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M. BARKER STARS
IN-CRADLE SONG

Quiet Scenery iey al Acting
Contribute. to Convent
Atmosphere. ;

DIRECTED BY HUPFEL

Varsity Dramatics’ performance of The
Cradle Song, by G. Martinez Sierra, on
Saturday, December 17, had a high de-
gree of excellence unusual in. a_ college
play. It was felt by every one to have
been a fortunate choice, since almost all
the parts were for women, and since the
simplicity of setting and action gave
scope for artistic achievement.

 

 

The scenery, quiet grey cloister walls
with rounded arches and stained glass
windows, was particularly effective; and
the grouping of the characters were care-
fully arranged so that every moment the
stage presented a pleasing picture,

Contrasting Leads in First Act
In the first act, the glimpses of home-

life in a convent were amusing, and

charming; and the action as well as the
Nuns moved smoothly. Caroline Crosby,
as the Prioress, mingled dignity with
sweetness; her voice had a pleasing re-
straint. All the voices were good, which
added a great deal to the beauty of the
performance. The Vicaress, Cicely
Hamilton, with her biting criticisms and
“May the Lord absolve me from mal-
ice!” attitude contrasted admirably with
the patience of the Prioress; her acting
all the way through was consistantly
good. The group of Novices were well
cast and characterized, although Sister
Marcella overdid her part to a certain
extent.

“By far the best piece of acting was
Margaret Barker’s interpretation of
Sister Joanna of the Cross. It was a
very difficult part, but she saved it from
sentimentality, and provided each act
with a highly emotional ending. Her
scene with Theresa had a lyrical quality
of pure poetry.

Years Unmarked by Make-up

The contrast between the first and
second acts was not so marked as it
might have been. Only the principle
characters gave any indication that they

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I. Q.’s and Scholarship
Compared; Results Vague

Esther Crane, of Goucher College,

4 writing for School and Society, presents

some very interesting data about the
She com-
pares the Bryn Mawr tests from the
classes of 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and
1928, with the Academic records of the
students,

“Such comparisons,” she says, “are

-not particularly helpful for individual
“predictions when a particular student

has tested high in a Thurstone test
all that can be judged on the basis of
the limited data here presented is that
thé®e are about six chances out of ten

. that she will stand in the upper half

of her class, about three chances out
of ten that she will stand in the lower
half of her class, and less than one
chance in ten that she will withdraw
from college without graduating. On
the other hand, when a student has
tested very low in a Thurstone test,
all that can be judged on the basis of
such data is that there are about two
chances’ out of ten that she will stand
in the upper half of her class, about
six chances out of ten that she will
stand in the lower half and two chances
out of ten that she will not graduate.
Such prediction is of no value in giv-
ing educational guidance to an indi-
vidual student. Moreover, if a college
is able to admit all the applicants who
meet its requirements, it would doubt-
less be unwise to exclude those stu-
dents who are lowest in the psycho-
logical tests, on the basis. of these
Sodings; but if a college is unable to

| Poetry Excels 1 Prose in.

  

 

Conventional Lantern.
Specially contributed by. MILLiceNtT
CAREY :

Neither insensitive critic nor supersen-
sitive reader could characterize the De-
cember Lantern as decadent or precious.
The tone is serious, personal, even moral.
| For the most part, the stories age straight-
forward, and the poetry is conventional
in theme and form.

The prose in the number has little to
mark it as interesting or significant. Miss
Salinger’s story of a college graduate de-
ciding between duty and ambition has
some vividness, especially in the depiction
of Natalie Brent’s thoughts, but the: dia-
logue is forced, and the reversal at the
end entirely unmotivated. Nil Desperan-
dum gives a good picture of a man hav-
ing stage: fright, but again thé.end is un-
satisfactory—almost childish. A Man of
God has some nice description and a sit-
uation which offers possibilities. How-
ever, the expository method is. diffuse
and unsatisfying, and the situation does
not quite come off. Miss Wright’s essay,
Carpe Diem, is. pleasantly seventeenth
century in tone, but, for modern taste,
self-conscious in style and labored in its
marshaling of . quotations. The — best
piece of prose is Miss Phillips’ The
Daily Round: a sketch of a real person
living a real life. The style is straight-
forward, and the detail is extremely
vivid—in short, this “slice of life” is suc-
cessfully cut.

The verse is more inteventina than the
prose. In’one or two cases, the prosody

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Oxford Summer Course

England in Nineteenth Century
to Be Studied in All Its
Aspects.

“A visit to Oxford, residence in a col-
lege, lectures by many eminent men and
women, discussion classes, sight-seeing.
parties to Oxford’s most famous colleges
and to neighboring places of interest—in
short, the experiencing for a brief space
of_all that is best in-an Oxford student’s
life—this was for the first time made
possible to American women df limited
leisure and means in 1926. A two and
a half weeks’ Summer Vacation Course
was organized by the Women’s Societies
of Oxford, and proved.so successful that
it has been decided to hold another such
course, for American Women Teachers
and Graduates, in 1928, from July 6th to
27th.

“The subject will be ‘England in the
Nineteenth Century: 1815-1900.) Each
morning there will be two lectures, short
series having been arranged on literary,
historical, political and scientific topics.

Will See Historic Spots

“Students will be lodged in the Wom-
en’s Colleges, where they will have the
opportunity of meeting some of the
Tutors, who will be in residence as in
term. Every effort will be made to pro-
vide. as many glimpses . into typically
English life as possible. We hope to
make the students acquainted with
English music, folk-dancing and singing ;
they will drive to Stratford-on-Avon, for
a performance of one of Shakespeare’s
plays by the well-known Festival Com-
pany; to Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral
home of the Washington family; and to
other places of interest in the neighbor-
ing country. They will be shown Ox-
ford’s own architectural treasures under
trained guidance.

“A limited number of places will be
reserved until May 1st for students who
intend to enter upon the work of teach-
ing ifthe Secondary Schools in the au-
tumn of 1928, ©

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No Sinoking!

The Executive Board of the
Self-Government Association
‘wishes to point out that students
are never allowed -to smoke
within the jurisdiction of the As-
sociation, ‘except in the 5

 

 

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1897 DEDICATES _
NEW COMMON ROOM

Fireplace, fos Shelves sna
Organ Fynd to Be

Memorials.
SINGING WAS GOOD

On Sunday afternoon. the Common
Room in Goodhart Hall was dedicated
by the class of 1897. The room was com-

graduates, most of whom were seeing
it for the first time. Miss Mary Camp-
bell, who was president of ’97 for four
years, gave a short talk in which she
told the story of the giving of the Com-
mon Room by her class. “The class,”
she. said, “made the gift hoping that we
would find rest and comfort there. It
was Katrina Tiffany’s inspiration that
it should be our gift on the occasion of
our 30th reunion, last year. On March
iith Mrs, Tiffany died, after otily a
week’s illness, just before her first com-
mittee meeting. Due to the generous re:
sponse of everyone, the class has been
able to carry on her work.

“The gift is being dedicated to three
members of the class) To Mildred Min-
turn Scott, ‘who died in 1922, the book-4
shelves and books are dedicated, as an
affectionate tribute to the kingdom of
her mind. The class hopes to give new
books every year; in each one there is
to. be a bookplate with Mrs. Scott’s name
on it. A™paft of the fund for the in-
‘stallation of the organ—is dedicated to
Lydia Foulke Hughes. One of our
earliest and fondest memories is the
sound of her beautiful voice singing
“Who Is Silvia?” The mantle and fire-
place are given in memory of Katrina
Tiffany, to keep alive her flaming torch
that never will die down. The whole
room, indeed; is a symbol of her pres-

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God Is More Real to the
Rahabs Than the Ruths

“Tonight instead of a Christinas ser-
mon I am going to give you a pre-
Christmas. sermon,” said Dr. Henry
Sloane Coffin, speaking in: Chapel on
Sunday, December 18. The -genealogy
with which the New Testament starts is
usually a sticking point, he said, but those
for whom the first gospel was written
had an interest in ancestry. Several very
intéresting characters appear in the long
line of Christ’s .ancestors. One, who
seems queerly placed in the list of saints,
was ‘Rahab, a jaded habitue of Jericho's
underworld. She espoused the religion
of Jehovah from fear, but, although her
morals were abominable, her faith was
superb. Another interesting character
was Ruth, whose words to Naomi form
the classic utterance of fidelity. For her
religion was merely part of her family
obligation; Jehovah was thrown in with
her mother-in-law. Ruth was a direct
contrast ‘to Rahab in every way yet she
also was in the communion of saints.
Ruth had much faithfulness and _ little
faith, Rahab had ‘little but faith. The
interesting contrast is their. difference in
religious experience. Rahab_ progressed
through religion to morality, Ruth
through morality to religion; Rahab
had the maximum belief and minimum
conscience, Ruth the minim belief and
maximum conscience, and yet they both
had the sathe end as faithful and devoted
wives. They both entered the Kingdom,
but through diametrically opposed doors.
God is far more real tg the Rahabs of
the world, gripped by. passions and domi-
nated by fearful destructive forces as
they are, than to the Ruths. The Rahabs
have experienced God; He has’ rescued
them and is the most obvious fact in
their lives. The Ruths, on the other
hand, live with God as unconsciously as
they breathe air. The Rahabs make more

selfish demands on God and say “Hide aid
| me, Savior.”

The Ruths ask of God
only in order to help their Naomis. God
has no preference but takes. whatever is

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Names Wanted

The May Day Committee
} wishes to remind the students to
bring back from vacation lists gf
names of people to whom May
Day invitations may be sent.
This mailing list is to include
the ‘names of all thg. people [
whom the stydent body believes
would be interested in receiving -
information alout the program
and the organization of May
y. We are asked to co-oper-°
ate by furnishing all possible
names, ’whether or not we be-
lieve that they may be included
on the lists. anyway.

 

 

 

Committee Chosen

“Woman .in the Moon”
New Play—Sixth Still
Undecided.

Only

 

The May Day Committee has been
working steadily on the organization of
its work. The

latest announcements from headquarters
include the names of Mr. King’s advis-
ory committee, and the tentative list of
plays to be given; this last information is
subject to change without notice.

Mr. King’s committee includes three
members of each: class; its function is
a systematic effort to learn of all possi-
ble’ dramatic abilities in ‘the college.
Many are probably latent, and need only
a certain amount of encouragement to
spring forth in the full glory of their
hidden possibilities. The members of the
committee from the class of ’28 are Pa-
lache, McKelvey and Hupfel; from the
class of ’29, Fain, M. R. Humphry and
B. Humphries; from the class of ’30,
Barker, Wickes and Bigelow; and from
the class of ’31, Drake, Burroughs and
Turner.

the executive side of

Try-outs in January

On Thursday, January 5, the first try-
outs will be held. During the following
weeks they will be held on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays. People are
not being asked to try out for definite
parts, but, rather each person is to be
tried in a certain type of part: no one
is to be overlooked when once the vigi-
lance committee begins its college-wide
canvass. hen the tryout lists are
posted it is most emphatically hoped that
all people who know of any possible
ability on the part of a friend, wil] re-
port it either to Miss Applebee or to a
member of the committee. The *May
Day Committee wishes to stress the fact
that May Day is for everybody, and is
not merely the production of a few com-
mittee members !

List of Plays Compiled

The Undergraduate Board nd the Ad-
visory Committee are going to meet very-
soon to discuss plans for the organization
of next semester’s work. Until their
plans are completed this tentative list of
plays must stand: Robin Hood, Peele’s
Old Wive's Tale, The Midsummer
Night’s Dream and the Mumming Play
of St. George and The Dragon. This
will be “the third May Day on which
The Old Wive’s Tale has been given.
The other plays mentioned above have
been given on every May Day since their
inauguration. The mumming play is to
be given on the green this year to repre-
sent aneold English fair. The mum-
ming plays were always given by the
people on festive occasions and they are
not dramas in themselves. The new
play to be given this year is Lyly’s
Woman in the Moon, which was sug-
gested for production by Dr. Horace
Howard Furness, Jr. The -committee
has done a great deal of reading and
thinking on the subject of the sixth play
to be given; Mr. King has suggested As
You Like It, but, as yet, no definite con-
clusions have been reached.
Last May Day nine plays were given,
they were so arranged that it was
impossible to see all of them during the
two days’ performan
only six are to be giveft this year. Every
one in college will have some part in one
of these productions, except for about
200 people wha will perform upon the
green, played by this group|
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Consequently

   
   

GLEE CLUB GIVES

VARIED PROGRAM

Under Mr. Willoughby’s Di-
rection Difficulties Were
Surmounted.

M. GOSS SINGS SOLO.

— Contributed by Horace
ALwyN)

Last Thursday evening the Glee Club
gave its Christmas Concert, which takes
the place of the usual Gilbert & Sullivan
Opera in the May Day year. This will
probably be the last Concert to be given
in Taylor Hall and formed a fitting and
excellent conclusion to Taylor’s years
of usefulness in that connection.

There was a large and very enthusias-

| tic audience and the Glee Club on this
occasion set an entirely new standard for’

itself, not only in the point ‘of. view in
the program presented but in the, de-
gree of excellence of the performance.
Mr. Willoughby is to be congratulated
most sincerely on the splendid work he
has accomplished in so short a period
as eight weeks, with a chorus, the per-
sonnel of which changes every year,
many of the members having had little
or no former experience in a cappella
singing. Now such an excellent begin-
ning has been made in attempting works
of such value and difficulty as Palestrina,
Purcell, the English Madrigal School,
etc., it would be a great pity if the Glee
Club were to rest on its laurels with this
concert and not make the Christmas
Concert an annual event. This would
not entail in any way the giving up of
the May performance of Gilbert & Sulli-
van (in, other than May Day years) but
would form an important addition to the
cultural value of music in the College.
The experience of taking part in the per-
formance of’ great music, such.as Pales-
trina or’ Bach, adds something to a stu-
dent’s intellectual development which is
of very real and lasting worth, a worth
which educational institutions all over
the country are slowly beginning to rec-
ognize at its true valuation. While the
importance of hearing great music has
been greatly recognized, the recognition
of the equally great importance of taking
part in it has been of slower growth. It
is thus that the student is made to be, in
Wagner’s phrase, “a partner in the be-
coming,” and it is unbelievable that any
student with the slightest capacity for

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Women Have Influence

in Improving China
“The political and military confu-
sion in China, combined with the
breaking down of the railroads and
other minor difficulties with which
that country is now impeded, is apt
to make us feel down-hearted and dis-
couraged as to the future of those mil-
lions, struggling for what they think is
freedom.”
“But there are certain conditions”
said Mrs. Wood speaking in chapel on-
Friday, December 16, “which are prov-
ing tremendously advantageous to the
people of China.”
_ Size of Alphabet Reduced
The first is the interest of the peo-
ple in doing away with the thousands
of characters, which people of the low-
est cl&sses must learn before they ‘can
read a Chinese newspaper. The youth
of China, realizing the necessity of
spreading education, have} devised the
following plan: a thousand of the most
useful characters of the language have
been picked out for general informa-
tion. Newspapers and books are pub-
lished which contain only the specified”
thousand characters, and which have,

thereby, accomplished a great deal in
spreading information throughoat the

country. “Se
While this plan is a considerable

step in advance, it is only temporary. —

Eventually, China will have to leave her
well-loved classicaky characters and
rturn to a Romanize alphabet.

    

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INTELLECTUAL FOOD

A fact imbibed from earliest
childhood is the fundamental differ-
ence between boys and girls. Boys
like lead soldiers and girls like dolls;
boys are given the Tom Swift S eries
to read, girls the Little Colonel
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may be, their-tastes seem to be con-.

verging more and more. ‘They play
the same games, enjoy the same
jokes, and now they seem to read
the same books. e Princeton
bookstores have just compiled a list
of best-sellers “which is surprisingly
familiar to us. Almost every book
on the list is one that is widely read
and discussed here in Bryn Mawr.
Judge for yourself, here is the list:
The ten best sellers in Princeton to-
day are headed by Ludwig’s two
biographies, “Napoleon” and “Bis-
marck.” Am@gng other books fa-
-vored by Printeton undergraduates
are “Trader Horn” and “Mother
India.” In the fiction line ‘“Jalna,”
by De Larocke; “Dusty Answer,”
by Lehman ;* “Gallions Reach,” by
Tomlinson, and “The Grandmoth-
rs,” by Westcott. \
Princeton and Bryn Mawr from
free choice seem to be reading and
discussing the same books. Are we
to augur from this that male and
female minds are growing more sim-
ilar year by year? They have left
behind the far separated spheres of
Tom Swift and the Little Colonel
and are now feeding on identically
the same intellectual food. It -re-
mains to be seen if this common
food will cause an identical devel-
opment.

 

. QUIZITIS

_ We hear with great joy that one
of the greatest ills of mankind is
abating. It is that dread disease
that is prone to attack the college
student : its symptoms differ accord-
ing to the patient, and are generally
hard to locate; the germ of the dis-
ease and its cause have never been
found ; its entire progress is a mys-
tery.

One symptom, however, occurs in
all cases ; the attack inevitably comes
at eight o'clock on the morning in
which the victim has a quiz, and its
only rentedy is a short rest cure.
Doctors . and nurses have worried
about it in vain, and have at last
decided that a.large dose of salts is
a good method of prevention.

Fortunately, however, it has been
reported from headquarters that at-
tacks of this epidemic (which, for
the want of a more scientific term,
we may call “quizitis”) have been
much rarer this year. Has the col-
lege taken a turn towards health, or
merely towards _ intellectuality?
Whatever the cause, the results are
consoling and highly promising.

 

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yet fully self-conscious : ‘ ‘it is out of |
harmony with itself.”. Ovi&pational’
psychology is na longer Europea
but almost purely Indian, combine
with a strong’ Negro influence.
“Modern America resembles a very.
young man who hds accepted the
religion of his father, but whe does
all the things that he likes p.do.”’ .

Our national race characteristics,
then, are slowly but very definitely
changing, and the American type,
and the American®culture are de-
veloping: along lines which are al-
most totally unlike those which our
European ancestr@yy has chosen .to
include in our national myth. Psy-
chologically ‘our type is primitive,
and i¢ is becoming more so, year by
year—it can no longer be judged by
and along with the older cultures
and ° civilizations of the world.
“And,” concludes Keyserling, “‘it
is this discrepancy that is the final
proof of America’s entry, along
with the rest of the world, on a
Dark Ages.” -

 

In Philadelphia
The Theater
Broad: Richard Bennett in his popu-
lar part as The Barker.
Erlanger: A Ziegfeldian production
of Edna Ferber’s delightful Show Boat.
Adelphi: William Hodge in a new
comedy, Straight Thru the Door.
Garrick: That always astounding
man, Thurston. :
Coming
Erlanger: Eddie Dowling in Honey-
moon Lane; opens December 26.

Garrick: Allez-Oop! opens Decem-
ber 26.
Lyric: The Silent House; opens De-

cember 26.
Chestnut :
December 22. :
Shubert: George White’s Scandals;

opens December 26.
The Movies
Richard Dix in The Gay

The New Moon; opens

Stanley:
Defender, which speaks for itself.

Stanton: Alice Terry in The Garden
of Allah, «+
Aldine:| Wonderful aerial photogra-

phy combined with good acting, and a
tragic plot in Wings.

Fox-Locust: Al Jolson in The Jazz
Singer.

 

‘College Magazines Fail.

In connection with the problem of pub-
lications, the Vassar News recently sent
out questionnaires to about forty editors
of college newspapers. These _question-
naires were compiled with a view of find-
ing out how matters stood in regard to
the financial status, popularity, and
standards of material in the various pub-
lication’ of other colleges. A number of
answers have been received, and an anal-
ysis of the results of the investigation
seems to show that the great majority of
the institutions of higher learning are
sistersor brothers under the skin.

The “literary magazine” in most col-
leges, fot instance, seems to be as one
editor expressed if, usually in a tran-
sitional state. It has either just died, is
just going to die or is just rising like
the phognix from the ashes. Twelve out
of ea magazines reported\on ‘are
rated as unsuccessful either from the
point of view of their materials or their
financial, status.

The humor publications, on the .other
hand, are much more optimistically re-
garded. Only one college reports finan-
cial failure, although many seem dubious
as to the value of the contents of these
papers.

Reasons for the failures so common’
among the more serious type of literary
magazines seem, in most cases, to arise
from the kind of work printed in them.
This is described by the more rabid as
“terrible” or “aesthetic, cubistic, futuris-
tic, high art,” while the more analytically-
minded pointed out that. it could be im-

or that it is “unsuccessfu alise the
group which contributes is very small,”
and it “is of interest only to those who
are interested in literary material.”

—Hunter College Bulletin.

    

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preved “if the better writeks contributed” | -

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Reflections..on Elections
(Specially contributed, almost entirely,

‘By WiLiaAM Worpswor't.)

I wandered lonely as.a cloud

That floats on high o’er street and blocks
When all at once I saw rowd

A host of golden curly lo

Beside -the fountain, ’neath the trees (?)
Fluttering arid dancing in fhe breeze.

Continuous as the stars th ine
And twinkle in the skies o’erfitad
They stretched in never ending line
Along the cloisters quiet mead:

Six saw I at a single glance

Tossing their heads in sprightly dasiee.”

The fount beside them danced ; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:

A student could not but be gay

In such a4 jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but ‘little thought
What strife the show to me had brought.

For oft, as through the halls I go

In vacant or in pensive mood

I hear discussions of that-show
Remarks on each of that fair brood;
And then my wavering spirit leans
Toward one or t’other of those queens.

 

a Christmas Story |

Ever since their own children had
grown up, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Evolent
had continued their Christmas Tree
Party. Each year they sent a note to
every little poor child in the neighbor-
hood, saying “Santa Claus will be at
the Ben Evolent’s home at ten’ o’clock
on Christmas morning;” and each
year they bought a large supply of
toys, candy and oranges.

This year they had bought more
somehow there were more
poor children than usual. Late into
the night they worked, poring over
lists so that no child should get the
same present as last year, wrapping
the packages carefully, and arguing
about who should be Santa Claus. Mr.
Ben began the evening according to
his annual custom by firmly refusing
to take the part, but after each of the
boys, 4nd all the guests had likewise
refused, he ended thé evening, plso ac-
cording to custom, by consenting. All
he wanted was to be persuaded, and
told “Oh, you’d be much _the_ best,”
and he would have been terribly hurt if
anyone else had taken the part.

When everything was ready, the
tree trimmed, the toys in the red pack,
and the oranges spread on the floor,
the grown-ups retired to bed with a
feeling of happy expectancy ‘and sub-
dued: excitement. And when morning
came, the excitement was no longer
subdued.

Breakfast was at eight o’clock, and

everyone Was seated by nine.
- “Well,” said Mrs. Evolent, “I guess
the children will be ‘ coming | soon;
some years ‘they begin at seven. Hurry,
Ben, eat your waffles, and go up and
get into your costume.”

The guests were a little more blase
than the family, but even they could
not refrain from getting up to look
out the window for approaching chil-
dren.

At nine thirty Mr. Ben was sent
upstairs, and everyone gathered by the
front door, after the dogs were care-
fully locked in the cellar.

“Yoo hoo,” «shouted Mr. Ben, “come
up and fix this suit!” and up went Mrs.
Evolent to sew on all the stray cotton
batting, and fix the mask. This took
some time, but she hurried as much
as possible. Z

“Have they come yet?” she asked
running downstairs.

“Not yet,” answered the guests.
“But it’s ten o'clock!” “Mrs. Evolent]
looked up puzzled and sat down with
her knitting. fe

Five minutes passed and not a
child appeared. Ten miutes, fifteen.
Mrs. Evolent dropped her knitting and
bit her lip,

Mr. Ben came to the head of the

 

choked voice,
door flew open and in came children—|

       

GLEE CLUB

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

 

the appreciatitm of any art can come

through such an experience untouched,
in greater or lesser degree, by the spirit-
ual beauty of such music.
Program Sung from Memory

The Glee Club has gained immeasur-
ably* over ‘former performances in
smoothness of phtasing, attack and re-
lease, and, most important of all, in
clearness of enunciation. While there
is something yet to be desired in legato
sustained tone, the freshness of the
voices and the ability to maintain the
initial pitch of. some of the difficult. a
capgella works was very noticeable. One
thing which contributed very largely to
the success of the evening was the fact

that a large part‘of the- program was.

sung from memory, enabling the singers
to keep their undivided attention on the
conductor, thus adding markedly to the
precision of rhythm and attack.

The ‘program was well. chosen for its
catholicity and variety, ranging from
Ecclesiastical motets to such riotous fun
as “Rolling to Rio.” Especially delight-
ful was the inclusion of the old Here-
fordshire Traditional Carol with its
wistful solo obbligato sung against a
harmonica background hummed mezzo
voce by the chorus. Miss Coss, ’28, sang
the solo part in just the right vein, and,
be it noted, with just the right wistful
countenance. Charming also was the
Pastorale by Holst or two solo ‘voices
and accompanying refrain for four
voices, the former sung by Miss Coss
and “Miss Latane, ’30, in unison with a
most extraordinary uniformity of tone
and ensemble, and the latter by ggg

Channing, ’29, Sulliyan, ’30, Howell,
and Richardson, ’29.
Elgar’s “The Snow’ had .the colorful

addition of an obbligato for two violins,
played by Messrs. Lipkin & Dambrowski,
and for all the items of the second part

Mr. Willpughby had made tasteful ar-|:

rangements of the accompaniments for
string quartet and piano.

Mr. Vernon Hammond was a most ex-
cellent and sympathetic accompanist. Mr.
Willoughby’s untiring zeal and enthus-
iasm were reflected in a concert which
from all points of view was a great
credit to him and to every member of the
Glee Club and its officers.

The Lipkin String Quartet added in
large measure to the interest and variety
of the program by an excellent render-
ing of Dvorak’s String Quartet in F,
Op. 96 (The Negro Quartet), and the
Andante Cantabile from Tschaikowsky’s
Quartet in D, Op. 11, bracketed with
Mendelssohn’s Canzonetta from Quar-
tet. To these they were obliged to re-
spond with -Pochon’s arrangement of
“Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes”
as an encore.

It will be a pity if the Glee Club or-
ganization of this year cannot be kept
intact during the next semester and used
in some form in connection with May
Day. What could be more delightful
than some of the Elizabethan Madrigals,
included in last week’s program, sung in
costume. In Elizabethan times it was an
absqlutely , necessary part of a well-
grounded education that a young man
should bdable to hold his own with
credit in taking part in a Madrigal, at
sight if necessary, at the request of his
hostess. How far we have slipped hack
from the “Good OLD Times!” I pre-
sent the suggestion to the May Day
Committee.

The proceeds of the Concert are to be
given to the fund for the organ now be-
ing installed
Goodhart Hall.

 

More minutes passed.

“Maybe they aren’t coming,” mur-
mured Mrs. Evolent. No one contra-
dicted her, but no one moved. It was
a very gloomy atmosphere that per-
vaded the Ben Evolent home on
Christmas morning.

“Well,” began Mrs. Evolent, in a
when suddenly the

all sorts of children, dressed in little
velvet. suits and dainty lace dresses,
clean, well-fed children, happy, rich
children.

“We heard,” said ‘the leader,
Santa Claus was coming here.” Like
a flash Mr. Ben disappeared, while
Mrs. Evolent gathered them into the

“that

|room by the tree.

the. poor children,” said the
eee saniege ‘to. the church

in the Music Room of]:

  

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Again V We Are Judged

From Across the Sea.

he following article appeared in the
a thirteenth issue of Comoedia,
a magazine published in Paris. It was
written by one Fortunat Strowsk, a
“Membre de. l'Institut,” entitled
“Women,” it is printed under the general
heading “Characters and Customs of the

Century.”

‘and,

“Virtue, passion and’ extreme frivolity
are alike in France and America.

“If. one must judge women from top
to toe in respect to dress, American
women are the.most beautiful on earth.

Today one must cross the

Atlantic and go to one of the big women’s

the young girls, books under their arms,
and, like the goddesses of Fenelon, they
hardly bend the flowers beneath their
feet.

“Sport and physical exercise in a gym-

by clothing than in an earthly paradise,
corréct bad posture and develop the har-
mony of the body.

“In France the face reflects the soul
and the heart;
from the soul.

the voice comes directly
In America the face has

not the same autonomy: jt is quite con-
tent to carry out the beauty of the body.
A to the voice, it has little ee con-
tent. :

“To the American woman, the man is
only a belonging. She regards him
_| neither as a god nor as a monster. She
does not think of herself.as predestined

her lover or ‘her husband as she would an
apartment or a. profession ,and although
she does not change her mind so often
as it is commonly supposed she does, she
knows that she can change it, and that
reassures cher. Nothing. restricts the
liberty or the choice in the unions, nor is
there anything of mystery or sanctity re-
maining ‘in, them.

“The Americans that one sees,
Europe or in their own country, live as
if by chance, driven on by inexplicable
caprice, have their secret of which they
themselves are, unaware.

“At the tender age of ten years their
parents treat them as seriously as if they
were adults. Then they spend several
years in the universities which are for
them a paradise without the serpent.
There are men other. than the professors.
Outside they find young men who ad-
mire them, who serve them without recom-
pense, and whom they treat without
thanks. Then they marry men who con-
sider them marvelous : acies, who take
upon themselves sponsibilities of
the household;~and a leave them to ‘
their complete liberty.

“They could easily become spoiled by
so much attention and flattery, but, in
general, they “are neither | too vain nor
too egotistical. They are content to be-
lieve that their persons are of infinite
worth; they make it their duty to develop
them to perfection. It is'their only: duty.

“Always in the solitude to which they
are-bound by’ their pride, boredom and
dissatisfaction soon come to them. They
are unable to remain alone. They go all
night from one “dancing” to another.
They can never become fixed.

“The French girl, severely raised, is
much happier.”

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WOMEN IN CHINA

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

 

the Chinese women in trying to im-
prove their | homes and schools. “Three
years ago,” said Mrs. Wood, “I at-

 

 

tended a meeting of young women in

Peking. Among the questions brought

up by the young women for discussion
was this: How-can I make my hus-
band love the?) The husband of jthis
woman had been, a brilliant student in
America, while’ she had had little or no
education of any kind. Other ques-
tions were. discussed concerning dis-
cipline in the home, which # always a
trial to the Chinese women, sincé their
homes are ruled by the mother-in-law.

“These women are especially inter-
ested in finding out how they may
make the home a center of entertain-
ment, and so do away with the cus-
tom of having the men dine at a pub-
lic restaurant instead of bringing their

friends into the home.

_ “All of these young people are eager ry
ped Poche of taking part —

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universities there; on green lawns walk

nasium where one is no more hampered -

to such and such a marriage. She chooses ,,

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Formata Travels Far, Only
- to Lose, 5-2, to Varsity

Only Varsity’s superior bulk gave it
the victory over Formata School from
Aiken, North Carolina, in “the very inter-
esting lacrosse’ gime played Saturday
afternoon, December 17.

The Formata team played a consist-
ently better game than Varsity.. They
ran faster, they kept the ball in the
air more, they passed and. caught bétter.
and were more skillful in> gettjng past
their guards. Varsity, however, thanks
tor the good defense work of Swan and
Freeman, and the accurate catching and
passing of Bethel, managed to run up
a pretty good score. Hirschberg, pre-
senting well-padded portions of herself
-to the ball, made a truly formidable
goal, The final score was 5-2.

The teams were as follows:

Varsity—K. Hirschberg, ‘30; H
Tuttle, 28; C. Henry, '29**; F. Bethel,
28; M. Fowler, ’28, Capt.; S. Long-
streth, ’30*; S. etloms '29**; A. Bruere,
728; CGC. Swan, : 4) Huddleston, ‘98;
B. Freeman, 9 "ie Littlehale, ’30.

Formata—Bishop; . Kernochan; Cald-
well*; Chisholm; Hecksher; Weeks;
Whigham*, Capt.; Wilds; Lee; Mar-
shall; Hollins; Powning.

 

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CRADLE SONG

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

 

had aged during the eighteen years while
Theresa was growing up; but perhaps
time does not have a very strong influ-
ence in a convent. The Doctor, Mary
Lambert, was particularly good in this
act; in the first, she was a bit too much
the gallant Don Jose, but the eighteen
years left their imprint, and while she
did not seem nearly eighty, she did give
the impression, a difficult thing to do,
that she was a great deal older than be-
fore.
Hepburn Excellent as Theresa

Katherine Hepburn, as Theresa, was so
extraordinarily lovely to. look at that it
was difficult to form any judgment on
her acting. Her voice had, perhaps, too
much of the childish treble, but her little
movements, her poses, and the contrast
of her ‘gaiety with the restrained atmos-
phere of the convent, could not have been
improved. She and Margaret Barker

carried this act entirely, although the

Vicaress contributed to the tragedy of
the parting by the effect it had upon her;
she became a much more lovable char-
acter in this act.

‘Whe —scene_1n—which—Antonio spoke
from behind the grill dragged somewhat.
but this may have been because only a
small section of the audience could see
more than the tip end of his ‘nose. He
had been praised to such an extent by
Theresa, that his actual presence seem-
ed an anti-climax. Apart from this, the
play never. lost in interest, it moved
quietly on a high artistic plane, and in
every way fullfilled the hopes of the
committee when they chose it for “in-
formal presentation.” Informal seems to
have meant only that no professional
coach assisted, but the results obtained
under Magdalen Hupfel’s direction lead
one to believe that Varsity Dramatics is
better off when it depends only on its
own resources. Virginia Fain, too, is °o
be congratulated on her stage: manage
ment.

The program follows:

The cast in order of appearance:

Sister Sagrario ...... Palmela Burr, ’28
Sister Marcella ..... Mary Burgess, '30
Prigtess.3 6.560. 63 Caroline Crosby, ’28

Sister Joanna of the Cross,

Margaret Barker, ’30

Vicaress Cicely Hamilton
Mistress of Novices,

Isabella Hopkinson,

pies Roberta Yerkes,

Pr ee ee ee ee

30

Sister Tornera "29

\ Sistér Inez ...... Elizabe:h Bigelow, ’30
WOO eas. a Mary L. Durham, ’30
Maria Jesus ...Barbara Humphreys, '29
Dotter 255.5... Mary Lambert, @p9
eGreSO) coca. s- Katherine Hepburn, ’28
mee... Magdalen Hupfel, '28
Ceier NG ly cas oo hed eee

‘Margaretta Sallinger, ’28
Charlotte Orr, ’30
MORO ve ese ss ss Elizabeth Fetter, ’30
Act I. Scene—Dominican Convent in
Spain. :
» Acr Il. Same—Eighteen years eter.

 

Goodhart Hall Committee
~ A committee has been appointed to
Aas fake. _charge of the students’ wing of

art Hall and formulate rules for

its use. Questions in regard to the use

of the rooms should be referred to this

committee. The members are: Mary

Pettit, ’28; Lats Becket. ’29, and. =
beth ‘Fry, 30 . : L

 

© s .
Book Review
Some People, Harold Nicolson, Loridon,
Constable & Co.

“Many of the following sketches are
purely imaginary,” Nicolson says at
the beginning of “Some People.” : But
one wonders whether this is truth or
diplomacy. He observes his nine char-
acters so fully, and satirizes them with
such quiet gusto. ‘They correspond to
various” stages in his life, beginning
with his governess and ending with
the unpleasant lady who nearly went
along with him into Persia. In_ be-
tween .are_a public school hero, a
decadent of the 1890's, a literary mar-
quis who made a vocation of snob-
bishness, the mistress of a Bohemian
salon, an unsuccessful diplomat, a too
successful journalist, and an English
statesman’s — valet. An __ interesting
group—and almost too queer to have
been imagined! They are all more or

‘less connected with the diplomatic

service, and all reflect the author’s
state of mind, when he knew them.

His sense of humor is never more

| delightful than when turned against

himself, against his own affectation
which rejoiced in the “mauveness” of
Lambert Orme, or against his spiteful
pleasure in disconcerting the all-wise
Professor Malone. He is not at all
hard-hearted, for all his relish in
selecting fatal details; ironic sympathy
makes him more indulgent, toward
other people at least, than would any
amount of serious-mindedness.

His style fits his themes—a little

-manneréd, very gay, apparently inicon-

sequential and actually disciplined. He
has a fine: sense for the charm of
words, for pictures of groups, for ab-
surdity, for climax in little things. He
characterizes. externals in a few
words:

“He had a peculiar way of speak-
ing; his sentences.came in little splash-
ing pounces; and then from time to
time he would hang on to a word as if
to steady himself; he would say ‘Simply
too shattering for words,’ the phrase
being a stutter with a wild clutch at
the banister of “for. He was very
shy.”

1. ¥,

 

Foreign Students.

Representatives of leadiiig English and
Continental universities are coming to the
United States to study, reversing the
usual migration of scholars from the
United States, according to the report
of Dean Fleming West, of the Princeton
Graduate College.

During the present year 20 students
with visiting fellowships from other uni-
versities and foundations have been ad-
mitted to the Princeton Graduate Col-
lege. Among the institutions represented
are the Universities of Oxfor, Cam-
bridge and Paris, the Commonwealth
Fund, the National Research Council,
the International Education Board, the
Carnegie Corporation, the Commission
for the Relief of Belgium and other
bodies.

—Vassar Miscellany News.

 

Value of Student Activities

“Basperiences. derived: from participa-
tion in student activities are considered
least valuable by alumni, according to the
results shown in a survey taken by Prof.
Charles E. Watkeys, director of statis-
tics,” reports the Campus, of Rochester
College. It is reported unofficially that
the news caused several nervous preak-
downs in the ranks of present student
leaders.

Training in methods dealing with facts
and problems were placed first by the

amen, and the foundation of a liberal edu-

cation, second, as the most valuable hold-
overs from college days. The women
reversed the order,
placed student activities, acquisition of
information and vocational courses at the
bottom of the scale.

—New Student..

 

Our Doctor Hart

You may think that Sunday night is a
pretty bad time to have a Vesper service
with one-of the best speakers we'll have
this year, and so did we at first. But
now that we've thought it over, we're
convinced that Hornell Hart is just the
man to speak after a college Prom. for
he can settle all the perplexing questions
you ask him about you, and the masca-
line. Sleepy as you may be after your
hilarious week-end, you'd better drag
around to Vespers and, hear Dr. Hart
And you who aren’t going to Prom have
your problem just the same—not only
problems of men, but of other girls and
your families. Qr. Hart..can give you
the most sensible afer on any of these

bie t < a + 5 .

Editorial in‘ Elmira College Weekly. ©

but both groups |

 

News from Other Colleges
Hope for America Rests with Students

“If you’ cannot liberalize the student
there is no hope for America.” This is
Bertrand Russell’s word to the colleges.

‘More than that it is a challenge to the

students jn these colleges, for the British
philosopher placed the growth of Amer-
ican liberalism in the light of the world’s
one great hope for peace.

“Liberals in the United States need to
realize,” he added, “that America domi-
nates the world. To liberalize the United
States is to liberalize the world. Liberals
elsewhere feel this keenly and it explains
their intense interest in the Sacco-Van-
zetti case.”

Of the dominating ideas in the Amer-
ican Universities the man who wrote
Education and the Good Life saitl this:

“In the private universities it is the
wishes of the: millionaires from whom
they seek endowments. In the. State
universities it is the persons. I like the
millionaires better. ° The Eng-
lish universities are more liberal than
those in America. For one thing they are
self-governing, and they are so old that
they no longer need to be responsive to
public opinion, They need not worry
about losing their respectability. Be-
cause of their age and long-established

position, no matter what they do they
remain respectable.” Bertrand Russel!
knows. “Respectability” has barred him

more than once from universities both
in England and America.

In speaking of the Russian progress

in the field of mathematics, even though

“it is not popular or Marxist subject,”
the Englishman, himself an outstanding
mathematician, told of meeting aboard
ship a Russian professor of mathematics.
This man remarked that a professorial

| suggestion to his Bolshevist students that

mathematics might be studied, and hold
an interest apart from political or eco-
nomic doctrines, was met with jeers and
the suggestion that the teacher’s mind
might be unsound.

x ok

The strong present Russian bent
toward practical training is analogous
to the growth of vocational training in
American colleges, said Russell, adding
“there is too much emphasis in America
on work. It is the leisure time that is
important. Work serves no _ purpose.
Americans do not work to eat; they eat
to work.” —The New Student.

 

RUTHS AND RAHABS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE1

the shortcomings of one are irritating
to the other,” said Dr. Coffin emphasizg
his points with force and intense ges-
tures. “The Rahabs insist that the Ruths
be born again and see God. The Ruths
desfise the celestial intimacies of the

Rahabs because they do not become
socially minded. The Ruths make bet-
ter friends but the Rahabs are the

world’s seers and are often so preoc-
cupied with God that they forget man
He who came of the lineage of both
saw both in His life. Both Ruths and
Rachabs find the God they need in Him:
Rahab finds a Savior and Ruth a fel-
low-worker; both are typical of any
group in our Jericho. The fundamental
belief of Chiistianity is that the clue to
the universe ¥s to be found in Christ. If
we believe this) we must conspire with
Him and in that alliance find ourselves
new creatures; We wish: to be true
friends and loyal citizens, but this is not
enough; we must will it. Only when
we combine the faith of Rahab with the
“steadfast mind of Ruth can we be
lifted from selfishness into a love equal
to His own.”

 

I. Q’S COMPARED

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

these. Since it must exclude some
candidates, such a college might de-
cide to refuse admission to candidates
from the lowest quarter of the psycho-

logical tests, even though it would)

thus exclude two candidates who
could be expected to do work above
the average in order to exclude six can-
didates who coutd be expected to do
work below the average and two can-
didates who could be expected to
withdraw without * graduating.”

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is definitely skilful, especially in Miss
Leonard’s Aytumn, where a fine choice
of words and the variation in the length

*% the lines create the: author’s mood in

spité of the obscurity of her thought.
Miss McKelvey’s Fence has a clever .met-
rical scheme; sometimes impeded by an
awkward juxtaposition of consonants.
The Ghost and Miss Bigelow’s Poem are
delicate fancies, but lacking in real mu-
sic, and mannered in imagery. The En-
chanting Mower, after a nondescript
opening, achieves three good lines at the

ent,

The best work in the magazine is Miss
Fesler’s poetry, Song and Bittersweet.
The Song, though a little diffuse, is pleas-
antly musical in form, and appealing in
theme. In _ Bittersweet, however, form
and feeling unite to create'a fine impres-
sion—of fire attd light and the bitter-
sweetness of life.

The conclusion might be drawn in
reading this Lantern that literary skill is
more abounding in the college than depth
of feeling; that technique has outstripped
experience. Yet the number makes pleas-
ant reading, and shows promise for the
rest of the year.

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orne: School sang carols for the col-
lege\in Chapel, on Thursday, December
. es eee
- §Eath group that sang was led by ore
of its own members, who announced the
selection and kept time: The first two
carols were of Nordic origin, a Swedish
Christmas carol, and Jn the Silence of:
the Night, a Norwegian folk song. Then
cathe two ,medieval selections, a 15th
century Ave Maria, and La Kyrie Elei-
‘son. The solo parts in the latter were
particularly | delightful. The - French
Chanson de Jolet followed, and the pro-
gram ended with Adeste Fidelis.

The college is very fortunate in hav-
mg these children come every year to
sitg carols; they are well-trained, and
present a delightful program. ‘That the
college is sensible of this was evidenced
by the large at:endance. "

 

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“On the list of lecturés, are included |
Ernest de Selincourt. M. A., D. Litt,
Professor of English Language and
Literature in the University of Birming-
ham; Laurence Housman, author of An-
gels and Ministers, Little Plays of St
Francis, etc.; George M. Trevelyan,
LL. D. (Edinburgh), Regius Professor
of Modern History in the University of
Cambridge; and many other distinguish-
ed scholars.”

Subjects of Lectures

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley
and Byron. (Five Lectures.)

The Nineteenth Century
(Three lectures.) -

Victorian Poets. (Three lectures.)

Ruskin. (One lecture.)

Carlyle as an Historian.
ture.)

The Pre-Raphaelite Spirit in Poetry
and Painting. (One lecture.)

Political Thought. (Three lectures.)

The Development of the State. (Three

Novel.

(One lec-

lectures.)

The Treatment of Native Races: (1)
1815-50. (2) 1850-1900. (Two lec-
tures. )

Foreign Policy. (Three lectures.)

The Labour Movement. (Two lec-
tures.)

The Value of Economic Theory. (One
lecture. )

The Scientific Outlook. The Birth and
Growth of Sociology. (Two lectures.)

Queen Victoria. (One lecture.)

The
Nineteenth Century. (One lecture.)

Religious Movements at Oxford. (One
lecture. )

The Development of Women’s Edu-
cation. (One lecture.)

For further information, consult Miss
R. E. Rhoads, Pembroke East.

 

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Detroit Student Convention.

At Detroit this winter; December 28 to
January 1, four thousand students from
the United States and Canada will come
together to discuss frankly the question
of Missionaries to foreign lands.

Students need facts as a basis for their
opinions and discussions. Outstanding
speakers from all parts of the world are
being brought to Detroit, but the con-
vention will not center in the speakers.

The high spots of the gathering will be
in colloquia, a combination of discussion
and forum groups. Here, in small groups,
‘aided by international experts as “re-
source material,” delegates plan to think
their way through—to réalize the possi-
bility of creating in a group, through the
interplay of thought, some entirely new
ideas better than any individual opinions.
These will not be merely developed by a
process of addition, but by the “interpen-
etration of us all.”

Attractive afternoon features are plan-
ned. International teas will afford op-
portunities for informal contacts.
he For further informatign, address the
~ Convention Registrar, Student Volunteer
Movement, 419 Fourth avenue, New

ae _ Hunter College Bulletin,

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Pence and inspiration. Frances Hand has
labored unceasingly to furnish the room,
and has made it a spot of great beauty.”
* Alice Palache, as president of the
Undergraduate A§gociation, accepted” the
gift for the college. ‘At Miss Campbell’s
request, Mrs. Hand lighted the fire “as
a symbol of the fire that is never to go
” The lighting of the fire there, in
the presence of the alumnae and ‘the
undergraduates, was President , Park's
After. this ceremony, the
undergraduates, led by the Choir, sang
“When the Crimson Sun-Has Set,” “The

out,

suggestion.

On Thursday evening, January. 12,
the Honorable Alexander Silverman is
to speak under the auspices of the
Science Club. His subject is to be an
illustrated lecture entitled, “Glass: One
of Man’s Blessings” The speaker. is
head of the department of chemistry
at the University of Pittsburgh, and
a very prominent:member of the Amer-

thority on glass, and his research has
resulted in the manufacture of impor-
tant €ofnmercial glasses, among them
a new device for microscopic illumina-
tion. Professor Silverman is also the
author of numerous magazine articles
and books on chemical subjects. On

 

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spiration.”

and “Thou Gracious In-
For such an informal gath- |

ering, the singing was surprisingly good. |

 

News From Other Colleges
Blue Monday
“Blue Monday” is a_ psychological

The matter has been thoroughly in-
vestigated, but the problem is seriously
complicated by the important contribu-
ting factors of type of work, season of
the year, personal interest in the work,
etc, Investigators are unanimous in find-
ing Monday a least effective day in
work, This is found to be true both
when output is measured and in more
simple tests used in the psychological
laboratories, which plotted a piece-work
curve, showing that there was a differ-
ence of 20 per cent. between the produc-
tion on Monday and on the peak day,
Thursday.

In the opinion of Professor E. D.
MacPhee, of the Toronto University de-
partment of psychology, “The modern
tendency to use Sunday as a day of rec-
reation, as well as the general imposition
by modern industry of a routine system
upon individuals who were not so con-
structed as to comply with its demands,
is responsible for the existence of ‘Blue
Monday’.”

—Toronto Varsity.

Intellectual Vagabonds
Harvard’s plan of educational “vaga-
bonding” has been winning enthusiastic
receptions in other colleges, with conse-
quent attempts by many college editars
to bring about similar arrangements in
their own institutions. The “vagabond-
ing” is simply a matter of attending in-
teresting lectures in classes besides those
in which the student-is_registered.._To
enable the students to choose, the Har-
vard Crimson each day publishes a di-
rectory of worthwhile lectures, from
which the students make their choice.
Harvard students had long followed
this program, but- their daily habit has
crystallized the practice into an extra-
curricular activity.

.President C, C. Little, of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, while recognizing the
excellent scholastic motives behind vaga-
bonding, predicts that “it is likely to
have disastrous effects if carried to the
extreme.” If not permitted to interfere
with regular class work, he views it as
legitimate.
—New Student.

 

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the personal side, he is said to be an
inspiring teacher, an ardent lover of
pipe smoking, and a great football fan.

Flower Cards Make $285

The college responded nobly to the ap-
peal of the Bates Committee. to “serve
under two flags,” by sending Flower
cards to the casts of the Glee Club ‘and
Varsity Dramatics. Four hundred and
&venty-four cards were sold, bringing in
$285.

The Bates Committee made this
statement to the News: “We wish par-
ticularly to thank the members of the
Glee Club and Varsity, Dramatics for
giving up the flowers which we realize
mean so much,”

The committee worked very hard in
selling the cards, especially one member
who sold over 100,

The cards were very simple with a
flower sketched on one side and “Flower
Cards for the Benefit of Bates House”
in inconspicuous Aype. Many of those
giving cards made them especially at-
tractive by’ coloying the flowers.

The idea of having flower cards was
originated several yeafs ago, but has
not been used for raising money for
some time.

 

 

Freshman at Vassar.

This year 333 students were admitted
to the Freshman class, 118.0f whom were
in the honor group. The large majority
of these, 208, were prepared at private
schools, 68 at public and 65 at both pub-
lic and private schools. The average age
of the Freshmen, last year 18, has drop-
ped to 17 years ayd-1a-months, The stu-
dents came from a8| Stare the Union,
Hawaii, and six foreign countries. By
far the largest portion come from the
Middle Atlantic States, very few from
the far West.

—Vassar Miscellany News.

 

A Canadian Debate.

A debate was held recently at McGill
on the relative value of trousers and
skirts as wearing apparel. As- might be
expected, the arguments advanced were
not particularly serious. After con-
siderable discussion, the skirts lost by a
close judge’s decision.

—McGill Daily.

 

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Why we are

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College Women: +

For some years we have
been adverti ing toCollege
Men. Cur “‘elling appeal”
has been based on the fact
that a telephone chat with
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every ~week, is a sort of
cure-all for those away-
ills. And a
mighty good appeal it is,
too. wv wv ww wv
Due, no doubt, to a lack of \. o

knowledge of Feminine

from-home

Psychology, our first year

in college went by with-

out an attempt to sell

young women the idea of

a weekly chat with the
folks athome. * ¥ ¥
Then one day a charming
young lady, the business
manager of her College
paper, paid usa visit. “*You
are quite right,’’said she,
‘when you say that young
men away from home are
less thoughtful and less
likely to keep in touch
with their parents with-
out urging than College
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