College News, 1923-11-07, Vol. 10, No. 06

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*   BRYN MAWR*. PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1923
Volume X.    No. 6
Price 10 Cents
PRESIDENT-EMERITUS THOMAS, WHO  RETURNED TO THE  DEANERY TODAY
DR. PINCKNEY HILL DISCUSSES
NEGRO PROBLEM IN AMERICA
History of Negro a Struggle Against
Great Obstacles
The negro problem in America was the
subject of the speech made by Dr. Pinck-
ney Hill, president of the Negro1 Training
School at Cheyney, to the Liberal Club in
the Graduate Club Room in Denbigh on
October 30.
Dr. Hill began by a general history of
freedom and the negro. The Ten Com-
mandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the
Magna Charta, -the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and the Constitution of the
United States arcthc most important doc-
uments of the world, according to him, as
they are the great declarations of liberty
and independence, and augment and ad-
vance the sum total of human well-being.
He added that scholars everywhere have
agreed that truth is only a means of
achieving freedom and that all men are
men made after the image of the Creator.
All have the right to growth, in so far as
an individual is able to grow. -
For hundreds of years our country,
which was magnificently cornjniMrit to these
principles, toolT'trie"f�(f, but at the same
time it set about establishing a system of
slavery*, which was against all right and
truth. The true history of the horror of
the slave trade in Africa has never been
told.    In America for three hundred years
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UNDERGRADUATE MEETING
CHANGES COMMITTEES
Decide That Board Shall Install Safe
For General Purposes
Motions in regard to the Summer School,
the Point Committee, a petition about the
Thanksgiving vacation and the question of
a college safe were the most important
matters brought up at the meeting of the
Undergraduate Association held in Taylor
yesterday afternoon.
A resolution, that the Summer School
Committee should consist automatically of
all those people in college who have ever
been to the Summer School, with the addi-
tion of a representative from the Christian
Association and one from the Liberal Club,
the Committee to elect its own chairman,
was passed unanimously. The motion in
regard to the Point Committee, that it con-
sist of the President and Secretary of the
Undergraduate Association and the Sccrc-
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DR. FITCH   LECTURES ON
PRIMITIVE RELIGIONS
Totemistic and Animistic Theories of
Religious Development Cftfpared
Primitive religions was the subject of
the lecture given by Dr� Albert Parker
Fitch, former Professor of Comparative
Religions at Awhcrst College, in Taylor
Hall, last Wednesday night. This lecture
was the first of a series of six which Dr.
Fitch will give on jhe general topic of
Comparative Religions.
Doctor Fitch l>egan by stating three gen-
eral assumptions which will underlie the
entire course: First, religion is not super-
natural or revealed from without, but is
a spontaneous and universal expression of
human beings. "Hence religion and all re-
ligion- proceed from the simple to the com-
plex, from the superstitious to the ever
more refined and intelligent." There is no
static   religion.     In   dealing   with   religions
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GERMANTOWN TIES VAR-
SITY INJTIFF CONTEST
Defense    Plays    Well* and    Uses
Oblique Defense to Oppose
Fast Forwards
M. FARIES STARS AT CENTER
SOPHOMORES  ELECT   WINIFRED   DODD   PRESIDENT
Winifred I injil was chosen president of the Sophomore Class at the elections
held last Wednesday in the Gymnasium. The new Vice-president is Mary Parker,
and Gare Hardy is secretary.
Miss Dodd, succeeding E. Nichols, is class basketball captain, was a member
of the Freshman Committee, and vice-president of h�r class last year. She was
the hero of 1926's Freshman Show.
The vice-president. Miss.Parker, was a member of the Freshman Commjttec
and is the Sophomore representative on the Costumes Committee of Mayday. Miss
Hardy takes the place of Virginia Norris.
Varsity's firsit really difficult hoekcy
game this year, played against the Ger-
mantown Cricket Club, ended last Satur-
day in a tie of three all.
The gamcA was a stiff one, against ex-
cellent opponents, and Bryn Mawr came up
to scratch, playing remarkably well. For
the first time this* year, it was apparent to
all that the team was a. co-ordinated in-
telligent unit, rather than a collection of
erratic if brilliant individuals. Up against
a fast forward line, the backs kept their
oblique defence, interchanged without con-
fus.on or delay, and massed in a most
effective blockade against the opposing
forwards. Their tackling and lunging was
excellent: The forwards were held to a
magnificent pitch by the work largely of
M. l-aries, '24, who played by far the pret-
tiest and most indomitable game seen at
college this year. Two- lacing goals were
shot by D. Lee, '25, who also played her
beit. !�'. Hcgg, '24, made some very nice
dribbles down the field with the ball, but
her inner muddled her passes, with elab-
orate stick work, and so made her team
run for nothing but exhaustion. M.
Palache, '24, showed the effect of experi-
ence, in a game which lost nothing of its
swiftness and dash by being far more skill-
ful and less individualistic.
All the backs played well. Sylvia
Walker, '27, marked her man closely
throughout the two halves, and it was due
to this, rather, than anything on Miss
Weincr's part, that the latter did not make
an overwhelming score. Sue Walker
played perhaps the most intelligently of
anyone on the field, with the splendid ex-
ception of M. Faries, and she was never
seen out of her position. M. Buchanan, by
her superior speed, and a decision which
she has not shown before, saved a num-
ber of goals by crossing in from the wing
and lunging to stop Miss Weiner's run.
Line-up:
Miss E. Donahue ,.RW.... M. Palache,'24
Miss C. Brooke I.. .RI....... D. Lee, "25 **
Miss M. Weiner *** C.....  M. Faries,'24 *
Mrs.Whitall .......LI....... B.Tuttle/24
Mrs. Robinson ___LW.......  F. Begg, '24
Miss B. McDeven   .RH.....  S.Walker,'26
Miss A. Bergen ....RF....... E. Howe,'24   V
Miss K. McLean ...CH. Sylvia Walker, '27
Miss M. Morgan ...LF...... C.Harris,'26
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RUBBER HORSES INTRODUCED
IN POOL AS NEW SPORT
A new sport arrived at College in the
form of rubber "horses" to be used in
the pool. They were imported fr�m Eng-
land by Miss Applebee and arc the first
ones to be used in America.
They are excellent for posture, according
to Miss Applebee, also for balance and
control. Miss Trevelyan holds the record
for riding an animal the length of the pool.
They are of rubber, vaguely resembling a
horse, and extremely likely to give the
rider a precarious seat. Miss Applebee in
telling of their origin said that when the
British Army, during the war, was in
Mesopotamia, the officers saw the natives
crossing the streams on inflated goatskins,
even carrying bundles by this method.
They tried them in England as a water
sport, made, howeVer, of rubl>cr. The
Bryn Mawr steeds are to be used for races
and tilting, not in the swimming meet, but
purely for amusement.
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