VOL. XV. No.1 ® HIGH AVERAGES © | a \ ae tage HAIL FRESHMEN. ‘Twenty - “Of —Entering— Class}+ — Rating Abov. ove Eighty ye ONY, TEN TERM 9 EST t anit) an Pes cattant physical speci- on-¢qithough it is my guardians, Gragental or tutorial, who have watch- pee “ed my bed hour, my morning milk, my eTubbérs), an Episcopalian and an only child”—These , were.the words. which President Park put into the mouth of the average incoming freshman. of the- class of 1932. “So: far,” student. of 1928—by and large—comes ‘from a-city, is a*month or ‘two over - in private. sch “Pleads the school list with 14. _ most entirely private schools. -1: the eighteen..and. trained“for ‘the most part s,. that is, along with and sex, stock, her own. kin called, ‘American transplanted “. sere time since from the British Isles or Germany.” The: statistics, not yet compiled at the time of this speech, are now ‘avail- able in full): There are 127 freshmen representing 22 States.and the District of Columbia. For the first time in some -years. Pentisylyania heads the list with’ 34 to New York’s 25. For once a prophet ‘has ain his own country. Of. the"82 States 7 are west .wh—the Mississippi, but they furnished ‘only 10 students in all. _Fourteen..fronr- ‘Miss Kirk’s School Seventy-nine- _schools have contrib- uted to the training of the class of ’32, Only 15. of the, < =e ort BR pret bae (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, cB Tiss : 4 Passed a | In the,snidst of life we are in [ death. We had been asked to. announce the arrival in” Mert6n™ of a full-blooded young Florida alligator, who was delivered to / Misé Lucy Fry, ’31, last. Friday 4 \f/noon. But jnst as we were going ' to press with a glowing descrip- tion of his charms, and of the rusty rat trap in which he was housed, we rereived the tragic thews that he-is dead. A _ blast of hot-air from our too efficient heating system proved too much ‘for even a tropically educated. alligator, and he prematurely 4+ shrivéled away. « | News for Athletes Three Periods of Exercisé In- stead of the Usual « Four. = An exhaustive probe of the athletic situation, carried on by the News -in be- half of-its public, shews no very drastic upheavals. The new director, Miss Josephine Petts, late of Teachers College, Columbia . University, received our rep- resentative with smiling frankness. “What I am aiming for is a program that will give each person three hours of exercise, three hours that she will en- joy, suited to her, temperamentally and physically. For the fall months we are planning three hours a week of required instruction in. ‘any of the following sports: hockey, tennis, archery, fenging, swimming and sunbaths, p The-tégular schedule of varsity hockey’ and_ basket- Kall games will be carried on exactly a before and there will also be interbill and interclass first team games. The winter schedule has not yet been fully de- termined, but we do know that swimming will ‘be the big feature in every way. Possibly we shall be able to have indoor tennis.” Other innovations mentioned were a tennis instructor from the Merion Cricket Club, and,a freshman course in good_body.mechanics. Miss. Petts.closed the interview by saying that she hoped to talk to the students herself very shortly about future plans. There will be no check-up on the students, but each apdividual is #xpected to complete her frvd periods’ as a ‘matyer of honor. How Will 40 a ake ‘a Look at Gs If the Average age of 425) Aare class fs 18, something ‘mefe than a fifth of the stugonits of Bryn Mawr must be of Ating age. -Of -these as many-as can’ Will probably cast a vote —a least they ought to. And even the non- Pctee withythe radio dinning in their ears. and unresembling photo- phs levity at them in,the streets ape ee ia, can~take -an interest n-the eich bn. Withthis in mind we are pyinting il Meek the following material abo ye the two big ean- didates. Bert 5 eek we will give the other sidé ya Owen I). Young, Father of a Recent J Bryn Mawr Graduate, Defends Smith “Thin of the degradation, the humiliation which touches all of us when such .a fine spirited, straightfor- ward, clean-minded man as Governor Smith is called a drunkard and politi- cal crook. “What: are we coming to in {this country when a man’s religion F apc test of whether he can: hold public office and when churches are mobilized for political action? If the American people are wise they will, in their own interest, end this religious issue now. Let every solicitation for a vote on re- ligious’ grounds, whether it be made openly or secretly, be a reason for voting the other way, because the fact of such solicitation makes the issue itself one of prime importance. ~ “IT am supporting Governor Smith because I believe in his willingness an | his capacity to put the farms of this country on an equality with its indus- ._ CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 English history, was carrying -on her tries.) I am- tired of -hearing of farm _A Musical Service Large Attendance Indicates Popularity of New . - 2a”. Hama Anyone whowattended the service of | th: Bryn Mawr League on’ Sunday eve- | ning (and- we assume from casual ob- |... ‘servation that most of. fhe college did attend) will agree that the initial servieg | of the new organization was-aSuccess. The League plans to have, during the coming year, eight: similar musical serv- ices in which Mr. Willoughby, now per- yenent and official organist of the col- lege, will play various orgath numbers; the choir will sing several anthems, and at times chorales in which the congrega- ton may join. Any, other talented people among the undergraduates and graduates will be invited to take part in order that tnese services’ may be of interest to the college as. a whole and may, therefore, be a success, There will also be, during the year, five services similar to those of the Christian, Association last year. » The speakers which the League-has obtained ser these special meetings are: Dr. Cof-- ie président of Union Theological Semi- nary in New York, March; Pitney Van Dusen,. February. 10; Dr. Schlater, of Toronto, November 25; Dr. Kirsopp Lake, of Harvard University,, October 28, and one other on April : 28 to be decided upon later in the year. “ The League has made every effort7in ciloosing these speakers to obtain those whose, popularity has been general in tke cdllege in past years. In most cases the speaker will remain. at the college until Monday in. order-that he may talk "n more secular subjects, or may be ques- Sp by the students. The League has so made arrangements for a_ special shelf in the- New Book Room on which the hooks these speakers will be kept for anyone \who is interested. Informality am Object The remaining services will be lead by CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 Faculty and Graduates ~ Pursue Summer Labors BTyn Mawr may moulder during the summer, but.its spirit goes-marching on. Whérever learning flourishes, 1s representatives gather dike buncheés— of i’on filings in areas of magnetism, In the sacred Round Room of the Record Office .in London no less than seven cf the graduates and Faculty of Bryn Mawr. were pursuing the fruits of erudition through the pipe-rolls” of ancient manuscripts. Anyone who_has seen the seating arrangements-in the Round Room will realize that seven people easily constitute a majority of its devotees. Chief among the group was._Dr,.Gray who was making a study of royal finance in England. at the end’ of the 100° year’s war. The general subject of royal finanee“in the fifteenth century also occupied the at- tention of threé. graduate students in the department of history: Miss Isa- tel Abbot, Miss Margaret Harper and Miss Julia Ward.- Miss Alice Beard- wood, a graduate of Bryn Mawr, was also there making a study of Italian merchants in the fourteenth century. Historical Researches Miss Nellie Neilson and Miss Bertha Putnam, two more Bryn Mawr grad- uaztes who are now in the History De- partment of Mt. Holyoke, complete the list. Miss Neilson is head of the Mt. Holyoke department, and a distinguish- ed scholar, This summer she was en- gaged on the very difficult work “Of editing a year-book, a kind of semi-offi- cial record of legal cases, with philoso- phical comments attached, which used to be made in England at the endeof the year, as: ‘a: guide to future legal decisions. Miss Neilson was. asked to edit this year book (for the year. 1470- 71) by the Selden Society, a learned English legal society. That she should be chosen to do this wa§ a great com-| pliment .to her scholastic ability. Miss Putnam, who published a year ago a book on the Justices of the Peace in investigations in this field by research into the records of session of Justices of the Peace in the four’ecen:': century a nh ey Schaft slightly better claim to recognition. When PRICE, 10 CENTS COLLEGE MUST- BRIDGE THE .___. GAPS IN OUR EDUCATION «We Silas ‘Tue Coniece* News won an All- Mea teks: Honor. Rating in the compe- summer, with a score of 811 out of a possible 1000. ‘The following note ac- companied the award: page could be made to. [60k more at- tractive. You lost first-place by your poor make-up.” The News was given 90 cut of a possible 100° for its news writ- ing; 183 out of 225 for {ts news content; 71 out of 90 for its editorial services, and, toe the glory of thé Business Board, 49 out of 50 for its advertising... Although we would like to have done better, -we aie pleased in view -of' the heavy compe- tition of larger and busier colegés to have done as well as we did, and will en- dcavor to the best of our ability to eor- rect the faults indicated... : & International Student , Conference a-Success The tenth Congress of the C. I. E. (the - Confederation - Etudiants) met in Paris on the 10th ‘of August, 1928. After a grand opening in the great hall of the Sorbonne, the Congress settled down for more than two weeks at the Cite Universitaire, that mag- nificent foundation for- foreign students in Paris, which has risen -so suddenly from the once: dreary vacant spaces be- hind the. Pare Montsouris. Unfortunately for the C, I. E., the two most commented-on events of its ses- sions were in the nature of misforttines. “. . At the finals of the football championship at St. Ouen, in-the middle of a grandstand full of Fascist Italians delirious’ with enthusiasm, a véry small group of working men, obviously anti- fascist Italians, protested, A. scuffle. en- sued. The police broke in roughly. Theré were wounded, especially among ° the Italian. students who were in the ma- jority.” ; The Ttalians were diSsatisfied by the: defeat of many of their motions in the Congress itself.” In: the-second-week,of the Congress-the- chiefs of the delegation were summoned home -by-an official telegram from Rome. The unfortunate effect- of this first inci- dent was heightened by the subsequent departure of the German delegation. There were two delegations from Ger- many, one representing the Deutschstu- denschaft, a. powerful conservative asso- ciation among German students, and one representing the Verband, equally devoted to national interests, but much more dem- ocratic and open-minded. Apparently everyone..liked the Verband, but the was. older and. larger, with a the Congress, voted that the two pou. ion for school ‘newspapers held this. “Your editorial |- Internationale des. + the new class of ’ -undérgraduates, impor of Link ition: Childhood and Maturity Is Stressed. A FRESHMAN’S FUTURE Bryn Mawr College, diminished by the passing of the class of ’28, but more. than correspondingly increased 32, gathered in Goodhart Hall last’ Tuesday morning: for the first chapel of the year. Miss Park’s opening address, the first of its rkind to be delivered from that plat- form, admirably expressed the feelings - which the -occas¢pn aroused. “It comes to me with a start of sur- prise that, some—many of the students who have-hurried here under the crisp rustle of the treesthis morning will” ncver know that opening days of the college began anywhere else—will take for granted that this building existed in the ice age and that dinosaurs play- . ed around its buttresses. But many of us.though we cannot quite go back to the first day of the first year, to October of 1885, have nevertheless live- ly. niemories of the annual calls to arms from the platform. in Taylor Hall when the college year was an infant and prodigies of progress seemed pos- sip and Tikely. ‘Once more into the breach, dear friends, -once more |” For the forty-third time summer . has slipped by, the campus is silent, with- cut the songsparrows and thrushes of June, the vines begin to turn red, we havegtorn up our daylight saving time- tables: and the moon of the last eve- rings looks chilly rather than tender. A sterner. season is upon us. . ‘Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more! gaia st ae Centripetal Force Is Strong “One hundred-and twenty-seven new forty new full time graduate ‘students enter Bryn Mawr officially today. é‘ “So much for Bryn Maiwr’s centri- petal._tarce. raany .of its Students as fellows and scholars to Europe. “The college -has this year -once more had more students completing all its entrance requirements than it could admit into residence and the number of girls presenting a first di- - vision of examinations this year is half again as large as the number in June, 1927. Whether this is due to our na- tive charm, to May Day or to the change in the French requirement. for eutrance is debatable. “What .will the entering-student go CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 should be received on an equal footing, | | Freshmen and Sonhoreies the delegates from the Schaft, cold siletit | and as if on parade, rose and quitted the hall. These two incidents created stir in the Paris ~ papers. Enjoyed Despite . Disputes The,* students - themselves, however, were less pessimistic. Somehow, in the general atmosphere of the Congress, these scholars to Europe: © Friedricka de incidents. were dwarfed to insignificance. For two. weeks, in the. delightful grounds of the Cite Universitaire with its green squares surrounded by pleasant red brick pavillions, students from 33 na-, tions walked and talked and discussed with each other. One would see an Eng- lish boy taking a picture of four grin- ning German_students from Heidelberg, or a Roumanian girl: deep in discussion with an American. — quite a \ The Congress, moreover, has practical! | aims in addition to the spreading of in- ternational good-will. It is trying in every way to lessen. the difficulties of studying in a foreign country. The next international congress will be eld in Budapest. The German ques- tion, more complex than ever, will again be discussed. nh Perhaps on the banks of the Danube some sort of definite international accord can be reached, - If students cannot ac- complish. it, who can? Vie on Parade Night Confident Freshmen massing around the exciting band in the arch; Juniors with red. and green torches; Sopho- mores in the traditional circle around the traditional fire on the lower tennis court, the procession of Juniors and Freshmen toward the tennis court to the tune of.“We’re in the Arrhy Now” with the words “Hurrah for the Freshman blue, There’s nothing they carinot .do. They’re young, but they're wise, So don’t try to advise The class of thirty- two;’ thus began Parade night on the * open- ing night-“of college. After- an ex-. haustiwe amount of. hilarious snake dancing around the fire, the college re- turned to“the arch and sang-as usual the Parade: night songs“of preceding years. At the appropriate time, the Sophomores triumphantly broke into their parody, = “We went to the animal fair, There were only Freshman there, They thought they were sly, But they went far awry, Poor class: of thirty-two.” Some of the Sophomores seemed to find a curious resemblance between “We're in the Army Now” and “We Went to thé Animal Fair.” Its centrifugal has. sent-.- FER rc si ON pe EP woh