Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1932 Campus Comment, November 1932 Bridgewater State Teachers College Volume 6 Number 3 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State Teachers College. (1932). Campus Comment, November 1932. 6(3). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/36 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Dec. I-Miss Nye Dec. l3-Miss Smith Dec. 6-Class Meet­ Dec. 20 - Sci en c e ings. Club Dec. 8-Mr. Stearns Dec. 22-Xm as Party STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, BRIDGEWATER, MASS. Vol. VI NOVEMBER ISSUE No.3 r Cyrus Dallin, Glee Club, Quartette Graduate of 1930 Dr. E. H. Griggs~ Noted Lecturer Highlights of Teachers' Convention Uniquely Honored Advocates ~~Honest Pessimism~' Gray-haired graduates and ........ To emphasize the ideal of education as the 4:'physical, mental, ambitious undergraduates covet the degree of "certificat de l'en­ SurveY's a,nd Diagnoses Present Age and moral development of the child", the Plymouth County seignement de l'etranger" which Teachers' Association held its ninety-seventh annual meeting at Dolores Rousseau, class of '30, 13y Irma Warranen Bridgewater, Friday, October 28th,/!.~~ received this summer at the age of twenty. Miss Rousseau is "A Survey and Diagnosis of the the':Y:01,~n!?{'..st Ar~ric~n gli~ ever -Ii .. "Honest pes~imjsm is better-tltanaishonesLQptimism", stated _~ Present Age", the opening lectm'e by Thir. Durgin to have achieyed this honor ~r. Edward Howard Griggs, noted Iectu~p.r, i1).hi~tidk, .'.'-.tA. v~agno~ , --' 'EdWard Howard Griggs, presented given by the Universite de Paris SIS and Survey of the Present Age", gIven before the Plymouth' the problem of such education from Analyzes Freshmen to foreign students doing grad­ County Teachers Association at the Bridgewater State Teachers a general standpoint. uate work there. At the two-hour sectional meetings, By Eloise Sherman College, Friday, October 28th. the specific problems of character l----------------~ training, mental hygiene, academic • "The freshmen this year are the "Honest pessimism at such a time subjects, safety education, and health equal of the upperclassmen mentally, as this means facing facts squarely", were considered. physically and beautifully", stated Mr. Dr. Griggs continued. That the diffi­ Cyrus E. Dallin, of Boston, creator George Durgin, teacher of math­ culties confronting us have their com­ of the famous "Appeal to the Great ematics. pensations is difficult to recognize but Spirit;' spoke at the Fine Arts Sec­ "They are really better prepared true nevertheless. tional Meeting on "Sculpture and Ed­ than the A's or any of the preceding "All nations look to America, some­ ucation". classes have been", he continued as times jealously, but on the whole ad­ Folk songs-English, Scotch, and he wandered around his room straight­ miring our new virgin continent". German comprised the programme ening desks and pulling down window America gains this national admira­ given by the Glee Club and the Male shades. tion because she has, in a relatively Quartette. .$"Today the high schools are fitting short time, gone through a period of Glee Club pupils better than ever before. To­ exploration, then a period of expan­ a; 1. Ravin Rantin Robin day's freshmen have better back­ sion, and is now in a period of adjust­ Scotch Folk Song ground and 8,1'e better prepared to go ment. 2. Peat Fire Smooring Prayer on with higher work. For this reason We have gone far in the machine Song of the Hebrides they will probably be better A's, per­ world. We have motor cars, aero­ 3. Now is the Month of Maying haps the best A's the school has ever planes, apartment houses, and ma­ (English Madrigal) Morley had. terial cities. "America is simply the b. Selections On being asked whether boys or marvel of mankind". Male Quartette girls were the more intelligent in Ebb-tide Described mathematics, Mr. Durgin smiled and "All this", Dr. Griggs stated, "cul- c. Gute N atch German Folk Song "La Maison Americaine" in ~aris connected with the American Hi' Li'l Feller Riker Deis said that the boys are not as conscien­ Foundation where Mable Dolores' and Marie Rousseau stayed whilel minated in the period after the World . John Bates, Donald Walch, Ray­ tious as the girls. The boys get better studying at the Sorbonne. War. On the other hand, it is an )1: mond Cook, and Gene Higgins sang marks, as a rule, when they are re­ - indication of a feverishly advandng ...,.. ". '. ib the quartette. viewing work, but when it comes to Dra:nlatic Chlb \ IIlonor Graduate civilization". We at'e now in an ebb Miss Alice Beal, one of the vice- studying a new subject the girls pro- . ',t~~'L~,"%~,";CZ1~.,~~I;~f'4 ~ij~~~ .". {f,~;,:'vlP0,!;;;;ep~{rtf; fr'01tt'1~~i7:rr-"""F\~dtf;i .. $0:~ib~B1leff«~~ii wbrse for t::;i:;.~:c:~~ remarked, ClI'venever had a ir'esjh;tfttaIi Traditio~il. 'Cuest Speaker America was more prosperous. to erase my boards since Hugh Heney By Lucien Galipau After the war a new freedom ap- was here. I had a letter from him Contrary to the plan in past years peared. <There was a breakdown of the other day, ana he wanted to know the Dramatic Club this year is pre­ Charming, chic and interesting was social restraints, a new freedom for whether I had f~mnd anyone to take senting three one-act plays instead of the guest speaker at tpe initiation of women, and a political freedom. All his place." one long play, on November 18. the new French Club members on this should have been accepted not as The Dramatic Club has decided to October 20, 1932. a privilege but as a' responsibility. Day Students do this for several reasons. The plan She was none other than our own Likewise our expanding cultural op­ s. C. A. Formal is new and unlike anything that has graduate Dolores Rousseau of Fair­ portunities should have been felt as To Decorate an obligation and not something to Comillg Dec. 3 been done; change and variety will haven. Miss Rousseau and her sister~ Training Room appeal to the audience; by having Marie, graduated from this school in "carryon the superficial amenities in several plays more members of the 1930, having pursued the three year polite society". The season's first formal will take club will have an opportunity to have course. They continued their studies Bigness a Standard By Loretta McHugh place December 3, from 8 to 11.30, in maj or roles. the University of Paris and Dol­ "American standards", said Dr. At last the problem of decorating the gymnasium, under the auspices of at Miss Adelaide Moffitt, faculty ad­ ores abtained a "certificat d'enseigne­ Griggs, "are bigness, speed, and lux­ the~Day Student Room has been the Student Cooperative Association. visor, thinks that these plays will af­ ment a l'etranger" in 1931. While at ury". We are after bigness and not solved by the Design Class under the Mary Carroll, general chairman, ford an excellent opportunity for the our school she lived at Gates House. fineness. We are after equipment and supervision and guidance of Miss was elected by the association, and members to demonstrate their talent She was noted for her conscientious­ not careful cultivation of what we Priscilla Nye. On the rear wall of given the power to appoint heads of and versatility in acting. ness and although she made friends already have. Since we are living in the room an ornate shelf is to be other committees. The three plays ~l:re distinctly dif­ easily she restricted her friendship to a machine age we should aim not to er"!cted on which designed plates and Barbara Randlett is chairman of ferent in type. "Hearts to Mend" is a selected few. make' man the lever of machinery but bowls will be placed. These have been the programme committee, Barbara a fantasy by Harry A. Overstreet. In In her talk Miss Rousseau spoke of endeavor to use machinery for deep­ made of papier mache painted in Vinal, of decorations; Evelyn Beane, this Pierrot loses his song and the the allurement and beauty of France. ening our lives. symbolic designs using the triand har- of publicity; Florence Baker, of hos­ Tins-to-Mend Man helps him to find It was entertaining to hear of the "Spending money before you have .... mony, red, yellow and blue, and motifs pitality, and Murphy, of clean-up. it. customs of the French race but it was earned it, or installment buying is similar to those of the hanging tap­ far more diverting to listen to her own one big reason for our present de­ estry. Eleven Pass J\liss Pack·.ard comments on Paris. pressed state. When the depression Also, if possible, a few wall pockets "Ou est ce charme de Paris dont was felt, people had to buy even less for. plants or ivy will be obtained to French Exams Training School Y~~c;;o~tendu discuter si _so_uy~:t;lt?" than in ordinary hard times for they hang on the pillars in the center of had used part of an unearned income/' -:::';:--tne--rbom. By H. Brewer Member (No.2-continued on page four) The commuters are hidebted to Miss Faculty Nye for her helpful suggestions and Among the lucky eleven there was, New Sclloo1 Pin ·gracious cooperation, as well as to the one man, Cohen, but he was unable Miss Katherine Packard, formerly Poster-Mal(ing following girls: Gertrude Laird, Mad­ to accept the membership.