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College news, June 1, 1921
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1921-06-01
serial
Weekly
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 07, No. 28
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914) --https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/26mktb/alma991001620579...
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Votume ‘VII.
RELIGION AND KNOWLEDGE
NOT INCOMPATIBLE—DR, FITCH
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No : 28.
‘Baccalaureate Speaker Voices Need}.
for Right Point of View
“No college man or wornan’has the right
to divorce learning and religion,” said Dr.
Albert: Parker Fitch, professor of history
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of religion at Amherst College, in’ the bac- .
calaureate sermon preached .in~ the gym-
nasium last Sunday evening. “Have you
not been taught that the way to find truth
is through honest thinking and holy liv-
ing?” he asked. “The spirit of Jesus is not
incompatible with the utmost freedom of
mind and integrity of conduct. It is not
against truth, because behind this spirit
a is the God of truth.”
Difference in temperament berviies the
scholar and the devotee, Dr. Fitch assigns
as the chief reason for their estrangement.
“The scholar is cool. and detached,” he
said. “His chief strength is that he is non-
partisan. But nothing is more important
than that men and women who can think
calmly shall address themselves to problems
of religion. The world needs not more
knowledge, but the spirit which shall en-
able it to use its knowledge. There “has
never been a time in history when men
knew so much, and when, one is feign to
believe, men were more unhappy.”
COLLEGE LEADS THOUGHT OF DAY
“The function of a college ig not to be
the bulwark of the present-day order, but
to send out a powerful minority who are
to lead in the thought and be the chief
(Continued on Page 2)
VARSITY OVERWHELMS TEAM FROM
PHILADELPHIA 50-12
Visitors Outplayed From Start
by Teamwork of the Brown
? ‘
Playing a swift offensive game Varsity
defeated a Philadelphia basket-ball team,
last Thursday, with a score of 50-12.
The first few minutes of play were
marked by a swift tussle in .which Miss
Townsend’s long dribbles down the field
and quick shots for the basket at first took
the Bryn Mawr guards by surprise and
gave Philadelphia a lead. E. Cecil, ’21,
» made the first goal for Varsity, followed in
swift succession by three others. Varsity
then settled down into a steady pace and
soon outdistanced Philadelphia, piling up a
score of 26-6 by the end of the first half.
' Miss Townsend covered the whole fieldgijal
was ably backed by Miss Morgan, who was
remarkable for her speed and agility.
2 Keeping the lead in the second half
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through the repeated scoring of A. Nicoll,
22, Varsity continued its offensive tactics.
E. Taylor, ’21, again and again cleared the
ball under the Philadelphia goal and kept
it in Bryn Mawr territory through long
dribbles and passes. The superior endur-
ance of the Bryn Mawr team told heavily|
in their favor and was an. important factor
in the high: ‘score,
Line-up:
Philadelphia—K. McLane, M. Morgan*,
Mrs, Clark, M. Siter, A.-Townsend*****,
~~ Bryn Mawr—A. Nicoll, ’22e eee,
E. Cecil, ’21***, F. Bliss, ’22*******, E. Tay-
Jor, ’21, P. Smith, ’22.
Substitutes : piintslobin:-N: Barclay
for M, Siter.
Bryn Mawr—E, Cope, ’21*,. for F. Bliss;
F, Bliss for P. Smith; B. McCrae, ’24*,
for E.Cope Ss,
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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1,
Photo by J. Parker Rolfe
Commencement Address tobe Given To-
morrow by Dr. Simon Flexner
“The -Scientific Career for Women” is
the subject of Dr. Simon Flexner’s com-
mencement address on Thursday, in the
gymnasium. Dr. Flexner is the husband
of Helen Whitall Thomas, ’93, who is: the:
sister of President Thomas. He has spoken
at Bryn Mawr several times.
Dr. Flexner is‘a student of Johns Hop-
kins and the universities of -Strassburg
and Berlin, Since 1903 he has been the
director of. the laboratories of the Rocke-
feller Institute of Medical Research. In
1919 he was made an officer of the French’
Legion of Honor, and is a member of the
order of the Sacred Treasure in Japan.
He is the author of various monographs
and ~ papers cornicerning ~ pathology ~and
bacteriology.
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UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION
DISCUSSES WEEK-ENDS
On the “petition of twenty-nine mem-
bers” a meeting of the Undergraduate
Association Was called on Saturday, May
21, to consider the question of .week-ends
for next year. A sense of the meeting was
passed in’ support of the. plan ofthe
Council, to limit week-ends.
It-has been found ‘that one-fifth of the
College has been taking too many week-
ends and has occasioned criticism outside,
as well as showing a lack of interest in
College. All those whe have taken more
than four week-ends a semester thfs year
will be warned to reduce the number néxt
year to four, but no more definite rule has
been pasSed. Sunday night or a single
night during the week will not count:as a
week-end, and individual cases, on account
of sickness at home, etc., will be ow
considered.
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MADAME. CURIE ENTERTAINED |
AT RECEPTION IN DEANERY.
To honor Madame Curie and her daugh-
ters, 700-guests were invited by President
Thomas te.” Ja gaksevitithe Déanery
‘garden last Tuesday afternoon. -Because of
ill health, Madame Curie was unable either
to receive or to speak, and was forced to}.
leave early.
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Guests winked july” 1 to “ro 15,
Big Horn“ Mountains, W: e
region; . $40 per week. Includes hatoen for
riding. Address Mrs. Martin Tisdale,
renee ‘Wyoming. —
that uranium contained another element
‘bee, Dr. Barton, and the officers of . the
1921.-
. THE CLASS OF 1921
MADEMOISELLE CURIE SPEAKS
BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE
Describes Her Mother’s Experimental
Work and Discovery of Radium
“Radium, and the Method of Its Dis-
covery,” was the subject of Mademoiselle
Curie’s talk in chapel last Tuesday morn-
ing. Mademoiselle Curie; who spoke in
behalf of her mother, is herself a scientist
interested and familiar with her mother’s
work,
“Radioactivity,” said Mademoiselle Curie,
“is a new science that dates only from the
discovery of uranium. Madame Curie,
while experimenting with the compounds
of uranium discovered that its activity was
proportional—to the amount. of uranium
present, and was independent of its com-
bination with other substances. She also
discovered that the activity of a given
amount of uranium was four times as
great as’-would be expected... Concluding
with the same property of radioactivity,
Madame Curie separated the substance into
its different components, and in 1897 -dis-
covered._radium. Since there is only. oné
part in a million of radium in‘the best ore
of uranium, it is not surprising that it was
not discovered before.”
(Continued on Page 2)
Ray,
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION PLANS
RECEPTION ON MERION GREEN
Membership Committee Preparing
to Welcome New Students
To take the place of the reception
annually given in the gymnasium by the
Christian Association, an out-door recep-
tion will be held on Merion Green on
Saturday afternoon, October 8, in honor of
the new students. ...President Thomas,
Deari Madison, Dean Smith, Miss Apple-
Christian Association, will receive.
In place of speeches made by the*officers
of the various associations, a skit in which
each association is represented, will be}
given. *M: L. *‘Wh e, Freshman tember |
of the beaks Crain is in charge
of the r i
AO er pe . ;
" NEW’ OFFICERS ELECTED FOR
THE ENGLISH CLUB ai
‘Elizabeth Hobdy is elected president of
the English Club, and Katharine Peek, sec-
retary and treasurer. © {
Dr. Savage will spend part of the sum-
mer abroad in Gibraltar and in Spain.
MESON es <<
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\|ihteresting American
‘|eludes a “History of France,”
BRYN MAWR GIFT OF SORBONNE
ON VIEW_IN LIBRARY TODAY
Fund for French College Library
Lacks Only $500 of Total
To supply .a library- of American liter-
ature for the use of students of American
life and literature at the ‘Sorbonne, $6000
has been raised by a committee of Bryn
Mawr alumnae ‘headed by Miss Eunice M.
Schenck, professor & French at Bryn
Mawr, Five hundred dollars are still lack-
ing to the necessary amount, but the com-
mittee hopes that the full sum’ will be
attained before tomorrow. Fifteen hun-
dred dollars will be spent in- the initial
gift, and the rest reserved for a perma-
nent endowment. fund, the interest from
which will be spent each year by a Bryn
Mawr committee to buy.those books by
American authors which the committee
considers important.
Stimulated by the interést aroused dur-
ing the war, and by the realization that
America was an Anglo-Saxon country with
traditions distinct in. many ways -from
those of England, a chair of American
life and literature was founded at the Sor-
bonne, which Professor Cestre now holds.
In Paris last summer Miss Schenck met
Professor Cestre, and learned of his need
for American books, not only those by
“classical” authors, but any which are now
readers. Accord-
ingly in the present collection, Fannie
Hurst, George Ade, Booth Tarkington and
O. Henry are represented, as ‘well-as Poe,
Edwin Arlington. Robinson, and Mark
Twain. -
Beoks Destined for Sorbonne
Now Exhibited in Library
Four hundred books, most of them
autographed copies presented by. the
author or his family, are now on view
. (Continued on Page 6)
FRENCH GOVERNMENT HAS SENT
BOX,OF BOOKS TO BRYN MAWR
Collection Is Now on View .
- in the New Book Room
Even before funds for-the Bryn Mawr
books to*the Sorbonne had been -collected,
a,box of French books was sent to Bryn
Mawr from the French government. “It
is a delightful collection,” said Miss
Schenck, “representative of different phases
of French literature.” The collection in-
by Lavise,
ina de luxe edition, the best literary biog=-- . .
raphy, history of art and music etc, and
works of Taine, France, Renan, and other
noted’ Frenchmen. This collection is like-
wise on view in‘ the New Book Room. °
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