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“The College “Mewe

[Founded in 1914,}

t " . Published weekly during the college year in the



interest of Bryn Mawr College
Managing Editor..... ~. Ferice Bros, ‘24
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EDITORS
De.tA SMitH, '26 A. Grayson, ’25
E. Gressner, ’25 C. CumMINGs, ’25
ASSISTANT EDITORS
K. Tompkins, ’26 « J. Lors, ’26
K.’ Stmonps, ’27 M. Leary, ’27
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BUSINESS BOARD
Mawacer— Louise Howitz, 24
a. Marcaret SmiTH, 24.



ASSISTANTS

Marcaret Boypen,’25 Exizasetu Tyson, '26
Manton Nace, ’25



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Entered as second class matter September 26, 1914,
"at the post office at Bryn Mawr, Pa., under





Carol Cummings,
' Editor for this issue.

25, was Managing:



‘. AN EMBASSY OF UNDERSTANDING
* One of the: objections which lmborers

make to the intellectuals who’ would work
with them in their trade unions, is that
the latter know, nothing about industrial
conditions.
this difficulty would be for students to go

into industry themselves, but that is.usually |
Here at Bryn Mawr a small.

impossible.
group is attempting another solution. At
a Y. W. C. A. in one of the suburbs of

¢ Philadelphia is a club of working girls who
meet during the week for cl&sses in psy-
chology. The teacher is a woman whose
‘sympathies are with the working classes
but whose interests and contacts are aca-
demic. By her efforts these’ girls were
persuaded to meet one week with a few
Bryn Mawr undergraduates, and out of
that meeting has grown a‘ bi-weekly group
meeting of the industrial. and college girls
to discuss trade unions, workers’ education,
equal rights and so on.’

To the college girls the experience has
been enlightening and inspiring. They have
realized that industrial accidents to occur
outside of economics text-books, that great
numbers of people receive Jess than a living
wage, that strikes are not the result of
‘mere perversity on the part of the strikers,
and that the laboring classes have ideals
and standards-as well as they. It is harder
to see what the industrial girls obtain from
the meeting, since they’ are on the whole
better informed on economic matters than
we are, Perhaps: their pleasure- comes
from feeling thaf" they are enlisting fuitre

. members of the capitalist class in their:

cause. The great value to both groups,
however, is the increase of understanding
which results when persons with radically
different backgrounds meet on a common
ground to discuss questions which affect
them all. oe Bios

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af “THE MUTE INGLORIOUS”

Our. ancestors maintained our inatienable

right to. ‘liberty—shall we not uphold. the

principle for which they fought and died?
If there is oppression in our colleges, how
_ shall we hope to find liberty in the world

Gutside? Yet in Bryn Mawr itself there |

is a yery considerable group, without offi-
” cial recognition of any kind, which goes

Yof music! must be the cry of every lover

The ideal way to overcome}:

‘lightening, but if that is what we want,

t; |} to the most essential concrete needs, and }



their ways” through fear of the tyrannical
majority which surfounds” them. . Surely
it is not to be endured, this oppression of
|the few by the many. No more monopoly

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of. liberty.

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: THREE GUESSES =
When péffhy poets warble, “Spring!”
And organ-men proclaim it,

It then behooves the timely News
To fittingly ordain it.

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On every lawn we look and see

The “Don’t Cross Here” signs growing
Refreshed by winter’s rest and paint;
That is—if it’s not snowing.

ON MAGAZINES

Are we all taken in by magazine art?

Max Eastman thinks so. Successive gen-
erations of us, brought up ‘on the “Gib-
son girl” or the “Christy girl” or the ““Har-
rison Fisher girl,” become blunted, and our
ideals of feminine beauty are sadly preju-
diced. There is a time-worn question, to
wit, “what’s wrong with the picture?”
trite, we grant, but still useful in its way.
Unfortunately most of us never ask it in
connection with magazine illustrations. We
accept them placidly along with the placid
virtues they represent. Mr. Eastman has
summed up for us the chief of those quali-
ties we idealize in our magazines.

1. Wistfulness in a pretty girl—indicated
by arching her eyebrows clear ‘up into
her hair.

Adventurous although stylish athleti-
‘ cism in a young man—indicated in the
jaws and pants.
3. Romance in the meeting of the two—
indicated by his gazing upon the earth,
she upon infinity.
Pathos _of old age—indicated with
bending knees or a market basket.
5. Sweet and divine innocence of chil-
: dren—usually indicated in the stock-
ings.
His rennet are both exivptie: and en-

assuredly it is what we get. Ninety-five
per cent. of the illustrative material in
magazines is utterly worthless from an ar-
tistic point of view and yet we accept it
and get a cheap sort B enjoyment out
of it. What we nedd is a rfore strongly
critical attitude towards those things which
we accept in order to get pleasure. A good
start could be made on the collegiate atti-
tude toward magazine art. We scorn to
use a good collegiate word, gupp writing—
Why not gupp drawing ?

Editors do not hold themselves silliest for
optnions expressed in these columns.
To the Editor of Tue Cotreck News:

It seems time that a statement should be
made summarizing the attitude taken by
the college towards the Students’ Building.
Otherwise the alumnae may get a wrong
impression, and the cause of the building
be greatly damaged.

A luncheon was given about a week ago
by Miss Marion Reilly, an alumna, at which
were present President Park, Mrs. Chad-
wick-Collins, several alumnae, the class
presidents and most of the heads of the
large associations and organizations—a
group surely thoroughly representative of
the opinions of the college. This group
discussed very completely the whole matter
of the Students’ Building, and.there was
only one dissenting vote to the decision
that the building was a very real, pressing
and immediate need. ~

‘Again as to the matter of diasuial of

the May Day funds, this has already been
taken up by the undergraduates, and a}
motion passed that the money should be
given to the Music Fund and Students’
Building Fund.

Furthermore the biilding is not tobe
any Elysian playground. It is to contribute >



“hal simplest form, bn is Pro-}



torium, with rooms under it’for a few of,
the most important things., It is true that
many. causes. in the world. are calling for
our support, but we “should have no assur-
ance that the,one hundred thousand dol-
lars, just because they did not go to our
fund, would’ go to one of these other
causes. Besides, with this building, we
shall be’ able to make money on»our activ-
ities, instead of losing, and can then our-
selves contribute to many of the things we
feel worth while in the world at, large.

It surely seems, now that the opinion of
the college has expressed itself, and w®
have already voted on the, disposal of .the
May Day funds that the time for discuss
sion has- passed. Should not the minority
yield to the majority?

: MARION ANGELL.
To the Editor of the Cottece News:
The issue recently raised as to the meth-

-od--of using the--proceeds—of -May~Day-

seems to me to concern a fundamental
question as to the undergraduate state of
mind, Can the always conservative Bryn
Mawr student body be shaken out of its
calm by a sudden decision to give the pro-
ceeds of May Day to foreign relief funds?
Will this impetus direct, the energies of
the students to the help ‘of .the laboring
classes and the organization wot strikes?
The proceeds of May Day “would not do
great things, but would help somewhat in
foreign relief. So @lso in the Students
Building Fund, we do not expect the gains
calm by a sudden decision to give the pro-
but we do need the publicity; The Alum-
nae are working -with us, the classes of
Bryn Mawr for many years have worked
for the building. Have we the right to
refuse our share in this work now?—for
giving May Day: for some other cause
would retard the publicity for the Students
Building by four years.
_ The. need for the Students Building has
made it something more than “a pleasant
and harmless addition to the campus.”
Possibly the auditorium would not include
seats for an appreciably larger number of
people but a room in which comfortable
seating and a real possibility of seeing and
hearing in something beside.-the- first few
rows would be, I should say, more .cer-
tainly filled. Moreovér, the sure way in
which to draw large and paying audiences
is to give better plays. - This becomes more
and more difficult, for Bryn Mawr, with
its inadequate lighting system and stage,
cannot hope to compete with better
equipped amateur companies. In “ these
days of de luxe Little Theatres we are
still working with the equipment of
twenty years ago. It was thén possible
to produce a play with simple: settings, it

‘lis true, but these simple settings have

fallen apart after long wear and tear, and
it is the construction of new settings to
replace them which is expensive. Nor can
any simplification of scenery remove the
large initia} cost_ of the erection of the
stage.

Furthermore, the time is very sanidie
approaching when it will be excessive to
ask the Associations to function without
proper offices and filing accommodations.
Records which must be preserved are in-
creasing every year and there is literally
no place in which they may be kept at
present.

Respectfully,
PAMELA Coyne, 724.

To the Editor of THE News:

em whole question of the significance
sas which it should hold i in college life
| has been raised in the recent. discussion of
whether or not the president of the Asso-
en n should, ex officio, be chairman of



‘Tae News takes sine in arnounc-
“tng. the section dt KC, Siaiénds; 27 and
Men # the Eidhorial Boar.

FS and. will introduce sthe speakers,

the Curriculum Committee. At the last
meeting a motion that the chairman of

cil, was passed; presumably on the grounds
that a person suitable to be: President of
the Undergraduate Assogiation might not
always be an_ effective chairman of the
Curriculum Committee, and that surely
the position entails too much work for
the president.

As regards the last reason, Miss ReQua
has already explained that it is not suffi-
ciently important to be made an_ issue.
The whole matter _ resolves itself, then,
into the more significant question as to
which arrangemerit ‘will have the ‘more
beneficial effect upon the future of both

Curriculum Committee.

If the Undergraduate President is auto-
matically the chairman of the Committee,
she will be elected with this fact in view,

chosen, not only for the qualities gener-
ally considered in all college elections, but
also for an active interest in the academic
work in college.’ This would result in our
having at least one of our four associations
directly connected with the aspect of col-
lege lifg which is actually the most im-
portant one. And in consideration of the
number of unacademic activities and in-
terests which occupy our'time and tend to
divert our attention from college work;
this. surely seéms an vend worth striving
for.
VirGINIA Lomas.

To the Editor of THe Cottece News:.
While a sense of values is undoubtedly
a desirable possession, ° steadfastness ot
purpose is an equally desirable one. It has
been decided, after careful consideration,
to give the proceeds of May Day toward
the Students’ Building Fund and the Music
Department. It would show the weakness of

cause of the fresentation of a new object
of charity which seems worthy of dona-
tion.

No matter how long we might defer the
final culmination of the plans for Students’
Building there would. always be a new
cause to which our money might conceiv-
ably be diverted. There are so fnany
worthy causes in the world!

It is a serious question. whether or not
such a use of May Day proceeds as has
been suggested would bring an enthusiastic
response from our prospective subscribers.
Such an ‘object might not have—shall we
say, quite a universgl appeal?
~ But the very fact that we have accumu-
lated fifty ‘thousand dollars ghows what
can, and will, be done for the Students’
Building. (And once it is built any number

to the world’s betterment.) Having come

so far, let us not go astray! >
Auice G. W111, ’26.



SCIENTIFIC EXOAVATOR TO SPEAK
ON MYCENAE

Dr. Alan J. B. Wace -will lecture here
on April 4th on his excavations in My-
cenae. Dr. Wace is this year’s Notable
Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute
and was. formerly Director of the British
School in Athens.

He has re-excavated Mycenae according
to his new methods, which are more sci-
entific than those of any other excavators.
His digging comes very near to being a
science. Dr. Wace is also a recognized

nology.



FELLOWSHIP. DINNER. TO BE IN
ROCKEFELLER FRIDAY NIGHT

of 1924 will hold their Fellowship Dinner
‘in Rockefeller Hall. et,
Anne Shiras has been elected toanteaiae

whom are: _Mary Louise





the Committee be appointed by the Coun-”

the Undergraduate,’ Association and’ the:

and-future~Undergraduate” boards” will be

vacillation to change our minds merely be--

of entertainments can be given to contribute ~

authority on pre-Greek chronology and eth-_

On Friday evening, March 2Ist, the class”