College News, 1921-10-19, Vol. 08, No. 03

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THE COLLEGE  NEWS
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L.  K.   Bowers,   '23, and  F.   Begg,  '24,
�were assistant editors for this week.
The Next War
� "Armored with' such liquids ihc airman
of the next war will not need a machint
gun. ... All he need do is to attach ?
sprayer to the tail of his machine and rail
down poison on the earth as the farme:
kills the bugs, on his potato field. On-
plailC carrying two tons of the. liquid coul< ;
cover an area 100 feet wide by seven mile
long and could deposit enough material t
kill every man in that area by action ot"
his skin." This graphic picture of the nex
war appears in a description of yhe govern
ment exhibit lately held in Washington t<
"show the American people what the chem-
ist has done for them and may do for them
in war and peace." The picture is correct.
There is no doubt that the next war will
be just so. And there is no doubt, either,
that there will be a next war�if the Wash-
ington conference fails.
It is the fashion nowadays to be cynical,
if only because it is easier to be cynical
than to think. It is easier to accept the next
war and to talk about it than to probe
among ugly difficulties for a hope of peace.
A whole people, taking this easiest way,
can annul by its indifference, distrust, hos-
tility, the sincerest. efforts of its leaders;
just as it can dictate the country's policy
by determined public opinion forcibly
expressed.
In the question of disarmament every
student at Bryn Mawr is as much con-
cerned as any other citizen of the country.
She has an advantage over most others, be-
cause she is going to be given a chance of
expressing her opinion. Her obligation
then is to know what she is saying. Shall
Bryn Mawr shrug its shoulders and talk
lightly of the next war?
WORLD  CITIZENSHIP  PLANS
LECTURES ON WORLD PEACE
Dr. Robert* May Open Course
International problems will be discussed
in a series of lectures which is being ar-
ranged by the World Citizenship Commit-
tee for Wednesday evenings in the latter
part of the semester.   The committee hopes
have Dr. Roberts, of the Church of the
Pilgrims, Brookline, to open the course.
Dr. Roberts gave a course at Silver Bay
and is the author of several books. He
will probably lecture on the spirit of inter-
national peace, and is expected on the 6th
or the ithh of November.
Aspects, of the question which will be
taken up in the foljowing lectures will in-
clude the new frontiers and new states of
Central Europe and the Near East, Repa-
rations, Latin America, and Russia. Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt will speak on the
general subject of the peace on the Wednes-
day after Thanksgiving.
-'WeCatiDoIt.
Non-Coma.
Very few of us can be "big bugs," asso-
ciation presidents, class officers or Varsity
players. But it is we who have "made"
them "what they are today," and. it is on
us that their success or failure depends.
No plan of theirs can work unless we arc
willing to help it and only by our whole-
hearted and emphatically expressed ap*
proval can they gain courage to keep on.
With the comparative amount of time we
have, it is our duty to be constantly on
the watch for new plans, and suggestions
to improve old ones. By attending to petty
details we must leave them free for the
big issues.       �Baaji
Our share in their victory can be just
as great as we are willing to make it. And
when their duties become almost unbear-
able it is our place to be more than ever
on the alert to assure them of our faith
and co-operation; and, if need be, bring
Varsity its breakfast in bed.
Hail Britannia!
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The much talked of and long awaited
All-England Women's Hockey Team ar-
rived on the "Haverford" last Sunday and
plays its first match in this country,tomor-
row afternoon at the Germantown Cricket
Club against the 1920 All-Philadelphia
Team. It is not every day that the British,
who have played hockey longer than any
of us can remember and in many different
countries, consider it worth while to make
a toifr of the United States, and Bryn
Mawr, in the hockey-playing center of the
country, is especially" fortunate in having
two matches scheduled with them. �
Unique in.never having played together
before as a team, the British women, of
whom six arc international players, were
chosen by a "Hockey Council" from all
parts of, England, so that their quality can
hardly be doubted. Their coming will cer-
tainly arouse a new and keener interest in
the gamo, but before that results, Bryn
Mawr needs to take some steps towards
becoming intelligent on* the common phases
of the game, and putting itself in good
condition. �
Language aa it is Studied
To" read French and German at sigit"�
or any two languages, is indeed a worthy
object, and has been provided for in "New"
and "Old" plans, summer reading, "year-
lies," and "Junior languages." These are
all very well in their way, but'~th�y are
bound with a system which is as unjust as
it is futile. If the student taking the re-
quired examination fails to get high credit,
she is automatically obliged to tutor. .This
tutoring amounts tQ two^r more hours of
work a week, and as it is taken by nearly
everyone, is time that could be better spent
in a seventeen-hour course. Furthermore,
the tutoring is aimless, having ^io imme-
diate examination in view. Would it not
be more effective, then, to have a second
condition examination within a few months
of the first, for which students would pre-
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE
The following articles throw light on
different phases of the question of dis-
armament. They are to be found on the
shelves of the periodical' room in the
library.
"The Washington Conference," Leyland,
Nineteenth Century Review, September,
1921, page 393.
"America and the Freedom of the Seas,"
Fortnightly Review, September, 1921, page
396.
"Britain, Japan and the United States,"
same,'July, 1921, page 14.
"The Japanese Equation," "The Japanese
Situation," Weekly Review, September 10,
1921
"The Backbone of the Conference,"
same, September 17, 1921.
"China at Washington," same, Septem-
ber 24, 1921.
"The Conference at Washington, Its
Economic Aspects," Simonds' Review of
Reviews, October  1921, page 371.
"Hughes and the Conference," same,
page 378.
"Divided China and the Disarmament
Conference," Nation, October 19, 1921, page
449.
"The A B C's of Disarmament" in week-
day and Sunday numbers of the New York
Times, beginning on October 2, 1921.
DR. ABBOTT 8EES MOTHERHOOD
AS COLLEGE  GIRL'S  AIM
From the "New York Times"
Speaking at a luncheon of several hun-
dred Vaster Alumnae in New York last
Friday, Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor...of* The
Outlook, and a memlier of the National
Advisory Committee, compared men's and
women's colleges.
"When a man's college needs help," Doc- .
tor Abbott said, "the graduate is told that
his Alma Mater needs aid. I am sorry for
the man who does not answer to the appeal
of his mother at the time of her distress.
"Vassar does not send out women to be-
s
come great doctors, lawyers, scientists,
business administrators or money makers.
It has been- doing something better than
that. It has been educating women to be
great mothers. We can estimate in dollars
and cents the worth of.a lawyer or finan-
cier, but it is impossible to estimate the
worth of a mother."
HARVARD  HAS COURSE IN CHINESE
THEY OWN THEIR OWN
(Clipping From. "St. Ignatius Post")
Montana, October, 1921
Some of the local school teachers (the
Misses Kales and Porter, of the Hillside
School, and Kellogg and Archbald, of the
St. Ignatius School) now own collectively
a new Ford car, with all the fancy trim-
mings, which they purchased last week
through Dishmon and Hoffman, the local
Ford dealers.
A number of the young automobile
drivers about town had anticipated an op-
portunity to teach the j-irls how to manage
their new jitney, but- a garage mac
greasy overalls, and married, was chosen
for the job, to the great disgust of the
aforesaid youths.
From the "New York Times"
For the first time in forty years Harvard
University will offer a course in the Chi-
nese language during the second semester
in February. Dr. Yuen Ken Chao, who has
been teaching physics at Cornell University,
has accepted an appointment at Harvard as
instructor in philosophy.
Dr, Chao, a native of Shanghai, was
graduated from Cornell in 1914 and took
his Doctor's Degree in Logic at Harvard
two years later. The course which he will
give in philosophy will be in the Chinese
tongue. No such course has been given at
Harvard since the days of Ko-Kun-hua,
who taught Chinese from 1879-1882 through
the generosity of Francis P. Knight, of
Boston, who raised a subscription in 1877
to maintain a teacher of Mandarin
Chinese.
pare themselves on their own responsibility,
as in all other subjects? This would mean
a saving of time and effort for other work
throughout the year.
IN   THE   NEW  BOOK   ROOM
Six "books of the summer" are in the
new book room at the easy disposal of stu-
dents whose vacations were spent out of
reach of Scribner's and Brcntano's. . These
are:
Thirteen  Travellers, by Hugo Walpole.
Sisters-in-Law, by Gertrude Atherton.
Back to Methuselah, by Bernard Shaw.
White Shadows of the South Seas, by
Frederick O'Brien.
The Mirrors of Downing Street, by the
Gentleman with a Duster, and
^ue*n~V$orio, %f'Lyiton St'racney." '     **
Another book, The Mirrors of Washing-
ton, though not on the new book shelf, also
came out this summer, and is more inter-
esting to Americans than the Mirrors of
Downing Street, since the characters ,it
sketches are naturally more familiar. The
chapter on Senator Knox is especially in-
teresting in the Ught of his recent decease.