? % ; : iy Ke ry I w eC hve s 9: 4 ag Von, Al. No. 6 BRYN: MAWR; PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1924 Price 10 Cents a WALTER DE LA MARE — LECTURES ON POETRY Craftsmanship More Than Piecing Together of Words or Capacity . for Taking Pains™ VERSE MUST BE MUSICAL Dorothy Mr. Walter de la Mare, English poet and novelist, delivered the Ann, Sheble Memorial Lecture in Taylor Hall last Fri- day night, speaking on “Craftsmanship in Poetry.” When we speak of Craftsmanship, he said, we mean solely method of execu- tion, To understand. this, look at a poem not only as a whole, but in its parts. As you may dissect a daisy, petal by petal, and discover the marvelous workmanship of every part, so you may analyze a poem to find its true perfection. And a poem, unlike a daisy, can always be put together again. ° Words give pleasure, first, as sounds and, second, by their formation in our throats. about words: opén vowels delight the ear more than closed., It has been said that b and u are to be found in every mas- terpiece of prose. We enjoy assonance, alliteration. Good prose should be musi- cal; good verse must be. Craftsmanship consists in arranging sounds in their har- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PENNSYLVANIA, NEW TO GAME ’ TS BADLY BEATEN BY VARSITY Lee ’25, Stars Against Visitors Guarding Varsity easily defeated Pennsylvania in a hockey game Tuesday afternoon, Oc- tober 28, with the score of 14-0. Pennsylvania, which this year for -the first time has its own hockey field and consequehtly has not played much before, was obviously outplayed by varsity, whose greatest advantage in the uneven game was-superior team work. The ball was constantly in front of the Pennsylvania goal, for the varsity for- wards were quick in rushing down,,. while the fullbacks, lingering near the 50-yard line, proved practically impossible to pass to, D. Lee, ’25, and H. Tuttle, ’28, were clever in eluding their backs, outrunning the field and shooting from the’edge of the circle, as the Pennsylvania goal ran out in a vain endeavor to stop their shots. The Brown forwards, in spite of the large score, neglected many opportunities to shoot. Second half started with a spurt. of ‘speed on the part of the visitors, whose “team was fast; but who failed to mark their opponents. They had little organi- zation, and “gained nothing on their free hits, Varsity kept them from scoring and D. Lee, ’25, made many long goals, while _B. Loines, ’28, caught the ball on the fly at the centre from S. Walker, ’26’s, stick and carried it down the field in a spec- tacular run just before the whistle blew. _ The line-up wes: . Pennsylvania: Hmbey, McCardle, Hickox, Macneir, Weyl, Caughen, Eaton, Schell, Gardy, Randall, Brodsky. Varsity: B. Loines, ’28; H. Tuttle***, 28; D. Lee***#****, 25; W. Dodd**, ’26; M. Talcott, 26; S. Walker, '26; J. Seeley, ae Mi Wy ; E. a 26; K. — s tad sas 727; a ip caiman “Gardit There is a “very. definite music} “a Sarah Jay, respectively. Miss Hill was a member for 1927-on last year. Miss Jay was chairman of the class i the Self-Government .Board for 1928-24, ’ SOPHOMORE CLASS ELECTS VALINDA HILL, ELIZABETH WIN- CHESTER AND SARAH JAY ° 1927 has elected Valinda Hill President, Elizabeth Winchester, Vice President and Secretary, to succeed Caroline Swift, Valinda Hill and Minna Jones member of the Freshman Show Committee, as well as vice president of her class Chairman for the first week, October, 1923, and on the Business Committee of the Freshman Show,.Miss Winchester is manager of Class racers for this. year, and_business-manager_of the -Sophomore Play. ® the ‘Business. Committee of May Day, and n October, 1923, and Freshman member of / CAN WE HAVE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION, ASKS DR. MEIKLEJOHN America’s Confidence in Common Sense Undeserved, Says Educator “All our American education is: suffer- ing and in a large measure failing because we have no philosophy and no religion to teach,” said Dr; Alexander Meiklejohn in chapel last Wednesday night, in the first of-a-series of talks on education.” ~~ | “Education,” he explained, “is the at- tempt so to equip people that they can live better. The,trouble is that we do not know what to teach. Weare living in a time ‘when thought systems have been shattered, The problem is to find for our teachers and students some starting point by which they. can build up an interpreta- tion of life. “America is hard to educate; Americans as a whole think it is easy to know the world, They have confidence in their y}common sense and their common Senet doesn’t deserve it. With regard to’ all things of any importance, Americans characteristically think no study is needed. Only in regard to the minutiae, the me- chanisms of life do we investigate. Amefi-.- cans realize the need of study if they are going to make shoes, but in regard to religion, philosophy, morals and social ar-| rangements they feel they can know by intuition what to think. “One question about philosophy and religion is, tan we have either? Men had pieced their knowledge of the world to- gether into a picture puzzle. Science spoilt the picture. A dreadful fear is on us that we can never, put the -picture to- CONTINUED.ON PAGE 5 DR. AMBERSON, AUTHORITY ON ANIMAL LIGHT, TO SPEAK “The Nature of Animal -Light”~ will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. William R. Amberson, Associate Professor of Physi- ology.-at the University of Pennsylvania, in Dalton Hall, Friday, November 14, at 7.30 P. M. “The lecture, which is under the -auspices of the Science Club, will be in Dalton in order that Dr. Amberson may illustrate his talk with lantern slides and demonstrations. Dr& Amberson has studied the problem of electrical fish for several years and is an authority on the subject. . All members and associates of the Science Club are invited and may bring guests. MISS ELY TO SPEAK AT LIBERAL CLUB MEETING ON FRIDAY Miss Gertrude Ely, who was at Geneva for five weeks this summer, will speak on ‘Ithe League of Nations at the Liberal Club Friday night. Miss Ely has talked with la great many of the delegates this summer, and the Liberal Club meeting on Friday will) bay tnaeeal seh Ae pas. sod fe is doing. MERION CRICKET CLUB GOES. DOWN BEFORE VARSITY TEAM Visitor’s Individual Play Fails to Break Brown Team-Work In a game of brilliant defensive play Varsity defeated, 6-0, the Merion Cricket Club team playing. with ony’ four for- wards. The remarkapl: alia of the Merion | goat and the slashing work of the backs] kept the score down. The wryn’ Mawr backs also played with sureness and speed; the close teamyorkof the Walkers and J. Seeley, ’27, waseespecially helpful. Scoring. only one goal in the -first half, made by D. Lee, ’25, centre- ‘forward, Var- sity made a splendid rush in the second half, D. Lee again’ shooting the goal. After that a long goal by H. Tuttle, ’28, from the edge of the circle, and three more swift, clean shots by D. Lee, rolled up the score. Short dribbles by B. Loines, 28, right-wing, quick passes to centre, and. hard shots into the corner of the goal, were responsible for these tallies. Throughout the game the play was gen- ‘erally concentrated at Merion’s goal. Fre- -quent fouls. were called for kicking and hooking. Merion Cricket: Mr Neilson, Mrs. Carter, Miss Willard, Miss Waymouth, Miss Daly, Mrs. Madeira, Miss Town- send, Mrs. Yarnall; Miss Rolin, Mrs, Hop- kins. Varsity: B. Loines, ’28; H. Tuttle*, ’28; D. Lee******, ’25; W. Dodd, ’26; M. Tal- cott, ’26; S. Walker, ’26; J. Seeley, ’27; S. Walker, ’27; E. Harris, ’26; K. Fow- ler, 25; M. Gardiner, 25. A “DR. GRENFELL, OF SOUTHERN ‘Dr. W. J. Wanless, the “Dr. Grenfell of Southern India,” will be the speaker at the Chapel Service on Sunday evening, No- vember 9. : For thirty years Dr. Wanless, supported by the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, has been a Medical Missionary ih India. From a small beginning, Dr. Wanless has built a large plant called the Miraj. It consists of a hospital caring for all dis- eases, including leprosy, and a school for the medical training of natives. Besides recognition from native princes, Dr. Wan- less has beer twice decorated by the King of England. @ JUNIOR PLAY TO BE GIVEN ON SATURDAY NIGHT “The Amazons” will, be presented by the class of 1926 in the gymnasium this Satur- day night. Tickets may be bought from E. Stubbs, Denbigh. Miss Anne Wiggin, -head of the Eastern Area Division of the Student Friendship on Friday morning, November 7, about H NE any es “INDIA,” TO SPEAK IN CHAPEL]. Association Fund, will speak in the chapel: |COLLEGE HOLDS RALLY — ON ELECTION NIGHT Party “Banners Wave ‘Gallantly While Leaders Make Speeches And Hear Radio Returns a “ CANDIDATES” IN PERSON “Follow the band” was the rallying cry for all parties at-the grand meeting held on Bryn Mawr campus election night. Starting under Pembroke. Arch at nine o'clock, a wild assortment of political fans marched in, mass formation to the tunes of our native Songs, No bloc in American politics was miss- ing. - Resolute Republicans followed “Silent Cal” (as impersonated by O. Saunders, ’25) waving their party colors and towing a massive elephant. Burly Democrats roared their party cries, lav- ishing loving care on the chosen leader, Mr. Davis (as impersonated by A, Shiras, 24) while Bwother Charlie received flat- ‘tering attention on all sides. Red-shirted and unshaven Communists led by B, Linn, ’26, shrieked curses and, the International loud and often, “Bat- tling Bob” from Wisconsin (as imperson- ated by K. Adams, ’27) marched on, while in the words of the poet, “His band was few but tried and true, its leader frank and bold.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION STARTS DRIVE FOR VARIOUS ACT IVITIES Maids’ Classes, Student Friendship, Among Those Aided By Fund During the coming week the Christian Association will hold its afinual drive. Instead of passing every Sunday evé- ning a plate for the support of its chari- ties, C. A. asks its members once a year to pledge money to those items on its budget which interest them most. ° This year the items on the budget are as follows: Maids’ Night School. Student Friendship Fund. Bates’ House. Dr. James’ Hospital, China. Miss Tsuda’s School, Japan. Unassigned. m The Night School is still a growing en- terprise which needs help to get fairly under way. Started by girls here who felt keenly that while Bryn Mawr was . supporting far-away charities it was ignor- ing the maids on its own campus, the school now has classes in English, good - citizenship and personal economics, .and it hopes to expand still more.” Its chief need now is books. A whole class of thirty have to study out of the same Carer’ Book of English Verse. The Student Friendship Fund tries to strengthen international peacé by helping the poor students in other lands, chiefly in Russia and Central Europe. These stu- dents have insufficient clothing, inadequate housing, no medical care, no books and little food. In order to get money to study, they have to support themselves by working mariy hours a day. | ° Dr. James is a medical missionary in China whose hospital ye chiefly upon Bryn Mawr-_for help. As an_illus- tration of the condition of the hospital during an operation one day, the floor, which sorely needed repair, fell through, operating table and all. Or. — is an “ |alumna of Bryn Mawr. « F ollege News - * a a THE COLLEGE NEWS 0 The . College. News [Founded in’ 1914.] Vublished weekly during the college year in the - {interest of Bryn Mawr College amps Weiighie Editor...... DELIA Sm ren, "26 EDITORS : - K. TOMPKINS, '26 oa J. Lows, '26 ASSISTANT K. Simonps, '27 M. SMiru, bi EDITORS “. + M. Leary, '23 B. Pirney, ’27 K. Rickasy, ’27 BUSINESS BOARD MANAGER—MARGARET ‘wane ‘25 Marion Nagle, 2 ._ ASSISTANTS pees 26 N. BOWMAN, me. coma '27 ELIZABETH ‘rreon, "26 J. “Lee, ’ 27 A, WILT, ot "Subscriptions may begin at any time Subscriptions, $2.50... Mailing Price, $3.00 ? Entered as second class matter, September 26, 1914, at the post office at Bryn Mawr, Pa., wader the Act of March 3, 1889. A FIERY WARNING Many at this time are dwelling on the evils of overorganization, so forcefully pre- sented by a letter in the N EWS of Octo- ber 29. One evil in particular has lately forced it- self on our attention. Week after week, in obedience to that bell which makes an alarm clock sound, like a xylophone, we have hurtled out of bed, slammed down the win- dows, and dripped (usually) into the wrong squad. We have suffered untold humilita- te e174, ae at. ton Let us rejoice that we are living now when some ‘few traces of romance still exist and let us pity the unfortunate child of tomor- row, who may, at will, buy himself a rainy day. Paper dolls will lose. their fascination and as for wearing those, new rubber boots . ¥ “Coninerctal next? ’ rain.” Mon Dieu, what (In .this column the editors welcome all expressions of college opinion.) WEMBLEY AND EDUCATION To the Editor of the COLLEGE NEWS: As an educational project is Wembley a success? What is the purpose of educa- tion? Is it not to enable men to lead lives which are in harmony with, and of value to this world? - Consider Wembley in this ‘ee ence Last summer ~ Englishmen of ail kinds made their way to Wembley. Regardless of what may have been the incentives be- hind these. visitors, none of them could have left’ the exposition grounds without getting some idea of the great extent of the-Empire and of the peculiar attraction of at least one of the dominions or colonies. By passing through the building of the Com- monwealth of “Australia; he, who enters the grounds by the main entrance, finds a short cut to the amusement park. He is pushed into a crowd gathering about the sign “Sheep-shearing,” until he gan not help but see the process itself. Before the Seber ~ siesta a a“ Rane ane, beionia paiein leaves. thinking, so long as we prefer the formu- lation of life into rules to the freedom of personal choice and initiative. But in, the belief that many of us areelooking for a break.in the net which binds us ever tighter, we offer the following sugges- tions, in the hope that they will call forth others: ; (1) Varsity distiation inérend of class plays. This would result in more finished productions, would help still further to do away with “Class Spirit,’ and would make dramatics open only to those sincerely and whole-heartedly interested in them, It might also he a step toward such a scheme as the Harvard 47. Workshop. (2) Class song books to be abolished or greatly reduced in size, for few songs are worth hahding down. (3). Song practices to be rareand only for those who want to sing. The custom of fines for non-attendance at such prac- tices (except for Lantern Night): is un- worthy of our intelligence. The joy of singing lies in its spontaneity; remove that and you remove much that makes singing | delightful. (4) Fewer large association meetings. The executive. board is. elected to do the work, It is their task and their privilege. (5) Fewer class meetings. © They should be called only for the election of officials,.who should be elected several at a time, or for matters of grave import to the entire class. ») (6) “In order to prevent the recurrence of—the-—-Freshman—complaint—heard recently, . crowded barracks. studying withott books in two small, Neither the Govern- ment: nor the missionaries can help; they are busy rebuilding their own schools. Miss Tsuda’s is an independent institu- tion, Christian yet interdenominational, Japanese yet international. We turn to the friends of the school for the quick rebuilding of this much-needed institu- tion in Japan. WALTER DE LA MARE SPEAKS ON CRAFTSMANSHIP IN POETRY 5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 monic concordance and in their right harmonic order. Grammatical order is not enough if it is not. the right order. We delight in symmetry and in variety, but related variety, quence of events in obscure. relation to one another.’ Meter is a precise pattern of verbal forms. The entire universe moves to a pattern, and rhythm, is in the blood of man. We measure .rhythm by accents. “A change of accent almost com- pels change of tone. Even so common a sentence as “Will you come and dine with me today?” thay be infinitely varied in meaning by variation of accent. The verbal foot is of ‘necessity slower than the musical, because we cannot speak as fast as we perceive. Manner dictates speed of saying, and the appropriate time duration comes from an inner sense of life which acts as a metronomie. +s -drills_ are overorganized. not + -Hoen—not—_to--say-—expense—as the eye--Ot the fire captain surveyed us from the top ‘of our water-waving head to the soles of: our “Comfy Bedroom Slippers.” ’ This has happened again and again, till now we feel. impelled to. declare that fire- There is too much rigidity in that squad arrangement, the costumes are almost ds formal as an athletic outfit, and, mogt serious—there is that deplordble lack of spontaneity that comes with frequent drilling. Some day the electric iron will get hot, and then, unless this voice has been heeded, figures will be seen dashing madly back into the roaring flames to wet their towels, cap- tains will‘be looking at their watches while the burning rafters crash about them, and finally a voice: will be heard choking out ‘in a cloud of smoke: “Before ygu go you must all be in your squads in the right order.” WE JUDGE AS THEY PASS ~ “But he left me all up in the air; he gave no practical solution to the prob- lem.” This, a current criticism of Dr. Meiklejohn’s lecture, is a remark some- -what characteristic of a certain attitude in college. We are mentally parasitic. We exact that cach speaker or lecturer to whom we trouble to listen shall hand us. a ready- ‘made scheme of the universe, which we can inertly annex until a better on@is in turn presented. Our philosophies of life are nothing but loose-leaf notebooks inte which we passively insert the ideas of . suecessive speakers like so many assorted pages. If a lecturer does not. give us one definite, concrete idea which slips into that notebook, if we cannot sum up his attitude toward the universe in a few terse words, we summarily pronounce that he is “constructive.” We blandly expect our speakers to have quack, portable remedies for all the ills of life. What the _ man’s general attitude contains in the _ way of dynamic force or inspiration or of os _— it penetrating thinking does not ce chards. In the winter when the price of fresh fruit becomes exorbitant and he’ is working so hard—which he must do to keep his job—that he has no leisure time; he will think first, ‘of ‘the sheep-shearing and the apple orchards, and secondly, of the great opportunities for self-development in Australia. The chances are ten to one that in the spring he will go out to that land of oromise. = : What has this to do with education? Who are the “edtcated” people? They are those who can and do take time from satisfying the economic: demands upon life to devote to intellectual pursuits. This man does not have to work every minute of his waking life in Australia as he did in England where theré was always another man to take his place, should he fail. Australian citizens live under compulsory school laws; and she has her poets, journalists and professors. iinmigrants hi ll voluntarily make the most of these new educational opportunities. On the .“ne’er-do-well” a certain degree of edu- cation. will be forced. These people are educated as well as and perhaps better than they would have been in England. Even ignoring the great improvement in the} économic status of the individual and of the Empire, from ‘a moral point of view these men are leading a life of increased value to the world and herein the purpose of education has been accomplished. ' With economic liberty and freedom—or as we say with less work to do—comes edu- Wembley, doubtless an economic venture in the minds of its creators, succeeds admirably | 1g an, aaa cactes project. ' Evizaseru Bostock, '26. a WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR COLLEGE? ee following article was offered to the News Board as an editorial. The board did not agree with its suggestions and ideas, but |. felt them worth discussing, so ened it as a letter.) tro the editor of Tae CoLLece ards : Many. cation, contemplation and. self-development. COmpialt “But where do you find any time to wine here?” we suggest the postponement of all meetings which Freshmen are required to attend (except Self-Government) until six weeks after college opens. Since Lantern Night, for many reasons, cannot be post- poned until the spring, we feel that no other singing should be asked of the Freshmen for at least six weeks after college opens. MISS TSUDA’S SCHOOL IN JAPAN ‘(Specially contributed by Taki Fujita, ’25.) “Ninety-nine per cent. of the Japanese go to school,” a proud Japanese may pro- claim. Yes, but only for six years of primary education, and these six years are spent in learning the awful Chinese -characters! In Japan, there are but thirty- ‘ . *,* . three universities for men, and, still worse, only seven colleges for women. One of these:is Miss Tsuda’s School. ; “Why do you send your daughter to Miss Tsud&’s School? It is known for nervous breakdowns,” our kind neighbor reminded my mother. Yet how thrilled I was to find my. name among those who were admitted to the school after the stiff entrance examina- ‘tion! I- remember well those first weeks when I spent hour after hour puzzling over a simple passage in Uucle Tom’s Cabin, and sat dumfounded in the classroom, murmur- ing to myself, “Americans talk too fast.” Yet a few years later, we were reading The Canterbury Tales, the Bible, Sartor Re- sartus and the Ancient Mariner all in the original, We did understand something of them, too. In 1871, Ume Tsuda, then a child “i seven years, now the principal of the school,.was among the first group of young women sent to this country by the Japanese Government to study the West- ern civilization and culture. In 1889, she entered Bryn Mawr College. After grad- nating, she went straight back to Japan “toe give. Japanese women higher educa- tion under the influence of a Christian | Home,” as she expressed it. For twenty-three years the school- has steadily until today it has an en- i) ver three hundred students. '$ receive the” much-coveted. a naive steadfastness: ever since. Have words, .merely—as—‘words;—any meaning? Intricate sounds have an energy value, vowels suggest space, con- sonants, boundaries... There is an aptness - about certain. words, even those which are not purely imitative. The craftsman must be able to decide between words which seem the same: only a barbarian could describe beautiful eyes-as gray in- stead of grey. He must choose words that are rich in associative and derivative meanings, words that come alive. Until we use words rightly we are little more than. ambulating wax works made vocal by a phonograph. Words used in the wrong place are bad language. When we consider the drafts of great poets, we find that they aim first at the sense, then at ° music, and last at a kind of critical génius. But Craftsmanship is not a skillful piec- ing together of verbal elements, not the infinite capacity -for taking pains. The impulse to create flowers from a seed of life within. Poetry is a revelation in that form of what could not-be expressed in — any other way, and it springs from the heart and mind and spirit of the creator. To dissect a‘poem may seem barbarous, but in the study of art lurks science. Knowledge incredibly enriches our. de- light in all arts, which are mirror§ of - reality, windows of wider regions of en- joyment. BOOK REVIEW Sard Harker; John Masefield, Macmil- lan. Mr. Masefield has told a direct, vigorous tale of adventure and romance whose hero, heroine and villain are true to color- ful tradition, They are bravely objec- tive and their purpose, through the book, involves one another, not the solving of their individual psychological problems. | A sailor is steered by periodical dreams towards a girl met once, and loved with ‘He saves her opportunely from danger in the form of a peculiarly evil and picturesque villain. The vivid picture’ of characters and background, fitting consistentfy into a- high-pitched, yét convincing situation. marks the story with «its author’s dis- Hinctian. is sh te bie. = i ———" Eerata : ; Owing bo a printer’s error, the dates ‘for . Alwyne’s appearances with the Phila- Orchestra this year were given in an” ‘interwoven | 4 ma “Toe ~ ~~» ’ IKE COLLE : ~ GE NEWS an Hitiye s \ °$ _ DEVELOPMENT OF” INDIVIDUAL EMPHASIZED AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY, SAYS RHODES SCHOLAR First Article jon “Studerit Life in ‘ Foreign Conntries” Deals with English Colleges. ROWING IS A’ “SERIOUS SPORT” The following article is the first of a series entitled “Student Life in Other Countries,” others of. which will appear in the COLLEGE NEWS at intervals. They have been collected by the Yale Daily News and offered for publication to other college periodicals throughout the country, ; “ . An editorial by. President Emeritus Hadley, of Yale University, on the sig- nificance and purpose of the series appears on the éditorial page. '! This article on Oxford is written by Mr. Whitney H.-Shephardson, a Rhodes sqholar at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1911 to 1913. He was a member of the legal staff of the United States Shipping Board in 1917 after which he served in the war. He was in Paris with the Ameri- can representatives during the Peace Con- ference and was secretary of the League of Nations Commission. o A great. deal has been written about Oxford during the thousand years of its} existence. Novels have been built around it; poets have loved it well; essayists have drawn from its inexhaustible quarry, and historians have told its. story over and over again.. But American students have discovéred it for themselves only dypring., the present generation, and, like any other interesting discovery, it deserves’ to be passed on to someone else. We know al- together too little about the “Mother of “Colleges”’—our Alma Grandmater. When. once you have been a part of the life at Oxford, Oxford is part of your own life—one of those memories that become fresh and vivid upon the slight- est provocation. All this is dangerous; for the first memories that come to mind are of the most elusive sort—the gardens of New College and the well-groomed lawns of Worcester; Old Tom ringing out its hundred and one strokes. from -Christ Church tower through the midnight rain; old men and young men assembling in their-gowns- and. bright-colored-hoods. for the formal funetions of the University. There is a danger, too, of being diverted into the “curiosities” of Oxford life, its picturesque institutions which seem to link this generation of undergraduates to those generations which have gone before; the “scout” on the staircase who cares for your rooms, brings gigantic breakfasts for the half-dozen guests’ who are huddling round your feeble fire on a cold, damp morning; students tearing through the streets on bicycles, rushing from one lec- “ture to another with their short black gowns bellying out behind like a full jib; the round tin bath tub—“your bath, sir!” and a cold one at that—which shivering “Oxford men accept defiantly as a chal- "lenge to the progress of science in ma- terial comforts. “Remove not the ancient landmarks which thy fathers have set.” Close Relationship of Student and | Professor. But after a few months, these details ose the flavor of novelty, and other things Aes to emerge as* more important dif- ae ferences between Oxford and our own colleges. First of all, an intimate relation between teacher and student is the rule ‘in Oxford as it is the exception here. I _have been given helpful hints in rowing by a distinguished College Head; I have played doubles on the College © ian 5 Pe paired with an authority i in G iloso- phy; I’ve been swimming in the Isis after the forbidden hour of seal by the s College chap-| faini-who gave: me his’ key-to-the ‘back gate, and Pve spent weeks of vacation in} | but a blank stare! North Devon with a tutor in — for no other reason than that we seemed tq like each other’s company. There is, in English life, a closer rela- tionship than we enjoy between older and younger. men; but what makes this val- uable intimacy possible in Oxford (it seems to me) is the fact that your final examinations are never set by your in- structors.. An impersonal committee, drawn partly from Oxfogpd and partly from other educational institutions, pre- pares questions for the written examina- tion, conducts the subsequent oral. ordeal, and gives the candidatés. their final rank- ing. So friendship with ‘your instructor won't “do any ‘good;”“no one can be ac- cused of currying favor with him,.¢ And, as’a consequence, you ‘may see as much or as little’ of him as your mutual desire for friendship suggests. * ' No “Cramming” Possible. Just because examinations are con- ducted by such a neutral body, it is nec- essary for the student to have a fairly broad grasp of hfs subject. He must be prepared to answer reasonable questions covering his’ whole course of study. If he is taking the Modern History School, he prepares himself* (with the aid of tutors, lectures and reading) in Political Science, one of the sevetal subjects that goes.to make up the school. Ask your tutor for a “text-book” on Political Science, and you'll get nothing He'll advise you gen- erally with regard to a course of lectures on this subject, or a course of reading; but jn the same breadth he’ll warn you against imagining that you can “cram” one book or two books and be sure of passing. Your examination will be on Political Science, and not upon John Doe’s text-book on Political Science. University Stand Based on Final Examinations. So you proceed through three years of it—or four—attending many lectures or few as your tutor suggests, reading much or little as your taste and conscience pre- scribe, taking “tests” from time to time which are set by your-tutor merely to discover whether you are slacking or not. The first year of Oxford is one of experi- ment—many acquaintances, many diver- sions, with a good deal of dabbling at the ‘books. The second year is one of “getting up steam’—a few friends, a few selected out- side interests and a gool deal of hack work at lectures and- reading. The last year is one long. driving nine months’ “cram” with University exami- nations at the —examinations which cover the whole ‘fhree years’ study, and constitute the only basis of your rank- ing. An uninterrupted week of papers, four hours in the morning and four hours ‘in the afternoon, with everything at stake} qn them! Whether this is,a better or a worse system than our own, the peda- gogues can decide. It is certain it is a different one, Distinction Between University and Colleges. The distinction “between Oxford Uni- versity and the Colleges which compose it, is not easy to grasp at first. The best analogy I know is that of the United }States itself, and the “states” which go to make it up. The University, under its own name, and with all its formality and picturésque ceremony, greets you when you enter Oxford. and blesses you when you ‘depart. And. perhaps once, in the course of y@#tr residence, an official of the | University catchés you in thé aetof break-| ing one of its regulations. But apart. from these occasions, the undergraduate’s life is spent in his Col- lege: one, two or three hundred men gath- ered within its-four walls, living there; taking part in the College sports, taking the direction of their work from its tutors, : i iisssreasesanafie nessncmseacroosrsiomoor belonging to its clubs, and .meeting as a community at least once a day for dinner in the College hall. Each College has its cliques, its gossip, its internal rows, its particular antipathies among other Colleges, its traditions, its legends, and its specialties—wlfether they be strawberries-in-season, anchovy toast, or atpotent brew of ale. And when you go out from the University into life, you are forever known as a Trinity man, a Magdalen man, a Balliol man, as the case may be. ' Individuality Developed. The varioys Colleges tend, perhaps, to produce men. of a certain type; but far greater scope is given to the development of individuality in Oxford than obtains i in the United States: You have more chance of’ growing in Oxford—and you have: more chance of disintegrating. In other words, the sys- ‘tem (if an opportunity. for education may properly be called a system) is admirably suited to the man who knows where he is going, but the man with little purpose and no sense of responsibility is apt to suffer from being left severely alone. A Yellow Slicker changes one’s viewpoint of a rainy day. ‘ Slickers cor- rectly tailored are -tubber--faced—in / yellow, $7.50; of yellow oiled cloth, $8.50. 4 Strawbridge & Clothier Market Stieet, Eighth Street, Filbert Street Nobody bothers you if you fail to show up at College meetings; nobody makes you go to lectures; nobody thinks you are especially queer if you prefer the writings of some obscure Hungarian poet to those of Arnold Bennett. “‘Fools are suffered gladly” in the belief that they will work out their own salvation in time, and on the chance that the “fool” may prove, after all, to be right; and that Andreas Ady may be a greater figure in literature than the author of “The Pretty Lady.” To go to Oxford may be a dangeréus intellectual. adventure; but one has all the freedom of the buccaneer while it lasts. (The remainder of this article will appear in the next issue of the News.) : o r For the Game! -$-ports—C-o-2-t-3—_— Sports Frocks Sports Skirts Sports Hats. 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Telephone 63, ae ob La EES x So Ba + SDR: EEMER SPEAKS ON- ARCHERY | ¢ se _head was ‘made, he continued, while one ‘ with an account of how to shoot, which is oe Friday, __ History at Hatyard, will speak in chapel. 2 . ~%? -THE COLLEGE NEWS~ rl 1 FROM EARLY DAYS OF MAN and Fire Have Elevated . Man From Primitive State, Says Maxim ? Dr. Elmer, for eight years . National Archery Champion, who has written sev- ‘eral books on the subject, spoke in the gymnasium, Wednesday evening, October 29. Archery has been one of the most im- portant occupations in the world through all the ages, Dr. Elmer said, in telling the history of archery as he showed bows and arrowheads of different types. The Mediterranean ‘has filled and emptied three times since the first arrow- of. the two oldest pictures in the world, found in a cave of Southern France, is of a man holding a bow. At a conservative estimate these were painted twenty-five hundred years ago. Since then the Egyp- tians and the. Assyrians, who used | long-hinged» bow; the. Greeks, who spe cialized in the Cupid’s bow; the. people of the Middle Ages, the English in the Wars of the Roses, who employed the long bow we use today, have all been archers. The Turkish bows of horn and sinew shoot the farthest, because tliey have the greatest resiliency. Dr. Elmer quoted Mr. Maxim, who once said that fire and archery were the two main things that eleyated. man. Archery has lived through the ages though it sur- vives merely as a sport today. For years it held its own against gunpowder, and bows were still used in 1772 for fighting purposes. In those days every man prac- ticed daily. We have three early bows, one of which was discovered in the house of a peasant at Flodden Field and is sup- posed to have been used in the battle, and two, salvaged from the Mary Rose,-a ship recently brought up. which was sunk in the Thames in the time of Henry the Righth: en The test of an archer in Robin Hood’s day was the cleaving of the wand at 100 yards. The Noble Toxiphilic Society, patronized by the Duke of York, did much to keep archery alive, although this was a degenerate period of the sport, when neat little arrows were used. In 1828 Peele, sent on a Western expedition, be- came fascinated watching the Indians shoot ant organized the United Bowmen of Pennsylvania on his return. In 1879 William: and Morris Thompson, Confed- erate Veterans, wrote a book, “The Witchery of Archery,” which caught the imagination of the American people. Many societies were. formed. Since then there have been yearly archery tourna- ments, for which the contest now is the old splitting of the wand at one hundred yards. Dr. Elmer finished his interesting talk classed into the four divisions, standing, knocking, drawing and aiming. CALENDAR. November 7—Miss Gertrude Ely will speak on the League of Nations. Saturday, November 8, 8 P. M.—Junior play. Sunday, November #, 7.30 P. M.—Dr. W. J. Wanless, of the American Presby- terian Mission Hospital, Miraj, India, will speak in chapel. Wednesday, November 5, 7.30 P. M— ~ Dr. Meiklejohn ‘will speak in Taylor Hall. Thursday, November 13, 8.30 P. M.— President Park will be at home to the Senior Class. - Friday, November 14, sn0.2, Mw _ Faculty Receptidh to the Graduates, in Rockefeller. Friday, November 14, 7.30 P. M.—Dr. William — K. Amberson: will speak under the aus of the Science Club in Dal-| _ ton on e Nature of “Animal Light.” _ Sunday, November 16—The Rev. Kir-|. ~ sopp- ‘Lake, Professor of Ecclesiastical will speak about, democrs wei Mottiay,--November’ 417=Monday~ eve= ning concert at Wyndham. Friday, November 21—Mrs. aneaee wil} speak gn “Birth Control.” Saturday, November 22—Sophomore play. The Graduate Club has elected Mary AI- bertson secretary.: Miss Albertson was Bryn Mawr 1915 and is a fellow in history. @ DR. MEIKLEJOHN GIVES FIRST s LECTURE ON EDUCATION PAGE 1 Russéll CONTINUED FROM gether again. Bertrand thinks that in. the philosophy to come we shall, have incoherence, just a lot of things catalogued, identified listed but ,non-sig- nificant. “Yet this breaking down’ of thought Ssys- tems is a normal human experience, - Our thought-molds are ‘always too stiff to meet changing circumstances. They crack and we have to make new ones, “For example, men used to’ have a cur- [ riculum*called. classicism in which they be- lieved. But the world today feels. that classicism is not good enough. It is fine, deficate, sweet, excellent, but it is not creative and it is essentially undemocratic. We feel that education should enable peo- ple to gtow, should make them free, and should give them a scientific attitude of mind, “But here again we are lacking in our point of view. Into what will we grow, what will we do with our freedom, and what will we get with our scientific atti- tude of mind?” To answer these ques- tions, Dr. Meiklejohn thinks we need to make for ourselves a picture of the mean- ing of life. q g ‘In his next lecture, which will be given Wednesday, November ie Meiklejohn y EDUCATION TO “BE TOPIC’ UF LIBERAL CLUB DISCUSSIONS Beginning Sunday, November 7, Dr. De- Laguna, Professér ef Philosophy, will jead a discussion group with niembers of the Liberal*+Clwb. on topics of education. What is the value of an A. B. degree? Should education be general or specific? Is a college education the most valuable kind an- individual could have? These are some of the points that will be discussed this and ‘folowing Sindays~ cussion will be announced later. want to’come are asked to sign on the bul- letin board in Taylor. “Other subjects for dis- The Handcraft Shop Decorations, . Linens, Rugs “Little Nature Frocks,” 30 Bryn Mawr Avenue ° Ld Attractiveness ° Perfumes —summa cum laude The dainty touch of just the _ proper perfume makes high standing sure. Colgate’s Ex- quisite Perfumes are blended of the rarest imported es- <>. sences imprisoned in graceful ‘flacons of charming” shapes. COLA ES HAH H K A Display of at Monty November 10 Winkelman presents an assemblage of new models, youthful, distitctive, and strictly of the vogue, designed particularly for the college girl. They; offer an unrestricted choice ‘ of heels, styles and materials. ceANNOUNCING— EXCLUSIVE CREATIONS FOR THE ‘(COLLEGE MIss COLLEGE INN» Tuesday November 11 Ap $i ncitleavecon fuoco, THE. COLLEGE NEWS& ’ them as the Wizard brandished a fire axe, - ample and all-covering serge, a dash of “grippers, they formed an arresting fea- ~vyitual neuters: — etl . festivities till late into the night. +___-refreshments-were_sold, the furor height- _° J—Adagio; allegro molto. ae > earnest en eye sens ; COLLEGE HOLDS RALLY ‘Vecemed to be futile, for the balf only crawiéa yy" CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Ku Klux, garbed in chaste and simple‘white, formed a distinct group. An air of. single-hearted purpose surrounded while the refrain of their battle cry floated heavenward, “T am 100 ‘per cent. Ameri- can.” _In contrast to the more purely mascu- line elements were the Neuter Women, ably led by H. Chisolm, ’25. Gowned in ribbon round their throats and ground- ture of the parade. Their banner pro- claimed Women’s Rights to all the world, a statement backed up vocally by indi- Winding down senior row, resplendent with torches planted on both sides, the procession moved on towards the gym. Brightly lit and draped with bunting of our national colors, this was the seat of Thanks to Dr. Barnes, Professor of Physics, the hoarse voice of a radio an- nounced ‘the returns. Prolonged cheers greeted fhe results as the votes came in State by State. To break the monotony of the long waits, party leaders spoke fer- vidly on cherished planks .of their re- spective platforms, interrupted by ribald] jests from other factions. Peanuts, candy, drinks and other, light ening when an intemperate Communist let off a pop bottle “over a representative of the “solid South.” Swaying slowly in time to a mystic tune, the Klansmen chanted a new national anthem reprinted in brief here from the American Mercury. I am a 100 per cent. American. 1 am a super patriot. A red red, red, red, red, I am. A red-blooded American. I am a 100 per cent. American. I am an ariti-Darwin intellectual. The man who says That any nice young boy or gal Is a descendan® of the ape Shall never from hell’s fire escape. Only the extinguishment of the gym- nasium lights ended the rally. IN PHILADELPHIA Garrick—“Aren’t We All,” with Cyril Maude. : _Forrest—“Madame Pompadouwr” (Last week.) Next week—Walter Hampden in “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Lyric—“Spring Cleaning,” with Violet Heming and Estelle Winwood. -Walnut—‘Tarnish.” Shubert—“In Heidelberg.” Broad—“Little Miss Bluebeard,” with Irene Bordoni. , Adelphi—“Maggie,” with Helen Mackel- lar. . Chestnut—"“Little Jessie James.” Next week—“Mr. Battling Butler.” Movies. Stanley—“Three Women.” Stanton—“Tess of the D’Urbervilles.” Aldine—“Sea Hawk.” Next week— “Janice Meredith.” Arcadia—Dante’s “Inferno.” Slobe—“Captain Blood.” Concerts. _ Academy of Music, November 7 and ss Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Brahms—Variations on a Theme _ of Haydn, Choral St. Antoni. Loeffler—Poem. Dvorak—Symphony No. 5, in E minor, “From the New World. ” I1L.—Largo. IIL—Scherzo ; allegro vivace ; "poco sos- tenuto. Varese—Hyperprisms. about the field. Waking up- in the. second half, . the teams worked hard and earnestly, racing up and down the field. R. Elting, ’28, made an excellent. rush to goal, after receiving the ball at the 50-yard line. J. Stetson, ’28, proved herself a reliable’ back. The line-up was: # boie oatubhs 1925—S. Anderson, M. Brown*, D. Lee****, E. Evans, S. Carey*, K. Fowler, H. Herrman, E. Glessner, C. Remak, V. Lomas, M. Gardiner. 1928—R. Elting*, A# Palache**, F° Beth- el*, H. Tuttle, B. Loines, E. Rhett, A, Bruere, M. Gray, J. Stetson, EF. sence M. Fyte. ‘Phone 1058-J Bryn Mawr AMY’S. SHOP. Candies Gifts Novelties Cards 857 LANCASTER AVENUE 1606 CHESTNUT STREET. = PHILADELPHIA _ Genuine Alligator A beautiful shade of brown- . a shoe for the smartest street costume. “Fth *. WALDO M. CLAFLIN Emerson tells how the mass of men worry themselves into nameless: graves, while now and then a great, unselfish soul forgets himself into immor- tality. 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