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QUIET HOURS

When the Self-Government As-
sociation passed the rule that (uet
Hours are to be enforced not by
Proctors but by each individual stu-
dent, many people remained doubt-
ful of the efficacy of the new sys-
tem. But is not their doubt founded
upon a false’assumption? They say
that noisy people will not listen to
a person who asks them to be quiet,
because she has no authority behind
her. Are they not overlooking the



_ fact that she has the authority of









o left behind

“this is thro

the whole Self-Government Asso-
ciation behind her ; besides, why as-
sume @ priori that people will de-
liberately and brazenly set out to

break a rule that is as much a part}

of Self-Government as any other?

Really, putting the responsibility of

‘keeping Quiet Hours upon the

group as a whole is much more in

harmony with a real Self-Govern-
ent, fhan illogically having a pro-

"pr system for enforcing this rule
nly.

The success of the new ‘system
will depend, first of all -pon-co-op-
eration in keeping the Quiet Hour
‘rules, and secondly, upon respecting
the authority behind a person who
reminds the carelessly noisy that it
is Quiet Hour. If our sense of
honor is as high in what might sup-
perficially seem unessential, as it is
in essentials, there should be no dif-
ficulty. and greater convenience in
enforcing Quiet Hours under the
new system.



DEMAGOGUES

Once in a great many years the
world produces a perfect demago-
gue. ‘There were Alexander, Cae-
sar, Nopoleon, and now, Mussolini.
Oddly enough, many of these men
have come from Italy. Oddly, be-
cause the Italians are for the most
part an easy going, pleasant, but
rather impractical race. In fatt,
according to some scientists, they
can not begin to compare with the
blonde Nordics when it comes to
accomplishing things. ==

It is true that a demagogue is not
an average person; he couldn’t be
and accomplish the things he does.
The average person would be fright-
ened at his own power, supposing
that he ever got as far as acquiring
the power, and he would be utterly
incapable of maintaining his high
position. But the demagogue has
none of the average person’s humil-
ity; he knows his own ability, and
is not afraid to use it, since he has
absolute confidence in himself. He
has a ‘vision, a material one, it is
true, but none the less a vision, and
he follows it with complete oneness
of purpose. And even more impor-
ant than this, he knows people, and
how to inspire them to devotion,
_or if that is-ttot possible, to fear.

The strange thing about demago-

is that, so far’as one can see,
not one of them has ever: done any
constructive work in, the world.
have died, they have
them-only rujn, and an
inspiration for future d jes
nd would-be d . erue,
igh no fault of theirs,
., Fe te

a 4 + @ . .
| a disinterested opinion impossible ;

Hin that-of pouringand-drinking-tea

| with assurance tg, your hot delicious

great many men have been socialists
w:thout becoming demagogifs. And
the rest, Napoleon, Caesar,. Alexan-
der, came of an extraordinary stock.

It would be interesting to read an|
unbiased biography of ‘a demagogue,
if such a thing were, only possible.
‘The .event is wmlikely, because,
whereas all biographies are biased
to some extent, those of demagogues
are strongly so. The very power and
fascination of such a man, makes

you either succuinb completely to
his spell, or you hate with an equal
passion. Yet such a_ biography
might do a lot to explain the exist-
ence of these men, a question which
so far, no one has been able to an-
swer. Religions will have it that
they serve to demonstrate the limita-
tions of man. But this explanation
hardly. satisfies, since from their
own point of view most demagogues
have achieved an unbelievable, co-
lossal, utterly impossible - success.
Then-what-is-the reason for their

struction or are they an ideal to spur
‘men into using the’ limits of their
power? Are they the curse most
people-think them, or are they a
blessing, rather carefully disguised ?



HOW MANY LUMPS?

One of the habits which make
later life pleasantest, one of the gifts
that college training does not foster
in tis, but in which some of us, more
or less against the advice of au-
thority, indulge, in —the charming
custom of afternoon tea drinking.
For ourself, we cannot advocate it
too highly. There is no special grace
in which it is better to excel than

in a graceful and lady-like manner.
To be able to apportion to every one
the desired amount of sugar without
asking too many timés, to avoid put-
ting in lemon when she asks for
“cream, yes auite a lot,” are quali-
ties that make one popular at once.
It is very embarrassing to say beam-
ingly to one of your mother’s most
dignified friends, “No sugar for
you, isn’t it?” and have her respond
coldly, “Why, yes, three lumps.
please.” Neither is it a becoming or
endearing habit to spill hot water
on your caller’s fingers as he reaches
for his cup. Even if you are not
at the tea table, it takes a certain
amount of practice to be able to
balance a cup and saucer, a napkin,
a sandwich and a cake in one hand

other.
Then tea-drinking is such a rest-
ful, relaxing performance. The

whole day is much pleasanter and
Jess tiring if you can look forward

existence? Do they cause only de-|

and shake hands gracefully with the}

given it a prize in their contest.

Corecsions. :
Misspelled Word in Add Corecsions
Capital
e In spight of what we have
learned, we've allways pre-
a fered ‘xt with an “o”.
Schenectady
Aw, ask the guy who lives
».. . there, or is it a dezease.
Katharine oe
e -This isn’t fare. Accord-
ing to the personal taists of
* parents. (Ed.note: There are
some 48 different ways, we
know.) a
Apocalypse
Why didn’t you mispell
. this, or did you?
Sundaes
- Sundays—tut-tut.
Valet
: “Why not valette?
Dyeing ‘
Dying.
That's us.
‘Dot Anp WINNIE
“ek he

The Business Board is having a very
bad influence; we accused it of being in-
directly responsible for the title of this
contribution. * By printing it we probably
become “accomplice after the fact,” but
we couldn’t resist that vivid second line.

KALIEDASCOPE
The -harsh clock ticks away the weenies,
Roasting like pious Aneas on the Trojan
links.
“Fore” ’tis Time! and thus
The embers of another day
Are spent
. Amy SNOBSTART
: * -*%& &

How many bright children know what
B. O. P. means? Some astute fresh-
man, seeing it at the bottom of C. A.
meeting notice thought it~ might~be-the
initials of the President of that associa-
tion. _We think that was..a’ very clever
interpretation. We might as well con-
fess that we used to think it meant “Be
Orderly Please,” or was the Spanish for
RSV. E.

a

This touches ‘a respofisive chord:

RESOLUTION
Allegro spirituoso
When Friday comes, oh
The weekend it at hand.
"No studying to do,
Oh, boy! Won't it be grand?
A little bridge tonight,
A matinee in town,
Then Sunday spent at home
Dressed up in my best gown.
Penseroso meditavo
When Monday comes, oh wind,
A.gay time I have had.
The work I have to do
, Makes me feel really bad.
jrinding all the week—
I cannot bear to do it.
Next Saturday I'll work!
Or, just as- now, I’ll rue it.

wind,



cup at the end of it. It is a mo-
ment when you can chat lightly with
your friends and at the same time
it avoids the seriousness of a more
formal meal. Whether you intend
to be a woman of business or a
housewife, the habit is worth culti-
vating for its ‘inestimable advan-
tages. Every one admits, witness
the subject of’ daily exercise,_ that
thére is no more valuable period of
habit-forming than the four col-
lege years; so, all those who are
convinced, as everybody who reads
this testimonial must be, that . tea-
drinking is a wise custom, should
strive to cultivate it. It prevents us
from putting too much time on our
studies, it revives us from the con-
dition we achieve by five P. M:,J
and broadens us by giving’ us time
to exchange opinions with our
friends. As one who has practiced
it for many years, and can still en-
| dorse it thoroughly, we should be a
proof of its advantages, and an ex-
ample to all to follow us. L



__N. 8, F, A, REPORTS’



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——Mory Dick.
ee

Our door opened and in walked—who?
Why, Cissy Centipede, of course! She
looked very beautiful, with her lips one
shade between crimson and carmen, and
rher eyebrows forming arcs of perfect
parabolae. But her eyes were sad, yes
there was a sad look deep in them. No
other word will describe it—it was sad.
She walked across the room without a
word, and pressed her fevered brow.
against the cold glass of the window.
Perhaps she did this to cool her fevered
brow, perhaps only because it, was a
dramatic gesture.

“Cissy!” we hoarsed, (ie. said hoarse-
ly) “You are in trouble.”

“No,” she meeked, “Only disillusioned.”
“Tell us all,” we eagered.

“Oh, it is so dreadful, so bitter. For
years and years I have cherished this
one fond belief, and oh, it has meant so
much to me. My spirit is broken, all the
life has gone out of me. I shall never
be the same again, now that I know
that HORSE radish has nothing to do
with—equestrianism.



The speeches and committee reports



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‘on special topics are in Room 40, Pem-



broke West, and may be read by anyone

¥ Shee Be








e drive for the, Summer School
Fund raised $1253.50 of the required











wes me

Garrick—E. H. Sothern in What Never
Dies. ‘Pure Romance.

Walnut—Peggy. A new musical comedy.

. Coming.
Forrest—Sunny.

gant musical comedy. Worth seeing.



Chestnut—Artists and Models. Opened
December 25. :
Shubert—Al Jolson in Big Boy.

Opens
December 25. he
Garrick—Mayfair. ,Opens. December -27.
Satirical comedy.
Broad—Fanny with Fanny: Brice. Opens
December 27. Banal, comedy .melo-
drama,
Walnut—W hat Every. Woman Knows.
“Opens January 10. Helen Hayes in an
exquisite performance.
Movies.
Stanley—The , Popular Sin.
comedy “of love. :
Stanton—We're in the Navy Now. Ray-
mond Hatton and Wallace Beery as
two green gobs. ee
Karlton—The Prince of Tempters with
-Lya de :Putti.

A light

Arcadia—My Old Dutch. Romance in|

te

old London.

Aldine—Beau Geste. -Last week. Excel-

lent. :
Falace—The Temptress. From the novel
by Ibanez. : :

Victoria—The Strong Man.

Fox—Going Crooked.

: Coming.

Stanley—Love’s Blindness. Opens Decem-
ber 20.

Stanton—The Magician. Opens Decem-
ber 20. From the story by Somerset
Maugham.

Aldine—Old Ironsides. Opens December



20. Romantic sea epic by Laurence
Stallings. Well done. ‘
CALENDAR

Friday, December 17: The Second
Swimming Meet,

President Park’s Graduate Recep-
tion.

Saturday, December 18: Norman An-
gell will speak on “Democraey and
the Modern Mind,” in Taylor, at
T2302 o oN

Sunday, December 19: The Rev.
Alexander Purdy, Professor ~at
Hartford Theological Seminary,
Hartford, Conn., will speak in
Chapel.

‘|Tuesday, December 21: Christmas
Parties.

| Monday,. January 10: The Bryn Mawr

Department of Music will present
its second concert, a Pianoforte and
Vocal Recital, by Horace Alwyne
and Boris Saslawasky.



‘ORCHESTRA PROGRAM

the folowing program on Friday after-

noon, December 17, and Saturday eve-

ning, December 18: a

SMETANA....Overture, “The Bartered
Bride”

GOLDMARK....Violin Concerto, in A
minor

BEETHOVEN..
C minor



.. Symphony No. 5,

The soloist for this program will be
Ruth Breton, a violinist.



COMING OPERAS
Romeo avid Juliet will be presented by
the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company
at the Metropolitan Opéra House, on

| Thursday, December 16. ,

On Tuesday, December 21, The Phila-
delphia Grand Opera Company. will give
Gounod’s Faust. — oe



UNIVERSITY CLUB ;
MAKES OFFER
The Women’s University Club, 106
East Fifty-second street, New York City,
has extended the courtesy. of the use of
its bedrooms and restaurant to a limited
number of undergraduates for week-
ends and -holidays. .Cards may be ob-
tained at the Dean’s office and ions
at the Club,

Ut)

De approved

approved by the_
will be those usual

and bills mast be paid before leaving. —









December 20. Extrava-"

The Philadelphia Orchestra will play |-

its life and no doubt help to develop the

acterize so many young American college
graduates. But I do insist that*the col-
lege is primarily a place of intellectual

problems of life should be emphasized

and not overshadowed by.other activities,

such as intercollegiate football and ath-

letics generally. ;
We Shirk Problems.

“I am .convinced (young men and
women) that a very large minority, per-
haps evén a majority of the young people
who are going to college today, even
among those who can afford it, do not go
primarily to get the fine education which
will not only enable them: to make a
place for themselves in li‘é, but also to
render the service to: society I men-
tioned & few minutes ago. Some go. to
t sprepared to earn a. better living, some
{ i social prestige, some to make the
contacts that will be of service*to them
in life after the college, some to have a
good time, etc. May I draw your atten-
tion to the fact that the men who are
trying to steer the new democfatic re-

Ps

Dr. Wirth, Dr. Luther, mén of the gym-
*nasium and university, men of the higher
education. The same is-true of France
and Great Britain.’ But as I go about the

I find few young men and women, even
as I say, among those who can afford
it, who intend to go into political life, or
even into the wider public life which can
so helpfully influence political: life. Yet
the burden of solving the. problem of
this great democracy must fall upon the
shoulders of some one. Upon the shoul-
ders of whom ought they more justifiably
fall than upon the college graduate, espe-
cially: in a time like the present when
faith in democracy as a form of political
organization is apparently waning, not in
dictator-governed . countries like Italy,
Spain, Greece, and Russia, but’ apparently
in our own country. However, this.
desideratum will not be attained until a
more serious spirit animates the life: of
tHe college and more generous attention
is given to the serious problems of the
political, social, and economic organiza-
tion of society.”

Junior Colleges. oS

A further lesson to be drawn from
European institutions derives from their
organization of education. The Lycee
adds two years, the equivalent. of the
first two college years, and Dr. Duggan
advocates for America the Senior Col-
lege. Many small, struggling colleges
might well confine themselves to Junior
College work and affiliate with a larger
institution, which shall devote. itself ex-
clusively to higher education. Such a
change in organization, in the opinion
of Dr. Duggan, will further an &ttitude
of seriousness among American students.

Dr. Meikeljohn Speaks.

Dr. Meikeljohn spoke on the subject
of the outstanding problem in’ American
education: “Can the average young
American be educated?” One means: by
a liberal education “the process of so in-
forming and training and. inciting the
mind that it will go forward steadily
on the road to understanding of the life
to which it belongs.” He went on to
say that the American college of today
is to no great extent fulfilling the con-
ditions of’ such a definition, and he agrees
with Dr. Duggan, saying: “It is not true

tutions today, in any considerable meas-
ure, streams of understanding into the
life of America.” In explaining this lack

| of success on the part of our colleges, he

introduces the statement that while
America is. eager to support ‘teaching

tion is rather unfavorable because the
American people have not yet -reached
the point of sophistication, nor reached

self-reliance and initiative which char+

appeal in which attention, to the serious

public in Germany are Dr. Stresemann, ~~

colleges and universities of this country:

that there are going out from our insti- -

financially, it does not understand what
it is it supports, and “the whole situa- |

the point of social ‘stress and_ strain, .

which demands intelligence.” Our teach-

ers are ‘not preparéd to teach, and stu-
} dents cannot — appreciate that .freedom

“which each man is
of such character



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