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\   BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBkUARY 11,1925
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DR. GILKEY CONTRASTS
MODERN RELIGIOUS VIEWS
Amherst Professor Explains How
Historical Study Modifies Old
*     Conservative Beliefs   �
INSISTS    ON    COMMON    SENSE
"Contrasting presuppositions about Jesus
today and the two ideas of His life which
follow logically upon these suppositions,"
was the subject of the first of,two lectures]
given last Thursday and Friday evenings by s
Dr. James Gordon Crikey, under the aus-
pices of the Christian Association.
The conservatives believe that Jesus Christ ]
is the second Person of the Trinity, perfect
God and perfect man  who at a particular
time in history was sent down from heaven
to Redeem us from our sins.   They believe
that   He   was   essentially   miraculous   and?
supernatural, that He manifested his divine
power in the resurrection and the ascension,
arid, that He was entirely different in every
way from us.
The liberals, on the other hand, do not*
believe that Jesus was a being who came
down from hcaveii. but rather that He was:
One who attained to the heavenly height,'
"Not a Cod who lived humanly, but a Man'
who lived divinely,"
While as the conservatives ^fecl that it;
was perfectly natural for Christ to perform
miracles, the liberals explain the miracles, in'
two way*. The curing of physical or ner-
vous diseases was don*1 by therapeutic
means. The nature miracles of the loaves
and the fishes are legends which grew about
Jesus in the period after his death.
Conservatives believe that Jesus' death
was a foreordained event planned to redeem
mankind. Liberals, on the other hand, feel
that it was an inexpressibly tragic incident
brought about by the conflict between a
young prophet and the inexorable Jewish
orthodoxy.
' While the conservatives explain the Resur-
rection as the exercise of the miraculous
power which, he had always, the liberals
feel that, just as the personality of all of us
will survive death, so the. personality of
Jesus, survived. What happened to His
body they do not care; what was the par-
ticular series of incidents which convinced
His disciples that they had seen Him, they
don't know.
Sometimes the liberal idea has been ac-
cused of picturing Jesus as merely a human
being. This is, misinterpretation. Liberals
feel that God is always trying to give all He
can to everybody. But individuals differ in
receptivity. Jesus had a personality of unique
receptivity into which God could put moral
ideas and conceptions of life finer than those
of. any other individual. How Jesus of all'
mankind came to receive such receptivity is
the ultimate problem. The mystery of Jesus'
unique personality can never be solved.
Jesus' Principles
� Modernists feel that Jesus did not save us
from our sins but that he brought into the
world a brand new way of living built on
three brand new ideas:
.1,   That God is like man, only bigger;
2.    That man is lik-_ God; only smaller;
3.    That God and men, and men and men,
will 'find happiness in each other only
through love.
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JEAN LOEB.'ae, ELECTED MANAGING EDITOR OF NEWS
�   With the greatest regret the News announces the resignation of Delia Smith,
'26, Managing Editor, from the Edjtorial Board.
The News regrets exceedingly to announce the resignation of Katharine
Tomkins, '26, from the Editorial Board.                                    -.   '                          *
The News takes great pleasure in announcing the election of Jean Loeb, '-'�>,
as Managing Editor of the News. Miss Loeb, who has been on the board for two
years, has Wen Censor this fall.
Beatrice  Pitney, '27,  has  been elected  Censor, and  Katharine Simonds, '2?
News Editor.
ALUMNAE WILL COMPLETE
ENDOWMENT BY JUNE
Mrs. Slade, Once More  National
Chairman, Asks Aid of All Who
Have Been at Bryn Mrwr
AUDITORIUM   IS    VITAL    NEED
NEWS COMPETITION  STARTS
The competition for the Assistant Ed-
itors of the News Board from 1927 and
IV28 is now open. Will anyone wishing
enter please see Jean Loeb, Rockefeller
?0, before Monday, February 16?
SERVICE IS HELD IN MEMORY
OF THE LATE DR. BRUNEL
Speakers Strew Hit Contributions To
Science and to College
A service was held in Taylor Hall last
Thursday afternoon in commemoration of
Roger Frederick Brunei, Professor of Or-
ganic Chemistry at Bryn Mawr, wild died
here December 23, 1924.
Dr. Norris, old friend and colleague of
Dr. Brunei, was the chief speaker.
"Brunei," he said, "hasN a very worthy
place in American science. His first thesis
showed his skill in experiment and the trend
of his interests. He was mainly concerned
with the fundamental properties of mole-
cules, and with the mechanism of changing
one molecule into another. He did not seek
new substances, as did most organic
chemists; he rather sought to understand
how molecules reaTt. and to study chemical
affinity. It was at this time that he worked
in close contact with Michaels, a scientist of
international fame, who has written of Dr.
Brunei:
" 'It was a very great shock to hear of his
death. He had a fine character, an acute
mentality and unusual skill in experiment.
He had already made himself known as one
of* the ablest of organic chemists, and he
could have gone much farther had he Jived.'
"This work with Michaels was of great
scientific value, and was also found useful
in industrial developments. A great chemi-
cal "industry has arisen as a result of the
study of how the change in arrangement of
molecules affects their reaction.
"With Marguerite Wilcox, he wrote a
paper on the development of chemical affin-
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JOINT MEETING OF SELF-GOVT
AND UNDERGRAD. FEB. 18th
Discussion ^Outlined by H. Hough '25
Will be Open, Covering Both Areas
(Specially Contributed by H. Hough, 'is)
The first meeting of the jotht legislature
of the Undergraduate and Self-Government
Associations will^ be held on Wednesday,
February 18, at 7.30, in Taylor.
Representatives who have been elected in
the last week are expected to discuss the
business with their constituents. The meet-
ing will be open to anyone in college, and
discussion will be general.
The business is as follows:
Undergraduate Association:
1.    Discussion as to the relative merits of
posting or sending marks*
2.    Announcements.
Self-Government  Association:
1.    Question of two or more students going
to the theatre at night, unchaperoned,
except to the Walnut Street Theatre
and the Chestnut Street Opera House.
2.    Question    of   enlarging    the    Executive
Board to three seniors, three juniors,
two sophomores and a freshman.
1        (Already passed once.)
:t. Places to be added to the list of places
where students may dine unchaper-
oned in Philadelphia. <
4.    Announcements.
YALE'S VIEW OF TOTAL ECLIPSE
IS DESCRIBED BY DR. BARNES
Scientific    Results    to    Depend
Measurement From Plates
on
.Mr. Barnes spoke ii? chapel last Friday
morning on the eclipse which he viewed
from the top of the Sloane physical labora-
tory in New Haven. Until the photographic
plates are measured, nothing definite with
regard to scientific results of the eclipse
will l>e known.
He explained that the .shadow fell quickly
due to its small angle of incidence with the
earth. Astronomers had expected greater
darkness: Dr. Page, who was observing
with Dr. Barnes, was able to read without
additional   light.
"Two things especially interested me." said
Dr. Barnes, � "the Hash spectrum of the
chromosphere and the green line in the spec-
trum of the corona, the variations of which
are  very  important."
The color around the sun was deep blue.
A few stars of the first and second magni-
tude and the three planets. Jupiter, Mercury
and  Venus, were clearly discernible.
In concluding. Dr. Barnes noted that in
spite of the proclamation of the eclipse,
issued by the State of Connecticut, contrast-
ing the fear of the Ancients and savages
with the enlightenment of Americans, there
was an unwonted atmosphere of friendliness
and helpfulness among the observers. People
were also jmpressed^ by the accurate calcu-
lations of the astronomers. Considering the
tremendous velocity, the size and the various
movements of the sun, the moon and the
earth, this was indeed a feat of mathematics.
CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK
TO BE HELD IN PHILADELPHIA
Discussion to Treat of Child Welfare
in Various Aspects
The Third All-Philadelphia Conference on
Social Work will be held March 3, 4 and 5
in the Social Service Building. 311 South
Juniper street.                 "
. The subject for discussion this year will
be "Every-Child"�How He Fares in Phila-
delphia. Virtually every social organization
in the city, all the universities, colleges,
schools, the churches, as well as civic bodies,
will participate in the hope of arriving at
tangible results regarding the care of chil-
dren in Philadelphia. The Conference will
discuss education, recreation, employment,
mental and physical health, housing and the
problems of dependency and delinquency as
they affect the child, Jiis parents and com-
munity.
The Conference last year enrolled 2!�7 or-
ganizations and 975 individuals. These
numbers will be exceeded this year.
George W. Norris has been elected Chair-
man.
Application for membership should be sent
to Mrs. Gideon Boericke, Chairman of the
Membership Committee, 311 South Juniper
street.
The Alumnae Association have under-
taken the completion of the fund for the
endowment of the Music Department and
the Auditorium of the Students' Building
This was the decision readied in the an-
nual meeting of the association last Satur-
day morning. '.Mrs. Louis'Slade (Caroline
McCormick, '97) was unanimously elected
national chairman of the drive.
Wet, Slade sends this message to The
Alumnae:
Alumnae, Graduate Students, Former Grad-
uates and Undergraduates:
Mere we arc again :
The Alumnae Association lias decreed that
we must immediately march ahead to com-
plete the fund of $400,000. Once more wc
are in campaign, and it is as though the
calendar were turned back to 1920 and wc
find ourselves stepping into the same old
harness. It is a complete surprise to me to
.find myself once more the national chair-
man, and from my heart I thank the Alum-
nae Association for asking me to take that
place because I know it means that .every
one of you is preparing to take up her al-
lotted task.
HOW is it'to be done'
I do not know, but I  know that you will
do it.
Il'li.n is.it In be done.'
Now, and Commencement is the day when
we must celebrate success.
Why is it to be done'
Because the Department of Musfc�that
"window open to the sun." as President
Clark called it�is now an essential part of
the college. F'or four years it has licen given
to us by Alice Carter Dickcrman and her
committee, who, through their valiant, un-
Hagging efforts, have asured its support year
by year, and have laid the foundation on
which the Department will be permanently
built The time has now come for the
Alumnae as a whole to assume responsibility
and to assure to the College the continuation
of the Department�in short, to complcte^thc
Endowment.
Because for Uhe Auditorium the present
Pennsylvania lire laws have reduced the
number of seats in Taylor Hall from over
400 to 300 and in the gymnasium from 1000
to 550. And with 500 in our student body
we can never again invite an outside audience
for plays, for music, for lectures, for re-
ligious services, for Commencement, until wc
have some hall with more adequate seating
capacity.
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ANNUAL REUNION OF AffUMNAE
DURING MID-YEAR WEEK-END
In accordance with tradition, the AlumnaV
gathered from near and far to spend the
mid-year week-end at Bryn Mawr. On Fri-
day night there was a dinner at the inn.
where Miss Schenck spoke on the music
courses and what they had meant to the
undergraduates. Afterwards, the choir sang
in Pen-y-groes. �
Miss Park gave a luncheon i" Pembroke,
which was followed by a lecture by Mr.
O'Conor on "The College Course in Rela-
tion to Creative Writing."
There will be another Alumnae meeting
on Wednesday, February thc_ eleventh.
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