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VOL. XII. No. 4. ' BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., _ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1925 + PRICE, 10 CENTS





“NOW IT CAN BE TOLD”
BY STATISTICS OF 1929

Facts Compiled ‘Give Information
From Age to Religion of Freshmen
14 Sects Re presented

THE BEST AVERAGE IS 873







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October 14.
ceeded Winifred ‘Dodd, who resigned
semester of their Sophomore year.
Chairman of 1926 Freshman year, and”
of May Day in 1924.

board for two years past.



"Statistics of the class of 1929 have been

compiled. Freshmen’ will now realize
that the innumerable blanks they were re-
quired to fill out were to. some purpose
after all. The following are some of the
more interesting facts gleaned:

‘The average age of Freshmen is 18 years
13% months; the median age is 18 years,
4 months; while the youngest 15 years,
The highest average in en-
trance examination marks was 87.13 per
cent. Taking into consideration that this
is one of the smallest Freshman classes
of late, the number of members being
i07, one might be lead to think that 1929
had done very bravely.

Besides: the preparatory schools who
are our old standbys, 28 new schools
have prepared members in the third and
fourth years. Seventy-three per cent. of
the class were prepared by private
schools; 9 per cent. by public schools
18 per cént. by both private and public
schools. Forty-six members of the class
are Episcopalians; 19 are Presbyterians,
while 11 do not give their religion, In

_all 14 different sects are represented.

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TRADITION OF LANTERN NIGHT
TO BE FULFILLED FRIDAY





Freshmen to Receive Red Lanterns
From Sophomore Class

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‘Lantern Night, one of Bryn Mawr’s unique
ceremonies, will be held in the Cloisters,
Friday evening, October 24.. Tickets may be
purchased from the Publicity Office, in

- Taylor Hall, or at the. Clojsers the eve-

ning of the event.

‘Lantern Night in its origins goes back
to the early days of Bryn Mawr. The lan-
terns of 1890, the second class in college
were given them by 1889, who were inspired
by “The only lantern in Bryn Mawr,” a line
in a song. by Dr. E. Washington ‘Hopkins,
former Professor of Greek.

Sophomore Play was the scene of the
presentation of the first lanterns, which were
handed to the Freshmen over the footlights.
1900 gave its Sophomore play out of doors
and the. impromptu occasion with the oral
quiz of the Freshmen. by the Sophomores
vanished to grow into the stately, impressive
ceremony we". now celebrate on one sharp
October night each. year.

‘Changing with the years, the lanterns vary
ug rom the ‘original folit#inch high






1926's Class Book, was Secretary of



MARY Cc. parm IS ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF SENIOR CLASS

1926 chose Mary Parker as class president on Wednesday. afternoon,” «
Miss Parker has already served as president, having suc-

Edith Nichols was elected vice-president of the. Senior Class.
Freshman year Miss Nichols was president of 1926; she is now. vice- presi-
dent of the Self-Government Association, haying served on-the executive

__._Clare Hardy was made Secretary of 1926.
vice- ysis, al the Undergraduate Association an

Junior Member of the Undergraduate Board last year.

on account of ill-health, the second
Miss Parker was also Temporary
a member of the Costume Committee

Her

Miss Hardy, who is ‘also
id Bustiess Marager-of-
her class Sophornore year and First





RAGAS AND SONGS OF KASHMIRA
INTERPRETED BY RATAN DEVI,



Liberal Club Concert at Wyndham
Includes Talk on Indian Music

With the hospitable atmosphere of
Wyndham for a background, dark except
for the occasional. twinkle of a candle,
Ratan Devi gave a- delightful program of
native Indian songs last Wednesday eve-
ning, under the auspices: of the Liberal
Club.

Ratan Devi divided
two parts: the first
classical Indian songs;
Kashmiri folk songs.
illusion of © Indian

evi, attired in
panied herself on a tombura an Indian
instrument of four strings resembling in
general appearance our guitar. Her tom-
bura comes from ‘the south of India and is



. her concert into
half devoted to
the second, to
To increase the

atmosphere, Ratan

‘made_of Jackwood_ inlaid with.ivory.

As may be imagined, the scene appealed:
to the eye as well as-the ear. The weird
melodies, accompanied. by the pulsations
of the tombura, blended with the steady
downpour outside, while -the reds and
yellows of Ratan Devi’s costume con-
trasted sharply with the dark interior and
the indistinct forms of students, grouped
in a circle informally on the floors “in
true Indian fashion” as Ratan Devi com-
me snted,

“There are no public concerts in India,”
she said before commencing her program.
“Concerts are given ‘only in private
houses. : Classical songs, like folk-
songs, are never written down in India,

but’ are handed down by word of month.”

She explained that: the.-Indian scale is
composed of 22 notés. Songs, however,
are not built upon the scale, -but upon a
raga or choice of five or seven notes of
the scale?) -—Each song: has its own raga
and there is a raga for ‘every occasion,
every hour of the day. The songs are
spontaneous and ecstatic; ‘the — words
hever stupid nottrashy.

According to Indian custom, Ratan
Devi opened her program with a dedica-
tion. . Then followed four songs: “The
Knot of the -Heart;” a. mountain song; a
love song of separation; and an im-
provisation, the words of which meant,
eb OW you never speak to me Smee Res it

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Huiea still retains its iden of mai.
_ Six folksongs - were -presenred in the



native costume, accom-,

eI | cancel half. the French debt: nc
preserve France from bankr

| small incomes » are the sufferers. -
| means to payment the American debt



MRS, SMITH EXPLAINS FRENCH
DEBT AND CONSIDERS OUTCOME
Cancellation Will Be Hard For U. S.
And France *



“Understanding at least has been
furthered by the recent French debt con-
ference in Washington,”- said Mrs. Smith,
speaking in chapel last Friday.

The French debt: to the United States,
$4,200,000,000, consists of four items. One
billion,” eight
dollars, were borrowed during the war
for maturing bonds. Then $2,225,000,000
of the debt were*spent here “in the pur-
chase of war supplies. “This money was
borrowed in Liberty Loans, and $150,000,-
000 are being paid yearly against the
French debt. For this payment heavy
Federal income taxes are neg levied.
The remainder of the French: debt is
owed in: war materials supplied, and in
the post-war debt, which has _an_interest
of $20,000,000 ‘yearly.

If the franc is to be stabilized, or if
France is to. do any further borrowing
from other countries the present debt
must be settled. At the recent conference
in Washington, the Callaux proposal was
rejected, but a ‘last minute plan is now
being -considered, a fairly hopeful com-
promise, for a payment ‘of interest now
owed within the next five years, after
which the principal alone would be owed.

As creditor’ to Francé, the United
States has three possible choices: We
might cancel the debt, we might exact
the- entire sum of the debt, we might
arrange a compromise. Friends of French
recuperation’ wish to cancel’ the debt.
Considering the burdén ‘too great for
France to bear, the money loaned in
Liberty Loans will in that case be given
to France. And in this connection, there

considered
faith
Government and the people.

is to be the question of
between. the
On. the

French side, acceptance of the cancella-

shaking the good

tion would be a virtual atknowledgmenit
of bankruptcy.

As it is, when the American Govern-
ment pays back the. money. raised in
Liberty the -sum_ will be twice
what the French pay. We are offering

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hundred .and two million:

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VICTORY PERCHES ON ;
BRYN MAWR BANNERS —

First Varsity Game of Season Ends
in Sweeping Defeat of Phila-
delphia Cricket Club

RAIN DID NOT DAMP OUR ARDOR

_NVarsity hockey team defeated the
‘Philadelphia Cricket Club 5-0 Saturday
Pmorning, October 17. (The line-up’ was:

V. Loines, ’28; C. Parker,§ ‘29; D:
Lee,** ’25; F. Jay, ’26; W. Dodd, ’26; -V.
Cooke, ’26; J. Seeley, '27; S. Walker,**
’ov: M. Harris, ’26; B. Sindall, ’27; E.
Freeman, ’29. The subs were H. Rodgers,
96: KE. Haines, 27; E. Brodie, 27; A.
Bruere, ’28; J. Stetson, ’28; H. Tuttle,
8 In the first half E.’ Brodie, ’27,
played in the place of M. Harris, ’26.

Intermittent showers, and a muddy
field did not prevent the game from being’
exceedingly lively. At first both sides
seemed evenly matched. Again and again
Loines, Dodd and Seeley swept the ball
down the field with long dribbles and
triangular passes, only to make a corner
or be turned by Philadelphia fullbacks.
who kept their positions steadfastly. Our
own rear was well guarded by Freeman,
a spectacular goal, and Seeley, the fast-
est player on the field. The first half
ended in uncertainty, with a 0-0 score.

During the second half, the Bryn Mawr
te ag speeded up, improved its team work,
scrapped with more tenacity around the
enemy goal, and gained the 5-0 victory.

EAGLESMERE IS NOT BILLY
‘SUNDAYISH SAYS B. PIT! EY; ’27











Chapel Speaker Emphasizes Variety
of Types of People There



“Whenever one mentions the words ‘re-
ligious conference,’ most people immediate-
ly retire into their shells,” said Beatrice Pit-
ney, '27, speaking in chapel last. Sunday
evening. “They think it must be’a sort of
wild Billy Sunday meeting, whére pious
souls work themselves up to a pitch of
fervor and hypnotize themselves with an
unhealthy amount of religious emotionalism.
That is exactly what a religious: conference.
is not. a

“Six of us went to Eaglesmere, which as
some of you may know, is a religious con-
ference for all the colleges of the Middle
Atlantic States. We found it quite calm,
quite sane; we found ‘it interesting and we
found it fun,

“Eaglesmere is’ a minute town up in the
mountains of Pennsylvania. We lived. in
two hotels on the edge of a Jake surrounded
‘by mountains and woods. We went around
in bloomers and hockey skirts whenever we
wanted to. I.mention that just so that you
‘Will see that there was no Puritan formality
at the conference.

4 “The girls represented about thirty col-
Tigi schools, medical schools and








tian bunch as varied a ‘tl

_ | fascinating ‘diversity y of point:
‘thing. 1 discu
yet no matter what subject we ‘touc!i
we found interesting food for thought.
“For instance, some girls were horrified
that we took evolution seriously. Others
said that they believed in ‘it and wanted to-
study it, but that their families considered
+ | them infidels for being interested in it.
“Another example; should there be differ-
ent standards for men and women in the |

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not felt more at home because the men
card told her plainly what the waiter’s name
was, so that she was not forced’ to address
him as. “George® when he was unquestion-
ably Malachi or Grover Cleveland? Whi
of us has not appropriated the “Quiet
Requested” sign, symbol of the ails
care for our comfort, and brought: it tri-
umphantly back to gouge the conscience
of midnight revellers flown with inso-
lence and soup?
_All these bentefits have beey ours because
the railroad just loves its patrons anel wants
to make them feel thaf there are many
places like home as long as trains continue
.o run from the Pennsylvania station every
hour on the hour.

Yet the railroad has not rested on these
laurels. With “sefvice” its watch word and
“courtesy” its warcry, it has taken yet an-
other step. You have experienced that dreary
wait in West Philadelphia, minute after long

(Editors do not hold themselves respon-
sible for opinions expressed in this column.) |
To the Editors of the Contce News.

The Varsity Dramatics Committee de-
j, | Plores the necessity which the News board
obviously felt in publishing in the original,

In asking the support of the college, it pre-
supposed that of its publication. The fact
that a play has been accepted for production
shows that it has been thoughtfully examined
by many fair-minded people. Hampered as
we are by inadequate staging facilities, a
limited number of people from whom to
choose a cast, and the usual difficulties of
fitting our rehearsals to avoid compliéations
with curricular activities, we feel that we
have chosen both wisely and well, and hope
that attendance at the performances will be
the refutation of our critic.





_ Entered as second

-Class matter at the Wayne,
Pa., Post Office,



INTERNATIONAL PURSUITS

More interesting even than the repdtts
of the’ French debt conference last week
is the news of the treaties and conventions
promulgated at the Locarno Meeting, by
which the Alsace-Lorraine question is
once more settled and Germany and
France come nearer to agreement than
at any time since 1914. Aristide Briand,
Austin Chamberlain and Hans Luther
have gone home with a treaty in their
pockets establishing a district about. the
Rhine of which the neutrality is to be
guaranteed by Great Britain and Italy,
and conventions of arbitration between
Germany and Poland and Germany and
Czecho-Slovakia.

Then this week comes the news of the
establishment at Harvard of a Rocke-
feller Foundation for International Re-
search, with George Grafton Wilson,
professor of International Law at Har-
vard, as chairman, and including among
its members Manley O. Hudson. nd
the League of Nations has organized.a
commission for Intellectual Collabora-
tion. As chairmen of this body it has
selected Henri Bergson, French philo-
sophical exponent of Vitalism, and Felix

von Weingartner, famous German con-
ductor of opera. So in the train of the
statesman are following the scholar, the
philosopher, and the musician, all in the
cause of international. ideals.



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MAN AND THE ARMS

_ “How Ridiculous! O, War! War! The
Dream of Patriots and Heroes! A Fraud,
Bluntschli, a Hollow Sham, Like Love.”
When, in the bitterness of his soul, a
dashing Bulgarian captain hurled that line
across the footlights in 1894, the gentle-
men growled and crushed their bowler

tg, and the ladies shrugged indignant
ated shoulders. That playwright Shaw
was a crazy radical, with his ideas about
‘two kinds of soldiers, old ones and
young ones,” a soulless bounder, trying
ny the glory of victory and the bit-
ess of defeat as questions of pro-
Cecil management! The crazy radical

requested to write another play
: the wit of “Arms and the Man”

d be tempered with some considera-

for box office receipts!

In the year 1925 no growls and shrugs

‘formance of “Arms and the

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minute, with nothing to distract your
dianehte from its long empty corridor that
awaits you, at: the end of which is your
door, garnished by, cordial messages from
the first business men ‘of Bryn Mawr. To
ude over this dark hour, the railroad has
installed for you a weighing machine--new,
shiny, guaranteed to lie like a gentleman.
Who can be sad with its cheerful gleam be-
fore her? Come, weigh yourselves at a
penny a. shot: hold your breath while the
fatal arrow swoops around the dial at the
touch of your feet: rejoice to see it stop,
and not swing on to astronomical figures.
Try it again and again—the game is in-
exhaustidle. And when at last the Tooner-
ville trolley comes poop-pooping around the
corner, then thank the Pennsylvania Rail-
road for this, the greatest of its great bene-
fits.



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: BOOK REVIEW
The. Professor's House, by Willa Cather—
New York, Alfred A, Knopf.

Willa Cather has chosen for her latest
novel a profound and: intricate study of
personality, a curiously indirect method
of presentation. She has already proved
her skill in this indirect reyelation of
character in “A Lost Lady,” .and in
“Alexander’s Bridge,” as she has shown
her mastery of direct revelation in her
earlier and unappreciated work, “The
Song of the Lark.” But she has done
nothing finer than this story of Professor
Godfrey St. Peter and his dead friend
Tom Outland.

Through the Professor’s memories and
the: words of the other people we are
shown with lucidity, and yet with the

tion of human character, the personality
of this dead man, and all his relationships,
even to the unexpressed love for him of
St. Peter’s younger daughter, A narra-
tive within a narrative, Outland’s diary of
the crucial years in his early life is in-
serted, making completely plain the youth
and independence and uncompromising
individuality of this friend of the Pro-
fessor. And. it is the stimylus of* this
personality that momentarily lifts the in-
hérent force and loneliness of St. Peter
-beyond the education and habits of 50
years, to a crisis of mind that almost dis-
penses with life. With this loneliness
and passion of a strong individual, Miss
Cather has been preoccupied before, in
the character of Thea Kronborg; but
here she has heightened the intensity of
the personality she is portraying, by this
strange influence of the dead friend. Of
this the old.house of the Professor is the

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classes and the present ‘five-course system

sions resulted.

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and lack of suffici

men, however, seem to be satisfied.—V assar
M eaten:

ning this week, at the Guild Theatre,

cast including June Walker, Lee Epier
and Helen Westley. -

What They Wanted,” has a new play,
“Lucky Sam McCarver,”
Playhouse this week. The cast ssid
Clare Eames and Hilda Spong.

[author of “The Fool,” will be produced
at the Times Square Theatre, with a cast
headed by Fay Bainter.

Jnarat.

NEWS FROM OTHER COLLEGES |

Chapel attendance Seems to be quite an
issue these days. Dartmouth has abolished
compulsory chapel, while Princeton still re-
tains its Sunday Church requirement.



McGill University has established a new
chair—that of Industrial Chemistry. Pro-
fessor Harold Hibbert, late of Yale, has
been given the appointment—The McGill
Daily.



A. Yale Alumnus who prefers to remain
anonymous has given his war bonus to Yale
in return for financial assistance given him
by the university in working his way through
college. The donor states in a letter that
he opposed the bonus in principle—New
York Times. .



Overwork rather than Cupid seems to be
the cause of flunking- at Temple. University.



The Adelphi College Fortnightly is driving
the wolf from the door by starting a Cir-
culating Library.

Richmond University, on the other hand,
has voted to add $10 to the budget of each
student for college publications.



This week is Archeological week at Vas-
sar. Each day a prominent archeologist will
deliver a lecture. The course will not be
sequential. Professor Rhys Carpenter lec-
tured Monday evening on “Greek Sculpture
in Spain.”

One-half of the student body of Vassar
would like to listen to the Sunday evening
organ recital in darkness,

The question of fifteen hours a week of

was the subject of last week’s Open Forum
Discussion at Vassar. No definite conclu-

Room conditions seem to be rather unsat-

due to overcrowding
t light. There are 325
freshmen on campus this year. The fresh-



PLAYS OPENING IN NEW YORK
The Theatre Guild will present, begin-

‘The Glass Slipper,” by Molnar, with a

Sidney Howard, author of “They Knew

opening at the

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the derogatory comtnent of “an alumna.”}>

‘| divertissement.



“THE WOLF AT THE DOOR”
. Un accordance with its policy expressed
in the last issue, the News. offers the first

‘of @ series of criticism of a play opening in
Philadelphia.) |

Melodrama interspersed “with generous
doses of low comedy arid Pollyanna prattle.
seem to be the principal ingredients of The
Wolf at the Door, which opened Monday
evening at the Garrick Theatre.
This production by Milton Herbert Grop-
per and Raymond C. Hill contains most of |
the faults of Ladies of the Evening with.
few of its virtues, It vaguely reminded us
| The
Golden Bed—only the latter contained a most
novel Bal Masque, all of candy, ny way of

of a movie we saw last year called

The > authors state their theme in the pro-
“Vengeance is mine:. I will- repay,
saith the Lord.” The play opens in a prison
with Louis Calhern. as Jack Jjlayes, the hero,

and Joseph Allen as the Comic character,

| gram.

Pete Malloy, both prisoners, plotting re-
venge. They escape from prisomawhile a
whistle resembling an ambulance horn moans
in the offing. The characters then wade_
through two scenss which further the plot
The fourth scene at the end
of act IT proves the theme when Clara Joel
as Blanche Marlow, the woman who double
‘crossed Hayes and sent him to prison, is
made an outcast by her new lover.

Here The Wolf at the Door reaches its
natural conclusion. But somewhere or other
the authors must have read that the love
element and a happy ending are essentials
never to be omitted; so two more scenes
follow. The. last scene at the office of the.
warden of the prison is a miraculous com
bination of said essentials. -Minna Gamble
as Kate Corning, “the Girl” and mouthpiece
of the theme, is bundled into the scene on
the pretext of discovering whether or not
Jack has returned to the prison, as she had
urged him to do one scene back. After a
proper interval, Jack enters with his prison
guard, who forthwith begs for the honor
of grasping Jack’s hand since Jack had
saved his life when the convicts had broken
prison. When asked by the warden why he
gave himself up, Jack answers, “I don’t
know.” This is the cue for Jack and Kate
to rotate towards each other, while the
warden (kind old soul!) is left to murmur
unheeded by the happy pair, “Of course, I
ought to double your sentence to thirty years,
but instead I'll make it five-not-a-year’s

scarcely a jot.

.parole.”

We are still wondering why the time ele-
ment is stressed throughout the play. The
exact time, of each scene is printed in the
program, wy at regular intervals some .one
of the characters alludes to the hour, and
in most of the scenes a big clock with a yel-
low dial—quite effective against the black
velvet curtain—gaily disagrees with the ‘time
stated. Is this emphatic method of making
the entire action take place in one in
nine houks to be exact, an effort to return to
the Greek idea of unity of time? _

As for the acting, it seemed rather ama-
teurish, while the stage mechanics were
frankly bad, We suggest that Mr. Calhern

| try wearing suspenders in the first scene.

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p RERE G. G. KING GIVES
NEW LIBERTY TO MAJOR CLASS:
Reading List Abolished Temporarily;

_ Interview to Be Given Later.

“My Major students know no less than”
usual. I can say that at least,” said Pro-
fessor ere Goddard King, when

about the rete she is trying this year
in her Major’ History of Art course.
No list of required reading has been
given to the -class, which numbers
twelve; books have been replaced on
reserve merely for the convenience of
the students. Scheduled quizzes will be
continued, according to the rules of the
college, and monthly quizzes because the
work divides itself into short periods.
In other words, the members of the
class are supposed to find their own
material, instead of being assigned defi-
nite pages on a required readirfg list.

This_experiment—is—being—made—in—re-+
sponse to an editorial- published in the
News last spring, protesting against the
weakness and misplaced emphasis of cer-
tain academic requirements. Miss King
accepted this ehallenge and announced in
the News her willingness to make the
trial with a Major Class. After the’ first
scheduled quiz she will make a statement.



DISCIPLE OF DR. FOSDICK TO
- TALK IN CHAPEL THIS WEEK
Christian Association Arranges Lectures
on Bible Literature.
The Rev. Albert Butzer, pastor of the

wood, N. J., will speak in chapel next
Sunday evening, October at 7.30
o’clock. Dr. Butzer is a famous pupil of
Dr. Fosdick.

Dr. Tyson, who gave a very interest-
ing discussion last year on the Book of
Jonah from the modernist’s viewpoint,
will give a lecture next Wednesday eve-
ning, October 21, on the OJd and New
Testaments from a critical standpoint, in
the chapel at 7.30 o’clock. This will be
the first of a series of lectures to be given

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FRENCH AND LIBERAL CLUBS
TO HEAR.TALK ON SWITZERLAND

Dr. Schopfer to Speak on the Swiss
International Situation





“La Situatiom Internationale de 1a
Suisse” will be the subject. of ‘a lecture
by Dr. Sidney Schopfer, Madame Leuba’s
brother, before the French Club and the
Liberal, on Saturday, October’24, at 8.15,
in Rockefeller Hall. Dr. Schopfer is
“Avocat conseiller national Suisse,” and a‘
member of the Interparliamentary Union,
of which the twenty-third congress ‘as
just been held at Washington.

Four topics will make up the talk, each
of which will occupy 15 minutes. They
are:

Composition paliticne de la Suisse, sa
nature;-ses-origines: Pee

Son role historique jusqu’a la Revolu-
tion Francaise. © x

La neutralite garantie precedemment a
forme du Congres de Vienne de 1815.

La nouvelle situation modffiee par la
Societe des Nations.



PRIZE IS OFFERED FOR ESSAY
ON IRISH HISTORY

The American Irish Historical Society has
announced .a prize historical essay contest
open sta all students. The subject of the es-
say is “The Irish Chapter-in-American His-
tory.” Into treatment of this subject will
enter the contributions of the Irish race in
all fields—military, political, economic, and
so forth—that have made for. the. develop-
ment of the American republic.

Alf essays must be submitted to the secreg
tary-general of the society, 132 East Six-
teenth Street, New York City, not later
than December 20, 1925. No essay’ should
exceed approximately 400Q words in length.

The historiographer of the society and a
special staff of assistants will choose one
hundred of these essays to be subrpitted to
five eminent American scholars for the final
awards.

Prizes of $500, $300 and $200 will be
awarded to three essays in order of merit.
The points on which ‘the decision will be
made are: First, historical accuracy and
range of subject; second, literary excellence;
third, terseness and directness of statement.
The prizes will be distributed to the win-
‘ners at the annual banquet of the society on
the last Saturday of January, 1926, and the
first. prize essay will be read during the
post-prandial exercises. All the prize essays
will have an extensive circulation, since they
will be published in the annual journal of
the society for 1026.

Any competitor who may wish to have his
or her manuscript returned must provide the
secretary-general with a self-addressed and
stamped envelope; otherwise, the society will
not stand obligated for its return.





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AFTERNOON TEA ant LUNCHEON

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ELECTS #
"CHEERLEADERS FOR YEAR

Umpires, Blazers and Rules Are
Discussed in First Meeting

Elizabeth Mallett, ’26, and Helen Smith,
26, were elected College Cheer Leaders
by the Athletic Association in Taylor
Hall on Wednesday, October 14.

Amending Rule 3, a motion that the goal-





keeper irs hockey may play and that archery
may be done at any time, -was passed.

The President, Edith Harris, ’'26, explained
that the Board of the Association was en-
deavoring to work out a system whereby
blazers, with a pocket insignia varying ac-
| cording to the teams the owner had played
on, may be awarded. The blazers will be
received as a reward for merit and will not
be given unless the owner has a certain num-
ing on every class third team.- By Junior
year in the case suggested a blazer would
probably be awarded.

Umpiring for match games is now a paid
position. First team. umpires, who must be
very good, will receive 75 cents an hour;
second team umpires, 50 cents, and third,
25 cents. Anyone desiring to be an umpire
should ‘apply to Virginia Norris, ’26.

After an announcement from’ the ‘chair
that bathing suits must be approved by the
Board of the Athletic Association and that

no white tops are permitted, the meeting was
ane.



MAIDS’ CLUB HOLDS FIRST
MEETING OF THE YEAR
Opening the first meeting of the Maids’
basement on Wednesday, October 14,
Millicent Pierce, ’26, introduced Helen
Smith, ’26, who-spoke-onthe.plans.for
Sunday School this year, which include a
choir to be trained by Mary Zelia Pease,
’27, with perhaps occasional outside aid.
Miss Faulkner’s speech telling of the
help we can derive from the example set
us by the maids was followed by one by
Florence Lomax, who told of what had
most interested her in night school the
preceding year. specially interesting
she found the art course teaching not
only the appreciation of pictures, but why
famous pictures were famous, and the
poetry which came in the advanced Eng-
lish.
Dancing and a skilful exhibition of the
“Charleston” by one of the men finished
the evening.



“THE CITY OF THE FUTURE”
An exhibition of &things, studies of sky-
scrapers, will be held at the Print Club, 1614

series is entitled “The City of the Future”
and is by) Hugh Ferris. The exhibition is
open to the public.





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_ CAST FOR “ICEBOUND” ,
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Roles for “Icebound” have been. tea
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week. The characters in this~ realistic play
of New England.are:

Henry Jordan.......... cs .E. .Stewart, ’28
}Emma Jordan ?......5.6%. ..C. Bell, graduate
Be TRON c Bileiw sick J. Sullivan, ’27 .
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Of cties te H, Guiterman, ’28
WI GON ek citi O. Saunders, ’25
Doctor Curtie os. ck ae B. Linn, ’26.
Judge: Bradford’... 36.6605 A. Palache, ’28
rere 5, Nas eeei E. Morris, ’27
PON JOPGEN. 6 ck bik M. Hupfel, ’28
Jane Crosby .........sessscees .C, Swift, ’27
WE ee L. Haley, ’28



FRESHMAN STATISTICS



CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Pennsylvania’ heads the list of home
States with 29, New York is a close sec-
ond with 27. In all, 19 States, the Dis-
trict of Columbia and two foreign coun-
tries are represented.

The statistics. of the parénts of the
class of 1929 are no less_-intéresting.
Ninety-three Freshmen have native born
parents and grandparents. English is the
main racial stock on both sides. The
main racial stock of the paternal grand-
parents of 46 Freshmen is English; of
seven, English and French; and of six,
English and Irish. The main racial stock
of - the -maternal grandparents of 32
Freshmen is English; of 12, English and
Scotch; of seyen, English and French.

Fourteen Freshmen have parents who
are both college graduates. Fifty have

mothers with no college training. Two
have fathers with no college training and
mothers who are college graduates.
Thirty-eight have parents both of whom
fare without college training.

The occupations of the parefits cover a
wide field. Twenty are manufacturers,

14 are lawyers, 13 are bankers and
brokers, 11 are merchants, nine are
engineers ‘and six are physicians, of
whom. three ate surgeons. There are

three cach who are army officers, pro-.,
-fessors. in universities, clergymen, cor-
poration managers or directors, real
estate and three retired. Two are editors:
Then follows a list of 15 occupations in
which only one is engaged. It is interest-
ing to note that 59 are engaged in busi-
ness and commerce, as Opposed to 41 en-
gaged in the professions and eight un-
classified.



BEATRICE PITNEY TELLS
OF EAGLESMERE



CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

matter of drinking and smoking? For those
who come from, co-educational colleges, this
is a pressing question, because on the same
campus men are allowed to do what the
girls are expelled for doing. These are only —
samples of the very many fascinating sub-
jects that came up.

“In the morning there is a non-denomina-
tional chapel service, then every one divides
up into discussion’ groups of twenty. You
have the afternoon at your disposal to amuse
In the evening there is a lecture
by some speaker on religious topics, and
then you are free again, Before you realize
it, you are deep in discussion with someone
or other. One can't help enjoying it.

“Next June,” concluded Miss Pitney, “we
are to go back to Silver‘Bay to whith Vassar, _
‘Smith and Wellesley send delegations.”



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nounces that its competition for the classes
of 1927 and 1928 will be open until Monday;
October 26. Will all those who are inter-
ested please see F. Green, '26, 3 Pembroke —
East, any day between 1.30 and 2.00 P. M.?











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FRENCH CLUB ANNOUNCES
PLANS UP TO THANKSGIVING

In the absence of the president, H.
Grayson, '25, and the vice president, E.
Nelson, ’27, the French Club announces
a tentative program up to Thanksgiving.

Lectures by visiting Frenchmen on “Le

Mariage Moderne” and “La~ Jeunesse

d’ Apres Guerre,” are being planned.
Moderna plays will be sread by. French
readers, and ‘after Thanksgiving casting
and rehearsals will start for a club play.

Under the combined auspices of the
Liberal and Frenéh Clubs, Dr. Sidney
Schopfer. will speak next Monday night
on “La Situation Internationale. de la
Suisse.”

Tryouts for the French Club will be

——held-next-Sunday-and-Monday afternoons |

between 4 and 5 in room 35, Pembroke

East.



NATIVE COSTUME LENDS.
CHARM TO FOLKSONGS



CONTINUED FROM PAGP 1

emphatic. This is the main difference
between the folksong and the classical

song.

Ratan Devi described a few of her ex-
periences in India when she’ was trying
to learn the songs. It was exceedingly
difficult to obtain a ‘teacher because the
natives are very unsympathetic. Finally,
when she convinced them by keeping ex-
actly true to pitch that she was worthy

of being taught, she succeeded in getting.

a teacher, a man who had been in the
service of one of the native rulers. An-
other difficulty was due to the Indian’s
sense of the fitness of things. He will
not sing songs belonging to a certain
season out of their season. It was there-

fore almost impossible for Ratan Devi to|

learn songs of other seasons of the year.

In conclusion, Ratan Devi said that
styles of dress change in India as well as
‘The change may be ever so
slight, as for instance one year the stripe
on a woman’s skirt will be two inches
wide while the next year it will be one
inch, but the decree is nevertheless in-

~ fallible.

KATHERINE TOMPKINS ELECTED
LIBERAL CLUB PRESIDENT
The resignation of the president, B. Linn,
'26, was read at the meeting of the Liberal
Club on Tuesday evening, October 20.*
. K. Tompkins, ’26, was elected presilent to
take Miss Linn’$ place. Prior to her resig-
nation last spring, Miss Tompkins was presi-
dent for the year 1924-1925,



ae LANTERN NIGHT



CONTINUED FROM PAGE: 1

The Freshmen hymn, “Sofias,”.of which the
rhythm of. the first line has been slightly
changed this year, was sung for the first
time on Lantern Night by 1924, replacing
“Over the Way to the Shrine.” ‘The music,
selected by L. Rheinhardt, ’21, and H. Hill,
21, is “Of Thy—Mystical-Supper”—part—of
the Russign Church service, by A, F. Lvoff,
while the words were tfansposed by K.
Ward, ’21, and H. Hill, 21, from Pericles’
rewritten by Dr. Saunders, Professor of
Greek, three years ago.



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Grand. Opera.
Academy of Music—Thursday evening,
October 22—Galli-Curci.
Theatres :
Garrick—The Wolf at the Door.
Walnut—George Arliss in Old English.
Forrest—Stepping Stones.
Broad—The Dove. ‘
Adelphi—H. B. Warner in Silence.
Shubert: Rose Marie.
Lyric—Dancing Mothers.
Chestnut Street Opera House—Artists and
Models.
Movies :
Stanley—Graustark
madge.
Aldine—The Phenton of the Opera with
Lon Chaney.
Stanton—The Pony Express.
Fox—Lightnin’.
Coming:
Broad—School for Scandal.
Forrest—Ziegfeld Follies.
Adelphi—The Fall Guy with Ernest Truex,
Walnut—Aloma of the South Seas.

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LESS RIGID RULE FOR SMOKING.
FAVORED BY MAJORITY



Smoking on Campus and in Country
Suggested by Questionnaire. _

Undergraduate opinion seems over-
whelmingly in favor of smoking, accord-
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which was circulated by the Self-Govern-
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The: were: “three

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numerical results
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rule allowing smoking under some re-
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that they would be in favor-of-it-if-it-did
not involve injuring the reputation of
the College. — ’

Suggestions for revision included per-
mission to smoke in some definite -room
on campus; in most cases the hall sitting
room was designated. Also many favored
smoking in the less populated parts of
the country while on walks or picnics,
and many asked that the ban on smoking
in-Philadelphia be removed.

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be the outcome of this expression of
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Wednesday, October 21.
President Park will be at home:to the

graduates at her house from. a to 10
P.M,

The Rev. Stuart Tyson will speak un-
der the auspices ‘of the’Christian Asso-
ciation in Taylor Hall at 7.30. »

Friday, October 23.

Lanterr® Night will be held in the elois-
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Saturday, October 24.

Reserved in case of rain on Lantern
Night.

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The Rev. Elbert Butzer, pastor of the

Westside Memorial Church, will speak
in chapel at 7.30.

Friday, October 30.

~The ‘Graduate Club will hold a recep-

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A NEW CONCEPTION OF ,
«A MODERN arene”



By Abraham Flexner.

From. the Atlantic Monthly for

October. 3

Continued from October 14.

A fairly sharp line can, I think, be
drawn between the lower and the upper
activities which..we.have been discuss-
ing. The lower activities—activities be-
longing to schools and colleges—are to
a considerable extent, let us say, ddap-
tive or disciplinary in character. Schools
and colleges deliberately try to create
a wholesome environment; they try to
make something out of their students,
try to train them to orderly habits, try
to make sure they know things sup-
posedly needful, try to get them invsome
sort of acceptable shape, morally, men-
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archy ruled from. the cradle. up. Par-
ticularly on the moral and social side,
the college—dealing, as it does, with the
immature—has a good deal of responsi-
bility for the maintenance of wholesome
conditions, though, as “boys must be
risked, if there are to be men,” not even |
the cdllege has to play either nurse or
policeman—far from it. On the other
hand, the enormous and miscellarfeous
ehrollment of*the largest institutions jus-
tifiles—nay, requires—a definite endeavor,
to provide, without forcing, a finer type
of social influence than is apt, in pres-
ent-day America, to provide itself. This
is, however, a separate problem, which
I cannot now undertake to discuss. On

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efficacy of machinery. Individuality
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being trained; hitman institutions are so
defective and society so far from being
really civilized that criticism ought to
form an active element in education. at
every stage—criticism of ethics, politics,
institutions, and so forth. Youthful radi-
calism is better than youthful smugness.

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direct him to the course, the teacher, or the
social niche supposedly preordained for -him;
nor would the — be educated if the
trick could be done*® Education and ad hoc
training have simply nothing to do with one
another; they are, rather, at daggers’ points.
Genuine education involves effort, risks, and
some lost motion. The requirements of
school and college will never educate a stu-
ident-unless- he -consistently,persistently,and
more or less in his own way tries to edu-
cate himself. Nevertheless, however these
things to be decided, wherever the elines
are drawn, schools and colleges do have
some sort of parental responsibility for
school pupils and college students.
* 2 2* €°

A graduate school has, in my opinion, no
parental responsibility whatsoever; it has no
disciplinary responsibility. .On . the con-
trary, it ought to be the most skeptical and
inquiring of intellectual ‘agencies. It takes
nothing on faith—neither Newtonian laws
of' gravitation, Darwinian theories of evolu-
tion, germ theory, Kantian ethics, demo-
‘cratic institutions, wisdom of the fathers,
virtues of the jury system, nor anything else.
Under the heaviest sense of responsibility
for the truth, and therefore with the exer-|
cise of the utmost care of which the human
mind is capable, the university is concerned
to pursue the search for truth, wherever the
search lead, and to train young men to find
it, respect it, teach it, and, if need be, die
for it. Only so can the vast forces which

being released from fature be brought to
work for. the general good, |

No matter how broadly one conceives
school and. college, there would seem. to. be
some real incongruity between the purposes
for which boys and girls are sent to college
and the purpohes for which men and women
resort to universities; between the objects
which lurk in the back of the teacher’s
head in‘ high’ school and college and the
objects Which are in the forefront of the
students’ own head in the graduate school
of a university. Of course the two stages
cannot be distinguished by a sharp line; but

the very, end, though decreasingly, being
responsible for-the boy, the university hav-
ing no responsibility save to truth. Organi-
zation. as loose, to be sure, as possible, but
stil organization for ends important to the
student—that is the keynote of school and
coliege; freedom, detachment, or shifting
“forms of organization calculated to run
-down and hand on the truth—that is a dif-
ferent thing, and that is the keynote’ of a
hone university.

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and university undergraduate department
and « aduate department, are so inter-
twined as to be more or less ‘indistinguish-

able. La us for the moment ignore phar-

macy, dentistry, schools of business, corre- |
spondence departments, the radio,. and ath-.|

‘letics—activities that dos not tow conspic:
uously involve the, search for truth or the
training of mento carry on the search for
truth. Strong-minded_ workers cai. perhaps
petende sent















lall T ‘knew about them was what I had

s,| toward me. - . Thefe they were. great big
~~ shoot with glistening. white teeth.

discipline and presentation, appropriate
to the undergraduate student-body, have
thus to a large extent permeated the grad-.
uate school; majors, minors, units, at-
tendance records, course examinations,—
all the paraphernalia which the American
college emphasizes in its endeavor to
handle an unwieldy and _ heterogeneous
undergraduate body—creep into the grad-
uate school, because where graduate and
undergraduate, superior and inferior, are
mixed the lower type tends to determine
the “set-up.” a

Again, the teaching “personnel dis-
charges a double or a triple role. In one
course the instructor, dealing as he does
with undergraduates only, is the shep-
herd, ‘charged with some responsibility
for guiding the members of his flock; in a
second the same instructor may have to
teach boys and to unsettle men; in the
third the same individual is a high priest,
concerned with ¢riticizing, transmitting,
and increasing knowledge, with no per-
sonal responsibility whatsoever for the
men and women who freely choose to
hear him and heed him or not, as they
please.. Few individuals find the three
roles equally possible or congenial.

(To Be Continued.)



RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND
The great day had at last arrived and
we were eagerly watching the ever-near-
ing land, which meant the end of our
seven days’ journey from London to New
York. As we passed_the Statue of Lib-
erty, mother gathered her little brood
of five about her and told us that this
was symbolic of the liberty and freedom
that would be ours when we entered the
country,

Late in the afternaon our ship docked
and we, among the other immigrants,
were sent to Ellis Island to be given the
various tests necessary before we could
be admitted to the country.

After a few trying hours the tests were
finished and mother told us that tonight
we would sleep on real beds instead of
in bunks. One of the attendantWasked
us to follow him, and, thinking he was

-taking-us-to--meet-my~-father,..who..was.].

to take us home, we followed. . He led
us to a big room, which we entered at
his bidding. No sooner did we do this
than he closed and locked the door. |
looked around and found myself in a
room in which many people were either
sitting or standing. Near the door sat
an, old woman dressed in clothes made
up of all the colors of the rainbow. She
sprange to her feet as we entered and
approached my sister, speaking to her
in a foreign tongue which we did not
understand. :

Turning from her, I looked around.
this time more slowly, and great was
my horror to see a group of black people,
dressed in red and white striped clothing.
at the furthest end of the room. I had
never_seen a black person: in my life, and

read in my geography books at school.
namely, that in~ South America. fived
tribes of black people who were canni-
bals. Immediately I had a mental pic-
ture of myself being eaten by these
savages, and before I realized it 1 was
screaming, crying and kicking at the door
trying to open it. Soon I noticed that

tion of the negroes, who were coming

t gate me_ to eat me.

by my’ screaming I attracted the Aitten-.

| photo.

cdi take me if you want to, What did
I do that I deserve to be put under lock
and key? Why did you put me amongst
a bunch of savages?” and burst into a
new fit of crying.

~\ He tried to close the door, but because
of my position he failed. Then he turned
to my mother and asked her if. any one
was coming to meet us. She told him
she expected her husband.

“I’m sure he will never find us in this
God-fersaken prison,” I -said.

The guard tried to comfort me, but
his efforts seemed tO be in vain until he
suggested sending a telegram to my
father. We jumped at the idea, and
everything went well until the guard
asked for money .to pay for the tele-
gram and then'we found that the only
money we had was English, which he
would not accept. After some persua-
sion he sent the telegran? “collect.”

“Of course,” he said, “you will have to
stay here until July 5, anyway.”

In answer to my question as to why
this was so, he expfained that the next
day was July 4th, a very important na-
tional. holiday in America, and that the
officials at the island would not work.

I shall never forget the misery of the
next two days. All I seemed able to do
was sit and cry and wonder how my
father could ever find us.

At last night came and I-tried to sleep,
but the bunks we slept in were nothing
but wire frames and the hairy wool
blankets did not add to our comforts.
All I could think of was whether or not
daddy would be able to find us and when
he would come. None of the family
could sleep; so one of my sisters started
to sing and the rest of the family fol-
fowed suit. This woke the other sleep-
ers who came to our bunks and spoke
to us threateningly, but we did not un-
derstand them, nor did we care, but kept
on+ singing until the matron came and
told us we had made the other people
very angry and we had better stop or
there would be trouble: Of course, we
kept quiet after that, and sat wearily
watching: through the windows to see
the first signs of day. Another day and
another night were spent in the same
misery, and. then the sun rose upon a new
day, the long-wished-for 5th’ of Jilly”

We dressed hurriedly and sat as near
as we could to the office door, eagerly
listening for our names to be called.
An hour passed, then two, and I was
beginning to despair when our names
were called. I was the first to reach the
door and the first to see my father. My
happiness on seeing him was so great
that once again I began to cry.

We went for our luggage and were all
ready to leave when a man at the desk
spoke to my baby sister, who was four
years old, but who had not seen her
father since she was one year old. She
was so astonished to find that her daddy
was actually a living man and not a
photo, as:she imagined him ‘to be, that
she would not speak. The man at the
desk: insisted, that she speak to prove
to him she was not mute, or she could
not. leave i.e building. He tried every-
thing to make her speak. My dad gave
her money and his watch, but nothing
seemed ‘to move her. We walked out of
the room, but she did not even cry. It
seemed as though we were doomed to
spend the rest of our lives in that prison.

As a last resort I took from my pocket
a. photograph of our only brother, who
was in” the British army at that time
and. showed it to her, asking who it was.

“Louis,” she cried, and kissed the











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all, and ten minutes later we were on ;
“1 | the, ferry, bound for a new home in a}