College News, 1925-09-30, Vol. 12, No. 01

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The College News
VOL. XII.   No. I.
BRYN  MAWR   (AND  WAYNE),  PA.,   WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1925
PRICE,   10  CENTS
FRESHMAN RED TO BE
SEEN ON CAMPUS
1929 Smaller Than Three Preceding
Classes and has Nineteen
Non-Residents
ALL SECTIONS   REPRESENTED
Bryn Mawr welcomes the class of 1980,
A smaller class than has entered for the
past three years,"the Freshman class in-
clude many sisters of present undergrad-
uates. A list of the entering Freshmen
is as follows:
Olmstead Tyson Allen, Marion Eliza-
beth Bailey, Katherine Noyes Balch,
Marian Georgie Marshall Barber. Jane
Barth, Jean Crocket Bccket. Ruth Bid-
die, Frances Linsey Blayney, Doris Blu-
menthal, Eliza Boyd.
Elizabeth Bradley, Jane" Buel Bradley.
Sarah Elizabeth Bradley, Lucy Manning
BroWn, Marion Brown. Sara Brown.
Marie Elise Bryant. Rebecca , Swift
Bryant, Victoria*Torrilhon Buel, Nancy
Carr.
Helen May Casteel, Barbara Channing.
Frances Boardman Chisolm, Katharine
Hill Collins, Josephine Cook, Rosamond
Cross, Alexandra Dalziel, Elvira de la
Vega, Grace Isabel Dc Roo, Esther
Craven Dilworth.
Margaret Voorhees Doyle, Juliet Fried-
bcrgcr Eshner. Caroline Virginia Fain,
Susan Fitzgerald, Katherine Morris
Fleischman, Elizabeth Bctterton Forman.
Bettie Charter Freeman. Elinor Friend.
FrancVs Elizabeth Fry, Marion Gallaudet.
Helen Juliet Garrett, Katherine Anna
Garrett, Florence Marjoric Gates, Laura
Valeria Gendell, Mary Reid Gessner.
Alice Louise Glover, Mary Randolph
Grace, Katharine Wirt Haines, Frances
Burke Haley. Candis Irene Hall.
Frances Lydia Hand, Clover Eugenia
Henry, Rosalie Hirschfelder, Ella Camp-
bell Horton, Amme Louise Hubbard,
Martha Rosalie Humphrey. Barbara
Humphreys, Louisa Jay. Marguerite
Montgomery Jay, Lenette Ford Jeanes,
Jr.
Marcella Cameron Kirk, Ruth Kitchen,
Mary Robinson Lambert. Annabel
Franpton Learned. Lysbet Wctherell
Lefferts, Ellen Walsh Leffingwell, Eliza-
beth Howland Linn, Jane Diehl Lober,
Eleanor Claire Lowman, Mary Marioova
McDermott.                          '
4 Ruth Dwight McVitty, Alice Katha-
rine Mercer, Ecclcston Moran, Louise
Florence Morganstern, Elizabeth Caze-
nova Gardner Packard, Marcella Pal-
mer, Marion Ak, Claire Parker. Mar-
garet Newmaif* Patterson, Elizabeth
Perkins.
Martha Ann Pettus, Ella King Poe,
Joyce   Porter,   Charlotte   Mercer   Purcell.
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MUSIC, POLITICS AND POETRY   .
PLANNED FOR LIBERAL CLUB
Folk Song of India Will be Sung by
Ratan Devi on October 4
Lectures on foreign affairs, conditions
in Russia, labor education, music, and the
theatre, are included in the plans of the
Liberal Club* for the coming year. The
policy of last year of having speakers .on
a wide variety of subjects, not. merely
( oimmkal and political, will be con-
tinued.
Madame Ratan Devi will be the first
speaker of the season, coming on
Wednesday. October 14. in Taylor Hall.
She will give a short talk on East Indian
music and then will sing Indian folk-
songs, wearing native costume. Madame
Devi is by birth an English woman, who
lived for years in India as the wife of a
scholar. Indian by birth. She has given
many recitals in the United States and
England, and has won high praise not
only from musicians, such as I'ablo
Casals, the greatest living 'cellist, but also
from poets, notably W. B. Yeats and
Rabindranath   Tagore.
Definite engagements for lecture dates
throughout the year are not all assured;
but the Liberal Club is now trying to
make arrangements with Anna Louise
Strong, the foremost American worker
in Russia today; A. J. Muste, president
of the Brookwood Trade Union College;
Dr. Rowc, authority on the Pan-Amerir
can situation; Carl Sandburg, William
Beebc, famous naturalist and author, and
other lecturers.          ?
Tentative plans are also being made,
if time and circumstances permit, for
more informal talks than the regular
lectures, with discussion perhaps by small
groups. People of interesting experience,
such as holding a job in a Jactory of
managing a small magazine, may be in-
duced to talk over after-dinner   coffee.
Posters announcing lectures will be
distributed as usual; and membership
cards will be placed on doors.
ATMOSPHERE OF FRIENDLINESS
CHARACTERIZES SUMMER SCHOOL
JUNIORS   SELECT  FRESH-
MAN   CLASS COMMITTEE
Nancy Carr. of the Shipley
School, and Alexandra Dalziel, of
the Brearley School, have been
chosen as members of the Class
Committee  of  1929 by 192T.
Miss Carr was President of the
Athletic Association and head of
several Clubs at Shipley, while
Miss Dalziel was President of the*
Athletic Association last year at
the Brearley and has been Presi-
dent of her class there for the last
two years.
Varied  Experiences  and  Trades of
Students Make Range of Opinions
{Specially contributed by K. Simonds, 'X"i)
Undergraduates who leave the halls of
Br^mMawr in June to return to them in
OctobeV can scarcely picture to them-
selves the life that goes on here* through
two of the summer months. And, how
should they, after all? For jt is a world
so different in atmosphere that the very
campus looks unfamiliar to trie eyes of
a visiting undergraduate.
You have of course the superficial and
obvious differences. Pembroke West,
Rockefeller and Radnor closed, campus
becomes a tiny circle centering oit Den-
bigh green. There girls in middies and
bloomers lie in the sunshine and talk,
unhurried, intent on the discussion, In-
stead , of formal Senior singing in the
evening, people gather in little knots
about Senior Row to sing, and their
voice; are melancholy and passionate in
the darkness. Classes in Taylor Hall arc
not dictation, but forums, in which the
students have at least as much to give as
the professor; or. rather, in which the
professor acts as chairman for the dis-
cussion to which each student contributes
her personal experience. No halo en-
shrouds Senior Steps, nor does Juno
elevate her classic nose at the sight of
knickers and bare knees in her domain.
I think" that freedom is the keynote of
the summer school. There are scarcely
any restrictions, intellectual, social, or
physical. The students are all free with
the independence of people who earn
their own living and rely on their own
power to supply their needs. This one
condition alone would make a striking
difference between the summer and win-
ter, schools. And then, anyone who has
a theory may expound it, and, if she
speaks intelligently, be sure of an intelli-
gent   and   interested   audience.     In   this
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WYNDHAM BOUGHT
BY BRYN MAWR
President Park Announces Addition
to College of Ely Property to be
Occupied Next Year
BRYN MAWR INVITES M. CESTRE
TO VISIT AND LECTURE
Sorbonne  Professor Will Also Take
Over Major French Courses
At ' file" invitation of the Board of
Trustees, M. Charles Ccstre, professor
of American civilization at the Sorbonne,
and this year official lecturer of the Alli-
ance Francaise. will visit Bryn Mawr on
the first of November, for a "quinzainc
francaise." During this time, Professor
Cestre will live on the campus and will
deliver two series Qf lectures. There will
be one public course, to which everyone
will be invited, consisting of six lectures
in English on Edward Arlington Robin-
son as interpreter of the American spirit,
the subject of his.course at the Sorbonne.
At the same time. Professor Cestre
will' take over the work of fhc classes in
major French literature, giving explica-
tions de texte. This course, correspond-
ing to the cours fermee at the Sofborfne.
will be open only to the student-- in major
or post major French, to those who have
already taken major or post major
French, and perhaps to some others well
qualified to attend. Professor Cestre will
(lalso meet the graduate students in
French for a seminary a week.
ORCHESTRA SEASON TO START
ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE NINTH
Harold  Samuel, Roland  Hayes,  and
Bela Bartok Among Soloists
October 0 and 10 are the dates for the^
first of the twenty-nine pairs of concerts
by the Philadelphia Orchestra, on Fri-
day and Saturday afternoons in 1925*26.
in the Academy of Music, A ^eries of
ten Monday evening performances
throughout the season will begin October
26. Leopold Stokowski will return, for
his fourteenth year as conductor of the
Orchestra.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch will be the first
soloist to appear with the organization
this year, at the concerts on November
111 and 14, which will repeat the program
played under Fritz Scheel. with Gabrilo-
witsch as soloist, twenty-five years ago.
The famous pianist wiU play the B-rlat
in nor concerto of Tschaikowsky.
Harold Samuel, the English interpre-
ter of Bach, and Roland Hayes, famous
Negro tenor, are also on the list of
artists engaged for performances. Bela
Bartok. Hungarian composer and student
of folksong, will play his new piano con-
certo for the first time. Another Hun-
garian. Josef Szigeti. violinist, will make
his American debut with  the Orchestra.
During    Mr.    Stokowski's    holiday    in,
January, Ottino Respighi, a leader of the
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G00DHART HALL BEING PUNNED
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With great pleasure Bryn Mawr wel-
comes its old students returning and its
new students, graduate and undergrad-
uate, as it enters on the work of its forty-
first year with great pleasure and with
great curiosity which in the family this
morning can come out flat-footed and
call itself confidence. For the veterans
among us, i. e., ranging down througji
the sophomores, a long holiday is over,
spent in a hundred different combinations
of toil and tranquillity, each day a law to
itself, and we arc ready to begin again
on the closed season when our days are
pretty well set for us and our work and
its results are dependent on the work and
the morale of others beside ourselves.
All summer we have spun separate!}
Now we bring our thread and weave it
together into a fabric, the web of the
Bryn  Mawr College year.
At the end of the year it seemed cer-
tain that two pieces of business were to
keep the President within reach of the
college this summer, the perplexities
connected. with the admissions to the
freshman class, and the building of Good-
hart Hall. A nearby summer was also to
make possible a first-hand impression of
the Summer School during its first and
second weeks and again toward the close
of the session. A farmhouse in an
Adirondack valley allowed a midsummer
visit to Bryn Mawr, and in the intervals
of letter-writing and telegraphing became
instantly an abode of holiday peace.
The final outcome of the admissions
situation you see scattered among you.
In late July when the returns from the
Board examinations came in. completing
the returns from the Bryn Mawr exami-
nations, we found out of every three who
had passed the examinations either clear
or with three or less ^points of condi-
tion we could admit only two. A few
rooms were given up in August by mem-
bers of the older classes or students
formally admitted so that it has proved
finally possible to take eighty-nine into
residence and to admit as non-residents
nineteen more, a total of one hundred
and eight as compared with one hundred
and eighteen in 1924 and one hundred and
twenty-nine in 1923. The problem of
selection was exceedingly difficult for the
Committee on Admissions. That com-
mittee can at least say that it made an
honest attempt to choose individuals and
groups who can use to the greatest ad-
vantage what the college as an institu-
tion has to offer, that is. those girls who
are most likely to find their road to self-
development lies through the land of
academic routine, of hard, persistent and
successful mental effort in classrooms,
libraries, and laboratories. Bryn Mawr
has always found among her belter stu-
dents many of those who carried on her
student activities most ably. If intellec-
tual promise continues to be the first
requisite for admission to this college
"all-around girls,"' "good citizens." girls
with executive, athletic or artistic gifts
will he as surely included in the student
body as though they were chosen delib-
erately because of those general school
recommendations.
\'-ain.   everyone   knows   that   entrance
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