College News, 1922-04-26, Vol. 08, No. 21

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Volume VIII.    No? 21. -------------------------------------__.-------:------------	BRYN  MAWR,	PA.	WEDNESDAY. ^----------------,--------------	APRIL 26.	1922	�               �	�Price 10 Cents
CELEBRATION FOR DR. SCOTT MRS. SCHWARTZ GIVES  TALK
BRINGS MANY TO BRYN MAWR
Dr. Alfred  Whitehead   Speaks
Theories of Relativity
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DR. SCOTT GUEST OF  HONOR AT
DINNER
Nearly 200 guests gathered at Bryn Mawr
to attend the Mathematical Celebration,
held last Tuesday in honor of Dr. Scott
on the completion of her thirty-seven years
as head of the Department of Mathe-
matics. A mathematical meeting, at which
Dr. Whitehead, of England, spoke, a tea,
and a dinner were given  for her.
The mathematical meeting, which was
held in Taylor Hall, at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, was opened by an address of
welcome by l'resident Thomas and by an
introductory address by Miss Marion
Reilly, following which Dr. Alfred North
Whitehead read a pamphlet on "Some
Principles of Physical Science." Dr. White-
head is Professor of Applied Mathematics
in the Imperial College of Science, South
Kensington, London, and came to America
for the purpose of presenting this pamphlet,
hitherto withheld from publication, at this
celebration for Dr. Scott, to whom it is
dedicated.
Dr. Whitehead's dissertation dealt with
his theories of relativity and gravitation
and with the application of group tensors
to the formulation of physical laws.   "Start-
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�BUNNY  JIM" AND  FELLOWSHIP
ANNOUNCEMENTS DRAW NEAR
ON COMING PRIMARIES
League of Women Voters Endorses
Clean  Politics and Education
Next  Monday   Date of  May  Day Award*
and Celebration*            -  .
"Sunny Jim," Senior prizes, graduate
fellows and scholars and undergraduate
scholarships will be announced in chapel
on Monday, May 1, the morning of the
usual May-Day celebration.
"Sunny Jim," the winner of the Mary
Helen Ritchje Memorial Prize, must pos-
sess, according to the qualifications of last
year, the following qualities: "That she be
a good student who shows interest in her
work, but need not necessarily be in the.
upper half; that she possess the qualities
of courage, cheerfulness, fair-mindedness,
�good" sportsmanship; that her influence be
widely felt, and that she have the courage
to live up to her own convictions and lie
respected by all." This prize was won in
1921 by Marynia Foote, President of the
Undergraduate Association.            %
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"Since women have begun to vote, in-
terest in the primaries has been aroused as
never before," said Mrs. H. L. Schwartz,
of the League of Women Voters, who gave
an informal talk on the candidates for the
approaching May primaries, last Thursday
night in the dean's office.
Mrs. Schwartz discussed the candidates
for national and state nominations. Mr.
George W. Pepper, the well-known Phila-
delphia!!, and Major Keed, prominent in
adjustment of war claims, will probably lie
the Republican nominees for Senators from
the Eastern and Western part of the State.
The Democrats arc united in proposing
Judge Schull, of Stroudsburg, and Mr.
kcrr.
Of the three probable candidates for- the
governorship,�"Mr. Alter and Mr. Pinchot
are running for the RepuMicanjnominaiion,
Mr. Alter, according to Mrs. Schwartz, is
a constitutional lawyer, who has never
stood for any particularly progressive laws.
Yet be is backed by the Sprotil and Yarc
factions. Mr. Pinchot has made an ad-
mirable record in his forestry work. After
excellent service as head of the National
Department, he resigned on account of a
difficulty -mer Alaskan lands and became
head of the State Department. He is inde-
pendent of the machine, relying entirely on
his personal following. "He is erratic,"
Mrs. Schwartz' asserted, "but a really good
candidate." For the first time, the Demo-
crats have-agreed upon a candidate for the
nomination before the primaries, and are
proposing only one man, Mr. John Mc-
Sparren.
� The candidates for Congressman .frf>m
the Ninth Congressional District are: Mr.
Fried, Democrat, whose record is unknown;
and, of course, Mr. Watson, who, despite
his insignificant recprd, has no opponent
in the Republican, Party.
"Only   one  legislator  is   sent   from   this
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HARVARD GLEE CLUB CONCERT
INTERESTING MUSICAL EVENT
Program of Unusually Good .Music
Rendered with Fine Feeling
The Harvard Glee Hub concert, last
Wednesday, in the Academy of Music, WAS
one of the most interesting; musical events
of the whole season�interesting not only
from the artistic point of view, but .also
from its significance in regard to the posi-
tion music is taking and will take in the
large universities and colleges. The usual
j college glee club concert is generally a
hotch-potch (so-called) of humorous or
vapidly sentimental ditties, interspersed
with mandolin selections of the most ob-
vious and unworthy type, with an occa-
sional solo, usually of the standard of "My
Little Gray Home in the West." and kin-
dred ballads. What a revolution in stan-
dards, then, is it to find a glee club of a
university not only announcing a program
containing; works by such composers as
Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Franck and such
moderns as Klorcnt Schmitt and Milhatul,
but performing it with such artistic finish
and excellence as did the Harvard Glee
Club under the conductorship of Dr. Archi-
bald T. Davison.
It was obvious to the most casual ob-
server that the Harvard men did not sing
with such enthusiasm and fine feeling for the
spirit of the music merely because of their
splendid training by Dr. Davison, but be-
cause they enjoyed every note of what they
sang and felt that they were participating
in pioneer work) of the first order and, as
such, felt the moral responsibility to give
of their best, which the interpretation of
all  great music imposes.
This, I think, is the far greater side of
the   work   which   Dr.   Davison   is   doing�
that he has been able to endow these men
with a love for and understanding of great
music, beyond the  fact  of giving pleasure
to  a passing audience.     It  is  safe   to say
that   other   Universities   and   Colleges   will
eventually he compelled to come into line
with the work of the Harvard Club and to
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SENIOR'S   LAST   PLAY  SUBTLE
STUDY OF CHARACTER CHANGE
"Lady from the Sea" has weirdness
and depth of Ibsen drama
Octavia  Howard  in Leading Part
THE  LADY  FROM  THE  SEA
SENIOR PLAY
Nothing in man's mental equipment is
more delicately balanced than the wilL Its
nortrtal action is often unexpected; and
when, passing beyond the normal, the will
becomes pathological, its varied manifesta-
tions frequently appear inexplicable.  Those
the so-called weak-willed�who cannot
sufficiently fix their attention dYi a given
end so as to bring about that end develop
neurotic conditions and lay themselves open
t<> influence of wills stronger than their
own. Only when one raises the counter
suggestion, namely, that they can choose
for themselves, are they released from the
tyranny of the stronger personality.
Such a situation, it seems to me, Ibsen
portrays in The Lady from the Sea; such
a situation is the only one which can ex-
plain Ellida's sudden change in the fifth
�ct. In life it is often difficult to be con-
vinced that a person's character and aims
can change completely. Seen on the stage,
it is doubly difficult to believe. Our minds
have been reaching out to comprehend the
character in a certain aspect and are slow
to grasp a complete reversal of that aspect.
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GLEE  CLUB  REHEARSING  FOR
GONDOLIERS NEXT WEEK
L.   Grim   and   M.   Minott   Take  Leading
Parts in Tale of Old Venetian Life
.   Seniors  Secrifice  of   Flowere  Neta Three  Hundred  Dollars for Bates
The Seniors have given $300.25 to Bates House through their request that
the mpney usually spent on Senior Play flowers be sent {p the Hates House
Committee. Rockefeller's contribution was' $13.75; $112 were collected in
Pembroke-West; $51.75- in Pembroke-East; $54.25 in Radnor; $34 in Meriou;
$32.50 in Denbigh, and $12 were received from the class of 1922.
The Glee Club has also reojsjjf ted that ^flowers" be sent to Bates House.
The profit made from their two performances will be given to the same
charity.
Gilbert and Sullivan's "King of the Gon-
doliers or King'of Barataria," is the oper-
etta chosen for this year'9 annual Glee
Club performance.
It is the story of Caselda the daughter
of  the  Duke and Duchess of Plaza.
Married in her infancy to the son of
the King who is now lost, Caselda is
in love with the drummer boy, Luiz, but
prepares to marry one of the Gondoliers,
whom the Grand Inquisitor thinks is the
Priftce in disguise. The Gondolier, know-
ing nothing of his nohle birth, has already
married one of the Contadina. Thus every
�one is made happy when it turns out
through fnez, the foster nurse, that the
drummer boy Luiz is the Prince after all,
and that the Gondolier can go back to his
own much loved through humble life.
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