College News, 1924-04-09, Vol. 10, No. 21

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News
Volume X.   No. 21
BRYN MAWR, PAM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1924
Price 10 Cents
NEWS CONFERENCE HELD
AT HAVERFORD
Questions  of Organization, Method,
and Outside the College News
Discussed
80   COLLEGES    REPRESENTED
Editorial arid business policies were dis-
cussed at the conference of the Intercol-
legiate Newspaper Association, held last
Saturday afternoon at Haverford College.
Delegates from the newspapers of Bryn
M a w r, Delaware, Drexcl, Haverford,
Swarthmorc, Temple, Ursinus, and Villa
Nova attended the conference, which was
under the auspices of the Haverford News.
The �Br,yn Mawr delegates were F. Bcgg
'24, H4 Gray son '25, E. Glcssner '25, and
D. Smith '26.
The conference was divided into two
groups, editorial and business. The former
group discussed organization, methods, and
the possibility of "out of college" news.
Under the first topic, each college reported
the number of board members, whether or
not it believed in the "subdivision of labor,"
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DR. FENWICK WRITES 0N�
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Law Examined in Light of Experiences
of Past Ten Years
""International Law," a volume written by
Dr. Charles G. Fen wick, professor of po-
litical conomy at Bryn Mawr, has just
been published by the Century Company,
New York.                                             �
The following statement has appeared
concerning the book:
"The World War showed how inade-
quate and how ineffective the existing sys-
tem of international law really was. It is
now a matter of the* highest importance
to examine anew the rules of international
law and to restore them in the light of
the experience of the past ten years. It is
upon the foundation of existing law that
the future rules of international law must
be built. Many of the existing rules have
lieen tried and found wanting; others are
susceptible of amendment and develop-
ment ; others, again, can be left as they are
for the present. The study of these con-
ditions will reveal the deficiencies of inter-
national law and the wide gaps that must
be filled up before it can attain its object
of bringing order and justice into the re-
lations of states.                                       '
"The present book undertakes, therefore,
to set forth in as clear and concise terms
as possible the existing state of things. It
is written from the point of view of the
lawyer and seeks to distinguish sharply
between those rules of conduct which can
be said to have actual legal validity and
other rules which are from time to time
alleged to be law by governments and
statesmen. While the details arc technical,
the author has endeavored to avoid un-
necessarily technical language and to pre-
sent the subject in a form that is readily
intelligible. The present volume differs
from existing texts, most of which were
written before the Worl3 War, in the fol-
lowing points:
"1. It analyzes the general conception of
law and shows in how far that conception
* finds expression in international law as it
now exists.
"2. It attempts to draw more clearly the
line between rules actually observed and
others   whiCw   should   or  ought  to  he  the
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WEEK-END CONFERENCE
MAY HAVE THREE SPEAKERS
C. A.   Cabinet Approves   Proposed
Change in Constitution
CONFERENCE AT FORUM CAMP
TO BE HELL\ BY BRYN MAWR
f
Changes in the constitution and plans for
the coming year were the subjects under
discussion at the meeting of the Christian
Association Cabinet held last Sunday night
in Room F, Taylor.            ,
According ta the proposed change, which
will have to lie approved by the entire as-
sociation before going into effect, the
Board will be composed of four Seniors,
three Juniors, three Sophomores, and one
Freshman. At present there are five Sen-
iors, four Juniors, one Sophomore and
one Freshman. The change would be ac-
complished by adding the two members-,
at-largc to the quota of the Sophomore
class.
Kathleen Gallwey, '24, President, an-
nounced that since the formation of the
Undergraduate Association Poster Com-
mittee the need for a Christian Associa-
tion Publicity Committee had ceased, and
so the Board proposed to substitute a cor-
respondence committee to keep in touch
with conferences and general business. The
course of lectures iirwhc fall, given this
year by Dr. Fitch on the subject of Com-
parative Religions, and the week-end con-
ference, were matters brought up for sug-
gestion and discussion. The Board felt
thai instead of one man, to lead the latter,
the Association might secure two or even
three men representing as many distinctly
different points of view on the subject.
Elizabeth Hale, '24, Chairman of the Re-
ligious Meetings Committee, suggested the
plan of having three successive sermons
in Sunday chapel given by the same man
on the same topic, in order that people may
get a more extended presentation of some
subject than is possible in the brief half
hour now allotted to the sermon. Such
a succession would take place only once
during the year however, probably in the
spring.
Anyone who has any suggestions con-
cerning speakers or topics for the lecture
course, week-end conference, or the pro-
posed three sermons may give them to K.
Gallwey, '24, or E. Hale, '24.
CHAIRMAN   OF   CURRICULUM   NEED
NOT  BE  UNDERGRADUATE
PRESIDENT
Whether the President of the Under-
graduate Association need necessarily be
the Chairman of the Curriculum Commit-
tee was brought up at a meeting on March
24.
Helen Hough, '25, said that while the
President might be very interested in cur-
riculum she need not necessarily be good
for chairman. She therefore proposed that
instead of having the President of the
Undergraduate Association chainrlan of
the committee the_ statement should be read
at meetings for straw votes, that "It shall
l>c one of the aims of the Association to
take an active interest in the more aca-
demic questions that arise in the life of
the college. The Presidents of the Asso-
ciation on the Board should be elected for
their keen interest in the matters con-
nected with curriculum as well as for the
qualities indispensable in holding a position
of responsibility." This motion was car-
ried]
; The results of the elections of vice-
president, first and second Junior member,
and Sophomore member to the Self-Gov-
ernment Association Board are as fol-
lows: E. St. John, '25, was elected vice-
president ; E. Jay, '26, first Junior member;
E. Nicholls, '26, second Junior member,
and  M. L. Jones, '27, Sophomore member.
am and Organization of Colony
Announced in Detail
Bryn Mawr will have a quota of at least
eight delegates al the colony which the
National Student Foyim will hold next
summer at Woodstock, New York. Regis-
tration is pow open and those desiring in-
formation or registration slips should ap-
ply to D. Smith, '26, the Bryn Mawr rep-
resentative.
Bryn Mawr, as well- as Dartmouth,
Northwestern, Swarthmorc, and Yale, will
each lead one of the five two-week confer-
ences which will make up the summer's
program. According to the camp circular
recently issued, "during each conference a
student interpretation and evaluation will
bfl worked out of some single dominating
individual whose philosophy and teachings,
rciftain as effective forces in modern cul-
tural movements. It is likely that Tolstoi,
Bertrand Russell, Ibsen, Gandhi, and Niet-
zsche will be finally decided upon. None
of these individuals will be looked to for
final answers but will be considered as per-
sonalities offering peculiar philosophies. � If
this portion of the plan meets with stu-
dent approval, it will be expected that each
student will be familiar with the particular
work or works to be discussed during the
conference concerned." Each conference
will have as faculty some men and women
who are leaders of significant tendencies
in such fields as education, church, busi-
ness, literature, and art, the choice of these
to be largely in the hands of the committee
in charge of each conference.
The Bryn Mawr conference will be from
September 3 to September 17 and will take
Ibsen as the individual for study. Dates for
the other conferences arc July 1-15, July
17-31, August 2-16, August i8-Scptcmbcr 1.
Woodstock is in the Catskill Mountains
fourteen miles from Kingston. Besides op-
portunities for hiking, swimming, and ten-
nis, the community affords unusual artistic
and musical advantages.
Board will probably be about $17 a week,
liss rather than more. In the fall or possi-
bly   sooner   the  enterprise   will   be   incor-
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ELOISE REQUA READS LETTER
FROM CHAIRMAN OF ALUMNAE
COMMITTEE
A letter of acknowledgment received by
E. Requa, '24, president of the Undergrad-
uate Association, was read at a mass meet-
ing of the college last Thursday evening.
The letter ran:
My Dear Miss Requa:
- This is a very long delayed acknowledg-
ment to you as President of the Under-
graduate Association of the very deep and
heartfelt appreciation, which we, the Alum-
nae Committee of the Music Department
feel toward the action so spontaneously
lx)rne and carried out during your recent
mass meeting at which you voted to divide
the proceeds of May Day with us. Though
long delayed in sending our written aj>-
preciation, it has been none the less keenly
felt and has heartened us more than any-
thing that has happened since the opening
of the Music Department two and one-half
years ago.
I am voicing the feeling of all members
of the committee, I know, when I write
you that no action could have been more
rewarding and no encouragement so great.
Hoping that our joint efforts will be
fruitful, and with Warmest personal re-
gards,  I am,
Yours faithfully for Bryn Mawr,
r  Alice Carter Dickerman.
SUMMER SCHOOL SELECTS
.    THIS YEAR'S STUDENTS
Second  Year  Students   Chosen on
Previous Record and Active Ser-
.   vice in Own Districts
NEW   TRADES    REPRESENTED
{Speciallycontributed by Miss Hilda W.
Smith, Director of the Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer School for Women Workers in In-
dustry. ]                              �
The Admissions Committee of the Sum-
mer School*mct last Saturday I" consider
the selection of students for the summer
term. Consideration was given to 173 ap-
plication blanks, representing every section
of the I'nited States.
A group of fifteen second-year students
was chosen from among the Alumnae of
the past two years. These girls have been
studying in their own communities since
they left the School, and have also done
much to interest their fellow workers in
attending study classes. These fifteen stu-
dents were chosen l>otli because of their
satisfactory record in the School and their
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CONFERENCE AT SWARTHMORE
TO DISCUSS NEGRO PROBLEM
Amalgamation or Segregation to Be
Discussed as Possible Solution
An Inter-racial Conference of college
students will be held at the Woolman
School, Swarthmorc, Pennsylvania, April
11, 12 and 13, under the auspices of a
committee from the Liberal Club of Bryn
Mawr College, the Polity Club of Swarth-
morc College, and the 1'iiive.rsity of Penn-
sylvania Forum, a group composed of
white and colored students.
The purpose of the conference is to
bring white and negro students together,
with the hope that they may understand
each other's difficulties. The committee has
asked each of the colleges invited to send
two delegates. If both white and colored
students attend the college, it is urged that
one of each be appointed in order that a
broader point of view may be obtained.
The conference will have three sessions.
"What is the Negro Problem?" considered
in regard to the historical background of
the negro, his present status, and the scien-
tific aspect is the subject of the discussion
for Friday, while on Saturday "Is racial
discrimination warranted, economically,
legally or socially?" will be treated. Sun-
day an endeavor will be made to find the
solution of the problem "Amalgamation or
segregation?" while the delegates will also
try to decide what they themselves can do
both as citizens and students. Saturday
and Sunday afternoons have been left free,
with the suggestion of walking in the coun-
try, while, music and dancing will provide
entertainment Saturday night.
In the interest of an intelligent confer-
ence, the committee has suggested that each
delegate be prepared on some aspect of the
question, for example, "The Cultural
Achievement of the.Negro in Music, Art,
Letters or Science." They have also pro-
posed "The Psychology of the Negro
Race"; "The Problem of Race Superior-
ity"; "The Economic, Social, Legal, or
Educational Status of the Negro in the
United States"; or "Biological Differences."
In addition each delegate has been asked
to read three suggested books on various
aspects of the question, and some maga-
zines have also been recommended by the
committee.
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