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VoLUME VIII. No. 21. “BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL .26. .1922 . -Price 10 Cents



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CELEBRATION FOR DR. SCOTT
BRINGS MANY TO BRYN MAWR

Dr.: Alfred Whitehead Speaks on
"Theories of Relativity





DR. SCOTT GUEST OF HONOR AT
DINNER



Nearly 200 guests gathered at Bryn Mawr
to attend the Mathematical Celebration,
held last Tuesday in honor of Dr. Scott
on the completion of her thirty-seven years
as head of* the Department of: Mathe-
matics. A mathematical meeting, at which
Dr. Whitehead, of England, spoke, a tea,
and—-a—dinner—were—given-for—her.

The mathematical meeting, which
held in Taylor Hall, at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon, was opened by an address of
welcome by President Thomas and by an
introductory. address by Miss Marion
Reilly, following which .Dr. Alfred North
Whitehead. read a_pamphlet_on_ “Some
Principles of Physical Science.” Dr. White-
head is Professor-of. Applied. Mathematics
in the Imperial College of Science, South
Kensington, London, and came to America
for the purpose of presenting this pamphlet,
hitherto withheld from publication, at this
celebration for Dr. Scott, to. whom it is
dedicated. ,

Dr. Whitehead’s dissertation dealt with
his theories of relativity and gravitation
and.with the application of group tensors
to the formulation of physical laws. “Start-

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“SUNNY JIM” AND FELLOWSHIP
ANNOUNCEMENTS DRAW NEAR



Next Monday Date of May Day Awards
and. Celebrations ae

“Sunny Jim,” Senior prizes, graduate
fellows and scholars and undergraduate
scholarships will be announced in’ chapel
on Monday, May 1, the morning of: the
usual May-Day celebration.

“Sunny Jim,” the winner of the Mary
‘Helen Ritchie Memorial Prize, must pos-
sess, accordirig to the qualifications of last
year, the following qualities: “That she be

. a good student who shows interest in her

work, but need not necessarily be in the,
that she possess the qualities
of courage, cheerfulness, fair-mindedness,
“good’ sportSmanship; that: her influence be
widely felt, and that she have the courage
to live up to- Ber own convictions and be
respected by all?’ This prize was won in



1921 by- Marynia Foote, . President of the
Undergraduate Association. &

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MRS. SCHWARTZ GIVES TALK
ON COMING PRIMARIES



League of Women Voters. Endorses
Clean Politics and Education



“Since women have begun to vote, in-
terest in the primaries has been aroused as
never before,” said Mrs. H. L. Schwartz,
of the League of Women Votets, who gave
an informal talk on the candidates for the
approaching May primaries, last Thursday
night in the dean’s office.

Mrs. Schwartz discussed the candidates
national and_ state
George W. Pepper, the-well-known-Phila-
delphian, and Major Reed, prominent in
adjustment of war claims, will probably be
the Republican nominees for Senators from
the Eastern’ and Western part of the State.
‘The Democrats are tnited in proposing
Judge Schull, of Stroudsburg, Mr.
Kerr.

for nominations.

and

Of the three probable candidates for. the
Pinchot |

governorship,*Mr. Alter and Mr.
are running for the Republicangnomination.
Mr. Alter, according to Mrs. Schwartz, ‘is
a constitutional lawyer, has never
stood for any particularly progressive laws.
Yet he is- backed by the Sproul and Vare
factions. Mr. Pinchot has.made an ad-
mirable record in his forestry work. After
excellent service as head of the National
Department, he resigned on account of a
difficulty over Alaskan lands and became
head of the State Department. He is inde-
pendent of the machine, relying entirely on
his personal following. “He is erratic,”
Mrs. Schwartz asserted, “but a really good
candidate.” For the first time, the Demo-
crats have‘ agreéd upon a candidate for .the

who

nomination before the primaries, and are
proposing only one man, Mr. John Mc-
Sparren.

- The candidates for Congressman .from
the Ninth Congressional District are: Mr.
Fried, Democrat, whose record is unknown ;
and, of course, Mr. Watson, who, despite
his insignificant record, has no opponent
in the Republican , Party.

“Only one legislator is sent from this

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Seniors Secrifice of Flowers Nets Three Hundred Dollars for Bates

The Seniors have given $300.25 to Bates House through their request that
the mpney usually spent on Senior Play flowers be sent tp the Bates ee
Rockefeller’s. contribution was' $13.75;
Pembroke-West; $51.75:°in Pernbroke-East; $54.25 in Radnor; $34 in Merion;
$32.50 in Denbigh, and $12 were received from the class ‘of 1922. oe

The Glee Club has also reqggsted that “flowers” be sent to Bates House.
The profit made from their two performances will be given to the same

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HARVARD GLEE CLUB CONCERT
INTERESTING MUSICAL EVENT



Program. of Rnemalle Good Music
Rendered with Fine Feeling



last
was

The Harvard Glee Club concert,
Wednesday, in the Academy of Music,
one of the most interestifg musical events
of the whole season—interesting not only
from: the artistic view, but. also
from.its significance in regard to the posi-
and will take in the
The usual

point. of

tion music is taking
af

coHege glee club concert is generally a
hotch-potch—_(so-called)_of humorous or
vapidly sentimental ditties, interspersed

with mandolin selections of the most ob-
vious unworthy type, with ‘an
sional solo, usually of the standard of “My
Little Gray—Homein-the—West,”-and—kin-
dred ballads. What
dards, then, is it to find ‘a glee club of a
university not only announcing a program
works by such composers as
Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Franck and such
moderns as Florent Schmitt and Milhaud,
but performing it with such artistic finish
and excellence as did the Harvard Glee
Club under the conductorship of Dr. Archi-
bald T. Davison.

It was obvious to thé most casual ob-
server that the Harvard men did not sing
with such enthusiasm and fine feeling for the
spirit of the music merely because of their
splendid training by Dr. Davison, but be-
cause they enjoyed every note of what they
sang and felt that they were participating
in pioneer work of the first order and, as
such, felt the moral responsibility to give
of their best, which the interpretation: of
all great music imposes.

This, I think, is the far greater side of
the work which Dr. Davison is doing—
that he has ‘been able to endow these men
with a love for and understanding of great
music, beyond the fact of giving pleasure
to a passing audience. It is sdfe to say
that other Universities and Colleges will
ev entually. be compelled to come into line

and oc¢a-

a revolution in stan-

with the work of the Harvard Club and to”

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SENIOR’S LAST PLAY SUBTLE
STUDY OF CHARACTER CHANGE



“Lady from the Sea” has weirdness

and depth of Ibsen drama



Octavia Howard in Leading Part
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
SENIOR PLAY

Nothing in man’s’ mental equipment is
more delicately balanced than the will. Its
‘normal action is often ‘unexpected; and
when, passing: beyond the normal; the will
becomes pathological, its varied manifesta-
tions frequently appear inexplicable. Those
—the so-called~ weak-willed—who cannot
sufficiently fix their attention Gn a given
end so as to bring about that end develop
neurotic conditions and lay themselves open
to—influence of wills stronger than their
own. Only when one raises the counter
suggestion, namely, that they can choose
for themselves, are they released from the
ty ranny of the stronger personality.

‘ Such a situation, it seems to me, Ibsen
portrays in The ‘Lady from the Sea; such
a situation is the only one which can ex-
plain Ellida’s sudden change in the fifth
act. In life it is often difficult to be con-
vinced that a-person’s character and aims
can change completely. Seen on the stage,
it is doubly difficult to believe. Our minds
have been reaching out to comprehend the
character in a certain aspect and are slow
to grasp a complete reversal'of that aspect.

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GLEE CLUB REHEARSING FOR
GONDOLIERS NEXT WEEK



L. Grim and’ M. Minott Take Leading
Parts in Tale of Old Venetian Life



Gilbert and Sullivan’s “King of the Gon-
doliers or King’of Barataria,” is the oper-

etta chosen. for- this year’s. annual Glee.

Club performance.
It is the story of Caselda the daughter
of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza,

Married in her infancy. to. the son of -

the King who is now lost, Caselda is
in love with the drummer boy, Luiz, but
prepares to marry one of the Gondoliers,
whom the Grand Inquisitor thinks is the
Prihée in disguise. The Gondolier, know-
ing nothing. of ‘his nqble birth, has already
‘married one of. the Contadina.

drummer boy Luiz is the Prince. after. all,
and that the Gondolier can go back to his



own much loved through humble life. _
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Thus every .
‘one is made -happy when it turns out
through Tnéz, the foster nurse, that the

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