College News, 1922-03-08, Vol. 08, No. 16

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�    Copyright, 1922, by The College News
Volume VT1I.   No. 16.
WEEK-END CONFERENCE
STRESSES NEED OF RELIGION
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�Christian Dynamics Discussed by Mr.
Sam Shoemaker and Miss A. Landon
* i'hc individuals need of religion was
the note stressed by the Christian Asso-
1 ciation Conference uoder'Mr. Sam Shoe
maker and Miss A. Landon, '19, of Grace
Church, New York, which took place
last  week-end.
Going on,  Saturday evening   Mr.   Shoe-
maker asked:   "Where do we find Chris
tian Dynamic?"    In  Christ  above  all,  in
His humanity and the moral conflicts oi
His life was the answer.
Compared with the sight of Buddha
crouched in thought, his eyes turned in-
ward, the contemplation of Christ upon
the Cross becomes a revelation more
than ever convincing, asserted Mr. Shoe-
maker, going on to describe the disciples
and what they thought of the Master,
who believed so earnestly in the "worth-
whiteness" of man. Simple fishermen,
knowing little of metaphysics,' they were
fired by" His will and by His deeds.
"Either Jesus was deceived about Him-
self, or a willing imposter or God."
The Bible and prayer furnish further
evidence of Christian dynamic. Es-
pecially "the four gospels try to give
us a clean window into the soul of
Christ." "Prayer," he defined as "a dis-
covery of God's will by listening and
thinking in His presence."
Mr. Shoemaker spoke for the first time
on Saturday morning. "Irreligion has
gone as far as it can go, and it hasn't
done much for people"; he said, "The.
-psychological method can't be turned
into a philosophy, and the swing back
is coming now�people feel hungry for
something they don't know. If we are
to believe that the business of life is to
follow instincts, there is no place to
stop, but�sin is true and we are con-
scious of what is sinning." He then
took up the question of over indulgence
and surfeit of pleasure and classed them
as "not wicked but a giving in and break-
ing down of the morale." All selfish-
ness and drifting he denounced, because
they keep one from being a useful force
in the world. "The universal way out
of all this" he concluded, "is religion,
the turning to Christ, and people are
coming to find that out."
"The Church, such as it is, is a great
experience for many people, but it be-
comes mechanical without an uncondi-
tional surrender to the Will of Christ.
It is a partnership where we are the
junior partner, and it's finer to come into
it by a decision of will, than to drift into
it," concluded Mr. Shoemaker. He con-
siders that-80 per cent, is a conservative
estimate of those who hesitate coming
into the church�"not a museum but a
hospital," fof fear of how far it will take
them.
"We are facing life for ourselves," said
Miss Landon in the opening meeting on
Friday night. We must decide the prin-
ciples we are to live by. We have need
of God for ourselves and in-our relation-
ships to other people. There should be
a power to translate wishes into action,
a Christian dynamic to be a guiding
force in our lives. Many people simply
drift through life accepting Christian
principles but not applying them to the
full limit. To really help others we must
first help ourselves. We find we need
God's help as it is very easy to fail in
honesty, purity, unselfishness, and in
love.
In conclusion, Miss Landon said that,
although  we  are  born  with a spiritual
BRYN MAWR, PA.f WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1922
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Price 10 Cents
UNDERGRAD MAKES REVISIONS
� OF PARADE NIGHT RULES
New Regulations Concern Choice of
Tune and*Words
Revision of parade night rules and a dis-
cussion of the hygiene course was the busi-
ness before the meeting of the Undergrad-
uate Association on Monday evening,
February 27 in the chapel.
The rules as revised and passed now are:
1.  The Juniors, give the tune and instruct
the band, otherwise they have no part
whatever/m the *activities.
2.  Parade night .takes place Wednesday,
8 P. M.
3.  There is to l>e no activity in regard to
parade night l>efore 9 A. M. Monday, ex-
cept the choosing of the tune by ,the
Juniors.
4.  No activities may take place beyond
Yarrow Road.
5.  No force may be used by any class
against any other class, force includes lock-
ing door or window.
6.  The Freshmen may not use the United
States post office in connection with parade
night; the Sophomores, therefore, may not
�pen United States mail.
7.  The only time a Sophomore must
leave a Freshman is when the Freshman is
alone in a room and requests the Sopho-
more to leave: two roommates in their own
suite count as one person.
8.  Fifty of the Freshman class must
know the words and tune so that they are
able to sing ib without printed words when
they start from Pembroke arch.
9.  When the tune and words have once
bee'n chosen they may not be changed either
by Juniors or Freshmen.      *
10.  The Freshmen are not allowed to
learn their song or do anything in regard
.to parade night at a class meeting.   A song
practice is not obligatory.
11.  Sophomores must get the words and
decide on one tune.
12.  Sophomores may not parody the song
after the band has begun to play.
CESAR FRANCK SUBJECT FIFTH
MUSICAL RECITAL
Piano Quintet Played at Next to Last
of Recital Series
Cesar    Franck's    Piano    Quintet,    "the
piece most characteristic of his very' best
Work,"  was   the   subject of  the recital   in
Taylor Hall on Monday night.   �
' Mr. Surette, the director of the Depart-
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IBSEN'S    "LADY     FROM    THE    SEA"
CHOICE OF  SENIOR  CLA8S
Departing from its Victorian tradi-
tion, 1922 has chosen "The Lady from
trie Sea," by Henrik Ibsen, for Senior
play to be presented April 22. It is a
colorful drama of Norwegian family life
in which the lure of the sea if the pre-
dominant note. There are eight speak
ing parts.
The committee which laid the sugges-
tion before the class was headed by E
Hobdy. D. Wells, K. Peek, E. Finch
and V. Grace were the other members
Casting is beginning this week under the
direction of O. Howard, chairman, S
Hand, K. Peek,. V. Liddell and J
Palache.
instinct, it will never become real and
vital unless we do something about it.
We must go to people who have really
studied. We must test out our prin-
ciples by life and experience and with
the help of others. We will never be
truly happy until we endeavor to find
out where we stand and try to live vital
lives.                                             �
. In Vespers on Sunday evening, Miss
Landon summed up the main points she and
Mr. Shoemaker had made, which they
wished to leave with their audiences.
Interviews were given by Miss Landon
on Saturday morning and by both Miss
Landon and Mr. Shoemaker in the
afternoon.
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ment of Music, began Jjke recital by
sketch of Cesar Franck^life (1822-1890),
and an explanation of his connection with
the other musicians with whom the course
has dealt. "Cesar Franck was born at a
most interesting period; Mendelssohn,
Urahms, Schumann and Tschaikowsky were
his contemporaries, who all came as natural
successors in the development of the path
of music which we haVe been tracing,
which goes back through Brahms, Bee-
thoven and Mozart to the polyphonetic
music of the Roman Catholic Church and
old folk tunes. But Cesar Franck was not
a direct successor of these, he is outside
them and goes straight back to the six-
teenth century, when, the art of counter-
point reached its height, and he leaves out
the stream of folk songs which supplied
Ihe others. His music is thus essentialy
different from that Chamber Music which
reached a sort of conclusion in Brahms,
who restored its architectonics and united
it with the romance. Cesar Franck con-
tributes something due to himself entirely
�he unifies the movements, his themes are
internally transferred and he uses an
introduction.
"Personally, Cesar Franck was a very
shy man, a recluse, a devout believer and
more especially a mystic 'who dwelt apart.'
He was -known during his life as an or-
ganist rather than a composer, and his asso-
ciates thought- as little of him as others.
His fame spr�ad through his disciple
D'Indy, and before he died he was, through
D'Indi, known and appreciated. A story of
Cesar Franck told by an old pupil of his
very charmingly illustrates his simplicity
and unselfishness. This lady, then a girl
in a Paris convent, wanted to learn to
play and arranged with the Mother
Superior for lessons. Cesar Franck, who
was then a poor music teacher, was' sent
for; when the girl came in he did not
ask her how many lessons or what teach-
ers she had had, he simply sat down and
played for her, asking, at the finish, 'Do
you think  I will'do?'
"Of his musid as a whole it may be said
that it is worse and better than any of
the other great composers'; he essayed
things for which he had no talent and
only suddenly toward the end of his life
did he do that extraordinary work which
is destined to live as all great music. The
poorest things he has done are full of
rhythm and action for dancing; his best
music has a certain spiritualized quality
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION *
EXPECTEDBY EUROPEANS
Mrs. Raymond Robins, President of"
I.C.W.W.,Describes Geneva Meeting
<T and
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r.DR. JULIEN CHAMPEN0I8 TO 8PEAK
ON FRENCH  LITERATURE
"Recent Changes in French Literature"
will be the subject of an address to be
given by Monsieur Julien Champenois in
chapel on .Saturday evening, under the
auspices of  the  French Club.
Dr. Champenois is the director of the
section of the ministry oi Public Instruc-
tion, dealing with interchange of professors
and students between France and other
countries. Before the war he was profes-
sor of French literature at Bedford Col-
lege, London.
The European tour for American stu-
dent* is headed by Monsieur Champenois,
and after the lecture an opportunity to
meet him will be given to everyone inter-
ested in the tour.
Americans are all rich, the men all work
and the women all sit in automobiles or
rooking chairs, according to most Euro-
peans, said Mrs. Raymond Robins, the
president of the National Woman's Trade
Union League, in her lecture in Taylor
Hall last. Friday. Mrs. Robins is well
qualified to speak on European views, for
she has just returned from Europe, where
she went to summon the second Interna-
tional Congress of Working Women, which
took place at Geneva and over which she
presided.
This Congress was attended by repre-
sentatives from nineteen countries. It
took up the questions of disarmament,
anthrax, white lead, shorter working day,
annual holiday, resolution for Ireland and
resolution for the famine sufferers in Rus-
sia. The most important thing of all, ac-
cording to Mrs. Robins, was the "getting-
together." A great deal of the Congress'
times was employed in drawing up the con-
stitution, which aimed to "raise the stand-
ard of living of the working people,"
more significant yet, Mrs. Robins
which stated that it might be changed at
any time. This International Congress is
"one channel through which international
understanding can flow" and its importance
is being recognized, at last by the leaders of
men's trade unions, who now are anxious
to co-operate with it.
Qovernment Lacka Real Democracy
Mrs. Robins gave descriptions and opin-
ions of the leaders who were present and
said that the fact that impressed her per-
haps the most was "how few there are on
top" and how unhesitatingly and unques-
tioningly these were obeyed so that in
Europe "all the joy of the fellowship of
the road, all recognition of a possibility of
difference, is lost." "Europe has the
leaders," she said, "but we have the stimu-
lus of common hope and common faith
In Europe they can do nothing until they
have the tool, in Amcrica we get to work
at once even without the tool."
The unemployment story abroad is tragic,
except for Germany, Mrs. Robins said, and
it is all blamed on the. treaty of Versailles.
The condition of the agricultural workers
in France and Italy is the worst They
sleep in the same, unimproved houses and
barns their ancestors slept and lived in five
hundred years ago and there seems to be
"no money anywhere" For the most part,
they will have nothing to do with their
governments; do not seem to realize in
them a possible means of help, and wait
.only "for the revolution. Mrs. Robins said
^hat she couldn't predict whether an indus-
trial revolution was really coming or not�
"but," she said, "great things will happen,
as soon "as the unemployment is settled."
In closing, Mrs. Robins said, "The labor
world wants, no{ facts, but a revolutionary
spirit. Ther/ >s a tremendous gift of
leadership in America's prohibitions. What
we need is the gift of speech, for this
means the gift of intfrpretation!" Mrs.
Robins answered questions after her lecture
and spoke informally in the*evening in, �
Pembroke. Here she gave some of her
views on disarmament and the necessity of
outlawing all wars except revolutionary
wars.         *
Freshmen who continue in the News
competition are: M. Constant, M. Brown,
H. Hough, H. Herrmann, D. C. Shipley,
Extra class periods for Mr. Terrone's
E Smith, P. Stewardson, M. Nagle, J.
Gregory, E. Watts, K. Starr, V. Lomas.