the dance.” The fourth group will give different emotional experiences through dynamics. The fifth, and last, group will signify one large emotional experience, as religion, through a number of small groups of emotions.





Roland Hayes, Negro Tenor, Is Presented By Music Course
By BARBARA GRUNTAL
  
Last Thursday evening, January 10, as one of the Music Course series, Roland Hayes, the well known Negro tenor, was presented in College Hall. He was assisted at the piano by Per-cival Parham. The program rendered was as follows:

1. Alma Mia .................................. Handel
2. Would You Gain the Pretty Creature......... Handel
3. Jesu in Gesthemane.................... C.P.E. Bach
4. Phidyle ................................... Duparc
5. La Flute Enchante .......................... Ravel
6. Nish tvoi lik .............................. Krein
7. Fontany ................................. Taneieff
8. The Garret ................................ Rhodes
9. When Malindy Sings ........................ Rhodes
10. Group of arranged Negro Spirituals.
  
Mr. Hayes, though suffering from a bad cold, did not let his audience down as far as sheer artistry was concerned. True, he sang a bit easily at first, doing songs that would require but a mezzo-voce, but this was so lovely in itself that his hearers were quite willing to overlook the change in the program. Fortunately the singer's voice improved and grew stronger as he went on, and some of the selections were indeed very taxing.
  
There were about two numbers that stood out above all the rest, both in music and rendition; these were Bach's “Jesu in Gesthemane” and the Russian number, “Nish tvoi lik” which text told of the many trials and tribulations of the Hebrew people, both past and present. In this latter, especially did Mr. Hayes outdo himself All the power of his voice was given 

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Outing Club Gives Novel Supper Party For New Members
 
Outing Club has a sense of humor that cannot be denied. On Wednesday evening, January 23, the club will hold a supper party at Skidirondack in honor of the new members. The Skid more bus will leave college at 5:15 P. M. for the club’s cabin. Nellie Hegeman, President of Outing Club, claims that the time is appropriate for the affair, as students need some recreation to relieve the strain of studying.
  
Equally important as the supper will be the entertainment which will follow. Original Outing Club songs, composed by members, will be sung. A social hour will follow. The guests will return to college about 7:30 P.M.





Miss von Qualen To Superintend European Tour
  
Next summer Miss von Qualen plans to chaperone a tour for college girls that is organized by Varsity Tours, a division of the Travel Associates of New York City.
  
The group will be composed of students from various women’s colleges. There will be a similar tour for young men with parallel sailings and itinerary.
  
Departure from New York will be on June 21st on the motorship Lafayette of the French Line. The trip will include England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. The return journey will be on the He de France which is due in New York on August 6th.
  
Miss von Qualen will be glad to interview any student interested in this tour.





As We Go To Press
By DOROTHY HUEBNER
 
Detroit

Detroit sends us an encouraging news item which concerns the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford has announced that 10,000 men have been added to the company's payroll and that this addition makes the employment mark the best since 1929. Everything would be well and good if a few other companies were in a position that would enable them to follow suit.

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Monte Carlo
This year the snow has been traveling far and wide extending its scope even to Monte Carlo, where it has not been encountered for the last 7 years.

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Los Angeles
   
Officially, it took but 3 minutes for Judge Ben Lindsey to break up the marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and with it died all the hopes of the public romanticists who wished vainly for a reconciliation to take place between the once famous ideal screen couple.

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Paris

Much has been heard of the penal colonies of the Guianas, but there is one Frenchman who prefers to live there rather than with the rest of the world. Benjamin Ullino, having been pardoned for attempted espionage, has just sailed back to the French Guiana penal colony, which had been his home for 26 years until 6 montns ago when he saw France again.

Monsieur Ullino’s explanation for this unusual procedure is that he finds the world too full of boundless stupidity, all right materially, perhaps, but sadly lacking spiritually. 

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Geneva

The League of Nations has recently celebrated its 15th birthday, a celebration which now lacks only 6 nations as participants, U.S. Germany, and Japan being the big three who still refuse to join the ranks of those who supposedly stand for peace by reason and diplomacy rather than peace by arms.

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Paris

And now France announces that she has, or rather is, including a 35,000 ton warship in her building program in acceptance of Italy's challenge.

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New York

In conjunction with this, we note Premier Mussolini's article written for the monthly organ of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mussolini states that pacifism is the harmful doctrine of cowards and that permanent peace is neither possible or desirable. This is a statement which surely could not or should not be acceptable to the American or even to the world public at large.





Art Honor Students Chosen by Faculty For Special Honor
 
In Assembly last Thursday morning Miss Bridgman announced the names of the four art majors in the senior class whose work, while studying here, has been deemed so outstanding as to merit honor Work away from college for a specified period during the spring. This year finds Ruth Barker, Ruth Pealer, Janet Wadhams. and Barbara Sessions all deserving of the distinction bestowed upon them.





Mrs. Herron to Give Harp Recital This Evening in Chapel
  
Tonight in College Hall at 7:10 o’clock another in the series of Half Hour of Music will be given. The artist is to be Mrs. Margaret De Graaf Herron, harpist. Mrs. Herron is a new instructor in the Music Department The program should be of great interest as it is the first time a solo harpist has appeared in a complete program at Skidmore. The numbers to be rendered are as follows:

1.

a. Fantaisie Op. 95	Saint-Saens
Camille Saint-Saens, a French composer born in 1835, is renowned for his use of the harp in his op eras and other orchestral works.

b. Chanson de Guillot Martin
Clement Marot arr. by Perillon

This composition of the XVIII century is arranged for the harp to represent the tone of the harpsi chord, a protype of the piano which was in use at that time.

c. Automne (Autumn) Grandjany
Marcel Grandjany, a modern French harpist and composer, is instructor of harp at the American Conservatory of Fountainbleau.

d. Impromptu Caprice Gabriel Piernc
This solo displays the virtuoso harp technique.

2.

a. Priere	Hasselmans
Alphonse Hasselmans, French harpist born in 1835, was profes sor of harp at the Paris Conservatory-

b. Amaryllis	arr. Ghys
The air was composed by King Louis XIII of France.

c. Am Springbrunnen (The Fountain)	Zabel
This composition portrays interesting tonal effects.

COLLEGE HALL 
Wednesday Evening, January 16, 1935, 
at 7:10 P. M.





Professor Hicks Speaks to Group In Student House
  
On Monday evening, January 14, Professor Granville Hicks of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute spoke at a joint meeting of Key and L.I.D. in the Student House. Mr. Hicks wrote one of the most brilliant criticisms of modern literature, “The Great Tradition.” His topic for the evening was “Radicalism In Literature.”
   
Mr. Hicks began his talk by giving a historical approach showing how radical literature has continued to develop during the past hundred years. The radical tendency has been present in all literatures of the world, not only in that of America. In this country, however, Emerson was a pioneer in the doctrine of self-reliance and likewise was opposed to the smugness or his contemporaries in England. His disciples, Thereau and Whitman, put his doctrine into practice in a more definite form. Whitman attempted to combine Emerson's doctrine of self-reliance with his own beliefs concerning the life of the American people. Belonging to the working class, Whit man endeavored to show the importance of the individual on one hand and the importance of the democratic mass on the other hand. These three authors with their tendencies toward socialistic views laid the foundation for American radical literature.
  
Although Howells and Mark Twain called themselves socialists, it was not until the end of the 19th century that there was a definite radical literature in America. The 20th century was opened by such men as Frank Morris Jack London, and Upton Sinclair 

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Helen Hull Reports on N.S.F.A. Congress Held at Boston U.

The Misses Hull and Norlander Represent Skidmore and Tell of Activities in Assembly
  
The first Assembly of the new year was held in College Hall on Thursday, January 10. At this time Miss Bridgman introduced Helen Hull, President of Student Government, who gave a particularly fine report on the 1934 National Student Federation of America Congress which she and Elizabeth Norlander attended in Boston during Christmas vacation as representatives of Skidmore.
  
After a brief introductory analysis of the purpose of the Congress, an explanation of “the whys and wherefores” of the N.S.F.A., its initial founding ten years ago, and its rapid growth until it is now divided into regions for the purpose of furthering its work, Helen spoke of the diversity of the unusually interesting program which was presented this year, and the admirability of the speakers present. Two groups of topics were discussed— “those pertaining to purely campus matters, and those referring to public affairs.” The fact that all speakers expressed a strong faith in youth and stressed not only their opportunities but their responsibilities as well, was brought out.
  
Dr. Henry N. McCracken, President of Vassar College, and a member of he National Board of Advisors of the N.S.F.A. delivered the keynote address. He urged students to work for the free expression of student opinion on the requirements for a degree, and for collective bargaining between themselves and their trustees. He further stressed the point that “Student governments should be granted all the power they can maintain, for this training in the problems of student government is training for participation in national government.”
  
Mr. Dennis Follows of Nottingham, England, was a guest of the Congress and it was he who expressed the desire to see the students of America come into closer contact with European students. He asserts that the International Confederation of Students is one of the greatest instru-

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Skidmore Graduate Gains Recognition By Winning Award
  
Miss Dorothy Beaver, who graduated with honors from Skidmore in 1934, is the winner of a scholarship of the Women’s Press Club of New York at the Columbia School of Journalism. At Skidmore she had been awarded the scholarship of the College Club of Derby and while here, she won several others. Miss Beaver was very active on college publications, particularly “News” and “Quarterly” (which is now “Expression”), and she also did Saratoga and Skidmore reporting for the Knickerbocker Press. She now holds a part-time F.E.R.A. position doing research of Emerson's poems for a professor at Columbia.
  
Just recently Miss Beaver had one of her poems published in “Bowling Green” by Christopher Morley, and, in addition to this, a feature article of hers on the Metropolitan Museum appeared in the “New York Sun.”
  
Of the Women’s Press Club which awarded the scholarship, Mrs. Harriet Bishop Waters Christie is the president, and the scholarship committee included three graduates of the School of Journalism, Miss Hilda Couch, Miss Selma Hautzik, and Miss Frances Grant. The first two formerly held the scholarship.