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The College News'"
VOL XIII.   No. 21.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE), PA..   WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1927
PRICE,   10. CENTS
INDIAN ART IS
LECTURE SUBJECT
Dr.   Coomaraswamy   Surveys
Sculpture   and   Paintings
Over Period of Centuries.
BUDDHIST ART TRACED
Indian*art. with which most of us were
painfujly unacquainted, was the suhject
of a very illuminating lecture in Taylor
on Friday evening. April 1. D4 Diez in-
troduced the'speaker. Dr. Ananda Coom-
araswamy. who since 1917 has been
curator of the Indian collection in the
Boston Art Museum and' is one of the
few scholars who is an authority on In-
dian art.
Dr. Coomaraswamy beg*i his rapid
survey of the entire field of Indian art in
painting and sculpture by showing us
some primitive seals dating from about
three*or four thousand B. O. C. which
were very similar in character to Sume-
rian art of the same period. He also
showed us a few terra cotta figures of
goddesses of fertility of the primitive
period, the type of which has continued
on down through Indian art until th
present time.
Before the third century B. C. how-
ever, there was little monumental art
due in large measure to the character of
the religion, which was a worship of
more or less abstract genii, or guardian
spirits, of the Xaga or Yuksha types,
which are related to certain types of
divinities worshiped in Asia. As the re-
ligion was of an entirely abstract mys-
tical character with elements of -nature
worship, it was natural that a monu-.
mental art should not develop until there
was some need felt on the part of the
people for anthropomorphisation. This
need was felt as early as the third cen-
tury B.' C. when certain definite types
were first developed in art as the result
of the first stages of a devotional wor-
ship whose emotional requirements were
soon anthropomorphic.
Third Century  Landscapes
As a model for the type of devotional
statue which  was directly to inspire the
Self-Gov. Elections,
. The "Self-Government Association
has elected the following people to
its Executive Board: Second Juni-
or member. E. Perkins; third Junior
member, R. Cross; first Sopho-
more member, O. Stokes; second
Sophomore member, M. Dean; sec-
retary. B. Chantling, '2!>; treasurer,
M.  Martin, '.'to.
FACULTY TO EDIT
NEXT NEWS ISSUE
POMPEII WAS A
MYSTIC CENTER
Dr. Rostovseff Found Friezes
of Ritual�Shows Slides
For First Time.
COMPLEX      INITIATIONS
B. Ling and Unnamed Under-
lings Will Describe College
as Professors See It.
NEWS HOPES TO LEARN
In token of the affection the faculty
feels toward the undergraduates of Bryn
Mawr, they have agreed to confer an
Easter gift upon the college, it was re-
vealed today. They have contracted to
bring out the next issue of the Cou.KGE
ei 'News, to the enormous profit of the
college, and the particular and even
greater profit of the News Board. Step-
ping down from their position as the
cynosure of undergraduate eyes, they will
describe the doing of the undergraduates
as they see them. Barbara Ling, 1985,
a member of the staff and reader in His-
tory pf Art, is to be Editor-in-Chief. She
refused to make public the names of her
asistants, who, however, will include
many honored names among the faculty.
Miss Ling has had a long acquaintance
with the News, having, she alleges, tried
out- many times for the editorial board
while an undergraduate.          .
The old Board of the Xevvs looks for-
ward to seeing its mistakes corrected and
its methods improved rth and the new
Board anticipates model for its emula-
tion throughout the coming year.
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One Religion Conquering
Race Prejudice Is Islam
"Chivalry wa^ founded by four hun-
dred Arabic Knights," said Professor
Joshi, head of the Department of Philoso-
phy at Dartmouth and a descendant of
a long Hue of Brahmin scholars, in a
talk on comparing Islam and Chris-
tianity Tuesday evening, April ">: He pled
for an attitude of discrimination and"
tolerance toward Islam. We should dis-
cover the highest peaks of achievement
of other people, not their faults, and thus
acquire knowledge and  wisdom.
? ken   Kays."  so he  set   to  work  to   read
Today there are four dominant types
of. civilization, Western (based on Greek
philosophy, the Roman system of law. the
Christian religion, Hebrew ethical teach-
ing! and now embracing the modern
scientific movement), secondly the civi-
lization of China, the mongoloid type,
then the civilization of India and finally
the civilization of the Mohammedan
world. Vestiges of old Aryan traditions,
once shared by the whole of Europe, arc
alone extant in the civilization of India.
India has preserved them uncorrupted.
The acceptance of- Christianity severed
Europe from these traditions. Although
Christianity claims Palestine as fts birth-
place, when it went to Europe it \^s
united with Greek philosophy and became
Helleiiiz.ed. then Europeanized and' final-
ly, when it was brought here. Ameri-
canized.
Professor Joshi   said   that   there   were _   Miss Blodgett is at work on such prob-
three   impr JfcrrKT'rhissionary   religions   in
the world today�Buddhism, Christianity
and   Islam,   which   means  "stnvJHg.;after.
CONTIXUBD OX TJIE KEVKNTH IM<JE
V. Fain, Art President
The officers  of the Art  Club   for the
year  1927-28 will be:
Virginia  Fain................President
Isabella Hopkinson  ......Vice President
Edith Grant ..................Secretary
Helen N. Turtle  ...............Treasurer
Vildiz   Philips   .��:!*:% .'3iiimWr3�a�4*-
Shaw's Life Is Series
of Inspired Follies
To give a "personal close-up" of his
friend, Mr. Bernard Shaw, was the pur-
pose of Mr. Archibald Henderson in
speaking here, on Thursday. March 31.
As Shaw's biographer, Mr. Henderson
has had the opportunity to find out many
amusing things about the personality of
the great dramatist.
He has often l>een asked how he, a
student of mathematics, had come to
write this biography; his account of it is
amusing, and typical of Shaw. When he
was still a student, he was taken to a
performance of You Never Can Tell.
This affected him* "like a hath of Milli-
That Pompeii in the last days of the
Roman republic was a center of Greek
mystic cults was the theme discussed by
Dr. Ivan Rostovseff. now Professor of
history at Vale University, and formerly
at a woman's University in Petersburg,
in a lecture delivered in Tay!or Hall on
Saturday evening, April :.'.
These cults were developed in Greece
in the sixth century B. C, during a period
of political and industrial strife. Misen
and oppression on earth led to faith in a
divine justice hereafter, to a preoccupa-
tion generally with the mysteries of life
and death not solved by Homer and
I lesiod.
Cult of Demeter Old
The worship of the earth mother, the
Goddess of the spring resurrection, called
in Greece Demeter. went hack to the Pre-
Tndo-European period; added to this,
from the noVlh-had come the worship of
Bacchus, the god of vegetation. From
the sacrificial rites in his honor arose the
mystic Dionysiac cult, its followers be-
lieving that participation in their myster-
ies and initiation ceremonies would bring
a new life hereafter for the Blessed. At
first these followers were the oppressed
peoples of humble origin, but by the sixth
century It. C. the attention of those in
higher circles had been attracted, stimul-
latilfg a new period of philosophic specu-
lation". On these early cults new philoso-
phy was built up. based on the principles
of original sin, purification, infernal
punishment and heavenly reward. The
origin of the system was ascribed to a
mythical god, Orpheus, and the philoso-
phy he was supposed to have propounded,
called Orpheism, affected in turn the
F.leusian Mysteries of Demeter and
various   Dionysiac cults.
In the fifth and fourth centuries B. ('.
these philosophies spread over Italy and
Sicily. Tablets of advice to the dead
have been found on the sites of old
graves
In   spite   of   official   censure  the cults
lived   and   spread.     Finally   in   the  civil
wars, with Italy overridden by strife and
suffering and Lucretius' appeal to reason
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"BLAYDS" RECEIVES HOMAGE
FROM BRYN MAWR AUDIENCE
M. Peyre Pronounces M. Villard Exceptional Interpreter of
^   *                         Difficult Parts.
Rose Will Head News
The College News takes great
pleasure in announcing that the
Editor in Chief for next year
will Cdrnelia B. Rose. 1888. Miss
Rose has been on the News
since her sophomore year, and
has also been a member of the
Cut Committee and of the hoard
of the Self Government Asso-
ciation.
H. McKclvey, 11)28. was elect-
ed Censor for next year. She
has been a member of the board
of the Christian Association, and
is now on the Central Committee
of Varsity Dramatics.
As a result of the competition
held during the last few weeks,
for the Editorial Board. Mary
Grace, 192!). and Erna S. Rice
and Catherine Howe. 1980, have
Been made associate editors.
Celeste Page. HKIO, has been
elected to the business board.
The new board will take over
ajter the faculty issue of next
week.
BARKER A REVELATION
how
everything that Shaw had ever written.
Then, with the audacity of youth, he
wrote to Shaw, and formally proposed to
write his life. After several anxious
weeks, he received a i>ost card, bearing
the four words "Send me your photo-
graph!" Mr. Henderson said this re-
quest   embarrassed   him   exceedingly  he-
(IINTIMKI)   ON   I'ACiE   3
Scientific Research Is
Gem of Sportsmanship
"The presiding genius of scientific re-
search is a fit subject,for a whole volume
of sonnets," according to Katherine Blod-
gett. Bryn Mawr, l'.U7..aiid at present re-
search worker ior General Electric (.'".
And the solving of scientific problems.
is the most fascinating and tantalizing of
games.
Jems in the General Electric laboratory
in Schenectady, New York. To supply
this larga- as tab liehjntnt, which t.ccrpies
two buildings, a large staff of carpenters,
plumbers, electricians and glass blowers
is required. This is in addition, of
course, to those doing.tlie actual re-
search.
When a "green worker" first comes to
the TJeneral Electric, she is put to work
as assistant on the experiment of some-
one else. At first she flounders about a
Bnni -A"->\   and'asks  innumerable  ques-
Nina Perera.........Publicity Manager
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Work Up the Ladder
Although there will be no interclass
tennis matches this spring, people wishing
to work up on their class leaders are
asked to challenge those who have the
position two places above and give the
results to their class captains, R. Rickaby.
'27; F. Bethel, '28; C. Swan. '29, and
O. Stokes, '30. Any group. desiring a
tournament is also at liberty to organize
one at any time, if some one in authority
is notified.
Varsity, however, will play several
matches this season and B. Pitney, "27.
captain, is very anxious that people prac-
tice diligently (except on those mornings
when the courts are closed for repairs
and when a notice to that effect will !>c
posted on the athletic hoard.)
MRS. TIFFANY
LEAVES BEQUEST
Alumnae Association to Bene-
fit Eventually from Large
Trust Fund.
$25,000.00     FELLOWSHIP
Bryn Mawr College, in which Mrs.
Charles E. Tiffany, prominent alumna,
interested herself deeply from the time
of her graduation until her death,
March-11, will benefit considerably in
years to come as a result of provisions
in her will filed at Mineola.
The will provides that Mrs. Tiffany's
sisters. Gertrude S. and Henrietta B.
Ely. and Ivcr aunt. Sarah A. Reed, each
shall receive the income for life from
a share in the residuary estate which
may amount to about 91,000,000^ I'pon
the death of each of these beneficiaries,
the amount set aside for such bene-
ficiary alumnae is to go to the Bryn
Mawr Alumni Association, of which
Mrs. Tiffany formerly was president,
to be used by that association for the
benefit of the college.
In addition, on the death of Eva
Richardson of Dccatur. Ga.. another
beneficiary, Bryn Mawr is to receive
185.000 for the establishment of-a fel-
lowship in archaeology to be known as
the Theodore N. Ely Scholarship, in
honor  of   Mrs.   Tiffany's   father.   Miss
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B. Loines Unanimous Choice for C.A.
President, Stewart Vice-President
Barbara Loines, '2h, was unanimously
elected president of the Christian Asso-
ciation, for the year 1!I27-2H. at a inecU
ing held on Tuesday, April .",. .Miss
Loines  has  been   on   the  Christian   Asso-
ciation   Board   for two years;   the "as
class   President  in her ^uuhuni^rc.w-:ir-Vwi�f�LjnKf'j,th<r"iMa\ -  down to WTHTani
and" is an- all-around  afhlel                 her
Freshman year, she has 1>een on the
Varsity Hockey team, and was twia class
Hockey Captain. She1 is Varsity Basket-
ball Captain for next year, and has been
on the team every year. Durirg " her
Freshman year, she was a member of the
I ndergraduate Board.
Elizabeth Stewart. '28, who was elected
Vice President, His also been on th;
Christian Association^Board for two
years,   and   hSrF eTrtfra'-*cll'&rge   �1   ....
Maid's   Committee.    In   her   Freshman
year jh� was mi the Self-Government
Board. She was Swimming Manager last
year, anda* Varsity Swimming Captain
this. Her histrionic ability is well
from her interpretation of the Frog Foot-
man   in   Freshman   Show,   through V'l'-.
in The Truth About Hluyds. she. has
never failed to delight, 'as a comedian.
The two Senior members of the Board
are J. Stetson and B, Gaillard.
M. R. Humphrey. '-".1. was elected
First Junior member of the Board.
At a second meeting of the Association,
held April 11. the .'other Board member;
were elected. The Junior menuVrs are
R. Biddle and S. Bradley. From the da I
of  1930,  F.  Frenayc. J.   Kcasby and   D.
ross were elected.                     -----
By M. Henri Peyre.       �
Obliging   colleagues   had    warned   me
delicate a task it   was  to  revttfr a"
; Varsity play and to combine the praises
j that   one   is  expected   to  distribute   with
a measure of sincere,  which  is often to
My,  severe criticism.    I  nevertheless en-
tered the gym  firmly decided to assume
' my most high-brow attitude and I listeui-
1 cd with  the same kind of superior (and
; at times bored) irony that professors dis-
play during a students' report    But no
sooner bad the curtain liccn raised over
the  Blayds drawing room, very happily
reproduced   with   its air of  old   dignity,
than I began to think it might be a real
entertainment after all.    The characters
appeared and by the middle of the first
act  I applauded heartily. I had to recog-
nize  that   my  reviewer's   task  would   be
less embarrassing thaif I thought.   I can-
not resort to the usual formula and de-
clare  that  this   is  the  best   play   I   have
ever   seen   in    Bryn   Mawr,   because   it
would not mean much in my case. But
it is certainly an excellent amateur pro-
duction; that in almost every detail gives
proof   of  competence,  effort   and  talent.
M. Villard Stars as Blayds
M.   Villard undoubtedly starred as the
old   poet    Blayds   and   her   qualities   are
far above the ordinary range.    Her make-
up was excellent, her costume and atti-
tude struck one as true in every respect.
Her quivering voice, the shaking of her
hands, were admirably kept up until the
end.   while   the  diction   always   remained
clear and carried to the audience the im-
pression of melancholy regret and pathos
of that old man crushed by his lifelong
secret.     Miss   Villard's   exceptional   gifts
as an   interpreter of  difficult  parts   was
known  to  the  college  already;   she   has
given another and last proof of it before
she leaves   Bryn  Mawr.
Miss Barker, who is, I believe, a Fresh-
man, will on the contrary have more op-
portunities to display her talent, for she
has also a large share of it. She had
already been something of a revelation
in Pierrot at the Players' and she seems
to have some experience of the amateur
stage, so easy is her acting, not stained
by the slightest touch of self-conscious-
nesa or awkwardness? The naturalness
with which she walked al>out the stage
sat down, delivered in a rich voice her
replies of the (rank, saucy granddaughter
Septima were most refreshing and de-
lightful to the audience.
The   mother,   the   eternally   blundering
and   incurably   stupid  Marion,   was  also -
played  with  great skill  by   Miss  Latane.
Her make-up. her attitude and gestures
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Bryn Mawr Able to Solve
Religion-Science Problem
"The world war is not the greatest
conflict civilization  has ever  known."
Dr. Hart, professor of Sociology, in
a very interesting* talk in chapel on Fri-
day, made this statement rather obvious.
For there is a far greater conflict which
has been rumbling dissatisfaction for
over nineteen hundred years�that be-
tween science and religion.
The struggle began with trade and be-
came acute with modern analysis and in-
vention, with the radio, the aeroplane, and
tlu new discoveries in the_b\eld_ofc-nxdi___
cine.
One thing is apparently evident: a de-
sire on the part of one to wholly annihi-
late tin' Other. The recent controversy in
Tennessee shows very clearly the atti-
tude of religion toward science. But. on .
the other hatijl. the work of the labora-
tory would stamp out some of the teach-
ings of religion as mere superstitions.
Some time ago the French Academy dis-
puted the idea that stones fall from the
sky and offered to illustrate such a sup-
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