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College news, March 27, 1923
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1923-03-27
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Weekly
8 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 09, No. 20
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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pacnepemen ened
- THE COLLEGE NEWS
RAPP EE NENTS TIT IS ROO: ENP PEED I IO NO OPC Ps
.vived the genius,”
. sublimest' quality of self-interest,
SUBLIMATED SELF INTEREST. |S.
HIGHEST HUMAN MOTIVE
Dr. Fitch Preaches Before Large
* Audience on Purpose in Life
The necessity of an end in life was the
subject of the sermon. preached by Dr.
Albert Parker’Fitch, of Amherst College,
to a large congregation in our Chapel last]:
‘Sunday night.
-We no longer think of evil’ as dan active
opposing force, as did the Manichaeans and.
St. Augustine, said Dr. Fitch,—a force such
as the Satan of “Paradise Lost” or of the
Prologue to the Book of Job. The evil
of today is generally covered with schti-
mentality by girls, with sophistry, by boys.
The sneer of Satan about Job, a half truth,
as all sneers that hurt’ must be, includes
the accusations of abuse of power and of:
’ self-interest.
Abuse -of power is often
shown by college students, coming ostensi-
bly to improve their minds, reglly their
social positions. Self interest is the funda-
mental motive power of everyone, but
sometimes. itis sublime,-as it-was in .the
case of Scott, in whom, the “gentleman sur-
and who wrote -novel
after novel to pay debts he was not legally
obliged to pay. At this kind of self-interest
no one sneers,
“One great thifg that drives folk into re-
ligion is that there they get a comprehensive
end towards which to live.
English youth, brought up in the frame-
work of ideas called British Imperial'sm,
to live for the country, is in contrast to
Americans, who have no end*at al. But
the end of all lives in the world is living
towards the Eternal Self. “Here is the
finds the best. in oneself when living
towards this end. The companionship which
this brings is incomparable, even beyond
that of the consummate human relation,
that of husband and wife.
Any kind of partnership, however, ‘con-
tinued. Dr. Fitch, brings power. On camp-
ing trips. the presence of others doing the
same things causes an unbelievable amount
of work to be done; conscientious objectors
who had to “go against the current” were
enabled to do so by: the help of others like
them, but still more by the companionship
of God, while they were, to the eternal
shame of our country, thrust into prison.
The three men in the Old Testament story
who, refusing to worship the King’s golden
god, were saved from the fiery furnace by
“one like. a son of the gods,” showed the
multiplication of power through association
hoth. of themselves and their God. v2
Happiness is also an immediate result
of an end in life. As Dr. Fitch poirits out,
the Catholic nuns in the convent where he
spent the summer, were genuinely happy.
They were not self-conscious, as are all
American women and men. They were
happy because they had an end, a chosen
way of life, and companionship. Serving
. God we may find ourselves in Him.
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
SUBMITS REPORT OF OPINION}
a
CONTINUED FROM PAGE, 4
and Appreciation” (3 hours), and
“Harmony” (2 hours),-as~-either
Minor or Elective, and offering more
advanced work for Major. We sug-
gest- also offering a post-major.
B. English. *
1. There are, a great many students
who would like to have offered an
_ elective course, similar to the course
given in “Modern French Litera-
ture,” in “Mdoren English Prose,
Poetry, and Drama.” :
C. German. We suggest offering:
1. An elementary. ‘German course open
foal
General Suggestions Are Offered :
ietheitelage ecient ee
‘*« Quizzes and Reports.
oe We would like to protest against the |
os system of syns as — ee
’
. We’ suggest doing away with as
inconsistent. If quizzes are to be
unscheduled, they should actually. be
so,~at- least as far as the student
knows. The object of doing away
with printed. schedules for students
was to prevent. “cramming”; but
with the semester schedule there was
less “cramming” than there is now, }
for then the student had at least a
chance to plan’ her work. Now, it
most cases, the quiz is announced a
day or so before it is to take place,
atid this method has the advantages
of neither the printed schedule $ys-
tem, nor the “drop quiz” system.
many quizzes as possible, and substi-
tuting more class discussion and
questioning, and more reports, both
oral and written. (This plan of not
having so many quizzes does not
apply to Mathematics and Sciences.
In those subjects, owing to the im-
possibility of reports, we suggest that’
quizzes be as frequent as they are
now.) ‘Reports are felt to be the
most interesting and valuable way of
doing work,'and at least one semester.
report should be required in every
course whose nature permits it. In
reports, more emphasis should’ be
laid on the principles learned in the
General. English Composition course.
Those quizzes which are necessary’
B. Condition Exanainations: «
1. We suggest
should be truly “drop quizzes.” In
reading courses, a definite date
should be set: for the completion of
the reading, and the student at any’
time after that: date should be pre-*
pared for a quiz. These quizzes
should correlate the reading and the
notes as far as possible.
the changing of the
dates of condition examinations to
times when they least interfere with
collegiate work.
(a) Conditions in’ first semester
work to be passes. off :
(1) The week after Easter. va-
cation, and,
(ii) The latter part of the
week during which Matricula-
tion Examinations*are given*in
the spring. she
(b) Conditions in second semester
work to be passed off:
(1) In the fall, and in the
week before college ‘opens,: and,
(1) In the week after
fa hanksgiving vacation.
aga submitted,
Florence H. Martin,
Chairman;
AuGusta A. HoweELt,
EvetyNn PAGE,
the field.
_ Mrrtam Fartes, «
Lesta Foro, |
KATHARINE VAN BIsser, ~
Emiy F, GLEsSNER,
EpitH NIcHo;s,
March 27, 1923.
‘VARSITY KEEPS RECORD CLEAR IN
BOYS’ RULES GAME
, Team from Greenwich, Though. Worthy
* Opponents, Dedeated, 26-24
a In the first boys’ rule game of the sea-
son’ Varsity defeated a team from Green-
wich, Conn,, yesterday with a score of
26-24.
Varsity was completely outplayed in the
first half, the score at the end being 17-10
in favor of Greenwich. In the seednd half,
however; the brown team found. itself and
played with speed -and accuracy, allowing
Greenwich to make only one“basket from
Both teams seemed to have a
tendency to fall down on _ the least
provocation,
M. Carey, ’20, was the Greenwich star, |
as. she was the Bryn Mawr star three years
ago. .Her game _at..guard..was..swift.and..,
tenacious. A: Clement and = F. Martin
played brilliantly for Varsity. Line-up:
GREENWICH * VARSITY
. Peyten (2) BH. Rice (1).
Mrs. Jessup (1) C.-Remak (8)
M.. Heaton (3) F. Martin (3)
K. pomeroy S. Leewitz
Substitutes: E. Howe for H. Rice.
. Free throws: M.- Heaton (1), Mrs. Jéssup (7),
C. Remak (2). 3 .
The end of}:
which |
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VOLTA. EXPLAINING HIs
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BATTERY TO NAPOLEON
a
How Electrical.
Engineering began
ro) i Is not enough to ex-
a periment and to observe
in scientific research.
There must also be in-
Take the cases of
-terpretation.
Galvani and Volta.
One day in 1786| Galvani touched
with his metal instruments the
nerves of a frog’s amputated hind
‘legs. The legs twitched in a
very life-like way. Even when the
frog’s legs were hung from an iron
sailing by copper hooks, the phe-
7 nomenon persisted.
knew that he was dealing with
electricity but concluded that the
frog’s legs had in some way gen-
erated the current.
Then came Volta, a contempo-
pieces of cloth.
a
electricity.
Galvani Volta. He too
aid to Napol
ee the disks with moist —
oe
Thus he gene-
rated a steady current. This was
the “ Voltaic pile”
tery, the first generator of
—the first bat-
\
- Both Galvani and Volta were -
careful experimenters, but Volta’s .
correct interpretation of effects
gave. us electrical engineering.
Napoleon was the outstanding
figure in the days of Galvani | aaa
possessed an dctive
interest in science but only as an
eon.He little femgued
on examining Volta’s crude battery
that its effect on later civilization
would be fully as profound as that
rary, who said in effect: “ Your in-
-terpretation is wrong. Two differ-
ent metals in contact with.a moist
nerve set up currents of electricity.
I will: rove it without the aid of
frog’s legs.
Volta 6 piled
metals one on top of another and
Generalf
disks of diferent
of his own dynamic personality.
The effects of the work of Gal.
vani and Volta may be traced
through a hundred years of elec-
pa bt development even to the
latest discoveries maae in the Re-
search Laboratories of the Gen-
eral Electric Company.
Electric
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