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VOL. XVI, NO. 9

Presented by Dr. Hart

Dr. Horiielt Hart led the Veubars
service of the Bryn Mawr. Ledgue on
_Sutiday, November 24. He began his
, talk by saying that aviation had ‘gone
through three stages in the long
Course of huitian éulture—the mythical
stage in which magical devices as the
flying Arabian carpets were émployed,
the metaphysical or theoretical stage
when it was imagined that a globe of
copper from which the air had been
exhausted would be capable of raising
a ship, and the ‘modern éxperimental
stage which is entirely objective arid
scientific. Psychology is a second
ini example of this idéa which
—ean-be applied to-all the sciences. The |}
Firat stage was One of animistic, magi-
cal theories, in which the body was
thotight to have several détachable
souls. This was followed by meta-
physics or the prodéss of making the
facts logically consistent with ‘the idéas
of the psy¢hologists. Now it is kndwn
that scientists must go to the actual

 

' phenométion, Observe and organize]:

their material carefiitly,; and draw con-
clusions from these results.

August. Comte, the father of Sociol- [
ogy, “says that all human “thought
passes. through three stages. These
are the theological phase, when phe-
nomena are ascribed to the action of
spirits. or other -disemboddied entities;
—the-metaphysi¢at phase which Hypothe-
catés intellectual abstractions as the
cause of phenomena, and the. postivis-
tic or final phase. Positivism abandons
the hypothetical and is only irtérésted
in ‘observing and controlling ’positive
phenomena. Following this theory Dr.

_Harry Elmer Barnes demandéd that

there. be a change in the present con-
ception of God, saying that the ortho-
dox religious complex is the most
malignant complex afflicting humanity
and must be gotten rid of. Comte es-
tablished a religion of humanism whith
has for its object nothing spiritual or
supernatural but the advancement of
the welfare of mankind. It is a ques-
tion whether we can have a positivistic,
humanistic religion in that sense.

One definition of religion is an en-
tering into social relations with super-
human entities, and 4ll branches of re-
ligion are founded dn this conceptign
of direct personal contact with a deity.
The. problem is whether we are be-
traying our. loyalty to science by cred-
iting religion with our belief. Dr.
Barnes says that he believes in a god
but that man must of necessity give
up the ideas that the Bible was liter-
ally inspired, that Jesus was more-than
an ordinary. man, that. the human, soul
survives bodily death, and that we may
enter into personal relations with our
deity. The vast abysms of space and
the spirit of the universe preclude any
such possibility.

Dr. Hart said that he proposed to
_attack this idea and started by a con-
sideration of the underlying branches
of primitive religion—magic and anim-
ism, which are two different ways. of
dealing _ with” “giana or that_ thrilling,
anysterious, wonder- working, power
with its dynamic emotional connec-
tions, whieh makes things holy and
worth while. To the primitive, magic
was a mechanical device fot manipu-
~lating mana. One fundamental inter-
pretation of magic is that it consists
of systematized, falacious thinking; or
the misapprehension of the association
of ideas. All over the world primitives.
have -imitated in a small way what
they want to happen, as in the case of
filling a shell to overflowing to induce
rain, or damaging an imag of a per-
son in order to bring harm to that per-
This is known as mimetic’ miagic.

wear talismans to ward off danger:
Even orthodox anthropologists admit
that magic occasionally works, as in

. the case of the savage who had a taboo

of bananas, and died from eating from
a bowl in which bananas had recently

been.
~ chologists as suggestion, by which the
dynamic powers of the individual were

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Friday and thee day evenings, Decem-
ber-13 and 14; , ; ae
The Varsity” ‘Players will * ‘présent

The Second»Shepherds’ Play and The
Offering of the Magi, two old Eng-

_ lish miracle plays.

Monday evening, December «16 =~ The
Abbe Dimnet. will speak. .
Tuesday, December 17: The Theatre
Guild will presents Pgymalion.

New York Theatre Guild
to Present Pygmalion
On~ Tuesday afternoon, December ' 17,

the New York Theatre Guild will pre-
sent Shaw’s Pygmation in Godédhart Hall.

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Bryn Mawr Series this year.

The part of Eliza Doolittle, the flower
girl, will be played by Frieda Inescort.
Miss Inescort is the datighter of Elaine
Inescort, a. well-known English - actress.
She is best known for her playing in
Galsworthy’s Escape, with Leslie How-
ard, and last year, as Portia in Arliss’
and Winthrop Ames’ Merchant of Venice.

Dudley Diggés will take the part of
Alfféd Dodlittle. He camé to the United
States in 1905, and became stage man-
dgér for George Arliss. Préviolis to that
he had been a fonder of the Irish. Na-
tional Theatre Which Idter became the
faméts Abbéy Theatre of Dublin. He
has appeared in some thirty plays. during
the_past.ten-years, and has directed-many.
notable stage productions.

. Elliot Cabot is a graduate of Harvard}
and Cambridge, and a descendant ‘of. the

Coliimbus to. the New World. He will
play the part of Henry Higgins. He will
be remembered for his work in the New
York production of, Coquette.

Other . players in the company are
Phyllis Connard, as Clara Hill; Winifred
-Hanley; as Mrs. Hill; P. J. Kelly, a
member of many Hampden and Sothern
and “Marlowe companies, as a Bystander;
Geoffrey Harwood, as Freddy Hill;
Percy _Waram, as Colonel Pickering;
Maurice Wells, as another Bystander;
Edgar Kent, as The Sarcastic Bystander ;
Ruby ‘Hallier, as Mrs. Pearce;

in Julius Caesar, as Mrs. Higgins, and
Margaret de Mille, daughter of William
de Mille, the screen diréctor, as a Maid.

 

de Laguna Studies Eskimos
Frederica de Laguna, European Fellow

from her travels. During the past sum-
in Greenland, on an uninhabited island.
She and a Mr. Mathiasser, an expert on
Greenland archeology, haye been excavat-
ing an ancient Eskimo kitchen-midden, in
the hope of being able to throw some
light on the troublesome problem of
Eskimo origins. Their efforts were re-
warded with ‘finds of thousands of speci-
mens of ancient Eskimo culture.

The island upon which the kitchen-
midden is situated lies five hundred miles
within the Arctic Circle. The archeolo-
gists were able to live in tents ‘during
the summer.months,; they wore Eskimo
clothing;-andtiad"ari Eskittio family with
them. However, theit work had to. stop
when it became too cold for the land to
thaw for another year. Miss de Laguna
sailed ‘for: Greenland from Copenhagen
“on June first and réeturned there on No-
vember first.

 

Varsity Dramatics
Expresses Appreciation

 

On Friday and Saturday evenings of
this: week the Varsity Players will pre-
sent in Goodhart Hall the two Old Eng-
lish miracle plays: “The Second Shep-.
herd’s Play”. and. “The Offering of the
Magi.” The first of “hese is directed by
C. Rieser, ’31, assisted by M. Drake, ’31;
the second by E. Dyer, ’31, assisted by
M. Drake, '31.
The Varsity Players wish .to express
their thanks and appreciation for the in-
valuable assistance of the English Depart-
ment, especially Miss Donnelly, Miss

This will. be the _second..event—in—the+-

Johnand_Sebastian-Cabot-who followed

Jane |.
,| Wheatley, of Faversham’s all-star cast

of the class of 1928, returned on Monday, Peewee :
| person’ who is unrestrained in conver-

mer and fall Miss de Laguna has been|

 

 

  

Spanish Romantic. Moverient Is
Freer But Shorter Than
the French.

 

On Wednesday evening Professor E.
Allison’ Péers spoke on French and
Spanish Romanticism in the Music room
of Goodhart Hall. - Professor Peers is
Gilmour Professor of Spanish. at the.
University of Liverpool and visiting pro-
fessor at Columbia University. =

“Somé months ago,” began Professor
Peers, “a group of college students held
a debate on the question of what was. the
most misunderstood word in the English
language. ‘Some suggested the word so-

vote of the majority decided upon the
word romanticism. Many people have no
conception -of what the word means.
Others understand it only’ ina popular
sense, murmuring ,‘how romantic’ when
they see the moon upon the snow.._And
there are still’ others who know the tech-
nical: sense, but~ justin one particular
application. Tonight,.I want to begin
by considéritig roniéntictsin’ in’ general?
then romanticism in France, and finally
romanticism—in—-Spain.;
_“You_can_arrive_at_the—basic—-meaning
of romanticism by opposing it to clas-
sicism. ‘The classicist with -firm. self-
‘possession restrains. his. imagination in
. obedience to classic form; the Fomanticist
gives his imagination full rein. So the
distinction between the two is. the dis-
tinction. between freedom and -restraint,
The romanticist. objects to the classicist’s
rules and the classicist objects to the
romanticist’s disorderliness. With ro-
manticism we associate such things as
tombs, Gothic architecture, and melan-
choly. I wish to-prove that thosé things

romanticism come from the basic idea of
freedom. and restraint.

A Definition of Romanticism

“Classicism is clear-cut, hard-edged;
romanticism has a literature (for to-
night we are limiting our study of ro-
manticism to literature) that is vague,
dreamy, and suggestive. Secondly,
classicism is objective and makes very
little mention of the individual; ro-
manticism is subjective, individual, and
personal. This is natural because a

sation talks largely of himself. _ The
classicist; on the other hand, restrains
himself and thus speaks mainly - of
things without . rather than those
within. “From this individualism of
the romanticist springs. the aspiration
for the unattainable and the vague,
generally dreamy speculation: where do
I come from and whither do: I go?
From the stibjectivism of the roman-
ticist arise certain degrees of melan-
choly or depression, the French ‘mal
de siecle’ which influences "Goethe to
describe romanticism as sickness and
classicism as health. Thirdly, classi-

petsm ~ts~exctusive and “selective; ro-

maniticism is inclusive. Since he has
been given an unlimited amount of
freedom the romanticist’’ goes to all
ages, all times, all minds, all litera-
tures, and all countries for his sources.
He is cosmopolitan and for that rea-
son his literature is abundant and fer-
tile. The classicist finds what is com-
mon _to-all the countries of the world;.
he is the universalist. The romantic
tourist. buys picture postal cards of all
the places which -he visits. and—carries
home an enormous amount of baggage;
the classicist tries to discover what
there is worth his notice in the people
of the countries “in which he travels.
This may seem to be eulogizing the
classicist, but’ it is very easy to see
that the classicist may frequently fail
to preserye what is worth preserving,
while the romanticist, with all his bag-
gage, “has got it all.

. “Now I hope that I have given you

 

. This was _explained~ by _psY-| Gary,-Miss~Garvin-and-Dr. Herbe

nd
for the services of Mr. Alwyne and™Mr.
Willoughby, of the Music Department,

 

in the.training of the carol singers.

for a talk on “fomanticism in two par-
ticular countries. If romanticism in
general is notunderstood Spanish _ro-

 

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NEVER PSEUDO.CLASSIC

cialism, others mysticism, but finally the’

which we think of in connection with.

an idea of romanticism as a | background | the English Herod-plays:

   

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting
~ There will*berasmeeting of the

December the fifteenth. There will
be an outside speaker on some sub-
ject connected with socialism. .His
name, afd the hour of the meeting
will be announced later.

 

 

 

Miracle Play Origins
Told by Miss Carey

On Thursday, Barlatiies 5, Miss. Carey
spoke in chapel on the background of
the fourteenth ¢eritury Christmias plays
which are to he presented by Varsity
Players. “The plays chosen by any stu-

 

{dent body in some sort réflect, I suppose,

the temper of that body. So it is that
the socially-minded college ito which I be-
longed gave Shaw, the post war Bryn
Mawr’ was interested in Ibsen, and the
present generation gives light comedy of
manners, like Bellairs and The Admirable.
Crichton. Ps

“What has determined the present plan
of the Varsity Players to turn back to
the Middle Ages I do not know. -One:
rumor has it that last spring Princeton
suggested the suitability of the pro-
scenium arch in«soodhart to a medieval
play... And certainly the Gothi¢ quality
>this. huilding.,, lends: itself delightfully
to such an idea. But on whatever . reason
‘may~rest~ the decision of ‘the. Varsity
Players, the-fact-remains-that the-college
is to have the rather unique opportunity
of seeing revived two fourteenth century
Christmas plays which | are to be pre-
sented, I understand, as nearly as’ pos-
sible as they were in their own time.

“Interesting as these plays are in. them-
selves one’s pleasure cannot but be in-
creased by knowing samething about their
background.- And, so perhaps you will
forgive me for attempting the impossible,
by trying in two separate chapel peri-
ods to sketch in some of. this: back-
ground.: "The subject is so tremendous
that it must inevitably be limited, first
to a few general remarks about the
medieval drama, and second, to a dis-
cussion of English Shepherd Plays.

“Most of you know probably that some
time after the demise of the Roman the-

the drama was reborn in the liturg¥of
the Church. Perhaps you do not know
how amusing and human are both its ori-
gins and development. Picture a group
of spirited monks in the monastery of
St. Gall in Switzerland, famous for its
beautiful music. Remember that into the
church of the Middle Ages were prone
to go all thoughtful men, most men of
intellect, sensitiveness, and imagination.
Fancy that a very gifted monk is prac-
ticing the choral portions of | the liturgy
and lets slip into the part he is singing
elaborations, at first slight and then ex-
tensive. Combine these elaborations with
the fact that pageantry is innate in the
Catholic service and you have the origin
of the whole story. Beginning with a
simple question and answer, known as the
quem quaeritis, in the Easter and Christ-
mas service the liturgy expands to admit
a dramatic representation | of various Bible
stories.. Thé gap is filled between Christ-
mas and Easter in Christ’s life; the Old
Testament stories are developed. logi-
cally. backwards, through dramatizing
the loves of the Old Testament
prophets who foretell Christ’s birth.
“So arises the liturgical drama—acted
in the Church by priests and choir boys
in their clerical robes. ,;The tone is
solemn, the Latin-words follow those of
the Vulgate,” the purpose is purely re-
ligious. Then something begins to hap-
pen. -A monk here and there with a
humorous. bent sees possibilities if certain
stories. An ointment seller is introduced
into the Easter service; the part of Herod
is expanded in the Christmas play. One
can take any liberties at ‘all - with his
part for he is a foul fiend who pursued
and persecuted the infant Christ. So his
words become even in the Latin liturgical
plays left to us ranting and pompous.
They can slip over very easily into the
absurd burlesque which we find in, all
“You will remember that as the sel
grow longer -and.snore~-humorpus They
| move from the choir. of-th¢» -Cathadral into

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Summer School =|
- Meeting a at Deanery

Five Speakers Tell Téll of Work in
_ All of Its As-

—
MISS THOMAS. FOUNDER

The Riise School reception was
held at the Deanery Sunday’ evening,

 

President Emeritus, Miss M. Carey
Thomas.

Miss Thomas welcomed. the under.
graduates to the Deanery, and intro-
duced the Chairman of the Summer
School Committee of the Bryn Mawr
League, Miss Angélyn Burrows. . “I
am sure,” Miss Burrows said,. “that
everyone gives thanks to President

reception at the Deanery; very few
students know what the Summer
School really means, and I think that
tonight..we-will hear all sides of the
“question.” Miss Burrows presented
Miss Hilda Smith, Director of the
Summer School.

Summer School Director Speaks

Miss Smith opened her address by
Saying that of’ the many meetings re-
garding the Summer School* held ail
over the United States and Europe, the _
meeting here on the Bryn Mawr
campus is the most significant, for the
people most concerned with the Sum-

It is an experiment in education at our
own doors. This year is the tenth an-
niversary. year of the-Summer School;
in 1921 President Thomas came back
from a trip to the East and proposed
that the College - buildings: should be
used in summer for factory “workers,
The results of. that idea concern a
group in society that has little oppor=
tunity for education; many have gone
‘to work very’ young, and it is diffi-
cult for factory workers to study
after the day’s work; many have strug-
gled through night-school only to find
the schooling not adapted to their
needs. In the middle of June one hun-
dred industrial workers gather from
all over on the Bryn Mawr canipus; a

mixture. Last year fifteen nationalities
were- represented, and twenty-five dif-
ferent trades. Many make a great
Sacrifice and meet .great opposition in
daring to. think of going’ to Bryn

even though, in addition to losing
wages, the girl risks losing her job,
“I wish you could meet some of the
Students”; there are different types
and they have a variety of interests;
hardly two people agree on anything,
and “tolerance sizzles on the campus.”
The course is eight weeks in length;
the students are required to take Eco-
nomics and English, and there ‘is the
choice of a course in Psychology, His-
tory or Science; the class in Appre-

curriculum “is ‘planned. to. give each
student a better understanding of in-
dustrial problems; factory workers do
not comprehend what is happening to
them in their industries, and Econom-
ics gives them an actual understanding
thatis the most valued gain; from.
English they secure power of/expres-:
sion in writing and in speaking, and
they feel that they have more to give
to their fellow workers; the other sub-
jects are all definitely related ‘to the
need of the industrial -worker.

It is hard to interest ‘them in the
recreational program, for they want to
study all the time; that eagerness
means a “unique spirit” in the school;
however, there are the school tradi-
tions—the Trade Party/and t the Inter-
national Festival—as well ‘as “the vari-
ous sports. ~

The_results of. the school-are difficult
to trace, but it has been tried in the lives

 

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A PERSONAL MATTER
Recently President “Hoover called
to Washington a group of men rep-
resenting all the leading industries
of the country. _ This was. done in
view of establishing a committee,
made up of.some four hundred in-

dustrialists, which is to form an ad-| lg

‘ visory body in the matter-of assur-
ing a firm foundation’ for business
in the future despite the recent up-
heaval in the stock market.

Now although the stock market
is “a delicate instrument recording
national. business,” it records many
things besides: Especially does it
indicate’ psychological ‘as well as
economic conditions. Therefore,
whatever the reasons for the great
drop in the market, the drop did not
necessarily signify any sudden busi-
ness depression. This is just what
these employers told President
‘Hoover last week when almost every
one of them declared. that.he_antici-
pated a busy and prosperous year

~ahead:* But why then are the best"

stocks on the market still low?
Really ‘they are worth more than

their. present-market value ; actually |.

they will not be reasonably valued
until the country becomes stabilized
and the price of stocks becomes

the stocks. President Hoover’s in-
dustrial committee; therefore, is
aiming to aid ‘in. this stabilization
and its first suggestion is a definite
one—that ,wages should not be re-

‘duced. Cutting wages decreases
consumption, which,*in turn, cur-
tails production, necessitating a
smaller number of workers, or, in
other words, unemployment. And
such j§ no condition of prosperity.
If, on the other hand, wages are
maintained or raised, consumption.is
increased; and, according to these
authorities, it is increased consump-
tion, and not decreased production
which ean. re-establish economic sta-
bility and ‘prosperity.

When, therefore, we skim the
headlines of the newspapers, sit is
well to remember before. turning to
the ‘society page, that this question

. concerns the future of the nation’s
business. And as the. country ts
made up.of individuals, so its fature
is determined by individuals, for
the future prosperity of the nation
is dependent upon the prosperity of
its citizens. Thus this issue claims
our attention because it has a direct
bearing upon our own welfare. It
becomes a personal matter, and per-
haps if viewed from this angle, may
become more of an inspiration to

 

THE BURDEN OF QUIZZES

We have long rejoiced over the
fact that our college year is divided
into two sections, and that exami-
nations come, not three ‘times, but
twice during the session. It has

_ always seemed .to us a wise thing
“to do away with examinations be-
fore Christmas, at-a time when we

cards, doa tiring amount of shop-
ping, and take time out for the an-
ticipation and planning of our vaca-

tion, as well as to keep up with our

regular work. And Christmas vace-
tion is an eminently suitable time to
finish’ carefully much of the work

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ee with us. They have -
Tees ttensied weeks as.an a 1: ail
opportune to discover whether }————->
we have fallen behind in our as-

extra’ quizzes. Perhaps they feel
that it 7S better for us to have no
unfinished .work over which to
worry«duringsvaeation. -We appre-
ciate their solicitude, bat. we in’turn
are afraid that they, will find the
task of marking quiz: papers’ during
the Cltistmds - recess somewhat
onerous. For their..own — sakes:
therefore we would like to put in ‘a
plea for the good old quizzes that
come informally “at_a“fertnal period
of our preparation. They at’ least
don’t burden our consciences “with
the thought of our professors, wast-
ing their well-earned rest over
poorly-writteri quizzes while we are

 

enjoying ourselves with no work to
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THE WORLD COURT

. At last the. United States has
taken steps toward a judicial alliance
with the other nations of the world.
Our representativehas been told by
Mr. Hooyer, to,whom ‘the sugges-
tion was- Officially made by Mr.
Stimson, to sign the three protocols
of the World Spire It need hardly
be added that this act is almost, en-
tirely a. provisional one, however,
until ratification by ‘the Senate, the
body which apparently downed the
eague of Nations in American in-
terests. . However, it is somewhat
promising to realize that the Sen-
ate has recently approved a Treaty
which disavows wars, which entails
Hthe intervention of a judicial deci-
‘sion before -war is resorted to, and
which .recommends arbitration as
one of the highest of earthly goods.
We’can hardly believe that the Sen-
ate could be so inconsistent, so
hypocritical as to oppose, now, a
step which, though a short one, may
lead to a really organized machinery
for the carrying out of the Kellogg
Pact: Surely no one-can realize
better? than Mr. Stimson, at this
moment, just how necessary such a
machinery ie and we put ourselves.
_on-record_as-backing up_hismessage.
to the President in a most whole-
hearted manner.

 

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|-the nave, and once a.comic element is
suggested .there.are ample chances. for.
expansion. Batagm who begins by being
a most respectable prophet of Christ's
birth becomes the centre of 2 special
feast known as the Feast of Asses. We
have left the ‘Prose of the Ass’ which
was used as a part of the actual church
service at Beauvais, Sen and Bourges.
Notice that the first half of the verse
is in Latin indicating that i was sung
by the choir; the second half in French
because it was chanted by the people.
In anothér record we have indicated that
as part of the service the congregation
instead of singing the normal response
said. ‘Hee Haw’! ;

Another interesting step in this whole

‘| process of secularization is seen in a
group of plays known as the Shrews- :

bury Fragments, which are the manu-
script of three liturgical plays in which
only the part of one player is given with
his cues; These are partly in Latin but
English is used’ in ‘most, of the speeches,
and in the Shepkexd play the expres-
sions ‘We Tib’ and ‘We Golly’ are in-
troduced.

“From this point to complete ‘seculari-
zation is only a matter of time. In Eng-
land as is commonly known the plays
came from the Church into the hands of
the trade guilds which wére most power-
ful during the’ thirteénth «and fourteenth
centuries when this process was taking
place. So they are called Mystery plays
from the Latin minjsterium. They are
rewritten in English, expanded, and made
more numerous until. the cycle is com-
plete from the Creation to the Last Judg-
ment. With-'the institution of the feast
of Corpus Christi in 1311 the plays be-
come a very important element in the life
of the time. :

“In. most towns. they were. given on
this day in connection with the proces-
sion of the Host through the town. Each
guild had its own pageant on a wagon
and went from place to place. while the
people. remained stationary.

“The development of plays from this

ners and interests, and makes them con-
temporary documents of the most tre-
| mendous interest. I, shall speak next
week of the-material in.the plays them-
selves." es ay ae

 

Goss

&

point marks a reflection of medieval man- |’

Norman Thomas
Discusses Liberalism
oso. ois bd pe eS
-Four hundred Philadefphiaris instead
of an expected two hundred and fifty
attended“a.dintier in honor of Norman
Thomas at the Rittenhouse Hotel on
‘November 22. . Ten or more Bryn Mawr
students. were present. Professor E. -M.
Patterson, of the University..of Pennsyl-
vania, introduced Mr. Thomas, who

 

versity of Virginia “student who stopped

which he said had bothered one of his
class, The question was: “Did you or
did you not run for President?”

The subject of the address was “Has
Liberalism Collapsed ?” Liberalism has
collapsed, said Mr. Thomas: ‘the type of
liberalism which led to jthe laissez-faire
philosophy of thé last century. We are
now in a colleptivist society, whether we

fit our need.  “It- is social folly~con-
tinually. to ‘be fighting rearguard ac;
tions.” The old tolerance will not suf-
fice; “tolerance is a blessing unless we
have: too much of it.” We -have no
standards. ih a

Hoover’s campaign individualism has
not been followed out by his action since
he became President, witness farm re-
‘lief and government control of oil.“Mr.
Hoover’s career in office is »so much
better than his career as-a candidate
that it.is almost a miracle.” The pres-
ent social order demands social action
when forty per cent. of our unskilled
workers’ families are receiving less. than
charity boards would allow them. At
present there.is.a collectivism in favor of
the few.” New York landlords receive
527 million dollars unearned increment
ina year. Our system of justice favors
the rich. What is to be our philosophy?
Our best and largest loyalty now is na-
tionalism. We need a_new_ philosophy
that is adequate to our: present. need, a
philosophy of common control for the

say_fhat..Socialism_is. the only possible
philosophy, but he feels that the Nation
and the New Republic’ and non-Socialist.

individuals who stand for Liberalism
should, put forward some constrtictive
program.

The real object of the dinner, , Mr.
Thomas said, was not to congratulate him

but to found in Philadelphia-.a--chapter
of the ‘League for Industrial Democracy.
The L,I. -D.,. -about» which Mr.--Paul
Porter spoke at Bryn Mawr a few Weeks

Socialists but including others who are
interested in the search for a better so-
cial order. Practical work of the League
has _.included. publication of _ pamphlets
and the formation of the Emergency
Committee which has been distributing
relief insthe strike districts of. the South.

Any
the

League starts under fair auspices.
one interested in it can- join through
Liberal Club. o

 

IN PHILADELPHIA

The Theatre

Adelphi: Philip Merivale leads the
cast of Death Takes a Holiday.

Chestnut: The last .week
Speed. : «
yarrick; The Theatre Guild’s Wings
Over Europe, with Alexander Kirkland;
beautifully stagéd if ‘an appropriate
this imaginative

at Top

background , for
drama., : :

Keith’s: If’ you want’ to be thor-
oughly and delightfully amused, do- see
Little Accident.

Lyric: William Hodge in, a mystery
melodrama, Homicide.

Shubert: Last week of a tuneful Nina
Rosa. : :

Walnut:--Courage, a well --:
splurge of sentimentality.

Broad: David Belasco presents Beth

acted

Merrill in The Blind Window.
Coming
Shubert:

The Duchess of. Chicago;
opens ‘December 21. j

The Movies

Boyd: Mary Eaton in Glorifying the
American -Girl—and it does!

Earle: Dorothy Mackaill in The Love
Racket.

Erlanger: Sally O'Neill in. Jazz
Heaven; all the music you can want
for the pri@e, and’ possibly some more.

Fox: -~Adventure in ‘the great South-

west;
the Rio Grande.
. Fox-Locust: Sunny Side Ups. Janet
JYaynor, Charles Farrell; splendid trick
photography; grand music; it’s a good
one.

Mastbaum: The bigger and. better
movie version of Burlesque, now called
The Dance of Life. — een

Stanley: The Hollywood Revue; lots
of singing and dancing, but you’ve
probably seen it by now. ‘
Stanton: Jules Verne in the movies:
The Mysterious Island. - :

The Orchestra.

On Friday afternoon,
and on Saturday evening, December 14,
the Philadedphia Orchestra, Stokowski
conducting, wil). play. the following
program:

Brahms..Symphony No. 2 in D Major

 

"Elizabeth Liygrmore, 32, to F. Mur-

 

‘December 10.

B - ‘solo -vtolas, |
‘violoncellos and basses

 

opened his address. by telling of. a Uni-

him on the campus to ask a question, |

-will or-no,‘and the old methods no ‘longer |

‘Comfwon good. Mr. Thomas does” not, | .-

on. his loss. of. the New... York..election, |:

ago, is an association largely of young },

The new Philadelphia chapter of. the }.

Warner Baxter in Romance of].

December 13, :

Bach..Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in}.

Bryn Mawr League Service

The service -on Sunday next, Decem-
ber. 15,,will be in the:fork
mas. Carol Service..There-will be carols
for the congregation to sing. The choir
will. sing French, German and English
Carols. Organ solos of a varied nature
in connection with the theme of Christ-
mas will also be givefi:

Two of the ‘earlier. programs were:

Hymn 193—“Come, Ye Thankful People,

Come”, (Tune St. George’s)....Wihdsor
Organ—“Prelude in.G Major’’........ Bach

One of the earliest of Bach’s works
during his period at Weimar, 1708-1717.
Spitta says that the chief motive behind
this piece “was the setting free of a
tumultugus flood of sound in which the
impetuous spirit of the young composer
revels with delight.” There is an air
of ‘freedom and youthful vigour~ about
the whole piece that is rather charming.
Choir—“Now Thank We Alt Our God,”

_ (From the ‘cantata, “The Lord Is a
. Sun and Shield”) .

Chorales—
“To Thee O Lod Our Hearts We
PONG oo Bach

(Sung to Chorale from Part 11 of
‘s “Christmas Oratorio” )

“Great God of. Nations’........... Bach

-Organ—“Vesperale” ©... tun... Cyril” Scott
Very few: works of this essentially

pianistic writer lend themselves to organ

transcription, but this charming piece,

feeling of the movement, is*built up on
two short themes in F and C -major.
It is just a subdued picture admirably
suited for delicate tone colors.

“March Upon a Theme by. Handel,”..

Your Heads, O Ye Gates.” (The Mes-
Slats) 8t~i6 treated first as a march—

-in the: form. of. a: Christ-'

Bach’

the title of which sufficiently describes the |

_Guilmant (1837-1911) |.
Guilmant was. the greatest organist |:
;and composer for the organ France has.
| ever produced. The theme used in ‘this
‘piece: is taken from the Chorus “Lift up

then in the form of a fugue which grad-
ually passes into the march again«with

veloped with a gradual crescendo over
a long pedal-point to the origina! march
theme for full organ, bringing the piece
toa glorious and majestic close.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1929

~ 7:30 P.M:

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Choir— “
“Gloria Patri’—Palestrina —_(1525-
1594). am
“Tenebrae factae. sunt”—Palestrina

_ . 1525-1594).
Scripture Reading. and. Prayers
Choir—

“Ave Maria”—Arcadelt (1514-1575).
Organ— ge
(a) “Prelude” eee -

(b) “Musette en Rondeau”—Rameau
(1685-1764): setts
“Sarabande Grave”—Couperin _(.1668-
1733). ™

(1685-1759).

“Chaconne”—Pachelbel (1653-1695).
Recessional Hymn 17—“Saviour Breathe
an Evening Blessing’#€Tune “Vesper
Hymn”).

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Some pleasures cost so far
out of proportion to their
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Dads and Mothers sometimes:
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fragments of the theme. of..the. fugue
‘heard a’ intervals. “This Section ‘is. de--

Processionat Hymn 395—“Ten Thousand -

Times Ten Thousand” (Tune “Al-
ford”)
Organ—
“Gaillarde’—Bernhard ‘ Schmid ‘ (16th
century). Lech oh avn at
“Aria”—Mattheson (1681-1764).

“Adagio Cantabile”—-Tartini (1692-

“Trumpet _Voluntary”—Purcell (1658-"

“Gavotte” (from “Berenice” )—Handel

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PEERS |

“manticism in particular can never be
understood. Even today Spanish ro-
manticism has been very definitely

» Misunderstood for the reason that stu-

dents of Spanish literature have eome
to it from French literature and have
very naturally identified Spanish ro-.
manticism with French romanticism.
I want to show how very, different the
French movement was’ from the Span-
ish movement:

The Romantic. Revolt in France

“In 1820 the romantic revolt -began
It came as a most violent
reaction against, two centuries of solid
classicism. So there were certain char-
acteristics in the French romanticism
that were.more emphasized. than. they
would have been if there had -not-been-
such a violent reaction. French ro-
manticism lasted until 1850, when the.
realism reaction of thé novel came in,:
and. all this time romanticism. was aj
definitely self-conscious school with ai
definite. set of pringiples. :

“If we consider French and Spahish’
romanticism side by side. we find that
we have something rather like an anti-!
thetical movement ;in Spain. There’

““was less reason for reaction than in
France because there«-was only one
century of classicism to react against
and that was not a’ very strict one.
Secondly, Spanish romanticism was
much later than French romanticism.
Finally, and now I am coming to the:
crux of the whole matter, romanticism.
in-:Spain remained a movement and:

part it was only a tendency with indi-'
viduals here and ‘theré going’ back to’
the golden age. It is difficult, indeed,
to find any prefaces, manifestos,' or
declarations of policy of the principles,
of Spanish romanticism. Romanticism:
in Spain never knew what it was; thus}
it lacked, -vigour, velfemence, and con-:
viction. ts

~$panish Romatiietsts Shortlived~
“For a movement it was very short-

lived} indeed, until’ 1833 it was nothing |.

mote than a vague tendency. I should
put its life into ten years. “After 1844
it was clearly doomed.. In 1857 Ber-
rerra calls romanticism a thing of the
past. Romanticism in Spain never
dominated the litgrature at all. This
is. very different from France. In
Spain we find that there was a weak,
little, hesitating group against a strong,
very self-cofistious group in Franée
under the able leadership of Victor
Hugo. This suggests that romanticism
in Spain was a feeble, unprofitable
movement; but on the contrary it had
more verve, more freedom, more aban-
don because of its individualism. Un-

.. doubtedly the Spanish romanticists are

a group worth studying, yet too often
studied by too few.

“The question will’ arise as_ to
whether the influence of Spanish ro-
manticism was as negligible as its life
duration. _In Spain there was ‘no anti-
romanticism to raise itself against the
romantic movement. So we find even
in the literature of today that certain
tendencies permeate certain writers lit-
tle or much and one of these tendencies
is romanticism. — Fertility, abundance,
subjeetivism, impatience: of criticism—
all these are in Spanish literature -and
I am sure ‘that Spain will never’ sit
under the: yoke of ‘ pseudo-classicism.
Spain is the home of romanticism
where you can find it in every epoch
to its fullest extent.”

 

Abbe Dimnet Coming

The-Abbe- Dimnet, who: is to speak at
‘Bryn Mawr on Ménday evening, De-
cember 16, has recently been much dis-
cussed as the author of The Art of Think-
ing. .He also has written a book on
The Bronte Sisters, and is an able critic
of both literature and life. He is espe-
cially interested’ in contemporary Amer-

_ica, and as a wide reader, and—a—deep

thinker, he contributes generously of his
ewn-personality and opinion to ‘the sub-
jects whereof he treats. Bryn Mawr is
indeed fortunate to haye the Abbe as its:
‘guest, and to hear him speak is an oppor-
tunity for all of us.

 

. Rutgers’ Reasons
Of the four hundred and forty-three
freshmen at- Rutgers University, forty-
three came to a university “to get a
good education”’~ to “better” them-

_selves, while. hg thr e@ gave as their

reason a desire to participate in inter-
collegiate ati@etics, according to the re-
sponses to the annual questionnaire, madé]
-public recently, Two of the first-year

 

   
 

men, answering’ the question, “Why did

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| The fact that. psychological. suggestion
| was used in connection with the asso-

-had much’ faith in it.

the example of the crystal gazer who

For the anh aa shows the possibility of mak?

?A Pleasant Walk from the Col-

we

-.S.---Bowditch,-- was ~elected-"as
Fjeshmen -member- of the Execs}
tive Board of-the Self-Government

Association. Miss Bowditch’ at-.
tended Miss Windsor’s School in
Boston, and was Mayor of the*
school last winter.

 

HART

'' Continued from Page One

Stimulated to an abnormal degree.

ciation of*ideas by. images shows that
magic would be most effective if people
Therefore it is
difficult for positivists to understand
magic since positivists are concerned
only with the objeetive and the thing
producing magic is essentially sub:
jective.

Andrew Lang, who is very ,inter-
} ested in ‘the study of magic says that
primitive magic has its replicas in
modern scientific. research. He cites

saw in her crystal an event Which had
just happened to a woman with whom:
she was absolutely unfamiliar and who
was definitely antagonistic to the idea
of clairvoyance. Gilbert Murray, pres-
ident of the British Society 8f Psycho-
logical Research, tells of experiments
with his amily in which he left the
room and they decided to concentrate
on a certain subject. In 150 cases out
of 300 he got the ‘subject absolutely
right and in only one-third of the
cases was he wrong. A case in psycho-

ing subjects dé the bidding of a per-
son .at a distance without knowledge
of the experiment: These cases and
many others bearing.out the same facts:
give us another possible. hypothesis
regarding primitive magic...Science,-in
considering this magic which has such
a-powerful- “suggaaive -effect-orn people
knowing the process, may be’ dealing
with forces with which it is not yet ac-,
quainted. It is quite possible that these

      
    
   
   

 
    

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from the belief in souls, which arises
from mistaken interpretations of
dreams,’ shadows,: breath,- death, etc.

rs ;
forces may operate even independently
of. the--human: mind, ret
~ Animism is-the- ghost theory ‘of the
origin of religion and is most often
connected’ with the names of,Herbert
Spencer and Tyler.. Spencer says that
all religions without exception. arise

from ancestor worship, which’ arises,

The original idea that man contained
detachable entities or souls which go
away during sleep or at death, caused
savage tribes to worship the soul of
their dead chief who. could protect
their souls after “death. Gradually one,
tribe conquered another until only one
tribal god remained all- powerful—he
became King of Kings. This idea was
deeply rooted > among anthropologists,
but it‘seer becarre-evident that Spen-

for he forgot to. take into account the
fact that the idea of God has arisen in
many:..cases from personifications- of
nature. But this theory of Spencer’s
combined with that Of the positivist
has shattered the idea of a real deity
in the minds of many scholars.

* However these theories do not take-
into account the fact that many people
have’ found: in_ religion. something to
help them thrqugh adversity, that
drunkards and wastrels have
converted and their lives transformed
by religion. Reformers have got real
dynamic power from the Bible. Re-
ligion may be, however, only the result
of powerful autosuggestion or the re-
sult of “collective emation. But these
are other hypotheses. There is the
approach of men™Nike Edington and
Millikin who¢believe that we have gone
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have faith in a real spiritual environ-
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approach has made investigations of
the spirit and has formulated a. statis-
tical analysis of hallucinations or ap-
paritions. It has been discovered that
in almost every case these hallucina-
tions have occurred within 12 hours
of the moment when. the person seen
has died or has gone through some
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not fit. their prejudices. :

-Dr. Hart concluded his talk with a
more personal message. “If we have

the courage to be Benuinely scientific.

we must consider all these hypotheses
as explanation of religion. We must
be willing to experiment in our own
lives with the idea that the spiritual
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SUMMER SCHOOL .

_ Comtiyyed trom Pade One

_ Mer a night of rain.” Four-fifths of the

-are back in industry, but many
have become interested in legislation
‘@t have gone on studying. The’ group
ig determined that the movement shall

go on; the scholarship question looms
for everyone in the school, for i
e project depends on the Og “hun-

dred scholarships.
The movement is especially signifi-
cant for the -undergraduates; it has
‘oved that college women and women

ustry” have the same interests iti

“education, and that it is possible for
them to work together. .The teachfhg
fprobféms are of réal interest—how to
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of réligion,

conditions in the communities—prob-
lems that are of direct significance to
college students and faculties all’ over
the country. College alumnae: and in-
dustrial workers are putting” their
minds together on the industrial and
educational program; it cannot ; be
sound -unless all who have enjoyed the
opportunities of education understand
the significance of these schools and
do something toward promoting them.
The culture of industrial society can-
not be developed unless “the underpin-
nings” of industry itself are firm. “We
want those of you who are interested
in these things to examine the indus-
trial underpinnings of the communi-
ties where you live so that all of us
may be able to build up industrial so-
ciety and still have it contribute to
human life.”

Summer Students Praise the School

Miss Augusta Popkin, a former stu-
' dént:of. the, Suitinter Schools, wasnintro-

” ditcet by the@Maitman:- Miss Popkin

spoke in defense of the idea that the
desire for study in the school is unique.
College students are preparing to “live
beautifully,” and to that end are ex-

tthe industrial workers are “just trying

-tto analyze what we have been going

through’—an opposite process. They
lhave gone through many experiences,
and they discover that they are “liv-
ing economics,” and also possibly dis-
how to “live beauty.” The
group does not know how to go about
study systematically; night-school does
not meet their needs. ‘When I heard
of Bryn Mawr I could hardly believe
it”; it seems to be looking for people
that are “sensitive,” no ‘matter how
little they know; since the Summer
School is sensitive it has a feeling of
religion. The tindérgraduates are an
inspiration, and the comradeship is re-
At first there is a period
of shyness, but classes are cafriéd’ on.
through discussion and peq@fe’s ex-
periences come to ‘the fore; they an-
alyze each other’s opinions, and build
up ideas, and when they go out -by
themsélves afterwards, they see how
their ideas have grown and broadened.

‘That is not all.
“a desire for soniething
more beautiful to be gotten in: our
age through facing things as they are.”

The industrial .worker cannot afford |.
time to go back to the past for she is |.

confronted: with present-day prob-
lems; but the college student who stud-
ies the past should understand how the
economic system came about. The
lives of those who have had opportu-

_ nities in education and those who are

industrial workers are so “tied up”
that unless they understand each other
the ‘greatest tragedies in the world can
happen; for instance: war is the eco-
nomic pressure of one country against
another, but unless the factory worker
understands this we- will have war.
Knowledge’ limited to the few. edu-
‘cated is not of much value; the worker
thas to be_an intelligent being and un-
Jess he thinks decently we cannot go
on with the modern world. “The
wotld_is meant for something more
beautiful, and unless workers have a
better understanding we cannot have
this beauty for which we are striving
after all.”

Miss Elizabeth Nord was, next in-
troduced by Miss Burrows. Miss
Nord spoke of a sermon she had heard
on the unhappiness in the world; life is
so beautiful while you are young, but
as you grow older there is not So much
beauty in life; you need to face reality.
“I believe that is what Bryn Mawr did
for me, it brought me face to face with
reality. I think that to tell the way
in-which-the. summer. school brought
me to face reality, is to tell of my life.”
Her family, Miss Nord said, came to

The school breathes |:

not a skilléd worker, and her ssdiheer'|
worked also; the children looked for-
ward to going to work so that their
mother might stay at hgme, ‘and started

after the sixth grade, without a desire
to continue study, but the novelty of |.
work soon wore off, and life seemed
futile; she wanted to be back at school,
and she went: to night school, comiplet-
ng .the eighth and ninth grades and

and one-half years of high school.
Then she thought she would like to be
a social worker, and everything she did

‘s toward that end. Finally she saw
a, poster. about the summer school; she
came: andefewnd«herself “face to face
with reality.” She came in contact
with girls who had’ different ideas, and
she began to be proud of being an in-
dustrial worker, for before she had not
had the broad. vision of factories all
over the country. She began to forget
her idea of being a social worker, and
through the discussions she began to
see other things—the ecomonic sys-
tem, the labor problems, things to. es-
cape from which would seem shirking.
She learned ‘to live together with peo-
ple, to love people of other races, to
live out of doors—all the things ex-
pressed in Miss Smith’s poem “The
Seekers,” which Miss Nord quoted as
the conclusion of: her talk; the last
stanza ftifs:

“Bryn Mawr, you called. We answered,
unafraid.
Out of the factory we come to thee.
Give us the tools, the tools of our new
trade.
Give us the truth to set our spirits
free.”

Undergraduate Contacts Discussed. |

Miss Dorothea Cross, one of the two
representatives of the undergraduates

‘atithe: s stemmer: school, was the next

speaker after Miss Nord. ‘Her end,
Miss Cross said, is the only one the un-
dergraduates.can-know. for themselves.
The undergraduates at the summer |
school aré a special institution—they

ploring...the heritage of the—ages,but}———-

are everything in general since they are
nothing in particular; they rank as
faculty, staff, students and are actually
none of these. Two are from Bryn

Wellesley, Smith, Holyoke, Vassar and
Chicago. They live together with the
students, and see a great deal of them;
their chief function is to.teach athletics,
but they are hete ‘to observe and see
what -industrialf'workers are like. - It
is true -that ‘among the industrial
workers there aré varieties of opinions,
and you never realize things until you
hear them talk about life. You get-a

touch of reality,. and a sense of your
own complete insignificance; you real-
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Miss Thomas Concludes Meeting.

The concluding address ‘of the eve-
‘ning was given by Miss Thomas. Miss
Thomas spoke of the very great hap-
piness that always has been her’s’ since
the summer school started. From the
first years one realized what a wonder-
ful thing it was for women workers
and teachers to come together on a
college campus and work out the prob-
lems that face us. _ Unless we are
ready: to..meet~it ‘we. cannot“ believe that
the future ‘can” possibly come. It .is ‘a
great delight to see that the experiences
of industrial workers joined with our
academic experiences’ can work together
in the one creation of the’ Bryg Mawr
PSummer School. . This is working so
well in the hands of the workers and of
the college women, and has proved itself
so good, that other colleges are opening
similar schools, the only oppoftunity in
the world for women workers.

One of the things you can do that will
give the ‘most happiness to yourself is to
help other women. Virginia Woolf in
her new book, A Room of One’s Own,
has suggested that by helping women
to establish independence on which
future women may build, you can_bring
about traditions of “a room of: one’s
own.” Things .cannot succeed with
only one-half of the human race. and
genius ‘at work; by giving women an
opportunity for study, you can release
an immense amount of genius as yet
unknown; the world will go infinitely
faster when the workers have the door
of opportunity opened to them. The
Bryn. Mawr Summer School. has led
the way to opening the door of oppor-
tunity for women

The summer school was first realized
in Miss Thomas’ thought when she

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the desert and as she sat on the hills to
watch the sunset Miss Thotnas turned
her. thoughts to what could be tone to

to get the.vote. . College women of all
others should be able to sympathize

and help those without an education.
Those. who have.come to college
with the approval of their families and
friends might do a little to help the
women who have not had the doors
opened to them. “We appeal to you to
stand behind the summer school as
the Aluninae have stood behind you;
we..want. you to. give, what, you can
toward the scholarships ;” ~a’ scholar-.
ship is $250 for the course of eight
weeks. ‘Now that Christmas time is
approaching you may give to your
friends’ as_ Christmas presents Miss
Smith’s account of the nine years of
the summer school, a book which is
on sale at one dollar for industrial
workers and at°one and a half dollars
ordinarily, and  whosé’ printing . was
helped by the Carnegie Institute. This
would be one practical way of helping;
another way would be telling the shod
news to your friends.

Miss Thomas, as a member of the
Council of Schools for Women Work-
ers, said that she had -seen how wise

women in industry are, how. they ap-| 4

preciate the eight weeks of opportunity.
Every bit of education you have is a
happiness; as you grow older if you
keep your interests alive and do not
let your minds lie fallow, you will be
happy, but you must first lay the
foundations through education.
I think that you and the students of
the ‘summer school are very much to
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