College News, 1924-10-08, Vol. 11, No. 02

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BRYN  MAWR,  PA.,  WEDNESDAY,   OCTOBER  8,   1924/
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CHRISTIAN   ASSOCIATION
RECEIVES FRESHMAN CLASS
LABOR, IF UNAMBITIOUS,
MAY REMAIN, SAYS PERCY
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Prominent  Tory  M.  P.. explains
present strength of labor
though in minority ,
LABOR   IS   ALSO~A   COALITION
"Labor may stay in for several years
provided it undertakes -no large meas-
ures."
TJjis was the summary of the inter-
view given by Lord Eustace Percy,
brother of Jhe Duke of Northumberland,
and one of the most prominent �f*4he
younger Tory M. P.s, to the representa-
tive of the "College News" in London
last July.
"It is very difficult to predict for the
immediate future," Lord Eustace con-
tinued, "but very easy for the> �iext ten
years. Labor is quite as much of a
coalition as the government which pre-
ceded it, and this prevents its having a
definite policy. It is ma.de up of many
widely different elements: partly of Lib-
erals and Tories who broke away because
they felt that the old parties were dead,
and partly of actual radicals. Thus we
have, side by side in the Cabinet itself,
Pli'lp Snowden, who is really a doctri-
naire Liberal and as ardent a Free-trader
as Cobden, and Sidney Webb, whose pre-
occupation with government by system
is essentially Tory. For the Tories have
alwa; s stood for system, though both
the old parties have made admirable edu-
cational reforms within the last thirty
yearn, it was the Tory Education Act of
1902 which was the great act for organi-
zation. MacDonald seems to be (^e only
person in the government who combines
these two tendencies. Then, moreover,
we have the real Left, which has come
to learn that there cannot be government
by   program.
"One cannot say whether they will stay
in, their three years. Neither party in
opposition ^particularly desires a general
election; as long as the government un-
dertakes no large measures, they are con-
tent to let the small defeats, inevitable to
a minority government, pass unchal-
lenged. Labor will not go to the country
unless defeated on some important bill;
it would be silly of them, and succeed
only in annoying the people, who are
bored with elections. But I myself am
very eager for a general election; I shall
try to block them in every way in order
to "force them to appeal to the country.
And I think that from a General election
both Labor and the Tories would return
strengthened.                                  ^
"It is quite true that ~*both the old
parties were dead when Labor came in
�we had not recovered from the war,
and we had no new ideas. But now the
Tories are evolving a policy once more,
and their policy, unlike that of Labor,
is definite and uniform. In course of
time, I believe, the people whose trend
is in the direction of organization will be
absorbed by Conservatism, and the doc-
trinaire people will join Liberalism, and
we shall be back to two parties again.
"But, for the present, Labor has a very
real strength, for several reasons. In
the first place, their work in education
is very good.    Trevelyan is a very able
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Purpose     of     College    Institutions
Brought    out    by    Speakers
With speeches, dancing and refresh-
ments the Christian Association welcomed
the Class of 1928 in the Gymnasium on
Saturday night.
. After a light warm-up on the floor thj
couples formed in line to meet the faculty
and undergraduate guests of honor, who
later addressed them with words of wis-
dom  and welcome.
Margaret Stcwardson, '25, President of
the Christian Association, Stressed the
value of the Association -as a help to-
wards the co-ordination of facts in the
individual and in college. The spiritual
influence links the separate activities into
a constructive whole which is encouraged
by the comprehensive and tolerant nature
of the Christian Association itself.
President Park brought out in con-
nection with the Christian Association its
contribution to the social relationships in
college. These relationships and the ad-
justments of the individual to her sur-
roundings are as important a result'of
college training as book learning, and
give the college graduate art advantage
oyer others in the understanding of the
method and importance of group work.
College institutions, and^ among them
the Athletic Association, said Miss Ap-
plebee, are only what they are made by
members of the college collectively and
individually. The fact that each organi-
zation is complete and running smoothly
should not affect new- students. Eachl
year brings a new opportunity to de-
velop the organizations according to
what each separate judgment chooses to
contribute to them.
The presidents of the Self-Govcrnment
Association, the Undergraduate Associa-
tion, the Graduate Club, the Athletic
Association and the Managing Editor of
the College New, followed with self-
explanatory speeches, poetically, humor-]
ously  or seriously  expressed.
Afterwards dancing was resumed, in-
terrupted by the circulation of large slabs
of ice cream.
H0CKEY cm[ * Ac^"     cc MUSIC DEPARTMENT TO
A   GREAT   SUCCESS
English
Coaches    Bring
in    Game
Changes
JUNIOR MONTH PICTURED
BY BRYN MAWR DELEGATE
(From an article "Women  in   Sport" by Marimret
Goss in the New York Tribune September 28.)
Nothing quite like the Hockey Camp,
which ended yesterday in the hills of Penn-
sylvania, has ever taken place before in the
world of women's sports. Two years ago,
in 1921, Miss Constance M. K. Apj>lebee, of
Bryn Mawr College, held the first of what
she calls her "hockey conferences" at Mount
Pocono with a gathering of less than a
hundred girls. The fact that three times
that number attended this year's camp shows
overwhelmingly that field hockey as a sport
lias gained a tremendous foothold in the
United States, as a game essentially for
women, and that interest is becoming mo-
mentarily keener. From the standpoint of
women's sport, this strenuous and highly
concentrated month at Mt. Pocono is one of
the most interesting and certainly the most
novel of the year's events.
The game, as a game for girls, was brought
to America from England by Miss Applebee
in 1901 and it is spreading like wildfire
throughout,the country. The camp, with its
English coaches, is the mccca for all en-
thusiasts. These 300 girls, their minds seeth-
ing with lunges, push passes and flick shots,
their arms and legs a lol stiffei and more
closely acquainted with "charley horses"
than they have ever been before, have dis-
persed to schools and 'colleges in the North
and the South and the Mid-West, where
they will endeavor to give forth all they have
just learned apd where they will be. listened
to with a rapt attention. Girls who have
themselves coached hockey are reduced at
Mount Pocono to the level of those who
have never wielded a stick and, stung by
the lash of an English tongue, they run as
they have never run in their lives and won-
der why they ever thought they knew any-
thing about the game.
The idea of the hockey camp originated
with Miss Applebee after the visit of the
English team to this country in 1921. Amer-
ican teams simply had nothing to offer
against the invaders and the need for some
<M�
OFFER FOUR CONCERTS
String Quartet, Pianists, and Vo-
calists among artists
to appear
BACH PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST
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Social Service Studied in Case-work
and Lectures
(Specially contributed by A. Pantser, '25)
"O  turn,  and we  are  in  the heart ot
things."
OPEN C. A. CABINET MEET-
ING TO BE HELD
An open meeting of the Christian
Association Cabinet will be held
Wednesday, October 14, to discuss the
plans of the association for the com-
ing year.   Everyone is urged to come.
These words are the best description
of "Junior Month" that I can imagine.
After having studied and read and heard
about "existing social conditions," 'after
having discussed them long and heatedly
with friends, after having formed pet
theories and* opinions upon many of
them, I suddenly landed at "Junior
Month" and "the heart of things" ap-
peared�the realities whose existence I
had up to then either taken on faith or
conjectured about dubiously.
In this necessarily short account of a
most varied, full, and continuously dif-
ferent month. I shall have to omit telling
about the glorious Sunday spent on Long
Island at the invitation of Mrs. Robert
de Forest, the president of the Charity
Organisations Society of New York; I
shall have to leave out the private motor
trip up the Hudson and the picnic which
served as a  farewell party; I shall even
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SUMMER SCHOOL WORKERS
DESCRIBE AMUSING SIDE
Rain   As  Usual  Ushers  in  Summer
Students
[Specially contributed by the undergrad-
uate workers at the Summer School, S.
Carey. '2."); //. Henshaw, '25; /�'. Briggs,
'25; J. See ley, '27.)
The Denbigh firebell was silent, but
Susan's alarm clock jangled helpfully, as
she rushed down the corridqr trying,
�Fire drill, it's a fire drill!"
It was merely another of the queer
customs that those strange college people
had been imposing upon them since their
arrival three days ago. It had been a
very cheerless arrival. Ducks would
have revelled in the puddles and dripping
grey walks, but the atmosphere must
have been deprcssing_ to the Summer
School students who straggled in at all
hours from all directions. Miss Smith's
car, although as a rule hopelessly tem-
peramental, was coaxed into meeting all
the trains and even into taking some be-
lated people to the Roma for dinner.
Bryn Mawr. of course, had several
tricks to produce for the delight of the
newcomers.     Among   the   most    notable
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Four concerts of a varied character arc
offered by the Department of Music for
the coming year.                         r~
� The first concert, to be given October
20, will be a Bach program by the Eng-
lish pianist, Harold Samuel, who is recog-
nized in Europe as one of the foremost
interpreters of Bach. On six successive
days in 1921 he gave six recitals in Lon-
don entirely devoted to Bach's clavier
music. So successful was his venture
that he has given this series annually in
London and has also repeated it through-
out England. -
Mr. Samuel's appearance in college,
which has been made possible by the
generosity of Mrs. Ft S. Coolidge, the
founder of the Berkshire Chamber Music
Festival and an ardent worker to pro-
mote appreciation of music in this coun-
try, will be his only one in the vicinity
of   Philadelphia.
The  program   for   Mr   Samuel's recital
is  as   follows:
1. Chromatic   Fantasic and   Fugue.
I. Prom the 'Well-Tempered Clavi-
chord":
Prelude and  Fugue in A, Bk.  1.
Prelude and   Fugue in  C   Sharp mi-
nor, Bk. 1.
B flat, Bk. 1.
F.  Bk. 8.
'�'.. Short   Preludes   in   C   major   and   E
major.
Invention in  A major.
Bouree in  E minor.
.   Minuet in  G  major.
Fantasia  in   C  minor.
4.  Partita in   B  flat major.
Prelude.
Allemande.
Courante.
Sarahande.
Minuets 1 and 2.
Guigue.
The Lenox Quartet, which will appear
at the second concert on December 8, is
known as one of the foremost string
quartets in America. Their program will
include modern compositions for string
quartet and the Tschaikowsky piano trio
with Horace Alwyne at the pianoforte.
Boris Saslawsky, who will give a joint
-recital with Horace Alwyne at the third
concert on February 16, is a Russian
baritone who has appeared with great
success in the United States and Canada.
He is an artist with a fine gift for inter-
pretation and the power of making vivid
the dramatic qualities of his songs. His
program will include folk songs of Great
and   Little   Russia.
� The last concert, scheduled for March
16. will consist of modern combinations ot
string -and wind instruments and voice.
The vocalist will be Baron Hesse von
Schencheney. a Russian baritone, who
Was formerly a member of the Imperial
Opera of Moscow, and has been heard
in opera and recitals in the leading Eu-
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NEWS BOARD TO HOLD
COMPETITION
A competition for members of the
editorial board of The News for 1926
and 1927 will begin on Thursday, Oc-
tober 9. Those wishing to try out
will please see D. Smith, Pembroke
West, as soon as possible.
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