: tant of all, he proved: that you have to learn how to read free verse: “Elephants within a small region’ of a country and ’ ‘y : : : e e re VOL. XH--No. 13, BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY. ear esate : os 10 CENTS ~ ELIZABETH WAS NOT Coriyers Reed in Memorial Lecture | - Stresses Strength of’'Good Queen Bess with acerca Man TRUE CHILD OF RENAISSANCE “Good Queen Bess” was the subject on which Conyers Reed, non-resident lec- turer in history at the University of Chi- cago, delivered the first M&llory Whiting Webster memorial lecture; on Saturday | - : evening, February 6, in Taylor Hall. “The only point on which Pius VI and] Henry of Navarre were agreed,” he began, “was that Queen Elizabeth was one of the greatest of monarchs.” . Her whole generation wrote of her in terms of extravagant praise. Cavalier and Pruitan ‘alike revered her; the former, as protagonist of royal power, the latter, as champion of the Protestant faith. The rationalistic eighteenth century commended her for her lack of the very religious parti- sanship for which the Puritans looked up to her. Froude, in the nineteenth century, would have ‘none of her because she refused to aid. the Reformation. To-good luck, and not to good management, he attributed her undeniable success. Yet good luck does not seem to explain her. As a woman, she is a familiar enough figure.‘ She was never beautiful, always lacking ‘in feminine charm. Strong she must-have been, for she lived to bury nearly all the courtiers and statesmen who surrounded her at her accession. She com- manded no personal loyalty—her popularity was with those who did not know her per- sonallly. : Whether she remained a virgin we shall probably never know, nor does it very much matter.. .Her .coquetry was ‘so eotane that it appears assumed. ‘She was by temperament.a child of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ROOTABAGA STORIES AND POEMS _ READ BY CARL SANDBURG Susquehannah, Bozo and Pink Peony "Aft Introduced to Bryn Mawr Carl Sandburg, speaking saith the aus~} pices of the Liberal’ Club, on Tuesday eve- ning,” January 19, faced a large audience in spite of the “winter of our discontent,” the midyear. season, and he amsued ‘and charmed, them, . He lectured, he read, he sarig, and) he’ made jokes. Most. impor- are . Different .to Different People” is. a: different..poem WIRE siceialabostt the author’s rhythm. > - . Making a comparison between art? and geography; Mr. Sandburg. pointed out the variety (of opinions: dn one subject held son art); Related to} thy Dr. Dengler.. Oe % waco ae eles 3 FRONT VIEW OF GOODHART HALL NEW METHODS IN SCHOOLS _ DESCRIBED BY DR. DENGLER Bipectisents Bring Great Sais in Scientific Child Development Community: D -System”. was the subject of a lecture by Dr. Paul Dengler, -Delegate of the Austrian Ministry for Public Instruction, on Thursday evening, February 4, in Rocke- feller Hall... “In Modicin now..a poe but icons diiaws cratic country, we- have to establish not to reform the. schools. Immediately after the world. war -we. began -this. work,” said -Dr. Dengler... “Three -kinds. of. schools. were set up: elementaryfor children-from-—six-to- ten years, secondary for those over ten, and advanced for the older. scholars... Though the universities are generally more or less conservative all these schools were organized on the most advanced scientific basis. “Tn 1920 all the new ideas of psychology and ‘education were being used in 250 ele- mentary schools,” said Dr. Dengler. The Teachers’ Chamber (made up of all the teachets in the country) decided that a sys- tem based. on these new’ ideas should be tried for four years. In 1925 they reported on the results ‘of the experiment : 95° per cent. were in favor of continuing the system. ‘Today Austria is the only country in the world with’ all its elementary schools work- ing under this systefh. ‘The contrast between the old school and the ‘new was described by Dr. Dengler. In the new school there is a strong friendship between ‘pupil and teacher; there is no definite schedule © of classes and hours; the children ask most of the questions, not the teachers.. An effort is made to co-ordinate facts observed. in. ‘everyday life with theories learned’ in school, through. the “districts of life.” “Phe first year these are the hoe of the child and the schoolhouse; the second, they are the village and the schoolhouse ; the ‘third, the county.’ Always the aim is to re- late the. school to the environment in which ‘its. pupils must live. | spirit, and shattered by focusing, on. on principles that are ascertainable.” The science of santy is the “potential possiblities of anyone who wants to plumb the depths of being, to find out why they were called into being.” é “Tf our attitude is intellectual or senti- mental it is wrong, since in each case it is appallingly lopsided.” The intellectual “lives by proxy and is a nonentity;” the sentimeh- talist goes to the other extreme and is a “squib fizzling through life.’ We must use what little sanity we have to: learn something of what are heaven’s' meth- ods of creating better men. In other words, where are we essentially non-sane? We for- get that the spirit is submerged in the flesh and we mistake the world for a permanent abiding place where we are to get the most pleasure possible through the flesh, when in reality it is an educational establishment for the: world of the super-sense.” “Religion is the exact opposite of what most people consider it to be. It is not sentimentality, a form of eroticism, ora soothing narcotic. It is theyrealization of union or reunion with a living Spirit Which is God.” We must. renounce the world and everything of the flesh if we are to attain this union, Again our outlook on economics is funda- mentally wrong. If we would give labor its proper valuation and not degrade it as a means of money-making, but loek upon it as a method for improving man, we would have a saner world. “We must live through the diasical mechanism for the higher evolution. of the spirit, and this we cannot do if we live for the flesh.” Dr. Fearn concluded by saying that “Our wholeness, that is our sanity, con- \sists in-a realization of the fact that every man, woman. and- child: isa dynamic. force: that may be raised by concentration of the var perfect as possible and to perfect-the world., ALL LIFE’S A METAPHOR _ SEEK AN UPWARD ONE Robert Frost “Claims Poet henves Trail of Metaphors in Wake; Philosopher Evolves One ART ASPIRATION, NOT ESCAPE replaced the subject “Beyond announced for Robert Frost’s talk on January 15. As the fourth Ann Elizabeth Sheble “Memorial lecturer, Mr: Frost. spoke informally on the poet's profession, how he recognizes poets, how he writes his poetry, and read some nas his own poems, “Metaphors” Prose and Reason,” After reading three poems which Quiller- Couch had called to his attention as particu- larly. good, Mr. Frost, without disclosing their author, Suggested that everyone should try himself by two sophistication tests. One ot these would’ measure the range of appre- ciation of beauty, the other the degree of anger roused in one by things that don’t really matter. A machine in this case would balance your wrath and the actual unimpor- tance of the thing involved. For Mr. Frost, ‘the limit of his anger is reached when he decides. to leave the, country,’and something Which arouses this anger is the statement that ‘all art is an escape. > -. “All life,”: says “Mr. Frost, “is metaphor.” And.one might. diligently: pray to be deliv- ered from any terrible downward metaphor, because it has the power of killing one as it killéd otie-of his: friends ‘who became pos- sessed of the idea that there ‘was in the cured . ‘fhuman:heads frony Venezuela:a resemblance to aiperson whom he: dearly loved. One is indeed the victim of one’s. metaphors, and must search for an upward metaphor to combat the downward ones. All the philosophers had metaphors, but a philosopher is a person with one metaphor who lives all his life studying and amplify- ing it. A poet dashes off a new one every “CONTINURBD ON PAGE 5 THE END OF MARCH WILL SEE BARRIE ONCE MORE ON CAMPUS Varsity Dramatics Plans to Give DEAR BRUTUS. Freshmen Wanted On March 26 and 27 Dear Brutus, by Sir James: Barrie, will be given by ’Varsity Dramatics, G. Thomas, ’26, will direct the production and Miss Robertson will again help with the rehearsals. “Freshmen are especially urged to try out,” said K. Morse, '26, Chairman of the Executive Committee for 'Varsity Drama- tics: “In case anyone who is in the Fresh- man Show sectires a part, she need not learn her part or come to’ rehearsals until the show is over. We are very anxious to have . all ’29’s talent and co-operation.” Preliminary try-outs will begin February 16 and will be held every evening throughout the week. A copy of the play is in the Reserve Book Roont in the Library, and éveryone is asked to read the play before trying out. . _ Varsity Dramatics’ first play of the year was Icebound, by Owen Davis, given in November. This cleared nearly $200. Members of the committees assisting in the production of Dear Brutus are as fol- . lows; : ‘ Scenery:-N. ‘Fees ‘98, ‘Chairman; r. Brown '26, A. Bruere ’28, N. Chester. ’27,. H. Grayson '26, managing lights. Parker ’27, M. Adams ’28, E, Sargent ’29. ‘y - Costume—F.) Waite ’27, Chairman; H. ‘. ete ds ; : a aaa THE COLLEGE Mawes .. ee oat — ¢” ~ € : Why hot, instead, have the instructor| Miss Scarborough regords the products always happily—with ‘his tun of silver, and he College News © (Fourided in 1914) * published weekly during the college year in heed interest of Bryn 5 Coljege at the Ma Building, Wayne, Ra., and ‘Bryn Mawr Co ie. revelling as Lord Timothy Dexter, jone time King of Chester, in a grand old Georgian ; mansion, with the best of brandy, and a circle * of negregses, poets, astrologers and Mexican hairless dogs to join him. ; ‘ “Other » men,”. Mr. Marquand veinasits, “have wished to be what they are not,. but exter-made this wish come true—by being gf her investigation versions of a; song often garying with locality. She writes of the share of the Negroes of the South in preserving the ballads and traditional songs of the early Scotch and English settlers. Negro ballads, animal. songs, work songs and railroad songs are set down, Finally. there is a chapter on Blues, not the kind of which. Mr. Michael ‘Arlen has written; but mimeograph his remarks for the day, and distribute the sheets each’ morning? A system of weekly quizzés would check up on the student’s grasp of the mimeo- graphed outline quite as well as ‘it does his grasp.of the spoken lecture. The stu- dent would have an extra hour in which to «study, the instructor would be spared the necessity of lecturing, and the stu- Managing Editor ‘Jnan Lome, ’26° . eeeeeeee * - , -CBNSOR K. Simonps, '27 ’ EDITORS hat pleased - his fancy, most, regardless of - R. Ricxany, 127 M. Smits, '27_ | dent’s basis for study would be far clearer | the original folk-song Blues. The: author] \ hat he was.” It is entertaining to find that Fi ASSISTANT. EDITORS and better organized. ‘And the instructor | quotes’ W. C. Handy, their first publisher, | ine business of living, which seemed fine and = pe By = BEI tenor fa _| could hold office hours once a week to] with the Memphis Blues in 1910; “Blues] .oper enough in old Newburyport, is really) * are essentially racial, the ones that are genu- ine—though since they became the fashion mahy Blues have been written that are not Negro in character—and they havea basis in older folk-song. Each one of my Blues éxplain any points which the class failed to understand. such a fanciful affair after all. No one can — have any doubt who has heard Mr. Mar- quand explaining Timothy Dexter as an “important” liver. ence BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER J. Lun, ’27 ‘BH. Tyson, ” ASSISTANTS gh rele "28 A. WILT, ’26 . Bowman, ’27 P. McEiwain, ’28 EB. Morris, '27_ . This method. seems to combine all the neatness of the correspondence school with all the academic atmosphere of col- His pages, which on their own merits have ‘Subscription, $2.50. Mailing Price, $3.00. Subscription may begin at any time. Entered as second-chhss matter at the Wayne, | Pa., Post Office. ROBERT-FROST Never, we are certain, will the Anne Elizabeth Sheble Memorial Lecture in Eng- lish give morg wisdom or greater inspiration ‘than inethe hands of Robert Frost. He came to. Bryn -Mawr an old friend and advisor, with all the interest and generosity of a friend, He presented no elaborate piece of lege. The student, with all morning. hours free except during his science courses, would have ‘infinitely more time to pursue the things in the course which his particular bent of mind made especially interesting to him, and which he would see more clearly on considering the mime- ographed notes in the quiet of the library than. when struggling to copy down the lecturer’s words in class. Certainly a much fuller, clearer, and more individual impressionyof the course would result. And this seems one of the greatest aims of education, to inspire people to traverse is based on some old Negro folk-song of the South.” “A brown-skinned woman “makes the Blues. In Mellows every melody is accompaniea py a short sketch of the singer from whom it was learned, a fond, amusing characteriza- |, Little drawings by Simmons Per- tion, sons illustrate the. work-songs.: ‘the Book of American Negro Spirituals a preacher lay his Bible down”—says one ot plenty of charm, are decorated in addition by Kappel’s suggestive insets of wharves anl coolies and columned doorways, and by ‘the very fine printing of Little and Ives. SONGS WITH FLUTE AND STRINGS TO BE ee AT NEXT CONCERT Russian String Quartet Quartet Will Visit in ~ Mawr for First Time has all the songs made famous by the Hampton and ‘Luskegee Singers, by Paul Kobeson and Roland Hayes, many of which research, no brilliant triumph of scholar- For the fourth of the. concert series ¢ ship; but,Aiis gift was the wisdom of long devotion to art and the charm of his person- ality. Every day we taste the fruits of -scholarship; those we do not lack. But words of the power and. beauty ‘of Robert Frost’s are rarely heard. SOUNDING BRASS What, precisely, is the value of the college finger-bowl? It was probably désigned originally to save the priceless college linen from fruit stains. But now there is no artistic crime involved in getting fruit juices on our paper napkins. Are they intended as a reminder to the breakfast wolf that she is gently bred? Per- haps: but if so, they seem to fail so patently of their purpose as to be completely useless. Were there ever a drop of-water in their Great Brass Desert ;they might move-us-to nobler ways, but their aridity does not appear to remind most of us of our ladylike up- bringing. Our imagination fails here; we cannot conceive of any other reason for the finger bowl, Its drawbacks, on the other hand, - are many and obvious. It means extra work for the maids to put them out each morning, and then move them before bringing on the coffee-toast-and-bacon. Why not, then, scrap these encumbrances ? - They could be very useful indeed in other ‘climes and conditions, We could send them to India, to furnish begging bowls for at least 500 llamas like Kim’s master. We could melt them down and strike a mold of Good- hart Hall, our contribution to the Sesqui- centennial. Or we could make them into medals to be given to those undergraduates who managed to stop talking about mid-year marks within a we after the holocaust. MODERNIZING COLLEGE Most of the courses now given in col- lege involve little or no discussion on the part of the- class. Except for science courses, there is no demonstration which “~*~ the student could not perfectly well work out for himself. Every lecture becomes, therefore; an hour of dictation. The stu- dent’s attention cannot be held for the not only the broad cement highway of the college course, ‘but ‘also the crooked side streets which are the real city. The student might even in time come to look upon a.college. education not asa com- pulsion, to be evaded as far as possible, but as a‘ privilege, to be enjoyed to the “Tuttermost. There is a chastity in snow + That would become God’s heaven. I think that angels bright In’ raiment white Would quite Enjoy A snowball fight. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR According to Sir Thomas Browne, when a man at twenty has attained the virtue of gray hairs, it is superfluous for him to live longer. As with length of life, so with other matters—when the virtue has been attained, persistence is superfluous. For most women, the virtue of a college degree is represented by interests, com- panionship, a lively and telling way of | thought, If at the end of four years, two out of three parts of that virtue have been attained, the degrees. in question should’ be conferred “cum laude.” But if at the end of one or two or three years a prospective Bachelor has found friends to enjoy, an interest, and power of mind to direct her in following that interest, persistence, however, pleasant, for the next year, or years, is cettainly superfluous. The virtue of a college degree depends on nothing so mechanical as the number of years spent in earning the sheepskin. It is a small shame not to wait for that honor, perhaps. It is a much greater shame, in a short life, to have to reckon one year superfluous, , BOOK REVIEW The Book of American Negro Spirituals, edited with an introduction by James Wel- don’ Johnson; musical arrangements by J. have been arranged before by H. T. Bur- A long introduction discusses the origin and de- spirituals, with reference to Krehbiel and other leigh, Clarence White and others. velopment o earlier studies by scnoiars of music, Pluck and Luck, by Robert Benchley, j Henry -Holt and Co., New York. A ‘biography—preferably - auto—of “Mr. Robert Benchley, becomes more and more necessary with each of his new publications. Of course you can see he reads the Take for instance his essay on the cruise of the Reasonably, with those notes on the flora and fauna of the Reebis gulf, the wee pink sea anemones all rosy from their ocean dip, the submarine robias. He also must have read Michael Arlen, or], he never could have written those nervous words on Eunice Lovejoy, of the “ringlets blonde one year like flax, and dark the next} like those great nets the fishers use to catch | And the Pullman cars he must have traveled in, the football games he must have watched! And what. those four years at Cambridge, back in Read “Goethe’s Love Life,” or “Looking Shakespeare Over” in Pluck and Luck, or refer to pages 79. and 100 of the New Year’s College Humor. Benchley eat his} church suppers? And is he an-Episcopal- papers. the sunbeams with.” 1912, must have been! But where did Mr. ian? Those who are will want to know. There are many days he must have spent in subways and. department ‘stores, but what |) about the others? Apparently. there there in Pluck and Luck after all. fines they ask for it. Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass., by J. P. Marquand, Minton, Balch. & Co., New York. Biography must always be interesting as] comment on the common experience. Among |_ comments, Mr. Marquand’s on Timothy Dexter, is strange and absorbing. is a biogrdphy right]! -This is} the last thing needed and answers every] difficulty, making the price of the volume] altogether worth the week’s gymnasium] under the auspices of the Music Depart- ment, to be held Monday evening, .Feb- ruary 15, a very interesting and unusual program has been planned. It includes - pieces for Flute, Piano and String Quar- tette, and songs with accompaniment of wind and stringed instruments. Madame Irene Wilder De Calais, Contralto, will sing. She appeared last season with the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York as soloist. in the Verdi Requiem and the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, under Men- -gelberg. William Kincaid, First Flautist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Horace Alwyne, Pianist, and the Russian String Quartette of Philadelphia, will be the other musicians. The Russian String Quartette is as fol- lows: Joel Belov, First Violin; Jacob Simkin, Second Violin; Sam Rosen, Viola, and Benjamin Gusikoff, ‘Cello. BRCM Trio—Sonata in G Largo Vivace Adagio Presto For Flute, Violin and Pianoforte Song—Chanson Perpetuello For Voice, Pianoforte and String Quartet Quartet—Three Pieces for String Qeartet fics e cee ceeeesoeseers Hiravineky. “Grotesque” The Russian Quartet (a) “Nacht liegt auf den Framden WEEN... cane cvces Gyases Griffes (b) Song of the Papanquin Bearers ........:: Cee vee . Shaw (c) The Eagle ..........-. ...++-Polak Quartet—Pastorale at Danse, Arthur Hoeree 1. Lent—Allegretto 2. . Rhythme et joyeuse J Nuit d’autrefois ...........Rhene-Baton Serenade Mesuchollane ..Rhene-Baton ‘Jadis: tu m’as aime .. " .Gretchaninow eeneeee Dexter was an illiterate tanner of New- buryport, who speculated, in a way “lucky for his fortune, unlucky for his reputation.” For some twenty-five years he filtered the energy and resources of a very great man) through a grotesque mind and honest nature. entire period: it wanders to something else, and he loses important , points. - When he comes to review his notes before] yellows, a Chronicle of Unknown Singers, a quiz, he finds many of them unintelli-. by R. Emmet Kennedy; Boni. _ gible, because he sae aaa er — On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs, by because ndwriting is con-| Dorothy Scarborough. Harvard University it! 5 ayntee of dictation, GO Pies td Lar iomedlgmabteepaca mele oR embers little or nothing of} Here are’ three bool to. satiety every’ de: |outy either’ his rating among his fellow he trains himself to copy | sire for Negro sccign,.of the -ooncerteqoer,toroeee of ‘in’ the last quarter all the lecturer’s words. the drawing-room singer, the family chorus, of the eighteenth’ century, grew from con-| — nr th nf fre The St mtr‘ he meas mo Gretchaningw Trio— “Impressions of a Holiday,” Goosens In the Hills By the Rivers The Water-Wheel At the Fair. For Flute, Violincello and Pianoforte . Mason & Hamlin Piano Rosamond Johnson; additional numbers by: Lawrence Brown. The Viking Press. ENGAGED D. Sinith, "6, to Anes Joteeton, 3 Hav- eth aac o FOR TWO C. A. LECTURES - Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, one of the most popular ande forceful of the religious speakers that come to Bryan Mawr, will lecture in TaWor Hall-on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week. — Last year, it will be remembered, - Dr. Gilkey gave two lectures‘on “The Modernist Interpretation of the Biple and Jesus,” in which he made many statements both chal- lenging and revolutionary to the common mode of thought This year his subject is to be “Modern Mysticism,” and his lecture will be especially interesting with reference to that delivered by Dr. Fearn last Sunday. The place which mysticism can hold in the highly intellectual life of today is a sub- ject on which Dr. Gilkey is considered an authority, and on which he has lectured at Amherst, Vassar, Smith and other colleges. While Dr. Gilkey, like Dr. F er, is a mystic, his interpretation of the Word -is ‘somewhat different, and the fact that they both present lectyres within a week will offer an unusual opportunity to study the two at close range. DR. DENGLER DESCRIBES THE NEW SCHOOL IN AUSTRIA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ondary schools, “and from 1922 to 1926 it has” been tried in six schools in Vienna, schools for gifted children without regard for rank or income.” Dr.. Dengler’s plan organizes the three natural parts of a com- munity for education into a co-operating body. There is a Parents’ Union, a Téachers’ Union, and a Pupils’ Union. Managing these is an Executive Committee consisting of three fathers, three mothers, and three teachers. The Parents’ Union holds meet- ings for discussions and plans at which at- tendance is compulsory, parents of all social levels meeting together. The Pupils’ organi- zation is based on collective responsibility in- tellectually, physically and morally. Even Ler having a veto power. largely determined by the children, the teach- , THE GLEE CLUB THIS SPRING ' By means’ of observation blanks upon which parents and jgstructors make records, a careful investigation is made of each child, in physique, reir intelligence and environment. -in spite of enormous success with his methods, Dr, Dengler pointed out certain very difficult factors in the organization of education, factors of racial prejudice, politi- cal dissension, and the dnservatism™*of, the universities and many of their graduates: In¢ conclusion he showed drawings by children of 10 and 11 in the Viennese public schools and translations of observation blanks. Gilbert and Sullivan Rest Supreme Though Kimonos Supplant Cutlasses By its choice in operettas, the Glee Club shows ‘itself definitely of the Romantic Camp; and yet there are very few of us who are not romantics when it comes to feeling the lure of distant climes. Last year the Glee Club presented Pirates of Penzance ; this year it will give The Mikado. The cast has been announced as follows, subject to change: BAGG ce D. Kellogg, ’27 FREE VERSE, NO CONFU- gage K. Adams, ’27 SION, SAYS SANDBURG] Poohbah ................ J. Stetson, ’28 MMUMIOOO .. 8.5. ce cea E. Parker, ’27 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ye ee M. Shumway, ’26 of our times, accdrding to Mr. Sandburg. Yum Yum ee F Thayer, hed “The so-called free verse that travels on| Pitti Sing .............. F. Chisolm, ’29 its rhythms, aims at overtones, and does Peep BO wees eee eeee tees H. Yandell, 28 not use rhyme, is not a new creation: it} Katisha ................ J. Sullivan, ’27 can be traced back to Chaldean hiero- Parasol Bearer «3 cc. ..J. Fesler, '28 glyphics, Chinese poetry.” The sayings| “igls’ Chorus, sopranos: E. Brodie ’27, M of Moses, and to the Beatitudes of the|Carey '26, M. Coss '28, L. Haley ’28, F. Hand ’29, C. Hayes ’28, H. Hook ’28, A. Learned '29, Y. Phillips ’28, R, Rickaby ’27, M. Robinson ’27, A. Johnson graduate, E. peed 27, H. Garrett ’29, M. Bryant ’29. Altos: E. Bradley ’29, L. Brown ’29, J. Hendrick ’27, L. Jay.’29,.D. Lefferts ’26, M. Palmer '29, N. Perera ’28, L. Richardson ’29, G. Sewall ’27, G. Wilson 98, M. Wyckoff 27, E. Winchester 27. Men’s Chorus, first tenors: R. Biddle '29, V. Buel ’29, D. Blumenthal ’29, W. Frost graduate, N. Pritchett ’28, E. Schonland 728. Second tenors: A. Adams ’26,.M. Brooks ’27, K. Field ’28, M. Hopkinson ’28, M. Perry ‘98, H. Tuttle-’28, E. Tweddell ’26. First basses: E. Amram. ’28, L. Meyer ’28, D. Meeker ’27, H. Smith ’26, R. Tuve gradu- ate, H. Scott ’29. Second basses: R, Cross ’29, L. Gucker New Testament.” With this brief itfoduction: Carl Sand- burg went on to read certain of his poems, séveral from Slabs of the Sunburnt West, several. still- unpublished. Shenandoah, Wilderness, Jazz Fantasia, Upstream, Sea- slant, Nocturnes, and others, besides one on Adelaide Crapsey, the talented “young - poet who died with her work just begun. Rootabaga Stories of Bozo the Button- buster, Pink Peony, and the Potato-Faced Blind Man came next; and finally songs gathered in the mountain valleys of North Carolina, in Memphis and Louisville, and from Irish construction gangs on the Union Pacific Railrdad, Irish songs and negro songs with a mellow guitar accom- paniment, '28, M. Hupfel ’28, S. Sturm ’26, A. Talcott 28, _ STUDENTS IN IND&STRY At the recent Intercollegiate Conference of the League for Industrial Democracy, a Committee on Students in Industry was organized to encourage the entrance of col- a I e Py i . ; : THE COLLEGE NEWS - , 3 FAMQUS dcnemcct ma for lesschs and, punishments are MIKADO TO BE PRESENTED BY lege students into factories and mines this | sumrmer.’ They .believe that actual experi- ence in industry is essential to a real under- standing of labor and. industrial’ problems. - The committee wishes to stimulate other students to enter the industrial field, and to develop the maximum of effective co-opera- tion among the students sige do enter in- dustry. If they find that there are a sufficient num- bér - interested they will try to organize groups of students in the various fields for the exchange of experjences and opinions; to help students make contact with trade, ‘| unions and employers, apd to publish the best essays based on the experiences and re- actions of the summer, The committee wants to. act as a clearing house for all students in American universities who go into in- dustry this summer, Anyone who is _interestetl may. see K. Tomkins, ’26, LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED © President Park has received a letter from Mrs. Anne W. Howland, the Director of | the School of Library Science at the Drexel Institute, stating that a scholarship is being offered to Bryn Mawr graduates who wish to be librarians by the Executive Board of the Drexel Library School. The scholar- ship is of the value of $200 and the institute is, willing to accept.a candidate on President Park’s recommendation. It is hoped that all Seniors ,or graduate students interested in: this adler. will arrange to see Dean Manning about the matter as soon as possible, since any recommendation must be sent in. by* May 1. JAPANESE BROTHER- | HOOD SCHOLARSHIP Last year, the Japanese students of New York, conceived the idea of staging several Japanese dramas at International Hotise and giving the proceeds to found a scholarship to send an American stu-. dent to Japan. Through their untiring efforts, $1500 is now available. Applica- tions will be received from native-born Americans, men and women, between 25 and 35 years of age. Inquiries should be addressed before April first to the Japanese Brotherhood Scholarship Committee, International House, 500 Riverside Drive, New York. 2 or ts a round trip only ‘ “ THE COCA-COLA re. jtowrmain ATLANTA GA. Right off the Ice ~ : With a itis folly OCEAN voyage, London, IRANSPORTATION, communication, etc., have so improved in the last few years that now Europe is less than a week away —and the cost of *£70 te to S190 ee. Ask about “‘Cunard College Speciats” —the “‘New Highway” to Europe for college women and men; Enjoy a DIFFERENT vacation this summer—an Write ee further particulars to Paris, the Continent! CUNARD & ANCHOR LINES 220 SO. 16th ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Benham cman r 4 Peay ee meee R , & THE COLLEGE NEWS ® g . GOOD QUEEN BESS, > SUBJECT OF PRAISE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Renaisgance, totally unsympathetic with the medieval attitude. - Had .she been otherwise, she. could never have escaped the’ pitfalls that beset her *youth. “Her mother was executed before she was three; she was brandef a bastard through most of her childhood, and was involved, probably through no fault of her own, in an unsavoury scandal with her stepfather while still a child. Her attitude toward the religious con- flict which was rending Europe was char- acteristic. Protestant under her father, radical Protestant under her brother, Catholic under her sister, she was really indifferent to all religions. The average Englishman of her time had swallowed three religions before she was twenty, and * go she was not afraid that he would resent her indifference. Moreover, she could be confident that her neighbors would not regard mere religion as a casus ‘belli. Her real reason for opposing Catholi- cism was her dislike for papal domina- tion. In this she was in harmony with the strong nationalistic tendencies of England. She tolerated religious dissent no more than political. She wanted primarily an ordinary state, and experience had taught her that religious dissent meant. civil disorder. The political implications of Catholic beliefs were the reason for ‘her occasional persecutions. So open was her mind that the more zealous of her Protestant. councillors were always on tenterhooks for fear that she would turn back to Catholicism. It was the irony of fate that she should rule at a time when politics were involved so closely in religion: But she steadily re- fused to be drawn into battle for the Protes- tant cause, to let England be exploited for the sake of religion ‘alone. -She helped the Dutch rebels because they were a thorn in the side of Spain; she helped the Hugue- nots because: they weakened France. She never abandoned ‘this policy of keeping England at peace. ~War was un- congenial to her.: She knew that her metier lay in the crooked diplomacy of the sixteenth century. She wanted—and had—a foot in every camp anda ‘finger | in every pie. No one ever knew what she would do the next minute, herself least of all. She dallied almost to the end with the idea of pardoning Mary Queen of Scots, ‘because there was something too ~ definite about the headman’s axe to suit her ‘temperament. Marriage also was too definite for her. iE TRIANGLE TOURS $ A personally con- | . ducted all - expense ‘college tour to EUROPE that is dif- ferent. . Ae Experienced conduc- omtorss.. pleasant chaperones; limited | groups. tee Sailing from New York; June 26th; returning August 16th. : $ Including FRANCE, ITALY, SWITZER- LAND, GERMANY, | HOLLAND and ENGLAND. The _ “Heart of Europe.” | i $595.00 from and to New York. For itinerary address Without close” relatives or intimate friends, she appears a lonely figure; but really she never negded sympathy. , De- spite her va@#flation, she was always mis- tress of the situation, cold, hard, and inflexible as steel. She kept herself sur- rounded by statesmen: and courtiers owed everything fo .her. Burleigh had morse of her confidence than any other man, yet ‘he never dominated her, even her side. Most of her ministers lived out their lives in her service. In fact, we are forced to conclude that she was not a good Elizabethan. She never helped Drake, although she was very willing to profit by his piracies. She never knew personally any of the great literary figures of her day except Sidney .and Raleigh. But Elizabethan England-was the Eng- land not only- of all that glorious com- pany which it means to us, but of the common people, of commonplace aspira- tions. The tommon man _ knew that Elizabeth loved and understood him, and was determined to keep him out of war. >She was always looking out for him; she ‘would have been the last to endorse the to the extent of forcing Letcenter from] approached the agrarian problem with the idea of bettering the peasantry, not of increasing the yield of the land. She idea of democracy, but she never let the court isolate her: from the common man, nor forgot that she was queen of all the English. So the common man saw her; and to him she was not Gloriana, but Good Queen Bess. Inthe affectionate famili- arity of this name lay her real strength. How could she be lonely when an entire nation was: behind her? She was very sensitive td*public opin- ion; realizing the importance of the press, she always justified her actions by circu- lating pamphlets. She never forgot that the eyes of her people were upon her, and she staged all her actions for them. When she: put on armour and rode through Tilbury Field to meet her army gathered for her de- fense against the Armada, then she, was. indeed queen. of England. Certainly she believed in the - divine right of kings, and knew that her power Ca ‘fl Ml The open-air swimming pool adds to tne delights of the voyage. Regge ninrtig . |e 4 Pax The Royal MailLine }. Write for Sliustrated Booklet. 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His is based on the old ‘conception that the earth rests on an ele- phant’s back, the élephant stands on a turtle, the turtle stands on a rock—and what does the rock stand on?—oh, don’t bother me any more! He says that the earth goes back to a fiery. mass of vapor which revolved. What started it revolving? Qh, don’t ask me any more. No one knows why the water revolves in. the sink as it goes down, either Bergson, more a “poet than a philosopher, said that the vapor was composed of the same atoms as in the beginning, but that a new something was added. Freud’s meta- phor is that life is nothing but appetite, ali- mentary or sexual. A less hopeful metaphor is that-of Havélock Ellis, who calls all life a dance. To Mr. Frost, at least, this is uysat- isfaetory. Boas-is-quoted- as saying that-mat- ‘| poet, and he is not such a one until he ter is free-will, that it is composed of parti- cles flying off in all directions by chance and caprice. A danger of sustaitiing any meta- phor too long is quite imminent; and this danger is encountered in Walter De La Mare’s Memoirs of a Midget, whose thesis is that the poet’s life is a departure from the norm, .“The poet is more easily recognized by his hohaotur than by his work. . It-is ‘his gift for making metaphor which proves hima real makes his first very own metaphor. Poetry has suf- fered from the metaphor of. ‘content and form’ as well as that of ‘license.’ This is a boomerang, used by the it turns against him. It can all be reduced to very simple terms—if you can get into rhyme and metre what is good prose, you have some- ing better than prose.” f To returh to the odious term, escape, that makes Mr. Frost want to leave the country / The tradition is that. poets turn to poetry from disappointment and defeat. But in truth one is committed to poetry. He resents anyone’s Saying that he is what he is because he has been thwarted, as a sort of com- pensation. The realist’s escape is to turn on life and.to grapple with it. Poetry is aspira- tion, or to use a scientific metaphor, tropism. If you wish to rid a room of flies, darken it and let a small crack*of light appear at- an open window; the flies go, but it is not an escape. . The light is too much for them, and they aspire toward it. “Inevitable” and “escape” are favorite critic’s “words. “They cancel each other— poet; the inevitability of beauty is art. Some poets succeed in writing the only words, ws hence the inevitable. Discouraging but grand. is the conception that. “none can change what’ God began.” Just below this limitation of freedom is great. choice, and attendant upon it, indecision, Aspiration is belief, faith or confidence— any word you like. There is belief in some- one or falling .in love, which comes early and lasts long. There is belief first in oneself, then in another, then in people in general and finally in God.. A poem is an unfolding of something that is implicit. To Mr. Frost it is as vague as a lump in the throat—out of that a poem emerges. It is that passing from the implicit to the explicit. It is the quiver of the transition from belief to realization. “Tonight, my best metaphor has been— like the sense-of the implicit in’ writing a poem--my sense of God, democracy, the people, the king, the herd, the person i love, and myself.” Among the poems’ which he read were “Birches,” “The Oven-bird,” “The Road Not Taken” and a comedy, “The Cows in the Cern,” done in one of the two accents he claims, Harvard and New England. Accord- ing to Mr. Frost this illustrates the modern tendency of the play to get shorter and shorter, to be given for smaller and smaller audiences, in smaller and smaller theatres. 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Bryn Mawr. ee THE COLLEGE NEWS CALENDAR Thursday, February 11—Lecture by Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, under the auspices of the Christian Association, at 7.30 P. M. Friday, February 12—Lecture by Dr. ‘James Gordon Gilkey. : Saturday, February 13—Basketball game with Baltimore Midgets. Lecture by Alfred Collins at the Phebe Anna Thorne School. Sunday, February 14—Chapel led by Miss - Margaret. Brackenbury Crook. Monday, February 15—Miss G. G.. King wikk speak in chapel on the annual ex-j- hibition at the Academy.of Fine Arts. Concert—Rusfian String Quartet. IN PHILADELPHIA Music. - ones Metropolitan Opera House — Thursday evening, February 11—Rigoletto. Theatres Chestnut Street Opera House—Houdini. Adelphi—W m. . Hodge in The Judge’s Husband. Lyric—The Kiss in a Taxi: Shubert—Mitzi in Naughty Rigwette: Walnut—White Cargo. Broad—Ladies of the Evening. Forrest—The Duncan: Sisters in Vopsy and. Exa. Garrick—Seventh Heaven. Movies @ Aldine—The Big Parade. Fox—Betty Compson and Edmund Lowe in The Palace of Pleasure. Stanley— The Wanderer. Stanton—The Splendid Road. Arena—Midwinter Circus, Coming H.- Sothern in Adelphi—E. Accused, & NOTICE lenry Seidel Canby, Editor of the Sathrday Review, and Miss Elizabeth Shep- ley Sergeant, will speak on “Journalism as a Profession for Women,” at President Park’s house on Saturday evening, Febru- ary 13. Students interested in journalism have been invited. On Sunday afternoon, February: 14, Mr. Canby and Miss Sergeant will speak at a} meeting in honor of Miss Amy Lowell at the President’s house. Mr. O’Conor will read. Students in the English classes have }' been invited. and 13, *Beethoven—Overture, “Leonore” Bach—Concerto in F. minor, for Piano . ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ¢ On: Friday and “Saturday, February 12 the Philadelphia Orchestra will play the following program: Beethoven—Concerto in E flat peror), for Piano and Orchestra I. Allegro Il.” Adagio un poco mosso III. Rondo. 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