College News, 1921-06-01, Vol. 07, No. 28

              VoLuraVlI.    No   28.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE  1, 1921
.Price 10 Cento .
RELIGION   AND   KNOWLEDGE
NOT INCOMPATIBLE�DR. FITCH
Baccalaureate Speaker Voices Need,
for Right Point of View
"No college man or woman'has the right
to divorce learning and religion," said Dr.
Albert Parker Fitch, professor of history
of religion at Amherst College, in* the bac-
calaureate sermon preached in the gym-
nasium last Sunday evening. "Have you
not been taught that the way to find truth
is through honest thinking and holy liv-
ing?" he asked. "The spirit of Jesus is not
incompatible with the utmost freedom of
mind and integrity of conduct. It is not
against truth, because behind this spirit
is the God of truth."
Difference in temperament between the
scholar and the devotee, Dr. Fitch assigns
as the chief reason for their estrangement.
'TThe scholar is cool and detached," he
said. "His chief strength is that he is non-
partisan. But nothing is more important
than that men and women who can think
calmly shall address themselves to problems
of religion. The world needs not more
knowledge, but the spirit which shall en-
able it to' use its knowledge. There has
never been a time in history when men
knew so much, and when, one is feign to
believe, men were more unhappy."
COLLEGE  LEAD8 THOUGHT OF  DAY
'The function of a college is not to be
the bulwark of the present-day order, but
to send out a powerful minority who are
to lead  in  the thought  and be the chief
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Pkdo by J. Park* Rolf*
THE CLASS OF 1921
Commencement Address  to be Given To-
morrow by Dr. Simon Flexner
VARSITY OVERWHELMS TEAM FROM
PHILADELPHIA 50-12
Visitors Outplayed From Start
by Teamwork of the Brown
Playing a swift offensive game Varsity
defeated a Philadelphia basket-ball team,
last Thursday, with a score of 50-12.
The first few minutes of play were
marked by a swift tussle in which Miss
Townsend's long dribbles down the field
and quick shots for the basket at first took
the Bryn Mawr guards by surprise and
gave Philadelphia a lead. E. Cecil, '21,
, made the first goal for Varsity, followed in
swift succession by three others. Varsity
then settled down into a steady pace and
soon outdistanced Philadelphia, piling up a
score of 26-6 by the end of the first half.
Miss Townsend covered the whole fieldejpi
was ably backed by Miss Morgan, who was
remarkable for her 'speed and agility.
Keeping the lead in the second half
through the repeated scoring of A. Nicoll,
'22, Varsity continued its offensive tactics.
E. Taylor, '21, again and again cleared the
ball under the Philadelphia goal and kept
it in Bryn Mawr territory through long
dribbles and passes. The superior endur-
ance of the Bryn Mawr team told heavily
in their favor and was an important factor
in the high score.
Line-up:
Philadelphia�K.  McLane,  M. Morgan*
Mrs. Clark, M. Siter, A. Townsend*****.
Bryn Mawr�A.  Nicoll, '22************,
E.  Cecil, '21***, F. Bliss, '22******* E. Tay-
lor, '21, P. Smith, '22
Substitutes:     Philadelphia�N.    Barclay
for M. Siter.
�ryn Mawr�E. Cope, '21*P for F. Bliss;
F.   Bliss for P. Smith;  B. McCrae, '24*
for E. Cope.
'The Scientific Career for Women"_is
the subject of Dr. Simon Flexner's com-
mencement address on Thursday, in the
gymnasium. Dr. Flexner is the husband
of Helen Whitall Thomas, '93, who is the
sister of President Thomas. He has spoken
at Bryn Mawr several times.
Dr." Flexner is a student of Johns Hop-
kins and the universities of -Strassburg
and Berlin. Since 1903 he has been the
director of the laboratories of the Rocke-
feller Institute of Medical Research. In
1919 he was made an officer of the French
Legion of Honor, and is a member of the
order of the Sacred Treasure in Japan.
He is the author of various monographs
and papers concerning pathology and
bacteriology.
MADEMOISELLE CURIE SPEAKS
BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE
UNDERGRADUATE  ASSOCIATION
DI8CU88E8 WEEK-ENDS
On the "petition of twenty-nine mem-
bers" a meeting of the Undergraduate
Association was called on Saturday, May
21, to consider the question of week-ends
for next year. A sense of the meeting was
passed in support of the plan of the
Council, to limit week-ends.
It has been found that one-fifth of the
College has been taking too many week-
ends and has occasioned criticism outside,
as well as showing a lack of interest in
College. All those who have taken more
than four week-ends a semester tluS year
will be warned to reduce the number next
year to four, but no more definite rule has
been passed. Sunday night or a single
night during the week will not count as a
week-end, and individual cases, on account
of sickness at home, etc, will be specially
considered
Describes Her Mother's Experimental
Work and Discovery of Radium
"Radium, and the Method of Its Dis-
covery," was the subject of Mademoiselle
Curie's talk in chapel last Tuesday morn-
ing. Mademoiselle Curie*, who spoke in
behalf of her mother, is herself a scientist
interested and familiar with her mother's
work.
"Radioactivity," said Mademoiselle Curie,
"is a new science that dales only from the
discovery of uranium. Madame Curie,
while experimenting with the compounds
of uranium discovered that its activity was
proportional to the amount of uranium
present, _and was independent of its com-
bination with other substances. She also
discovered that the activity of a given
amount of uranium was four times as
great as would be expected.- Concluding
that uranium contained another element
with the same property of radioactivity,
Madame Curie separated the substance into
its different components, and in 1897 -dis-
covered radium. Since there is only one
part in a million of radium in'the best ore
of uranium, it is not surprising that it was
not discovered before."
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CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION   PLAN8
RECEPTION   ON   MERION   GREEN
BRYN   MAWR  GIFT  OF  80RBONNE
ON VIEW IN LIBRARY TODAY
MADAME   CURIE   ENTERTAINED
AT  RECEPTION   IN   DEANERY
To honor Madame Curie and her daugh-
ters, 700 guests were invited by President
Thomas t�ui .. Jp-pRiiointhc Deanery
garden last Tuesday afternoon. Because of
ill health, Madame Curie was unable either
to receive or to speak, and was forced to
leave early.
Guests wanted July 1 to September 15,
Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming. Lake
region; $40 per week. Includes horses for
riding. Address Mrs. Martin Tisdale,
Kaycee, Wyoming.
Membership Committee Preparing
to Welcome New Students
To take the place of the reception
annually given in the gymnasium by the
Christian Association, an out-door recep-
tion will be held on Merion Green on
Saturday afternoon, October 8, in honor of
the new students. President Thomas,
Dean Madison, Dean Smith, Miss Apple-
bee, Dr. Barton, and the officers of the
Christian Association,  wijl  receive.
In place of speeches made by thfofficers
of the various associations, a skit in which
each association is represented, will be
given. * M. L. *Whife, Freshman member
of the Membershii/Committee, is in charge
of the reeeptiofi.
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FOR
NEW OFFICERS  ELECTED
THE ENGLI8H CLUB
Elizabeth Hobdy is elected president of
the English Club, and Katharine Peek, sec-
retary and treasurer.
Dr. Savage will spend par* of the sum-
mer abroad  in Gibraltar and in Spain.
Fund for French College Library
Lacks Only $500 of Total
To supply a library- of American liter-
ature for the use of students of American
life and literature at the Sorbonne, $6000
has been raised by a committee of Bryn
Mawr alumnae headed by Miss Eunice M.
Schenck, professor # French at Bryn
Mawr. Five hundred dollars are still lack-
ing to the necessary amount, but the com-
mittee hopes that the full sum will be
attained before tomorrow. Fifteen hun-
dred dollars will be spent in the initial
gift, and the rest reserved for a perma-
nent endowment fund, the interest from
which will be spent each year by a Bryn
Mawr committee to buy-those books by
American authors "which the committee
considers  important.
Stimulated by the interest aroused dur-
ing the war,^ and by the realization that
America was an Anglo-Saxon country with
traditions distinct in many ways from
those of England, a chair of American
life and literature was founded at the Sor-
bonne, which Professor Cestre now holds.
In Paris last summer Miss Schenck met
Professor Cestre, and learned of his i\eed
for American books, not only those by
"classical" authors, but any which are now>
interesting American readers. Accord-
ingly in the present collection, Fannie
Hurst, George Ade, Booth Tarkington and
O. Henry are represented, as well as Poe,
Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Mark
Twain.
Beoks Destined for Sorbonne
Now Exhibited in Library
Four   hundred   books,   most   of   them
autographed    copies    presented    by    the
author or  his   family,  are  now on  view
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT HA8 8ENT
BOX, OF BOOK8 TO BRYN MAWR
Collection   la Now on   View
in the New Book Room
Even before funds for the Bryn Mawr
books to "the Sorbonne had been collected,
a box of French books was sent to Bryn
Mawr from the French government "It
is a delightful collection," said Miss
Schenck, "representative of different phases
of French literature." The collection in-
cludes a "History of France," by Lavise,
in a de luxe edition, the best literary biog-*
raphy, history of art and music etc, and
works of Taine, France, Renan, and other
noted Frenchmen. This collection is like-
| wise on view in" the New Book Room.