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_Votuun VII.

No. “12, Ee

BRYN MAWR, PA:, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12; 1921.

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Zz Predlinon Entertained by 1922 ‘with
’ _ Masquerade Dance in the Gymnasium

° Masked fairies and -Chinamen, : Splash-

* me’s . and card ‘packs hobnobbed_ togethér
last Saturday night at a dance given by
the Juniors to the Freshmen in the gym-

~-nasiu

In Muitiok to many weird and: exotic

costumes the party brought to light .two

EXPLAINED AT T, CONCERT TALK

subject of age ongert-talk , given by Dr.
Sigmund Spatth,. assisted ‘by Mr. Henry
Souvaine, _ pianist,
in Taylor. Hall, under the auspices of the

RACIAL CHARACTER IN MUSIC| Debate Japanese Immigration Prob-

is By An Electrical Player debated Friday evening at 7.30,” jn the

“Racial Characteristics in Music” was the is the third debated by the club and the

second under the World Citizenship Com-
; S d : mittee,
ast Saturday, evening, Japanese should be admitted-into the United

dem at Third Debate of Semester

' Japanese immigration will be the question

Merion sitting room. The subject, which

‘is worded “Resolved: That the

FRENCH CRITIC-AUTHOR WILL

DISCUSS AMERICAN LITERATURE



“French » Characteristics of. American
Literature”
Ernest Dimnet’s lecture next Saturday
night, at 8 o'clock in Taylor Hall, under

the auspices of the French Club.

Price 10: Cents

Dimnet Will Return to Bryn Mawr.

will be the subject of Abbé .









..new_stars_in the dancing firmament, when eed States "onan. equal...foctine...with others
nena ee ae cemreeaee - eae ——“TPossessed OF alr Witenise™ i
= Coffin, A, and mM Anya, _ ‘won seo the ied ture; ‘Mr. Sone “rendered a a num- sein” . which never fails to charm ir oe ef
prize contest. After the unmasking a buffet b ’ iede th bei cod -The two teams. are—Affirmative: P.| Sian wi te iS -aUuclence,
supper of lemonade and cakes was served, er of pieces himself, the rest being playe Ostroff, 21; S.. Washburn ’21;. M. Dunn, either at home or abroad, speaking@English -

vand the dancing continued ‘until 10 o'clock.
E. Hall, ’22,.was chairman of the commit-
tee in charge of the’ dance.

CHINESE’ FAMINE CONSIDERED
| AT RALLY BEFORE VACATION
“President ‘Thomas and Mewhers of
: Faculty Expose Great Suffering

A rally to discuss the Chinese. famine
| conditions was held Saturday night, Decem-



a salizing the subject,” said Dr. Spaeth, indi-

cating that music which is really significant RIOU WILL SP’ EAK ON FRENCH

to the piano.
“Gréatness in music depends on univer-|.

tends to lose all racial character or “local
color.” Thus, in Grieg, Norwegian char-

of greater’ qualities.

Mandarin,” Mr. Souvaine played his own
‘composition,. “a Chinese piece from the
American point-of-view.2 In the encore
to.this he regulated the Ampico, and the

by the Ampico, an electrical player attached. 93

acttristies are maintained.at the expense PP ”
Hides” Th “The Mood of Prunia’s Shepherd Sculptor” to be

Negatiye: F. Billstein, '21; S. Mar-

bury, '21, and P. Willcox, ’22.

SCULPTOR PAUL DARDE



Discussed -on February 18
Gaston Riou, official lecturer- of the
Alliance Francaise, and “one of the most
distinguished * of the - younger French

almost as fluently as he does French,- not

to-speak of his great and active brain, «

Dimnet is-often considered one of the most
noteworthy of modern lecturers,” according
to a French graduate student.

The story of Dimnet’s life is one of con-

stant and well-directed action. His interest
in English literature. was early expressed
in his teachings at the College Stanislaus ‘in
Paris. In 1898 he was induced to write a
criticism.of an American.book for -the
Prlot, and since that. time he has written
constantly and with growing success for

ber 18, in Taylor Hall, under the auspices piano continued to play while he looked| writers,” according to La France, willl the North American Rewiew, the London

of. the History Club, in place of the lecture] on to the astonishment of the audience} speak on the Sourbes sculptor, Paul Dardé,} Nineteenth Century and variows other
by. Mr. Raymond Fosdick, who was unable Plays Prelude in G Minor on February 18th, at 8 o'clock, in Taylor] leading periodicals, :

. to,come. President Thomas, Mrs, William Next on the program was the Prelude in Hall, under the auspices of the French] — In 1919, speaking at Harvard, in New

Roy Smith, Professor of ,Economics; Dr.
Fenwick, ‘ Professor of..Political Science,
and Miss Dong,.a Chinese graduate student,
spoke.

Outlining the problems .in the aaa
political situation in China, Dr. Fenwick
said that the Chinese havé solved the prob-
lem of local self-government fairly satis-
caioely, but that national self-government

apr see ~Srugging.agsinet..<1, -hysssucsatic.civill eatin “Rhapsody Nor 6
service system. The family is the unit of}:

government, ‘the village and town being
only an enlargement of it. “There is a
sound core of family life in China,” ended
Dr. Fenwick, “and they cannot fail to
succeed.”

Food,. Not. Money, Needed

__... ‘Between. thirty and. forty millions.are]
affected, and crops, which have failed ut-
terly in a large area, are at best only 8
per cent. normal,” read Mrs. Smith from
recent newspaper accounts of the famine.

‘: The element of self-respect in. the Chinese
character keeps the sufferers from begging
and plunder, so that “they are committing
suicide by poisoning the last portions of
their food ‘with arsenic,” according to one
newspaper.

_ Describing the relief measures being
taken by the Red Cross, she said that food,
not money, was being given for work, since
“the people are willing to die or work, but
wilf not beg.” In addition to the failure
of the last crops there: is no seed~ supply
-——- for next year, and the locusts are doing

great damage ; business is being deeply

G Minor, of Rachmaninoff, recorded on the
Ampico by the composer. This strikes a
triumphant note not found in the more
familiar C Minor prelude, said Dr. Spaeth.
“The Liebestraum, which has the universal,
note of= sentimentality, shews~ Liszt in a
mood apart. from the Hurfgarian,” he
pointed out, while the composer has para-
phrased the racial character in the Hun-

Dr. Spaeth himself played and sang in
good tenor Neapolitan Folk Songs. A Pre-
lude Fugue and Variations, by Frank, played
by Mr. Souvaine, was “quite in the classic
style,” said Dr. Spaeth, while the following
piece _by..Debussy—attained_only. local. color.
“The Spanish have characteristic rhythms,”
Lhe explained, “but-depend-for-expression_ont—
the French; as in Carmen.”
position, by Lane, illustrating
a higher order,”
Dance by Percy Granger.

“Perared “it to bea pet niatient “adaitroni * tO T

-He was wounded in the battle of Dieuze,

months in a Bavarian fortress,”

A: darky com-| the rush of his blood, are all instinct with
“ragtime of| the passion *of patriotism,” acc&rding to
was encored by a Morris| La France, he usually speaks on subjects
of French national interest.

Club::

The greater part of Riou’s writing has
been of a religious character. His newest
and most popular work published recently
in America, ig The Diary of a-+French
Private... To quote La France: “In his
native land the success of the book has
been extraordinary, and the sternest of the
French critics have, with one voice, de-

literature. Riou_@ént to the front among
the first, took part in the fighting in Lor-
raine, and was mentioned in dispatches.
was taken prisoner, and passed eleven
Darde a Native of Cevennes Region

_Since-Riou’s—! ‘ardor>-his- fire, -his impetus, |

He has. chosen

York, Boston, Philadelphia and at Bryn
Mave. he appealed for funds for the “des-
titute hospitals of Lille’ Because’ of the
huge success of this tour and the rever-

w

ence. with which Dimnet is - generally re- »

garded in. France, the University of Lille,
where he has ‘taught for several years, in
October canonized the author-critic.

. Diminet’s two greatest French works. are:

LaF Soeurs Bronte, which appeared in 1910

and ‘was declared by a French critic to be -

the best biography in years,: and, in 1914,
France Herself Again, a portrayal of the
spirit with which the author's native land
entered into the Great War.



BRILLIANT ENGLISH WOMAN
WILL LECTURE HERE FRIDAY



Honored by British Government
“Contemporary Poetry” is the subject of

certo, by Tschaikowsky, Mr.
Ampico, and towards the end he picked

the ‘execution... Coming

public educationally, and Mr.

Smith, and other places.

‘In the first movement of a Piano Con-| to lecture at Bryn } Mawr on a man belong-
Souvaine| ing to the French. soil, a “genius who once
began the piece, it was carried on by the| herded sheep. -

The home of the French sculptor is in
it up again with no perceptible change in the region of the Cevertnes, a locality made
through the} famous by~Stevenson’s Travels With a

music committee, both Dr. Spaeth, who is| Ponkey. “Interest centers on the inhab-

greatly interested in ‘offering music to’ the] itants of a very small-cottage with three
Souvaine, ogival openings that give on to a chalk-
says the Living Age. of

have given similar concert-talks at Vassar,| baaked_ terrace,”
“In front of the door, with

October 9th.

Intercollegiate Magazine Discussed

its primitive latch, are two young people.
Both are healthy and happy, content with
life and humble abode.

The ‘man is a

a lecture which Miss Caroline F.. E. Spur-

|} geon, Professor of English Literature at

the University of London, and Exchange
Professor at Columbia University and
Barnard College this winter, will give in
chapel next Friday morning at_10 o'clock.

Miss Spurgeon had the unusual honor of
being one of two women on the Commis-
sion of Education sent to this country by
the British government: in ‘1918. A’ year
later she returned to America at the request

of Lord Grey, to promote. .international
relations by lecturing through the country.
At this time she spoke at Bryn Mawr on



at Conference

herculean ‘devil,’ a mighty figure clad in

affected.
@ China Looks to America for Aid

Miss Dong, who has been away from
China for two and a half years, described |
modern educational conditions ‘according to
information Sent in ‘letters. “Two educa-
to the West, have resulted jr eiarbaaai at-
tention to__women’s. eduicatit: Although
the missionaries are doing a. ‘great work,
introducing: western methods, “there is still)
a huge task ahead of us,” said Miss Dong.

“Relief must come from. Manchuria
where there are great supplies of wheat,”
reported President Thomas, who had just

“returned from a meeting of, the Chinese
Relief, Committee. Upon investigation, it

‘ is found: that $12 will keep a Chinese’ adult
E alive until the next harvest, and it is only
necessary to cable money across to release
the corresponding amount of wheat. Presi-

_ dent Thomas pointed out that a great deal
~on the future depends upon how this great
nation develops. She said that China jis}.
_now appealing to America.as to a ee

in time of need. .



J. Flexner Represents Bryn Mawr,

College,. New. York City,on January. 3,
at which Smith, Vassar,
Holyoke, and Bryn Mawr, were represented,,

The possibility of a monthly or, quarterly
magazine ‘was voted down because of thet.
difficulty of supporting ‘an. extra publication Hand
in the colleges. °

pages contributed’ by each college, and | ©
edited by Wellesely. Bryn Mawr. will not
contribute to this number on account of

Next year a/ similar plan will be" taiea up

Jean Flexner, ’21; a member a the hea
tern board, attended ‘Yhe conference.







wide blue pantaloons reaching to huge
: boots that énclose naked feet.

Plans for an jntercollegiate magazine] he models an enormous block ‘of stone with
were discussed at a conference at Barnard | astonishing force and surety.”

Pick in hand

Wellesley, Mt. New York Bryn’Mawr Club Entertains |
Undergraduates a at Luncheon) g

Winifred Waresster, 21, 21, Thanks Alumnae

With Mrs, Learned Hand, mother of S.
} W. Worcester,
This year a spring number: ‘teacher-in the schools~at -Pudna, Italy; as
of the regular college magazines. will con- ‘speakers, the Bryn Mawr Club entertained
tain the same material composed of seven|the undergraduates. at a luncheon on De-
cember: 29, in New York.
marked the opening of the new club house
at 279 Lexington. Avenue.

Mts. .Hand’s praise of the college woman,

not being able to secure sufficient material and particularly of the Bryn Mawr woman, |
by January 15, when the copy is due,|came in contrast to the tale of the dearth
; of education in the Far-East.

fie et hes cco nigel FOSter - thanked. -the alumnae,
.on.a more extensive ‘stale: godmothers,” for their good-will and active |
support of the Endowment Fund. About

“British War Poetry.” She also made an

ing held for the opening of the’ Endowment

Fund Campaign last January. 5
“Methods of Teaching” will be: the sub-

Miss Spurgeon by the English Department
side her lecture here, Miss“ Spurgeon ex-

pects to give a week’s
and two addresses at Smith.



GLEE CLUB REVERTS TO
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

“H. M.S. Pinafore,” by Gilbert and Sul-

livan, will be given by the Glee Club=this

year instead of “The Geisha Girl,” which

was the. first. choice. of the club.

fore” was given at Bryn: Mawr in 1915,

“Pina-

1917, and secretary to the president, Bryn
Mawr College, in 1917-18, took the part of



thirty-five undergraduates were present.
i ’

Buttercisp.

address here at the annual Alumnae Meet- ‘
ject ‘of a private conference'to be held with .

in the Deanery during her stay here. Be--”

-course at Vassar

when Thalia Smith, European Fellow, in _

‘nich t--