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College news, June 1, 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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1927-06-01
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Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 13, No. 27
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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theorys put the test—Does it worl?
it self-consistent? We insist that hunggn
telationships be grounded on the earth
even if the earth be muddy. Religion
itself is deprived of its age-old inex-
plicability; it too must stand the test or
be discarded. We - feel that if ‘ truth
courage, heroism and idealism are fig-
ments pf. the imagination it is better to
know it and be reconciled to it.
People froni other lands say that we
are like barks. floating rudderless and
without: destination on the Surface of the
placid sea. We are complacent and sat-
isfied, but storms will occur on any sea,
and then what of us? Although tmost of
us think there is something in ‘religion
we do not honestly know what we be-
lieye. ‘Religion-is of consequence only
when it is*of such absolute conviction
that, it directs, unifies, and empowers life.
As substitutes for this true religiorf we
have turned to, superior — cynicism,
Menckenism, to the cult of beauty, to
-a shallow optimism, or to cheap sensual
emotionalism. _ But all of these are im-
practical and socially unproductive.
The final and perhaps, dominating
‘ oe .
factor in modern life is a restless dis-
satisfaction, a sense of frustration and
futility. Using every ounce of his energy
and, interest man has built a civilization
that” is mechanically almost perfect.
Now he does not know what to do with
it. He is like & boy who has built a
perfect toy house and is beginning to
grow up. “Relentless realism, intellec-
tual shrewdness and moral flabbiness
cannot be combined without paying the
price—futility. Among the many grad-
uating this week the dominating query
is—was it worth while? What. is the
meaning of it all anyway? We say we
want faith in life itself, not religious
faith—failing to see that they are the
same.”
This sense of loss is largely to be ex-
plained psychologically; we live in’a
fear-dominated .age and trust no. one,’
neither each other nor ourselv es—and of
course not God.
But in -spite-of-this~ dissatisfaction, or
perhaps because of it, there is a tre-
mendous aid -growing intérest in re-
ligion. ;.“Humanity is on. the march
questing something which haunts life
like a confused: echo of a. faraway mel-
ody.” Most of us choose to :be blind to
‘the nature of ‘modern life, and no two of
us see it alike. Seeing the day in which
we. live for what it is, we may--take
refuge in cynicism or asceticism. Or we
may see it as an. adventurous prospect]
scaieineniaiens
couritry.
&.
“In asking a man so fear their own
age to speak, the Class of .1927 has dpne
a thing characteristic of the day,” said|
Dr. Van Deusen, . “That, is, they .have
sought wisdom from one who faces the
world as they do, seeking not a finished
philosophy, but a few tested hirits. There
are just three words which , should be
given to those graduating : a word of
hope, a familiar word about the adven-,
ture and joy ahead; a word of warning,
also familiat, about the disappointment¢
from within as well as without; a word
of urgency about our fleeting opportuni-
ties and the need for haste.”
The world’s most pressing need today’
is for ‘men and women who do not ex-
pect to see the fruition’ of their ideals,
but who know that to give all of life
for them is well worth whife. ‘We need
faith, not faith that is the belief in some
one or something, but.the courage to do
one particular thing because it seems
right, regardless of consequences—cour-
age to live life on the highest hypothesis
we can discover. “We must have people
who wmnderstand the world, who are
realistic, but who feel the call to go out
into an unknown country which may be
their heritage, but who go out not know-
ing whither they go.”
APPOINTMENTS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
her A. B. from Cornell University in
1911, She was a reader at Bryn Mawr
the following year, and since then has
been a teacher of English in secondary
schools.
The Associate in Italian next year will
be. Vito G. Toglia, A. B., Harvard Uni-
versity 1912, and M. A. Columbia Uni-
versity, 1921. From 1912-20 Mr. Toglia
was a teacher of Italian and Spanish in
secondary schools in New York City and
from 1920-27 a graguate student and
part-time instructor in Italian in Colum-
bia. ;
John Dickinson has been appointed
non-resident Lecturer in Economics and
Politics for next year. Dr. Dickinson
received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins
in 1914, his M. A. from Princeton in
1915, his Ph. D. in 1919, and LL. B. from
Harvard in 1921. He has been a Tutor
and Lecturer at Harvard in 1920-21 and
1924-27,
Prentice Duell, of ‘the University of
Cincinnati, has been appointed Lecturer
in Archaeology, and Nathaniel E. Griffin,
editor of Webster’s , International Dic-
tionary 1925-27, Lecturer-in English.
Wardens to Teach
Mary S. Gardiner has ‘been appointed
30.000.
in cash prizes
Drink
received her A. B. from Bryn Mawr in
1918, her M. A..in 1924, and-her Ph. D,
in 1927, She has been Warden of Pem-
broke West for the, past two years as
wed as a graduate student.
seclge C. Jennings has been ap-
pofhted Instructor in Economics and
Politics. She received her A. B. from
Bryn Mawr in 1922, her M. A. in 1923,
and will receive her Ph, D. this June.
Miss Jennings has been ‘tle Warden of
Denbigh this year.
Katharine Garvin, A. B. Oxford Uni-
versity, 1923, and Mary L. White, A. B.
Bryn Mawr 1925, and. graduate student
at Yale 1925-26, have been appointed
Instructors in English, _* Margaret
Storrs has also been appointed. Instructor
in English. Miss Storrs received her
A. B. from Smith College in 1922. She
has been a graduate student and fellow
in Bryn Mawr in Philosophy since then, |.
spending the year 1924-25 in University
College, London.
Marion Lawrence, A. B. hive Mawr
1923, and M. A. Radcliffe 1924, has been
appointed Instructor in History of Art.
From 1924-25 Miss: Lawrence was As-
sistant in Art at Wellesley.
Miriam G. Brown has been appointed
Instructor in Italian. Miss. Brown re-
ceived her A. ‘B. from Bryn Mawr in
1925 and has been teaching in secondary
schools since:
' To Return to » College’
Several members of the Faculty who
have been on leave of absence for the
past year will return in the autumn.
Among them are Dr. Charles W. David,
All Campus Gathers “a
Pem East Chimney Burns
‘A little before 4 o’clock om Sunday
afternoon, E. Stewart, ’28, Denbigh fire}:
captain, saw*clouds of smoke coming out
df the towers on the Pembroke East side
of Pem:arch, and rushed to the telephone
Central,
stead of connecting her with the power
house, gave her the Bryn Mawr fire
department, and in less than a iminute
after she had stammered the news of fire
two fire engines came rolling under the
The brave fire fighférs had not
even stayed to put on their uniforms,
but €ame as they were; some with rub-
ber hats and some without. In a moment
six. men, were climbing the narrow
wooden ‘stairway to’ the tower, past the
rooms where the maids were clustered
in anxious.-silence. «ilastening out- on
the roof they ‘found smoke and cinders
pouring from the chimney, which turned’
out to be the source of the conflagration,
and without much difficulty extinguished
the fire.
But’ meanwhile confusion reigned
downstairs. Due to the absence of the
fire captains in both Pem East and West,
and the presence of large numbers of
to notify “the authorities, in-
arch.
Alumnae, none of the usual fire routine
was observed. Some, smelling smoke or
hearing the noise of the engines, rushed
out on the street, and in a short time a
crowd had gathered. C. Hardy,
finally had the presence of mind to ring
the East alarm, which brought out the
rest of the hall.
campus and the neighborhood shrieking
26,
From all over the
Professor of Mathematics,
Abby Kirk, Instructor in Greek. D
cause’ of illness, will also return.
tended for two years.
Lack Virility
and Miss
Echo Pepper, who has been absent be-|-
The
leave of absence of Dr. Rhys Carpenter,
Professor of Archaeology, has been ex-
“American college songs are inferior
. ! °
because they are too sentimeftal,” de-
clared Olin Downes, New York Times
Professor of European History; Dr.
2 Alec tng a Sch vhs Pisa ta of |OMlookers gathered. The head fire cap-
French: Dr. David Widder, Associate tain, with streaming hair (she had been
washing it) arrived in great distress of
mind. President Park also came to dis-
cover the cause of the commotion. As
if by magic a policeman appeared to take
charge of the extra traffic. An alumna
dragged her child to a safe distance.
On the roof could be seen the maids in
a small group, and the volunteer fire
fighters swarming up the chimney,
Soon, however, as no more smoke ap-
peared, and the triumphant firemen be-
gan to come down from the tower, the
gathering .became hilarious. An alumna
r.
music critic and a judge of the recent
Intercollegiate Clee Club contest, to a
Daily Princetonian reporter. . “For one
good one there are half a dozen bad
ones. At present they are too lachry-
mos; they should be more virile and
healthy and symbolic of the true life
which undergraduates lead.”—The Stan-
ford Daily.
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Women, critical of style and
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Velvet Dresses ........$2.75 to $3.50
Negligees .............$1.50 to $2.00
Beaded and Pleated Dressés Higher in
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Special Parties by tment
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COLLEGE
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engine, and did so.
Cleaners and Dyers k
1707 Chestnut St. |
from ’25 secured a fireman’s hat and
waved it he air; more alumnae, from
’26, decided to take a ride on the fire
The men loaded the
hose back on to its chariot and rode
away. So swiftly was peace restored to
the campus that many doubted there had
been a fire at all, and the maids, like
peasants on the slopes of Vesuvius, re-
turned trustingly to their eyrie in the
lee of the smouldering chimney.
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