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2 THE COLLEGE NEWS
Th S 1] N ready knows. Unless the students take the | ARE WOMEN’S COLLEGES OLD MAID | PRESIDENT THOMAS WELCOMES 1925
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EDITORS
Barsara CLARKE '22 Mariz Wiicox '22

ExvizaspetH Cuivp ’23



ASSISTANT EDITORS
EvizaABETH VINCENT ’23 Lucy Kate Bowers
Frs.ice Beco ’2

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BUSINESS BOARD
Manacer—Cornevia Bairp 22
Mary Dovucias Hay ’22



ASSISTANTS
RutH Bearpstey ’23
Louise Hows1z '24

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MarGaret SMITH



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The Antis

The College was as surprised when it
returned this fall to find a week-end rule

in force as the country was two years ago’

when prohibition was put to work. Like
prohibition it is far from solving the prob-
‘tem; for if people can’t get the recreation
' they want they will only manufacture some
other kind, and, just as the country is busy
making hooch and moonshine so Bryn
Mawr is busy planning more athletics,
more bridge, and more general festivity.

Rules which take away freedom pre
suppose the inability of those whom they
affect to act for the best; and it will but
be in accotdance with the judgment of
those who made the rule, if the undergrad-
uates, since they have had their immaturity
forced upon them, become more childish
than ever.

It is like the old case of the horse. He
will go to the water himself when he is
thirsty, but you can‘t make him drink by
leading him to it; and if you try to force
it down, it becomes a medicine to be
avoided in the future.



A Rising Star

All generations of Bryn Mawrters from
the far-off times of 1912 until the present
day are bound to take the keenest interest
in Mrs. Helen Taft
daughter, who so very recently made her

Manning’s small
entry into the world. It is significant, in
the first place, that she is a daughter. She
might have been a son, which would have
spoiled the story; but as it is she is safely
entered at Bryn Mawr for the years 1937,
1938, or 1939 (the odds are against her
being even) and we feel sure that as chair-
man of the Freshman Committee she will
triumphantly keep the parade song from
sleuths now in their cradles. It is certain

that those who know her mother, either
as a clever and entertaining fellow stu-
dent,

president of the College, will follow little

or as the capable dean and acting

Miss Manning’s career with almost pro-
prietary interest.

CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION

From the very interesting description of
the Summer School classes which Mrs.
Saunders gave in chapel last Friday, it is

i

clear that we of the “winter school” have
some very important questions to answer.
Do we know what we want to get from
our classes, and are we going after it?
These are questions which directly con-
cern the student, and which she can answer
more satisfactorily than can any educa-
tional authority.

It will be generally agreed that what
is wanted is a course which answers ques-
tions about which the student has a nat-
ural curiosity, and which explains and
interprets and enriches the world she al-

nothing to guide him. Once, however, a
free give and take is well established and
the pupils see to it that the courses are
adapted to meet their needs as far as pos-
sible, enthusiasm for learning will revive.
Summer School students will no longer
accuse the “winter school” of a lack of fire
in the pursuit of wisdom.

Music and Chaperons

Ignorance is bliss only as long as you
After that it be-
comes a sharp pang of mental hunger.
The advent of Mr. Surette into Bryn
Mawr has awakened pangs of this sort
far and wide through the College. People
whose only preoccupation was economics
and psychology have abruptly been faced
with the towering importance of music,

are unconscious of it.

and their proportional ignorance has ap-
palled them.

Large attendance at Mr. Surette’s classes
will not be the only effect of the new
enthusiasm. From now on more and more
students will wish to attend concerts and
Neither Mr. Su-
rette nor the earnest workers who brought
him to Bryn Mawr could desire artything
better, yet to make this possible and rea-

operas in Philadelphia.

sonable, the incubus of chaperon rules
must be struck off. Let the Self-Govern-
ment Association believe in itself, and re-
move a regulation as artificial as it is

suspicious.

USE THE NEWS

The News is a public utility. Is it writ-
ten merely to be read and cast aside? Its

potentialities are often unrealized and the





advantage they deserve not taken of them.

Primarily the News aims to chronicle

all
conduct

the College ac-
When in

Furthermore, as

truly that concerns

tivities, and interests.
doubt consult the News!
it is a comprehensive reflection of Bryn
Mawr, not only will it be valuable as a
diary in after years, but now a copy sent
to a stranger, relative or friend, in lieu of
a detailed grudging letter, would present the
there

course of college life. Moreover,

exists a letter department. When some-
thing needs to be suggested or disapproved,
write about it and bring the matter to gen-
Finally there are the ad-

eral attention.

vertisements. They are not meant merely

as embellishments. Among them many of
the best shops are represented. Newcomers
to Philadelphia need never be at loss where
to go.

Ignorant Bryn Mawr
From The Nation for Wednesday, Octo-
ber 12, comes the following comment:

and the
distinguishing marks of culture open to

“Education is a curious thing,
question. Bryn Mawr opened its academic
halls last summer to a school for working
girls. Tutors were chosen from the best
of Mryn Mawr’s students, but the working
girls, many of whom had never been to
high school, thought some of their tutors
quite uneducated. “What is this A. F. of
L. you talk about?” one of the educated
queried of the uneducated. To a member
of the International Ladies
Workers Union a flood of questions came
from one of the curious educated: “What
is this International you talk about? Is it
the Third International ? What is the Third

Garment



beauties of East and West,” is an article
in the November Photoplay, which dis-
cusses the ratio of beauty and intelligence
among college women, as compared to
motion picture actresses.

A search was made by Photoplay, with
the help of Mrs. Ruth Grimwood, of Bar-
nard, to find the prettiest girls in the col-
leges. Samuel Goldwyn, president of the
Goldwyn Company, gave many of these an
opportunity to appear on the screen. His
offer, however, was not favorably received.
As a result of the search Mrs. Grimwood
concludes :

“The only girls who combined beauty
with an appreciation of any possible lure
which the screen might offer were those
who had become seriously interested in the
stage as a profession or some few from
co-educational institutions where beauty is
not so negligible a quantity.

“Have our women’s colleges got on the
wrong track? Are they developing a sort
of super-woman, a sexless creature who
has no time for such mundane matters as
charm and personal appeal? Are they de-
stroying the femininity which is so much
of a woman’s charm?

“The young woman in college has be-
come slovenly and neglectful of the shell
which houses her soul and mind. The
issues have become clouded for her. She
is becoming mentally flatfooted and obese.”

MANY BOOKS AND ARTICLES
PUBLISHED BY FACULTY



Mr. Rowley Does Research Abroad

Miss King, professor of history of art,
is publishing the “Play of the Sybil Cas-
sandra” and “Citizen of Twilight,” con-
cerning a Colombian poet, and a “Brief
History of Military Order in Spain” for
the Hispanic Society. Miss King is also
seeing through the press a book on
Thomas Hardy, by Dr. Chew, professor of
English literature.

Dr, Draper, lecturer in English liter-
ature, has just published in Holland a
paper on the “Theory of Translation in
Eighteenth Century England,” a treatise on
Aristotelian “Imitations.” He is also
bringing out a biographical review of Ed-
mund Spencer and other papers, and has
under consideration in New York a book
on the “Life and Works of the Rey. Wil-
liam Mason, M. A.”

Mr. Rowley, instructor in history of art,
spent the summer doing research work in
Sienese painting and Oriental art, in the
British Museum with Lawrence Binyon,
author of books on Oriental art, and with
Arthur Waley, one of the foremost
Chinese translators, and in Paris at the



Gymmet and Cernuschi.
Drs. Ferree and Rand Read Papers |
During the summer Dr. Ferree and Dr. '

Rand presented papers before medical and

technical societies:

tions in the Intensity of Illumination on

Acuity, Speed of Discrimination, Speed of

Accommodation and Other Important Eye

Functions,” at the fifty-seventh annual con-

vention of the American Ophthalmological

Society, Swampscott, Mass.; “An Illumi-

nated Perimeter With Campimeter Feat-

ures” and “The Variable Factors Which

Influence the Determination of the Color

Fields,” at the thirty-fourth annual conven-

tion of the Ophthalmological, Otological

and Laryngological Society, Washington,

D. C., and “The Effect of Variation of

Visual Angle, and Intensity and Compo-

sition of Light on Important Ocular Func-

tions,” at the fifteenth annual convention

of the Illuminating Engineering Society,
Rochester, N. Y.



International anyway?” But had _ the
Drifter been there to watch, his crowning
joy would have come when the girl from
the Hotel Workers Union started to or-
ganize the Bryn Mawr chambermaids to

combat the seven-day week which still pre-

“The Effect of Varia-! .



vailed in that seat of academic culture.”

will soon be a close second. The Bryn
Mawr Summer School for Women
Workers in Industry opened at Bryn
Mawr College for the first time in the
summer of 1921 and, attended by eighty-
three women workers, was a
revelation to the teachers who taught it.
It was a fortunate thing for the students
of Bryn Mawr College that our faculty
voted that no professor of the College
should teach it. They would never
again have been contented to teach you,

factory

I fear. 1 am told that all the teachers
of the Summer School found it a won-
derful and unique experience to teach
college subjects to students wild to

learn, who thought lectures so infinitely
that they would almost mob
lecturers who missed one. As an experi-
ence it was both terrifying and infinitely
moving to hold in their hands such crea-
tive power over their students, and to
see each day the spirit of life moving on
the face of the waters. It showed them
what teaching might be and that if only
it could be as perfectly adapted to the
needs of our college students it would be
received with the same _ rapturous
attention.

When these factory girls came here they
did not know how to read except word
by word often pronounced aloud. They
did not know the meaning of ordinary
words. They were so exhausted by lis-
tening to a lecture that they could
scarcely sit through it. But they went
to work in little classes of seven with
the Bryn Mawr graduates who acted as
tutors, and studied words and learned to
read book after book. By the end of the
eight weeks they really had mastered
not only reading but the subject matter
of the books read. At first their teachers
were in despair, but after three or four
weeks were over they were listening
with rapt attention to their lectures and
were saying to one another after the lee-
tures, “I understood it all.”

Power of Education Newly Realized

The only accident that happened was
to a student who broke her knee cap
standing quite still and putting out her
leg. She was taken to the hospital and
Dean Smith, who was with her, said, “I
am so sorry that this has happened,” and
she replied just before she went under

precious

ether, “I would give my other leg to
have come.” This was the spirit of
everyone.

But this new and almost universal ap-
preciation of the power of education has
brought upon us what I regard as a ter-
rible menace to American schools and
colleges and to free and liberal thought
—the greatest danger that has come in,

' my lifetime. The Federal and State gov-

ernments,
canization

Boards of Education, Ameri-
Societies, American Legions
and organizations of every kind are now
demanding that children and college stu-
dents should be taught patriotism, con-
crete citizenship and 100 per cent. Amer-
icanism. This means that school teach-
ers and college professors (at first in
public schools and state universities and
then everywhere) will be required to
teach not how to make things as they
should be but that things as they are are
right; that the United States Constitu-
tion as written one hundred and thirty-
four years ago is perfect; that our highly
unsatisfactory National and State gov-
ernments must not be criticized; that the
United States flag (which as we all know
now flies over many cruel injustices
which we hope to right) must be rev-
erenced as a sacred symbol of unchanging
social order and of political death in life.
The Lusk law, passed in New York
State, is a hideous example of what may
happen any day in any and every State.
It is impossible to teach concrete polit-
ical or religious opinion without arous-
ing conflicting parties, one factién of
which will surely rise up and rend the

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