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BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE), PA..   yVEDNESDAY. dfeCEMBER 15, 1926
PRICE, *10 CENTS
SELF-GOV. MECTING
HAS REAL RESULTS
Newt Profctor   System�New
Resolution V�Smoking
Rule Amended.
FOUR   MORE   MEETINGS
3000 College Student* to Meet in     *
^ Milwaukee During Christmas
Subject of Joint Y. M.-Y.  W. C. A. Conference to Be
"What Chance Has Jesus Today?*'
SOCIALISM NOT IMMINENT,
SArYS LINDSAY, OF OXFORD
At the meeting of the Self-Govermnent
Association, December 9, M. L. Jones,
'27, President, fhnounced that the Execu-
tive Board thinks that the business of
remaking the rules can be concluded in
four more meetings. The next meeting is
to deal with all the rules that come under
"chaperonage."
Resolution V  Replaced.
The committee elected at the last meet-
ing submitted a resolution to take the
place of old Resolution V. It reads as
follows: "Whereas Self-Government im-
plies the co-operation of eacli member in
supporting the authority of the Associa-
tion :   \
Resolved that,
1.  Each member shall report to the
Board if she violates a rule of the
*    Association.
2.  When necessary, a member may
remind another member of her
duty to report herself.
3.  A member who directly observes a
.   ...   violation of Self-Government,  so
flagrant as to injure the reputation
of the college or the spirit of the
Association,     shall     report     the
offender  to the   Board,  provided
the offender refuses to report her-
self."
The second que^tbn before the meet-
ing was that of quiet hours.   D. Meeker,
'27, moved that the first three sections of
the original rule be kept�that is,  those
rules   dealing  with  the   proctor .system.
This motion was defeated, and the plan
of having everyone a proctor was moved.
Opponents of this declared that "you hate
to spoil anyone's   fun, but if you are a
regular   proctor   appointed   by   the   Hall
President,   you   are    not    embarrassed."
(Specially contributed by R. Pitney, '27.)
Three   thousand   students   representing
every college in the United, States, and
every different point of view of the pres-
ent   student,   different   experiences,   the
different standards and ideals, of all those
delegates.    Irifagine Jane Smith or Mary
Jones  from   Pembroke  West   sitting  by
chance at table next to Rufus Rhodes of
the University of Utah!    How surprised
she would be  to find  that he considered
foolish  some  of   her   fundamental*con-
victions.'such as-----but we won't antici-
pate what they will be.   We will divulge
that after the conference is over. Imagine
the chance to   listen to such men as the
great  English speaker Studdart Kennedy
and   the    American�Harvard   graduate
coal  miner�Powers   Hapgood!     A con-
ference, on  this scale has  never  before;
taken place among  American students.
The subject of the conference is "What
Resources  has Jesus in the World T,o-
day?"    Perhaps  he  has  some.    Perhaps
he has none.    The delegates at this con-
ference have a chance to be completely
frank in the expression of their point of
view.    No direction is being given  them
from above.
The aim is to decide what are the
things that need to be done to this con-
fused, commercialized, brutal, complex
world, of today. The aim is to decide
how we can untangle the social, racial,
international puzzles with -which we are
confronted.
Doubtless no immediate Utopian im-
provements, will be brought about by the
conference. Doubtless it will "get no-
where" if one judged by visible, measur-
able, quick results. But'surely no harm
will come from the fact that three thous-
and students will meet and compare ideas
and surely it is not by hanging back that
progress can ever be brought about.
The following Student! will attend the
Milwaukee Conference during the Christ-
mas vacation:
Graduate Students�I. von Bonsdorff
and J. Lintard.
1027�B. Pitney and M, Robinson.
1928�N. Perera, H: McKelvey, E.
Stewart, M. Hess and L. Wray.
1929� S. Bradley! B. Channing, A.
Learned, J. Barth. �. Linn, R. Biddle,
R. Wills and M. Brown. '
1930�E. Stix, I. Hopkinson, A. Lake,
M.  Bibelow and  H.   Ban.
MISSPELLED  WORD
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
E_. B. Thrush, '30, first prize;
M. McKee, '28;-E. Baxter, 'M, sec-
ond prize.
Competition is growing keener;
this week two people tied for sec-
ond place. We received 23 answers,
18 from undergraduates and five
�from graduate students. Try your
wits at it this week! The rules arc
on another page of this issue.
As   Long as  Conditions   Are
Not Static There Will Be
Little Unrest.
SAYS DEMOCRACY IS
NO FAILURE YET
N. S. F. A. CONFERS
ON EDUCATION
Can
Average   American
Really Liberally
Educated?
Be
DR.     DUGGAN
SPEAKS
CAROLA WOERISHOFFER'S
LIFE IS EXAMPLE TO US
Miss
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HOW CAN JESUS SAVE?
ASK DOCTOR PHILLIPS
Reveals Us to Ourselves,   he
�s               Answers.
% "The answer to the question 'how ?'"
was the subject developed by the Rev.
Harold Phillips in Chapel on Sunday,
December 12.
In this age the intellectual question is
the popular one. We do not take things
on faith today; we count more on science
than on inspiration. It was the same
with Nicodemus, when he went to Jesus
to learn the road to salvation; for when
he was told that he must be born again,
he could not understand. "How can
these things be?" he asked. In answer-
ing him, Jesus was anticipating our
modern attitude in applying science to
religion.
One of the most important questions
bothering us today is "How can Jesus
save men?" The scientific mind is the
first to admit that there are things in
nature that cannot be explained, and so
it is with this query. But there are two
or three things inherent in the change
Christ means to human life that are ex-
plicable. .
Reveals Ourselves.
The first of the ways in which Jesus
saves us is by revealing us to ourselves.
The quality of Inertia is present in all of
us; we hate to be disturbed. Jesus was
"the supreme disturber of the world's
inertia." He showed the social order of
the day he lived in what it really was;
in using him as a test we can find out
what we really are. We all have a code
of morals by which we live and which
we do not dare break; Jesus is the only
real moral standard that we have. When
people needed stirring up, Christ came
like a rapid stream into a stagnant pool,
stirring us up, bringing new ideas, hopes,
impulses, in exchange for the old. We
resist the disturbing force, and make
many exsuses in refusing-^? ..qpmpar.e o�fr
selves to Christ, but the truth is that we
are afraid.
Besides showing us our true selves,
Jesus shows us^what we might become.
CONTHJfJ*� Olf  PAOl 4
Park Speaks on Her Work
Among New York Strikers.
On Monday morning Miss Park spoke
on the advantages to women of a college
education. The best argument for educa-
tion she said, which she she could think
of was the life of Carola Woerishoffer.
a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of
1907.
Carola Woerishoffer, Miss Park went
on to say, was the third generation of a
line of remarkable women. Her grand-
mother came to this country from Aus-
tria and. with her husband, settled in New
York. When shortly after he had start-
ed a paper for the German-speaking
people of that city, her husband died.
Miss Woerishoffer's grandmother took
over the work and carried it on to suc-
cess, although she was for a time on the
brink of ruin. Her daughter was a
woman of her owii kind, who believed
in advantages for women and threw her-
self into every good work. She had a
great deal of money and used it wisely
to do good. She had two daughters, one
of whom was Carola Woerishoffer.
In 1903, when Miss Woerishoffer en-
tered Bryn Mawr, she had a large for-
tune, entirely at her own disposal. She
made up her mind that it was her duty
to use this money to the best advantage,
and for this end she planned her college
continued on rAUE a
COLLEGE WOMEN NEEDED
ON VOLUNTEER BOARDS
Miss Hirth Tells of New Responsibil-
ity   for Charity  porkers.
The responsibility of thetollege woman
in voluntary activities was the -subject
discussed by Miss Emma Hirth, director
of the Bureau of Vocational Informa-
tion, in morning chapel, on Friday, De-
cember 9.
One of the most useful functions a
woman not in professional work can
fulfil is that of becoming a member of
boards of management of charities. There
is an increasing tendency to utilize col-
lege women for the supervision, direc-
tion, and. encouragement of charitable
undertakings. They have a broadmind-
edness, a capacity to evaluate problems,
�which makes them very useful. In the
past, voluntary workers have acted as a
sort of rubber stamp for paid workers,
ignorantly indorsing what they did. In
reality, we ought to train for voluntary
work, and make ourselves as adequate as
^aid  workers.
Miss Hirth has -recently-been.working
with the national board of the Y. W.
C. A., which is the shining example of
intelligent co-operation between volun-
teers   and   staff   workers,   arisine   from
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M. C0PEAU RECITES
LE MISANTHROPE
Sympathetic Rendering Aided by Ex-
cellent Technique.
To listen to M. Copeau read, or rather
recite (for he knew the play practically
from memory) /.<� Misanthrope last Fri-
day evening was indeed a thrilling ex-
perience.
For those who had never attended a
performance at the Comedie Francaise it
was an introduction into conventional
French acting. For those who had seen
that great company, whose importance
the French Government materially recog-
nizes even in times as critical as these,
Friday evening resembled a trip back
stage. There was no scenery, no light-
ing and no costumes to distract the at-
tention from the purely dramatic qualities
of the interpretation.
In the light of M. Copeau's role as
innovator in the dramatic woild, it may
seem inconsistent to liken his method to
that of the Comedie Francaise; but,
whether due to ignorance or laok of per-
spicacity, the writer observed no innova-
tions in the art M. Copeau demonstrated
last Friday evening. In the manner of
the Comedie Francaise, which, unlike the
American and English stage, ignores
physical qualifications, M. Copeau became
Alceste or Celimene, oblivious to dinner
jacket or bass voice* So completely did
he submerge his own personality that he
even turned the pages of Le Misanthrope
in character. When portraying Alceste;
he would slam the page ferociously;
when Philantre, he almost coaxed it over.
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SCHOLAR AMD GEJf
CONTRIBUTES TO FUND
At Least, the Committee Thought He
Did.
The Summer School Committee was
no less surprised than pleased to receive
last Monday a consignment of auto-
graphed books from Princeton. They
were copies of A Book of Lamplight, by
Knullen Voyde, and nearly all of them
were snapped up instantly by enthusiastic
buyers, to the immense profit of the
undergraduate fund, �ftbT'^he Committee,
which saw the necessity of making sand-
wiches to fill the deficit no longer immi-
nent. Mr. Voyde's book is unquestion-
ably the literary event of the season at
Bryn Mawr; at one time in one room no
less than seven people were observed
reading it, mostly out loud. It's that kind
of a book.
The Committee was most anxious to
find a means of thanking Mr. Voyde for
hi* great. UOTerrv4*!',, and expressing its
appreciation of his kindness as well as
his literary endowments.
And then, it discovered that they were
j destined for the Book Shop and not for
� the Summer iJchbof Puna!
(Specially Contributed by Hetty Brown)
The second meeting of the National
Student Federation Conference, held at
Ann Arbor. Mich., the first week-end in
December, was a great success. There
were two hundred and forty-five dele-
gates, representing one hundred and
ninety-two colleges, and, as speakers, Dr.
Stephen P. Duggan. Director of the In-
stitute of International Education; Dr.
Alexander Meikeljohn; President Mac
Cracken, of Vassar; and President Lit-
tle, of the University of Michigan. An
excellent opening address was given by
Lewis Fox, organizer aud president of
the Federation during the past year.
Comparison of Methods.
Dr. Duggan, who is particularly fitted
to do so, compared education in Amer-
ica with that of Europe. In a limited
time he could discuss two aspects of
such a comparison. The first was, "The
spirit which animates the European in-
stitutions as against that which animates
ours." The European institutions, he
explained, are places of hard work, pre-
scribed curriculum, and no extra-curricu-
lar activities. "The Lycec and Gymna-
sium are emphatically places of intel-
lectual discipline, of preparation for the
serious activities of life. It is needless
for me to say how different this is from
the American college. I am riot saying
that it is better than the American col-
lege. I think'it is too intcllectualizcd
and neglects much of the emotional and
spiritual aspects of Jife.    But it does give
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Modern ,approaches to socialism was
the topjt/on which Mr. Kenneth Lind-
saVrccent Ox ford .graduate and worker
in the English tabor movement, spoke
on   Tuesday  evening,   December  14.
"It is futile to compare anything Eng-
lish with anything American." began Mr.
Lindsay. "Words, such as socialising
have such a different meaning here and
there. It is not mere generalization to
so say that it is like coming from a .
world where everything is questioned to
one. where everything accepted to
come  from  England to America."
Workers' education, in England prac-
tically well established, here non-existent
except on paper, was taken by Mr. Lind-
say as an example of what he meant. In
England, a university graduate goes to
a mining or pottery making district and
giyes the benefit of the history, the phil-
osophy he has learned to the workers.
Here, where at least thirty per cent, of
the children go on from public school
into some higher form of education, the
attempt is made to give the workers the
same opportunity as in an Ordinary col-
lege. Our economic eyes are different.
"The reason for the English labor
movement, Mr. Lindsay went on,'"is that
we arc still living in a feudal system
without the benefits of feudalism. Our
basic industries are depressed because of
exterior conditions, such as the substitu-
tion of oil and water |>ower for coal,
while the mining industry is still organ-
ized on an antiquated basis. England
was   thrown  on   her beam ends  by  the
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OFFER ART TEACHING TO
BRYN MAWR SENIOR
School    of   Design    Has    Scholarship
Open.
In order to encourage the development
of artistic talent among those graduating
from women's colleges, the Board of
Directors of the Philadelphia School of
Design for Women announced one free
Scholarship to any student in the senior
class of your college who may make
application, seconded by your endorse-
ment.
This Scholarship will entitle the re-
cipient to four years free tuition in any
one of the seven scheduled courses,
covering all branches of practical design,
fine arts and art teacher training. It is
our hope that the opportunities offered
by the artistic profession may thus be
brought to the attention of young women
whose mental training has fitted them to
take full advantage of the instruction.
The School of Design is now in} its
eighty-second year of continued profes-
sional training of women, and is therefore
the oldest school of industrial art in this
country. The Faculty includes instruc-
tors in every department who are well
known for distinguished achievement and
leadership in their chosen branch of art,
and arc an inspiration and of practical
assistance to their students. The current
catalogue of thtr'scI.Ool and'a"brieT~mV
tory of its foundation and work, being
sent you under separate cover, will put
before you its standards and general am
Students Integrate Opinions on Drop
Quizzes.
(The News regrets that through an over-
sight the end of this article was omitted
in the last issue.)
The opponents of the drop quiz system
point out that it substitutes for interest,
fear as a motive to study. Drop quizzes
illustrate one phase of the psychology of
the type of teacher who thinks it neces-
sary to constitute himself a spur and a
goad to his students. The result of such
an approach is a strong feeling of injury.
The student's self-respect is wounded.
The teacher evidently is not willing to
give her credit for being interested in
the course which she has elected, but
feels that he must arouse that interest
artificially. He is evidently not willing
to believe that a student is conscientious
about her work, but takes it upon him-
self to manufacture a conscience for her.
The usual result is a lack of interest in
a subject which had formerly been
attractive. She may do the work reg-
ularly, but she gets to dislike going to
class. Is it the teacher's function to force
upon his students what he believes to be
the proper method of acquiring knowl-
edge, and then to judge of their intellec-
tual powers by the result?
Furthermore, if a student is not able to
study unless she is forced into it by a
drop quiz system, is she really a student
worthy of a college education?
Those who uphold the opposite view
may raise the question whether these last
arguments would not logically apply to
the use of any examinations whatever,
and of any grading, in college courses.
Also, the 'fear element in drop quizzes
not only induces lack of concentration but
arouses an antagonism which is made
much worse if, as is sometimes the case,
the professor shows a feeling of superi-
ority.    One student speaks of a teacher
who'"i"io.n �-**ifgh pedestal on which he
has placed himself in his own imagina-
tion, looks down upon the slothful and
indolent creatures, before him. and stirs
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