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and sometimes there seems fo be behind

- the loom the figure of the great weaver;

at othér times the weaving is being car-
ried on by men and women whose weav-
ing sometimes conforms, sometimes does
not, to an infinitely complicated but sym-
metrical plan which, and, here is the para®
doxical tragedy, they can only see in the
web which has been already woven; but
they know that whether what they weave
will remain or nof depends upon its being
in accord with the pattern.”

Speaking personally of his own faith,
Dr. Gilkey gave three reasonaM@r his be-
lief in the Reality Behind Life: The pur-
posefulness of the ‘Evolutionary Process,
the evident progress of the human race,
and the amount of sheer goodness in
human kind. He finds it inipossible to
conclude. that all phenomena are the re-
sult of blind force working on inert matter ;
imperative to believe in “something like
our mind, only infinitely greater,” which
stands at the heart of life.

“The riddle of existence is just about
as great for the modern scientist as it
ever was,” Dr. Gilkey concluded.. “We
are all on the verge of an era of new spec-
ulations which may more nearly approxi-
mate the true conception of the Godhead;
indeed, we can never go beyond the stage
of regarding It as a Major Probability.
Modern Spiritualism: and Idealism both
agree that the ultimate reality is mental
and spiritual, impassable and infinite.”

Dr. Gilkey recommended several mo-
dern books on religion:

The Fitness of the Environment—Hen-
derson, ;

A Student’s Philosophy of Religion—
W. J. Wright.

” The Religion of Yesterday and To-
morrow—Kirsopp Lake.

Science and Religion—J. A. Thompson.

The Psychology of Religious Mysticism
—James Leuba.

 

NEWS IN BRIEF
At a class meeting last Thursday, 1927
elected J. Seeley chairman of the Ring
Committee, and E. Parker chairman of
the Song Book Committee.

 

ENGAGED
M. Boyden, ’25, to Francis McGoun.

 

 

 

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GOD IS BROADCASTING STATION
WE ARE THE RECEIVING SETS

 

In Doctor Gilkey’s View of Life, People
God’s Agents in World

 

“The Place of God in: Our Lives” was
the subject of the second*of two lectures

given by the Reverend . James, Gordon
Gilkey, of the South Congregatiomal
Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, At

the college on Friday evening, February
12. He carried over the assumption that
there is a God from his lecture on the
preceding night. : :

Dr. Gilkey asked three questions: “How
do we conceive of this other reality, God?”
“Can we believe that God exerts any in-
fluence on our ‘lives?” ~- “If there is- atiy
influence, what is it?” @

God bears the same relation to the
universe as the spirit, soul—call it what
you will—bears to the physical organism
of the body. He is the immaterial reality
of the world, and, as such, cannot be lo-
calized. He permeates everything.

“Assuming that there is this reality in
which we live and move and have our being,
can we believe that there is a connection
with us, that Ged is in touch with us?”
Dr. Gilkey answered this question by
saying that if there is a God and He can-
pot do anything, religion will go to pieces.
His theory is that God is “forever and
always trying to give us all that He can
of inspiration, help, and ideas.” The five
doorways through which He enters into
our being are our sense of beauty, intel-
lect, moral sense, ideals, and spirit of self-
sacrifice.

Comparing this mechanism to a fadio
set, Dr. Gilkey said that at times God
rcould “get through” much better than at
other times, and that this fluctuation was
due not to faults in the broadcasting
station, God, where the sending was al-
ways equally good, but to differences in
the réceptivity of the receiving set. Our
receptivity depends on our moods and the

ceeds. in “getting through,” and putting
an idea into our minds. Emerson had
this idea when he wrote that “the great
crises of life are on quiet afternoons, at
the turn of the road, when new ideas filter
into consciousness.”

* God does not, cannot change the phys-
ical universe, but He does influence

tive condition. He works. through this
agency to accomplish what He wants in
the world. Unless people are receptive,
He is powerless. And this answers the
third question.

Speaking of the-modern view of prayer,
Dr. Gilkey saide “Prayer does not change
God, nor the physical universe, nor other
people. It is the way by which we in-

|crease our receptivity of God’s influence.

Most of the prayers in churches are a
very foolish sort of. oratio obliqua, de-
tailing the events of the week or flatter-
ing God.” Prayer may be reading a book,
standing by the sea, or playing the piano.

Dr. Gilkey believes that the individual
is immortal and that we continue our lives
in some other world, where we go on

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state of our development. There are the
“rare, lonely moments” when —Godsuc-}

people’s minds when they are in a recep-'

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from the point where we left off in this.
According to this theory, “God is con-
stantly creating new personalities, some
of which stream t@#ward our world and
take their individuality from the window
of our’spirit.” This carries out the analogy
that the personality is like a beam of light
colored by the stained glass window of a
cathedral. ‘i

Expressed in its simplest terms the
“oospel of modernism is that God is an
available source of help and What He can
do for us is in direct proportion to our
effort to get to Him. That is why the
religion of the future will develop along
an attempt to find ways which will create
a hfgher co-efficient of human receptive-
ness.

 

| COLLEGE HELPS DETERMINE

VOCATION, SAYS MI§S HIRTH

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Miss Hirth said that she had found that
girls were’ drawn-into teaching because
of the element of security. -It was not
that they especially desired to teach, but
that they regarded it as a safe proposi-
tion~as so much life insurance. . Miss
Hirth compared this attitude with that
of men and found that this condition did
not exist with them although they had
more responsibility.

Girls, furthermore, follow occupational
fads—just now it is international affairs.

“Motivation,” said Miss Hirth, “also
counts indetermining the choice-of the
student.” -The Bureau recently studied
the conditions of secretarial work and
found that there was more contentment
there than in other groups just because
of this factor. The secretary felt that she
was really helping things on, that she was
of service to the community.

. “There ought, however, to be only one

factor which -counts in the student’s
choice,” continued Miss -Hirth, “a pro-
found interest and love of the subject.
College is the place to discover the fields
of intellectual interest. %n broad terms,
major along the lines of your later ac-
tivity.” 2

Miss Hirth urged the use of aiding fac-
tors on the campus. The grouping of
subjects in the catalogue shows what sub-
jects go together. Professors and instruc-
tors, although naturally authorities. in
their particular field, Miss Hirth found
little used as advisors by the students.
She said that visitors were the ones who
most needed to be checked up. Unless
the students correlated the facts, they
were apt to become biased. She also
cautioned students about the advice of
fellow students, and urged each individual
to make her own decision, and then to
get the backing of her parents early in
the game. reo A °

Professional training is increasingly re-
quired. In some fields, such as law, it is
difficult for women to obtain the best
training. Harvard and Columbia, the two
best law schools in tke country, are both
closed to women: In-Law, . therefore,
women suffer adoublé handicap, sex arf
lack of training. Second rate schools, on
the other hand, are beckoning to women
with every inducement. “In any. case,”
said Miss Hirth, “the best training is’ none
too good. Therefore, first consider
whether training is required in the par-
ticular line you are choosing, and then
get the best.”

As a final warning, Miss Hirth caution-
ed students against mere experiment. “It
is best to decide early. There is too much
occupational vagabondage.”

 

NEWS IN BRIEF
1926 elections:
Vocational Committee—C. Hardy, C.
Quinn. , . :
Faculty Reception Committee—E. Mallet
V. Norris, D. Lefferts.

west.| Graduate Receptioy

  

 

RARE ‘BACH AND
STRAWINSKY PLAYED

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SONGS:

 

(a) “Nacht. liegt. auf den remade
Wer 4... Griffes
(b) Song of the Palanquin Bearers,”
Shaw
(2) 30) meee Polak
QUARTET—Pastorale et Danse,
a Arthur Hoeree
(1) Lent. Allegretto.
(2) Rhythéme et joyeuse.
SONGS:
Nuit d’autrefois .;... beri Rhene-Baton
Serenade Melancholique ... Rhene-Baton
Jadis tu m’as aime ....... Gretchaninow
Le BME bi a Sik ck Gretchaninow ,

TRIO—“Impressions of a Holiday”..Goosens
In the Hills. By the Rivers. The Water-
Wheel. The Village Church,

At the Fair,
(For Flute, Violoncello and Pianoforte)
Mason & Hamlin Piano

Irene Wilder de Calais ......... Contralto
Writes Blend doce Flute
SROPROD ALWINE: os, oes Pianoforte

The Russian String Quartet

JOa BUOY ce First Violin
TRCOD PIDNON ks ia, Second Violin
oe ee ee, Viola
Penjamm Gasthof ..........0..65.. ’Cello

Emil Polak at the Piano

 

LACK OF HUMOR
CHARACTERIZES EXHIBITION

 

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is Albert Rosenthal’s politician; in the
second Cecilia Beaux’ Man in a’ Green
Cape, littered with a trash of properties,
and Leopold Seyffert’s Man in a Red
Coat, characterized by effrontery and va-
pidity.

“Marie Danforth Page in her Mother
With Little Baby shows her peculiar and
very charming gift for painting children.
Alice Stoddard’s portrait of a baby (not
her prize-winning picture, which is a
typical prize winner, fashionable and
empty) is very well done.

“There are many good things, in the
exhibition, though many more bad. Jonas
Lie’s October shows a great and needed
beauty; the Early Spring of Jean Mac-
lane has symbolism and feeling; View in
Santa Fe, by Theodore. Vati-Seelem, has *
luminous color like glass; Walter Ufer,
that extraordinary person, contributes a
painting’ grotesque, unachieved, yet with
something in it of the tears of things,
some evocation like broken but poignant
poetry. :

“From this Academy it is apparent that

the classical silhouette in portrait has ~

come back, that quiet, familiar form with °
its bilateral symmetry which rests one.
And you need rest from the perpetual
strain of inadequacy present in the Acad-
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who can at leas
Rosita, and D. M. Lesaar’s Esperanza.
The flower pieces are full of strong and
charming /color, while Ruth Adam’s
Italian Vase has an eighteenth century and
accomplished loveliness. Pe
“Phere is one thing in the Academy of
final and achieved beauty, by Rockwell
Kent. But of Sculpture in the rest of the
Academy, where a buffalo becomes a bibe-
lot, and a young girl submits a ‘memorial
to. the Red Cross or any other great phi-
lanthropy,’ I can say nothing, more.”

 

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