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College news, December 12, 1928
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1928-12-12
serial
Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 15, No. 09
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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College Council Is_,
. Thriving, Miss Park Says
_ In chapel on Monday morning, De-
~~ cember” ‘10, “President “Park: spoke about
.the College Council,* that _all- important
body about which, so little is known by
the college itself. Miss Park told us
"how the Council was started during the
“latter years of the war, to arrange some
way by which students could keep, up in
their academic work and their war work
at the same time. When that need .was
over ‘it. sank into*obscurity. for a while,
“hat it has again become very important.
There were originally eight members on
the committee, but it has now grown to!
such proportions that it is. made up of
_ the President and Dean of the college,
the Director: of Publication, the presi-
dents of the Classes, of the four Asso-
ciations, 6f the Graduate Club and of
the Non-Resident Club, representativés of
the Faculty and Wardens, the Director
of Halls, the Director. of Athletics, and'|.
the Editor-in-Chief ofsthe News. . Thus
information can be referred ‘to and given
‘by. all the organizations in the college.
~The Council has a long and informat}
meeting once a month at which it dis-
cusses extremely varied \_ subjects.
Changes have actually arisen. ftom these
discussions, for in 1923 a Curriculum.
Committee _was suggested from \ whose
first report our present system of less
required ~work..and one major. ‘subject
"arose,
At preseht cuts and week-ends are
being “discussed, but the President and
the Dean and the Faculty are holding
back any changes untjl after*the next
meeting of -the Council. The changes in
the calendar. this year ar@a result of last
year’s discussion. :
Miss Park then mentioned a few ot
the other subjects that‘came up last year.
Among them were Mental Hygiene,
Freshman Week,’ a - separate hali for. |
graduate . students, all topics pertaining
to Goodhart Hall, May Day, and ‘the
College Budget, so the Council will know
just wheré there are financial limitations,
-in her attitude toward you.
to see how a little thoyght or ‘interest
on your~ part could possibly make any:
difference to a-person who would like to
1 think that the
proof of the worth of: being friendly:
be friends with you,
‘s experienced by everyone sometiimes,
You may think a person unattractive,
pushing, and in a way almost deferential
You may: be
sincerity or a desire to. ‘get: into the |
crowd,’ and yet perhaps this same person,
will keep on. just being pleasant and
thoughtful and you will begin to like her
be.ter and see her many good points in-
siead of merely ‘the qualities which an-
noyed you. And the: best’ part of it. all
is, that as you change your attitude to-
ward her, she changes foo, and becomes
he person you think she is, even if she
nay have to struggle with some reforms
in her character and attitude.
_ Friendship Helps
“Thus in being friendly and open’ to
friendship’ you-are-not-only making the
most of your opportunities to know other
people, but at the s@ife time “you are
really doing something for other people,
-for_the_mere.fact of knowing that you
are not indifferent to hef ‘interests ~and
thoughts, gives a person a feeling of self-
confidence and security in her own
powers. ;
“And it is not only the on with
no close friends to whom thi lies, but
to ‘very many~people-whom ink are
self-sufficient and who hide their feelings
of loneliness or shyness under this guise.
It is quite true that no one can be close
friends with everybody. This is not ex-
pected, but it: costs very little to be
friendly and willing to share with others
anything that. you can. And certainly in
college there are many opportugities for
this.”
‘H. Chapin,’’15, Chinese Student
Not long ago Miss Hefen Chapin, Bryn
Mawr, 1915, visited the campus -where
she was formerly an undergraduate, and
spoke to the Journal Club in Archaeology
on Buddhist Iconography. Miss Chapin
and where changes would ariaahy be | is one of the most interested and spirited
possible, .
Every kind of student is represented
on the Council, Miss Park pointed out,
every College interest, and the adminis-
tration as well. This body cannot legis-
late, however, but it is in this very lack
of power that its real power lies. It gets |
definite» action’ from the reports of its
meetings, and though it was created with-
- present: it-18- the core of Bryii Mawr Col:
= Teze.~ Sone
This Council arbitrates on the chaduat
of Bryn Mawr alumnae. For some time
she held a position in the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts, where:she studied Chinese
and Japanese art in the museum, and the
Chinese and Japanese languages outside.
When she had learned as much of these
latter as Boston could teach her Miss
Chapin; with admirable determination, se-
cured a place in the consular: service in
“Shanghai, “where she- could © stu: dy the
language as_well_as the art_of both coun-
|tries at close quarters. She was also em-
ofthe students, not as right or wrone, |
but in general, and as to academic work.
‘Jt therefore must have a general basis
“of agreement, not in detail, for this would :
be impossible, but it must agree as to a
definition of college; that is to say, who;
shall come and what can bé expected.
\This must be true,. because if the ends
are different, the means would naturally
be quite diverse. When the plane~ is
established, there is no part of the imme-
diate question that cannot-be discussed.
Fortunately the Couneil has never
failed to arrive at a like decision con-
cerning what~college is, for. ~ President
Park deprecated the fact that thé num-
bers must necessarily be so limited, but
she concluded, that its work was decidedly
fruitful.
.. «CROSS_IN CHAPEL |
CONTINUED.,
FROM PAGE 1
you and really meet their te at
friendliness half way, instead of entirely
repulsing any advances either because of
‘indifference or a feeling of superiority.
Some people may like to live in a world
of Nihilists such as those .in Russia in
the ’70’s when the belief in; being perfeét-
ly frank led them to think it wrong to
smile at a person or give him a friendly
greeting unless he was a_ particular
friend, for it was insincere. I think most
of us like a more cheerful atmosphere.
_Lack of friendliness often comes from
a dack of imagination and the ability to
ployed for various services by the Japan-
ese Government.
When she could get away
duties, Miss Chapin traveled in the Far
East. She spent some time in a Buddhist:
Monastery, living as the monks did, and
winning the title of ‘the “first” bobbed
Buddhist” nun. While becoming learned
‘n its art she was strongly’ attracted: to
che tenets of Buddhism,
On her way back from the Far East,
Miss Chapin stopped in London, where
she did valuable work in deciphering in-
scriptions and clearing up obscure points
‘n eastern iconography. At present she
is back at the Boston Museum, but. in
March she intends to’ return to’ Japan
by way of Europe and India. She has
been given a scholarship by Swarthmore
College of $2000 a year for three years
to continue her researches. In a year or
two or maybe jmore we may expect her
back. to add more laurels to her own
name and to that of Bryn Mawr.
from her
' eaten. -
Lacrosse
(Specially contributed by Janet Seeley
and Sally ‘Longstreth. )
Perhaps no sport has been called upon
to pass a more stringent test of popularity
than lacrosse. Even hockey -would have
but slight chance af survival: if - those
playing it had to submit to a previous
season devoted entirely to stickwork:
lacrosse, since its introduction four years
ago, has known a steady -increase iti
popularity, and, despite heavy snows and
oe difficulty of running in}
yet
annoyed and think it‘is a form of in-f
ith hockey.
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‘preliminary -winter-season asi the-spring
matches, In catching a high ball: (par-
ticularly a high ball on the left!) there
is all the exhilaration and joy of achieve-
ment that one occasionally fiiids in a_per-
fect tennis stroke or in a pérfect drive on
the golf links; and, if one sometimes gets
buried™in’ the Snow, there is: always ~the
possibility of turning the period into a
snow. fight and calling it’ winter sports.
With apologies to’ Pooh. Bear we have
made up’ an Outdoor Song .which Has
to Be Sung When Playing Lacrosse in
the Snow:
Although it snows
Tiddely Pom
“ Yet each one goes . r
Tiddely Pom _
Yet each one goes
Tiddely Pom
On playing.
And lest you suppose
Tiddely Pom
“That we are froze
Tiddely Pom
That we are froze
Tiddely Pom
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‘Oh, nobody -knows
Tiddely Pom —
How warm my nose’
Tiddely -Pom
Also niy toes
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SA SOE aaa
= Our=present troublets that we are not
finding anyone new’ to whom we can
teach this Outdoor Song: and we are
feeling very sad that so few Freshmen
have signed up for lacrosse. So far the
actual objections to it as a game séem
co be. few—and those ‘easily
They are that the game is:
(a) Rough.
(b) Expensive,
(c) New,
answered.
and therefore hard to Jearn.
As a matter of fact lacrosse is neither
rougher nor more expeggive than hockey.
The Athletic Associaton has bought a
is new we admit; that it is too™ late for
anyone in college to begin learning it we
do not admit. We need only mention!
the varsity, which is composed almost | °
entirely of people’ who began playing in!
their fresHman years.
It is one of the few sports that can!
be played in all seasons. and is now being
played at Hockey Camp in correlation
It is being played in Eng-
1 to the partial exclusion of field
hockey. It would not be in any way sur-
prising if the next touring team to visit
the United States came~ equipped with
‘crosses a§ well as hockey sticks.
The regular ldcrosse matches—class
and varsity—come in the spring term but
fo. play games in ‘the spring one must
learn to handle a ‘crosse in the winter;
i
Freshmen playing to make one full team
We. should..certainly—not—urge—the-con-
' e
galoshes, this. has been as trué during the
| “The young sian adjudged the most
nuniber of crosses so that beginners need | five dollars apiece, get a good plot with
not get their own equip:nent until sure! an ending with a punch—many stories
of going on with the game. That lacrosse | like those in the Plastic Age. I do not,
' Brushes’.’
‘| beyond the age of superstition?
Not, of course, that changes are not! =
;| new courses—and the Collegian hopes |
-and at present there are not enoug!t | |
tinuance of anything merely for the sake
begun—and got a good start in—some-
thing so obviously worthwhile; when so
many schools and colleges are following
our example; when, in short, lacrosse is
making a real opening for itself in this
country, it would seem a pity to drop it
without-at least a fair trial. At presem
the interesf in lacrosse depends upon the
spring matches; the spring ‘matches -de-
pend upon a certain amount of skill in,
and knowledge‘ of, the game; and _ this
last depends not only upon the number of
people—Freshmen in, particular—who are
going to play lacrosse; but upon the num-
ber who are going to practice it this win-
ter. _ Presumably the number. of people f
taking lacrosse will exactly coincide with
the number “takirlg to” lacrosse; pre-
sumably,~ also, the number of people tak-
ing vlacrosse -will exactly coincide with
the number reading. this ‘article, there-
fore, what the success of this spring’s
lacrosse really depends on is—thé circula-
(ion of the News. Q. E
JANET-SEELEY,
SALLY _LONGSTRETH.
_I Confess
i
inventive in New England was recently
awarded _a-scholarship in engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Techriol-
ogy. “If anyone ever offers a scholarship
for the ‘student. who betrays the greatest
ingenuity in earning his way through
college there will be many claimants, but
Windmill believes that he has found the
‘man who eught to,win the prize. His
anonymous confession, appearing in
“Undergraduates,” a recent book on edu-
cation, follows:
“ee
I have been writing short stories on
the quiet for True Confessions and True
Stories. T made a thousand dollars {i |
eleven weeks selling my stuff to maga-
zines. One year I tried the Vacation
Bible School Job, and only made a little
clear. I write stories and make twenty-
know whether I ought to write for such
magazines or not. They claim their
stories are true, but of course, they aren't.
t any rate, none of mine are. I am.
trying to get on to a better way to make
money. Am thinking of- selling Fuller
"—New Student,
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Are We Superstitious?
At the University of Richmond rooms
situated between numbers twelve and
fourteen are numbered, the Collegian
complains, twelve A instead of the ob
jectionable ,thirteen. Who say says we are
being constantly made in every .institu-.
tion; there are always new plans and
that every room 12A will boast a new
and more truthful sign in the near
-Hoigeke-Mews——
Se ee ee ee
of-going—on—with-it;-but-when—wé_have | —
Someone
rare ought to. all
RUTH”
i bs whe
“Tell her that she can
telephone?
home without spending
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any money.
“Ae great Seal The poor
dear may not be in love”
at all. Perhap Ss she’ sa
bit teomesick. a
Charges on call by ar
now be reversed without
sddicoual cost.
Arrange: with the folks at:
home to telephone them
this ‘week-end ~
COLLEGE INN, DEC. 13
A full line of fine felt hats at
the low price of $1.25.
Also—A_ unique display of
French jewelry and novel-
ties for gifts at attractive
prices. -
Printing
| 4145 Lancaster Ave., Rosemont, Pa.
John J. McDevitt
Phone, Bryn Mawr 675
ean I’rograms
Rill Heads
Tickets
setter Heads
Reoklets ete.
Announcements
COTTAGE TEA ROOM
Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr. Pa.
Luncheon. .. Dinner
: Afternoon Tea
Special Parties by Arrangement.
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