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* vaders swept down: from the North ‘and’
- before we- could: say anything “more than



“The game was in reality much closer
. than the .score would .seem to indicate.
"It was a contest of hard drives and long

_ game-of waiting longer for the ball and

student body,.and so ‘would welcome any
. suggestions.

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‘VASSAR DESCENDS,
VARSITY DECAMPS

— Mawr bse Loses All But!
- One Match to the

‘Visitors.
DOUBLES A WALKOVER

Sennachetib came down like’a wolf on
the fold, but»this time he was disguised
under a_ tasteful spring: lamb’s -skin.
And what are spring lambs wearing this
White dresses, bare legs, and
These ruthless in-





year}
bright short socks,

“sood shot!” we were quite completely

gobbled up. Only one succulent gobbet
was left, and that was Carla. Swan’s
match which she won in straight sets.
Otherwise we were swallowed up with
painful effidiency, -although Barbara
Humphries caused some ~severeconvul-
sions of the grisly beast’s gorge before
she, followed the rest down the little
red ‘lane. 2
Frances “Bethel, ’28, playing number
one for us, was beaten 6-2,.6-3 by Vir-
ginia Platt, Vassar’s number one player.

back-court rallies in’ which Miss Platt’s
‘superior steadiness won out almost every
time. Miss Bethel played a good game,
but her opponent’s driving was_ harder
and her placing far more accurate. Miss
Platt successfully seized every oppor-
tunity of coming up to the net, and also
successfully: passed Miss Bethel on the
rare occasions when she tried the same
tactics. Miss Platt played the Western

using the same grip for both back and
forehand shots.

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New League Meets

handute Made and Heads of De-

__ partments Elected for.
Next Year.

On Wednesday evening, May 9,-a meet-
ing was held of what was then called
the “new Organization,” which has since
then attained to the dignity and distinc-
tion of a reaf name—The Bryn Mawr
League. After a few introductory words
from R. Biddle, the president of the
League, the business of the meeting,
namely, the reports of the three groups
and the choosing of a name, was taken.

The first report was that of S. Brad-
ley, Head of Worship. Miss Bradley
explained the plan for next year by
which we are to have five regular chapel
services—that is, five services led by out-
side ministers during the year. For this
the League is anxious to secure men
who are of the greatest interest to the

In addition to these serv-
ices there will be other less formal ones,
as many as we wish. They -will be led
sondenty: og fh rs-of the faculty,
and will consist of “short talks, readings,
and.. organ and Choir music, In
‘connection »with the music it has been
decided that the choir mistress should be
on Miss Bradley’s. committee so as to
facilitate the arrangement of the musi-
cal services. The committee will also
have charge of the Maids’ Sunday
School.
New Arrangement. for Ministers.
_QO..Stokes, Head of Discussion, has, as
she said in her report, arranged with the
Worship Greup that the ministers who
come to hold the chapel services should,
whenever. possible,” stay over Sunday
night and Monday in order to meet the
Discussion Group. He would - perhaps
speak in chapel Monday morning, and
a tea would be ‘given : for him in the
afternoon. Thus those who were inter-
ested would have the opportunity of talk-
ing to him in small groups, and of meet-j
ing him informally. Two hostesses were
chosen to entertain the guests of the

League, M. Martin and H. Thomas.|

“| repetition of Big May Day in.

-when



May Day? Yes!

The college has declared itself ,
overwhelmingly in favor of a

1930, according to the College
News poll taken last week. Of
_the approximately four hundred
votes recorded, only two were.
_uncompromisingly opposed to
continuing the tradition, One _
suggested holding some .sort of
large scale’ celebration while
| varyigg its character: perhaps a

Spanish carnival instead of an
Elizabethan May Day. But
ninety-nine per cent. wanted to
see Queen Elizabeth back on the
campus unchanged.









Faculty Loses to Varsity
Despite Startling Goal
One-can-not say that, the-Varsity-team
beat the Faculty without adding at once
that the Faculty. made one startling goal!

-Fhe—combat-between..the. teams, which

took. place. Monday afternoon,\.was_ in-
tensely_ interesting, and the onlookers
were breathless with excitement most, of
the time. The moments- not: included: in
the word, “most” were devoted to occa-
sional laughter. We were certainly-.en-
tertained ! ie

The game began with Varsity on a
rush for a goal, but they did not realizé
what opposition they had in the Faculty
and it was some tinie before they scored.
Seely and Buck and Hart. worked won-
ders in thé backfield, and. Fieser and
Sloan on the forward line turned out to
be dashing players. Dr. Fieser won our
admiration at the very beginning, for
such clever tactics are not often seen in
hockey... He showed a tendency to sit
upon the ball when a presuming under-
graduate got too close to him, and he
was very deft at abandoning the stick
for the. more -practical use of. the hand.

| He made several’ spectacular“runs- down
the field, and showed remarkable ability |,

in stopping hits.

Dr. Diez also applied the ‘intelligence
to the sport. He found that, the ball
could cover ground in a fray most eAsily
-kicked. - He -- fought --valiaiitly
against -Guiterman, who can cover
ground at an amazing rate herself: Dr.
Hart and Blanchard -had ‘several little
combats on the side. .They had a great
deal of trouble at some moments in mak-
ing up the ball’s mind as to its owner.

The second half was marked by. a
great many long shots. Wills and-Guiter-
man fought hard for thé honor of the
home team, and Hirshberg was invulner-
able as a back, Dr. Fieser and Buck
were the only two who could push their
rapid way through her. ‘

Varsity had made only one goal the
second half when Lanman dramatically
scored one for the Faculty! There was
a momentary halt in the game while the
players overcame theit emotions. The
end was soon reached with the Varsity
triumphant with a score,of 6-1. But the
Faculty DID make one goal—and they
deserved it! Their swiftness and fierce-
ness thrilled us all.

For a while we thought we had May
Daytipon us“again. The audience..wa*
quite sure we were once more in the
midst of our Elizabethan - revels. Buck
and Bartle appeared with Harvesters’
Hats shading their brows by meas of
their ample and costumed. brims, and
Seely outdid herself in Tumbling. Even
Euclio came down :to- see the finish,
looking precisely as important as he did
in Midsummer's Night Dream. All. we
lacked was a Fury or two to remove
the dead at the end of the game, or poor
Miss Sloan, who received “external in-
juries”.on the shin during the first half.

‘The line-up:
Fowler..... Pe Sa
Were ae, ks cd, sec ru cos E. Diez
**eWills......... CN ees Sloan
‘*Guiterman.......L. I . .-Kieser
“*Tuttle...... es OW ees *
Freeman........ 2 Oe | ree . Bartle
ONS sis 0s Gag hn BO 04s 008 Carey
Se, eee ._ Mart
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Mis: Stokes said. that a Seaton es:
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within the city limits of. Philadelphia.

‘is the master of Tammany, not the ser-

a do?”



He

Smoke in Town



Change fn Rule Largely Bffected

_ by the Retiring _

Board. .
The ,students of Bryn: Mawr College
will héfice forward be permitted to smoke

This striking change in the smoking

rules was adopted by the Association at |”

a meeting in Taylor Hall. on May 9. The
list of places where students may eat
after the theater in Philadelphia was also
extended to include Child’s on Chestnut
street’ and on ;Broad street, Whitman’s
on Chestnut street and Huyler's.
_ Rosamond Cross, President - of the
executive board, remarked in proposing
the amendment to Resolution X that the
chief credit for the new rule should go
to ‘old «board, whose efforts are
largely responsible for the generous stand
taken by the trustées and the President.
Some--disewssion- arose from the fact
that smoking is still forbidden in restau-
rants in the village, where the students
1 But it
brought to-a harmonious close by V: At-

the

are more” conspicuous, was

more, ’28, who made a strong. plea for
moderation.
out,

The authorities, she pointed:
are making a ‘great concession to
student opinion, To criticize or to in-
crease our demands would be yngrateful.
Her words: were applauded enthusias-
ticaHy by the entire Association. —

After the discussion the motions for
amendments to Resolution X . (which
deals with smoking) and Resolution XIV
were read and, passed, without a dissent-
ing vote in either case.



Republican or Democrat?
Hoover or Al Smith?

The weak points and the strong of the
Republican and Democratic ‘parties, and
the comparative merits—of-Smith—and
Hoover were clearly presented by Pro-
fessor William-Roy ‘Smith in his talk on
Presidential Candidates in chapel on Fri-
day morning, i

Both parties are "very definitely divided
along sectional lines. Prohibition is ‘the
main: issue occasioning a split among the
Democrats, while the Republicans . are
faced with the serious problem of recon-
ciling the ‘agricultural West toa policy
which is essentially that of the industrial
East. The Republicans, however, have a
stronger party nationally; their’ press
agents are better; and then there is ever
that old tradition that prosperity is -an
attribute of Republican rule.

Equal Chances for Candidates,
. Hoover’and Smith as outstanding can-
didates of these two parties appear to
have fifty-fifty chances of ultimate suc-
cess. Mr. Hoover is handicapped in the
West’ by his stand on the tariff, in the
Mississippi Valley since he believes that
part of the money for Flood Preventive
work. should be levied from those in. the
afflicted’ area, and. in the South on ac-
count of- his’ radical step in abolishing
race segregation in offices. Mr. Smith
is, also.in “disfayor in the West where
rLowdei” ‘could’ ‘very well beat’ mn. = gH te
addition the fact that Mr. Smith isa
Catholic has been over-much exploited
by the New York World and the New
York Times, Undoubtedly religion will
play both ways and it is almost as unfor-
tunate an issue to bring up during cam-
paigntimes_as the. fact that Mr. Smith
is a member of Tammany Hall, This
word immediately conjures up lurid pic-
tures and makes people forget that Smith

vant. Undeniably he is the best execu-
tive living in this country today, and his
New York experience will serve him
well for any future work. With his
present following he could carry New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and pos-



“black to choose from.

BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928 .

AMERICA TODAY CONFRON1
-__ BY VITAL RACIAL SIT UATION

“Art Club Officers

The folfowing were elected at
the annual meeting’ of the Art
Club as officers for next year:

Annabel Learned, President

Virginia Fain, Vice President

Edith Grant, Secretary

Sarah Bradley, Treasurer

Ethel Sussman, Studio Man-
ager with a. studio committee
consisting of:

Barbara Kirk

Dorothy Jane Moos
“Helen Pitts —









Enthusiastic Discussion
Follows Miss Bird’s Talk

The hour or more of discussion which?

followed Miss Bird’s speech on Sunday

evening was perhaps even more stimulat-
ing than her lecture. Discussion seemed

‘to thrive and-glow’in-the-Common Room.

far more than it has ever done in the
dreary. atmosphere of the showcases.
Certainly the interest shown by a com-
paratively large number of people, on
a Sunday. evening, was the most aus-
picious possible inauguration for the new
Bryn Mawr League.

If Miss Bird’s set speech convinced her
hearers of her sincerity and charm, her
power and. command of information in

informal discussion impressed them with

her intelligence and. ability. The. first
subject which came up was the question
of racial difference. Miss Bird was
asked whether there was any truth in
the semi-scientific assertions that the col-
ored race is mentally or physically in-
ferior to. the white, and incapable of
coming up to its standards. “Miss Bird
countered with a list of pure Africans
who have achieved great intellectual and
artistic prominence: Florence - Wheatley,
the young poet; Dr. Du Bois, and Roland
Hayes the singer., Attacked on the other

hand as to whether the mingling of the |

two races produces an inferior or de-
generate “type -she pointed to Booker
Washingéon, son of a white man and a
coloréd “wonian, and one ~of’ the -greatest-
educators of all time (though she her-
self did not claim this: for him). But
the question of intermarriage is not a
paramount one to the negro of today,
except as an aspect of whité prejudice
and. timidity. Within his own race at
this moment there is enough to interést
him in the new movement among ‘the
younger people. If color is important to
him, he has all shades from white to
Questioned as to
her personal feeling towards intermar-
riage, Miss Bird confessed candidly that
she could not declare -flatly -against- it;
since “tt=da_an established fact. There
are more than three million mulattos in
the United States.today, and a compara-
tively small proportion of full-blooded
negroes.
the past; there is no hope of developing
an art, or a civilization, or a personal-
ity that is purely black. It must be
American as well.
Increased Negro Achievement.

= ey SOR ges pen that the inability oft

negroes to meet with modern: industrial

‘competition would result in. the exhaus-

tion and ultimate disappearance of the
race was overpowered by a, smashing
array of facts which . Miss Bir seemed
to have at her fingers’ ends.. Negro
population, negro banks, negro schools,
negro real estate in homes and farms
have doubled, tripled and increased a
hundred-fold since the Civil~War. De-
cidedly the race is on the up-grade.

‘Another subject that came up was the
question of negro art; is it essentiffty
primitive? This opened up the whole
field of aesthetics, capably. circumscribed
however by the tactful and capable ef-
forts of Miss Bird. She pointed out,

-however, that civilization moves in_ cycles.

| today,”





PRICE, 10 :CENTS

Ribjicme

_ operation of Negroes

ADVOCATE TOLERANCE

“There is no race problem in America
said -Miss Crystal Bird in -her
lecture given Sunday evening in the
Music Room of Goodhart. Hall.

now is’ a race situation, the causes ‘of
which are both at sina and of long
Standing.

The great mass of American people
cannot escape the knowledge that such a
situation does exist. It is apparent in
‘newspapers, in magazine articles, in
actual experiences, in the . segregation
which confronts’ the negro in theaters,
churches, and all places of amusement}.

erroneous information concerning lynch-
ings and the inability of the negro to
vote intelligently. -There is, too, an im-
possibility for the .negro-to obtain any
sort of a position that will enable -him
to live ‘a respectable life, although he
may be as well equipped mentally as any
of his more successful competitors.
Whites Misunderstand Negro.
These, primarily, are the causes for a
race situation. Mos¥ of them are due to.
a prejudice which dates back in the
first place to the slave trade. But the.
ignorance here involvet is more the fault
of the white man than the negro. The
colored man’s experience of having lived
so many: years in the homes of the whites
during the slavery,period has given him.
the advantage of .understanding the mind
of the-white man more thoroughly than

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- Athens Excavated

Difficulties: Involved in Litigation
and Depth of Re-
-mains.



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'

On. Wednesday morning, May 9, Miss

vations of the Athenian market place,
which have been undertaken by the
School of Classical Studies, in Athens.
Before the war the Greek Govern-
ment had determined to. excavate the’
agora, but during the succeeding years
more modern activities claimed its atten-
tion, and after 1918 the national finances
were in no condition to back the under-
taking. ~ Consequently, they gave the
privilege to Great Britain, France and
the United States, provgded these three
countries would furnish the necessary
capital. Each . contributing. institution
no need

digging; however; there was

Racial integrity is a thing of | carry out this plan, since there was

an anonymous gift of $2,500,000, to
which was added. another subscription by
the Education Board, to be used for pur-
poses of publicity,

It is thought that there were probably
three” market: nlaces: tanner SEMI Rit Sa
the exact Jocation of only one is "known,
because it is matked by two colonnades
which have remained standing through-
out the centuries. The place is covered
by modern buildings and its excavation
will entail a tremendous amount of liti-
gation.
the purely physical one, which lies in
the fact that the original remains are
probably buried about thirty-five feet
deep, and that the thorough ‘investigation
of the: place will cover a period of some
twenty years.

_ Works of Art Around Agora.

The agora was of an irregular shape,
and surrotinded by public buildings, an
objects of art. All the information whic







sibly Massachusetts and. Rhode Island.
Will He Run? 7
“In concluding I might say just a
word about the enigma of the campaign,
that is: what will President Coolidge
“Whether he is in earnest or not remains

‘to be seen. Coolidge is not a dead pos- |

sibility. by any manner of means.”.



It. begins and ends with the primitive ‘and
the simple or simplified. This is what
our modern art (perhaps our whole
civilization) is going back to. In this



-connection. Miss Bird uttered _one_tell-

ing Phrase:

ek. would rather be a primitive man
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author, Pausanias. He wrote of st
and temples erected to the many Ol
pian deities; among other thin
mentioned | Antenor’s “Slaying of/ the
Tyrants,” which _was__carried





Innate Prajudices: Hinder Co
and Whites... ..-.

What America is confronted with just

-and,~-finally,—it.is--most.apparent..in. the...

Swindler spoke in chapel on the exca- °

wag to have a section for its private’

Besides this difficulty, there is



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