College News, 1925-12-02, Vol. 12, No. 09

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The College News
VOL. XII.   No. 9.
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE), PA.,   WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1925
PRICE,   10 CENTS
MISS PARK APPROVES
CHANGED SMOKING RULE
SmokTng on Campus Offered by Self-
Government Association in
Place of Restrictions
LEADS OTHER WOMEN'S COLLEGES
VARSITY WHITEWASHED IN
FAST GAME WITH PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia Retains Offensive Makes
a Final Score of 10-0
A hew rule for smoking: on the campus
with some restrictions was put into effect
at a meeting of the Self-Govcrnment
Association on Monday, November 23,
� when Miss Jay, president of the associa-
tion, announced that the resolution had
been approved.
Agitation for a change in the rule, early
in the Fall, and recognition that smoking
was rapidly being accepted as a social
convention led the Board to sound stu-
dent opinion. Questionnaires circulated
among the undergraduates resulted in 321
votes for. and 46 votes against a new and
less rigid rule.                                  ,
With these results, Bryn Mawr felt
qualified to call an informal meeting of
the Self-Government Association presi-
dents of five Eastern colleges, Vassar,
Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, and
Bryn Mawr. The discussion centered
around a plan which Vassar has had in
operation since last Spring, and which left
smoking up to the individual's sense of
courtesy and loyalty to her college.
While all arrangements were only tenta-
tive, it was f�4t that the first step must
be taken in concert, and the other colleges
were willing to follow along th^ lines set
down  by Vassar.
The operation of this rule did not sat-
isfy the Bryn Mawr Board, which recog-
nized as its need a definite rule in the
same spirit of its old one, but eliminating
as far as possible the restrictions which
seemed obsolete.
Scmi-annually, the. presidents of these
live colleges meet; and this year each col-
lege was invited to send a student repre-
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Varsity was completely overshadowed by
the All-Philadelphia team on Saturday
morning, November 21, as the score of. 10 tp
0 in their favor demonstrates.
Throughout almost the entire game the
I Tllay  dangerously
"RELIGION SHOULD BE AN END
IN ITSELF," SAYS REV.WM. SPERRY
Abduction  Into  Heresy of Magic Is
Greatest Peril of America
ball   wa
Varsity's goal, although Varsity maintained
an indefatigable fight to take the ball to
the other end of the field. Philadelphia
played a steady game, always keeping the
offensive with assurance. Their passwork
was extremely accurate both longitudinally
and laterally. It was with a feeling not un-
mixed with pride that the sidelines watched
the systematic passwork between B. Tuttle,
'24, and E. Pearson, '24.
On the whole, the Varsity backs out-
played the forward line, although W. Dodd,
'2t>. kept up a remarkably furious attack as
right wing. Time after time the backs suc-
ceeded in wresting the ball ahd sending
it up ahead only to have Philadelphia inter-
cept the pass. V. Cooke. '26, played an
especially brilliant game as a back.
During the first half Philadelphia kept
the ball near Varsity's goal almost con-
tinually, except for two faint rushes on
Varsity's part. A. Bruere. '28. staunchly
defended Varsity's goal, but Philadelphia's
onslaughts were so terrific that they suc-
ceeded in scoring seven goals. Miss Good-
man, left inner, made the first goal; Miss
Townsend, right inner, made two others,
and Miss Wiener, centre forward, proved
herself to be the star of the first half by
adding four goals to the score, making the
total of seven  for the half.
The second half was almost as one-sided
as the first, although Philadelphia's addi-
tional goals were  limited  to  three by the
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'The Rev. William Sperry, D. D., the
speaker at Sunday evening chapel, Novem-
ber 22, explained the difference between real
religion and the prevalent religion of magic.
"It was Walt Whitman," said Dr. Sperry,
near- "who first used .the phrase, 'the large, un-
conscious scenery of my land.' which so
aptly describes practically all the scenery
of   the   United   States   in   his   time."    The
DESIRE UNDER THE ICE FLOES
SHOWN IN VARSITY DRAMA
Modern Play of New England Life
Sheds'Atmosphere of Gloom Over
Two Full Houses
CAST   IS  SPLENDIDLY, TRAINED
HEAD OF BR0OKW0OD COLLEGE
TO DISCUSS LABOR EDUCATION
Talk WiO be Given to  Liberal Club
by A. J. Muste of Trade College
Labor Education will be the subject of
A. J. Muste's talk on Wednesday, Decem-
ber 9, under the auspices of the Liberal
Club. Mr. Muste is Dean of the faculty
of Brookwood Labor College at Katonah,
New York. Before his career in this
field, he was a minister in New England.
During a textile strike in a large mill
town, he became interested in the prob-
lems of the strikers and abandoned the
ministry to become the General Secretary
for the Amalgamated .Textile Workers.
In the fall of 1921 (just after our Sum-
mer School began), he helped to organize
Brookwood. It is a residence school for
students of labor questions, who are
picked from various labor organizations,
e both national and international. The two-
year course in Economics, Politics, Social
History, Journalism and allied subjects, is
open to both men and women. At pres-
ent there are fifty resident students;
twelve of them are women, and of these
twelve, six have been to the Bryn Mawr
Summer School.
Eastern coast was the only part developed;
the rest was primeval. Even now, how-
ever, the great strip of desert and moun-
tains beyond the corn fields may be termed
"large, unconscious scenery." "As one
views this landscape from the train," con-
tinued Dr. Sperry, "where the sage bushes
look like ghosts of green things and the
horizon melts into a mirage, the question
usually comes to mind, what does Nature
mean by retreating thus unto herself? What
is the use of all this apparent uselessness?
"In religion, the same question is often
asked: What use is the infinite? What use
is God? The book of Job starts with the
axiom that God is useful. This amounts
to the prevalent idea that religion is use-
ful since it gets you health, wealth and
long life. Job. however, had discovered this
to be wrong, for he was a good man yet
everything had turned out wrong for him.
Job is on the point of becoming agnostic,
of thinking that God and religion are wrong,
when something comes and asks him to
answer a question, to give bis answer con-
cerning the riddle of life. "There is no
solution in Job to the problem of evil." said
Dr. Sperry. "there is merely an attack on
the premise of religion."
"If you believe that you  can coerce the
universe to your will, you believe in magic.
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CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYED BY
SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Schumann and Kreiiler Quartets Given
at Concert in Taylor
The Editorial Board of the CoixECK
News announces with regret ..the resignation
of M. Leary, '27, as News Editor.
At the first of the concerts under the
auspices of the Department of Music of
Bryn Mawr, which was given in Taylor
Hall on Monday evening. November 16,
the Chamber Music Society of San Fran-
cisco played an interesting program of
chamber music. The members of the
organization are as follows: Louis Per-
singer, First Violin; Nathan Firestone,
Viola; Lou'is*Ford, Second Violin; Wal-
ter Ferner, 'C�Uo; Elias Hecht, Flute.
Schumann's String Quartet in A Major
ipened the recital and was in fact the
greatest pleasure of theevening, interest-
ing and varied in sifeject matter and
development, with* delightful little pas-
sages like the fugue in the second move-
ment.
Nocturne and Scherzo for Flute and
Strings, written for the Chamber Music
Society by Arthur Foote. was the second
number on the program. This was fol-
lowed by Kreisler's new String Quartet,
in A Minor. Using the old sonata form,
this composition had certain decidedly
modern features, chromatic passages and
especially final chords with unresolved
notes. In fact, the composition ended on
a chord of this kind, after the repetition
of the theme of the first movement.
The program was as follows:
I.    String Quartet in A Major. Op. 41.
No.   3................Schumann
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LIFT THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
VOTE ON THE WORLD COURT
While two audiences strained and
laughed the Varsity players, under the di-
rection of Katherine Morse. '24, _ toUtriph-
antly justified their experiment, producing
a modern play, "Icebound," by Owen Davis
in the gymnasium on the evening of Nq^
vember 21 and 22.
A hateful scene against the plush and
stuffed birds of the Jordan parlor defi-
nitely sets the locale as Veazie, Maine, in late
November. With old Mrs. Jordan dying
upstairs, the black-clad, tight-mouthed sons
and daughters snivel and bicker through a
sordid afternoon. Henry, the oldest of the
family, as played by Elizabeth Stewart, IB,
was a mean and pompous storekeeper�
whine, sag and peering eye complete. Jane
Sullivan. '27, was his dressmaker* sister,
scolding and wailing over her thwarted
years; Miss Sullivan's performance mingled
sharply the common tragedy of their ice-'
"bound state and her own comic rendering
of the acid spinster. Sadie, the other sis-
ter�Pamela Burr, '27�was a gossipy shrew
who continually nagged her small son Orin.
amusingly done by Jean Fesler, '28. With
her straying locks and nasal tones she
managed to add considerably to the gen-
eral dreariness. Such were the last of the
Jordans, waiting for their mother's death
(as she had remarked) like carrion crows
for a m0 cow in a field.
Hated and flattered by them in their disap-
pointed greed, Caroline Swift played a calm
heroic Jane who all but managed to bind her-
self in ice in order to realize her hope and re-
sponsibility for Ben, the handsome rene-
gade. With high color, occasional flashing
smiles, and lounging easy grace,  Magdalen
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Balloting For New Student Survey to
be Held Next Tuesday
Bryn Mawr, under the auspices of the
Liberal Club, will take a vote on the en-
trance of the United States into the World
Court, under the survey being taken by the
New Student. The voting will be done in
the halls after luncheon next Tuesday, De-
cember 8. Similar records are being made
all over the country in the colleges. The
results will be sent to Washington.
The proposals submitted are as follows:
1.  For United "States participation in the
World Court under the "Harding-Hughes-
Coolidge Terms." (The United States not to
be connected with the League or Nations or
bound to any obligations under the League
Covenant; not to be bourlrj by advisory
opinions of the Court �on questions not vol-
untarily submitted by the United States.)
2.  For United States participation under
the "Harmony Plan" of 30 peace leaders.
(The United States to join the Court under
the "Harding-Hughes-Coolidge Terms" but
to withdraw after five years unless a code
of international law has been adopted out-
lawing war and the Court given jurisdic-
tion.)
! 8. For United States participation under
the "Borah Terms." (The United States
not to join the World Court until interna-
tional law has been codified outlawing war.
and the Court given jurisdiction: the United
States not to be thereby connected with the
league of Nations)
4. Against United States participation in
the World Court.
SWARTHMORE LOSES TO BRYN
tMAWR VARSITY BY 3 TO 0
Enthusiastic Audience Braves Cold To
See Bryn Mawr Win
In spite of the 3-0 victory for Bryn
Mawr, the Varsity team was not playing
up to par in their match with-Swarth-
more on Monday, November 23. Due to
the biting cold the playing was necessarily
fast. B. Loines, '28, started the scoring,
after a l#hg run down the field, by a neat *
goal. -V. Cooke, '26, did the best work
on the Bryn Mawr back line, which as
a whole was not very strong. The
Swarihmore forwards, especially M. Wal-
tin. were extremely quick at passing, but
too slow at shooting.                                    .
Klost of the second half was played in
semi-darkness, which hindered the accu-
racy of both teams. C. Parker, '29, did
some fast playing and D. Lee, '26, dodged
cleverly but, as in the first half, B. Loines,
'28, was the most active member on the
forward line. Too many long, aimless
passes cut down on Bryn Mawr's effi-
ciency.     The  line-up   was  as  follows:
Varsity: B. Loines, '28**; D. Lee (cap-
tain). '26*; E. Winchester, '27: F. Jay.
'26; W. Dodd. '26; B. Sindall. '26; J. See-
ley, '27; S. Walker. '27; V. Cooke, '26;
M. Harris, '26; B. Freeman. '2�.
Swarthmore: E. Vaughan. E. Jenkins.
M. Waltin. A. Wain, M. Roberts..L. Tily.
V. Broun. A. Kennedy. L. Roberts (cap-
tain), C. Paxton, S. Percy.