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CHARLESTON FOLLIES
TIMELY AMUSEMENT

Maids’ Club Presents Aitaal Skits
With Jazz Interludes of
Music and Dancing

1928 ORCHESTRA PERFORMS

VOL. XIl.











The Charleston Follies were performed by
the Maids’ Club, Saturday night, in the
gymnasium before .a large and. enthusiastic

«The * ros orchestra furnished
musical accompaniments’ when these were not
supplied by mouth organs and ukeleles.

“The first episode,” ‘a movie of The Sheik,
by Pembroke Hall, had to be run off back-
-wards‘due to a “mishap to the camera.” The
whole drama, done on* horseback, was -very
vivid and well executed.

Radnor gave a lecture on tle perfect
movie. Thc sithouetting of the figures was
very effective as the emotions of the audience
followed Romeo eagerly through his trials.
A horrid-looking rival seemed for a moment
to be snatching the prize from his “grasp,
aided by Juliet’s father, but in manly fash-
ion, after ineffectually trying all forms of
duelling from fencing to boxing arid a Wil-
helm Tell match, he dragged him off the
stage and presumably threw him in the
horse pond. :

A graphic figure of Time passed, and then
«the audience was allowed to see the “get-
away”. of the young people. ‘Descending a
stép-ladder into the arms of, her lover,. Juliet
persuaded him to hide behind an umbrella
while she packed her bag. So much time

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THE AVERAGE STUDENT: WHAT
THE COLLEGE CAN DO FOR HER





Three Lines Open For Training Large
Middle Group of Students



The average student, as representative
of the large group in College, was dis-
cussed by Miss Park in chapel on Mon-
day morning, April 12.

To be numerical, the average student
lies somewhere between the Upper Ten
and the lower ten; not a single student,
but the whole group who fall between
these extremes. The faculty derive most
pleasure from the upper ten, and the
lower ten occasions them most worry,
but the average group, that homogeneous
inass with a common problem, demand a
share of the administrative time and at-
tention. “They belong there for many
reasons, Potentially some belong to the
upper group; lack of interest, immaturity
or faulty preparation alone keeps them
out, But there are others whose difficulty
is intellectual, one of memory or clear
thinking. And this is more apparent here
because College tests that side cane to
the exclusion of others.

Responsibility’: for this group is as-
sumed by the College, which Miss Park
believes can do three very: definite things
for them. It can teach them to dis-
. — between inaccuracy and ac-
to paraphrase that overworked

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‘The Editorial Boa of the Col-
lege News takes great pleasure i in an-
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this year.

Carol Platt, '27, was also elected

Hopkinson, 26.

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A special edition of a certain Washington paper was brought
to proclaim the first bloom of the Japancse cherry. trees.
of ‘every Editor of the News lies an unformed query:

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS ..
Beatrice Pitney, '27, will be president of the Christian Association nex
year, succeeding Winifred [fodd, '26. Miss Pitney has been Class Tennis Cap-
tain for the past three years and a member of the Editorial Board of the News,

and head ol-the Religious Meetings Committee of the Christian Association

Miss Platt was on the Christian Association Board this year

and had been Glass Song Mistress and’

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as Vice-President, to succeed Harriet

Basketball Captain for two years.



Wines Aiiiaiin

out last Saturday
Deep in the mid-brain
Will the ‘college ever show

enough concentrated interest (in the News or in anything else) to warrant a Specias

Edition ?
Note:
which we reprint herewith:
wa the

finds itself - confronted by

oe

turn of the year, the News

the problem

whiol” sooner or later: faces every college

newspaper : ‘shall it. continue ?

The
lifference of the college toward the News,
and that occasional

editorial, review or play writeup, the college
regards it as dull and unprofitable. Further-
more, it failg to "see. what can be done to
remedy the situation. The advertisements,
which pay for the printing, necessitate a
six-page paper; the. average col'ege week,
with its quota of games, elections and lec-
falls far short of filling six pages.
as a result, to give

Board recognizes the ‘general in-

sees except for an

tures,
The board is forced,
practically verbatim reports of -all*lectures.
without regard to their importance, and to
vad out other empty sheets with unrelated
material borrowed from various periodi-
cals. The result is a patently uninferest-
ing and second-hand production, ground
out in the sweat of the editors’ brows.

Perhaps because of this dullness, which
is only symptomatic of the growing in-
difference of undergraduates to things con-
nected with college, that self-perpetuating
body which is the Board, is meeting with
great difficulty in finding people who are

the same time. willing and able to go on
with its work. Most of the undergrad-
ates who are capable ‘of doing really good
newspaper ‘writing—that is, those who are
able to write interesting reviews and edi-
torials showing some thought, besides stereo-
typed write-ups—have refused to concern
themselves with the News. *

The old Board is no longer under the
ob'igation to stimulate college interest—
its ' work has been done. “The remainder
of the Board is unwilling to go on with a
task involving increasing—work for a

The reader is advised to reread the editorial in the News of March 30,

* .
steadily diminishing number of people, un-
less the college feels that thére is really a
definite need for the News. In the. present
state of indifference, there seem to be only
two possible’ either the entire
Board must resign, and the News stop until
a new group of people, impelled by a new
impetus, and backed by a new college sense
of need, create a new paper, or, if it is to
continue now, it must be made far less for-
mal, to include no advertising at all, several
editorials, an occasional review or really in-
teresting write-ups, and calendar for the
next weck—in this way, it could contain
all the features which the college now finds

COUrses :

interesting, and the thankless drudgery of
a small and harried. group would be
clinjinated.

This scaling down would probably mean
that the alumnae, who are by far the
largest-subscribers tothe News, would cease
to be interested. But after all, a college
newspaper must try to adapt itself primarily
undergraduates. and not to the
2 oes _ Ifthe alumnae‘are interested in
the lectures and sports of college, they can
demand full accounts-in the Alumnae Bule-
tin; but undergraduates are not interested
‘n the majority of write-ups of events which
they either attended themselves or did not
think worth attending.

The question is one for the college to
consider, since it is ultimately as a result
of college interest and backing that a col-
lege. newspaper achieves any degree of
success. It is certainly significant that dur-
ing this entire year, the News has received
not more than two letters from undergrad-
uates who had something to put before the

to the

college. It exists now as a means of ex-
pression forthe college. Does the college
want it? : * oe :

The Board would welcome all sugges:

tions and criticisms of these proposals.
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BRYN MAWR TO SHARE IN
.ESTATE OF NEW YORK WOMAN
The Hartford - Hospital of Hartford,

Conn., was bequeathed $25,000 in the will

of Mrs. Alice D. Jackson, filed, recently

The will disposed of an estate of over

$251000 in real and about $150,000 in per-

sonal property. Mrs. Jackson died last

bMarch 26.

The Manhattan Eye, = and Throat
Hospital was given $25,000. Two-thirds
of the balance of the residuary estate
was given to Bryn Mawr College, and the

|remaining third went to Tuskegee In-

stitute, Tuskegee, Ala.
The will directed that the Hartford

Hospital should: employ either the inter-
| est’ or the principal of the $25,000 in re-|
| search work, if possible, in the direction
of preventive. medicine, and directed sane











| University of Paris.
hay

M. CESTRE COMPARES FRENCH
-AND AMERICAN COLLEGES
We reprint the following article from The
Intercollegiate World since any statement of
M. Charles Cestre is of personal interest to
Bryn Mawr in view of the opportunity af-
forded us by his series of lectures last fall.
M. Cestre is now at the University of Michi-
gan, He is reported to have made this com-

varison of French and American colleges :
“In France a great deal of personal -work
is necessary, especially in the department of
literature. So much time is required for
studying that there is little time for outside
activities. As law is a more mechanical

the time to go out for. athletics.
“Dormitories and fraternities have been

study, it is only the law student who has

put recently introduced ‘into French universi- |
ties. Due to congested conditions, dormitories | |
have now been huilt bas A rsh’ i




TUITION RAISE NEEDED
FOR RUNNING EXPENSES

Slight Increase in Many Items
Makes Yearly Deficit Alarming
Goodhart Hall New Demand







LIBRARY TO BENEFIT

$
luition for next year will be increased

$100, accordirf~ to President Park's
annourfcement in chapel Wednesday
morning, Maggh 31. This meatis that the.
directors have decided on a required sum
of $400 instead of the present $300.
Unfortunately, thic does not imply that
any unusually great work is to be put
under way. With the exception of larger
hook purchases for the library most of the



money is to go to meet increased running -

expenses, for although no one item has
risen tremendously about fifty smaller ex-
penses have ittcreased slightly.

In 1920, in order to complete a two
million dollar endowment drive, it was
necessary to clear the college debt. This
was accomplished by borrowing $17,000
out of Mrs. Russell Sage’s gift to the
college; hug the directors did this only on
condition that the income of-this $17, 000
be devoted solely to feplacing the bor-
rowed capital“~As soon as this obliga-
tion is met this interest will be free to

‘meet ordinary deficits in the college ex

peuses.

Added to the usual yearly items will
be the upkeep of Goodhart hall, which it
cost about $5000 an-

is estimated will

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GATES OF PARADISE LEAD
TO MISS TSUDA’S SCHOOL



Often Failed Seams Are Cause of

Japanese Suicides



“Missionary work today is not what it
used to be,” sad Mrs. J. S. Kennard, a
Bryn Mawr. graduate, while speaking at
Vespers Sunday, April 11, on Miss
Tsuda's school in ‘Tokio.

luteresting movements have arisen it),
every part of Japan recegtly; but nothing
of any greater importance than Miss
Tsuda’s sclfdol; Since it is an indepen-
dent Christian institution, not in any way
managed by foreigriet, its activity lies.
chiefly in the hands of local Japanese
teachers. Due to the devastation of the
earthquake the accommodations are un-
fortunately small and quite inadequate
for the increasing number of applicants.
The main building is nothing short of a
barracks, just barely providing sufficient
class room. ,

But this does not dfmpen the unlimited
enthusiasm of the Japaneses: girls who
are. seeking education, . Those who pass
the entrance examinations look upon their
admissiom as if they were about to walk
through the gates of paradise. This un-
quenchable thirst for knowledge is

typical of modern young Japan as a

whole. .

Unfortunately, the Japanese suffer from |

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The Concer News announces with
pleasure the election of N. C. Bow-
“man, ’27, as Business’ Manager for
1926-27, to succeed J. Lee, '27, and’
P. McElwain, 28, as Se