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ARMISTICE DAY
“Victory! Vigtory! on withthe dance!
Back to the jungle the new beasts
prance!”

The eleventh hour of the eleventh
day of the eleventh month—eight
years ago the world cried that these
words were written on our hearts in
letters of fire—we couldn’t forget
them. They would be passed om
from generation to generation, the
symbol that was to proclaim the end
of all war, all hate, all horror.

Eight years ago—and already.
many of us have forgotten their
meaning. Eight years from now
school children will know them only
as a convenient way of remembering
the date when the World War end-



people already vaguely allude to as
(horribile dictu) “the late unpleas-
antness.” They can say that, while
in the streets of Philadelphia there
sits a man with no arms, only one
leg, and in his button hole a Legion
pin. They can say that, while hospi-
tals are filled . with living beings,
scarcely recognizable as human,
alive only to suffer the more. And
if you mention these things to them?
They shudder and in the next breath
theorize casually on the impossibility
of war ever being abolished.

It is true that in an age which
moves as swiftly as ours, there is no
time for memories, especially the un-
pleasant ones. Yet, five minutes
out of every year gp such a small
fraction of a lifetime, and this alone
would suffice. Only five minutes,
but if the world would give them
it might mean that the foolish
dreams of idealists would become
realities. Then why won’t it? Is it
because the world doesn’t care? Be-
cause it likes war? Can people still
believe that war brings out only the
best in men? It wasn’t so eight
years ago. Then the veil of beauti-
‘ful and»brave lying catchwords fab-
ricated by politicians to blind men’s
eyes had been rudely torn away, and
the world saw and vealiatd what war
meant.

Perhaps it is because youth hates
memories that hurt. It hasn't learn-
‘ed to profit by them. There is pleas-
ure in the world; forgetethe ugly,
unpleasant horrors. Forget the—
dance, dance, dance—then there
won't be any time for thoughts.

“Pish!” said a statesman standing near,

“I’m glad they can busy their thoughts
elsewhere! .

We mustn’t reproach them; they’re
young you see.’

“Ah!” said the dead men, “so were
we!”

COMPULSORY ATHLETICS

Bryn Mawr has always been
known as a college which seeks to
give its students an education which
shall mean more that rote learning,
through four years; it encourages



tude; it wishes its students to feel

ing-for_themselves; it recognizes
that a person is not educated until



“he is aware of himself as on indi-
vidual reasonably well equipped
to find his way without fe led
eh the hand. The tendency of
faculty regulations, of self-govern-
‘ment rulings, is in the direction of
ret to +he student the things
which do not affect others than her-
self, and permitting her to govern
as far as possible, according

her: own needs.





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‘Tihevcrmas natwhapiertess Sou UW, io
fit exercise. into a schedule 6f

work. It may take two years to
establish the habit, but certainly
what is not learned in two years will
not: be learned in four, when the
lesson is of elemental simplicity and
expounded four times a week
throughout the year.

Then, after training ‘the student
for two years,gvhy insist any furth-
er? Two years for the junior, one
-year for the senior, and then she will
be on her own, forced .to make her
own decisions. Is it right not to
give her any experience before hand
in making*decisions affecting herself
in. adaptirig- her own--habits? .. [s.-it
not bad for her morale that ‘she
should be told that the college feels
she has not learned. her lesson and
cainot trust her to take care of her-|
self if not compelled to?

' Granted that failure to exercise
‘lowers one’s health and consequently
the avérage health of the commu-
nity, what warrant is there for be-
lieving. that students would not have
the intelligence to exercise without
compulsion unless they are given
one chance? Arbitrarily to take

tion is to, sap the will and, make the
student once .more dependent on
authority for her personal con-
cerns.

‘Perhaps there could be two lists,
one of A students who would be
free to. do the éxercise they saw fit
to do ahd two, of B students, whose
health or power of will was proven
to be so feeble as to necessitate
supervision. To check up on health
medical examinations could be given
twice a semester and this process
would not involve one quarter of
the trouble and-unnecessary formali-
ties now consequent to the system
of supervision. If an A student
showed any sign of deterioration,
she could be placed in the B class,
and have her exercise supervised.

But to be subjected to the humilia-
tion of paternal supervision based
on incapacity to act as intelligent
adults without a chance to prove
ourselves—is this not pernicious?
We firmly believe that it is, and we
as firmly believe that the junior and
senior classes, at. least, if left ‘to
themselves, would have the intelli-
gence and the foresight to take the
necessary care of themselves.



EDOUARD CHAMPION

The advent of M. Edouard Cham-
pion next Tuesday, when he will
give two lectures, one in the after-
noon on Prouste, and the other in
the evening on Anatole France, of-
‘fers a. rare opportunity to all who
come and hear him.

His lectures will have a twofold
value. M. Champion will speak
from the point of view of personal
knowledge. Especially is this true
in the case of Anatole France. From
early boyhood, ‘M. Edouard Cham-
pion grew up regarding Anatole
France as a- familiar hearthside
companion, since M. Honore Cham-
pion, father of Edouard, was a life-
long friend of the great author, and
successor to the publishing business
of the author’s father. To this per-
sonal knowledge, M. Edouard:
Champion adds the invaluable qual-
ity of being an excellent literary
critic, a gift inherited from his fath-
er. M. Honore Champion was never
known to concede to popular favor.
He sought not the most profitable,
but the best book, and justly merit-
ed the title bestowed upon him by
Jacques Bainville, the historian, of
“Knight* of Imperishable Books.”

But no less rare is the opportunity
of listening to M. Champion for his
own sake. He is representative of
a group, of Frenchmen upon whom
France| ought to bank her future,
men who preserve valuable French
traditions and combine them with
modern efficient methods and whose
interests lie outside national bourd-
aries.

This fusing of new and old can
best be illustrated by The Quai Ma-
laquais Shop, headquarters of M.
Champion’s world-wide activity as

ublisher and distributor of- books.
ituated nearly midway. between the
Rue Bonaparte and the Rue de

occupies the
tel” in the

statue, the

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at Bryn Mawr on November 22.
talk will be for the benefit of Lady

pied for a time by Humboldt under
the restoration.

Here in his sanctum, which Ana-
tole France playfully named “L,’ opis-
thodome,” at the end of a long pas-

sageway, habitually. sat’ M. Honore |

Champion af a black writing desk,
adorned in the season with roses, his
‘back to a glass case of his choicest
treasures. THis was a_ strategic
position as he faced a. glass door
which enabled him to signal, with-
out movitig, to persons entering the
shop and invite fhem tg talk over
the latest developments in literature,
science or politics. It is ‘unquestion-

able that-Anatole France used- Hon- |

ore Champion as a model for some
of his quaint book- Beha “i characters,
jaecording to Alvan: Fy ‘Sanborn ‘in
the Bostoh Evening Transcript.

M. Edouard Champion has. left
No. 5 practically unchanged. He
presides over the same glass-doored
sanctum behind the same black desk
as his father. But he has installed
an annex in the adjacent building,
equipped with the latest comforts
and conveniences for browsers. This
annex serves also as headquarters
for three groups of book fanciers,
“The Socjety of Bibliophile Physi-].
cians,” ‘““The Bibliophiles of the Pal-
ace of Justice,” and “The Authors;
Friends of Books,” of which he is
the. publisher. In his sanctum. and
old shop occurs a great deal of the
electioneering for the Academy and
the Institut de France, while in the
annex, movements of younger so-
cieties take place.



WHITHER EDUCATION

The’ McGill Daily considers the
dangers of the fact that “too many
go to college” in an editorial, and
the same week the Vassar ‘Miscel-
lany carries an article on the
recommendations of the American
Association of University Profess-
ors, for weeding out undesirable
students at the end of the Sopho-
more year.

The Daily states the conditions :
“Everywhere and anywhere colleges
are dispensing quickly and painless-
ly outlines of polite culture, stan-
dard and seasoned to suit the sac-
carose palates of the ignofant
undergraduates.”

The Miscellany finds the , pro-
fessors advocating that the Junior
Class be not less than 50 per cent.
nor more than 75 per cent. of the
entering Freshman Class. Students
who are eliminated, not because of
a large number of flunks but be-
cause of not “showing brilliance in
any one field” would receive “Hon-
orable Dismissal” certificates. This
they feel would discourage those not
markedly intellectual from planning
to take more than a two year course.

The Daily considers that: “If
education is to be saved from stan-
dardization and mediocrity the new
army of students’ must be rigidly
divided and ranked. There must al-
ways be an honor group to which
the richest minds among the faculty
can personally reach and inspire the
ablest and most eager of the stud-
ents. Merely raising the standards
for admission to heights that would
have seemed impregnable two years
ago does no good.”

Whatever conclusions may be
reached as to proper methods of
curbing this evil, there is no doubt
that wholesale education of the sort
that is being sold all over the
country, is a menace to true scholar-
liness.

That this problem is receiving
consideration from widely different
groups is evident to anyone who
reads the papers—undergraduateé or
otherwise. There are many articles
about “What is wrong with the col-
leges 2”? speeches that declare that

“college is not the goal, but the
means.’

So much Keriesion naturally
starts us thinking. But when we
have thought and thought, we are
left with our problem: mass educa-
tion as it now exists is a prostitu-
tion of knowledge and scholarship ;
what are we going to do about it?



LECTURE ON DANCE FORMS —
Dance forms and music will be ‘the
subject on which Miss Margaret Deneke,
choirmaster of Lady Margaret Hall, Ox-
rench| ford, England, will give a —
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The Pillar
of Salt







Cissy Centipede (we have been neg-
lecting her of late) came into our room

acting queerly, as if she were..embar-

rassed about something. ‘

“Out with it,” was said, sternly. “Have
you broken Self Gov. ?” -
“Ne,” she squeaked, shrinking into her-
self.
“Haven't you taken your required ex-
ercise? Were you proctored more than
once in an evening? Did you get your

withoyt giving her a chance to answer.
By tfits time Cissy was positively: inartic-
ulate,-so we continued :

“We won't believe that you haven't

ten gninutes a day, so iad up ane 5 scon-
fess.”

Timidly she held out a paper.

we asked, raising
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“A contribution ?”
our eyebrow.

At that Cissy fled from the room, This
is what she gave us:

“T like to crawl
Along the wall;
I like the spring,
But not the fall.”

C. CENTIPEDE,

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Hosses from an Old Manse.
‘By Sophronisba.

INSTALLMENT 2

(Synopsis of what has gone before—
In the beginning all life was under water ;
then, what with the Heidelberg and the
Piltdown submen (or were they yes-
men?) the Neanderthal Man evolved.
Close on his heels came The Palaeolithic
man, and in hot pursuit of him the Neo-
lithic. Came the dawn. Pause between
first and second act denotes passage of
time, or to the nearest exit. The Roman
Empire gose and fell, but what difference
did that make to Tiny Tim? In 1066
William—but that is an old story. Stop
me if you've heard this one before. And
that brings us down to the matter in
hand. Let us proceed.)

' “Was it,” I asked myself, aghast, “Po-
cahontas?” for the Captain John Smiths
lived not five miles away. Wild though
our corner of England was, bows and
arrows had been demode for several hun-
dred years, and so the beautiful young
wife of Captain Smith seemed the only
person who might have owned one at
this enlightened date. But I kept my
suspicions to myself, though eagerly
pressed by my “curious” friends.

“Oh, Heav’n!” I cried, “ifspire me!”
And as if in answer to my impromptu
prayer I had a “bright” idea. I would
send for the famous London detective,
Hawk-Eye Skertt, popularly known as
Hawky Skertt! Dr. Watson, in a well-
known book of detective stories, had been
modelled on Hawky Skertt, so I knew
he must be very clever. In a week or so
I got him over “long distance,” and he
promised to aid me, a poor, unprotected
girl in a lonely old Cornish castle.

As soon as he arrived (some seven
weeks later), I took him to the scene of
the crime and told him my dreadful sus-
picion. Without a word he set off
through the black woods to the commo-
dious bungalow of the John Smiths.

He returned with set face. My heart
throbbed wildly as I demanded, “Well?”

Hawky Skertt went straight to the
point.

-“As soon ,as I stepped into the hall,”
he said, “I noticed that the woodwork
was Valsparred. The furniture was fine
old- Bonwit-Teller. Every detail was sig-
nificant. I asked Mrs. Smith if she had
committed a- murder lately. She said,
‘How lately?’ I said, ‘Oh, within the
last year.’
last year.’ So that narrows the clews
down to none. It makes it much easier.”

“But, then, whom——,” I breathed. -



Has Hawky-«Skertt a clew which he
is ‘unwilling to divulge? Was Pocahontas
telling the truth or trying fo shield Cap-
tain John Smith? Don’t miss our next!

* * *
How many people know the right pro-
nunciation of b-l-a-c-k-g-u-a-r-d? We
feel very dumb, because we just discov-
ered that we had been mispronouncing
it all our life. But now that we know,

when correctly pronounced! ‘We feel _in-

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the other day.-* We noticed that she was

Comp: paper in late?” we fired at her [. ‘

been practicing your vibrated consonants

She said, ‘No, not within the]

we are entranced with the word—how | *
much more virile, more villainous it is |

There once was an ‘unsightly blackguard,

o became ‘most depressingly ' hack-
guard;

From crime did he sink,

To the demon of drink,

So he never walked but he stackguard. «

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