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Vorvu VIit. No. 7.

BRYN MAWR; PAs, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1921 :

Price 10 Cents ,

 

 

EUROPEAN’ STUDENTS ‘FACING

STARVATION—KEEP - IDEALS

AMERICA’S JOB TO FEED BODIES
AND RE-ESTABLISH CREDIT

 

 

Mr. Fullerton. Waldo Gives” Vivid

Picture of Bolshevick System

‘ 4%: ‘
Drawing from: his own experiences,

~Mr. -Fullerton_ Waldo, musical—critic-on

the Public Ledger, gave. a. graphic ac-
count of the conditions under which the

_Students of Central Europe are maintain--
Mr, Waldo|

ing-their intellectual ideals.
has recently returned from a trip through
Central Europe. .. *

In Vienna 50 per cent. of the children
are suffering from malnutrition, 90 per
cent. from tuberculosis of some form,
Mr. Waido reported. “These children
are craving the excitement that comes
from vile movie shows largely because

their bodies are starved. In one group|
“of buildings half the size of the Bryn

Mawr College buildings, I found 19,000
people living. ‘You’d better not take
your dog in there,’ I was warned. ‘People
are so hungry they might seize him and
put him in the pot.’ Typical of the situ-
ation is the case of one student inter-

' viewed by Mr. Waldo, who had had no

food for. thirty-six hours. Added to the
danger of starvation the students have
no money to: buy fuel or clothes. Pro-
fessor: Schlossberg, of Copenhagen, told
Mr. Waldo that he had been Jecturing
in a stone-cokd room to students. who
were bundled up in all the clothinggthey
possessed, sitting on the floor because
all the benches had been burned for fire-
wood, The instructor in Buddhist phi-
losophy at the University of. Petrograd
‘lost his‘ job under the Bolsheviki and
had become a drug addict, like many
others students in these countries, in
order to escape from his suffering.

“We have two big jobs, according

‘to Hoover and Schwab,” said Mr. Waldo:

“Fitst to feed the bodies of these peo-
ple, and second to re-establish the credit.
A spool of J. P. Coates thread costs
8714 cents, or three days’ wages,” he ex-
plained. ‘Before the war two rubels were
worth a. little more than a dollar. Dr.
Emily McCloud, of the staff of the Mas-
sachusetts General Hospital, recently
bought 1,000,000 ‘rtibels for $1 in the
Crimea. In Russia.a year ago, I bought
20,000 rubels for $1, but this sum, equal
to $10,000. in. pre-war terms, scarcely
bought a frugal meal.

“In the educational system under the
Bolsheviki,”. Mr. Waldo said, “They are
deliberately ramming in atheism. Scien-
tists are having a particularly hard time,
as they are supposed to tag on to every
lecture something to show that there is no
‘Bolshevism is the rule of the rude

pense of the refined and the delicate,” he
quoted.

“Have you no. heart?” Mrs. & Murray

~ asked Tala Pasha, the Turkish official who

‘was responsible for driving scores of

Armenians. into the Bosphorous, and for

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/

BRYN MAWR. CONTRIBUTES TO
_ DISARMAMENT FUND

A hundred and thirty-five dollars was

* pledged last Tuesday night at the disarma-

ment meeting as a result of an appeal made
by M. Speer, ’22, for the Executive Com-

mittee of the two Intercollegiate Disarma-

ment Conferences. One hundred dollars
is being pledged by each of the large col-
leges for carrying on disarmament propa-

_ ganda, securing good speakers, etc., during

the conference at Washington. _ Bryn
Mawr’s contribution, through a gift of

 

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION PLANS
BUDGET FOR COMING YEAR. |

 

Five Funds to’ Receive Subscriptisns
"The budget*for 1921-22 was discussed in
the Christian Association meeting held on
Monday evening, and a sense of: theemeet-
ing was taken as to the funds that should
be subscribed to by the members of the
Christian _ Association. Substriptions will
be sentijto the Students’ Eriendship, Fund,
Bates "few Community Center, Dr.
James’ Hospital and Miss Tsuda’s school.

The Student Friendship Fund is included
According to ‘E. Vincent, ’23, who ad-
+to the students in Central Europe, strug-
gling under almost insufferable conditions
to gain a necessary training. ‘The recov- | (
ery of “Europe,” sajd iss Vincent, “de-
pends so much on the education of the
people that it is almost impossible to con-
ceive what its future will be if the present
generation of students are unable to obtain
an education.” It is.a work in which our
students by helping those of europe will
be able to help solve the present world
problems. ¢

“Bates House,” declared M. Faries, ’24,
“is the only thing that Bryn Mawr supports
entirely. It means-a great deal to the chil-
dren, who, while they are there,
stronger, healthier, and® actually gain
pounds in weight.” Bates House this year
will need even more money than it did last,
because many things, such as mattresses,
have. been worn out and must be replaced.

E. Rhodes, ’23, reported that the” ott-
look for the Community Center work was
beginning to be more hopeful. . A new head
arrived on Tuesday, and although the
finances are. not good, there is enough to
keep the Center, with a reduced staff, work-
ing for three months.

A report received from Dr. James, con-
cerning: her hospital, was outlined by E.
Hobdy, ’22.. “Two records have’ been
broken this year,” said Miss Hobdy. “The
hospital has been -kept open for twelve
months during the last year, and in the
cold months three rooms. were képt heated.
There is a new assistant in the hospital
who performs not only clinical” duties but
all the odd jobs, besides. The children
treated for tuberculosis are pathetic little
figures... A. picture was sent of ‘Billy’ be-
fore he had been to the hospital, and of
‘Billy’ afterwards. .The difference was
striking. The unfortunate part, however,
was that ‘Billy’ did not wish to leave the

not be kept because it meant using an
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WELFARE BUDGET DRIVE TO BE
PUSHED AT BRYN MAWR

From Monday to Friday of this week
has been set apart for the drive of the
Welfare Federation of Philadelphia, to
raise an annual budget of 125 city organ-
izations. Miss Barrett is in charge of
the drive in the schools of>Bryn Mawr
and will work at College through the
World Citizenship Committee. Thurs-

éxplain the drive.

Institutions such as the Red Cross,
hospitals, settlements, and child welfare
organizations will be contributed through
this single drive, which is to be repeated
every year, and in this way a great waste
of time, money, labor and promiscuous
giving will be avoided. In fifty out of
the fifty-two cities in which this plan
has been tried, it has been. successful
and increased the number of contribu-
tors. In Philadelphia last year only 5
per cent. of the citizens contributed to

 

 

A charity.

this year for the first time in the list.

dressed the meeting, the Fund gives relief

get.

hospital, after he was cured. Yet he could:

day morning in chapel an _mutsiier ewill

 

STUDENT HANDS RESOLUTIONS
TO PRESIDENT HARDING

 

Interviews Secretary of State Hughes

President Harding last Tchursday received
from the hand of a student: delegate a
copy of the resolutions passed at the all-
Bryn. Mawr disarmament mass meeting,
held in the gymnasium on November 8.
This delegate, Elizabeth Vincent, ’23, also
had a nfinute’s private interview with Sec-
retary of State Haghes, to whom she like-
wise handed ‘a copy of the resolutions.

Arriving at the White House at about a
quarter-of-one,-Miss~Vincent was told by
Mr. Harding’s secretary that she might see
the, President’ at one o’clock. ~The Amer-
ican Advisory Commission to the Confer-
ence, which includes General Pershing, Mr.
Gompers, and many others, among whom
are four women, were admitted to the

| President’s office immediately before one. | |
When they had finished their interview a

number of people filed through the room
to meet Mr. Harding, Miss Vincent went
with this group.

At the State Department Miss Vincent
had an appointment ‘with Mr. Hughes, who
opened the resolutions and’ read theni in
her *presence. He expressed satisfaction
that the students of Bryn Mawr should
take such an interest in the Conference,
and Miss Vincent assured him that their
interest was very genuine. .

According ‘to Miss Vincent, the resolu-
tions will be sent to the other delegates
and to the women on the advisory com-
mission.

FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICERS OF
“SEMINARY FAME”

 

Miss Austin Held Many Class and
Athletic Positions, at School

Elizabeth Worrel Austin, elected presi-
dent of. the Freshman class last Wednes-
day, wifl’.take her place on the College
Council fom the year 1921-22. Vice-presi-
dent and treasurer of the class are Susan
Carey and Virginia McCullough. :

Miss Austin, who lives in Philadelphia,
went to Miss Irwin’s School: at Overbrook,
where she held the positions of Athletic
Association .treasurer, tennis. manager and
winner of the tennis’ cup, Senior class
tréasurer and eames of the Debating
Club.

Miss Carey is the sister of M. “Carey, 20,
who was president of her class both: Fresh-
man and Senior years. Miss Carey is.
from the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore,
where-she was tennis captain, treasurer of
the Athletic Association, and president of
Student Government. She was one of the

'members of the Freshman Committee this

year.
As a member of the Advisory Board at

‘Miss Baldwin’s, and as Senior president,
Miss McCullough, who comes from Nor- |.
folk, Va., was.a prominent member of the

school.

 

IDEALISM COMMENDED BY
® DR. GILMAN, IN CHAPEL

Examinations are not the important
things in life, nar a pedagogical mastery of
petty details, but an effort to get hold ‘of
the things that are worth while, “the big
things,” according to Dr. Bruce Gilman,
president of Queens College, in oe on
Sunday night. .

“And the big things,” he said, “are eds
by the idedlists. Dreams . last though
dreamers are slain, This vitality of the’
truth is what makes Christianity possible
For the faith behind religion lasts though
forms change. When you think of religioh
do not ‘think of the little quarrels over. its
many variations but the things for which
it stands—joy, peace, rest and life.”

BACH GREATEST, MIND’ EVER
XPPLIED TO COMPOSING

i
MR. SURRETT GIVES FIRST LEGTURE
RECITAL TO CROWDED AUDIENCE

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Piano and Violin Illustration ~ Win
Hearty Applause.

“My lectures are to be based on the prin-

ciple that all anyone needs to understand
good music is to‘hear it, and hear it often
enough,” said Mr. Thomas Whitney Sur-
Lrett, director of the Department of Music,
opening his first lecture recital in Taylor
Hall last Monday evening. Mr. Surrett’s
lecture, which dealt with Bach, w&s illus-
trated by Mr, Horace Alwyn, associate *
professor. of music, and by Mr. Thaddeus
Rich, of the Rich String Quartet, .who
played the Chromatic Fantasie and Fugye
for piano, and the Contata for violin and
piano in F minor.
Before taking up the discussion of Bach,
Mr. Surrett made a few introductory ex-
planations. Music, he asserted, must not
be translated into terms other than itself.
It is the medium of composers’ reaction to
life;~ the tragedy and comedy of life it
expresses in terms of sound and rhythm—
of itself, in other words. Rhythm is one
key to music? “Do not look for sentiment
in music; but energy, which expresses itself
in rhythm,” he admonished.

“Because of certain qualities of : aloof-
ness, of inipersonality and of serenity, Bach
is the greatest mind.-that ever applied it-
self to the art of composing,” Mr. Surrett
asserted. The opposite type of mind is
best illustrated in those modern novelists
who see the world only personally.

“Bach, as though he held the world as
a crystal ball in his hand, sees everything,
feels everything, knows everything.”
Though he lived an uneventful life in a
small group, though he was unrecognized
during his life, and published his music
only af rare intervals, printing it himself,
“(except Bach) there is no composer, some
‘of whose works have not begun to dim.”

“And yet,” Mr. Surrett went on, “the
public shakes its head doubffully and calls
Bach academic and dull. There is only one
reason for this; the idiom, like Chaucer’s,
is hard to understand. In itself the music
is not for a select few, but for everybody.
N lobody has a,better or a greater message
than John ebastian Bach.” :

He wrote all forms of music. The
Chromatic Fantasie consists of two parts;
the first; as its name implies, being no
strict form, but a sort of improvisation in
which the imagination runs unchecked.
The second part is a fugue, which, Mr.
Surrett explained, is the only perfect form
in music, corresponding to the sonnet in
poetry. - a om

Mr.- Alwyn then played the Fantasie. He
was enthusiastically — by’ the
audience,

Mr. Surrett sles the sonata for violin
and piano in part by playing parts of it to
illustrate his points. It was written, he
;said, when the sonata form was. just emerg-
ing from the suite. of dance pieces written
all in the same key and combined for play-.-
ing. ‘Since then the sonata has tended to
become more and-more a series of move-
ments expressing different moods but aim-
ing to give a unified impression.

“A piece of music to be truly great, must
be inconclusive at thé start.: Like any other
thing that exists in time, it must have
something from which to grow.” ‘The fifth
sonata, Mr. Surrett’ showed, ‘illustrated, this.

The rendering of this sonata by Mr.
Alwyn and Mr. Rich ended the program,
and drew long and — applnnes from ;
the audience.

The next lecture recital, which will aeat
with Mozart, will. be held i in the o— on

 

December 12.