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Coby yy Editor

F. McKELVEY, ‘28 -

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CAROLINE R. M. SMITH, '28
. ELIZABETH H. H. LINN, ‘29°

Contributing Editor
J. L, PESLER, ‘28

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APOLOGIA PRO ER-
RATA NOSTRA

The Coitece News hereby. offers
a blanket though none the less sin-
cere apology for the many mis-
takes in the lagt issue which have
not been brought to i attention. ,
Specifically, for those which have,

it offers its humblest apology to
Mrs. Collins “and the classes of
1925, 1926, 1927,-and 1928 who
contributed $53,000 instead of the

$5000 reported in
‘ News; alsq to Mr.
Mr Meigs
names.

last .week’s
Alwyne and
for misspelling their

IRELAND TO THE FORE

The_past.week, with ‘the Irish
_-Players giving their -last- perform-
ances in Philadelphia. and George
‘Russell speaking in” Bryn” Mawr,
was a kirid of Trishmatr‘i in Art week
“to many of us.” We were reminded
" vividly -of ‘the: dramatic role played
-by Irishmen in our past imaginings ;
-we have thought of them ‘as lovers
.of beauty, profound believers’ at
once in magic and in religion, fan-
_tastic, dreamy, “with a hy of
“swagger. In January the v to

_< this country of Mr. Cosgrave, Pres-
‘ident of the Irish: Ege “Stara 3
MumUed us” of anorfrér attfibute o
the Irishman, his spirit of independ-
ence. Hither we have been “Accus-
tomed to think of this spirit. as
primarily . destructive, of ~ the : ro-
-mance and the fantasy as. inherently:
impractical. . Yet this is perhaps not
necessarily the case, The very po-
sition of Mr. Cosgrave, the con-
structive reforms accomplished by
‘a mystic like Mr. Russell, and even
‘the tragedy of Juno and. the Pay-
‘cock give hope for a still better role
_for the Irishman of the future. In
a country where poets are leaders,
and leaders are poets, anything is
possible. Mr. Stephen Gwynn, in
the conclusion to his book on. Ire-

-Tand in the “Modern World” serigs,
expresses the hope that the nation
-which-has—lain-like-a barrier be-
tween fhe two great branches of the
English speaking world may in time
hecome a link. If Ireland does even
more, and instills into both branches
of that somewhat ‘hard-headed
world some of her poetry and, faith,

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as. far as possible without her com-.

bativeness; she will indeed have

made a great contribution...



MAKE THE’ PUNISHMENT
FIT THE jCRIME

Every so often one enter4 the Re-
kerve Book Room at the Ligrary to
notice a poor harassed creat
ting in a chair in the corner and try-.
ing desperately to take notes. or
- read. Book and pencils Slide from
her knees, other students rush in|:

and out and exchange bits of gos-
sip; one wonders why the girl has
chosen such a place to study when
the comfortable reading room is
next door and she isso obviously
unhappy.
“Alas! She is riot sitting there by
preference, or even in voluntary
penance, nor. is she demented. She
is undergoing punishment. for -a

- dastardly crime. For a fortnight



she must do all her studying (she,

J

‘is taking only reading courses) in.
this stuffy, noisy hole, unable to

Ay

——— or absorb perl “she ds





‘Tthem at all,
‘|quizzes are coming or reports are

‘}so .tniss ‘her privilegés.





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it.be so severe and unjust? The girl
who is taking all ‘reading courses
[not allowed.to take books out -of.the
Reserve Room, and must athe

|w@ad them on the spot, which’ is’

practically impossible, or not. read
which is hard when

due; whilethe lucky petson who
bakes” few reading courses does not
Likewise
there seems to be no discrimination
between bringing back half an hour
late a book that is neither signed out

-+nor-in-demand;and-eloping for-sev-

eral hou ith some Important,
volume just before a quiz. Could
not some fairer method of punish-

ment. be devised to fit the impor-

tanct as well as the iMegality. of. the
crime ?



COMMUNISTIC CANINES

A strange, varied aud migratory
race are the campus dogs. .None
knows whence they come or whither
they go. From the tall ‘slim white
borzoi who is like a: ghost dog, elu-
sive and uncompanionable, to ‘the
compact and amiable terrier, there]
is not one of them who seems to)
have a-settled abode. True, there i$
it promises to do, assume the. _posi-
the grizzled Scotch beauty” whose
collar proclaifns that she“lives on
Panama ‘street, but it :iust be long
since the wiles of a decrepit black
Land tan lured her from the Panama-

|nians.

One. and _ all, apparently, these
dogs are affected by the virus of
higher education; they are disciples
of the intellectual revolt, owning no
master, and asserting the right to be}
nonpartisan. --It~-is--of--the Bryn
Mawr dogs, not the’ Bryn’ Mawr
girls ‘that ‘people myst be thinking |
when they call this college a hot-bed|
of ¢emmunism:.. Faniily and. the
trights of property: mean nothing to
‘these homeless ones. . They answer
to any name; they take meals im any
hall, walks with any pedestrian, and
insults from everyone. They haunt
the library by day, and the steps of
Pembroke by night. | They ‘have
even -been known to attend classes.
By some system of canine commrmi-
pnication they “attract others +>"
paths of learning. ‘Their .numbers
are swelling visibly. Soon they will
be barking for a place on the self-
government board. It is high time
for the college to decide whether
these dogs are an inferior race, to be
kept in ignorance and subjection, or
whether they are a free people, en-
titled to the benefits of education,
representation and the vote.



EDUCATIONAL GUINEA PIG

Mr. Duffus has finished his series
of articles on the college of today ;
his last word on the subject .con-
tained something of a hint of what
he expected and hoped to find.n the
college of tomorrow....The firstac-
tually working example of. the fu-
ture higher education is today being

lied at the University of Wis-
consin. “It does not really teach
anything. What it does is to try to

sions and reading, to the ager 6
an entire civilization.” This matKs
a very definite step away from the
collége which seeks to prepare its
graduates for a definite niche in the
places of life; Meiklejohn’ s Experi-
mental College “no longer tacitly as-
sumes that what its student desires
is not an education, but some social
or economic advantage that may be
derived from spending four years at-
Mendig college.” The hundred and
twenty members of this college have
adopted the guinea pig as their mas-
cot, since it, like themselves, is the

‘innocent martyr” to the progress of
human education !

«In some way, by means fair or
foul, by way of taxation or by way
of tremendous gifts, the college
must. first become completely en-
dowed (happy:thought). Only then
may they, education. progressing as
tion in a.community which it is their |?
right and duty to. obtain. The
alumni, the undergraduates and the

only then will the: “college be a
mode of life, a stimulus to tolerance, |
to freedom of thought and expres-
sion, to public spiritedness, which
will'make its mark-not only upon a
handful of graduates, ‘but upon an
-| entire community.”



anil

Of course eal an offense de-
‘serves. some punishment ; but need |.

expose the student through discus-|.

public -must~ all be~ educated, and |



In Philadelphia

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« The Theatre.
“Walnut » Kidnapper, a new melodrama.
Broad: Tommy is said to be a “hilari-
ous ~ domestic” comedy,”” and we under-
friend, the old lady. from ‘Dubuque.
‘» Adelphi: Irene Bordoni in Paris, a
rather weak farce with a great deal of
personality thrown in; very amusing.

‘Garrick Frank . Craven’s,. Nineteenth
Hole is typically one of his own writ-
ings: entertaining, quiet, and not par
igularly important.

Lyric: 7) He Spider on “its last legs.
©: Shubert? THe ‘Gremnatck Village Fol-
lies are elaborate, but:.not. at all funny;
which, after all, is what one. is eniies
to expect.

Chestniat : The Love Call, the latest
Romberg score, “backed up by a melo-
dramatic plot of the Apaian uprisings of
the early days in Afizona.

Erlanger : Look under movies.
; ft Coming:
Erlanger : She Stoops to Conquet;

opens “March §;-

Garrick: Abie’s Irish Rose; opens Feb-
ruary Bhs
Lyric

27,
Walnut: The’ Racket;
Shubert: Harry ;

opens March 5
Broad: Four Walls; oper® March 5,

The Movies.

Stanley: Sophie Tucker on the stage,
-and “Beery and Hatton’s latest, Mife
Savers, on the screen.

Stanton: The Student .Prince in the
movies is just about as charming as far
as. the story goes as it ever was on the
stage. Ramon Navarro and Norma
Shedrer_ take the leading roles exceed-.
ingly well, ,

Fox- octist : Sunrise is to run ‘for only

two more weeks; don’t ‘miss it.
- Karlton: Gilbert and Garbo in Love;
this does not seem as good as did Flesh
and the Devil, but it is: certainly -enters
taining.

Arcadia; Marion Davies in the screen
version of Quality Street, Barrie’s play.

Erlanger :, Richa Barthlemess in The
Vatent weather, »shhe best. of his ye;
‘Cent pictares: se i ie

Palace: Charles Ragexs
Pickford in My Best. Girl.

Aldine: Our old frgend, Wings.

Coming.

hy Maryland; opens’ ious

opens March 5.
Deimar’s . Revels;

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Stanley; Sadie Thompson; opens, Feb-
ruary 27,
Karlton: Charlie Chaplin in The Cir-

cus; opens February 27,



Orchestra.

The Philadelphia ‘Orchestra will give]
the following concert on Friday: after-
noon, February 24, and on Saturday and
Monday evenings, February 25:and-27:



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WPOHOBSY 00 Pes Ceci hres .. La, Mer
ON EC re TR eT La Valse
Mendelssohn-—...-.+255 Violin saaneerss

Boccherini,

Pierre Monteux will Seraure these con-
certs, and Celia Hansen willbe soloist
on the violin.



Dr. Paul Shorey Returns.

For the second -time in two years Dr.
Paul Shorey,
kent of Greek at the University of Chi-
cago,™but formerly professor of Greek
at Bryn Mawr, will return to the campus
where he began his teaching career. - Last
May he spoke here on “Realism .and
Idealism in Greek Literature.” » This’Fri-
day, at 8.15; P.°M.in Taylor Halt, “he
will discuss “Plato in Jest and Earnest,”
a subject on which-he is especially quali-,
fied to, speak, having written at least
‘three essays on various aspects of the
great philosopher, His. latest work, The
Assault on Humanism, was published ‘in
1917. Dr. Shorey,
many as thirteen’ degrees from various
colleges here and abroad, is one of the
best known’ country. Though, ‘he left: Bryn Mawr in
1892 the tradition of his inspiration as a
teacher is still préserved:



-Comnie Ye, Véaen Ye!

All Freshmen and Sophomores. who

to try out for the News are ¢ordially
invited to see C. Rose in 28 Pem. West



stand that it will be ‘well suited to our’

| Never yet to our knowledge. has one of

. | swered, than. a-Warden’s ‘Contest? -Here-

| spelling used in this paragraph.)

“Twife of a god-fearing drunken patriarch

-| ject, .It is painful to think of that far-

~ am not good, I am not wise,

to Lecture About Plato!

now Head of the Depart- }

who has received as |

. But to make dactylls like these we are

feel or feel that they may feel any urge |




on Monday or Hhaspig meet 30° ) and







| The Pillar
of Salt



- Calendar |
| " haeedon, February 23—Dedication: of
Goodhari Organ’ repeated for —
public. 2
Friday, Febrday 24+-Dr. Paul-Shorey .

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; ~ 4 5 &
Prizes! Contest! Prizes!'”
Weare disturbed about the Literary
‘Life of the Wardens. .Do they have a
Literary Lifé, and if so what is: it: like?

them contributed anything to us, yet: we
feel convinced that. their humor is of a
high order. . Something must be déne,
we told ourself. What better, .we an-

with,,we’ announce the great “Humorous
Wardens’ Contest. Only Warderis may
| compete. Prizes offered! Start now!
Let us have your offerings by. Monday, '
February, 27!



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Communication.
(The Editor of The Pillar of Salt ¢ is
not responsible for the grammar and

"Dear, Mrs. Lot;

(For'I cannot even now forego the
well-beloved title.J Are all my illusions
to be destroyed? Was my childhood to
be. blighted by the discovery. that Doris
Blake (author of Advice to Young Girls
and Help to the Love-lorn) was a
bearded and venerable bachelof, only to
have my young womanhood withered by
the news that Lot’s Wife is no wife at
all but a mere chit of a girl, bewailing
her 22nd birthday. O ye sins of Sodom
and Gomorra—!., Is not your: lot al-
ready cast or have you cast out your.
Lot? Or did Lot himself quite justly
divorce you when you became a pillar
of. salt—quite too highly flavored.a mate
for an ancient Hebrew with ‘a taste for
peace and .domesticity—and. good wine,
which in those days didn’t seem to in-
terferé with godlinéss? Think~of “Noah
in his vineyard! However, to: return to
our muttons, remember that even the

shouldn’t complain. Marriage after all
is a lottery and you ought to know that,
eyen if you are nothing but a crumbling
pillar of salt: As I said in the beginning,
what I really wafit to’ know is what
happened to your husband, and I would
be! much obliged to see some future
column entitled “A Little about Lot.”

Yours trustfully,



Db ls
In asking us ‘to tell a tile’ “about LOT;
D, L, L. has touched a very tender sub-

off time, when between’Sodom and Zoar
he left us, brute that he was, to. solitary
saline immortality. It is only her in-
genuous “trustfully” that softened our
heart, and induced us ta reveal the secret,
What happerfed to Lot we do not know:
We hate to confess it, but it is the truth!
We were deserted; it is not in the nature
“Voef salt to be bitter, and not even able
to feel bitter about it. And after all
these centuries, who. knows if we - still
have a husband or, not? But. D. L. L.,

does it matter very much? 3 eas ae
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Song of Triumph.
But, oh, I have such lovely eyes:

| am not kind; I am not sweet,
But, I have almost perfect feet.

I’m ‘thirty-five pounds overweight,
But still my spine is really ‘straight.
#
I am not even dignified,

3ut I can\make a trombone slide.
I am not nice, I am not pretty,
But I can write things like this ditty.



“Last week’s iambic pentameters on
the subject,of anapests,” writes One’ Who
Seems to Know, “ignored a number of
exceptions to the general anapestic rule.
We: beg to submit some of these, sug-
gested by Sophoctes and other’ dramatists,
with models by Poiret : bs,

Solemn and a little poky

See them marching to a troche;
Or when:running fleet as fleet,
‘Still trochaic are.their feet.



Now they are dancing to dactyllic dimeter

For Deianeira,. who’s really the limit; \her

Phrases from Sappho are scarce ‘worth
repeating here,



treating here.

Yét you'll find, taking care the abové to
except, ae

(My remarks I:dovhope you will. not find
inept)

That (as if in galoshes) in all of the rest,

The Poor choris is laced in the strict

_Lor’s wie. 3s



will speak on “Plato in, Jest and Earnest”
in Taylor Hall at, 8.15. .
Jlor Hall at 8.15.
s unday, February f a6 heer
Taylor at 7.30. )
Wednosday, February 29-—Leap Year,

in

student’s calendar. Illegal holiday.

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—memlly

; Poem... a
The following poem, by Miss K. Gar-
vin, instructor . in' English at ‘Bry Mawr,
appeared. pemently, ih The London Ob- ~



server:
< Crystal Trees.

(To M. V., who. foves beauty fading.)
Avenued lines of crystal trees

Are golden, molten, .in ‘winter Sun,
They mutter and crackle in gentle breeze,

And drip their fingers one by one
Until: the liquescent jewels flow
To nameless graves in an oceaff of snow.

Jeweler, with your ‘exquisite art,
Fashion qnd carve me a crystal tree
With an ivory base that my negligent

heart
Starve not for lack of a memory,
Let it be noble in faultless design,
Set it where sun, where moon, will shine,

My tree stands safe on the window-sill,
Shining and shimmering in the sun,
But its boughs drip never, it stands too

- still,
And the task that I asked can never be
done,
For: where is the grace of a quivering
breath,

And-where"the beauty of beauty death?
Bryn awe; UO: SA,
‘St. Nicholas’ Day, 1927.



Musical Service for C. A.*?

The Christian Association. will hold the
first of the musical services in the Good-
hart Music Room at 5.30 on Sunday,
February 26, These services willbe an
experiment to which we have been look-
Ling. forward’ as an advance over the old
Sk year it was decided toa have.
ministers for. half. the services ‘arid. to
have the others very simple with more
|music. As the music room was not ready
in the~fall, the plan had to_be postponed
until now. The service will be very short
and simple, Mr. Willoughby will play
the organ and M. Humphrey, ’29, will
lead. !



New. Duties
The Curriculum Committee which has
been in abeyance for two years has just
been’ appointed to work in co-operation
with the Faculty -in arranging the new
Honors: work which is planned for the
‘History and English Departments. The
Committee, according to the rules, also
acts. as a complaint bureau and may
formulate opinions of its own
The personnel of-the..Coemmittee.is.as
follows: V. Fain,- ’29, Chairman;
A. Palache, ’28, ¢x-officio, and B. Brown,
'9g: M. Perry, °88; N. Mitchel, 28;
C. Rose, ’'28; H. Wright, ’29; R. Cross,
29: M."L. Williams, 29; E. Fry, '29;
G. Bancroft, ‘30; C. tse; 130° 3; Bigé-.
low, 30; C. Thompson, ’81, and M. De
Vaux, 731,



Book Reviews
Av» Tabloid History of Women.
(Specially contributed by Hornell Hart.)
“Worship of fertility, the right to
work, and the acknowledgment that she
is a rational being to precisely the same
-ettent as a man is, are the three. safe- “

| guards necessary to women’s happiness.

That is the key-sentence in A.Short
History of Women by John Langdon-
Davies (New “York: ‘Lhe Viking Press,
1927). <-As-- to feminisin among - ‘the
simpler peoples, he: says:

“Undoubtedly the first redeeming fea-
ture -ior primitive woman: is the fact
that she had plenty of hard work.

A’ second is that she is always able to
fulfill her biological functions; she is
always a wife and: mother, unless by

e rare ill-fate she is physically
abnormal. ”

\Langdon-Davies Generalizes. .

.~That—leads—the-author to—one—of- his-
funda ntal generalizations :

name entirely do away with
the ill-effects. of enforced celibacy with —
which we chaye.to-re2 -kon- in all civilized —

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