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VOL. XIV. No.9.











SIX COLLEGES IN
NEAR EAST JOIN
President Aidenia ok ‘Consian: |

tinople; Tells About,
- the’ Work.

‘TEACHING IN ENGLISH

“Six American colleges of the Near
East have joined under the Near East
College Association: to raise. an endow-
ment fund,” said Miss Kathryn Newell
Adams, President of Constantinople Cal-
lege, speaking in Wyndham on Thursday,
December 8. -_ want to get $15,
000,000, which iS@to “be ‘divided among
them according to.a.plan submitted by the
Board of Trustees .of .the Association,
Thesé colleges are doing a ‘very neces*
sary work; their scholarship ranks high,
even by comparison with American col-
leges, but they are very poorly endowed
and much in need of funds for their past
debts, professors’ salaries and equipment.”

The first and oldest of these colleges
is Bayreuth, which hag besides its col-
legiate course a very good medical col-
‘lege and a training school for nurses,
The British Government sends young
men there from Egypt to get their medical
degrees. It is an important post, and a
center of learning for Egypt, the’ Sudan
and all of Palestine.

Robert Has Community Spirit.

Robert College, in Constantinople above
the Bosphorus, is another excellent col-
lege. _ It haga preparatory school for
boys, a. college: and an engineering ‘school |
of. the first rank.. Many young men from
Bulgaria and Turkey come there; in fact
it is two-thirds Moslem: The Turkish
Government, formerly hostile: to foreign

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The Philippines
SN,

Policy of the United ‘States
Should Be Made More
Definite.



~ “President Coolidge’s message to Con-
gress brought to light the ignorance
and feeling of disinterestedness which
seems to, be general throughout the coun-
try in regard to the question’ of the
Philippine Islands.”

..Mrs, Manning, speaking. in ‘Chapel on
Friday, December 9, somewhat obviated
our own ignorance by giving a concise
resuine of, the subject.

“The United States,” said Mrs. Mann-
ing: “Tost: her interest in the Philippines
early in the day “A Yale historian nas
noted that Roosevelt, on one of his
: Presidential tours, began talking about
the American policy in the Philippines,

“* but he found ‘the subject so unpopular

that he was forced to change the sub-
stance of his speech to an attack upon
' the trusts.

“After the Spanish Anierican War, the
United States found ‘herself in a peculiar
_ position. Cuba, she thought, had a right

to be: free from her cruel suppression

under Spanish rule.. Suddenly it was dis-

covered that the Philippines were also

struggling ' for’ ‘freedom.’ ‘The question

arose: shall we allow these twenty million
unexperienced. people to rule themselves,

or shall we hold: them subject to our own
better discretion in the art of administer-
ing government?

“On the one side stood the sutivions
perialists who believed that we’ should
give up the islands at once with out,more
ado. McKinley, on the other hand, ad-
vocated a civil government with an
American at its head.’ In 1907 the first
Philippine, ‘assembly was called and has
proved fairly , successful, although the
American | ‘Coneguignion still holds the
right of. veto. +: ; a

“Francis Hatiion, as Bicternce of the
Philippines, probably did as much to
wreck the work. of the civil government
on the islands as any one .man. had the
power to do. As a result of his ad-

ministration the Americans: there graqa-
“ually resigned ‘their positions ‘and~ the

oe &

‘government rapidly deteriorated. Some



‘4 ~~ Gendell,

















‘ ;
Queen Walks Again
As a result of the voting in the

halls last Tuesday, the six girls

chosen for reconsideration as May

Queen were M. R. Humphrey, ’29;

E. Nuckols, ’31; C. Sullivan, ’30;

I. ‘Richards, ’30; -G, DeRoo, 29,

and V. Gendell, ’29. So -that ‘the

voting might. be really impartial, -
the Undergraduate . Association

did not list’ or “announce these

names in the order of thy number

of votes received.

As a result of this week’s vote,
the nominees are as follows: V.
102; M. R. Humphries,
60; E. Nuckols, 53.

Review of Exhibit

Degas and Mary Cassatt Both
Realists of French
~ School.







(Specially contributed by M. Law-
rence, ’23, Instructor in History of Art.)
’ At the Wyndham exhibit, Degas and
Mary Cassatt are fittingly coupled’ to-
gether, as both belonged to the same
school of French impressionists and as
each admired the other’s work. .

Degas produced occasional etchings
and lithographs during his long life which
are only second in importance to his draw-
ings as showing the artist at work and
his untiring search for a fresh aspect of
reality. The dozen prints on exhibition
here show only one of ‘the two lifelong
preoccupations of the artist, the ballet
and the hunt. The former we see in the
Loge d’Avant and entirely characteristic
of Degas is the absence of all romance
or illusion. The ungainly view of the
stage over the ~back of a spectator, the
glare of the footlights and the tired and
forlorn dancers are such as appear. in
many of his paintings. Le \Blanchisseuses
exemplifies another . favorite motive.
Above ‘all, however, we. may have the
study of \the nude and here Degas’ tech-
nique, the lithograph, reproduces to per-
fection the.quality of, a crayon or ink
drawing. Le. Sortie du Bain in three
states, La Femme nue debout a sa.Toil-
ette and Apres le Bain show ug the free-
dom of his technique, his interest’ in
effects of deep shadow and his extreme

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Greek and Latin a Menace,
Thinks Bertrand Russell

After his lecture, the Hon. Bertrand
Russell, was asked a great many ques-
tions concerning education, America,
and religion,

The school which he has founded
for his own children opened after he
sailed, so he has had no opportunity to
observe it in action. It includes both
boys. and girls, because Mr. Russell
believes very firmly in co-education.,
Thy are to be taught only as much
Latin and Greek as they will need to
enter the universities, which, he said, is
too much, “In proportion as a people
know more dead}. languages, they write
worse.” Moderp languages should be
taught through conversation.

The formafteaching of science, said
Mr. Rusself, should begin when the
child is about eight, but a scientific
outlook should be encouraged from
the start. Children should be brought
up in an atmosphere of intelligent in-
quiry, and should be left to find out
things for themselves whenever pos-
sible, ‘with special stress on accuracy.

Mr.-Russell has had the opportunity
to observe co-education in the west
at the University of Wisconsin, where
oe saw a great deal of Dr, Meickeljohn.

- Mr. Russell feels that most eminent






people have a common desire to cause | |

misery. This is a result of their ex-
cessive morality. “All morality,” he
said, “is based on Sadism—the desire
to persecute*others.” The older gen-

eration in America is particularly Puri- |

tanical, because America consists of
people who emigrated, and the only
tradition they. could bring with them
was feligion. “Religion,” he define2




Peo fo as tad

intended to supply comfort,” and he

believes that “religion is stronger in|

Aeaation than ~t wees _

“Green Grow the Rashes—O.”

Frichter,









SONGS AND DANCES:
HAVE DISTINCTION

Foreign Students Amuse Col-

lege With a Varied
: Program.

SCOTCH REEI: SFARS

On Friday evening, December 9, the
foreign students in the college entertained
for the benefit of the Student Friendship
Fund. The music room in Goodhart Hall
was initiated in this delightful way, and,
despite the fact.of an extremely muddy



»| entry, no opening performance could have

demanded a larger audience.

The program’ was most successfully ar-
ranged by Cicely Hamilton, an English
graduate student, and, we may add, an
actress to. whose performance in the

‘Varsity play we are looking forward with

great expectation. The acts _ included
French, Scotch, German, Viennese and
English songs, as well as Polish, Scotch
and Spanish dances: Vaung Tsien Bang,
’30, gave a sketch of the life of a fifth
century Chinese lady, illustrating it very
cleverly and amusingly, up to the time
of the delightful lady’s wedding. Miss
Bang claimed ignorance of life beyond
this point.

“Miss Bryn Mawr” introduced the per-
formers, and her costume, as well as all
the others, was extremely well designed.
The bagpipes used by the vocal Scotch
band deserve special mention: they gave
a striking illusion of reality; although
they were made of nothing less domestic
than umbrellas and clothes hangers.

The German folk songs were accom-
panied by the guitar, which, we were told,
is the instrument of the German Youth
Movement. They were gayly bedecked
with ribbons, each of which is supposed
to be tied on by a friend of the musician.
Others of the songs: were also accom-
panied by the guitar, very delightfully
played by Miss Garvin, whose acting was
very much appreciated by the audience.

Folk Songs Met With Hilarity.

Several’ songs’ were dramatized most
effectively. In French, with colorful cos-
tunes, Mile. Ribes, Miss Hamilton, Miss
Garvin and Diebreiul, ’31, sang and acted,
their most popular selection being Joli
Tambour, Later they appeared in Eng-
lish guise, and interpreted some ran
ing folk songs, “The Coal Black Smyjth;’
“The Garden of Love” and others. The
audience joined with great hilarity into
In all of
these, the properties, ships, flowers,
mitres and crowns, were not the least of
the ‘attractions; they displayed an origin-
ality and talent on the part of some ‘un-
known artist.

Miss. Baillou’s songs, in the costume
oi an early nineteenth century Viennese
lady, and Miss Prokosch’s exceedingly
amusing interpretive dance were other
outstanding features of the program. The
entertainment as a whole was extremely
good, and the cider and ginger bread ‘men
which enlivened the intermission helped
to create the atmosphere of an informal
and spontaneous performance by the
foreign members of our community.

The people who took part in the per-
formance were Misses Baillou, Hof-
Geiger, Prokosch, Bang, ’30,
Ribes, Diebreiul, Patkaniowacka, de la
Vega, ’29, Shaw, Hope, Hamilton, Garvin
and MacFarlane... They were assisted by
Misses Hutcheson, Gehrig, Channing, 29,
three children from the-model school and:
a “vocal bagpipe” band.”







Flower Cards

The cast of Varsity Dramatics
and the Glee Club are generousty

' co-operating with the Bates House
Committee in asking their friends
to send them flower cards instead
of the usual orchids. The cards
will be on sale in: each hall this
week. The Bates Committee hopes
that everyone will take this) oppor-
tunity of serving “under two flags.”







No Repetition in Social
Work, Says M. Sauhders
Specially contributed by Marjorir
SAUNDERS, . ’28
usa becaune’ of the very number of
things we did and saw during July we
“Juniors” could draw. some universal and
fairly accurate ideas concerning ‘modern
social work. Perhaps one of the most
surprising things I observed was the de-
gree to which social work has become a
profession. As a general rule eighteen
months of training are required in fields |~
as different as health and law before a

| college graduate can be independently use-

ful and worth a salary, although, of
course, all social agencies welcome volun-
teers. :

The peculiarities of ‘social work as a
profession appear when you Compare it
with another, such as medicine, for in-
stance. Apparently a doctor observes in
his ,patient definite symptoms and_ has
definite orthodox treatment for each
symptom or group of symptoms. When
dealing with individuals as such, how-
ever, you can not make general rules.
As no two people. are ever identical, no
two treatments can be identical. The
most exciting side of social work, aside
from the fact that the worker may dis-
cover almost anything, is the fact that
there is no repetition, and the good work-
er keeps wide awake to prescribe new
and effective medicine for unexpected
combinations of symptoms. But here
again are more difficulties. Every indi-
vidual has rights with which no one may
tamper, and the worker must avoid pa-
ternalism. She must manage rather to
bring about re-education. The immedi-
ate difficulty may be an illegitimate child,
the fundamental one the attitude of a
proud family towards a daughter who
was less attractive thati her sisters. Pa-
ternalistic treatment in the form of ad-
monishing the mother and giving the
child proper care may merely clear the
way for a recurrence of the situation,
whereas acting as interpreter between the
family and their daughter, trying to give
them both a new slant on the situation,
may achieve a lasting end of the diffi-
culties.

Success of Social Worker Is is

One of the most common criticisms of
the social worker is the very fact that
she does not achieve lasting effect. This
criticism, as a rule, comes from some-
one who lacks first-hand information. Of

|course, sometimes a. worker may fail,

either through her own inadequacy or
the case itself, but the number of times
she is successful, and the degree to which
she is successful, as is testified in re-
corded ‘results and unrecorded, but not
unexpressed, gratitude is indisputable. .
A colder criticism of social work

comes. frem those who say, “Let the



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Club will hold a concert in Taylor

department last year.

all other seats unreserved, 75 cents.



Glee Club Concert Thursday
Lipkin Quartet to Accompany

On Thursday evening, December 15th, “the Bryn Mawr College Glee

takes the place not only of the Operetta which the Glee Club gives
each year, but also replaces the series of concerts given by the music

The interesting and varied program which the Glee Club is pre-
senting has been reported ‘as more worth while than the usual college ©

~ glee club concert program. The Glee Club will be assisted by the Lipkin
String Quartet from the Philadelphia Symphony Orchest :
Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Publicity Office; * + Re-.
served seats for the college, $1.25; reserved seats oa those outside, $1.50;’

_ (The program will be found on — page of this i)

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Bertrand Russell D Describes So-
* Jution of Age-Old
. Quarrel.

MOTION IS RELATIVE

The old question of the relation be-
tween mind and matter, and_ their
reality or unreality, was the aspect of
Philosophy that the Hon. Bertrand
Russell took for his subject when he
spoke in Taylor Hall, Saturday, De-
cember 10,





Two positions may be taken on this
subject, the first, that mind is matter;
the second, that matter is mind. The
conflict between these two theories
has beén going on ever since Berkeley
questioned Descartes’ division between
mind and matter. TherAare these two
substances, Descartes said, and “the
essence of mind is to think,” while
“the essence of matter is to extend.”
Starting with the idea that wherever
there was extension there was matter,
“physics developed along curious lines,
Theories, such as the indestructibility
of matter, and the “billiard ball” con-
ception of it grew up.

People See Things Differently.

Berkeley, however, ‘questioned all
this; he said that things were sub-
jective, that no two people see, hear or
smell the same thing in the same way.
Every perception is private to the ob-
servér, and there are as many objects
as there are observers. What you per-
ceive is not matter (even if there jis
such a thing), but something in your
own head. This put the Physicist in a
dificult position, with his “billiard
ball” bits of matter, and for 200 years
the struggle between him, and the
metaphysician continued. The oppos-
ing camps have now been reconciled,
because great changes have taken
place in Physics since the time of
Newton, and in metaphysics since the
time of Berkeley,

Descartes’ two essences need analyzing;
the “billiard ball” theory of matter, that
no two things can be in the same place
at the same time, and so on, extends
back to the Great Atomists. It is not
right; but it seems so.

Newton’s theory of absolute motion
has been disputed by Einstein, who
has changed the technique of dealing
with it. One can no longer say that
one thing moves and another is fixed,
just because it seems so; there is even
doubt as to whether the train goes
past the station, or the station past the
train. It is merely a convention to re-

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Religion a Leap in the Dark
But Light and Life Result

“A Scotchman,” , said Dr, Andrew
Mutch in chapel on Sunday, December
11, “is a man who keeps the Sabbath
and everything else he can get his hands

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on.

“There are two races in the world who-
for ages have received the brunt of jokes
and banter which other people have made
at their expense., They are the Jews and
the Scotch. So far as the Jews are con-
cerned, their willingness to take ‘any risk
for the possibility of profit is no new
aptitude. When Rome was beseiged by
Harinibal, not an acre of land in the city
was worth a cent. No one would risk

| his money, because no one had enotigh

faith in the government. But when
Jeremiah shed hurled into prison for dar-
ing to forsee! the downfall of Jerusalem,
he staked his Jife on the purchase of his
family home ‘on the outskirts.of the city
because he had implicit faith in his God.
_ “The above story is a suggestion. The
call to Jesus Christ is the challenge to
a great advertture. In every action of
our lives we take some risks. Riding
into Philadelphia on the train involves

nals may not be up to the minute in

order. And yet we pet our faith i ie

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N 0 LONGER “MIND AND MATTER;”.
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