College News, 1921-12-14, Vol. 08, No. 10

              College
Volume VIII.   No. 10.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1921
Price 10 Cents
LIBERAL MEETING CONDEMNS
COMPULSORY CHAPEL
Mrs.    Smith     Explains     National
League for' Women Voters.
Chapel attendance, reasons for and
against compulsory chapel and suggestions
, for an effective alternative were the basis
of lively informal discussion at the Liberal
Qub. meeting held last Saturday evening.
The outcome was a recommendation to the
Chrjftian Association that statistics be
taken fiT regard to the number of people
willing to pledge themselves to support
chapel, and a sense of the meeting to find
how many favored a chapel before a stu-
dents' building. The result of this sense
of the meeting was twelve in favor, six
against, and eight not voting.
Chief reasons for non-attendance at
chapel, it was decided, are: (1) similarity
between the chapel service and lectures, of
which there are already too many at Col-
lege; (2) the unattractiveness and discom-
fort of the present chapel; (3) carelessness
of people who are really willing to go to
chapel; (4) the fact that there are a num-
ber of people who do not want to go to
chapel because they get no benefit from it,
or because they do not go to church at
home, and (5) frequent disappointment in
chapel sermons.
The worst kind of compulsory chapel, it
was agreed, is that of dragging in people
from the halls to make an audience after
the service has begun. Giving up chapel
altogether would be harmful to the reputa-
tion of the College, and wotild probably
ruin the possibility of a chapel being
donated. As there was a strong feeling
against forcing attendance on those who do
not want to go to chapel, a sort of volun-
tary pledge of attendance for a certain
number of Sundays out of the month was
generally thought to be the only practical
solution. For this reason it was recom-
mended to the Christian Association to get
statistics as a basis for working out such
a plan.
LeagueAVomen Voters Explained
At, the close of the discussion; Mrs.
Smith professor of economics, spoke to
the Club about the Bryn Mawr College
branch of the National" League for Women
Voters, which held a meeting tonight to
hear the report of a- State conference lately
held in Wilkes-Barre. Students over
twenty-one, said Mrs. Smith, who would
be interested in the local political ques-
tions studied by the Bryn Mawr branch, or
who would like to bring the questions rela-
tive to their own States, are eligible for
membership in the League. The College
branch, which now includes only members
of the faculty, would be glad to have the
students join them, Mrs. Smith announced.
Meetings are to be held about once every
six weeks throughout the year.
It was decided before the meeting broke
up that a study of/the Far Eastern
questions germane to 6ie Washington Con-
ference should be discussed at the next
meeting of the Qub.
DISCUSSION OF WEEK ENDS AT
f SELF-GQVEr^ENT MEETING
To  be   No   Restriction  at  Present
Final discussion of week-ends, followed
by the report of the Self-Government Con-
ference held at Simmons for all colleges
east of the Mississippi, on November 9,
took place at a meeting of the Self-
Government Association last Tuesday.
-Miss Gardner, speaking in behalf of the
Board, declared that they wished to drop
the matter of regulating week-ends until
the question had been thoroughly studied
under normal conditions. As the result of
investigations it has been found that only
one-fifth of the College have taken more
than four week-ends a semester, for both
social and necessary purposes. Only in
the mjnority of cases has the standard of
work been lowered. At the end of each
month the head procters will report the
number of over-night absences, giving the
reasons for such absences.
Bryn Mawr was represented at the'Con-
ference at Simmons College by K Gardner,
'22, president of the Association for Self-
Government, and J. Burgess, '22, president
of the Undergraduate Association. The
questions discussed were, drinking at
proms in girls' and men's colleges, and try-
ing to get self-government in the prepara-
tory schools. The importance of this last
problem is particularly felt at fblleges
where there is a large incoming class, who
are at first unable" to Understand the spirit
of self-government. A committee Was ap-
pointed to look into the matter.
CYCLIC FORM MUSIC BROUGHT
TO PERFECTION BY MOZART
MR.  SURETTE   LECTURES  BEFORE
PACKED AUDIENCE IN CHAPEL
Illustrations made from Piano Quartet
"Mozart marks the. culmination of the
classic form in music, and his position
ts comparable only to that of Raphael
painting," began  Mr. Thomas Whit-
TRUE CULTURE DESCRIBED BY
FRENCH LECTURE
in
CHRISTMAS CHAPEL TO BE LEAD BY
DR.  HUGH  BLACK
Christmas chapel, next Sunday, will be
lead by the Rev. Hugh Black, of Montclair,
New Jersey.
Dr.' Black was born in Scotland and
preached there until 1906. He has degjees
from Yale, Princeton and Glasgow Uni-
versities. Since 1906, Dr. Black has been
a professor of practical theology in the
Union Theological Seminary. He is the
author of "Friendship," and other books,
three of which are in the College library*
A Russian carol from the opera, "Christ-
mas Night," by Rimsky-Korsakoff Blinos,
and a sanctus will be sung by the choir.
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REPRESENTATIVE OF THOUSANDS
OF JAPANESE WOMEN  SPEAKS
Mrs. H. M. Inouye, the chairman of
Japanese Women's Peace Association and
dean of the Japanese Women's University
in Tokyo, spoke in chapel last Wednesday
morning, giving the reasons why Japanese
women support the program for disarma-
ment. Mrs. Inouye came to- Ihis country
as the representative of the Association
of which she is chairman, and with Mrs.
Yazima presented the petition for disarma-
ment signed by 50,000 leading Japanese
women to Mr. Hughes and-other members
of the Peace Conference..
War is the destroyer of all that women
foster and protect," said Mrs. Inouye.
[�"Women are not fulfilling their mission if
they support it. They wish to bring their
children up tb serve the world but they
cannot if their children must see nations
continually fighting each other." Her
speech ended by an appeal from the Jap-
anese women to the women of America to
support every measure for the reduction of
armaments.                                   ,
lira, Inouyefcwas for several years a stu-
dent at Columbia. After leaving Bryn
Mawr last Thursday she went to several
other Eastern colleges to study their
methods with the purpose of bringing the
standards of vhe Japan Women's Univer-
sity up to American standards. Mrs.
Inouye was particularly interested in Bryn
Mawr, said Mrs. Inouye's hostess, Mrs.
Alys Russell, because both Bryn Mawr and
its president are so well known in Japan.
Mrs. Inouye will visit the conference of
the Federation of University Women,
which meets in Paris next summer. Ulti-
mately she hopes to form a federation of
the university women of Japan, and then
to federate this organization with the In-
ternational Organization of University
Women. ��
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ney Surrett, director of the Department
of Music, in opening his second lecture
racital in Taylor Hall last Monday eve-
ning. The lecture, with Mozart for" its
subject, was illustrated by the Piano'
O^rartet in G Minor, played by Mr.
Horace Alwyn, associate professor of
music; Mr. Thaddeus Rich, of the Rich
String Quartet, and Mr. Romain Verney
and Mr. Hans Kindler, of the Philadel-
phia Symphony Orchestra.
"Between Bach and Mozart an im-
Iportant change took place," continued
Mr. Surrett. "The music of Bach is
that of a great thinker, but with Haydn,
who followed, the element of folk-music
was introduced. Moreover, Haydn was
the chief agent in creating the cyclic
form of composition, where three or
four parts are put together successively
to make up the whole, and it was this
type of music in which Mozart excels
and which he brings to the point of per-
fection. People say that Mozart is 'too
simple' because he gives them nothing
of the modern sensations in music�his
themes are polished, conscious, elegant,
full of artistry�they fail to appreciate
the full significance of the rhythmic en-
tity of his compositionv-Tunally his har-
monie| are very beautiful, clear, pellucid,
well defined and in all he is completely
the objective composer and reveals noth-
ing  of  himself."
In introduction to the playing of the
quartet, Mr. Surrett explained the form
of the composition. "All symphonies
are monodic mainly, though in places
they are distinctly polyphonic," he as-
serted, and went on to explain the ele-
ments of the three movements. The first
movement of a sonata or symphony
starts with .the exposition of the two
themes of the composition, then develops
them through the use of their rhythmic
possibilities, and ends finally with the
restatement of the themes in* their
changed and amplified forms. "All good
music must get somewhere," said Mr.
Surrey, "and its development is vital
when a great man does it."
Mr. Surrett then analyzed the first
movement of the quartet by having parts
played to illustrate the treatment of the
themes. Similarly he analyzed the sec-
ond and third movements and showed
that the second is slow, sentimental, and
slightly ornate, and very lovely, while
the last is a rondo, which requires care-
ful attention for full appreciation as it
contains "more things than. m.�.t. the
ear."
The program concluded with the play-
ing of the quartet by Mr. Alwyn, Mr.
Rich, Mr. Verney, and Mr. Kindler,
who drew a deeply felt applause from
the audience.
The next lecture recital, which will
deal with Brahms, will be held in the
chapel on January 16.
Exaggerations of Society to be Offset
By  Culture
"La Culture' was the subject chosen by
Monsieur Andre Maurice, assocAate^pro-
fessor of French at Harvard, for a lecture
given Friday evening under the auspices of
the French Club.
The significance of the word changes
with the change in society, said Monsieur
Maurice, and can neither be defined ex-
actly, nor organized as a science. To find
out the true meaning of the word" today, the
essential characteristics of our civilization
must be considered. "There are three facts
which we cannot escape," he explained.
"These arc: Democracy, which demands
that the individual shall develop to become
useful to the group; the necessity to
specialize in order to succeed; and the com-
plexity of life today, shown in the broad
and   receptive   taste   of   the   generation.
#
Books by Bernard Shaw and Pierre Loti
are seen side by side without consideration
as� to whether they have- anything in
common."
Intelligent Curiosity Stressed
To counterbalance the effects of such a
civilization, culture must develop individual
character, permit free use of faculties,
which would otherwise be cramped by too
rigid a specialization, and give a certain
order to a society, which tends toward
disorganization.
"Develop the habit of thinking well,"
said Monsieur Maurice, describing the
methods by which such a "culture" could
be-obtained. "Descartes, himself, found
it took a life time to learn reason. We are
unable to think, we cannot collect, weigh,
and organize our ideas. We reason, to
quote a certain soldier, like a cracked drum.
Intelligent curiosity will also aid us in
building up culture, it will show us what
we know and what we do not know- Cul-
ture, furthermore, must be not only an
external thing; it must influence our more
intimate life."
Owing to the loss of his notes Monsieur
Maurice ' changed his subject, originally
planned to be "La Conversation."
INTERCOLLEGIATE  MAGAZINE
MA-KES FIRST APPEARANCE
(Reprinted from the Wellesley News)
The efforts of students from various col-
leges* to combine the best work from their
literary magazines into one  number each
month "has finally resulted in the Intercol-
legiate Magazine, the first number of which
has just been issued by the Princeton Uni-
versity Press.   This magazine is the result
of the efforts of Ruth Metzger, editor�of
the Wellesley College Magazine in 1920-21,
who proposed  its formation last year at
the Intercollegiate Conference of Magazine
Editors.
The magazine, however, is not as_yet an
official organ of the colleges and has been
issued as an independent venture. Its pur-
pose is to put on the news stands a college
magazine .which will contain the best ex-
amples of ��der~� * -^rte^Ao^jghL^^Priocc-
ton, Radcliffe, Oberlin, Harvard, an<i Wel-
lesley are associated in the first number,
which is made up of one-act, plays, verse,
and essays. A short poem by Ruth
Schlivek, a longer one by Marjorie Pack-
ard, and two examples of free verse by an
author who signs herself "Kent," are the
contributions of Wellesley to this" first
number of the magazine. �-.�-�