College News, 1924-03-05, Vol. 10, No. 17

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Volume X.    No. 17
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARfeH 5, 1924
Price 10 Cents
CURRICULUM REPORT
AMENDED BY MEETING
May    Day   Proceeds    to    Go    to
Students'   Building   and
Music Fund
MAY DAY ASSESSMENT VOTED
Proceeds from May Day will go to the
Students' Building and to the Music De-
partment, according to the vote of the
Graduate and Undergraduate Mass Meet-
ing in Taylor last Wednesday, which also
voted a May Day assessment of $2. The
Undergraduate Association meeting, which
followed, discussed recommendations in
last year's Curriculum Report, voting sev-
eral changes.
The reasons utged for dividing the May
Day proceeds were that thi? combination
would have a wider appeal than either the
Students' Building or the Music Depart-
ment alone, and that if an auditorium for
the latter could be begun this summer a
great need would be met.
The Undergraduate Association voted
to amend Proposition IV of the Curricu-
lum Report, which asks that one language
be required for graduation, to read that
two languages be required, provided that
sufficient time be allowed in the regular
school or college course for acquiring a
knowledge of the second language. This
is intended to do away with extra-curricu-
lar courses. A motion that the two lan-
guages be French and German was de-
feated, 69-45, as was also a motion that
German and any Romance*language be re-
quired, and the motion was passed that the
choice of languages be left to the indi-
vidual. The adherents of German said
that it is better training than another ro-
mance language, and is necessary in any
kind of advanced work. On the other hand
it was claimed that German is not useful to
everyone, and therefore a choice should be
allowed.
The "Newest New" type of examination
for these languages was approved by.a large
vote, "contrary to the reading of Proposi-
tions be of the former type. It was felt
that this kind of examination really-tests
one's knowledge of a language, and that
having only two examinations makes less
work for the same end. It was voted 49-46
that these examinations be given in the
spring of the Junior year, the minority pre-
ferring the fall of the Junior year.
The amendment of Proposition B3 which
asks that Minor History be required in
preference to the present required five-
hour Latin course, to read that the pro-
posed course in Classical Literature be
substituted for the required Latin course
was moved by V. Lomas, '25, and passed,
92-7. She said that the Curriculum Com-
mittee felt that since seventy-five per cent,
of the college elected Minor History iF
would be inadvisable to put the stigma of
a requirement upon it, and that while his-
torical material is touched upon in other
subjects,  Classical Literature is a subject
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EDITH    HARRIS   VICE-PRESIDENT
OF  8OPH0MORE   CLA88
1926's new vice-president is Edith
Harris, elected at a class meeting on
Monday. Mary Parker, the former vice-
president, has taken the place as presi-
dent of Winifred Dodd, who resigned.
Miss Harris is the Sophomore mem-
ber of the Christian Association Board
and 1926's hockey captain. She placed
second for the individual cup won by
W. Dodd, "26, in the swimming meet
this year.
NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN
AMERICA, SAYS SPEAKER
Director   of   Civil   Liberties   Union
Tells Liberal Club of His Work
Yprk,
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That the agitation against radicals in the
United States is "stirred up chiefly by pro-
fessional propagandists and detectives who
make money out of it," was charged by
Roger N. Baldwin, director of the Amer-
ica Civil Liberties Union of New
Who spoke Thursday on the "Reds and
Government" under the auspices of
Liberal Club in Denbigh.
Recounting the stories of the "red scares"
immediately after ily armistice in relation
to the coal, steei and shopmen's strikes,
he charged that agitation, against radicals
was directed primarily "against militant
trade unionists in order to check the power
of organized labor." J-Ie cited the connec-
tion between the Federal Secret Service
under William J. Burns and the private
detective agencies, "whose interest lies in
making money from employing corpora-
tions by their anti-labor and anti-radical
activities."
Mr. Baldwin said in part:
"The red scares directed by the Federal
Secret Service and professional anti-radi-
cal organizations are based upon popular
fear of disturbance through the infection
of revolutionary ideas from Europe, par-
ticularly from Russia. When we consider
that the entire radical movement in the
United   States   reflecting   from   such   con-
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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
ADOPTS NEW CONSTITUTION
Sports Managers to Be Elected From
College; President Not to Be One
'A new constitution, embodying impor-
tant changes in the duties of the President
and the selection of Sports Managers, was
adopted at a meeting of the Athletic Asso-
ciation in Taylor, last Wednesday. It was
also voted to give the extra water polo
cup to the person who wins first place in
dives in the Swimming Meet, and'that a
B.  M. shall also be awarded to her.
According to the new constitution, the
officers of the Association will be a Presi-
dent, Vice-President, with the duties of
Treasurer, and Secretary, elected in the
spring from the Junior, Sophomore and
Freshman classes respectively and an As-
sistant Secretary elected from the Fresh-
man Class after Thanksgiving. These
officers nominate managers for each sport,
who are elected by the whole Association.
Persons not nominated by the officers may
be added to the list by petition. The
Sports Managers and the officers shall con-
stitute the Executive Board.
The President will not be eligible for
the position of" Sports Manager, but her
main duties will be to be responsible for
the Athletic fields and grounds and to ex-
ercise an advisory supervision over the
Sports Managers. Each Sport Manager
will supervise rulings dealing with her
sport only, arrange all game schedules, etc.,
and keep a record of rulings and expenses.
There will be one manager for each sport
and the same person may not be manager
for more than one sport, with the excep-
tion of Water Polo or Track.
Freshmen will not be able to vote until
after the meeting in the fall when the
rules are read. This Constitution will take
effect immediately, with the exception of
the changes regarding officers and elec-
tions, which will go into effect 'aX the time
of spring elections.
MISS KING SPEAKS ON
EXHIBITION AT ACADEMY
In.
re
American Artists Are Years Behind
in Conception of Art
� Miss Georgiana Goddard King, Profes-
sor of History of Art, spoke in Chapel
last Wednesday and Friday mornings on
this year's Exhibition at the Academy of
Fin�   Arts   in   Philadelphia.
cr first talk Miss King considered the
vttahlc features of the Exhibition, while
the second she discussedl the enjoyable
qualities of thc^ paintings. The greatest
disappoijrtrnrit, said Miss King, was in the
monotony and insignificance of the work;
the artist seemed to have nothing to say.
The disposition of prizes meant nothing,
for the most unprejudiced of awards docs
not indicate genius, but merely points out
excellence, while in this oase the prizes
were so hedged in,and limited as to their
disposal, that their value was completely
lost.'
Frequently, where the artist perceived
in himself a lack of style or insignificance,
he borrowed from and imitated earlier
fashions. Thus Glackens imitated Renoir
in a prize-winning picture, and Miss Oak-
ley followed the style of Vedder. In Phila-
delphia, painters seem to be about fifty
years behind the times. Where they can-
not successfully imitate their predecessors
they do so to their contemporaries. "Gar-
ber, Hawthorne and others apparently have
schools of their own.
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CHAPEL SPEAKER EMPHASIZES
LOYALTY AS KEY TO RELIGION
We Should Feel Our Place in the
World, Says Mr. Erdman Harris
Mr. Erdman Harris, assistant to Dr.
Henry Coffin, in Chapel last Sunday eve-
ning, said that reward should be incidental
to loyalty to ideals and not the cause of it.
Various philosophies have been developed
to account for human existence. The
Eastern mystics deny personal- existence
.and insist that happiness comes frorq en-
tire absorp*uon in the universe. Mark
Twain is fatalistic and sees no justification
at all for man" s life. H. L. Mencken con-
ceives the universe as a gigantic fly-wheel,
man a sick fly taking a ride, and religion
as having designed the wheel to give him
a ride. The whole New Testament, in its
"seek and you shall find," understands an
active participation in religion or, accord-
ing to Mr. Harris, "The man will find
God who is willing to do what God would
want him to do, if there were a God."
Character, influence, happiness and a
real assurance that this is a spiritual and
motivated universe are the most desirable
things in life, but when we consciously set
out to gain them we come to grief. The.
result of purposeful character-building is "a
Puritan and a prig; character's really a
by-product of doing the right thing. Sim-
ilarly, when attempting to secure influence
direcdy, one becomes a politician. Cer-
tainly only the people who do the kind and
unselfish thing can ever attain happiness,
,nd then it is not as the result of strain-
ing after it It is a wholesome thing that
in thinking about God at all one is led to
believe in a presence outside, working in
and through one that n\ust be divine. Nor-
ris Russell says that "a Being so intensely
felt, must be."    Atheists have been led to
realization of God simply by having an
open mind and doing what they considered
right. The key-word of religion is not
necessarily love whicfe is an uncertain emo-
tion that has long unproductive periods,
but loyalty, which is constant.
PRINCE CAETANI SPEAKS
ON FASCISTI MOVEMENT
Entire College Enjoys Music  and
Talk of Italian Ambassador at
Meeting of Italian Club
NATIONALISM HOPE OF ITALY
With His Excellency Prince Caetani,
Italian -Ambassador to the United States,
as a guest and speaker, the Italian Club
held its first meeting in Taylor Hall on
Friday evening.            �
Beneath "two rcsplcndant Italian and
American - flags hung over the platform
from the balcony, Dr. Maria Castellani, in-
troduced by Mariquita Villard, Chairman
of the Club, first read telegrams of good
wishes from the Magnificio Ret lore of the
University of Rome, and from the Italy-
America Society.
After an introduction by President Park,
in which" she stressed the particular debt
of the College to Italy for.its contributions
of training in the present as well as the
past, Prince Caetani spoke on the Fascisti
Movement.
The soul and ideal of modern Italy, he
explained, arc very different from what
people in this country think them to be. In
their eyes Italy seems afflicted with a glori*
ous past. But the Italians of today are
direct descendants of the creators of the
Italian Renaissance and are the children
of a nation that, following historical tra-
ditions, has completed a cycle and is now
about to take up again an active part in
the affairs of the world. The Fascismo
has created the last chapter of the making
of Italy, which began with the leadership
of Mazzini.
Here Prince Caetani outlined the events
of the Risorgimento which led up to a
crystallization of the national conscience
under the shock of the World War. But,
he continued, the full result was not yet
possible, for the inevitable consequence of
a war, moral feverishness, allowed Bolshe-
vism and Socialism to hold sway until the
young men of the country took matters
into their own hands, uniting under the
name of Fascisti.
The Fascismo has become a spiritual
movement with the doctrine of National-
ism. Under it care for public welfare is
all-important, the individual is to sacrifice
himself to the good of the community, and
discipline is the first drfty of the man who
fights for his ideal.
After the lecture Italian artists from
Philadelphia, including Mr. Scarduzzi and
Mr. Liuzzi, the violoncellist, played and
sang selections of Italian music.
A reception in honor of Prince Caetani
was then held in Rockefeller Hall.
The Poster Committee requests tlv.t a>
week's notice be given them to make a
poster. L. Barber, '25, in Rockefeller, is
chairman.
1MB ELECT8  DOROTHY  LEE
VICE-PRESIDENT
Dorothy Lee has been elected Vice-
President by 1925, replacing Virginia
Lomas, who has become President due
to the resignation of Susan Carey.
Miss Lee is Varsity hockey captain for
next year, and won first place in dives
in the Swimming Meet this year. She
was one of 1925's Freshmen Chairmen,
and was their Freshman member of the
Athletic Board.