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~ Dancer to Give Performance

As we have announced before, Angna
Enters is to dance at college, in Goodhart
Hall, on. Friday evening, November 15.
This performance is for the benefit of
the Regional Scholarship Fund of East-
ern Pennsylvania and Delaware, but the
dancing itself is ‘not of a type to be
comparable with the average charity en-
tertainment. ‘

Miss Enters toured Armevins during
the season of 1928-29, and she was given
the most enthusiastic praise by all the
critics. The following is a typical quo-

tation, taken from an article written by

Louis Kalonyme, and printed in the Re-
flex of March, 1928: “For she is not
merely the gréat mime and dancer, but a

poet, a creative painter-composer of dance

forms. dances you see a mind
workin. h the tools that make up the
human body. It-is hard dancing in the

sense that the line in- Picasso is hard
drawing. As in Picasso every line, every
gesture, is thé inevitable, esthetically
valid one, an essential unit in an arbi-
trary design. Nothing superfluous is ad-
mitted, the lines are. individually alive
though parts of a rounded ensemble. No
gesture is haphazarded, there is ‘no spur-
of-the-moment ecstasy, or what: you ‘will.
Every gesture is controlled by the dancer.

--Her-themes-are-largely-dance_expressions.

of feminine moods, emotions, poses, man-
ners and sentiments.”

: Special tickets, in the back rows of
Goodhart, are on sale for students in the
Publication Office, Taylor Hall, for one
dollar apiece.



German Youth Shelter Homes
(Translation) By Hans . Buchner.
EDITOR’S NOTE—Mr. Buchner,

the writer of this article, is a student

engineer in Berlin, Germany, and ‘can
be reached.at 7 Friedrich Wilhelmpatz,
ae one oe Germany.

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A special expression of the German
Youth Movement, which originated be-
fore the World War as a protest on the
part of young people against: artificial
civilization and the false standards of
values of the nineteenth century, , is
itineracy and ‘camping.: Patterning
after the’ old ‘scholars -of the middle
ages, young fellows and students, out
of love for nature, fled into the woods
and hills of our‘homeland, where they
led an adventurous outdoor life. In
their excessive enthusiasm) they ig-
nored the comfortable accommodations
of a selfish age, and avoided, wherever
possible, restaurants' and hotels,, which
did not correspond with their manner
of living.

But after the World War, Soeh the
young and the old in Germany were
similarly impoverished. On that ac\
count, the simple manner of living,
which the sons of wealthy families,
and even those of the poorer class, had

formerly adopted in open contempt of

luxury, became the inevitable rule.
Boys and girls had often not enough
money to even “wander” at all. At
this juncture, the work of the Youth
Shelter Macc 72-7* began.

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As early as 1910, Richard Schirr- |
“mann, a: public’ schol teacher; who”on

account of his age at that time was
excluded from the Youth Movement
proper, had recognized the importance
of Youth Itineracy. He knew that this
movement would have to be advanced
through the provision of proper accom-
modations, which would offer young
people what they wanted, namely
simple and hard sleeping quarters at a
reasonable price. Byt it was only
after the war, when the Youth Move-
ment experienced an umexpected jolt,
and when parents could not even afford
their children the price of a “wander-
ing” trip, that Schirrmann was success-
ful with his efforts. Especially towns
and communities upon whom. the care
of young people is incumbent, as well
as private. individuals, supported the
movement by financial advances and by
establishing appropriate shelter houses,
which became a part of the Youth
Shelter Work. In the year 1911 there

_.were seventeen. shelter houses in’ ex-

istence, which gave night accommo-
dation to 3000 persons. By-the year
1928, the number of shelter houses had
increased to 2200 with a total of 3,300,-
‘000 overnight accommodations for the
year.

The: old shelters are in the cellar or
on the attic floor. of schools, town halls

‘ and other: public. buildings; often” the



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drward line showed the* unity which
we looked for in vain in earlier games.
Longacre and Blanchard fulfilled the
promise of last week on the left, while
Stix, as center, did some hard fighting.
Totten, on the right wing, was reliable
and’, made several good runs. The
playing of the forward line was in-
finitely superior to any of their earlier
work,

McCully, at right fullback, played an
excellent game for speed and _ stick
work. She was éven faster than usual,
covering the Bryn Mawr ‘half: of the
field both rapidly and well. Woodward
played her best game of the year at
left half, and the backs, as a whole,
were quicker at overtaking and better
in passing than they have been pre-
viously.

The hard, directed hitting, the in-
crease in team work, and the rushing
of the forwards coritributed to make
Saturday’s game Varsity’s best appear-
ance of the year. 2

The line-up was:

S successfully to the forwards. The

Substitutes—Bryn Mawr: Totten for
Crane (Longacre and Longstreth shift).
Goals—Philadelphia: Cross, CheSton, 2;
Perkins, Kendig. , Bryn Mawr: Long-
streth, Stix, Longacre, Blanchard, 2.
Total—Bryn Mawr, 5; Philadelphia, 5.



purpose, with modern equipment, such
as central heating, running water,
baths, sprays, dark rooms: for photog-
raphy and occasionally ski rooms, etc.
There are shelters beside the water,
suitable for water travelers, and others
in the mountains suitable for skiing en-
thusiasts. In Cologne there is a large
town shelter house, in Hohenstein in
the free State of Saxony; there is-even
a Youth Castle. In some shelters the
bed consists of only a mattress with
cover. Most of them, however, have
military field cots (usually . double-
banked like berths in a ship) in which-
bolsters are stretched over the bottom
boards. Boys and girls have separate’
sleeping quarters; in the day room they
have meals together. In many of the
shelter houses there is even a simple
canteen where cheap meals can. be ob-
tained.
The most difficult thing, of course,
was the development of a proper or-
ganization, and in particular, the fin-
ancing. A central union exists—‘Reichs-
Deutch Jugenherbergen
(National Union for German Youth
Shelters), upon which organization,
however, only the laying down of gen-
eral\ government rules and the con-
trol \are incumbent. Further, the
shelter, houses, which are necessarily
self-supporting, are united with smaller
diedenendent units, so-called districts, of
which there are 27, scgerding to their
jyocation’ in Germanys

The fundg, collected in gee individual
shelter houses consist principally of
overnight fees (averaging 5c for young
people under 20 and 10c to 20c for
members over 20 years of age), and
contributions received from towns, and
communities. The receipts of the dis-
tricts are made up of membership fees
paid by corporative members and in-
dividual members over 20 years of age,
of which there are 100,000 in the whole
of Germany, and state contributions.
The Saxon district received in the year
1928 an appropriation of approximately
$7000. The receipts of the National
Union originate finally from fees and
contributions, the fees from districts
and membership fees of the -national
unions and. foreign members. It is
the pride of the Youth Shelter Move-

much better use than that expended
by the state and communities for pris-
ons and hospitals. Prevention. is bet-
ter than cure!

That is. the Youth Shelter Work,
which, as a typically German move-
ment offering unlimited advantages to
the young people of ail nations, stands
in the world today as the only one of
its kind. Those who only. visit those
places where the anriouncement “Eng-
‘lish spoken” can be read, do not learn
much about Germany; and those who
have not sat. with German boys and

of the white scoured tables, have failed
to learn about an important: phase of

Philadelphia Bryn Mawr
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MERON, sc cs ots 0 ES REAP Longacre
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TOE Beg ereoaeangrarer L. w.. .«. Blanchard
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ment, that all this money is put to]

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prevent it from doing its works peace-
fully; a sense of powe?, tiiotive power.
Philo lived intensely in this emotion;
he believed, that not only the Jews

but also the Greeks had it and that
therefore the explanation of both was
valuable;. he atgued that since the
experience was the same; the expla-
nations of the Jews and the Greeks
were at least partly true and ulti-
mately meant the same thing; Moses
and Plato wefte concerned with the
same spirit. Philo was the greatest
intellectual force in the first century.
He was the representative of a large
body of highly-educated intelligent
Jews corresponding to the Reform
Jews of today, and it seems as though
the movement were really going to
succeed when the curtain goes down
and there is a period of darkness.
Whien the curtain goes up again the
Reform Jews have been swept. from
the map. Things were of a different
kind in the religious fields; the impor-
tant.elements were two types of Chris-
tianity, and his Liberal Christianity
was based on allegory; ft is not known

what happened in the dark interval to

end Liberal Judaism. or to start Lib-
eral Christianity; one may guess that
the former started the latter; this guess
is supported by the fact that the books
of Philo -were used in Christian circles,
but it cannot be proved that there was
a real passing over; some day in
Egypt we may find evidence to show
that the Jews were overtaken:by the
Christians, in their liberal movement.
Of the two forms Liberal Christian-
ity the one was destined not to sur-
vive; this was the movement of the
Gnostics;: little is known of their
origin but they had at least one hand
in Christianity; the thimg that is known
is that they. were interested in intellec-
tual.as_wellas. religious. problems;
their question was how do you account
for the miserable world, for they were
obsessed with a sense of sin and re-
jected the theory that. God Almighty
had created the wretched universe: the
création was a mistake; originally God
existed alone, or perhaps the first ex-
istence had two forms—death and
silence; from these came speech and
mind, and from these in turn. arose all
other things, last of all wisdom; wis-
donr as the last product of the divine
world was on the very edge of the
fullness of the God-Head, and it was
intensely curious about the centre of
the God-Head; it tried to get to the
centre but was thrown back and out
into the emptiness of space; the emo-
tion ‘of wisdom’s transient mistake
either produced matter or another
being who was the creator, the fabri-
cator of creation from unformed mat-
ter; it was all a tragic mistake with
the final result of the race of men,
who are mostly matter but of whom
some have the spark of the God-Head,
and the God-Head tries to redeem the

divine in man; the Crucifixion is an}.

allegory for what happens in the di-
vite Deing=—the Savior is “Saetched
out over the boundary to pull wisdom
back into the sphere of the divine and

‘with her finally. the divinity of crea-

tion; only matter is left and it can
easily be destroyed; the God-Head
cannot stand—the- divine to be lost. x

The Gnostic theory had an effect on
Alexandria,. and this came out espe-
cially in the treatment of the body—
some said that it does not matter what
you do to the body, others said that
the poor body has a hard time, so let
it enjoy itself while it can; since it
does not matter’to the spirit. There
was extreme asceticism and extreme
license, both arising from ‘the same
philosophic concept of the fundamental
mistake. The Gnostics were of the
same. attitude toward religion as Philo,
but’ their theology and their ethics
were different. All the proof we have
of the existence of their beliefs are the
documents written against them, to
make, the Gnostic theory appear
ridiculous and revolting, later writings
produced when the Gnostics were
wavering, and some Alexandrian politi-
cal notes—one a priceless manuscript
of notes taken down by Clement; had
it not been for Clement not nearly as
‘much had been known now about the
*Gnostics, but the ‘notes are character-
istic lecture notes, and it is hard to
tell where Clement ends and Gnosti-
cism begins.

“Early Orthodox” Christianity “was
orthodox only in comparison with
Gnosticism and the fourth century
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scent from the Orthodox Christianity
of Clement and Origen. Origen was

‘there was a feeble-tradition that he
was a Greek, but little is known about
hin: ~ Orthodox Christianity was: a
flourishing School; ‘Clement became
the head and taught the synthesis of
Plato and Christianity, as Philo taught
the synthesis of Plato and Judaism;
Clement was succeeded by Origen,
who was better known even though he
may not seem so original a thinker.
In the story of Origen’s life we meet
him first'as a youth and a prig; when
his father had been imprisoned and
was awaiting, martyrdom the boy
‘wrote to him begging him not to lose
the honour of martyrdom for the fam-
ily; that he was sincere is shown in
the fact that he proposed to become
a martyr himself; it is an interesting
sidelight’ on human-nature that his
mother did not attempt: to dissuade
him, but knowing that though willing
to be a martyr he would not be will-

foolishness by removing his clothes
(she certainly ought to be femembered
among the wise-women of
Church). After the successful martyr-
dom. of his father, Origen looked ‘out
for his family’s welfare by the unlikely |
method of teaching; he gave lectures
on the Classics and in Christian the-
ology; he’ accepted a chair’ in the
Catechetical School in Alexandria, but
he quarreled with the bishop, and he
lived out the rest of his life in Cae-
sarea, where he organized and founded
the great Catechetical Library; all
knowledge on the Greek side of the
Christian Church goes back to the
libraries of Caesarea, Alexandria, and
Jerusalem.

Origen developed the critical - side
of the Church; he produced a 1 edition
of the Bible in sixpcolumns of six dif-
ferent languages. Origen’s theory of
life was not that of the: Gnostics, but
it_.was_also_.far removed from the
Orthodox Christianity after his timé:
God is immaterial; his opponents con-
tended that -since-in—_the--Gospel _of
John God is Spirit, and since spirit is
a form of matter, then the Spirit of
God cannot be immaterial, the reason
being that the Stoic philosophy of the
time, considered spirit, ethereal mat-
ter. Origen spent pages in explaining’
that what John means’ is that God ‘is
Mind; this elucidation of the equation
between Spirit and Mind or immate-
riality, is of enormous importance.
Immateriality is like materiality in that
though incapable of separation it is
capable of distinctions. Souls were
created good by God in the begin-
ning; if they had. stayed righteous,
they would have remained -immaterial
as they originally were, but they were
evilly influenced and. they became ma-
terial—devils, men and angels; this
age-long process goes on until they
find the act of will that makes. them
see the worst and choose the better;
it may take myriads of aeons but in
the end all will be redeemed by divine
will, in the same. way.in which all fell]
by act of their own choice. This be-
4ife is the ground-workor Origet’s
theory, and it is an extraordinarily
thrilling and attractive scheme of
thought; much of Origen’s thought was
accepted by later Christian doctrines,
but the doctrine of souls was rejected
as heretical; there is a sad picture of
Origen’s study after His. death with the
monks burning his manuscripts, and
of Origen in Hell below. with .the
devils burning Origén> You can un-
derstand why things happen as si
do, later on.

The great problem is-ever: what- is
the relation between theology.and re-
ligion. You ‘feel that the picture of
the religion of*Philo, the Gnostics and
Origen was not so far from your own;
something in their, thought giyes you
a sense of unity, of purity and power.
Theology still, unfortunately, is opin-
ion, just as religion is emotion; but
opinion is not to: be despised for there
cannot be communication unless emo-
tions are translated into opinions.
Opinion, howevet, changes from gen-
eration to generation, while emotion
remains the same; although they ex-
pressed different opinions, they were
feeling the same thing; their experi-
ence was almost identical with ours.
Opinion enables a truer perspective
buf emotion is the deeper thing; still
it is necessary to have an opinion that
is rational or else you cannot com-
municate your experience. Religion
has produced a great deal of evil as
well as good; it is the motive power
but you require a steering-wheel to
keep you straight; experience is the

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Dr. Meikle; ohn Says _
” Riches Blind Nation

Jacksonville, Ill. Oct. 14 (AP. )—Dr.
Alexander Meiliejohn, chairman of the
experimental ‘college at the University
of Wisconsin, speaking today at the four-
day centennial celebration of Illinois Col-
‘lege, called for an educators’ war-against
the influence of material wealth on the
nation. The address, extolled Plato’s
republic, ' which would give -the -wealthy
no authority and the authorities no
wealth. <

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“We are a newly rich people,” Pro-
fessor Meik#éjohn: said, “and we are in
serious danger. Shall the blind lead
the blind?” =

Likening America .to a rich man’s
house containing, besides the rich man,
a tutor and a son, Dr. Meiklejohn
branded as an evil the rich man’s con-
trol over the tutor.

The speaker attacked “the rating of
the United States as the greatest nation
because it is the richest, and Great Brit-
ain as the next greatest because it is the
next richest.”

“T would. not destroy this new-found
wealth,” Dr. Meiklejohn explained. “TI
would destroy the confusion it has
| caysed_and_learn_how—to_use—the-wealth—-
to make us a truly great nation.

“Can we have books which are not
written- for profit, newspapers untram-
meled by influence of money, an art
whose only motive is to depict® thin
as they are, a preaching which
neither desire nor. need to please, co
of justice whose integrity and impar-
tiality are beyond the shadow of a doubt,
institutions of ‘learning which devote
themselves to the study of whatever is
important~for* human living and. which
report their findings with faultlessness
and self-respect?

“I am not sure we can have these
things. It is a terribly difficult task, and
just now the current is running strongly
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of this I am sure—no one who is note...

struggling with that task can claim any
share in the leadership of education.”

President Farrand, of Cornell Univer-
sity, another speaker, said:

“Meiklejohn and his audience are
bowed in despair, but that inevitable
struggle between the material and the
ideal has been going on since the be-
ginning of society.

“Today’s youth is exhibiting traits
which we, who are about to pass from
the stage, could Have used to advantage.
The youth of today has frankness, di-
rectness.in the point of view and an ur-
willingness to accept traditions.” —New
York Times. . :



Harvard Students Serious _
~-CAMBRIDGE,. Mass., Oct. 30.—
The Rev. Frederick M. Eliot, Harvard,
11, of St. Paul, who is preaching at
Appleton Chapel, finds that Harvard
students lack the’ ultra-collegiatism of
undergraduates of Western universities
and are much more studious. Harvard
students seem to. spend much: more
time-in their stydi-> ond in their read-
ings, but, on the whole, have not lost

their eagerness for outside activities.

They have a definite purpose to grasp
what the college has to offer.

Stating his opinions in an interview,
the Rev. Mr. Eliot said that Harvard *

undegraduates had changed a great

deal for the better since his. own time.
This he attributed to the tutorial sys-
tem, which had much to do with break-
ing down the old attitude—of enmity.
between pupil and instructor. It had
enriched the contacts made and in-
duced students to show more interest
in their studies, especially in outside
reading. At Harvard and at colleges
where the tutorial system had. been
adopted, there were fewer students
who had gone to college because it was
the thing to do.

He decried the lack of such a system
in the Western universities, where so-
called collegiatism was becoming more
rampant rather than dying out.

_ “Men are coming to America’s oldest
university with a more critical attitude
than ever before,’ he said. “They
weigh what they see and hear and
draw therefrom their own conclusions.

‘The college itself is to be thanked for

the gtowing prevalence of this atti-
tude.”—-N. Y. Times. *



out the engine or without the steering-
wheel ever lead to trouble. _

The early theology is. very. different
the religion is pfac- —
tically identical. We must read the
ancient literature with open eyes, for

if their _steerling-wheel is not ours,/..

their experience. is not very differen

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