College News, 1924-02-27, Vol. 10, No. 16

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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27,-1924
Price 10 Cents
LIBERAL CLUB DISCUSSES
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
British Labor Party Differs From
American in Part Taken
by Labor in Politics
CO-OPERATION INCREASES
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Miss   Gladys   Boflne,   Secretary   of   the
Women's  Trade   I'nion   League  of   ITiila-
<lclphia,  led  the discussion on the  British
Lalx>r Movement at the Liberal Club Meet
ing last Thursday night.
Three aspects of the British movement
not found  in this country arc development
<>f labor education, coHipeiulive1 societies,
and Labor's part in politics. In explaining
the last phase of the lal>or movement Miss
Boonc said that the difference between
American and English trade unions wall*
largely one of background. England is
homogeneous and almost completely indus-
trial ; here the labor party would have to
include the farmers. In the eighties of the
last century the trade unions elected their
first representatives to Parliament, Alex-
ander MacDonald and Thomas Burt. The
unions began in a small way, content to
elect a few at a time and satisfied that
their representatives should not be called
definitely labor men. In America the labor
party wants to start by electing a president
of the United States. The labor represen-
tation grew until 1906 when they felt they
should have a definite name and called
themselves the Labor party. At each elec-
tion there was a slow growth until before
war there were thirty or forty Labor rep-
resentatives. During the war Labor held a
pacifist position. The election held by
Lloyd George on the issue "Make Germany
Pay" in 1918 resulted in fifty-nine members
for Labor. Up to this time membership in
the party had been open only to union
members but in 1918 it was opened to all
workers of hand and brain. The fact that
the intellectuals have played such a part
in the movement means that^the Labor
party can call on a useful wealth of ex-
perience and knowledge. As a result, the
Labor party in England is less conservative
than a purely workers' party.
Workers' education was the next subject
discussed. Until the twentieth century the
only act applying to all children made edu-
cation compulsory to the age of eleven. In
1918 it was made compulsory to the ag? of
fourteen. Some years ago Oxford and
Cambridge began giving extension courses,
sending lecturers to all districts to hold
classes. Some of the workingmen who
had been attending these lectures said that
they did not think that they were doing
any work.' They suggested smaller classes.
Out of this grew up the Workers' Educa-
tional Association which has spread all
over the country. The first things inaugu-
rated were tutorial classes which the
people were made to promise to attend for
two hours a week for three years, doing
some reading and some writing each week.
Classes studied economics, social and in-
dustrial history and philosophy. When the
workers realized their need of trained
teachers they'applied to the universities.
Since England recognizes the fact of class,
distinctions, the .English laborer admits that
the intellectual has a contribution to give
to the labor movement if the latter will
accept it. His English conception of de-
mocracy is functional, Whereas ours is ega-
litarian, every man held to be as good as
every other.
Finally Miss Boone explained the co-
operative movement. In the middle of the
last century the workers wanted to help
themselves from the consumers' standpoint.
From their  small  beginnings  have grown
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DR. E. C. UNDEMAN SPEAKS ON
STUDENT AND SOCIAL WORK
Scientific Conception of Social Service
is Essential, He Says
"The Student and His Relation to Mod-
ern Society" was the subject of m\ infor-
mal lecture given by Dr. C. E. Lindeman
in Denbigh last Monday night under the
auspices of the Social Service*Committee.
Doctor Lindeman is on the staff of the
.Veil' Republic.                                �
Since the war, said Doctor Lindeman,
young people have been between two con-
Hiding views, one that sees some good in
social service work and another that sees
positive harm. Although just before the
war a large number of young people went
into activities of reform and ease; of mal-
adjustment, there now seems to be a gen-
eral disillusionment about such activities.
He mentioned the case of a friend of his,
once a ^ reformer, who recently wrote a
'>ook entitled The Immorality of Social
Work, because he felt that in dealing with
-mall problems one was making people
less revolutionary and so defeating real
progress. The trouble with the revolu-
tionary is that to him nothing seems worth
doing; he is without any concept of what
is valuable. Unless we are careful we will
drop from idealism to such hopeless
cynicism'and   lose   sight   of   the    creative
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ROBIN   HOOD  FOUNDED  ON  OLD
ENGLISH  PLAYS AND  BALLADS
May Queen Was Not Always Maid Marian
�Present Play by Miss Daly
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MR. VAN DUSEN PREACHES
IN SUNDAY CHAPEL
Stresses   Need    For    Religion
Well as   Ethics   To-Day
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Chapel was led last Sunday evening by
Mr. Henry I'. Van Dusen, assistant to Dr.
Henry Sloane Coffin, at the Madison Ave-
nue Preslfcterian Church and student at the
Union Theological Seminary.
"Today," said Mr. Van Dusen, "people
are turning from the religion of Jesus" to
His ethics. The disillusionment caused by
war is responsible for this and for our
feeling of the unreality of church and fife
organization. The agnosticism so widely
practiced is for the sluggish of mind.
Ethics may satisfy the man content with
immediate success and regardless of a black
future, but only religion meaning faith
in God will satisfy his intelligence and
supply him with a moral dynamic. In
Jesus, whose thought centered around the
word "Father," ethics cannot be divorced
from religion, and in us impurity of heart,
not intellect, is the chief obstacle to  faith.
Only he who shares the fundamental
purpose of life that is love, can compre-
hend the meaning of life. The faith in
God that is also faith in man, is a moral
challenge to have done with pride, ambi-
tion, and selfishness; and the key to the
knowledge that 'God has made us for
Himself.'"
PRINCETON  HONORS  WILSON
FORMER MEMBER OF FACULTY
Hibben  and Others Pay Tribute at
Memorial Services
Kobin Hood, which will be given, as
usual, on May Day, is founded on several
old English plays atid ballads.
Two plays by Anthony Munday, I he
Oownfall of the Earl of IInntinmloH, aftcr^,
ward called Robin Hood of Merry Sher-
Koddc, and the Death of the Hurl of Hunt-
ingdon, both acted in 1597, as well as Georg-
A-Grecn the Pinner of Wake field, by
Robert Greene, acted in 1593, and the nu-
merous Robin Hood ballads, furnished the
material  for the play given here.
Robin Hood has been given in some forrn
ever since the first May Day, and in sub
stantially the present form since 1910. Tbi
year it is the same as in 1920. The familial
and popular incidents and characters from
all the above sources were put into ont
play by Miss Elizabeth Daly, 1901, who
directed May Day several times. Thus th<
play includes the incidents connected with
Friar Tuck, Alan-a-Dalc, Will Scarlet, and
also Maid Marian. The latter does not
figure in the early Robin Hood ballads, but
is an interpolation by later authors
the first May Day here the* May Queen
did not take the part of Maid Marian, but
ever since then the two parts have been
taken by the same person.
The following is an incomplete list of
Robin Hood's Merry Men: M."Fischer '24,
E. Hale '24, H. Henshaw '25, D. Lcffcrts
'26, S. McAdoo '26, L. Nowell '26; A.
Pantzer '25, E. Smith '25, R. Tatham '24,
E. Waddell 17.
ATHLETIC    ASSOCIATION    CHANGES
EXERCISE  REQUIREMENTS
Only two periods of physical training
each week will be required for the rest of
this semester. These must be class periods.
Students who are not authorized for swim-
ming must take one swimming period and
one dancing period. Two cuts may be
registered for the two required periods
during the week a student is off sports.
The general folk dancing classes are
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, at 4.15
o'clock and Monday, at 9.15 o'clock.
I rom the New York Times
"All Princeton gathered yesterday to
honor the passing of a leader and to pay
tribute to the memory of Woodrow Wilson,
the university's most distinguished alumnus.
Townspeople, students, friends and asso-
ciates of the days when the late President
presided over life on the cwnpus, crowded
into Alexander Hall this afternoon andl
joined in a simple .service of high tribute
"John Grier Hibben, president of the uni-
versity, praised the great work of the n;ir
President. 'His public service to the State,
to the nation and to the world will be com-
memorated on many other occasions,' he
said. 'Here it is fitting that the university,
pausing in her busy activities, should bear
record of her debt of obligation to her dis-
tinguished son. Our thoughts turn instinc-
tively to a past intimately associated with
the name and personality of Woodrow
Wilson.'                                      '          �
"Recalling Woodrow WUson as the
teacher, President Hibben said: 'The teach-
ing function was never regarded by him
as drudgery but rather as an adventure,
constantly challenging his best endeavor.
Given his power of lucid exposition, his
wide range of intellectual interests, his
knowledge of the Beauty "and power of the
English tongue, of which he wasMjomplctc
master, add to this the charm of his bril-
liant personality, and we have the compo-
_*biint elements of the ideal teacher.'
"President Hibben spoke of the promi-
nent part Woodrow Wilson took in the
councils of the faculty, and named the in-
auguration di the preceptorial system of
instruction as Mr. Wilson's most conspicu-
ous contribution to the university during
his Presidency.
"Governor Silzcr, of New Jersey, pre-
sided. Other addresses were made by the
Rev. M. W. Jacobus, for the Board of
Trustees, and Dr. Robert Brisgos, a class-
mate of Mr. Wilson."
VERS LIBRE DISCUSSED
-     BY MISS AMY LOWELL
Strong   Opposition   First   Excited
Caused by New Point of View-
and Not by Change in Form
READS  FROM  OWN WORKS
Miss Amy Lowell gave a short address
and reading of some of her poems before
a large audience in Taylor Hall last Friday-
night.
Beginning with an account "I the growth
and interest in poetry fn America, Miss
Lowell explained  that in   1912 a new type
i poetry, unlike that which had preceded
it, appeared in this country; with Robert
Frost, Vachc! Lindsay and Miss Lowell
among its exponents. These poets started
writing mure or less at the same time, but
were at tirs-t perfectly separate, The move-
ment was aided by Miss Harriet Munrne,
who started a magazine, the first of its
kind, which was- to publish nothing but
poetry. The object of this magazine was
to give the young poets an opportunity of
reaching the public. The type of verse
which these people wrote was not new.
Milton used it in Samson Agonistcs; about
1880 the French took if up, Walt Whitman
following later, only instead of calling it
cadence verse they called it vers libre.
When vers libre was written in America
it appeared printed in a block, a form
�which was difficult and believed to be the
CAUSC of the strong position excited by the
poetry. According to Miss Lowell it was
not the modern form which was upsetting
but the subject matter itself and the rather
different point of view presented by the
young poets. The readers were disturbed
by the new set of ideas rather than the
form, which is merely the art used by a
poet to give them his "emotions and im-
pressions. Edward Robinson and Robert
Frost, who were among the foremost in
the movement; wrote in rhymed verse.
As a reaction against the ichdbl of KCri
libre another distinct movement has arisen.
Miss Lowell citing her own school as mas-
culine, writing on a large, vigorous scale,
contrasted with it the new lyricist group
Which writes in gentle, conventional form,
doing what it does beautifully but very-
limited in subject matter. Edna St. Vin-
cent Mi lav is one of its most important
and best writers. There is another group
of young poets who go to extremes. As
the radicals of the day they chop their
poems into pieces. While yet another group
of poets appearing mostly in small maga-
zines, take a mathematical point of view
of poetry.
In reading her poerrts Miss Lowell began -
with seven short cadence verse poems. Next
followed The Enchantea\ Castle, a poem foj:
the Edgar Allan Poe Anthology. She also
read two poems recently composeeLpn John
Keats and Patterns, at the request of her
audience.
\n  informal  reception  for Miss Lowell,
was liefd in Denbigh sitting room after the
lecture.                           .   .
BATES   HOUSE  COMMITTEE
ARRANGES INFORMAL DANCE
Members of a "Bates House" orchestra,
clothed in short frocks and colored rib-
bons, played for a dance, held in the gym-
nasium, last Saturday night, for the benefit
of Bates House.
The dance, which was perfectly formal,
costumes ranging from athletic clothes to
evening dress, netted forty-five dollars for
the fund. Twenty-five dollars were also
raised by E. Xorton, '27, who voluntarily
canvassed the college for ten cent chances
on a bright red Cheshire cat. The cat was
' won by J. Wiles, '26.

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