College News, 1925-04-08, Vol. 11, No. 21

              The College News
Vol. XI.   No. 21
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR,- PA., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8, 1925
SINGLE-MAJOR SYSTEM
-ADOPTED BY FACULTY
Old-Group System Replaced by orte
Major  with Allied Electives;
Language Method Changed
LESS    COMPOSITION    REQUIRE!)
The Faculty has yoted that hereafter a
system  of  a  single major  with  allied  sub-
_____jeets is to be substituted for the group sys-
*       tcin.
Under this new plan at least 25-year hours
of the student's course must be allotte'd to
the major and allied subjects. At least ten
of these hours must be ill first and second-
year work in the majors>ibjcct. The remain-
der of the 25 will Jwdivided between the
major and allied subjects under the advice
of the department in which the major work
is taken. Students of distinct promise, in
the opinion of the department, will be al-
lowed to carry advanced work in the major
subject beyond the first two years.
In many cases the working out of the
new system will be similar to or even iden-
tical with that of the old group system.
There will, however, be more concentration
in this part of the curriculum, in that 25
/          instead of 20 hours of the student's course
pi           must be given to one field of work.    There
will also be greater flexibility, in that the
distribution and arrangement of hours in
the major and allied subject will be much
freer than in the group system. The em-
phasis will be quite different. Instead of
two subjects of equal importance, one sub-
ject will be chosen by the student as her
chief interest. The allied subjects will be
considered subordinate and supplementary
to her work in this one main subject. .
AH students now in college will have the
option of electing to work under the new
>vstem.
Two other changes in the curriculum have
also been voted by the Faculty:
Required English has been reduced to
eight hours so that no second-year English
composition   will  be given.
Elementary Spanish and Italian will be
abolished and a new minor course will be
substituted in each of these languages for
which a knowledge of French will lie a pre-
requisite.
HEADQUARTERS   OF   STUDENTS'
UNION TO BE AT GENEVA
No   Discrimination   Made  as   to   Color,
Nationality or Religion.
Geneva is to have a Students' International
Union, which it is hoped may become the
club centre of all students who come to
Geneva, attracted by the University and the
other institutions of higher learning or by
tin- League of Nations.
A beautiful ten-room apartment, overlook-
ing the University Park, has been rented for
three years to house the Union. It is now
being furnished and provides a library.
lounge, smoking room and information bu-
reau. There will be special conferences by
speakers of note.
Generous support of the enterprise has
bdti promised by the officials of the Uni-
versity of Geneva of the League of Nations
and the International Labor Office.
Absolute impartiality is to prevail, with
ini discrimination as to race, color, nation-
ality or religion.
If the plan succeeds there is no reason
why this project should not be the forerun-
ner of a Student League of Nations, so that
all international student organizations will
have their headquarters located in Geneva.
Men and women, students and others in-
terested in promoting international co-opera-
tion and world peace are eligible to mem-
bership in the Union.
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Price 10 Cents
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT ELBCTED TO BOARD
OF CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION FOR NEXT YEAR
Next year's president of the Christian Association will be Winifred Uodd.
"2ii. .Miss Dodd has been Junior Member on the Hoard of the Christian
Association this year. She was also .vice president of her class, freshman
year, and president.''sophomore year. She has been class captain of basket-
ball and watcrjpTJhx                                          "v,
\     - Miss Hopkinson. the new vice piesident, has been chairman of the Religious
.\lcctings Committee of the Christian Association this year.    She was also vice
president of the Liberal Club ill lt>3;;-24 and associate editor of the ImhU?*�-Iw�
two years.
STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO
WORKERS' EDUCATION PARLEY
Movement Seeks Higher Standards of
Intelligence for Workers.
The fourth national convention of the
Workers' Education Bureau will be held
at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadel-
phia, on April 17, 18 and 19, and will be
composed of delegates, directors of work-
ers' education, leaders and members of
the rank and file of trade unions, and
workers' education societies throughout
the United States. Fraternal delegates
will attend from Mexico, Canada, Great
Britain, and Belgium.
Organized in 1921, the Workers' Edu-
cation Bureau came as a culmination of
the effort! of organized workers in several
cities of this country, who recognized the
necessity for g/eater intelligence on the
part of the wage workers and for higher
CONTINUED ON  PACE 3
STUDENT FORUM CAMP AND
ITS PLANS ARE EXPLAINED
TOLERANCE SHOULB EMBODY
RESPECT, SAYS H. HOPKtNSON
Pseudo- Tolerance,    Perilous    Pitfall
Lurks Behind Harmless Traits
Tolerance, intolerance, and pseudo-tol-
erance were discussed and contrasted in
chapel last Sunday evening by Harriot
Hopkinson, '20, Vice-President of the
Christian Association for next year.
Tolerance, she said, seems nowadays
to be considered as something innate, the
lack of which is a misfortune rather than
a fault. It is not quite so insulting to tell
people that they are intolerant as to tell
them that they hick good taste or a sense
f humor, but people are apt to take it
in the same way.
It is probably because tolerance is in
fashion thai there is so much pseudo-
tolerance. Tolerance is freedom from
bigotry; the characteristics of an intoler-
ant person are ignorance and prejudice.
But more dangerous in many ways is
pseudo-tolerance. It is not quite honest.
It is harder to discover because it exists
behind the masks of characteristics which
are often in themselves quite harmless:
1.     Lack of discrimination
2.     Agreeablencss
3.     Indifference, which of the three, is
perhaps the most easily confused with
real   tolerance.
There are many people who pass as
tolerant who only have one or another of
those characteristics developed to a large
degree
True tolerance embodies a quality of
respect, respect for other people's opin-
ions, habits, and beliefs. The condemna-
tion of a tolerant person is always val-
uable.
In attempting to achieve real tolerance
we must be careful not to fall into the
comfortable  trap  of pseudo-tolerance.
Allinson Sketches Program � Labor,
Drama and War Are Items.
Speaking under the auspices of the Lib-
eral Club in Denbigh last t Sunday morn-
ing, Mr. Brent Allinson explained the
National Student Forum and the confer-
ences it will hold this summer.
"The National Student Forum." be said,
"grew from the Liberal Clubs pf the
men's colleges and dates from the time of
the Washington conference. It has two
main undertakings. There is the New
Student, a"weekly intercollegiate newspaper,
whose purpose is to co-ordinate liberal
feeling in colleges; and the camp at
Woodstock, in the Catskill Mountains of
New York, where ten-day summer con-
ferences are held on topics directly con-
fronting students, who, with their formal
CONTINUED  on  PACK  i>
SUMMIT OF ROMANTICISM SEEN
IN PRODUCTION OF "FANTASIO'
SELF-GOV. HOLDS FINAL
MEETING WITH OLD BOARD
Legislature System Voted, And the
Boards Achievement Reviewed
by H. Hough; '25, Retiring
PEM. W. HEADS CAMPUS IN FINES
"The Self-Government Board has gone
through a liberal year," said Helen
Hough, '25, retiring President of the Self-
H. Grayson, '25, Scores  Success As
Poetic Though Disillusioned Hero
True to the tradition of nineteenth cen-
tury romanticism was the fantasio of Alfred
de Mussct. played by the Cerclc Francais.
under the direction of Miss Eunice Morgan
Schenck, for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr
Endowment Fund, on the evenings of April
:i and 4 in  Penygroes.
The performance was vibrant with ro-
mantic contempt for the timid and complac-
ent bourgeoisie, romantic revolt against the
littleness of living, romantic weariness with
the achievable, romantic passion lor the un-
attainable.
Young, vigorous, essentially French was
the fantasio of II. Grayson. '2.V She realized
with sympathy and beauty the ;noods of
Fantasio.. sweeping from weary disgust to
poetic ecstasy.
Elsbeth, as played by J. Sullivan. '27. was
graceful and dcji.catc�a sweet, romantic
child�lovely, obedient and practical.
K. Nelson. '.'.'7. made a gossipy and in-
efficient diaper,>ue for Klsbeth. portraying an
old woman, still young enough at heart to
glory in titles and to weep at missing the
Prince of Mantua. Bui it was as well for
her illusions of royal grandeur that she did
not see him, for. as represented by N
Perera. he was violent, jealous and vain,
passing like a storm through the court', in
marked contrast to the stately dignity of
the King of Bavaria, played with smooth
distinction by K. Morse, '-'<'��
Cheery, beery old Spark was a vigorous
characterization of B. Ling. '2.v Loving
Fantasio like a father, he failed utterly to
understand his fine madness, and had ho
interest in moons not made of green cheese.
The setting was cleverly contrived within
the limited space at the actors' disposal.
Government     Association,     speaking     in
chapel last Wednesday night. �
Miss Hough bore out her Statement
by citing the adoption of the Self-Gov-
ernment Legislature, which was a n*w
experiment this year, and also by review-
ing amendments made to the rules regard-
ing student conduct.
The treasurer's report was read, show-
ing a balancc'of two hundred and eleven
dollars to the credit of the Self-Govcrn-
ment Association. In receipts from fines
Pembroke West led the campus.
Separation of Graduate and Under-
graduate Sett-Government was moved
and voted. Miss Shields said that the
ordinary business of Self-Govcrnmcnt did
not generally affect the Graduate mem-
bers, and in serious matters the associa-
tions could conibfnc.                 ^
At the motion of F. Jay, '26, it was
voted that the constitution be amended
to read that the legislative power of the
association should rest with a legislature
made up of the executive board, the ad-
visory board, and the class presidents, and
two members from each class from each
hall. The experiment of the last two
months is now an amendment, adding the
class president is the one new feature.
The business is to be posted a week in
advance, and meetings, which will be
open, may be called any time by the
president, or by application. The Self-
Governtnent Association, and the Under-
Qraduate Association will call joint mass
meetings. Some similar form of legislative
government has been widely adopted in the
last two years, Miss Hough said.
Following the meeting of the Self-Gov-
ernnicnt Association on Wednesday eve-
ning, April 1. a meeting of the Under-
graduate Association voted the permanent
adoption of the legislature.
MUSIC    SCHOLARSHIP   OFFERED
FOR TRAINING  OF   TEACHER
Undergraduate   or   Graduate   May    Get
Award of Boston "Music Fund."
"The Music Fund," of Boston, Massachu-
setts. Thomas Whitney Surette. chairman,
offers a scholarship of from SX">0 to $500
IB students training to become teachers of
music in public or private schools or col-
leu es
The scholarship is given on the following
terms:
1. The candidate shall have complied with
the requirement! for admission to Bryn
Mawr College.
(For Undergraduates.)
(a). Ear training.
(b)   Pianoforte  playing.
(For  Graduates.)
(a) Sight-singing.
(��)   Musical dictation.
(c)   Pianoforte playing and sight reading.
(d)   Harmony.
(e)   The equivalent of the two undergrad-
uate courses offered in "History and Appre-
ciation  of   Mush."
The examiners shall be Thomas Whitnev
Surette. chairman of the Music Fund, and
I lorace Alwyne, director of the Department
of Music.
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