VOL. XIV. No.9. SIX COLLEGES IN NEAR EAST JOIN President Aidenia ok ‘Consian: | tinople; Tells About, - the’ Work. ‘TEACHING IN ENGLISH “Six American colleges of the Near East have joined under the Near East College Association: to raise. an endow- ment fund,” said Miss Kathryn Newell Adams, President of Constantinople Cal- lege, speaking in Wyndham on Thursday, December 8. -_ want to get $15, 000,000, which iS@to “be ‘divided among them according to.a.plan submitted by the Board of Trustees .of .the Association, Thesé colleges are doing a ‘very neces* sary work; their scholarship ranks high, even by comparison with American col- leges, but they are very poorly endowed and much in need of funds for their past debts, professors’ salaries and equipment.” The first and oldest of these colleges is Bayreuth, which hag besides its col- legiate course a very good medical col- ‘lege and a training school for nurses, The British Government sends young men there from Egypt to get their medical degrees. It is an important post, and a center of learning for Egypt, the’ Sudan and all of Palestine. Robert Has Community Spirit. Robert College, in Constantinople above the Bosphorus, is another excellent col- lege. _ It haga preparatory school for boys, a. college: and an engineering ‘school | of. the first rank.. Many young men from Bulgaria and Turkey come there; in fact it is two-thirds Moslem: The Turkish Government, formerly hostile: to foreign CONTINUED ON PAGE 3. The Philippines SN, Policy of the United ‘States Should Be Made More Definite. ~ “President Coolidge’s message to Con- gress brought to light the ignorance and feeling of disinterestedness which seems to, be general throughout the coun- try in regard to the question’ of the Philippine Islands.” ..Mrs, Manning, speaking. in ‘Chapel on Friday, December 9, somewhat obviated our own ignorance by giving a concise resuine of, the subject. “The United States,” said Mrs. Mann- ing: “Tost: her interest in the Philippines early in the day “A Yale historian nas noted that Roosevelt, on one of his : Presidential tours, began talking about the American policy in the Philippines, “* but he found ‘the subject so unpopular that he was forced to change the sub- stance of his speech to an attack upon ' the trusts. “After the Spanish Anierican War, the United States found ‘herself in a peculiar _ position. Cuba, she thought, had a right to be: free from her cruel suppression under Spanish rule.. Suddenly it was dis- covered that the Philippines were also struggling ' for’ ‘freedom.’ ‘The question arose: shall we allow these twenty million unexperienced. people to rule themselves, or shall we hold: them subject to our own better discretion in the art of administer- ing government? “On the one side stood the sutivions perialists who believed that we’ should give up the islands at once with out,more ado. McKinley, on the other hand, ad- vocated a civil government with an American at its head.’ In 1907 the first Philippine, ‘assembly was called and has proved fairly , successful, although the American | ‘Coneguignion still holds the right of. veto. +: ; a “Francis Hatiion, as Bicternce of the Philippines, probably did as much to wreck the work. of the civil government on the islands as any one .man. had the power to do. As a result of his ad- ministration the Americans: there graqa- “ually resigned ‘their positions ‘and~ the oe & ‘government rapidly deteriorated. Some ‘4 ~~ Gendell, ‘ ; Queen Walks Again As a result of the voting in the halls last Tuesday, the six girls chosen for reconsideration as May Queen were M. R. Humphrey, ’29; E. Nuckols, ’31; C. Sullivan, ’30; I. ‘Richards, ’30; -G, DeRoo, 29, and V. Gendell, ’29. So -that ‘the voting might. be really impartial, - the Undergraduate . Association did not list’ or “announce these names in the order of thy number of votes received. As a result of this week’s vote, the nominees are as follows: V. 102; M. R. Humphries, 60; E. Nuckols, 53. Review of Exhibit Degas and Mary Cassatt Both Realists of French ~ School. (Specially contributed by M. Law- rence, ’23, Instructor in History of Art.) ’ At the Wyndham exhibit, Degas and Mary Cassatt are fittingly coupled’ to- gether, as both belonged to the same school of French impressionists and as each admired the other’s work. . Degas produced occasional etchings and lithographs during his long life which are only second in importance to his draw- ings as showing the artist at work and his untiring search for a fresh aspect of reality. The dozen prints on exhibition here show only one of ‘the two lifelong preoccupations of the artist, the ballet and the hunt. The former we see in the Loge d’Avant and entirely characteristic of Degas is the absence of all romance or illusion. The ungainly view of the stage over the ~back of a spectator, the glare of the footlights and the tired and forlorn dancers are such as appear. in many of his paintings. Le \Blanchisseuses exemplifies another . favorite motive. Above ‘all, however, we. may have the study of \the nude and here Degas’ tech- nique, the lithograph, reproduces to per- fection the.quality of, a crayon or ink drawing. Le. Sortie du Bain in three states, La Femme nue debout a sa.Toil- ette and Apres le Bain show ug the free- dom of his technique, his interest’ in effects of deep shadow and his extreme CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Greek and Latin a Menace, Thinks Bertrand Russell After his lecture, the Hon. Bertrand Russell, was asked a great many ques- tions concerning education, America, and religion, The school which he has founded for his own children opened after he sailed, so he has had no opportunity to observe it in action. It includes both boys. and girls, because Mr. Russell believes very firmly in co-education., Thy are to be taught only as much Latin and Greek as they will need to enter the universities, which, he said, is too much, “In proportion as a people know more dead}. languages, they write worse.” Moderp languages should be taught through conversation. The formafteaching of science, said Mr. Rusself, should begin when the child is about eight, but a scientific outlook should be encouraged from the start. Children should be brought up in an atmosphere of intelligent in- quiry, and should be left to find out things for themselves whenever pos- sible, ‘with special stress on accuracy. Mr.-Russell has had the opportunity to observe co-education in the west at the University of Wisconsin, where oe saw a great deal of Dr, Meickeljohn. - Mr. Russell feels that most eminent people have a common desire to cause | | misery. This is a result of their ex- cessive morality. “All morality,” he said, “is based on Sadism—the desire to persecute*others.” The older gen- eration in America is particularly Puri- | tanical, because America consists of people who emigrated, and the only tradition they. could bring with them was feligion. “Religion,” he define2 Peo fo as tad intended to supply comfort,” and he believes that “religion is stronger in| Aeaation than ~t wees _ “Green Grow the Rashes—O.” Frichter, SONGS AND DANCES: HAVE DISTINCTION Foreign Students Amuse Col- lege With a Varied : Program. SCOTCH REEI: SFARS On Friday evening, December 9, the foreign students in the college entertained for the benefit of the Student Friendship Fund. The music room in Goodhart Hall was initiated in this delightful way, and, despite the fact.of an extremely muddy »| entry, no opening performance could have demanded a larger audience. The program’ was most successfully ar- ranged by Cicely Hamilton, an English graduate student, and, we may add, an actress to. whose performance in the ‘Varsity play we are looking forward with great expectation. The acts _ included French, Scotch, German, Viennese and English songs, as well as Polish, Scotch and Spanish dances: Vaung Tsien Bang, ’30, gave a sketch of the life of a fifth century Chinese lady, illustrating it very cleverly and amusingly, up to the time of the delightful lady’s wedding. Miss Bang claimed ignorance of life beyond this point. “Miss Bryn Mawr” introduced the per- formers, and her costume, as well as all the others, was extremely well designed. The bagpipes used by the vocal Scotch band deserve special mention: they gave a striking illusion of reality; although they were made of nothing less domestic than umbrellas and clothes hangers. The German folk songs were accom- panied by the guitar, which, we were told, is the instrument of the German Youth Movement. They were gayly bedecked with ribbons, each of which is supposed to be tied on by a friend of the musician. Others of the songs: were also accom- panied by the guitar, very delightfully played by Miss Garvin, whose acting was very much appreciated by the audience. Folk Songs Met With Hilarity. Several’ songs’ were dramatized most effectively. In French, with colorful cos- tunes, Mile. Ribes, Miss Hamilton, Miss Garvin and Diebreiul, ’31, sang and acted, their most popular selection being Joli Tambour, Later they appeared in Eng- lish guise, and interpreted some ran ing folk songs, “The Coal Black Smyjth;’ “The Garden of Love” and others. The audience joined with great hilarity into In all of these, the properties, ships, flowers, mitres and crowns, were not the least of the ‘attractions; they displayed an origin- ality and talent on the part of some ‘un- known artist. Miss. Baillou’s songs, in the costume oi an early nineteenth century Viennese lady, and Miss Prokosch’s exceedingly amusing interpretive dance were other outstanding features of the program. The entertainment as a whole was extremely good, and the cider and ginger bread ‘men which enlivened the intermission helped to create the atmosphere of an informal and spontaneous performance by the foreign members of our community. The people who took part in the per- formance were Misses Baillou, Hof- Geiger, Prokosch, Bang, ’30, Ribes, Diebreiul, Patkaniowacka, de la Vega, ’29, Shaw, Hope, Hamilton, Garvin and MacFarlane... They were assisted by Misses Hutcheson, Gehrig, Channing, 29, three children from the-model school and: a “vocal bagpipe” band.” Flower Cards The cast of Varsity Dramatics and the Glee Club are generousty ' co-operating with the Bates House Committee in asking their friends to send them flower cards instead of the usual orchids. The cards will be on sale in: each hall this week. The Bates Committee hopes that everyone will take this) oppor- tunity of serving “under two flags.” No Repetition in Social Work, Says M. Sauhders Specially contributed by Marjorir SAUNDERS, . ’28 usa becaune’ of the very number of things we did and saw during July we “Juniors” could draw. some universal and fairly accurate ideas concerning ‘modern social work. Perhaps one of the most surprising things I observed was the de- gree to which social work has become a profession. As a general rule eighteen months of training are required in fields |~ as different as health and law before a | college graduate can be independently use- ful and worth a salary, although, of course, all social agencies welcome volun- teers. : The peculiarities of ‘social work as a profession appear when you Compare it with another, such as medicine, for in- stance. Apparently a doctor observes in his ,patient definite symptoms and_ has definite orthodox treatment for each symptom or group of symptoms. When dealing with individuals as such, how- ever, you can not make general rules. As no two people. are ever identical, no two treatments can be identical. The most exciting side of social work, aside from the fact that the worker may dis- cover almost anything, is the fact that there is no repetition, and the good work- er keeps wide awake to prescribe new and effective medicine for unexpected combinations of symptoms. But here again are more difficulties. Every indi- vidual has rights with which no one may tamper, and the worker must avoid pa- ternalism. She must manage rather to bring about re-education. The immedi- ate difficulty may be an illegitimate child, the fundamental one the attitude of a proud family towards a daughter who was less attractive thati her sisters. Pa- ternalistic treatment in the form of ad- monishing the mother and giving the child proper care may merely clear the way for a recurrence of the situation, whereas acting as interpreter between the family and their daughter, trying to give them both a new slant on the situation, may achieve a lasting end of the diffi- culties. Success of Social Worker Is is One of the most common criticisms of the social worker is the very fact that she does not achieve lasting effect. This criticism, as a rule, comes from some- one who lacks first-hand information. Of |course, sometimes a. worker may fail, either through her own inadequacy or the case itself, but the number of times she is successful, and the degree to which she is successful, as is testified in re- corded ‘results and unrecorded, but not unexpressed, gratitude is indisputable. . A colder criticism of social work comes. frem those who say, “Let the CONTINUED ON PAGE. 4 2 Club will hold a concert in Taylor department last year. all other seats unreserved, 75 cents. Glee Club Concert Thursday Lipkin Quartet to Accompany On Thursday evening, December 15th, “the Bryn Mawr College Glee takes the place not only of the Operetta which the Glee Club gives each year, but also replaces the series of concerts given by the music The interesting and varied program which the Glee Club is pre- senting has been reported ‘as more worth while than the usual college © ~ glee club concert program. The Glee Club will be assisted by the Lipkin String Quartet from the Philadelphia Symphony Orchest : Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Publicity Office; * + Re-. served seats for the college, $1.25; reserved seats oa those outside, $1.50;’ _ (The program will be found on — page of this i) Hall at 8.15 o’clock. This concert gt ae +, a =e - | correctness; the rails may be out: of Bertrand Russell D Describes So- * Jution of Age-Old . Quarrel. MOTION IS RELATIVE The old question of the relation be- tween mind and matter, and_ their reality or unreality, was the aspect of Philosophy that the Hon. Bertrand Russell took for his subject when he spoke in Taylor Hall, Saturday, De- cember 10, Two positions may be taken on this subject, the first, that mind is matter; the second, that matter is mind. The conflict between these two theories has beén going on ever since Berkeley questioned Descartes’ division between mind and matter. TherAare these two substances, Descartes said, and “the essence of mind is to think,” while “the essence of matter is to extend.” Starting with the idea that wherever there was extension there was matter, “physics developed along curious lines, Theories, such as the indestructibility of matter, and the “billiard ball” con- ception of it grew up. People See Things Differently. Berkeley, however, ‘questioned all this; he said that things were sub- jective, that no two people see, hear or smell the same thing in the same way. Every perception is private to the ob- servér, and there are as many objects as there are observers. What you per- ceive is not matter (even if there jis such a thing), but something in your own head. This put the Physicist in a dificult position, with his “billiard ball” bits of matter, and for 200 years the struggle between him, and the metaphysician continued. The oppos- ing camps have now been reconciled, because great changes have taken place in Physics since the time of Newton, and in metaphysics since the time of Berkeley, Descartes’ two essences need analyzing; the “billiard ball” theory of matter, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time, and so on, extends back to the Great Atomists. It is not right; but it seems so. Newton’s theory of absolute motion has been disputed by Einstein, who has changed the technique of dealing with it. One can no longer say that one thing moves and another is fixed, just because it seems so; there is even doubt as to whether the train goes past the station, or the station past the train. It is merely a convention to re- CONTINUED ON PAGB 3 Religion a Leap in the Dark But Light and Life Result “A Scotchman,” , said Dr, Andrew Mutch in chapel on Sunday, December 11, “is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can get his hands ” on. “There are two races in the world who- for ages have received the brunt of jokes and banter which other people have made at their expense., They are the Jews and the Scotch. So far as the Jews are con- cerned, their willingness to take ‘any risk for the possibility of profit is no new aptitude. When Rome was beseiged by Harinibal, not an acre of land in the city was worth a cent. No one would risk | his money, because no one had enotigh faith in the government. But when Jeremiah shed hurled into prison for dar- ing to forsee! the downfall of Jerusalem, he staked his Jife on the purchase of his family home ‘on the outskirts.of the city because he had implicit faith in his God. _ “The above story is a suggestion. The call to Jesus Christ is the challenge to a great advertture. In every action of our lives we take some risks. Riding into Philadelphia on the train involves nals may not be up to the minute in order. And yet we pet our faith i ie ”» otf CONTINUED ON PAGR-4,,. in -~ + risks of no small consequence. The sig- N 0 LONGER “MIND AND MATTER;”. ~ WORLD IS MADE UP OF EVENTS cd