College News, 1923-02-28, Vol. 09, No. 16

              The College News
Copyriaht 1922. brTHE Colligi Niwi                                                                                            ^        ^
Copyright, 1922, by Tai Coma Niws
Volume IX.    No. 16.
.BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY'28 1923
Price  10 Cents
SUMMER SCHOOL'COMPLETES SENI0RS HANG GR�en banner
PLANS FOR ANOTHER YEAR     0NGYM F0R WATER ***
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Fifty Local Groups Now Organized
to Recruit Students and get Funds
Alumnae Helps in Work
NEED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
(Specially Contributed by Miss Uil'ddSmith,
Director of the Summer School)
Two days of sub-committee meetings,
followed by the regular meeting; of the
Joint Administrative Committee on Febru-
ary 17 and 18, resulted in many important
Win Final Game With Close Score
After Exciting Struggle
After Monday's game, the most spectac-
ular and exciting one -of the season, in
which the Senior first water polo team,
barely conquered the Juniors by a 4-3
score, the Green banner waves triumphantly
from the gymnasium, marking the official
close of the water polo season.
Roth sides played a little wildly as the
game opened, but soon sobered down to
steady fighting after the swift shot sent
diagonally th^lftlgli llie goal by H. R"ice,
, '2i.   The powerful combination of H. Rice,
decisions for the Summer School of 1923,' r   \n/�   i        i \i   \i             �->>
,           .    �                     ,  ,               .     .        )� Ward, and  M. Mcscrvc, 23, who used a
and practically completed  its organization.!   .   �      *                             ,   ..      *__t      * h
.                .      r    .                ,           .            I chain   lormation,   caused   the   Junior   full-
As a  result of  the   winters  work,  new1,     ,      c<%_   ,,,��:��,,�      n    Ar��...    .,�,
committees have been organized and are:
at work in many centers throughout the!
country, making in all about fifty local
groups which are now actively engaged in
recruiting students and in raising the schol-
arship fund. The South is now organized,
with Chairmen in at least ten cities, who
will recruit students in the great tobacco
and cotton industries of the Southern
States, and try to raise scholarships for
these workers to come to the School.
When one remembers the limited educa-
tional opportunities that these workers have
had, and the fact that in many of the
mills they are working from ten to twelve
hours a day, one begins to realize what it
must mean for one of these workers even
to consider going away to School. All
the weight of social tradition and of eco-
nomic pressure is against such a step, and
it is only the most eager and ambitious
girl who can hope to succeccTin her struggle
for further education. In the face of the
greatest obstacles, our students of the past
two years have gone on with their studies,,
and have interested groups of their fellow
workers. A public library, started by one
of our last year's students in "a mill town
where hardly a book has been seen before,
is only one of the many signs in the South
that it was worth while to have our group
of southern students in the School last
year.
In the middle wes^, too, there are new
committees at work in the important dis-
tricts of Gcveland, Cincinnati and Detroit.
Out on the coast, the organization has been
strengthened by our local chairmen, and
from Seattle to Los Angeles plans arc on
foot to find the most able girls for the
School this summer. Again the question
has been raised whether it is not too great
an undertaking to send students from the
coast to Bryn Mawr, and again the decision
has been that these students in returning to
California* and the Northwest have
brought back such a definite contribution
and have so stimulated the whole western
rvement for workers' education, that it
worth while to send them, until some
western college may find it possible to
conduct a similar School.
New York, Pennsylvania, New England,
Chicago and St. Louis all report that appli-
cations for the School arc coming in, and
that whenever possible these new candi-
dates have started work in some study
class as prcparatjon for the School, and
as signifying their real interest in further
education. It is the opinion of the Ad-
missions' Committee that any girl who can
attend a night class regularly, after a day
of factory work, and shows ability and
sinccritj_pf purpose, is worthy of consid-
eration for a place in the Summer School.
From a preliminary study of the applica-
tions now coming in, it is evident that the
School group this year will be of an un-
usually high type.    It will  be due to the
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backs some difficulty. D. Meserve, par-
ticularly skillful in evading S. Leewitz, '24,
took up a position near the goal and con-
sequently had an excellent vantage point
for shooting. E. Tuttlc, '24, played a for-
midable game and enabled K. Elston to
shoot the only even goal scored during the
first half. 1924's fullbacks were successful
at obtaining the ball, but were so slow in
shooting that the quicker Green forwards
were often able to knock it out of their
hands  in the act of throwing.
During the second half the Light Blue
team rallied tremendously. Hy determined
fighting, in- which they ducked their op-
ponents repeatedly, they forced the ball in
front of the Green goal and kept it there
in spite of the fierce attack of V. Corse,
and the heroic defense of F. Martin, until
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SENIOR   PLAY  SELECTED
/.d(/y Frederick, by W. Somerset
Maugham, the, author of The Circle and
Easi of Suec, has been chosen for
Senior Play] The play was produced in
New York some years ago with Ethel
Barrymorc in the leading role. The
principal parts will be taken by H.
Humphries. K. Strauss. L. K. Bh\\it>,
E. Vincent A. Frestr; A. Smith, and
V. Cor>e.
ACADEMY ART EXHIBITION IS
CRITICISED BY MISS KING
FOURTH   MUSIC  RECITAL  AND  LEC-
TURE  IS  ON CESAR  FRANCK
Mr.  Surette Speaks�Pauline  Taylor and
Mr. Alwyne Play
Beginning with an historical sketch of
Cesar Franck, Mr. Surette went on to give
a descriptive analysis of his Prelude,
Chorale and Fugue for the piano and his
Sonata in A for piano and violin, which
were rendered by Miss Pauline Thaycr and
Mr. Horace'Alwyne.
Cesar Franck, said Mr. Surette, started
his career as an organist in a Paris
church. During the middle of his life he
composed very bad music�no composer
has ever done worse. But in his last ten
years he seems to have found himself.
The Prelude, Chorale and Fugue which Mr.
Alwyne played, was his finest piece for the
piano. - His sonata in A is not an orthodox
sonata in that it has more than two themes.
The last movement is extraordinary, bring*
Paintings   Show    Greater . [Promise
Than They Have in Many Years
"The Academy Art Exhibition is better
than it has been for a long time�unusually
full of hope and promise," said Miss
Georgiana King, Director of the Depart-
ment of Art, when she spoke lieforc a
large audience .in chapel last Friday
morning.
Commenting upon the exhibition in gen-
eral, Miss King called attention to some
unusual effects in arrangement which show
that the Hanging Committee has at last
awakened, and to the predominance o:'
paintings of American Indians, whose in
spiration seems to have followed the ad-
vice of D. H. kawrencc's "Back to Monte-
zuma."
Speaking of the paintings themselves,
she continued, "My satisfaction was not
prevented by such offense and inanity as
Mr.   William   Paxton's   portrait   of   Mrs.
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DR. JAMES LEUBA SPEAKS
ON PSYCHOANALYSIS
Freudian   Theory   Condemned] for
Exaggeration That Has Broken
Down "Barriers of the Mind"
LARGE    AUDIENCE    ATTENDS
TUTENKHAMON'S    TOMB    REVEALS
ART OF PECULIARLY STIRRING
PERIOD
New Finds  May Throw Light on Artistic
Relations With  Crete
(Specially contributed by Dr. Rhys Car-
penter, continued from last week)
In those days there used to come to
Egypt, as tribute-bearing subjects or as
independent traders, a people from an
island in the sea. That island we now
call Crete and its ancient inhabitants wf
now recognize as an artistically highlv
gifted people. It is clear that they in-
fluenced the art of Akhnaton's time and
that their fresh and unconstrained outlook
would have"appealed to that strangely tin
Egyptian person. The Cretan influence
seems, however, to have been negligible
except in pottery and painting; and Crete
Dr. James H. Leuba addressed an audi-
ence in the chapel last Friday evening on
"Psychoanalysis and Frcudism," explaining
the Freudian psychology and criticizing it.
It is printed below with many, orfffssions.
Mi'st'of the illustrations of the Freudian
theories have.had  to be omitted.
"It is a rare exception," began Dr. Leuba,
"when a movement originating with men
of science spreads with the swiftness char-
acteristic of contagious religious beliefs�
of Christian Science, for instance, Psy-
choanalysis is such an exception. It is no
longer only the physician and the psycholo-
gist who talk alxwt repression, complexes,
the censor, transference, etc. The Freu-
dian vocabulary has become a household
vocabulary; it is heard in clubs, on the
streets, and even in the flirtatious conver-
sations of our young people. Psychoanal-
ysis is a method pf curing certain human
disorders. But the widespread interest
aroused by the Freudian psychology is not
entirely derived from a natural curiosity t
in whatever promises a restoration to
health.    The opportunity it gives to dwell
ing up  to a well-managed climax all   the   jn turn appears to have learned more than
moods,   revealing   them   and   interweaving
the whole with a cannon.
MEMBERS OF MOSCOW THEATRE TO
LECTURE HER'E
Two members of the Company of the
Moscow Art Theatre, will speak here at
two o'clock, March 12, under the auspices
of the Liberal Club, on the theory of dra-
matic expression as worked out in their
theatre. One of the speakers is the Direc
tor of the School of Dramatic Expression
of the Art Company and both are members
of the cast.
A out will be given to all people who
have two o'clock classes on that day, ac-
cording to C. Goddard, '23, President of
the Liberal Club, who has made arrange-
ments with the office.
There will be a meeting of the Under-
graduate Association in Taylor Hall to-
morrow at 7.30 for the discussion of a new
dsHgn far College Rings.
she  taught.
Perhaps the new finds "will throw more-
light on these mutual artistic relations o!
Egypt and Crete. In any case they will
�give a great deal of insight into the artis-
tic achievements of a peculiarly stirring
period (and it must Ik? remembered that
the art of Egypt is not much given to being
stirred). By all accounts the objects in
Tutenkhamon's tomb arc so rich and so
beautiful that nothing like them has ever
Iiefons- been seen by modern eyes. Wilr
they prove to be so wonderful as to justify
the act of that strange heretic whose mem
ory the Egyptians so soon cursed because
he had suffered the Egyptian empire to
fall to pieces, caring only for art and foi
his poetical, unpractical, and beautiful con-
ception of God? His son-in-law, Tutenk-
hamon, seems to have renounced this new
conception of God, but to have taken with
him as much of the art as could be stuffed-
into    the    rock-hewn    chambers    opposite
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on the alluring mysteries of  sex-life and
in particular of its abnormalities, accounts
for much of the  fascination exerted upon
man, both young and old, by the teaching
of   this   school.    There   is  a third   reason
for the popular success of Freudism, that
is   its  conception   of   human  nature.    Ac-
cording   to  its  teaching,   the  mind   is not
the open book which most of us take it to
be. *In addition to Jhe thoughts, the feel-
ings, and the purposes  of which you  are
aware as your own, there is going on in
you,    and    simultaneously,    a   current   of
thoughts,   feelings   and   desires   of   which
you   know   nothing   and   which   determine
much of your behavior.    It is this hidden
unconscious    activity    that    causes    your
tongue or your pen to slip, that produces
your dreams,  and  that   is  responsible  for
strange psycho-neurotic diseases and even
for several classes of insanity.    According
to this view of the mind, most, if not all
your past  is ever with you�and most of
it lives a subterranean, I mean a conscious
existence of  which you are not aware�
ever   ready   cunningly   to   interfere   with
your'conscious purposes, so that your overt
speeches and actions are often mere pup-
pets of a deeper, more primitive, and non-
moral  self,  the existence of which  is  re-
vealed only to those who possess the psy-
choanalytical key.                                          \
"One would rejoice at these features if
this psychology was in  its essential traits
true  and -helpful.    Unfortunately,  it con^
tains, together with much truth borrowed
from the already established psychology, a
considerable portion of  exaggerations and
even of. radically  false theory.    The fact
that   the   important   Freudians,   here   and
abroad, are not professional  psychologists
should be borne in mind when one attempts
to estimate the significance of the united
opposition of men of  science to much in
the Freudian theories.    Freudism is an off-
spring, albeit perhaps an illegitimate off-
spring, of a great scientific movement orig-
inating with physiologists, psychiatrists, an!
physicians;  a movement  which, because it
seems to subordinate matter to mind, has
also   provided   the   impetus   for  a   variety
of powerful religious sects.
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