College News, 1923-11-27, Vol. 10, No. 09

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College
Volume X.    No. 9
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1923
Price  10 Cents
ALL-PHILADELPHIA DEFEATS CHR,S0H^
VARSITY IN HARD GAME
MISS THOMAS DESCRIBES
HER TRAVELS ABROAD
Last Game of the Season Results
injhe First Varsity
Defeat, 6-1
steadier
M. BUCHANAN/24 STRONG BACK
All-Philadelphia defeated Varsity in a
6-1 victory last Saturday in a hard and very
fast game.
Though the ball was rushed from one
end to the other with great speed all dur-
ing the�gamc, Philadelphia's attacks were
more successful than Varsity's. In the
first half Varsity held them to a score of
3-1, but- in the second the more aggressive
Philadelphia forwards repeatedly broke
through the weakened defense, both out-
distancing and evading them. Although not
as one-sided'as the score might seem to
indicate, Philadelphia played a
and surer game than Varsity.
Long dribbles on the wing provided a
rather spectacular first half, both teams
taking the ball the length of the field, only
to lo$e it at the circle. M. Palache, '.24,
and F. Begg, '24, both dribbled well and
often, but were generally stopped at the
last minute by the well-ordered changing of
positions of the Blue backs. Mrs. Krum-
bhaar, the Philadelphia goal, proved imper-
meable to the attacks of the Bryn Mawr
forwards,  who  failed  to  rush the  goaler.
The Ijryn Mawr game was slower and
played more on the defensive in the second
half. Philadelphia often found a clear field
before them, with Varsity vainly trying to
keep up the pace, and leaving unfilled gaps.
Miss Wiener, left wing, made several beau-
tiful dribbles ending in a score.
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Atmosphere   of  Judaism  Described
Into Which Jesus was Born
DR. MOLDENHAUER SPEAKS
ON NEED OF ACTIVE FAITH
Practical Application to Make Faith
Real
The faith Ojf the present has a good
chance for survival, 'only if we take it
seriously, said Dr. J. Valdemar Molden-
hauer, pastor of the Westminster Presby-
terian Church, Albany, New York, in
Chapel last Sunday evening.
A famous example of faith taken auto-
matically is Kipling's poem of Tomlinson,
who accepted other people's ideas of God
without thinking, and who is refused en-
trance to both Heaven and Hell on this
ground. Too many, like Tomlinson, are
willing to accept conceptions of this sort
and not verify them. The real value of faith
lies in its being rooted in the actualities of
life, accq/ling to Dr. Moldenhauer. The
difficulty of the old theologians lay in the
fact that they refused to observe human
,'nature. Even Jonathan Edwards, who as a
youth wrote a paper based on observation
of the habits of the woodspider, neglected
this when he came to write on theology.
If faith is to be real, it must not only
get contact from life, but also have a prac-
tical application and must retain its validity
by the ability to impose its will on the be-
liever. In every great age of the life of
faith, some issue has become the test of
the sincerity of religion. The period be-
fore the Civil War saw the question of
slavery as the provocation, while now we
are living through jusj such another time
of stress induced by the World War, and
asking the universal question of whether
every Chrisstian, if he intends to take
Christ seriously, can preserve his calloused
indifference to the fate of peace.
Jesus and his Judaistic background was
the subject of Dr. Albert Pa/ker Fitch's
fourth lecture on Comparative Religions in
Taylor Hall last Wednesday night.
Continuing his discussion of the essential
characteristics of Judaism of the fifth cen-
tury B. C, Dr. Fitch said that this spiritual
revival was followed by the quiescent
period of the exile, clarifying and codify-
ing the new religion. With the gradual
drifting back of small companies to Jeru-
salem Judaism became, as one of its Kabis
said, "the crystallization of the worship
of Jehovah,^whose worship is the sacrifice
of the pure life and a just state." Theo-
retically thejews had a clear -perception 01
genuine monotheism, a belief in a God who
was willing to become God of all nations
but who had a special interest in Judah. This
God is no longer conceived in terms of
crude power and imperial tyranny but in
terms of goodness and wisdom. The great
emphasis is on the ethical life, for moral
distinctions are more important to the Jews
I than to any other race. "It is from them
that we derive much of the moral self*
consciousness of our modern world, al-
though part of it comes from the strong
esthetic dislike of wrong which the Greeks
possessed. The Greeks felt the caricature
of sensual living, but the Jews believed that
they lived under supervision of a holy God
to whom wrong-doing was an utter abhor-
rence. Moral passion and a sense of the
absoluteness of right were the chief endow-
ment of. the Hebrew race."
Out of the ideals grew their conception
of public morality, "God-fearing politics";
which is evident in the humaneness of the
legal code of Judaism, particularly in its
laws concerning slavery and the treatment
of animals as well as the laws of personal
purity. Furthermore Judaism in its great
period knew the value of a "broken and
contrite heart;" but in spite of its moral
humility and bitter repentance it has almost
no ascetic note. To the Jews the good life
was delightful because it satisfied God, but.
also, in its less noble -aspects because "it
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Important  For   United    States
Enter League of Nations
to
WINTER SCHEDULE TO  BEGIN
AFTER THANKSGIVING
Monday after Thanksgiving the winter
athletic schedule will begin.
Water polo practice will start then, and
a water polo game will be included in all
swimming lessons, which will be given as
usual, so those who prefer it may play in
the   afternoon.
Gymnasium classes will meet Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. Folk dancing will
be on Tuesday and Thursday, at 3.30 for
Class 1, and 5.30 for the advanced class
taking it regularly twice a week. A gen-
eral class open to anyone will also be
given on Wednesday evening at 9.15.
Playground games for those who want
to know how to teach elementary gym-
nasium and to do club work in games and
dancing will be on Tuesday and Thursday
at 4.50. It will be open to Juniors and
Seniors primarily, and to any Sophomores
and Freshmen interested in this kind of
club work.
Mr. Terroni's fencing class will meet
Tuesday evening, at a charge of $15.00 for
the year. Wednesday and Thursday- at
5.30 there will be fencing practice classes.
MAY   DAY  ANNOUNCEMENT
. Will everyone please make out her lists
of patrons and patronesses, and of those
to whom she wishes information sent,
during vacation?
(The follomitg statement from J'rcsi-
dent-llmcritus Thomas appeared in the
Philadelphia evening papcrson November
21, and has be'en widely copied by leading
papers throughout the country in addition
to calling forth  much editorial comment.)
Tr;i\ elling in Kurope and Asia for six-
teen continuous months gives one an im-
pression of the world totally different from
that' we have as stay-at-home Americans.
It is mil only what a globe-trotting Amer-
ican sees of different Countries: it is the
imaginative conception that somehow comes
of the people of the country. !t is t-hc un-
derstanding one gets of their special prob-
lems by reading' their newspapers from
day to day. It is, in short, a kind of. first
hand knowledge that makes us believe
snrcly we are right in seeing things in a
new light.
I have come, for my own part, to be
absolutely sure that it 'is the duty and also
to the profit of the United Stales to delay
no longer but to use her great moral and
financial power, to the utmost to-help to
solve the many pressing problems that must
be solved if the world as we know it is to
go on. It seems to me our first duty to
enter the League of Nations to which fifty-
four nations of the world already belong,
including the Free State of Ireland and
Abyssinia, which joined it this summer, and
tA which there is every reason to believe
Germany and Russia will be admitted as
soon as they apply. In the Council and on
all the League committees a place for the
United States is still kept vacant in the
hope tfiat we shall fill it.
In Paris I saw a number of people who
were on their way back from the annual
meeting of the League of Nations held last
September and October at Geneva. They
one and all told me that the Italian-Greek
difficulty which seemed to outsiders such a
blow to the League of Nations was really
a magnificent tribute to its strength and
to the power of public opinion organized
within the League to which even Mussolini
found he must bow.
I was in Constantinople in the summer
of 1922, living in the villa I had rented on
the Bosphorus, when the British battleships
steamed past my windows as a demonstra-
tion to the victorious,Anatolian Turks that
they could not come back into Europe. If
we had been there to stand by Great Britain,
not a shot need have been fired, but one
of the   greatest and most beautiful cities
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REASON ESSENTIAL VIRTUE OF THE
FRENCH, EXPLAINS MISS KING
The very spirit of France is found be-
tween the basins of the Loire and the
Seine, said Miss King, professor of His-
tory of Art, speaking to the French Club
last Tuesday afternoon.
In this region arc the great' Gothic ca-
thedrals and northern chateaus. Here
were born Ronsard, Christine de Pisan,
Verlaine, Rabelais, Moliere, Balzac, Vol-
taire; representing in art and literature
that essentially French quality, reason.
Reason includes the four powers which
govern life, the power of intellect and of
knowledge, that of beauty, and fif conduct
of social life and m%iners, making French
pedantry very rare and resolving French
conduct into rightly ordered relations be-
tween human beings. It is expressed in
the painting of Chardin, Millet, and the
Barbizon school; in the French novel,
short story, high comedy, and generally in
all great French work where the excellence
is not so much of invention as of adapta-
tion and arrangement.
RECEPTION TO JUNIORS
GIVEN BYSENIOR CLASS
Brother Dodo Leads Darky Meet-
ing and Chooses Future Cast
For May Day
HERO SELECTED BY FORTUNE
The Seniors entertained the Freshmen
with a skit and dance fast Saturday
evening.
The skit burlesqued future May Day
tryouts for Maid Marian and Robin Hood
in a Darky meeting conducted by the Class
of nineteen twenty-four in the*" person of
A. Shiras, alias Brother Dodo, dressed in
a cavernous dress suit and a high brown "
straw hat tilting on the peak of an enor-
mous quantity of black wool. Brother
Dodo's presence as chairman of the meet-
ing and the chief figure on the stage was
matchless, as were his lines and the accent
in which he spoke them.
After "Oh Susanna," sung in a dark
gymnasium and behind the folding screens
which made up the curtain, the skit opened
with Brother Dodo standing behind a table,
an qnormons minute-book laid before him,
calling the meeting to order with a little
bell; On his right sat Sister Park, in cap,
gown and glasses; and Brother Willow
Walcy, the Janitor, was standing to one
side, rubbing the palm of one hand with
the fingers of the other. Brother Dodo
then called the roll, and found all present
except Sister Thomas. The first business
before the meeting, in the words of
Brother Dodo, "am de speculation on de
business of de meetin' what am went be-
foah." Then affairs proceeded to the mat-
ter in hand, namely, the choosing of char-
acters for "de little classic, Robin Hood,"
to be given in the spring. Brother Willow
Waley brought in his chorus to the tune
of  "The  Darktown  Strutter's Ball,"   and
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DELEGATES GO TO STUDENT
GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE
Pamela Coyne, '24 and E. ReQua, '24
Represent Bryn Mayr at Oberlin
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Bryn Mawr delegates to the Sixteenth
Annual Conference of the Women's Inter-
collegiate Association for Student Gov-
ernment, held at.Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio, last week from Wednesday to Satur-
day, were P. Coyne, '24, President of the
Self-Government Association, and E. Re-
Qua, '24, President of the Undergraduate
Association.
Sixty colleges in the East and South
were represented by 110 delegates, and
three delegates from Western colleges at-
tended. Many of the problems discussed,
such as sorority and co-educational ques-
tions, were � not applicable to Bryn Mawr,
but some were of general application. The
recommendation was passed that next year
the Conference discuss more fundamental
questions, rather than the smaller rules,
which differ everywhere. It will be held
next year at Vassar. Delegates will be sent
fronj this Eastern Conference to the next
national one, to be held a-year from next
spring.
Discussion on extension of the honor
system in scnools was voted after Wilmer
Shields, now a graduate student here, was
made secretary for this work. A voca-
tional system was also discussed with sug-
gestions ranging from the Dartmouth
method of permanent "vocation guidance"
by a resident dean, to the suggestion that
Alumnae return and speak to the unde"r-
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