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VOL. XL, NO. 5

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1943

Copyright,

Bryn Mawr College, 1943

Trustees of

PRICE 10 CENTS









Russell Explains
Perception’s Link
To Physical Laws

Interaction of Observation
Theory Induces Law
Of Physics

Goodhart, October 26, 1943.—

The transition from the realm of
“eommon sense” percepts to the
realm of physical laws was dis-
cussed by Bertrand Russell’ in“ttis
lecture on “Perception and Causal-
ity” last Tuesday. He dealt with
the geometry of space and time”
where an ordered relative was giv-/
e nand discussed contiguity and
compresence in relation to this
subject.

Physics maintain certain “com-
mon sense” assumptions, he point-
ed out, and physical laws are de-
rived from the interaction of ob-
servation and theory. Perceived
relations of objects often corres-
pond to their physical relations.
Mr. Russell exemplified this in the
case of the heavenly bodies. When
considered as they appear, two co-
erdinates are needed to locate
them in the visual field, but a
third is required to locate them in
their distance from the earth. This

Continued on Page 4

Underlying Precepts
Of Chinese Religions
Interpreted by Chan



Goodhart, October 23. The three
religions of Confucianism, Taoism
and Buddhism are now followed in
China as parallel or conflicting re-
ligions, but as one folk religion
which combines and overshadows
Buddhism and Taoism and ante-
dates Confucianism. The underly-
ing principles of this folk religion
were explained by Mr. Wing-Tsit
Chan in his third lecture on Chin-
ese culture entitled “Heaven and
Man in Chinese Religion.”

Chinese religious life is ‘com-
posed of two levels—that of the
ignorant and that of the enlight-
ened. Since the faith of the ig-
norant is based on primitive be-
liefs, it is destined to decline, so
Mr. Chan dealt only with the faith
of the enlightened. Its fundamen-
tal precepts are that religion is a
sanction of ethics, that it consists
in fulfillment of human nature and
that religion is a realization of
natural reason. a

Because religion is a sanction
of ethics, said Mr. Chan, heaven
is believed to guarantee moral
law. The Chinese, therefore, be-
lieve that they will receive punish-
ment or reward from heaven im-
mediately after an act and not in
the next world. The ritual of sac-
rifice to ancestors and spirits -has

’ been perfected under this principle.

Such worship extends human re-
lationships by developing respect
for humanity; and this extension
is the essence of religion. Sacrifice
to ancestors is. important because
it makes man remember his origin
and that his purpose is to serve
heaven and earth, thereby engen-
dering esteem for government.
This emphasis on ethics is the rea-
~son for the lack of interest in
theology and the connection of re-
ligion with secret societies.

RENIore Sivew wooeee ernment ne TEN

Continued on Page 3

Weird Manipulations

Produce Dali-istic Boners on Spanish Orals

of English Language



By Alison Merrill, ’45

The odd and assorted knowledge
of a college student and her weird
manipulation of the English lan-
guage are a continual source of
amazement to the réading commit-
tee for those dreaded ordeals, the
Orals. This fall’s Spanish Oral
yielded bits of futuristic thinking
reminiscent of Dali, an unbeliev-
able ignorance of slang, a certain
aptitude for coining words, and
wild, wild imaginings.

The greatest difficulty on the
Spanish Oral seemed to come from
the English word flapper, distinct-
ly underlined. One frustrated as-
pirant spent all-too-many of her
precious minutes searching for the
word in the Spanish dictionary,
convinced that it was an obscure,
archaic foreign noun. Another
equally confused candidate defined
a flapper as a “young bug.”

A poor gentleman named Hum-
bert, “un periodista antipatico,”
was described as a “periodic anti-
pathetic,” and whatever a “periodic
antipathetic” may be, we leave to
you. Ehangbert may also be a “col-

Racial Discrimination
Discussed by Thomas
At Student Assembly

Philadelphia, October 24—“Op
pose the Japanese-American situ-
ation on the West Coast, and post-
war military conscription if you
wish to preserve civil liberties,”
urged Norman Thomas, discussing
Civil Liberties in America, in his
address to the Students’ Town
Meeting of Philadelphia at Amal-
gamated Center, 2115 South
Street, on Saturday afternoon.

_ Stressing the ‘violation of the
Bill of Rights in the President’s
Executive Order of February 19,
1942, forcing evacuation of all
Japanese-Americans from the
west coast, Thomas stated that
this order “is a complete denial of

Continued on Page 3

210 Bryn Mawrites
Asked to Give Blood

Re

Common Room, October 20:—
Under the auspices of the War Al-
liance, Donald Lippincott of the
American Field Service and Mrs.
Evans of the Speakers Bureau of
the Main Line Red Cross spoke
about blood donation last Wednes-
day evening in connection with
Bryn Mawr donation day, Novem-
ber 13,

Telling his own experiences in
the American Field Service,
Lippincott described the. dire ne-
cessity for the dried blood plasma
in the combat area.

Mrs. Evans told the details of
blood doning work. For the week
of November sixth to thirteenth,
the Red Cross Blood Donation
Service will be given over to the
village of Bryn Mawr, with the
last day, the thirteenth, assigned
to Bryn Mawr College. If it is
not possible to come Saturday, ap-
ointments can be made for an-
other day in this week. Any girl
over eighteen can make an appoint-
ment for the blood doning, but if
between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-one, she must get a writ-
ten consent slip from her parents
or guardian. Bryn Mawr College
has guaranteed at least 210 girls





but expects more than that to

~ cone,

Mr.

umnist with antipathies.” Like
Westbrook Pegler, perhaps?

There was great confusion over
a girl of Paris who had just tak-
en out an ov:rcoat (sacarte el ga--
ban) which she had already rele-
gated to the bottom of the closet
among the bottles of camphor. In
one misguided version, this girl
had put “bolts in the bottom of the
armory.” Or, in a faintly Dali-
istic manner, she had “searched
for the clock I had already regu-
lated among the bottles at the
bottom of the closet.”

Apparently there was some
trouble with the lighting in the
same passage, for one poor female,
confronted with “yo no podia ver-
me para peinarme,” reported, “I
could not see to give myself a
pain.” Less barbarically inclined,
another said, “I couldn’t see to
paint myself.”

Lanterns Exchanged
In Traditional Ritual



The Cloisters, October 22:—
Threatening skies and impending
rain did not prevent Bryn Mawr’s
Lantern Night ceremony from
taking place on the traditional
third Friday in October. The Clois-
ter parapets were crowded with
upperclassmen and guests, who as-
sembled to watch the Sophomores
hand green lanterns to the Fresh-
men.

Few changes were made in the
form of the ceremony. A group
of 40 Freshmen were chosen to
form a choir. These marched
through the center arch after the
others had gone out the side arch-
es—the reverse of the pattern fol-
lowed last year.

The Freshmen firmly established
their reputation as a highly musi-
cal class by their moving rendition



Calendar

Friday, October 29
Bertrand Russell, Induction
and Analogy, Goodhart Hall,
8:15.

Saturday, October 30.”
Wing-Tsit Chan, The Chinese
Attitude Towards Science,
Goodhart Hall, 8:30.

Sunday, October 31
R. W. Erdman Harris, Music
Room,~7:30.

Tuesday, October 2
Mr. Herben, Current Events,
Common Room, 8:15.

Wednesday, October 3
Wing-Tsit Chan, China Be-
tween the East and West,
Goodhart, 8:30.







Mr. Chan Advocates
Increased Knowledge
Of Foreign Countries



By April Oursler, ’46

“It is inevitable that the view-
point of the American student will
be broadened to include the
whole world,” said Mr. Wing-Tsit
Chan, when asked his. opinion of
the general idea of an Interna-
tional University. “Your present
system of education has degener-
ated into trivialities. When I see
a Boston institution giving a
whole year’s course in gift-making
—even when I see a whole year
spent on the Victorian period of
English poetry—I cannot see how
you can ever expect to reach a
broad enough outlook to be able
to establish a world understand-
ing.”

Analogy

Aceepting the analogy of China
as a seventy-year-old man, exper-
ienced but with much still to learn,
of Europe as middle-aged, and
still discontented, and America as
an upstart and a young scientific
genius, Mr. Chan pointed out that



of “Sophias Philai” and later of
“Loch Lomond’ under Pembroke
Arch.

The fact that each Freshman
did receive a green lantern is a re-
sult of hard work and chance, for
since the war lanterns have be-
come unprocurable. Alumnae rose
to the occasion by forfeiting six
or seven. Last year’s Seniors con-
tributed 65, and many undergrad-
uates donated theirs.

it is still possible to establish be-
tween them a common meeting
ground. Men of all ages can lis-
ten to a concert, and although
each hears with different ears, and
each has a different appreciation
of it, there is still a common en-
joyment. Each can be educated
to understand the other equally
well in political matters. “After
all,” said Mr. Chan, “there can be

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Denbigh Team Triumphs in Hockey Contest
As Rhoads’ Cheerers Battle Bravely to End



By Carol Ballard, *45

: All roads lead from Rhoads when
Jessie Stone gets her cheerleaders
organized and Denbigh is the op-
ponent. On Sunday afternoon the
paths to the hockey field swarmed
with Rhoads boosters, forming a
long line that might have looked
like some giant snake to a poor
herpetologist trapped in Taylor
Tower, and proclaiming their al-
legiance with huge letters pinned
on their backs.

The on-lookérs thronged the
banks, their numbers swelled by
male fans who wanted. to know
what this game of: field hockey
was all about. The _ sartorial
splendor of the crowd, dressed as
it was in cap and gown, was too
much for one camera addict who
turned his back on the field where
a life and death struggle was be-
ing decided, and insisted on taking
pictures of the cheering section.



the Rhoads well-wishers added to
the excitment. One such banner
consisted of a stuffed pair of light
blue bloomers with a pair of black
stockings attached, kicking garish-
ly in the breeze. Black and blue,
the Rhoads colors, had been picked
with an eye for the very realistic
results of the game.

The playing was quite as spirited
as the cheering. The fact that the
ball was controlled’ for the most
part by Denbigh, who made 5 goals
to Rhoads’ 8, was explained quite
satisfactorily by one Rhoads’ mem-
ber who said, “It’s those people
who have no respect for nation-
ality, people who come from.other.’.
halls. td play for Denbigh. Rhoads
was proud of the lack of extran-
eous matter on its team. Denbigh
lay the claim of their 5-3 victory
to the fact that Andrew Alan
Grant was rooting for. them. So
reven the wailing and moaning and
tearing of hair in the Rhoads’
cheering section could not save the

Council Proposes
Common Treasury
For Organizations

Associations Retain Separate
Budget Under. One Joint
Treasurer

————_

A plan for a common treasury
for Self-Gov, War Alliance, Un-
dergrad and the League will be
submitted by the Undergraduate
Council to the college. The pur-
pose of the change is to attain
more efficiency and _ integration.
Each organization will have a
separate budget administered by
a single treasurer.

Under the new plan, the man-
agement of funds will be made
easier by eliminating the ineffic-
iencies and difficulties’ of loans
from one organization to another.
The distribution of dues on Pay
Day will be more even, coming on
either the first three, or all Pay
Days. It is hoped that dues will
be reduced by this method. At
present they are estimated at 50
cents per person for Self -Gov,
$1.50 for the Alliance, $3.50 for
Undergrad. The Athletic Associa-
tion and. the League are to con-
tinue with separate accounts, but
the latter will come under the
common tréasury next year.

Allotments

According to the proposed plan
each organization presents a bud-
get at the beginning of the year,
and is alloted a certain amount of
money from the common fund. If
at any time an organization finds
that it needs more, the Council
will be consulted about the prob-
lem, the decision resting with
them. The treasurer, nominated
this year by the Council and a
nominating committee from the
Junior class, is to be elected by
the college. If the plan goes into
effect a Sophomore nominating
committee will select candidates.
each spring. The present treasur-
ers of each organization will be-
come Sophomore representatives
of the boards and the secretaries
will deal with the bills and pre-
sent them to the common treas-
ury.

If discussion in the halls leads
to approval of the plan it will go
into effect tentatively for this
year. Because of the difficulty of
drafting such a proposal into the
constitutions for each -organiza-
tion, the plan cannot be made per-
manent until voted on next spring
after a trial period.



- Defense

We want to help, but — our
hands are. tied. Lend or rent
us your sewing machine so that
we can make kit bags for the
Red Cross! Please contact Ellen
Ustick, Pembroke West.

If anyone can go to the ra-
tion board in Bryn Mawr from
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on any
of the days ngt filled—sched-
ules posted on bulletin boards
—please contact Ann Fitzgib-
bons, Rock.
|. Nureageaples! Have-you tak-
en Standard First Aid this
year? Join.the class beginning }
on Tuesday night, November
2nd, at the Gym. Sign up with
Ann Fitzgibbons, Rock —im-
mediately.

The schedule for the Bryn
Mawr Hospital is also posted





in the halls,







‘The waving of colored banners, by

day.




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Cooperation Clarified

Miss McBride and the editorial board of the Haverford
News have answered last week’s editorial on cooperation
with objections and corrections. We have succeeded in our
purpase which was to invite clarification of the plan. State-
ments made in that editorial were based on impressions
gained from the meeting of the newspaper boards at Haver-
ford and observation ‘of the plan in practice. Since our im-
pressions have been considered erroneous and confused, we
would like to define our position.

The emphasis of our editorial was on the fact that Hav-
erford students seemed to have a further-reaching concept
cf cooperation than Bryn Mawr students. Previous to the
meeting we did not realize that the goal of such a plan was
a university. The Haverford students concerned believe
this is the goal for they say as much in their editorial. This
editorial, from which we quote, was printed on October 20
and written on the assumption that we had agreed to news-
paper cooperation: : 2

Then we must all remember that this is merely the begin-
ning of this program for cooperation. We must further it,in
the fields now collaborating and also start other fields not yet
organized. We must attempt also to cooperate with Swarth-
more and make the three colleges truly one university! Above
all, we must give these new projects our every attention and
support and make them a success for all concerned.

In our editorial we implied that President-Morley had
authorized such a goal because we understood that he had
discussed the newspaper scheme with the editors and had
approved it. We were led to believe he regarded newspaper
collaboration as a step towards the goal of a university. They
intended to use newspaper editorials to encourage support of
further cooperation. The objections of Haverford to the

Bryn Mawr faculty’s attitude toward admitting Haverford
students to their classes gave us the impression that by
“university” was meant a complete merging of faculty and
classes... It was this idea of “university” to which we object-
ed, since through it the independence of each college would
be lost. We approve of such a goal if it is based on Miss
McBride’s interpretation of the word: “In so far as coopera-
tion makes available to students courses and in some cases
whole departments thes single college does. not provide, it
brings to~tav.. —Megé ‘something of: the-wariety character-
istic of the university.”

By our statement “apparently tren Mawr is treating
cooperation as a war measure” we did not mean to imply, as
Miss McBride’s letter indicates, that it is actually a war plan.
We meant that the attitude toward cooperation has become
such since the plan has proved so valuable in solving the war-
created problem of decreased faculty. Haverford states that.





President McBride Answers
News Editorial Concerning
Cooperation



To the Editor of the College News:

The editorial on cooperation in
the College News of the twenty-
first contains several statements
which seem to me wrong, or at
least far from certain. First, in
the exchange of professors I should
think it unfair to conclude that
Bryn Mawr was benefiting less
from cooperation than Swarthmore
or Haverford. Last year Bryn
Mawr borrowed professors for four
courses, three from Swarthmore
and one from Haverford, while
Bryn Mawr professors gave one
course for Haverford and none at
all for Swarthmore. This year
Bryn Mawr is doing relatively
more for the other colleges and is
scheduled to give two courses for
Haverford and two for Swarth-
more. It is also receiving two
courses from Swarthmore,

Admission to Courses.

The report from Haverford stu-
dents that they have been refused
admission to classes at Bryn Mawr
must originate from some special
circumstance,such as a_ student’s
not meeting the prerequisites for
the particular course. To my
knowledge students whose prepar-
ation meets the regular require-
ments of the course and whose
registration in it has been approv-
ed by the Dean at Haverford, have
in all cases been admitted to
courses at Bryn Mawr. There
has been no selection on the basis
of a judgment from Bryn Mawr
as to whether the student could as
well take the work elsewhere.

The cooperative plan as far as
academic work is concerned began
even before 1940. Haverford and
Bryn Mawr students too had coop-
erated before that. Neither aspect
of the cooperation, curricular or
extra-curricular, seems to me on
a war plan. The war has decreas-
ed the _ possibilities of certain
forms of cooperative activity, not-
ably those involving travel to
Swarthmore, and increased the im-
portance of other forms, notably
the borrowing of instructors for
courses left by members of the fac-
ulty on war leave. But cooperation
should enlarge the possibilities of
the colleges both in wartime and
in ordinary years.

ing of certain facilities



Haverford Editors Charge
False Representation
By News



To the Editor of the College News:

It was with regret and disap-
pointment that we read the editor-
ial on cooperation in the last is-
sue of the Bryn Mawr College
News. Since the editorial board
of the College News has chosen to
oppose Bryn Mawr-Haverford co-
operation, we, the_editorial board
of the Haverford News, can do
nothing but accept the decision as
unfortunate. However, before clos-
ing the issue, we feel it our duty
to the respective student bodies to
make clear a few points in the
editorial which are unfair and un-
true.

No Faculty Decrease

‘First of all, it is untrue that the
faculty at Haverford has decreased
because of the war. In fact, it has
increased considerably. It was
never stated or suggested at the
meeting of the two boards that we
proposed cooperation for that rea-
son. In your editorial you further
charged that President Morley has
been attempting to make of the
three colleges one university. This
is completely unfounded.. President
Morley has suggested the combin-
of the
three colleges for the advantage
of all concerned, but never has he
suggested the founding of a uni-
versity in the literal sense, as
your editorial implied.

It struck us as rather strange
that in one sentence you should
declare “Coeducation makes
Swarthmore self-sufficient,” and



Variety Possible

In so far as cooperation makes
available to students courses and
in some cases whole departments
the single college does not provide,
it brings to each college something
of the variety characteristic of the
university. It does enlarge possibil-
ities for the student in any one of
the colleges, and this seems to me
the most important reason for co-
operation. There has been no talk
however of uniting the three col-
leges; and I should think their
boards of directors would be just
as surprised as I to hear such a
proposal.

Sincerely yours,
Katharine McBride



war.

On checking with the Haverford Comptroller, we as-



| single organizations on a single campus.



tte tacuity bane not decreashd but incewaset aes result of the

certained that there has been no appreciable change in the
number of Haverford faculty, but such statistics are mis-
leading because every college has had to make such substi-
tutions that wartime faculty cannot be compared with that
of peacetime. The fact that Haverford students attend some
of our elementary courses, leads us to believe that they are
more dependent on Bryn Mawr than they state.

We approve of intercollegiate extracurricular activities
only when they are of real and mutual benefit to those con-
cerned. After consideration of the plan for newspaper co-
operation, we found few possibilities of mutual benefit. Hav-
erford admitted that their business board was much smaller
than usual, which was our reason for saying their staff is a
reduced one, and for overestimating their dependency on a
combined board. Our reason for refusing was not a selfish
one because Haverford loses nothing by our refusal. The
only real advantage in the plan was the advance news of lec-
tures which they can obtain more directly from the Presi-
dent’s office, and if they are as independent as they assert,
they would not have profited greatly by a combined business
board. As for the self-sufficiency of Swarthmore, coeduca-
tion at Swarthmore and the cooperation of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford are not similar because at Swarthmore there are

Now we have obtained a clearer picture of cooperation
and its goal. We are sorry that Haverford has misinterpret-
ed our editorials in such a way as to cause ill feeling. When
in the future, questions of policy about cooperation arise, we
hope that those who, make the decisions will never allow the

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lost.



Grammar, Spirit, Reasoning
Of News Staff Condemmed
By Haverfordian

The Editor

The College News
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Penna.

Dearest Editor:

First of all, I wish to make it
clear that I am writing as an un-
official observer—the same unoffi-
cial observer who examined a re-
cent issue of the College News
and discovered 126 errors in, the
use"of the English language and
the conventions of the college
press. It is the furthest idea from
my imagination to embark upon a
sea of coeducation,, especially
clinging to such a “raft” as the
Bryn Mawr College News.

A cursory reading of yd edi
torial on cooperation last
made me, with twitching se
ities, curious about the so
Justice might well be served if®

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yet in the rest of the editorial
that you should state repeatedly
that the student body of Bryn
Mawr is against coeducation. It
seems inconsistent to say that co-
education is essential for self-
sufficiency and yet to stand against
it at the same time.

Misinterpretation

Finally, we feel that the College
News editorial staff has complete-
ly misinterpreted the meaning of
our proposals. The idea was not
given to us by President Morley;
President Morley merely gave it
support and encouragement. It
was purely an idea of student or-
igin, and we hope such proposals
always will be. From a more per-
sonal point of view, the Haverford



News s not trying to further co-
operation in order that the paper
may continue with a reduced staff.
As we explained to the Bryn Mawr
representatives, we have an ex-
cess of editorial staff members,
and we thought that it would be
profitable to utilize some of them
as exchange correspondents. We
are certainly not going to sink
without the cooperation of the
College News.

Above all, we regret Bryn Mawr
has
sought a favor by the proposed
cooperation. It is true that two-
thirds of our student body is now
in the armed forces and that we
have some four hundred army men
on campus. But we are not forced,
as a result, to lean upon Bryn
Mawr. We are proud to be doing
something for the war effort and
to be able to continue with so
many obstacles and difficulties, but
we are far from the dependent
stage. All that we ask for is co-
Operation on an equal basis, be-
cause we think there are advan-
tages to be gained by both sides.
If Bryn Mawr does not choose to
accept our offer, we can only say
that Bryn Mawr has chosen a
rather selfish course.

Bryn Mawr’s Choice &

As we stated originally, we
think it is unfortunate -that Bryn
Mawr has chosen to take such an
attitude at this time. We of Hav-
erford will not regard this as a
final defeat, but rather as a sign
that we, on our part, should work
all the harder. The gates of co-
operation -will never be closed at
Haverford.
to make the choice. We hope that
it will make a choice that it will
not regret later.

Sincerely,

David Yi-Yung Hsia, Editor
Ben Z. Leuchter,

John K. Libby,

‘David E. Long,

rr — CO

News Editors

presumed that Haverford °

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Underlying Precepts
Interpreted by Chan

Continued from Page 1

From the belief that religion
‘consists in the fulfillment of hu-
man nature, results a faith in uni-
versal salvation. This is a major
transformation of the original
Buddhist belief in mere self-salva-
tion. It has led to the develop-
ment of two schools of Taoism,
‘one which believes in preservation
of man’s spirit by charms and an-
other which believes in the preser-
vation of the body by special
methods of breathing, diet and ex-
ercise. It has also affected the at-
titude toward fate by placing em-
phasis on control of fate by the
development of reason.

‘Chinese -religion holds that
there is a rational absolute which
an be realized through religion.
This absolute, said Mr. Chan, is
not only rational but natural, in
that it is an expression of a force
out of which everything comes.

Although there have been three
movements to establish a state re-
ligion in China, none has been suc-
cessful because of the rationalistic
and naturalistic basis of its relig-
ion. “A naturalistic and rational-
istic basis gives moderation to
the expression of piety”, explained
Mr. Chan. The religion of China,
like its art and philosophy, is hu-
manism in moderation.

Opinion
Continued from Page 2

College News were to publish a
picture of the members of its edi-
torial board. I am completely ig-
norant of their identity, but I have
a faint suspicion that such a pic-
ture would reveal a great deal
about the origin of the vitriolic en-
mity for Haverford. (Reciprocity,
if the sublety overwhelms you!)

Mistakes Deplored

Elsewhere in the same College Atone.??

News I noticed accounts of some
lectures Bertrand Russell is giv-
ing at Bryn Mawr. It is painfully
obvious that the College News, at
least, is not yet ready to take ad-
vantage of additional opportunities
at Haverford; little seems to have
been learned from Mr. Russell’s
advice on scientific reasoning. Of-
fense is taken at “President Mor-
ley’s definition of university,”
which is “different ‘than the gen-
erally accepted one.” Of course,
if it did differ, it would differ from,
not differ than. Continuing this
subject, the editorial points out
that “Bryn Mawr and Haverford
have found joint activities such as
glee club, dramatics and debate
an improvement.” The next sen-
tence reads, “Haverford now
urges further cooperation in ex-
tra-curricular activities but offers
no concrete suggestions.” The
piece de resistance comes in the
paragraph about Haverford’s “raft
of cooperation to keep its curricu-
lar and extracurricular activities
afloat during wartime.” It goes
on, “After the deluge, Haverford
plans to use the raft as a foun-
dation for better teaching facili-
ties and also to satisfy the inter-
est of its students for co-educa-
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Racial Discrimination
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Continued from Page 1
the Anglo-American idea of jus-
tice worked out through centur-
ies.”
ed by what they do and what they
are, he said, and not by color or
race,

“The Austin-Wadsworth bill of
total conscription is totalitarian
in its set-up. Such procedures do
not work in England. To admit a
bill of post-war military conscrip-
tion now admits defeat and in-
spires a loss of confidence,” as-
serted Mr. Thomas.



Haverford News to make their
proposal to the College.”

First, cooperation in the past
has been an improvement, accord-
ing to the College News. Second,
Haverford wants more coopera-
tion, but offers no concrete sug-
gestions. Conclusion—Haverford’s
proposals are selfish and danger-
ous! That’s a horribly concrete
“raft” to construct out of deduc-
tion from “no concrete sugges-
And like all concrete
rafts, it simply will not hold up,
unless the College News can de-
duce a sea of mercury along with
its concrete raft.

One phrase in the news report of
the joint conference merits close
scrutiny: “Difference —in~ size,
quality and subscribers made a
joint business board impractical.”
The “difference in size” is a ne-
bulous statement at best. But
Haverford’s subscribers do out-
number Bryn Mawr’s by about six
to one. If the editorial on coop-
eration is any criterion, the dif-
ference in quality holds approxi-
mately the same ratio. Thank you
for your humility, College News
—or didn’t you mean it that way?

Sincerely,
A Sympathetic Anti-Coeducation-
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Common Room, October '26.—
“The great news of the week is
from Russia and especially from
the fighting front rather than
from Moscow,” said Mrs. Manning
in her review of the week’s news.
The Russians have. broken’ the
Dnieper line. This is significant
because it seems to have come as
a surprise to the Germans and it
is difficult to see where they will
be able to draw up their forces
again. The Russian success also
means that there may be a chance
of cutting off two German armies,
involving perhaps a million men.

So far the Moscow Conference
has only yielded reports on which
ambassadors were received and
when. “The question of whether
Stalin sees or does not see an am-
bassador is important,” stated
Mrs. Manning. “The most inter-
esting part of Russian policy now,”
Mrs. Manning added, “is not Com-
munism, “but what their national
aspirations really are; it seems
evident that they do want to con-
trol more territory than is com-
patible with the principles of self-
determination.”

News from Washington is on
the whole good. The House has
repealed the insulting Chinese ex-
clusion bill, and the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee has ap-
proved the vague Connally reso-
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Continued from Page 1
no two creatures more unlike than

a man-and a woman, but there are
many, many marriages which do
not end in divorce. The answer
lies in loyalty among differences
—a loyalty to be achieved through
international education.”

We, in a liberal arts college,
study literature, sociology, politics
and economics, but we study them
almost entirely from what Mr.
Chan calls an “Anglo-Saxon”
point of view. “The examples in
your text-books are all Anglo-
Saxon examples, and your back-
ground, and your teachers’ back-
ground are naturally geared to
this system.” The introduction of
courses ‘in Chinese and Latin
American cultures is a great step
forward, but none of these achieve
the breadth and inclusiveness of
the courses which Chan envisions
as being the foundation for a last-
ing peace.

In the perfect education, stud-
ents would take fewer classes,
spend more time in_ individual
work outside of classes, and at
the end of the course would have
a working basic knowledge of all
main fields. Specialization would
come after this when necessary,
but, Mr. Chan added, one of the
great problems for China after
this war will be her exaggerated
specialization in science and in-
dustry. In her hurry to catch up
with America, she may lose her
sense of proportion, and so lose
her wisdom.

Taking this into account, Mr.
Chan proceeded to outline what he
considers the most practical pre-
liminary international education
that America could adopt. For
purposes of study, the world would
be divided into six regions—North
and South America, England,
Europe, the Slavic countries, the
Near and Middle East, and the
Far East. For each of these there
would be a corresponding college

unit so planned that at the end of |}
the year the student would have,
acquired the feeling of a people|
through their literature, art, so-| |}







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Chinese Philosopher
Traces Rival Faiths
In Far East Culture



Goodhart, October 20, 1943.
Chinese philosophy is based on
practical wisdom, said Mr, Chan,
as he traced Confucianism and “its
various rival philosophies through-
out the history of philosophy in
China. Mr. Chan stated that al-
though the modern | western
schools of philosophic thought are
now current in China, Confucian-
ism’with its dual goals of person-
al perfection and social order still
holds the highest. place. | This was
the second lecture in a/ series of
five which Mr. Chan, Professor of

Chinese Culture at Dartmouth, is

giving on “The Spirit of Man in
Chinese Culture.”

The development of Chinese phil-
osophy centered on ‘three main
events, each of which marked the
triumph or retriumph of Confuc-
ianism. The two basic Confucian
principles, said Mr. Chan, are first,
that a man must be true to him-
self, developing and purifying his
own nature; and second, that he
must apply this same principle in
his treatment of others for a bet-
ter world order.’ Confucianism, an
essentially workable philosophy, is
beautified by its idea of the “good-
ness of human nature” which
evokes a faith in man and prog-
ress and the democratic spirit.
This humanistic emphasis in Chin-
ese philosophy has meant that all

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Chinese Philosopher

Traces Rival Faiths

Continued from Page 3

its philosophers have been active
men and sooner or later drawn
into social or political spheres.

In the second century, B. C., Con-
fucianism had two _ opponents,
Taoism and Mohism, although,
Mr. Chan pointed out, all three
were alike in concentrating on man
and on teaching the good and
practical way of life. Taoism
sought an attitude of simplicity
and calm in a life of spontaneity.
By “doing things but not taking
pride in them” vitality was con-
served and life lengthened. This
personal philosophy was rivalled
by Mohism which advocated “uni-
versal life” and activity to pro-
moted the general welfare and
combat evil. The two opposed at-
titudes were merged in Confucian-
ism.

The second main event was the
downfall of Buddhism in the 11th
century A. D. Buddhism had raised
Chinese philosophy to néw heights
with the development of a formal
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Confucianist’s conceptions of hu-
man nature, knowledge or man’s
origin, and replaced it with logic-
al explanations. But Buddhism
was in turn attacked from the hu-
manistic view and charged with
having socially irresponsible fol-
lowers.

The last main event that Mr.
Chan noted in ‘Chinese philosophic
history, was the domination of
Neo-Confucianism which has con-
tinued up to the present day. Neo
Confucianism proclaimed that
there was one vital, unifying
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events and the world of percepts,
Mr. Russell said that the nature of
the antecedents of perception ly-
ing outside the body is transmit-
ted to the brain through the sense
organs. Error arises when per-



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In contrast to the Buddhist bi-
friction of heavenly reason and
human desires, this philosophy
taught that general reason was
evidenced in everyday things.
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earth in a “common sense” phil-
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