ma 3 Bon eens aa ona CS ee a - (3 al “9 months. F : r is x hy : : . ya ms ' VOL. XII. No. 4. ' BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., _ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1925 + PRICE, 10 CENTS “NOW IT CAN BE TOLD” BY STATISTICS OF 1929 Facts Compiled ‘Give Information From Age to Religion of Freshmen 14 Sects Re presented THE BEST AVERAGE IS 873 9 October 14. ceeded Winifred ‘Dodd, who resigned semester of their Sophomore year. Chairman of 1926 Freshman year, and” of May Day in 1924. board for two years past. "Statistics of the class of 1929 have been compiled. Freshmen’ will now realize that the innumerable blanks they were re- quired to fill out were to. some purpose after all. The following are some of the more interesting facts gleaned: ‘The average age of Freshmen is 18 years 13% months; the median age is 18 years, 4 months; while the youngest 15 years, The highest average in en- trance examination marks was 87.13 per cent. Taking into consideration that this is one of the smallest Freshman classes of late, the number of members being i07, one might be lead to think that 1929 had done very bravely. Besides: the preparatory schools who are our old standbys, 28 new schools have prepared members in the third and fourth years. Seventy-three per cent. of the class were prepared by private schools; 9 per cent. by public schools 18 per cént. by both private and public schools. Forty-six members of the class are Episcopalians; 19 are Presbyterians, while 11 do not give their religion, In _all 14 different sects are represented. CONTINUED ON PAGD 3 TRADITION OF LANTERN NIGHT TO BE FULFILLED FRIDAY Freshmen to Receive Red Lanterns From Sophomore Class pieeae 2X ‘Lantern Night, one of Bryn Mawr’s unique ceremonies, will be held in the Cloisters, Friday evening, October 24.. Tickets may be purchased from the Publicity Office, in - Taylor Hall, or at the. Clojsers the eve- ning of the event. ‘Lantern Night in its origins goes back to the early days of Bryn Mawr. The lan- terns of 1890, the second class in college were given them by 1889, who were inspired by “The only lantern in Bryn Mawr,” a line in a song. by Dr. E. Washington ‘Hopkins, former Professor of Greek. Sophomore Play was the scene of the presentation of the first lanterns, which were handed to the Freshmen over the footlights. 1900 gave its Sophomore play out of doors and the. impromptu occasion with the oral quiz of the Freshmen. by the Sophomores vanished to grow into the stately, impressive ceremony we". now celebrate on one sharp October night each. year. ‘Changing with the years, the lanterns vary ug rom the ‘original folit#inch high 1926's Class Book, was Secretary of MARY Cc. parm IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SENIOR CLASS 1926 chose Mary Parker as class president on Wednesday. afternoon,” « Miss Parker has already served as president, having suc- Edith Nichols was elected vice-president of the. Senior Class. Freshman year Miss Nichols was president of 1926; she is now. vice- presi- dent of the Self-Government Association, haying served on-the executive __._Clare Hardy was made Secretary of 1926. vice- ysis, al the Undergraduate Association an Junior Member of the Undergraduate Board last year. on account of ill-health, the second Miss Parker was also Temporary a member of the Costume Committee Her Miss Hardy, who is ‘also id Bustiess Marager-of- her class Sophornore year and First RAGAS AND SONGS OF KASHMIRA INTERPRETED BY RATAN DEVI, Liberal Club Concert at Wyndham Includes Talk on Indian Music With the hospitable atmosphere of Wyndham for a background, dark except for the occasional. twinkle of a candle, Ratan Devi gave a- delightful program of native Indian songs last Wednesday eve- ning, under the auspices: of the Liberal Club. Ratan Devi divided two parts: the first classical Indian songs; Kashmiri folk songs. illusion of © Indian evi, attired in panied herself on a tombura an Indian instrument of four strings resembling in general appearance our guitar. Her tom- bura comes from ‘the south of India and is . her concert into half devoted to the second, to To increase the atmosphere, Ratan ‘made_of Jackwood_ inlaid with.ivory. As may be imagined, the scene appealed: to the eye as well as-the ear. The weird melodies, accompanied. by the pulsations of the tombura, blended with the steady downpour outside, while -the reds and yellows of Ratan Devi’s costume con- trasted sharply with the dark interior and the indistinct forms of students, grouped in a circle informally on the floors “in true Indian fashion” as Ratan Devi com- me snted, “There are no public concerts in India,” she said before commencing her program. “Concerts are given ‘only in private houses. : Classical songs, like folk- songs, are never written down in India, but’ are handed down by word of month.” She explained that: the.-Indian scale is composed of 22 notés. Songs, however, are not built upon the scale, -but upon a raga or choice of five or seven notes of the scale?) -—Each song: has its own raga and there is a raga for ‘every occasion, every hour of the day. The songs are spontaneous and ecstatic; ‘the — words hever stupid nottrashy. According to Indian custom, Ratan Devi opened her program with a dedica- tion. . Then followed four songs: “The Knot of the -Heart;” a. mountain song; a love song of separation; and an im- provisation, the words of which meant, eb OW you never speak to me Smee Res it spring of othe Fash Huiea still retains its iden of mai. _ Six folksongs - were -presenred in the native costume, accom-, eI | cancel half. the French debt: nc preserve France from bankr | small incomes » are the sufferers. - | means to payment the American debt MRS, SMITH EXPLAINS FRENCH DEBT AND CONSIDERS OUTCOME Cancellation Will Be Hard For U. S. And France * “Understanding at least has been furthered by the recent French debt con- ference in Washington,”- said Mrs. Smith, speaking in chapel last Friday. The French debt: to the United States, $4,200,000,000, consists of four items. One billion,” eight dollars, were borrowed during the war for maturing bonds. Then $2,225,000,000 of the debt were*spent here “in the pur- chase of war supplies. “This money was borrowed in Liberty Loans, and $150,000,- 000 are being paid yearly against the French debt. For this payment heavy Federal income taxes are neg levied. The remainder of the French: debt is owed in: war materials supplied, and in the post-war debt, which has _an_interest of $20,000,000 ‘yearly. If the franc is to be stabilized, or if France is to. do any further borrowing from other countries the present debt must be settled. At the recent conference in Washington, the Callaux proposal was rejected, but a ‘last minute plan is now being -considered, a fairly hopeful com- promise, for a payment ‘of interest now owed within the next five years, after which the principal alone would be owed. As creditor’ to Francé, the United States has three possible choices: We might cancel the debt, we might exact the- entire sum of the debt, we might arrange a compromise. Friends of French recuperation’ wish to cancel’ the debt. Considering the burdén ‘too great for France to bear, the money loaned in Liberty Loans will in that case be given to France. And in this connection, there considered faith Government and the people. is to be the question of between. the On. the French side, acceptance of the cancella- shaking the good tion would be a virtual atknowledgmenit of bankruptcy. As it is, when the American Govern- ment pays back the. money. raised in Liberty the -sum_ will be twice what the French pay. We are offering Loans, ec pm ‘et Ds Tuaronk ee te ree RACINE: vs ‘sae Bibieh dat, lade Taxes i in a Rane. are out of pi andthe. poor. people, and the people with As +a ie a” fas suggested a heavier tax hundred .and two million: .|ligion wasn’t the only VICTORY PERCHES ON ; BRYN MAWR BANNERS — First Varsity Game of Season Ends in Sweeping Defeat of Phila- delphia Cricket Club RAIN DID NOT DAMP OUR ARDOR _NVarsity hockey team defeated the ‘Philadelphia Cricket Club 5-0 Saturday Pmorning, October 17. (The line-up’ was: V. Loines, ’28; C. Parker,§ ‘29; D: Lee,** ’25; F. Jay, ’26; W. Dodd, ’26; -V. Cooke, ’26; J. Seeley, '27; S. Walker,** ’ov: M. Harris, ’26; B. Sindall, ’27; E. Freeman, ’29. The subs were H. Rodgers, 96: KE. Haines, 27; E. Brodie, 27; A. Bruere, ’28; J. Stetson, ’28; H. Tuttle, 8 In the first half E.’ Brodie, ’27, played in the place of M. Harris, ’26. Intermittent showers, and a muddy field did not prevent the game from being’ exceedingly lively. At first both sides seemed evenly matched. Again and again Loines, Dodd and Seeley swept the ball down the field with long dribbles and triangular passes, only to make a corner or be turned by Philadelphia fullbacks. who kept their positions steadfastly. Our own rear was well guarded by Freeman, a spectacular goal, and Seeley, the fast- est player on the field. The first half ended in uncertainty, with a 0-0 score. During the second half, the Bryn Mawr te ag speeded up, improved its team work, scrapped with more tenacity around the enemy goal, and gained the 5-0 victory. EAGLESMERE IS NOT BILLY ‘SUNDAYISH SAYS B. PIT! EY; ’27 Chapel Speaker Emphasizes Variety of Types of People There “Whenever one mentions the words ‘re- ligious conference,’ most people immediate- ly retire into their shells,” said Beatrice Pit- ney, '27, speaking in chapel last. Sunday evening. “They think it must be’a sort of wild Billy Sunday meeting, whére pious souls work themselves up to a pitch of fervor and hypnotize themselves with an unhealthy amount of religious emotionalism. That is exactly what a religious: conference. is not. a “Six of us went to Eaglesmere, which as some of you may know, is a religious con- ference for all the colleges of the Middle Atlantic States. We found it quite calm, quite sane; we found ‘it interesting and we found it fun, “Eaglesmere is’ a minute town up in the mountains of Pennsylvania. We lived. in two hotels on the edge of a Jake surrounded ‘by mountains and woods. We went around in bloomers and hockey skirts whenever we wanted to. I.mention that just so that you ‘Will see that there was no Puritan formality at the conference. 4 “The girls represented about thirty col- Tigi schools, medical schools and tian bunch as varied a ‘tl _ | fascinating ‘diversity y of point: ‘thing. 1 discu yet no matter what subject we ‘touc!i we found interesting food for thought. “For instance, some girls were horrified that we took evolution seriously. Others said that they believed in ‘it and wanted to- study it, but that their families considered + | them infidels for being interested in it. “Another example; should there be differ- ent standards for men and women in the | on, _ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3_ “ey = # o& : ~ 4 ‘esi THE COLLEGE NEWS Fd The Collage Nas. {Founded in 1914,] Published weekly during the college year tn the terest of Bryn Mawr College, at the ron uliding, Wayne Pa., and Bryn _— College. Managing Editor....... JEAN yet °26 NEws EDITOR M. Leary, ’27 CENSOR B. PItnpy, '27 EDITORS K. Simonps, '27 ASSISTANT EDITORS % SmirxH, '27 LB. LINN, '26 R. RickaBy, '27 J. Fesume, '28 M. Fow er, '28 MANAGER BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION "27 YSON, ’26 » H. T 4S81STANTS K. Wieon, "26 .\. DYWMAN, '27 . CRUIKSHANK, ‘27 A. WILT, '26 E Jonzs, '28 P. McKE.wain, '28 Subscription, $2. 50 Mailing Price, $3.00 scriptions may begin at any time. not felt more at home because the men card told her plainly what the waiter’s name was, so that she was not forced’ to address him as. “George® when he was unquestion- ably Malachi or Grover Cleveland? Whi of us has not appropriated the “Quiet Requested” sign, symbol of the ails care for our comfort, and brought: it tri- umphantly back to gouge the conscience of midnight revellers flown with inso- lence and soup? _All these bentefits have beey ours because the railroad just loves its patrons anel wants to make them feel thaf there are many places like home as long as trains continue .o run from the Pennsylvania station every hour on the hour. Yet the railroad has not rested on these laurels. With “sefvice” its watch word and “courtesy” its warcry, it has taken yet an- other step. You have experienced that dreary wait in West Philadelphia, minute after long (Editors do not hold themselves respon- sible for opinions expressed in this column.) | To the Editors of the Contce News. The Varsity Dramatics Committee de- j, | Plores the necessity which the News board obviously felt in publishing in the original, In asking the support of the college, it pre- supposed that of its publication. The fact that a play has been accepted for production shows that it has been thoughtfully examined by many fair-minded people. Hampered as we are by inadequate staging facilities, a limited number of people from whom to choose a cast, and the usual difficulties of fitting our rehearsals to avoid compliéations with curricular activities, we feel that we have chosen both wisely and well, and hope that attendance at the performances will be the refutation of our critic. _ Entered as second -Class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office, INTERNATIONAL PURSUITS More interesting even than the repdtts of the’ French debt conference last week is the news of the treaties and conventions promulgated at the Locarno Meeting, by which the Alsace-Lorraine question is once more settled and Germany and France come nearer to agreement than at any time since 1914. Aristide Briand, Austin Chamberlain and Hans Luther have gone home with a treaty in their pockets establishing a district about. the Rhine of which the neutrality is to be guaranteed by Great Britain and Italy, and conventions of arbitration between Germany and Poland and Germany and Czecho-Slovakia. Then this week comes the news of the establishment at Harvard of a Rocke- feller Foundation for International Re- search, with George Grafton Wilson, professor of International Law at Har- vard, as chairman, and including among its members Manley O. Hudson. nd the League of Nations has organized.a commission for Intellectual Collabora- tion. As chairmen of this body it has selected Henri Bergson, French philo- sophical exponent of Vitalism, and Felix von Weingartner, famous German con- ductor of opera. So in the train of the statesman are following the scholar, the philosopher, and the musician, all in the cause of international. ideals. ertgpons« MAN AND THE ARMS _ “How Ridiculous! O, War! War! The Dream of Patriots and Heroes! A Fraud, Bluntschli, a Hollow Sham, Like Love.” When, in the bitterness of his soul, a dashing Bulgarian captain hurled that line across the footlights in 1894, the gentle- men growled and crushed their bowler tg, and the ladies shrugged indignant ated shoulders. That playwright Shaw was a crazy radical, with his ideas about ‘two kinds of soldiers, old ones and young ones,” a soulless bounder, trying ny the glory of victory and the bit- ess of defeat as questions of pro- Cecil management! The crazy radical requested to write another play : the wit of “Arms and the Man” d be tempered with some considera- for box office receipts! In the year 1925 no growls and shrugs ‘formance of “Arms and the The dangerous propaganda of the: m is a statement of fact for Mr. h Bae and his *]mystery accompanies any keen realiza- . birthplace and home. eee - following program: a Monat _Dretu, Pin age Fie minute, with nothing to distract your dianehte from its long empty corridor that awaits you, at: the end of which is your door, garnished by, cordial messages from the first business men ‘of Bryn Mawr. To ude over this dark hour, the railroad has installed for you a weighing machine--new, shiny, guaranteed to lie like a gentleman. Who can be sad with its cheerful gleam be- fore her? Come, weigh yourselves at a penny a. shot: hold your breath while the fatal arrow swoops around the dial at the touch of your feet: rejoice to see it stop, and not swing on to astronomical figures. Try it again and again—the game is in- exhaustidle. And when at last the Tooner- ville trolley comes poop-pooping around the corner, then thank the Pennsylvania Rail- road for this, the greatest of its great bene- fits. o : BOOK REVIEW The. Professor's House, by Willa Cather— New York, Alfred A, Knopf. Willa Cather has chosen for her latest novel a profound and: intricate study of personality, a curiously indirect method of presentation. She has already proved her skill in this indirect reyelation of character in “A Lost Lady,” .and in “Alexander’s Bridge,” as she has shown her mastery of direct revelation in her earlier and unappreciated work, “The Song of the Lark.” But she has done nothing finer than this story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his dead friend Tom Outland. Through the Professor’s memories and the: words of the other people we are shown with lucidity, and yet with the tion of human character, the personality of this dead man, and all his relationships, even to the unexpressed love for him of St. Peter’s younger daughter, A narra- tive within a narrative, Outland’s diary of the crucial years in his early life is in- serted, making completely plain the youth and independence and uncompromising individuality of this friend of the Pro- fessor. And. it is the stimylus of* this personality that momentarily lifts the in- hérent force and loneliness of St. Peter -beyond the education and habits of 50 years, to a crisis of mind that almost dis- penses with life. With this loneliness and passion of a strong individual, Miss Cather has been preoccupied before, in the character of Thea Kronborg; but here she has heightened the intensity of the personality she is portraying, by this strange influence of the dead friend. Of this the old.house of the Professor is the ‘ de yeas ORCHESTRA PROGRAM On Friday and Saturday, October 23 and t left oS C maj classes and the present ‘five-course system sions resulted. isfactory «at Vas and lack of suffici men, however, seem to be satisfied.—V assar M eaten: ning this week, at the Guild Theatre, cast including June Walker, Lee Epier and Helen Westley. - What They Wanted,” has a new play, “Lucky Sam McCarver,” Playhouse this week. The cast ssid Clare Eames and Hilda Spong. [author of “The Fool,” will be produced at the Times Square Theatre, with a cast headed by Fay Bainter. Jnarat. NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES | Chapel attendance Seems to be quite an issue these days. Dartmouth has abolished compulsory chapel, while Princeton still re- tains its Sunday Church requirement. McGill University has established a new chair—that of Industrial Chemistry. Pro- fessor Harold Hibbert, late of Yale, has been given the appointment—The McGill Daily. A. Yale Alumnus who prefers to remain anonymous has given his war bonus to Yale in return for financial assistance given him by the university in working his way through college. The donor states in a letter that he opposed the bonus in principle—New York Times. . Overwork rather than Cupid seems to be the cause of flunking- at Temple. University. The Adelphi College Fortnightly is driving the wolf from the door by starting a Cir- culating Library. Richmond University, on the other hand, has voted to add $10 to the budget of each student for college publications. This week is Archeological week at Vas- sar. Each day a prominent archeologist will deliver a lecture. The course will not be sequential. Professor Rhys Carpenter lec- tured Monday evening on “Greek Sculpture in Spain.” One-half of the student body of Vassar would like to listen to the Sunday evening organ recital in darkness, The question of fifteen hours a week of was the subject of last week’s Open Forum Discussion at Vassar. No definite conclu- Room conditions seem to be rather unsat- due to overcrowding t light. There are 325 freshmen on campus this year. The fresh- PLAYS OPENING IN NEW YORK The Theatre Guild will present, begin- ‘The Glass Slipper,” by Molnar, with a Sidney Howard, author of “They Knew opening at the » “Phe Tneaiy "by: Channing Pollick, ENGAGED core Mesa: ’23, to > Pato Kun- the derogatory comtnent of “an alumna.”}> ‘| divertissement. “THE WOLF AT THE DOOR” . Un accordance with its policy expressed in the last issue, the News. offers the first ‘of @ series of criticism of a play opening in Philadelphia.) | Melodrama interspersed “with generous doses of low comedy arid Pollyanna prattle. seem to be the principal ingredients of The Wolf at the Door, which opened Monday evening at the Garrick Theatre. This production by Milton Herbert Grop- per and Raymond C. Hill contains most of | the faults of Ladies of the Evening with. few of its virtues, It vaguely reminded us | The Golden Bed—only the latter contained a most novel Bal Masque, all of candy, ny way of of a movie we saw last year called The > authors state their theme in the pro- “Vengeance is mine:. I will- repay, saith the Lord.” The play opens in a prison with Louis Calhern. as Jack Jjlayes, the hero, and Joseph Allen as the Comic character, | gram. Pete Malloy, both prisoners, plotting re- venge. They escape from prisomawhile a whistle resembling an ambulance horn moans in the offing. The characters then wade_ through two scenss which further the plot The fourth scene at the end of act IT proves the theme when Clara Joel as Blanche Marlow, the woman who double ‘crossed Hayes and sent him to prison, is made an outcast by her new lover. Here The Wolf at the Door reaches its natural conclusion. But somewhere or other the authors must have read that the love element and a happy ending are essentials never to be omitted; so two more scenes follow. The. last scene at the office of the. warden of the prison is a miraculous com bination of said essentials. -Minna Gamble as Kate Corning, “the Girl” and mouthpiece of the theme, is bundled into the scene on the pretext of discovering whether or not Jack has returned to the prison, as she had urged him to do one scene back. After a proper interval, Jack enters with his prison guard, who forthwith begs for the honor of grasping Jack’s hand since Jack had saved his life when the convicts had broken prison. When asked by the warden why he gave himself up, Jack answers, “I don’t know.” This is the cue for Jack and Kate to rotate towards each other, while the warden (kind old soul!) is left to murmur unheeded by the happy pair, “Of course, I ought to double your sentence to thirty years, but instead I'll make it five-not-a-year’s scarcely a jot. .parole.” We are still wondering why the time ele- ment is stressed throughout the play. The exact time, of each scene is printed in the program, wy at regular intervals some .one of the characters alludes to the hour, and in most of the scenes a big clock with a yel- low dial—quite effective against the black velvet curtain—gaily disagrees with the ‘time stated. Is this emphatic method of making the entire action take place in one in nine houks to be exact, an effort to return to the Greek idea of unity of time? _ As for the acting, it seemed rather ama- teurish, while the stage mechanics were frankly bad, We suggest that Mr. Calhern | try wearing suspenders in the first scene. wae Rees aed an . asked by ' Westside Presbyterian Church of Ridge- "by Dr. Tyson on the Wednesday evenings 5 Se aT THE COLLEGE NEWS : & 3 p RERE G. G. KING GIVES NEW LIBERTY TO MAJOR CLASS: Reading List Abolished Temporarily; _ Interview to Be Given Later. “My Major students know no less than” usual. I can say that at least,” said Pro- fessor ere Goddard King, when about the rete she is trying this year in her Major’ History of Art course. No list of required reading has been given to the -class, which numbers twelve; books have been replaced on reserve merely for the convenience of the students. Scheduled quizzes will be continued, according to the rules of the college, and monthly quizzes because the work divides itself into short periods. In other words, the members of the class are supposed to find their own material, instead of being assigned defi- nite pages on a required readirfg list. This_experiment—is—being—made—in—re-+ sponse to an editorial- published in the News last spring, protesting against the weakness and misplaced emphasis of cer- tain academic requirements. Miss King accepted this ehallenge and announced in the News her willingness to make the trial with a Major Class. After the’ first scheduled quiz she will make a statement. DISCIPLE OF DR. FOSDICK TO - TALK IN CHAPEL THIS WEEK Christian Association Arranges Lectures on Bible Literature. The Rev. Albert Butzer, pastor of the wood, N. J., will speak in chapel next Sunday evening, October at 7.30 o’clock. Dr. Butzer is a famous pupil of Dr. Fosdick. Dr. Tyson, who gave a very interest- ing discussion last year on the Book of Jonah from the modernist’s viewpoint, will give a lecture next Wednesday eve- ning, October 21, on the OJd and New Testaments from a critical standpoint, in the chapel at 7.30 o’clock. This will be the first of a series of lectures to be given 25, of October 21, 38 and November 4 and 11, ‘ 2 _ aan _ MANN & DILKS © 1102 CHESTNUT STREET TOPCOATS SUITS DRESSES SPORT HATS representative of. the News|: “\ costume. FRENCH AND LIBERAL CLUBS TO HEAR.TALK ON SWITZERLAND Dr. Schopfer to Speak on the Swiss International Situation “La Situatiom Internationale de 1a Suisse” will be the subject. of ‘a lecture by Dr. Sidney Schopfer, Madame Leuba’s brother, before the French Club and the Liberal, on Saturday, October’24, at 8.15, in Rockefeller Hall. Dr. Schopfer is “Avocat conseiller national Suisse,” and a‘ member of the Interparliamentary Union, of which the twenty-third congress ‘as just been held at Washington. Four topics will make up the talk, each of which will occupy 15 minutes. They are: Composition paliticne de la Suisse, sa nature;-ses-origines: Pee Son role historique jusqu’a la Revolu- tion Francaise. © x La neutralite garantie precedemment a forme du Congres de Vienne de 1815. La nouvelle situation modffiee par la Societe des Nations. PRIZE IS OFFERED FOR ESSAY ON IRISH HISTORY The American Irish Historical Society has announced .a prize historical essay contest open sta all students. The subject of the es- say is “The Irish Chapter-in-American His- tory.” Into treatment of this subject will enter the contributions of the Irish race in all fields—military, political, economic, and so forth—that have made for. the. develop- ment of the American republic. Alf essays must be submitted to the secreg tary-general of the society, 132 East Six- teenth Street, New York City, not later than December 20, 1925. No essay’ should exceed approximately 400Q words in length. The historiographer of the society and a special staff of assistants will choose one hundred of these essays to be subrpitted to five eminent American scholars for the final awards. Prizes of $500, $300 and $200 will be awarded to three essays in order of merit. The points on which ‘the decision will be made are: First, historical accuracy and range of subject; second, literary excellence; third, terseness and directness of statement. The prizes will be distributed to the win- ‘ners at the annual banquet of the society on the last Saturday of January, 1926, and the first. prize essay will be read during the post-prandial exercises. All the prize essays will have an extensive circulation, since they will be published in the annual journal of the society for 1026. Any competitor who may wish to have his or her manuscript returned must provide the secretary-general with a self-addressed and stamped envelope; otherwise, the society will not stand obligated for its return. 673 Fifth Av., New York 26 Old Bond St., London -2 Rue de la Paix, Paris / PPE ERENT ‘iss ing Coden ree oe S: ond Orange Skin Food. Ask at _ toilet oe counter for “The Quest of the Beautiful,” Elizabeth Arden’s book on the care of the skin. Babani. Perfumes add a final ~ touch of charm fo youevery Elizabeth Arden’s Toilet Prep- | arations and Babani Perfumes are on sale at : Her of points, gained, for example, by play- . Latimer Street, beginning this week. The AFTERNOON TEA ant LUNCHEON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ELECTS # "CHEERLEADERS FOR YEAR Umpires, Blazers and Rules Are Discussed in First Meeting Elizabeth Mallett, ’26, and Helen Smith, 26, were elected College Cheer Leaders by the Athletic Association in Taylor Hall on Wednesday, October 14. Amending Rule 3, a motion that the goal- keeper irs hockey may play and that archery may be done at any time, -was passed. The President, Edith Harris, ’'26, explained that the Board of the Association was en- deavoring to work out a system whereby blazers, with a pocket insignia varying ac- | cording to the teams the owner had played on, may be awarded. The blazers will be received as a reward for merit and will not be given unless the owner has a certain num- ing on every class third team.- By Junior year in the case suggested a blazer would probably be awarded. Umpiring for match games is now a paid position. First team. umpires, who must be very good, will receive 75 cents an hour; second team umpires, 50 cents, and third, 25 cents. Anyone desiring to be an umpire should ‘apply to Virginia Norris, ’26. After an announcement from’ the ‘chair that bathing suits must be approved by the Board of the Athletic Association and that no white tops are permitted, the meeting was ane. MAIDS’ CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR Opening the first meeting of the Maids’ basement on Wednesday, October 14, Millicent Pierce, ’26, introduced Helen Smith, ’26, who-spoke-onthe.plans.for Sunday School this year, which include a choir to be trained by Mary Zelia Pease, ’27, with perhaps occasional outside aid. Miss Faulkner’s speech telling of the help we can derive from the example set us by the maids was followed by one by Florence Lomax, who told of what had most interested her in night school the preceding year. specially interesting she found the art course teaching not only the appreciation of pictures, but why famous pictures were famous, and the poetry which came in the advanced Eng- lish. Dancing and a skilful exhibition of the “Charleston” by one of the men finished the evening. “THE CITY OF THE FUTURE” An exhibition of &things, studies of sky- scrapers, will be held at the Print Club, 1614 series is entitled “The City of the Future” and is by) Hugh Ferris. The exhibition is open to the public. COTTAGE TEA ROOM. Montgomery Avenue BRYN MAWR : * Everything Dainty and Delicious J. J. CONNELLY ESTATE The Main Line Florists — 1226 Lancaster Avenue ROSEMONT, PA. _ nents Mere Mat. 368 Social Club in the club room in Taylor’ og" | yourself.” _ CAST FOR “ICEBOUND” , .© , ANNOUNCED Roles for “Icebound” have been. tea tively filled, and rehearsals will begin this week. The characters in this~ realistic play of New England.are: Henry Jordan.......... cs .E. .Stewart, ’28 }Emma Jordan ?......5.6%. ..C. Bell, graduate Be TRON c Bileiw sick J. Sullivan, ’27 . BOHIG gross BA P. Burr, ’28 Of cties te H, Guiterman, ’28 WI GON ek citi O. Saunders, ’25 Doctor Curtie os. ck ae B. Linn, ’26. Judge: Bradford’... 36.6605 A. Palache, ’28 rere 5, Nas eeei E. Morris, ’27 PON JOPGEN. 6 ck bik M. Hupfel, ’28 Jane Crosby .........sessscees .C, Swift, ’27 WE ee L. Haley, ’28 FRESHMAN STATISTICS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Pennsylvania’ heads the list of home States with 29, New York is a close sec- ond with 27. In all, 19 States, the Dis- trict of Columbia and two foreign coun- tries are represented. The statistics. of the parénts of the class of 1929 are no less_-intéresting. Ninety-three Freshmen have native born parents and grandparents. English is the main racial stock on both sides. The main racial stock of the paternal grand- parents of 46 Freshmen is English; of seven, English and French; and of six, English and Irish. The main racial stock of - the -maternal grandparents of 32 Freshmen is English; of 12, English and Scotch; of seyen, English and French. Fourteen Freshmen have parents who are both college graduates. Fifty have mothers with no college training. Two have fathers with no college training and mothers who are college graduates. Thirty-eight have parents both of whom fare without college training. The occupations of the parefits cover a wide field. Twenty are manufacturers, 14 are lawyers, 13 are bankers and brokers, 11 are merchants, nine are engineers ‘and six are physicians, of whom. three ate surgeons. There are three cach who are army officers, pro-., -fessors. in universities, clergymen, cor- poration managers or directors, real estate and three retired. Two are editors: Then follows a list of 15 occupations in which only one is engaged. It is interest- ing to note that 59 are engaged in busi- ness and commerce, as Opposed to 41 en- gaged in the professions and eight un- classified. BEATRICE PITNEY TELLS OF EAGLESMERE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 matter of drinking and smoking? For those who come from, co-educational colleges, this is a pressing question, because on the same campus men are allowed to do what the girls are expelled for doing. These are only — samples of the very many fascinating sub- jects that came up. “In the morning there is a non-denomina- tional chapel service, then every one divides up into discussion’ groups of twenty. You have the afternoon at your disposal to amuse In the evening there is a lecture by some speaker on religious topics, and then you are free again, Before you realize it, you are deep in discussion with someone or other. One can't help enjoying it. “Next June,” concluded Miss Pitney, “we are to go back to Silver‘Bay to whith Vassar, _ ‘Smith and Wellesley send delegations.” » - Notice The uinnes Board of the Lantern’ an- nounces that its competition for the classes of 1927 and 1928 will be open until Monday; October 26. Will all those who are inter- ested please see F. Green, '26, 3 Pembroke — East, any day between 1.30 and 2.00 P. M.? fathers who are college graduates and” 4 a tig obit Se ‘in’ Paris. oe Ay THE COLLEGE NEWS FRENCH CLUB ANNOUNCES PLANS UP TO THANKSGIVING In the absence of the president, H. Grayson, '25, and the vice president, E. Nelson, ’27, the French Club announces a tentative program up to Thanksgiving. Lectures by visiting Frenchmen on “Le Mariage Moderne” and “La~ Jeunesse d’ Apres Guerre,” are being planned. Moderna plays will be sread by. French readers, and ‘after Thanksgiving casting and rehearsals will start for a club play. Under the combined auspices of the Liberal and Frenéh Clubs, Dr. Sidney Schopfer. will speak next Monday night on “La Situation Internationale. de la Suisse.” Tryouts for the French Club will be ——held-next-Sunday-and-Monday afternoons | between 4 and 5 in room 35, Pembroke East. NATIVE COSTUME LENDS. CHARM TO FOLKSONGS CONTINUED FROM PAGP 1 emphatic. This is the main difference between the folksong and the classical song. Ratan Devi described a few of her ex- periences in India when she’ was trying to learn the songs. It was exceedingly difficult to obtain a ‘teacher because the natives are very unsympathetic. Finally, when she convinced them by keeping ex- actly true to pitch that she was worthy of being taught, she succeeded in getting. a teacher, a man who had been in the service of one of the native rulers. An- other difficulty was due to the Indian’s sense of the fitness of things. He will not sing songs belonging to a certain season out of their season. It was there- fore almost impossible for Ratan Devi to| learn songs of other seasons of the year. In conclusion, Ratan Devi said that styles of dress change in India as well as ‘The change may be ever so slight, as for instance one year the stripe on a woman’s skirt will be two inches wide while the next year it will be one inch, but the decree is nevertheless in- ~ fallible. KATHERINE TOMPKINS ELECTED LIBERAL CLUB PRESIDENT The resignation of the president, B. Linn, '26, was read at the meeting of the Liberal Club on Tuesday evening, October 20.* . K. Tompkins, ’26, was elected presilent to take Miss Linn’$ place. Prior to her resig- nation last spring, Miss Tompkins was presi- dent for the year 1924-1925, ae LANTERN NIGHT CONTINUED FROM PAGE: 1 The Freshmen hymn, “Sofias,”.of which the rhythm of. the first line has been slightly changed this year, was sung for the first time on Lantern Night by 1924, replacing “Over the Way to the Shrine.” ‘The music, selected by L. Rheinhardt, ’21, and H. Hill, 21, is “Of Thy—Mystical-Supper”—part—of the Russign Church service, by A, F. Lvoff, while the words were tfansposed by K. Ward, ’21, and H. Hill, 21, from Pericles’ rewritten by Dr. Saunders, Professor of Greek, three years ago. IN PHILADELPHIA Music : Metropolitan Opera House—San Grand. Opera. Academy of Music—Thursday evening, October 22—Galli-Curci. Theatres : Garrick—The Wolf at the Door. Walnut—George Arliss in Old English. Forrest—Stepping Stones. Broad—The Dove. ‘ Adelphi—H. B. Warner in Silence. Shubert: Rose Marie. Lyric—Dancing Mothers. Chestnut Street Opera House—Artists and Models. Movies : Stanley—Graustark madge. Aldine—The Phenton of the Opera with Lon Chaney. Stanton—The Pony Express. Fox—Lightnin’. Coming: Broad—School for Scandal. Forrest—Ziegfeld Follies. Adelphi—The Fall Guy with Ernest Truex, Walnut—Aloma of the South Seas. Carlo ise with Norma WK SW OW "FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS, SENIORS, ATHLETES Do You Know? ‘‘HOW TO STUDY” ‘The Students’ Hand-Book of Practical Hints on the Technique of Effective Study 2 eee WILLIAM ALLAN BROOKS hundreds of practical hints and short cuts in the economy ‘ot navetnr e phaee ate ts in ri students securin minimum cost of time, energy and tatiave. ESPECIALLY RECOMMENDED for in extra curriculum igh pcholaatic achievement. 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Whipple, U. of Michigan’ °°” j to be ve sieee M f them, 6 Ost w e Funeral Oration, by Thucydides, and were]’ | atthe time that no-definite reform would {| You will notice some ° LESS RIGID RULE FOR SMOKING. FAVORED BY MAJORITY Smoking on Campus and in Country Suggested by Questionnaire. _ Undergraduate opinion seems over- whelmingly in favor of smoking, accord- ing to the results of the questionnaire which was circulated by the Self-Govern- ment Association last week. The: were: “three hundred and_ sixty-seven -votes cast, of numerical results which three hundred and twenty-one in- dicated that they were in favor of a new rule allowing smoking under some re- strictions. Of the forty- -six who voted against a new rule, one-fourth qualified that they would be in favor-of-it-if-it-did not involve injuring the reputation of the College. — ’ Suggestions for revision included per- mission to smoke in some definite -room on campus; in most cases the hall sitting room was designated. Also many favored smoking in the less populated parts of the country while on walks or picnics, and many asked that the ban on smoking in-Philadelphia be removed. Although the Board made it very clear be the outcome of this expression of opinion, the information is valuable as something concrete to present to the meeting of college presidents at Mount Holyoke on October 23, at which Bryn Mawr is to have a student representa- tive. CHILDREN’S BOOKS The Sydenham Book Shop 225 S. Sydenham St. Phila. Pa, ° CURRENT EDITIONS RARE Afternoon Tea and Luncheon COTTAGE TEA ROOM Montgomery Avenue Bryn Mawr > Everything thing Dainty and Delicious J. TRONCELLITI Practical Cleaner & Dyer Goods called for and Delivered 939 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr — neni When in the village Lon in the window at 829 LANCASTER AVE. Telephone, Bryn Mawr 867 ghe Hearthstone NCHEON __. 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A NEW CONCEPTION OF , «A MODERN arene” By Abraham Flexner. From. the Atlantic Monthly for October. 3 Continued from October 14. A fairly sharp line can, I think, be drawn between the lower and the upper activities which..we.have been discuss- ing. The lower activities—activities be- longing to schools and colleges—are to a considerable extent, let us say, ddap- tive or disciplinary in character. Schools and colleges deliberately try to create a wholesome environment; they try to make something out of their students, try to train them to orderly habits, try to make sure they know things sup- posedly needful, try to get them invsome sort of acceptable shape, morally, men- tally, socially. Schools and colleges are thus parts of the machinery by means of which society keeps from going to oe eae RE a aN pieces, as it would go to pieces if an- archy ruled from. the cradle. up. Par- ticularly on the moral and social side, the college—dealing, as it does, with the immature—has a good deal of responsi- bility for the maintenance of wholesome conditions, though, as “boys must be risked, if there are to be men,” not even | the cdllege has to play either nurse or policeman—far from it. On the other hand, the enormous and miscellarfeous ehrollment of*the largest institutions jus- tifiles—nay, requires—a definite endeavor, to provide, without forcing, a finer type of social influence than is apt, in pres- ent-day America, to provide itself. This is, however, a separate problem, which I cannot now undertake to discuss. On ~~ ‘should the intellectual side, with which I dm especially concerned, the colleges have adopted an attitude and installed a méch- anism which are, in nty judgment, irrele-| vant and damaging. They are too con- ventional—too narrow in social and in- tellectual outlook, too crédulous of the efficacy of machinery. Individuality not be suppressed while it is being trained; hitman institutions are so defective and society so far from being really civilized that criticism ought to form an active element in education. at every stage—criticism of ethics, politics, institutions, and so forth. Youthful radi- calism is better than youthful smugness. Moreover, estimate what they can accomplish by regi- COLLEGE producing the work. or students. Printer of the WLM The production of satisfactory printed matter for college officials and ‘students is dependent both upon ; facjlities and upon the experience of the organization We offer an organization specializing in school _ and college work, headed by a college graduate, and amply equipped to print anything needed by faculty PHILIP ATLEE LIVINGSTON | OFFICES IN WAYNE, ARDMORE, NARBERTH AND BALA-CYNWYD V4 (CLL Ahhh hhhididdddiiillillllllllliul . PRINTING College News Ny colleges are prone to over- MLL dddidddldullelliLiiiin BRINTON BROS. 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High standards cannot be at- undergraduate school,- such overlapping eigners?» Is this the liberty ygur glosi- Afternoon Tea Ps Saturday Luncheon 3 tained by conforming to requirements—so js bound to.confuse both teacher and|ous statue represents?” Open Sunday : many hours, ‘units, courses, testimonials, of |student. In ‘the competition miethods,| “I'll have to send you to a hospital if ; this, ‘fhat, of another sort. Again, nobody | the undergraduate usually,wins® forgis of | you don’t keep quiet,” he said. , Chatter-On Tea House organization and accounting, methods of “I’m not afraid,” I screamed. “You 835 Morton Road is wise enough and well informed engugh, no matter how many secretaries, question: naires, odd colored card$ he has at his dis- direct him to the course, the teacher, or the social niche supposedly preordained for -him; nor would the — be educated if the trick could be done*® Education and ad hoc training have simply nothing to do with one another; they are, rather, at daggers’ points. Genuine education involves effort, risks, and some lost motion. The requirements of school and college will never educate a stu- ident-unless- he -consistently,persistently,and more or less in his own way tries to edu- cate himself. Nevertheless, however these things to be decided, wherever the elines are drawn, schools and colleges do have some sort of parental responsibility for school pupils and college students. * 2 2* €° A graduate school has, in my opinion, no parental responsibility whatsoever; it has no disciplinary responsibility. .On . the con- trary, it ought to be the most skeptical and inquiring of intellectual ‘agencies. It takes nothing on faith—neither Newtonian laws of' gravitation, Darwinian theories of evolu- tion, germ theory, Kantian ethics, demo- ‘cratic institutions, wisdom of the fathers, virtues of the jury system, nor anything else. Under the heaviest sense of responsibility for the truth, and therefore with the exer-| cise of the utmost care of which the human mind is capable, the university is concerned to pursue the search for truth, wherever the search lead, and to train young men to find it, respect it, teach it, and, if need be, die for it. Only so can the vast forces which being released from fature be brought to work for. the general good, | No matter how broadly one conceives school and. college, there would seem. to. be some real incongruity between the purposes for which boys and girls are sent to college and the purpohes for which men and women resort to universities; between the objects which lurk in the back of the teacher’s head in‘ high’ school and college and the objects Which are in the forefront of the students’ own head in the graduate school of a university. Of course the two stages cannot be distinguished by a sharp line; but the very, end, though decreasingly, being responsible for-the boy, the university hav- ing no responsibility save to truth. Organi- zation. as loose, to be sure, as possible, but stil organization for ends important to the student—that is the keynote of school and coliege; freedom, detachment, or shifting “forms of organization calculated to run -down and hand on the truth—that is a dif- ferent thing, and that is the keynote’ of a hone university. IV » As matters now stand, however, college and university undergraduate department and « aduate department, are so inter- twined as to be more or less ‘indistinguish- able. La us for the moment ignore phar- macy, dentistry, schools of business, corre- | spondence departments, the radio,. and ath-.| ‘letics—activities that dos not tow conspic: uously involve the, search for truth or the training of mento carry on the search for truth. Strong-minded_ workers cai. perhaps petende sent lall T ‘knew about them was what I had s,| toward me. - . Thefe they were. great big ~~ shoot with glistening. white teeth. discipline and presentation, appropriate to the undergraduate student-body, have thus to a large extent permeated the grad-. uate school; majors, minors, units, at- tendance records, course examinations,— all the paraphernalia which the American college emphasizes in its endeavor to handle an unwieldy and _ heterogeneous undergraduate body—creep into the grad- uate school, because where graduate and undergraduate, superior and inferior, are mixed the lower type tends to determine the “set-up.” a Again, the teaching “personnel dis- charges a double or a triple role. In one course the instructor, dealing as he does with undergraduates only, is the shep- herd, ‘charged with some responsibility for guiding the members of his flock; in a second the same instructor may have to teach boys and to unsettle men; in the third the same individual is a high priest, concerned with ¢riticizing, transmitting, and increasing knowledge, with no per- sonal responsibility whatsoever for the men and women who freely choose to hear him and heed him or not, as they please.. Few individuals find the three roles equally possible or congenial. (To Be Continued.) RUNNING THE GAUNTLET THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND The great day had at last arrived and we were eagerly watching the ever-near- ing land, which meant the end of our seven days’ journey from London to New York. As we passed_the Statue of Lib- erty, mother gathered her little brood of five about her and told us that this was symbolic of the liberty and freedom that would be ours when we entered the country, Late in the afternaon our ship docked and we, among the other immigrants, were sent to Ellis Island to be given the various tests necessary before we could be admitted to the country. After a few trying hours the tests were finished and mother told us that tonight we would sleep on real beds instead of in bunks. One of the attendantWasked us to follow him, and, thinking he was -taking-us-to--meet-my~-father,..who..was.]. to take us home, we followed. . He led us to a big room, which we entered at his bidding. No sooner did we do this than he closed and locked the door. | looked around and found myself in a room in which many people were either sitting or standing. Near the door sat an, old woman dressed in clothes made up of all the colors of the rainbow. She sprange to her feet as we entered and approached my sister, speaking to her in a foreign tongue which we did not understand. : Turning from her, I looked around. this time more slowly, and great was my horror to see a group of black people, dressed in red and white striped clothing. at the furthest end of the room. I had never_seen a black person: in my life, and read in my geography books at school. namely, that in~ South America. fived tribes of black people who were canni- bals. Immediately I had a mental pic- ture of myself being eaten by these savages, and before I realized it 1 was screaming, crying and kicking at the door trying to open it. Soon I noticed that tion of the negroes, who were coming t gate me_ to eat me. by my’ screaming I attracted the Aitten-. | photo. cdi take me if you want to, What did I do that I deserve to be put under lock and key? Why did you put me amongst a bunch of savages?” and burst into a new fit of crying. ~\ He tried to close the door, but because of my position he failed. Then he turned to my mother and asked her if. any one was coming to meet us. She told him she expected her husband. “I’m sure he will never find us in this God-fersaken prison,” I -said. The guard tried to comfort me, but his efforts seemed tO be in vain until he suggested sending a telegram to my father. We jumped at the idea, and everything went well until the guard asked for money .to pay for the tele- gram and then'we found that the only money we had was English, which he would not accept. After some persua- sion he sent the telegran? “collect.” “Of course,” he said, “you will have to stay here until July 5, anyway.” In answer to my question as to why this was so, he expfained that the next day was July 4th, a very important na- tional. holiday in America, and that the officials at the island would not work. I shall never forget the misery of the next two days. All I seemed able to do was sit and cry and wonder how my father could ever find us. At last night came and I-tried to sleep, but the bunks we slept in were nothing but wire frames and the hairy wool blankets did not add to our comforts. All I could think of was whether or not daddy would be able to find us and when he would come. None of the family could sleep; so one of my sisters started to sing and the rest of the family fol- fowed suit. This woke the other sleep- ers who came to our bunks and spoke to us threateningly, but we did not un- derstand them, nor did we care, but kept on+ singing until the matron came and told us we had made the other people very angry and we had better stop or there would be trouble: Of course, we kept quiet after that, and sat wearily watching: through the windows to see the first signs of day. Another day and another night were spent in the same misery, and. then the sun rose upon a new day, the long-wished-for 5th’ of Jilly” We dressed hurriedly and sat as near as we could to the office door, eagerly listening for our names to be called. An hour passed, then two, and I was beginning to despair when our names were called. I was the first to reach the door and the first to see my father. My happiness on seeing him was so great that once again I began to cry. We went for our luggage and were all ready to leave when a man at the desk spoke to my baby sister, who was four years old, but who had not seen her father since she was one year old. She was so astonished to find that her daddy was actually a living man and not a photo, as:she imagined him ‘to be, that she would not speak. The man at the desk: insisted, that she speak to prove to him she was not mute, or she could not. leave i.e building. He tried every- thing to make her speak. My dad gave her money and his watch, but nothing seemed ‘to move her. We walked out of the room, but she did not even cry. It seemed as though we were doomed to spend the rest of our lives in that prison. As a last resort I took from my pocket a. photograph of our only brother, who was in” the British army at that time and. showed it to her, asking who it was. “Louis,” she cried, and kissed the new country, aie PotLy Soromons, "25. the. Bryn Mawr Summer School} 1 Bryn Mawr 1185 Dinner by Appuintment MAIN LINE VALET SHOP BERNARD J. McRORY Riding & Sport Clothes Remodeled & Repaired Cleaning and Dyeing Moved to . 2D FL. over GAFFNEY’S NOTION STORE Next to Pennsylvania: Railroad “EXPERT FURRIERS” — Breakfast Luncheons Dinners TELEPHONE, ARDMORB 1946 Haverford Ave. & Station Rd. Drive HAVERFORD STATION, -P. R. R. Luncheon Afternoon Tea Dinner An attractively different place for College people THE MILESTONE INN Italian Restaurant 845 LANCASTER AVE. 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That one “word spelled freedom tow fo all, and ten minutes later we were on ; “1 | the, ferry, bound for a new home in a}