College News, 1921-03-16, Vol. 07, No. 19

              Volume VIJ. v Ncl 19.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1921
Price 10 Cent*
ROBERT FROST ENDS COURSE
WITH SUMMARY OF SUBJECT
Tells Reelers and Writhers That He
Judges Their Work in Absolute
Mr. Robert Frost's lecture to' the Keeling
and, Writhing Guh, last Thursday night,
summed up the principal points brought out
in. his course on poetry writing, of which
this is the last lecture.     Beginning liis visits
1921   TAKES   FIRST  PUCE   IN
TWO PRELIMINARY MEETS
Red Leads By Large Score in First
*       Swimming Meet
Breaking two records and equaling a
third, 1921 emerged with 54.8 points from
the preliminary swimming meet last Satur^
day night. 1923 took second place with 18.8
points, 1922" third with 8.3, and 1924 fourth
ti> Bryn Mawr with a reading or n� poems
in Taylor Hall on October 30, Mr. Frost
has given" three talks before the members
of the club during the winter.
"I am going to say over two or thYee
things that I have told you before," Mr.
Frost said, opening his lecture on Thurs-
day. "The first thing 'I shall say dog-
matically for you to remember mc by is
this: Sentences are a notation for indicating
tones of voice." One use of sentences, he
went on to say, is to convey ideas directly,
though the indirect meaning to he got
through tones of -voice as noted in the
writing is as important.   �                      �
"Forced originality" is a vice which Mr.
� Frost especially warned writers against.
"Do not seek to be original by trying to
be everything that everybody else is not,"
he cautioned. "Controversy has nothing to
do with art. Poetic effect is only attained
when a contributioh, not a contradiction, is
made."
In the matter of "heightening" language
, ^or poetic effect, Mr. Frost said, "No poet
has a right to use words and metaphors
which other men have 'heightened.' I like
to take common homely words and make
them into poetry by my own power. When
'heightening' is in this sense original.
"My idea in coming here was Jo talk to
you about your writing* in the Absolute,
not relatively as your teachers do. I think
that in America we do not start thinking
about ourselves in the Absolute 'soon
enough." The first step of the'school girl
toward growing up, he went on to say, is
emancipation from 'her teachers. This
comes so often by suggestion from the
teachers rather than spontaneously from
the girl that "you get a manumitted slave
where you want a runaway one." Before
she is grown up the school girl must also
conquer her habit of giving off information
in the order in which she received it. Only
when she has the courage to forget what
� she has learned in order to find it again and
give it off in a new personal way can the
school girl be judged in the -Absolute.
SENIOR FIRST TrlAM LEADS IN
PRELIMINARY GYM MEET
E. Cecil, '21 Ahead of E. Cope, '21
For Individual Cup
. Winning first place in' every event but
the stunt, 192J rolled up a score of 37.5
points and got a running start toward the
championship in the preliminary gymnasium
last .Fjiday  afternoon.    1922 made second
EUROPEAN FELLOW FROM 1921
WILL BE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY
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vidual championship K. Woodward; Senior
captain, leads with 24.3 points; M. Morton,
'21, is second with 14, and N. Fitzgerald
third with U.S. According to Mr. Bishop,
one of the judges, the meet was an un-
usually good" one.
Interest centered in the 136 ft. front
swim, in which K. Woodward, '21, lowered
hef last year's record of 31.2 sec by a
whole second, doing the distance in 30.2
sec, and the plunge, in which M. Morton,
'21, established a new record of 60 ft. 8j4
in., exceeding the record made last year by
E. Mills, '21, by over 3 ft. .
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piace wim.*/- points.-   * nrse scorev�re stth-
President Thomas to Read Upper Tan
and Highest Junior Averages Also
The Senior-and graduate European Fel-
lows, the Senior "Upper Ten" and the five
highest JunioT averages will be announced
by President Thomas in chapel on Friday,
March   18.    Fellowship  dinners  will  take
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE  REPORTS
AT  UNDERGRADUATE  MEETING
A report of the conference between the
Curriculum Committee of the faculty and
the Undergraduate Conference Committee
was outlined by M. Foot, '21, chairman, at
a meeting of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion last Thursday.
Statistics showed that the excessive num-
ber of week-ends spent away from college
this year was due to the individual and
not to the general average. The Curricu-
lum Committee felt that some people's work
was lighter than others on account of the
difference in difficulty between courses, and
asked the undergraduates which were con-
sidered the easiest courses. The four
courses specified by the conference com-
mittee were Minor French (div. B), Minor
Italian, Minor Economics (div. B), and
Archaeology.
Since a quorum was< necessary to deciHe
on a college ring, nothing definite was done.
A sense of the meeting was taken, how-
ever, that a ring be adopted with the college
seal cut in the side and a setting of ro-
tating stones of the class colors. A final
vote will be taken" at a meeting this week.
It was also decided that since taking
attendance at classes is a question of graded
difficulty, the monitors should not be paid.
RADNOR AND ROCKEFELLER SHOW
WIDE RANGE OF ANCE8TORS
Ancestor statistics for Radnor and Rocke-
feller arc as varied as those taken a week
ago for Merion and Denbigh. They include
people of every rank and occupation from
Alfred the Great to the drummer boy who
woke up Washington in time to cross the
Delaware. So far John a#d Priscilla Alden
have more descendants in college than any
other famous people, there being two in
Merion, three in Radnor, and two in
Rockefeller. Rockefeller's most eminent
ancestors are Charlemagne, Mary Queen
of Scots, Buffalo Bill, Betsey Ross and
Peter Stuyvesant; Radnor's are Sir Chris-
topher Wren, Queen Ann, William the Con-
queror, Nathan Hale and Robert E. Lee
(collateral).
The statistics are as follows:
Radnor: Elder Brewster, John and Pris-
cilla Alden (three descendants); Governor
Bradford (two descendants).
�A pirate, gold diggers of '49, border cat-
tle thieves.
Commodore Thuxton, General Nathaniel
Greene, General Upton, six Civil War gen-
erals, one Revolutionary general.
Ogier, the Dane; Cromwell; the man
who sheltered Charles I in the pear tree;
a King of Scotland, a Huguenot princess,
William the Conqueror, Queen Anne, an
Archbishop of Canterbury, Mary Queen of
Scotts, Sir Christopher Wren, an Earl of
Richmond, an early king of France.    "
Thomas Nelson  Page, George Bancroft
(collateral),   Washington's   brothers,   An-
drew Jackson, Robert E. Lee (collateral),
Nathan Hale, Jqhn Jay the Federalist.
(Continued on Page 5)
ject to change in  the  second meet,  which
�ill be held next Thursday.
First place in the individual event went
to E. Cecil, '21, who had a total score erf
68.5. E. Cope, '21, who was a close second
with 67.9 points, won first place on the
parallel bars. Third and fourth places went
to A. Nicoll, '22, with 63.2 points,, and E.
Rogers, '22, with 61.1 points. R. Neel, '22,
�made fourth place on the bars, but did not
offer an exercise on the horse.
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COLLECTION  OF  BIG GAME
EXHIBITED  FOR COLLEGE
Rare skins and heads of animals from
the world over were on exhibition this
afternoon in the game room of Mr. Alfred
Collins, of Gulf Road, Bryn Mawr, who
showed hiS collection for the especial bene-
fit of students and faculty of the. college.
Mr. Collins Has made three long hunting
trips into Central Africa, South America,
and  the  Arctic,   in   the  interests  of  the
Smithsonian Institute and the Museum of
Natural History in New York.    His best
spesimens, including the largest giraffe ever
killed, are now in these museums, but the
collection   which  he   retains  in  his  game
room also includes a number of valuable
heads.   The rarest of these is the head of
a greater Koodoo, which is so difficult to
get  that,  according   to  Mr.   Collins,  even
Theodore Roosevelt was not able to bring
one   oufr    Other   specimens   are   a   large
African lion, white mountain. sheep  from
Alaska.van African buffalo, several hippo-
potami,  walrusel  polar  bears,  and  many
kinds   of   deer,   including   the   Dik   Dik,
which  is  no  larger  than  a   rabbit.    The
large  wild  boar's  head  in this  collection
was brought from France by Mr. Collins
when he  returned  after  the  war,  having
kiHed  it  while on  leave  from  the army.
All the  animals  in   the  room  were  killed
by "Mr. Collins himself.
piace mat evening.
Resident fellowships, including
vjjirooke Hall Scholarship for the highest
Junior grade, won last year by Jean Flex-
ner, '21, are regularly announced on May I.
The Senior or Bryn Mawr European
Fellowship was founded in 1889. It is in-
tended to provide for one year's study at
a foreign university, English or Continental.
Last year it was awarded to Marie Litz-
inger, of Bedford, Pa., who had an aver-
age of 88.925. The highest average ever
made under the present system of marking
was 92.444, made by Marguerite Darkow, of
Philadelphia, in 1915.
Tke Fellows for the last six years have
been as follows:
1920�-Marie Litzinger......"..'......88.925
1919�Ernestine Mercer .'............87.427
1918�Margaret Timpson   ...........89.345
1917�Thalia Smith.................88.376
1916�Marian Kleps  ................87.328
1915�Marguerite Darkow ..........92.444
Three distinctions arc given with degrees
at Bryn Mawr: "Summa cum laude" for an
average of 90 or over, "magna cum laude"
for an ayerage of 95 to 90, and "cum
laude"  for an- average of 80 to 85.
The graduate fellowships to be announced
are: The President M. Carey Thomas Eu- -
ropcan Fellowship for graduate students
who have completed one year of graduate 4
work at Bryn Mawr, founded in 1896 by
Miss Garrett, of Baltimore, and the Mary
E Garrett European Fellowship for gradu-
ate students who have completed two years
of graduate work at Bryn Mawr, founded
in 1894 by Miss Garrett. -
PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL
CONFERENCE COMES APRIL 1 AND 2
FAMOUS  KIPLING CHARACTER  DIE8
AFTER  ROMANTIC CAREER
Lurgan Sahib, the philosopher who taught
Kim the strange, fantastic lore of the East,
its rites and mysteries, has died recently,
according to press despatches. A. M.
Jacob, as he was called in real life, was
Polish oi Armenian, by birth, but lived as
a slave boy in Constantinople until his tenth
year, when his brilliant mind attracted at-
tention and he began to study Eastern, Phi-
losophy. His career from then on wa*s al-
most incredibly romantic He grew enor-
mously rich and made the acquaintance of
many prominent persons, among whom was
Kipling. Possessed of an uncanny knowl-
edge of precious stones, he became involved
in one of India's most famous trials, the
quarrel over the sale of the Imperial Dia-
mond, and his fortune being drained by
legal expenditures, he died in miserable
circumstances in an old pottery shop in
Bombay.
ODDS EXPRESS SENTIMENT
IN  EXCLUSIVE  ROCK FIGHT
Spirited jazz and an unique obstacle race
entertained 1921 at the "rock fight" given
by the Sophomores in the .gymnasium last
Friday nighj.
The prize for the competition dance went
to "Bill" Taylor and "Mame" Kirkland, who
executed the latest Bowery steps with vigor
and assurance. The obstacle race was won
by M. S. Goggin, who, in company with
five other Seniors, discarded their chewing
gum and went through the various stages
of pulling a T-shirt on and off, eating five
soda' crackers, crawling under a rug
stretched on the floor and held down at
the edges, drinking a glass of water while
lying across a chair, and knocking, over
an Indian club.
Chewing gum, cookies and punch were
served as refreshments.
CHAPEL  8PEAKER  NEXT  SUNDAY
TO  BE  DR.  FRANCIS  PEABODY
Dr. Francis G. Peabody, Dean of the
Harvard Divinity School, will speak in
chapel on Sunday evening, March 20. .Dr.
Peabody spoke here in April, last year, and
was baccalaureate speaker in 1915. He is
the author of "Jesus Christ and the Social
Question," and 'The Christian Life in the
Modern World."
Week-end Meetings to be Held
On Small Scale This Year
Plans are rapidly maturing for the Pro-
fessional and Vocational Conference, which
is set for April 1 and 2, the week-end
immediately after Easter, according to D.
Lubin, '21, chairman of the Employment
Committee. ^Contrary to the opinions ex-
pressed by all four classes, last fall, in
favor of a series of monthly talks on voca-
tional subjects,, it was finally decided by
the College Council to hold the usual week-
end conference on a small scale.   .
Subjects for the conference talk are to
be practically the same as those voted on
at class meetings, and include business, psy-
chological work, social service, art and
architecture, journalism and writing, includ-
ing work in publishing houses, teaching and
graduate research, and possibly medicine.
The conference, which is under the man-
agement 6f Dean Smith, assisted by faculty
and student committees, is being planned
so as to avoid conflicts of kindred subjects.
In addition, as .many alumna.* as. possible
will he obtained as speakers.
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP DINNER
TO HEAR MR8. SMITH
Mrs. Smith, Professor pf Economics, will
be the speaker of the evening at the Grad-
uate Fellowship dinner. The dinner, which
is in honor of the two graduate European
scholars, will 1* held in Denbigh on Friday'
evening. Other speakers are among the
foreign graduate students, and will he
Mildred Tong.-Marthe Tretain, Nyok Dong,
Emmi Walder, and Leona Gable.