College News, 1921-03-02, Vol. 07, No. 17

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VOLUMB VII.     NO.   l7.
.  BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1921
Price 10 Ceoti
MR. ROBERT LAWRENCE L�ADS
COMMUNITY SINGING COURSE
Plans to Give Advanced Course in
New York First Week in June
Holding at least eleven "drills in rhythm
and two big sings, Mr. Robert Lawrence,
of the National Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music in New York.JFor the third
successive year stirred Bryn Mawr students
with his community singing course held
four days last week. He was accompanied
�en the piano by Katherine Tyler, '19, who
played for him on his two former visits.
The classes, which were held morning,
afternoon and evening, included rhythm
�drills, the general principles for making a
crowd sing, and actual experience in leading
familiar folk and popular songs. The first
class, selected from those who showed the
most possibilities, were given advanced
work in individual leading. Approximately
180 students took the course', with an aver-
age attendance of from fifty to eighty at
�each class.
To follow 'up'hYs typical Community Sing
of Wednesday night, Mr. Lawrence illus-
trated the application of his teaching by
showing slides of his work in New York
and other places, at the Social Service party
last Saturday night. His slides showed
crowds of children, mostly Italian, gathered
in the streets of lower East Side New York,
singing under the direction o� leaders who,
at night, cas.t the words of the songs on a
sheet hung from a second-story window,
and in the daylight drove into a street in
a "singing wagon" or truck, especially
�equipped with a piano and rolls of songs.
. From 6000 to 10,000 people were present at
these sings, twenty-five of which sometimes
took place on the same night in different
parts of the city. These sings have also
been successful in reformatories and prisons
as a means of recreation. Noon hotfr sings
Jn factories have been found to increase
markedly the physical efficiency of the
workers.
-�� Mr. Lawrence's idea is that music should
be a civic measure in every town, and
should be regulated by a municipal commis-
sion. At Little Rock, Ark., he conducted
a five-week music campaign, during which
he instituted musical programs all over the
town and trained leaders to carry on his
work. On leaving Bryn Mawr Mr. Law-
rence returned to Poughkeepsie, where he
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CHINESE FUND ENTERTAINMENT
TO   BE   G,IVEN   HERE* SATURDAY
Songs and Short^Play on the Program
Singing, dancing and puzzle solving are
among the events included in the Chinese
entertainment to be given in the gymnasium
at 8.15 o'clock next Saturday night. The
affair is a partial Tepetition of an enter-
tninmaat ayep at  the  Bellevue-Stratford
three weeks ago by the same Chinese stu-
dents, who are studjgng at the University
of Pennsylvania. It is under the auspices
of the Chinese Famine Fund Committee.
"Serenade" and "Roll Dem Bones," by
a quartette, will be the first number, fol-
lowed by a puzzle solving by Dr. Frederic
Poole, an Oriental traveler. An interpre-
tation of Chinese dancing with Chinese mu-
sic will come next, and^ after 'Two in
One" and "Little Hawey," an address will
be made by President Thomas and Mrs.
Pankhurst, suffrage leader, on the famine
situation in China. Intermission will be
followed by two more songs by the quar-
tette, "Let the Rest of the World Go By"
and "Call John," and an "Operatic Selec-
tion." The entertainment will close with
"Spanking of the Qfty Gods," a short play-
let performed by one woman and five men
students.                       .   �
Reserved seats are $1 and may, be ob-
tained from Dean Madison; admission for
undergraduates is fifty cents.                "^
Among the patronesses are: Mrs. Wil-
liam L. Austin, Mrs. Edward Bok, Mrs.
William Boyd, Miss Mary Eleanor Con-
verse, Mrs. George W. Childs Drcxel, Mrs.
William E. Ellis, Mrs. Richard S. Francis,
Mrs. Alba B. Johnson," Mrs. Isaap La
Boiteaux, Mrs. Charles M. Lea. -     \
CELEBRATED  SUFFRAGE   LEADER
TO LECTURE HERE ON FRrDAY
PENN  PLAYERS ECLIPSED   BY
BRYN MAWR TEAM-WORK
Mrs. Parjkhurst's Subject "8ofcial Evils"
"Social Evils and How to Combat Them"
is the title of the. lecture to be given by
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, suffrage leader,
in. Taylor Hall, on Friday, at 8 o'clock.
|^he lecture will be open to students and
women members Of the faculty.
Mrs. Partkhurst was one of the most
active suffrage workers in England. She
suffered imprisonment and permanently in-
jured he* health in her devotion to the
cause. Both Mrs. Pankhurst and her
daughter Chri&tobel, who is. an ardent
worker, conducted hunger and thirst strikes
before the war in their efforts .to win the
vote.
Qjiring and since the war Mrs. Pank-
hurst has devoted all h'er energies to
national service. Her present tour of Amer-
ica is to establish friendly relations with
Great Britain and to "smite Bolshevism."
She feels that England knows how to han-
dle this menace, but she fears the growth
in the United States, especially in the South,
according to an article in the New York
Times.
FIFTY-EIGHT COLLEGES  SEND
DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE
SENIORS   AND   FRESHMEN   MUST
TAKE  COUR8E   IN   80CIAL  HYGIENE
Will be Given by Dr. Parker
Dr. Valeria H. Parker will give <he first
lectures on "Social Hygiene," in Taylor
Hall, on March 14. Dr. Parker succeeds
Dr. Ellen Potter, who has given the course
for the last two years.
Two courses of five lectures each will
be given this semester, one for Seniors
exclusively,, at 8.30, and one, at 7.30, for
Freshmen exclusively. An afternoon hour
will be arranged for students in the Carola
Woerishoffer Department. The lectures,
which are compulsory, will be given on
March 14, April 21, April 28, and May
5. On March 14 President Thomas is
at home to the Seniors, so the hours of
the graduate and of the Senior lecture will
be interchanged.
A graduate of Hering Medical College,
Chicago, Dr. Parker traveled abroad for
several years before her marriage. She is
chairman of the Social Hygiene Committee
of the National League for Women Voters,
and of the Maternity Comnlittee of the
Mothers' and Parent-Teachers' Association.
iShe is Assistant Eucational Director of the
American Social Hygiene Association, and
Director of the Social -Morality Department
of the Womans' Christian Union.
Elizabeth Cope Stars With 33 Goals
as Varsity Piles up Score of 94-2
Bryn Mawr easily defeated the women's
team of the University of Pennsylvania in
basket-ball, last Saturday, with a score of
94-2. From the first whistle it was evident
that the Varsity outclassed the Red and
Blue combination at every point, scoring
practically at will and preventing the Penn
players from netting a single goal from the
field during the game.
The passing of the Bryn Mawr team was
the feature of the game. M. Buchanan co-
operated with E. Taylor in the center for
long passes to the forwards, who piled' up
a score of 40-1 in the first half.
During the second half Pennsylvania was
totally eclipsed. The ball was kept at the
Bryn Mawr goal the entire time and the
forwards scored at will. The shooting of
E. Cope was phenomenal, 66 of the total 94
points scored going to her credit.
Line'-up:                                 �.
PENNSYLVANIA   '�                BRYN MAWR
Miss Rump...........F...E. Cope, '21  (33 goals)
Miti Agnew..........F...E. Cecil, '21 (lu goali)
Miss Easlwick........C...........M.   Buchanan
Miss Ray............C................E.  Taylor
Miss McDermott......C.'...............E. Bliss
Miss Davis...........G.................F. Bliss
Goals from fouls�Penn: 2.
Substitute*�Nicoll,    '224'
Champion for Eastwick.
for    Cecil,    '21;
ENGLISH   CLUB  ELECTION8  FOR
NEXT YEAR HELD MONDAY.'
Margaret Speer, '2*., n��r"e1ecte!lf presi-
dent of the. English Club tor next year, on
Monday. She will succeed H. Hill, '21,
who resigned six weeks before the sched-
uled date to become stage manager of
Senior play.
Miss Speer is president of the Junior
class, and chairman of the Religious Meet-
ings Committee. Although she apparently
has fifty points, the points for English Club
do not count until next year. The other
officers will be elected later. *
Student Volunteers Meet at Easton
Bryn Mawr Sends 18 Representatives
'Represented by a delegation of seventeen
students, .Bryn Mawr was -one of fifty-
eight colleges to attend the Student Vol-
unteer Conference of the Eastern Penn-
sylvania and New Jersey Division, held at
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., last week-
end.
.Meeting Friday evening for the first time,
the delegates started in on a program which
included, besides, the meetings and services,
a "social" on the first evening of the con-
ference and a Glee Club concert given by
Lafayette and Rutgers students. *
Dr. John G. Haas, president of Muhl-
enherg College, opening the conference,
showed that Christianity is the .means for
attaining the modern ideals of democracy
and liberty.
China's need for missionary service was
presented by Mr. Wittlesey, of the China
Inland Mission, on Saturday morning. The
more inclusive subject, "America's Contri-
bution to the World's Peace," was treated
by Dr. Anderson of the Presbyterian Board
of Missions. "Christianity�the one reli-
gion that is not afraid of progress�in its
relation to problems of the orient," was
Dr. Robert E. Speer's subject on Saturday
afternoon. Dr. Speer, father of M. Speer,
'22, is secretary of the Presbyterian Board
of Foreign Missions. Dr. Harry P. Dor-
man, Dean of the Medical College, of
Beirut, Syria, also spoke on Saturday after-
noon. "Morning Watch," under the leader-
ship of Dr. Lovell; was held on Sunday
morning at 9.30. Following 4his meeting
the Bryn Mawr- delegation held a meeting
with Dr. .Lovell, at which various questions
brought up by the speakers were discussed
'informally.
The annual meeting will be held next year
at Princeton University. Last year Bryn
Mawr sent a delegation of seventeen stu-
dent?, following the interest aroused in the
foreign missions by tjie Des Moines con-
ference.                     '   tL
E. .Rhoads, '23, was leader of the Bryn
Mawr delegation. Other members were:
1921. C. Bickley, & Kales, E. Newell; 1922,
E. Brown; 1923, A. Fitzgerald, I. Gates,
M. Lawrence, D. Stewart; 1924, F. Begg,
K. Connor, M. Faries, E. Hale, E. Ives, B.
Lingr R. Murray, S. Saunders, K. Van
Bibber.
CARL  HAMILI0N COLLECTION
PRAISED.BY MRS. BERIJNSON
Slides    of   Italian    Matter-Pieces
Shown Here for First Time
Mrs. Bernhard Berenson.speaking'on Mr.
tarl Hamilton's collection of Italian Mas-
ters, gave at Bryn Mawr, last Friday wen-
ing, the only lecture she will give during
her presettt visit to America. Slides taken
especially for the lecture illustrated Mrs.
Berenson's authoritative criticisms of the
great masterpieces.
Introducing Mrs.* Berenson, Professor
Georgianna Goddard King said, "We have
always felt a special interest in Mrs. Beren-
son. We have felt that we were connected
with her by kinship as" well as friendship."
Mrs.. Berenson is'a cousin of President
Thomas. Her two daughters studied at
Bryn Mawr.
"At this moment," said  Mrs.  Berenson, �
"when the still small voice of culture is all -
too likely to be drowned in economic stress,
I  must seem to you Jike a very strange
mediaeval figure, speaking now of the very
same things  I  spoke of seven years ago.
It  is  a  great  consolation  to  me  that   a
young American, while busy with the affairs"
of   his  own  generation,  cares   about   the
beautiful   things   that   my  contemporaries
care  about.    It  is  a most hopeful  omen
^or the  future of your generation."    Mr.
Hamilton,    the   "young   American,"    was
among Mrs. Berenson's aVidience.
Prefacing her comments on the separate
pictures, Mrs. Berenson said, "If I had an
art gallery I would exclude everything ex-
cept masterpieces. Lesser pictures I "would
relegate to a kind of art-laboratory or mu-
seum where they would serve as specimens. �
The purpose of a collection should be to
educate taste rather than form a complete
history of painting. The collection I am
going to speak to you about "was formed
on this principle."
Artists as familiar as .Fra Angelico,
Perugino, Francia, Botticelli and Fra Fillipo
Lippi arc represented in Mr. Hamilton's
collection, ,l>eside less well-known artists
such- as Utile da Faenza, who was first
studied, by Mr. and Mrs. Berenson.
"You   will  never  enjoy  a picture  until
you put by your own  idea of the world
and try to see with the eyes of the painter."
Of a Verrochio Madonna, Mrs. � Berenson
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DEBATE DECIDE8 HOME RULE 18
BETTER THAN INDEPENDENCE
Irish Question the Subject of Third*
Contest Conducted by Debating Club
That "Dominion Home Rule is better for
Ireland  than complete independence"  was
decided in the debate held in Taylor Hall
on Monday night.
The speakers in the affirmative were:
M. Brauns/'24; O. Pell, '22, and M. Mc-
Rae, '24-; alternatives: M. Crosby, '22, and
M. Cary, '23. The negative speakers were:
E. Molitur, '24; 5. McDaniel, '23, and A.
Fraser, '23; alternatives: G. Rhoads, *22,
and N. Fitzgerald, '23.
The chief point made' by tie affirmative
was that England treated Ireland we". �*nd
by the negative that England treated Ireland
poorly. The judges, Dr. David, Associate
Professor of History; B. Kellogg, '2J, and
M. TfStder, '24, criticized their drawing their
conclusions from this side of the question.
They considered the arguments, as a whole,
lacking in logic and authoritative informa-
tion, and also felt that the fundamentals were
not squarely faced. The vote among the
judges was two to one for the affirmative
side. They admitted that this side was the
easier, although they based their decision
on the merits of the discussion. S. Mc-
Daniel, '23, was praised for her fund of
nformation.                                     � '.
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