College News, 1926-02-17, Vol. 12, No. 14

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The College .News
VOLPXII.   No. 14.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE), t>A.,   WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1926
PRICE,   10  CENTS
STRAVINSKY'S QUARTET
GIVEN AT LAST RECITAL
"Grotesque" that Inspired Poem of
Amy Lowell's Played by Russian
Quartet; Also French Music
POEM    READ    BY    MR.    KING
Bach's rarely heard Sonata in G for
Flute, Violin and Piano opened the program
of the last of the concerts under the auspices
of the Music Department, in Taylor Hall, on
Monday evening, February 13. Among the
varied and interesting compositions of the
evening it was undoubtedly the finest and
most beautiful, though perhaps a little low
for the most effective use of the flute.
Tlie rest of the program was very modern,
including songs by Chausson, Rhene-Baton,
recently guest conductor in London, and
three American songs by American com-
posers, one of them a setting of Tennyson's
poem, The Eagle, by Emil Polak. the ac-
companist of the evening.
A Quartette, Pastorale el Danse, by
Arthur Hoeree, was played, a delightful
piece of work by a Frenchman who is
scarcely known in this country. Most strik-
ing was the Quartette of Strawinsky, upon
which a poem of Amy Lowell was based.
Samuel Arthur King, lecturer in -English
Diction, read a poem before the perform-
ance.
Goosen's charming and skillful Trio, "Im-
pressions of a Holiday," was the last num-
ber.
PROGRAM
TRIO�Sonata in G .................liach
Largo.    Vivace.    Adagio,    Presto
(For Flute, Violin and Pianoforte)
SONGS�Chanson Prepctuelle ... Chausson
(For Voice, Pianoforte and Spring Quartet)
QUARTET�Three   Pieces   for  String
Quartet------................ Stravinsky
"Grotesques"
' \           *  The Russian Quartet
CONTINUED  ON PAGE  3
AT FRENCH CLUB READING MLLE.
REY PLAYS EXITING CYRANO
Audience Large and  Enthusiastic  in
Spite of Drifts
Duelling and mincing' by turns. Mile.
Maude Rey gave a reading of Cyrano de
Bergerac in Taylor Hall last Wednesday
night.
There were no sets and Mile. Rey, in
costume, was the only actor. As Cyrano,
she strode furiously about in leather
boots, fighting duels, making love, and
reading poetry, interpreting the gay and
energetic hero that he was. The cadet's
cloak and felt hat, with its gallant
panache, were thrown aside for Roxanne's
rendezvous at the pastry cook's, and Mile.
Rey swished and trilled in the best pre-
cicuse style. In the jiimness of the bal-
cony scene, she used her voice alone to
place Christian, Roxanne, and Cyrano. She
showed remarkable power in being able to
characterize the whole cast without the
usual aid of scenery.
The reading was in French, and in very
beautiful* French. But the laughter and
applause of the audience on Wednesday
night was for joy in the playing as well
as the French.
Mile. Rey, who was a student of
Jacques Coppcaus, is in New York now.
She came to the college under the auspices
of the French  Club.
TO BE, AND WHAT TO BE,
THAT IS THE QUESTION
Security   of Teaching Still  Attracts
Women from Business
"How about finding the right, kind of
a job?" was the question Miss Kmma P,
Hirth set herself to answer in chapel
Wednesday  morning,  February  10th.
Miss Hirth. a graduate of Smith Col-
lege, is the bead of the Bureau of V'oca-
tional information, situated at I West
47th Street, New York City. She is con-
sidered the best authority in the country
in that field. The Bureau has nwde various
investigations concerning the conditions
of women in different vocations such as
Law and Banking. It has recently in-
vestigated the situation of the married
woman in business.
Enumerating the factors winch count in
the choice of students, Miss Hirth said
that chance played too large' a parj. Stu-
dents take whatever happens to turn up,
instead of considering whether they are
really interested in the field and whether
they are fitted  for that type  of position.
Students, moreover, are apt to con-
sider the type of job rather than the pro-
fession as such. The glaring example of
this is of course the executive position.
Students, having been in charge of various
activities in college, decide that they have
executive ability and want to "run things,"
it does not much matter what.
Instead of thinking of the maximum
salary to be derived from a certain field,
the student is too apt to be governed by
the first salary. The result is equally ob-
vious and unfortunate.
CONTINrKD  ON   I'AOB   S
FRESHNESS, SINCERITY AND        4
HUMOR LACKING IN ACADEMY
Rockwell  Kent  Alone  Attains  Final
Beauty, Says Miss G. G. King
REALITY BEHIND LIFE IS*
MODERN VIEW OF GOD
BIOLOGY LAB AND PIN0CHI0
INSPIRE THE FRESHMAN SHOW
Supernatural Beings are Many in Queer
List of Characters
"The story of the Academy this year
is one of disillusionment and disappoint-
ment," said Miss Gcorgiana Goddard
King, professor of History of Art,
speaking in the chapel last Monday morn-
ing. "Ii> it, Irving Wiles gives magazine
cover art, Philip Little gift-shop art
and F. W. Dewing sends work that is like
pressed flowers. There is no humor, no
joyful courage flaunting its panache with
perfect consciousness ol its own comedy.
And an exhibition without humor is like
a dinner without cheese. This exhibition
stands in  sure need of it.
"Henry Poore sends in Three Hounds
in Leash, as sentimental as anything
Landsecr ever did. The Backyard Scene,
by John Grahacli alone lias humor: you
want to sit down and laugh back at all
the  people   in  it.
"In general, there is no freshness about
the work. Everyone repeats everyone else
like people at an afternoon tea. There, arc
whole coveys of gulls and herons,' and
countless icy rivers, damping and chilling
in the long run. Morever, there is no sin-
cerity; everyone repeats himself. To say
a thing once is opinion: to say it twice is
truth; but to say it three times is an ex-
ploded platitude. Thus A brain Poole in
his Mercedes de Acosta lias repeated his
former   fine   work   with   far   less   success.
"Some o'f the portraits fall into two
classes, those which insult the sitter and
those which insult yon.    In the first class
CONTIMKI)  ON  I'AOK  8
Everything Cannot   be  Result  of
Blind force Working on Inert
Matter Says Dr. Gilkey
CRISIS   IN    RELIGIOUS   HISTORY
WORLD PEACE TAUGHT BY
OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS
The class of 1929 is taking the name
of its Freshman Show from the Biology
Laboratory and will give "The Dog-fish
Receives," on February 27. There arc to
be an unusually large number of dances,
creating variety and color. Some of the
choruses are: Logs, Fire-flies, Assassins,
Clowns , Marionettes, ' Gypsies, Devils.
Tibet Enchanters, Sea-Robins. Sea-
Horses. and Lobsters. The broad scope
of the show is evident.
The tentative cast is as follows:
Pinocchio.........�...........A.   Glover
Blue  Fair$   ...................F.  Haley
Bozo   .........................'}.   Porter
Owl   ......................B. Humphreys
Talking   Cricket  "...........A.   Learned
Crow   .....................;... C.   Swan
Showman    .................M.   Lambert
Geppetto   ..-,.................H. Wright
Centipede   .................B.   Channing
Head Assassin.................H. Scott
Punchinello   ..................M.   Bailey
Harlequin   .....................F.   Hand
Gypsy   .......................C.   Parker
Tunney  .......................1.  Bradley
Lobster   .....................M.   Brown
Parrot   .........................E.   Linn
Buddha ..................E. Leffingwell
Committees putting on the show are as
follows:-
Scenery: F. Haley, M. Barber. V. Fain.
Costume: A. Learned. E. Moran. O. Al-
len. Dance: A. Glover. M. Palmer. Song:
U. Richardson. E. Linn. C. Swan. Busi-
ness: A. Dalziel, E. Sargent. Program:
C. Parker. Ticket: S. Bradley. Scene
shifter: N. Woodward. Ushering: U.
Pettns, chairman.
For Us to Carry Out Vision That Failed
in Their Time
Miss Margaret Brackenbury Crook,
Professor of Biblical Literature at Smith,
spoke on "Peace Messages from the Pro-
phets" in chapel. Sunday evening, Febru-
ary  14.
"The Old Testament was full of wars
because it had to be. Palestine was the
pathway from Europe to Asia. It has
always been held by an alien power, and.
even down into our times and the last war,
has been the battle ground for opposing
armies." From this constant fighting
grew a desire for peace, and peace came to
be regarded as holy. "The great prophets
condemned international strife and
preached a gospel of decent behavior be-
tween man and man, and man and Goo?1
Isaiah was the first of these teachers. He
lived in Jerusalem, which was usually
free from attack because of its inaccessi-
bility, where his religious imagination had
full play. He counselled the rulers to keep
their word even if it was to an interior
country. This was a new idea in a world
where the most powerful ruled. Jerusa-
lem was to rule in a new way. the way
make no alliances, but if they did. to keep
to them of peace and God; her soldiers were
to be missionaries, armed with persuasion.
This vision failed because it was based on
a theocracy the rest of the world would
not accept. The reaction was towards a
narrowly nationalistic policy. Those teach-
ing the vision  were martyred.
"When Jesus appeared, talking in His
glorious fashion. He. too. was martyred.
The problems of His day were different,
not from His attitude on the question pf
CONTINUED ON I'AOB 1
"The Conception of a personal God
and of the Blessed Trinity has been
abandoned," said the Reverend James
Gordon Gilkey. of the South Congrega-
tional Church. Springfield. Massachusetts,
speaking in Taylor Hall on Thursday
evening, February 11th.                          '
In every period of history men have
been in disagreement about the idea of
God. and today it is again the paramount
issue. The three other great elements in
religion we are comparatively agreed upon
�its system of ethics, the theory of the
usefulness of the church, and the beauty
of the figure of Christ; but the concep-
tion pi the Godhead has changed with the
changing Spirit of the Age. Today the
doctrine of God the Father, the Son, and
live Holy (ihost, and the doctrine of au
anthropomorphic Father have given way
to the idea of a Reality-Bchind-Lifc. the
scientist's conception of the "power-not-
ourselves - that - makes - for - Righteous-
ness."
"Our generation," said Dr. Gilkey, "is
facing one of the most momentous crises
in religious history; nothing has been
worked out in detail, but it is certain that
some of Our friends will become the phil-
osophers and theologians who will formu-
late the new conception of God. As Dr.
Leuba maintains, the fact that the God
who works miracles and wonders has
been disproved does not mean truit there
is no God." Dr. Gilkey went on to define
the modern philosopher's idea of God by
Itioting from Dr. Kirsopp Lake's Religion
of  Yesterday and Tomorrows
"Life   presents   itself   as   a   great   web
which   is  slowly  coining  from  the  loom,
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CONTINUED  ON  I'AOB  3
VARSITY DEFEATS BALTIMORE
IN FIRST GAME OF SEASON
Hard, Fast Playing By  Both  Teams
Final Score is 27-20
Varsity defeated the Baltimore Mid-
gets. 37-30, in the lirst basketball game
of the season on Saturday morning. Feb-
ruary 13. Baltimore made the first goal,
but Varsity soon drew ahead, and at the
half, the score stood l;'t-f>. During the
second half. Bryn Maw/r slowed down.
md Baltimore made several quick goals
m succession, nearly evening the score. '
Varsity braced up and Bryn Mawr again
breathed freely.                                     #
The game was very fast and the ball
was kept flying up and down the court,
never long in the hands of either team.
While the passing was swift, it was not
very accurate, and there was a good
deal of fumbling.
Though neither B. Loines, '_>*. nor I'..
Mussel man. '2(i. forwards, made Varsity
last year, they played neatly, quickly and
accurately together. They failed to watch
their guards closely enough.
The lineup was as follows:
Bryn Mawr� E. Musselman. '.'�>. 1. 2.
2. 1. 1. 2. 2. 8, 2: B. Loines. **, 2. 2. 2. 2.
2."l, 1: S. McAdoo. ''M; S. Walker. '27: J.
Huddlestoii. '28; M   Hopkinson, \>M.
J'.altiniore�Marbn.hRrrtri". %%% C 2:
Dobbin, 2. 2. I. 1, l. 2: Boehm. Gardner.
Carrington.  Marshall.