College News, 1921-11-16, Vol. 08, No. 07

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College
Volume VIII.    No. 7.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1921
Price 10 Cents
EUROPEAN  STUDENTS FACING
STARVATION�KEEP IDEALS
AMERICA'S JOB TO FEED BODIES
AND  RE-ESTABLISH  CREDIT
Mr. Fullerton  Waldo  Gives'Vivid
Picture of Bolshevick System
Drawing from "his own experiences,
Mr. Fullerton-Waldo, musical, critic on
the Public Ledger,, gave a graphic ac-
count of the conditions under which the
students of Central Europe are maintain-
ing their intellectual ideals. Mr. Waldo
has recently returned from a trip through
Central Europe.
In Vienna 50 per cent, of the children
are suffering from malnutrition, 90 per
cent, from tuberculosis of some form,
Mr. W3ldo reported. "These children
are craving the excitement that comes
from vile movie shows largely because
their bodies are starved. In one group
of buildings half the size of the Bryn
Mawr College- buildings, I found 19,000
people living. 'You'd better not take
your dog in there,' I was warned. 'People
are so hungry they might seize him and
put him in the pot.' Typical of the situ-
ation is the case of one student inter-
viewed by Mr. Waldo, who had had no
food for thirty-six hours. Added to the
danger of starvation the students have
no money to buy fuel or clothes. Pro-
fessor Schlossberg, of Copenhagen, told
Mr. Waldo that he had been lecturing
in a stone-cold room to students who
were bundled up in all the clothing*they
possessed, sitting on the floor because
all the benches had been burned for fire-
wood. The instructor in Buddhist phi-
losophy at the University of Petrograd
lost his' job under the Bolsheviki and
had become a drug addict, like many
others students in these countries, in
order to escape from his suffering.
"W* have two big jobs, according
to Hoover and Schwab," said Mr. Waldo.
"Fifst to feed the bodies of these peo-
ple, and second to re-establish the credit.
A spool of J. P. Coates thread costs
87# cents, or three days' wages," he ex-
plained. "Before the war two rubels were
worth a little more than a dollar. Dr.
Emily McCloud, of the staff of the Mas-
sachusetts General Hospital, recently
bought 1,000,000 rubels for $1 in the
Crimea. In Russia-a year ago, I bought
20,000 rubels for $1, but this sum, equal
to $10,000 in pre-war terms, scarcely
bought a frugal meal.
"In the educational system under the
Bolsheviki," Mr. Waldo said, "They are
deliberately ramming in atheism. Scien-
tists are having a particularly hard time,
as they are supposed to tag on to every
lecture something to show that there is no
God. 'Bolshevism is the rule of tne rude
and the ape-like and the vulgar at the ex^
pense of the refined and the delicate,'" he
quoted.
"Have   you   no   heart ?"   Mrs. 6> Murray
asked Tala Pasha, the Turkish official who
was   responsible   for   driving   scores   of
Armenians  into the  Bosphorous, and for
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CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION PLANS STUDENT HANDS RESOLUTIONS
BUDGET FOR COMING YEAR
Five Funds to Receive Subscriptions
The budget for 1921-22 was discussed in
the Christian Association meeting held on
Monday evening, and a sense of the-meet-
ing was taken as to the funds that should
be subscribed to by the members of the
Christian Association. Subscriptions will
be sentl to the Students' Friendship, Fund,
Bates Wouse, Community Center, Dr.
James' Hospital and Miss Tsuda's school.
The Student Friendship Fund is included
this year for the first time in the list.
According to E. Vincent, '23, who ad-
dressed the meeting, the Fund gives relief
to the students in Central Europe, strug-
gling under almost insufferable"" conditions
to gain a necessary' training. "The recoV
ery of Europe," sajd Miss Vincent, "de-
pends so much on the education of the
people that it is almost impossible to con-
ceive what its future will be if the present
generation of students are unable to obtain
an education." It is a work in which our
students by helping those of Europe will
be able to help solve the present world
problems,  r
"Bates House," declared If. Faries, '24,
"is the only thing that Bryn Mawr supports
entirely. It means-a great deal to the chil-
dren, who, while they are there, get
stronger, healthier, and* actually gain
pounds in weight." Bates House this year
will need even more money than it did last,
because many things, such as mattresses,
have been worn out and must be replaced.
E. Rhodes, '23, reported that the out-
look for the Community Center work was
beginning to be more hopeful. A new head
arrived on Tuesday, and although .the
finances are not good, there is enough to
keep the Center, with a reduced staff, work-
ing for three months.
A report received from Dr. James, con-
cerning her hospital, was outlined by E.
Hobdy, '22. "Two records have"" been
broken this year," said Miss Hobdy. "The
hospital has been kept open for twelve
months during the last year, and in the
cold months three rooms were kept heated.
There is a new assistant in the hospital
who performs not only clinical duties but
all the odd jobs, besides. The children
treated for tuberculosis are pathetic little
figures. A picture was sent of 'Billy' be-
fore he had been to the hospital, and of
'Billy' afterwards. ..The difference was
striking. The unfortunate part, however,
was that 'Billy' did not wish to leave the
hospital, after he was cured. Yet he could
not be kept because it meant using an
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TO PRESIDENT HARDING
Interviews Secretary of State Hughes
President Harding last Thursday received
from the hand of a student delc'gatc a
copy of the resolutions passed at the all-
Bryn Mawr disarmament mass meeting,
held in the gymnasium on November 8.
This delegate, Elizabeth Vincent, '23, also
had a minute's private interview with Sec-
retary of State J^Highes, to whom she like-
wise handed fc copy of the resolutions.
Arriving at the White House at about a
quarter of one, Miss Vincent was told by
Mr. Harding's secretary that she might see
the. President at one o'clock. The Amer-
ican Advisory Commission to the Confer-
ence, which includes General Pershins, Mr.
Gompcrs, and many others, among whom
are four women, were admitted to the
President's office immediately before one.
When they had finished their interview a
number of people filed through the room
to meet Mr. Harding, Miss Vincent went
with this group.
At the State Department Miss Vincent
had an appointment "with Mr. Hughes, who
opened the resolutions and read then? in
her � presence. He expressed satisfaction
that the students of Bryn Mawr should
take such an interest in the Conference,
and Miss Vincent assured him that their
interest was very genuine.
According 'to Miss Vincent, the resolu-
tions will, be sent to the other delegates
and to the women on the advisory com-
mission.
FRESHMEN  ELECT OFFICERS OF
"SEMINARY   FAME"
BRYN   MAWR  CONTRIBUTES TO
DISARMAMENT FUND
A hundred and thirty-five dollars was
pledged last Tuesday night at the disarma-
ment meeting as a result of an appeal made
by M. Speer, '22, for the Executive Com-
mittee of the two Intercollegiate Disarma-
ment Conferences. One hundred dollars
is being pledged by each of the large col-
leges for carrying on disarmament propa-
ganda, securing good speakers, etc., during
the conference at Washington. Bryn
Mawr's contribution, through a gift of
President Thomas, amounts to $200.
WELFARE BUDGET DRIVE TO BE
PU8HED AT BRYN MAWR
From Monday to Friday of this week
has been set apart for the drive of the
Welfare Federation of Philadelphia, to
raise an annual budget of 125 city organ-
izations. Miss Barrett is in charge of
the drive in the schools of*Bryn Mawr
and will work at College through the
World Citizenship Committee. Thurs-
day morning in chapel an outsider -will
explain the drive.                      %
Institutions such as the Red Cross,
hospitals, settlements, and child welfare
organizations will be contributed through
this single drive, which is to be repeated
every year, and in this way a great waste
of time, money, labor and promiscuous
giving will be avoided. In fifty out of
the fifty-two cities in which this plan
has been tried, it has been successful
and iircreased the number of contribu-
tors. In Philadelphia last year only 5
per cent, of the citizens contributed to
charity.
Miss Austin Hsld Many Class and
Athletic Positions at School
Elizabeth Worrel Austin, elected presi-
dent of the Freshman class last Wednes-
day, whY take her place on the College
Council fo^the year 1921-22. Vice-presi-
dent and treasurer of the class are' Susan
Carey and Virginia McCullough.
Miss Austin, who lives in Philadelphia,
went to Miss Irwin's School at Overbrook,
where she held the positions of Athletic
Association treasurer, tennis manager and
winner of the tennis cup, Senior class
treasurer and president of the Debating
Club.
Miss Carey is the sister of M. Carey, '20,
who was president of her class both Fresh-
man and Senior years. Miss Carey is
from the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore,
where she was tennis captain, treasurer of
the Athletic Association, and president of
Student Government. She was one of the
members of the Freshman Committee this
year.
As a member of the Advisory Board at
Miss Baldwin's, and as Senior president,
Miss McCullough, who comes from Nor-
folk, Va., was a prominent member of the
school.
BACH  GREATEST,MIND EVER '
APPLIED TO COMPOSING      *
MR. SURRETT GIVE8 FIR8T LECTURE
RECITAL TO CROWDED AUDIENCE
Piano  and   Violin   Illustration   Win
Hearty Applause
"My lectures are to be based on the prin-
ciple that all anyone needs to understand
good music is to hear it, and hear it often
IDEALISM  COMMENDED  BY
�          DR. OILMAN, IN CHAPEL
Examinations are not the important
things in life, nor a pedagogical mastery of
petty details, but an effort to get hold of
the things that are worth while, "the brg
things," according to Dr. Bruce Oilman,
president of Queens College, in chapel on
Sunday night.
"And the big things," he said, "are made
by the idealists. Dreams last though
dreamers are slain. This vitality of the
truth is what makes Christianity possible
For the faith behind religion lasts though
forms change. When you think of religion
do not think of the little quarrels over its
many variations but the things for which
it stands�joy, peace, rest and life."
enough," said Mr. Thomas Whitney Sur-
^retf, director of the Department of Music,
opening his first lecture recital in Taylor
Hall last Monday evening. Mr. Surrctt's-
lecture, which dealt with Bach, wls illus-
trated by Mr. Horace Alwyn, associate '
professor of music, and by Mr. Thaddeus
Rich, of the Rich String Quartet, who
played the Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue
for piano, and the Contata for violin and
piano in F minor.
Before taking, up the discussion of Bach,
Mr. Surrett made a few introductory ex-�
planations. Music, he asserted, must not
be translated into terms other than itself.
It is the medium of composers' reaction to
life; the tragedy and comedy of life it
expresses in terms of sound and rhythm�
of itself, in other words. Rhythm is one
key to music? "Do not look for sentiment
in music; but energy, which expresses itself
in rhythm," he admonished.
because of certain qualities of aloof-
ness, of impersonality and of serenity, Bach
is the greatest mind that ever applied it-
self to the art of composing,"* Mr. Surrett
asserted. The opposite type of mind is
best illustrated in those modern novelists
who see the world only personally.
"Bach, as though he held the world as
a crystal ball in his hand, sees everything,
feels everything, knows everything."
Though he lived an uneventful life in a
small group, though he was unrecognized
during his life, and published his music
only aTrare intervals, printing it himself,
"(except Bach) there is no composer, some
of whose works have not begun to dim."
"And yet," Mr. Surrett went on, "the
public shakes its head doubtfully and calls
Bach academic and dull. There is only one
reason for this; the idiom, like Chaucer's,
is hard to understand. In itself the music
is not for a select few, but for everybody.
Nobody hasa, better or a greater message
than John Sebastian Bach."
He wrote all forms of music The
Chromatic Fantasie consists of two parts;
the first,- as its name implies, being no
strict form, but a sort of improvisation in
which the imagination runs unchecked.
The second part is a fugue, which, Mr.
Surrett explained, is the only perfect form
in music, corresponding to the sonnet in
poetry.
Mr. Alwyn then played the Fantasie. He
was enthusiastically applauded by the
audience.
Mr. Surrett analyzed the sonata for violin
and piano in part by playing parts of it to
illustrate his points. It was written, he
{.said, when the sonata form was just emerg-
ing from the suite of dance pieces written
all in the same key and combined for play-
ing. Since then the sonata has tended to
become more and more a series of move-
ments expressing different moods but aim-
ing to give a unified impression.
"A piece of music to be truly great, must
be inconclusive at the start. Like any other
thing that exists in time, it must have
something from which to grow." The fifth
sonata, Mr. Surrett showed, illustrated this.
The rendering of this sonata by Mr.
Alwyn and Mr. Rich ended the program,
and drew long and hearty applause from
the audience.
. The next lecture recital, which will deal
with Mozart, will be held in the chapel on
December 12

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