: : é i ’ ny Pe ; 3 a ae hae . : : ‘ : fe ; f ’ ’
: vy ge Sais (THE COLLEGE. MEWS.
ae oy fon i - : i by .* - - = : :
et will be very “Gifferent unless the! ~""yhomas Hardy —
lily ae rising ‘and. just risen generations can ae age pews
: "ae ad sae mphtaic | DE made to learn-new tricks..At pres- Poetty Was His Chief ‘Interest;
ned interes 1 aeyn awe, * oohe eat ine efit “vex populi” seems to be hand- . Although His Novels Are ..
pagolt tr eauaine, ayne, "Pa. ®/ ing. out an old familiar line, ‘and “Better K ;
iene = “War Is Glorious” is a more popu- wet hh Oe cas ctf er
CORNELIA B. a | at slogan iter -wrar Is a Crime.” When: Euripides died; Sophocles put'|4
: Co Bator his ch
gs ie / 28 sin li monng se nee
"HELEN KELYEY, | di
ae fs N.S. FA. = a tHE take sed ‘ne “now oe:
"CAROLINE R. M,/ SMITH, ‘28 ON scdene 4 pity that every. mention |t t© voice @- ik ute to him. No ore
c - Contributing Editor of. the National Student Federation| of the three” great Engfish writers,
‘ vob, ’ ee of America should have. to | be| Hardy, Conrad ‘and ‘Meredith, is wal
om K. BALCH, agate ag 30 prefated by ,an explanation of even from the ‘wider field of the con
_M. GRACE, '29 / C. HOWE, ’30 | what the organization is and how. it tinent, of the three great artists, Hardy,
: Sineiicee ; .arosé, An association of. all the Sele Meanee anaes a :
4 M. 8, GAILLARD '28 students™in this country and- with} *: oe — saa
- Subécription Manager -.—>—'| Other =‘countries—for ‘ through _ its only D’Annunzio remains,
E.R. JONES, 28 a, membership in the Cc. I. E. the}... The mewspaper accounts of Hardy
J ie ao Atslstants N. S. F. A. means just that—is-6f| have stressed’ his ‘novels, rather than
i ah M. D. : gm - immense value—potentially. It can] yi; poetry in their discussions of his

 

“cent unheaval. shook off this

‘military enthusiasm ;

~ older .
~ psychologies--were functioning ‘ac-
_ cording to age- -old ‘Rabit:
~ fallen’ back. into the old rut out of
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of J. GARRETT, ‘29

ra ONS MAY BEGIN'AT ANY TIME

as second-class matter at the
wayne, a Post Office.

OLD, TRICKS FOR YOUNG
| ae DOGS

“You can’t teach an old dog new
_ tricks,” ‘so- goes the saying. But
qv about teaching a young dog
new tricks? At—seems_ that either
they are not ‘being: “taught or. élse}:

 

 

 

: they cannot learn. A few years ago

we all believed that the war had

taught something to the world at}:

large, that Populaces had, at last,
begun to learn. We can no longer
believe this miracle. Mass educa-
tion seems to be as -illusive and
ephemeral an ideal as ever it was
in the petty pre-war days. Customs,
thousands of years old, make a dis-
couragingly ineffaceable track in our
impressionable-minds,and_the. Glory
of War is an ageold tradition. Most
of those who took part in thé re-
in-
grained - superstition. They were
jolted out of the almost indestruct-

‘ible rut. War books, plays and films

were brought out by the disillusioned
in an effort to popularize their new

belief that the Military Ideal was
bunk. In the beginning i propa-
ganda got across. “Outlaw War”
became both a- popular’. and .a
fashionable slogan.

This week we saw the “Big
Parade” again, after two years. . In
just twq years the/ spirit of the
audiences has changed. The propa-

«ganda of the film didn’t get across at

‘all this time, rather the audience
took it as pro-war propaganda. ‘The
sordid incidents were apparently not

noticed, the obviously tragic ones
were sobbed at, but the point
of presentation was completely
missed. The spread of patriotism,
the mob movement ‘to — enlist
at the beginning were applauded,
and from then on ‘the Glory.

of War dazzled the -audience more
‘and more. ‘The American forces
move up to the front (applause) ;
Americans killed (sobs mixed with
admiration of glorious, sacrifice) ;
Germans killed (hectic cheering).
And so it went: every scene that was
meant to shatter the’Military Bubble
swelled it further “instead: there
were cheers. when in the shell-hole

the American. soldier.’ punched _ the|’

face of the wounded German, and
near grdans ‘when he gave him a
cigarette.

At.the end of this misunderstood
film cam¢the. Pathe News, and first
of all marched on the screen the
Marines, off to Nicaragua with ap-
propriate. martial acconrpaniment
from the organ. Loud cheers—t

a subtitle—‘“‘These are the Devil

Dogs, the first to. fight, and how
they DO fight”—the applause was
terrific. ‘The older people were al-
most all subdued; however, much
the martial music might arouse their
emotions their, minds had: learned a
hard lesson. It ‘was the younger
element which. showed the violent
‘they had ap-
parently learned ‘nothin from the
experience of those , a few. years
than _ themselves,

They had

  
 
  

ré ‘jotted. Seventy-five

g0 to’ pay for wars past and- firture.
Sia necshreinameg k

ye shat ;
t fat ae bh

Sasa 4 Op adel +

ja ANAL Pe a |

a

,| essay on

their}

per cent.}

Bei the national budget for 1928 will

 

 

 

only become of real yalue if stu-

| dents will interest ‘themselves ‘in it,

give it what they can and get all
that.they can from it in return.

»The News prints this: week the
report of the Bryn Mawr delegate.
Read it and:think about it. Then
do what you ¢an to co-operate! Op-
portunities will not be lacking when
the Federation gets under way,
which it should. do promptly with
the impetus that it received from
the ht at Lincoln this year.

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> Oe ing in fe ps

THE ‘HARVARD Aap

: PERIOD

The experiment that is being tried
out at Harvard just now has called
forth widespread comment, all of,
which has been laudatory. A read-
ing period is being held for the
two and a. half’ weeks preceding
midyears; During this time books
selected by the professors and sup-
plied by the library are being read,
and a knowledge of their contents is
to be required-for-the examinations:
There are of course’ no lectures.
Miss Ada Comstock, . head — of
Radcliffe, said in..an article appear-
ing in the college daily that if. this
experiment succeeds “it ‘will be a
step in the direction of making edu-
cation more of an independent, per-
sonal adventure and less of a sub-
mission ‘to a prescribed routine.”
This is a step we should: all be glad
to take, for we often find ourselves
impeded. by apparently unreasonable
rules, harassed by petty require-
ments. Such freedom as this_read-
ing period promises would be a’ wel-,
come change.

 

United Mine Workers
Grateful For Clothes

Through the assistance of Edith
Baxter, ¥30, and Charlottee Orr, ’30,
clothes: were collected and sent to the
United Mine Workers, and the follow-
ing letter was received in reply: :

Pittsburgh, Pa., December 30, 192 8.
Bryn Mawr College Group
This if to acknowledge receipt of
your goods which you so generously
sent to aid our: suffering brothers and
their families,.and for which please
accept our sincerest thanks and deep-
est appreciation, and hope you will
continue your good - work until. the
United Mine Workers are: victorious.
-With kindest regards, we are
Very truly yours,

Unitep MINE WorKERS OF AMERICA,
WititAm’ Harcest, Secy.-Treas.

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No: Award in Wilson
Essay Competition
The Woodrow ‘Wilson Foundation,
which offered a prize of $25,000 to the
man and woman who wrote the best
“What Woodrow Wilson
Means to Me,” was unable to make
any award. There were several third
‘prizes given, but the judges, of whom
President Park was one,. felt that no

work was good enough for. either, a’

first or second prize. “The women’s
were as bad as the men’s,” said Miss
Park.’ “Perhaps the ‘subject made it
too easy for them to. be slushy, per-
haps the amount was too great. What-
ogee the reason, it was very sumectae

ing.”
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Engag

“Maraquita Villard, Ts to Louis J.
Hill, of New York. ares — me
Helen Wolstenholme, "344 to Graham
Fraser. Yo ey
Polly Parker, 's1, to James Carey, of

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works; “poetry, however, was Hardy’s
first and last love,”
his classes on Thursday and Friday.
Dr.

quainted with Thomas

Chew, who. was personally. ac-
Hardy, dis-
cussed’ the principal: aspects of his
work; his regionalism, wich was as
‘intense as that of. Wordsworth, his
interest in poetry, and Ws philosophy.
It was partly the pessimism of his-out-
look on life which prevented him at

Prize, sae partly the 4 Te that * he
never had the continental appeal that,
for instance, Byron had. He was Eng-
-lish of the English—his life and works
center’ around’ Dorchester.
The Imminent WwW ill Shown in Dynasts.
The Dynasts, ‘Hardy’ s masterpiece, the
greatest work of literature of the gen-
eration, was written to give voice to
the ‘Tentative Metaphysics” which is
implicit inwhis novels. He wanted. to
show the Imminent: Will active in the
fates not only of a few human crea-
tures, but. of all humanity; this life
force, unintelligent, blind unreasoning,
“like a~Knitter drowsed whose ‘fingers
move in skilled unmindfulness.” Hardy
was oppressed by the insignificant of
man against the background of the

universe.

In his sonnet On. the Lunar

Eclipse: he expressed hisidea of a cos-

mic scale by which men’s actions are
measured ;
reduced to a mere curve passing over
the face of the moon.

His philosophy was not, however,
entirely pessimistic; he was a “practi-|
cal meliorist.” In his poem to the
Unknown God, ‘he expresses -his
awareness that life is slowly becoming
better. In spite of war, on which he
looked from a universal point of view,
seeing the tragedy from both sides, he
felt that» there: was hope in human
relationships, in love and_ friendship.
His poem, Fo’ Meet or Otherwise, most
beautifully expresses this:

“By briefest meeting something stire
is won;

It will have been:

Nor God nor Demon can unde the
done,

Unsight the seen,

Make muted music be as unbegun,

Through things terrene,

Groan in their bondage till oblivion

supervene.” - =

 

Rare Proof Lithographs
at Wyndham Exhibition

The new exhibition at Wyndham will
last only for a short time and is certainly
worth .a visit this week bef6re it leaves.
Besides the charming colored reproduc-
tions of paintings by Renoir, Matisse, and
André Derain, which are for sale at mod-
erate prices,’ there are fourteen proot
lithographs -by Gavarni. These are ex-
tremely rare, since such proofs usually
do not survive. Knoedler & Co., in a let-
ter to Mrs. Hinchman, writes: ‘These
proofs have a quality and a bloon, miss-
ing from the later and issued impressions.
It is, perhaps, due to the fact that so few
persons have ever seen lithographs, in
the “first state’ that lithography ‘as an
art_has'in great measure béen, and still
is, a ‘Cinderella’ of the graphic arts.
If people only would realize what.a de-
lightful-.process..it-is,. the: onty. absolute
autographic process which produces per-
fectly the artist’s original design, there
would be a corresponding interest in such
work as.this.” _ ‘

V. Fain, ’29, president of the Art Club,
Pembroke West, will take care of the

sale-of-the sepeatectiont.-

 

said Dr. Chew to

any... time » from wittning. the’ Nehsh Bryn Mama's. xev-slage.-for...me,..that's

the whole world has been}

 

. The. Pillar
of Salt -

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neh . A be
We ate free to cofifess that: we do not
like leap year; not only do/ we have an

when spring ‘seems Very, very far be-
hing indeed, but also we are deprived
of a program at the Sopohomore dance.
It doesn’t weem right; just think of the

disconsolate about it, and no doubt looked
so, standing, pathetically’ hépeful,. under
our letter.’ At all events, a benevolent
Sopohomore took pity on us, and asked
in a helpful way for whom were we look-
ing? We replied that we did not know.
“Haven't you @ program?” she asked in
accents of horror ‘and sympathy. “No,”
we replied in our’ ‘smallest voice, “We’ re a
venors:
>

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Honrtfelt Outcry of An Athletic
- Freshman.

This winter has been deadly. dull;
Where are the snows. of yesteryear,
There’s practically no skating here,
This winter has been deadly dull

clear
How shall I occupy the lull?
This winter has been.deadly dull
Where are the snows of yesteryear?
: Daisy. :

a

Embarrassing Moment No. 3.1416.
‘The Most Athletic Archery Champion
had. just acquired a.new weapon, ay
was describing it with great’ enthusiasm
tc a gentleman of her acquaintance ; what
she said was: “I’ve got. a mew bow, and
its yew.
know.

 

The Bootlegger’s Child

The bootlegger’s child at the break of
morn —

Stands in the window alone and forlorn?

She weeps, for her father is long overdue.

‘Friends she has none and acquaintances,
few, . -

aid
For. her father,
-trade?

‘engaged in an_ illicit

As evening gives way to,the darkness of
night

The. bootlegger’s child jis still dimly in
sight; ;

From her post by the window she never
has stirred,

But no sight she has seen, no sound she
had heard

Bringing news of her father, alone; with-
out aid,

Engaged in promoting his illicit trade.

The bootlegger’s child can’ stand it no

more:

She retires from her window, goes out of
the door;

And--into.-the wild frigid darkness. of
‘night ; -

Too sad to feel cold, too distressed t to
feel. fright,

‘The bootlegger’s child is resolved | to
bring aid

To her father, engaged in his ‘illicit trade.

The. woods they are deep and the night
it is wild,

But stout is the heart of the bootlegger’ s
child.

The furious wind that blows into her
face

And the cold stinging rain cannot ‘slacken
her pace a

As onward she hastens, intent to bear ahi

To her father, involved in his illicit trade.

Through thickets and brambles that stand
in her’ way.

She struggles, nor heeds: with the slight-|
est dismay

The blood that appears on her -shiv’ring

bare arms;

lightning’s fierce

‘ thunder’s alarms

Cannot keep her from bearing her father
the aid :

That will save him in spite af his illicit

. trade,

The glare and the

Her hiciey are..sgon cut; by sharp stones,
from her’ feet, :

| But still she goes on, ever anxiou§ and
fleet ;

Midst the rage of the storm. she flies
without fear

agua enn,

 

_}| Until in the east she sees daylight appear.

extra day slipped ‘over on us, fh a time

gap in oug Memory ‘book! We felt very)

What he said; “we donot}

And where shall she turn for,comfort, or} ;

” Book Review
“The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By Thornton Wilder ~~~ ES
~ tNert-and- Charles Boni, “Publsners

When the little cord of osiers span-
snapped, five people were Filled. For -

the citizens of ’
Lima were shocked, and held a public
had
heard the ‘snap, like the twang. of vio-.
lin’ strings, had’ séen the five ants
tumbling. Was this the hand of God,.
an accident so unforeseen, a choice so

finest bridge in Peru;

funeral. “One person, a. priest,

strange among the hundreds :of travel-
ers? Father Juniper began to ‘find out
all he could about the five and to write:
it down. His book and he were later
burned, but he felt some satisfaction in

He found that the five. were curi-
ously joined, not through themselves,.
but through those who-remembered
them. Of these latter there were only
three; all the victims had had detached
An abbess full’ of
good: -works had. had two proteges;.

and isolated lives.

that. they..invent- \their ownta. Burge;
and Pepita, of whom she hoped much.

Lai one of the twins so devoted

Estaban’s twin had died; Estaban was.
killed on the bridge; Pepita had been
sent as companion to the Marquise de
Montemayor, who loved only one thing,
her daughter in Spain, and who poured
treasures, of wit and learning into let-
ters of groping devotion. The child
and the marquise were killed, but not
before the marquise had written her
best letter, her first. really unselfish
one, . springing from a sudden under
standing “of ‘her young companion.

The otler two were Uncle Pio, -an°™
old- rogue full of secrets anda queer.
affection, and Don Jaime, the son of
an actress he had been training all his
life. The actress, the abbess, and the
marquise’s daughter share these five
-people after the accident. Their his-
tory is traced in separate episodes with |
an ‘understanding and. subtlety for
which the style forms a clear medium.
It is sharp and distinguished itself, as +
n, “There was something in Lima that
was wrapped up in yards .of- violet .
safin from which protruded a_ great
dropsical head and two fat pearly
hands; and that was its archbishop.”

Just what conclusion the priest or
the author reaches as to the hand of
God, it is not necessary to know; but .
the last page implies a good deal:

“But the love will have enough; all
those impulses of love return to the
love that made them. Even memory
is not necessary for love. There is a
land of the living and a land of the
dead, and the bridge is love, the only
survivals, the only meaning.”

f Je Tee Fe

3°

 

And she smiles as she thinks, “The dawn
will bring aid

‘To: my father. and me and the illicit
trade.”

Fierce in the dawn is the océan’s loud

roar

As she reaches the cavern that stands on
its shore. ;

’Tis the. base of her father and all his
wild crew:

They. would know where he was here, if
anyone knew,

‘And all who dre here will be ready to aid

Her father, for they share his illicit trade.

The bootlegger’s- child has thrown open
the door— . °

Ah! what is the sight that she sees on
the floor?

A circle of bootleggers, all’of them sunk

In the postures of those who are hope-
léssly drunk,

And among them her father, in no need
of aid,

Enjoying the fruits of his illicit trade!

The “bootlegger’s child, though bleeding
‘and torn,

Has been by her love for her father up-
borne,

But now, as this sorrowful sight meets
her eyes, x

+|She: falls to the-ground and with.one aah.

she dies.
No power in heaven or earth can bring ,
aid °
To those who are hardened by itticit
trade!
= B EF.
Renin irene ©

 

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