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College News
VOL. XIII.   No. 6.
BRYN MAWR   (AND. WAYNE),  PA..   WEDNESDAY, NO^MBER 3, 1926
PRICE, flO CENTS
JtflN CROWD TO
JOURNEY GOD WARD
First-hand      Experience      on
Which Christianity Is
Founded.
JESUS   MAKER   OF   MEN
Wc of this generation are the spirit-
ual descendants of the prophets named
in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews,
said the Reverand Ralph Sockman in
Chapel Sunday evening. October 31.
"We're are searching for new frontiers,
outlets for our restless and creative
spirits, and this is true in religion as
well as in science and scholarship.
"Something about Jesus put men in-
to an exploring mind, something about
him appealed to men's sense of ad-
venture. This is the opposite of a
certain English novelist's idea that
since only one-fourth of our lives is
intelligible, and three-fourth untelligi-
ble. our earliest duty is to learn not
to look around the corner. "Jesus
taught men to look around corners."
He gave them the prospect of an at-
tainable beyond, a desire for a better
country. At first, soon after His death,
they looted literally for a heavenly
country in place of the earthly one. but
they soon learned to translate the
words "Thy will be done," iifto action.
They set out to improve what was
here.
Men of Action Come Out of Church.
The church is often criticized be-
cause it is said to concentrate on the
life beyond, totally neglecting the one
here. History contradicts this; almost
all art and science owe their origins
to religion. "It is out of the church that
come men who wrestle with sins at which
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STRINGWOOD ENSEMBLE GIVES FINE AND
CONVINCING PERFORMANCE OF CHAMBER
MUSIC IN FIRST COLLEGE CONCERT
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Horace Alwyne, Director of Music at Bryn Mawr,  Praises
Program and Execution of Ne?*r York Artists.
BRAHMS,   TANIEEV   AND   PROKOFIEFF   PARTICU-
LARLY WELL RENDERED
"BUCKS" HOLD VARSITY
TO TIE IN WILD GAME
Good.
Individual      Playing     Often
Teamwork Poor.
The Bryn Mawr sub-Varsity team
held its own, but was unable to carry off
the victory in the game with the Bucha-
neers on Saturday morning. October 30.
At the end of a close and hard-fought
struggle the score was 3-3.                  . �
Bryn Mawr started off brilliantly by
"taking the ball right down the field"
and scoring a goal, made by "Stix, in the
first minute. A second goal, also due
to Stix, soon followed, and then McCrud-
den scored one for the Buchaneers.
During the first half sub-Varsity kept
the ball near the visitors' goal most of
the time, but the second half saw an im-
provement in the Buchaneers' game:
McCrudden and Hall each made a goal,
while Bryn Mawr was only able to make
one, tying the score.
General   Wildness.
On neither side could the playing be
called good, the passing being especially
poor. Pitney and Newhall, the two
wings, did some splendid running, but
too often lost the ball at the end; Stix,
dashing about the field with extraor-
dinary speed, was always on the spot.
Balch made some long runs and timed
her passes well, and Hirschberg's hits
were hard and true, but they all shared
the general wildness and lack of judg-
ment in passing. Everyone had great
difficulty in stopping the ball when it was
passed to her, so mat it was batted from
one side to the other like a shuttle-
cock, neither team keeping it long
enough for any good plays. Free-
man and Wills, the goals, made several
fine stops, but, in spite of some good in-
dividual playing, there was a marked
lack of co-ordination and teamwork on
both sides.
The line-up was:
Bryn Mawr�A. Newhall. '27; E.
Johnston, '30; R. Miller, "87*; E. Stix.
�30**; B. Pitney, '27; E. Morris, '27; E.
Haines. '27; K. Balch. '20; C. Field, '28;
B. Freeman, '29; Subs� R. Cross, '29;
K. Hirschberg, '30.
Buchaneers�Williams, i
Crudden**,   Woodworth.   Pitt,    Harris.
Hitchcock    Carey,     Haddleton,    Grant,
Feris; Subs.�Hal!*. Wills-. J�%_
The first concert of the winter series
was held in Taylor Hall last Monday eve-
ning, the program being devoted entirely
to chamber music. The "Stringwood En-
semble of New York," a combination
consisting of piano, clarinet and string
quartet, made their first appearance at
these concerts and met with the most
enthusiastic appreciation from a large
audience.
The program, although containing two
compositions in the usual sonata form,
both of large architectural dimensions
and length, showed that, in spite of mod-
ern tendencies towards brevity and su-
garing the pill for twentieth century
audiences, upon which many programs
nowadays are based, it is still possible to
hold the attention of an audience by pure
chamber music, "absolute" music with-
out the help of titles or "program."
The Brahms Clarinet Quintet, an all
too rarely heard work, was given a fine
and convincing performance, the blend-
ing of the tone of the clarinet and strings
and the dynamic balance bein finely
wrought. The expressive Adagio was given
a quality of ethereal beauty and spiritual
detachment which showed to the full
Brahms' capacity for the blending of the
purely classical with the romantic spirit,
while the third movement was played
with just the right simplicity demanded
by the folksong-like quality which
Brahms so often introduces into his third
movements in place of the more usual
Scherzo.     �;�
In the  Piano Quintet by Tanieev. Ar-
thur Locsser proved himself a chamber
music player of the first rank, never al-
lowing the piano tone to become ob-
trusive in its percussive quality against,
the smoother quality of the strings, one
of the nibst difficult problems in the
technique of chamber music playing, and
yet adding the piano's greater' capacity
for sonority with keen judgment. In the
brilliant passage-work with which this
quintet abounds he showed himself to be
possessed of a beautiful and finished
technique which yet was never allowed to
obtrude itself^for the mere sake of dis-
play.   '
The Prokofieff "Overture on two Jew-
ish Themes" gained an added interest
from the fact that the two themes used*
were discovered in Russia and given to
Prokofieff by Simeon Bellison himself,
the clarinettist of the organization. The
composition proved to be very easily
understandable and much less modern
in spirit and idiom than one is used to
expect from a composer who has been
named "the enfant teryiblc ot, modem
music," and whose orchestral composi-
tions have often been made a battle-
ground for controversies on modern mu-
sic, waged with a fierceness only exceed-
ed by their futility.
Throughout the program, the excel-
lent ensemble of the players gave to their
performance that unity which is at the
same time the greatest test and the most
difficult of attainment of all the attributes
of chamber music playing.                *
HQRACK AI.WYNK
TRYOUTS CONTINUE
In the second week of try-outs for the
editorial board of The College News,
the following people are still in the run-
ning: M. Villard. '27; C Smith, '28; V.
Atmore, '28; E. Fry, '29; K.' Balch, '29;
E. Leffingwell. '29.
^ The following people are still trying
out for the business board ot theCoLLECE
News :
M. Pettit,  �#; R.  Holloway, 78;   R.
Cross, '29.
P. C C YELLOWS
ROUTED BY VARSITY
PREVENTION GOAL
OF FEDERATION
Miss   Lena   Waters  Describes
Case Work Done Among
Sick and Poor.
HELP 56,820 LAST YEAR
E. MORRIS OPENS HOUSE
DRIVE BY CHAPEL SPEECH
Over 100 Children pared for at Long
Branch Settlement. .
Ellenor Morris began her talk in
Chapel Monday morning, November 1,
by saying that her subject was as
familiar to every one as the story of
Little Red Ridinghodd. "I think every-
one knows just what Bates House is�
that there at Long Branch from the day
after commencement till the end of July
we feed, amuse, care for and enjoy
over 100 children from New York City."
What happens to the money that will
be pledged this week, is not so well
known. First, there are salaries; then
food, amazing quantities of bread and
milk, and other items of household man-
agement. When these prosaic expenses
are paid, it is also nice to have a little
left over for new toys, ice cream and
other  "treats."
This summer passed much as usual,
under the management of Mrs. Romano,
the faithful housekeeper( and Mary Bell,
the head worker. The place did not go
into bankruptcy, and none of the chil-
dren were drowned, or run over. But
certain defects in the New York end of
the organization became so apparent
that /adical changes will have to be made
next year.
"But what I want to say particularly
this morning is that the Bates House
season has not closed, to be ftopened
with the first scrubbing brush of clean-up
week next year. Bates is a living thing
for us here all the year round, and we
want to make it even more so. We want
not only your pennies from your saving
banks, but we want your interest and
ideas. Bates is in need of both. We
want you to make little dresses and
sweaters, to come to our parties, and to
eat our sandwiches in the spring and
Alfen,'.; Mfcjfcmjc*.'"' -" *- ""ke Bates something
that belongs to everyone of us, whose
success is due not to a committee but to
a college-'
LEARN TO USE INFORMATION
SAYS DEAN MANNING
Aim  of  College   Not  to  Veneer  Stu-
t       dent   With  Culture.
Continuipg her talk on college courses
Dean Manning s,poke last Wednesday
morning on the role of information in
the curriculum. She admitted that a
large fund of information is necessary
for reasoning, but stressed the point
that the purpose of a college course is
not to expound this information but
to train the student to use it in his or
her particular field.
Many people have the erroneous idea
that a college course should give the
student "culture." Culture in the pop-
ular conception, "a thin spreading of
education all over the brain." They
think that the student ought to be
able to speak informedly on many sub-
jects. They disregard the fact that he
ought to be able to use his brain.
To determine' the exact place of in-
formation as such in the curriculm is
a different problem for educators. In-
formation is a sine que non for the
starting point in reasoning. To have
a definite and intelligent opinion of the
League of Nation^ one must have a
background  of  history.     Nevertheless,
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Miss Waters. Director of the Social
Service Wo'rk of the University Hos-
pital, spoke last Friday morning in
Chapel on her own work since it is
typical of the kind of .Social and
Economic work of The Welfare Fed-
eration of Philadelphia. She said that
it is in the fields of preventive and
convalescent work that the social serv-
ice workers are especially active.
Heretofore, as President Park said
in introducing Miss Waters, those who
have come to speak to us on behajf of
The Welfare Federation have confined
their talks to explaining ho\v money
is raised for the Federation. Miss
Waters only described the work.
The Wlefare Federation of Philadel-
phia is an association of Ufl charitable
and philanthropic organizations in
Philadelphia and its suburbs. The
Social Service work of the University
Hospital, of which Miss Waters is the
Director, is one of these organizations.
There are 25 hospitals in the Federa-
tion and of these nineteen have Social
Service Departments. One hundred
and three workers are engaged in this
work.
Hospitals No Longer for Dying.
"Hospitals," said Miss Waters,"
have outgrown the day of being insti-
tutions for the dying." Use modern
hospital cures disease and prevents
illness. It is is for this preventive work
that Social Service workers have been
introduced.
Social Service Workers assist pa-
tients inside and outside the hospital
They provide temporary care for chil-
dren whose mothers are patients. They
also do Social Case Work, the study
of the patient's environment. Their
work is wide in scope and in fact in-
cludes anything necessary to the indi-
vidual case.
This can be best illustrated by the
incident of two old ladies in dire need
of medical attention who refused to
leave their home and come to the hos-
pital. When their case was further
observed, it was found out that the
reason the two old ladies would not
leave home was because they had
eight cats who would have been home-
less had they not cared for them. The
Social Service Workers, therefore,
found homes for the eight cats and en-
abled the ladies to come to the hos-
pital.
Continuing the enumeration  of par-
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Slimy field Fails to Dampen
*      Team   Work   of
Varsity.
GUITERr\JAN     IS     STAR
A. slimy field and slithering players,
but the sun shone and so did Varsity to
a lesser degree. The Philadelphia Yel-
lows were boiled down to the short end
of a 6-2 score. We wish to state that
this is a score to lie rather proud of, as
four All-American and several All-Phila-
delphia players graced the Yellow team.
Our team was much more of a team
than on the Saturday before; not only
did  individual players take a brace, but
the    teamwork    was    vastly    improved.
Guitcrman  played a great game for us.
She seems to have a natural hockey in-
stinct and was uncanny in "being on the
ball."    Stix   was  below   par   and   was
replaced  by  Wills   in  the  second  half.
She  was almost always   too  far  away
from the goal and kept running over on
Loines at right wing; also she persisted
in giving the ball away at precisely the
wrong moment instead of keeping it her-
self.   Tuttle received passes well, but her
weakness lay in blocking fier own passes
in shooting in  from the left.    The for-
wards, all of them, should keep nearer
the backs and not leave them more than
their share of the work.    Nor did they
bother to think   When Mrs. Krumbhaar
was drawn way over to one side of the
Yellows' goal, they shot directly at her,
instead of at the wide open space on the
other side.    Wc know she is All-Ameri-
can and a very bright light, but why be
moths?
Freshmen Choose I. Hopkinson
M. Barker, V. Loomis as Officers
1930 held a meeting in the gymnasium
on Wednesday, October 27, to elect class
officers. The outcome was that Isobella
Hopkinson was chosen president, Mar-
garet Barker, vice president, and Virginia
Loomis, secretary. All three officers had
acted as class chairman during the first
weeks of college.
Miss Hopkinson was prepared by the
Windsor  School, where   she was acting
-(president in her last year, and school song
leader. She is now hall president of
Wyndham, and a member of the Pub-
licity Committee of the Art Club.
At the Bryn Mawr School. Miss
Barker held every class office at one time
or another. She was treasurer of the
Dramatic Club in her Senior year, and
secretary of Student Government.
s^s.'*�v   .--.<m^}J^** I�rttni� comes from The Brearly
School, where she was class president
for two years, and vice president of the
Senior Class.
Backs   Excellent.
Winchester was pretty good at intervals
and made two. or 88 1-3 per cent., of our
goals.
Now for the backs: We have spent all
our  vitriol  upon the  forward line and
nothing seems  left but milk and honey.
Seeley was just as good as usual, which
is  really  high  praise;  likewise  Captain
Walker.   Stetson could hardly have been
recognized as last week's bumble-puppy.
She was incomparably better and  faster
and   she   fought   like   a   young   wildcat.
lint   then  they all did.    It  was a   hard
game  with  none  of  die calm  intervals
and let-ups which usually occur.   Winter,
a   freshman   darkhorsc,   played   a   fine
game and, incidentally, gained a reputa-
tion.    She placed herself  well and got
off lots of good passes to Tuttle at left
wing.    Bruere had a busy morning and
stayed unrattled and efficient during the
many hot rushes directed at her.
Yellows Lack Fight.
The  Yellows had many famous  indi-
viduals on their roster, who lived up to
their reputations, but the team as a whole
seemed   to   lack   punch.    Their   wings,
especially Sue Cross, were very fast and
clever at dodging; the backs, too, looked
superb, but they  were without the last
ounce of fight and "carry-through" which
gave the victory to Varsity.
Lineups :
Bryn Mawr�H. Tuttle. H. Guiter-
man***. E. Winchester**. E. Stix, B.
Loines. J, Stetson, J. Winter. S. Walker,
J. Seeley, J. Porter. A. Bruere. Subs-
Wills* for Stix.
P. C. C. Yellows�F. Frazier, M.
Pordner*. C. Cheston*. S. Goodman, S.
Cross. E. Morris. Mrs. Hunter, H. Jacob,
L. Norn's. B. Pearson, Mrs. Krumbhaar.
TALK ON GRENFELL'S WORK
Miss Susan Doughten to Present Con-
ditions at First Hand.
Miss Susan Dough'en will speak in
Chapel on �Friday morning, Novem-
ber 5. on the work of Dr. Grenfeel.
Miss Doughten is a Philadelphia girl
who spent the summer in Labrador in
charge of one of the industrial cen-
ters there. _Since she has been there
so recently, she wilM>�iiMt i� y.*.^i,i
at first-hand, conditions exactly as
they are.