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« Christmas and Easter Holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest of
Bryn Mawr College at the Maguire Building, Wayne, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.

 

 

 

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That Bryn Mawr

The Bryn Mawr Myth > |

students are radical has been accépted as a truism

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for

some time by people in and out of college. Although an individual might

have been

cluded that she was the exception proving the rule.

sure she could not be classified so summarily she generally con-

The bright red mist

which has surrounded us has now been partly pushed aside and a glimpse of

the Bryn Mawr girl can be obtained.

She arises, in her sixty-two percent

perfection, to prove that the Bryn Mawr radical is only a myth and is likely
to become a legend. The “composite student has stated her views on the
fundamental problem of marriage, showing a conservatism as marked as the
radicalism of which she has been accused. .

Skeptics have only to look at the facts brought out in the News marriage
questionnaire to see the strong conservative tendency. We have been prom-

ised by both gloomy.and cheerful prophets that the break
will take place through the efforts of our generation. * The

up of family life
isappearance of

- the home, however, seems to be in a very remote futuré when we see how
many Bryn Mawr undrgraduates prefer marriage to.a career and how many
more would give up the latter if the two conflicted.

The conclusions. which our average girl has reached are not particularly’
reactionary. Her conservatism is based on convention and expediency, but

it is not unreasonable.

She thas decided definitely against Victorian double

standards for men and women, because experience has shown her the same
standards are desirable for complete compatibility. She has shown little sign
of selfishness in her reactions to the situations she was asked to consider.
In spite of talk about the complete emancipation of woman she is determined
to have a fairly large family, and to devoté"hérself to domesticity.

All of these things show that she has given a great deal of thought. to

the more serious problems which may arise from marriage.

She has, in_most

cases, so:qualified her answers as to prove that she will have few prejudices

She

in making individual decisions.

is idealistic about marriage but she

intends to consider every question on its own merits and to solve it in a fair

and reasonable way.

We are able to present our own small proof that the pendulum is
swinging back arid ‘that the young people of tgday have not. been carried
away. by every phrase and catchword of the time. We at college are neither
flaming youth nor young people who flaunt radical ideas for the express
purpose of shocking our elders. We have admitted our belief in the wisdom
. of many theories corhmonly called conservative, and we have departed from
others only after considering all. the elements involved. We urge those
interested in Bryn Mawr to study the statistics and draw their own con-

clusions.

 

Dog’s Life
(Submitted in news competition)

The time has come to reconsider the present ban on dogs in the light
of the abnormal anti-civilization rising from the ashes of our smoking rooms.
Of an early*morning pale haggard faces gleam through the dank smoke; at
midday even the faces are completely obscured when the dawn breaks the
last survivor bears the vanquished from the field, leaving the smoke tri-
umphant. Her mania for work has driven the undergraduate to this plight.
As she toils over the Life of Dionysius in Greek with Latin footnotes, her
despair at thus frittering away the precious hours of her life in idle pleasures,
induces a vicious craving for a cigarette. Once she has gained the smoking
room, she dares not waste the fleeting seconds by returning to her room, so
there she stays and works till oblivion overcomes her in this.den ot vice...

A dog would provide the obvious remedy. He holds no time of the
day or night sacred when he wants a walk, text-books are the main staple of
his daily diet, and he certainly does not thrive on smoke. The faculty will
assure us that dog-fights provide a healthy satisfaction for the primitively
savage instincts, and are an excellent excuse for hysterical quarrels and mur-

dering your worst enemy.
the undergraduate from her
provide one with each room.

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Proposed Change in Policy.
of Room Rents Next Year

 

(Continued from. Page Qne)

and will be assigned by the college
arbitrarily: There will also be 45

rooms at $200, which will be assigned
similarly. Besides these, 30 rooms

will be kept at $250; these will not
be restricted, but are tintended to
provide for students who‘do not need
aid, but who must limit expenses.
In this way the college hopes to .aid
one-third of the students, where it. can
aid only one-seventh under the pres-
ent system. There will be no increase
over $30 on the remaining rooms in
the halls, and some rents will be re-
duced.

- Jt wil] take some time to put the

 

 

fast as they are vacated by. their
present occupants. In the meantime,
provision will be made for those need-
ing lower rents next year. Thus
there will be relatively little change
in rents; a slight increase in the mini-
mum rate is being made in order to
place one-half the total rooms at a
lower rate. Miss Park éspecially re-
quests all students not in need of

financial assistance to choose rooms
outside the area reserved by the col-
lege. All those in need of assistance
should see Miss Ward.

 

‘New York Calahestion

“General George Battles Host at
Large Dinner.”—-From the New York
Herald Tribune society section.

 

_ One musically innocent freshman
came back from the Hampton con-

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The Pillar
| of Salt |

 

 

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(Specially Contributed in the News
Competition.)

What is more exciting (we always
think) than an army of females in
the first flush of youth (well, almost)
marching to the tune of “Soldier Boy,
Soldier Boy, Whe-ere Are You Go-
ing?” One night, not so long ago,
we were surprised: and oh so pleased
to hear the stirring strains of “Sol-
dier Boy” outside Pembroke; natur-

ally curious, we stuck our head out
and discovered, marching up the road
in as pretty formation as you would
care to see, four embry® ‘fighters,
turning imaginery corners, and say-
ing, “Harch,” instead of “March,” in
their professional Way. We were stir-
red and pulled our head in quickly to
avoid catching cold.

We mentioned it afterwards to sev-
eral people and added carelessly that
an army, or ‘at least a regiment,
would be an asset for Bryn Mawr-
publicity-getting, vigor-making, body-
building. But since they took the
suggestion as just another warmed-
over gag to rouse them from that mid-
week fog, we gave up, after a short
and futile while, firmly convinced
that we needed some advance public-
ity to break the ground.

We may as well admit, deep down
in its heart, the NEWS has no use
for us and our rough ideas, frowns
on it in fact as going against their
policy of World Peace and Disarm
Before You. Blow Up—which, we can
tell you, will come to no good end. But
nothing was ever done without Cour-
age, unflinching—Courage, and we’ve
got an awful lot.

All you need, comrades and mates,
is imagination. In the first ‘place, we
want you to visualize the sheer beau-
ty of it. See in your mind’s eye four
hundred (five hundred with the grads,
faculty children, and Teddy Manning)
marching over Merion Green, round
and round, eternally grounding and
presenting arms, beating the grass to
a muddy pulp with hob-nailed VWoots,
while the Village Band spiritedly too-
tles—“Soldier Boy” and “Three Blind
Mice.” :

But the Arms motif. plus martial
music is not our only bait for the
Youth of Bryn Mawr—in fact only
the abstract. part of the scheme. The
details are tremendous—simply tre-
mendous—yellow and white uniforms
with gilt hairbrushes on the. shoul-
ders, shakoes for generals and, Major-
generals with clean collars -every
week thrown in: (Let the privates go
dirty is our feeling, and if they: kick
they can all be generals). At- least
the whole army, if not actually -anti-
septic, can look it- by wearing long
cape-eoats of a dubious yellow.

Thé real percentage in having these
coats is that ‘they will give Bryn
Mawr a certain charm for all the
men’s colleges for hundreds of miles
in-any direction. ~ Week-end dances—:
even those tea dances—will be mob-
ved by New Haven and Princeton,
mad to get a Bryn Mawr armyeoat.
How He will simply adore id} to win
a coat as sign of His popularity, and

 

f a dog could even partly succeed in wresting Lymeieciumph will warm Him, even if
ks, the college would surely be delighted to

the coat doesn’t, as He sports it nat-
tily around His home| campus.

But think it over. Far be it from
us té rush a whole campus into dan-
gcrous, suspicion-rousing prepara-
tions for war. Remember all these
arguments though and see if they
don’t appeal to some vital drop of
blood in the body. (If they do, don’t
omit to put yes and no on our ques-
tionnaire—“Is Bryn Mawr A: Land of
the Free and A Home of the Brave?’’)

 

marking to a friend that the quartet
had given a delightful rendering of
“What a Boy!” We consider this on
a par with the worn-out paper of
Cleopatra’s needles, but it has the
advantage of being somewhat fresher.

_ There—there ie our little mouse.
If we are caught with a car the
College stores it'at our expense—but
this pet doesn’t even belong to. us,
and the College has been storing it
at our expense for so long that we
have become quite used to it—al-
though we would hardly weep if it
were to leave. ae

 

In Philadelphia

Chestnut Street—“It Booth Had
Missed”—a serious consideration of
the question of how Lincoln would
have dealt with the reconstruction of
the South had Booth been less accu-
rate...Some. people may enjoy it, but
it takes itself very seriously. ,
. Garrick—‘The Man in the Yellow
River” under Theatre Guild—Claude
Rains, John Daly Murphy, Henry
Hull, etc. An Irish drama which the
“Record” sums up aptly as being about
nothing and everything—apbout Irish
and all men.. Very garbled and not’
too entertaining.

Locust—March at 8.30 P. M.
Escudero, the Spanish dancer, who
has had such sensational applause in
Europe and New York, will dance.
He is really splendid and should not
be missed—get your tickets at once.

Academy of Music '

Philadelphia Grand Opera Company
will present “Faust,” Thursday eve-
ning, February 25, at 8.00. Mmes.
Boerner, Petina, Eustis; MM. Ono-
frei, Steschenko, Thibaplt, Robofsky.

Philadelphia Orchestra, Friday af-
ternoon, Feb. 26; Saturday evening,
Feb. 27, and Monday evening, Feb.
29. Bernardino Molinari conducting.
Program:

Haydn,

Symphony No. 1, E flat major.
Respighi. -Antique Dances and Aria
Vivaldi,

9

“Winter” (Concert of Seasons)
Loffler,

“Pagan Poem,” Piano and Strings

SEY LET -.. .Bolero

New York Philharmonic Symphony
Society—Monday evening, March 7,
at 8.15: Sir Thomas Bucham. to con-
duct. Program: Haydn, Mozart and
Franck. :

 

Movies
Mastbaum—Ruth Chatterton in
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” with Paul
Lukas.. The story of a woman frus-
trated in her desire for motherhood.

| Ruth Chatterton is disappointing, but

Lukas is excellent.
as a picture.

Boyd—George: Arliss in “The Man
Who Played God”—Arliss as a deaf
and embittered man who becomes an
internationally famous pianist. ff
you-enjoy the star, see it—but it is
purely a picture of personality.

Stanton—Bela Lugosi in “Murders
in the Rue Morgue”—even Poe’s hair
would stand on’end! A picture that
has sent thousahds home to jitter in
bed with a shot-gun. See it if you
have a strong heart.

Stanley—Clark Gable and Wallace
Beery in “Hell Divers,” a drama or
peace-time aviation which manages to
be a good deal more eventful than
most: wars.

Karlton—Billic Dove in “The Age
For Love’—love and marriage aren’t
enough. to pull this out of the mire |
of mediocrity. cease

Keith’s—Hal Skelly. and - Zita Jo-
hann in “The Struggle.” A very poor
attempt at the “Ten Night in a Bar-
room” and “Father, dear father, come |
home to us now” theme. Drink! Man’s
greatest enemy. Hurrah!

Earle—‘The Passionate Plumber,”
with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante
and Polly Moran. Keaton is a mis-
guided plumber, and Durante a chauf-
feur enamoured of Polly Moran, the
muid, and.it’s all very funny.

Europa. — “Le Million” —- Rene
Clair’s film of the Latin Quarter of
Paris—extremely good. Engagement
temporary, so make sure before go-
ing. « ; ;

Fox—George O’Brien and Victor
McLaglin in “The Gay Caballero”—
adventure along the Mexican border
—Conchita Montenegro as the adven-
ture.

Not too much

 

Local Movies
Ardmore—Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Greta Garbo in “Mati Hari;”
Friday, “Around the World in Eighty
Minutes,’ with Douglas Fairbanks;
Saturday, Marion Marsh and War-

ren William in “Under Eighteen;” |

Monday and Tuesday, James Dunn
and Sally Eilers in “Dance Team;”
Wednesday, Frederick March in “Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Seville—Wednesday and Thursday,
Winnie Lightner in “Manhattan Pa-
rade;” Friday and Saturday, Norma
Shearer in “Private Lives;” Monday
and Tuesday, “Suicide Fleet,” with
William Boyd; Wednesday, “The Se-
cret Witness,” with Zasu Pitts.
Wayne—Wednesday and Thursday,
Kay Francis in “The False Madon-

 

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‘to death, the God of Justice, recog-

 

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News on Sale

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“may be obtained at the Book
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on pay day.

 

 

 

Theology of “Paul’s ae
' Successors” Discussed

 

tion of the flesh, however, lasted till
the Nineteenth century, when the
modern reversion is nearer to the
Pauline point of view.

The later writers of the Gospel of
Luke and the Acts did most to change

the position of Paul in history. Luke °*

omits all suggestion that the Chris-
tian had troubles..due to not wholly
high conduct, and he leaves out all
reference to the mystical experience
of Paul. This is a step on toward
the subsequent emphasis on the emo-
tion ‘rather than the experience of
the mystic. To the writer of the Acts
the spirit was the gift of God to the
Christians in order that they should
be guided: Thus he attached great
importance to the ceremony of bap-
tism.

Twenty years later the Gospel of
John identifies Jesus with the Logos
of Greek theology. Here we have
the first absolutely Catholic atmos-~
phere of having to be .\born through
baptism in order to inherit the eternal
life. From here on there are two
branches—the Catholic Christianity
and Gnosticism. The gnostic claims
that what ‘saves you is knowledge.
They were ‘the first to face the prob-

lem of. why--we need salvation. This

goes back to the tragedy of the crea-

tion of the world . There was first a

divine being: consisting in a series of
eight-attributes. Wisdom would not
keep in her: place in the series, and
when she was thrown back into it
the strength of the throw sent her
out into space. The shock and the
emotion to ‘which this gave rise was
the cause of} either the creator or the
creation. Thus creation is the result
of one ill-advised act of one portion
of the diviné\ being.. The remaining
portions took pity on the plight of
wisdom and stretched: out aver the
limitation in the form of Christ. Thus
was obtained the redemption of wis-

.;dom and the spiritual part of crea-

tion which the Gnostics identified with
themselves. The Gnostics constructed
a myth out of scientific phraseology.

~The point of view between the two
extremes of Gnosticism and Catholi-
cism is that of Marcion. The creator
is a God of Justice who created His
own earth and punished the people
on it who did not live up to his
standards. Matters got -worse and
worse, until finally the supreme God
took pity on the inhabitants of the
earth and seft the stranger Jesus to
After having put Jesus

nized his mistake, and his eyes were
opened. Thus the God of Mercy
bought out the whole new face.

The Catholic Church objected , to
both these theories, but as a result
of them it adopted four gospels and
the-OldTestament. In this casé, .as

usually, the decision of the church
Lrepresents the triumph of common

sense over nonsense. It is our popu-
lar practice to feel that the inherited
theology is not true and so explain it
away. We, the ultimate successors
of Paul, are faced by the same prob-
lems. |

One way that a person like-myself
can stand in relation to Paul, said
Dr. Lake, is to believe that the ex-—
perience in life called religion - is
worth having. It is not right to
throw away the facts because we do
not believe the explanation. If the
modern church does not produce an
explanation that will satisfy, history
will repeat itself. The question_for
the coming generation is not whether
to keep religion, but whether to call.
it religion and where to express it.

 

“Jealousy_may. be disposed of by
listening to the prelude of the Meis-
tersingers,” said Dr. A. M. Ornsteen,
associate in neurology and electro-
therapeutics at Pennsylvania. “In-.
deed, many ills may. be soothed by
music, so that perhaps we may /find
such people’ as Medical Musicians.”

 

Cooper in “Sooky;” Monday and
Tuesday, “Strictly Dishonorable,”
with Sidney Fox and: Paul Lukas;
Wednesday, “Peach O’Reno,” with
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.

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