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College news, June 2, 1931
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 17, No. 23
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
JUNE 2, 1931
Saaeieemenail
Foreign Bryn Mawr
Y Grads Interviewed}
Continued from Page One
from India) and from all classes of
society. The college is practically of the
Strand, It is nonresidential; most of its
students live in. Bloomsbury. The work
is far more independent than it is here ;
no lectures are compulsory; there is
hardly any assigned work; examinations
are on large fields of work and come
only every two years or so. When they
do come they are an ordeal; one may
have ten ‘papers of three hours each in
one week. The tutorial system is largcly
used.
As for extracurricular activities there
are athletics and the activities of the
Students’ Union, an organization some-
thing like our Undergraduate Associa-
tion. There are tennis and netball and
swimming in town and things like track
and hockey outside the city. The Stu-
dents’ Union’ holds dances, gets speakers
every Wednesday, holds debates and a
spirited Mock Parliament. Student
branches of the political parties are an
active part of student life. Altogether
there is far more interest in politics than-
there is here.
Martha Bohme.
Martha Friedal Bohme is from Ger-
many. ~ There she~studied—in--Munich,
Vienna and Cologne. She applied to
the German Government for an exchange
scholarship to the United States because
she wished to study business administra-
tion and industrial management in this
country. She first heard of Bryn Mawr
when she heard that it had accepted her.
She likes both the College and America
immensely and will gladly stay if the
quota permits. Life is a great deal easier
here and the people are much less pessi-
mistic and reserved than in Germany,
_._.more..clfildlike.-Here—at— college excel=}
a
lent books are available and there is a
chance’ to visit big concerns regularly.
“Phese- things “arid freedom from domestic
detail facilitate study immensely.
The American College and the German
university are very different. In the
German university there is no dormitory
life. One is entirely on one’s own. There
are no restrictions on cutting classes and
there are no assignments. German uni-
versities are coeducational also. Students
come from the gymnasia at about 20 and,
if they are .to teach, study until they
are about 25. A far greater proportion
of students do graduate work in Gérmany
than in America. Although there are no
State scholarships for the gymnasia,
large :numbers go to them.__They are
much cheaper than the American Junior
College and there is free tuition for the
very. poor. The Socialists and Com-
munists give scholarships to their t papi
also.
Flora Hurst.
Flora Hurst was here last = year and
will be here next as 1esearch assistant
to Professor Kingsbury, in the Social
Economy Department. She .comes from
the University of British Columbia, which
is situated, so she says, on the “most
beautiful site for a College in America.”
“Here at Bryn Mawr,” said Miss Hurst,
“T have*leakned that I must be practical.
I have developed an ideal of living and
working such that I feel now I could
_ go almost anywhere if it was to do a
piece of work of social value. Working
in the Social Economy department has
taught me the impossibility of living in
splendid isolation. And living in the
United States has given me an apprecia-
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different parts of the country. stand: for.”
-Miss Hurst came to Bryn Mawr’ to
do.’ scholarly piedk of academic work
and for a change. She found very little
real difference in the people-of*East and
West, but much in their manner of life.
She missed the informality, the outdoor
life, the idealism, the experiment of the
West.
The Wniversity of British Columbia is
small for a State university, having ‘only
about 1700 students. Many of these, both
men and women, live at home and com-
mute by bus. There are no dormitories,
but some are planned. There are a few
fraternity and sorority houses. Work,
although nothing like as.free as in Eu-
rope, is more independent than in Bryn
Mawr. One may cut one-eighth of one’s
classes and there is more opportunity to
organize one’s. own work than there is
here. ‘Perhaps the most pleasing thing
‘about the college is its nearness to both
city and real country.
Diederika Liesvald.
Diederika Liesvald came here from the
University of Amsterdam, in Holland;
because her major is English and she
wanted to come to an English-speaking
country. The award of a Bryn Mawr
fellowship brought her to Fo id and
to Bryn Mawr.
“Yes, 1-likebeing-here- very.- much,”
Miss Liesvald said.. Bryn Mawr because
of its dignity and its stress on work is
one of the most European of American
Colleges...For this reason it is probably
the one most easy for Europeans to
adjust themselves to. Even at Bryn
Mawr, however, America seems very dif-
ferent from Europe. The country, the
trees and ‘birds are different. The great
the
large-distances,-the--embryonic..condition |...
of socialism, the high quality of the food,
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In Holland there is no difference between
undergraduate and.graduate..student.All
university students do specialized, inde-
pendent work. There are no- seminars,
classes are cut freely, and one- decides
with one’s professor when to have an ex-
amination. The students are altogether
more independent and more mature than
they are in this country. The-first two
years at the American College are com-
parablé to the last two years of the gym-
nasia, the preparatory schools in which
studies are general, not specialized.
In “Holland one lives a simpler life
than in “America. One has less social
contacts, not so many meaningless ones.
Students at the universities.dress simply
and_more uniformly than _we-do—here;
they practically never wear elaborate eve-
ning dress as we do for Goodhart, or
very shabby clothes as we do on the
campus.
One’s contact with men and girls is
pretty well confined to people in one’s
own department, for there is no dormi-
tory life. If one is not wealthy, one
has ‘practically no social life. There
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the attractions of a big town. Education
is not a general thing.. Holland’s biggest
university has only 1700 students. The
University of Amsterdam has no campus.
work house.
and more dignified than those here. There
are few foreign studentg.and these are
mostly from Dutch colonies in -South
Africa. A number of ple are trying,
however, to get an exchange office for
foreign students.
Marthe Miskolczy.
Marthe Miskolezy (Mrs. Ernest Mis-
kolezy ) came to Bryn Mawr to-do work
in its industrial department. Coming
from thy University of Budapest, in
Hungafy, she finds Bryn Mawr “en-
tirely different.” There one attends the
gymnasium up to the age of eighteen and
then the university. The professors at
the universities are far more important
than they are here. There are less of
them and they are more experienced.
Some professors ta achieve their posi-
tions have served a twelve-year assist-
anceship without pay. Since the war
Hungary has been very poor, but the
younger students still travel about some-
what from one university. to another,
especially in Hungary. There are Gov-
ernment fellowships also to send students
to other countries. s
Mrs. Miskolezy has. enjoyed, she said,
being over here very much. After keep-
ing house and holding a number of re-
sponsible positions in Hungary, she finds
the irresponsibility of dormitory life de-
lightfully restful. She is. highly _ im-
pressed by the brilliance of the other
graduate students. She thinks that it is
a pity that there is. so little contact of
foreign fellows and undergraduates:-
Odette Thireau
“Odette Thireau_ comes. frofp. France.
where she attended the Universities of
utime, ten |
| years ago, ‘when she first saw an an-|
nouncement-of the -Bryn’Mawr féllow-—
ships she has had the idea of coming
Her major_is chemis-
She likes being. here, she says,
The French universities are very dif-
ferent from the American woman’s
college. In France one goes to the
colleges or lyceés' up to the age of
eighteen, then to a technical school. or
a part of a university. The University
It has only one old-building, formerly 4
The professors are all older.
of Paris is in five sections, Literature
and Languages,: Science, Law (which
includes the study of Economics and
Politics), Medicine, and Pharmacy.
There ‘one spends two or three years
to. get-a degree and two or three years
more to get a:doctor’s degree. One’ is
absolutely independent: One need not
go to classes. Laboratory work, how-
ever, ntust be done. Most students live
at home or at boarding houses, Out-
side of Paris there are, in addition,
special boarding places for students of
different nationalities built by *their
countries. The rooms in them are ex-
changeable; for example, a Frenchman
may exchange his room in the French
house for the room of an American in
the American house.
Much of the student fighting that
goes on in Paris is taken part in by the
students of law. Many of them ‘are
rich and royalist, dull, noisy and highly
unpopular. At one time there was a
small group of Fascists in the univer-
sity but this group has died out. Some
students ‘still feel very bitter against
the Germans. Feeling against theyEng-
lish and Americans was high when the
rate of exchange was very unfavorable
to France.. Many of them came to live
cheaply in France.
Mildred Osterhout
Flora Hurst and Mildred Osterhout
‘yare scarcely foreigners for they come
from_no: farther than Canada, where
they studied at the University of Brit-
ish Columbia. If they are foreign at
all it is not so much because they live
north of us as because they live very
far west. The contrast between their
point of view and the point of-view-of
the Europeans was very interesting,
Where the Europeans, coming from |
town universities, found us .countrified, |
they find us stuffy and suburban. -They
miss. the wildness andthe spaciousness:
of the west:
tem is “practically unknown. in Europe,
rat the - University of British Columbia
the only reason for awlack of dormi-
tories is that there have not been time
and money..enough to build them. In
the. European university, cuts “may be
freely taken but at the University. of
British Columbia cuts are only slightly
freer than at Bryn Mawr. -Both the
‘European university and the Univer-
sity of British Columbia, however, are
co-educational and both are poorer
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‘Hmitory life of Bryn Mawr.
has found’ very different from West.
While the dormitory_sys~
Miss Osterhout, like Miss Hurst, is
working in the social economy depart-
ment. She came here, after six years
of teaching, “for a ‘change and. for
background.” “Being a progressive,”
she says, “I wanted to discover the
value of the past on which the future
is built.”
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Being at Radnor has given
“an appreciation of the varying
approachés to a realization of life”’ In
Radnor and in her contact with colleges
she has. visited she has found European
culture. and “an international atmos-
phere.” She likes immensely the dor-
East she
Whére the West is free and experi-
mented the East is bound by tradition
and “set in its ways.” The extremes
of wealth and poverty: here in the
East, Miss Osterhout finds “appatting.
The rigid stratification of Eastern so-
ciety is new to-her. Life here is-more
formal: and less
spontaneous; more
dignified Fand gracious than’ in the
West. The people are more reserved
but they also have more superficial
social contacts, In the West it is pos-
sible to be closer to’ people and to
nature and there is “a deeper searching
into life’s values than in the East.”
Miss Osterhout, as did every other stu-°
dent interviewed,. thought. co-education
preferable to the system of separate
colleges for men and women. She
commented on the fact ‘that being at
Bryn Mawr has made‘her more int
ested in Europe. On the west coast
people are more interested in the Far
East.
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