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THE, COLLEGE NEWS



RELIGIOUS LIBERALS TO HOLD.
CONFERENCE AT MT. HOLYOKE



Seventy-Five Colleges Represented at
Conference Held Last Year



The Student Federation. of Religious
Liberals, a new non-sectarian organization
{Grmed a year ago, is planning a confer-
ence to be held at Mount Holyoke College
June 21-28, to which any Bryn Mair stu-
dent is invited to go.

Last year the constituency was made up
of 265. students whose college affiliations
represented seventy-five colleges .and yni-
versities in twenty states and Canada. This
year it is expected that the enrollment will
greatly exceed the previous one and that
even larger numbers‘of men and women
who. are taking a definitely liberal stand on
religious questions in the colleges will be
represented. The Student Federation work
has three main purposes:

First, To make for a better understand-
ing of one’s self and one’s: fellows in his
own country; Second, To further liberal
religious viewpoints in one’s own commu;
nity; Third, To maintain contacts with
youth movements of other countries for
the mutual benefit that can be derived
therefrom.

The lectures will be given by leading
thinkers in a number of denominations and
there will also be discussion groups in the
hands of student leaders. Further infor-
mation can be found in the pamphlets on
the Christian Association Bookshelf in the
New. Book Room or by applying to E.
Hale, ’24. ;
LINK WITH WORLD AFFAIRS FOUND
IN FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION

The Foreign Policy Association of New

York opened a branch >in Philadelphia,”

Saturday, with a luncheon at which Sir
William Wiesman, a Conservative, Mr. J
P. Wilson, a Liberal, and Mr. Ratcliffe,-a
Labor -man, discussed the ‘present Labor
Government in England.
' The Association has branches in various
cities, including New York and Cincinnati,
which has recently received it enthusiastic-
ally. A Cincinnati paper says of the
Association : :

“The most hopeful institution of public
opinion in the city is the Foreign Policy
Association. , Other organizations present
speakers who will be sure to say things theit
members like to hear. The Foreign Policy
Association brings speakers to the city who
may say things some people don’t like to
hear. . . . Another hopeful thing about
this Association is that it is willing to hear
both sides of an issue.”

Some members of the faculty belong to
this Association, which, now in Philadel-
phia, offers-the students, should they wish
to join it, an excellent opportunity to
learn about world affairs and to cultivate
the outside intérests so frequently advised.

SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDENT
ORGANIZATION EXPLAINED



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are arranged, Students of different coun-
tries are brought together intimately by
athletic and other meetings. (It will be
remembered that Paddock © successfully
took part in the Students’ Olympic Games,
organized by the C..I. E., at Paris, in 1923.)

A closer relationship with the students of |

Europe must bécome an essential part of
our college life if this-country is to fulfil
the obligations of the leading position
among the nations of the world which it
is destined to hold.

The second Triennial Congress or Gen-
eral Assembly of the C. I. E. is to be held
this summer in Warsaw. At this meeting
all the activities of the Confederation will

be reviewed, and its future policy will be
determined. The election of the Officers
and Executive Committee for the next





three years will also take place. The social
functions and athletic meets held ‘in con-

. nection. with the conventions of the C. I.E. |

ttract large numbers of students and pro-

At the first Congress, held at Prague, in
1921, a desire for Américan co-operation
was earnestly expressed by students -of all
countries represented. At the present time
the C. I. E. has to face in its own’ sphere
the same problems which confront the
official European diplomats and there is
an opportunity for statesmanlike action

on the part of American students in help-'

ing to "make effective the ideals of good
will and justice on which the Confederation
was founded.

NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES
: Yale

The recent noteworthy performance of
Yale University in providing under. scien-
tific supervision human tests for the effects
of poisonous gases is now to be followed
by the same institution .in an extensive
scheme of academic co-operation with- the
manufacturing and other industries of the
state. A formal agreement has been-made
between the university and the Manufac-
turers’: Association of Connecticut, under
which each party is to place its facilities
at the service of the other for the common
good. .

Thus the library, the laboratories and the
scientific apparatus of the university will
be utilized by the factories for reference,
research work and experimentation, with
the expert members of the faculty and
trained students to direct or, assist in the
operations. This will place at the com-

mand of the industries resources which
would otherwise be beyond their reach. On

the other hand, all the industrial plants in
the state will becomé fields for the univer-

study, research, and practical experimenta-
tion and training in the chemical, mechan-
ical, and other arts. It would be difficult
to determine to which party is. given the
greater promise of\ profit. In addition, of
course, there will be this inestimable gain
fér both sides: that students + will be
trained as otherwise would. be impossible
for actual encouragement in industrial
business. The graduate will be able to step
from the commencemnient platform into the
factory, not as‘a novice but\as an expert,
specialized in the work of that particular
establishment.

JUNIOR MONTH. TO OUTLINE
’ SOCIAL SERVICE WORK



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~“The~casework end of the-conftrence;,’
said Miss Tousley, “is intended to show the
students why social work is needed. ° The
reason ‘is that there are health margins and
life margins so narrow that outside helr
is a necessity. The best*kind of help that
the social worker can give is by reaching
the individual. To take an example from
Amgricanization work, the good accom
plished by any number of patriotic mass
meetings is slight compared with the good
than can be done by a single sympathetic
employer, or landlord, or school teacher,
in his personal relatigns with the immi-
grant. One can only work through the in-

sity students’ to utilize for observation, | :



dividual and the motto of the social worker :
might well be ‘E Pluribus’ Unum.’”
Other colleges are already choosing their
delegates. The committee in charge of
Junior Month at Bryn Mawr consisf& of
the Dean of the | Summer School, Miss
Hilda Smith; the Head of the ‘Economics
Department, Dr. M. P. Smith; the presi-
dent of the Junior Class, V. Lomas, and
the ex-delegates, G. Carson /23 and M.
Rodney:’24.

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_ CALENDAR_
Friday, April 18
Vacation. |
Sunday, April 27
7.30 P.M.—Chapel, led. by the fev.
Hareld Phillips, Pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

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NEWS IN- BRIEF ,
The straw vote of the Junior Class for
the President of the Christian Association
was S. Carey 32, and M. Stewardson 20.
The Junor Class’ has voted not to have
a Maypole or little" May Day.





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EDMUND HALLEY
1656-1742

Son of a London soap-boiler
who became Astronomer-
Royal. At the age of 20 headed
an expedition to chart the stars
of the Southern hemisphere.
Financed and handled the
printing of Newton’s immortal
Principia.

As spectacular @s a -
comet has been the
. world’s electrical devel-
° opment, By continuous
‘scientific research the
: : General Electric Com-
pany has accelerated
this development and
_ has become a leader in
the industry.







The comet came back .

The great comet that was seen by William
of Normandy returned to our skies in 1910
on its eleventh visit since the Conquest.
Astronomers knew when it would appear,
and the exact spot in the sky where it

would first be visible.

Edmund Halley’s mathematical calcula-

tion of the great orbit of this 76-year vis- .
itor—his scientific proof that comets are

part of our solar system—was a brilliant

application of the then unpublished Prin-

cipia of his friend Sir Isaac Newton.

The laws of motion that Newton and
_. Halley proved to govern the movements

of a’ comet are used by scientists in the
- Research Laboratories of the General Elec-

tric Company to determine the orbit of ;
electrons in vacuum tubes. :