College News, 1925-05-13, Vol. 11, No. 26

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Vol. XI.    No. 26
>VAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1925
Price 10 Cents
DR. TYSON SHOWS WAY
TO UNDERSTAND BIBLE
Behind Primitive Miracle of Jonah
and Archaic Tale of Fall of Man
Lies "Lasting Type of Truth
MUST RID RELIGION OF EMOTION
"To many people today, the Bible is a
closed hook," said Dr. Stuart L. Tyson,
lectvlri^i iu Taylor Hall�ou-Suuday eve-
ning on the subject of the "Bible in the
Light of Modern Knowledge." Dr. Ty-
son is Honorary Vicar of the new Cathe-
dral of St. John the Divine in New York.
"What is the Bible? There arc two
popular answers to this question:
1. "People say that it is a book. From
the printer's point of view, this is correct.
But- from the literary point of view, it
is a library of religion, composed of sixty-
six volumes, each written at a particular
lime, by a particular individual, with a
particular heredity, social environment,
and conception of God. Now, to jumble
all sixty-six volumes together and treat
I lit-in as though they were the same his-
torically is absurd. Yet this is what
actually has been done.
:.'. "The other answer is that the Bible
is no! only a book, but an infallible book,
conta n ng no mistake of any kind. That
this idea is still extant is proved by the
recent Tennessee law making it a crime
fur state-supported schools or colleges to
leach the doctrine of evolution.
"Very few of our generation hold that
(Ik    Bble   is   infallible.     But   what   vast
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GENEVA TO BE MECCA FOR
STUDENTS THIS SUMMER
Young Leads  Committee  to Interest
American Students
A serifs of lecture courses on interna-
tional relations will be given at Geneva
during July. August and September,"ac-
cording to an announcement by Lawrence
M. Ortotl, Secretary of the Geneva Fed-
erat'on. Although the courses are in-
tended primarily for university students,
others who are interested are invited to
attend.
This meeting of students in Geneva is
the result of'the federating of the Euro-
pean national student groups which took
place at Prague in April of last year.
Heade 1 by an English President and a
French Secretary, the Federation (known
abroad as the Federation Universitaire
Internationale) decided the most useful
purpose it could serve would be to foster
fellowship and interchange of ideas be-
tween students of the various nations.
Geneva was chosen as the logical centre
for this purpose, both because of its cen-
tral location and because its present
equipment makes it the most complete
laboratory for the study of international
affairs in the world.
Mr. Owen D. Young, former Collector
General of Reparations and associate of
Vice President Dawcs in formulating the
Dawes Plan, is chairman of the commit-
tee which is Organizing an American
branch of the  Federation.
Current  Issues to  BeVDiscussed  by
Experts.
Professor Alfred E. Zimmcrn, noted
authority and lecturer on international
affairs, is director of the school and has
arranged courses' of two weeks' and four
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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ELECTS
OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR
Edith Harris  '26, Chosen  President;
S. Walker, '27. Vice-President
"HIGHEST PRAISE FOR SARGENT
DEXTERITY," SAYS MISS KING
Lacks   Conviction,   Creative   Spark,
Passion; Perhaps a Power for Evil
F.dith Harris, '20, was elected president
of the Athletic Association at a meeting held
on Wednesday, May O.'^Miss Harris was on
the Board of the Association this year as
Hockey Manager.
The Vice President is Sylvia Walker, '27,
and the Secretary, Alice Bruerc, '28.
The President's KeporT, which follows,
was accepted as read:
"In the spring of 1!I24, basketball match
games were held in spite of the vicissitudes
of May Day and the weather, and four
teams competed  from each class.
"In the fall, hockey,, as usual, held the
stage, with occasional coaching ^frum Eng-
lish, as well as our own coaches. The
varsity, after a not too successful season,
managed to hold All-Philadelphia to 'a 1-0
score, only to be beaten later by our own
faculty. An experiment was tried in th:
method of holding match games, the games
beginning early in the season and continu-
ing throughout, so that each class played
every other class twice.
"The apparatus, swimming and track
meets were held with no ill results, and
wi.h the breaking of two records in the
latter   and   one   in   the   swimming.
"In water polo, we tried the system of
squads instead] of learns, thereby endeavor-
ing to "avoid the exhaustion caused by a
person having to play four and five limes a
.vcek.
"The girls' rules basketball varsity played
live games and was defeated only once.
"Tennis matches have just been finished
and basketball games have begun, while the
varsity tennis team is meeting several out-
side opponents.
"During the year a number of people, withij
the help of our coaches and  Dr. Carpenter,
have been playing Lacrosse, a sj>ort which is
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BARBARA LING REPRESENTS
BRYN MAWR AT POETRY CONTEST
"If sheer dexterity could make a man
great, John Sargent would indeed deserve
such praise," said Miss G. G. King, Profes-
sor of History of,Art at Brvn Mawr, in
Chapel last Wednesday in her talk on the
late painter.
Whether through fear or natural piety.
il lias been aiid coifilnucs to be the custom
to speak good of the dead. Yet that cannot
be here. Sargent's work shows no wish to
go beyond the surface. He has no wish to
invent; instead he adapts. Dexterity must,
therefore, remain his highest praise.
In his mural work, Miss King saw no
creative spark. The design is not satis-
factory. That the ceilings in the Boston
Public l.ibary are never quite clear, and
that, even after puzzling them out, the de-
sign again becomes lost testifies to Sargent's
lack of profound plastic conception. As can
be seen by the panels of the Boston museum
Sargent had no intuition, no grammar of
symbolism. Here is the same fault of a
need for explanation as in the library ceil-
ings. Sargent had no faith; he believed in
nothing strong enough to carry conviction.
His expression remains cold and "literary."
It is as hard to know Sargent's prophets one
from the-other as the names of one's Con-
gressmen. He practically does not dis-
tingutth between  Xahum and Amos.
His landscape work illustrates his dexter-
ity, The color in the l.iikc in Boston is done
like the pearls of the portrait painter for
whom the ladies wanted to sit because he
did pearls so beautifully. In his pictures of
Streets and courtyards, one cannot tell Yen-
ice from Seville. Landscape may be a pro-
found interpretation. For example. Turner's
Switzerland is faithful to geology, while
Poussin's Campagna sums up the Northern
nostalgia that has drawn men's feet to Koine
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VARSITY TEAM WINS
,      TENNIS MATCHES
Bryn Mawr  Defeats  Philadelphia
Cricket Club in Three Out of
Five Tense Games Played
MUSSLEMAN WINS FINAL MATCH
Submits  Her  Work  to   Judges  For
Kathryn Glascock Award
"GOING, GOING, G0t# AUCTION
EVERY DAY AT ELEVfe^ O'CLOCK
Varsity defeated the Philadelphia
Cricket Club, their biggest match" of tin-
ning three out of the live matches played.
Beatrice Pitney. kl7, lost, to her credit,
to Miss Thayer, the Pennsylvania State
champion. 3-6, 4-fi. The experience of
both players showed in their long confi-
dent rallies, and iu the attacking energy
of each. B. Pitney needed more speed
than she had for Miss Thayer's sudden
left court drives, but she managed with
strength and judgment to give her oppo-
nent a fine game throughout.
Playing against the unwavering readi-
ness of Mrs. Hough. C. Kemak, "2.">,
earned every point she got in a match
tlat ended <>--. <>-'l. for Philadelphia. Mrs.
Hough foiled the stronger arm and harder
serve of C. Kemak by her own alertness
and the deft placing which too often sur-
prised the Bryn  Mawr player.
In spite of the curious score, D. O'Sbea.
'26*s, match was marked from the first.
Economical of effort always, she kept
U'll Carpenter busy getting rather than
sending the hall. The Philadelphia play-
er's strong pout was a back court game.
But she seemed in the last set to have
lost her aim an I -grown tired. The score
was n-4, 1-6, 9-1, for Bryn  Mawr.
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SANE DENIAL OF MATERIALISM
PERVADES RESOLUTE RUSSIA
Noted Speaker Describes Soviet Con-
ditions and Attitudes
Barbara Ling, '25, represented Bryn Mawr
at the Intercollegiate Poetry Contest in
memory of Kathryn Irene Glascock, Mount
Holyoke, 1003, held last week-end at Mount
Holyoke.
Five poets from other colleges brought
their manuscripts to be considered by the
judges, David Morton, Professor Anna H.
Branch and Professor William Haller, of
Columbia. The contest also had the support
of Robert Frost and Grace Hazard Conk-
ing.
Poets from Harvard. Yale, Amherst,
Mount Holyoke and Wellesley, beside Bryn
Mawr, were entertained by Miss Snell. pro-
lessor at Mount Holyoke. and read their
poems aloud to one another and the judges,
each contestant being allowed about 18 min-
utes. The award, given in money, will be
announced in a few weeks. It was won
last year by Roberta Swartz. of Mount
Holyoke. who competed again this year.
"Such a contest," said kHss i.ing. "has, I
think, great value; it gives you a standard
of the poetry which is being written in col-
leges today. And you cannot get this by
comparing your own work with what other
people are writing in your own college, be-
cause so much of it is campus-hound; nor
by comparing it with full-fledged magazine
publications."
Several of the poems which Miss Ling
submitted, have appeared in The Lantern.
Art Gallery Being Sold for Drive; Also
Necessities of Food, Dress
"A Holstein for 10c." shouts A. Whit-
ing. '27, waving a Holbein print; for an
auction now rivals the sandwich sale on
Taj lor Steps. At eleven o'clock every
day. the climax of the non-academic ac-
tivity of the morning, the auctioneer who
linds even a hammer unnecessary, mounts
Senior Steps. She sells Japanese prints,
etching, photographs, all from the Cir-
culating Art Gallery of Radnor, part of
which K. Follansbcc. '2i'.. is putting up at
auction for the benefit of the Music De-
partment  Fund.
Evett on the playing fields of Bryn
Mawr the battle is being won. A hand-
some pushcart, having survived May Day
last year, is now trundled about full of
Ginger Ale and that insidious stimulant.
Coca-Cola. The price of the "working
woman's beer" is contributed to the Audi-
torium   Fund                                       �
Likewise the indispensable woolen dress
and the quite ineluctable leather jacket
can be bought fpr the cause. By taking
a 'chance at $1.00 you may -be fortunate
enough to get a knitted dress from Frank-
lin Simons worth $80. 1928 in Mcrion is
managing this lottery. Mary Rodney,
'24, now a graduate, is selling, besides
leather coats, necklaces made in Czecho-
slovakia. Whether you buy luxuries or
necessities, the  Endowment is increased.
Simplicity, earnestness, courage, and
idealism are the dominant facts of Soviet
Russia, according to the account of Dr.
Alice Hamilton, lecturing in Taylor Hall,
last Friday night, under the auspices of
the Liberal Club.
Dr. Hamilton is Associate Professor of
Medicine at Harvard. She is on the Inter-
national Health Committee of the League
of Nations and is an authority on indus-
trial medicine. In that role she was
invited to Russia.
"The first night I was there,'' she said,
"1 went to a ballet. The opera house
with its great gold chandelier and red
velvet -seats was filled with workmen in
workmen's clothes. The young people of
Russia, however, arc strong puritans.
They are going to put a stop to the bal-
let and to the theatre until every child
has a place in school.
"There is a great feeling about clothes.
No girl will dress as though she thought
about clothes. It simply isn't done. No
man will wear a white collar. They wear
Russian blouses of linen. The girls wear
no hats, no cosmetics. They are all full
of life and spirit. And why not? They
are the chosen ones of the earth. They
are going to free the world. , All the older
oeople have told them so. Their slogan
is: 'We are ready."
"'Comrades,   march to the  barricades;
We  must  drown   the  world in  a  sea of
blood.'
"They sing these charming words set
to beautiful  music.
"Communism  is goue.    Only  state so-
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