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REE MAWR, ‘PA., Liehabdewertubleal FEBRUARY 18, 1925

 

 

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“TUNE UP, BRYN MAWR!

~NEW YORK OPENS DRIVE

Generous Contributions Flow ;To
Fund in Response to Appeal
From President Park

ONLY THIRTY THOUSAND —

 

 

“We would have a world peace as soon
as we cared for it as_ passionately -and
intensely as for nationalistic ends,” .said
Norman “Thomas, peaking in> “Taylor
Hall, under the auspices of the Liberal
Club, Friday. night.

“But a great many are content with
our nationalism as the last word in social
loyalty. The nationalism we’ve got is
expressed in our fetish worship of the
flag, and in—the—fist-raising, voice-raising
oratorgwho doesn’t care-what it’s all about,
but if anyone looks at the grand old flag
cross-eyed, he’s for war! Such national
loyalty is inadequate in our time. We
have to co-operate universally, because
nations are divided on the most eco-
nomically fantastic lines. The little coun-
tries of Europe, for instance, could not
exist without foreign supplies.

“Yet what is good for the State, that

-we consider righteous? The citizen can-

not refrain from war if the State is for it.
Not that nationalism is altogether bad,
or could be wholly done away with. But
the basis of this nationality is not race
but feeling. The Negro in peace has to
struggle for common rights, but in war
he’s a full-blooded American, sharing with
the privileged white man the opportuffity
of dying for ‘his country.

“The nationalism we’ve got is Machia-
vellian. The nationalism we should have
is best described in the definition of Maz-
zini: ‘the conscience of a people that as-
’ signs to each his offices and duties in

humanity.’
“Our task is see how, protesting

we can, prevent the

to

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BRYN MAWR WINS FIRST
“VARSITY BASKETBALL GAME

 

 

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EVOLUTION OF MODERN MUSIC
DISCUSSED BY NADIA BOULANGER

 

Admiration for Strawinsky ; Faure
“Biggest Musician of Our Time”

 

“Modern music has its roots in the past,”

|said Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, distinguished

organist, pianist and lecturer, who spoke on
the Evolution of Modern Music in Taylor.
Halfen Saturday February 14, at 8.15.

Recent tendencies in music, she explained,
demand unprejudiced consideration, not only
as_revolutionary, .but. also as_evolutionary
developments, Potytonality, one of the prin-
cipal characteristics of the new music, was
used by Bach. Likewise many complicated
rhythms of such compositions asx Straw-|
insky’s can be expressed in terms. Greek
rhythms,

“For a long time,” Mlle. Boulanger said
in describing the characteristics of modern
compositions, “music was based on the unity
of the measure.” Today Ravel in a trio and
Strawinsky in “L’Histoire du Soldat” divide
a ibd like 8-8 into divisions of 1-2-3, ‘12 re

2-3-4-5 .

odie teeaaes of modern mitsic. are the
whole-tone. scale,-of which Debussy was-an
exponent, polytonality, and atonality such as
Schoenberg entploys. In instrumentation,
Mile. Boulanger emphasized the “strength
and brilliance” of Strawinsky’s work.

“The biggest musician of our time,” ac-
cording to Mile. Boulanger, is Gabriel Faure, ;
whose work “in its construction gives us a
feeling of eternity, peace and purity. His
art of modulation is perhaps the most won-
derful music has ever known.” In illustra-
tion, she played a Nocturne with a “long
simple melody and beautiful harmony,” writ-
ten years”ago, and a more recent Nocturne
(No, 13) full of the contemplative quality
of many of Bach’s chorales.

CONTINUED. ON) PAGE 2

ALICE’S MURDER TRIAL
‘FEATURE OF FRESHMEN SHOW

 

Duchess, White Rabbit and Cook To
Represent Other Classes

 

is the
The

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title of the’ 1928 Freshmen’s Show,

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also, but the ball was frequently lost at the MA POR EE aE RSS lee OF M. Haly
basket, as neither C. Remak, ’25, nor F. Jay, [= W° OEE ESS TE Ba Fe To be cast
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Substitutes: A. Petrasch is chairman of Show Com-.

mittee; M.: Adams, of Costumes; N. Pe-
‘era, of Scenery; H. Yandell, of Dancing;
‘'L. Wray, of Tickets and Le ciated ‘and
Ly: hh of Posters. ©

{MISS KING’ OFFERS TO ABOLISH

QUIZZES AND PRIVATE READING

 

We be Corrected into Working ?

 

“T have taken up the gauntlet which you
threw down,
King, professor of History of Art at Bryn
‘Mawr, to a representative of the CoLLEck
News last Friday.

“In an editorial printed before Christmas,”
Miss King. continued, “the News expressed
the opinion that the present system of sched-.
uled quizzes and required reading was harm-
ful because it gave no time to think or to
explore. I take it that this is a genuine
expression of undergraduate opinion, and I
am willing to meet the situation. If the stu-
dents who are to take major history of art
next year are willing to try the experiment,
I. shall absolve them from all, except, of
course, examinations at the end of the
semesters. I will post no reading lists, but
placé the books which deal with the subject,
on the reserve shelf.

“The university system, which was formed
at Oxford and Cambridge, would not work
here for several reasons, In the first place,
a university of some 5000 students is only too
glad to fail a rather large number each year;
the system is perfectly merciless. This re-
sults in a somewhat picked group. It is
possible, as you think, that by our gradual
jtaising of the standard of entrance we shall
achieve what Oxford could achieve by fling-
ing out all those who fall behind. ‘I do not
believe it, however, because the standard is
in terms of intelligence tests, and the people
who excel in intelligence tests are just the
kind that I don’t want here. Nery often
¢he best work*is done by slow-growing stu-
dents who seem poor at the outset.

“Then, the tutorial system would be im-

CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

DR. HART BELIEVES SCIENCE AND
RELIGION CAN BE RECONCILED

 

 

Integrity Demands that Wé Dodge No
Truth, wherever it can Be Found

 

Laying the basis for a series of future
discussions..on science’.and -.religion, Dr.
Hart, speaking in the Pembroke West sitting
room last Sunday afternoon under the
auspices of the Christian Association, out-
lined a few of the chief conflicts between
the two which will be considered in coming
weeks.

In trying to reconcile science and. reli-
gion, we must, he feels, dodge no-real-dif-
ficulties, but arrive at an interpretation of
life which will need no apologies,

Some of the problems outlined were:

1. The question of whether to accept the
Bible as inspired.

2. How can God be omnipotent and all-
loving and still have a world as full of im-
perfections as this world seems to be?

3. Are hardships ‘in the world intelli-
gently adjusted to the personal needs of the
individual so as to stimulate but not crush
him? | “

4. Is eternal life possible in” view of
psychology and the dependence of con-
sciousness on brain tissues? -

5. TS there such a thing as an- external
world at all, or is it all our imagination?

6. If there is truth in religion, how can
one ein the differences between reli-

gions?

7. Is religious. emotion a form of mob
psychology? .

Dr. Hart is Professor of Sociology at
‘Bryn Mawr.

In the coming weeks he will lead discus-
sions-every Sunday afternoon to talk over
the conflict of science and religion.

 

Can We Discipline Ourselves,’ or Must | ,

” said Miss Georgiana Goddart?S

 

HOPE OF WORLD PEACE.
TOLD BY NORMAN THOMAS,

We Must Subordinate Nationalism |
To Internationalism Sufficiently
or Rivalry Remains

 

 

PEACE HAS ITS PRICE

 

$18,000 was subscribed to the fund for the
endowment of the Music Department and
the Auditorium at a meeting at the Bryn
Mawr Club-in- New. -York-City on-Wednes-
day, February 11. In response to the stir-
ring speech of President Park and her gift
of $1000, contributions from classes and
individuals flowed-into the fund, the largest
single new subscription being $3000 from
Mr. and Mrs. Ernggt G, Vietor. To the
$10,000 Voted by the “trustees and the
$18,000 contributed at the New York meet-
ing, President Emeritus M. ‘Carey Thomas
offered to give the first $10,000 of future
gifts of that amount and the first $5000 of
thirty similar gifts, making a total of $350,-
000, which, taken” with the more © than’
$70,000 now on the list, leaves only $30,000
to-raise. She telegraphed to the chairman
to raise this sum quickly “in large sums.”

In her talk President Park explained the
situation of the college under the present
fire laws, which permit only 500 on the floor
of the gymnasium, 100 on the platform and
30 on the running track. As one New York
newspaper said, “That is enough when they
are all running, but once in a while these
ambitious girls want to sit still; for instance,
tHey sat for two hours ‘on the edge of their
chairs’ during an all-Bach recital.” “I can’t
imagine their doing that in our earlier days,”
President Park said.

Mrs. Louis O. Slade is chairman of the
campaign.» She managed the raising of the
$2,000,000 endowment. Mrs, Charles L,
Tiffany and Mrs. Leonard Hand are vice- -
chairmen, Mrs. Alfred McClay. being in
charge of New York. Mrs. Tiffany has
worked out a plan which will enable alum-
nae and students “to subscribe pieces of
rooms and pipes of the organ.”

 

|ROMANCE STILL LIVES IN THE

FOREST PRIMEVAL OF AFRICA ,

 

Major Collins Looked for Gorillas and
Found Love and the Tsetse Fly

 

Tales of. dangers bravely undergone for a
noble cause in Affica’s great open spaces,
and the enduring love of a native for a
white explorer were included in the illustrat-
ed lecturé given by Major Alfred Collins last
Tuesday evening for the Science Club ‘in
Taylor Hall.

The purpose of his sxpedition was to
obtain specimens of the gorillas which had
been seen in the centre of Africa, living on
the frigid tops of volcanoes. By the time
he had traveled from the east coast he dis-
covered that this country has been made a
gorilla preserve. Nothing daunted, he pro-
ceeded to Lake Kivu, where there were ru-
mors of gorillas. He was accompanied by
165 porters, each followed by several women
carrying the loads. The army proceeded
through the dense rain forest on a narrow
trail 5

The gorillas were not at all anxious to
kill; they wished only ‘to frighten off the
intruder. During the three days he pursued
a gorilla, the animal made repeated charges,
rushing with a roar through the dense jungle
and then retreating when it had reached a
distance of 20 feet from kim. The last day
he despaired of scaring Major Coll and
charged in earnest. So perished, at a dis-

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