College News, 1920-10-27, Vol. 07, No. 05

              The College News
Volume VII.    No. 5.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920
Price 10 Cents
LANTERN  NIGHT.    FRESHMEN  HOLDING  LANTERNS
LEAGUE IS A WORKING CONCERN
Mr. Huntington Gilchrist Describes
Organization and Future Plans
Huntington Gilchrist, assistant to Sir
Eric Druinmond, Secretary of the League
of Nations, addressed the college in the
chapel last Saturday night on "The
League As a Working Concern." Start-
ing next Saturday for Geneva, the future-
home of the League, he has just com-
pleted a vacation in this county. Mr.
Gilchrist is the husband of E. Brace, '20
The League of Nations has been in >
existence since January 10, 1920, when
the Peace Treaty of Versailles officially
came into force, said Mr. Gilchrist, m
tracing its beginning. ^He then took up
one at a time the three main bodies oi
tin l.agtie, the Assembly, the Council
and the Secretariat, with which he SI
especially concerned.
Assembly  Decides League  Policy
The Assembly meets for the first time in
Geneva on Novcml>cr 15, 1920. It directly
represents all its memliers and, together
with the COuncil, determines all League
policies It considers the work done by
other bodies and decides such matters as
the admission of new members.
The Council of the League is meeting
now in Brussels for the tenth time It
has been in action since January 16,
1920. It is the custom for the r< i
sentative of the country in which it
meets, to preside, Mr Haliour presiding
at the second meeting in London in Feb-
ruary Cnanimous approval is required
to pass almost everything, and no deci-
sion is made at private meetings from
which the press and all visitors are ex-
cluded.
At the Peace Conference it was de-
cided to appoint Sir Eric Drummond
Secretary General of the coming League,
in order to be ready when it came. The
Secretariat, the first body of the League
started, is a staff service to advise the
Secretary General. He organized it into
technical sections of experts to do the
ground work and have Stsfjgestiou and
details irady It i- pure I v �*" adv i
bodv, which make- BO decisions \\ Ithin
�j   |            . s    it    Mill   have    mow.I    ifom
(CaauaaH ��  Pa�� J)
1922 Elects Margaret Speer President
Margaret Speer is president of the
class of 1922, Serena Hand is vice-presi-
dent and treasurer, and Alice Nicoll is
secretary as � result of the election held
by  the  Junior class last Wednesday.
Mis, Speer VnU a member of the Chris-
tian Association Board in 1919-20 as
secretary, and in 1920-21 as treasurer and
chairman of the religious meetings com-
mittee. She was also business manager
of 1922'-.  Banner Show.
Miss Hand was secretary of 1922 Fresh-
man year and is secretary of the Under-
graduate Association. Miss Nicoll is
Junior member of the Athletic AaSOcis
tion Hoard and was secretary of the Ath-
letic Association last  year.
Bengal Poet Coming November 13
Sir Kabindranath Tagore, Bengal poet,
prose writer and educationalist, will
speak here Friday evening, November
1.1th, under the auspices of the English
Club.
Winner in 1913 of the Nobel Prise for
literature. Sir Tagore IS the author of
about thirty poetical and twenty-eight
pros,   works in Bengali; among his Eng
lish  writings  are  "Gitanjali,.....I'hc  ("res
cut    Moon"   and   "The    l'o-t    Office,"   a
plaj     He is the founder oi a school at
Shantineketa, Bolpnr, Bengal
LANTERN NIGHT OLD CUSTOM
ELEPHANT   AND    DONKEY   WILL    BE
AT  POLITICAL  RALLY
Divided into political groups, a torchlight
procession will wind to the gymnasium
Monday evening at 8 o'clock for the mock
political rally.
Stump speeches by presidential candi-
dates and their supporters will In' made
from porch and soapliox. Figures promi-
nent in the poltical world will attend the
rally, as will various delegations in cos-
tume
The Elephant and the Donkey will par-
ticipate in the excitement; at the last po-
I tical rally in 1916 a real elephant ap-
peared, hired by the RepuUicani from a
traveling  circus.
Miss Spinney to Read Greek Drama
An interpreter of classic drama, Miss
Dorothea Spinney, will read Euripides'
Hippolytus in Taylor Hall Friday eve-
ning, November 5th The reading will
be given in Greek costume before a set-
ting of curtains
Of Miss Spinney the Sation has said:
"She possesses a marvelous voice and
speaking hands, but beyond these bless-
ing- .i tin. mt< licence and deep abater-
The Drama I rague writes \ �on-
drriul interpreter Artistically we feel
the finest �r have ever had"
ROBERT    FROST,    POET-PROFESSOR,
WILL GIVE  READING SATURDAY
The poet of speech, Robi rt Lee Frost,
will give a reading from his work in
Taylor    Hall    on    Saturday   evening   at   8
o'clock. Complimentary tickets will l>c given
to all who pledged contributions to the
(hair of Poetry Fund last Spring.
Mr. Frost, though born in San Fran-
cisco, has spent most of his life in New
Fngland. Of his college life one writer
says: "He spent a few months at Dart
mouth, acting like a wild Indian in a
college for wild Indians. He left ab-
ruptly, but voluntarily." After teaching
ind a lew months more study at Harvard
SVC up the idea of finishing college Sonnomor,.v This ^ ai�.rwar(u sl,ort-
aml since then has engaged ia newspaper (,ncd inIO , f(.w wonU of BOni, 1(Kll(.
work, farming, teaching psychology and and ,hfncr (Q ..Good Luck.. In order
English, and in writing In 1912 he went no, tQ mar ,hc so|cmnily of thc occasion,
with his family to England, where (h<. Krce,jn>, j, now writtcn on a card
"North of Boston." bis first book, eras altached to the lanurn instead of being
published      "London  was  ecstatic."   SayS   M,�k,.M      i.alcr  ��.  � r,,�olu   WM  ,r.lI|s.
one critic.   In 1913 "A Boy's WiB" was   .(rrid iQ |(u nJKht wh)n (||.   Vn�huHU
published   and   in    1916   "Mountain    In
terval "
"In order to appreciate a poem like
Mendini; Wall.'" writes 1'rofessor Wil-
liam Lyons I'hclps in the Kot'kmaii. "one
should bear Mr Fro-t read it He
with such interpretive skill, with such
subtle hesitation- and pause for apparent
reflection   that   the   poem   grows   before
Origin of Ceremony and Songs Lies
Far Back in Bryn Mawr's History
One of the oldest customs in Bryn
Mawi history will be observed Friday
Blghl when the Freshmen receive the
lanterns from the Sophomore class
lS'WI, the second class in college, was
the first to receive lanterns The idea
of presenting them originated from one
line, "the only lantern in Bryn Mawr."
in I song by Dr. E. Washburu   Hopkins,
fot nu r   professor   of   (irci k
The   I.interns   given   10   1X9(1 were   made
of filigreed tin lined with  red isinglass
and  stood  only   four inches  high.     Tin y
increased in size each year until I9()4,
when I'MW received the first lanterns oi
the type now used. Since then they bav e
changed in shape and general propor-
tions, but tin rise and the materials
iisid have remained about the MOM. The
color of the glass varies each year with
the color of the Freshmen class.
Lanterns Given at Outdoor Play
Lantern   giving   was originally   only   an
incident in the impromptu entertainment
which the Sophomores gave the Fresh-
nun. The eailni classes received their
lanterns in broad daylight after an out-
door play and had first to undergo a
r    oral   quiz   at   the   hands   of   the
red  their  caps  and   towns  MM
moved  from  the campus  to the cloisters
The    Greek    hymn.    "Paths     Athene
I'li.a."  was  written  as   103*1   class   -�ii..
by  Hrrtha  Haven   Putnam  and   Madeline
..in    \bbott.  and   was   |ra1   sung  at
ra   Night   by   1991      M   � 'Sullivan,
XO,  is  the author of this prose  transla-
tion
the audience like the wall itl
Robert    !                an   out-of-door   poet..   >'��-   *�'"��  ***� '" K "" ' "
Kven   when  h.                     me  oi  an   in                                   to thee to inak.   sacn
terior. people are always  looking out oi      ti, c  in thv  honor,
the  wind. .                                                                      (ChuhmJ mi Pw*