College News, 1925-10-28, Vol. 12, No. 05

              The College News
VOL Mil.   No. 5.
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA,   WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28.  192%
PRICE.   IQ CENTS
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LANTERN NIGHT IS
TRADITIONAL SUCCESS
1929's Lanterns Unusual In Design;
Methods of Singing
Changed
MOON APPROVES CEREMONY
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Lantern Night last Friday was held in
the traditional manner, except^ for" a few
cxperimenyfcchanges in the singing and
a quite untraditional speed and efficiency.
Though damp and misty, the night was
not too cold for comfort, and there was
no wind to blow out the lanterns. Also
the singing outside the 0Library by both
Sophomores and Freshmen was short-
ened. Instead of beginning; "Pallas
Athene Thea" at Pembroke Arch, as in
past years, 1928 only sang one stanza,
directly outside the Library; and the
Freshmen only one stanza of "Sofias"
after leaving the Cloisters. Doubtless
considerable dramatic effect was lost by
not having the Freshmen, in caps and
gowns for the first time, new lanterns
swinging at their sides, sing all,the way
from the Library to the Arch; but there
has always been difficulty in keeping the
long line on the beat.
Another change was in the singing of
"Sofias." New parts were written to the
difficult Russian music, the tenor being
omitted altogether. The rhythm of the
first line was also altered slightly. In
spite of some discrepancy between the
two lines of the Sophomores entering the
Cloisters, the singing was up to the usual
standard.
1929's lanterns are very different from
those of recent years: they are smaller,
round, and have opaque glass. The de-
sign, remarkably complicated, represents
a girl giving another a lantern.
In the era of changing tradition it is
noteworthy that the historic Lantern
Night moon did not fail.
FORTITUDE IS GREATEST OF
VIRTUES, SAYS REV. BUTZER
Backbone!*!.  Generation  Refuses to
Tackle and Finish Hard Job
Courage as a Christian virtue was em-
phasized by the Reverend Albert Butzer,
pastor of the Westside Presbyterian
Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey, speak-
ing in chapel on Sunday, October 27.
"You remember in Saint Joan," he said,
"that when the Maid is trying to jam a
steel rod down the jelh/like backbone of
the Dauphin, he says, 'I don't want cour-
age, I want to be left in peace.' We in-
stinctively despise such a man, yet we
often fall into cowardice ourselves, not
because we don't want courage, but be-
cause we don't possess it. . . . We
must set ourselves squarely and firmly
toward the right, even as the face of
Christ was set steadfastly toward Jeru-
salem."
Christ was educated in the Old Mosiac
Law, the sacred and inviolable code of
the Hebrews, the absurd regulations of
which, instead of making people religious,
were making them positively iaeligious.
Yet he had the courage to undertake to
break them down. Will we have the
same courage, or are we looking for soft
jobs, like the colored sergeant whose two
favorite commands were Mrcst" and "at
ease?"
"If race hatreds, class hatreds, and the
worst pest of all,  war,  are to  be done
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NAMES KNOWN TO SPORT AND DRAMA
/              REPRESENT 18*7 THIS YEAR
The Class of 1U27 has elected Sylvia Walker President, Dorothy Meeker,
Vice President, and Mary Cruikshank Secretary.
Miss- Walker was on the casting committee of May day, on Varsity Hockey
and captain of the class team in 1924. Sophomore year she was on the casting
committee for "Quality Street," and on Varsity Hockey. She is Vice President
of the Athletic Association this year.
Miss Cruikshank was on the Scenery Committee for Sophomore play last
year, a member of the Undergraduate Committee for the Students' Building,
and a member of the Business Board of The News.
SPEAKER TELLSOFSTUDENTS WHO
SPEND WAGES, NOT ALLOWANCES
K.   Simonds,  '27,  Describes Friends
and Experiences at Summer School
"1 think it's probably useless for me to
try to give you an adequate impression
of the Summer School, but I can tell you
what I saw of the girls, what I did there,
and what I learned about their lives."
said Katherine Simouds, '27, speaking in
Vespers last Sunday evening.
' '"It's a thing that can't very well be
described. Before I went there. I talked
to a lot of people who had been there
and I thought about it a lot, but when 1
got there 1 found it entirely different
from anything that 1 had been able to
imagine.
"As you probably know, the three
undergraduates who are there each month
do all the odd jobs that no one else does.
Two of them arc assigned to help the
director of athletics, help with the music,
take care of the livestock�mostly rabbits
�and that sort of thing. The third one
works in the office that is set up in the
Chew room, and distributes the mail.
That was my job. and it spread to include
anything from burying the cats that were
disemboweled by the Science class, to
Chaperoning girls into Philadelphia. 1
even had to lead the singing once at a
baseball game.
"Each of us went regularly to one of
the classes. And then we lived in the
same hall with the girls, and ate our
meals with them and after meals we used
to gather outside of Denbigh and talk
for hours about everything on earth. So
that in one way or another we saw a great
deal of them, and had many chances
really to know them.
! "The Russian girls were as a rule the
most interesting people there, much more
a'crt and vehement than the others. There
were twenty-three of them this year�more
than any other nationality except Ameri-
can, and. together with some Hungarian
Mid Polish girls, they formed more or
less the leaven of the school. Many of'
them came over after the Russian revo-
lution, and several of them had ghastly
experiences   during   the   fighting   there.
"They always made me frightfully
ashamed of how little I knew. Prac-
tically all the Russians knew Tolstoi and
Ibsen backwards and forwards. And
they go to concerts all the time, and man-
age to see most of the good plays. It
really means something to do that, after
you've been working ciRht or ten hours a
day. They were as a rule wore radical
than the other girls, and" Wongly pro-
union. Many of them had been on strike,
and had got into trouble with the police
by picketing.
"The girls came from different trades,
different cities, different kinds of homes;
they were of different nationalities, differ-
ent   religions,   different   philosophies.     It
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CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS LEND
SUPPORT TO WORLD COURT
MANKIND IS TOO LAZY
TO SEARCH FOR TRUTH
Jesus Teaches That Infallible Court
of Appeal is Within Ourselves
says Dr. Tyson
Influence May Affect Senate  Debate
oa December 17
In twelve conferences held in various
parts of the country over the last two
week-ends, students from every type ot
college and university studied the World
Court. Plans ',for^ campus investigation
on the subject were set up and the work
is already under way in a number of
sehools. Approximately 450 of the keen-
est student minds decided that the educa-
tional campaign which is being sponsored
by the Council of Christian Associations
during the fall months is a worthy enter-
prise and that they will give their fullest
co-operation.
The special World Court conferences
of the past week-end included two in
Nebraska, tone in Oklahoma City, one in
Galesburg, Illinois, and one in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota. An average of fifty ItO-
dents attended each of these regional and
State gatherings and considered the World
Court. During the latter part of October
and the first half of November, between
thvty-fivc and fifty similar conferences
are planned in line with the accelerated
interest in international affairs focusing
on the opening of the Senate debate on
December  17th.
During the first two weeks of Decem-
ber, a national poll will be conducted by
the Nm Student and the Council of Chris-
tian Associations' World Court Commit-
tee which will be the culmination of
study and discussion. In the poll, *stu-
dents will express their approval or dis-
approval of the entrance of the United
States into the Court.
This intensive series of meetings has
grown out of the resolutions passed at
the recent annual meeting of the Council
of Christian Associations in which the
student leaders from campuses from all
quarters of the country expressed the
belief that the United States should cntei
the World Court at the earliest possibh
date. Thi* conviction resulted from a
study of the situation as it exists and was
followed by a plan whereby students all
over the country may have a chance to
educate themselves on the issue and to
mobilize whatever thought may result
from the stuly done on local campuses
and   in  conferences.
Tbc conviction that students should
take a continuous interest in things inter-
national and that they should exert a
vital force in shaping of policies led to
the pufVPM that the intensive educational
campaign should be only the first step
toward the continuous influence of an in-
telligent and active student opinion on all
nritters  of  international  concern.
Raymond Fosdick. Ivy U Lee. Irving
t-i-lier. Manley Hudson, and ex-Governor
Sweet, of Colorado, are among those in-
terested  in  Uk   stand  the   student  inove-
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BIBLE     IS     WHOLE     LIBRARY
"Modern youth reads the Bible so little
that it is unable to get even a bird's eye
view of the opinions of Western schoSrs.
There is really nothing magical or super-
natural about the Bible," said Dr. Stew-
art Tyson, speaking last Wednesday
night in the first of his four lectures
under the auspices of the Christian Asso-
ciation on trie "Old and New Testaments
from a Critical Standpoint."
"Nor is the Bible to be considered as
just one book, but rather as a library of
religion made up of sixty-six volumes of
the most varied type of literature. For
instance, the thirty-nine Hebrew scrip-
tnref^of the Old Testament treat of every
creed from the fatalistic sadness of
Ecclesiastics to the teachings of the Gos-
pel according to St. John, which is reli-
gious experience into the Nth degree;
moreover these include every form of
writing from the beginnings of Hebrew
philosophy to the Oriental idea of poetry.
What madness to judge this wide scope
of composition in the light of a single
liook!
"Karly Christians believed God had
created the revelation of himself in the
Old Testament scriptures. These they
considered complete, and any attempt at �
addition was held as no less than blas-
phemy." Then gradually a new set of
writings grew up. Disciples of Christ
wrote letters to their followers, precious
letters which after their deaths were care-
fully collected and treasured. Peter's
sermons were copied and rccopied, each
new reviser adding a touch of his own
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WEIGHT OF FOREIGN POLICY
IN SWITZERLAND DESCRIBED
Dr.  Scbopfer  Contrasts   League
Nations and the Swiss League
of
Dr. Sidney Schopfer speaking before
the Liberal and French Clubs last Mon-
day evening* reviewed the place of Switz-
erland, past and present, among the
nations of Europe.
"La situation internationale de la
Suissc," he said, "est une fonction directc
de la situation Europeennc." Her. his-
tory must be considered along with cur-
rent diplomatic tendencies in Europe. A
democracy founded upon rights granted.
Switzerland has never owed, like France
and the United States, her government to
internal revolution.
Modern Switzerland was born "d'nne
grande mouvement commune." In 1291
the Everlasting League was made by the
free towns of Switzerland, with their
environs-. Under the terms of the
League, the towns promised mutual aid in
case of attack, and agreed to combine
judgment in serious cases. In 1313 the
League was renewed and the interde-
pendence of tht "cantons" reaffirmed.
These cantons separately governed, in-
terdependent, made up the Swiss"state.
Government in the cantons ranged from
"aristocracie de confiancc." ihrough fov
eminent by representation to a primitive
democracy, where annual meetings of the
entire   "canton"  were   held   in  the  public
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