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VOL. XIII.   No. 14.
BRYN MAWRJAND WAYNE). PA.. .WEDNESDAY,-FEBRUARY 9,1927
PRICE.   10 CENT5
RENUNCIATION AND
MEDITATION COUNT
Bishop    Stearly    Traces    the
Growth of Requisites for
Joining Church.
A CHRIST WILL RESPOND
"The word 'salvation' is one frequently
connected with religion." said the Right
Reverend Wilson R. Stearly, Bishop
Coadjutor of New Jersey, speaking in
Chapel on Sunday. February (i. "'Sal-
vation' has meant many different things
throughout the ages, hut now it has
come to mean to us chiefly 'renunciation'
and  'meditation'."
The Bishop explained that once a de-
scription of             emotional religious
experience was a prerequisite to joining
the church. In the Age of the Refor-
mation knowledge of religion "and the
Hiblc became the measure and the vari-
ous "Confessions of Faith." ending in
the thirty-nine Articles, were the result.
Then there is the Abou ben Adem sort
of feeling, which puts philanthropy at
the top.
Two Methods of Salvation.
"It seems at present." the Bishop con-
tinued, "that .there are two important
ways in which a person can be saved.
The first of these is by Renunciation.
The old reformers who- wrote the Cate-
chism thought it was' necessary for us
to 'renounce the devil and all his works,
the pomps and vanities of this wicked
world, and all the sinful lusts of the
flesh.' They realized that renunciation
is necessary for us, for two reasons.
First, we must learn to choose between
the elevating and degrading influences
that surround us in the world, and sec-
ond, the character of a man's own per-
sonality is a quality to be reckoned with."
The second prerequisite for salvation
is the mystic quality of meditation. |The
mass of people are strangers to medita-
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SOCIETY AND SHAW TO BE
DISCUSSED HERE FRIDAY
Elizabeth Drew, English Lecturer, Is
Specialist In Literature of Gossip.
"Society and, Mr. George Bernard
Shaw" will be the subject on which Miss
Elizabeth A. Drew. English lecturer, will
speak under the auspices of the Speak-
ers' Bureau of the Undergraduate ^Asso-
ciation in Taylor, on Friday. February
11. at 7.30.
Miss Drew, who has traveled over
most of the United States in this tour,
is a specialist on English writers, past
and present, and particularly on the lit-
erature of gossip. A graduate of Lady
Margaret Hall, at Oxford, she has lec-
tured in English literature at Cambridge
for three years, and then was head of
the Women's Staff of the Department of
Education of the British army on the
Rhine. She has written one book. The
Modern Xovel, and has been a contribu-
tor to many magazines, among them The
Atlantic Monthly. The Sew Statesman.
and  The Westminster Gazette.
�    FUND FOR WHITTIER
Bust of Poet to Be Placed in Hall
of Fame.
Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson,
Director, New York University Hall of
Fame, whose office is at 26 East Fifty-
fifth street, New York City, is making
a campaign, particularly to members of
the Society of Friends for the bust of
Whittier in the Hall of Fame. He hopes
that he may be able to get the usual
$:i000 needed in^time to have the com-
mission executed by the fifth of May,
the date of the next ceremonies.
He asks that it be announced that con-
tributions for this purpose are being
made.
Students who wish to make a contri-
bution should send it direct to Mr. John-
son.
ENGAGEMENTS
Marion Brown. '29, is engaged to El-
liott Porter: who is a student at Harvard
Medical School. He is the son of Mrs.
Rnfr ^urness Porter, a member of the
Rryn Mawr Board of Directors.
ART CLUB
The Bryn Mawr Art Club in-
vites you to visit its class from
ten-thirty to one o'clock on Satur-
day morning, February twelfth, in
Room  H, Taylor.
ART CLASS NEEDS
$40,000 TO EXIST
N.
Perera,   President,   States
Goal of Practical Art
Class Campaign.
$40,000 MORE LATER ON
ALUMNAE PASS ON
GRADUATE REPORT
Council Hears Work of School
and Findings of Scholar-
ship Committee.
NO  DUES  FOR  SENIORS
(Specially   contributed   by   Xina
�      Perera,   '28.)
To avoid misunderstanding; the Bryrl'
Mawr Art Club wishes to announce the
purpose of its present campaign. We
are raising a vfund to help support art
classes: not to provide free instruction,
but to make possible the existence of a
course in drawing and painting. Stu-
dents will continue tg pay fees: how-
ever they cannot continue to pay all
expenses.
Tlie fees of the members of the Extra-
curriculum Practical 'Art Class will sup-
plement the $2000 which will be the
income from $40,000, the sum to be
raised by the campaign. After this ob-
jective has been reached, we shall con-
inue to enlarge the fund for the purpose
of establishing a class in lithe technique
of the Old Masters." -Conducted by the
History of Art Department, this would
be comparable to courses in the Music
Department on theory and, harmony.
Another $4*K07Hr-wquld have to be added
to the fund to provide the income for
this class.' The chief, purpose of the
Art Club is to raise this fund and to
share in the management of the Extra-
curriculum   Practical Art  Class.
We realize that' it is no easy task to
raise $80,000. The need for, -art has
arisen among undergraduates. Our ap-
peal must be to those who consider cre-
ative art of importance as a part of
�ollege life.
MOTORING AFTER DARK
APPROVED BY STUDENTS
on
Self-Government     States     View*
Chaperonage.
The chaperonage questions were dis-
cussed in the Self-Government meeting
held January 18, and a committee was
elected to frame the new rules resulting
from the suggestions made in the meet-
ing. This committee has been working
over the resolutions, and in discussions
by itself, and with Miss Park, has
changed some of the ideas: it will prob-
ably have the resolutions ready to pre-
sent to the association next Wednesday.
The associatkm decided that the rules
for closing the halls, and for spending
nights away from college should remain
the same. A slight change was made in
the rule about leaving campus after dark;
two students may go to the theatre or
the village unaccompanied.
Whether men should l>c entertained
in students' rooms unchaperoned brought
up some interesting questions, such as "is
a man's wife a chaperone?" and "what
is the distinction between brothers and
cousins?" After some discussion, a sense
of the meeting was taken that men should
be admitted to students' rooms on Sun-
days only,  from two to six.
Motoring after dark was a question
that aroused much interest. It was finally
decided that motoring should be allowed
to and from a definite destination, if the
student has signed out fully beforehand.
The decision as regards obtaining spe-
cial permission for formal and informal
engagements in the evening was left to
the committee. M. L. Jones, presiding,
reminded the meeting that all changes
are subject to the approval of the Board
of Trustees before they can be put into
effect.
The committee consists of nine mem-
bers, two from each class, as follows:
1927. C. Chambers G. Hayes; 1928, J.
Stetson C. Field: 1929; A. Dalziel B.
Humphries: 1930. E. Bigelow C. Howe.
H. Parker. '27; is the member from the
Executive,Board and the^chairman of_the
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BRYN MAWR RECEIVES $394,520
IN GIFTS FROM TWO ALUMNAE
Reports of the academic committee of
the gradnate school of Rryn Mawr Col-
lege, and of the regional scholarships
committee were the main features of the
annual meeting of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, held at Rryn Mawr on Saturday
morning. January 29. in Taylor Hall. The
presiding officct*was Mrs. Alfred R. Ma-
clay, of N'ew York, president of the as-
sociation. Reports were presented on Hie
meeting of the alumnae council in Cin-
cinnati by Mrs. Cecil Rarnes. of Chicago,
vice president: of the alumnae regional
scholarships by Miss Millicent Carey, of
Raltimnre. chairman of the scholarships
committee: on the finances of the associa-
tion by Mrs. Monroe Rucklcy, of Ard-
more. treasurer: on the alumnae fund by
Miss Dorothy Straus, of New York,
chairman, and on the academic commit-
tee by Mrs. Learned Hand, of N'ew York,
chairman.
The re|K>rt of the graduate school,
which will be published in the next issue
of The Alumnae Rulletin. is a study,
drawn from questionnaires, of the work
done by graduate students after leaving
Bryn Mawr.
End of Competition
The last competition in finding
words misspelled in the advertise-
ments has taken place and was won
by R. Wills. *29: D. Cross, '30. and
P. Wiegand, '30. who all tied for
fiftt place. Former winners have
been': M. McKee. E. B. Thrush, E.
Baxter. E. Morgan and M. Rurch.
Several of fhese carried away more
than one prize, so we are pleased to
have a new set of winners this
week.
WE MUST BE CHRISTLIKE
TO UNDERSTAND CHRIST
Loans and Scholarships.
During  the current   academic   year   it
was revealed by the report of the schol-
arships and loan fund committee, alumnae
are giving the undergraduate scholarships
Analytic Attitude Should Be Tem-
pered With Sympathy.
Understanding of Cod. explained Dr.
Henry Sloane Coffin in Cha|>el on Sun-
day. January 23. requires a responding
note, a sympathy in us. "In the last
analysis is there enough of the Christ-
like in me to appreciate the Christ-like
in God?" This is the final test we must
all put to ourselves.
There are two routes to Truth, both
of which arc necessary in religion. One
is the scientific, by which we classify and
examine, hut which does not really give
ii- any intuitive valuev The other is the
"method, of personal appreciation." .in
which we understand other things by a
responsive note in ourselves. In the first
type detachment is desirable, in the
second attachment and sympathy aid the
understanding.     Rv   the   second   method
*7iS00.    The  Loan   Fund  at present has (we  learn   to   know  our  friends  and  to
$369,520 Is Not Restricted as
to  Use,   While  $25,000
Goes to Goodhart Fund.
BOTH ARE UNEXPECTED
over. $10,000 outstanding ' loans to for-
mer and present undergraduates. Re-
gional scholarships in all parts of the
country are now headed up by the
Alumnae committee. All correspondence
in regard to the scholarships has been
transferred from the office of the secre-
tary and registrar, to the Alumnae Office.
Pansles Are Profitable.
Money is raised for scholarships by
Alumnae in many different ways. Among
the most interesting have lieen mono-
logues given by Cornelia Otis Skinner,
an Easter pansy sale in Chestnut Hill,
which netted over $500. and two lectures
on Dreadful Youth and Is Woman a
Failure't, given in Chicago by Professor
J. W. Linn (father of E. H. Linn, 1929,
present holder of a regional scholarship)
which brought in over $1200.
, Applications for scholarships are con-
stantly increasing in number. Most dis-
tricts have them for as far ahead as
1989-80. The geographical distribution is
very wide; there are, for example, two
from California, seven from New Eng-
land, six from St. Louis, two from Chi-
cago, six from.Raltimore. one from South
Carolina. N'ew committees are being
organized all the time.
It was decided that Alumnae dues
hould be increased to three dollars.
Seniors will not be asked to pay dues
but, upon graduation, they will automat-
ically become members of the Alumnae
Association, with dues payable tli� fol-
lowing January. Undergraduate repre^
sentation at the main Alumnae meeting
n November will not consist as before
>f two members of the class just grad-
uated, but of one member of the current
Senior class.
understand   great   works of  art.     By  it
likewise we must try to understand God
God   Is  a   Diviner  Christ.
"Some people never do learn to under-
stand God." said Dr. Coffin. "No amount
of arguing will succeed if the person
has not appreciation to begin with. The
nearest we can come to understanding
Cod is by studying the life of Jesus,
which is the divincst object known to us.
Our idea of Cod as a Christ-like being
and the power that is behind the universe
we get from generations of thinking
and religious men. Dr. William James
said that he could not pooh-pooh away
the testimony of belief in a personal
God. and neither can  we.
"What we should try to do then is to
approach religion with the analytical at-
titude at times, but also to attempt to
increase the spark of appreciation in us
that  will help us to understand God."
Under the will of Mrs. Alice D. Jack-
son, a Rryn Mawr alumna, the college is
to receive a gift of $:i�9.520. Her will
provides that two-thirds of the estate
will go ti� Percy Jackson, her husband,
and at his death to Bryn Mawr College.
Mrs. Jackson (Alice Day) graduated
in 1902, having entered college first only
as a hearer. She was a very active
member of the Alumnae Association, and
served on a number of its committees.
SIk; took a leading part in establishing
the Summer School in 1021, and for
three years was the N'ew York State
chairman for it. Besides her activities
in connection with the college she was.
prominent in New York, as president of
the Consumers' League. She died in
March.  1926.
Her gift, which came as a complete
surprise to the college, is the second large
liequest that the college has received
from its alumnae. The first was the
Carola Woerishoffer Endowment of
$7.">o.ooo. which was used to open the
Graduate Department of Social Econ-
omy. Mrs. Jackson made no restrictions
as to the use of her money.
Goodhart   Hall   Fund   Increased.
A second bequest to the college was
announced in the Public l.edaer Febru-
ary 2.
"Rryn Mawr College receives $25,000
under the will of Miss Rosie Bernheimer,
of New York, who died January S,
leaving an estate in excess of $100,000.
The will, filed for probate yesterday,
directs that the legacy be devoted to the
Marjorie Walter GoodTiart Memorial
Fund.
Mrs. Goodhart. an alumna of the col-
lege, died in 1020. The Marjorie Wal-
ter Goodhart Memorial Hall, now being
erected" at Rryn Mawr. followed a gift
of $100,000 from her husband, who also
founded a chair of history' in his wife's
memory. Miss Rernheimer was Mrs.
Goodhart's aunt. The memorial hall is
to cost nearly $500,000. of which $373.-
0<)() has  been  raised."
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PLAYERS  TO  PRODUCE
Players hopes to produce Aria Da Capo.
In Kdna St. Vincent Millay, and one
other short play, as yet undecided, on
Thursday, March 3. The tentative cast
of Aria Do Capo is:                      . ,
Pierrot  ..'...........M. Barkfcr, '30
Columbine   .........   W. Trask, '29
Cothurnas.......... J. Stetson, '28
Thyrsis............. C. Parker, *29
C.-rrJ�     -       ...   A. Learned, '29
TRUCK COLLIDES WITH
PHYSICIAN'S CAR
Dr. Wagoner Bruiaed and Badly
Shaken.
When Dr. Wagoner was driving home
from the infirmary on Saturday, Febru-
ary 5. her car was hit by a truck. The
accident, of which the exact details are
not known, occurred on Montgomery
Avenue, shortly after noon. Dr. Wag-
oner was bruised and badly shaken up.
hut not seriously injured. She is recov-
ering rapidly, and will soon lie hack at
college.
During her absence from the infirm-
ary. Dr. Guequierre will keep office
hours in the mornings, and Miss Ager
in the afternoon. The hygiene course
will not be started when scheduled.
Juniors to Give Play.
On February 26 "The Lilies of the
Field" will bloom in Wyndham. regard-
less of the weather. "Mother Words,*'
the play of that name by John Turner,
will be presented by a few members of
the class of 1928. The lilies, who, the
Bible tells us, toil not neither do they
spin, had nevertheless postponed their
production, first scheduled for the week
after Christmas vacation, due to the
pressure of wprtrfor jn^-yeart
TRAVEL BY OPEN ROAD
AND KNOW FOREIGN PEOPLES
Offers European Tours to Groups of
Thirteen.
The Open Road (2 West Forty-sixth
street. New York City), which has beep
conducting tours of Europe in a new
style for two years, now makes public
its plans for this year. Anyone desirous
of joining the group should get busy-
about it at once. The prices are
reasonable.
There are four types of tour, inten-
sive, regional, informal, and study. The
C. I. E. co-operates with the Open Road
in bringing the students into contact with
the people of the countries visited. They
spend their time as guests in private
houses and see the sights accompanied
by   their host.
Groups of thirteen with a leader make
up the unit of travel�the personnel is
carefully selected. Emphasis is laid on
the fact that "no one in Europe makes
a cent out of thus work."
The tours offered are: The United
Kingdom, with Holland and France:
France with Belgium and German
Switzerland: Germany with Austria and
France; Poland and �-Czecho-Slovakia
with France: Sweden with Norway and
France: Italy with France and German
Switzerland: Around the Baltic: the
Latin Countries: Down the Danube;
Central Europe; Western Furope: the
Grand Tour, the Four Cities (Berlin.
Geneva. Paris and London) ; Hiking in
Germany; Bicycling in F'rance.
1930 ELECTS
i'.i:io has elected M. Barker. L Sears,
C. Orr and E. Bigelow to its Freshman
Show Committee. The music is under
the direction of F.. Latane and K. Howe.
Fres.hman Show will take place on Sat-
i-'day, February   19.                   Jr-.
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