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VOL. XVII, No. 10

 

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Unemployment Topic
of L. I. D. Conference

Inequality of National Income
Held Responsible for
Overproduction.

 

 

EXPORTS INADEQUATE
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(Specially contributed by .V ¢ Butter-

. worth, 731)
Unemployment was. the subject of
the New York intercollegiate winter
_ conference of the: League for Industrial
._Democracy. The speakers were Ben-
jamin Marsh, Clinch Calkins, A. J.
Muste, Colston Warne, Charlotte Carr,
Harry Laidler and Paul, Blanshard.
They all supported the following main
points:

The fundamental cause of-the-world-
wide economic sickness is that the
workers have not been paid enough to
enable them to buy back the products
of their increased producing power
(increased by machinery and_ effi-
ciency). We have millions of people
hungry: and unable to buy food on the

“one side, millions. of bushels_of wheat |-

that can't be sold on the other.

The majority of people receive small
incomes and are able to buy only a
small proportion of what they want.
Therefore an increase in their incomes
would mean an increase in the amount
of goods ,consumed. On the other
hand, some receive large incomes, so
buying the productsof- industry and
agriculture and the rest must be in-
vested, creating even more producing
machinery, which. results in an ever-
increasing amount of goods.« The ex-

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Continued on Page Four

 

Russian Pactken! Education
Discussed by Miss Park

 

An interpretation of an English re-
port on \methods. of technical educa-
tion in Russia was given by President
Park in Chapel ori Tuesday, January
6. In Europe as here, this education
is giver in polytechnic schools where
a -number. of ‘different forms of en-
gineering are taught. In Russia tech-
nical education, no longer under the
-commisariat of education, has been
changed from the engineering schools
in the great cities and transferred to
the supreme Economic Council. There
‘is no differentiation between technical
education, become part of the SRO
‘system, and*industrialism.

The results of this close connection
are interesting. The most striking is
that the student is now a government
employee who receives a wage and is
provided with food and quarters, how-
ever wretched. The-student can be
put Where he is most needed, in any
system of schools or form. of factory
The schools are now monotechnic
since the only form of technical ability

taught is that which is directly con-:

nected ‘with the factory in which the

student is placed.’ There is little differ-.

Continued on Page. Four”

 

In the 1929-30 Foreign Study
Group in Paris there were sixty-
seven students representing a total
of forty-one colleges and univer-
sities.

In the final rating of the year’s
work done at Nancy in the summer
“and at the Sorbonne in the winter
~Shlviay Markly held first place
and ___Louise . Howland __ third.
Twenty names were listed on the
role of honor on which appeared
the three other Bryn Mawr mem-
bers of the group: Marianna Jen-..
kins, Mignon wherley and “Kath-
erine Sixt.

The.second place was held by.
a student from the University of’.
Michigan, the fourth by a student
from Wellesley, the fifth and sixth
from Mount Holyoke, the seventh
from Vassar and the. eaith from

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Spengler Offers New . ~~
Approach to History

 

At Thursday morning chapel in
Goodhart, January 6, Dean Manning
spoke of the possible influence of
Spengler on the social thinking of the
future.

Dean Manning said that, although
when she first read Spengler she
started with @ prejudice against him,
because his premises are unprovable
and shaky, she soon’ became a “Spen-
glerite.” '
~Spengler’s list “of* the civilizations
are (1) Egyptian (2) Classical. (3)--In-
dian (4) Chinese and introducing a
new factor (5) Magyan or Arabian.
This last is the Mohammedan and early
Christian civilization. (6) Modern civ-
ilization, i. e., from 900 A. D. to the
present. Spengler’s idea is not new,
Dean Manning continued, as implica-
tions of it are found in a good deal of
historical comment and religious liter-
ature. But his idéa has a certain “nov-
elty from the point of view of our
thinking today:

The method of approaching histori-
cal subjects was different in Egyptian
and classical civilizations.
tian method was in consideration of
time; the classical, of flat surfaces,
that is with no sense of the length of
time behind them. The mediaeval
Christian conception was. of, the world
beginning in time from a perfect state,
suffering a fall and then undergoing
gradual redemption. In more modern
times there have been only two meth-
ods of thinking: that of the, eighteenth
century, as expressed by Rousseau in
his theory of the decline of civilization,
and that of the nineteenth century with
the idea of the progress of the world.
With his conception of the world as
rising from savagery and progressing
always toward the better, H. G. Wells
voices this latter method of thinking.

The whole idea of progress has
really no more scientific basis than the
idea of decline. It is impossiblé to
prove from Darwin that the various
species are getting better. This whole
idea of progress is bound up, Dean
Manning said, with what we can _re-
member ourselves in the past two cen-
turies. For example, in the Renais-
sance, no one could believe in prog-
ress. It is important, therefore, in
thinking of history philosophically, to

Continued on Page Four

 

Lantern Shows Finish
But Lacks Variety

 

(Specially contributed by Genevieve B.
: _ Wakeman.)
The December Lantern—the first copy

of the magazine, that has ever core into
the “present reviewer's” hands—is infer-

esting for a number of reasons. One of
these is the surprisingly’ finished quality
of some of the work. Another is the
entire absorption of the authors repre-
sented in the more imaginative forms of
writing. The issue contains four poems.
a one-act jplay, and two pieces. of-nar-

rative. Do...the-»xs Jadies.cat- Bryn}
rameter Write essays—except under

compulsion? Is the passion for the un-
adulterated idea quite lacking ? And once
the question 1s “raised, it” is “impossible |
to resist examining the actual contents
of the magazine in search of further. gen-
eralities of the same order. Most of the
pieces of work printed are successful in
conveying a mood, or an emotion more |
or. less fully apprehended, but one is
tempted to -believe that those in -which
‘the feeling’ is centered by an idea have
somehow the greatest imaginative valid-
ity. The versés*by Barbara Kirk, begin-
ning,
Fire on my- heart tonight,
Fire in my fingers,

are—striking for this same union ‘of
thought and feeling. Not to decry a cus-
tom sanctified by Gene-Tunney and much
good literary usage besides—would not
the last line but one of this. poem be

Ihread more easily, on the basis of rhythm

alone, if it ran, “First to construct a.
box,” rather than “To first construct a
box” ?,

Next i in point of effectiveness come the

The Egyp- |

  

 

 

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Mary Wigman, German Danseuse,
To Give Performance Here

 

Wigman is coming to Bryn
Mawr. On Wednesday evening; Feb-
ruary 25, lovers of the modern dance
may witness in Goodhart Hall the art
of this great German dancer. It is a
rare privilege that is offered them:
Frau Wigman has left European tri-
umph this) season for fresh ones in
America. Hailed abroad as “finest
dancer of today,” “great. artist,”
“genius,” she has been no less .en-
thusiastically received here. :

Mary

&

Her amazing originality, her perfect
technique, the profound emotional re-
action she produces from the combina-
tion of passion with intellect in her
dancing, all these are part of her art.
“Mary Wigman’s dance,” says one
writer, “is phenomenal. It belongs to
no particular school, no_ particular
category or country; neither German
nor Russian, neither Greek nor classic;
it is the expression of her individual
aesthetic images, now dramatic. or
tragic, then again hiamorous and ex-
hilarating.”

The_ perfection of Wigman’s_ tech-
nique is the result of long training and
hard work. She studied under Jacques
Dalcroze and later, for four years,
under Rudolph ton Laban, one of the
greatest German masters of the dance.
In 1919 she started her own school.
Dalcroze:s emphasis on rhythmic gym-
nastics .sh¢- igual: =tog.sestricting.
+Untter von Laban by the strictest body
discipline she began to acquire .“com-
plete control. of the entire body,”

   

a
technique that_was_to be mastered so | \

‘accompany

‘played

that it might then be forgotten, the
violence of acrobatics, the delicacy of
pantomime, the body freedom of Dun-
can.” She has-no fear of labor. In
the Temple Dancers, a group compo-
sition, shé spins round and round for
seven ininutes.__When_ students _com-
plained that after three months of the
most strenuous discipline they. could
approximate her whirlpool dance for
only three minutes, her answer is said
to have been, ‘What is three months?
Work for three years_and try again.”

Mary Wigman’s greatest contribution
to the dance, according to Wolfgang
Schumann in the January Theatre Guild
Magazine, is the freeing of it fromthe
dominance of music. “Music and the
dance,” he says, “springing from the
same source—strong, overmastering
need for expression—have always been

inseparably connected. Up until a
decade ago, however, the dance was
subsidiary to music. With

Wigman the dance -does not .addition-
Lally interpret music already written; it
expresses the concept of the dancer,
and only Whefl this concept is fully
and embodied in. motion is
music created, not ‘to interpret, but to
the dance.” The accom-
paniment consists of the piano and, in
many instances, primitive instruments,
gongs, rattles, drums, cymbals, tom-
toms, pipes. These do not produce a
tune but a soft, subdued,
noise. Incidentally, they are very well
by Hans HaSting and Mete

formed

+

Menz.
fans sing Teas ee

 

sible to criticize the single inst of
Charlotte Einsied fater for My

| Stain.”—Still, it seems to suffer often
from a too precious phraseology, and
sometimes from the cloudiness of writ-
ing like this: “Everything was still alive
in him, in this new life of making no
demands, and with it his thirst for a
cause. He had so far helped make wine
for people to drink, and he had gotten
them over from one side of a river to
the. other, and he had saved two boys
from drowning; all of which had left
him_ with a feeling of extreme flatness
Life being what it was, one could give
nothing lasting to other people, suppos-
ing them to be accessible, but an obli-
gation.” It is cloudy,-probably,; because
the thought involved is so difficult to
express. ~Yet-with‘all these handicaps of
expression, the story, attains an
tive significance- which: is not found-else~|

 

 

| two narratives, It is, of course, impos-

where in the magazine... This stainenent

 

is owing, at least in part, to the dominant
idea of the inaccessibility of every indi-
vidual, the. gulf between human and
human. : *

“The Next Morning,” by Celia Dar-
lington, attempts something’ more tangi-
ble and certainly achieves more of what
it attempts. It describes the crisis of
adolescence in a girl’s life with extraor-
dinary conviction. The form is managed
with assurance, and there are few wasted
words.

The play by Monica Brice. leeks just
the--centralizing idea which both of, the
stories have. As a’result, though the
action is lively, it has little significance
for the reader, who fails to share the
emotional conflict of Major Tom Banner-
man, and feels only, in a degree, surprise
and suspense. The three poems entitled
“Before Frost,” “Sonnet,” and “I Could
Not Move,” have in pames Le

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Morality Defined as
Attitude Toward Life

Average Man. Shows Lack of
Discrimination in Moral
Matters.

 

 

NEW MORALITY NEEDED

 

“Morality is a subject which can be
made dangerous if it is dealt with nar-
rowly, for there is a general under-
standing that it relates to one amuse-
anent~ of lifé;—-namely,—sex,”’- declared
Lewis Browne Tuesday evening in a
lecture on “Morality for the Inteélli-
gent.” People are not so abnormally
interested in procreation all over the
world. Morality should be considered
as the whole attitude toward life, and,

essentially, morality reflects _ this.
“Broadly speaking, ‘there are three
moral attitudes “ins the world.

First, is that of the savage. The

primitive man understood nothing and

believed anything. He was continually
afraid, with the nervousness of wild
animals, and unspeakably unhappy. A

‘| sound in the trees was to him a threat-

ening evil;-a~spirit-which~ must be:pla=
cated according to the more or less
Grechanical rites of the medicine’s man
technique. Blindly groping forward in
order to make life bearable, he stumbled
into confusion and mistakes.

To ascertain the attitude of the aver-
age man, one must determine what he
is and where he can be found. In this
country, he may be found, every Sufi-
day morning, at some testimonial evan-
gelistic meeting. ‘He and his wife are
poor, not necessarily unemployed but —
facing just such a prospect of destitu-
tion._They lead meaningless, anoyn-
mous lives, even pseudonymous_ ones.
Each day is just like another. They
have none of the psychic. qualities,
none of the stimulants, which we have,
such as the morning paper, mails, even
bills, which all exalt the ego by recog- .
nizing the individuality. Their chil-
dren are neither a joy nor a comfort to
them; they can look forward only ‘to

Continued on Page Three

Miss Park Tells of Experi-
mental Hygiene in Russia

 

 

The subject of President Park’s talk
in Chapel yesterday morning, January
13, was “Mental Hygiene in Russia.”
Her material was gathered from the
partial report of last y

 
 
  
  
   

ternational Mental Hygiene Confer-
ence in Washington, Published in a
recent issue of Mental Hygiene. At

the conference two sian spokesmen

were present, a. psy@hiatrist and a
professor of “Pedology” (all things
having to do with the child). In ad-

dition to the brief speeches by the Rus-
sians there is in the magazine a steno-
graphic report of questions addressed
to them and of their answers. A spe-
cial effort to get the Russian represent-
atives to come ‘to the country was
made becative of the great importance
and interest of Russian opportunities
for. experiment. :
In-Russia today practically all medi-
cal .work is under state. control; in
other.words ‘there is “socialized medi-
cine.’ For this reason the larger em-:
phasis can be placed on preventive
rather than curative work. The same
thing holds true of psychiatry. Fac-
tory personnel; school training, prison
work, all are supervised by the De-
partment of Mental Hygiene. “gn
Although as yet no psychiatric work

Continued on Page Four

 

Tickets for Wigman

Tickets aré now on—sale—for
Mary Wigman’s dance recital in
Goodhart Hall, Wedriesday~ eve-
ning, February 25. The sale~of
tickets will not be open ‘to the
public until February 2. Prices”
are: for ‘rows A-Q, $3.00; R-Z,
$2.50; AA-HH, $1.50 (for the.
college only) ; Balcony, $2.00. - ‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘cations of such a growing interest during the past two years.

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Raidlssence

In a recent address to the Bryn Mawr Club of New York, President
Park spoke of “‘a renaissance of interest in things that concern the mind
and spirit” among the students.. There have been many scattered indi-
More than
half the present Seniors and a large number of Juniors are taking honors
work. Moreover, the lower classes, if-one can judge-from their entrance
averages, are well-equipped for college work, and should be able to do
advanced work before their Senior year. Indeed, we dare hope that the
ancient evil of overwork will disappear, as immaturity rising from meager
preparation in schools vanishes.. =

There is an increasing movement, too, aided by the unit system,
Fewer
students drop out for a semester, and féwer seem to leave at the end ‘of
~Sophomore-year- before- they have begun advanced. work. _ The_resulting
increase-of-upper classmen-is-correlated with a. smallerFreshman class,
the present Freshmen numbering fifteen less than their predecessors.
Continued emphasis on the seriousness of the student attitude at Bryn
’ Mawr has found expression in the creation of a position, the Director
of Scholarships, held this year for the first time by Miss Ward.

Considering all these facts together, we find an undeniable spirit of
Renaissance.

 

Now is the time for a renaissance’ of the memory.

 

A Petition
The following petition in reference to the new changes proposed in
the ringing of Taylor bell has gone into circulation in the halls. Judging
from the number of signatures which this petition has already received,

- there is apparently a strong opposition among the 7 eee to the

eg

 

- —I’m justly—pass at suicide.

in Biology. That is the truth but I-honestly can’t help it very much.

plan of having the last class end daily at 1:10 P. M. instead of at one
o'clock. The suggéstion for eliminating this inconvenience by shortening.
the chapel period seems reasonable, and, should the petition be favored
by a majority, desirable.

The petition reads as follows:

Whereas it seems unnecessary to provide for a forty-minute rather
than @ thirty-minute chapel period in the middle of the morning, andi
whereas there will be many inconveniences caused by having the twelve
o'clock period last until 1:10, such as the shortening of the lunch period,
the cutting down of time between the end of the. morning and the begin-
ning of the afternoon classes, and the difficulty of catching the 1:38 train
to. Philadelphia: we, the undergraduates of Bryn Mawr College, petition
the Faculty to reconsider the schedule of hours for clagses recently ap-
proved by them, and recommend either that classes-begin ten minutes
earlier; that is, at 8:40, rather than at 8:50, or preferably that the teenies
period be cut down to a thirty-minute one.

~~

 

And have you heard about the Bryn Mawr professor who said: “Of
course I know there’s not to be a Mid Year in this’course and shan’t give
you one, but I do want you to write for a couple of hours on’ a few
questions I have to ask you.’

 

Pesabeoke Archaeology

The following was pieced together from fragments gound behind
the mantel of Pembroke West smoking room. ‘The original is. to be
seen in that hall.
Darling :

I haven’t been very well since college started again and rather dully
wondering if I can last out until Mid Years. If Mother does not come
for me then I am perhaps making an appearance at R. H. but more likely
in B. M. Inf. R. H. would not be quite the thing, at least -until—get
better. Why—feel so sick? _ Very much to be expected that Mother and
I Atlantic City it for two weeks or more at M . If something doesn’t
My work is going frightfully.
expect merit in English and Pass in Latin and am forced to expect fail
I
may not pass Latin. Bryn Mawr has limitless possibilities for—ure but
at the moment—personifies for me nothing but ill health and unhappiness.
That is bosh. One reason for decidedly dingo-dog bition is the
same as

 

 

 

 

feel that all is not well; not only has her
‘bridal dress grown far too small for
her, but her rival hovers in the back-

Theatre Review ~
This week and next the: production at |
the Forrest Theatre is “Scarlet Sister
Mary,” and if we may believe our eyes | midway between French and Italian. Of
course, it may just be part of a colored

ground, with an accent which sways.

its dark heroine. To prevent misundé:
‘standing; we feel ourselves obliged to

__._ divulge Miss Barrymore's secret; she.

is not. really .colored; it is all a snare
--and a delusion. Therefore to offset .any
natural disadvantage inherent in this fact,
“the rest af the cast is composed of her
-white brothers and sisters. At least she
will have no competition from her own
company:
We first see ‘Scarlet Sister Mary an
her wedding hth but we are made t to

Ne ee

eee onto necator

 

dbr- lady's battery when she is out to get her

‘man, but we have our doubts. Anyway,
Mary is. married, and we next see her
in her happy home. But maybe it isn’t
happy after all, because the husband be-
gins to throw things around. We were
so engrossed with the baby Onyx (short
for unexpected) as a ‘cooing note of
authenticity, that we forgot to~ notice
what happens next. We think the hus-
band leaves ‘with his old sweetheart, the
lady with the accent, and after a while

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pt men) a nT A gree morrngrermararee

-| parently a great success.

|

I Barely |

| Mary (the hussy!) finds consolation in

others. Many years past, but we see her
unchanged. -A° child a year seems to
agree with her. At least it gives her a

| sense of ~independernce;~ so much: so «that

she even refuses to ‘take hubby back,

although: their..originak™ child; --who~-has+

returned after many years, is dying.
Well, he dies, ag is to be expected, and
Mary finds herself at last drawn close
to the Lord, thereby proving that how-
ever black she may seem, she is really
white underneath.

All this is no doubt very interesting,
and as a novel by Julia Peterkin is ap-
Its only fault
as_a_play is that it is not drama, merely

| a: hodge-podge of ill-defined episodes,

without trace of action or character. de-
velopment, and no amount of acting could
make it dramatic. What a good produc-
tion might do, however, would be to give
“atmosphere,” as “Porgy” did so admir-
ably,’ but it takes more than smeary
grease-paint, false bosoms, and an“occa-
sional “Gawd” to create authenticity,
which, by the way, we do not think can
be created. Perhaps that is why Miss
Barrymore fails so completely. We will
say~-this-for—her,—-however,--that—when-
ever she forgot that she was supposed to
be a colored lady, and lapsed into Ethel
Barrymore as she did at the end, we en-
joyed ourselves tremendously, and
thought of “The Kingdom of. God,” or
better still, ‘““The Constant Wife.” Un-
fortunately for the rest of the cast, they
did-not have such famous. selves to revert
to and so were obliged to continue floun-
dering about in roles for which they were
so unsuited that even the attempt to
portray them made the actors ludicrous:

Perhaps we should mention the fact
that Miss Barrymore’s daughter, Ethel
Colt, makes her debut in the theatre as

lated to stir us to our very depths, but
we, needless to say, were not stirred. As
far as we can -tell, however, this latest
Barrymore seems to be capable, and we
hope that she, as well as her mother,
will be more fortunate next time.

L. C.

 

In. Philadelphia
:-Preston Sturges’ Strictly Dis-
honorable, which needs no introduction.

Chestnut: Blackbirds with Ethel Wat-
ers heading the cast of this latest Negro
revue. ~

B

Erlanger : Helen Morgan in Sweet
Adeline, the musical romance of the Gay
Nineties.

Forrest: Scarlet Sister Mary, to be re-

i viewed in this issue.

Garrick: Ladies :All, a Continental
comedy with Violet Heming and Walter
Woolf.

Shubert: Flying High is a musical
comedy which boasts Bert Lahr and
Oscar Shaw as its stars.

Walnut: There has been nothing but
praise for Topage, Marcel Pagnol’s
ironic comedy, with Frank Morgan.

Metropolitan Opera House: The origi-
nal Freiburg Passion Play. Begins Jan-
uary 19 for two-week run.

ws Pi

Movies a

Aldine: Viennese Nights, a Romberg
operetta on the screen. With Vivienne
Segal, Alexander Gray, and Walter
Pidgeon.’

Arcadia: Marlene. Dietrich steals Mo-
rocco from such favoriteq as Gary
Cooper and Adolph Menjou.

Boyd: Ronald ‘Colman is a debonair
rogue in The Devil to Pay. :

Deutsches Kino: Melodie des, Hersens.
Song and sentiment.

Earle: Edmund Lowe is a sailor in
Coast Guard service in Men on Call.

Fox: Charles Farrell and Maureen
O’Sullivan-in the Saturday Evening Post
story, 7Thé"= Princess and the Plumber.
Another American meets a lonely prin-
cess.

Karlton: Joan Crawford scores another
hit in Paid, the new version of Within
the Law.

Keith’s: Ruth Chatterton in The Right
to Love. Reported as not up to her
average, but it still has lots of room to
‘be good.

Mastbaum: Bert Wheeler -and—Robert
Woolsey again in Hook, Line and Sinker.

Stanley: Little Caesar, the. story of the
rise and fall of a gangster.

Stanton: Chester Morris
‘thriller, The Bat Whispers.

Local. Movies

Seville: Wednesday and Thursday,
Rain or* Shine with Joe Cook; Friday
and Saturday, The Big Trail, with Mar-
guerite Churchill and El Brendel; Mon-
‘day, Tuesday and Wednesday, George
Bancroft in Derelict’ Thursday, The
Widow from Chicago with Alice White

ina real

 

and Neil Hamilton; Friday and Satur-

one of Sister Mary’s brood. The scene
between her and her mother was catct-

day, Maurice Chevalier in Playboy of
Paris.

Wayne: Wednesday and Thursday,
The Eyes of the World with John Hol-
land ‘and Una* Merkel; - Friday -and- Sdat-
urday, Clara Bow, Skeets Gallagher and
‘Charles Ruggles in Her Weddin ing Night;
Monday and. Tuesday, “Laughter; with
Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, and
Frank Morgan; Wednesday and Thurs-
day, Bert Lytell in Brothers; Friday and
Saturday, Sunny, with Marilyn Miller
and Lawrence Gray. °

Philadelphia Orchestra

Friday, January 16; Saturday, January
17; Ossip Gabrilowitsch conducting.
Schumann, :
‘Adagio and Scherzo from ‘Second

Symphony ~
Tschaikowsky “Francesco da Rimini”
Klenay,

“Hampstead Heath” for Qeeliatis and
Boys’ Voices

Wagner

reeriey err

 

Book Review _
«“‘The American College. Girl,’ Ten

American College Girls. Fea C.. Page
& Co, 1930" ae

In reading this volume of essays on
the American college girl and the
American college—for the title of the
book: is only partly descriptive of the
content—one is .inclined to. one criti-
cism. “The dual purpose, to portray
the “customs and characteristics of ten
of the well-known colleges for women
in order to afford material for a dis-
criminating choice between them,” and
to anatomize the “Modern Girl’ and
her traits, falls a-trifle short of accom-
plishment.

In such a study it is almost impos-
sible to maintain a standard not purely
eulogistic.
leges for women are very much the
same in ideals and intent; they were,
one». and es founded to provide for
wome “serious education” not in-
ferior to dices offered men. Conse-
quently, the picture is evolved, not of
many individual colleges, but of one
conglomerate’ institution, the Ameri-
can College for Women. And the girl,
who, naturally, writes of her own col-
lege in the highest vein, is seen not as
an individual, but as a type, through
the medium: of the college which she
represents, and which she has pictured
in an almost ideal form, by generali-
ties which are always dangerous.

However, it is not the type which is
of interest to the collegiate reader, but
rather a comparative survey. of cus-
toms, curricula, etc. Nor is it easy, or
even possible, for anyéne save the col-
lege girl herself, with her own intimate
knowledge of -these ‘subjects,
tinguish between them.

Academically, perhaps, the features
of greatest interest. to us are the tu-
torial system and the -reading periods
at Radcliffe. At the end of freshman
year, every student determines upon
her major subject. Sophomore year
she has conferences with a-tutor, who
is either a graduate student, an in-
structor, or a professor, and is assigned
“problems that will. lead to independ-
ent thinking rather than memorizing
material found in the libraries.” Junior

‘| year, methods of original research are

acquired. This ‘is a greater step to-
ward . specialization than has ., been
made here,’ and« probably corresponds
most closely to our system “honors.”

The reading periods are-an innova-
tion, borrowed from Harvard, which
is about to be’duplicated here. “The
two weeks before mid-year examina-
tions form the first reading period, and
the three weeks before’ finals consti-
tute the second. During them no
classes except, freshmen
classes are held. At first it was feared
that everyone, cast out to sink or swim,

| would surely sink when examinations

came. On the contrary, the amount
of*work done is prodigious.”

As far as extra-curricular activities
are concerned, there is little variation
in: their’ general character. Sororities
are tending to die out and are sup-
planted by more democratic organiza-
tions... Debeating_is, apparently, fore
popular elsewhere than here, for nearly
all have flourishing debating clubs. In
the small colleges, dramatics seem to
be more class affairs than Varsity as

here; but nearly all have their tradi-|

tions of lanterns, ‘odds and—evens,”
etc. Although there is this superficial
similarity, how deep it goes is hard to
say.

“F€- ig regrettable tat the’ very satis-
faction of each with her own. college,
and the desire to show it at its best, is
the source of its slight immaturity and
lack of finish and maeipevaler. ‘

 

 

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Cissy’s Sturm und Drang
(Storm and Stress)

It was hours after the thermostat
had given a wheeze and subsided for
the night. The spasmodic tatooing of
tiny typing feet ‘betrayed. the fact that
Cissy was in a sad way. We rolled
over and cocked art unsympathetic eye;
“Go to bed, Cissy,” said, we. “Oh,
dear,” moaned Cissy. “Why don’t I
get sick! I’ve gone without rubbers.
and with rubbers; I’ve overeaten and
undereaten; I’ve befriended ail those
people. with colds and coughs; I’ve
taken all sorts of nasty medicine; I
even ate dessert at supper tonight. It’s

”

no Uses.
“Why not try a little Cougs? we

Day by day

In every way

I'm getting worser and—’

“That’s just splendid,” Cissy tates
rupted bitterly, “try it on yourself.”

“You might even dip into the Psych.
book,” we persisted, “or take up Chris-
tian Science.”

“Oh, for a cool white cot in the Inf.”
Cissy sighed .dreamily, “and tender
care, and quiet meals daintily served
IN BED.”

“Cissy,” we
as bad as the hiccups.

“And ‘yesterday,”

remonstrated, “you're
Go to bed.”
Cissy. continued,

| “I -went~to~all-the—trouble=of—getting ——

the encyclopedia to shut me up some-
where between Vet and Zym, and then
some sweet undergraduate had to go
and. look up ‘Zero’. and’ exclaim for
the benefit of the public, ‘Just look at
the bookworm; poor thing; another
Bryn Mawrtyr’!”
“Look here,” we expostulated, “if

you go on at.this. rate. youll break

down.”
“Do you really think rahe?”
Cissy queried eagerly. In despera-

tion, we pulled the covers over our.
head. The spasms of typing grew
more and more infrequent until at last
all was still. Then we crept softly out
of bed, and over to the typewriter: the
weary Cissy lay with her cheek pil-
lowed on the question-mark button.
Above her rose a lovely white sheet
of paper:
(This Report Has No’ Name)

Introduction cae
The subject which I am about to
undertake is a comprehensive and
difficult one. Its chief difficulty is that
it is so decidedly comprehensive. It
pertains to one of the most epochal
eras in the history of our world, and
has deservedly been the subject of
research of various eminent scholars,
of our time.

Conclusion
One can hardly, in so brief a space,
‘do justice to an era so epochal in the
history of our world. Suffice to say
that it has been the subject of pesearch
of various eminent scholars’ of our
time. a

 

x ok Ok

“Cissy,” we shouted, bending to-
ward the question-mark, “GO TO
BED!”

New Books

“As We Were, E.. F. Benson, a
Victorian peep show.

“Crucibles,’ The Lives and Achieve-

ments of the Great Chemists; Bernard
Jaffe.
“Beethoven,” Paul J. Bekker.
“Verdun,” Marshal Petain. »
“Mad Anthony Wayne,”

Thomas
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A short time ago the News
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_Nations for students, to be held
under the auspices of the National
League of Nations Association.
The Pennsylvania Branch an-
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to Europe, a prize of twenty-five
dollars for the best paper sub--
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Mr. Alwyne Plays
With Simfonietta

(From. the Evening Bulleting

A large’ and “attentive audience,
which quite filled the ballroom of the
‘Bellevue-Stratford, last night heard
the Philadelphia Chamber String Sim-
fonietta,. under the direction of Fabien
Sevitzky, in the second concert of its
fifth season. Horace Alwyne, pianist,
was the soloist.

The Simfonietta, an © organization
that has by this time become an insti-
tution in musical affairs, and. whose |
work is always musicianly and precise,
presented a program of the works of
Bach and two other composers in the
traditional Simfonietta manner.

Mr. Sevitzky elected to begin the
evening’s.. activities with the colossal
Brandenburg (incorrectly spelled
“Brandenberg” in the program notes)
Concerto Number 3 in G: Major, which
consists of but two allegro movements,
both replete .with all the typical. Bach
intricacies of contrapuntal: nature, the
mere mathematics of which require
nice musicianship.._The prodigatease |
with which singularly rich themes were
tossed about between the “solo” in-
struments, three violins, three violas
and an equal number of violoncellos,
was a pgsitive delighf to the Bach en-
thusiast, and Mr. Sevitzky. elicited in-
terpretative nuances from the ensemble
that divested the score of the usual
frightened stiltédness many musicians
read into Bach works.

From the concerto the Simfonietta
passed to Bach’s “Seven Partitas,”
which were listed as six in the pro-
gram notes. ‘“Fhe-work, arranged ‘from
the original by Mr. Sevitzky, has for
its “grave’’ movement a chorale. The
—five—movements—following,—in various }
tempi, are variations upon this, the
whole terminating in a magnificent re-
statement of the chorale.

Following. this Mr. Alwyne played,
supported by the Simfonietta, the great
Bach Concerto in D Minor. The solo-
tst is a, superb technician, cool and
unhurried. Moreover; he is a consum-
mate Bach player, having all the Bach
phrases literally at his fingers’ ends.
The applause accorded him amounted
to an ovation.

After the intermission, according to
the custom’ of the organization, the
program. took a modern tone, present-
ing the rather melodious and extremely
interesting “Partita Nunmrber?1” of’ An-
tonio Veretti, a work’ in- five move-
ments, and the slightly unpleasant
“Suite,” which used’ the names of an-
cient dance forms, for its four move-
ments, and in which Mr. Alwyne had

 

many brilliant solo passages for the |:

piano. Applause was so vociferous
that Mr. Seyitzky, asking whether the
audience would like an encore, and
receiving the usual response, played
the short and melodious “Berceuse”
and “Danse” of Anatole: Laidow.

 

Morality Defined as
Attitude Toward Life

 

Continued from Page One

one great repetition.

America is the land of opportunity
only for those who get the opportunity.
Despite the large crime wave, thost of
these average people do not run amuck,
and it is largely because of such evan-
gelistis as Aimee Semple McPherson.
She has a much greater following than
shas any intelligent person, and what
she says does something to save a
society anything but healthy, She
tells them that they are ‘‘not poor, but
the richest’ pedfle on earth,” that
“you're the only people worth anything,
you will be saved when others are
swept to a bottomless hell.” These
people believe because they want to
believe, want to feel that their lives
mean somehing, and they chant with
a curious vigor, “I belong to the
Lord.” Their church is an opiate.

‘They. swear they will live proper,
pious, good lives, according to a tradi-
tional ‘morality which, provides them

--with_crutches__so_that..they.need—not
‘walk on all fours. ‘There is no rela-
tivity in the average man’s judgment
of ‘moral matters;, he has one moral
standard, ‘so: that “wheéii “it breaks.at
all, he runs amuck. This inability~to
discriminate is a cause of much of the
evils of society today. | eee sid

A very small minority does manage
to discriminate, and. is the more ex-
traordinary because it is very young.
Moreover, this “civilized minority” is
not so small now, and its influence is

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Calendar

Thursday, January 22—Vacation.
Friday, .January 23—Saturday,
January 3l1—Mid-year examina-
tions. en

Monday, February 2—Vacation.

- Tuesday; February © 3—Second
semester begins. M. Maricheau-
beaupre speaks at 8:15-under the’
auspices of the French Club on
Theatrical Decorations from the
Seventeenth Century to Today.*
Lecture in French and illustrated
with slides.

Wednesday, February 4—La Ar-

gentina will give a performance
at 3:00 P. M. at the Academy
of Music for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr  Summer_- School.
Tickets are on sale at the Publi-
cation Office.

The Bryn Mawr Chinese Scholar-
ship Committee presents Mrs.
Florence Ayscough, author ° of
the ‘Chinese Mirror. and other
books on China and ‘translator of
Chinese poetry, in which she col-
laborated-with-Amy Lowell, who

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we live happily:

ject, the only thing that we know logi-
cally is that we no longer respect the
We

must live morally because only so can
Yet no one’ really
knows what is right or wrong. Experi-
ence has taught man certain ideas,
from which he has evolved certain
moral méaxims. By “respecting our
neighbor's rights, each can, live more
comfortable. Heaven and hell are
found on earth, and to have ‘heayen,
each must live according to these
standards.

Admittedly, we need a new morality
based not on-guesswork but on care-
ful study, and catalogued into general
laws. We are beginning to do it now,
not depending on the. intuition ,of
genius, but on the careful, labored
study of scientists.- ‘I am inclined to

medicine’ man, heaven or hell.

believe,’ concluded Mr. Browne, ‘that

it will be very like the old, because
what can be obtajned in a few- years

: will not be very different from what

man, in. thousands of years, has
stumbled: upon, but many limitafions
will’ be swept away. We are all ad-

 

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Hall. She will take as her sub-
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Dynasty. Mrs. -Ayscough ap-
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have supplanted magic, but their influ-

ence is not great. Actually,” for the

intelligent minority, there is no real
reason to try to live according to cer-
tain rules; life-is so meaningless.
Whereas. man was once regarded as
a climatic achievement, we now realize
he—is~notat—all-important, but closely
related to animals, even psychologi-
eally.: Even the earth is reduced to. a
contemptible crumb of matter. Wel
count for nothing in terms of space.

We go on living, despite this, and
struggle to find the best way to do it.
We ineed a morality, though we don’t
know why. In a very complex sub-

 

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, SPENGLER AND HISTORY
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Continued from Page One

irid ourselves of the idea of progress
sand _concentrate more on accounting
for the actual facts of history as we see
them. Spengler, however his method
and logic, in his general scheme. of
‘things, suggests a new pattern giving
‘an impetus to a new approach to his-
itory. For example, certain types of.
Jiterature, he believes, are written in
‘certain stages of history; this is not
ithe stage for poetry; it is impossible
‘to write poetry nowadays.

According to Spengler, the essence
of modern thinking is space-feeling.
‘He does not deny a connection be-
tween civilizations but maintains that
“ene. civilization: is incapable of under-
standing another civilization. In ac-
counting for our feeling toward civili-
zations: today, Spengler, for example,
treats Russian civilization as a new
civilization which has no analogy with
the past and the future of which, al-
though it may later be of tremendous
importance to us, it is impossible now
to prophesy.

Spengler is hard reading, Mrs. -Man-
ning concluded, ard not at all what one
expects.. He is not-especially pessimis-
tie and not dealing with the after-
effects of the war. He does not ‘think
that westerri civilization is ending but
that it is in its later stages. His whole
plan is elaborate, comprehensive and
impersonal.
bitrary. Gradually, as “his_ideas soak
in, they may give a new point to social
thinking. Spengler may do much to
crystallize our ideas.

 

 

SCHOOLS IN RUSSIA

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Continued from Page One

entiation. between student and work-
mami except in age.

This technical school systeni
based on the need for younger boys
and girls in industry. Of the present
students twenty per cent. are women
Whose opportunities are equal. Com-
w6n schools with a technical. bent for
children of 7 to 14 years, and scientific
high schoo]s for those from 14 to 18
are part of “the system. There are also
schools for men who were already in
the factories when -the system started
—these lead to university courses. The
faculties of the new schools’ are“them-
sél¥es composed of working engineers
who teach part of the time, complet-
ing the interlocking of practical and
theoretical work.

This teport on education was written
by one of the best English engineers
who was invited to Russia: to help the
system, already in operation, and says
that he learned more than he was able
to teach. It is impossible to estimate
the value of the system yet. Russia
may be adding to the two great contri-
butions to industry, application of
power and mass production, a_ third;
the interweaving of industry with edu-
cation and the concerns of the State
Since this experiment is being carried
out from the beginning just as_ its
originators wished it, an opportunity is
offered to see whether it should be ap-
plied to academic education as received
now, atid whether our idea of prepar-.
ing for a long time is wrong.

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HYGIENE IN RUSSIA

 

Continued from Page One

has been done in the country, in the
cities rapid strides have been made.
The institutions are much like ours:
Sanitariums, homes of detention, in-
sane asylums, clinics, the last, however,
are on a much larger scale than in this
country;.in Moscow alone there are
forty-seven psychiatrists freely at the
disposal of the people. Widespread in-
terest in mental héalth is desired by
the doctors. Much educational work
has been done by the visual method—
by the use of vivid, meaningful posters
containing short axioms or admoni-
tions. These reach even those who
cannot fread.

The Department of Mental Hygiene
is doing valuable work in prisons.
Careful studies of each case are made
and, as a rule, about forty per cént. of

 

instituions as mentally sick. Once

pronounced cured they do not return

_ to prison but to their place in’ ‘so-

_siety,. To care. for young offenders

juvenile’ courts have sprung up with

—remarkabléx rapidity: There are now
00 of them where none were before.

cea fact that its schools teach their

ry ta benefit of society

oc of the individual, Russian

or7 a Ti

_ psychiatrists feel has 4 healthy effect}

  

His..classifications are ar- |.

large

_the prisoners. are moved to special.

mentally. They encourage the child,
however, to believe in the importance
of his services to society. Religious
education, they believe, should be “sep-
arated” from other educations for two
reasons: they- say it leads to introspec-
tion and to fear.. The latter effect, of
religion, they added, was perhaps more
true of Russian Orthodoxy than of
other faiths. !

Psychiatrists.doing work with fac-
tories pursue two lines of attack. They
try to adjust. the worker to ‘the factory
and the factory to its workers. Through
the use of different tests an attempt is
made to find the job suitéd- to’ the
worker's capabilities and tastes. In the
factory the aim is to have conditions so
as to give the greatest possible satis-
faction to the worker.

Miss Park concluded. by. reminding
us of the enormous laboratory for ex-
periment that’ Russia ‘presents. In it
there is auch of interest and of oppor-
tunity.» :

Art ‘Allene Holds
Exhibit of Paintings

 

 

The annual exhibition of the. Art
Alliance Circulating Picture Club,
January 5. to 30, promises to be the
largest and most comprehensive since
the inaugurating of this unusual and
popular plan. for the lending of the
works of well-known American artists.

There will be approximately | 125
new paintings. in this exhibition which

‘have been selected by qualified experts

from the viewpoints of meeting a high
art- standard and an appeal to the pop-
ular understanding. A major portion
of the. contributing artists are Phila-
delphians.

Since the last annual exhibition held
jin March, 1930, interest-in- the Circu-
lating Picture Club has — steadily
fiounted. Individuals and organiza-
tions have renewed their memberships,
and many new members have been
added. In other words the club is
bringing enjoyment and enrichment
to thousands of persons in the Phila-
delphia area. There is a noticeaLly
increase’ in the irfterest of
schools, both public and parochial.
Teachers have written to the club de-
claring that the picture lending plan
is performing a great service in build-
ing up an appreciation of beauty
among, the thousands of school chil-
dren of Philadelphia and vicinity, An-
other most gratifying development is
‘the iticreasing appreciation of the busi-
ness world’ of the value of art in busi-
ness. Both business and professional
men are borrowing pictures from gal-
leries of the club to hang on the walls
of their offices. A prominent business
-man wrote to the club, sayitig in part:

“It is a happy. sign. that business. is
rapidly awakening to the value—of. art
as a stimulator of business. The Amer-
ican people are thinking in terms -of
beauty these. days, and if you give
them beauty they are more likely to
take an interest in your particular
product.”

In an effort greatly to increase en-
rollments in the club, a ‘series of teas
and meetings will be held at the Art
Alliance during January...The-teas are
scheduled as follows: Friday, January

'9, January 16, January 23 and January

30. At these teas there will be talks
by well known. art authorities and
there will be present some of the dis-
tinguished . artists ,whose works are
represented in the exhibition. Ay nom-
inal fee is charged for membership in
the Circulating Picture Club. This
membership entitles one. to borrow
eight paintings a year or sixteen etch-
ings, for one month each, and pur-
chase on a time-payment plan may be
arranged if desired; although there is
no obligation to buy.

 

TALK ON UNEMPLOYMENT
6

 

Continued from Page One

cessively unequal distribution of in-
come decreases the buying power and
increases the amound produced.

We have in ‘the past temporarily
solved the problem by selling our sur-
plus products abroad. The competi-
tion for foreign’ markets~-has' grown,
and led to wars between the competi-
tors. Moreover, the markets them-
‘selves decrease; alf the industrial

duction and unemployment and are in}
no position to add foreign imports to
a stock of goods larger than their peo-
ple can buy. as it is, while the back-
ward countries are fast being indus-
trialized. .

We bank therefore face the problem

 

_countries_of the world haveeverpro-}

of steadily increasing overproduction
and underconsumption, caused by the
unequal division of income, and period-
ically aggravated by crashes due to
| the lack of co-ordinated planning. It
is widely recognized that we need un-
employment insurance-as an immediate
relief in these times of: depression, and
a relief which is not, like charity, un-
certain and morally degrading. The
most beneficial type of unemployment
insurance is one-that slightly decreases
the inequality of the national income,
that is insurance paid by the State out
of taxes on high incomes i) a intheri-

tances. ;
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Gloomy Prospect Fronts
Would-Be Teachers

 

On. Thursday, January 8, in the
CSmmon Room. of Goodhart Hall,
Miss Ruth Stratton, from the Co-oper-
ative Bureau for Women Teachers in
New York, talked with a number of
students who are interested in the
teaching profession. The outlook for
inexperienced teachers is gloomy.
Mostschools require at least two years
of experience and the problem of the
beginner is to, find a position where
she carmteach for two years:~ She
will find it difficult to discover such a
place, and she should accept almost
any position which presents itself, To
solve this matter of securing experi-
ence, and’ to provide for training of
the student, certain schools have ap-
prenticeships. These apprenticeships
are limited. in number, and are given
to experienced as well as_ inexperi-
enced teachers. They provide valuable
training, and the student who secures
one is fortunate. a

Miss ‘Stratton answered questions
nceming salaries and types. of_posi-
tions.

N SFA News

Poll on College Striking

Crystallizing the consensus of opin-
ion of student leaders from college
campuses of all sections of the coun-
try, the answers to a questionnaire,
presented by the student opinion com-
mittee of the Sixth Annual Congress
of the National -Student Federation.
held at Atlanta, Ga., December 29 to
January 2,,and headed by Lewis Pow-
ell, of Washington and Lee University,
drew national attention from the press.

A summary of the poll evinced the
fact that fifty-seven believed that “col-
lege drinking’ was increasing, forty-
seven thought that it was remaining |
static, sixteen believed it decreasing,
while no one felt it had been” elimi-
nated. Student réaction in the ques-
tionnaire on prohibition was consistent
with this trend of thought, since sixty-
six favored modification, thirty-eight
voted for repeal and twenty-three en-
dorsed rigid enforcement.

Reaction to the tariff problems
which was the topic of consideration
under the national and international
aspect of the program -was clearly
brought out in ‘the poll. Seventy-seven
voted for moderate protective . tariff
with twenty-one favoring free trade
and. twenty-five remaining undecided.
Moreover, jn answer to the question,
“Is there any fundamental difference
between the so-called platforms of the
two major political parties?” seventy-
one voted no with thirty-three believ-
ing the affirmative. On the desirabil-
ity of a third party and government
ownership of public utilities the vote
was split.

The. questionnaire further brought
out that the bulk of the student leaders
present favor United States taking a
position of world leadership’ in the
causé of disarmament, and the adher-
ence to’the World Court on the basis
of the Root formula. While a great
number favored United States’ recog-
nition of Soviet Russia if a settlement
of debts could be reached by the two
governments, almost half of those vot-
ing were undecided. Approval.of.un-
émployment insurance and disapproval
of the “dole system” were brought out
in the survey. R. O. T. C. on a com-
pulsory basis was rejected by the vote
and favored-on ay elective plan.

 

 

Murrow Summarizes
___ Atlanta | Congress

sions in. which a panorama’ of studerit
opinion from every section of United
States was voiced, the Sixth Annual
Congress. of the National Student Fed-
eration- of. America’ at Atlanta, Ga.,

came. Bae oe January 2.

 

 

Tvidtal campus problems, the outstand-

See ee “5

étudint Widen lesses «approximately
one hundred and seventy-five’ institu-
tions brought the rePistration to ‘high-
est point in the history of the organi-
zation, and provided a difficult hous-
ing problem for the ‘host schools,
Georgia School of ..-Fechnology: “and
Agnes Scott College for women.

In ‘summarizing the high points of
the student president conclave, E. R.°
Murrow, President of ‘the Federation
in 1930 and re-elected for 1931, de-
clared that he was happy his faith in
the students of the country had been
iystified by the outcome of the ses-
sions.““\We attempted in the Atlanta
conference to give students’ an oppor-
tunity for self-expression on problems
of national and international interest
as well as tp provide a clearing-house
for ideas on campus and extracur-
ricular activity, rather than force the
delegates to sit through several long
lectures on a variety of unrelated sub-
jects.

“From a national and ipternational
point of view the tariff and its relation
to the present economic depression was
presented by a representative Republi-
can, the Hon. D. W. Davis, former
Governor of Idaho, by former Gov-
ernor Nellie T. Ross, of Wyoming,
now vice chairman of the. Democratic
National Committee, and by Norman
Thomas, prominent New York Social-
ist and Socialistic candidate for Presi-
dent in 1928:. The discussion follow-
ing these addresses was brought to a
climax in a questionnaire circulated to-
ward the end of the Congress. In ad-
dition to questions on the tariff prob-
lem, it brought out a cross-section of
student opinion on disarmament, thew
world ‘court, Soviet Russia, World
War debts, prohibition, political
parties, government ownership and un-
employment insurance.

“From the point _of view .of-the-indi-

ing features of the Congress program
were the discussions on collegiate ath.

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participation mystique ip the courses of *
nature which is,rather delightful. More
precisely, it is the first and the last which
Miss
Faust’s sonnet is slighter. in feeling, per-
haps intentionally, perhaps because the .
handling of the form is so difficult.

In fact, ,

really convey this impression.

it is the lyric tone, in the
verse and in the. prose embodiments of
individual feeling, that appears most often
and most convincingly. It is also prob-

ably the lyric genius that makes the
editors such bad proof-readers.

 

Federation Staff to

Continue Another Year
The staff of the Central Office of
the National Student Federation has
been retained for another year by ac-
tion of the executive committee taken
at the Sixth Annual Congress at At-
lanta, Ga. This decisioff places a
stamp .of approval upon the form of
organization inaugurated at the Stan-
ford University Congress in-1929, and
authorizes the further development of
several of the most important projects
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