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‘editorial entitled “Athletics.”

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Feasible Freedom

We have talked ‘a great deal thie: yeat
about freedom, of speech. The Liberal
Club--took.up.the affair of Clark and sent
a letter to the president of. the, Liberal
Club there endorsing his stand on academic
freedom. But during the discussion of this
letter someone aptty asked: “What about
freedom of speech at Bryn Mawr?”

That’s it. What about it? It does not
exist, of course, though this year nothing
has occurred to bring our lack of it into

notice.
comes to the College without -consent of

“the authorities, and that on several occa-

tions in recent years speakers have been
excluded on grounds of radicalism. ~

‘It was pointed out in the Liberal Club
meeting that some kind of authority is
indispensable in- the selection of speakers,
if only for the purpose of arranging dates
There is a simple, practical and theoret-
ically sgund plan which provides for that
necessity. The Undergraduate Association
is planning a Student Schedule Committee,
composed of all the club presidents and
committee chairmen who are responsible,
for inviting speakers to Bryn Mawr. The
business of the Committee is to “regulate
the, outside speakers of their various or-
ganizations in order. to prevent overcrowd-
ing of the schedule. These _ students, as
responsible” officers~of College organiza:
tions, would be perfectly qualified to
The only admittable
grounds for excluding a speaker is the
danger of notoriety to the College, though
in theory there should exist no restriction
at all. Since these officers are of neces-
sity, those who have the best interests of
~ the. College at heart, it would be perfectly
“safe,” from the point of view of “the
_ authorities, ‘to éntrust this matter to their
” judgment. On the other hand, this. plam
would free the clubs from all supervision
by the office, and would put under com-
plete “student control thgpphase of their
education, which they alone direct.

 

To the Editorg of THe CoLitece News:
~In- your issue’ of April 19, I- notice an
One third of
its length is given to direct quotations from
a platform regarding men’s intercollegiate
athletics. Fortunately the editorial goes on
to say that these quotations “Sive no solu-
ion for the Bryn Mawr problem.”
ing space to quote them would suggest
that they have sbme application; but I have
not heard of Bryn Mawr students being
so over-keen on intercollegiate, (or, for
that matter, class) competition that a

charge ...of dishonesty could be. brought

against them—this being the direct impli-
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quotation. As for saying’ that “they ie
show the trend of the times,” if the writer
ea in any way to apply them to the

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““Pson ?
courses because a sttident cannot take them”
| all in one year? :

The fact remains that no speaker E

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men’s colleges is to reduce .over-specialized

varsity competition ‘for the few, but to sub-|.

stitute competition for all. I saw wih sat-
isfaction that the action taken by one meet-
ing of the Athletic Association in abolish:

‘ling the point of value of track, had heen}

reversed at a later meeting. lf there is
still a sérious. situation concerning ever-!
competition, why not meet it honestly by:
limiting competition for individuals to a
reasonable number of. sports in each sea-!
Would you abolish half the academic:

when First and: Second
teams held sway, we had practice in our
chosen sport six’ times a week, and |
neve saw anyone who suffered either phys-:
‘ically or mentally from it. No one knows
what , unprofitable occupation the other
thrée-quarters: of “the undergraduates —in~
dulged in—walking: perhaps.

Yours .truly,

CyNTHLA VgEsson, 1909.

In the days”

LIBERAL-CLUB-SENDS.LETTER
ENDORSING CLARK ACTION

The. following letter was drawn up. by
the Liberal Chia, at a meeting last week,
and sent to the president of the #iberal
Club, at Clark University, Worcester,
Mass., where Dr. Scott Nearing was pre-
vented, by President from finish-
ing an address before the student body.
“To the President of Clark. Liberal Club,
“Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

to?

Atwood,

“Dear Sir:

“The members of the Bryn Mawr Lib-
eral Club followed with great interest |
the cgntroversy which arose last month
between your members and the execu-
tives of.Clark University concerning the
incident of Dr. Nearing’s lecture.

“We feel that the principle which you
adhered to is at the,very basis of sound
education. As long*as students are to
be denied the right of inquiry into facts
and theories of-whatever kind, the true
purpose of education is subverted.

“We, therefore, desire to express oul
hearty-endorsement of your position, and
of the resolution with which gvou held it

“Yours ineassly,
“Elizabeth Vincent, President,
“Bryn Mawr Liberal Cltb.”

The Club also discussed plans for an
informal meeting with an outside speaker
to be held before the..end of the year.

NATIONAL STUDENT FORUM SENDS
~ OUT FIRST “NEW STUDENT”

The, first’ number of the New Student,
published by the National “Student Forum,
was sent out -to its members last week.
This paper is to appear twice ‘a month,
and has fomlits purpose, according to an
account upon the editorial page, an ex-
change of ideas among students upon the
subjects most interesting to students.

Contained in this number was a full ac-
count of the controversy at Clark College
over freedom of speech. The New Stu-
dent publishes President Atwood’s state-
ment in full, as well as the story from the
Liberal Club’s point of* view. An article
on free speech at’ Barnard also appeared,
detailing the steps which led to a petition
of the faculty that “the certainy of incur-
ring undesired notoriety for the college be
the only basis for exclusion of outside
speakers.” A

Among other articles was a review by
Professor A. L. Frothingham, of James
Harvey Robinson’s Mind in, the Making. —

 

MADEIRA SCHOOL HEAD TO
‘LECTURE ON TEACHING

Mrs. Wing, Principal. of. the “Madeira
‘School, in Washington, D. C., will deat
with the spbject of “Teaching as a Pro-
| fession,” under the auspices of the Voca-
tional. Conference Committees, it in | Taylor
Hall, on Wednesday, May 10.

This lecture is being arranged, ‘peaneal
ing to C.. Goddard, '23, Chairman of the
Committee, because many people signed
up for this subject. The Committee

  

 

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FAMOUS PORTRAIT PAINTER GIVES
LECTURE ON COLOR

 

Cecilia Beaux Says Balance Warm and
Cold Tones Whole Story of Color

,Gutzon, Borglum, the American ‘sculp-
tor, wrote of. Cecelia Beaux, who speke
‘on Saturgay. night under the auspices
of the Art Club, that she was after Sar-
gent the best living portrait painter. Her
i war portraits are the most famous of
her works and for ‘them she has‘recently
_ been decorated by the French govern-
:ment. One of her pictures, a portrait
of Miss Reilly, former dean of Bryn.
Mawr, is in the College library.

Color was the subject of Miss Beaux’s
“Though not myself a colorist,”
she said, “I am always intensely ¢onscious
of color.” Miss Beaux feean with a his-
tory “of color, showing how it was inter-
“woven with life from the-animals’ instinc-
tive color adaptability to ‘man’s insatiate
longing for it: Miss Beaux seemed to feel
chat the more primitive the race the greater
7s their color sense and she gave as examples
[ the ‘unrivaled success of the Oriental races
in work in tis medium. “Our, blood is
mixed” she said “our instinet atrophied
and the force of natural creation lost.”

“Our interest ,in a prism is purely
aesthetic, sectored light and nothing else
leaves us cold, diamonds come nearer
satisfying us and soap bubbles” nearer
still, This seems to show that the ma-
terial has something to do with our
appreciation and going on we find” that
color is inseparable from texture and
| our enjoyment in the color of light hair,
1a healthy. complexion, a rose or a piece
of ivory is not in the color alone, ‘but
in what we know them to be. China
is infallible in this combination of color
and texture, and France in her tapestries
of the seventeenth and‘eighteenth cen-
turies has done wonders. Oriental .com-
binations, are exactly right for they seem
to realize that the joy to be gained from
them is sensuous, not intellectual.”

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Miss Beaux went on to speak of the
first exhibition of independents that took
place ain ‘New, York some three years
ago, where she had at once felt that
something was. intrinsically wrong and

lack of homogeneity between the work
and the material, a homogeneity which
she felt was most perfectly expressed in
a Puebld rug she owns, woven in gray,

perfect art.” :

In what she kerinee a slight digression,
Miss Beaux told of an interview between
herself and Gertrude Stein. Miss Stein
came to her as she was Standing before
one of the pictures, which, Miss Beaux
said, looked like nothing but‘a map with
odd splashes of color stuck about. To
Miss Stein’s question as to how she liked
the, picture she answered that she under-
stood it was only a sort of translation
of an idea. “This is realism, a still life
group,” -Miss Stein retorted, and ‘she
realized there was nothing more to be
said.

Returning to her subject, Miss Beaux
took up color under glaze or varnish and
Kshowed how the strength of the .impres-
sion depended on the unification of the
surface, and how this was greatly re-
sponsible for one’s joy in antiques. Re-
touching ruins this unification of sur-
face and one. of -the tragedies of the
time_is the retouching of the Blue Boy's
face which has given him exactly the
appearance of being ‘ ‘made up.”

Intensity was the next aspect of color
Miss Beaux discussed. “It should vary”
she said “in relation to space; intensity
is for small objects, jewels, ¢namels and
so on.’
should dissolve “inéspace for in these the
structure is important.

Her discussion of picture making itself
was more technical, in this relation she
took’ up oils as a medium and the ques-
tion of the use of black., The main fault

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of the moderns, she held, is “that they

: PRESENT-DAY JOBS FOR WOMEN
DISCUSSED AT. LECTURE

 

_ Miss ,Pflaum and Mrs. King Advise
Special Training for Best Jobs :

Miss Pflaum’and Mrs. Edith King, head
of the American Association of ‘Social
Workers, spoke on “Present-day Jobs for
Women,
the Vocational Conference lectures,
April 26. :

“A most .popular ibb, both gvith young
men -and young women, is. newspaper
work,” said Miss Pflaum, “The supply of

held

reporters is far greater than the demand. °

A’ newspaper job is an excellent foundation
for literary work, but keep away from ad-
vertising if you wish to write, for that is
merely salesmanship.”

“A business course is a great asset,”
Miss Pflaiim went on to say. ““Not only
for stenpgraphic jobs: but for good posi-

t tions such as research work in economics —

ar bank. positions.” She emphasi%ed the
danger of taking the first job offered, and
advised careful choosing, pointing out that
“Brrsiness contitions “are improving ae
-more jobs are. being opened ‘to women.’
‘Mrs. King stressed the importance of a
sound general education as a foundation
for social work. “Economics, biology, sta-
tistics, english and history are important
courses as well as sogiology. Ability, how-
ever, to get on well.with people and a pro-
fessional ...interest1n_social work. are the
most important of all qualifications.”
“Special training in a school for -social
workers is a great asset,” Mrs. King said.
“Tt will command a better job and a higher
salary. -The outlo@k for social workers is
good. There is a gregt demand: for visit-
ing” teachers, settlement’, workers, family
case workers and_ special workers. The
salaries run from $900 for beginners to
$3600 a year for executive positions. There
is a constantly increasing recognition of

*4° wae
| ability. and eer among workers.”

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IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM

The Book of Mormon, “an account
written by the hand of Mormon upon plates
taken from the Plates of Nephi,” is an
interesting addition to the New. Book shelf
this week. This is a famous but not very
familiar work which deserves perusal. The
introduction, in which Joseph Smith, Jr.,
gives an account of his vision and discov-
ery of the tablets is the source of the
Mormon story. é
self is in fifteen books, after the manner
of the Bible, and was first ysninee in
1830. k i

The History.-of* Hwman Siaiilie; by
Westermarck, treats exhaustively, from the
sociological point of view, the origin and
development of marriage as a human in-
stitution. The following is the definition
of marriage with which the book opens:
“Marriage. may be defined as a relation of
one or more men to one or more women
which is recognized by custom er law, and
which involves certain rights and duties
both in the case of the parties entering

the union and in the case of the children
born of it.”

“New Voices, by Marguerite Wilkinson,
is most valuable both as a collection and
interprétation of modern pottry. The new
singers, both English and American, are
studied—and commented upon in New
Voices, though. the book is primarily a
well-arranged collection of their works. ©

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The C. A. committees elected” by 1924
are: Membership; F. Begg; Bates House?
O. Fountain; Maids, M.. Woodworth;
Worlds Citizenship, R. Godefroy; Relig-
ious Meetings, E. Ives; Publicity, M.
Smith; Finance, S. Leewitz; Sewing and
| Junk, E: Crowell ; Social Service, A.
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wish to see every. side and take their
own part.”

In.closing, Miss Beaux said that “the
pictorial art should express that which...
can be. expressed in no other way. A
life time is short for artists. to lene
power and: creation.” 8

- After the. lecture a sboeption for Miss

Beaux was given eid the Art Club in
Regehicletier Hall.

” and “Social Work” at the first“of :

The Book of Mormon it- ,

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