College News, 1924-03-19, Vol. 10, No. 19

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Volume X.    No. 19
BRYN MAW% PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924
Price 10 Cents
DR. LOWES LECTURES ON
RIME OF ANCIENT MARINER
Ann    Sh^ble    Memorial    Lecturer
Tells How Original   Idea of
Coleridge Grew
POEM EMBODIES THEORIES
. Dr. John L. Lowes, professor of Eng-
lish at Harvard, deliverer! the Arm SheMe
Memorial Lecture, sneaking on "The Bird,
the Daemon, and the Eternal Wanderer:
A Chapter in the history oi the Rime of
the Ancient Mariner," in Taylor Hall last
Friday evening.        ^
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," said
Professor Lowes, "is not a tour d% force
of. the imagination, but compact of the fact
and thought of Coleridge's time. It is in-
stinct with Neo-Platonism and with the
naively scientific spirit then prevailing.
Coleridge-had a nebulous idea for a poem
about an old navigator. Wordsworth sug-
gested that the navigator kill an albatross
and thereafter be punished by the spirits
of its native land, which Coleridge makes
a kind of supermundane place. Words-
worth unlocked a storehouse of legend and
superstition by his suggestion, for Cole-
ridge's mind vvas seething with Jewish and
Oriental mysticism, because he had read
deeply in the Neo-Platonists of the Alex-
andrian period. Plotinus and Porphirius,
and even more in the Renaissance Neo-
Platonists, Fiemo, and Rico Mirandella,
whose Caballa is almost an encyclopedia of
mysticism.
"Daemonology was a tremendously popu-
lar subject at that time. People were deeply
interested in the legend that there were
supernatural invisible beings distributed
among the elements, and having the power
to punish with eternal torment. Coleridge,
at Wordsworth's proposal of the spirits,
remembered the fable of these daemons,
which belong to 'the mystic region of the
primal instinctive will to believe,' and set
out to deal with them in such a way as
to give them reality.
' "The original conception of the old navi-
gator was greatly changed by Wordsworth's
idea. Coleridge had read extensively, in
Hjerman HteratnVe, which then interested
itself largely in the legend of the Wander-
ing Jew. Yet the Mariner is not the Wan-
derer: hy a subtle transfer he becomes a
new creation, though shrouded in all the
mystery of this most ancient of legends.
He has a semblance of truth which chal-
lenges us to believe in him.
"Coleridge had been planning a novel
whose central character was known only
as the Unfathomable and whose preface
was exactly like the wedding scene in 'The
Ancient Mariner.' Wordsworth's sugges-
tion linked this idea to that of eternal
wandering as an expiation for crime. Gess-
ner's 'Death of Abel' interested Coleridge
by its conception of Cain as a branded,
hunted man. The-Mariner is influenced
by it, yet the Mariner is not Cain^ but an
essentially new creation.
"The beauty of 'The Rime of* the An-
cient Mariner' springs," Professor Lowes
said, "from 'the secret influence of the un-
expressed.' Investigation of the subtlety
by which this beauty is achieved proves
that the poem is not merely a work of the
imagination, but also the result of the
varied intefcsts of Coleridge's age and of
his literary experiences."
Haroldine Humphreys, "23, will take
the part of the Nun in The Miracle on
Friday and Saturday nights of this
week, and twice a week hereafter.
LABOR PARTY BRINGS UNIONS
AND INTELLECTUALS TOGETHER
History of Movement Shows General
Application to All Classes
Tracing the rise of the Labor Party from
the Renaissance and Reformation, Mr. Sid-
ney F. Wicks, of the Manchester Guardian,
told oi its present position in the British
Government, in Taylor, last Tuesday eve-
ning.                               r
The~M'ancTie~sTer Guardian, which started
at the death of Napoleon, with a policy of
disseminating ideas, and formation of pub-
lic opinion, helped the Liberal Party, which
as the parent of the Labor Party, had
started reforms. The extension of the
franchise, finally to women, education, fac-
tory acts, and to freedom of Ireland were
the results of its work in this field. There
was a religious zeal behind liberalism that
still characterizes the movement, because
the Anglo-Saxon wants not spiritual hair-
splitting, but a practical application of
Christianity to his needs, and therefore a
liberal interpretation of the New Testa-
ment. When liberalism faltered, and re-
fused to take advantage of its victories
over the House of Lords, the torch passed
on to the younger, more vigorous party,
which at a time of scepticism about the
efficacy of diplomats, was unstained by
diplomatic contact. Some members of the
older party, like Lord Haldane, now joined
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COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES
CASTS FOR MAY DAY
Alexander and Campaspe, The Lady
of The May, to Be Posted Later
Plays  for  May Day have been cast as
follows:
St. George and the Dragon
King Alfred............M. Constant,'25
His Queen .................J. Palmer, '24
Saint George .............M. Palache, '24
King William......-----J. Schoonover, '25
The Dragon  ............M. Z. Pease,'27
Giant Blunderbore.........C. Remak, '25
Little Jack  ............M. Whitcomb, '25
Captain" Slasher ............E. Lomas, '25
Turkish Champion  ..........M. Hale, '25
A Noble Doctor ........R. Godefroy, '24
The Old Wives' Tale
Sacrapant...............M. L. White,'24
First Brother (Calypha).Marion Smith, '27
Second Brother  (Thalea).....B. Ives, '24
Eumenides.................P. Coyne, '24
Senex (Erestus)  ........B. Spackman, '26
Xampriscus.............O.  Saunders, '25
Huanebango .................L. Ford, '24
Corebus .....................A. Pratt, '24
Wiggin...................E." Walton, '25
Church Warden ..........A. Tierney, '26
Sexton  ..........v......H. Henshaw, '25
Ghost of Jack ..........F. deLaguna, '27
H. Quinn,'26
Furies  ................      M. Arnold, '26
L Andrews, '26
Delia  ........................E. Tifft, '24
Venelia ....................R. Tubby, '24
Zantippa  .................E.  Sullivan, '24
Celanta....................R. Foster, '25
Antick  ....................E.  McKee, *26
Frolick ....................E. Mallett, '25
Fantastick .................I. Wallace, '24
Clunch (the smith)  .......M. Rodney, '24
Madge (his wife)  .........M. Tucker, '22
{'M. Shumway, '25
E. Brodie, '27
Roberta Murray, '24, gave a lecture to
the Maids' Gub, last Thursday night, on
the subject of art
HELEN   HOUGH   NEW   PRESIDENT
OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
"Hie President of the Self-Govern-
ment Association for next year will be
Helen Hough, recently elected to suc-
ceed  Pamela Coyne.
Miss Hough has been on the Self-
Government Board for two years. She
was vice-president of her class last year,
and was a member of 1925's Freshman
Committee.
SENIOR TEAM WINS FINAL
GYMNASIUM MEET
Mildred   Buchanan,    '24,   Receives
Individual   Championship
Winning every event in the final gym-
nasium meet last Friday, the Seniors
placed first with a score of 102.2 points.
Second and third places were won by 1925
and 1926 with 97.2 and 95.3 points. Sec-
ond team was also won by 1924 with 58.2
poiuts. The Juniors came second with 57.2
points, and the Freshmen third with 49.8.
The Cup for the individual champion-
ship was awarded to M. Buchanan, '24.
Miss Buchanan made a score of 37.6 points!
while S. Lecwitz, '24, placed second with
36.3 points. Third and fourth places were
won by B. Tuttlc, '24, and G. Lecwitz, '26,
with 36.1 and 35.4 points.
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EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS TO
BE ANNOUNCED IN CHAPEL
Senior Upper Ten  Also Announced
on Friday
The awards of the Graduate and Under-
graduate European Fellowships, as well as
the names of the ten students in the
Senior class, having the highest number of
honor points, will be announced in chapel
on Friday.
Last year the Undergraduate Fellowship
of $500 was awarded to Dorothy Burr,
who is now studying at the School of
Athens. Miss Burr graduated Summa cum
Laude with a total of over 270 honor
points.
There are three Graduate Fellowships
given each year. First is the Helene and
Cecil Rubel Fellowship for $1500, founded
by Helen Rubel, '21, in memory of her
father and mother. To it arc attached no
restrictions. It may be used at home or
abroad, towards getting a degree or merely
for individual research. The second is the
Mary E. Garrett Fellowship of $500, which
may be held by a student who has had
two years of graduate work and is a can-
didate for a Ph.D. at Broyn Mawr; it
must be used abroad. The M. Carey
Thomas Graduate Fellowship of $500 is
awarded each year to a student with one
year of graduate work, also a candidate for
a Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr, for study abroad.
The recipients of these fellowships last
year were: Ann Jones, the Mary E. Gar-
rett Fellowship; Vera Lee Brown, the
Helerie" and Cecil Rubel, and Helen Haw-
thorne Young, the M. Carey Thomas Fel-
lowship.
NEW8  IN  BRIEF
The Junior Class has voted that its party
to the Seniors shall' be a supper with danc-
ing in the gymnasium.
Caroline Remak has been elected basket-
ball captain by 1925.
S. McAdoo, '26, was elected Sophomore
Basketball captain at a class meeting last
Tuesday.
SWARTHMORE DEFEATED BY
VARSITY IN SPEEDY GAME
Pronounced   Victory   Is   Due    to
Accurate Aim and  Passing  of
Bryn Mawr
C. REMAK, '25, STAR FORWARD
A  game  of  rapid  scoring  ended  in a
decisive victory for Varsity over Swarth.-
morc College, 33-17, in the first 'outside
basketball game last Saturday.
Bryn Mawr took.the lead immediately
and kept it throughout the game, though
by no means*with great ease. The team
played well, both together and individually
and superior skill in handling the ball en-
abled them to pass more swiftly and accu-
rately than Swarthmorc. This was espe-
cially true of the passing between the
forwards, who left their guards completely
behind. The calmness and accuracy of C.
Remak, '25, was never failing, and she
scored 30 of the 3i points.
Swarthmorc scored a beautiful goal from
the center line at the beginning of the
second half and a number �f free shots
later. The whole team played in a more
determined and pugnacious manner and
the similar response of Bryn Mawr led to
the game's often degenerating into a scram-
ble with frequent fouling. It remained,
however, both quick and interesting to the
end, with the throwing of several sensa-
tional long-distance goals.
Swafthmore                       Bryn Mawr
Miss Brown .......L.F.....K. Elston, '24
Miss Parry .......R.F.....C. Remak, '25
Miss Jenkinson ..... C.....S. McAdoo, '26
Miss Roberts.....TS.C... .M. Palache, '24
Miss Sjostrom___R.G----G. Leewitz, '26
Miss Pollard ......L.G....S. Leewitz, '24
Field Goals�-Swarthmore: Miss Brown,
4; Miss Parry, 2. Bryn Mawr: K. Elston,
'24, 1; C. Remak, '25, 14.
Foul Goals�Swarthmorc: Miss Brown,
5. Bryn Mawr: K. Elston, '24, 1; C.
Remak, '25, Z
Substitutes�Swarthmore: Miss Foot for
Miss Jenkinson, Miss Jenkinson for Miss
Sjostrom.
HONESTY OF INTELLECT
URGED BY DR. STEINER
Chapel  Speaker Stresses Necessity
for Justice in Hate and Love
"Dealing justly" involves intellect as well
as emotion, said Dr. Edward Steiner, pro-
fessor of Applied, Christianity at Grinnell
College, in Chapel last Sunday evening.
People, he continued, tend to be governed
by bias rather than by fact; by hastily
generalized impressions; by their inclina-
tion to believe what they want to believe;
by inheritance, training, surroundings, self-
interest. But to b� just, a man must have
the courage of his convictions and the
courage to face both sides of a question
at the same time. Furthermore, in dealing
justly the emotions of love and hate arc
necessary as well as logic. But we must
love fairly; when we hate we must hate
justly and to a purpose; hating in our
friends and in ourselves what we hate in
our enemies.                            ^
At this time intellectual honesty and just
emotion are most needed, concluded Dr.
Steiner, that God'may reveal Himself to
us.
All those wishing to return to Sum-
mer School this year as Recreation
Leaders will please give their names to
M. Woodworth, '24.