College News, 1925-12-09, Vol. 12, No. 10

              The College News
VOL. XII.   No. 10.
BRYN  MAWR   (AND WAYNE), PA..   WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9.  1925
PRICE   10 CENTS
ENTER THE WORLD
COURT, SAYS BRYN MAWR
Ballot Taken in Halls on Tuesday
For "New Student" Survey Shows
Majority Favor Entrance
TWELVE AGAINST PARTICIPATION
Two hundred -and sixty^ive students
of Bryn Mawr College voted on Tuesday
for the entrance of the United States
into the World Court. Only twelve votes
were cast against the participation of
the United States. The total balloting
was not large, since there are over four
hundred members, counting graduate
students.
The ballot submitted was the follow-
ing:
1.    For U. S. participation in the World
Court under the "Harding-Hughes-
Coolidge Terms":
(The U. S. not to be Connected with
the League of Nations or bound to any
obligations   under  the   League   Cove-
nant;   not  to  be  bound   by   advisory
� opinions of the Court on questions not
voluntarily submitted by the *U. S.)
2.    For   U.   S.  participation   under   the
"Harmony  Plan"  of  thirty  peace
leaders:
(The U. S. 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 outlawing war and the Court
given jurisdiction.)
3.    For   U.   S.   participation   under   the
"Borah Terms":
(The U. S. not to join the World
Court until international law has been
codified outlawing war, and the Court
given jurisdiction; the U. S. not to be
thereby connected with the League of
Natipns.)
4.    Against   U.   S.   participation   in   the
World Court:
One hundred and ninety-three votes
chose the first proposal; sixty-one the
second; and eleven the third.
"To crystallize the student opinion of
the country on the subject of the World
Court, and to provide for a permanent
' organization to consider such questions
arising in the future," is the purpose of
the National Collegiate World Court Con-
ference, to be held in Princeton on Fri-
day and Saturday, December 11 and 12,
under the auspices of an Intercollegiate
Executive Committee.
Fifty acceptances have been received to
the invitations sent out to every college
and university in the country, as the first
of the replies appear. A definite program
for the two days has been announced by
the Executive Committee, including
speeches by John W. Davis, George R.
Vincent and Raymond Fosdick, with
others still to come. A second group,
prominent among whom are Ivy L. Lee
and Vernon Kellogg, will lead round-
table discussions of fifteen or twenty dele-
gates on Saturday morning. A number
of hearty indorsements have been received
from men unable to be present, such as
Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Charles
Evans Hughes, Chief Justice William
Howard Taft, and Senator Borah.
The delegates, whose entertainment is
being arranged for by the Princeton sub-
committee, will arrive in time for the
opening assembly Friday night, at which
John W. Davis and one or two others
will present the various aspects of the
question of the World Court. Saturday
morning    will   be    spent   in    discussion
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT GIVEN
TO COLLEGE BY MRS. E. S. COOLIDGE
Sascha Jacobson Quartet Plays German
and Russian Music
The Sacha Jacobson Quartet gave a very
delightful recital to the college last Mondiy
evening, the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Shurt-
leff Coolidge. Last year Mrs. Coolidge pre-
sented Bryn Mawr with a concert of Bach,
by Mr. Harold Samuel, the famous English
pianist and student of Bach. For her great
generosity to us we are much indebted.
A concert of chamber music was a special-
ly appropriate gift from Mrs. Coolidge, who
has done magnificent Work for the apprc-
ciation of chamber music in this country,
as founder of the Berkshire and Washing-
ton Festivals: It was a great pleasure to
have Mrs. Coolidge come to Bryn Mawr for
the recital.
Beginning with Mozart's quartet in G,
charming and subtle with the subtlety of
simplicity, the program reached a splendid
climax in the last .number, the Brahms
quartet in C minor. Interesting and beauti-
ful'in subject and development, the Brahms
was finely played, the most thrilling per-
formance we have yet had.
Second on the program was a group of
shorter pieces, of which the Interludium in
modo antico, by Glazounoff, was particular-
ly interesting harmonically.
The members of the Sacha Jacobson
Quartet are: Sacha Jacobson, first violin;
Edwin Bachman, second violin; Louis Kauf-
man,    viola;    Marie    Roemaet    Rosanoff,
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"FAREWELL THE KERSEY COAT"
BY ANNE SHIRAS, '24, GIVEN
Players Present Delightful Comedy With
Bernard Shaw's "Dark Lady"
BRAHMS SONATA TO OPEN
PROGRAM OF SECOND CONCERT
'Cellist and Baritone to Give Recital
in Taylor December 14
The   Players, a group of undergraduates
interested in writing, acting and  producing
plays, gave The Dark Lady of the Sonnets,
by Bernard Shaw, and Farewell the Kersey
Coat, by Anne Shiras, '25, in Wyndham last
Saturday evening  for a small audience of
their   friend*? . Of  course the productions
suffered   from   lack   of   time,   Having   had
.cancely a  week of  rehearsal, and lack of
space and   facilities;  but they  showed  in-
anity,  spirit and some delightful acting.
'Miss   Shiras'   comedy   of   the   eighteenth
-�entury, presenting Jonas  Hanway, who in-
troduced the umbrella into England, making
the  umbrella   fashionable   "from   Cheapside
to St. Giles," and at the same time removing
all   the   objections   to   his   niece's   marriage
held   by   that  elegant   social  climber,   Lord
Pethersham, was charming and witty.  Com-
ing after Shaw's Dark Lady, it suffered not
at all in contrast, but shone by the keen wit
of its dialogue and the remarkable skill of
its  characterization.     We   shall   not   forget
the remark of I.ord Sandwich, the inventor
of his namesake.  "I doubt it is more diffi-
cult to protect an Englishman than to feed
him"; and Lord Pethersham's ejaculation,
"I  hope  I  am still Englishman enough to
[hank God  for the Channel."
To the cries of the delighted -audience
Miss Shiras answered, "I don't really think
it is fair for me to appear since Mr. Shaw
can't be here."
SLIDES' SHOW BEAUTY
OF LABRADOR'S COAST
Dr. Grenfell Traces Experiment in
Education and Health on Poverty
Stricken English Stock
SELF-RESPECT   NOW   POSSIBLE
THROUGH AFFLICTION MANKIND
MAY REACH HIGHEST LEVEL
Hans Kindler, 'cellist, and Horatio ton
nell, baritone, assisted by Horace Alwyne,
pianist, and Ellis Clark Hammann, at the
piano, will give the second concert of the
series under the auspices of the Mus^c
Deparment in Taylor Hall on December 14,
at 8. is o'clock.
The program will be as follows:
Brahms�Sonata  for  'cello and piano in F.
minor.    Op.." 38.
Allegro non troppo.
Allegretto quasi Menuetto.
Allegro.   Fugato.
Mr. Kindler and Mr. Alwyne.
Schubert�
(a) Geheimes (The Secret).
"(b) Aufenthalt (My Abode).
(c)  Der    Lindenbaum    (The    Linden
Tree).
(d)  Die Po#(The Post).      .
Mr. Connell.
Valentini..............Adagio and Allegro
.Mr. Kindler.
May Mayer� '
(a)  Dirge in Woods.
(b)  Raindrops.
(Dedicated to Mr. Connell.)
Franz�
(a)  Sweetheart is There.
(b)  The Rose Complained.
Rachmaninoff   ..........Floods of   Spring
Mr.   Connell.
Debussy......................Les Cloches
Ravel  ...........................Habanera
P'atti ..........................Tarantella
Mr. Kindler.
Tschaikowsky�"Nur    wer    die  .Sehnsucht
kennt."
Mr. Connell.
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Cultivation of Habit of Worship Leads
to Sense of God
Dr. Augustus Taber Murray, Profes-
sor of Classical Literature, Stanford Uni-
versity, California, in his sermon in
Chapel. Sunday night, December 6,
urged us to cultivate in our lives the
habit of worship, and to enter into the
expectant mood of prayer.
After reading a selection from the
Psalms, Dr. Murray explained that in the
Psalms we have the outpourings of men
who thought there- was something wrong
in the world. They saw evildoers trium-
phant all about them, and righteous men
downtrodden. They did not see how God
could permit such things, yet they were
full of loyalty to Him. The Psalmist
says, "It was too painful for me until I
entered into the sanctuary of God."
Through worship he found a means of
lifting the veil, and throwing light on his
problems.
"When we see the wickedness trium-
phant." says Dr. Murray, "let us remem-
ber that through affliction mankind often
reaches its highest level. Acts of self-
sacrificing love, which seem to lead to
destruction and death, may be the great-
est expression of the highest capacity of
the human soul.
"There may be not one in <Jiis room
who has no unsolvable enigma weighing
on his heart, which checks his joyous
development. The lesson that the
Psalms brings us is that we should find
the solvent for our enigmas as the Psalm-
ist found his�in conscious drawing near
to Cod, and in lettine the mood of reverent
and expectant worship be ours. It may be that
even without a solution our burden will
be  lifted.    Whittier says that revelation
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"Life gives to us what we give to it;
that has been my idea in all my Labrador
work." said Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell,
C. M. G., head of the Grenfell Mission in
Labrador, while speaking under the aus-
pices of the Christian Association in Tay-
lor Hall last Thursday evening, December
a. "The divine joy of life is being able
to do for others, and this is especially
true in the medical profession."
When Dr. Grenfell first went to Labra-
dor-in 188U no country could have been
more in need of the aid of this same medi-
cal profession. The native people were
a poverty-stricken, seafaring race who
had originally come from England; like
the "poor whites" of Kentucky, overcome
by their surroundings, they had found
themselves unable to either rise above or
even maintain their level of civilization.
Prosperity was lacking; starvation was a
national menace.
The whole spirit of this backwardness
can be seen in one of Dr. Grenfell's first
cases, a man who came to the ship's hos-
pital dragging a fractured leg which had
been broken ten years before. Living
conditions were unhealthy; children were
poorly cared for, with the result that
malnutrition and consumption of the
bones were prevalent evils.
"But nothing is as educational as ex-
periment. Gradually everything from
nursing stations to village stores were
started to help these people use those tal-
ents which might be dormant in them."
It is this Christian motive which redeems
nations as well as individuals^^.           <   ^
Dr. Grenfell's slides of Labrador were
most realistically colorful. The wild,
rock-bound seacoast and heavily wooded
inland, with its deep canyons, high water-
falls and winter snows, provide the in-
habitants with their two main sources of
subsistence: Fishing and trapping. Al-
most every animal from ermine to rein-
deer can be found, especially the reindeer,
whose use of the grazing fields shows
Labrador's possibilities as a future feed-
ing land.
There are now four central hospitals
situated at the chief harbors. Here, lame-
ness and blindness are among the princi-
pal cases treated: and an organized Child
Welfare Committee, under the direction
of two Bryn Mawr graduates, has set out
to rebuild the youth. The children have
gone so far as to form a troop of boy
scouts.
Industrial schools have been organized
where workers are taught to make toys �
and model ships. Civilization has also put
in its appearance in the form of radios
and phonographs. As far as sports go,
dog-racing and skiing are the chief forms
of amusement.
Morally speaking, the Labrador people
are excellent examples. In this land of
so few material pleasures there has rarely
or ever been such a thing as a murder, a
divorce or a nervous breakdown. And,
furthermore, they will do absolutely no
work_ whatsoever on Sunday. The very
fact that they have shown such marked
improvement recently, combined .with the
proof that they are fundamentally made
of good stuff, shows how worthy they
are of all the help that can possibly be
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