College News, 1927-02-16, Vol. 13, No. 15

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VOL. XIII.   No. 15.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16.1927
PRICE.
10 CENTS
HORACE ALWYNE
-  ASSISTS CONCERT
Explains   Children's   Concert
Program  When Called in
at Last  Moment.
PRAISED     BY     RECORD
Philadelphia's need for Bryn Mawr
was never so clearly shown as last
Wednesday. At the critical moment,
when all the conductors and pianists who
were scheduled for the children's con-
cert of the Philadelphia Orchestra failed,
they drafted Mr. Horace AJwyne, of
Bryn' Mawr, with remembered success.
The" Record has an amusing account
of the afternoon:
To begin with, this concert had been
postponed one week. For the new date
Ernest Schelling. distinguished pianist
and composer, had been engaged to take
the place of Mr. Stokowski, still on his
midwinter vacation. Mr. Mattson, from
the stage, said he had received word that
Mr. Schelling was ill in Xew York with
influenza, with a temperature of 103.
Arthur Rodzinski, assistant conductor of
the orchestra, was summoned. He, too,
was indisposed, but' not so seriously as
Mr. Schelling, and helpfully agreed to
fill in the gap as conductor, but asked�
and with good reason, since his English
is not yet fluent�to l>e excused from
saying anything.
Mr. Alwyne Explains Concert.
For the conversational feature of the
program Horace Alwyne, noted pianist
on the staff of Bryn Mawr College, was
drafted at the eleventh hour. Orchestra
parts for the first number of the con-
cert�an overture and gavotte by Bach
�failed to arrive. This was a minor
mishap, however, and there was com-
pensation in a number not previously
listed, Ippolitow-Iwanow's colorful
"March of the Sirdar."
Mr.   Alwyne.   with   the   aid   of   notes,
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CHRISTIAN LIFE IS GREATEST
APOLOGY FOR CHRISTIANITY
Paul   of   Tarsus   Is   Great   Example,
Says  Dr.  Graham.
"The greatest single apology for Chris-
tianity is a Christian life," said Dean
Thomas W. Graham, of the theological
seminary at Oberlin College, speaking in
Chapel on Sunday evening, February 13.
Aside from Jesus' own life, the life of
Paul is the most striking example of
what such a life may be.
Dr. Graham asked his audience to
imagine that they were in the bare room
where Paul, the prisoner, was manacled
to his Roman guard, and that it was
the little Jew himself who was speaking.
Paul was born in Tarsus, the great
cosmopolitan metropolis of the East.
His family were rigid Pharisees, who
brought him up to have great . respect
for the laws of the prophets. He was
sent to the synagogue, where he was
made to memorize the greatest writings
of the Jewish people. After that, ac-
cording to the Jewish custom, he was
taught a trade; his was that .of making
tent cloth. While doing this, he had
a chance to see two points of view; that
of the laborer, constantly in fear for his
job. submitting to many things for the
sake of his family, and the point of
view of the employer, on wMose skill in
bartering depended the money with
which to pay his laborers.
High   Priests   Annoyed.
To be a student of Hebrew law was
Paul's ambition; so he was sent first to
the University of Tarsus, and then to
Jerusalem to study. He was a brilliant
student, and by the time he came to
Jerusalem he was a marked man. While
he was there, great excitement arose,
over a carpenter in Nazareth, who was
preaching with a voice of authority. The
High Priest became disturbed about it
when he heard that this Jesus had said
the Priests were "blind leaders of the
blind." At last, when Jesus came to
Jerusalem, the High Priest arranged to
have Him convicted of blasphemy, "and
He  was crucified.
This, however, did not discourage His
followers: and at l
TEMPLE   UNIVERSITY
Temple University is" making a
drive for endowment, and contri-
butions from Bryn MaW will be
gre&tly       appreciated.          Checks
should be drawn payable to the
Russell. H. Conwell Foundation,
and sent to Mrs. Samuel P.
Kodgers. of 1837 Wynnewood
road. Overbrook, Pennsylvania.
INGRES' SKETCHES
EXPLAIN HIS ART
ATOM IS NOW
IN PURGATORY
Discovery,    of     Radioactivity
Described by Famous
Physicist.
SCIENCE   TAKES   GRASP
The riddle of the atom is still un-
solved, although much progress has been
made since the discovery of radioactiv-
ity twenty-five years ago. As Dr. F. G.
Swann. professor of pjiysics at Yale,
expressed it in his lecture last Wednes-
day evening, "For us the atom is in
Purgatory�we do not �'know what to
think about  it."
"If a line six feet long represents the
six thousand years of our civilization, it
is in the last three inches that science
has been, known, and in the last inch
that we have acquired a new grasp upon
the   world."
Twenty-five years ago an eminent
German philosopher said that all the
discoveries in Physics had been made.
This was a period of great depression
when would-be Ph. .D.'s went about the
world roaring for something to measure.
Then came a revolutionary event; the
discovery of radioactivity. This was a
new and startling conception of the
world�one which upset the most dis-
tinguished Physicists. In fact, Lord
Kelvin's aesthetic sense suffered a shock
from this discovery of radioactivity as
great as that which hts anatomy would
have sustained from a physical contact
with  it.
A whole new field of science was thus
opened. Hut the task of exploration tell
to youth, for the older scientists ha/1
liecome timid with age. One of the*se
younger men, Professor J. J. Thompson,
of Cambridge, discovered, by passing
electricity through gasses, the electron.
Hitherto only the relative weights of
atoms were known. The whole question
of their structure was absolutely un-
known, and scientists were even igno-
rant of the number of atoms in a cubic
centimeter of gas.
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BRYN MAWR GIRLS TALK
ON RELIGION IN ELIZABETH
By Barbara Ling, '24.
"C'est magnifiquc." said M. Ingres
as he looked for the first time at
bMichael Angelo's frescoes in the Sis-
line Chapel, "c'est magnifique mais
c'est tres laid, et moi je suis Grec."
So he turned away and went out as
unwilling to look at the Creation of
Adam as at the beggars who crouch
at the Vatican gates,�unwilling to look
at anything which might mar the con-
scious and.discriminating vision of per-
fected beauty that haunted his mind.
He went out, and presumably set him-
self to sketching Graeco-Roman
statues.
They would be venerable, these care-
ful little drawings, if for no other rea-
son because they stand for the enthusi-
asm of an already mature artist. At
the time when they were executed
some of Ingres' finest work was
already behind him. There is some-
thing very touching about the humility
with which he brought his best gifts to
this task of faithful imitation. It is all
part and parcel with the essentially na-
tional quality of his genius. The
French veneration for tradition is here
served well.
Sketches   Represent   Apprenticeship.
For it is, after all, out of this sweet
academic dust that his art with all its
line formality grew. These sketches
are part of the private preparation of a
man who felt that his-apprenticeship
was never over, who was always willing
to go back and imitate over and over
again his chosen masters, the Greeks
and Raphael, trying to learn from them
their magic gift of line.
As we look at these drawings we
feel at first as if they were sadly un-
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Government   of   Life    Is   Subject   of
Discussion   Groups.
(Specially contributed by B^ I'itney, '27)
"What, oh what shall we say?" The
train hurried us on towards Elizabeth,
N. J., and still we had no idea what we
would say in the talks we were to give.
Barbara Loines, Josephine Stetson,
Sarah Bradley and I had been invited to
join four Princeton men and s)>eak
before a group of boys and girls in an
unfamiliar city. What would our poor
victims be like? In what kinds of things
would they be interested? What was
their background? What kind of lives
did they live?    We did not know."
We had been told that they had very
little education. None of them have
enough money to go to college. Few of
them ever graduate from high school.
Most of them are "in business." Beyond
that we were totally in the dark, and we
looked forward to our two days at
Elizabeth with mixed feelings of terror
and curiosity.
A banquet started off the week-end.
One by one we were called upon for
that most difficult of all intellectual
feats: a clever reply to a toast. Then
Jo Stetson sang a comic solo and all
four of us delighted their simple souls
with
"Satan's  mad,
And we are glad.
For he lost a sou!
. J*� fought, he had."
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Not Imitation But Documents
in "La Grande Tradition
Francaise."
INGRES     LIKE     RACINE
NEXT BIG MAY DAY SHOULD
BE SIMPLER, BUT NOT A
SECOND-RATE PERFORMANCE
FOR 80CIAL WORK
For those interested in social
work two fellowships of $600 each*
are being offered for the coming
academic year by the Intercolle-
giate Community Service Associa-
tion. Any graduates of Smith and
Bryn Mawr, the two colleges
whose alumnae are collaborating
in offering them, may apply.
"The object of the Intercolle-
giate Community Service Fellow-
ships." says the application, 'is to
assist young women of adequate
educational background and seri-
ous' interest in social work as a
profession to devote a year to
some carefully-chosen field of ac-
tivity, combining study in an in-
dependent graduate school of so-
cial work, supervised practice
work in an improved social
agency, and. preferably, residence
in a Settlement House or other so-
cial institution in New York, Bos-
ton or   Philadelphia."
Further information or applica-
tion blanks may be obtained from
B. Simcox. '27, Merion. Applica-
tions must lie sent in before
March  16.
SHAW IS GREATEST
AS A HUMORIST
Difficulties   to   Be   Overcome
by Budget and Better
Organization.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
Society   Won't   Heed   Satire,
Says Noted English
Lecturer.
BOTH SAINT AND HERO
ANNOUNCE TENTATIVE CAST
FOR "THE GONDOLIERS"
C Parker, '29, to Play Role of Hero
In Venetian Drama.
The  Glee  Club announces the   follow-
ing to l>e the tentative cast for The Gon-
doliers,  another  operetta by Gilbert and
Sullivan:
The Duke of Plaza'-Toro. .K. Adams, '27
Luie   ....................C. Parker, '29
Don  Alhambra del Bolero,
E. Ainram, '28
Marco Palmieri..........E. Parker, '27
Guiseppe   Palmieri   ......A. Palache, '28
Antonio................A.   Merrill, '30
Francesco   .............S.   Slingluff, '30
Giorgio   .................J.   Stetson, '28
Annibalc    .................C.   Field, '28
Ottavio   ................IX  Kellogg. '27
The Duchess of Plaza-Toro,
B. Channing. ':.".)
Casilda   .................F. Thayer, '27
Gianetta   ................C.   Sullivan, "80
Tessa  ...............B. Humphreys, '29
Fiametta   ............E. Winchester. '27
Vittoria  ...................M. Coss, '28
Giulia   .................R.   Morrison, '30
Inez   ..............M. Quinet.  Graduate
Dancers�F.  Perkins. '29: A. Glover. '29
"Although his purpose in the drama is
definitely didactic, George Bernard Shaw
will live as a humorist," phophesied Miss
Elizabeth Drew in a lecture last Friday
evening on ''Modem Society and Shaw."
He is furthermore unique as a satirist,
and his greatness and value as a thinker
are enormous.
In a most scholarly fashion, citing
specific instances from Mr. Shaw's
drama to prove each point, Miss Drew,
English lecturer and writer, said that
Shaw set himself the task in all his
plays of rousing the upper and middle
d.isses of Modem England from their
torpor of unthinking complacency and
hypocrisy. He considers them "an un-
sound people of an unsound nation" and
he does not suffer from their delusion
that modern civilization and society mark
the apex of a series of progressive steps
emerging from the blackness of savagery.
In fact, he thinks that savagery is still
very   much   alive.
Mr. Shaw deplores the fact that so-
ciety is so willing to scrap old machinery
yet. so loath- to scrap prejudices and
codes. Custom is substituted for con-
science. He is striving to win accept-
ance for the creed of intellectual hon-
esty. In place of romantic sentimental-
ity, he would substitute scientific natural
history. He has a passion for fact as
opposed  to  sentiment.
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Artists Skilled in Unscrewing
Desks for Art Studio in Taylor
Last Friday aftemoou a crew of vol-
unteers set to *vork to- uproot the desks
of Room H. Taylor Hall, in preparation
for the ntuch-heralded model Art Studio.
Dr. Fenwick was a sympathetic witness
of the early struggles and showed the
helpless enthusiasts that screws are
turned from left to right and not the
other way round. In the meanwhile
clotheslines were strung along the walls
to support the pictures which represented
the work of. the class this semester, and
made a very creditable appearance.
I The tic*tr d�>i..Saturday; *A.i..i~., �,
the   studio  was transformed.
had the desks disappeared, but easels
made by Margaret Collins, a member of
the class, had been set up and a' model
was posed. The room was filled with
students, visitors and workers. In the
course of the morning, pictures were
taken�'Trumpets and alarum within."
explosions and smoke�
VHaverford boys were invited for tea
on the following afternoon. The pur-
pose of this tea was not entirely social.
Food was merely the bait for the unsus-
I.ncky   Day,"  and  the   party
N'ot onh/journed to  Rockefeller Hall.
then   ad-
In 1924. May Day was given by under-
graduates who had no previous records
or experience *i which to model their
activities. Many of them had never seen
a May Day performance; none of them
realized the magnitude of the task they
were Undertaking. Nevertheless, after
it had been given, in spite of rain and
discouragement, in spite of an' entire
semester given up to its production, the
undergraduates voted by an overwhelm-
ing majority to continue the tradition of
the fourth-year May Day. In the spring
of 1925 a second vote was taken on the
matter and the result was almost unani-
mously in favor of another May Day,
provided that it might be somewhat sim-
plified. A committee for the purpose of
investigation was therefore appointed.
The following is the report of this com-
mittee, containing first of all a general
description of the last May Day for the
guidance of another college generation,
and secondly a number of suggestions
for the organization and simplification of
the next May Day. The committee" has
read the rcjiorts left by the various chair-
men of committees in 1924, and it has
interviewed the heads of May Day de-
partments, including Mrs. Chadwick-
Collins. Miss Applebee. Mr. King, Mr.
Alwyne and Miss Faulkner. For the
suggestions and information thus ob-
tained the committee wishes to acknowl-
edge its indebtedness and its gratitude.
The Great Day It Described.
What the spectator saw when he en-
tered the grounds of Bryn Mawr on the
tenth of May in 1924 was intended to
produce in him the gayety and careless-
ness of springtime revelry, and if he
had any knowledge of Elizabethan Eng-
land, the immediate realization that this
was as nearly perfect a reproduction as
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VARSITY OUTPIRATES
THE BUCCANEERS
Unscientific Scrapping and Many
Fouls  in   First   Game.
Varsity outpirated the Buccaneers with
a 34-19 score on Saturday morning. And
a wild, rough game it was, to be sure.
Varsity won the rough-and-tumble but,
even so, does not deserve many laurel
wreaths. The team as a whole showed
up pretty poorly although a few bright
spots could be discerned. The passing
was perhaps the worst feature of the
play; practically no one on the team
bothered to look before throwing the
ball, to pass accurately, or even to catch
with any degree of reliability. The
teamwork also was noticeably bad. But
how could it be otherwise with such
careless or unlearned fundamental tech-
nique? Like knowing tile strokes in
hockey, a certain instinctive assurance
in the handling of the ball is a basic ne-
cessity   for   decent  basketball.
Huddleston's guarding was the bright
feature of the game. She stuck like a
leech to the unfortunate Buccaneer for-
ward who was hardly allowed a try at
the basket. Freeman also guarded well.
As for the rest of the team, however,
their teamwork was far from dazzling.
Loines played a fine game, but Winter
made many fouls and did not show up
nearly as well as Bruere. who played
for a short time. Walker and Dean at
center played well and had better team-
work and passing than the forwards and
guards. Several substitutions were made
during the game. Johnston played for-
ward some of the time and was fairly
accurate, but not nearly so good as in
practice.    Bethel   went  in   for   Walker,
pecting.     In   two   hours   the  desks   had
sprung up   to the tune of ."Ti#fc- ^iWIt^*?^, &�*+' an/'  P^tt "a<*  *  snort tnrn

at guarding just at the end.
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