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‘divinities worshiped in: Asia.
INDIAN ARTIS.
LECTURE SUBJECT
Dr. Coomaraswamy Surveys
Sculpture and. Paintings
Over Period of Centuries.
BUDDHIST ART TRACED
Indian@art, with which most of us were
painfylly unacquainted; was the subject
of a very illuminating lecture in Taylor
on Friday evening, April 1. Dag Diez in-
troduced the” speaker, Dr. Ananda Coom-
araSwamy, who since 1917 has beeg
curator of the Indian collection in the
Boston Art Museum and’ is one of the
few scholars who is an authority on In-
dian art.
Dr. Coomaraswamy begém his rapid
survey of the entire field of Indian art in
painting and sculpture by showing us
some primitive seals dating from about
three’or four thousand B. O. C. which
were very similar in character to Sume-
rian art of the same period. He also
showed us a few terra cotta figures of
foddesses of fertility of the primitive
period,:the type of which has continued
on down through Indian art until thegnews,
present time.
Before the third century B. C., how-
ever, there was little monumental. art
due in large measure to the character of
the religion, which was a worship of
more or less abstract genii, or guardian
spirits, of the Naga or Yuksha types,
which are related to certain types of
As the re-
ligion was of an entirely abstract mys-
tical character with elements of -nature
worship, it was natural that a monu-,
mental art should not develop until there
was some need felt on the part of the
people for anthropomorphisation. This
need was felt as early as the third cen-
tury B. C.. when certain definite types
were first developed in art as the result
of the first stages of a devotional wor-
ship, whose emotional requirements were
soon anthropomorphic.
Third Century Landscapes
As a model for the type of devotional
statue which was directly to inspire the
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One Religion Conquering
Race Prejudice Is Islam
“Chivalry was founded by four hun-
dred Arabic Knights,” said Professor
Joshi, head of the Department of Philoso-
phy at Dartmouth and a descendant of
a long line of Brahmin scholars, in a
talk on comparing Islam and Chris-
tianity Tuesday evening, April 5: He pled
for an attitude of discrimination and*
’ tolerance toward Islam. We should dis-
cover the highest peaks of achievement
of other people, not their faults, and thus
acquire knowledge and wisdom. @
Today there are four dominant types
of. civilization, Western (based on Greek
philosophy, the Roman system of law, the
Christian religion, Hebrew ethical teach-
ing, and ndéw embracing the modern
scientific movement), secondly the civi-
lization of China, the mongoloid type,
then the civilization of India and finally
the. civilization of the Mohammedan
world. Vestiges of old Aryan traditions,
once shared by the whole of Europe, are
‘alone extant in the civilization of India.
and Islam, whi
6
India has preserved them uncorrupted.
The acceptance of- Christianity severed
Europe from these traditions. Although
Christianity claims Palestine as fts.birth-
place, when it went to Europe it, s
united with Greek philosophy and became
Hellenized, then Europeanized and: final-
ly, when/ it was brought here, Ameri-
canized.
Profedick: Joshi: said. th at, there.» were |:
three impe Spurr jonary religions in
the: world. today—Buddhism, Christianity,
igh eee as Asner R48 “
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V. Fain, Art President:
The officers of the Art Club for the
year 1927-28 will be: —
Virginia Fain .......... ores .. President
Tsabella Hopkinson ... i Vice President
Edith ee es oe . Secretary
‘Helen N. oe :
os
‘Ttwo uikdnaee” 2 ‘large can of éarpenters;
-| search. ,
Jone else. At first she flounders about a
parE Elections,
The *Self-Government Assdéciation
has elected the following people to 4
its Executive Board: Second Juni-
or member, E. Perkins; third Junior
member, R. Cross; first Sopho-
more member, O. Stokes; second
Sophomore member, M. Dean ; sec-
retary, B. Channing, '29; treasurer,
M. Martin, ’30.
FACULTY TO-EDIT
NEXT NEWS ISSUE
B. Ling and Unnamed Wade:
lings Will Describe College
as Professors See It.
NEWS HOPES TO LEARN
9
In token of the affection. the faculty
feels toward the undergraduates of Bryn
Mawr, they have agreed to confer an
Easter gift upon the college, it was re-
vealed today. They have contracted to
bring out the next issue of the Cout. EGE
to the enormous profit of the
the
greater profit of the News Board. Step-
college, and particular and even
ping down from their .position as the
cynosure of undergraduate eyes, they will
describe the doing of the undergraduates
as they see them. Barbara Ling, 1925,
a member of the staff and reader in His-
tory of Art, is to be Editor-in-Chief, She
refused to make: public the names of her
asistants, who, however, will include
many honored names among the faculty.
Miss Ling has had a long acquaintance
with the News, having, -she alleges, tried
out. many times for the editorial board
while an undergraduate. *
The old Board of the News looks for-
ward to seeing its mistakes corrected and
its methods improved 6n and the new
Board anticipates model for its _emula-
tien thréughout the coming year.
Shaw’s Life Is Series .
of Inspired Follies
To give a “personal close-up” of his
friend, Mr. Bernard Shaw, was the pur-
pose of Mr. Archibald Henderson in
speaking here, on Thursday, March 31.
As Shaw’s biographer, Mr.. Henderson
‘has had the opportunity to find out many
amusing things about the personality of
the great dramatist.
He has often been: asked how he, a
student of mathematics, had come to
write this biography ; his account of it is
amusing, and typical of Shaw. When he
was still a student, he was taken to a
performance of You Never. Can Tell.
This affected hima“like a bath of Milli-
ken Rays,” so he set’ to work to read
everything that Shaw had ever written.
Then, with the audacity of youth, he
wrote to Shaw, and formally proposed to
write his life. After several anxious
weeks, he received a post card, bearing
the four words “Send me your photo-
graph!” Mr. Henderson said this re-
quest embarrassed him exceedingly be-
PAGE
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Scientific Research Is
Gem of Sportsmanship
“The presiding genius of scientific re-
search is a fit subject, for a whole volume
of sonnets,” according to Katherine Blod-
gett, Bryn Mawr, 1917,,and-at present re-
sdarch worker for Geréral Electric Co:
And _ the solving of scientific problems,
is the most fascinating and panratisiig of
games.
Miss Blodgett is at work on such prob-
‘ems in the General Electric laboratory
in Schenectady, New York. To _Supply
plumbers, electricians and glass blowers
is réquired. This “is in addition, of
course, to those doing—the- actual re-,
When a “green worker” Gree comes to
the General Electric, she is put to work
as assistant on the experiment of some-
Yildiz Philips
= wong .deal - cand” asks innumerable ques-
CONTINUED ON PAGE a
POMPEII WAS A
MYSTIC CENTER
Dr. Rostovseff Found Friezes
of Ritual—Shows' Slides
For First Time.
COMPLEX — INITIATIONS
That Pompeii in the last days of the
Roman republic was a center of Greek
mystic cults was the theme discussed by
Dr. Ivan Rostovseff, now’ Professor of
history at Yale University, and formerly
at a womag’s University in Petersburg,
in a lecture delivered in me or Hall on
Saturday evening, April 2.
These cults were developed in Greece
Jin the sixth century. B. C., during a period
of political and industrial strife. Misery
and oppression on-earth led to faith in a
divine justice hereafter, to a preoccupa-
tion generally with the mysteries of: life
and death not -solved Homer and
Hesiod.
by
Cult of Demeter Old
The worship of the earth mother, the
Goddess of the spring resurrection, called
in Greece Demeter, went back to the Pre-
Indo-European period; added to this,
frorn the ndethad come the worship of
Bacchus, the god of vegetation. From
the sacrificial rites in his honor arose the
mystic Dionysiac cult, its followers be-
lieving that participation in their myster-
ies and initiation ceremonies would bring
a new life hereafter for the Blessed. At
first these followers were the oppressed
peop'es of humble origin, but by the sixth
century B. C. the attention of those in
higher circles had been attracted, stimul-
latitig a new period of philosophic specu-
latior, On these early cults new philoso-
phy was built up, based on the principles
of original sin, purification, infernal
punishment and heaventy reward. The
origin of the system was ascribed to a
mythical god, Orphetts, and the philoso-
phy he was supposed to have propounded,
called Orpheism, affected in turn the
Eleusian Mysteries of Demeter and
various Dionysiac cults,
In the fifth and fourth centuries B. C.
these philosophies spread over Italy and
Sicily. Tablets of advice to the dead
have been found on the sites- of o'd
graves
In spite of official censure the cults
lived and spread. Finally in the civil
wars, with Italy overridden by strife and
suffering and Lucretius’ appeal to ‘reason
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‘Work Up the Ladder
Although there will be no interclass
tennis matches this spring, people wishing
to work up on their class leaders are
asked to challenge those who have the
position two places above and give the
me to their class captains, R. Rickaby,
; F. Bethel, ’28; C, Swan, ’29, and
O. Stokes, 730. Any group. desiring a
tournament is‘ also at liberty to organize
one at any time, if some one in authority
is notified.
" Varsity, however, will play several
matches this season and B. Pitney, ’27,
captain, is very anxious that people prac-
tice diligently (except on those mornings
when the courts are closed for repairs
and. when a notice to that effect will be
posted on the athletic board.)
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VOL, XIII. No. 21. BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA... WEDNESDAY, r, APRIL 13, 1927 PRICE, 10. CENTS
“BLAYDS” RECEIVES HOMAGE
‘FROM BRYN MAWR AUDIENCE
M. Peyre iedvicciines M.. Villard Exceptional Interpreter of
_ Difficult Parts.
Rose Will Head News BARKER | A REVELATION
»
’
The Collegé News takes great
pleasure in announcing that the
Editor in Chief for ‘next year
will Cornelia B. Rose, 1928. Miss '
Rose has been on the News
since her sophomore year, and
~has also been a member of the
Cut Committee and of the board
of -the Self Government Asso-
ciation.
. H. McKelvey, 1928, was elect-
ed Censor for aext year. She
has been a member of the board
of the Christian Association, and 3ut no
is now on the Central Committee | | sooner had the curtain been raised over |
of Varsity Dramatics. | this Dine: dewed hanniie
As a result of the competition bee vee CEOWING COCR, VECy Tae
held during the last few weeks, | | Teprodticed with its air of old dignity,
|
| By M. Henri Peyre.
.Obliging colleagues had warned me
ihow delicate a task it was to reviegy a
| Varsity play and to: combine the praises
‘that one ‘is expected to distribute with
/a measure of sincere, which is often to
Say, severe criticism. I nevertheless en-
itered the gym firmly decided to assume
/my most high-brow attitude and I listea-
led with the same kind of superior (and
| at times bored) irony that professors dis-
es during a students’ report.
for the Editorial Board, Mary | | than I began to think it might be a real
Grace, 1929, and Erna S. Rice entertainment after all, The ‘characters
and Catherine Howe, 1930, have | appeared and by the middle of the first
Been made associate editors. | act I ap lauded heartily. I had t
Celeste Page, .1930, has been | | “ee ee Penta de e:
|
| $4 a ba > b4 , %
elected to the. business. board. nize that my reviewer’s task would be
The new board will take over
ajter the faculty issue of next
week.
MRS. TIFFANY
LEAVES BEQUEST
Alumnae Association to Bene-
fit Eventually from Large
Trust Fund.
$25,000.00
Bryn Mawr College,
less embarrassing thar I thought. I can-
not resort to the usual formula and de-
clare that this is the best play I have
ever seen in Bryn Mawr, hecause it
would not mean much in my case. But
it is certainly an excellent amateur pro-
duction; that in almost every detail gives
[proof of competence, effort and talent.
M. Villard Stars. as Blayds
M. Villard undoubtedly starred as the
old poet Blayds and her qualities are
far above the ordinary range. Her make-
up was excellent, her costume and _atti-
tude struck one as trite in every respect.
Her quivering voice, the shaking of her
hands, were admirably kept up until the ~
fend, while the diction always remained
clear and carried to the audience the im-
pression of melancholy regret and pathos
of that-old-man crushed by his lifelong
secret, Miss Villard’s exceptional gifts
as an interpreter of difficult parts was
known to the college already; she has
given another and last proof of it before
she leaves Bryn Mawr.
Miss Barker, who is, I believe, a Fresh-
man, will on the contrary have more op-
portunities to display her talent, for she
has also a large share of it. She had
already been something of a revelation
in Pierrot at the Players’ and she seems
to have some experience of the amateur
stage, so easy 1s her acting, not stained
by the slightest touch of self-conscious-
ness or awkwardness. The naturalness
with which she walked about the stage
sat down, delivered in a rich voice her
replies of the frank, saucy granddaughter
Septima were most refreshing | and de-
lightful to the audience,
The mother, the eternally blundering
and incurably stupid Marion, was also -
played with great skill by Miss Latane.
Her make-up, her attitude and gestures
FELLOWSHIP
Mrs.
Charles L. Tiffany, prominent alumna,
in which
interested herself deeply from the time
of her graduation until her ‘death,
Marche 11, will benefit considerably in
years to come as a result of provisions
in her will filed at Mineola.
The will provides that Mrs. Tiffany’s
Henrietta B.
Ely, and her aunt, Sarah A. Reed, each
sisters, Gertrude S. and
shall receive the income for life from
a share in the residuary estate which
may amount to about $1,000,000, Upon
the death of each of these beneficiaries,
the amount set aside for such bene-
ficlary alumnae is to go to the Bryn
Mawr Alumni Association, of which
Mrs. Tiffany formerly was president,
to be used by that association for the
benefit of the college.
In addition, on the death of Eva
Richardson of Decatur, Ga., another
beneficiary, Bryn Mawr is to receive
$25,000 for, the establishment of*a fel-
lowship in archaeology to be known as
the Theodore N. Ely Scholarship, in
honor of Mrs. Tiffany’s father. Miss
o
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Bryn Mawr Able to Solve
Religion-Science Problem
“The world war is not the greatest
2
EIGHTH PAGE |}
B. Loines Unanimous Choice for C. A.
President, Stewart Vice-President
conflict civilization has ever known.”
Dr. Mart, professor of Sociology, in
a very ingeresting’ talk in chapel on Fri- .
day, made this statement rather obvious.
For there is a far greater conflict which
Barbara Loines, ‘28, was unanimously
elected president of the Christian Asso-
for the year 1927-28, at a meet;
ing held on ‘Tuesday, April ‘Miss
Loines has been-on the Christian Asso-
ciation Board for two years; she was
ciation,
5.
Freshman year, she has been on the
Varsity Hockey team, and was twice class
Hockey Captain. She is Varsity Basket-
ball Captain for next year, and has been
jon the team every year. During ‘her
Freshman year, she was a member of the
Undergraduate Board.
Elizabeth Stewart, "98, ‘ons was seheiied
Vice. President, “has also been on the
Christian . Assoc] us
class President, in. her, Sophamare..vear
+and-is-att all-around athlete. From her
Board | for two
has been rumbling dissatisfaction for
over nineteen hundred years—that be-
tween science and religion. : ‘
The struggle began with trade and be2-
|Maid’s Committee. In her Freshman
year she was on the Self-Government
Board. She was Swimming Manager last
year, and Varsity Swimming Captain ( :
this, Her histrionic ability is well|came acute with modern analysis and in-
from her interpretation of the’ Frog Foot- | vention, with the radio, es aeroplane, and —
then new discove veries. int
One thing is apparently evident: a de-
sire on the part of one to wholly annihi- _
late the other. The recent controversy in
Tennessee shows very clearly the atti-
tude of religion toward science. But, on
First Junior member of the Board. the other han, the work of. the labora~
- At a second meeting of the Association, |tory would stamp out some of the teach.
held April 11, the other Board members |4ngs of religion as mere superstitions.
were elected. The Junior members are'Some time ago the French Academy d
R. Biddle and S.. Bradley. From the clays {puted the idea that stones fall from.
of 1930, F. percare J. Keasby and D. > and GPa an EE such a
SK, pattem
man in Freshman Show, throngh Lee, |:
”" her spies dG we
in “The Truth About Blayds, she. has
never failed to delight, ‘as a comedian.
The two Senior members of the Board
are J. Stetson and B. Gaillard.
M. R. Humphrey, ‘29, was elected
Bee
ees |:
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SELF-GOVERN MENT
This week the new Executive
Board of the Self-government As-
sociation comes into power. More
than any other board. within recent
years, this board needs a_ clear
vision and a firm hand. For on the’
- respect which it can command, the
public opinion it can -arouse, de-
pends the successful operation of
Self-government.
“The past board has put through
the difficult task of re-making the
entire code of rules. This revision
has been based on the theory that
people will obey rules which they
have had some hand in making,
more readily than those which are
imposed upon them as a heritage of
the ages. The new set of resolu-
tions is the most liberal—and, in
comparison with those of other. col-
leges, it is very liberal—that can be
obtained at this time. If. the stu-
dent body fails to obey these rules,
if it fails to support the Executive
Board which it has elected and to
which it has given the power and
the responsibility of carrying out
these rules, it will acknowledge that
it is not capable of self-government.
To be fair, not only to the Board
_of Directors, and to Miss Park who
have faith enough to allow us to re-
make our rules and to govern our-
selves, but also to ourselves, ‘we
must co-operate with the Executive
Board in the spirit in which the
new_rules were made.
CHICAGO OVERSHADOWED
The assertion that Leningrad
holds the world record for drunk-,
enness, suicides and murders -comes
as a great blow to our national
pride.
corous and conservative St: Peters-
burg which fled from anything so
radical as futuristic art, beating our
own Chicago; the idea is preposter:
ous! Contrary to all accepted be-
liefs, there may be something in
names after all. hike instance, a
“rose labeled “Bla ic” might!
smell mich sweeter.
But seriously ‘speaking, all Euro-
peans know that Americans take
great pride; in “bigger and better”
things,—from theaters to crimes.
To rob us of so infantile a past-
time seems sheer cruelty—nay !
worse than that—bad — business
judgment. What will foreign lec-
turers allude to in pointing out to
us our anarchy and thirst for blood
now that Leningrad has superseded
Chicago? In the good old days, all
the lecturer had to say was, “Look
at Chicago!” The audience obliging-
ly shuddered, laughed with good-
natured and pardonable pride and,
secure in the belief that America
held the récord, was prepared to
ign any foreign failing. But}
now that Leningrad overshadowed.
us, our only alternative is to take
in our conservatism and law-
a oe emma a sou
Leningrad, the one-time de-|.
body with- these” substances:
ies} not much chance to operate.
rae
geous sunset..if our attention were
I not. called to it,—but what, of. it?!
“| Missing one now™ and: then only |.
keéps us from becoming satiated.
The most irritating nature lovers
are the ejaculatory enthusiasf$. In
rapt accents they exclaim “Look!
The Japanese cherry is out!” or
“The grass! it’s so green!” But
on second thought, they are not
quite so bad as the Silent Starers,—
(at least they never leave ‘you in
doubt as. to what has _ attracted
them). ‘But the silent Starers!
They grab you and just point, too
overcomé with emotion to utter a
sound. We usually make the mis-
take of thinking that they are point-
ing to the campus dog scratching
his-fleas, and-spoil their rapture. by
laughing. The Analytical Admir-
ers are better; they*remark in calm
tones, under which one can detect
subdued soul throbs, ‘““The grey of
the building, and the blue sky above
make a perfect spore, for the Japa-
nese cherry,” or “violets should al-
ways grow saint stone,—the jux-
taposition of the weak and the
strong is so poignant,” these are the
artists, and perhaps we should not
condemn them too harshly.
However, we much prefer to
study nature in our way, and alone,
—except of course, when we are
the first to discover some particu-
lar beauty. ~
NOT GUILTY
The Boule—the Supreme Court
of Greece—has recently been the
scene of a very pretty publicity
stunt. At Jeast, no one can believe
seriously in the effort of the Greek
lawyer who, this past month, has
‘been trying to get the Court to re-
verse the decision against Socrates.
Such a reversal cannot affect
Socrates nor-his reputation, nor
even that of the Court which con-
demned him, for few will-:remember
the present action, while no one who
reads the Apologia can forget what
happened in 399 B. C.
While the most that this effort
can do is to make the people con-
Lcerned look ridiculous, it is certain-
ly an ingenious way of getting your
name in the papers. Let us hope,
however, that no other disinter-
ments of causes cebres will take
place. :
PRINCETON SEEKS SARETY
Since automobiles, due to danger
to. life and property, have been
banned from Princeton, — roller-
skates and airplanes have enjoyed
much notoriety as substitutes. From
latest reports, however, airplanes
seem to be gaining the monopoly.
The reasons are obvious. Streets
and sidewalks are terribly congest-
ed, and. traffic regulations have
failed to obviate this condition.
Furthermore both streets and side-
walks are made of materials noted
for their hardness and _ resistance.
Thus bruises and fractures often
result frony an impact of the human
no wonder that such dire menaces
to life and limb as roller-skating in-
volves, should not long be tolerated.
On the other hand, now that the
farmers have de-crowed New Jer-
sey, the air is comparatively un-
populated. Collisions have been
reduced to the minimum, and, al-
though a few chimneys and house
tops may suffer, human life is un-
molested.
PULLMANO AND ,
PASSENGERO
We have many opportunities; on
! week-ends and vacations to observe
the number of people who ride on
trains up and down this rail-ridden
country; and always it seems that
these travelers are recruited from
ing and. unintel-
the most un} nyfiter eresti
, [ting ches
__ | ine ht in. New gins ‘the
| broadening effects of travel have
poetic om ye
ee omar by
THE COLLEGE. NEWS
It-is}’
eae of
But
d - 3 :
must be to create some sort: of
vestigating the ‘library of a Pullman
observation car with an. eye ‘to this
improvement we found that it
contained: two dozen, time-tables ;
a. Christian Science “Monitor, a
Popular Mechanics; a Rotarian
Magazine, a Home Gardening
parhphlet and a Florida orange-
grower: No wonder » phe people}
nursed on such literature have an’
undernourished look. What an op-
‘portunity lost! Think, if the books
were available, how the trayeler
might revel in Booth Tarkington
as he looked out on the plains of
Indiana, or be filled with the spirit
of Daniel Boone as he topped the
Alleghenies. As the idea expanded,
book-shelves, might replace — those
useless little: green hammocks in
going home for Easter need never
stop the process of education.
Correspondence
April 11, 1927*
To the Editor of the CoLLEceE News:
As you are printing in this issue of the
CotteceE News a newspaper report of
Mrs. Tiffany's will, | venture to ask for
a litle of your space in order to peint out
_Jwhat seems to me the real significance of
such a bequest.
A woman of great social charm and of
marked ability, Mrs. Tiffany had perhaps
as close a connection with things which |
uate of Bryn Mawr. An ardent believer
in woinan suffrage, she was one of its
active supporters everi in the long ago
days when to support it meant to work
hard for it, and she continued ‘her work
after the passage of the suffrage amend-
ment as Regional Director of the New
York League of Women Voters. A
great admirer of Woodrow Wilson, she
was a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Woodrow. Wilson Foundation,
and, eager for international understand-
ing, she was one of the members of the
Executive Committee of the Foreign
Policy Association. In spite of these and
many other interests, it was to Bryn
Mawr that, with the exception of a‘ few
legacies, she bequeathed at the expira-
tion of four trust funds her entire estate.
Another Alumna, Mrs. Percy Jackson,
of New York City, equally well known
for her public work and at the time of
her death a year ago president of the
New York Consumer’s League, and, like
Mrs. Tiffany, a woman of very real dis-
tinction, also has left the larger part
of her estate, at the expiration of a trust
fund, to: Bryn Mawr. It may well make
us pause, especially those who may be
questioning the value of college training,
and consider what tributes “like these
mean when paid by women who must
have tested innumerable times during the
years since their graduation (thirty in
Mrs. Tiffany’s case and twenty-five in
that of Mrs. Jackson) the real worth
of the training given them by Bryn
Mawr.
‘Yours faithfully,
CAROLINE CHADWICK COLLINS.
N. S. F. A. European Tours
The National Student , Federation
Travel Committee has completed the
plans for its several tours for the com-
ing summer ‘and they deserve the con-
sideration of anyone who is going abroad.
All of them offer certain advantages and
unique, features—opportunities to meet
and be entertained by foreign students,
_|sufficient time in some dne country to be-
come familiar with it, and in the case
of the larger cities a few days to do as
one wishes and stress things of more
peculiar and individual interest. One
may have the best trip for very reason-
able. prices, due to careful and experi-
enced management and to céttain reduc-
tions offered to students taking. these
tours.
~ Information. additional to that pested
on the Taylor hulletin board may. be pro-
cured from B. rs * Pembroke
West 46th PR eg
Brown at once so that your name may
Agrsahade :
Memorial Service
A memorial service for Mrs. Charles
L. Tiffany will be held in the Town Hall
New York City, on Wednesday, April
' [I really believe that I am one of the first
stimulus within. the, Aa _In-|
Pullman berths, and even students}
count in the world of affairs as any grad- |.
at all interested will. you plekae’ see BI
be sent to the N. S. A. secretary as a}
Something in the fact of spring
Quite upsets my point ef view;
Satire sheds its bitter sting,
[ see good in everything
What am I to do?
Once I was.a misanthrope,
Loving but my cynic’s sneer,
A pessimist devoid of hope,”
Do I have to can that dope
Now that spring is here?
The Rural Road to Romance _ = =
(with apologies to Richard Halliburton)
. Chapter I
» When I graduated from the Hict&ville.
Kindergarten, my family held: a council
meeting, and asked*me what I intended
to do, now that they had provided .me
: I said I shoald like
to travel aroutid the farm and they said
with an education.
“Alright, go ahead and travel, but don’t
This suited
I had always
expect any help from us.”
my adventurous spirit;
loathed the tours, where a guide takes
you to the conventional ‘places, like the
flower garden, in fact I proposed to omit
the flower garden altogether.
Chapter II
My first stopping place was the Stable,
the Stable is pretty well known, even to
casual visitors, so I shant stop to describe
it.
where to go, so I borrowed one of the
From there I was at a loss to know
cows, and mounted her, letting her pick
Oh! the joy of cow-riding
through the barn yard, and in spring at
that! Bossy, I called her that because
she was in command of my adventure,
the route.
headed straight for the lower pasture.
Chapter Ill
There I dismounted and left my faith-
ful steed with no little regret. I walked;
what endless inches I walked, all the way
up from the pasture to the orchard. When
I got there, although it was early spring.
and there really wasn’t any point to it,
I determined that I must climb the Apple
tree. From earliest childhood, I had al-
ways dreamed of climbing the Appletree,
it seemed such a glorious feat, and one
so seldom performed. Inexperienced.as
I was, I set forth. It*was difficult going;
from time to time twigs wou'd break off
and fall to the ground with a foreboding
thud, but at last.I achieved the topmost
branch. What a view was spread out
before me! I felt dizzy, exalted, uplifted.
[ wanted to sing, to shout, but my enrap-
tured mood was short lived, a sudden
breeze, and I was ,brought back to earth.
Chapter IV
I picked myself up, and made my way
leisurely across the fied. At the end I
came to the Barb Wire’ Fen@e, an ime
passible barrier, and I realized that I
should have to retrace my steps or do
what no man had ever. done before.
¢ ;
Rather than go the long prosaic way, I
choose the latter; I prepared to go
through the fence. But the perils that be-
set me, the scratches I received, were
worth it, in the face of what I had done.
I had conquered the unconquerable.
Chapter V
From the other side, by dint of. steal-
ing rides on the farm wagon (what fun
I.had hiding from the farmer, who had
already issued a threat to thresh me!)
I arrived at last’ at the building whose
fame has spread throughout the world—
the Chicken Coop! It captured my fancy
at once, and I spent a long time, merely
gazing at its ephemeral beauty. . The
night I spent there,.in spite of the wary
roosters, and watchful loom is one of the |
riod.” ad Pan ries =
I swam in ie horse trough, climbed
into the hay mow, visited the pig pen, and
intruded into the forbidden strawberry
bed, before, footsore and weary, I ar-
rived at last in sight of my familiar
home. There I was: greeted in the kind-
“bchoice of the play; it is,
' nee i ‘ es .
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p Were always perfect. She, enderia all
the comic ‘side of her part without ex-
aggerating it, and*none of the subtle in-
tonations required: was lost.
Isabel’s impersonation was probably
the hardest lot and consequently more
Open to criticism. Her prasicat appear-
ance did.not quite produce the illusion of
a mature woman, who can look back
upon her love-affairs of eighteen years |
ago. She had the quiet, weary attitude
of the, self-sacrificing daughter of a great.
man, but one did not always feel the
passion underlying the restraint. One
lacked something more tense and intense
hidden behind her self-devotion and even
her tardy love-raptures of the closing
scene.
m Men’s parts are often, naturally enough,
a stumbling block_in a performance in-a
women’s college. Royce and Oliver did
not certainly detract anything from the
good impression of the whofe perform-
ance; but they betrayed in their clothes
rand make-up, ‘in their voice and acting,
some uneasiness, or some desire. to ap-
pear too easy, which did not trick us
into that momentary suspension of dis-
belief that is the ideal object of a per-
formance. To be fair, one must remem-
ber the barrenness of their parts in the
written play— and our stricttures are
perhaps,due to the resentment that men
(and professors) feel at discovering
how ‘women (and students) see us.
Miss Stewart deserves high compli-
ments for the fine and ardor of her more
than adequate rendering of her part. Her
make-up and costume, in a_ splendid
frock-coat unmistakably cut by the best
of the London tailors, her most amusing
gestures when drawing out her handker-
chief and polishing her glasses, showed a
great cleverness and a keen sense of all
the comic possibilities of the character.
I cannot help thinking she slightly over-
did that comic e'ement, and pushed it to
the verge of burlesque beyond what the
author intended. But she made the audi-
ence laugh, and that was no dovbi her
object.
Our only serious criticism might be the
with some
adroitness of craftmanship, somewhat too
obviously done, a mixture of comic, con-
ventional and—alas! poor final scene !—
seritimental elements that seemed a bit .
old-fashioned. But, as the phrase goes,
“the audience enjoyed it immensely.”
Every detail of the production had been
carefully studied; none of those. defects
in elocution or. too obtrusive interyentions
of the prompter that audiences of college
plays often have to lament for which the -
coach, Mr. Walter Greenough, of the
Plateau Player’s, is to be sincerely thank-
ed.
The scenery, and costume committee.
did admirable work. All the actors
showed intelligence in the study of their
parts, youthful vitalityy and not a few,
promises of real talent. We cannot do
better than by expressing our gratitude to —
Miss Ling, whose well-known ability and
unsparing efforts had certainly not a
little share in the remarkable results
achieved. We have no doubt the New
York audience next Saturday will take
as much pleasure as we experienced, and
it will be for the Varsity dramatics a
deserved confirmation of their success.
Bryn Mawr Can Solve
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
posed fact as an impossibility. The com-
mission sent out to investigate declared
‘that the opposing argument was based
on pure superstition. They were wrong,
of course, ‘showing that the body of-
human experience is, at times, more far
reaching than the conclusions of science. —
The majority: of *people are wont to
offer avoidance as the best solution of
the problem. But there is a solution
which does not include destruction to
either of the contending forces, nor .does
‘The necessity of having to look at
bald facts will entirely obliterate any of
the old worn out traditions, if the cour-
present. For these very reasons, Dr.
Hart says, Bryn Mawr is especially well
est manner for I had made -a complete
circle of the farm, unaided and alone
odie igus raul toniathecriaa. |
equipped to contribute to a creative solu-
pes the Seve nto be-
it add one to the other, but curiously _
enough it multiplies science by ‘religion, ~— |
obtaining the conclusion that if we can
may be discovered. For itvis true that
|there are elements common to both.”
age and vision for definite action is
s
cause all photographs made him look like’) the decorative” patterns of the Hellenistic “A reson ia Farah 1!
. “a>»congenital criminal, a high-jacker . a.| period. :~ : " sthdiadila: wer ef
tion attached was that he was to write a}showing slidés made from the Villa vorame tome Moples.. Sept. fee. ’
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history of, the last MAlf‘ century, with] Mystica, ‘and the so-called Homeric > THe Cameripce-LowTHorPE
Shaw as an excuse for doing it In this |house, and from certain’ analogous stucco | - SUMMER ScHOOL —
_ way the friendship was. begun. reliefs taken from the Villa -Farnesina at Groton, Massachusetts
Critics often say that Shaw was in-)%) Rome From Wednesday July 6, to
re 3 ; Wednesday August 24.
fluenced by Nietzche, Ibsen and Bergson, : os
ie. suzilaiadt sat 2 In the Villa Mystica, in a large room :
- beit this is not true. Shaw himself says ae cues tha atk thik calla a HENRY ATHERTON Frost — Director.
that he was most influenced, not by ed ee ee 13 Boylston St., Cambridge, Mass.
dramatists but by Beethoven, Mozart and, ed with figures ernie red ground: ob agi At Harvard Square
| ‘Wigner; and in literature by. Dickens, senting in successive scenes the religious
| Lover snd Samat Hee. experiences of a young woman, obviously ——————
iiss Sh ek cledbient nan in the [© SEW initiate to the cult, who is- being LOWTHORPE
world”—mentally, spiritually, morally prepared for her mystic wedding with A Sohoot of cantoouee Architecture for
ie ’ , Fy ft ok ee omen
and physically, although the story that am orn style of ~ agg . Courses. in Landscape Design, Construce
he never washes his face (he uses cos-| > Se0%* ‘at they were cerived irom. | Ome cyoreicuiture, and kindred ‘subjects.
metics) was printed wan Oe headline | Greek originals of the fourth century on co ay a on
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“Shaw never takes a Bath.” He is also B.C. : : A f h 36 miles rom Bone
very habpily married... The weddiig was'- Under the_charge of the high priestess; nnouncement. otf the oe Groton, Masses.
o: $ : ; Se ——
somewhat of a surprise to him; he shad the girl goes through her toilet, is ini- $30,000 Coéa-Cola prize
| been nursed after a fall by aewoman who tiated to the sacred books, partakes of a|. contest will appear in man F -ORDHAM LAW SCHOOL
loved him, and when he recovered, she ‘sacrifice, sees a vision of the future, and dij f t WOOLWORTH BUILDING
touk ‘hinr sa regintty “office and marcied after a last ordeal of flagellation con- newspapers an In the @) “ NEW YORK
him before he had begun to take it seri- summates ber marriage ‘wit the god: In lowing magazjnes: CO-EDUCATIONAL
| Slaw end Ween Dionysiac hen senna “! pepe The Saturday Evening Post... .May 7 Case System—Three-Year Course
| i ~— story about ong and ‘dite ve ape en ORS With a ENO Literary Digest.......... May 14 7 ron . coon Work Required
< a“ it of . or mission
at sity Hall in ais te s " ongon The same motives appear in the Collier’s Weekly. .... May 21 ;
. poke on ‘ Liberty Ma: 1 4 Morning, Afternoon and Evening Classes
| “Is Civilization Desirable?” describing. his decoration of a subterranean room of the oe ttt y
ideal “Leintire State” At the end ‘a {tiomeric house. This discovery was BM 065668 May 5 WHITE FOR CATALOGUE
| : made by Dr. Rostovseff himself who CHARLES P. DAVIS, Registrar
- reply to one invitation he. said:
' prejudice on two grounds; “You are so
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‘that can do the job.”
‘ings of the audience in pointing out the
not to
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
moron with the stigmata of crime.” But}
after an effort, he got one which he felt
‘In reply he received an-
other post card, “You look like .the man
he could send.
The only ‘condi-
ously.
woman arosé and asked him to lay aside
his levity for once’and answer this; “Do.
you not think that if we followed your
plan we should lapse into barbarism?”
“Madam,” said Shaw, “I object to your
use of the word ‘lapse’ How can we
lapse into it whenwe are already there?”
Four months before the production of
Saint Joan, he was again lecturing before
a large audience of women. He said he
had read everything ever written about
Joan of Arc, and that he was the only
person who had ever really understood
her. At seventeen she knew everyone’s
business better than the person ‘himself.
She told the soldier how to fight, the
‘captain how to command, the Dauphin
how to win the confidence of the French
people, all of which she knew better than
they, because she had had “an intimate
talk with St. Michael” or Saint Catherine
or Saint Margaret. Shaw had only one
adjective with which to describe her—
“Snsufferable.” At the end of -the lecture
a woman voiced the feelings of the audi-
ence in moving a vote of thanks, and, she
added, “I am sure that I voice the feel-
great error; that it is not Joan of Arc,
but Bernard Shaw who is insufferable.”
Hates United States
Shaw does not like the United States,
He has said he will not come here until
the “ethnic type has been established, until
you have reverted to savage Indians.” In
“Why
should anyone who is in London want to
go to the United States?” He bases his
illiberal—I should be arrested for doubt-
ing the story of Elisha and the bears ;”
and “you do not know the meaning of
freedom—my irony does fot extend to
gazing upon your Statue of Liberty.”
However, he was forced to say that Eng-
land, too, did not know the meaning of
freedom, when at his seventieth birthday
banquet, he was not allowed to broadcast
his speech, because he would not agree
“speak controversially.”
On one occasion Shaw was asked to
speak at the Athenacum Club in London.
The next day there was great consterna-
tion at the club, because’ they found a
notice he had posted saying: “Will the
Noble Lord whe stole my umbrella last
night please return it'at once? No ques-
tions asked.” ‘Later a friend told him
that they were still debating ‘‘How in the
‘Icalled second style, distinguished. by: large
mural paintings in which figures replace
According to Dr. Rostovseff, at deast
two such houses in Pompeii are decorated
with frescoes having to do with- the mys-
tic religions, and to illustrate the point
he devoted the rest of the lecture to
these ‘paintings the philosopher of the
showed the slides for the,first time. In
the beautiful hall, a frieze ich up on the
wall contains panels representing ruits
and other synmbolic -objects alternating
with scenes showing the mystic rites. The
confiding of the initiate to Charon, who
rows her across to the abode of the
Blessed where she is met by Persephone.
The idea is. found elsewhere in literary
form on the tables giving advice to the
dead members of one of these sects; but
in its artistic form the scene is imitated
from an early Greek conception seen in
illustrated manuscripts of the fifth cen-
tury in Athens.
The last slides were from the Villa
Farnesina, very low and delicate reliefs
illustrating the same ideas. The whole
sum of proof thus absolutely affirms that
there was a mystic Pompeii; and that
duririg and after the civil wars, myster-
ious rites were performed in the great
chambers where these frescoes have been
found. .
Glee Club Tickets on Sale
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riday and Saturday evenings,
April 28 and 29, in the Gymnasium
are now on sale at the Publicity
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' three dithensions.
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_ Period from the second century B. C. to
_ligions had a development contemporary
. Brahaminism—but such development was
Indian Art Lecture —
CONTINUED FROM (PAGE 1-
Buddha Dr.
wamy showed us a standing figure eight
The
style was marked by its extreme massive-
»
figures, Coomaras-
or ten feet high—a Naga deity.
ness and vigor, and the type was ‘well
developed and thoroughly conceived in
This
lished the type which runs right through
figure estab-
Indian art, and the development in the
different periods is a modification of. ele-
ments already present in this ‘first early
masterpiece.“ The earliest landscapes date
from this period, before the third cen-
tury B. C,
ground for narratives in relief.
are tH€ characteristic
as they are used as_back-
These
primitive land-
scapes" with the very high horizon, hav-
ing a vertical rather than.a_ horizontal
of
The continuous method of nar-
projection—ay sort. semi bird’s eye
view.
ration is used in these. reliefs as in later-
»
The first real period ‘is the Asoka
the first century A. D.; one of the most
important monuments of this period is
the Stupa of Sanchi. The stupa is a
type of funeral monument which dates
from Pre-Buddhist times, but it has
come to mean %enerally a Buddhistic
due to the fact that there
were many of these Stupas built for
relics of Buddha and used as pilgrimage
places,
monument,
The Stupa of Sanchi provides
us with much material for study both
in statues and reliefs. - The reliefs have
to do with the life of Buddha and it is
that
Buddha is not represented as yet except
by symbols, for instance, by an umbrella,
or footsteps, a sacred wheel or a tree.
Each symbol came to mean a_ peculiar
event in his life. The Guardian Spirits
give us, however, some figure sculpture
of this time, and the connection with the
primitive figure is brought out very
particularly interesting to see
strongly. Female figures used as brack-,
ets are also directly in the tradition of
the primitive fertility goddesses.
_Buddhistic Art Begins
The development in the Kushan
Period, second century A, D., shows the
actual introduction of a figure ‘to rep-
resent Buddha, though the symbols were
still used in _conjunctioi_with such fig- |"
ures, and eventually became attributes
of the deity. It was as a result of the
ever-growing need of the people for cult
images as the religion of Buddhism be-
came popular and was officially adopted
that the great Buddhistic art first began.
To meet the demand’ artists naturally
turned to the forms of art with which
they were already familiar and which
could easily be adopted to ‘their particu-
lar needs.- And thus the tradition of
style was passed directly on’ from the
older religions to Buddhism.. Other re-
with Buddhism—Jainism, Hinduism, and
not significant in the field of art as the
culture of the period was essentially na-
tional and_ racial rather than sectarian;
| found * was ‘a mixture of Eastern and
-self, and the significant mudras or ges-
rthe feeling. of their time, religious and
¥
therefore the « artistic types ‘were very
similar in all the religions. of this time,
- Dr. Coomaraswamy briefly took up
the.*question of the art of Gandhara.
He feels that the art was a result of the
same anthropomorphic impulse which
was felt*in India, and that here as there
the artist turned to the artistic styles
with which he was familiar and which
were at hand in order to satisfy the
popular demand As _ what the- artist
Hellenistic culture, so the Buddhistic
art of the time was a mixtlire of East-
ern and Hellenistic styles. As- an exam-
pte of East Indian art, he showed a few
slides from the Stupa of Amarivati, one
of the most elaborate of the monuments.
Heré ‘symbols’ were ysed as well as fig-
ures in various. different accounts of the
story of Buddha. The. technique was
masterly both in the actual sculpture and
in the composition and management of
crowds,
Highest - Point Gypta Period “
‘The highest point of art was reached
in the fifth century A. -D, during the
Gypta Period (320-600 A. DD):
Buddhist art of this period was a per-
fect balance between the sensual and
material Indian elements, and the high-
est ‘spiritual content of the devotional
Buddhist religion. The artists were
thorough masters of technique, which
was still very much at the service of art
The time had-not yet come when tech-
nique was an end in itself and art only
its vehicle. The treatment’ is in general
more static than kinetic and it is not
until the beginning of the slow and grad-
ual decline that the static becomes
kinetic, mass becomes outline, and energy
and vigor begin to fail. We were again
shown a typical figure, a standing
Buddha, and the direct descent from the
first early figure was easily seen. There
is still the same impressive mass, the
solid energy, but there isa gain in suavity
and finish which marks unmistakably the
greatness of this period. The drapery is
close and clinging and inclined to. be
linear, but the elaborate decoration is
always in, good taste and thoroughly
satisfying; In the representations of
Buddha, some symbols are used apart
from the attributes of the Buddha him-
tures are beginning to be used. Here
also there are feminine divinities de-
picted as flying, and it is interesting to
see that the motion through the air is
represented not by material wings, ‘but
by the position of the body and the line
of the wind-blown drapery and hair
What has been: said about hessculs.
ture applies in large degree to painting
also. In such paintings.as those in the
Ajunta caves there is a certain amount
of modelling and movement, and the
technique is assured and_ thoroughly
worked out. They are a reflection of
emotional, just as is the drama and lit-
erature and the sculpture already con-
sidered.
Figure Sculpture Declining
As an example of "later sculpture,
when the decline had already begun, we
were shown slides of reliefs from the
Seven Pagodas in the Desert of the
Ganges. Here the animals, particularly
the elephant and deer, are especially fine,
though the first seeds of decline are eas-
ily discernible in the figure sculpture.
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The Democratic Way of Life. By
. Thomas: Vernor- Smith.
With economic interpretations and
theories of. evolution reducing man’s
capacity for free development to nar-
row limits it is stimulating to. find an
intelligent writer who ‘not only “believes
in man's ability to realize his own ideal
‘with the tools that are «at hand, but
who finds that ideal in poor, mistreated
and dishorfored democracy.
The reason for the present disrepute
of the democratic idea’ Professor
Smith says, is largely that we have only
tried it as a form of- government, where-
as this form is really only a means*-to
attain and enjoy the true democracy,
which is a way of life. Jt is with the
_ purpose of ,describing this way of. life,
of setting up a shining ‘but attainable
goal before the discouraged lovers of
democracy, that Mr. Smith has written
his short book. In the eloquent, almost
Biblical style of a professor of English
literature turned philosopher, he evokes.
a life based on the true and living in-
terpretation of the old catchwords Lib-
erty, Equality and Fraternity, the -last
the greatest of all. The almost antique
flavor of the phrasing is in marked
coiftrast to the sweeping modernity and
vigor of the author’s ideas.
Having. shown in the first three parts
of his book how the three cardinal prin-
ciples may be worked out in actual life,
Mr.. Smith introduces a chapter on
Democracy and the Day’s Work, con-
taining his most stimulating contribu-
tions to the subject. In work, as the
most democratic and” essential form of
man’s activity, and not in shorter hours
and marginal culture, the good life must
be found. The worst drudgery having
been relieved by the aid of science and
machinery, the spirit of the professions,
with their friendliness, their opportuni-
ties for stimulating service, with above
all the susceptibility to change and prog-
ress which averts. the deadening effect
of rigidity, must be spread to all forms
of work; and .though the leveling in-
fluence of Communism is to be avoided,
no man must have too little while an-
other has too much.
In the last chapter, on Leadership, Mr.
Smith points out that even the greatest
de nocratic philosophers have laid too
much. stress on the guidance of great
men, by whom they mean men of com-
manding personality and general ability
who sweep the common people off their
feet, in the direction in which they ought
to go; Rousseau himself felt that men
must be made to see what is good for
them.
‘Such leadership, however, defeats
democracy. The new leaders must be
scientists, trained men with real knowl-
edge in a specialized field, who will be
leaders jn that one field, while they are
followers ‘in another. Fraternity will
come n cause all are working towards
a common goal, but because all are work-
ing in the same manner, each - fulfilling
his own ideal of the good life without
constraint. For to set up a common
goal defeats liberty.
All this is a little vague perhaps, much
more so necessarily in this faint -sug-
gestion than in the book itself. But the
value of it is really not so much in its
constructive principles, as in its expres-
sions of faith. Mr. Smith is what so
few of us are—a true lover of democ-
If his expo-
sition does not make us become enamored
of the democratic way of life, his glori-
ous confidence gives us new. hope.
Aan Dy Be
The Minister’s Daughter, by Hildur-
Dixelius. E. P. Dutton and Company.
The Minister's Daughter stands as a
purely, nationalistic novel of Sweden. The
subject-matter, the spirit, the charac-
terization and the manner of tellmg the
story, all belong strictly to the style of
the ‘author’s country. eee,
The story takes place at the end of
the Eighteenth and the beginning of the
Nineteenth Centuries, but, had it been
left undated, we should have taken it
for much earlier. Not only does it re-
flect none of the revolutionary up-
heavals in which progressive nations were
being shaken at that time, but its re-
ligious character is almost medfeval. It
_ is a study of certain characters in the
light ‘of the conduct of life according to
inquisitor-like conscience. The heroine,
Sara Alelia, who has done wrong, de-"
voted her life to the expiation of her
sin by aiding those in distress in a
Christian spirit. \Passages quoted from
lieves in the direct communication of
God’s will to her, or to any individual’
.
conviction for: the very modern reader
except for, the extreme vividness with
which the actiom is treated. We are the
further _reconciled to the. character of
Sara‘ Alelia, because in the end the hard-
uess of her northern conscience is re-
lieved by a turning back to a less severe
standard. For years she had thought
that the sacrifice of her love for SahlJen
was demanded of her by God; but, when
he becomés helpless through the loss of
his. eyesight, she finds marriage com-
patible with dut\
It is contrary to our expectations that
the book dogs not conclude on a somber
note. Sara Alelia has struggled amid
harrowing circumstances. She has failed
to save a woman from the gallows, she
has .been unable to rescue the little daugh-
ter of the strange Norenius from the
death or which the pride of the poverty-
stricken Tather was chiefly responsible.
But at the last the prospect of happiness
dawns for her.
The realism of The Minister's Daugh-
ter reminds us of Selma Lagerlov’s work.
There is no plot, but a recital of a con-
stant strugelg against misfortune with
final gratifying reward. The de-
scription of externals is clear and sharp.
The characters do not conform to any
standard with which we are particularly
familiar, but are similar in their original-
ity to those of Selma Lagerlov. That
is because, as has been said, The ‘Win-
ister’s Daughter is — strictly the line
of development of a nationalistic type.
The effort is sincere, the result convine-
ing, and in the words of Edward Gar-
nett, “... these Swedish people of the
year 1798 are made as real to us as
are the people who pass down the street
today.” M. V.
its
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a
Mother Knows Best, by Edna Ferber.
Doubleday, Page and Company.
“A Fiction Book” is the subtitle Miss
Ferber chooses; but it seems to me that
“A Collection of Moral Tales” would be
more accurate. For each one of the
novelettes in this book points a good old-
fashioned moral, and points with no un-
certain finger. Love comes to the mod-
ern girl and transforms her into 1860
model wife and mother: Pa, ma and
Carrie Cowen go in-pursuit of adven-
ture, beauty and romance, and, finding
only indigestion, headaches and_ terror,
return to familiar Newark, never again
to stray; Hilda Tune, who would not
condescend to work, ends as a ridiculed
saleswoman, while her sister, Hannah—
wouldn’t you know that she would be
Hannah ?—who is not too proud to be a
waitress, marries a brakeman, and with
him achieves private cars and Goyas over
the manfel; Denny Regan refused to
marry the girl who sneered at him for
following the fine old calling, a tradi-
tion in the Regan family, of hog driving.
All these are tales calculated to make
the lower classes bend to the plow
cheerfully, confident that their reward,
though possibly delayed, is inevitable.
And yet they are delightful stories,
full of neat characterization, of clever
observation, of swift narrative. Miss
Ferber seems to have studied her scenes
carefully and intelligently, and her com-
prehension of people, sympathetic and
acute, makes her characters enormously
convincing and attractive.
K. §.
The Last of
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William Hohengzollern:
the Kaisers, by Emily Ludwig.
Putnam and Sons.
The wheel of popular interest in
literature has come almost the complete
circle since the official beginning of ro-
manticism, one-hundred years ago. The
characteristic poetry of this age is not
concerned primarily with the expression
of the individual’s feeling, it strives main-
ly for form; the most widely-read books
are not those of imagined and _ far-off
beauty, they are the works of biography,
of psychological review of known situa-
tions. This is the age of fact rendered
palatable by being treated as fiction, or
of fiction which has about. it enough of
alleged fact to enable the reader to feel
that he is getting an inside view of the
situation. In spite of external disorder,
of obvious restlessness, it is a time when
everyone is digging into the past and at-
tempting to arrange, assort, co-ordinate
and interpret information. People have
come more and more to realize how
record, is the product of chance, of cos-
mic injustice, of colossal irony,
In no case has history been more sub-
limely blind to the facts in the case than
in its judgment of William Hohenzol-
hard and seemingly unreasonable not to
credit—the recent biography of the Ger-
respect the book ‘might. lack interest or |
up
much the verdict of history, even mere interest: it reaches the high-water mark
Mern, Acne’ is to credit—and”it is very pAgterita = mi svitable |
force which brought .a nation out from
°
In this moving and magnificent narrative
he unfolds the life of the Katser, show-
ing how, thé recognized tendencies of
his childhood were to contribute, thraugh~
the neg of. his parents and the self-
seeking and impotence of his entourage,
o the miser¥ of millions. :
A child of brilliant ning and physical
‘weakness, William was born to a family
whose ‘traditions Were completely the*re-’
Through his sensitiveness, he
came to sublimatg his feelings of ‘de:
formity by always advocating aloud
policies of “iolence. Essentially a civilian,
who shigan alles alf physical violerive,
rl lik® the most resolute of mili-
and yet when he had spoken,
sidered that the action was over,
never Reighing the consequences. Rest-
-ess, nervous and unsure of his own
mind, he vacillated from one extreme to
the other; always the mouthpiece of his
Not only was he incur-
ably garrulous, incredibly vain and sus-
verse,
he cot
ast counselor.
ceptible to flattery, he was forever cut
ff from learning any .bitter truths
through the timidity and weakness of
those who were his: associates. He lived
in a private. world of his own, where
he heard only the praise that courtiers
allowed to ‘come: to him, and where’ the
children trained in school to
ipplaud him drowned the mutterings of
those who feared his effect on Germany's
-ortunes,
cheers of
the best—this was his tragedy. He sin-
cerely desired to avert war, and yet he
dedicated years of his life to building
the navy, he believed that
this was a sure way to insure respect.
He could never be steadfast in purpose,
nor could he realize that.to run from
power to power with blandishment_ fol-
lowed by secret.-criticism was to win not
popularity but universal abandonment at
the critical moment. In the end, when
the crash came, he was powerless, be-
cause truth had so long been filtered for
him that the full draught was dangerous.
because
The feat of the biographer is to strip
the greatness from the figure... You be-
gin by pitying the deformed child who
was determined to be a soldier, the young
man harshly treated by his relatives;
but by the time you are pitying the King.
whom everyone flatters through self-in-
terest, you find your pity mixed with
contempt. The familiar bogey figure of
the Kaiser, feared as the Beast of Re-
velations, whom Lloyd George promised
to hang for his dniquities, passes away,
and one sees him in his proper propor-
tions, by no means essentially bad, cer-
tainly not in the least great, in short, a
man too weak and too small to use to
advantage an enormous opportunity. It
is very good that all this should be
said in order that people may not con-
tinue to identify the Kaiser, whether the
Kaiser of fact or of legend,..with the
great and pacific country he helped to
lead to disaster, in spite of his sincere
desire to increase her prestige.
The book is scrupulously fair in its
condemnation because it quotes as testi-
mony only the speeches and writings of
the Kaiser and his partisans, fiot once
of his enemies. It ‘gives him credit for
numberless good intentions. But his es-
sential littleness and the irony that such
as he should rule—this is borne home
more and more as the narrative ad-
vances. :
_ The- translation of , Ethel Colburn
Mayne is very quick and idiomatic, if
occasionally . rather too bombastic for
English. In one place at least she has
made a signal error, when she calls
“olittering” that “shining armor,” which
made all Europe blink. Surely the phrase
is’ familiar enough to be accepted as
the standard translation. For the rest.
the language seems spontaneous, and it
is certainly vivid. K. 6.
Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis. Har-
court, Brace and Company.
“His colléagues spend themselves upon
riddles of personadities. He depicts a
civilization.” Thus summarizes H. L.
Mencken, apostle of American irony, to
whom is dedicated the, book whereof he
speaks, Sinclair Lewis’ latest caricaturé,
Elmer Gantry. For: one who has fol-
lowed Lewis’ literary .careet throughout
its various stages of Main Street, Babbitt
and Arrowsmith, this book has a peculiar
of the constant development, by means
of serious fiction, of that point in the
beyond that of Carl Sandburg.
Whereas Sandburg sees the power of
His intentions were obviously always of |
American attitude which has gone a bit |’
ture, 6f man aiid of science, Lewis sees
this force, ,unmastered and: &till’ potent,
raging undirected, now, conquering in-
dividuals and making of them grasping, |
commercial morons, lacking in ‘the ele-
ments: of higher civilization, (lt is tue
symbol, of us in the European point of
one of us, tempered only gyvih a ruth-
less knowledge of’ our. weakness: s
e °
, Unlike the point of view of Mas.ers
Spoon River Anthology, wherein Amer!-
cans, particularly of the Middle West and
of NeW Ejigland, are to be pitied, realiz-
ing as they must the narrowness of life
for them, Lewis” characters, of Kansas
and its environs, are very self-reliant;
they achieve that~for which they seek,
rather than uncomplaining. resigna-
tion, we find ‘here a desire for a some:
an
what cheapened glory, a star from whith
“he high-placed_man_may wink "pon his
of
wn methods of ascension a gal
view, drawn with the, slashing stroke ‘of
g
power and oi. finance—might’ surpasses
‘right.
a ee boa
Elmer Gantry, as a personafity, ig
forceful, confident ayd rather attractive,
in his uncouth and prehistoric way; ‘as-@
janaracter, hé is despicable;-cruel and,
still; most powertul, He is not an_in-
dividual, but is a synt esis of thé types of
‘Americans whom Lewis forbids .us to
i he is “an. evangelist drawn with
'
i
ignore ;
; such coarse and commercial strokes that, ,
he beromese in real‘.y. a travesty om the
lclergy, religion and the Twent:eth Cen-
‘tury, all in one.”. Sincere he ‘s, a man
entangled in'the wires of that misdirected
| force, striving always, -everi educating
himself, in a hollow sogt of way, and
‘finally rez ching h's godk'of tremendous
nower, emoty of all saveethe name of
) a
glory, American to the last de~ ee,
Of-the book itself one* gould write at
‘anoth: as in tie’
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and, that alone is sufficient to arouse
our suspicion and hostility. Louise, the
the Modern Girl.” The book’ is’ con-
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mental’sm, with the ..latter predom-
jnant; The stylé is‘ one that must be
seerf to be. believed “The faintest
blush that came and went like a little
sunset afraid to be seen,” “she was
wearmg a simple creation that ran
lightly over her brezsts, owed round
her hips, and toppled, a dark cascade.
over the’ gleaming silk of her legs.” Of
course the author was unable to spare
the weather, “April—a golden child
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oc it is this. Fo. state the fagt positively,
love always works. ee
“As a race we are grown up today. ea,
must put away childish things and cease
to squabble and bicker over unessentials,
o learn to be tolerant. ls
“Let us «present a different religion to
the world. . Let us tejl-it that a gentle
understanding sympathy is the only im-
portant thing. It is the one thing that
Christ came to teach; it is the one thing
that Christ came to teach; it is the es-
sence of Christianity; and only by: apply-
ing it can we live as Christ meant us to
live.”
Landscape Architecture
Offers Field to Women
Landscape architecture as a career for
women was the subject of .an interesting
talk given in chapel on Friday, April 1,
by Miss Nearing of the class of 1909,
Miss .Ngaring is herself a landscape
architect and is at present busy planning
gardens for H@®uses in Germantown.
Landscape architecture is like a three-
cornered wedge between the professions
of architecture, engineering and garden-
ing. It allows a wide range of* things
to do just because it is a new profession
with blue eyes, baptized by gentle |
rain.” We should be thankful that we
are spared “came the dawn.” :
Lord Strathcombie, the hero, is a
man “haloed by the sheer glory of
work,” so Louise, little devil that she |
are told that she has a very keen mind,
and to prove it, she makes the discov-
ery early in the book, that the younger
zenerations of all ages have been much
the same as the present one. That she
is intellectually curious is clearly
shown by her asking the hero what his
theory of life is.
Babs. the pure girl who wins Rob-
ert away from Louise by her fresh
youthfulnes, is an example of another
type of modern girl. She is in her
twenties and eager to know why men
stare at her on the ‘street—in fact she
is full of wonderment.
There are two living people in the
book, Lady Purth and her daughter
Charlotte. They are relatively unim-
portant to the author, but a breath of
renewed life to the expiring reader.
The best thing in the book is on the
-page following the title page—
“The author wishes to state that all
the characters in this novel. are en-
tirely of the imagination.” One can
only add, and what an imagination!
- M. G.
Love Always Works,
Says Dougherty
From the thirteenth Corinthians the
Rev. George P. Dougherty, director of
Christ’s Church, Bloomfield, N. J., took
the text of his sermon in Chapel on Sun-
‘day, April 10. “Love, or as St. Paul
rather meant it, a gentle, understanding
sympathy, was the vixtue without which
there shall be no Christian virtues.”
“This passage is one of the most beauti-
®ful prose poems in the world. It, more
than all the rest of the Bible, should be
the foundation of our religious life. No
Jonger than the Gettysburg address, it
has had more effect on the religion of.
the world than all the rest of St. Paul's
writings.
“It is not like his other writings fort |
many of them are polemical, doctrinal,
scholastic, provocative of discussion, even
in the rest of this letter. Then suddenly
he ceases to talk of dogma and writes
this, his masterpiece.
“The Church of Corinth to which he:
was writing was composed of people not
unlike us: intelligent, though less so than
they thought, they enjoyed . theological
discussions, treated some sins severely
and others too lightly, were inclined to
‘intellectual and religious snobbery. St.)
Paul realized that what they needed was.
—love, a gentle understanding sympathy.
“I dare you to read the first few verses
of that passage,” said Dr. Dougherty,
“and take them for what they mean. If
this had been done long ago, it would
have ended all controversies. There is
‘nothing more daring in the New Testa-
"Martyrdom Is'Not Enough >
and not highly specialized as yet. How-
ever, the practice of gardening is old:
| the great gardens of the Italian Renais-
sance were designed by artists.
The requirements for a professional in
this line are first of atl a- graphic
‘magination, and then a certain ability to
put down on paper what you have
imagined, although you emphatically do
not have to be a great artist. Besides 4
these a cettain practical sense is neces-
sary, an ability to meet practical issues.
You need to be pretty strong—just being
fond of flowers is not enough—for it is
hard concentrated work and you have
to be out-of-doors a great deal. . Per-
haps the most important quality is the
ability to get a'ong with different kinds
of* people. ee
The preparation for this profession is
long—five to seven years of study after
college and even then some time before
you can earn a living. Now for the
rewards after having paused so long on
the difficulties. - All the connections of
the profession are interesting. It brings
you in touch with the great movements
of the day: town planning, parks and
civic developmént. You get into a “far
greater fie'd than merely designing
beautiful gardens for individuals. There
is constant contact with interesting people,
and opportunity to follow fascinating
sidelines. What chance has a woman in
this field? You have to meet the defi-
nite prejudice against -women-in-all-pro-
fessions. You have to be better than a
man. But now this prejudice is break-
ing down, although the e are different
opportunities in. different parts of the
country. Landscape architecture is recog-
nized as a profession for women in Bos-
ton and the Middle West as well as
around New York. Around Philadelphia
it is not recognized as a real art and a
real profession; a colored gardeher is
usually chosen before a landscape archi-
tect. However, there is coming to be
more and more of a chance for women
in this field.
Christ Is Alphabet by
Which We May Read God
“I am Alpha and Omega.” The. mean-
ing of these heretofore simp!e words was
suddenly transformed into a definite
vividness by Dr. William Pierson Mer-
rill, of the Brick Presbyterian Church
in New York in his sermon given here
on Sunday, April 3. Bes
A thousand years ago “Alpha” and
“Omega” were used in the common
speech of every day life; if we stop to
think, their meaning is almost over-
powering in its immensity, for they are
translated as “Christ, in Whom is all
manner of wisdom and knowledge.” He
is the ABC and the XYZ; He is the
alphabet; and the alphabet is the, sole
foundation of wisdom and knowledge.
There is something arbitrary in the way
people pick out those: twenty-six letters.
Some have thought . to revise them, only.
to find it an’ impossibility. “And why?
Because the alphabet has proved its
power and we cannot. understand lite
ture without it. Man thinks likewise of
Christ... “He has proved His power in
rogré arning, and the lives of the
p.is God in the soul-of maa.
who doubt whether
the needs of the
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future.
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come upon God.
We Need Vision
What we need is an experience such as
that which came to the disciples on the
such as came to
and Elijah, for the really great moments
of life are those in which the visions of
the past interpret the dreams ofthe
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The game started, on a damp, cold day,
and missed passes.
Varsity’s ,weakness was its’ defense play,
though playing without a goal and the
Buccaneers were ,able to establish a lead
of 5-3. In the second half the game was
much sndppier; again and again Bethel
crashed thgough for a goal, and although
Varsity was in reality outplayed at every
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The lead of the first half, however, was
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ge Shaw as a Socialist
‘A friend once* took Mr. Henderson to
his home in Hammersmith; the house
had once belonged to William Morris,
and it. was there that the Kelmstock Press
had beesf#founded. This man had a min-
pute book of the Hammersmith Socialist
Club, kept in Morris’ own hand. Among
the speakers were Shaw, Sidney Webb,
R.. B. Haldane and Ramsay MacDonald,
none of them particularly prominent then,
but all Socialists. It was an American
who converted Shaw to Socialism, but
his idea of a Socialist society is not demo-
cratic in the American sense. There will
be no series of ranks—all class barriers
will be broken down, and he looks for-
ward to such privileges as saying to any
woman he sees walking down the street,
“Madam, you interest me strangely. If
you are not already engaged, may I come
to tea on Friday next, and offer myself?”
“ Every Form of Art Tried
Shaw is a man who has tried every
form of art before finding his place. He
began as an art critic, because, when he
was ten, he was so bored with Sunday
School that he spent hours every Sunday
in the Art Gallery of Ireland. He saved
up enough money to buy a translation of
Vasari, and became a good art critic,
until the editor for whom he worked
asked him to praise some very poor pic-
‘tures by the editor’s cousin. Shaw re-
signed, and became a music critic. He
was successful in this too, because his
mother had been an opera singer, and at
seen in the British museum with a book
one’ each side of him,
stranger looked over Htis shoulder, and
found that he was readin them simul-
tal and the score of Tristram and Isolde.
After he grew.tired of being a music
critic, Shaw became a dramatic critic.
Here he broke every convention, starting
with the one that you must dress to sit
in the stalls, Shaw went in a velvet
jacket. The tisher told him he ceuldn’t
wear it there, so he took it off and pro-
pursued him, but this: time Shaw ex-
claimed in a loud voice “What! you don’t
want me to take og anything else do
you?”
Greatest Living Dramatist
Mr., Henderson did not, discuss Shaw
as-a dramatist... “He. is recognized now
plays are becoming more and more popu-
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wrights who ever lived, so I will pass
over this.”
There is one line in Pygmalion which
stone. Pickering says, about the wager
“This is madness, folly.” and is answered
by the line “After all what is life but a
series ‘of inspired follies ?” ‘
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all the student is required to do, is to
be ab!e to pass the examinations at the
end of the year.. Individual attention is
given by the instructors, and group dis-
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righteousness.” Of these Buddhism is not
aggressive, since it has never been in-
tolerant of otlier religions. Christianity
and Islam, on the other hand, are both}
Sémitic; and intolerant, being based on
the. conception that the Jews. are’ the
chosen people of God and that therefore
any religious views acquired by the Jews
are the only ones. But Christianity may
truly be said to be the worse: since fhany
great potentates used Islam for purely
cultural purposes.
Three Missionary Religions
Professor Joshi then gave a short sur-
vey of the history of Islam. It was
founded in the sixth century by Mo-
hammed in Arabia. It differs only slight-
ly from the Hebrew religion, since both
believe there is one God, but while the
Jews hold that Moses is his prophet, the
people of Islam say His prophet .is
Mohammed. . The justification which
Mohammed gave for founding a new re-
ligion was the deplorable state at that
time of the Christians and. Jews who
both had. accepted certain types of super-
stition and idof worship.
Islam Rises Rapidly
Within one hundred ‘years after the
death of Mohammed, Arab armies were
marching on three continents as the con-
querors of Europe, Asia and Africa.
They established a capital in Spain at
Cordova. ‘During the Dark Ages when
leartiing practically had ceased in Europe
and even the Church became corrupt, the
Arabs ‘became the founders of chivalry.
Four hundred picked knights were
brought to Andalusia, and after translat-
ing their ancient desert: songs, established
the beginning of chivalry which after-
ward spread to France and Germany.
In the meantime, the other armies were
conquering nations in Asia. The Caliph
of Bagdad, who was practically instru-
mental in creating Arab culture sent
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Jmany men to study the civilization,of the
conquered countries—that of Greece and
Persia and India. Cordova, in turn, be-
came a replica of Bagdad civilization.
Schools of culture were founded: and
Plato and Aristotle, after being trans-
lated into Arabit; were translatgd into
Spanish and ‘this #hto other European
languages. The University of Cordova
was famous as a. seat of “learning and
one of its pupils even became a Pope,
Sylvester II. e
Arabs Traysmitted Learning
The Arabs were the great transmitters
of intellectual continuity. Among the
things they passed along were the
decimal system and chess from India and
mathematics and astronorhy from San-
scrit.
One of the things greatly criticized is
the positioneof women among the Mo-
hammedans. All that can be said is that
there are two. ideals, that of seclusion
where the higher the rank, the greater the
seclusion, and the ideal of no. seclusion
where women invade the provinces of
‘men. From a sociological study, both of
these ideals have their advantages.
There are’a great many women of
culture in the Mohammedan world,
though some of them are not able to read
or write: With ancient nations, reading
and writing are not the only modes of
gaining culture. For. example, in India,
in the time of Queen Elizabeth, Akabar,
the ruler, was the most learned man in
the East, yet he was illiterate. Scholars
read to him and he holds a unique place
as a philosopher. By means of a debate
on the subject of religion in which: many
of the leading scholars of the world took
part and over which he presided, a spirit
of toleration was attained at a time when
the Mohammedans and Hindus were in
deadly strife.
Islam Conquered Race Prejudice
Although the Mohammedans may
rightly be accused of using force in
spreading their religion and _ culture,
converted, the convert is accepted as an
equal, regardless. of race, if he is in-
tellectually equal’ He may even rise to
be a ruler. It is mainly for these social
adyantages,.that the Moslems are coming
out ahead in the great race between Islam
nd Christianity to convert the peoples
of Africa. f
@
Tn the treatment of the slave, «Islam,
until recently, has also been in advance
of Christianity.
tianity did not emancipate the slave until
the eighteenth century, Mohammed him-
self preached kindness to the slave and
one of the most important law¢ of Islam
is that the slave shalk have clothes and
food equal with a member of the
family.
“At the present day,” said Professor
Joshi, “all kinds.of fanaticism are being
fanned, both religious and _ scientific.
‘Zulu’. Scientists contend that race is the
greatest thing, yet the greatest ethnolo-
gists. have never agreed that this is so.
It is therefore not unnatural that the
Mohammedans should kill a few Ameri-
cans; it is human nature—look at China,
and at Chicago!”
Moslem culture embodies many great
€ssons for Christians to learn, and Chris-
tiatfty has many in turn for the Moslems.
Moderii life is give and take.. We might
even find that’there are gentlemen among
the despicable Turks!
Rowing Against a Stop Watch
Oxford and Cambridge women held a
race on the Isis recently which the Ox-
ford crew won. Since the University au-
thorities do not approve of competitive
athletics for women, each crew raced
against a stop-watch. The judges also
considered form, The time over the half
mile course was Cambridge: 3.51 seconds,
for Oxford: 3.36.
McGill ‘Daily.
eed
“‘Elephints a-pilin’ teak,
In the sludgy, squdgy creek,
Where the silence ’ung that ’eavy
You was ’arf afraid to speak!”’
—Kipling’s ‘‘Mandalay”’
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“The clephant is man’s most intelligent helper.
But—consider this interesting comparison:
An elephant is much targer than the electric
motor of a “yarder” or logging machine. The
“varder” has the power of twenty elephants; it
handles clusters.of logs; it works dependably,
Pings
twenty-four hours at a stretch, if necessary.
Twenty clophants would cat daily 10,000 pounds
cf green food, which.a corps of attendants must
eather. A motor “eats” nothing but electricity,
cupplied at the throw of a switch. — ;
Power uscd i2 the modern industrial world is
applied through electric motors—tireless “iron.
elephants” that are relegating antiquated ma-
chines to museums, along with such oldtime
household articles as wash-tubs and ordinary
irons—and stuffed elephants. _
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bequest of $750,000 was used entirely to
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It is interesting to recall that Carola
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after: she ‘had heard President Thomas
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Among New Books
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four- circus of contemporary
-. American fife, there is a wealth of -de-
tail, a ha ound of carefully traced
minor parts, which build materially to-
wards the ultimate worth af the novel.
Discussions of religion, of faith, of per-|.
sonalities and of groups, cross-sections | -
‘ our life at. any of its levels; “all -are
en here in a dark, dark ink, in-
1 into our own introspective men- |.
yes, and caught and held so that
> generationg may look and laugh:
wonder, hopelessly, will they, too
smirk as Elmer would to find!
long past was, even in his
Suse:
,| portant minor parts, are types, composi-
cerning freedom of speech in a litera
that it make man ‘think. Elmer Gantry
this type, it must be taken with a grain
of salt; for only in this way can any-
we appreciate the fact that its leading
characters, as well as those most im-
tions of the most harmonious “individu-
als, only then may we arrive at the
obvious .conclusion—Lewis’ novel brings
before ‘us not the average, but the aut-
standing qualities of American civiliza-
tion. . Se Ss Be
The Delectable Mountains, by Struth-
ers Burt.
Struthers Burt has written in the front
of his book, The Delectable. Mountains,
these words from Pilgrim's Progress:
em ey And behold, at a great distance
he saw a) most pleasatit mountainous
country, beautified with woods, vineyards.
fruits of all sorts, flowers also, with
sprines and fountains, very delectable te
behold.”
who is beaten fér taking words con-
has become the most widely sliscussed
novel of this season; like mest books of
thing like a just explanation of its true
‘|value be reached; surely, however, when
| bequeathed* $25,000 and Mrs. Tiffany’s
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of personalities, resulting in the usual
1
perplexities. of domestic trouble
sings
which quite’ frequently permeates
all last chapters.
The best character in the book is Viz-
atelly, an amusingly reticent “man of
ca ai to the actual trend of
the’story, but interesting as an onlooker,
It is he who so sagely remarks:
“Perhaps shortness is happiness; |
don’t, know. At all events, memory is ap-
parently more poignant than presence. |’
What’s. the tragedy.”
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Bet is it? CM:
‘Bequesf*of Mrs. Tiffany
‘CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Richardson: is to receive the -income
from this $25,000 during her lifetime.
“Mr. Tiffany, ‘who is ‘a ‘banker and
vice president of Tiffany & Co., is
cottage at Pointe-au-Pic, ag Tt
is explained, in the will t the rea-
son no*more substantial bequest is
made to Mr. Tiffany is because he does,
not need it.
: In Other Colleges
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We wonder, with such a beginning.
that the book does not progress as the
foreword suggests that it is to progress.
Unfortunately, the book is a romance
and a poor one at that. The hero is a
wealthy young man from the conserva-
tive atmosphere of Philadelphia. He |
falls in love, and, strangely enough, mar-
ries a chorus girl from a Broadway
revue. The rest of the book is precisely
what-you anticipate it will be after read-
ing the first two chapters. It is” dis-
tinctly a fairly successful attempt. to con-
trast with mild effectiveness the social
attitude of Philadelphia’s aristocracy, the
bare reality of stage life in New York
and that “charming, unsophisticated
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