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1918 :
” The celebrated thing of the week
in Atmistice Day; the college ex-
_.ternally goes no farther in its ob-
servagce than to close the Rocke-
feller Business Office, but let this
not seem a pessimistic sign in the
~“eyes of international idealists: Ft}
seems to us that, actually, the many.
people who are closély associated
with Bryn Mawr, including the
faculty, the graduate students, the
undergraduates, the officers’ of the
administration, and even those of
the alumnae for whose opinions we

unanimously in favor of world
peace and world interests®of any
that we know. International prob-
lems are brought before us, inside |
“of classrooms and out, far more
“constantly than are those of any
other department of the daily news.
‘We seem! to be made League-of-
Nations-conscious early in , our
careers, and, oddly enough, we can
never say just when, where,. or
whence our interest in things re-
lated came.
such an appropriate season as 1s
this week, to ponder on this subtle
influence, to. grasp its teachings
more firmly than we have, and to
spread its policy of. international
thinking as widely and as deeply
as we. may. Eleven years have
passed since the war, and_ adult
people still remember all its horrors.
However, it is our generation, just
how growing up, which must early
be imbued with a lasting ‘recogni-
tion of these horrors which we
never knew. Let us celebrate Arm-
istice Day with a kind of new year’s
resolution that we shall remember
the real significance of the occa-

=< SION; 10 wasaday tucmakhig peace,

not one for celebrating victory.



QUIET
Quiet, although one: of the most
normal constituents of a successful

life, is strangely disregarded in col-
lege life, which in theory is. both
normal and successful. In spite of

, the popular ‘conception of what the

student should.do, namely, to have
a good time pure and simple, we
have to admit that there_is neces-
sary drydgery to which we must
occasionally bow. We try to plough
through this drudgery as quickly
and supposedly as thoroughly as
possible, and it is a logical sequence
that to do so we have to concen-
trate all our powers. Some claim
that so deep is their concentration
that they can ignore disturbances
around them, but the ordinary,
frantic’ student struggling with a
report, is likely to feel none too
pleasant toward the agents that
shake the hall with their voicings.
It is an inevitable fact that there is
always someone -struggling with a
report; it is equally inevitable that
there is usually noise. Everyone
at some time wants to express him-
self by means of noise, but also
everyone at sometime wants des-
perately to express himself in a re-
‘port,.and_so it.might_be_polite to
respect that studious spirit which is
as common to us all as the noisy

>» {rice Samuel,
_can vouch are the group most

However, it is well, at}.

New Experiment Successful
On Thursday, November 7, Miss Carey

psalm. She announced that Mr. Wil-
loughby. had prepared on very short no~
tice a musical service in which the entire
audience was to participate. The Bach
Chorales selecte¢ for the experiment

Once by the aati and finally sung by
everyone,

The selections were:

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love.

Great God of Nations. o

Lord: of Our Life.

Hush, My Dear.

Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee.

Everyone entered ists the spirit of the

‘singing with enthusiasm, seeming to enjoy

this prolonged opportunity to express
herself vocally.
had had no previous’ practice, rose nobly
Lto the gccdsion and -led the wandering
voices of less adept singers. with some
emphasis. Altogether it was a very suc-
cessful experiment, and would have been
even more so had:the choir known what
was expected of it. Mr. Willoughby may
be sure of an interested following if he
gives another musical chapel in’ which
the spectators are participants. rs



Foreign Policy Luncheon

~The-thirty second Luncheon-Discus-
sion of the Foreign-Policy Association is
to take place at the Bellevue-Stratford
on Saturday, November 16, at twelve-
thirty. The subjéct is The Palestiniaw
Problem. The speaking will begin at
one-thirty, with a talk by Ameen Rihani,
author of The Making of Modern
Arabia; the second speaker will be Mau-
: author of The Outsider,
recently returned from a trip to Pales-
tine. The last speaker, to treat the
subject from the English point of view,
will -be Professor A. E. Prince, of
Chen's College, Ontario.

~Reservations “maybe made hrpagh
The Foreign Policy Association, Room
300, 1924 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
or~by speaking to E. Stix or H. Selig-
man, both of whom ive in Pembroke
East.



Communications

(The News is not responsible for opin-
ions expressed in this column.)

Letter
To the Editor:

‘We realize that the word “attitude”
should be clarified in this college 4s it
is common knowledgé that one’s attitude
toward life is what counts; hence the col-
lege attitude is important. At Bryn
Mawr there has always been strong feel-
ing and controversy, e. g., is personal
liberty or isn’t it, and not only that but
what should one do with it? If there is
and one makes no use of it, it is obviously
a farce.

We ask that the whole matter be re-
ferred. to the ‘President and the Dean
through. the Self-Government Associa-
tion. We advise this procedure so that
the power instinct in each department
of the college be allowed to flower; hence
our original intention will .be fulfilled

‘Become involved with the personal ele-
ments and persecution, whether our pur-
pose be defeated or no.

The strong feelings of immature per-
sons resenting their own inefficiency. in
their attitude toward life’ must rightly
find expression in the columns of the
News; hence we plead for a release from
coveralls.. If the matter cannot be de-
cided without snooping (underhand in-
formation) ‘our resentment will rise.

(Signed) Tue Seven SAcEs.



\ Letter
To the Editor of\the News:

I have just read, with some interest
and much horror, your editorial in the
October 30 copy of the News entitled
“Goodhart.”

Some three or four years ago Mr.
Stephen Leacock, in a \humorous whim,
wrote a volume entitled \“My Discovery

‘a chapter under ‘the label “The Horrors
of Oxford.” The burden of\ this chapter
was that the University authorities would
do wisely té tear down the group of old
rookeries which passed .under the names
of . Baliol,.. Magdalen, Christ \ Church,
etc., and’ construct’ in their stead\a nice,
new, concrete and steel construction
building such as had_ recently \ been
erected for the State Normal School at
Schenectady, N. Y.

I recommend to the writer of the edi-
‘torial on “Goodhart”a perusal and seri-
ous contemplation of this chapter.
Very truly yours,

(Signed).

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Rpesat: ° fq: McCracken.
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opened Chapel: by reading the sixty-sixth ‘

were to be played on the organ, sung:

The choir, although t+ -

that the mainsprings of action will not}

of England” in which he incorporated.

\| notables.
\navy propagandist, received in the skit



In Philadelphia
“The Theatre ,
Lyric: Wings of, Youth, a new play
by Elmer Harris. —
Chestnut: Top Speed; a musical com-
edy. ‘
Forrest: Lenore Ulrie’s. personality

lends light to an otherwise “mediocre
play, The Sandy Hooker.

Garrick: R. U. R. is vividly and im-
aginatively done by the Theatre Guild.

Keith’s: Katherine Cornell gives: a
charming portrayal of the’ seventies in

‘The Age of Innocence.

Shubert: The return of a boisterous
review, A Night. in Venice. .

Walnut: After Dark, Boucicault’s
melodrama _ revived.
Coming ©

Garrick: Caprice, Molnar’s play, acted |.
by Lunt and: Fontanne; opens November
18.

Broad: Milne’s The Perfect Alibi;
opens November 18. .

Walnut: George Kelly’s newest play,
Maggie the Magnificent; opens | Mawem=
ber 18.

Shubert-Keith:* Phil Barry’s Holiday:
opens November 18,

Shubert :. Nina Rosa; a new musical

play by Harbach, with music by Rom-

berg; opens November 18.
: Forrest : Earl Carroll Vanities; opens
November 18. —
« The Movies

Mastbaum: George Bancroft in a new
melodrama, The Mighty.

Stanley : Harold Lloyd explores China-
town out loud in Welcome Danger.

Fox: The Cock-Eyed World continues
a record-breaking run. :

‘Earle: “Alice ae as the Girl from
W oolworth’s.

Aldine: Disraeli;
too highly.

Boyd: Bigger and better production of
The Taming of the Shrew, with “Amer-
ica’s hero” and “America’s sweetheart,”

we can’t praise this
?

‘the | Fairbanks.

Erlanger: Bebe Daniels, in the movie
version of Rio Rita.

Fox-Locust:. Third week of Gaynor
and Farrell in Sunny Side Up.

Stanton: A very good negro film,
Hallelujah.

Film. Guild: John Barrymore plays
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Little: The Soul of France, “a French

Sf

THE COLLEGE NEWS.

film dealing with both the human and

the historical sides of the World War.”
Coming |
¥“Mastbaum: Colleen. Moore in Foot-
lights and Fools; opens November 18.
Earle: Doug Junior in The Forward
Pass; opens November 15.
- The Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the
leadership of Leopold Stokowski, will
play the following numbers, on Friday
afternoon, November 15, and on Satur-
day evening, November 16:
Beethoven.............2.. ~The Eroica Symphony
“Jurgen”
PME sess “Enigma” Variations



News From Other Colleges



Columbia Records Dialects
> Lytegpetiors)U suse «ata» Riverside
Drive and 119th Street echoed with
laughter last night as Dr. W. Cabell
Greet, Professor of English at Bar-
nard College, reproduced on the phon-
ograph some 200 snatches of conversa-
tion recored on the campus of Colum-
bia University. Two hundred distinct
American dialects were heard in the
collection, and-these, the professor ex-
plained, are only a small proportion of
the American dialects heard daily on
Morningside Heights... ©

Dr. Greet’s records were part of a
program arranged by the foreign stu-
dents at Columbia as their contribution
to the institution’s 175th anniversary
celebration. It was heard by more than
1200 alumni and guests of the uni-
versity. .

In his ae ea address, Dr. Sena
advocated use of phonographs in teach-¢
ing English to foreigners. He said
that present methods are hephacard
and ineffgctive:

Dr. Greet and S. L. Caius: of the
Physics Department, are recording the
voices’of the Goelumbia faculty mem-
bers for a collection that is to be kept
in the university museum. These rec-
ords will form the nucleus for a perma-

nent exhibit, to which additions will.

frequently be made.
At the entertainment last night the
foreign students also staged a skit

satirizing the university’s “practice of

granting degrees and professorships. to |.
William B. Shearer, big-

the. title of Professor of Thermody-
hamics, or hot air—N. Y. Times.

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The Christ Church Burying

“In the ‘burying-ground across the
street, and in and about the sacred
walls of Christ Church, not far away,
lie Benjamin. Franklin, Francis. Hop-
kinson, . Peyton » Randolph, Benjamin
Rush, and many a gallant soldier and
sailor of the war for freedom. Among
them, at peace forever, rest the gentle-
folks who stood for the king—the gay

men and women who were neutral, or |

who cared little under which George
they danced or gambled or drank their
old Madeira,” writes Hugh Wynne:
Free Quaker, in his memoirs, of Revo-

lutionary days.

We were surprised to discover that
a company so distinguished and diver-
sified should Jeave to posterity such an
unimpressive. contribution in grave-
yards. The weeping willows and
skulls and cross bones ‘of old New

England are absent, as is .also the.

spicy gloating of the deceased over the
impending death of others. We miss
the tidbits of Copps Hills “and» Ply-
mouth and look about for some com-
pensating virtue. Perhaps.it lies in the
august character of the graveyard’s in-
habitants. We were informed that
here were interred “seven signers of
the Declaration of Independenée, (a
number: of famous non-signers), and
other persons of distinction,” and we
immediately explored to find out who
these “other persons” might be. Dr.
Kearsley,, General Jacob Morgan and
Major General Cadwalader,we discov-
ered, and flags marked the graves of
many more heroes. But, personally,
we feel that the palm for distinction

goes to. “Mr. Thomas Hockley, of this

city, Merchant” about whom the fol-
lowing. lines were written: '
“The ashes of a worthy man
Beneath this tomb do rest,
Who -filledbeloved-life’s-ltttle-span, —-
Then soared to meet the Blest.

“The kindest. husband and warmest
friend and parent kind did. join,

Whose social virtues mild did blend
and Hockley onceswere mine:

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“A real Christian heart, he cflmly met
his fate,
Resigned he faced that dreadful dart
which ends our mortal state.

“His weeping spouse this marble rears,
but words her grief can’t paint.

The wife the woman melts in‘tears and
mourns him though a saint.”

We were convinced: by length alone,
and joined with the weeping wife in
rendering “Hockley” his due.

If the merchant represents the ming-
ling of all the virtue#®®ertain of them
appear in others. There is the young
lady whose “temper, elegance of man-
ner, cheerful canversation, and un-
blemished virtue’ endear her to her

“friends, and the youth:

“Beneath this marble ‘stone there lies
a youth
Of purest morals and unsullied truth,
So great his innocence, so great the
; prize, ae
All gracious “heaven ‘soon snatched him
to the skies.”

There is the wife whose

“(Her) last request prohibits more,

Let angels speak her praise,”
and the family of children whose ami-
able and exemplary natures-reach their
climax in the brother who “for rigid
puncutality and love of order (he) was
remarkable.”

We had to »€ontent ourselves with
| coats-of-arms for ornaments, except in
the case of Rosalind,: who was _ repre-
sented by a rose, and one charming
reproduction of the resurrection scene.
We found age, venerable walls, stones
and shrubs, but we found chiefly “dis-
tinction”:

“With talents to serve. virtue, to
adorn wit, to delight, and affections to
enjoy this world, he departed in the
fbloom of his youth, leaving .to his
afflicted friends the consolation of his
immortal. bliss.”

(The Christ Church Comeia'’ is at
Arch atid Fifth Streets, and is open
daily, Sundays excepted. If you care
to explore in any detail, you can look
over the plan of the graveyard at the
Neighborhood House by the church.)

Le Calendar

November 14: Mrs, Jackson Fistouslieg
will speak in the afternoon, on Russia.
The Varsity Players will present Edna

St.Vincent.._Millay’s Aria. del Capo, in

\ the evening.

November 15: Angna Enters will give
her Compositions in Dance Form in
Goodhart = at 8:20 P. M.



jand a’ cynic.






Book Review
Atmosphere of. Love .

By Andre Marois; translation by Dr.
Joseph Collins. (D. Appleton & Co.)

Atmosphere of Love is a study of
a-manvand the*two women he loved. The —
book. is-written:in two parts in the form
of letters. In the first part, Phillipe
Marcenat narrates’ his version of his
affair with the woman he loves, Odile;

and in’ the latter part his second wife’ *

Dresrate her estimate of Marcenat. By :
is ingenious device the author affords
us a complete and living portrait of the
hero. Thus we have a psychological
analysis which is, both * profound and
clarifying. Marcenat, as he himself real-
ized and wrote in his letter, is of dual
personali He sis. at once an ‘idealist
In his early youth he
formulated for himself the ideal woman, *
whom he called his “Amazone,” but as
he grew older he “realized that the be-
loved woman was a myth in real life,”
and the. cynic took refuge in his books.
Yet the romantis¢ist. won out and in
Odile, his first wife, he believes he has
found his’ “Amazone”. at last. © Even
when he discovers, on further intimacy,
that she is not the perfect being of his
dream, still he cotinues to love her with
ardor an? violence; it .is a greater pas-:
sion which #estroys their love—jealousy. -
They-—are—separated- and Odile’ marries ~
another mar, an unfortunate venture end-
ing in her suicide. Mercenat is dis-
tracted, for he has not ceased to love
her; now he idealizes her in death and
worships her memory.

Eventually Mercenat marries Isabelle
who, in some ways, reminds him of Odile
and who is intellectually congenial. This
part of the story we learn from Isabelle’s
letters. Here the tables are turned and
it is Isabelle whose love is strongest.
Mercenat now condemns in Isabelle the °
same characteristics Odile had con-
demned in him—he hates her stayeat-,

‘home attitude, her eternal questionings,

all manifestations of jealousy-—It-isIsa-
belle ~ who -burps with jealousy when
Mercenat develops . an affair with
Solange, a ard and brilliant woman.
Solange, at length, deserts him for an-
other and for one brief moment we fore-

| see the possibility of happiness after all?

But very suddenly Mercenat becomes ill!
with broncho-pneumonia and dies. .

Although Atmosphere of Love is pri-
mafily a novel, and one of vividness and
distinction, yet it is more than a novel.
In reality it is a subtle and probing
study of the nature and course of love
and the disastrous effects of human jeal-
ousy. And this real aim is enhanced
rather than conceajed by that samessym-
pathetic and penetrating treatment: which
we admired in Disraeli and Ariel, and
by the charm and originality which have
endeared ‘M. Maurois to his many read-
ers throughout Europe and America.

C..W. P.:



Fér Those in Doubt :

The recent coyrse of the stock ex-
change has ‘been of so alarming a na- -
ture that even our smoking rooms have
vibrated with the shock, The present
condition of Wall Street cannot fail to

| interest us all,.and..most Of, 1g —VELV. gmc:

materially. Yet, judging from the con-
versations about us on the campus,
the ignorance of so many as to the
most primary factors of the subject
have inspired us to comment briefly on
the present situation. ‘

For some time conditions have been
such that-a slight cause only would
bring about a collapse. The explana-
tion for this is somewhat as follows:

Since. 1923 the price: of stocks, al-
though fluctuating _ somewhat, has
tended upward and the aniount of the
rise is really startling. This steady
and considerable increase in the price
had brought much profit to those own+
ing stocks and their profits tempted
others to buy. The steadiness of the
rise meant that nearly all who bought
stocks duririg the last five or six years
found that their stocks could be sold
for more than they paid for them.
A few sold out and pocketed ,their’
profits. but many thousands, instead of
selling, bought more, and many more
thousands who had not’ yet bought, :
began to buy. The mania for speculat-
ing in stocks spread over the greater
part of the population afid more people
came into speculation than the world
had ever known. Even foreigners
bought largely of American’ stocks.
Farmers, wage-earners, small-salaried
people became familiar with brokers’
offices and stock quotations, and
women took to stock buying almost as
universally as they did to cigarettes.
With all this crowd of buyers. the price
of stocks went up in many, many cases

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