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» BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1%, 1924

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CHINA GOVERNED BY
MOST TALENTED GROUP

Students Take Active Hand In
Determining Foreign Policy . ~
«By Organized Campaign ‘





EARNESTNESS MARKS WORK



Academic traditions have had a longer

——-—-eontinuity-in-China-than-in-any-other-coun-

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try. Until very recently, students all over

the Empire were using text-books and meth-

ods originating before the Christian Era.
Her educational tradition is the glory of
China. Long before Western nations had
arrived at the most primitive stages -of
savage education, and before many of her
Orjental neighbors had passed beyond the
> es stages of culture, China’ had a uni-

ed educational system which ran through ||

carefully graduated stages, from the lowest
primary schools to the famous civil service
examinations. It was through this system
that she carefully chose her statesmen, pick-

_ing the best men of each region in local

preliminary examinations, and making a
further selection in the annual provincial
tests. She determined the final choice in the
triennial. -metropolitan examinations. By
these means China had at once’ established
equality, of opportunity for all her sons, and
an aristocracy of talent by which she was
governed.
* Salvation Only Through Education.
Within recent years the old system has
been abolished. The formal civil service ex-
aminations ended in 1905, but education had
maintained its honorable primacy ip Chinese
life. A. modern system of education has
been developed, with: primary and- secondary
schools under local autonomy, normal
schools and colleges for the training of

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FAITH WAS CHIEF CONCERN
OF CHRIST’S MISSION



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Dr. Coffin Explains Four Ways of
Religious Expression



“We often think of Christ as preach-
ing love above everything else,” said Rev.
Henry Sloane Coffin, Pastor of the Madi-
son Avenue Presbyterian Church, last

Sunday in Chapel. “In reality, He
preaches faith.”
“Faith is. the essence of religion,’ con-

tinued Dr. Coffin. “To be religious is to
be connected with Someone; faith sup-
plies this connection.

Dr. Coffin said that faith Heme itself
in many different ways: through con-
science, as in the case of Wilberforce,
the English Liberator of the African
slave, and Lord Ashley, who also strove
“to ameliorate social conditions; by power,
as exemplified by Henry M. Stanley, ex-

.plorer of Africa; by the insight of Lin-

coln; by ‘the poWer to-appreciate life as
beautiful, and Jastly by bigness. “It is
not true,” admitted Dr. Coffin, “that all
religious people are possessed of big
minds; but it is true that communion with
God enlarges us.”

“Faith i is hard to ‘poo-poo’ na con-
~ganed Dr. Coffin. . He explained that the

_ discovery of God resembles the discovery
of the ~~ Neptune, located by scien-|

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getting the play before the public.

STOKES BREAKS ONE COLLEGE

RECORD : ESTABLISHES ANOFHER |

Victory in Relay, 68 Foot Pronk’ and
120 Foot Front Gives 1927 Victory



First place in last Friday’s swimming
meet,athe second of the season, went to
1927, which scored 26 points. 1926 came
second with 24 points; 1928 third with
12, and 1925 fourth with 9. ~

The 68-ft. front swim was won by|_
Helen Stokes,

97, whose score of«{2.4
seconds. breaks by six-tenths of a
second the college record established by
K. Woodward, Gi. E. Harris, ’26, was
next, with 13.2 seconds. B. Stewart, ’28,
won the 68-ft. back race in 17.1 seconds.

A record for the 120-ft. front race was
made by H. Stokes, ’27, in 26.2 seconds,
while E. Harris, ’26, followed with 26.4
secorids,

In diving, F. Green, ’26, placed first
with a total of 60.9 points, while F. Jay,
26, came next with 60.1. The plunge was
won by L, Barber, ’25, with a distance of
57 feet 9 inches. The relay went to 1927
with a scor@ of 62.1 seconds.

On the .second ‘teams, 1925 had 16
points; 1926, 9, and 1927 and 1926 tied for
third with 4 points. Victory in the 68-ft.
front and the 120-ft. front went to S.
Anderson, ’25, with scores respectively of
15 and 30 seconds, while R. Tatnall, ’26,
won the diving.

COMMERCIALISM IS NOW
GREATEST TRAGEDY OF THEATRE





Mr. Middleton Believes Its Condition
Essentially Healthy

“A play is like a. baby,” said Mr.
George Middleton, speaking last Friday
under the auspices of the Liberal Club
on the practical aspects of modern drama,
“and must be as carefully nurtured.”

The prevalent idea that a play merely
has to be written to be produced, and
that a good play will succeed. because of
its merit, is ideal, he said, but not -true.
The hardest task for the playwright is
This
is especially hard for an unknown play-
wright, because in the producing game a
well-known name is a better bet than an
untried author.

“The best way, though not the easiest,”
said Mr. Middleton, “is to read the play
to a producer or a star.” But he said
that people frequently have to be “held”
physically, as well as by the interest of
the play, to. make them listen.

Once the play is accepted for produc-
tion it must be cast, and the playwrights

‘usually write into the contract a clause

giving them the right ~of supervision
‘over casting. Most directors like to have
the playwrights at rehearsal.

“Playwrights do not find the star sys-
tem the unmitigated curse which it is
sometimes painted,” Mr. Middleton said
in answer to a question, “The flaming
personality of such a star as Ethel Barry-
/more may be a great help to the author
in making his play a popular success.”

In conclusion, Mr. Middleton said, “In
spite of the inroads which the movies

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and ‘the radio have made ‘upon it" the the discussion on “Toward ical

American theatre is in an extremely

| healthy condition. But the’danger which

threatens is commercialization, both in

e.”|the operation of theatres as real-estate









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SENIORS GIVE RECEPTION i
AND SKIT TO FRESHMEN | .



Interlude Flavored With Familiar
Figures From Court of St. James



The family life of the’ Windsors was
made glaringly public last Saturday night
through the indiscretions of the Senior
Class in giving a skit entitled “Hey Day
at the Court of St. James.”

_Nothing was hidden, nothing left_un-
mentioned. The distressingly plebeian
passion of King George the Fifth for
cross-word. puzzles was exposed by, his
poplin-clad . spouse, . while Constance,
Countess of Periods, gave the Prince of
Wales his“daily fall from the horse and
the Lord High Elocttioner, ardent cham-
pion of monarchy and the vitiated_ vowel,
the former _ a creditable rendering
of “The Skylark,’ put Lucy, Duchess of
Wordswords, ‘and Mees Georgiana de
Risquay through arti@ulatory gymnastics.

Fearfully realistic were the Represen-
tatives of the Press, inky and baisterous
and introduced’ by Horace, Master of
Harmonies, and the susceptible heart of
“Davy” was visibly lost to the dainty blue
Miss Octavia Viginti. *_ is

After this delightful interlude which
ended with
general dancing and supper followed.

NORMAN THOMAS TO LEAD
INDUSTRIAJ, CONFERENCE





Program Planned for Meeting to Stress
Collegiate Thought



A student conference to discuss eco-

nomic .and industrial questions. will be
held on December twenty-ninth and thir-
tieth in New York under the leadership
of Norman Thomas.
. “What are our collegians thinking?”
will be the first subject for discussion on
Monday morning, December twenty-
ninth. Delegates from various Eastern
colleges represented will report and, ih
addition to. the students, officers of the
League for Industrial Democracy who
have been visiting colleges in all parts
of the country will report the conclusion
they have reached.

Mr. John Brophy, President of District
Number two, United Mine Workers of
America, will speak on the subject:
“What can I do in nationalization?” fol-
lowing, Norman Thomas will speak on
“What can I do in politics?” * Mrs. Har-
riot Stanton Blatch,- one of the leaders
of Women Suffrage in the United States,
will be chairman of the meeting.

A pleasant interlude will be afforded
by a supper to the delegates Monday

evening in the home of Norman Thomas..

The conference will be in fulh session
again at a big mass meeting in Cooper
Union.

Brigadier General Thompson, of the
British Labor Party, formerly Secretary
of State for Air in the British Labor

‘Cabinet, will speak on “Why I joined the

Labor Party.” By the courtesy df the
Foreign Policy Association, which is ar-
ranging this meeting, the League dele-
gates will receive free tickets.

Freedom in America” will be continued.
Roger N. Baldwin, Director | of the}
American Civil Liberties Union, will
speak on “What Can I Do in Civil Lib-
erty?” and Mr. A. J. Muste, of Brook-

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FESTIVITIES IN HALLS
FRIDAY BEFORE HOLIDAYS ©

Choir in taps and Gowns Will Sing
Christmas Carols on Campus
While Pembroke Dances

RETURN TO MEDIAEVAL SPIRIT







Christmas. revelry ‘will fill the halls on
Friday night, December 19. The parties
planned differ greatly; you may wonder
if each is typical of its hal. Radnor does
not Concern itself with atmosphere; its
program is merely a’ banquet and a skit
by every class but the Seniors. Denbigh
and Rockefeller will return to the Mid-
dle Ages with a Lord and Lady of the
Manor leading their festive courts, Den-
,bigh also gives a skit, while Rockefeller
tries to capture the elusive “mediaeval
spirit” in a pageant of knights and ladies,
scholars and court attendants. , More
frivolous Merion will express its twen-
tieth spirit in a tea dance. After dinner
the Freshmen of Pembroke will give an
entertainment to the rest of the collegé in
the Pembroke dining room, which, will
be followed by dancing.

Outside this warm merriment the choir
will show perhaps the truest Christmas
spirit, going from house to house on the
campus and ‘singing carols, no matter
how coldeand sharp the wind. About
midnight they will return to Pembroke
arch and sing as the dancers are leaving.

Clearly the Christmas tendencies of the
campus are mediaeval, as last spring they
were Elizabethan. If the large scale pro-
duction were not lacking, too, you might
expect to find an authentic Christmas
scene with dn. ox, an ass, and a flock of
sheep on the eampus, and insurance for
a night. of stars and stiow. The Middle
Ages are more’ simple.



CONCERT PROFITS GO
TO MUSIC DEPARTMENT



Sale of Boxes for Series in Hands of
New York Committee.

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The New York Committee of-the De-
partment of Music at Bryn Mawr Col-.
lege, of which Mrs. William C. Dicker-
man is chairman, and whose magnificent
work has made possible the Department
of Music at Bryn Mawr College because
it has every year raised the money to
run the department, has taken over the
sale of the boxes at ten subscription con-
certs which the Wolfsohn Musical Bu-
reau has announced, Those still to be
given are:

Moriz Rosenthal—Box $30, seat $3.75.
Sunday afternoon, January 4.

‘London String Quartet—Box $40, seat $5.
Saturday afternoon, February 7.

Cecelia Hansen—Box $30, seat $3.75.
Russian Violinist, Sunday afternoon,
March 1. .

Maria Ivogun—Box $30, seat $3.75.
Hungarian . Coloratura, Saturday,
March 7 (afternoon).

Josef Hofmann—Box $40, seat $3.75.
Saturday afternoon, March 28.

The committee would appreciate tre- ~
-mendously any. assistance from the un-
dergraduates who are_in New York at
the tifne of these concerts by buying seats
or boxes for the concerts. The profits
which are very high on the sale of the
' boxes go to. the expenses of the Music
Department this year at Bryn Mawr.

Further information may be obtained
from Mrs. William C. Dickerman, 6 East



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‘VARSITY DRAMATICS
According to the article in last week’s
NEWS, the artistic and practical aspects

3 of the proposed Varsity dramatics are

Ps: sufficient to prove their superiority over,
class plays. The supporters of the older
custom have some arguments in their
favor, however. Class plays, they say,
give more people a chance to receive’ val-
uable training, they make for class unity,
and they form pleasant social, functions.
The last two ends may be achieved in
other ways, but the first point is warthy
of consideration. :

And yet, class plays can only make a

—smalt—contribution -to—the—training——of
mediocre and inferior actors, .whereas
Varsity plays would give talented stu-
dents ample opportunity to develop their
dramatic gifts. “You cannot make a silk
purse out of a sow’s ear.” Varsity dra-

matics, moreover, may even mean oppor-
eng for more people, since the plays
will not be chosen with reference to the
ability—or lack of it—of a particular class.
At present a girl with a gift for a fan-

_tastic or romantic part finds no place
when her class performs . only. farcical
comedy.

After all, we must choose between the
greater artistic merit and economy of
Varsity plays and the older system with
its smaller aesthetic value, narrower
scope and—perhaps—larger number of
participants. The COLLEGE NEWS
casts its votesfor Varsity Dramatics.





























“NOW IT CAN BE TOLD”

Samuel Gompers, Head of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, died last week.
For about forty years Mr. Gompers has
apparently been the ruling power of the
Federation, the policies of which have
been held conservative by many.
be interesting to watch and solve the
vexing question that has been so much
mooted: has the opinion of Labor actually
been as conservative as the principles of
the Federation have led us to believe, or
did Mr. Gompers’ dominant personality
succeed in placing his ideas into the
mouths of Labor, unknowing, uncon-
vinced: but trusting?

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WHY GO IN FOR POLITICS?
~-Why go in for politics, indeed?

If you are unprincipled, you must
-eventually suffer; if you have principles
you'll suffer constantly. . Do your best
and you're only doing what’s expected
of you; make one mistake and it will be
thrown at you for years. Recognition is
slow, returns afe slower still.

Faced by such a prospect it is no won-

_ der that educated, able men turn away
- time and again. It takes more than av-
rage energy and vision to slave through
a grilling quarter of a century to gain
an end, which must be waiclae to the









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OBITUARY NOTICE

“Romance * is dead!” Again? How
often she i is the cause ‘of lamentation and
funeral games! You may well long for
an invitation to the funeral; peo you
haveri’t seen in years will be there; Cin-
derella arriving after midnight, Bluebeard
frowning over a uniform divorce law,
Jack with his’ Beanstalk joining the
Farmer-Labor Par iy Knights errant will
pause in the chase for ogres, even: leav-
ing maidens alone to guard their chas-
tity, while they pay a last homage td | j,
Romance. Bent, old alchemists with gold
teeth, sailors with parrots on their shoul-
ders and monkeys in their pockets, stop-
ping for a moment in the long voyage to
far horizons. These will -gaze wonder-
ingly at the great company and the end-
less flowers from famous people. Don

Quixote sent those lilies (he is devoted

to Chivalry who Was-.oficé-im ‘business
with Romance). The white roses are
from Roland and’ Oliver, the crimson
from Isolde. She and Tristan disap-
peared after the first hymn. There is
Lancelot in a corner looking rather tired,
but listening to the elegy that Cyraflo de
Bergerac is reading. Cyrano wears a
black plume today instead of a white
one. That disturbance outside is Wotan
and his family: “This hurts me more
than it hurts you,” he scolds to Brunn-

hilde. She pays no attention; she is look-
ing for Siegfried, always a little late.
Madame de Pompadour is here and
Cleopatra, and a young dark-haired

woman whom most people do not, or will
not, recognize. She—sent—those yellow
iris with a card saying “Shelmerdene.”
She opens a pink leather case and lights
a cigarette; but she seems. really sorry
about Romance and keeps aloof from the
long-tongued group of speculators mak-
ing intricate calculations on the will.
How much did poor Romance leave,
Ouida and Ethel M. Dell ask each other.
They will only stop talking when the
wake begins; then heads will come close
together as Boccaccio tells some of his
best stories, about the man who hid in

#, clothes basket and the one who rode

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a bicycle.

But Romance—you can hardly imag-
ine her coldly wrapped in a_ winding-
sheet. They said she was gone when the
last pirate”was hanged, or years before
when Noah forgot to take two ogres into
the Ark and the breed died out. Why
sign her death-certificate? You can never
be sure of Romance.

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SCHEDULE AID TO LIVING
GRACEFULLY AND EFFECTIVELY

“It is only by providing for the ex-
pected that one has a right to the unex-
ected” was the justification offered by
E. Nelson, ’27, in Vespers last Sunday
for her plan for the good use of time, a
way of living gracefully.

“I speak to you of one of the fine arts,
which seems almost’entirely neglected at
coHege—the art of taking time. You
see, my putting it that way, I ‘indicate
already a bias—what is more—a convic-
tion—that for most of us, time is there to
be taken. Of course, a statement so bold
has to be modified at once—I don’t mean
I believe that time can be spent at will,
but I think here it’s sometimes squand-
ered So wastefully that we have none left
over for extras.

“Now for my part I think ses is one
of the most important things to have, be-
cause without it we can never convey
a sense of the smooth order and har-
mony of existence, which is the basis of
living gracefully. After al, unless _ one
has some divine purpose, we’re not apt to
find anything better to do than living
| gracefully and_ effectively.
fectively is often enough and very well
emphasized, but one doesn’t seem to hear

| mentioned the art and grace of living—
| the organization of all values into a har- | 2!
. | monious whole. This. it seems to me

fundamentally encompasses two things—





Living “ef-|

doing what ‘one is supposed to do, and
haying. time to ‘be one’s self outside of
the required activities,

“T don’t mean of course that we should
go into the desert. and pray, but I do
mean we should take thought of the
things that are happening to us and of
the people we’re becoming, “so that we
shall be, not mere atoms slapped about
by circumstances, but, in somewise, con-
scious individuals. This, you see, is
where we need time—only a_little time,
but time subordinated to our purposes—
created, as it were, for ourselves.

“One way that I suggest to the prac-
tical for taking time is by making each
to ourselves a sort of pattern of our lives.
Call it a schedule if you like—that con-
veys a rather narrow sense of what I
mean, _
your schedule and worship it, and exclude
thereby all pleasant and irrelevant intcr-
ludes, A schedule should be a means of
living, not an end in itself. ;

“According to a quotation, ‘Wisdom
consists in knowing what to do next, and
virtue in doing it’—measured by that
standard of wisdom, it will be curious to
see how many offus are wise or. foolish
virgins.”



BOOK REVIEW

The Land of Youth; James Stephens;
Macmillan; in the New Book Room. .

This land lies by the path.of vague and
continuous crossings between Ireland and
Fairyland. The tales of Maeve, Queen
of Connacht, link the country of mortals
to the Kingdom of the Shi-so subtly that
one connects with. one of the two, as the
case may be, the reality or the unearthly
glamor of the other.

It would seem that the passions of
men and the passions of fairies are equally
strong, while the latter are tinged with
fatefulness, “nd that when these involve
mortals their fulfillment may be swift
and-teffipestuous or slow and persistent,
but can have only one outcome. To fol-
low the course of such fulfillments in
these tales, which are of the poetry that
James Stephens can spin from prose, is
to pursue a journey among people and
through lands the more bewitching that
they are vivid and yet undefined.



NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES
Student Journalism in England.

The Varsity (University of Toronto)
asked- Gerald Sparrow, one of the mem-
bers of the visiting debating team, for an
article dealing with studgnt' journalism in
Oxford and Cambridge.

Wrote Mr. Sparrow: “You ask me, sir,
for my impressions of University jour-
nalism in England. I pause to invent,
those impressions.

“Now undergraduates in England -are
divisible into four divisions:

1. Hearty men who row and excel in
athletics.

*2. Lugubrious men who are learned
and excel in exams.

3. Ordinary men.

4. And journalists.

“Now the undergraduates who run the
weekly papers—there are no dailies—are,
again; either (a) Aesthetes, who write the
reviews who fill in the intervening spaces,
and editorials, and (b). Funny Men.

“The papers at Oxford and Cambridge
—for there are many and all are in pri-
vate hands—have nothing to do with the
authorities, but are private enterprises.
At each University there are two stable
journals—one representing University
thought and another Varsity thoughtful-
ness,

“At Cambridge The Review is ‘the organ
of Orthodoxy and ihe Granta the Home of
Hegesy.

“The Oxford and Cambridge press is
a: sensitive machine of public opinion and
affords pleasure to those who write—
and even to those who read.” —-The New
Student. be ae .

New and Perfect Language Found. ;

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ae he terms “the most baste ange in|

But above all don’t bow down to|

existence,” is being advocated by the Rev.
F..L. Odenbach, seismograph observer of
John Carroll University in . Cleveland,
Ohio,

* Speaking recently. of Ido, Father Oden-
bach said: “The telephone and radio have
brought the peoples of this earth within
speaking distance, but the scenes enacted
are suggestive of what must have hap-

edy, however, is in Ido, a language which
may be learned at home in a few months.
The salient features of this new and per-
fect vehicle of thought follow: The alpha-
bet is the English one, with a single sound
for each letter; the spelling is’ absolutely .
phonetic; every word has but one invari-
able meaning.

“The accent is. governed bya single
rule:
on the last syllable; all other words of
more than one syllable on the last but
co ‘

“There are but 20 grammatical endings
to be learned by. heart. All nouns end in
‘O, all adjectives in ‘A,’ and all adverbs
in ‘E,’ the rest are used for the conjuga-
tion of the verb.

“A dictionary of 10,000 roots, with about
75 suffixes, forms the material of this aux-
iliary language. The Ido dictionary thus
puts at our disposal some 30,000 words,

twice as many as Shakespeare used.

“Since the roots were all chosen from
the living cultured languages, Americans
and the English will recognize 79 pet
cent. of the words, at first sight; the Ger-
mans 61 per cent., the French 91 per
cent., and Spaniards 79 -per cent. There
are no exceptions in its grammar.”—Vassar
Miscellany News.

Methods of Presenting Student
Government.

The representative from Converse out-
lined the method practiced at her college.
There the students receive a week of
training by the faculty and Student Gov-
ernment, covering the principles of the
art of studying, the meaning of the Honor
System and the relation of Students to
students. At the end of the time each
freshman is obliged to describe her. con-
ception of Student Government. Those
few who appear to haye no understanding,
of it are placed in discussion groups.
Syracuse and Wheaton give examinations
to the freshmen on their handbooks.



M. PLASSE SAYS AQUATINTING
‘RESEMBLES -ETCHING ©

M. Georges Plasse, in his talk on
“L’/Emploi de l’Eau Forte en Couleurs
dans l’Aquateinte,” at the reception of
the French Club in Rockefeller Hall last
Wednesday afternoon, explained that the
process, of aquatints, though more com-
plicated and tedious, resembled that of
etching.

Instead of lines, myriads of tiny holes
are, marked in the copper plate. The
plate is then given many baths in a solu-
tion of acid—one or more for each shade
and color in the finished aquatint. M.
Plasse said that some of his *pictures had
as many as twenty acid baths. The fact
that the copper plate varies with weather
conditions adds to the difficulty of the
process, which has been but lately dis-
covered. Several exhibitions have already
}bbeen held—one in Paris when General.
Pershing and his staff were there.



Errata

The NEWS wishes to correct a mis-
take in the article entitled “Support of
Music Department favored by peteeS
Council” published in the issue of De-
cember 3. The sum of three thousand
| dollars was set by the Committee for the
«| Endgwmentf ofsthe Music Department and
not by the council, as stated.

Due to a printer's error the full pro-
gram of the Music Department concert
was not given in last week’s NEWS. In
addition to the compésitions mentioned,











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STUDENT LIFE IN CHINA
_IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

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teachers ‘under both provicinial and national

auspices, and crowned by a group of great

universities, which are overflowing with
students. The Chinese realize that their sal-
vation must come. through education, and
every intelligent citizen is devoting himself
or herself, in some way, to service in meet-

ing the educational ‘needs of the nation, the |”

magnitude of which may be felt whee one
considers that while eighty millions (the nor-
mal one-fifth of her population of the
school age) ought to be in school, there
are, at present, only four million students in
China. Mindful of the ancient heritage and
the hoary traditions of her past educational
life, and realizing the vigor with which tra-
ditions usually maintain themselves in the
field ‘of education, one would expect Chinese
student life to be marked by sober submis-
sion to authority and precedent; Quite the
contrary, however, is found in the record of
the last five years of student life in China.
Traditions have been upset, the universities
have become the centres for the most pro-
gressive intellectual life in the country, and
students have taken upon themselves the
most vigorous sort of “direct action” upon
national-and even international affairs.
Students Protest Against Foreign. Policy.
On a June Sunday in 1919, the newly-
elected President of Peking University
(Yenching Ta Hsueh), John Leighton
Stuart, was to deliver his first baccalaureate

‘sermon before the student body of that Uni-

versity, but the address of the day had to be
modified because of the fact that practically
all of the students at the University were in
jail. While the President-elect’ was present-
ing to the regular church audience of the
Asbury Méthodist Church, Peking, his con-
ception of what a university ought to be
which was situated in the political and intel-
lectual capital of one-quarter of the human
race, the arrested students who were con-
fined in the courtyards of the Law School
of the National University of Peking, where
they had been detained for two nights, were
negotiating with the government police au-
thorities for a respectable release.

What was the cause of all this commotion?
Why such a condition? Recall events of the
spring of 1919. .A great gathering of the
nations was being held in Paris. The great-
est statesmen of the world’s nations hat
gathered, in an endeavor to adjust world
politics to a peace basis following the Euro-
pean war. Among the problems involved in
the discussions at Paris were those relating
to Japanese control of the Chinese Province
of Shantung, which she had secured by her
victory over the Germans at Tsingtau. Sec-
ret treaties between Great “Britain, France,
Italy and Japan made it impossible to secure
direct and immediate restoration of this
province to China. Shantung was the prov-1
ince in which her Holy Sage Confucius. was
born; it represented her Holy Land. At the

‘same time, there was in control of the Pek-

ing Government a group of men who were
so distinctly pro-Japanese in their attitudes
that they: were offering the great natural
resources of their country, in the form of
concessions to Japan, as security for loans
from which) they profited personally much

_ more thari did the nation vee interests

they were appointed to guard. -

Attempt to Prevent Nishihara Loans.

In’ spite of the general understanding on
the part of the press and public of what was
going on, both in Peking and at Paris, no
group of people in Chinese life had been
able to give effective expression to their pro-
test against the unrighteousness that was
being done to @hina in the Paris decisions
and in the Nishihara-loans negotiated in Pe-
king. To what source could the bewildered
Chinese people look for help in this ‘crisis?
Who could lead them to express themselves
in earnest protest- against: the machinations
of enemies, both within and without ?

Ordinarily, one does not expect the stu-
dents of-a country to take active and direct
interest in her foreign policies to the exterit
of, themselves, undertaking to dictate her

- Mielogagy, tnt in Max of 1019 the Chinese

IER pa Pa

students of Peking, realizing that an effect-
ive protest wduld be given by no other group,
undertook to save their country from an
ignominious yielding to. the. schemes of her
enemies by manifesting their vigorous hos-
tility to the Anfu Pary in Peking, and by a
determined- effort to rouse enough public
opinion to prevent the Chinese delegates at
Paris from putting their signatures to the
document which the Allies were negotiating
with the Teutonic people.

Procession Wrecked Traitor’s House.
On May 4th, the students of the city or-
ganized a great procession of protest.
Blocked in their desire to parade Legation
Street, where the’ Legations of the great
powers are located in order to voice’ their
protests before the representatives of the
peoples of the rest of the world, they turned
their atténtion to the home of ‘Tsao Ju Lin,
the arch traitor in the pro- Japanese group of
officials in control at Peking. They broke
into his residence, drove him out, and burned
a part of it. Before the excitement: of the
afternoon had ended, thirty-one students had
been arrested.

At once the authorities of the institutions
represented by the arrested students organ-
ized anéassociation of Peking teachers and
University officers, and made every effort to
secure the release of the students. Unable
to accomplish this, and also unable to con-
trol further anti-governmental activities on
the part of his own. students, Chancellor
Ts’ai Yuan Pei, of the National University
of Peking, leader of the Teachers’ Associa-
tion, resigned. This university, with its
student body of 3000, is the largest single
group among the Peking students, and was
the ringleader in the entire movement. A
student strike was established and the 14,000
students in the high schools, colleges and
universities of Peking refused to attend
classes until their imprisoned fellow-students
had been released and the Chancellor had
been restored to his office. This strike- was
not called against their teachers, who were,
for the most part, in thorough sympathy
with the student movement, but was called
in order to bring their protest against the
government vividly to the public. attention.
Lecturing Campaign Convinces Country.

Thus began the noted student movement
in China. Messengers were sent at once
by the Peking students to important educa-
tional centres throughout China. Within
a fortnight a National Student Association
had been organized, strikes and parades were
called protesting against the Anfu Party and
the Paris decisions, and expressing sympathy
with the imprisoned students in Peking. A
set of demands was drawn up, calling for
the dimissal by the Government of all pro-
Japanese members of the Cabinet, the re-
instatement of Chancellor Tsai, and a re-
fusal to accept the Paris decision with refer-
ence to Shantung.

With great energy and skill, student bodies
throughout’ China arranged a lecturing, cam-
paign to reach the common folk with the
facts regarding Japanese intrigue against
China, An appeal was made for a boycott
of Japanese goods.
Chambers of Commerce through the country
was secured, and thus the boycott was effect-
ive for several months.

Wholesale Arrests of Agitators.
Pa Government attempted to suppress
the movement by force, and ordered the
Peking police to arrest all student lecturers.

which this gave them for embarrassing the
Government, since the latter would be unable
to incarcerate the entire student body of
Peking. It was therefore arfanged, that the

entire student body of every institution }

should be organized in lecturing bands, to
be sent out in relay formation. As soon as
one band had violated the rules laid down
by the police and were arrested, the next was
to go out on the streets and lecture, and,
in’ turn, suffer arrest. For fear. that enough

Peking’ students might: not respond to the

call> orders were sent ‘to the neighboring
cities of Tientsin and Paotifu for additional
recruits as lecturers. ee

By. the end of the day on which the police
order for arresting lecturers was to go into



The co-operation of the |

The student leaders realized the opportunity-

effect, the police found themselves with sev- | _
eral hundred students on their hands. The |

jails were too small and, in-order to meet
the need, they seized the Law School of the
National University'and put’the culprits itfto
it, forcing them. to sleep! itt the recitation
rooms. Friends on the outside provided the
imprisoned groups with such food as could.
be furnished over the wall’ Ail the students
of the city,*including those of the Christian |
institutions,.joined in the movement. Wom-
an students encouraged -their brothers and
helped on the campaign’ by, house-to-hou.
visiting. All the students of Peking Uni-
versity (Yenching Ta Hsueh), the Chris-
tian university -of the city, had shared in
the lecturing band and three-quarters of its
student body were found in the Law School
jail at’ the hour when the President-elect
appeared to make his address.
Government’ at Last Capitulates.

To complete this story one should ‘add
that_ the Government, capitulated. The
three pro-Japanese traitors were dis-
missed from office. and: the Chancellor
was ,restored to his place, but the stu-
dents refused to leave their “jail” until
a ‘delegation from the Chief of Police had
“invited” them to leave, so that -it hap-
pened, an hour or two later, on that
same Sunday mofning, that the incar-|’
cerated students returned to their re-
spective universities with flying banners,
parading through the streets to acquaint
the public with the fact of their release
and of their victory over the Govern-
ment,

From this story you can imagine how
interesting and exciting student. life in
China has been during the last five years.
Fortunately, it was not long necessary
that_students should take the part of—their
elders in active interference in affairs of
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the credit for the Chinese refusal to sign
the Versailles Treaty and the conse-
quetices-which that -refusal: has led to
since, among which mtst be. included the
Washingten Arms. Conference and ‘the
‘settlement of the Shantung question on
such a basis as to restore that province
to Chinese control.

After undertaking the salvation of the
country in 1919, you can ‘understand that
the Chinese student was inclined to think
rather well of himself and to be a little
overbearing toward authorities, even
thase in his own academic circle.
had made it clear that the ultimate sal-
vation of his nation depended on an edu-
cated people. The need of education, the
need of. the great mass of the Chinese
people for education, was more keenly
realized than ever before, and the sane
and—sober—teaders~of>the “student» move-
ment were able to make an effective ap-
peal to their fellows for service in the
cause of national'education. The enthusi-
astie patriotism of 1919 and 1920 was
directed ‘toward the task of providing
schools for those unable to enjoy edu-
seation and its advantages. At the pres-
ent time, practically every educational
institution in Peking has “schools for the
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the students of the institution, “and paid
for by funds which they, theiiaelves,]
raised. By degrees, the students have
come to realize that their- -best contribu-
tion toward developing their nation is to
secufe for themselves the best possible
education. Thus the energies aroused

‘by a political crisis are being turned into

channels of service for the less fortunate, |:

“and in earnest application to their own
studies.
Life in the Chinese College. ’

But what of the Chinese student in his
more normal and regular life? His
dormitories are courts, his room a sim-
ple one-story” building; divided into~ sec=
tions of about ten feet by twelve for each
room. Many Chinese students sleep on
board beds, not because they have to,
but because they prefer to. When it
comes to dining facilities, the American
student may well envy his Chinese fel-
low, as for four silver dollars per month
(equivalent to two gold dollars) a poor
student can find very, satisfactory and
nourishing food, while the student from
wealthy homes does not. pay more than
six to eight silver dollars per month. In
the large dining hall of a large Chinese
university, you will find ‘the sfudents
-seated at tables about three feet square,
three.sides of which are for them to sit
at, and the fourth side for service. Rice
and wheat bread.are the staples of each
meal, which are served with pastry dishes
of meat and vegetable soup.

A Westerner, on first seeing Chinese
students at their meals, felt that the con-
ditions were “awful,” but upon. inquiry,
the diet, which seemed so little different
from “slops” to him, actually showed, on
the basis of scientific analysis, a proper
proportion of the carbohydrates, fats and
proteids which our new science of die-
tetics is prescribing for us now.

Practically all the imterests represented
in our American universities find expres-
sion in Chinese institutions. For ex-
ample, in Peking there is @ football league
in which teams from fivé to eight insti-
tutions of college grade meet with each
other and struggle for the championship
of the city., In athletics, the champion
institution is Tsing Hua College, known
to’ Americans as the institution founded
with the Boxer Indemnity, refunded by
the United States to China. This college,
equipped in a fine modern way, prepares
its students for study in America, and is
more of the character of an American
institution than any other one in Peking.
More typical of the Chinese Government
schools are the National University,
already mentioned, which is the largest
and most progressive institution in China,
and the Higher Normal College. The
latter has an enviable record in athletics
and is particularly famous for. its basket-
ball teams, which have: successfully repre-
sented China in the biennial Far Eastern
championship campaigns, and in which
the Chinese compete with Japanese and
Philippine students. In May of last year;
-an Oratorical Association took place in
the great hall of the National University,
in which these same institutions com-
peted for a prize offered by Mr. Fred-
erick W. Stevens, representative of the
American group of Consortium, for the
. best oration dealing with China’s prob-

lems and their solution. Probably the
Chinese student is more earnest in his
academic work and more active intel-
lectually than the average American
~ student.

These are stirring days in China, where
a “new tide” or Renaissance movement
has come to the front, and which gives
promise of as tremendous a significance!
in the life of this great Oriental people,
who comprise one-quarter of the human
race, as the Renaissance and Reformation

problem, the differences

century. Many of ‘the leaders in. this
“new tide”

sors in the institutions of China,

of them than any other. Their enthusi-
asm and eagerness for fhe recovery . of
China’s heritage of culture, by means
of scientific, historical ,and critical re-
search, has been caught by many of their
students. Associations among students
have been formed for franslating into

Chinese the very latest literary and scien-

tific works in the West. Such lecturers
as Professor John Dewey, of Columbia
University, and Professor Bertrand Rus-
sell, of Cambridge University (England),
attracted enormous student’ audiences
wherever they spoke in China. There is
intellectual ferment in China, and prom-
ise of great fertility on the part of the
present generation of students.

est in the use of our opportunities, and fo
take into our purview not only the stu-
dent life of other nations, but the rich
treasures of culture from which they
.draw inspiration. May we not believe
that in the world just before us, the age
to be lived-by our student generations,
there will no longer be efforts to estab-
lish or re-establish regional or national
cultures, philosophies or religions, but, in
their stead, a truly national civilization, to
which each branch of the human race will
make contribution out of its own treas-
ures of tradition and experience, each
group supplementing the others and, by
mutual exchange, building up a. world
culture more comprehensive, more com-
plete, and more perfect than anything
that has yet been known?

(Copyright, 1924, C. S. Haight, Jr.)



GAIN IN POWER OF LEAGUE
DURING PAST YEAR



Election Returns in England Explained
by Mr. Macdonald

Speaking before the Foreign’ Policy
Association on Saturday, December sixth,
in New York, Mr. James G. MacDonald
gave a brief summary of ‘his personal
impressions of present European condi-
tions.

Dr. MacDonald Has just returned from
a three months’ trip abroad.~ He spent
some time in Germany, France, and, the
Balkan States,-was in England during the
recent elections; and was one of the few
people to be in Geneva throughout the
entire period the Protocol was under dis-
cussion. :

“There were two reasons for the elec-
tion returns, as I see it,’ said Mr. Mac-
Donald, apropos of the new conservative
government in England. “The suicidal
movement of the Liberal party there has
cast an immense number of votes into
the other two parties, and certain weak-
nesses in the character of my namesake
which have led him into serious’ tactical
errors.” It is the general feeling now
that Labor is the only alternative to the
Conservatives, and this will probably keep
the new government in for three to five
years, but, said Mr. MacDonald, “I do
not think conservatism will prove synony-
mous with reaction. I believe that- Bald-
win comes nearer to La: Follette in_ his
attitude than to Mr. Coolidge, and that’
a conservative government will make real
progress under his leadership.

“The League is not dead,” he asserted
in conclusion, “neither is it full-grown;
it is beginning, Tygeel that. this year it
has: dug its roots deeper ‘and gained
enormously in power. I am not a blind
optimist; I do not ignore the Russian
between the
Christian and Moslem world, the still

.great differences. between the Western

powers and danger of sudden flareups,
and yet I cannot sal 1 gt eee oe

ee

movement ‘are young profes-|:
The]
| National University -has a larger group

It-behooves- us-of the West tobe earn=;

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD

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contigs FROM PAGE 1

wood College, will speak’ on “What Is
Cé- ~operation?”

Discussion of what students should do
in the *present crisis, led by a ‘student,
will be the program for Tuesday after-
noon. : :

“The Match of Imperialism” will be the
subject far the dinner Tuesday evening,
the final wind-up of the conference. Pro-
fessor Edward Meade Earle, of Colum-
bia University; Dr. Scott Nearing, author
of “The American Empire;”’ Mr. Otto
H. Kahn, banker and publicist, and Mr.
Morr® Hilquit; lawyer, Socialist and
author, will speak. Tickets for this din-
ner are $2.50. +

“Any college or university student is

welcome to attend sessions of this con-]_

ference, Voting delegates are chosen by
college groups affiliated with the L. I. D.
on the basis of one delegate to each ten
members.” =

Any student interested in going for the
whole or for part of the time please hand
in herwname immediately to F. Briggs,
Pembroke West.



NEWS IN BRIEF

1928 announces the election of M. Gray,
captain of water polo; A. Talcott, mem-
ber of the Christian Association Board;
J. Young, member of Self-Government
Association; B: Loines, member of Under-
graduate -Association—Board.
Undergraduate Committees, E. Jones,
’28, has been elected a member of the
Employment Bureau;- L. M. Haley, ’28,
College Posters; A. Bruere, ’28, Students’
Building; F. Bethel, ’28, Trophy; S.
Brewster, ’28, Ushering.

On the committee for Freshman show
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P. Miller, M. Adams and S. Brewster.







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LAWS RESTRICTING TEACHING CALENDAR : per arya
AND ACTIVITIES INVESTIGATED Tuesday, December 16—Christmas is :
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Interf ce by college authorities with
' the Ng of students to hear radical
speakers will be fought by a national
committee on American Freedom just or-
ganized by the ‘American Civil Liberties
Union.

Efforts to promote debates on free}

speech in colleges and, high schools have
been started by the .American Civil
Liberties- Union in sending out circulars
to over .a thousand debating societies
throughout the country offering the or-
ganization’s help. in preparing _ them.
Specific subjects proposed for debate cover
the Ku Klux Klan, the exclusion of aliens

for their opinions, injunctions. curbing rights |

during strikes, the abolition of laws punish-
ing -utterances, censorship on:plays and mov-
ing pictures and freedom to meet without
interference by public officials.

The committee is headed by Dr. Clar-
ence R. Tufts Skinner, of Tufts College,
Massachusetts, and includes among its mem-

- bers Paul Blanshard, New York; Prof.
Felix Frankfurter, Cambridge; Rev. John
Haynes Holmes, New York; Norman
Thomas, New York; Prof. Thorstein
Veblen, New York, and Prof. David
Starr Jordan, Stanford University, and
Prof, Vida D, Scudder, Wellesley.

The. committee will not duplicate work
done by other organizations, “primarily
concerned with restrictions on classroom
work teaching and discharge of teachers
It will deal with “laws
restricting teaching, such as those at-
tempting to prohibit the teaching of
evolution, of pacifism and of certain
concepts of history; with college and
school rules restricting student liberal and
radical activities; and with interference
with freedom of opinion of individual

students and teachers outside the class- |

room.”



IN PHILADELPHIA .

Garrick—“Be Yourself.”
Forrest—‘“Sally, Irene and Mary.”
Lyric—“The Beggar on Horseback.”
Walnut—“In the Next Room.”
Shubert—“Charlot’s Revue.”

Broad—“The Haunted House,” with
Wallace Eddinger.
-~Chestnut—=“The —-Dream- — Girl,” — with} -

Fay Bainter.

Coming—“The Buccaneer,” “Express-
ing Willie.” .

«Movies. —

Stanley—“Tongues of Flame.”

Stanton—“Forbidden Paradise.”

Aldine—“Ten Commandments.”

Arcadia—“Find Your Man.”

Globe—“Sahara.”

Academy of Music.

On Friday, December 19, the Phila-
delphia Orchestra will play the following
program:

Vaughn Williams ei
Lalo—Concerto in D minor, for Violon-
cello and Orchestra ....Michel Penha
Saint-Saens—“Danse mated ‘Sym-
phonic Poem. :



: CHILD LABOR SORE

_ TO BE DISCUSSED

‘Dr; Dorothy Sells, Associate in Social |.

Economy, will speak in chapel on Friday
about the Child Labor Amendment. Dr.
Sells is at present giving a course in the
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Friday, December 19—Christmas party
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Saturday, December 20—Christmas va-
cation begins at 12.45.

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one, and she is twenty-six, I love her still.

How can it be that Sidonie remains thus
perennially young; sought for at every
prom and house’ party; the delight of every
hostess and guest; not of our generation
and yet with us in everything? Every
other debutante of her vintage is by now a
more or less stayed matron. Her twin
sister Coralie is the proud mother of two
divorces. But Sidonie is with us. still,
unmarried by choice, charming and ever
young. At the last house party, I asked
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theatre, sports, literature, dancing—all the
pleasant things that make proms and
house parties worth while. That’s whyI
am dated up a season in advance. And it’s
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as dumb a cluck as Coralie. Any man

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