College News | 1914) = ee a fhe College. i ee We 4 Editor-in-Chi OP Coby yy Editor F. McKELVEY, ‘28 - ‘ Editor. ite CAROLINE R. M. SMITH, '28 . ELIZABETH H. H. LINN, ‘29° Contributing Editor J. L, PESLER, ‘28 ““Rssistant Editors ~ ei We HELEN 4 * ip ‘ 30. 30 ¢ tet rice, 3.00, | MAY BEGIN Entered | as nd-class ae the s APOLOGIA PRO ER- RATA NOSTRA The Coitece News hereby. offers a blanket though none the less sin- cere apology for the many mis- takes in the lagt issue which have not been brought to i attention. , Specifically, for those which have, it offers its humblest apology to Mrs. Collins “and the classes of 1925, 1926, 1927,-and 1928 who contributed $53,000 instead of the $5000 reported in ‘ News; alsq to Mr. Mr Meigs names. last .week’s Alwyne and for misspelling their IRELAND TO THE FORE The_past.week, with ‘the Irish _-Players giving their -last- perform- ances in Philadelphia. and George ‘Russell speaking in” Bryn” Mawr, was a kirid of Trishmatr‘i in Art week “to many of us.” We were reminded " vividly -of ‘the: dramatic role played -by Irishmen in our past imaginings ; -we have thought of them ‘as lovers .of beauty, profound believers’ at once in magic and in religion, fan- _tastic, dreamy, “with a hy of “swagger. In January the v to _< this country of Mr. Cosgrave, Pres- ‘ident of the Irish: Ege “Stara 3 MumUed us” of anorfrér attfibute o the Irishman, his spirit of independ- ence. Hither we have been “Accus- tomed to think of this spirit. as primarily . destructive, of ~ the : ro- -mance and the fantasy as. inherently: impractical. . Yet this is perhaps not necessarily the case, The very po- sition of Mr. Cosgrave, the con- structive reforms accomplished by ‘a mystic like Mr. Russell, and even ‘the tragedy of Juno and. the Pay- ‘cock give hope for a still better role _for the Irishman of the future. In a country where poets are leaders, and leaders are poets, anything is possible. Mr. Stephen Gwynn, in the conclusion to his book on. Ire- -Tand in the “Modern World” serigs, expresses the hope that the nation -which-has—lain-like-a barrier be- tween fhe two great branches of the English speaking world may in time hecome a link. If Ireland does even more, and instills into both branches of that somewhat ‘hard-headed world some of her poetry and, faith, i % as. far as possible without her com-. bativeness; she will indeed have made a great contribution... MAKE THE’ PUNISHMENT FIT THE jCRIME Every so often one enter4 the Re- kerve Book Room at the Ligrary to notice a poor harassed creat ting in a chair in the corner and try-. ing desperately to take notes. or - read. Book and pencils Slide from her knees, other students rush in|: and out and exchange bits of gos- sip; one wonders why the girl has chosen such a place to study when the comfortable reading room is next door and she isso obviously unhappy. “Alas! She is riot sitting there by preference, or even in voluntary penance, nor. is she demented. She is undergoing punishment. for -a - dastardly crime. For a fortnight she must do all her studying (she, J ‘is taking only reading courses) in. this stuffy, noisy hole, unable to Ay ——— or absorb perl “she ds ‘Tthem at all, ‘|quizzes are coming or reports are ‘}so .tniss ‘her privilegés. , f > ~ di ty ‘. ‘THE: COLLEGE NEWS s ing. it.be so severe and unjust? The girl who is taking all ‘reading courses [not allowed.to take books out -of.the Reserve Room, and must athe |w@ad them on the spot, which’ is’ practically impossible, or not. read which is hard when due; whilethe lucky petson who bakes” few reading courses does not Likewise there seems to be no discrimination between bringing back half an hour late a book that is neither signed out -+nor-in-demand;and-eloping for-sev- eral hou ith some Important, volume just before a quiz. Could not some fairer method of punish- ment. be devised to fit the impor- tanct as well as the iMegality. of. the crime ? COMMUNISTIC CANINES A strange, varied aud migratory race are the campus dogs. .None knows whence they come or whither they go. From the tall ‘slim white borzoi who is like a: ghost dog, elu- sive and uncompanionable, to ‘the compact and amiable terrier, there] is not one of them who seems to) have a-settled abode. True, there i$ it promises to do, assume the. _posi- the grizzled Scotch beauty” whose collar proclaifns that she“lives on Panama ‘street, but it :iust be long since the wiles of a decrepit black Land tan lured her from the Panama- |nians. One. and _ all, apparently, these dogs are affected by the virus of higher education; they are disciples of the intellectual revolt, owning no master, and asserting the right to be} nonpartisan. --It~-is--of--the Bryn Mawr dogs, not the’ Bryn’ Mawr girls ‘that ‘people myst be thinking | when they call this college a hot-bed| of ¢emmunism:.. Faniily and. the trights of property: mean nothing to ‘these homeless ones. . They answer to any name; they take meals im any hall, walks with any pedestrian, and insults from everyone. They haunt the library by day, and the steps of Pembroke by night. | They ‘have even -been known to attend classes. By some system of canine commrmi- pnication they “attract others +>" paths of learning. ‘Their .numbers are swelling visibly. Soon they will be barking for a place on the self- government board. It is high time for the college to decide whether these dogs are an inferior race, to be kept in ignorance and subjection, or whether they are a free people, en- titled to the benefits of education, representation and the vote. EDUCATIONAL GUINEA PIG Mr. Duffus has finished his series of articles on the college of today ; his last word on the subject .con- tained something of a hint of what he expected and hoped to find.n the college of tomorrow....The firstac- tually working example of. the fu- ture higher education is today being lied at the University of Wis- consin. “It does not really teach anything. What it does is to try to sions and reading, to the ager 6 an entire civilization.” This matKs a very definite step away from the collége which seeks to prepare its graduates for a definite niche in the places of life; Meiklejohn’ s Experi- mental College “no longer tacitly as- sumes that what its student desires is not an education, but some social or economic advantage that may be derived from spending four years at- Mendig college.” The hundred and twenty members of this college have adopted the guinea pig as their mas- cot, since it, like themselves, is the ‘innocent martyr” to the progress of human education ! «In some way, by means fair or foul, by way of taxation or by way of tremendous gifts, the college must. first become completely en- dowed (happy:thought). Only then may they, education. progressing as tion in a.community which it is their |? right and duty to. obtain. The alumni, the undergraduates and the only then will the: “college be a mode of life, a stimulus to tolerance, | to freedom of thought and expres- sion, to public spiritedness, which will'make its mark-not only upon a handful of graduates, ‘but upon an -| entire community.” anil Of course eal an offense de- ‘serves. some punishment ; but need |. expose the student through discus-|. public -must~ all be~ educated, and | In Philadelphia —— ee a. « The Theatre. “Walnut » Kidnapper, a new melodrama. Broad: Tommy is said to be a “hilari- ous ~ domestic” comedy,”” and we under- friend, the old lady. from ‘Dubuque. ‘» Adelphi: Irene Bordoni in Paris, a rather weak farce with a great deal of personality thrown in; very amusing. ‘Garrick Frank . Craven’s,. Nineteenth Hole is typically one of his own writ- ings: entertaining, quiet, and not par igularly important. Lyric: 7) He Spider on “its last legs. ©: Shubert? THe ‘Gremnatck Village Fol- lies are elaborate, but:.not. at all funny; which, after all, is what one. is eniies to expect. Chestniat : The Love Call, the latest Romberg score, “backed up by a melo- dramatic plot of the Apaian uprisings of the early days in Afizona. Erlanger : Look under movies. ; ft Coming: Erlanger : She Stoops to Conquet; opens “March §;- Garrick: Abie’s Irish Rose; opens Feb- ruary Bhs Lyric 27, Walnut: The’ Racket; Shubert: Harry ; opens March 5 Broad: Four Walls; oper® March 5, The Movies. Stanley: Sophie Tucker on the stage, -and “Beery and Hatton’s latest, Mife Savers, on the screen. Stanton: The Student .Prince in the movies is just about as charming as far as. the story goes as it ever was on the stage. Ramon Navarro and Norma Shedrer_ take the leading roles exceed-. ingly well, , Fox- octist : Sunrise is to run ‘for only two more weeks; don’t ‘miss it. - Karlton: Gilbert and Garbo in Love; this does not seem as good as did Flesh and the Devil, but it is: certainly -enters taining. Arcadia; Marion Davies in the screen version of Quality Street, Barrie’s play. Erlanger :, Richa Barthlemess in The Vatent weather, »shhe best. of his ye; ‘Cent pictares: se i ie Palace: Charles Ragexs Pickford in My Best. Girl. Aldine: Our old frgend, Wings. Coming. hy Maryland; opens’ ious opens March 5. Deimar’s . Revels; anil Mary Stanley; Sadie Thompson; opens, Feb- ruary 27, Karlton: Charlie Chaplin in The Cir- cus; opens February 27, Orchestra. The Philadelphia ‘Orchestra will give] the following concert on Friday: after- noon, February 24, and on Saturday and Monday evenings, February 25:and-27: | WPOHOBSY 00 Pes Ceci hres .. La, Mer ON EC re TR eT La Valse Mendelssohn-—...-.+255 Violin saaneerss Boccherini, Pierre Monteux will Seraure these con- certs, and Celia Hansen willbe soloist on the violin. Dr. Paul Shorey Returns. For the second -time in two years Dr. Paul Shorey, kent of Greek at the University of Chi- cago,™but formerly professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr, will return to the campus where he began his teaching career. - Last May he spoke here on “Realism .and Idealism in Greek Literature.” » This’Fri- day, at 8.15; P.°M.in Taylor Halt, “he will discuss “Plato in Jest and Earnest,” a subject on which-he is especially quali-, fied to, speak, having written at least ‘three essays on various aspects of the great philosopher, His. latest work, The Assault on Humanism, was published ‘in 1917. Dr. Shorey, many as thirteen’ degrees from various colleges here and abroad, is one of the best known’