College News, 1925-01-14, Vol. 11, No. 12

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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14,1925
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GIVEN BT CLASS OF '27
Gymnasium Transformed By Moving
Pageant Of Gorgeous Costumes
From Oriental Lands
TWAIN MEET IN SPITE OF KIPLING
The Arabian Nights or at least one of
them was revealed at the dance given by
1927 to 1928 in the gymnasium on last Satur-
day night.
Colored lights shifted over gay, wild
crowds. They picked out Orientals of all
kinds. Arabia, broadly interpreted by the
undergraduates, produced Greek goddesses
and Thibetan llamas. Caste distinctions
were set aside as sheiks chatted amiably with
camel-drivers during the intermission. The
Far East yielded mandarin coats by the
score, coats which bedecked with equal
grace those whose hair was hidden in.mas-
culine fashion under coolie hats�lamp
shades in their original state�or coiled over
ears that sported a rose.
Most of the costumes were self-explaija-|
tory, hut one at least was accompanied by a
caption assuring the spectator that there was,
%in six letters, that famous sailor whose ad-
ventures are known to all of us. To make
the meaning clear to the more obtuse, a
"Man of the Sea" was attached to his back.
Dancing girls were much in evidence and
danced as effectively to the strains of "Me
and My Boy Friend" as to their native lute
of samisen. One of these was H. Fitz, '27,
who gave a solo dance.
Turkish women celebrated their temporary
escape from the harem while discreetly re-
maining veiled from the chance sight of
their jealous lords. An air of the mosque
was present in the temple lamps whose light
supplemented that of the many-colored spot,
which picked out Grand Viziers and Sultans;
and for the weary there were luxurious
divans in the shadows of the arcade. Costly
Persian rugs draped railings and couches,
and suggested Oriental splendor. The key-
note was struck by the wall painting depict-
ing the peacock spreading his fan against
the background of a flowering magnolia.
BRYN MAWR FRESHMAN WINS
WORLD HONORS WITH ESSAY
Frances Putnam Awarded First Prize
Of International Contest
COMMUNISMS MUCH   MORE
IMPORTANT THAN GREAT WAR
Right Of  Free Speech Menaced By
Persecution Of Reds, Says Baldwin
"Who are the Reds and what do they
want," was the subject of the lecture of
Roger N. Baldwin, director of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union, who spoke un-
der the auspices of the Liberal Club last
Thursday evening.
"The Communist movement is a flaming
challenge to the capitalist system. It
stands for a working class Government to
organize business for service, not for the
profit of a small group of capitalists. Its
lifeblood flows out from the heart of Mos-
cow. All branches, comprising about
25,000 people in America alone, take their
orders from Moscow, as Catholics from
the Pope. Communism seems to me far
more important than the great war, wHich
was only the result of the effort of nations
to undermine each other's trade. It ad-
vocates taking away the privileges from
the privileged classes and preaches un-
questioning loyalty to its principles.
"In 1917 a tremendous effort was made
in this country to suppress Communism.
It forced them, idealists as they were, to
resort to the same underhand and tortu-
ous methods caused in Russia by Czarist
persecutions. In 1922 the Government
captured some 30 Communists in a secret
meeting and sentenced them to prison for
'advocating criminal syndicalism.'
"The radicals maintain that never has
there been any revolutionary change re-
sulting in the transfer of property from
one class to another without violence by
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DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI, INDIAN
NATIONALIST, TO SPEAK FRIDAY
Frances Louise Putnam, a member of the
Class of l�2a, is, according to an article in
the Boston Herald, for. December 14, the
winner of the first prize in an international
contest for high and secondary school
pupils; the subject being: 'The Organiza-
tion of the World to Prevent War."
The prizes are given annually by the
^Misses Sesrbtny, of New Bedford, Mass.,
for tire best essays dealing with the move-
ment for bringing about a better understand-
ing between nations. In other years the
prizes have gone to Europe; last year's prize
to Elsmore, Denmark, the home of Ham-
More than 1000 schools Were represented
by the essays submitted this year, and only
the three best from each school reached
the committee Miss Putnam won the New
England Alumnae Regional Scholarship and
received honorable mention as having re-
ceived the second highest matriculation aver-
age in New England.
The American School Citizenship League
is an owgrowth of the National Peace Con-
gress which met in New York in 1907.
Well-Known Hindu Author Will Talk
On Tagore's and Kipling's India
I "Tagore's and Kipling's Iiftlia*'"will be the
subject of the lecture by Dhan Gopal Mu-
kerji under the auspices of the Liberal
Club, Friday evening! January 16.
As a lecturer he has' *6n marty honors
both.here and abroad. He has lectured at
Oxford and other universities in England
and America, and has talked at Carnegie
Hall, New York, for five successive seasons.
A Hindu, born of a family of high caste
Brahmins, he was brought up and educated
as a citizen of the old Hindu regime. Gradu-
ating at 18, from Calcutta University, he
went to Tokio and thence to America where
he graduated from Leland Stanford Uni-
versity in 1914.
In his fonr books Dhan Gopal Mukerji
has won a high place for himself in con-
temporary literature. Caste and Outcast, Kari
the Elephant, Jungle Beasts'and Men and
My Brother's Face, are the four. In'Caste
and Outcast Mr. Makerji does two things:
he gives the life of India as it has rarely
been given before, and his comments upon
the life of America with extraordinary
penetration.
Kari the Elephant is the story of a boy,
an elephant and the jungle, a vivid and
appealing picture.
Mr. Mukerji gives in Jungle Beasts and
Men a splendid picture of the spirit of the
jungles with all ks mystery, activity and
bizarre complexity.
In My Brother's Face the anthor has
created a realistic stfldy of the nfe of a high
caste Brahmin, written with deep sympathy
by one who is not.only a bystander, bar who
has intimate knowledge of the life as well,
gained from personal experience.
YALE AND WELLESLEY TRIUMPH
IN CROSS-WORD PUZZLE CONTEST
Musk Department Benefits By Inter-
Collegiate Match In New York
An inter-collegiate cross-word puzzle
contest was held at the Hotel Astor, New
York City, on January 4, for the benefit
of. the Bryn Mawr Music Department and
the City Music Fund. Wellesley won the
match which w*as arranged and staged by
Bryn Mawr alumnae.
Vassar, Smith and Bryn Mawr were the
other women's colleges which competed.
Yale won the championship for the men's
colleges, but was defeated by Wellesley
in the inter-sex match.
According to Frank Sullivan, news-
paper reporter, "It was a momentous oc-
casion. You could tell that because Ray-
mond Hitchcock, the official starter, and
Hey wood Broun, Harvard comeback, both
had their hair parted and slicked down.
"The big event, of course, was the Yale-
Harvard clash. Nobody knew why. Har-
vard was represented by Heywood (Cu-
pid) Broun and Robert (Shorty) Sher-
wood, Stephen (Vincent) Benet and
(Jack) Thomas were the Yale two.
"Benet and Thomas trotted into the
ball-room at .4.47. A mighty cheer went
up the room, turned around, came back
again and sat. Two minutes. earlier at
4.30 P. M., Broun and Sherwood dashed
down the room and the mighty cheer
dashed after them.
"In the next quarter Broun tackjed a
German poet in five letters. He guessed
Heine.   The round was Broun's.
"Broun tackled a seven-letter word
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LARGE ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
TO BE ABOLISHED TILL MARCH
Representative Legislature To Take
Place Of Lost Quorums
"Shall we invest the legislative power of
the undergraduate and the self-govern-
ment associations in a joint representative
legislature," and "shall we have an in-
dependent graduate self-government
council," were the questions asked at a
mass-meeting of the two associations on
Wednesday, December 17, at 7.30.
L. Barber, '25, president of the Under-
graduate Association, in explanation of
the latter question, H. Hough, '25, presi-
dent of Self-Government Association, re-
marked that an independent council for
the graduate students was "obviously
necessary." A motion to have such a
council was passed.
Miss Hough also explained the plan
for a joint legislature to take the place
of the large, association meetings, for
which quorums can no longer be obtained.
The legislature is to consist of the execu-
tive boards of the two associations, two
non-resident members, and two represen-
tatives from each class in every halL
These hall representatives are to be elect-
ed in the halls and are to discuss the busi-
ness of the associations with their re-
spective classes; but �they will vote
.independently, according to their own
opinions. The executive boards are also
to be elected, in the halls.
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Consideration of business and the pass-
ing of laws are to take place in the meet-
ings of this legislature, business being
posted five days beforehand and the presi-
dent of each association presiding over
the work of her association. While only
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DR. BRUNEL
Dr. Roger Frederick Brunei, head of the
Department of Chemistry, died December
23 in the Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Dr. Brunei was born in Portland, Me.,
in 1881. He received his degree of A. B.
from Colby University in 1903, and his doc-
tor's degree from Johns Hopkins in 1906.
In 1912 Dr. Brunei came to Bryn Mawr
as an associate in chemistry, became asso-
ciate professor in 1914 and received a full
professorship and was made head of the
department in 1917. His specialty was or-
ganic chemistry, and during the war he was
connected with the United States chemical
warfare service.
He was a member of the Senate and the
Academic Council and was one of the two
faculty representatives on the Joint Adminis-
trative Committee of the Summer School
for Women Workers in Industry, a school
in which he was much interested. He was
also a violinist of note.
By a Member of the Faculty
It has more than once been said that the
great teachers are not the leading minds in
their profession, and that the research
scholars and the great Experimentalists can
seldom teach well. It is probably very rare
that gifts so distinct are evenly combined;
but Professor Brunei could claim distinction
almost equally as a thinker and student of
scientific theory, as a skillful laboratory
worker, and as an enthusiastic and success-
ful teacher. Those who knew htm in one or
the other of these aspects will be likely to
emphasize only a single side of his career;
but to appreciate him athis real value, is
to see how equally baKnced he was and
,how broadly endowed with all three quali-
ties.
In* teaching, he escaped the routine of
repetition by constantly inventing novel illus-
trations and ingenious devkes for making
clear the most -difficult points. With odd
problems, often akin to puzzles, he satisfied
himself whether his class had rightly under-
stood ; and none: was more pleased than he,
if his students could solve what he had set
In the laboratory (and those who worked
with him will think it superfluous to say
what is so well known) he gave time with-
out considering it and took endless trouble,
being more interested that _ problem or ex-
periment should succeed than that his own
convenience should be counted. Here, as in
his own researches, his methodical accuracy
and professional dexterity were far beyond
the average of even the trained worker.
Intellectually, his primary interest was in
causation. But his great delight in specula-
tive theory never led him to accept the pure-
ly speculative and unproved. At a time
when many fantastic ideas were being ad-
vanced and had gained currency even among
men of standing, Dr. Brunei always with his
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