College News, 1926-03-03, Vol. 12, No. 16

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The College News
VOL XII.   No. 16.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE),  PA.,   WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1926
PRICE,   10 CENTS
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
REPORTS ON STUDY
Time Spent in Preparation Comput-
ed by Undergraduate Committee
from Students' Records
27 HOURS AVERAGE PER WEEK
Statistics have been compiled l>y the
Curriculum Committee ot the Under-
graduate; Association, following a request
made to then l>y President1 Park. The
function of the committee, it must be
remembered, is to collect information for
the use of the Faculty at their specific
requests    The report is printed below.
The Undergraduate Curriculum Com-
mittee submits the following report on
the time spent on preparation of work,
in response to a request made to the
Committee by President  Park:
Two surveys were made, each for a
period of a week, by means of printed
record slips given to every undergradu-
ate Upon these the students were asked
to keep a daily record of the time spent
in preparation of each of their courses
(lectures and laboratory, of course, not
included), listed under headings accord-
ing to the classification: Required, Minor.
Major, F.lective.
In selecting the period of the survey,
the   Committee   found   it   impossible* to
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COLLEGE GROUPS TO TRAVEL
UNDER AUSPICES OF C. I. B.
CHRIST TAUGHT DISCIPLES BY
USING HIS SENSE OF HUMOR
Place for Fun in  Human   Life  Says
Mr. Russell of Edinburgh   �
The    Open    Road    Arranges   European
Tours of  Manifold Interest.
The Open lioad is this year the repre-
sentative in the United States of the Office
de Voyages P'F.tudiants Amerieains, which
is a pan of the Confederation Internation-
ales des Ktudiants. The C. I. E., as it is
called, is the leading student organization
of Europe, and in a unique position to offer
facilities for travel and study to American
students.
TITc students of Europe ar4�%ctting ready
lo welcome a limited number of American
students this summer. The suggestion came
from America six months ago and was en-
thusiastically received. Since then prepara-
tions have proceeded on both sides of the
waler. The students of the countries visited
have a broad patriotic interest in receiving
the American students; from the Amencfn
Standpoint, the hospitality which is being
offered is a cultural and human opiwrtunity.
You sail from New York, one of a party
of 12 to 14 students, and you return 11 or
13 weeks later. For more than eight weeks
you arc a guest of the students of Europe.
That is why the entire map is not covered
in eight weeks: There arc publicfunctions.
graced by nun of the liourjfPfcrc are
Janccs and informal parties; there are seri-
>us discussions and lectures; there are house
parties; you climb mountains, tramp through
picturesque villages, ride in fourth-class rail-
way carriages with the bundles and the
babies, sleep once or twice perhaps under a
cottage roof; you examine rare collections
of man's past and present handiwork, flat-
ten your nose' against exotic shop windows.
roNTlNUEO ON  I'AOK 4
The Reverend Oliver Russell, M. A.,
minister of St. Stephen's United Free
Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, who is
taking Dt. Mutch's place at the Bryn
Mawr I'resbyterian Church, led Chapel
Sunday evening.  February 28.
L'sing a story that is told by both
Mark and Matthew, Mr. Russell showed
how Christ taught His disciples by His
sense of humor. This story "setting forth
the Great Lover of mankind" in a
moment of refusal, seems at first to prove
that there was a flaw in Christ's tender-
ness. But if we examine it carefully, wc
find   this  is   not  so.
We can get a more perfect insight
info the story because two versions have
come down lo us. If they are agreed
in every Retail we might have cause to
doubt their authenticity.. Putting the
two together, as we reconstruct it, the
story runs like this:
'Jesus did not speak to this woman
alone. She followed him through the
streets as he went surrounded by His dis-
ciples. Now, no man likes to be shouted
at in the streets, and the disciples begged
Him to do as she wished. My refusing
he brought the disciples attitude home
to them. For she was a Canaauitish
woman, one whom they would ordinarily
have shunned. Bht when they saw their
master doing so. they saw how wrong
they were.
"When He asked the woman if the
dogs ate the children's food. Christ was
again poking fun at the disciples. Jews
scorned dogs as the lowest of the low,
and the disciples were Jews. But the
woman was a Gentile for whom the dogs
were as much members of the family
as they are  for us."
Morever. Christ did not use the op-
probrious word for dog, but one that
may be translated "wee doggie."
"In this gently and witty way, He
brings home the great truths of God,
and shows us that there is a place for
a sense of the fun of things in human
life."
MISS KING DISCUSSES MURALS
OF SOROLLA AND DAVIES
Race of Supermen Needed to Live in
HispaJic Society Reading Room
JAPAN IS TENDING TOWARD
A FEMINIST REVOLUTION
"Two ama/iiig rooms" was the subject
on which Miss Georgians Goddard King,
professor. of   'History   of   Art   at    Bryn
Mawr   spoke   in   chapel   last   Wednesday
morning.
The reading room of the Hispanic So-
ciety was the first of the rooms she de-
scribed, "It was decorated," said Miss
King, "with mural paintings executed
by Sorolla. It was the greatest wish of
his life to see his canvases on the walls,
but they were not hung until after his
death. The room is largish and octag-
onal, and the figures which crowd the
walls are larger than life. It is wain-
scoted up above the height of a man,
and so all file canvases are of the same
height,  though   varying breadths.
� Over the door by which one enters
is a painting taken out of Andalusia.
It represents mounted men bringing in
a herd of bulls from pasture. The horse-
men rise sharply out of the mass of
heavy black and white cattle. As you
look at the canvas, you taste the dust,
you smell the warm smell of the kinc.
you feel the blaze of the sun. that dry.
almost maddening light, and the living.
breathing movement of the cattle.
On the left-hand, as you face the door.
is Seville, the Dance. It represents the
interior of that old dancing school, a
shadowed place, crowded with brightly
clad dancers. Then there arc girls of
Klchc. the only place in Kuropc where
the date palm fruits, sitting shadowed
by the palms in bright sunlight. Next
is a Valencian scene, a group of girls
on the backs of donkeys, riding behind
their sweethearts, and men bringing in
oranges slung on sticks as in the Scrip-
lures they brought in the grapes. Be-
yond, there is a procession through the
streets of Seville, a blaze of light seen
through shadow. Bullfighters enter the
ring in their brilliant dresses shadowed
their faces shadowed again. On the other
side of each, there .arc more usual scenes
of    sea-coast,    and    a   gigantic    heap   of
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PINOCCHIO INTRODUCED
TO COLLEGE BY 1929
Freshman  Show  Proves  Unusual
Talent in Sets* and Costumes
Music Also Well Chosen
SPLENDIDTUMBLING FEAfS
(By our Special Freshman Shovl
Correspondent)
"The Dogfish Receives," given by the
Class of 1939, in the gymnasium last
Saturday night, proved once more that
there is no more delightful institution,
both to audience and actors, than the
freshman Show. Nineteen twenty-nine
.showed itself a perfect master of the diffi-
culties of Bryn Mawr producing. As the
most important of the college mechanics
remarks, "It's the first time I've ever
known the scenery to lit." Prom the
first announcement before the curtain.by
two puppets of substitutions in the east
to the final grouping for the curtain call,
the dhow was a model of pleasant, effi-
cient management.   The shortness of the
waits between the scenes (and the pro.-
duetion was ambitiously planned in live
parts), relieved by the clogging of Pinoc-
cllio, and the very amusing auctioning
of posters for the Students' Building, "ami
the scale of gingerbread men, the employ-
ment   of   a  professional   orchestra  with  a
4'MNTINIlKli ON  I'AOK :t
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITIES
OFFERED TO STUDENTS
Miss Tsuda's College  Offers  "Equal
*          Rights" of Education
LANTERN TRY-OUTS
The Lantern announces try-outs
for the editorial board for the class
of 1029. All material must be in
by March 20. A tea will be given
Thursday in 38-40 Pembroke East
at five o'clock for all those inter-
ested.
"Your grandmother underwent the
same struggle in her day that is con-
fronting the present Japanese women,"
said Miss Koto Yamada. Dean of Tsiufa
College, Vhile speaking in chapel Friday
morning, Feln-nary ?fith.
Japan, is at present going through a
great change. The spirit of revolution�
and especially industrial and social revo-
lution�is In the air. Naturally the wom-
en are'trying to free themselves from
the age old prejudices restricting their
sex; they are beginning to demand their
rights, and first and foremost, the right
to education.
Miss Tsuda's College in Tokio offers
the best opportunity for efficient study
and later advancement, since the govern-
ment provides certificates for teaching
English to all Tsuda graduates. The
number of applicants for entrance here
increases each year with leaps and
bounds as more and more girls eagerly
seek college educations.   Last year four
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MISS STRONG WILL SPEAK IN
TAYLOR THIS FRIDAY EVENING
"What's Wrong About Russia?" to be
Subject for Liberal Club Lecture
Anna Louise Strong, at present a
"Guardian" of children's farms in Russia,
will speak under the auspices of the Lib-
eral Club in Taylor Hall on Friday
evening, March the 5th. Her subject
will   be   "What's   New   About   Russia?"
Miss Strong is a good speaker and has
a stimulating message. She is fresh
from four years in Russia. Siberia. China
and Japan. In Ml, under the American
Friends Service, she took the first cars
of foreign food which reached the great
kmine on the Volga. For the past three
years she has acted as journalist for ^hc
New York Times Magazine, Col
Hearst's International, and other well-
known publications. She is the author of
"The First Time in History." the story
of the new   Russia   up to January.   1924.
After graduating from Oberlin and
Chicago University. Miss Strong took
her Ph.D. at the latter institution. She
also spent a year at Bryn Mawr. and
another year studying in Germany.   The
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Eminent Professors to Address Summer
Group at Geneva.
Mrs.   Mary   Washburn   Baldwin   plans
to lake a group of fifteen girls from
American colleges for study at Geneva
ibis summer. While Ihcre they will not
only have the opportunity of attending
the Geneva School of International
Studies, but also of bearing a scries of
twenty informal talks and lectures by
university and league members, among
them Dr. Manly Hudson, who is to speak
on 1,'llitoire des Trails, If. Maday, of
llie S, dcX, on La llongrie actuelle, Dr.
N'ilobe. on Buschida, and so  forth.
This Geneva plan has met with gen-
erous response. President MacCrackeu.
President Pcndleton a'nd President Corn-
stock are all enthusiastic and suggesting
candidates for this group sailing on the
"Homeric" June IS, returning to the
United Stales September IS. The cost
per student should not exceed $�>00, in-
cluding ocean travel, tourist cabin class
as well as the living expenses, study fees
and other necessary outlay. The girls
will have unusual social as well as edu-
cational advantages. We have had re-
sponse in Geneva from twenty important
university and league members, who will
rive informal lectures and offer their
personal hospiiality during the course
if the summer
The chief purpose, however, is to make
"the summer one of particular contacts
and interpretations. Due to the various
iitcrnational activities there based.
Geneva has rapidly become the focal
point of the world's intellectual stimuli.
Contact with the important personalities
thcrq gathered is bound to be of absorb-
ing interest and effectiveness.
Our quota is near completion. Pof
ibis reason would you not care to com-
municate shortly with Miss Boardman
of the Arden School, who is in charge
of the enrollment?