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College news, January 12, 1927
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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Vol. 13, No. 12
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WORLD'S “OMLY HOPE To. Vie de Boheme, was a real, person. Mallarme, Verlaint, * Villiers de I’Idle-
“FOLLOW: AFTER PEACE”| Mrs. Elizabeth Burton, a member pf] Adam, Monet and Sarah Bernhardt,
the Alliante Francaise in, Philadelphia | also chose to live on this mountain, so- +
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“UB. Too .Inured to Conflict,” Says
‘Dr. Harold E. B. Speight.
‘Follow. after peace with all lest any
root of bitterness springing up trouble
you,” was the téxt chosen by Dr. Harold
E. B. Speight for his address in Chapel
on Sunday, January 9. That we should
learn to have differeiices of opmion with-
out quarreling about them is, he. stated,
most important. We should bring our
questions before a competent judge in-
stead of fighting them out.
judgment such as that of Solomon in
the case of the two women who both
claimed the same child, will prove -a
man’s sincerity and judgment.
stance. of the United States and “a Re-
public to the South” force and gestures
cannot save the situation—it will mérely
bring discredjt on both countries.
“We gre too inured to conflict; we take
extreme positions and refuse to yiéld an
inch through our love of conquest.
"Fighting Instinct Inbred.
“Even our vocabularly shows how
much of the fighting-instinct is left with
us: we talk about the ‘forces’.of prog-
ress, ‘tactics’ of statesmanship.
contributing to the common voice.
do not realize that the common opinion
the sense of the meeting, is more valuable
than individual opinion, or even than all
separate opinions added together.
in the enjoyment shared with others.”
That there should
mitted, necessary and advisable.
variety of opinion there can be no prog-
ress,
suppress the opinions of others, but to
add to the common voice. °
Free Discussion Advisable.
To “prove all things” is necessary be-
fore wé’can hold fast to anything. There-
fore free discussion is advisable to win-
now the theories of the past-and select
such as are most suited. For our prob-
lems are not new—Thomas Carlyle in
1850 declared that’ “ruin was universal,”
that there was no hope in the present
state, that a “new spirit was needed.”
“There have never been such resources
of spiritual leadership as there are today,
and the spirit that will save us is the
It respects the
rights of individual judgment, holds out
hope and freedom to every individual,
regards life as a great partnership. — Its
most important precept is ‘Follow after
peace ;’ and when we get this spirit in our
hearts there is hope for the world.”
“MIMI A REAL PERSON”
SAYS MRS. E, BURTON
Describes Historic Figures of Latin
Quarter.
Giving a brief literary history of the
- Latin Quarter together with selections
from the works of authors wh@élived in
this section of Paris, , Mrs. Elizabeth
Burton declared that the decade of 1830-
40 when Romanticism was in full flower
alsg proved the supreme moment of the
Quartier Latin, and that Mimi Pinson,
heroine of Henri Murger’s’ Scenes de la
Frequently a
qn the in-.
The
whole difficulty is that each of us wishes
to express his own opinion instead of
We
We
should learn to merge personal triumph [
‘he_.differences of
‘thought and principle, is, Dr. Speight ad-
Without
But our ideal. should, be not to
and a Parisian by birth, spoke under
tthe ‘auspices of ‘the French Club at a
tea in Rockefeller last Friday ° after-
.noon,
“Tt St.
Genefieve (wlich is really-only a hill),
spe walls of Lutece that a
theméely res,"
her
e .
was on the mountain . of
oe
outsi
students first established
said Mrs.
talk, ' “From. the students,
was their chief subject of study, the
name ‘Latin Quarter’ is derived. Dis-
covered by ‘the Romans, beloved by the
Burton in commencing
since Latin
Emperor: Julian,* the mountain of St.
Genevieve served as the refuge for
s
Abelard when he was exiled from Paris
for preaching against cdiitemporary con-
ditions. Here he founded a school and
soon after a -church was. established
But always the life of the Latin Quarter
was centered round the students.”
Literary Career Begin With Villon.
With first ‘mo-
dern poet whose
>
Francois Villon, the
in French literature,
Burton’ read, the Latin Quarter may be
said to have embarked on its long: and
brilliant literary career Then follow
Corneille, La Fontaine, Boileau, Moliere,
Racine and Marivaux in quick succes-
each with his particular cafe, us-
name, where
sion,
ually bearing the author’s
he .and his disciples and
sembled in the evening.
In the Second Empire, the great civil
engineer, _Haussman, made his _head-
quarters here. But the years of 1830-40
mark the apex in the history of the Latin
Quarter. Gavarni, the great lithographer,
Deveria and Daumier. grouped them-
selves here, together with Henri Murger,
author of 8Scenes.de la Vie de Boheme,
from which several selections were read,
and the ever-enchanting, Alfred de Mus-
set and Paul Beranger. Several scenes
from. Sacha Guitry’s play, Beranger,
were read by Mrs. Burton so that a
more concrete picture of the times might
be obtained.
Then came the great group of realists
from Flaubert, Zola and Maupassant
down to Anatole France and Bourget.
admires as-
SEVILLE THEATRE
Bryn Mawr
PROGRAMME.
WEEK OP JANUARY 10
‘Wednesday and Thursday
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT and
BESSIE LOVE ©
IN
“YOUNG APRIL”
Friday and Saturday
MARIE PREVOST
IN
“ALMOST A LADY”
Students’ New Year’s Resolution!
— READ MORE BOOKS —
Add a few books to your libra
ry each month of the new year}
through
s
‘Book:
Shop’ ’
Taylor Hall
beiebi nt
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Cite
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&
CLAFLIN CREATIONS
Featuring
ceptionally
narrow heels
and high arch
ex-
{day togther form the Latin Quarter.
e
poem Ballade des Dames de Jadis, Mrs.’
“Isms” because of their delight in attach-
ing ism to any word whatever. ‘These
were followed by the Decadents and the
Hydropaths. The latter group is mainly
of interest because it. severed into three
divisions and one of these divisions was
the first to take up headquarters in Mont-
martre. Thus St.
martré joined hands across Paris and ‘to-
Genevieve and Mont-
MUST BE CRUCIFIED
‘ CONTINUED FROM ro@rTH PAGE i
A - wv ,
‘In a second speech, Mr. Kennedy
developed this subject, whatever vision
wé may have found at Milwaukee is
Chri#t born in us, And it will grow,
and grow to its crucifixion, “You will
have to endure suffering. Loving means
working.”
Discussion Revealed Cosmopolitanism.
Each day, in conpection with the theme
forthe day, discussion groups were held.
These were particularly interesting be-
cause in them students from every local-
ity, and’ race gave their views upon pres-
-ent Here it was that the
cosmopolitan aspect of the conferefice
was most clearly The exhibitions
held in the afternoons at the auditorium
threw light on various present efforts
toward the solution of these problems.
problems.
seen.
Informal groups were also planned to
follow up questions of special interest.
These were led, some by the speakers;
and others by men who are leaders in
some particular field. Among the most
instructive was Professor Jerome Davis’
“laboratory trips,”, which took students
into factories, the jail, Socialist meetings,
and other places of interest. On one
afternoon the Mayor of Milwaukee, a
Socialist, spoke to this group.
A pageant, “The Quest for Truth,”
was arranged;and produced in an amaz-
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