College News, 1923-10-04, Vol. 10, No. 01

              The
News
Volume X.   No. 1
SUMMER SCHOOL BROADENS
UNDERGRADUATE OUTLOOK
Workers   Discuss    Industrial   and
Other Problems with Freedom
and Eagerness
BLOOMERS SEEN IN TAYLOR
�   Specially contributed by an Undergraduate
working at Summer School
The Summer School might be described
as a forum for the discussion of anything
and everything for the benefit of*ninety-
seven industrial girls, who have more ex-
^ perience than all the "winter students," and
less book knowledge than one of them.
Under every tree discussions go on.
There is naturally much talking when read-
ing is hard and slow, and the students have
leftsclje�l from five to twenty-one years
ago. In this " forum the instructors arc
merely leaders of discussion, with certain
specialized knowledge. At any moment a
.question or a challenge may change a
"class" in Economics or Psychology into a
debate. Continued in the "Tutoring
Classes" such questions sometimes finally
reach the whole school.
Here a tutorjng class in "Modern Indus-
trial Society" argues the pros and cons of
amalgamation. Over there the economics
professor is being challenged on his asser-
tions of the morning; and there by Taylor
Hall, Shelley, the phases of the moon, and
the psychology of the forelady, hold differ-
ent groups. Bloomercd figures are stretched
everywhere, reading, writing, talking. The
shock experienced by the Undergraduate
on meeting bloomers in Taylor Hall is soon
. offset by the joy of wearing them oneself.
Down the hill, students are batting balls
against the board, or, in the next stage of
evolution, trying the courts. In the eve-
ning there is basketball and baseball. In
the pool the number of valiant souls learriX
in^; to crawl and to dive would give any
class in College points on the champion-
ship. Overhead on the roof the folk-
dancers thump, thump to a victrola, prac-
ticing for the International Peace Day
Celebration, and all afternoon the correct-
ive classes correct themselves on the mats
downstairs.
But athletics, although enthusiastically
pursued by girls who generally spend eight
or more hours a day in one position in a
factory hold a minor place. Intellectual
curiosity ever elusive in a college student
is here so universal that it is taken for
granted. Why else should a girl who left
school in the fourth grade and has worked^,
ever since on overalls come to read "our
Economic Organization" and study the the-
ory of evolution? Economic Interests in
all forms naturally predominate, varying
from the agitation of the union organizer
to strong anti-union feeling, or to leftest
of left wing socialism. The freedom in
speech and in opinion and the broad-minded
respect for the opinions of others, which
these industrial girls have, is an education
" to the average college student. A contact
is made between the undergraduate, a
member broadly speaking of the capitalist
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BR�N MAWR,  PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBEk 4,   1923
Price  10 Cents
'Miss Frances Browne to be Head
Mistress of Thome School
COLLEGE RENTS OFF CAMPUS
HOU8E TO ACCOMMODATE
FRESHMEN
East House, located next to the Inn, has
been rented this' year by the College to
hold fifteen Freshmen who have been un-
able to find room in the halls on the
. campus. Miss Margaret Foster, sister of
Dorothy Foster Miller, '07, is warden. The
Freshmen will come over to Pembroke for
their meals. The house has four double
bed rooms and several singles as well as
a large living ro�im, music room and
glassed-in  �orch.
CHANGES IN FACULTY      .
AND STAFF ANNOUNCED
Seventeen changes and new- appointments
have been made in .the faculty and staff
of the College for the coming year.
Dr. Joflfc A. Maynard, formerly Associate
Editor of the Journal^of the Society of
Oriental Research, is to take the place of
Dr. Meek as associate professor of Semitic
Languages and the History of Religion.
Miss Margaret Gilman, a Bryn Mawr grad-
uate, has been appointed instructor in
French. Dr. Dohan will be Dr."Carpenter's
substitute during his sabbatical absence.
Dr. Marion H. Rea, who was formerly
physician of the College, will hold that posi-
tion again this year. The new head mistress
of the Thome School is to be Miss Frances
Browne, who received her A.B. degree
from Bryn Mawr.
The new Associate Professor in Eco-
nomics and Politics is Dr. Rojer H. Wells,
who was an instructor in Government at
Harvardvl'niv'ersity last year. Dr. Ralph
D. Owen, who succeeds Miss Castro as
Associate Professor of Education, is a
graduate of Northwestern Watcrtown Uni-
versity. Miss Marjorie L. Thompson and
Miss Christine Hammer will be instructors
in English Composition. Miss Eleanor
Grace Clapk has been appointed Reader in
English. The Mathematics Reader will be
Miss Katharine Bassler and the Reader in
Psychology, Miss Adelaide Frances Brown.
Miss Esther Crane will be Associate in
Education. Mrs. Sally Hughes Schrader
is to be a Biology Demonstrator and' Miss
Janet Fowler the Demonstrator in Applied
Psychology, and Miss Florence Whitbeck a
half-time Demonstrator in Geology. Miss
N'orah Trevelyan will be assistant to the
director of Athletics and Gymnastics.
DELEGATES FROM BRYN MAWR
ATTEND SILVER BAY
Change   From   Era of   Nationalism
Into One of Justice Predicted
Specially contributed by S. Carey, '25
Bryn Mawr sent sixteen delegates to the
F.astern Student Conference, which was
held at Silver Bay on Lake George, June
22nd.to July 2nd, under the auspices of ther
National Board of the Young Women's
Christian  Association.
The tone of the conference was more or
less determined by the Conference speakers.
Dr. Calkins opened with a series of lec-
tures: Relation of Religion and Science.
Divinity of Christ. Relation of the Indi--\
vidual to the Church9tiow can we recon-
cile the Fad of Evil in the World with a
loving Godf Question of a Personal God.
Dr. Paul Hutchinson, with a knowledge of
the Far East gained from extensive travel
and study termed h�s lectures: Modern
International Christianity and discussed
three International Sins, political injustice,
economic exploitation and racial discrimina-
tion, remarking that the sin of devotion to
the material penetrates all other .sins. He
condemned the East for these evils, and
then suggested some of the agencies that
could work for their amelioration. "We
are passing out of an era of intense na-
tionalism into a new era whose watchwords
are truth, justice\uid mutual regard. Can
we look to diplomacy, ^enlightened com-
merce, education? AlLof these must play
a large part in the hew/order, but it is pri-
marily a problem of thk transformation of
the mind. After all oiher agencies have
done what they can, sull the heart of the
problem remains to be/solved by religion."
Mr. Hutchinson continued with methods
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PRESIDENT PARKS WELCOMES THE COLLEGE IN OPEN-
ING ADDRESS: EMPHASIZES VALUE OF HARD THOUGHT
DARK  BLUE  SLEUTHERS  DIS-
COVER FRESHMAN PARADE
SONG
1927's Parade Song to the tune of
"We won't go home until morning"
was successfully parodied by the Sopho-
mores yesterday evening under Pem-
"broke Arch.
By vigorous and systematic sleuthing
\]]f Sophomores obtained the song on
three distinct occasions,. It \\as told lo
two separate Sophomores masquerading
as Freshmen and was also found writ-
Jen on a slip of paper.
"Here's the song you craved so," an-
nounced the Freshmen, while 1926 re-
sponded truly that "They'd got the song
they craved so."                          .
LARGE FRESHMAN CLASS WITH
TWELVE SCHOLARSHIPS ENTER
Daughter of Bryn Mawr Professor
Wins Matriculation Honors
Numbering 127, the new Freshman Class
enters College, with Elizabeth Winchester
and Sylvia Walker selected as chairmen to
run the class for the first two weeks. Miss
Winchester comes from Brearly School,
New York, and Miss Walker from Ship-
ley School, Bryn Mawr.
Alumnae Regional scholars have been
awarded to eight Freshmen : Evalyn Brodie,
Ellen Haines, Euzelia Jennett, Agnes New-
hall, Mary Pease, Margaret Pillsbury,
Beatrice Pitney, and Marion Smith. Prizes
of*$100, awarded by the College for the
highest average in entrance examinations,
were won by Frederica de Laguha, daugh-
ter of Professor Theodore de Laguna,
head of- the Department of Philosophy at
Bryn Mawr College; Margaret Pillsbury,
Sarah Jay, and Ellen Newhall. Virginia
Newbold, Marion Smith, and Virginia
Capron  received honorable mention.
Members of the Class of 1927 are: Kath-
erine Adams, \Elena Aldcroft, Anna Ames,
Lucylte Austin, Gay Batchelder, Neal
Bauer, Nancy Benoist, Louise Blair, Nancy
Bowman, Evalyn Brodie/ Margaret Brooks,
Leonore Browning, Virginia Cap*eii*�Maura
Carter, , Eleanore ChamTerlain, Corlnne
Chambers, Jane Chenney, Marie Chester,
Frances Christie, Mary Cruikshank, Eliza-
beth Day, FYederica de Laguna, Bina Dc-
neen, Alice Dickson, Priscilla Dodge,
Annabel Dixon, Mary Du Four, Elizabeth
Duncan, Jane Dunham, Hazel Fitz, Kath-
erine Gessner, Elizabeth Gibson, Laura
Greene, Ellen Haines, Marguerite Hall,
Mary.Hand, Katherine Harris, Grace Hays,
Jessie Hendrick, Eleanor Henschen, Laura
Hill, Malvina Holcombe, Dorothy Hole,
Jane Hollister, Mary Housel, Dorothy Ir-
wine, Sarah Jay, Gladys Jenkins, Euzelia
Jennett, Constance Jones, Minna Jones,
Mary Kellogg, Mary Kennedy, Helen
Klopfer, Marian Leary, Julia Lee,. Jean
Leonard, Elizabeth Lippincott, Natalie
Longfellow, Jeannette Luden, Alice Math-
ews, Katherine McCIenahan, Dorothy
Meeker, Mary Miller, Ruth Miller, Agnes
Mongan, Ellenor Morris, Gladys Nachman,
Elizabeth Nelson, Elizabeth Newbegin,
Virginia Newbold, Aimes Newhall, Eliza-
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The News regrets to announo] the
resignation of Sarah Wood, '24, from
the Editorial Board.. Miss Wood is re-
turning to College this fall as a non-
resident.
Schedule Made More Flexible: Some
Required Courses to be Given
at Eight O'clock
CHAPEL   HOUR   AT   NINE
Freshman    Class    Enters    College
.Without Conditions
It is my privilege today to welcome in
behalf of the faculty and administrative
staff the students old and new, graduate
and undergraduate, who are here to enter
on the work of the thirty-ninth year of
Bryn Mawr. 1 come from a glorious and
unintellectual holiday in Norway, sunk
already after a hundred freshman inter-
fiewi into a pleasant blur^f snow moun-
tains, green squares'of meadow and
"dancing water on the rocks and over the
edges of mountain shelves." And 1 find
you coming in from summer play or work,
all of us together set for winter work again.
In another two weeks President Thomas
will return to the Deanery full, so I hear,
of health and energy and the joy in work
and play which has been one of her great-
est gifts to Bryn Mawr. When she is
here the roster of the Bryn Mawr of 1923
will be complete.
In accordance with the suggestion of the
students!.Curriculum .Committee last year
and with my own hearty approval, the
8 o'clock hour is to be added this year
to our regularly scheduled hours. The re-
quired Psychology and Philosophy has
already been set at this hour along with
various elective courses and the Schedule
Committee hopes to transfer to that hour
still other courses next year. We hope that
the often complained of inflexibility of the
morning schedule is thus giving way and
that an opportunity for new combinations
of courses will reward us for the change.
The regular use of the hour makes neces-
sary a change in the time of chapel and a
corresponding change in the later recitation
hours of the morning. Beginning with
tomorrow, chapel will be held at 9 o'clock
and will end at 9.15. Following chapel and
through the rest of the morning, classes
will meet not at the even hour but at 9.15,
10.-15, 11.15, and 12.15. Luncheon in the
halls will be at 1*15, and beginning with
next, week, i* order to bridge over the
lengthened morning, milk luncheon will be
served in all the halls at 11.15.
Bryn Mawr opens with more undergradu-
ate students than in any year except 1917
and 1918 and full halls like ours can be
found this year at every college for mert
and women arid at thq great universities.
There, instead of increasing in registration
by tens, as we do, they are increasing it by
thousands. It is "the problem of over-
demand and under-supply. Two ways of
meeting it are being tried. Some colleges
and most State universities arc adding to
their buildings residence halls, lecture halls
and classrooms as fast as possible, mean-
time stowing students wherever they can
in lodging houses or makeshift dormitories,
increasing the numl�ers of sections in the
classes, combing the country for additional
faculty, adding class and division deans to
the administrative staff. Other universities
which are not compelled by StatF law to
admit all applicants and most of the col-
leges on private foundations are trying to
hold some previously fixed number, and
with natural human craving are devising
ways to crowd the best and ablest of the
applicants into the fraction which is to be
accepted, trying to plant at each classroom
seat and laboratory   table  the  young man
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