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Junior Month Is Full .
of Varied d Experiences

“Lectures on Social Problems,’
: Case Work and Field
Trips Fill Time.

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“I’m awfully glad you came,” said

Anna Ortu, “because when you aren't

- allowed to play on the street it gets

pretty ‘monogamous’.” Anna, aged
eleven, and her brother, “Joe, aged
their father

top floor of what

live with and
the
seemed to me a precariously rickety
tenement. Their father had. lost his

job, through no fault of his own, five

twelve,

mother on

months before my visit and every

_.morning since then he had made a

dismal round of employment agencies,
crushed anew every day by his failure
This was, of course,
hard for their mother, but inst@ad of
trying to lighten the family burden,
she..added. to. it-by. perpetually indulg-
ing in self-pity. She complained con-
stantly that she: didn’t feel well and
that Anna didn’t help her enough

about the house. And she wouldn't
Jet the children play with their friends
in the street, because she would be
worried while they were gone.

I had to try to decide what could be
done to make the Ortus a happier and
‘more normal family. I hunted for a
-sjob for Mr. Ortu frantically and fruit-
I—hecame~great— friends —with
joe and Anna—we went together to
buy the few clothes that were required
‘by the fresh air camp where they were
each going for two weeks and we
spent a whole day together at Coney
Asland. I learned that Joe was going
to be an aviator and that Anna wants
to bea social worker. And I heard
‘monogomy” of
their existence. That at least is going
to be a little relieved this winter, be-

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cause Anna is going to take much-
children. live in cottages which are

made as home-like as possible. Each
coveted music lessons and-Joe is going
to belong to a boys’ club at-a nearby
settlement house.

But only half of our days at Junior
Month were spent in doing case work.
We also heard lectures by authorities
on different social problems—immigra-
tion, the mental defective, medical
social service, juvenile delinquency and
crime. Then we went out and saw
the institutions .through which the
community is attempting to deal with
these problems. We visited Ellis
Island, the Children’s Hospital for
Feeble-Minded on Randall's. Island,
the Medical Center and several others,

Perhaps . the most interesting field
trip we took was that.to the Children’s
Court. - Here boys from the ages of
nine to sixteen are committed to re-
formatories” for offenses which ~somie-
times seem ridiculously small, such as
playing hookey from school or stealing
an apple or two from a_ pushcart—
offenses which if committed in a so-
called higher stratum of society would
‘be considered childish pranks. I can
even imagine. little Joe Ortu, if some
outlet for his energies had not been
found through case work, varying the
dullness of-his life-by leading a daring
rdid upon a pushcart!

Then we visited two of the reforma-
tories to which boys are committed
from the Children’s Court. They pre-
sented wa*“6orry contrast. One. con-
sidered its function that of punishment,
not re-education. The guide who con-
ducted us about suggestively clanged
a huge bunch of keys, unlocked each
door and locked it again behind us.
_He showed us proudly the cells where,
-his--youthful--charges--slept—cage-li!
affairs which reminded me of the
places where animals are kept on boafs.
It did not seem strange :when we heard
‘that this institution is a “veritable pre-
paratory school for Sing Sing.”

- The other reformatory, or school as
it prefers to be called, that we visited
was the Children’s Village at Dobbs
Ferry, which considers the children
committed to it ‘as victims of unfor-
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Chinese Scholar Tells
of Purpose in College

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
was this:
“I came to this country a year ago
and entered the Shipley School.
joyed the year there. and I learned

I en-

many other things besides books that a
student must know before coming to

college. Before that I went to the
McTyeire School in. Shanghai, an
American “missionary school for girls.
It is considered one of the best schools
in Shanghai. There are a few good
colleges and universities in China and
ait earnest student cain. get a fairly
good education if he has the means.
One thing I hope to see in China is
public* education, but our government

pulsory.education.
youths are excluded because they can-
not pay. their education.

This is the first time I am away
from China. It is, of course, hard to

 

them to be useful citizens. Here there
are no bars or locked doors. The
child is studied carefully as an in-
dividual and-‘“the underlying causes
which led” to“his “difficulties are sought
out. Recreation is carefully provided
and as-a-reward for good~ behavior
boys may even go to the movies in
town. At the three times during the
year when boys leave the little com-
munity, graduation exercises are held,
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tend. Statistics again show that most
of the children who are fortunate
enough to be committed here, lead’
normal and successful lives when they
return to-theirhomes, sical
One of the pleasantest “Ta about
Junior Month’ was . being able. to talk
over Our Experiences and“ new ideas
with the eleven other Juniors fromthe
eleven other colleges represented.
There were not many. things that we
agreed about. But. we were unani-
mous in thinking that the people in
the “Charity “Organization~Society~ who

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had been visited by an inspiration.

conceived the idea~ of Junior Month |.

leave all my family and friends behind,
but, I like being a foreign student be-
catise I choose to be one with a defi-
nite purpose to get'a better education.

|} l-always think about ‘what I am going

to take back to China with--mé.— As
Americans would ‘not know the real
China through’ books,” she continued,
“T did not know much about America
when I came. I had heard about the
West and the pioneers. I had seen
pictures of the skyline of New York
City. I had read about the life in
homes and schools but I found that
they only represented a little part of
real America. I found myself adapting
easily to American life becausé I had
never fiad such opportunities before, I
am glad to learn how to wash dishes
and to sew my curtains. The problem
of the food is the hardest thing to get
used to. First I have to learn how to

at present is not able to have com-}4#8¢ aknife and fork without splashing
Many ambitious\.at

‘squeaking. In preparing Chinese
food everything is cut in the kitchen.
Then many tastes are strange but I
have learned to eat most! everything
now.”

Then, turning to the more serious
part of her life in América, Ting con-
cluded—“How well I am going to get
along with my courses I do not kriow,
but I do like science so I am very
satisfied wé#th the courses I have this
year. Naturally English--will-be..my
hardest course, still I shaH..try’) my
best. I had. Physics Jast~year~ and
want to know more; chemistry is, I
know, going to be very exciting and
interesting. Mathematics I have not
had for three years; I hope I still re-
member a few laws and theorems to
help me through. China has such a
great demand for curative and pre-
ventive medicinal care. I come from
a family of-doctors and would like to

[-make-myself-a-usefut citizen in China. |

But above all I am niost grateful for
what I am learning here at Bryn
Mawr.” : -

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Lantern Announces Contest

The Lantern announces that it will :

hold a contest for the best prose and

poetry. to. be--published-in the Lantern

during the year, a prize of twenty-five
dollars to be. offered for the best in
each Further announcements

concerning the judges will follow:

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Marriages and Engagements -

With the return of Bryn Mawr stu-
dents in the fall, a number of announce-
ments usually occur. This year there
seems to be quite a few.

Marriages

Margaret Waring to Henry Evans.
They live in Haverford and Mrs. Evans
attends Bryn Mawr as. a non-resident
student, :

Hester Fay to Robert Baily.

Mary Pinkering Walker to William
Sirsma.
Ann-Marie Kennedy to James Howe.

Gertrude Macatee to Randolph
Power. They are living in’ South
America.

Engagements

Alice Porter Yarnelle to Robert

Hartha.

Mary Coss to Francis Cook.
Ethel Sussman ‘to Dick Barrman, of
Buffalo; Yale, ’27.

 

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“I can give you a little information about how English

The New York Times

A New: York Times London Correspondent, on Vaca-

statesmen regard The New York Times.

“You will remember the Simon report on India.

The report was the work of a commission of all three
parties which had been investigating the Indian problem for.
about three years. Unrest grew in India—all wondered what
would happen when the Simon report was released. Natur-
ally it was a secret to be guarded as only a State secret:

“Yet before the report was published, Sir John Simon,
leader of the commission, called the correspondents of The

New York Times to the House of Commons.
“We did not know what was expected of us,

“He took us to a little retiring room into which they

. bring. members of the House of Commons when they die
or are stricken in the House, but the purpose of his calling
for us was to corisult with The New York Times as to the
best method of achieving accurate publicity for the Simon

report.
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tion at Times Square, Related the Incident as Follows:

“IT believe it was an honor unprecedented in British
politics for the head of a royal ‘commission to consult with
an American newspaper on a matter of. publicity.

“You must realize that all reports of the royal com- ¢
missions are first the property of the House of Commons
which appoints the commission.
leased before the House of Commons has seen them, and
yet what Sir John Simon and members of the commission
did was first to talk with The Times representatives of the
work of the commission, then to make an arrangement
whereby the full text of the Simon report would be mailed
‘to New York in advance of publication in England so
that The New York Times might have ¢ a chance to publish
“it fully-and~accurately.

“It was a dangerous procedure in a way, and yet I think
it justified the risk Sir John Simon was taking because
the morning the Simon report was released The New York

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