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‘The College News

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Managing kgitor SHAN Loup, '26

CENSOR
K. SImMonps, ’27

NEWS EDITOR
M. Leary, '27



EDITORS

aa R.. Rickapy, '27 M. SMire, 127



ASSISTANT
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EDITORS ;
J, Fesurr, ’28

M. Fowtar, '28

BUSINESS MANAGBR SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER
Len, ’27 E. Tyson, '26

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ASSISTANTS
= WILBourR, ’26 N. BOWMAN, ’27
M. CRUIKSHANK, '27 A. WixT, ’26
E. Jonns, ’28 P. McELWAIN é



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ANOTHER AMERICAN SCENE

On the Russian stage, “they tell us,
America ig represented by the back drop
of a hotel lobby, where the patrons rock
and chew their gum. One version was
the Swedish ballet number last year,
which interpreted the numbér called New
York with a magenta clad negro strutting
to a brass band, before mammoth sheets
of morning papers ‘headlining Murder!
Divorce! and Drink! For jazz, for big
business, for bucking broncos, and sky-
scrapers, and leniency to criminals, our
fame has spread abroad in this twentieth
century, and been boomeranged back to
our weary disadvantage. '

Now something untoward has oc-
curred. A real foreigner, a Frenchman
in fact, is considering us by the light, not
‘of our amusing or disgusting strange-
ness, but by the light of our best effort.
During the next two weeks, M. Charles
Cestre, of the Sorbonne, is lecturing at

Bryn Mawr on Edwin Arlington Rob-
inson as interpreter of the American
spirit.



~~ “THE PERILS OF THE CAMPUS
Though Postum and Whole-wheat-
berry will, according to ‘the advertise-
ments, help to remedy the evils of civili-
zation, occupational diseases are doing
their deadliest even on the campus. As-
siduous practice of the Charleston is, we
are told, producing horrible malforma-
tions. Bad enough to read on our “medi-
cal cards,” “slightly knock-kneed;” how
* much worse to see “Charleston calves.”



ting in. Notice the necks stiffentd in
trying to keep the mortar-board on the
shingled heads and the feet flattened by
frequent stamping out of sparks.
How pathetic. is the nervous condition
of the haggard watchers under Juno
Sexgry morning between lectures; or the
brave wan smile of the girl who is.fol-
- lowing the Harvard football scores. Fre-
6 par, we meet bad cases of irritability
: fruitless efforts to get a copy
” or “Le Rouge et Le Noir.”
all is the “disgusting revolt-
ce of “Icebound.” What
d results will it not produce?








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a tremendous step for-

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From head to foot decay is. rapidly set-.



from each ather only to pay us, and that
if we were to cancel their debt to us they

would gladly remit all obligations to

themselves. Germany will now see*that
it is not to France and England and Italy
and Belgium that she must atorie for ‘the
war, but to America. And this common
cause against a country. which, suffering
ieast of all, in the war, emerged from it
more prosperous than ever, a country
which, already ‘the richest, in the world, is
demanding payment from poorer nations
whiCh were harder hit, will be handed on
to the several generations to come which
must ‘be taxed for America’s profit.

It is considerations like these which
make one wonder if it would not in the
end .have been cheaper to cancel our
debts. The value of good-will is consid-
erable between nations, Europe must
somehow find nmioney to pay us, and the
most obvious and most ‘agreeable way
YT wiltcertainty be the erection of economic)
batriers against America.



¢ EFFICIENCY

The spirit of efficiency seems to have
éntered Men’g Athletics to stay. Harvard
may not have a Harkness, but it has just
obtained eléctricity,to light its football
field at twilight, an advantage Yale has
enjoyed all "fall. No more precious mo-
ments wasted because Nature incon-
veniently sets. her sun too early, Can we
who show our Archery and Hoekey pic-
tures in the Sunday Supplement by the
“Star of the Gridiron” and “The Hero of
the Track,” continue our moonlit hockey
unashamed? :



PER ARGUMENTS AD ASTRA

Quite recently ‘Dr. Tyson told us that
religious teaching should go hand in hand
with facts we learn through actual ex-
perience, and today comes the news that
the, National Council of the Congrega-
tional Church decrees “that there is and
can be no conflict between religion and
science,” and that “any interference on
the part of the State or Federal Govern-
ment is uncalled for.” Thus we progress!
And tHe serene goddess of Science
emerges halo-crowned from the quibbles
of a Tennessee court room.

What a jolt it will be for certain “fire
and brimstone” legislators who must now
permit Scierice to pursue her search for
truth without the restrictions of their
fanatic-made laws. Or will they still try
to enforce their copy book religion in
spite of the trifling fact that even the
Church has abandoned it?



BOOK REVIEW



Along the Road, by , Aldous Huxley ;
Doran, New York, 1925.

‘ No quarter is asked, and none given.
The traveling public is from the outside
a thing ridiculous, and Mr. Huxley revels
in the ridiculous. There are those who
travel for something to talk about, thos
who travel because they do, not. stay at
home and those who travel under the
pleasant impression that they are enrich-
ing the mind, and so find the means of
forgetting that organ completely. There’s
a dreadful scene in a Montmartre caba-
ret at five A. M., and one of the saddest
memories in .Mr. Huxley’s life: two
young American girls are sitting at a
cabaret table, grimly sticking “life” out,

fortified by bottles of—lemonade!

The essays are divided into sections,
and your attention is now directed to the
books for your journey.. The accepted

| Ruskin, Wells, and Dante combination is
[heats get salle. fer.



geometric Holland, and you must admit,
and enjoy admitting, Mr. Huxley’s young,
savage and very intellectual ,energy.

Finally if you have read the novels, you
have an added reason for reading diong
the Road, ,'the last section of essays,
called’ “By the Way,” will giye you the
coinplacent pleasure of feeling familiar in
be literary way. ‘Their thought and tone
y®u will recognize: from’ Antic Hay and
Those Barren Leaves.'

The Polyglots, by William Gerhardi.

London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson.

Futility and death pervade this bitter and
fantastic tragedy of manners, the futility of
aimless and selfish. souls enervated by the
war, drifting together into an extraordinary
conglomeration of characters and nationali-
ties. “The Polyglots” are an*irritating, in-
effectual, grubby collection of mortals, who

éach other’s neryes. They get on ours, too,
one ana all, from the contemptible teller
of the tale to Uncle Lucy, who finally hangs
himself in his sister’s lingerie. Yet even
while we writhe under the book’s aimless
sordidness ,and bitter flippancies, its pene-
tration, its weary tolerance, its casual skill
in catching the mood of a certain post-war.
group, grows on us visibly. It is difficult
to develop a hearty affection for “The Poly-
glots,” but we do’ ‘feel a very great interest
and respect. ~ ,

The author’s tastes in names is peculiar,
to say the least. The hero is Georges Alex-
ander Hamlet Diabologh—and richly he de-
serves it—his servant is Pickup, and _ his

‘}companion is Percy Beastly, he of the ver-

tical nostrils. Georges Alexander Hamlet
tells the story of Aunt Teresa, a selfish
valitudinarian, of Uncle Emmanuel, an im-
moral little rat-terrier, of. innumerable
shabby, unsuccessful and philosophizing
Russians, and of his own trivial liaison with
the uninteresting Silvia—all in an incoherent,
rambling, clever style, full of bitter,- dis-
agreeable} but exceedingly”realistic humor.
The only pure and agreeable character in
the book is the child Natasha—who there-
fore dies.



AMONG NEW BOOKS|

Mary Stuart, by Florence A. Macunn.

There are a few stories that never. grow
old, a few women whose loves are un-
tarnished by _ retelling. Helen of Troy,
Heloise, Hero, Seult of Ireland, Mary,
Queen of Scots—every generation brings a
new person to write of them and a new
audience as eager as the others to hear
of them.

_ Among these, none isa greater. figure af
romance than Mary Stuart, daughter and
heiress of the gallant, lovable, ill-fated
Stuarts. Miss Maccunn’s book makes her
a very vivid and human figure. From her
position as the hope of the Guises and the
Queen in her own right of Scotland, her
marriage was destined to be a decisive fac-
tor in the alignment of European powers.
And yet she was very much a woman,
proud, high-spirited, generous and -passion-
ate. The Guises looked to her to re-estab-
lish them in France: their hopes were re-
alized when she married the Duaphin, but
dashed by his. death before she was 20.
The Pope expected her to reconquer Scot-
land and. England for Catholicism: John
Knox fought against her in Scotland, and
in England, Catholic, to the. core, she could
never triumph over the power of Elizabeth.
Looking on the daughter of Anne Boleyn
as illegitimate, Mary considered herself the
Queen of England, but France and Spain,
which should have helped her, were cowed

\philosophize, deceive each other and get on |

by the strength of Elizabeth, Elizabeth | igig

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fether with her Stuart ancestors, she was

like,,them, she was faithful to het friends.
Till sudden passion swept her off her feet

at diplomacy. In the end Elizabeth exe-
cuted her because, after years of imprison-
ment and sickness, her’ charm and her power
over meg made her seem dangerous to the
strgngest monarch and the vainest woman
of her day.

Miss’ Maccunn tells the story well, bethans
a bit too much Mary’s partizan—but then,
we are all that, even after 300 years,

(This book may be ordered through the
Bryn Mawr Book Shop.)

“WE ARE BOUGHT WITH.
PRICE,” SAYS DR. STURGIS





Christian Community |

‘I have no desire to impose my views
upon you,” said, Dr. William C, Sturgis,
secretary of the educational committee of
the National Council of fhe Protestant Epis-
copal Church, speaking in the chapel on
November 1.

“If you differ from me in every single



providing it représents real thought on your
part.

“Rebellion against auttincity: and tradition,
aud desire for personal liberty, is charac-
teristic of young men and women of today.
We are told that this is because young
people are thinking; in reality it is because
they aren’t thinking enough.”

“Personal liberty is a ridiculous will o’
the wisp, a non-existent thing. It may be
possible in solitude on a desert island, but
in no place where people are congregated
in numbers. Like the man who received a
walking stick in his nose, and whose pro-
tests were over-ruled by a. haughty. remark
about personal liberty, the world replies,
‘Sir, your personal liberty ends where my
nose begins.’

“We have been bought with a Price.
The first thing we learn as children is to
obey. When we pass from infancy: to
school, we are still under authority, Even
at college we are hampered by rules and
regulations, allowed no liberty except with-
in very narrow bounds, This is absolutely
just and. reasonable, for, like the boulder
held for centuries on a hillside, and finally
loosened to plow a path of destruction down
into “the valley below, freedom is nothing
under heaven but the freedom to fall,

“When we go out into the world, we
thifk, ‘At last I am free. My time is my
money, my life is my own.’ ‘And then we
are confronted with taxation, jury duty,
war. The State says, ‘I have a right to
your property, your time, even your life. .-
' “Just as we are citizens of the State, we.
are by baptism members of the family of

Here again we find no freedom, for there
“ust be authority. in fellowship. We can-
not live by ourselves in the kingdom of
3od; like tickets, Christians are ‘no good
€ detached.’

“In these days creeds and dogmas are
greatly scorned. But there is no activity in
life without dogma. The church
the result of the concensus of
all its members. Scientific dogma is |
result of observation of external

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the kind that people die for. gladly, and,‘un- -

she was a. wise ruler and a clever player”

Personal Liberty is is Impossible in

thing I say, I shall be immensely pleased,

God, citizens of the kingdom of heaven...