College News, 1923-04-17, Vol. 09, No. 21

              Copyright. 1922. by Thi Cou.i.ci Ntwi
News
Volume IX. No. 21
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 17,  1923
Price 10 Cents

UPPER CUSSES MAY WALK
AND RIDE FOR EXERCISE
Alterations in Athletic  Rules May
Be Temporary; No Change
for Lower Classes
NOigEXERCISE - ON   SUNDAY
Plans for changing the exercise require-
ments for Juniors and Seniors, which came
mto effect after vacation and ar� to be
tried for one yoar, were read at a meeting
of the Athletic Association on April 9.
The requirements for Freshmen and Soph-
omores are to remain as they fire now.
The regulations are:
I.   That four periods of exercise be re-
quired throughout the year.
II.   That with the following restrictions,
students may choose walking in addition to
any form of physical training now offered
by the College, or may choose riding if
they have obtained permission from their
parents:
(a)   That  of  the   four* periods   required
per week, at least two must be
physical training.
(b)   That students signing up for com-
petitive hockey in.the fall and com-
petitive basketball in the spring
must register at least an average of
two practices weekly.
(c)   That  students   signing up   for  com-
petitive water polo in the winter
must register at least an average ol
one practice weekly.
(ill That students who sign up for swim-
ming, or water polo, or both, in the
winter, must register at least two
periods weekly taken not in the
pool.
(e)   That students who sign up for track
%       or swimming must register at least
six practices in the three weeks be-
fore the meet in which .they arc
entering, exceptions being made in
track this season.                ,
(f)    That students may postpone one
period of physical training for one
week, but may never postpone walks
or rides.                            �
(g)   That like other exercise, no walking
or riding may be registered if taken
on Sunday.
A period of walking "is interpreted to
consist of not less than one and one-half
hours consecutive walking, which may in-
clude no errands. A period of riding to
consist of at least one hour's consecutive
riding. By "physical training" is meant
every kind of exercise, competitive and
non-competitive, now offered by the
College.
CLASSES SPEND  EXCESSIVE  AMOUNTS ON  NON-ESSENTIALS
(Statement by Special, Cmnmittee of Class   treasurers)
Too rrj^n money is being spent by the classes upon non-essentials. Elabora-
tion in par^^ and plays are increasing class dues every year, and the excessive
amount spent may be seen from the figures below, compiled by the class treasurers.
Ignorance of the actual totals is one cause of this; others are carelessness, and the
extravagance due to precedent and class pride. What can we do about it? All
suggestions gratefully received.
'(Signed)�M. Adams '23, M. Angcll '24, H. Hough '25, W. Dodd '26.
The statistics drawn up by this Committee are as follows:     -
Freshman         Sophomore      Sophomore           Junior
Show                  Play                Dance                Show
1923*..................               $405.56              $143.22              $315.48
1924 .........____$600.00            �  645.67                235.26                625.23
192j ............     476.57                451.32                192.76               ......
LITERATURE EXAMINATION
DEMANDS WIDE KNOWLEDGE
Announcement of Prizes to be Made
in Chapel on May Day
*�______
The general literature examination, set
every year by a committee of the Faculty,
,\as given in' Taylor last Tuesday night.
Prizes of $75. $50 and $25 for the three
best papers will be announced on May Day.
Thirty-nine papers were handed in to the
;ommittec.
According   to   Miss   Hughes,   a  member
of   the   committee,   one   of   the   answers
which    pleased    her    most   placed    Alice's
descent through  the rabbit hole as one of
he six descents to the lower world.
The questions on the papers were:
1.    Criticize.thc following questions:
f.   As the Blbk says, "God tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb."
2.    As Longfellow says, "Life is but an
empty dream."
3.    In    the    words    of    the    immortal
Shakespeare, "Richard is himself again."
2.    Mention six descents to the lower
world, and give the purpose of each.
3.    In what works are the following fea-
tures prominent: (1) the Pilgrim's Scrip,
(2) a muff. (3) a laundry list, (4) a horo-
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"LADY FREDERICK "TO BE
GIVEN TO 1924 BY SENIORS
Lower Classes and Outsiders will be
Invited to Second Performance
With Monte Carlo and its gaming tables
looming in the background, W. Somerset
Maughan's play, "Lady Frederick," will
be given by the Seniors to 1924 on Friday
night in the Gymnasium. The play will
be followed by Junior-Senior Supper. The
following night the Seniors will give the
play for the College.
"Lady Frederick," a "play in three acts
by an Englishman, ihe author of "The
Circle" and other modern productions was
chosen on the suggestion of President Park.
The title-role will be taken by H. Hum-
phreys, while the leading man, a gentle-
man of uncertain age who, in the course
of his career, has run through two for-
tunes, will 1* played by K. Strauss. F.
Vincent and A. Fraser will also take im-
portant parts.
Several of the costumes are lent to the
Seniors by Mary Walls, New York, who
is having an exhibit at the Bellevue-Strat-
ford on April 18-21. , Prizes for scats
are: reserved $1.25, unreserved $1.00 for
outsider! and, reserved $1.00, unreserved
75 cents for students.
CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE  HELD
HERE
Public Problems Discussed in Relation to
Women  Voters
GOLDEN   LEAF  SOCIAL  CLUB  AND
LAMBS  CLUB TO  GIVE  PLAY
"f( Bit of Abyssinia," is the title of the
musical comedy which the Maids' Golden
Leaf Social Club and the Men's Lambs
Club will given in the gymnasium on
April 28.
The employees gave the play in the vil-
lage a short time ago, and are repeating
the performance for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr employees' night school, known
as Co-operative School.    Tickets  for stu-
dents in the gallery will be at thirty-five
ernts apiece. Dancing fo� the maids, the
porters, and their friends will follow. Paul
Johnson of Rockefeller is coaching the
production.
1
A large and interested aifdiencc gathered
o discuss problems and hear lectures in
politics, finance, and party government, at
lie Conference on Citizenship held here on
April 6 and 7, under the combined auspice*
>f the Pennsylvania League of Women
Voters, the Women's Clubs of the neigh-
borhood, and the College.
Three "courses" were given, each with
two lectures followed by discussion. Dr.
Charles G. Fenwick, Professor of Econom-
�cs and Politics, lectured on "Legislative
and Executive Problems." In the discus-
sion, such questions as proportional repre-
sentation and direct primaries were brought
i]i Dr. William Roy Smith, Professor of
History, gave a course on "Political Parties
and Plat forms," including the major parties
and third party movements and blocs. This
was followed by excited discussion of the
-ampaign of 1924. Dr. Lindsey Rogers, of
Columbia, lectured on "Direct and Indirect {
Taxation." a subject related to the Friday
luncheon speech on the tariff by Mr. Byron
Holt, for many years Chairman of the
Federal   Tariff Commission.
The anniversary of the entrance of
America into the war was observed Friday
evening at a meeting on "America's Inter-
national Policy." Mr. Roland Morris,
rhairman of the meeting, spoke about, rela-
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PROCEEDS  OF   MAY   DAY  TO  GO  TO
STUDENTS  BUILDING
Ring Committee  Report  Read  at
Undergraduate Meeting
May Day is to be given.next year. This
was the decision reached at the meeting of
the 1'ndergraduatc Association, held in
Taylor on March 27. A report on the de-
sign for a College ring was also read.
The motion to give May Day next year,
passed without discussion, was followed by
the decision to devote the proceeds of the
performance to the Students Building
Fund. The meeting then voted to invite
the Alumnae to co-operate in the drive for
this fund, and Mrs. Otis Skinner to help
with the production. In order that all
undergraduates may put as much time as
possible into preparation all class plays ex-
cept Freshman Show, which will take the
form of a skit, will be given up next year.
Mary Palachc '24, chairman of the Ring
Committee, reported that several design*
slightly changing the original ring had been
submitted by Bailey, Banks and Biddle, and
that sample rings would lie passed about
in the halls where people might vote for
the one they liked.
RADICAL BRAHMAN SPEAKS
BEFORE LIBERAL CLUB
"East and  West   Must  Meet"  is
Dhan Ghopal Mukerji's Answer
for World Problems
INDIA'S    SOUL    IN    DANGER
It has been requested that no flowers be
sent for Senior Play. The class of 1921
sent money for flowers, but the money is
to be given to Bates House.
"India and the Western Civilization con-
flict over the time-process. We don't'be-
lieve in it, yet it is one of the fundamentals
of your life," said Dhan Ghopal Mukerji.
who spoke on India in the Graduate Club
Room on Sunday, under the auspices of th�
Liberal Club. -Mr. Mukerji, who is a hjgh
class Brahman, graduated from Leland
Stanford University. He is now living in
New York with his American wife, study-
ing philosophy, writing and lecturing on
Indian problems.
"When 1 was quite young," he saW, "my
Country was far different from what it is
today. India is rapidly becoming barbar-
ized by the craze for speed. Last year we
bought 30,000 Fords. When as a boy, I
was apprenticed to a holy man, he once
said, 'the Western races believe that the
road we travel has an end" and that they
must get there first. We know that the
road- has no end, so we need not hurry.'
In the difference of these conceptions lies
theareal conflict between the two races. You
never understand our spirituality, we can-
not appreciate the value you place on time.
Yet both conceptions are human, conse-
quently real, and tlWrcfore botbsshould be
qualified by each other.                   '
"The system of Eutfn education has
been very unlike the Western type. India
has 6,000,000 beggars, but they are lectur-
ers, and the culture of Indbi is in their
hands. Half of my early education was
obtained from such men, the other half
from my mother, who could neither read
nor write. My mother thought that any-
one who could count over 100 was too for-
ward to Ik- a lady. She kept our great
verses in her mind, and considered the
printed page a barrier between the heart,
which was king, and the mind, his palace.
For lessons, she recited verses to me and
I retold her their content. Reading and
writing is a peculiar disease of modern
times. We use it, as the Chinese use
opium, to avoid thinking.
"Today Indian "women are free. They
are voters, although their franchise is lim-
ited. The men, too, feel a new sense of
equality, but the girls arc worse than the
boys. Boys will sit still and smoke a
cigarette, but the girls won't. They are
busy trying to free their country. The
people feel that unless they set an example
of democracy and freedom, the country it-
self' will never be free. At present it is
a horrid democracy, with everybody loving
everybody. You get tired of embracing
your brother and sister every day and want
a little time by yourself."
"No   Indian,     Mr.   Mukerji   continued,
"believes in politicians, social reformers, or'
missionaries.   The only man who can really
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SOPHOMORES GIVE  INFORMAL
DANCE TO 8ENIORS
Seniors and Sophomores, in costumes
ranging from knickers to evening dress,
danced )ast Saturday night in the gym-
nasium. By charging twenty-five cents
admission to everyone except Sophomores
and Seniors, and selling ice cream cones,
the Sophomores raised $24 toward a Sum-
mer School Scholarship. Bridge was played
in the adjoining room and the ice cream
sold downstairs was later taken to the
halls in the wheel-chair
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