Vouume VI. No. 19

 

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" BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920

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BRITISH POET AND JOURNALIST
TO SPEAK HERE TOMORROW

Cecil ‘Roberts’ Subject is “Through the
Eyes of Youth”

Cecil Roberts, British poet and war
correspondent, will give his lecture,
“Through the Eyes of Youth,” in Rocke-
feller Hall at 8.00 p. m. tomorrow eve-
ning, before an open meeting of the Eng-
lish Club. Mr. Roberts will review his
experiences during the five years of the
war, and will describe the “new world”
that he believes will arise “from the
ashes of the old.”

Members of the English Club will have
dinner with Mr. Roberts before his talk
and there will be no charge for admis-
sion at the lecture.

Among the company of young war
writers, Mr. Roberts has gained recog-
nition as a poet and his collected poems,
recently published, have an introduction
by John Masefield. ‘He is one of the
most remarkable men of our time,” said
Philip Gibbs, “and richly endowed with
great natural gifts, whether as a journ-
alist, war correspondent, poet or public-
speaker.”

During the war Mr. Roberts served
as correspondent with the British army
on the western front, and with the navy
and the Royal Air Force. He was sent
by the British Admiralty as a special
correspondent to describe the activities
of the grand fleet in the North Sea.

 

STORY 1 OF SJAPANESE PRINT

TOLD BY|MRS. BOLTON BROWN

Lecture Illustrated by Hand-Colored
Slides

“The names of the great Japanese
print artists should be as familiar to us
as the names of Whistler and Rem-
brandt,” said Mrs. Lucy Fletcher Brown,
graduate of Ann Arbor and wife of Mr.
Bolton Brown, lithographer and artist,
speaking on “The Story of the Color
Print in Japan,” in Taylor last Saturday
night. Her lecture was illustrated by
hand-colored slides taken from prints
which Mrs. Brown and her husband have
picked up on the Pacific coast, in Paris
and at Art Auctions in New York.

Because of Japan’s self-isolation from
the rest of the world, little was known of
Japanese prints, outside of Japan, until
towards the end of the 19th century.
“The print was the product of the arti-
san class,” said Mrs. Brown in speaking
of its origin, and was unrecognized by
the upper class artists of Japan until long
after its appearance in 1650. The prints
first found their way out of the country
on Dutch merchant ships, after which
they finally reached Paris and became
known to the western world.

Schools of Japanese Print-Making
“The Mirror of the Passing World”

‘was the first phase of the Japanese print

or wood-block. In direct contrast to the
landscape painting of the court artists
came cartoon making, caricature of pop-
ular actors and domestic and street
scenes. At first these were printed only
in black and white before color applica-
tion was learned, some hundred years
later. From this was developed book-
illustrating for the romances of the day,
and finally simple landscapes and studies
of plants and birds. Hokusai, “the old

man who was mad about drawing,” and
Hiroshigi were famous for their prints
of this later type.

Rhythm, selection and spiritual signi-
ficance, according to Mrs. Brown, are
the outstanding characteristics of the
prints.

 

 

Announcement of the Senior and grad-
uate European Fellows, the Senior “up-
per ten” and the five highest Junior
averages, will be made this Friday in
chapel by Acting-President Taft.

Resident fellowships, including the
Brooke Hall Scholarship for the high-
est Junior grade, won by Marie Litzing-
er, ’20, last year with a grade of 88.240,
will be awarded May first.

The “Senior” or Bryn Mawr European
Fellowship was founded in 1889. It is
intended to provide for one year’s study
at a foreign university, English or Con-
tinental. Last year it was awarded to
Ernestine Mercer, of Philadelphia, who
had a grade of 87.427, the second high-
est in her class. The highest average
made by any fellow under the present
system of marking was 92.444, made by
Marguerite Darkow, of Philadelphia, in
1915. :

. The Fellows for the last six years have
been as follows:

1000.2 ...; Ernestine Mercer ...... 87.427
T0168. 2.55; Margaret Timpson ..... 89.345
BOT nse Thane SMU .... ss... 88.376
SONG... Maran Bleps 2... ses 87.328
1018.2... Marguerite Darkow ....92.444
Tas. Katharine Dowd .....°. 89.7

Three distinctions are given with de-
grees at Bryn Mawr, “summa cum
laude” for an average of 90 or over,
“magna cum laude” for an average of
85-90, and “cum laude” for an average of
80-85. In the last two years the record
in the number of “magna cum laudes”
awarded has been twice broken. Five
students, or 7.8 per cent of the class won
this distinction in 1918; seven students,
or 8.1 per cent, last year.

The graduate European Fellows to be
announced are: the President M. Carey
Thomas European Fellowship for grad-
uate students who have completed one
year of graduate work at Bryn Mawr,

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Exceed $1,000 Goal for Bates House
in Two Days

Final Total is $1251

With over $1000 pledged in Taylor in
two days, the Bates House drive for ex-
tra funds, on Thursday, reached the min-
imum set by the committee. The total
amount, increased by a canvass of the
halls, came to $1251.25.

“Follow the red line” brought many
subscribers to the booth in Taylor, where
all classes vied for first place.

The classes in order of contribution

were:

were:

ae $398.50 with 57% subscribing
1922**... .$348.00 with 80% subscribing
SOME. osc 55 $278.50 with 52% subscribing
roe... $178.00 with 60% subscribing
Ra ev écceseeicesces $15.50
is cess acck $32.25

Exceed $1,000 goal for rates.

COLLEGE RULES DISCUSSED AT
MASS MEETING

At the request of the undergraduates,
a mass meeting was called in the chapel
this afternoon to discuss the question
of college rules in general and in partic-
ular the rules barring outsiders from
sleeping in the halls. Dean Smith pre-
sided.

The request for such a meeting came
as the result of the penalty inflicted on
a student who had an outside guest
stay in the hall with -her

 

MOVIES AN SLIDES TELL TALE OF
WAR AN EAST

The freeing of Palestine and Arabia
from the Turks was shown in Mr. Lo-
well Thomas’ pictures, “The Last of
the Crusaders,” in the gymnasium last
night. The pictures were for the bene-
fit of the Endowment Fund, under the
auspices of the History Club. Mr. Lo-
well Thomas, as war correspondent, pho-
tographed the Pyramids, the Nile, and
Jerusalem from the air, and come down
over Bethlehem in a spinning nose dive.
“He probably saw more of the world war
than any human being,” says The New
York Globe.

Mr. Dale Carnagy, who assisted Mr.
Thomas in getting the films explained the
story of the pictures.

General Allenby, who in “one of the
greatest campaigns of the war,” took
the Holy Land from the Turks, and Col-
lonel Thomas Lawrence, who, with the
native troops he had raised, drove the
Turks out of Arabia, dominated the
scenes. Colonel Lawrence was ultimate-
ly regarded by the Arabs as a prophet,
and made a Prince of Mecca, “an hon-
orary descendent of Mohammed,”

“The rose-red city of Petra,’ with
its huge buildings carved out of many
colored rock, deserted for thousands
of years, made some of the most beau-
tiful slides.

Last night was the last appearance
of the pictures in this country. They
will be taken to England from here.

_ZOLA’S INFLUENCE WANING
SAYS ABBE ERNEST DIMNET

French Critic of English Literature in

U. S. Collecting Funds for Lille

Anatole France and Maurice Barres
are the two leaders of modern French
thought, according to Abbe Ernest Dim-
net, Professor of English Literature at
the College Stanislas, Paris, and Lowell
lecturer at Harvard. Abbe Dimnet spoke
last Friday afternoon in Taylor Hall.

“Twenty-five or thirty years ago Zola
and Maupassant were great influences in
France,” Abbe Dimnet began. “Although
it shows great lack of taste to place Zola,
‘the photographer,’ on a par with Mau-
passant, ‘the painter.’”

Abbe Dimnet explained that French
people read not for the story but for
the form. It was Zola’s technique and
working out of his formula and his am-
bition to “out-Balzac Balzac” that led
to his popularity. The sad depressing
books, as Abbe Dimnet characterized
“Le Debacle,” which was so popular in
Germany, are not true pictures of the
French mind. “Zola is now completely
and irrevocably forgotten,” he conclud-
ed.

Anatole France Too Scientific

Anatole France is a bad thinker and a
bad Frenchman, according to Abbe Dim-
net, and is a product of the thought be-
queathed by Taine and by Renan. His
purely scientific point of view forces
him “to write for the stars, forgetful
that man is more at home in a village
than in infinity.”

In opposition to Anatole France is
Maurice Barres, master of environment,
who is little known in America. “From
the typical youth looking for success,
Barres has come to be the peaceful,
thoughtful writer from whom echoes the
current phrase ‘fruits of the dead,’” said
Abbe Dimnet.

Abbe Dimnet is touring the United
States to complete the sum of $100,000
necessary to help out the hospitals con-
nected with the University of Lille.

 

SECRETARY “OF KERENSKY’S
MINISTRY HERE SATURDAY

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Kerensky’s cabinet is to be represent-
ed at Bryn Mawr next Saturday. Mr.
Gregory Zilboorg, secretary to the Ker-
ensky Ministry of Labor will speak in
Taylor Hall at eight o’clock on “Be-
hind the Scenes of Russian Policy.” His
lecture will be under the auspices of
the History Club. Tickets are twenty-
five cents.

Mr. Zilboorg has come to America
to continue scientific studies, and in eight
months has learned English, which he
speaks fluently and with  spell-binding
power, according to P. Ostroff, '21, who
heard him speak in Philadelphia at the
Woman’s International League on Feb-
rurary 24. “His value seems to me the
fact that he represents the Kerensky
government and not the Bolshevist re-
gime,” said Miss Ostroff, “although he
apparently is an admirer of Lenine’s.”

“The inside workings of the Kerensky
government, and the false impressions
frequently given by the newspapers are
shown in Mr. Zilboorg’s lecture,” add-
ed C. Bickley, '21, who attended the
same meeting. “Mr. Zilboorg is unbiased
and impresses one as an ideal intellec-
tual type, because he gives his ideas to
his hearers with poise, but with vitality,
and youth enough to make them seem
more than the products of mere erudi-
tion,”

Publicity Situation Sketched by Mrs.
Jarrett

Publicity problems were described by
Mrs. Edwin S. Jarrett, National Pub-
licity Chairman of the Bryn Mawr En-
dowment, who spoke in Taylor last
Wednesday. Mrs. Jarrett came down
from New York at the request of the
Student Endowment Committee to put
the publicity situation before the Un-
dergraduates.

“The only way to get. money from
the public is to interest them,” said Mrs.
Jarrett. “And we have also to disprove
two objections sometimes made against
Bryn Mawr—first that she is too exclusive
and aristocratic, and then that she is too
radical and extreme. The only way to do
this is to get people thinking and talking
about Bryn Mawr, through the use of
pictures, stories, and other publicity.

“But the papers tell us that ‘as a sub-
ject, Bryn Mawr is dull!’ So we have
to use special stories, and good-looking
photographs. Even the Red Cross had
to resort to ‘stunts’ and paid propogan-
da to put their needs before the public.”

At the suggestion of the Alumnae, the
Student Endowment Committee, which
consists of the class presidents and the
president of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation, are to act as “censors” of all
publicity pictures taken on the campus.

| M. S. Goggin Elected President of
Self-Government Association

M. S. Goggin, '21, with an overwhelm-
ing majority, having 217 votes as against
W. Worcestor’s 44, J]. Peyton's 18, was
elected president of the Self-Government
Association yesterday

Miss Goggin, who was second Junior
member on the Board this year, comes
from the Shipley School, where she

was Vice-President of her class

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