College News, 1925-01-21, Vol. 11, No. 13

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College Newl
Vol. XI.   No. 13
BRYN  MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1925
COPENHAGEN UNIVERSITY
BOASTS FAMOUS FACULTY
Majo/ity of Students Live Not in
Dormitories, Meeting Only
at Clubs
TRADIT%N OF  DEMOCRACY
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By Ingeborc Liisberg
- (Fellow of the American-Scandinavian
Foundation.)
Turning from the gay and crowded street
that forms the main thoroughfare of Copen-
hagen, the visitor finds himself suddenly in
a square of sober grey buildings, Our Lady's
Church, the old Cathedral School, the Uni-
versity Library, the Bishop's Palace, and the
University itself�a modest structure bear-
ing the stamp of a time when good taste was
more abundant than money* On this very
spot the University has been situated since it
was founded by King Christian I in 1478,
but as this old quarter of the city has suf-
fered time and again from fire and bombard-
ment in war, the present building dates from
1836.
Only a small part of the University's work
is carried on in the building in our Lady's
Square. Throughout the city and even be-
yond its borders, the University has its
various scientific institutions^ Instructing
the students is tout one side of the Univer-
sity's program. The scientific research
which Denmark contributes to world cuture
is really the more important part, even
though it may occasionally escape general
observation by being concealed in the lan-
guage of a small people. Of course a topic
of local interest needs only expression in
Danish; but Danish research seeks to a great"
extent hospitality abroad in' the scientific
journals �f the civilized world. Thus a
knowledge of the country and university is
spread and prepares the way for Danish
students who go out into the world to be
received by foreign scientists to whom Dan-
ish research is not unknown.
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Distinguished Faculty.
The University of Copenhagen has the
traditional five faculties�philosophy, science
and mathematics, medicine, law and theology.
The Agricultural College and the Polytech-
nical Institute are independent seats of
learning on equal footing with the Univer-
sity. The position of the University in the
capital is of the greatest advantage to the
medical^iaculty, its students being able to
profit by the teaching of specialists who are
at once practicing physicians and surgeons
as well as professors in the University. Rig-
shospitalet (State Hospital), with a thor-
oughly modern equipment, is in its whole
construction a training hospital. There are
also the Finsen Light Institute and the vari-
ous laboratories connected with the medical
school. The training of the medical student
lasts on an average eight years, including a
period of 12 months' uninterrupted service
at a hospital. The study of arts extends
over a period of about seven years and that
of theology and law of six years. Among
the  teachers  of  the  philosophical   faculty,
TWENTY CENTURIES LOOK
DOWN FROM'HEMEROSKOPEION
Dr. Carpenter's  Find  One of   Most
Important in Recent Years, says Times
NEED OF FEDERAL ACTION
IN CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT
From The New York Times.
Bryn Mawr, Pa., Jan. 17.�The site of the
first Greek settlement in Spain, an important
trading town built by Greek mariners and
merchants before 600 B. C. and lost to his-
tory for the last 2000 years, has been dis-
covered by Professor Rhys Carpenter, head
of the department of Archaeology at
Bryn  Mawr College.
Not c&Hy was this town-*-the name means
"Lookout Post" or "Watchtower"�the cen-
tre of trade but with its sister colonies, Em-
porion to the � north and Mainake to the
southwest, it made its influence so strongly
felt that for hundreds of years af'er the
Greeks had departed the people of this part
of Eastern Spain showed evidences of Greek
thought and culture.
In an interview at Bryn Mawr College
Dr. Carpenter told of the finding of the lost
town.
Dr. Carpenter's Story.
He had never been satisfied with the gen-
eral theory that, the modern town of Denia,
near the Cabo de la Nao�the Cape of the
Ship�was the site of Hemeroskopeion. That
it was the site of the Roman town of Diani-
um was obvious. Denia�Dianium. The old
town has not even changed its name in the
passing centuries, and then every time a cel-
lar for a new house was dug there was
nearly always turned up some concrete evi-
dence of the Roman occupation. But never
did the diggers find anything Greek.
It was in the winter of 1923-24, a year
ago, that Dr. Carpenter determined to lo-
cate the true site of Hemeroskopeion and
this is the. first public announcement of his
success. He was in Spain gathering material
for a book, ."The Greeks in Spain," soon to
be published, and it was neccessary that the
spot where this ancient and important town
stood should be located if possible. He
knew that while Denia was not the place, the
town of the Watchtower had probably been
somewhere in the vicinity. He began to
search the coast.
At last he came one day to Punta de
Ifach, 20 miles south of the Cape of the
Ship and 30 miles south of Denia. He drove
through the village and out to the seacoast
and knew that his search was ended. There
it stood�Hemeroskopeion�the Lookout
Post�the   Watchtower�a   mammoth   rock,
Opponents Declare it Both Unamerican
and Socialistic
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"Whether or not the pending child labor
emandment js ratified, there is no doubt
that some sort of Federal legislation on
the subject will be passed during the next
five years," said Miss Dorothy Sells, a
member of the Carola Wocrishoffer de-
partment of Bryn Mawr College, speaking
in chapel last Friday morning.
Giving a partial summary of the cur-
rent arguments, Miss Sells said that:
1�A million children between ten and
fifteen are employed in gainful occupa-
tion Sr^�
2�Though States pass laws they are
divergent and therefore give the States
who have laxer-laws an economic advan-
tage over the others.
3�Laws of separate States are easily
evaded by sending children to and fro
across State boundaries.
Opposing the amendment there are, s^ie
said, only the following:
1�That it is un-American in that it
turns the children over to the direction
of Congress.
2�That it overrides the long-standing
American principle that States should
make their own social laws.
3�That it would make the children con-
ceited.
4�That it is socialistic.
5�That the eighteen-year-old limit
which it mentions is too high.
6�That it will lead to Government in-
terference in the labor contracts of adults.
7�That it makes no provision for the
education and maintenance of the chil-
dren.
So far only California and Arkansas
have ratified the amendment. North Car-
olina, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana
and Mashachusetts have voted against it.
Price 10 Cejttfs
"REAL INDIA" OF KIPLING
AND TAGORE DESCRIBED
DR. BARNES GIVES DIRECTIONS
FOR OBSERVATION OF ECLIPSE
Relation Between Solar Eclipse   and
Religion is Tide of Talk
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"And it shall come to pass on that day,
saith the Lord God, that I will cause the
sun to go down at noon, and I will, darken I up to boyish arts of hunting and exercising,
the earth on a clear day" (Amos 8:9), was | One day when she is out hunting, she finds
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian .nationalist
and author, spoke in Taylor Hall on "Ta-
gore's, Gandhi's and Kipling's India," Fri-
day evening; January 16, under the auspices
of the Liberal Club.
Mr. Mukerji began by distinguishing be-
tween the "stage nation" and the "real na-
tion," the objective foreground and the great
"subjective background" Which really molds
the destiny of a people. Since the settle-
ment of the Irish question, the stage Irish-
man is being replaced by the stage Indian,
who is, according to Bernartt Shaw, a "com-
bination of Christian Science and Rabindra-
nath Tagore." In Mr. Kipling's books there
were many stage Indians; but in the "Jungle
Books" is real India, the folk lore of a peo-
ple which by "the wizardry of genius has
been transformed into a toy for all man-
kind." Here also is the,Indian attitude to-
ward animals, the brothers of men. The
gorgeous tiger, shining amethyst in the
sunlight, will not attack a man unless th'e
man's fear arouses his own. At night you
may sitton the floor of the jungle with the'
gleaming "needle-points of the animals' eyes"
about you �nd the sound of the elephants
moving in a long line; and you will not be
hurt as long as you are not afraid. You
learn to know the stillness of the jungle,
where there is no rustling of boar or tiger
going through the grass or of the python,
most powerful of all. Silence is more than
the absence of sound; it is a great throbbing.
Suddenly the night bird, flying always to-
ward the moon, rushes through the jungle
and the silence is shattered and "falls like
water."
"Chitra" Influences Nationalist
From Kipling and the Jungle, Mr. Mukerji
turned to Tagore, the poet who took lines of
the peasants' songs and made new songs,
more "explicit and more poetical" which the
people sing now everywhere in India. Ta-
gore is also the author of the play "Chitra,"
a sort of emblem of the Woman's Move-*
nhent among the young women of India.
"Chitra" is the story of a princess brought
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VARSITY STARTS BASKETBALL
PRACTICE FOR TEMPLE GAME
Varsity has had several basketball prac-
tices already this winter. Their first game,
which takes place February 14, will be with
Temple.
The team is still tentative. Last year's
Varsity, minus the side centre and one guard,
who both graduated in 1924, has been play-
ing with scrub and members of the class
basketball teams. Beginning this week the
Freshmen are being tried out
SMOKING  QUESTION DISCUSSED
BY VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS
Cigarette smoking at Bryn Mawr is a
question which must be solved by time,
is the report from Self-Government head-
quarters.----------------                ----------
Time has done something already, in
permitting graduate students to smoke
away from college except in public places,
and in making exceptions for students
when in private houses. Both these rules
are comparatively recent
For the rest, there can be no decisive
action until all the colleges act together.
A college, as an institution, must follow,
not keep pace with the liberal family. The
cause of smoking may be furthered by
Vassar's motion, in taking a consensus
of opinion and regulations in women's
colleges. At present Bryn Mawr was
considered the "happy" medium, not as
rigid as Smith, nor as free as Barnard,
where there are no restrictions.
But for the present nicotine is general-
ly prohibited on campus and within the
twenty-five-mile limit and must continue
to be so until a change is wrought by
arbitration or by open war.
the text of a sermon delivered in morning
chapel last Saturday morning by Dr. James
Barnes, professor of physics at Bryn Mawr.
The solar eclipse that is to take place next
Saturday morning from 7 until 11 is, accord-
ing to Dr. Barnes, a very important one be-
cause another easily accessible eclipse will
not take place for over a hundred years.
Speaking of what those girls can do who
will no't be able to go into the region of total
eclipse, he said that dark glasses should be
obtained. At 7.58 a small black point will be
seen encroaching on the sun. At 9.08 it will
reach its maximum greatness. At 10.26 it
will pass off.
With the help of a transmission grating�
which can be obtained by consulting the
post-major physics students�we can see the
flash spectrum at the cusps of the crescent.
The dark lines of the ordinary solar spec-
trum suddenly become bright.
The eclipse causes a shadow 100 miles
wide that moves at a speed of one mile a
second.
Observation upon the chromosphere, upon
the hydrogen and helium prominences, and
upon the unknown elements of the corona
which are of great interest to astronomers
and astro-physicists can only be made in the
region of total eclipse.
Erjuna, a beggar, lying in the dust. As she is
about to kick him aside, he rises and looks
at her; they fall in love. Chitra then asks
her god that she may be made beautiful for
Erjuna, that she may learn to know herself.
�Her wish is granted and they are married;
but after a year Erjuna grows restless, long-
ing to go out into the world and help other
men. Chitra tells him to go, saying that if
her child is a boy she will call him Erjuna.
Then her husband stays with her.
Tagore's play shows the contrast between
our idea that we must go out and mold the
future, and the Indian belief thai the past is
dead, the present is dying, but the future
will come in at the open door and mold men.
Mr. Mukerji quoted the Indian marriage
vow: "In the housemoi beauty we shall
dwell, and from it we shall enter the house
of Goodness; but its doors and windows are
not barriers, and we shall into the house
of Holiness, where Beauty is made Goodness
and Goodness becomes Holiness." The play,
"Chitra," was known by heart by the young
women who 'are the mothers of the leaders
of the Nationalist Movement today. Thus
"the vision of a poet became the song of a
woman�and out of it grew the great move-
ment of modern India."
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Mr.  Mukerji Declares  East  and
West Must Learn to Help Each
Other by Reconciling Ideals
PROGRESS OPPOSES PERFECTION
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