College News, 1925-02-18, Vol. 11, No. 15

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Vol. XL   No. 14
^RYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1925
Price 10 Cents
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TUNE UP, BRYN MAWR!
NEW YORK OPENS DRIVE
Generous Contributions Flow �To
Fund in Response to Appeal
From President Park
ONLY THIRTY THOUSAND NEEDED
"We would have a world peace as soon
as we cared for it as passionately -and
intensely as for nationalistic ends." said
Norman Thomas, speaking in Taylor
Hall, under the auspices of the Liberal
Club, Friday night.
"But a great many are content with
our nationalism as the last word in social
loyalty. The nationalism we've got is
expressed in our fetish worship of the
flag, and in the fist-raising, voice-raising
oratowho doesn't care what it's all about,
but if anyone locks at the grand old flag
cross-eyed, he's for warj Such national
loyalty is inadequate in our time. We
have to co-operate universally, because
nations are divided on the most eco-
nomically fantastic lines. The little coun-
tries of Europe, for instance, could not
exist without foreign supplies.
"Yet what is good for the State, that
-we consider righteous? The citizen can-
not refrain from war if the State is for it.
Not that nationalism is altogether bad,
or could be wholly done away with. But
the basis of this nationality is not race
but feeling. The Negro in peace has to
struggle for common rights, but in war
he's a full-blooded American, sharing with
the privileged white man the opportunity
of dying for his country.
"The nationalism we've got is Machia-
vellian. The nationalism we should have
is best described in the definition of Maz-
zini: 'the conscience of a people that as-
signs to each his offices and duties in
humanity.'
"Our task is to see how, protesting
against imperialism, we can prevent the
answer from being nationalism.   Imperial-
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BRYN MAWR WINS FIRST
VARSITY BASKETBALL GAME
Hard Struggle With Temple Ends In
Varsity Supremacy
With the close score of 29-28, Varsity de-
feated Temple at basketball on Saturday,
February 14.
The game was fast, but was characterized
by messy playing and many fouls by both
of the teams. The players bunched together
badly, failing to cover the field. Temple
has good, quick and sure teamwork, usu-
ally .ending in a swift basket by Miss
Kohler. Bryn Mawr's passing was good
also, but the ball was frequently lost at the
basket, as neither C. Remak, '25, not F. Tay,
'26, were playing as well as usual. The pass-
ing between them was good, but slow.
In the second half fouling was less
frequent. Bryn Mawr's passes increased in
speed, but were never as sure as Temple's in
brilliant short throws.
Temple
.forward..........   Castor
Bryn Mawr
C. Remak *8
(capt.)
P. Jay, '28........forward   ........Itohler
8.  McAdoo,   'M   ___centre...........   Sharpe
B. Walker. '27-----aide centre......  Man?eruiu,
O. Leewltx, '26.....(fnard............  Davla
J. Hnddleston, '28  ..guard___Wlllcox  (capt.)
Substitutes:
Firit  hnlj�Brlnton for Davis.
Beeoni half�Bryn Mawr�Lee. '25. for Hud-
dleston, '28. Hudleston for Lee. Temple�
Brlrrton put In centre, Sbarpe as guard, Davis
for WUleox.
EVOLUTION OF MODERN MUSIC
DISCUSSED BY f{ADIA BOULANGER
Admiration  for   Strawinsky:    Faure
"Biggest Musician of Our Time"
"Modern music has its roots in the past,"
said Mile. Nadia Boulanger, distinguished
organist, pianist and lecturer, who spoke on
the Evolution of Modern Music in Taylor
HalfTn  Saturday February 14, at 8.15.
Recent tendencies in music, she explained,
demand unprejudiced consideration, not only
as revolutionary, .but also as evolutionary
developments. Polytonality, one of the prin-
cipal characteristics of the new music, was
used by Bach. Likewise many complicated
rhythms of such compositions asvStraw-
insky's can be expressed in terms-_pf Greek
rhythms.
"For a long time," Mile. Boulanger said
in describing the characteristics of modern
compositions, "music was based on the unity
of the measure." Today Ravel in a trio and
Strawinsky in "L'Histoire du Soldat" divide
a meter like 8-8 into divisions of 1-2-3, 1-2,
1-2-3-4-5.
Other features of modern miisTc are the
whole-tone scale, of which Debussy was an
exponent, polytonality, and atonality such as.
Schoenberg entploys. In instrumentation,
Mile. Boulanger emphasized the "strength
and brilliance" of Strawinsky's work.
whose work "in its construction gives us a
feeling of eternity, peace and purity. His
art of modulation is perhaps the most won-
derful music has ever known." In illustra-
tion, she played a Nocturne with a "long
simple melody and beautiful harmony," writ-
ten years ago. and a more recent Nocturne
(No. 13) full of the contemplative quality
of many of Bach's chorales.
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ALICE'S MURDER TRIAL
FEATURE OF FRESHMEN SHOW
Duchess, White Rabbit and Cook To
Represent Other Gasses
"Alice to Be Tried for Murder" is the
title of the 1928 Freshmen's Show. The
tentative cast is as  follows-:
Alice�1988  ..................A. Talcott
White  Rabbit�1926........... .C.  Field
Duchess�1925   .................P.   Burr
Cook�1927   ................".A. -Palache
Queen of Hearts ............H. Yandell
Herald........................   J.  Fesler
Humpty   Dumpty   ..........N.   Mitchell
Sinbad   . �......................E. Moore
Treacle Sistcfcs�
Elsie   .....^..................P.  Miller
Lacy..........................E.   Klein
Tillie ..........................  R- Elting
Tweedle Dum .........t......A. Bruere
Tweedle Dee................M. Fowler
Fan  ...........................M. Haly
Vfwo Gloves .................To be cast
Watch .......................To be cast
Gryphon  .....................-E. Rhett
Mock Turtle ...................J. Fenner
Walrus........................M. Coss
Carpenter................... -M.  Hupfel
Mad  Hatter..................J. Young
March  Hare  ..................E. Havre
Dormouse ................H. Guiterman
Frog Footman ..............To be cast
A. Bruere, '26, has been elected business
manager; M. Merrill, stage manager; B.
Loines, properties manager, "and J.
Hnddleston, scene shifter.
A. Petrasch is chairman of Show Com-
mittee; M. Adams, of Costumes; N. Pe-
rera, of Scenery; H. Yandell, of Dancing;
L. Wray, of Tickets and Programs, and
L. Haley, of Posters.
MISS KING'OFFERS TO ABOLISH
QUIZZES AND PRIVATE READING
Can We Discipline Ourselves, or Must
We be Corrected into Working?
"I have taken up the gauntlet which you
threw down," said Miss Georgiana GoddaTtl" *N
King, professor of History of Art at Bryn
Mawr,  to  a  representative of  the COLUtCl
N'flws last Friday.
"In an editorial printed before Christmas,"
Miss King continued, "the Nkws expressed
the opinion that the present system of sched-
uled quizzes and required reading was harm-
ful because it gave no time to think or to
explore. I take it that this is a genuine
expression of undergraduate opinion, and I
am willing to meet the situation. If the stu-
dents who are to take major history of art
next year are willing to try the experiment,
I shall absolve them from all, except, of
course, examinations at the end of the
semesters. I will post no reading lists, but
place the books which deal with the subject,
on the reserve shelf.
"The university system, which was formed
at Oxford and Cambridge, would not work
here for several reasons. In the first place,
a university of some 5000 students is only too
glad to fail a rather large number each year;
the system is perfectly merciless. This re-
sults in a somewhat picked group. It is
possible, as you think, that by our gradual
"The  biggest musician of our time," ac-
cording to Mile. Boulanger, is Gabriel Faure,Losing of the standard of entrance we shall
achieve what Oxford could achieve by fling-
ing out all those who fall behind. 1 do not
believe it, however, because the standard is
in terms of intelligence tests, and the people
who excel in intelligence tests are just the
kind that I don't want here, very often
?he best work'is done by slow-growing stu-
dents who seem poor at the outset.
"Then, the tutorial  system would be im-
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DR. HART BELIEVES SCIENCE AND
RELIGION CAN BE RECONCILED
Integrity Demands that We Dodge No
Truth,  wherever  it can Be Found
Laying the basis for a series of future
discussions , on science and religion, Dr.
Hart, speaking in the Pembroke West* sitting
room last Sunday afternoon under the
auspices of the Christian Association, out-
lined a few of the chief conflicts between
the two which will be considered in coming
weeks.
In trying to reconcile science and reli-
gion, we must, he feels, dodge no real dif-
ficulties, Jnit arrive at an interpretation of
life which will need no apologies.
Some of the problems outlined we/e:
1.    The question of whether to accept the
Bible as inspired.
2.     How can God be omnipotent and all-
loving and still have a world as full of im-
perfections as this world seems to be?
3.    Are hardships in the world intelli-
gently adjusted to the personal needs of the
individual so as to stimulate but not crush
him ?
4.     Is eternal life possible in view of
psychology and the dependence of con-
sciousness on brain tissues?
V I*s there sucli a thing as an external
world at all. or is it all our imagination?
6.     If there is truth in religion, how can
one explain the differences between reli-
gions ?
7.     Is religious emotion a form of mob
psychology ?
Dr. Hart is Professor of Sociology at
Bryn Mawr.
In the coming weeks he will lead discus-
sions every Sunday afternoon to talk over
the conflict of science and religion.
HOPE OF WORLD PEACE.   '
TOLD BY NORMAN THOMAS
We Must Subordinate Nationalism
To Internationalism Sufficiently
or Rivalry Remains
:ace has its  price
*1X.(MH> was subscribed to the fund for the
endowment of the Music Department and
the Auditorium at a meeting at the Bryn
Mawr Club in New York City on Wednes-
day, February 11.    In response to the stir-
ring speech of President Park and her gift
of $1000, contributions from classes and
individuals flowed into the fund, the largest
single new subscription being $3000 from
Mr. and Mrs. Krnopt G. Vietor. To the
$10,000 voted by the trustees and the
$ls,ooo contributed at the New York meet-
ing, President Emeritus M. Carey Thomas
offered to give the first $10,000 of future
gifts of that amount and the first $5000 of
thirty similar gifts, making a total of $350,-
000, which, taken" with the more than-
$70,000 now on the list, leaves only $30,000
to raise. She telegraphed to the chairman
to raise this sum quickly "in large sums."
In her talk President Park explained the
situation of the college under the present
fire laws, which permit only 500 on the floor
of the gymnasium, 100 on the platform and
30 on the running track. As one New York
newspaper said, "That is enough when they
ire all running, but once in a while these
ambitious girls want to sit still; for instance,
tWey sat for two hours 'on the eflge of their
.-hairs' during an all-Bach recital."*"! can't
imagine their doing that in our earlier days,"
President Park said.
Mrs. Louis O. Slade is chairman of the
campaign. � She managed the raising of the
$2,000,000 endowment. Mrs. Charles L.
Tiffany and Mrs. Leonard Hand are vice-
chairmen, Mrs. Alfred McClay being in
charge of New York. Mrs. Tiffany has
worked out a plan which will enable alum-
nae and students "to subscribe pieces of
rm .ins and pipes of the organ."
ROMANCE STILL UVES IN THE
FOREST PRIMEVAL OF AFRICA.
Major Collins Looked for Gorillas and
Found Love and the Tsetse Fly
Tales of dangers bravely undergone for a
noble cause in Africa's great open spaces,
and the enduring love of a* native for a
white explorer were included in the illustrat-
ed lecture given by Major Alfred Collins last
Tuesday evening for the Science Club in
Tayfer Hall.
The purpose of his expedition was to
obtain specimens of the gorillas which had
been seen in the centre of Africa, living on
the frigid tops of volcanoes. By the time
he had traveled from the east coast he dis-
covered that this country has been made a
gorilla preserve. Nothing daunted, he pro-
ceeded to Lake Kivu, where there were ru-
mors of gorillas. He was accompanied by
165 porters, each followed by several women
carrying the loads. The army proceeded
jhrough the dense rain forest on a narrow-
trail.   �'
The gorillas were not at all anxious to
kill; they wished only to frighten off the
intruder. l>uring the three days he pursued
a gorilla, the animal made repeated charges,
rushing w ith a roar through the dense jungle
and then retreating when it had reached a
distance of 20 feet from him. The last day
he despaired of scaring Major Collins, and
charged in earnest.    So perished, at a dis-
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