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“The College News
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interest of Bryn Mawr College, at the Maguire
Building, Wayne Pa.; and Bryn Mawr College.

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Managing Editor.......J8AN Lote, '26
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NEWS, EDITOR
M. Leary, ’27

CENSOR
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; EDITORS
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‘almost humorous, terms.

better, than our system,

Something the ‘same spirit must exist’
among the Uraguaians’ Their navy is
seven ships. strong. One of these is a
paddle wheel, RoBert Fulton model;. two
are square rigged battleships,
the last of their sort in existence, and the
other four are miscellaneous craft. “But
tie admirals have plenty of gold braid.
‘Evidently these nations recognize, with
Mr. James, that men will have to do with
war till they find another substitute for
their energy. But in the meanwhile they
have succeeded in reducing it to lowest,
Why can’t we
follow them in treating this, hideous, seri-
ous subject with humor and a casual
spirit? It certainly could not be less, and
it might be more, effective than our other
attitudes.

 

AMONG NEW BOOKS

Son of: Italy, autobiography of Pascal
D'Angelo, Macmillan Company.

 

DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS. .

Ancient tradition has it that the fates
of the gods, or rather, the goddessés,
are decidedly not responsibilities of man.
But New York authorities have differ-
ent ideas on the subject. In fact, the
future of a certain bronzed Diana, who
stands guard over Madison Square Gar-
den, has for a long time weighed heavily
upon their minds. Since Madison Square
is doomed to perish, it-is obvious that
Diana, too, must go—but where?

 

As the market is not exactly flooded
with Greek goddesses, the fair Diana
is not without many offers of adoption.
But after due consideration the powers-
that-be decreed that she should cast her
lot with the University of New York.
Hence, the years to come shall find our
lady gazing down from University
Heights on the caprices of ever chang-
ing generations of students. Twenty-
sixth street. may be deserted; crossways
may come and crossways may go, but
Diana seems to be here to stay.

 

NEW LEAGUE PROGRAM
SUGGESTED FOR JU. S$.

Another timid step sidling toward Unit-
ed States membership in the League!
This time the feeble chirp of public opin-
ion in the ear of a stolid government
takes the form of a program sponsored
by the League of Nations Non-Partisan
Association, suggesting to | Secretary
Kellogg, United States membership on
League Committees. We are already
represented on the Opium Committee;
why not extend our unofficial irffluence
to the Permanent Mandates Committee,
and the Economic and Financial Com-
mittee? In addition, the association sug-
gests adherence to the Permanent Court
of International Justice, and Registration
of United States treaties with the Secre-
tariat of thé League of*Nations. ©

This program, if adopted, would be a
ingenious
method of influencing*the League, and
enjoyirig its benefits, without joining, of
keeping our official noses elevated super-
ciliously, while our unofficial noses poke
eagerly into international affairs. This
excellent system will enable us to enter
the League in triumph after all the un-
pleasant work of organizing and estab-
lishing itself is finished—if by that time
the League cares to have us.

 

ANOTHER SLANT

Warfare among the Lifuan savages is
conducted on a most elaborate plan.

Several days’ notice is given before hos-
__ tilities are even begun; women and chil-

are never molested; and as soon as

 

Vivid, passionate, courageous life fills
this autobiography of a “pick and shovel
man,” an immigrant, a thwarted wan-
derer over an inhospitable country, who
only after privation and suffering suc-
ceeds in becoming a poet. It is a very
old and trite story, the ‘struggles and rise
of a peasant from poverty to fame, but
a very fresh and fascinating one when
told earnestly and sincerely by one who
has actually experienced it. Angelo’s
vehement, courageous spirit fills this in-
formal account of his life, so that ‘his
occasional touches of melodramatic ges-
ture, of pride in his own achievement,
seem quite natural and innocent.

Naive and limited in.construction, his
style is rich and varied in imagery, color-
ful, vivid, and passionate. A few bold,
lurid phrases fix in our minds such inci-
dents as the death of the aged witch on
the heights of Monte Majello. Occa-
sionally a quaint humor relieves his earn-
estness, as in his tale of a newly-purchased
mandolin with which he “annoyed the
atmosphere.”

Scattered through the book are bits of
original poetry, stimulating and lovely, with
the same sweeping boldness of imagery as
his prose, the same unconventional and un-
tutored intensity as his life.

“The moonlight is a hailstorm of splen-

dor

Pattering on the velvet floor of: gloom.”

“The sun robed with noons stands on the
pulpit of heaven

Like an anchorite preaching his faith of
light to listening space.

And I am one.of the sun’s lost words,

A ray that pierces through endless empti-
ness on. emptiness.

Seeking in vain to be freed of its burden
of splendor.”

 

D. LEFFERTS URGES SIMPLE
BELIEF FOR JOY IN RELIGION

 

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Vesper Speaker Says the Spiritual De-
rives from Realities.

“Perhaps the easiest way of avoiding

the mazes of belief, is to avoid a compli-
cated system, and subscribe to as few
dogmas as is possible,” said D. Lefferts,
’26, speaking in vespers last Sunday night.
What you believe must be not what you
think you ought to believe, but what
strikes you overwhelmingly as right and
true.

“At any rate,” Miss Lefferts continued,
“I think the over indulgence in introspec-
tion and worry over one’s beliefs is defi-
nitely bad for one’s character and tem-

perament. One's religion is something

that should give spiritual pleasure, and

should not be so complicated. as to fog
‘the mind. Remember | he theologians of
The ‘interfere. Pretending to be. patriotic and

pene
shown themantres an be ridiculous and

doubtless |

- spiritually, by idetting ab wonder at the
4 vastness and beauty, of the world, as by
overworking our brains in trying to think
out logical systems in which to fit opr
convictions.

“But though your need is simple, don’t
let it. sink into nothingness. We must,
keep alive to the things that are true,
We don’t need any more equipment than
sour eyes and perceptive powers to feel
beauty; and how can -we ‘help worshiping
something behind nature, if it is only the
sheer beauty of grass and trees? Remem-
ber what Plato said to the effect that one
in contact with beauty in redlities will
‘give birth not to images, but to very
truth.’

“From such sources as bent, love and
friendship, all of them concerned, though
ideally, with the realities of life rather
than fromy. more abstruse mental pro-
cesses, comes true spirituality, which is
of the heart, rather than of the mind,
And it is written. wisely in thg ‘Book of
+ Proverbs —that—*When—wisdom—entereth|——
into thine heart, and knowledge is pleas-
ant unto thy soul, discretion shall preserve
thee, understanding shall “keep thee’.”

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NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES
(From the New Student)
Harvard Lampoon Suppressed.

The Harvard Lampoon is the second col-
lege comic to be suppressed in Boston during
the last month, °

The Literary Digest vam was swiftly
pounced upon by the police department
of Boston and Cambridge on the morning
that it appeared, Friday, April 18, and all
copies on newsstands confiscated. Two
violations of the law were charged: First,
the improper display of the American flag
on the front cover; second, for the display
of an obscene picture on the inside. :

The Lampoon parody closely resembled
the Literary Digest, so closely that the
police in their raid took copies of the origi-
nal Digest from a newsstand, The picture
on the cover was a parody of ‘ ‘Washington
Crossing the’ Delaware.” One of the men
jin the boat is feeding sugar cakes ‘to a
polar bear; another is reading the Boston
Transcript; while Washingtgn stands in
the centre of the boat with his little
hatchet in one hand. Floating on a cake
'of ice in the distagce is a sign, WEL-
COME TO TRENTON, Board of Trade.
The flag flying on the boat constitutes the
alleged desecration.
ture was “Sit Down, You're Rocking the
Boat.”

The “obscene” picture is a painting by
Manet which hangs in’the Luxembourg. |

Lampoon officials were apprised of the
suppression when two police captains’ en-
tered the Lampoon building..and_. forbade
further sales and threatened confiscation
of the issue. The members of the Lam-
poon board rushed out to the news-stands
and gathered in as many copies as possible
before the police could Wai, Moet of the
copies were saved.

The police conducted a thorough search
for the paper. One of the news-stand pro-
prietors declared that the agents raided
his place with the moronennest of prohi-
bition agents.

The raid started at 10.30°F vishal morning.
By. 11,30 the Lampoon sold for $1.00, and
hour later $2.50 and by the evening the
price had gone up to $8.00.

Both faculty and students at Harvard are
indignant over the action of the police.
Floods of legal advice are pouring into the
Lampoon office. There is a possibility of a
law suit.

Professor Felix Fraykfurter, - . Byrne
Professor of Administrative evel advised
as follows:

“It is the old story of Golice sicllai:
ence where the police | liave no right to

  

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“I cannof believe that the Aampoon
will, not. contest this action of the police
authorities in the courts.” oreo nele

Professor Zathariah Chafee made the
following statement, pointing out ” the
futility of the police action:

‘I think it is absurd .to suppress cari-
caturés of well-known pictures.

“IT do not see any reason for guppress-
ing the magazine for the cover, if the
flag appears inthe original. The picture
on the inside is no more indecent thant the
original painting, by Manet, which has
doubtless been frequently reproduced
without objection. It would be well
worth while to get a counsel and fight the
matter out.”

 

A Modern Library. :
Students at Hunter College, New York,

believe that a thorough knowledge of the ©

literature of the present is just as impor-
tant as a familiarity with the classics. The
| Student Self-Government Association

has °

 

established a modern circulating library
where books can be secured at very low
rates. The deposit of fifty cents and the
rate of ten cents a week per book enables
the association to keep the library up to
date. Among’ the books available are Con-

rad’s Youth, A Lost Lady, Messer Marco

‘|Polo, A Passage to India, Mencken, Nathan,

Shaw, Betcovici, Galsworthy, Wasserman
and Van Vechten are among the authors
whose works appear. *

Three seniors supervise the library.
They spend a great deal of time in select-
ing the books. It is -believed that this is
the only library of its kind in any college.

Nashville to Have Little Theatre.

Ambitious students of Vanderbilt Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tennessee, are planning
a Little Theatre for the university and the
city. The plan is fathered by the Calumet
Club, a Junior-Senior Literary Club which
also sponsors the Masquerader, a comic.
The first plays are three one-act plays to be
produced in May.

Believing that Nashville is large enough
to support a Little Pheatre venture, the
Calumet Club is taking the burden of
starting the venture on its own shoulders.
They are gambling on the interest and
support of civic and’ dramatic organiza-
tions of the city after the venture had
been started.

 

DR. HAMILTON TO SPEAK ON
STATE OF SOVIET RUSSIA

Harvard’s only woman member o
the faculty, Dr. Alice Hamilton,
speak here on Friday, May 8, under the
auspices of the Liberal Club, on “Con-
ditions of. Soviet Russia.”

She _ isan authority. on industrial .dis-
eases, a member of the International
Health Committee of the League of Na-
tions, and in capacity of health authority
was sent to Russia.

‘Dr. Hamilton is Assistant Professor
of Industrial Medicine at the Harvard
Medical School, and is at present on the
Committee on International Problems of
Health of the League of Nations. She
was in Russia last year. For many years
she has made her headquarters at Hull
House, Chicago, and has been closely.
associated with Jane Addams.
done outstanding work in
poisons.
fessor on the Harvard Medical College
snide

industrial

 

BRYN MAWR TO HEAR LECTURE
_. BY DR. TYSON

The Rev. Stuart L. Tyson, D. D., hon-
orary vicar of the Cathedral of Saint
John the Divine in New York city, and
treasurer of the Tyson Lectureship, will
‘speak
May 10; at 7.30. His subject will be
oe ovens in the net of Modern

   

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