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College news, December 11, 1940
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1940-12-11
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Weekly
6 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 27, No. 10
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
BMC-News-vol27-no10
THE COLLEGE NEWS
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Page Five °
Science Series Fused
By Weiss in Last Lecture
Continued from Page One
ses even though some experimental
knowledge may not agree with it.
The great revolutions in science
‘are those which violate accepted
hypotheses, and in that way science
commonly progresses forward step
by step. >
Most of our concepts in science
have radically changed at some
RICHARD STOCKTON’S
time.
sidered a circle the most continuous
form and a sttaight line finite;
while Newton said ,that anything
traveling in a straight line will,
continue in that path forever un- |
less acted on by some external |
force. Thegon ct: nce |
which has remained constant is |
that nature is inherently rational. |
If nature is attacked in the right
way, it will reveal an answer. lence interprets facts rather than
The technique in science seems to |being subservient to them.
remain at a point of accuracy suit-' ‘The province of science differs
ed to the hypotheses of the time. jtoday from what it was in the time
If Newton had had our present | of. Aristotle, It is not true, Mr.
telescope, he could never have for- | Weiss said,that>-the various
mulated his simple theories because | ibranches of science have been sub-
they would have left too much of | ijtracted from the original concep-
the empirical data unexplained. It | ‘tion of philosophy and left nothing.
is not true, however, that scientists | ' Philosophy is richer today than it
have only had information that fit-|was before and so is science. But
ted their theories. Science, Mr.!there are still certain things, such
Weiss said, is trying to drive a 'as the idea of God, which are out-
| side of the realm of the scientist.
The artist is concerned with the
of an_ individual — being
, Which includes within itself the na-
For instance Aristotle con- |
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There will be a salé of hand
woven goods made by the
Bryn Mawr Weavers, on
Wednesday, December 11,
and Thursday, December 12;
for the British War Relief.
The’ sale, will be held in the
Deanery from 1 to 8p. m.
BOOKS GIFTS path through a multiplicity of fact,
STATIONERY and at times is forced to ignore
certain data unexplained by their ' essence
hypotheses. In that respect, sci-
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ture of everything else. The philo-
' sopher is looking for a concept so
ibroad that the individual thing is
an illustration of it. Scfence is
j concerned, not with the individual
or the universal, but with certain
‘types.
All the sciences, Mr. Weiss said,
overlap and verge on each other.
'But they each have a certain ap-
i proach which is peculiar to them.
In that respect, each science is sep-
!arate and worthwhile in itself.
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ARDMORE
Youth Council Group
Will Hold Convention
Specially Contributed
by Leriore Rankin, ’41
The Philadelphia Youth Council,
is holding its annyal convention,
December 14, and 15 at the New
Century Club in Philadelphia and
extends to groups in Bryn Mawr
College an invitation to participate
in this convention.
The Youth Council is a purely
local organization, aiming to .co-
ordinate the work of youth groups
and youth-serving agencies along
certain lines—as on the question of
health and housing. It has no
formal affiliates but plans and _exe-
cutes its programs with “cooper-
ating” organizations. Its policy
and program for action is taken
from the organizations that cooper-
ate with it. These, at the annual
convention, determine the general
outline of the program for the year,
and in autonomous, neighborhood
councils carry out that program as
applied to a given district.
Bryn Mawr groups have been in-
vited to send delegates or observers
to this policy-making convention.
This will mean sending delegates,
MITTOLITTIIIe TIT e ne TIe IIIT eTIIIITTe IIT TTT
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
BREAKFAST
Peele niiiiitirn
is at the
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE INN
LUNCH
FIO eLTeO Le Lele ite iiiiiie litt:
hearing and discussing the reports
they bring back, and if the pro-
gram is approved of, it means work.
and time for carrying out this pro-
gram.
The writer would not for worlds
dispute that we haven’t enough ac-
tivities on campus that need our
work and time. On the other hand,
a liberal youth organization for the
Philadelphia metropolitan area will
not appear out of thin air. Work
and time are needed and if the lib-
erals don’t put in their quota they
can’t expect a liberal program to
emerge from this convention,
The Youth Council will be prog-
ressive only if the cooperating
members make it. so, and Bryn
Mawr can work with liberal youth
organizations in Philadelphia to see
that it_is.
See ‘Taylor Bulletin Board for
convention schedule, regulations for
registering of delegates, etc.
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