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The Collég e News,

ae in 1914)

Gr si ‘Bryn ‘Mawe thes Callece Ten Year

Ear Gollers yne, Pa. and Neree

Editor-in-Chief
CORNELIA B, ROSE,

Copy Editor
HELEN F. McKELVEY,

Editor
CAROLINE R. M. SMITH,

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Contributing Editor
J. L. FESLER, '28

Qasctstant Editors
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M. GRACE, '29 Cc. HOWE,

Business Manager
M. 8S. GAILLARD '28

Subscription Manager
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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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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

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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

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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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