College News, 1926-03-10, Vol. 12, No. 17

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The College News
VOL. Xlh   No. 17.
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA.',   WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10,1926
PRICE,   10 CENTS
MISS STRONG DESCRIBES
RECOVERY OF RUSSIA
Social System of Russia Completely
Changed Through Breakdown
of Patriarchal Government
ONLY WORKERS RULE IN MOSCOW
"What's New in Russja"' was the sub-
ject of tile lecture delivered last Frjday
night by Miss Anna Louise Strong, under
the auspices of the Liberal Club.
"The most interesting thing that I have
t seen during my years in Russia," she be-
gan, "has been the tremendous speed of
recovery from the war." There has been
a steady rise for four and a half years
Troin complete disorganization. After the
war there was not a town in Russia
where the people were well fed, no fac-
tory running at more than one-fifth of
its pre-war power. All the factories had
been used for war production and were
almost completely worn out. Now the
country is scarcely recognizable. One
can travel there in comfort, and there
are no crimes of violence comparable with
those in Chicago or New York.
If you were to go to Russia yon
wouldn't sec any signs of Communism.
You would pay for your purchases, and
pay in street cars, just as in any capital-
istic State. Only through a study of the
basis of organization of society would
you  see the difference.
How is this new Russia different from
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EXPERIMENT IS ALWAYS NEEDED
IF WE HOPE TO PROGRESS
Each Generation, Says Dr. Carry Must
Challenge Institutions        <
MME. CARO-DELVAILLE LECTURES
ON L'ART DECORATIF FRANCAIS
"What is life all about anyhow?" was
the subject announced fo'r Dr. Bruce
Curry's ' lecture Wednesday evening,
March 3, and the large gathering in F
settled back, confident that all their wor-
ries were to be settled by an authority.
Hut Dr. Curry's first wcTrds wrecked all
their hopes: "So far as I know, this is a
question that cannot be answered by any-
>nc." Dr. Curry then proceeded to raise
�cvcr-al more questions in the minds of the
crest fallen audience.
� "We come into life inheriting things
Ihat people before us have spent most of
their time perfecting so that our lives may
be enriched. These arc the institutions-
of home, education, government, church,
social   life,   each   with  its   rules  and  cus-
Ensemble    Composed    of   Simplicity
Unadorned is Main Feature
Mine. Caro-Dclvaillc. wife of the famous
painter, spoke last Thursday evening in
chapel on I.'.hi Decoralif dt In Prance, ex-
amples of which are now on exhibition al
tin: Metropolitan Museum in New York ami
are well worth a visit and which, last sum-
mer, were shown in France in the ('.ramie
Exposition. The >movement represents
the work of twenty-five years. Until the
end of the nineteenth centre, those who
designed furniture copied the models of
former great schools�from Henri It
down to Louis-Philippe. This was partly
due to the influence of machines and parth
to the very great interest in archeology anil
history Rut as Mine. I'arn-Dclvaillc re-
marked, "to copy is to lose the artist."
It  was not until the end of the century,
MAY DAY OF 1928
PLANNED IN REPORT
Problems of Organization, Finance
and Production Discussed by
Undergraduate Committee
EFFICIENCY    TO    BE    AIM
toms and individual questions.     These in-   around   IH97. that designers,  seeing the bril-
LEAGUE APPROVES EFFORTS
OF C.I.E. FOR WORLD PEACE
Officers  of  the  C.I.E.   Now Visiting
American Colleges Describe Work
The president of the Confederation In-
ternational des Ktudiants, Mr. Balinski.
and a former vice president. Mr. Fcrencc
Dcak, spoke to the members of the Lib-
eral Club at a tea in the sitting room of
Pembroke Bast, last Tuesday afternoon.
The student tours in Europe next sum-
mer which arc now being organized by
the C. I. E. were described. The remark-
able cheapness of the tours, the associa-
tion of small congenial groups from their
respective colleges, and the opportunity
to meet foreign students and. above all,
to learn something of Europcau people
and ways, were urged by the speakers. A
variety of tours are now being planned,
from which the prospective traveler may
choose, including a week or two of at-
tendance at the School of International
I'olitics to be held at Geneva this sum-
mer, and in September to attend at the
Assembly meetings of the League of
Nations.
*" Knowledge shared by all the nations of
the problems with which each is con-
fronted, of the character and manners of
each, a knowledge that will lead to greater
opportunity for world peace, was declared
the aim of the C. I. E. founded after the
Great War; it seems now to be overcom-
ing the difficulties of war enmities. It
has received the hearty approval and
support of the Committee on Intellectual
Co-operation of the League of Nations,
though the C. I. E. has no official con-
nection with the League. Through the
assistance of the League and the gov-
ernments of Europe it hopes soon to issue
to the students on its tours a card of iden-
tification that will obviate all the expense
and complications of passports visas,
stitutions have the double functions of
enriching and interpreting life. Every
younger generation reserves the right la
criticise them. _ Our generation has re-
volted against the strict conventions of
the social part of life only."
It is not only our right but our sacred
duty, according to Dr. Curry, to challenge
these institutions. If we do not revise
them, the pressure will become too great,
the lid will blow off and we, will have
revolution.
"The world as it is, is continually
changing and groping towards the world
as it should be�but what should it be?
How ought life to be lived anyhow? We
all have our conceptions of this: they
started long ago with Plato's Ideal State
and have continued down through the
long list of I'topias. It is the job of
everyone  to   have  some  idea  as   to  how
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BRYN MAWR DEFEATS PENN
FIGHTING AND FUMBLING
liant original literature of the times, began
to ask the question. "Why Copy?" A few
artists handed together and formed the
school of Nancy. In origin they were senti-
mental and were a part of the general move-
ment of Romanticism. Similar to Gothic
art they copied nature and used rustic mo-
tifs like the cabbage, ivy, etc., in their de-
signs. However their work was not archi-
tectural; it was not definite, not organized,
not static. Their backers, who were mostly
amateurs, therefore soon tired of them.
Another school then sprang up in I'aris
with the object of creating entirely new lines
in furniture. They tyrned out pieces of
furniture which were so fantastic that one
hardly knew their use. In fact their work
was quite- capable of giving an impression-
able ehilil night-marcs. It is not a great
wonder then that this school died a natural
death.
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At a meeting of the Undergraduate
Association last Wednesday afternoon,
the report of the May Day Committee
was given bj G. Thomas, '86, chairman.
"Although it may seem early to begin
considering the possibility of a May Day
in I0S8," began Miss Thomas, "it is im-
portant that the sophomores and fresh-
men of today (on whom the responsibility
of next May Day wilt.icstl be told some-
thing of the way in which it is managed"
The decision in 1939 was almost unani-
mously in favor of presenting another
elaborate  and   impressive   May   Day  on
the condition, however, that it be sim-
plified, to relieve the undue pressure on
the undergraduates. The present com-
mittee was therefore appointed for the
purpose of discovering means of simplifi-
cation.
The obvious features of May Day its
procession; its pageant, the dames, and
the plays�are more or less familiar to
everyone, if not from (ficperieiice; at least
iVom hearsay. The organization by which
it is handled is hardly so simple nor s.r
Successful. In the first place, the work to
hi' done is divided up and apportioned to
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PLEASANT SOLUTION TO
PROBLEM OF ORALS OFFERED
F. Jay Outstanding in Poorly Played
Game
I'laying a last but messy game. Varsity
defeated   the   University  of   Pennsylvania
6. Within the first few moments of play,
A. Brucrc. '28, put the ball in, and this
started  Varsity on a series  of baskets.
A good deal of fouling with some de-
termined fighting characterized the Penn-
sylvania team. Their star player was
Miss Jones, who made a basket whenever
she got her hands on the ball.
The first half was full of fumbles, witlv
a good deal of scrapping over the ball
which Varsity centres managed to keep
at Bryn Mawr's end almost the whole
time. The second half was quicker with
some clean passing the entire length of
the field by Varsity. There was less
fumbling in this half, also.
While F. Jay. '20. did some pretty play-
ing, making long-distance goals and
always seeming to be free, the victory was
largely due to the good work of Varsity
guards and centres who kept the ball
away from   Pennsylvania.
The line-up was as follows:
JUNIORS LEAD AFTER FIRST
GYM MEET HELD FRIDAY
M.   Cruikshank,   '27,   Stars;    Danish
Gym Team New
193?  won   first  place  in  the  gym   meet
Friday,  March (>,  with '.>.">.:>   points.     I'.r.'S
with a score of 24-11 on Saturday. March   came   second   with   90J,   while   1986   got
Bryn   Mawr�M.   Bruere,   '2�;   K.   Jay.   ton<  M.'I.eary.
"20; S. Walker. '27; S.   McAdoo. '26;  M.
Hopkinson. '28; G. Leewitz, '26.
Pennsylvania�E.   Jones,    D.    Joy,    D.
Schoell. R. Karlson. F. Fox. K. Rumpp.
Substitutions�Pennsylvania.  Craighcad
for Karlson.

K.H ami 1939, T9.4. Since only '28 and '39
had Danish gym teams, something new
this year, it has not been decided how to
count them in the final score.
With a unanimity and excellence Ihat
showed long practice, '27 kept up a stand-
ard which brought it first place in every
event '28. while doing some things very
well, lacked a sense of rhythm. While
the Seniors made a good appearance, they
lost points on details. '29 showed an un-
certaimiess that will have doubtless worn
off  by the second  meet. �
In the individuals M< Cruikshank. '27.
was outstanding in the success of her
performance and the perfection of her
control. E. Cushman, '36, also did profi-
cient work.
The teams were as follows:
1936�E. Cushman, II. Smith, F. King,
R. Clinch. A. Long. A. Johnston, V.
C'ooke. H. Rodgers. !�*.  Harris.   .
1937�E. Brodie. M. Cruikshank. M.
Sherman. S. Walker. J. Seeley. S   Pinker-
1938�E. Stewart. H. Tuttle. A. Bruere,
M. Barrett, C. Field. K. Dikcman. II.
Haley.  H.   Guiterman.
1929�E. Freeman. E. Bryant. R.
Bryant, E. Friend, M. Jay, K. McVitty.
R. Wills.
Pass  Summer  in  Berlin  and  Learn
German
According to Dr. Prokoscb, who spoke
in chapel Wednesday morning, March :i,
year after a period of inactivity dating
from   pre-war  days,
The University of Berlin has made a
special offer for American students with
no knowledge of German. This offer in-
cludes a six weeks' course at lierlin, con-
sisting of sixty hours of the actual study
f German and thirty hours spent on gen-
eral. subjects: the total expenses of the
trip, which leaves New York on June :!'.>
ami retttTiis from llrcmcii "ii September
I. are only $388.
For those more advanced students sev-
eral other universities offer more iuformaj
courses. The University <>f. Heidelberg
and the University of Innsbruck will be
delighted to make arrangements for
American Students. Another trip through
Germany, involving a systematic course
for which certain colleges will give credits,
is also being planned.
Life for the foreigner in Germany was
decidedly unpleasant just after the war
due to general  bad  conditions and  lack of
trust   Now Germany is beginning to real-
ize   how*   much   she   owes   tO   America   for
reconstruction, and the American has be-
come  very  popular and   well  likeil.
1929 COMPETITION
Freshmen interested in trying out for
the Editorial Board of THE COLLEGE
NEWS should see J. Loeb, 40 Rocke-
feller, immediately.