College News, 1923-10-10, Vol. 10, No. 02

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Volume.X.    No. 2
BRYN MAWR,  PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTC^ER 10,  1923
�Price 10 Gents
SUMMER SCHOOL ENDS
THIRD SUCCESSFUL TERM
Students Take�Required Courses in
�  Economics and  Electives in
Literature' and Science
Varied recreation stressed
Director of the Summer School
It is a difficult task to summarize in a
short article the wor.k of the Summer
School this year, and to do it in such a
way that, the undergraduates, returning to
the campus, may realize something of the
experiences of the ninety:Iive workers in
industry who wire enrolled as students
here during the summer. Many times dur-
ing the two months those of us who wen
memjhers both of the School and the Col-
lege wished heartily that a larger number
of tha "winter students" might take part
in the life of the Summer School, for the
sake of the vivid interest packed in those
two months, and the stimulating >expei '-
eitce of coming to know the industrial
workers who make up the student body.
Because of careful work on the part of
the local committees, a very high standard
of selection resulted in a high intellectual
average among the students. Many of
them had attended classes arranged by local
Summer School committees during the
previous winter. All of them were inspired
with an honest desire for further educa-
tion, and a determination to use the oppor-
tunities of the School in the Ucst possible
way. Psychological tests and careful rat-
ings made by the faculty at the end of the
summer confirmed our first impression of
the students, and have made us believe that,
after three years, a standard of selection
has been established. Thai Mich a high
standard was reached this summer is due
partly to the efforts of the former students,
in keeping out certain candidates who, in
their opinion, were not qualified either in
ability or in serious purpose. The elimina-
tion this year of the younger group of
workers, under twenty-one, proved also to
be a step in the right direction, for^the
older group showed to an unusual degree,
mature judgment, common-sense, a 41 a
feeling of deep responsibility toward the
School.
Each first year student this year took
work in the division of Modern Industrial
Society, and in addition chose cither the
course in Science, or the course in Litera-
ture, History ami Art. The work in Eng-
lish was correlated with the subject matter
of each of these divisions. Second year
students had more advanced-work in Eco-
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DR. GRAY  WORKS  ON   RECORDS  OF
ENGLISH  HISTORY
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Dr. Gray, head of the History Depart-
ment, spent the summer in England work-
ing on the records of English History in
the fifteenth century.
At the Public Record Office, Chancery
Lane, where he was gathering his material,
were four former Bryn Mawr students.
Miss Nellie Ncilson, '93, who received her
Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr in 1899 and is at
present the head of the History Department
at Mt. Holyoke, was there studying early
English legal history. Mrs. Helen Taft
Manning, '15, and ber-rmsband were there
also. The former is finishing her thesis on
English colonial administration in the latter
part of the eighteenth century. English
ecclesiastical history is the subject in which
Miss Leona Gabel, a graduate scholar here
in~1917-1918, is doing research work. Miss
Alice Beardwood, .'17, is continuing her
studies.on thellcgal status of foreign mer-
chants in England in.'ithe fourteenth century.
COURSE   ON   COMPARATIVE   RELI-
GION TO BE GIVEN BY Dft". FITCH
Comparative religion in its various phases
including primitive religion, Judaism, Mo-
hammadism, "Buddhism, Confucianism and
Christianity, will be the subject'of the six
Wednesday evening lectures to be given by
Dr.' \lbert Parker Fitch under the auspices
of the Christian Association.
� Dr. Fitch, who was. formerly professor
of Comparative Religion at Amherst, but.
who resigned last June in sympathy with
President" Mciklejbhri, has for ;i number of
years been one of Bryn Mawr's regular
Sunday night preachers.
ALUM-NAB   TO*   GIVE   CONCERT   FOR
REGIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
A concert for the benefit of the Regional
Scholarship will be given under the auspices
of the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association
of Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware in
the 'Foyer   of   the   Academy   of   Musk   Olh
Friday,  November 9,   at 8.15  IV M.. .
The soloists will be Marie Hotz, Ver-
onica Sweigart, Horatio Council .and Hor-
ace Alwync. TpCkcts may be obtained from
the Alumnae Office aud the Publicity Oilier
it Taylor or by sending^a check for $2.(H)
to Mary Scott Spillcr, Treasurer, Swarth-
more,  Pa.                                  .   �
PLANS FOR COMING YEAR
DISCUSSED BY C. A. BOARD
Resolutions Drawn Up by Delegate
to Silver Bay Read
Plans, for small discussion groups, the
matter of asking the Sunday night speaker
in formal questions and the resolutions
drawn up by the delegates at Silver Hay
this summer, were the principal questions
considered at the uniting of the Christian
Association Board held in Mcrion-, last
Thursday night.
.The Hoard hopes to have small discussion
groups this winter to be led by any one
or two people, who may be particularly in-
terested in some subject.. The topics and
the leaders- of these groups will be an-
nounced later. It was also decided at tin-
meeting to ask the Sunday preacher to
answer questions informally after the Serv-
ice and tn cncorrragc everyone to discuss
and ask questions about the sermon.
The resolutions drawn up at the Silver
Hay Conference bj delegates from all the
eastern colleges were:
I". That as members of the National Stu-
K-nt Christian Federation, the students of
the   Silver   Hay   division   concentrate   their
energies   mi   the   development   of   world
thinking among   students.
1. That in agreement, with the Peking
resolution, the students- be encouraged to
intelligent consideration of international
peace, facing honestly those individual
practices which, if indulged in nationally,
would lead to war.
4. That the local association give special
emphasis to an unqualified search for true
answers to students' questions about God,
Jesus Christ, prayer and the Christian prin-
ciples with: a. interraHal-cducatioi^-study
and contact; b. the missionary enterprise of
the church: f. economic and industrial life.
4.    That, we. as individuals, and as asso-
ciations, thoughtfully consider the purpose
of the Y- W. C. A. and ask ourselves
whether or not we can honestly follow it
in letter and spirit.
5.    That the students study industrial
conditions with the purpose of co-operating
tojirjng about a better social order.
6.    That the local association help pre-
pare for the coming Student Volunteer
Convention by securing delegates and by.
creating an interest in the purposes for
which it is held.
7.    That we give our whole-hearted sup-
port to the Student FriendshipJMind for
the coming year.                          ^
FIVE 1923 STUDENTS TO DO
GRADUATE WORK HERE
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
HOLDS ANNUAL RECEPTION
President Park, the D^arnmd Heads
of Associations Explain Import-
ant College Organisations
DANCE ENDS ENTERTAINMENT
France,    Czechoslovakia,    Scotland,
Italy, Denmark Send Students �
Five foreign countries are represented
among the graduate scholars this year
Two are/from Scotland, two from France,
two from Czccho-slov akia, one from Italv
and cine  from  1 (cninark.
Last year's graduating class, 1923, hav<
five mrrrrhr/r? returning as graduates. S
Archbahl is a scholar in Chemistry, E
Melchcr in French, while H. Millar is
studying French, K. Raht, History, and G.
Carson, Economics.
Miss Dorothy Reid ami Miss Margaret
Steel   ate   the   British   scholars.     Both   an
M.A.'s   at   the   University  of  Edinburgh
The former  intends to work   in the   Edu-
cation   and   Mathematics   Departments   and
Education
the
atter wuT work on Education an<
English. The French scholars, Miss Suz-
anne Duchemin and Miss Blanche Framery,
have the degree of Licence from the I'ni-
versity of Paris and Mis*'Duchemin has
her baccalaureate in law.- Both are to stud>
English and French. Czecno-slovakia has
sent Dr. Marie Bibrova, M.D.. who did
social work in the war relief and is study-
ing Social Economy, and Miss Marie Isako-
vicsova who is interested in English, Phil-
osophy and History ol  Art.
The first Danish woman who has'ever
worked at Bryn Mawr is Miss Johanne
Stochholm, who is an M.A. at the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen with honors. She has
been employed as a translator from Danish
and German into English at the American
legation in Copenhagen and has translated
for lUfc Danish Foreign Office. She has
also been secretary to Professor Nyrop,
the famous-romance philologist. Miss Maria
Castellan!, of Rome, has been given a year
of absence from her position in the De-
partment of Labor at Rome to study labor
organization, public health problems, and
Statistics of industrial insurance. She has
the degree of Doctor in Mathematics from
the University of Rome and her especial in-
terests are Geometry and the Mathematics
of Probability in statistics.
. The Christian Association Reception,
given each year to welcome Freshmen and
Incoming ixraduate Students, was held in
the gymnasium last Saturdaj night. Speeches
by the President, the Dean, Miss ApplebeC,
the Association Presidents,' and the Editor
of the News, were followed by dancing.
Kathleen Gallwey, "_'4,* President of the
Christian Association, introduced the soeak-
ers and explained what the Christian As-
sociation stands for in relation to every-
day college life. The handbook, the recep-
tion, and all such things, declared Miss
(iallwey, ai.e only lip.' "body" of the t hris
tianr Association, a body without its most
important part, the mind. Religion at col-
lege-is necessarily very much a matter of
personal   interpretation.    One's  ideas  are
apt to change. Everyone is thinking things
put for themselves, amWhe Christian As-
sociation wishes to cnabTe'people to think
out and discuss problems vvitb others, This
cannot be done by a narrow organization,,
bound by rules and convention. Tin \sso-
ciatiou stands, above all, for work and
char  thought.
President Marion Edwards Park, intro-
duccd by Miss Galhvcv with a "urn so ntw
as last year's, but all the more sincere,
welcome," spoke of the relations of college
organizations to the College itself. Because
of their permanence and their- true repre-
sentativeness, their policies must in all waj;
be worthy, of the College, past, present,
and future, �und" must not break the cot
tinuity. More than anything else, the Chris-
tian Association expresses what the Col-
lege  accomplishes  in  a year,     Made  up  of
many parts, of mam individual members,
it represents the best of the College and
the   best  of   student   thinking.
Dean Bonfecou, according to her own
analogy, ,is the gardener of the College,
showing the armies of Freshmen through
the  gardens of  knowledge.
Miss Lucile Anderson, President of the
Graduate Club, welcomed the new grad-
uate- students and  1937 on its behalf.
"Realize the responsibility of liberty,"
was the slogan suggested by Pamela Coyne,
'24, President of Self-Government. She
emphasized the great liberty that we have,
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The Alumnae Association will take over
the publication of the Register as the Col-
lege has not sufficient, funds to appropriate
for the purpose this year. It will be sold
at cost.apce.                                                 *
A fair for the l>enefit of the League of
Women Voters was held at W'yndham this
afternoon.
. 1927's temporary secretary is Minna Lee
Jones, who was President of Student Gov-
ernment at Miss Madeira's School, Wash-
ington.
RECTOR OF ST.  PAUL'S SCHOOL  TO
LEAD   CHAPEL   NEXT   WEEK
Sunday evening chapel, October 14, will
he. led "by Dr. S. S. Drury, rector of St
Paul's   School,   Concord,   New   Hampshire.
Dr., Drury, a graduate from Harvard.
has been a chaplain in the Philippine Is-
lands, the rector of Calvary-Church. Provi-
dence and St. Stephen's Church in Boston.
He is the author of a hook entitled, "The
Christian  Increase."
Competition for members of 1925 and
1926 for the Editorial Board of the
NEWS will begin next week. All those
who wish to enter the competition are
asked to give their names to Felice
Begg, Radnor Hall, before Monday.
NEW   METHODS  DEVISED  TO   RAISE
MONEY FOR STUDENTS' BUILDING
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Encouraged by the Students' Building
Committee several individuals have devised
methods of raising money for the Students'
Building.
(lass animals, made'of wood, painted in
the appropriate colors were sold last week
in Taylor. The animals Were specially dc-.
signed and brought from England by B.
Ling, '24. DodoV blue lions and almost all'
the cockatoos are gone, but if the demand
still continues Miss Ling is planning to
order more from England.
Etchings and prints are being rented fcr
periods of two weeks by E. Follansbcc, '26,
who made a small collection of pictures
in Europe this summer. The collection in-
cludes etchings and prints of etchings, a
few Holbein and Degas prints, reproduc-
tions of Rembrandt ami Ijujer drawings
and some Chinese paintings executed on
silk and postal cards, showing the history
of Japanese painting.                                    �*
Mary Lytle, '25, is selling tea which i-5
put up in small bags at $2.00 a hundred. * *�
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