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VOL. XV. No.2? >. | BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA.. “WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17,1928 * . . PRICE, 10 CENTS
\ Ld ad
Nancy Woodward
CAN WE CONTROL
THE HUMAN WILL?
"Thre Sides to "to Ouertion he
sented Under Dr.
Hart.
OUR ATTITUDE ALOOF
“How: can. the human. will be.free?”
was the subject of the talk given. by. Dr.
Hart at the Sunday evening service of|
the Bryn Mawr League, October..14, in
the. Music Room of Goodhart Hall.
The purpose of these meetings, . ex
plained Dr. Hart, is -not that we should
assemble in order to convince somebody
of something, but to stimulate a capacity
for thinking together. One person can-
vt formylate another’s creed; an. in-
dividual Must evolve her own, and - this
can best be accomplished by hearing the
frank and fearless experience of others.
The subject—How can the human will
be free?—=is one which is stirring all
science of the present day. The first
we may make is an attempt to
é pprogeh
see. just. what—freedom——means——Nine=}—
tenths of the argument on the subject
is due merely td one person’s trying
t( prove incorrect a theory, which an-
other -person. doesn’t’ even “hold. The
argument: is distinctly a three- cornered
one; but one in which everyone sees: fit
to take sides.
Does Nothing Affect Human Will?
In the first place there are those who
maintain that the human will is affected
by nothing. Our purposes do not re-
act to various stimuli, but are quite in-
cependent. If, however, an individual is
-aftected-by -no~~causal cifetimstances
whatsoever, he is generally: -considered
“queer,” e. g., if.a man, who*is asked
whether he doesn’t think the weathef ~is
splendid answers by stating that -he has
had: bananas for lunch, it is the the usual
assumption that the individual ‘has no.
power of direct response
ere not seeking that sort of freedom.
After we. graduate we shall see that a
‘ transformation has taken place in us. Our
courses, the books we have read, the
people with whom we have come in_(on-
tact have all been influences leading up
to this gradual transformation. Can we
‘say; therefore, that the “human. will is
tree? But this is only_one side of the
argument.
In the second place are those who
argue that consciousness is merely an off-
“shoot of causation, i. e., the- conscious
processes are afterthoughts. Take~ the
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Try Again
Thursday and Friday, October
25 and 26, a second straw’ vote
will be held in the college... The
conviction that some opinions haye’
been modified this summer and the
addition of 127 new active, if
youthful, minds to the college has
aroused a demand for a new cen-.
“Sis. Faculty, graduates’ and under-
graduates will be asked to vote at
a table in Taylor, magking on their
ballots whether or not they actu-
ally intend to vote.
i
“| youth of the gathering.
Jean Becket,
was with what it already had.
her candidature was the only way to
Wednesday.
Vice-President.
the Art Club,
a»)
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Wosdward , Becket and Collins —
Elected After Stormy Sessions
The mature judgment ‘of the class of 1929, ripened through four. stormy
class- meetings: in ‘the course of the past week, resulted finally in the re-elec- by
‘tion of two of last year’s officers, and the-choice of -a:néw Vice-President,
It took a long time for the class to realize how satisfied it
Nancy Woodward, 1929’s choice for Presjdent, at first detlined to rén,
But: when an apparently unbreakable.deadlock ensued, and it appeared that
‘great public spirit allowed herself to be drafted, and Was elected amid great
erithusiasm by a large majority, at the close of the second meeting last
On. Thursday the opposing factions lined up again on the question. of a
No decision was reached till the third ballot on Monday
when Jean Becket received “the requisite majority.. Miss Becket ‘has won
public recognition as Chairman of the Cut Committee, swims, plays *Petrosse,
and in a variety of ways has upheld the honor of ’29. ¥
It. took- only two ballots and about five minutes to re-elect Katherine
Collins to the position of Secretary. She was cheered out of and into office
and the séven days’. struggle Was, at length brought to a satisfactory conclu-
sion. Miss Collins is chairman of »the social service branch of: the..Bryn
‘Maw? ‘League; and last summer was the Bryn Mawr representative at Junior
week. She also stars in arenery: sandwich-selling, ahd raising ecethy for
‘unite the class, Miss Woodward with
Les ae
Bang on the Board
The News is glad to announce
the*election of Vaung Tsien Bang,
30. We expect that the addition
of Miss» Bang sto the Board will
soso note ‘to ‘our
amateprish chorus as she has taken
a course in Journalism at Colum- ;
bia, and last summer was a re-
porter for the Syracuse Herald of
Syracuse, New York.
Vociferous Support for
Al Evinced at Meeting
“Al Smith, Al Smith, he has won the
day!” So sang the ardent supporters of
the mam in the brown derby, gathered
in Denbigh Hall on Monday. to organize
the Bryn Mawr branch of the College
League for Alfred E> Smith for Presi-
dent. Upwards of forty Smith
supporters, summoned at short notice by
Eita—Horton,—'29, gathered =i a small
room which soon proved too .small -to
hold’ them and-devoted a half hour to
learning their campaign song and laying
plans for the future. Forty may be a
small number for a college of 450, but
counting in those who were unable. to
“ome, and.those who are constitutionally
averse to attending meetings, it was an
extraordinarily large showing for a first
meeting.” Getting down to business, the
newly formed league elected Ella Horton
president and E; Linn secretary of their
organization. They resolved to-holda
rally in-the near future and to sponsor a
debate on \Wednesday, October 24, at
which the opposing factions will‘ have an
Opportunity to set forth their. views. E.
Latane, ’30, and F..E. Fry, ’29, were
chosen to uphold the Smith side of the
ptoate:
final rally on, October 31 when‘ outside
speakers will be invited. Pictures, stick-
In the midst of the proceedings a great
ncise was made outside by a group of
Hooverites. But those withif, disdain-
“ing to close the window or the door,
successfully drowned out the opposition
with a free version of “the Sidewalks
of New.York.” The announcement that
Miss-Park ahd Mrs. Manning were also
supporters of Smith was greeted with
loud applause and went far to hearten
the fearful. The words of the song are
as follows:
Al Smith, Al Smith, he has won the day,
We want ‘him in the White House of
our good old U..S. A.
If we work together, hé will win in a
walk
| He'll make his way to the White House
from the sidewalks of New York.
A formal communication’ announcing
the 4ormation of. the Bryn Mawr branch
was sent to Miss Ely, vice’ president of
the College League.
- The one fly in the ointment was the
So -few are
voters. '
“Get after the faculty; they’re all. of
age!” said one enthusiast. So, it might
be added, are the maids and porters. A
féw converts could be made, over~the
morning coffee, _. hs
| ness
Plans were then laid for the)
The Stars Watch
Excellent. Freshman Singing
‘Marks Warm Lantern
' Night.
The night was warm and soft.
Not
a bit like the Lantern Night of-a year
ago, when 1930 and 1931 huddled in the
ample folds of their gown and clung
tightly to their :caps lest the wind blow
therm away or cut uncouth capers. with
the tassels. The stars above the cloisters
blinked in
those enormous fireflies that.once a year
wonderment. -Whence*-came
; danced back and forth in measured tread
around the. fountain?
Poor, ignorant Venus, Sirius, Jupiter,
and all the rest:
to them is the college ceremony by which
Orion, quite unknown
the Sophomores welcome the Freshmen
to the Bryn Mawr academic life. Of
course~ they were puzzled.-“How could]
they know that it swas 1931. carrying
1932’s lanterris that they saw, and then
they were much too far away ta hear
any of the singing. The slumberous note
of “Pallas Athena thea”—which on Friday
night> began rather weakly but soon rose
to’ proper heights when the two lines of
Sophomores found the same pitch—,
never penetrated as fat'.as the stars; and
the dirge-like* measures of Sophias philai
paromen, which the Freshmen rendéred
beautifully, was: too soon lost in the
whirring noise of passing freight trains.
But some of the ‘audience which the
Philadélphia Public Ledger describes as
“hifndreds of visitors—attracted to the
campus of Bryn Mawr College to wit-
the: picturesque annual Lantern
«Night Ceremonial” must needs have car-
ried away with them the echoes ¥{ the
two Greek songs and quite unexpettedly
they will, on occasions, individually break
out. with an “Elpis megale” or a “Hiereu-
sousai, soi, deine” that will serye to re-
mind them of one of the most beautiful
and stirring customs which Gr Mawr
possesses.
»
Hot-blooded Politicians
to Fight on Hockey -Field
Political spirit has. fermented dur-
ing the summer. The college now
boils and bubbles in an unprecedented
way. “All for Al, and Al for all!”:
“Hoover for this home, and this home
for Hoover!”—the smoking rooms re-|_
sound to the stirring struggle. Mere
talking and singing are not enough,
however. The ‘fermentation has gone
too far. “Alas that the days of politi-
‘cal duelling are gone! But bubbles
must escape, and the rival factions
have agreed to fight out the battle on
the hockey field. .Next Tuesday is
the day set: for the fray, All hot-
blooded Democrats and Republicans
who wish*to wield a hockey stick in
an honorable catise are urged to give
their names to Becky Wills. All hot-
blooded. D’s and R’s -who do not
choose. to’ run but would like to shout
‘will be welcomed to the cheering sec-
tions. . : ree
-their activities.
a
CHINESE EDUCATOR WILL
_ DISCUSS MASS EDUCATION
e, Gy James Yen
World’s Student ‘Onion’
‘Qutlined by Visitor
‘Miss Amy. Elizabeth Sharpless was
the guest of honor at a tea held ii
Wyndham
the informal auspices -of the Liberal
Club.
Mawr as: a_ representative -of the
World’s’ Student Union, an organiza-
tion whiclr has hitherto been chiefly
confined to the colleges of Southern
California, particularly the, University
of California at Los Angeles. The
idea in its specific form was born five
years ago; but of course the idea of
promoting closer: international ~‘har-
mofiy is at least as old as Christianity.
Monday. afternoon’ under
Miss Sharpless came to Bryn
The World’s Stud@nt- Union ‘proposes |
to attain itsend by an_organized edu-}
cational movement. In -order to
broaden its sphere of action it’, has
-arranged—to—amatgantate—in- December |
with the National Student. Federation
of America.
- According to the very flexible plan |
the backers: of the|
Union,. chief among whom is Mrs. W.}
sketched out. by
C. Rieber, of California, each college
which takes up the idea will be given
a free hand to stimulate the interna-
tional spirit in its own way. Through
the Liberal Club, The Art Club or the
Dramatic Club the life of other coun-
tries will be brought to the attention |
of the student body. This could be
done by means of pictures,
concerts, plays or disctission groups.
One college in Kentucky had a Rus-
sian week to teach itself more about
Russia; and in California they are now
planning a Mexican Week.
The supporters of the Word Union
have laid practical plans ‘for financing
Every student who
joins the group will pay one dollar a
year to her*college organization.
Miss Sharpless, who like so many
workers for international fellowship, is
a member. of the’ Society of Friends,
spoke briefly of he® experiences at the
Peace Conference in Holland this
summer. Five hundred students from |
thirty-one countries attended. “Any
consideration of means _to»end war
must always come back to education,”
said Miss Sharpless; “that is why
some student organization like the
World Union could be of such value.”
‘The outline of the plan of organi-
zation is as follows: «°—
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moving
Hoover Is Coming
In the.interest of the impartiality
of the press we promised to pub-
lisp some campaign material on
Hoover this week. Let it not be
thought that we are going’ back on
our promise. We are deluged with
Smith material; but try as we
would we were unable to secure
anything on Hoover-in time to be -
printed this ‘week. Apparently the -
literature is scarce. Better luck
next week.
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Mr. Yen Castel liasibaiiois for
Mass Education Move-
» ment During War.
DELIGHTFUL SPEAKER
Mr. Y.'C. James Yen, general director
ef the Chinese. National Association of
tte Mass Education movement, will speak
in Goodhart Hall Friday-evening, October
1%, under the auspices of the Under-
graduate Association,
“ Mr. Yen is-a graduate of Yale Uni-
yersity—an’ “A'merican’ product;”’ so his
countrymen term him. Mr.
optimism of an American and the
caution of a Chinese. «In his college
days—that- was more. than
‘azo—he was said to have remarked
philosophically —*1 very hopeful
a hurry to see amy drastic change. It
kas to come slowly.” That was the
tire when China had just overthrown
ihe, Manchu Dynasty and the new. re-
public was tottering under the monarchi-
ca! rWership of the Yuan Shih-kai.*
After graduation Mr. Yen went to
lrance and visited the Chinese workers
on the battlefield. Their eagerness for
news. from home, hampered. by inability
to read, grieved him very much. When
he went back to China, he started the
mass education movement,
This mass \education movement . is
free from any political control or inter-
ference, as Mr. Yen told the. people of
Springfield, where\ he spoke- two--weeks
ago. While civil wars waged and in-
dustty and trade suffered under the
clash bayonets, ‘no factional strife,
no machine gtins had ‘been able to stop
the progress of this: movement.
PAGH 8
of
“CONTINUED ON
Conditions
It Harder--for the
Lazy.
‘It ‘seems to be my fate fo use chapel
tor very ‘practical ‘aupouncements,” — de-
clared Dean Manning on Friday morning.
Forthwith Mrs. Manning launched, into
an explanation of the new system\ for
condition ‘examinations,
For a. long time the faculty. has felt
that our ‘Condition examination ‘system
cid not meet all cases. There: were stu-
cents who-did-not-succeed- in assimilating
cnough material to show that they had a
proper. grasp
whose lack of correct presentation in
the final exam counted heavily against
them. -Then there were other students
who were quite unsuccessful in finding
cut during the year what the course
was about. And finally. there weré ‘stu-
dents who’ had. obviously done no work
a: all,
Under the old system in all. three of
these cases the device of re-examination-
at-a-later-period was used. If the sloth-
iul student eventually passed, “no more
was said about her sins.” :
Consistent with the changes made in
the specifications of the Language “Ex-
aininations a reorganization of the grad-
effected : i
Students whose work has been unsatis-
factory but who are pefimitted to blot out
their deficiencies by passing a condition
cxamination are ‘marked Conditioned.
( Cond.) ee
F..F. Counts Heavily
Studerits who have done such unsatis-
factory work that no condition examina-
tion is allowed are marked Failed, desig-
rated F. F. “in letters of fire.” Any such
failure will be counted against the com-
putation of merits, and the-Senate’ will
probably regard an F. F.:as mtich more
serious than a condition. ?
“Students receiving this grade of F. F.
—which I hope will be given compara-
tively seldom”—concluded Mrs. Mann-
ing, “must necessarily repeat the course
Flowever, the first mark will stand on
os reir records.”
Yen has the —
ten- years”
ati
ebout~China’sfuture- Sort am not in~
on the course, or those
ing of -all work-under sixty has been
if they. wish to cover. the work _ therein. ,-”
Se A eta ge
‘New system of Marking Makes
3 ORALS ae
Tt almost seems as ‘if orals are be-
Teas coming - what they should be:
ryn |.mere formality as a_ witness =
Editor-in-Chief.
| RuagBETH THO, 20
Editor
MARY R. GRACE,
babi. arsed
Editors.
'29
_K. BALCH, '29 C. HOWE, 30
Assistant ee
V. HOBART, -’31 YOOK, ’31
VABNG TSIEN. BANG, '30 —
_* Business Manager
JANE BARTH, '29
9°
Subscription, Manag er
H. J,;..GARRETT,
: Assistants
CROSS, ’ E. BAXTER, '30
E. SROTHINGHAM, ’31 D, ASHER, '31
Price.
org eres BRIN AT. ANY TIME
tered second-class matter at the
Wayne, Pa., Post Office.
“EXCELSIOR! |
‘Now has come a time of much
reckoning. In public conclave, and
in the dark private places, seniors
juggle with their scholarly pasts,
trying to manipulate hard figures
into a flimsy tower of achievement.
Too often, alas, a place if the sun
is missed by the merest fraction.
. The, goal. is..within gazing-distance,
but just beyond reach. And the
hour for accomplishments is gone.
There is no time to build higher, to
fill the gaps of the past. :
' If seniors were graciously grarit-
ed the privilege of counting their
last semester’s work, how much less
rending would the season of reckon-
ing be. Surely the last semester of
one’s college career is a fairer indi-J ¢
cation of ability and achievement
_ level than the first strange and
muddled freshman semester. Then’
why do the powers write the ‘record
of the latter indelibly and -irrevo-
cably leaving the final semester of’
_work, the period of fullest develop-
ment, unhonored; unsung ‘and: un-
counted. Seniors must weep and
gnash their teeth, for there is no
justice , hor any chance for honest
labor: ‘to reap the last harvest. ‘
THE DECLINE OF SINGING
“No one likes to sing any moré
in this college. We might as well
give it up altogether.” This was the
lugubrious pronouncement of an
harawed Sang mistress at a recent
b
D.
M.
___.wWas pag “Has. singing. hecome - a
lost art -and—a~despised pastime in
the modern college? Must it pass
away with colfege yells and. cheer-
leadirig and pep?: Mr. Willoughby
says the abilitly to sirig iniproves
with each class. Is the will de-
clining ?
For all our false. notes ‘and our
non-attendance at song practices, we
hope not. We still like to sing
Many of us go to chapel, for the
knowledge which in a senior pr’ ju-
nior, is takeh fpr granted. shes
that, or the class of 1929 is excep-
' tionally brilliant. Not a sirigle one
of its members who took the orals
| this fall failed outright. Only two
‘were conditioned, one in German
and one in*French. Fear of orals in
‘the past have been largely psycho-
ogical. Results like these should
improve the general state of mind.”
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
Science, according to an article in
the October Harper’s, entitled
“How to Get an Education Even at
College,” is the one branch of learn-
ing really worth studying in college.
Modern languages are admissible as
knowledge of scientific principles is
the only key.to an understanding
not onlyaef nature, but of our mod-
ern civilization. History and litera-
ture, the author says, can best. be
studied through private reading,
but science must be explained, ex-
perimented. with, illustrated and
discussed.
The author, ‘like all cheorista, es-
pecially when they embark on the
subject of education, is too sweep-|.
ing. But we all need prodding on
the subject of science. Fear of lab,
fear of complexity, fear of unpleas-
ant smells and difficult problems de-
ter too many of us from any but the
most perfunctory, fulfillment of the
one-year requirement. The princi-
ples of science are the vital princi-
ples of existence; the study of them
has produced, the greatest men of
our age, and 24°centuries.ago it pro-
duced the greatest philosophers. It
js said, moreover, to’ be highly bene-
ficial to the character. ‘Thomas
Paine, who was interésted in every-
thing tinder the sun, finally came to
the conclusion that scignce was the
only dependable source of satisfac-
tion. Said he: “Natural philosophy,
mathematical and mechanical $ci-
ence are a continual source of tran-
quil pleasure, and in spite’ of -the
| gloomy dogmas of priests the study
of those things is the study of true
theology. The-miind of Benjamin
Franklin was ever young, his tem-
per ever serene; science, that never
grows gray, was always his
mistress.” :
Contributions —
(The. College -News-1s-not-responsible +
“for. opinions expressed in these: columns.)
To the Editor of the College News:
The article in fast week’s issue in re-
card to “overburdened consciences” has
called our attention to the fact that the
News has several times been over-hasty
in criticizing the college policies with-
out open-minded consideration of both
sides of the question.,,., :
‘If our’ consciences will work only
_pure joy of letting. ourselves. go-on
the hymns, and ‘some of us cannot
cross the campus on a sunny morn-
ing without bursting into song. ‘Tn
another part of this paper it 1s said
that song is the essence of the sum-
mer school; must we of the winter
mnie our prosaic ‘nature ?
INTRAMURAL ATHLETICS
The new athletic arrangement,
which promotes sunbaths to such an];
extent, has created a grave problem
for those of us. who are just over-
flowing with class spirit and a wild
desire to cheer and sing. if there
are more sunbaths our infallablé
- logic tells us that there will be fewer
class games, and who could be really
enthusiastic over interclass sun-
. baths? Moreover, if we are in such
a precarious sjate of health that our
exercise must be so Jimited, surely
it would be dangerous for us to sit
outdoors in the -cold and—too often
wet in order to cheer and sing.
But our class enthusiasm must
have some outlet. ‘We would sug-
gest ‘interclass card or parchesi
tournaments to be held in-the shel-
ter of the smoking room. Cheering
would be wonderful here as it
would not. only encourage one’s
side, but; as in baseball, rattle the
opponents. “Pounce,” and a curi-
ous game called “Spit,” introduced
by the freshmen, would be good for
this purpose as they are very noisy
anyway. And thére is always
_ bridge, always.
under certain prescribed conditions, and
jour honor is kept, so to speak, in labeled
j cubby-holes, why was this matter not
orought up sooner?-—Why did” those;
suffering from “over-burdened —con-
. sciences” not object when given a chance
(Miss Petts asked us collectively and
individually -what we thought) instead
of expressing a narrow and inconsistent
peint of view in an editorial presumably’
backed by. public opinion? :
Exercise is as much a part of the col-
lege requirements as the academic work;
and, while the. authorities consider it
vecessary, this requirement must be met
under some system or other. Prabably
nothing would be easier than for the
gym department to take a roll call and
count our absences; it is only for us that
it would be hard. If attendance were
taken, we would each have to take our
three regular classes in their regular
hours, with no exceptions. Riding and
golf. could ‘not count (there are not
enough coaches to call the ‘roll at: Whit-
‘tendale’s and St. Davids!) It is only
with our co-operation that the present
ilexible system can be applied. |
Moreover, calling our attendance a
“high moral obligation” is a slight ex-
aggeratiom: it’ is merely a question of
‘practicability, for it we are notable to
‘lo our three periods by ourselves, of
Lecessity ‘the system will become more
rigid. In addition} those with “over-
4rdened consciences” may sign a special
list and have their attendance observed ;
but in that’ case no exceptions may be
made for them. The ” “psychologists”
that’ were taken as. examples cannot
a
‘Trene
bi cs
“THE,COLLEGE slivttdh
wander | from class ‘to classy, and not
‘rave their cuts counted.
-In Philadelphia
| itg seems too™ bad that ewhen~a oer
system’ is being | care evolved with
every consideration Ls and wheh
we are given every chanc
suggest, that our Contribution cannot be
ore constructive and less childish.
‘ ROSAMOND. CROSS,“
SALLY LONGSTRETH,
HELEN. LOUISE TAYLOR,
HILDA THOMAS.
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‘
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To. Editor College News:
A barrel of. apples
L tried to get,
(In the interest of the college,
To whom good health
ls _vital_-yet.
.As either fame or knowledge).
&
‘The powers that be «+
Refused to see
The force of this necessity,
And ‘so lost caste, .
(With we? at least), °
necessary ‘tools. But a thorough js mong the saints: that blessed be.
vt
Vhe .scent. of apples, hy sot
It appears,
Would fly from: lofty storeroom
Through all the hall,
And quite appall ;
There is, alas, no more room,
- A. F. L..
“The Art Club, 1929.
(Specially contributed by Anabelle
“Learned, '29, president of the Bryn Mawr
Art Club.)
There is little change to be announced
in the policy of the Art Club for this
year. As this organization has always
stood, against considerable odds, for in-
dividual creation of informal academic
sort, so it will*always stand; with the
vital interests -of a small group behind
it, arid the warm approval of a great
many beside. There are a number of
e‘ements, however, which join to make
this “year a most propitious one.
In the first place we are fortunate
indeed to have Mr. Arthur Carles, of
Philadelphia, to carry on the work of
u'struction so well developed last year by
Mr. Benton. Mr. Carles is well known
among the modern painters and we must
be very grateful to Mr. Borie, of Phila-
delphia, for helping to obtain his services.
Further, the. Art Club was assured
by the May Day grant of last spring, of
sifficient’ funds to keep the wolf from
the door, for the moment at least.« In-
stead ¢f being anxious for the next
collar / for_ ‘tuition or supplies we’. are
enabléd to look ahead and plan for
perpetuating. the interests of the college.
he studio _wiil consist of the room
Por the third -floor of Taylor which was
ised last year, now Marked bya large]
While the club is much disappointed
net to have the exclusive use of the
1vem, ‘which it understood last spring
would be the case, the difficulties, of, the
college in housing- a” large’ program of
classes are readily understood. We are
very grateful for the use of the room
at all. Dean Manning has been espe-
cially kind in arranging to have the
encumbering desks removed before and
after each .of--the-three -mornings~-when
the room will be in use, and has done
cvery thing possible to minimize ‘the
necessary disturbance of artistic enter-
prises. ;
A word should be said as to the Art
Club’s activity, proper. The first class
has taken place with much pleasure to
the members ‘who attended. Mr. Carles
is working absolutely individually and
proves a delightful critic: Any medium
may be used, and individual lines worked |-
cut.
Aside from painting and drawing, in-
terest has been shown in the plastic arts,
sculpture and pottery, and woodcutting,
tor which we hope to make provision
‘nthe studio. The Lantern. contests
(with large prizes at stake) for cover
designs in woodcuts, should prove quite
stimulating.
Registration for the class is still open.
The fee is $10 for each semester. Ap-
plicants should.sign on the Taylor Bul-
kin Board as soon as_ possible.
Graduate School Is Large
Bryn Mawr has: registered 103 grad-
vate students for the year 1928-29. The
largest precentage of these is working
in Social. Economy, and the next four
!'ehest in English, bie German and
Archaeology. .
There are four new foreign students:
Mary Biss, Cambridge, Grace
Dodge Scholar in Social Economy:
Cjaré Wilhelmina Den Hartag, Germany.
Scholar in History; Elnith ‘Roselle
Griffiths, Wales; Claire Hingre, French
Scholar.
¢,
0 criticize and |’
: When is. an, F not an F?
| tues? Alas, we fear not.
‘an example in the following letter from
~The Pittay’
of Salt
-
‘What's"’all this we hear about F's.
And. if an F
Above all,
is not an F is it an FF?
why is an F?
We foresee this kind of conversation
when the marks go up at mid-years:
OG, FUNF? ‘
S, IFNFF. ;
NFF?
OISQ. :
What Is. Ahead?
Is there a place out in the wide world
tor the humorist, the frivolous-minded,
s
| the flavoring expert who wields the salt,
the pepper and the cinnamon while
cthers boil-the meat and peel the pota-
And we have
our glorious predecéssor in- the work of
trying to keep all the ‘little girls amused.
We «do not like to say that her airy
brain has cracked beneath. the strain of
‘tragic reality, and the responsibilities of
| bread -winning, but it looks like it; or
perhaps not. Anyway, read* for yourself.
Dear Mrs. Lot: >
I was geing to send’ you a contribus
ticn, but alas) my brain is arid. My
Erain is’ arid, so you are sparid. I’m
beginning to feel like Dorothy Parker,
so there is no telling what I might say,
I might even begin making sentences
with the* word Almanac—it’d ‘take
Almanac to do it. There. What did I
tell you. Maybe L am Dorothy Parker
aiter all. Now somebody will come in
with a package of’ books, and they'll
say are you Helen F, McKelvey, Direc-
tor? or they'll probably pronounce it
‘McCalvry. .And I'll have to say, I don’t
know, ‘maybe I’m Dorothy Parker, and
then. they’ll ‘go and take all the - books
away. And then -where’d I be? Me a
business woman without any of my
stock. Oh, yes; I’m in.the Book Busi-
ness; I’d say to anyone who came in.
And they’d say, _you can’t kid me, you
haven’t any books.,
writing in this plaintive vein, just as if
I were Dorothy Parker,.and’ I’m sure
Vm not. How can anyone be sure they
are_not anyone else? This is a_prob-
fem that has baffled the greatest philoso-
phers from: the day reasoning began.
Kven Alice in Wonderland was. Baffled) |
by it, not that she reasoned. She was
just baffled. I’m sometimes afraid there’
41s something wrong with my head. When
vou..get.ideas..like_that-one—about.may=|
be I’m Dorothy Parker, it’s usually a
sign-of something. People. will wag their
fingers ‘and say daffy. I'll say no, just
baffled. Its the ,result of too many
books they'll say, but you and I will
know that it is just because there weren’t,
any books at all. She tried to run a
hook business without any, books, Sad.
No, I’m not sad, I’m a gay little Polly-
ana, but its
The Diggers
We have always wondered why they
dug those holes in Chestnut street and
road street—and now we know. - They
are hunting for hidden corruption. : Half
the police force of Philadelphia is busy
kéeping the other half in jail and now
there is no one to look after the boot-
leggers and the blue laws. So they have
called out tlie plumbers and the grave-
zers and the Boy Scouts, and they are
very busy picking up the paving
sto and throwing them at wicked-
ness in high places, and hunting under-
neath the street car tracks for signs of
something rotten at the core. Spiritually
the idea is all right, but we would rather
1.0t have to go over the top through the
Farbed wire and the shell holes every
time we cross from Wanamaker’s to
Whitman’s. ~ Running the sewer-pipes
‘where the telephone wires ought to be
*has the virtue of not being hypocritical,
‘but it is extremely messy.
Lot’s Wife.
We're Glad to Know This
Oxford women students now ‘to speak
to their gentlemen friends -on the. street.
This was formerly. a great breach of
etiquette.
The regulation against talking’ to men
on the street is, of course, - manifestly
absurd. It is the survival of a custom
which was likely a necessity for protec-
ticn in earlier, rougher days. Now that
the need has disappeared, the eustom
should follow. For now, University men
—though there are speciments fo the
contrary—generally are’ gentlemen,
' —McGill ae
t
And_ here, I go on}-
Theaters:
* LyricInterference; by Roland Pert-
'| wee and Harold Deardeh. Complexes of +
fassion, very well acted by A. E. Mat-
thews. ° . . :
Adelphi—The Squealer—a melodrama
cf the underwe** ~~ water
Shubert—Gertrude Lice: -in The.
A
Treasure Girl; and if she isn’t sufficient
iure, there is alie Clifton Webb.
Garrick—Thurston with all hi8 old
‘tricks- and the added attraction of his
“dancing daughter,” -Jane.
Erlanger—The ‘Marx Brothers in
Animal Crackers are just as funny as
they were last week.
‘Walnut—The Grand Street” Follies ;
we've heard them called “an intimate
revue.” ,
Broad--Frank Craven is bringing back
The Nineteenth Hole, but if you didn’t ~
seé it last spring, why bother now?
Chestnut—The Golden Dawn igs like-
wise returning, and is the same dazzling
spectacle as when it left here a yedr ago.
Forrest—Hello Yourself, For’ those
vho like a “Rah! Rah! Musical Comedy
of Youth.”
Coming next week :
Keith’s—The Trial of Mary. Dugan.
Now -famous on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Adelphi—Helen Menken in | Congain ;
Movies:
¥
Aldine—Al Jolson in The Singing
fool, cae
Stanton—Uncle Tom’s Cabin,. Also a
“talkie.” :
Keith’ s—Submarines. Drama on’ the
low seas,
- Karlton—The King of Kings,
The Little Theater—Siegfried. A truly
remarkable German production.
“Fox—Me, Gangster. From the story
in the Skturday Evening - Post.
Philadelphia Orchestra
The orchestra program next Friday ©
and Saturday> will be as follows:
Bliss—Introduction and Allegro.
’ Schelling—Goncerto ” for Violin
Orchestra.
Allegro vivo, Lento, Siaeaets Vivamente
Mischa Mischakoff
Tschaikowsky—Symphony No. 5,
Kominor, .
I. Andante. Allegro con anima.
1 Oe Andante cantabile, con
licenza. ;
111. Valse.
and
in
alcuna ~
Allegro moderato.
IV. Finale. . Andante- -maestoso-
Mischa - Mischakoff, Violinist.
Mischa Mischakoff is the concert- -
master of’ the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Before coming to. Philadelphia he was
ior three seasons concertmaster of , the
New York Symphony’ Orchestra, * He
was~borm ir ~Proskurow, Podolia, south-
west—-Russia,-in-1897,
Gold Medal graduate of the Petrograd ~
Conservatory, where he ,was taught by
Professor Korgueff, a pupil of Leopold
Auer. In 1917, after demobilization from
the. Russian army, Mischakoff. became
concertmaster of the Petrograd Orches-
tra under Albert Coates. From 1918 to
|1920 he was professor of Violin at the
| Nijny-Novgorod Conservatory by. ap-
peintment of the Soviet Government. He
was-concertmaster of the Moscow Grand
Opera during the season of 1930-21, and
later held the same position in the War-
saw Philharmonic. He made concert
tours of Russia, Germany. and Poland
before coming to New York..‘In a com-
petition. with five hundred candidates -he
was chosen for a public appearance with
the Philharmonic Orchestra of New
York. in the Stadium Concerts in the
summer of 1923, and in the followirig
spring he received his appointment as
concertmaster of the New York Sym-
phony Orchestra.
Hockey Season Opens
The. Varsity hockey season will open
a week later than ‘usual this year, the
first game coming against the Main Line
team next Saturday morning at 10
o'clock. Becky. Wills, vatsity captain,
was a bit enigmatic when questioned,
cut she did definitely say that there was
promising material on the squad. includ-
ing six ‘of last.year’s eleven. No fixed
line-up can be given out ‘as-early in the
week as: this, but the tentative varsity
squad has already been picked. The sea-
son’s schedule is as follows:
VARSITY GAMES—FIRST TEAM
Scheduled for Saturday; 10 A. M.
To Be Played at B. M. C.
Oct. 20—Bryn Mawr. vs. Main- Line.
Oct. 27—B. M. vs. Merion.
Nov. 3—B. M. vs. Germantown. ee
Nov. 9—B.M: vs. Swarthmore.
Nov. .10—B, B.-vs. P. C. C.
Nov 17—B. M. vs. All-Philadelphia.
SECOND TEAM
Oct. 27—Rosemont
? —Bucgneer.
In 4943 jre-was-the———
negro
tunes and alexandrians, all are pressed
_- Book Review
dake Brown’s Body, by Stephen Vine
cent. Benet—Doubleday Doran. |
America has few ” American poets.
Her poets are either sectional, like
James ArlingtGu« “Soenisbin’ ta "New
England, or Carl Sandburg in Chicago
and ‘the wheat belt; or they are more
of less de-nationalfred: like T. S. Eliot
- or Conrad Aiken, seeking a tiniversal |’
essence rather than a national flavor.
In John Brown’s Body, however, an
ambitious and youthful poet, Stephen
_ Vincent Benet, has tried to go beyond
localism, beyond even the séctionalism
of North and South;-and to catch the|
whole of the American spirit, “the
American thing” as he names it in his
invocation. But it is no single thing,
no-one note that he sounds to call
forth the’ American muse, but a great
variety of people and places, and things,
bound together only by their common
.relationship to the Civil War.”
“T think that I have seen you, not as
one, ee
But clad in diverse semblances and
powers,”
he says: and in his book there is more
of the melting pot than of the fragile]
flask of. laboriously’ distilled perfume.
Selecting what he considers the ‘turn-
ing point of American development, |}.
the crucial years of the Civil War, he
has. bravely set out to give a compo-
site pictare of the whole of American
life in those years, as exemplified in
Northern Yankee and Southern Cava-
lier, frontiersman, soldier and aristo-
crat. : 6
Few men would have attempted such
a work in prose. To attempt it in
poetry without sacrificing historical ac-
curacy is a sign. of great courage as
well as great devotion. Even failure
on such terms would have ‘been no dis-
grace. As it is, the power and beauty
of this extraordinary~ historical epic
more than compensate for its almost
inevitable weaknesses. It is difficult
to: prevent a blank verse. ‘narrative of
events, especially military events, from
lapsing into monotony; it is -difficult to
keep track of a tremendous variety of
people and events. without sacrificing
unity and coherence. The wonder is
not that these faults crop out occasion-
ally in John. Brown’s Body, but that-they
appear so seldom. Another charac-
teristic of Mr. Benet’s poetry that is
at once fascinating and risky is his
treatment of metre. In’ his effort to
_express_ perfectly the spirit of, each
American type, he uses any verse form
‘which seems. to him characteristicpre=|.
The
ragtime
gardless of’ literary convention,
‘spiritual, the ballad,
into service, and recur throughout the
book accordirfg: to the subjett, like a
musical theme in an opera.
Perhaps this great variety, this demo-
cratic gathering of every class. of
metre, lowers the tone of the poem;
but Mr. Benet is more anxious to. con-
, vey the American: genius than to pre-
serve his own dignity. So. if the chron-
icle of the dashing Wingates of Win-
gate Hall has too rollicking a lilt, too
exaggerated a rhyme scheme, if the
introduced fragments of popular song
and well-worn ditty are just a little
vulgar, it is because that rollicking af-
fectiony that touch of vulgarity, are a
“part of what he wishes to convey. We
must be .grateful for so faithful ‘a
chronicler.
Yet we must be grateful also for the
moments when nationalism is forgot-
ten, or consumed in a wider and more
lasting emotion;
metres are replaced by a more pro-
found and inevitable rhythm. Such is
the song of breath that goes up at
night from great ‘cities, such is the
hider’s song:
“This is where hiders live,
This is the tentative
And outcast corner where hiders steal
away
To bake their hedgehogs } in a lump of
clay, 5
’ To raise their crops and children wild
and shy,
And let the world go by
In accidental marches of armed wrath
That stumble blindly past the buried
path,”
Mr. Benet’s sketches of Civil War
-generals, especially Grant, and Jack-
son, his interpretation of battles and
events; will make his reputation as af
historian and a philosopher.’ But with-
out those irresistible flashes that refuse
to be tied down to any set scheme.or
historical purpose, we would péeffiaps
not have realized -how _much..he is a
Poet.
—
. Ae L.
when characteristic |
Such populari fly
be deserved: Ze
Down deep in the Kongo the native sons
believe that anybody who has an explorer for
dinner will
absorb all the brains, courage
and other success-assuring virtues of the unfor-
tunate victim.
' We wish we could saythesame of Chesterfields
—that all their popularity is conferred upon
whosoever smokes them. Frankly, however,
this is not invariably true. Several Chesterfield *
smokers have recently been discovered who
are not ambassadors, steel kings, or even bank
presidents, . *
But—since Chesterfield are so sia mild
- and different—we’ll all of us continue to enjoy
them for these sound sineke-virtues alone. .
Popularity? Six million smokers are enjoying
’em today. Such popularity must be deserved,
Make it six million and one?
HESTERFIELD
MILD. enowgh ii onybody:-awd yore er SATISFY ~
ar
LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO,
==
/ Summer Song
(Specially _ contributed \by-
the Summer School.)
The heat of a July day had concen- |
trated in the red ‘streaks that disappeared
beyond Sunset Hill.
wet and a cool breeze moved the trees
in the night. Coming back from the
gym after a period of folk-dancing with
the summer. school, I had taken a short-
The campus was
cut through Senior Row on my way b
to Pem and bed, so that I could have a
few moments to cool beneath the old
tree in front of the Library. I could hear
the voices of the summer school girls
who were. chatting leisurely and singing
scraps of songs as they followed the walk
past Mérion and Taylor. Some had di-
‘vided into small groups which wandered
my direction. Others collected in
Pembroke archway-and sang in harmony
the songs that everyone knows.
in
®
There are times when one does not
wish to be a part of anything, when one
desires to see or to hear as much as
possible the effect of the whole, I climbed.
to the first branch of the fat old tree
and stood against the trunk. I cotild
hear the laughter and exclamations of a
party of girls who had grouped around
an instructor and a telescope in front of
Taylor. Several talked in low voices on
the Library steps. There passed beneath
ty tree a few Russians singing in shrill
tenes a weird Jewish melody that swiftly
died to a thin piping as they moved down
the campus. And all the while the sing-
ing in the archway was deep, strong and
completes a varied background of . folk-
songs, Negro spirituals and random mel-
odies, sung with an understanding that
is developed through a hunger for song.
Song. It was the spirit of the place.
Discords arising from racial prejudices,
from differences in belief, from -unfulfill-
ment of desires, all the daily struggles
andthe efforts that the girls had to exert
in order to tnderstand the views of one
auother and of their instructors, whert
they had had very little education with
which they “could associate ‘new “ideas,
Angelyn |
Burrows,—’84,—undergraduate—worker—in~
Class Elections
-. At..theclass.meetingof 1932...)
held last» Wednesday, Gertrude
Woodward was elected captain of,
Class ‘Hockey, and Molly Atmore
the chairman for the following .
week. :
merged into this full and steady har-
hony. : :
s a result of German studying with
ew, with Russian, with Assyrian, there
grew tp a knowledge of each others’
thoughts and beliefs, and an appreciation
that was like an echo of the singing in
the archway). embracing all nations and
a'l religions.
Hold Essay Contest for Al
Frank .L. Polk, Under-Secretary of
State in the Wilson Administration, who
is President of the College League for
Aifred. E. Smith, asks students compet-
ing in the League’s $2000 prize essay con-
t@st to submit them not later than Oc-
tober 20. The -contest cldses on- that
date, essays bearing such a post mark
being Acceptable.
’ The prizes of $1000 for men, ana an
equal amount for women, are offered
through the College League by Mrs.
James W. Gerard, wife of the former |
Ambassador to Germany. They will bel
awarded by a national committee for the}
two best essays written on the subject:
“Why Alfred Es Smith Should Be
Elected President of the United States.”
All college students and graduates
‘ofthe classes of 1927 and 1928 are
eligible to try for the prizes. The essays
are limited to 500 words and are: to be
judged on strength of argument, form
of. composition and excellence in Eng-
lish.
They can be submitted to Essay Con-
test committees at 1775 Broadway, New
York.City; Hotel Statler, Boston, Mass. ;
Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis, Mo. or to
any one of the sixteem leading news-
tapers that are co-operating in the con-
duct of the. competition.
_ Mr.. Polk urges that competitors sub-
nit Shei essays as soon as possible.
eer ‘ atte
. ‘4 * ¥ gt ke heat ae "
<
AAA ANNIE EAE, ee HERMITE SETI NARS
Educator Will Speak
ete) BEAN
CONTINUED’ FROM _PAGH ap |
Yen was born 35 years ago in the in=
land province of Szechwan’ itt China. His
father, grandfather and ancestors for
some years back were eminent classical
His ‘father and grandfather
were well-known in China as poets.
James Yen was the “youngest of ‘a
Though of
the best class, distinctly aristocrats in the
Chinese ‘sense, his- family had very~ little
scholars.
usual large Chinese family.
money, > ¢
By the time he was eight or nine he
was well advanced in the Confucian
classics. While a. little boy around the
home, his mother had given him a thor-
ough classical’ background. Many hun-
dreds of poems, many thousand lines he
had committed to memory. Then for
several years, Yen went to a provincial
school.
From about 630 A. D. to 1905 official
pusition in China was based upon schol-
arship.. The candidate rose to the top
by a system of competitive examinations.
Yen was destined for this career, But in
1905, when Yen- was about 12 years old,
the system was abolished. The effect of
this change on.a family such as the Yens
was great. The ladder to high public
position up which a Chinese scholar had
formerly~-climbed was suddenly taken
away.
Yen then sought the rudiments of an
English education in a mission school.
There he came in contact with a splendid
Christian teacher. For three years af-
terwards Yen taught in his home prov-
most brilliant and promising young
teacher. . - ip °
Following this valuable experience
Yen went to Hog Kong University, a
Lritish institution There-he won the
much-coveted Edward VIII scholarship.
But, turning down the opportunity which
this scholarship gave him to go to Cam-
bridge, Yen sailed instead for America.
Mr. Yen is a delightful speaker. We
gre sure he willbe able to te us: a
great deal of the often misuriderstood
and misinterpreted China.
ince, where he was soon regarded as the |.
——?
Eaton to Speak Here
Under Varsity Dramatics
faton at 4.30-P. M. next Monday, Oc-
tober 22, in the sitting room of Rocke-
ar
teller Hall. The subject of the talk
to be given under the auspices of Varsity
| Dramatics, will be “Shaw and O’Neill—
a Contrast in Modern Drama.”
Walter Prichard Eaton is one of the
foremost authorities in America on the
Drama. He describes himself as a re-
He was graduatéd
trom Harvard and after two years on
the Boston -Journal joined the staff of
the: New York Tribune as assistant to
In
1907 he became dramatic. critic of the
New York Sun and in 1910 retired to the
Berkshire Hills to live, but has kept in
the
since, for many years acting as drama-
formed Bostonian.
William Winter, the famous critic.
constant touch with theater ever
tic editor of the American entity and
The*
For some time he
Freeman. -
was instructor in
literary and dramatic criticism at Colum-
dia University.
His books about the theater include
“The American Stage of Today,” “The
Actor’s Heritage” and “Plays and Play-
He has also written many books
on Nature, such as “Green Trails and
“In Berkshire
Fields” and -a series of books for boys
”
ers.
Upland Pactures” and
He is a member of the American
institute of Arts and Letters, a frequent
lecturer on theatrical subjects and on
his pet hobby, Colonial houses.
Self-Government Elects
Margaret Martin and Gertrude Ban-
croft, ’30, have been elected Junior Mem-
bers of the Self-government Association.
As both were Hall Presidents, Rocke-
feller and Pembroke West had to choose
new tyrants. Victoria Buell-was chosen
Président of Rock and Carla Swan of
Pembroke West.
ae
to hear—a talk by Walter Prichard
- THE COLLEGE NEWS
“World Student Union”
CONTINU ED FRO FROM: PAGE 1
© ooo (Brief outline of plan)
ene Object: .An educational movement to*
* forward ‘ a ‘better’ understanding between
nations. = :
Central Office: To establish a central
, Office, under the direction of a competent
- executive secretary for the collection apd
distribution’ of facts relating to interna-
tional understanding and suggéstions for
_ ways in which students can rendef prac-
tical world service,
* Method: (a) The circulation of these+
facts and suggestions through the me-
dium of ‘the college paper and
(b). Through a central committée on
each campus composed of unofficial rep-
resentatives from each student group in-
terested in world affairs.
Organization of Unit: The central
committee to help in correlating, stimu-
lating and securing. co-operation between
Various activities—fostering the forma-
- tin of new groups within the various
departments and focusing the interest of
' the whole upon competitive co-operation
with other colleges in friendly and. con-
crete forms 6f world service.
~ Year Book: The publication “once a
year in book form of reports from all
‘of the colleges. Every college whether
active or inactive to appear in this report.
Recognition: The ‘student group hay-
ing done the best work during the preced-
ing year and ‘presenting the best plan for
investing $3000 in world servicé to be
“made trustees of such a sum.
Funds: The movement gradually be-
comes self-supporting through the an-
nual one-dollar. student alumni and fac+
ulty dues. (There are 870,000 students
in American universities alone and this
‘is a world movement.)
Advisers: (a) Faculty members will
be ‘asked to serve.as advisers and co-
workers in each unit—anfl the chairman
of this faculty group is to represent stu-
dent interests at-the meetings of faculty
international committees at home and
_elsewhere, ,
(b) The president of aa participating
college to be invited to. become a senior
partner to represent the interest Of his
institution and to endorse the public of- |
ficers of the movement. ,
(c) It is to be hoped that those ammonia |
this group who have achieved distinction
as leaders in. international thought. will
consent to act as the Natjonal Board of
Senior Partnersin~ the movement and
to. share in its responsibilities—to ap-
* point the public officers, take charge of
the funds, and act as a board of ad-.
lvisers. for the executive secretary. The
a ce executive. secretary to be approved.by-the-|——
‘students’ and their faculty advisers, en-
dorsed by the senior partners and ap-
poirited by. the National Board of Senior
‘Partners.
(d). The field secretary to be suai i
by the students and to work directly with
them and their executive secretary.
Suggestions for Specific Forms of
Service.
1. The dissemination ‘of facts concern-
“ing economics, food sanitation, agricul-
bere. etc.
~~, The consideration, by the iriterested
aioiioa in the. different departments, of
the constructive suggestions for inter-
national service pertaining to their major
' subjects and appearing in the college
papers.
3. The open forum for the discussion
of subjects of general interest.
4, Exchange -of student publications
7 the different groups.
Book shelf -for translations not to
be ge in the library. *
6. Exchange of botanical specimens and
seeds.
Importance of Regular
Attendance at Chapel
In Chapel on Friday morning Presi-
dent Park explained the significant
part that’ Morning’ Chapel Exercises
ought to play in the college year.
There have been several changes in the
services during the long chapel career:
under President Rhoads a_ typical
* Quaker Meeting silence prevailed and
the students spent fifteen minutes in
a very pleasant state of complete tran-
quility; a more., conventional chapel)
form originated under President
Thomas, who delivered short talks on
all sorts of subjects that chanced to
interest her; later on, singing . was
added, an addition which suffered con-
siderably from the lack of an organ-in
. bended Hall.
= -Goodhart Changes Old System
' But now we have Goodhart, and
extra time has, been added to the
fninutes of physical and spiritual nutri-
BROS during the middle ‘of the morn-
ing. Ordinarily, unless the Dean re-
‘quires+special attendance, the exercises
will be held the Music Room,
where. Mr. Willougpby can play the
organ. ~The
Quaker in form, will be ‘Quaker in
spirit. There will be an opening hymn
to compel a religious mood, Bible read-
ing, a prayer, and a-short speech ,de-
livered by President Park herself,
TQean Manning, a member the
faculty, or an outside speaker.
Come to Chapel Regularly
““T want quite definitely to ask the
in .
service,
7
of
students to ~come to Chapel on the
Mondays, Wednesdays, .
when it is held—and to make it a
habit,” declared President Park. “It
is something outside the curriculum
that connects you with the life from
which you came. It gives to me and
Mrs. Manning an’ opportunity to in-
form you of the things behind: college
life, and to you an opportunity to hear
from: outside speakers and members
of the faculty whom .you ntay never
have occasion to pieet in Anes own
college work.
*“Regular Chapel attendance ‘will, ‘I
think,” Miss Park’ concluded, “bring us
together in ways which have. no sen-
timentality about them, but which go
to make up ah intellectual ‘intimacy
and Fridays
althongh..-not’
The Last of the Slickers
We mourn -the. passing of an old
friend. Scarcely noted, amid the bustle
cf resignation, “ yesterday’ s s_ rain “brought
‘his loss poignantly to our memory. Thel
clad yellow slicker has not survived . the |
summer, : ; ‘
It. may be rather inhospitable but we
c.nnot find’ it’ in our hearts to welcome
his successor. No more will illuminating
comments on life and education be print-
The
would lift “his
buckles in amazement and sneer disdain-
ed on the backs of our raincoats.
aristocratic “trench=coat
telly if .anyone attempted to desecrate
~No moré ‘can
we come in from the rain. and toss aside
cur. blue-blooded
thalantly as we did his more democratic
brother. No more will one be able ‘to
distinguish the male. from the. female
by the cut and colof of. the slicker. A
inonotonous gray pallor has settled over
the campus. Something ‘beautiful has left
vs. The solitary weather-stained sur-
vivors that struggle. by only emphasize
our loss.
his immaculate surface.
trench-coat as non-
—Cornell Daily Sun.
’ Scholars and Athletes
' Figures recently gompiled by the Di-
rector of Athletics at Georgetown Uni-
the Squantum Air Station.
News From-Other Colleges| work- a a Cra was aig -ene-|
lower than the
i*
tenth of one per, cent.
average of: rion-athletés.
rs
—Yale News.
Yale to bade Flying Course
‘hich recently*
sslaned at the requést of many under-
graduates for the establishment of a
ground school course in flying at Yale
yp tine
were
have’ been successful and the course
will be inaugurated in October, accord-
ing to a recent announcement ‘of the
Society. Although
Yale Aeronautical
approximately 160 students have applied | *
for instruction in aviation, it will only
be. possible to accommodate 25 this year.
‘hose -who- fail to secure enrollment. itt
the regulay course, however, will have
the opp tunity of’ taking other -instruc-
tion in th ot
S
‘Schools af this fi have already been
established at Princeton and. Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, and - the
st'dents receive practical flight instruc-
tion at the Rockaway Beach Air Station
and the Rockaway Beach Air Station and
It, has been |’
ceemed advisable. for a :long time to
establish another base on the coast of
southern New England, which would .be
a valuable asset in time of National
emergency and at the same time offer
Yale. students an opportunity to receive
of flying.
! Whether
An “Addition
A new addition to.the faculty who was.
not announced last spring is M. Jean
Canu, Agrege de lettres de I’Universite
de Paris, who is taking M. Peyre’s place
rin the French’ department. M. Canu
taught for some years® at the Lycee de
| Bordeau,'and for the past two years has
held a fellowship from the Rockefeller
foundation in this. country.* He is giving *
first- and second-year French courses,
‘and a course in advanced fiction.
a e °
“ Governor Smith and Education
A group ef distinguished educators,
headed by: Professor John Dewey, of
Columbia University, said of Governor
Smith’s record oft public education: ~~
“His whole attitude on education has
been one of foresight and progress..
it was the extension and
strengthening of the system of special
classes for exceptional children or sup-
porting the program for continuation
schools, and schools for vocational
training or maintaining the- standards .
of State training schools for teachers,
he hae always been ready to take’ his
position with the most . advanced
thought on the subject.
He aided and developed, by adequate
appropriations, public education; .spon-
sored equal pay for equal work; increased
appropriation ‘for public education from
$8 000.000 to $86,347,855.
Engaged
Another International Alliance has
Chapel | hoer:in order to allow us thirty |
which is one of the most pleasant
things in college life.”
versity for the Carnegie Foundation
that the. scholastic ‘average of
athletes there for thé year - 1927-28 not
only equaled that .of non-athletes, but
iz some cases was above it. It was
found’ that while :the non-athletes main-
tained a higher average in ddily. class
show
New Cut System Adopted
_ The wote on the new cut system result-
e; in an overwhelming majority in favor
cf the system of paid monitors chosen
instruction in aviation under experienced
teachers at the expense " the Govern-
ment.
been contracted by a graduate-of Bryn
Mawr. Miss Martha Randolph Tucker,
24, .announced her engagement during
tlie summer to Mustapha Hussein Pasha, ,
one of the influential men in the.present
I.gyptian Government. Miss Tucker
graduated with honors, took an M. A. at
The primary ground school course in-
clfides aerodynamics, navigation, aero-
logy, communications, theory of practical
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luck, met a few minor celebrities.
Spent perhaps $2,500 for one morith’s
incomplete entrée -into only one of
the gay capitals of the world. They go
home wondering how they have missed
so much of the advertised glamour.
How pathetic! How extravagant!
How much better to spend $1 for
five months’ intimacy with everything
really amusing in all three capitals .
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Join the ‘League
The Bryn Mawr’ League i is very grate-
Fat dor the ‘general appreciation of its| Ay
experiment, that has been expressed. thus
fsr. ’
We hope that those who are ‘niobentall
will become active members of the Jeague
+y signing the cards which will soon be
distributed. May*we call your attention
to. the simplicity, this procedure, which
involves no dues. or monetary pledges!
The only thing we ask is that whatever
your reason for joining’ may be®-whether
Lecause you enjoy musical services or
because you. wish to teach kindergarten—
you will support, faithfully and intelli-
gently, the activity for which you sign.
Although we wish to exclude no one
from sharing the benefits of our under-
takings; we feel strongly that the League,
to keep its significance. as an‘ experiment,
inust be composed of members who are
willing to make “a contributions to its
life °
Wee will sinus welcome all of you
who care to connect yourselves with
‘any one or,all the branches, and hope,
with aia help, to make great .progress
this year..
a conetiiicd by
RUTH BIDDLE.
Freshman: Statistits”
—_—
(Continued from last week.)
Occupations of Parents
Professions—55, 43.3 percentages *
50.4 percentages
Students with
Percentages
Both parents without col-
lege. trailing... ..:, 730 275
Both parents college wind:
LAC AR a ad at eee era 22 17.3
Father a college. graduate,
mother no college train-
We Se ee bee ins 61 48.0
Mother a college graduate,
father no college’ training 4
Father with college train- ”
ing, mother no college
PRAY sy ahr es cv 2 1.6
Father with: college grad-
uate, mother with collége,
3.1
treiing ss. cars 2 1.6
Both. parents with college -
BIN oss 4 1 8
Tete) 565 5c eal Gera.
FREEDOM OF WILL
* CONTINUED FROM PAGEL
He is so constructed
that whenever light strikes upon certain
cells of higgbody there is.an immedi-
the
flame. ‘This automatic -reaction is called
moth, for example :
ate and inevitable attraction for
that if we ‘could get hold of all the
tropisms we could explain human life.
Is,
tren, the individual subject to tropisms,
freer. *~. .
The Part Past Experience Plays
And in the third place there are those
who think of the human’ will as ‘a com-
Hypnosis is another similar example.
oi -experiences the individual has previ-
ously been through. When do we first
When
we reach that stage do we stop’ before
begin to have conscious states?
we. act to considerewhat preceding events
are making us act thus? Hardly. If
ing a “conscious state” concerning the
theory of the origin of the species, would
society have been different today ?
If we take ‘this third position in the
}argument,~ will “our” various~ actions ~ be
affected to any serious extent in the “fu-
ture? To most people the question. js
of littlesimportance. We see the world
go ploughing ahead, but we can do very
little &bout it. - All these ‘sides of the
Per! question seem difficult “to analyze.
A cent! Throughout history, however, ide#€ have
Physicians & Surgeons... 17 13.4) semed painful which later have proved
Lawyers *....82 0... ees 12 9.4! the greatest possible aid to development.
Engineers Cte eee tees eeee 10° 7.8] Freedom is found only. when there exists
Electrical’ .1.......... 3 a condition under which various proc-
Civil Eng. & Surveyor 1 ‘= | esses work freely and favorably together: |-
Aeronautical”... 1 :
Unclassified .......... 4 A. A. Meets
Professors & Teachers .... 6 4.7] -Miss Josephine Petts, the new direc-
Clergymen: 4.06... . eee. 3 .#) tor of Athletics, spoke at a meeting of
' Professors & Deans ........ 1 ‘8! the Athletic Association last Wednes-
Journalists ...... 0.0... 04e 5. 1 8) Gay outlining her plans for,’the year.
Artists Ren WA Re CCE © 1 ‘8) She and her ‘assistant were creating a
Engineering: Draughtsmen... 1 ?.8) new department of*physical education,
Editors Scien kires Runnntde: ee 4 ‘8! she said, and they...really wanted. criti-
Dentists ...... 0... eee eee ee I 8 cism, ‘constructive not destructive. 5 In
Naval-Architetts 045 ccs; 1 "8
their ‘plans for the yedr they were em-
phasizing three main points. ,Jn the first
a tropism; and. psychologists maintain |
posite thing fused out of a multitude
Darwin could have. been kept from hav- |
A Suggéstion ts-Made-
dent ‘Park: ‘gai ‘that “she. was_very giad
tiat she had beer able to see Lantern
Night for the first time if threetyears,
and that although it was undoubtedly
one of the most beautiful pageants in
America, she. perhaps it could be
improved by havi a few lights: lighted
in the lower cloister, so that the figures
could be seen passing the pillars.
Miss Park also commented on the
Freshmen’s first ° appearance their
caps and’ gowns, which symbolize a link
‘with the earliest academic work on the
the Middle
formed
in
Continent in
Ages, when
scholars what was almost an
exclusive caste. _ At the. present day,
ing to be a monopoly and is becoming
a ja commodity. When _ the
Sephomore hand lanterns to the Fresh-
amen, they symbolize the duty of. passing
cn the benefits of education to those
deo follow. °
| Liberal Club Carries On
The Liberal Club, true to its, tradi-
tions, is carrying on without parade or
publicity. It does not. seek: members
who do not seek it or*show a real in-
terest in the. problems which it is try-
ing to understand. Its first formal
meeting will take up the subject of the
present campaign in an effort to solve
the riddle ‘of the sphinx: -what are the
real issues of the Presidential cam-
paign? Ae Be
Storm Scarred University
of Porto Rico Carries On
‘Traces of the ‘disastrous cyclone
which ravaged Porto Rico during the
month of September. will endure for
a long. time,. and among the institu-
| tions of the place hard hit was the
University of Porto Rico. The éntire
character of the place has been altered
to a great extent, and the position of
the, students now trying to continue
their studies at the storm-scarred col-
lege makes a story which should prove
of interest to our readers. e
University Is Reopened.
: 3
,| to__come.
j-| homes destroyed, the family fortulte as.
Miss Park pointed-out, education is ceas-
|something to work with when, classes
‘They have found ,-their’
tobacco, coffee . or
grapefruit literally blown away, and
will be driven. to seek whatever work
they can find wherever they can find
it. It4s feared that numbers of these
will never be able to take up univer-
sity studies again because of the eco-
nomic shadow into which the island
has been plunged. Yet, with all the
difficulties and distress: Heo such a
situation inevitably entails upon. the
island andthe institution, the Univér-
sity of Porto Rico for practical efficient
servicé, at the point where that wonk
was interrupted after seven ——
classes on the. morning of Thursfay,
September 13, when the oncoming
eyclone began to make itself heard and.
felt. .
The work of the university has not
been iriterrupted except on the side of
instruction at any time. since then.
Throughout the first harassing “days
of reconstruction, the university has
served the’ island tirelessly and faith-
fully in innumerable ways. The first
cable received er epee ‘reporting
the cyclone, the first request -for help
for stricken, thousands, went from the
Chancellor of the Univers#y, Every
day the, institution through its’ Col-
lege-of Home Economics has served
tHe refugees, preparing food and
clothing for the sick and
Cadets from the University R. O. T. C.
have been on active guard duty over
the island. Volunteers from facyty
and student body have applied them-
‘sélves so effectively to the work of
salvaging records, books, damaged
equipment of al] kinds, that there was
represented ,in_
began, though on the day after the
cyclone that had seemed a more than
doubtful-* ‘prospect. The _ beautiful
campus -has been greatly disfigured,
but the wonderful healing tropical
climate has already brought out ten-
tative leaves on the twisted boughs of
mange and ceiba.. Work of the build-
mgs goes forward steadily, And, most
starving. |
Those wh@ are acquainted: with: the
‘work ‘of: the University of Porto Rico
predict for it a year of reat useful-
ness; and see in the training’ which it
‘is giving to the young men and women
of the island the chief hope for Porto
Rico’s recovery from disaster,
; ‘Damage Investigated. —
Three members of the faculty of the
University of “Porto Rico—Jose Cc,
Rosario, ‘Lewis Richardson and Rafael
Cordero—made their way on foot Fri-
day, September 21, over the clogged
and, difficult trail from Carolina. to
‘investigated. the’condition of two hun-
dred and .forty-seven houses carefully
in detail, and:found that of this number
one hundred’ and forty-three, or. fifty-
seven per cent.,
six, or twenty-seven per cent., were
unroofed, and thirty-eight, or sixteen
per cent.’ were uninjured. It *is-ims
portant to remember that this. was not
the worst hit section of island;
yet, if this proportion should hold good
for the country districts as a whole,
where there are approximately two
hundred thousand, dwellings, it would
méan one hundred and fourteen thou-
‘sand homes destroyed; fifty-four thou-
sand unroofed and only
thousand uninjured.
As Mr. ‘Rosario points: out in his
official report to Dr. Benner, Chan-
cellor of the university, if these figures
age multiplied’by five—the approximate
number living, in each dwelling—we
have an estimate of five hundred and
seventy thousand of our country. peo-
ple homeless; two hundred and. sev-
enty thousand with unroofed homes
leaving them exposed to the inclemen-
and sixty thousand with homes injured.
Mr. Rosario,-with other faculty mem-
bers, is now pursuing a similar inves-
tigation, in the stricken Utuado dis-
trict, accessible only on foot at present
and it is feared that conditions there
important of all,, the .aninrating spirit |
With last year’s scheme it had. been
too easy for the monitors to forget to
count their best friends’ cuts,
system has to be revised again.
‘The college is willing to give one
hundred dollars towards a paid moni-
so the
hour to take the attendance. This
amount would not cover the entire
cost, so the dues of the Undergraduate
Asso€iation would have to be raised
forty-five cents. It was then moved
and passed that no decision be reached
at the meeting, but that the: matter: be
discussed outside and that a ballot be
taken in the halls within a wéek. It
was: also moved and passed that. the
| forty-five cents be payable the first
semester, instead of being broken into
two parts. The meeting was then ad-
| journed.
tor who would go to all classes every|
many have been forced: to assume ‘at
Once financial responsibilities which in
the ordinary course of events would
not have been theirs for several years |
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rpm Soeren re eee ee 20 aig place, to require the least exercise need- al eds “ad < bcdiccdsaca
eI RE eg ed to keep the students \alert and: in buildings vant roofed-over ie ori =.
~ 0 ea dies a : ii good condition for their work’; secondly, inde ‘sid 7 rostrate sihdesial bein
Bankers sea ace pias ai to give instruction in sports which could batit Set er boca? wit “ble en oe : :
video Ee es sae ne be continued after college; and thirdly, in -the labideiertes Se ~ de- mo L E l \ N E R-
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Salesmen ....... tts See are “1.6 ‘ - - logged and the” general university |=
Sales Correspondents ........ y. 8 = library bearing, as it will _bear-so tong} 3 :
Fotel Business ....:...5.:; + 8 New Cut Systém as the books endure, physical evidence W —— Apparel ee
Unclassified—8, 6.3 percentage }of the cyclone ‘which they survived; amumenionats =
U, S..Army Officer —— 1.6) Undergraduate-Ass Association P Pro-| with the campus torn and ‘scarred,/ = -
Political-Cartoonists = 4-8. poses .Paid. Monitor. for. — “|™ny_of its great trees down and, the Laces-:: Carta
‘Gentleman Farmers ......... 1 8 Classes . pliant palms and -bamboos broken or |
BUHGers. cis pete eeees 1 8 Ameeting ‘of te Undergraduate avippes by the be oe with ie 5 Cl 1
Government Officials ....... 1 ‘8 Association was held Wednesday, Octo- too eth " fies vbtabi apne pg ‘ eaned
Publicity Managers i ae ile 8 ber 3, to discuss a new system of moni- to make this remem y year _ o j
No occupation ’....:\ ieedee Le Rs eager taking ‘cuts. The first business the ufmost the patege - —
brought before the meeting was, -how-| Rico reopened its doors on Monday, = STUDENTS’
Total 127 October ; fir
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aaa Sa talked-of movie projector had at Jast} The number of students reeien -
Average Age 18 years 2.9 months been installed in Goodhart. Miss Fain| of the one thousand ibe — en- |= 3 ;
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_ shopping, without wearing a hat:
~ Vaung_ Tsien Bang Has.
any a Look at Life Here
(Reprinted from The Syracuse Her-
ald. By the | new College News assist-
" ant editor ). :
You
“ Hat?
mus: weat a-hat, so they say.
I have never worn one in all
my life. Why must I wear a hat? It
- is good etiquet, they Say. For after-
moon teas, for traveling, shopping, and
fo. churchgoing, you must wear a hat.
But I have never worn one and I
did not want to wear one. I went to
afternoon tea, I went, out traveling,
But
the worst part was that I went to
church without a hat!
2
“You have pretty hair, lady,” said
one of the ‘ushers at the church door’ even sat down to “eat them;
to me. What unappropriate remark!
What could it mean? .©f course it
must be a hint.” —
, Phe ‘next Sunday I was seen among
‘ the congregation with a hat. Byt how
“ft hurt! E felt as if a wall had been
built. around my head. My brain
ached, my nerve cracked beneath ty
I had a headache. I could-not listen
attentively to the minister. In fact, I
~ hid to leave the church before the ser-
“mon was over. See, I -wetld have
been a more devout worshiper if IT had
not followed strict formality!
Ladies’ smoke? Surely they do.|
Why not? We stand tor equal rights.
If. mén snioke, why not women? “So
.the saying goes in our country in re-
gard to women smoking in America.
So~during intermission in theaters
when men go out to the lobby to have
a puff of thei®cigar, the women go
out too They sit and mingle and
chat.- They talk about one kind: of
cigarette and laugh at its being too
mild. They talk about another kind
and say that it is too strong for the
beginner. ‘
So—at the bridge table where cards
and tea take up half the space, ash
trays take up the other. . The dealer
does it \with both cards and cigarette
in hand.\ While. one’s brain is worked
up with games and rubber, one’s heart
grows faint*under the effects of smoke.
| So—in the waiting room of the rail-
road station where the feminine heart’ |:
thrills over the adventure of traveling,
the feminine mind _ still finds- time to
rest and to smoke. -
So—in restaurants and tea rooms,
after lunches. and teas, when people
‘meet.old acquaintances and it seems
to be a social hour, cigarettes are again
passed among women.
' So—in hotel lobbies, where visitors
_come to call. or wayfarer to pass an
“uneventful houf, genteel ladies smoke
_and pass the time away =
So—in college dormitories where the
academic work is heavy, where stu-
dents strive for marks and groan when
they, fail to get them, all toil and trou-
ble take flight when ‘tobacco is-scented.
But—there are some people whose
puritan spirit makes them’ haters of
rum and tobacco alike and who would
gladly wage another war of prohibi-
, tion against the latter.
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Corsage and Floral Baskets
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Potted Plants
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M. Meth Pastry. Shop|
1008 Lancaster .Ave.
ICE CREAM and FANCY CAKES_
French and Danish Pastry:
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Haverford Pharmacy
|on which one glides
orem
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in backyard, there will be found cig- |
arette ashes and half-smoked cigarettes
hidden beneath’ the grass!
A Changed Reception
The Self- ‘government: Association, tak-
ing over from the. old bristian Associa-.
tion the charge of holaiig a reception for | ;
the Freshmen, ‘did not take over thé old
In the gay party which lasted to
the unprecedented hour of quarter. past
forms,
ten Saturday night, October 6, there was
little to recall the old affairs of long ve-
ceiving Ines and many speeches.-It was a
| dancing party and nothing else. Punch
and copkies were served, but no one
and. the
orchestra with the fancy drum, played
with unfailing enthusiasm till it had
to be forced to stop. The floor’of the
gym, however, is not of that variety
dreamliké and
unconscious cf passing hours. The
suppression of the receiving line and
the speeches is a great advance; but,
some light form of entertainment
would be a restful intermission in these
affairs.
To Teach at Rosemont
Frederick Hahn, head of the Violin
Department off the Zeckwer-Hahn
Philadelphia Musical Academy,. will
teach at Rosemont College, Rosemont.
Gifts
of Distinction '
Diamor.d and precious stone
jewelry. Watches and clocks.
Imported and domestic nov- -
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Fine stationery.
Class rings and pins. Trophies.
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Obviously, the Duke meant the
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FICTION
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GENERAL
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Tea Room .-
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Breakfast Served Dally
Business Lunch, 60¢-—t11 to 2.30
Dinner, $1.00
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College news, October 17, 1928
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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