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THE COLLEGE NEWS







STUDENTS SPEAKERS, NOT
THINKERS



Colleges Lack Intellectual Stimulus



“It is possible for a student to graduate
from almost any college without an orig-
inal idea in his head”, says President Wil-
liam T. Foster, of Reed College, in an
article, “Vicarious Thinking’, in a re-
cent issue of “The Nation”.

Mr. Foster deplores the fact that in the
modern university thinking by the stu-
dent is neither required nor encouraged.
All over America, he says, students: show
a marked lack of power to think things
out logically and clearly for themselves.
“They have acquired fluency of speech
without the habit of thought”.

If a student is asked to write on a cer-
tain subject, says Mr. Foster, he does not
draw his conclusions from his own rea-
soning, but depends on books or else on
the opinion of some other person. Dr.
Foster says: “Even the thesis required of
a candidate for a degree of Doctor of
Philosophy, which is supposed to be orig-
inal work, does not always reveal original
thinking”’.

It is the great fault of the modern col-
lege, Dr. Foster points out, that it does
not give sufficient intellectual stimulus to
its students. He says that if a student
gives back to his professors what has
been given to him by them and by text-
books, he is allowed to graduate. “Too
much thinking is done for college stu-
dents by tutors and lecturers and writers
of text-books”’, Dr. Foster says. He
maintains that college courses should ne-
cessitate less memorizing and more rea-
soning, and that thinking should be made
a compulsory course.

MISSION WORK IN TURKEY



Dr. Kate Chambers Seelye, ‘11, who



will speak at the Mission Class on De- |

cember 8th, is the daughter of Dr.

Chambers,
in Turkey most of; her life.

the Christian Association and Vice-Presi- |
dent of the Athletic Association.

She |

was on the committee which founded the |
present Christian Association from the)

union of the League for the Service of
Christ and the Christian Union.
her marriage last October, Mrs. Seelye
was studying at Columbia where she took
her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Re-
ligions.

SCENERY COMMITTEE APPOINTED



Until |

CAMPUS NOTES



“The Best Arguments for Suffrage” will

be the title of_Mrs. ac
night. Mrs. Funk speaks with the double
authority of a practising woman lawyer
and the Executive Secretary of the Con-
gressional Committee of the National As-
sociation for Woman Suffrage.

The third person in the oral to-morrow
will be Dr. Savage, and for German next
week Mrs. de Laguna.

With the money left over from the
gymnasium fines fund, after supplying
the hair-driers, twelve much-needed new
dressing boxes have been erected in the
basement of the Gymnasium.

There are two Bryn Mawr babies in the
Freshman Class. Ethel Andrews, daugh-
ter of Evangeline Walker Andrews, is the
class baby of 1893; and Emily B. Moores,
the daughter of Elizabeth Nichols Moores,
1893.

The Board prayer meetings, held every
morning from 8.35 to 8.45 in the Christian
Association Library, are open to every-
one.

Alumne of Vassar, Bucknell, Welles-
ley, the University of Pennsylvania, and
Bryn Mawr, will assist at the Book Sale
for the Bureau of Occupations, to be held
at the College Club in Philadelphia, De-
cember 3rd, 4th and 6th. The Bryn Mawr
alumneze who will sell books will be
Marion Parris Smith, 1901, Florence
Irish, 1913, and Anna Brown, 1915.

The
Eurythmics has been changed from 8
|o’clock to-morrow to 4 o'clock,
Montoliu, and also Miss Odier, who is |
the teacher of Eurythmics at the Bald-

|win School.

Annis Thomson, ex-’16,
ing for Cancer Research and is also tak-
ing courses at the Columbia Night School,
preparatory for medical work.

“A Résumé of Experiments on the

the well-known head of a Problem of Lighting in Its Relation to the |
Mission in Adana, Turkey. She has lived | Eye” has recently been published by Dr. |
Kate Seelye | Ferree and Miss Rand.
when in college was Vice-President of | peared in an issue of the

The article ap-
“Journal of
Philosophy and Psychology and Scientific
| Methods”.

L. Goodnow, '16, has been elected Var-
sity Basket-ball Captain by the votes of

last year’s team that were cast during |
She played side center-on
| Varsity. She is College song leader and

the summer.

|cheer leader.

The new Scenery Committee, which the |

President of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion has appointed, consists of a chair-
man from the Senior class, L. Worthing-
ton, and four members, one from each of
the four classes. These are: L. Klein,
'16; E. Emerson, ‘17; V. Kneeland, ‘18;
J. Peabody, ’19. The committee is ta
take charge of the storing and using of
class scenery and costumes and the
scenery of one class cannot be used by
another class without the committee’s
permission.

ALUMNA NOTES



Elizabeth Taylor, "11 (Mrs. John F.
Russell, Jr.), has a daughter, Louisa
Elizabeth Russell, born November 24th.

Elizabeth G. Hibben was married on
November 23rd to Mr. Robert Scoon at
Princeton, N. J.

Mary Schmidt, ex-’13, has announced
her engagement to Harold Kurtz, of New
York.

Mary Shipley, ex-’14 (Mrs. Edward Al-
linson), has a daughter, born in October.

The marriage of Montgomery Arthurs,
14, to James. F. Supplee, Jr., will take
place at Baltimore, at the Brown Me
morial Church on December the 9th.

Owing to a case of diphtheria, L. Chase,
1917, has not returned to College since
the vacation.

ATHLETES IN PHI BETA KAPPA



Four well-known university athletes

are among the thirty men recently |

elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard,
As usual, scholarship grades have not
been the only basis of election. Con-
sideration has also been given to the
character cf the courses taken and to
scholarly achievement as distinguished
from mere marks. Of the men elected
eight are Juniors and twenty-two are
Seniors.

ANNOUNCEMENT



On Wednesday afternoons Mr. de Mon-
tolui will hold a class in Eurythmics for
Juniors and Seniors. This work will
count as a period of required class work.
A special fee of six dollars for the course
of 12 lessons will be charged to students
taking the course. Please register at
once as the number in the class is limited.

Your Old Jewelry

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