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“The College News

[Fourided in 1914.].

t'ublished, wenkly during the college year in the
interest of Bryn Mawr College

Managing Editor...... Devia SMITH, 26°
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Kntered: as. second class matter, September 26,
oth, at the post office: at Bryn Mawr, Pa.,
under the Act of March 3, 1889.

“FOR CONSIDERATION
A. question to be considered by all of us

 

-js the much-discussed one of our work.
**Most of us:are, unfortunately, continually

immersed in our books, studying for
quizzes, writing reports. All our time is
spent in “getting our lessons done.” We
don’t think of the interest of our work;
we must hurry and “get through it,” finish
our daily stint without regard to the’ sub-
ject matter, which may interest us vitally.
We are .so absorbed in the pursuit of
knowledge to be used to pass a quiz that

we néglect. almost entirely, to use our

‘brains independently.

-When we want to
—Hliseuss—with- eur-contemporariés-and—our
eo. ‘the questions of the world today o1
points interesting us particularly which
have arisen in our courses, the reproachful

ghosts of books unread.and quizzes un-

prepared drag us to the library.

educ

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We, are not abusing our work; far from

We. are very much interested in it.
We. feel, however, - that if we discussed
and read privately on the many points in
connection with it that interest us par-
ticularly we would derive greater benefit
from it.
our noses from the grindstone fora short
space, even go to a class with a freslr
mind, It ;is interesting to

system to compel us to discussion, we
shoul not devote some attention to the
ational: side of college that’ is. un-

-<tOuched in the classroom, the side of our
sindependent thinking, the exchange of

ideas and some individual mice of read-

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‘THE SPORTING LIFE

~~“ Like the monkey “round and round the

vinegar jug, ‘round and ‘round Taylor Mr.
Cojnelly chased the peanut. Whether it
suffered the sad fate of the ,weasel in
Queen Victoria’s husband's favérite song,
“Pop Goes the Weasel,” we do not know;

but we applaud Mr. Connelly on his knees

 

   

 .material, due to the

before the. sluggish peanut, under the tri- |
umphant gaze of Mr. Dougherty. We ad-
mire true sporting instincts as evinced by.
this election bet. They are. rare in the
campus. : . ee
OUR ADVANTAGE
.THE NEWS claims’ one advantage
“regular” newspapers. College
events are scattered with premeditated
regularity throughout the college year:

 

; THE NEWS therefore is seldom at.a loss
for features. “Regular” newspapers, how-

ever, are either rushed or starved for

  

1 by the scandalized sidelines.

Penergy of a militarist.

_.We might, could we but keep }

consider |
whether, since we have not the tutorial |

AREN’T WE Too LADYLIKE?

After all, we go to games for the ex-
citement. Then ‘why’ mot ‘be excited ?-
Surely it violates no law of sportsmanship
to show some enthusiasm. - Yet’ whena
forward: flashes down the field i “the last
minute of the second half, do we cheer?
Certainly not—we are far too refined. The
luckless individual who forgets herself and
bursts into a cheer is hissed into silence
To cover
her regrettable breach of etiquette, an
alto, a tenor and a bass begin to chant, in
a weary, bored monotone. The rest of
«jt “cheering section” follow, each group
a phrase behind’ another, each person
choosing her own time, her own part, and,
as a rule, her own words.

The hearer who stands within ten feet
is: forcibly reminded of a Sunday school
class, well-bred if slightly uninterested in
salvation, singing a collection hymn. As
for the hearer who stands farther away
than ten feet—he doesn’t exisé-'

 

KEEP THE HOME FIRES ©
BURNING.

“We shall make an appeal to justice,
honor and ‘good will,”. said the.Rev. R: A.
McConnell, arguing for a warless —
last Sunday..:

We believe that-an appeal to imagina-
tion and'cortitnon sense is more practical.
The objections of justice, honor and good
will dre no more peculiar to our time than
war itself, and they sometimes seem a bit
before — the argumentative

irresolute '

But it’s hard to deny a Bairnsfather
cartoon, or a book like John Dos Passos’
“Three Soldiers,’ or such a play as..Law-
rence Stallings’ “What Price Glory.”
They are splendid pieces of journalism,
showing you just what kind of a weapon
war is, giving you the positive side of it.
They appeal to your imagination and your
common sense when they make war con-
crete, and these homely virtues are, if you
like, the fires the veterans set to fight the
fire of war.

be, ’

 

THE BROADENING OF
Se UNIVERSITY IDEALS

( Thgeonnection with the series of articles
concerning student life in foreign countries,
the first of.which appears in this issue, Pres-
ident-Emeritus Hadley of Yale has written
the following editorial.)

In the Middle Ages, universities were
international in their character and influ-
_Their students came together from
mary countries: their teachers were
known and their degrees recognized
through the lerigth and breadth of Eu-
rope. Many historians believe that the
‘thing which first gave the schools of
‘Bologna or Paris and the colleges of Ox-
‘ford the right to claim the title of “Uni-
versity” was this international character;
ithat a university was distinguished from
ia college, not so much: bv having courses
of study: which covered the whole field
iof learning as by having a reputation
which extended over the while civilized

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This international side of university life.
‘which was so prominent in the thirteenth
jan fourteenth ’ centuries, becathe much
fless so in the period that followed. Uni-
versities in the sixteenth and seventeenth
icenturies* became prettv thoroughly local-
‘ized, They. were animated not so much
ibv the desire ty advance the higher learn-

ence.

 

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now the wolf is at

   

train such ministers aad lawvers and Dhy-

tothe needs of their own people and took
laely Hit account ‘of the need of the
cutside *world.
' But in the last two hundred years the
“learned world” has, gradually been get-
ting together again; and the‘ universiti
of different nations are far closer to one
another at,the beginning of the twentieth
century than they. were in the middle of
the eighteenth. This has been partly due
to improved means of travel and commu-
nication, which make it easier for mem-
bers*of different nations to see and’ know,
each other. but still more to the develop-:
ment of modern science—the scientific
study of history and politics, of physics:
and biology. For the student of science is
primarily concerned with discovering laws
of nations rather than with meeting re-
quirements of man, laws of nations which
are effective the whole world over,
whether the constituted authorities . like
‘them or nots

The result has been that on the purely
intellectual side, the universities of the
world have: been brought very much
closer together in recent years. The
teachers in one -university. know. pretty:
well what is going on in their department
in other universities all over the world.
A discovery made in one country has im-

teaching of ‘half-a dozen others. But the
purely intellectual side is not the whole of
life, nor does: it represent the whole of
university influence and character, To
get. the intellectual forces of the world |
together, and to gtt its thought really in-
ternationalized, we need mutual under-
standing between the students of different
parts of the world as well as the teachers,

This is not the kind of thing which can

complished through any one agency.
Rhodes scholarships, international ex-
changes of sttidents, international partici-
pation in athletics or in ceremonials—all
these show a recognition of the need of
student contact as a means of getting the
world together. Under circumstances like
this, no apology js needed for the amount
of space which the NEWS proposes gto
devote to its accounts of foreign univer-

who think of pursuing studies abroad.
these articles are a recognition of the fact
that the American student interest no
longer centers wholly on the problem of
his own college campus. So far as higher
education is concerned,. he, is trying to
think in international terms.

 

(In this column the editors welcome all
expressions of college opinion.)
A FIERY RETORT
To the Editor of the COLLEGE NEWS:
The challenge should be issued not, to
over-organization, but to. under-erganiza-,
tion in fire-drills; the declaration should
be made that there is too little efficiency, };
too little rigidity in- connection with these
drills.
“Some day the electric it iron will get hot
and then . . . figures will be seen dash-
ing madly sake into the roaring flames to.
-wet their towels, captains will be looking
at their watches while the burning rafters
‘crash around them” —simply because fire-)
drills are regarded in such a facetious.

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enabled — fifty girls to escape. unharmed |.
from a burning school building. -

_Firedrills. if given the proper attention.
and consideration need not occur fre-

 

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sity life and work. Wholly apart from|:
the value of the information given to those},

light and because there has not been in- |
stilled that perfect training which last year more in-the spring of this year, and it

[come part of that rich, human: personality

SPORTS SERIOUS ‘AT OXFORD
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

front, both drop out, Guuhauin places on
the: next. afternoon, and the rearranged
procession begins its second day of row+
ing. So it continues’ for a week until,
perhaps, eight.or 10 years from now, your
own College boat goes “Head: of the
River.” On this great occasion—if I-may
point out a striking difference between the
practice here and in Oxford—the presi-
dent of the College will buy champagne
all around!.
Social Element Supplied by the Colleges.

The social side of: Oxford-is-a thing by
itself. There is practically no bridge be-
tween the Colleges and the town; and the
few stray souls who visit the elderly ladies
of North Oxford at tea time on Sunday
afternoon getrerally do*so" under the-com-
pulsion of duty. There are no fraternities
—perhaps the Colleges provide on a large
scale that intimacy which fraternities and
clubs provide in the United States. But
there are innumerable clubs with some
purpose-—;Liberal, Conservative, Dramatic,
Sporting, Literary, Scientific—with a
membership drawn from the whole Uni-
versity and with small club rooms of their
own.

social pretensions, stands the Oxford
Union, Generations of ‘Oxford men have
belonged to it, many of the leading states-
men of the British Empire have fought
political battles and gained their first par-

doubt whether the House of Commons
itself has been the scene of more bitter
skirmishes than have taken place in the
‘Oxford Union.

It is so pre-eininently bound up ‘in the
history of the University and in the long
tale of British politics ‘that all-of us who
}were in Oxford in 1912 were proud be-
jyond measure that an American was
,elected for the first time to be its: presi-
ident. Certainly the United States never
‘sent.a more worthy representative abroad
than Bill Bland, of Kenyon and of Lin-
‘coln College, Oxford. Hé gave up his
life in France.

,. War Wound Still Unhedied.

I sei Oxford intimately before the
‘war, and I went back again in 1919. Out-

'morial buildings stood there. still, the
‘streets gave mutch the same appearance
as before. Here a new tradesman had
come to take the place of a favorite
‘tobacco shop; therg one might see a relic
‘of the days when Oxford made soldiers
instead of scholars. .But the lawns were
‘clipped and green, the river flowed as
softly as before, and the rain was falling
las ‘relentlessly as if it -had not stopped
‘once during the intervening years.

, Anew generation of men were in resi-
\dence—somewhat more seriowsS in their
purpose, somewhat: more restless against
ithe old txaditions, somewhat more revo-
‘lutionary in their insistence that the cur-
‘riculum should be brought “up to date.”
‘The older men who had been.at Oxford i in
‘other. years went again about their works,
‘but as they went they walked apart,.as if —
‘to speak with those whom they. had
‘spoken with before the war. “Time is a
‘gentle healer,” I repeated to myself. _

‘But I was wrong. I went back once

“was not yet healed. The wound is there,
deep in the soul of Oxford, and has be-

    

iw hich is hers.

 

 

ay oa TEAS TO BEGIN NEXT

Hall teas will be-held each full college
week from November seventeenth until
spring Senet. from four a shai to

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tiamentary experience on its floor. tT —

‘wardly little was changed. . The imme- ,