College News, 1926-02-10, Vol. 12, No. 13

              College News
VOL XII.   No. 13.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE),  PA.,   WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1^6
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ELIZABETH WAS NOT
A GOOD ELIZABETHAN
Coriyers Reed in Memorial Lecture
Stresses Strength of Good Queen
Bess with Common Man
TRUE   CHILD   OF  RENAISSANCE
"Good Queen Bess" was the subject on
which Conyers ReeVi, non-resident lec-
turer in history at the University of Chi-
cago, delivered the first MSllory Whiting
Webster memorial lecture, on Saturday
evening, February 6, in Taylor Hall.
"The only point on which Pius VI and
Henry of Navarre were agreed," he
began, "was that Queen Elizabeth was
one of the greatest of monarchs."
Her whole generation wrote of her in
terms of extravagant praise. Cavalier and
Pruitan alike revered her; the former, as
protagonist of royal power, the latter, as
champion of the Protestant faith. The
rationalistic eighteenth century commended
her for her lack of the very religious parti-
sanship for which the Puritans looked up to
her. Froude, in the nineteenth century,
would have none of her because she refused
to aid the Reformation. To good luck, and
not to good management, he attributed
her undeniable success. Yet good luck
does not seem to explain her.
As a woman, she is a familiar enough
figure. She was never beautiful, always
lacking in feminine charm. Strong she
must have been, for she lived to bury
nearly all the courtiers and statesmen who
surrounded her at her accession. She com-
manded no personal loyalty� her popularity
was with those who did not know her per-
sonal! ly.                                          . �
Whether she remained a virgin we shall
probably never know,  nor does  it very
much matter.   Her coquetry was so blatant
that it appears assumed.
She was by temperament a child of the
ALL LIFE'S A METAPHOR
SEEK AN UPWARD ONE
Robert Frost Claims Poet  Leaves
Trail of Metaphors in Wake;
Philosopher Evolves One
ART ASPIRATION,   NOT   ESCAPE
FRONT VIEW OF QOODHART HALL
NEW METHODS IN SCHOOLS
DESCRIBED BY DR. DENGLER
DR. FEARN CALLS OUR ATTITUDE
TOWARD WORLD FALSE AND BAD
Experiments Bring Great Success  in
Scientific Child Development
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ROOTABAGA STORIES AND POEMS
READ BY CARL SANDBURG
Snsqnehanaah, Bozo and Pink Peony
Art Introduced to Bryn Mawr
Carl Sandburg, speaking under the aus-
pices of the Liberal Club, oh Tuesday eve-
ning, January 19, faced a large audience
in spite of the "winter of our discontent,"
the midyear season, and he amsued and
charmed, them. He lectured, he read, he
sang, and he' made jokes. Most impor-
tant of all, he proved that you have to
learn how to read free verse: "Elephants
are Different .to Different People" is a
different poem whetPy^i understand the
author's rhythm.
Making a comparison between art and
geography, Mr. Sandburg pointed out the
variety of opinions on one subject held
within a small region of a country and
the diverse views on art Related to
this is the habit of classifying things in
comparative lists, "great, greater, great-
est;" "a tort of national trait in Amer-
ica." Confusion is increased by the speed
and complexity of life today.
"We are living at a time when it is
more difficult for a thoughtful and imagi-
native person to be alive than ever
before," said Mr. Sandburg; "more things
come at us, in books, movies, or on the
radio. So in all art today there is a cer-
tain element of confusion, of chaos."
But free verse is  not a mere product
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"On the Way to a New School: the Class
Community D System" was the subject of
a lecture by Dr. Paul Dengler, Delegate of
the Austrian Ministry for Public Instruction,
on Thursday evening, February 4, in Rocke-
feller Hall.....
"In Austria, now a small, but free demo-
cratic country, we have to establish not to
reform the schools. Immediately after the
world war we began this work," said Dr.
Dengler. "Three kinds of schools were
set up: elementary for children from six to
ten years, secondary for those over ten, and
advanced for the older scholars. Though
the universities are generally more or less
conservative all these schools were organized
on the most advanced scientific basis.
"In 1920 all the new ideas of psychology
and education were being used in 250 ele-
mentary schools," said Dr. Dengler. The
Teachers' Chamber (made up of all the
teachers in the country) decided that a sys-
tem based on these new ideas should be
tried for four years. In 1925 they reported
on the results of the experiment: 95 per
cent, were in favor of continuing the system.
Today Austria is the only country in the
world with all its elementary schools work-
ing under this system.
The contrast between the old school and
the new was described by Dr. Dengler. In
the new school there is a strong friendship
between pupil and teacher; there is no
definite schedule of classes and hours; the
children ask most' of the questions, not the
teachers. An effort is made to co-ordinate
facts observed in everyday life with theories
learned in school, through the "districts of
life." "The first year these are the home of
the child and the schoolhouse; the second,
they are the village and the schoolhouse; the
'third, the county. Always the aim is to re-
late the school to the environment in which
its pupils must  live.
The idea is constantly emphasized in the
work of the children, rather than meticulous
zeal for correctness. Dancing and drawing
help the pupils to use their imagination and
express their personalities.
Methods of organization were described
by Dr. Dengler. The teachers have great
freedom of administration, electing their
rollegaues and the members of the Board of
Education. They take into consideration even
the opinions and suggestions of their pupils
in   forming   plans.
"I proposed a plan to the Teachers' As-
sembly."  said  Dr.  Dengler discussing sec-
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Warden  of   London   Church  of the
Mystical Union Speaks Here Again
Speaking on the "Science of Sanity," Dr.
L. W. Feam, Warden of llit- Church of the
Mystical Union, London, England, led the
chapel service in Taylor, Sunday evening,
February 7.
"The only ones to whom you can talk
about sanity are those who know they are
not sane," said Dr. Fearn. "TliaJ is why I
may speak to you." Sanity, in Dr. Fearn's
conception, means wholeness, completeness
of being. We do not even approach sanity
unless we desire to be more sane, to l>e as
"Metaphors" replaced the subject "Beyond
Prose and Reason," announced for Robert
Prost's talk on January 15. As the fourth
Ann Elisabeth Sheblc Memorial lecturer,
Mr. Frost spoke informally on the poet's
profession, how lie recognizes poets, how he
writes his poetry, and read some of his own
poems.
After reading three poems which Quiller-
Couch had called to his attention as particu-
larly Rood, Mr. Frost, without disclosing
their author, suggested that everyone should
try himself by two sophistication tests. One
<>t these would'measure the range of appre-
ciation of l>cauty, the other the degree of
auger roused in one by things that don't
really matter. A machine in this case would
balance your wrath and the actual unimpor-
tance of the thing involved. For Mr. Frost,
the limit of his anger is reached when he
decides to leave the country, and something
\vhicli arouses this auger is the statement
that all art is an escape.
"AH life," says Mr. Frost, "is metaphor."
Ami one might diligently pray to be deliv-
ered from any terrible downward metaphor,
because it has the power of killing one as it
killed one of his friends who became pos-
sessed of the idea that there was in the cured
human heads (ran Venezuela a resemblance
to a person whom he dearly loved.    One is
perfect as possible and to perfect the world., indeed the   victim of  one's, metaphors, and
Science in this conception is never "exact,"
but approaches exactness when it"is "based
on principles that are ascertainable." The
science of santy is the "ix>tential possiblitics
of anyone who wants to plumb the depths of
being, to find out why they were called into
being."
"If our attitude is intellectual or senti-
mental it is wrong, since in each case it is
appallingly lopsided." The intellectual "lives
by proxy and is a nonentity;" the sentimen-
talist goes to the other extreme and is a
"squib fizzling through life.'
We must use what little sanity we have to
learn something of what are heaven's meth-
ods of creating better men. In other words,
where are we essentially non-sane ? We for-
get that the spirit is submerged in the flesh
and we mistake the world for a permanent
abiding place where we are to get the most
pleasure possible through the flesh, when in
reality it is an educational establishment for
the- world of the super-sense."
"Religion is the exact opposite of what
most people consider it to be. It is not
sentimentality, a form of eroticism, or a
soothing narcotic. It is the,realization of
union or reunion with a living Spirit Which
is God." We must renounce the world and
everything of the flesh if we are to attain
this union.
Again our outlook on economics is funda-
mentally wrong. If we would give labor its
proper valuation and not degrade it as a
means of money-making, but look upon it
as a method for improving man, we would
have a saner world.
"We must live through the physical
mechanism for the higher evolution of the
spirit, and this we cannot do if we live for
the flesh." Dr. Fearn concluded by saying
that "Our wholeness, that is our sanity, con-
sists in a realization of the fact that every
man. woman and child is a dynamic force
that may be raised by concentration of the
spirit,   and   shattered   by   focusing   on   thet
must   search   for   an   upward   metaphor   to
combat the downward ones.
All the philosophers had metaphors, but a
philosopher is a person with one metaphor
who lives all his life studying and amplify-
ing it.    A poet dashes off a new one every
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flesh."
THE END OF MARCH WILL SEE
BARRIE ONCE MORE ON CAMPUS
Varsity Dramatics Plans to Give DEAR
BRUTUS.    Freshmen Wanted
On March Mi and 27 Dear Brutus, by Sir
James Barric, will be given by "Varsity
Dramatics. G. Thomas. ':.'!>, will direct the
production and Miss Robertson will again
help with the rehearsals.
'/Freshmen are especially urged to try
out," said K. Morse. '20, Chairman of the
Executive Committee for 'Varsity Drama-
tics. "In case anyone who is in the Fresh-
man Show secures a part, she need not learn
her part or come to rehearsals until the
show is over. We are very anxjous to have
all '29's talent and co-operation."
Preliminary try-outs will begin February
16 and will be held every evening throughout
the week. A copy of the play is in the
Reserve Book Room in the Library, and
everyone is asked to read the play before
trying out.
Varsity Dramatics' first play of the year
was Icebound, by Owen Davis, given in
November.   This cleared nearly $SO0
Members of tlie committees assisting in
the production of Dear Brutus are as fol-
lows :
Scenery�N. Perera '2H, Chairman; P.
Brown �-�<;. A. Urucre '2X. N. Chester "27.
H. Grayson 'M, managing lights
Costume� F. Waite '-'7, Chairman; H.
Parker '27, M. Adams M, E. Sargent '39.