College News, 1927-01-19, Vol. 13, No. 13

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VOL. XIII. *No. 13.
e College News
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA..  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19,1927
FANCY FIREWORKS
'     WELCOME WRITER.
Men Work By Lantern Light
as    Power    Dynamo
Breaks .Down.
CHANGE IN  12 MINUTES
Unusual electrical displays seem to
have been "staffed for the l>enefit of our
distinguished lecturer on Thursday eve-
ning. The ixnver house officials dkl
their little bit in according their recogni-
tion by trick stunts with the lighting
apparatus to herald her entrance.
The lecture was to start at *K o'clock.
7.10 found the first members of the eager
audience in their seats. Twenty minutes
later, as the room was beginning to fill
the first eager devotee's of literature
found that they could hardly distinguish
the faces of the newcomers. The large
and curiously mosquito-netted balls of
light that hang from the Chapel ceiling
were certainly growing paler. This
seemed unusual, especially as the read-
ing light on the desk still beamed bright-
ly. The lights grew dimmer till they
floated like- eight pale moons above us;
Chapel was in almost complete darkness:
the ushers were forced to fall back on
electric torches, giving a professional
touch.
Llghta Flare�Then Fail.
After a few minutes the lights flared
a liftle but at 13 minutes to eight they
went out completely. Miss Faulkner
brought in a lantern pillaged from the
Lantern Man and set it quaintly on the
corner of the stage. By this time the
reading light was out, too. The latest
arrivals stumbled over feet and chairs,
but on the whole there was a noteworthy
calmness and lack of profanity. At ex-
actly one minute to eight, the lights
suddenly reappeared and flared spectacu-
larly to their full brilliance just as Miss
Park and Miss Cather entered.
The News reporter, anxious to find
out full details of the matter, took pencil
and notebook down to the power house.
There she  waded  through   snow to   her
PRICE.   10 CENTS
Ingres' Drawings Will Be
Exhibited at Bryn Mavor
An exhibition of the works of Jean
Auguste Ddbinique Ingres, one of the
great draughtsmen of the nineteenth cen-
tury, will soon be at Bryn Mawr
Fifty-seven of these drawings have
been cut from a large pocket sketch-
book. They are drawings in miniature
of Greek relief and statuary in the mus-
eums of Florence and were done' from
1880-24, whenjtbe artist was over 40, at
the height of his power. In some of
the   best   of   these,   it   is   astounding   to
observe the* precisi>n, the speed, aiuL.the
expression^)!' form possible to pure line
chawing.
This exhibition has been made pos-
sible by De Hauke and Co., the recently
organized firm specializing in modern
French decorative art. It represents an
experiment which the firm has instituted
to �co-operate with college art depart-
ments. The exhibition has already been
shown at Smith, and besides Bryn Mawr.
will also be shown at Vassar. Prince-
ton and Vale.
FUTURE OF ART DEMANDS
FREEDOM, SAYS WILLA CATHER
EXCLUSION WHEN
BELOW STANDARD
Spring   of   Sophomore   Year
Dangerous for Poor
Students.
NO   WARNING  IS  GIVEN
CONTIMKIi  ON   I'ACJE  4
SWINDLER POSES AS
FRIEND OF ALUMNAE
Coast to Coast Fleecer Now in Wash-
ington Jail.
The following letter was received to-
day by Miss Park. It is hoped that
alumnae and undergraduates will read it
and give any information they know
about  the man to   Miss   Park.
Washington, I). C.
.My dear Present   Park :
Yesterday a very strange looking man
who- claimed   to be a  friend of  Eleanor
Baldwin's called me up and came out to
,see    me.     Everything   about    him    was
suspicious,   and   finally   when   he  asked
for   money,   mother   and    I    called   the
police. , He was  searched at jail  and  it
developed that   he  had an  elaborate  list
of Bryn Mawr alumnae living here, and,
for each one, a friend in her class living
elsewhere.    ( He admits he got these from
the   Register.)     He   also had   a   similar
list from a boys' school, and ones from
several   clubs.     It   seems   that   he   has
traveled all over the country�his cloth-
ing bore labels of   stores   from coast to
coast.     The   police   are  working  on   the
man's   Washington   lists   and   they have
found   that  he   visited   or   had   appoint-
ments   with   nearly   all   the  alumnae   on
the list.    The police have asked me if I
could get their case before the alumnae
� generally,  so that   if any of  them  else-
where have been victimized, the man can
be brought to justice.    They feel   he  is
experienced at  his  game   and they plan
to convict him for at least thirty days on
a charge of vagrancy until they can get
definite charges against him.
Anyone who has seen him could not
fail to recognize him, he is so peculiar
looking. He may be anywhere from 25
to 35 years old. He is under-sized,
slight with thin, straight blonde hair.
china blue eyes, and no upper front teeth.
He wears large glasses with aluminum
looking rims, and, to me. called himself
George   H.  Glen.
Most sincerely,
Nell R. Roarrri.
The ix)licy and procedure in excluding
students from the college for academe
reasons were explained by President
Park, speaking in Chapel on Wednesday.
January 12. This action is taken by
the Senate made up of the full pro-
fessors who have been here three.years;
they know the college standards and
the students, and make their decision*
from a report of all the records, pre-
sented by an executive committee. All
the  faculty are asked   for information.
There are two attitudes that a college
may take toward its students: One.
"We will take anyone who comes here
as far as her interest and ability carry
her." Two, "We have an objective
standard, and will keep only those who
can keep up to it. Students must reach
our arbitrary standard."
Three Grounds for Exclusion.
Miss Park gave three reasons why a
student should be excluded if she fails
to reach the minimum standard. First,
because her presence brings dow#T the
standard. "A poor student pulls down
the average of  her class  by taking the
CONTI.\TKI>   ON   I'AUE   4
WHAT DOES WILSON
MEAN TO YOU?
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CR. RHYS CARPENTER MAKES
VERY IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
Vanquished  Boxer and the  Belvedere
Torso Are by One  Hand.
H//  Atnocialed Press.
Rome,        December        15�Professor
Rhys Carpenter, professor of archaeol-
ogy at Bryn Mawr, and now at the
American academy in Rome, has made
an, extremely important archaeological
discovery in identifying the sculptor's
signature on one of the most famous
of ancient bronze statues alxnit the date
of which scholars have long disagreed
The statue, which represents a seated
Iwxer of ancient days, with his face bat-
tered and his ears swollen, is one oi the
treasures of the National museum in the
Diocletian Bath here.
On the thongs which bind the heavy
metal loaded cestus, the ancient boxing
glove used in gladiatorial combats. Pro-
fessor Carpenter discovered the barely
perceptible signature of the artist in such
small type that it had never been noticed.
Sculptor Well Known.
Professor Carpenter was able to read
the name "Appollonius, son of Nestor."
This sculptor is already known from his
signature on one of the recognized mas-
teripeces of the world, the "Torso of
Belvedere" in the Vatican museum.
The Belvedere statue is a fragment of
a seated nude figure of heroic propor-
tions which was found in the Fifteenth
century. It was greatly admired by
Michael Angek) and other Renaissance
artists.
Pi�fessor Carpenter's discovery thus
connects two of the l>est known of an-
cient statues in Rome as the work of the
same master.
Sculptor Worked in Athens.
Appollonius probably lived about tne
middle of the First cntury B. C, and
has his workshop in Athens. The bronze
boxer on whom the new inscription was
found was unearthed in 1884.
Foundation    Offers    $25,000
Award for Exposition of His
Ideals and Principles.
NOT mereTbiography
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation an-
nounces a special donation by which it
has the pleasure to offer two Woodrow
Wilson awards of *25.(MM) each to the
young men and young women of
America for the two best articles of .��500
words on "What Woodrow Wilson
Means to Me."
The direct and sole purpose of these
awards is to bring to the young people
of the United States a closer knowledge
of the ideals and principles of Woodrow
Wilson: the ideals which, in his written
and spoken words, he sought to express
to the people of his own country and the
world.
What to Present
Each article intended for these awards
must seek to appraise the ideals, stand-
ards and principles of Woodrow Wilson
according to the personal standpoint of
the writer.
No mere biographical sketch of Mr.
Wilson or review of his life or acts will
be eligible.
Since only his ideals and principles are
to be considered, no article must rest on
a political basis or be colored by parti-
sanship, for or against. Partison
political considerations are outside the
scope of the contest.
Particularly should it be borne in mind
that Mr. Wilson's ideals far transcended
any of the plans he himself carried
through. Hence no article, is eligible
which  confines   itself   to  a  review  of  his
Mid-Year Will Be Oveh
Now is your chance to really
concentrate on the misspelled word
contest and get a prize. This is
the last one and it doesn't close
until February 7, so don't miss
your opportunity.   .
The winners of last week's com-
petition are E. Morgan. '28 and
E. Baxter. ':!0. who both handed
in perfect sets of answers. Can't
anybody prevent them from get-
ting  the   prizes   again   this  week?
Here arc the rules:
1. On a sheet of paper write:
If The   names   of   the   advertis-
ers   in   whose   advertisements
you find the misspelled words.
2. The misspelled words.
.'�. Correct   versions of   the  mis-
spelled words.
-'  Give your answers of M. Gail-
lard,    Pembroke   West,   by   six
P.    M.    Monday.    February    7.
The   names   of   the   prize-win-
ners will apiK-ar in the next issue.
Every   subscriber   to   the   N'kws   is
eligible to this contest.
Board members are ineligible.
EIGHTH AVENUE
TO OXFORD
Noted   Novelist   Makes   Plea
Against Technical Rules
for Novel.
ART   A   KIND   OF   LIFE
Jessie  Hendrick,  Ex-'27,  Re-
calls Experiences at Junior
Month.
CHARITY    NOT    GIVING
Specially  contributed by Jessie Hen-
(Iriek. ���:.
Last night at a coffee party of Ox-
lord "undergraduettes" the conversation
turned, as college conversation the world
over will turn, to inferiority complexes,
psychiatry, and social misfits. Before the
party broke up. I found that I lutd told
these English girls a great deal about
Junior Month. jt>*t as I should like to
be telling Bryn Mawrtxrs about it over
their mtigglc.
East July I was* fortunate enough to
be  the   Bryn   Mawr TH^resentative .it  the
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GRENOBLE TOUR ENDORSED
HIGHLY BY MISS SCHENCK
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No  Compulsion and Perfect  Material
Conditions�All for $674.
In    describing    last    Friday    morning
in   Chapel,   the   Study   Tours   in   Prance
under   the   supervision   of   the   Minister
of    Public    Instruction   of   the   French
Government,    Miss   Schenck   said   that
the material conditions were perfect and
that   the courses   were excellent aids   in
acquiring facility in conversation and in
gaining   French   background.     The   joy
of these courses is that the students are
under no compulsion whatever�they are
free to choose their courses and are also
free  to   study   as   much   or  as  little  as
they desire.    For those who are prepar-
ing themselves for orals, the courses are.
very beneficial.
The total price  for the  Study   Tours
per   person,    including   passage,    board,
tuition and excursions, is $674 for those
sailing   on   the    Savoie.   first-class,   and
$<isr  for the newest ship of the French
Line, the He de France, second class.
Full and Varied Program.
Following is the program:    Sail July
1. on the Savoie  (July 2 on the He de
France).    July 9  reach Paris,  and  stay
over two days.   July 11 leave for Gren-
oble.    From July  13 to August 5,  stay
at Grenoble.    There is a  most excellent
pension at La   Tranche where  many of
the   Bryn   Mawr   students   have   stayed.
At Grenoble the courses are so arranged
that language courses come in the morn-
ing, while in the afternoon the students
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"Junior    Month"    of    the    New    Yt*k
I Charity   Organization   Society,     Twelve
girls, fresh from a stimulating third-year
of college, lived together under the pleas-
ant chaperonage of two social workers.
and were guided by AftCs' To^selcv
through four weeks of slu/ly and prac-
tical work. There was a carefree, bridge
and theatre party side to Junior Month.
but since Bryn Mawrtyrsj need no in-
troduction   to  that   kin<L-6f  existence.   I
:iall speak only of wfiat   was new   and
starling to me.
Junior Month was nof\a course of train-
"W'hat is a novel?" began Miss VV'illa
Cather, the first novelist (if the term
may still l>e used I to give the Ann
Elizabeth Shcble Memorial Lecture, ad-
dressing her audience in Taylor Hall last
Thursday evening.
Because the word novel is vague and
meaningless. Miss father preferred to
term her subject "imaginative prose,"
while referring her listeners for a more
definite treatment of the theme to Miss
Virginia Woolf's recent book "The Com-
mon  Rtad/r."
There are many kinds of imaginative
prose. Miss Cather explained, of which
the majority are not a . form of art.
This country excelsj�.-the production of-
machine-made iwrvels, whose manufac-
ture, as a sort of Commuter's Conveni-
ence, is taught by innumerable schools
of journalism. Anothe/ pernicious sort
of prose is gossip about great men by
their ex-cooks and valets, called cham-
ber-maid   writing by Miss Cather.
las the novel a future in spite of these
parasitical growths?    Its only ItdpV the
speaker declared, is to be let alone, freed
from  the  rules  of  technique  which  de-
partments of English in fresh-water col-
leges  attempt to lay  down   for   it.    An
author does not plan his works accord-
ing to a  formula, and where he departs
from   custom,   it   is   undoubtedly   inten-
tional.    A speaker on the Russian novel
once complained that in First l.ove, the
narrator,   whom   he   called  the   leading
character,   was   weak and  colorless.    As
a  matter  of fact, character- in  the nar-
rator,   whose   function   in   this   book   is
that   of   a   window   through   which   the
action is perceived, would have spoiled the
story.
Forms Mean Growth.
Standards can only be derived from
what has already been written. There-
fore, whenever a novel exhibits any new
departure in form or composition, the
teachers of English either condemn it
utterly, or make a new formula to which
they will fit sul>sequent works. The
truth is that imaginative prose, being a
young and growing form of art. can
never progress without the chance to
develope fresh forms, to get away from
the old sentimental themes and patterns,
which arc not the patterns of life.    This
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MAID'S MEETINGS GROW
IN INTEREST AND VARIETY
ing   for   social   work.     It   was  intended
merely to give the Juniors a better under-
standing of social   work,  how necessary
it   is  and   with   what   success   it   can  be
adopted  as an after-college career.  The
plan   of   work   of   the Juniors   included
lectures    by    eminent    specialists.      Dr.
Mlumengart    on     psychiatry,    as     Mrs.
Fox-Lee a Czecho-Slovakian immigrant,
on the social problems that come to Ellis
Island, and Eligene Kinklc Jones on  tin
Negro migration to the North    The lec-
tures were for the most part illustrated
by   visits   to   institutions.     The   Juniors
in the course of four weeks were shown.
among  other  things,  the   working  of a
children's court, a workmen's compensa-
tion court, two reformatories, a hospital,
and   a   settlement   house.     A   few   days
each week the Juniors reported for work
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ERRATA
. 1927 disclaims swimming laurels and"
the "Superhuman Bryants." There is
no question that 1929 won the meet.
The "other one" in the Apache Dance
with   Alice   Glover,   was   Elise   Bryant,
'not her sister.
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Sunday     School     Enrollment     More
Than  Quadruples Thii  Year.    V ,
,t The    Maid's    Sunday    School,    which
meets, for an hour in Taylor every Sun-
day afternoon has been growing steadily
in interest for the past three years. Be-
fore then it was a feeble organization
with only seven or eight regular atten-
dants, now it has an enrollment of about
thirty meml>ers.
Last year regular services, with hymns
and prayers, were  first held; and  there
were also special  Christmas and  Easter
services at  which   Miss   Faulkner spoke,
and the Glee Club  sang.    This   system
has   been   carried   out   again   this   year
under the direction of M. Coss, '28, who
has lately been making an effort to pro-
vide a special feature for each meeting.
She   has   secured   students   to  speak  on   .
subjects of interest mi, h as the Milwaukee
Conference; and she has provided enter-
tainment in the form of duets and piano
lOtM.    The   makls   are   wonderfully   ap-
preciative   of   what   is   done   for   them;
they express this by waving their hand-
kerchiefs, or by making gratifying little
speeches of thanks
This is one of the most interesting and
progressive activities which comes under
the Christian Association. It is carried
on almost entirely by M. Coss. J. Hud-
dleston and M. Perry, and they would
welcome the services of anyone who
might like to help.
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