College News, 1925-10-14, Vol. 12, No. 03

              The Coll
News
VOL XII.   No. 3.
BRYN  MAWR   (AND WAYNE).  PA..   WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER  14,  1925
PRICE.   10 CENTS
"ONE EXCITING NIGHT-
PRESENTED IN DENBIGH
NEWS Gives Interviews With Eye-
witnesses of Unusual
Events
ACCOUNTS   fALLY   IN   DETAILS
Dame Rumor, with her usual alacrity,
has been busily elaborating tho tale of
the recent burglar alarm in Denbigh.
The Natu, wishing to make public" the
real facts of the case, has obtained state-
ments from several eye-witnesses. While
no definite clue has been arrived at, evi-
dence seems clearly to point to" the fact
that an intruder was in Denbigh, and
that  for no  good  purpose.
A member of the Class of 1920, .whose
name is withheld, and who lives on the
fourth floor of Denbigh, was the first
person approached by the News repre-
sentatives.
Denbigh   Freshman   Tells   Tale
"Last Wednesday,, night," she said, "1
was awakened by a shriek from the
direction of the graduate corridor. Hast-
ily Hinging on a wrapper, and seizing
a hockey stick, I dashed out of the room,
fearing the worst, for I had heard the
announcement at lunch that there was
a strange man prowling about the halls,
and that considerable sums of money
had already been missed. My fears were
justified; as I reached the hall, I hea'd
a door slam in the graduate corridor.
and out of the long, dark attic that con-
nects the two corridors dashed a dark
figure, a man, with a hat pulled down
over his eyes, and with a steel instru-
ment in his hand. I shrank into the
shadow of the door, and he rushed by
ine down the stairs. He passed so close
to me that I could distinctly smell the
nicotine on his breath, yet he must have
failed   to  see   inc."
"How do you think he escaped from
the building?" Miss 1921) was asked. "My
own impression." she replied, "is that
he jumped out of the window^of oik
of the girls who were looking for him
in the graduate corridor, and so fled
down  Gulph  road."
Story of Night Watchman
Representatives of the NiUM also Con-
ferred with pne of the watchmen who
were on duty at the, time. "We were
returning from Rockefeller that night,"
he said, "where we had been called on
a false alarm by the porter, who had
got the window up. when we heard faint
screams from Denbigh. We then ran in
that direction with our lanterns, and, on
arriving, found the whole hall in an
uproar. Hurrying upstairs, we searched
the attic thoroughly, but found no one
there."
In order to have aS comprehensive and
unbiased an account as possible, the
Afafel next obtained an interview with a
student not residing in Denbigh, but in
Pembroke Hast, overlooking the scene
c'   action.
Interview with A. Whiting, '87
"About 11.47 Wednesday night I heard
scuffling sounds in the hall and a tele-
phone ringing in the Warden's room.
Looking out into the hall, I saw nothing.
I then rushed to the window. In the
brilliant moonlight I thought I was at
garden-party again; for Denbigh Green
was thronged with figures in light
clothes. Suddenly I heard a shot, prob-
ably fired before the figures jumped out
of the windows to the Green; but sound
waves travel slowly. I saw a watchman,
perhaps two. running up from the direc-
LIFE OF PLAY DEPENDS ON
POLISH, SAYS MR. EATON
Garage and Livery Stable School  of
Realism Condemned
/
"Sheridan had the 'School for Scandal'
in repertory at the Drury Lane Theatre
for seventeen years before he thought it
was ready to publish,"' said Walter
I'rlchard Katon. speaking on creative
writing and the comedy of manners, at a
tea given f by the Liberal Club in Pem-
broke East Sitting Room.
October 12.
"It is the polish and finish which he
gave to the writing that have made the
play live its two centuries, while a play
of our modern realistic' school lives
scarcely four." "The School for Scan-
dal" will he presented at the Broad Street
Theatre, opening on October 20. Will
any comedy of George M. Cohan last
so  long?.
No play can live which is merely
photographic, which has no form.
Rhythm and beauty of sentence, like that
of Millamant's agreement with Mirabel
about "dwindling" into marriage, and Sir
Benjamin Backbite's description of his
verses, "a neat rivulet of text meandering
through a meadow of margin." are the
enduring qualities of a piece of literature.
In contrast with these quotations, Mr.
Eaton read conversations from "Is Zat
So?" and "The Butter and Egg Man,"
now running in New York. "In fifty
years," he declared, "no one will be able
to understand those lines without a
glossary."
"Bernard Shaw's works have stood some
test of time. In 1890 I saw 'Arms and the
Man.' now being produced with great success,
in New York. Two years later I went to
'The Devil's Disciple.' recently a very success-
ful revival. And there was 'Candida' last
year. Shaw's plays have not died because they
have wonderful polish and workmanship,
which the realistic productions lack. The
latter are not given the necessary time
and pains."
Mr. Eaton went on to urge that a
stand be made against the new "garage
and livery stable" school of writing, with
its carelessness of style and form, its
emphasis on mere photography of sordid
details. Only by long labor and devo-
tion to beauty can work be done that will
live through the centuries.
REV. PETTY, IN'PHILADELPHIA?'
AOW MANY CHRISTIANS," ASKS J VIOLATION OF RIIIF
REV  PETTY  m*PHII.AtVIMim* fIUWI"�W   W    ��*
MAKES SMOKING ISSUE
Helpfulness, Sympathy, Democracy and
Sacrifice are Four Essentials �
."Imagine, that instead of being here for
the ordinary purposes of worship, you
were here to discover how many Chris-
tians there arc in Philadelphia." This
problem was offered by the *Reverend
Ray Petty, pastor of the Judson Memo-
rial Baptist Church of New York City, in
1.  October  to.-----------------r
Instead   of   consulting   all   the   church
afid Y. M. C: A. lists, the Reverend Petty
suggested ass a better method following
the text, "By their fruits ye shall know
them"�fruits not external, but products
of the life of the individual.
, "Christianity is ' a simple thing. In
these days creeds have too many winding
places! We ^rc searching for esoteric
things, things deep and mysterious, in-
stead of simple truths." Reducing the
requirements of a Christian to four es-
sentials of behavior, lie demanded help-
fulness, sympathy, democracy, and sacri-
fice, all qualities which Christ possessed
in the highest degree.
"How can"we call ourselves or others
Christians if we in our daily contacts do
not show the element of helpfulness?''
Most of us are inclined to be selfish; we
must not forget the example of Christ in
helpful   deeds.
Sympathy is a reflection of the heart
which knows how to love. Democracy
includes sympathy with � all races and
classes, and also with all shades of cul-
ture. In educational institutions, intel-
lectual   snobbery  is even   more  menacing
than social snobbery;-------------
"All of us must sacrifice some things
we have a right to keep, in order that
other people may have what they have
<i right to possess." This may be done,
not merely by great, spectacular sacri-
fices, but by those* humble acts for which
everyone  may find  an opportunity.
If these tests were appl'ed. we would
discover a very different list of Chris-
tians, a list from which many deacons,
trustees, and clergymen would be miss-
ing, and which would include many of
the common run of folk, many who have
no connection with established churches,
but who. according to their fruits, are
true Christians.
Matter to be Discussed at Meeting,
of College Presidents Preceded
by Student Consultation
EFFORT   IS  TOWARD   REVISION
General acceptance of women's smok-
ing has led the Self-Governnient Associa-
tion to consider revision of a rule which
BATES HOUSE BOARDS CHILDREN
DURING THREE SUMMER MONTHS
Pittsburgh Alumnae  Furnish Clothes
For Settlement Children
HARVARD PROFESSOR REVIEWS
DR. LEUBA ON MYSTICISM
CON-TINTED ON   PAGE 3
(Specially submitted by Mildred Buch-
anan, '24.)
. In spite of extreme heat in the early
part of June, Clean-Up Week left Bates
House a brighter and better place to live
in. Mrs. Bates had the whole outside
of the house and one bedroom and bath
painted. Thus inspired, the Bryn Mawr-
tvrs stripped the dining room walls of
their dingy burlap, scrubbed them, and
painted them a dainty buff. New cre-
tonne curtains, window-seat, and pillow
covers were ready in the hall to greet the
first group of children.
From the firs,t- assembly when Carrie
Train requested "Little Bo-Peep" as the
opening hymn, to the time we bid good-
bye to Katie and the Barretts at Spring
street, the Bates House Staff knew no
rest. Every day was a round of racing
Joe along the boardwalk, sleuthing An-
gela,     placating    Geuntz,    boxing     with
� ONTINtKI)  ON  PAGE  0
"Invaluable to Student of Mysticism"
Says William Ernest Hocking
Leuba's    inquiry    is   careful,    detailed,
bristling   with   facts,  and   carried   with   a
studied  effort to be fair  to all sides  of
his  subject.     He  regards  the  mystics as
mistaken    in   their   own    interpretations;
they think they have attained union with
God when their ecstasies are very mun- j
dane in origin.    But their efforts have not |
been  wholly   vain:   they   have   succeeded j
in   tapping   unusual   sources   of   Life-En- |
ergy;   and   no  one   who  wants  to  know
human   nature   and   its   possibilities   can
afford    to    neglect    their    achievements.
What is needed, he urges, is to eliminate
what is abnormal and to get   rid of the.!
hampering theology  and   metaphysics  in
terms" of  which   the   mystics   made   their
experiences  turbid to themselves and   to
others.
The body of Leuba's work consists in
the demonstration of abnormal elements
in   mystical  experiences.    He takes  mys-
CONTIMKM   ON   I'AOE   2
has become more or less obsolete.
Smoking may. by our efforts, be made
one of the" big issues of the" meeting ot
the Presiden's of some of the Eastern
Women's Colleges on October the twen-
ty-third. It is hoped that the Presidents
will find that their interests on the "ques-
tion coincide to the extent that each may
return to the Directors of the college
with the statement of the general and
Immediate necessity for a new and less
rigid smoking rule.
Previous to the conference of the col-
lege Presidents, a meeting has been' ar-
ranged in New York for the eighteenth
of October, at the instigation of our Sclf-
Govcrnnient Association, which will be
attended by the Presidents of Student
Government at Vassar, Smith. Wellesley.
Mt. Holyoke. and Bryn Mawr, to discuss
the smoking situation and its possible
solution at the various colleges. Should
the need for some less severe rule be
discovered to be as acute at the other
cdfTeges as it has become at Bryn MawK
it is hoped that the Presidents may de-
vise some feasible plafis to lay before
their college Presidents in order that they
may have their material at hand at the
conference on the twenty-third and come
to some definite decision that will imme-
diately materially better the situation.
For the purpose of discovering the
opinion of the undergraduates as to the
advisability of having a new smoking
regulation, our Self-Governmcnt Board
is circulating the following questionnaire:
1. Are you in favor of the present
rule in regard to smoking?
8. Are you in favor of a new rule for
smoking  with  some   restrictions?
It is important for students to think
constructively before filling out the ques-
tionnaire and to realize factors of safety
and convenience which stand in the way
of unrestricted smoking. Only in this
way will the opinions be of any value.
No assurance as to the outcome of the
conferences can be given, but every effort
is being made to cha'ngc the present rul-
ing.
NATIONAL ARCHERY
�    CHAMPIONS INSPECT
BRYN  MAWR TEAMS
Demonstrate Correct Way to Hold Bow
and Shoot Arrows.
Visitors at the Archery contest held
above the third hockey field on the after-
noon of Tuesday. October 13, included
Miss Cynthia Wesson, American women's
national champion in archery, and Doctor
Robert Elmer, for seven years men's na-
! tional champion, and this year runner-up
for the championship.
Miss Wesson and Doctor Elmer gave
informal demonstration of the principles
of archery to a large and enthusiastic
audience composed of archery devotees.
Dr. Elmer, it will be remembered, was the
instigator of the movement to incorporate
archery among the regular sports at Bryn
Mawr. and the giver of the .Elmer horn
won last year in the first tournament by
Millicent Pierce. 26, present holder of
the college championship and varsity arch-
ery captain for this year.