College News, 1923-12-19, Vol. 10, No. 12

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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1923
Volume X.    No. 12
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DR. CAMPBELL LECTURES
ION PERSONALITY
Emphasizes rMeed of Understanding
and Imagination in Dealmg
with Mental Disorders
RECENT   MEDICAL   PROGRESS
"Personality and its Component Func-
tions" was the subject of "the lecture by
Dr." C. MacFie Campbell, of the Boston
Psychopathic Hospital, in Taylor Hall last
Tuesday under the auspices of the Science
Club. Dr. Campbell gave cases from his
own experience- in the study of human
behavior.
Primitive medicine tpok an interest in
personality because of the belief in spirits
and in possession; modern medicine pre-
fers the sober study of cause and effect.
Recent development has been along the
lines of pathology, the correlation of symp-
toms with morbid structures, bacteriology,
and hence immunology, and biochemistry,
with the enormous increase of knowledge
about the glands of internal secretion. Ow-
ing to the striking advance in these fields,
there has been a tendency to regard them
as .the key to all disorders, and medicine
has tended to "become .an impersonal dis-
cipline, not dealing with sick people at all.
A group left out by this "discipline" is
the group apparently structurally healthy,
with  no objective basis  for any   disorder.
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DR. FITCH SAYS ISLAM IS A
- NON-ETHICAL MONOTHEISM
Allah the One God Has Mohammed
For His Greatest Prophet
Religion and the moral code of Mo-
hammed was the last of the series of lec-
tures on Comparative Religions given by
Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, in Taylor Hall,
on Wednesday night.
When Mohammed came into the Levan-
tine East, Rome" was gone, the Persian
Empire was trembling to its fall, and the
Greek Church was externalized and sterile.
In Arabia there was a great class of op-
pressed people, eager for material and
spiritual betterment, whose religion at that
time was polytheistic, belieying in demons
and fetishes. The Jews in Arabia were
powerful and intolerant, such Christian
communities as still existed were heretical
and ascetic. Mecca, where stood the sacred
building of the Kaba, was one of the most
important towns. Throughout Arabia there
was great restlessness, due tp the fact that
the population was increasing too rapidly.
Although it is difficult to obtain much
knowledge concerning Mohammed, Dr.
Fitch went on, we know that he was born
in 570 A. D. of an inferior clan. Left an
orphan early in life, he \ffas brought up
by his uncle, and shared his commercial
travels. At the age of twenty-five he mar-
ried a rich widow of forty, by whom he
had two sons and four daughters. From
now until he was forty years old we have
no details of his life. Gradually he came
to believe that there was no God but Allah,
and Mohammed was his last and greatest
prophet. At first he preached fiis creed
only to a few followers, then to a larger
group, and so incurred the hatred of the
conservatives in religion, the commercial
interests, and the aristocracy who could
not bear that a man of inferior birth should
tell them the truth. By many Mohammed*
was thought to be crazy, ai^d some said he
had had a teacher from whom he derived
most of his ideas.    His knowledge of Old
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DR. HARKNESS, INSTRUCTOR
AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, DIES
Formerly Taught Here As Professor
of Mathematics
Specially contributed by Dr. C. A. Scott
Professor James Harkness, of McGill
University, Montreal, Acting Dean of the
Faculty of Arts, died suddenly on the night
6*W)ecember 7, in the sixtieth year of his
age. Inasmuch' as Dr. Harkness was one
of the most valued members of the Faculty
of Bryn Mawr College from 1888-1903, as
Associate, Associate Professor, and Full
Professor of Mathematics, it is fitting that
a few words in recognition should appear
in the The College News.
Dr. Harkness came to Bryn Mawr from
Cambridge, England, three years after the
College was opened. Thus he was known
personally to the first graduating class,
1889, and to all later classes up to and in-
cluding 1906 in its Freshman year, and by
reputation to many of later day, for he
was one of those whose memory does not
quickly fade. He was a man of wide culti-
vation and literary interests, apart from
his mathematical endowments. In mathe-
matics the range and accessibility of his
knowledge were simply overwhelming; he
always seemed to me to be outstanding by
sheer force of his erudition. His formal
lectures were models of construction and
arrangement; one of the alumnae remarked
to me that many of them looked upon him
as quite the best lecturer at Bryn Mawr.
He was not a very prolific writer; he col-
laborated with Professor Motley, formerly
of Haverford College, now of Johns Hop-
kins University, in the preparation of two
l>ooks on the Theory of Functions, a part
of  mathematics  at that  time  almost  un-
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BOK AWARD COMMITTEE
TO DECIDE SOON
Copies of Winning Plan to be Sent
to Faculties and Students
The Committee which is administering
the American Peace Award, after a meet-
ing last week, announced many of the
ways in which its co-operating organiza-
tions will conduct the January "Referen-
dum." The Jury of Award, of which Mr.
Root is chairman, has been at work since
the middle of October, and is expected to
reach its decision, according to the Com-
mittee, by January first. Immediately after
that the winning plan is to be submitted
to the widest possible public for a vote.
The Committee in its announcement con-
cerning the "referendum" is emphatically
making two points: First, that, participa-
tion in the "referendum" does not commit
any organization or institution to any "en-
dorsement" of the winning plan. Secondly,
that while the object is to secure as thor-
ough-going a vote as possible all over the
country, it is a considered and intelligent
vote which is being sought.
"We realize," the committee statement
reads, "that signatures from too thought-
less signers, no matter how voluminous
the number, will mean little. We want
every citizen to have an opportunity to
read the plan and cast a considered vote
upon it.
Over 4000 daily and weekly newspapers
have already agreed to participate in the
"referendum" by carrying a ballot, with
the text of the winning plan, or a digest
of it. On the ballot their readers will state
whether or not they approve the winning
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CHRISTMAS CELEBRATED BY *
HALL PARTIES AND SKITS
Choir Following Custom of English
Waits Sings Yuletide Carols
A fancy dress dance in Pembroke was
the culmination of the Christmas festiv-
ities held in the halls this evening.
A medieval play translated from the
Latin and versified by M. Woodworth 24
and C. Vanderlip '27 was presented before
the Lord and Lady of the Manor and their
court, who celebrated Christmas in Rocke-
feller Hall. The minstrels, acrobats, jug-
glers, astrologers and merry-makers re-
ceived presents from the Christmas, tree
and filed in to the holiday feast.
Radnor celebrated at dinner where B.
Jeffries '26, toastmistress, called on the
classes for skits. The Sophomores pre-
sented a parody on class songs while the
Juniors acted a pantomime. The Lord and
Lady of Denbigh were entertained at din-
ner by the skits given by each class.
Merion gave a tea dance, followed by
Sophomore and Freshman skits. The
Pembroke Christmas party and buffet sup-
per were arranged by M. Waller '26. The
Freshmen gave their skit to the entire
College.
During the parties in the halls the choir,
dressed in caps and gowns, carrying lan-
terns, went around the campus singing
Christmas carols at the houses of the pro-
fessors.
GLEE CLUB GIVES CAROL
CONCERT IN TAYLOR HALL
Members of Philadelphia Orchestra
Play Accompaniment
On Friday evening, in Taylor Hall, the
Glee Club, with the choir of the Good
Shepherd Church, Rosemont, and five
me-mbers of the Philadelphia Orchestra,
gave a concert, which consisted largely of
old and modern Christmas songs and
carols.
As a preliminary to the regular program
and before they took their seats in the hall
the chorus sang, "God Rest You, Merry
Gentjemen" and "Adeste Fideles." The
program then followed in this order:
Carol�"The Coventry Carol"
Solo and Chorus�
"The Miracle of St. Nicholas"�French
Folk Song
Quartet and Chorus�
"In dulci jubilo," Christmas Carol (1570)
Violin Solo�"Aria on G String"�Bach
(Mr. Alexander J. Thiede with String
Quartet Accompaniment)
String Quintet�
"Gavotte and Musette"�Raff
Carols�
(a)  "When the Crimson Sun Had Set"
Grcathced
(b)  "Shepherd Shake Off"�Besancon
Carol
Part Song�"The  Snow"�Elgar
(With obligato  for two violins)
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SUMMER SCHOOL TEA
GIVEN AT WYNDHAM
Students  of  Past  Years Tell the
Value of Acquiring an Intel-
lectual Background
MISS SMITH, DIRECTOR, SPEAKS
Two Summer School sjudents, a member
of the Faculty, and Miss H. W. Smith, di-
rector, spoke informally at a tea given at
Wyndham by the Undergraduate Summer
School Committee.                    "
Miss Smith pointed out the debt that
the school owed to Winter School students
who let out their rooms and fcirniturc. She
then explained the scholarship fund which
is raised all over the country. The Sum-
mer School students' themselves help
toward this fund. There is a group in
Albany which is running a cafeteria, while
two girls in Syracuse held a fair to raise
spending money for next year's students.
Miss Smith had just returned from the
New England States, where she described
the interest among college undergraduates
to be of assistance. The students at
Wclleslcy are agitating to have .such a
school started there, and are planning, if
they fail to get their own school, to raise
three or four scholarships for Bryn Mawr.
"My two summers at Bryn Mawr were
the greatest experience of my life," said
Sophie Schmidt, who spoke after Miss
Smith. Miss Schmidt is at present at Miss
Kirk's ScTibol preparing to take up college
work. "The girls that come to the Sum-
mer School," she explained, "are usually
those who have some definite interest in
helping the need and misery around them.
They may be interested in girls' clubs, in
Y. W. C. A. work, in social work, or labor
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SUMMER 8CHOOL DRIVE RAISES
OVER ONE THOU8ANB DOLLARS
The   results  of   the   Summer   School
drive at three o'clock on Tuesday were
as follows:
Rockefeller   ................... $270.00
Pembroke East  ...............    220.00
Pembroke  West   ..............    219.15
Radnor.......................   .160.60
Denbigh   ......................    155.00
Merion  ......................�    139.00
Total'.......................$1163.75.
DANCE AND SKIT GIVEN FOR
BENEFIT OF BATES HOUSE
Skit is Reproduction of Bates House
Stunt Night
The dance given last Saturday night in
the Gymnasium for the benefit of Bates
House included a skit, reproducing a
"Stunt Night" at Bates. An undergraduate-
orchestra played for the dancing which
followed and candy, cake and lemonade
were sold.
Miss Elsa Lotz, the Spring Street worker
who manages Bates House, A. Boross,
'25, explained that she had brought some
of the children down to s"ee us, and that
thcV would give some stunts which were
actually performed* at Bates House. E.
Sullivan, '24, as Young Lochinvar, pranced
on an imaginary steed and flirted with M.
Huber, '26, the "lost bride of Netherby,"
while the poem was read by a "teacher."
The little girls then sang "Clean and If eat,"
with realistic accompaniments of gesticu-
lation (E. Tuttle, '24; L. Horwitz, '24;
M.  Bonnell,   '25;   M. Talcott,  '26).
While the children sang "A Keeper
Would a Hunting Go," B. Jeffries, '26,
chased M. Farics, '24, a life-like doc with
a brown coat and a bushy white tail, and
produced a sensation at the line "the second
doe he trimly kist. byluiting the action to
the words.                     -�
The big boys' surprise took the form of
a class in school with a new teacher, whom
they assaulted with well-worn but amusing
jokes. The skit ended with an appeal from
all the children to give to the Bates drive,
because,   .
"Gee, if we can't go next year
We all will simply die!"