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BRYN MAWR' (AND WAYNE),  PA..   WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1926
PRICE,   10 CENTS
DR. DIEZ TELLS OF
PERSIAN EXHIBIT
Sesqui  Has Good Specimens
of  Pottery, (Carpets
and Silks.
SELECTED BY DR. POPE
Af. �. Jones to Represent Bry'n
Mawr at Annual Conference
Bryn Mawr will be "represented at
the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the
Women's Intercollegiate- Association
for Student Government by Minna Lee
Jones, '27, president of the Self-gov-
ernment Association. The meeting is
to be held this year at Trinity College,
in Washington, D. C, from November
From the point of view of history of   n untji   November 13.
art, the exhibition of old Persian .art in
the Fine Art Pavilion is without any
�question the most important and most
interesting part of the Sesqui. It is, in
fact, an exhibition of only precious works
of Persian art of the Muhammedan per-
iod which were selected by good experts.
The Sesqui can be thankful to Dr. A. U.
Pope, the well-known expert for Persian
carpets, for arranging this special Per-
sian exhibition. He also arranged a fine
Loan exhibition of Oriental carpets last
winter in Chicago, and gave us new hints
for more correct designations of Persian
carpets. If we consider that there is no
Indian, Chinese or Japanese art exhibi-
tion In the Sesqui worth mentioning, we
shall be able to appreciate more what
Mr. Pope has done.
There are two most valuable groups in
Muhammedan art: Pottery and carpets,
and the finest specimens of both were
made in Persia between the 12th and 17th
centuries. A few miles to the south of
Teheran (the modern capital of Persia),
one of the old ones, Rayy, was situated.
Rayy, the old Median Rhages, became a
gorgeous capital of a Turco-Mongolian
tribe of Central Asia, one of those Turk-
ish tribes which invaded Western Asia
from the 10th to the 15th centuries. About
1230 Rayy was entirely destroyed by the
Mongols, who built up a new capital,
called Veramin, to the south of Rayy.
In the mounds of old Rayy people have
been digging for about twenty years, and
there the best and most valuable glazed
pottery of Persia is found. A quantity
of very good specimens of this glazed
Rhages pottery is to be seen in the exhi-
bition. The cups and jugs show partly
figures of Turkish horsemen and sultans
enthroned with their attendants delineated
and colored in a very skilful manner. In
spite of the prohibition to represent hu-
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Some of these are, "Public Opinion,"
with the sub-headings, "Means of
Arousing it'. Obstacles to be overcome,
Utilizing it." and the "Freshman Prob-
lem."                        �*�
The Bryn" Mawr delegate will lead
the discussion group dealing with the
"Social Functions of Student Govern-
ment," giving particular attention to
extent of .regulation in social activities;
the time devoted to social activities by
There will be general sessions with
an address from some prominent per-
son,   and   reports   from  some  of   the: students, and local problems  such as
week-ends and autoing.
All the women's colleges east of
the Mississippi are associated in this
conference with the addition of Mills
College in California. .
colleges on such topics as "Student gov-
ernment in Relation to Citizenship,"
and the "Honor System."-* Small dis-
cussion groups led by selected dele-
gates  will  consider  certain  problems.
EVERY ONE CAN
WIN A BLAZER
Interest    as    Well    as    Skill
Counts in Awarding
Points.
MOST  NEWFOUNDLAND.
SETTLERS ENGLISH
Miis Susan Doughton Describes
Work   of  Grenfell   Missions.
"Most people think the inhabitants of
Newfoundland and Labrador are Eski-
mos," said Miss Susan Doughton, speak-
ing in Chapel on Friday morning, No-
vember 5. 'They aren't really; they are
old English stock who settled there long
before Canada was settled." Inland, on
the continent, of course you find the
Indians and Eskimos, as well, but the
islands and the coast are mainly inhabited
by English.                             �
The work which Dr. Grenfell directs
may be divided into four classes: the
medical work, the industrial schools, the
orphanage, and the teaching.
This summer the main hospital at St.
Anthony was more than usually over-
crowded, because the news had spread of
a bone specialist from Boston, who was
giving treatments. Patients came from
all the country around, days and weeks
in advance, so that an extra tent had to
be set up to provide accommodations for
them. The motto of the hospital all this
summer was "standing room only," but
the condition will never be so bad again,
because they are building a new hospital
annex.
Besides the main hospital in St. An-
thony there are four others, and four
nursing stations, and Dr. Grenfell's hos-
pital ship, the Strothcona. These take
care of not Only the year round inhabi-
tants of the coast, but also of the twenty
thousand fishers, who come up just in
the summer.
The second field of activity that the
Grenfell mucion undertakes, is that of
the Industrial schools. Dr. Grenfell has
always been very keen for this type of
education, because, he says "What is the-
use of building up Hieir bodies,"when
they have nothing to eat?   They must
? Specially contributed by J. Seeley, 1927,
president of the Athletic Association,
and A. Bruere, 1928, president and vice-
president of the Athletic Association.
Although we had B. M.'s which were
distributed rather automatically to any-
one showing streaks of athletic ability
in any direction, and yellow ties which
the Board gave out rather autocratically
to those people whose looks they happened
to like, we still felt that there was some-
thing lacking. No recognition whatever
was shown to vast numbers of people
who were interested in athletics and who
kept working day after day without any
hope of making varsities or hreaking
records.
When we stopped to think about it we
realized that it takes much more interest
for a fourth team player to show con-
tinued enthusiasm for a game than a
pampered first �team person to evince
signs of the same zeal. Therefore, we
decided to have an award for that hard-
working fourth, fifth, or sixth team
person, an award which should take into
consideration the interest shown and the
time given. If a person is naturally ath-
letic, she will get her blazer sooner, and
she may get a yellow one instead of a
class one; but nevertheless the blazer
is essentially a democratic award. If, in
the course of this experiment, the cam-
pus is glorified by beautiful red, blues,
and greens, and by gorgeous class ani-
mals (even the polyp which we disguise
by calling it a medusa!) twisting them-
selves into startling insignia�why, who
can say that the experiment is not a good
one?
Several people have asked about- the
course of proceedure (besides playing on
teams) involved in winning a blazer
There are a couple of things to do, but
they are quite simple.
First�come to the next association
meeting (of course you will come.to all
meetings!) and get cards to fill out. On
these cards you will, at the end of each
season, put down on what teams you have
been playing, what rankings your cap-
tains give you, and the number of periods
of exercise done in each sport.
Secondly�hand in these  cards to the
TO MEET AT ANN ARBOR
The annual convention of the National
Student Federation, f&mded at Princeton
in 1925, will be held at Ann Arbor, Mich.,
this year, in December.
The organization has as .its purpose the
securing of an increased student interest
in national and international affairs, and
the achieving of close co-operation among
the colleges of the United States.     *.
This year the chief subject to be dis-
cussed will be Prohibition. Various stu-
dent problems will also receive considera-
tion.
H. Hopkinson. '26, and B. Pitney. '27,
were the delegates to the conference last
year, held to discuss the World Court.
Bryn Mawr will be represented at Ann
Arbor by E. Brown, '28.
JULES VERNE OUTSTRIPPED
BY FOREIGN STUDENTS HERE
. "NEWS" ELECTS*
The "College News" ttakes
treat pleasure in announcing
that as a result of the/fecent
competition C. Smith, /�8; K.
Balch, .'39, and E. LeffffjjfWell,
29, have been eleVtHT to the
Editorial Board " as^'Assistant
Editors, aand M. Villard, "27,
Contributing Editor. M. Pettit,
2�, and R. Cross, '�, have been
sleeted to the Business Board.
EDOUARD CHAMPION
TO SPEAK SOON
BRYN MAWR QUELLS
MERION C C, 6-4
Varsity Delays Offensive Till
Second Half�Tries
Open Field.
A.    TOWNSEND    SHINES
Publisher,      Bibliophile      and
Man of Letters on Ameri-
can Tour.
KNEW ANATOLE FRANCE
Esthonia,    Germa^ny,   'China",
Russia and Finland Repre-
sented.
M. T. UNIERE MANAGER
"This is not football." said Miss Ap-
plcbec, by way of suggesting that the
rooters subsitute manual for oral applause
at the game last Saturday morning be-
tween Varsity and Merion Cricket Club.
No. not football, but a most adequate
substitute for a Saturday morning's en-
tertainment�shown by the close score of
0-4 in favor of Varsity.
Merion Cricket Club outmeasured
both in physique and speed. Casual ob-
servers shed tears at Varsity's probable
fate, when they watched Merion's
left inside, Miss Townsend (who by the
way made all the four goals for her
team) eharge down the field passing the
ball to and fro with herself, to shoot
it securely inside the goal. Miss Town-
send even overpowered Varsity's goal
keeper. Only C. Winters succeeded in
stopping her effectually and continually,
more than once the outcome of the game
was materially altered by Winter's per-
sistent defense.
Varsity's victory was due to the excel-
lent defense of Winter, Walker and
Porter and to team work. Marked
progress has been made in pass work and
dodging. As usual the efficiency of the
forward line did not equal that of the
backs.    Each forward made an excellent
play at some one point in the game, but
vice-president at the end* of the fall,] never did these "best moments" coincide,
and spring seasons.                                L   This state of affairs seems to be due to
to the' i
It is to the gym department and
point  committee that the  more  diffkult
task has fallen�that of keeping track of
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ALUMNAE COUNCIL
Meeting to Be Held Next Week.
In Cincinnati.
The annual meeting of the Alumnae
Council will be held in   Cincinnati next
week,   from   Monday   till   Wednesday.
Those who  wiM attend are the district
councillors, the officers of the Alumnae
Association, the chairman of the Scholar-
ship   Committee,   Miss   Millicent   Carey,
the   Director   of   Publicity,   Mrs.   Chad-
wick Collins, the Chairman of Finance,
Miss   Dorothy   Strauss,   the   Alumnae
Directors  of   the  college,  and the two
have some-way-t> .<#� moHjf Us**:-   .^r......tatrrts from the class of  1928,
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. Parker and F. Jay.
laziness, to loss of head, and to lack of
savoir faire. As a remedy for the latter
deficiency, we suggest blackboard demon-
strations in theory. The tendency to lose
one's head will partly remedy itself as
the player becomes seasoned, but con-
centrated stick practice would go a long
way towards developing sureness and de-
pendability. Practice for "corners" would
also be of use.
The first half consisted mainly in ex-
perimentation; each team tested the op-
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TICKETS FOR DISRAELI
Disraeli, the varsity dramatics play, by
Louis Nopoleon Parker, will be given in
the gymnasium on Friday and Saturday
evenings, November 19 and 20. Tickets
are on sale at the^ publicity jjffice, and
the proceeds will go 'Hfmn'd^iltfatajnatL
furnishings   of   Goodhart  Hall.
M. Edouard Champion, leading pub-
lisher and distributor of France, will
speak next Tuesday evening. November
16, on his old friend and associate, Ana-
tole France, accompanying the lecture
with lantern slides of the author's home
in Touraine. Tuesday afternoon, M.
Champion will speak to a more limited
audience, confined to faculty and students,
on the subject of Proustc.
Now engaged on a series of visits to
the leading universities and colleges of
the country, M. Champion desires to
know personally these intellectual centers
which he has served for so long, for he
has not confined book-selling to France.
In fact lie is the French dealer who sends
the most books abroad.
Widely Active.
He is the sole agent of the British
Museum for France, Switzerland and
Relgium. He has a similar position at
the universities of Harvard, Yale, Prince-
ton, California and Michigan for France,
and lias been of signal value to other im-
portant libraries in America, including
the Library of Congress�and that of
Columbia University. He has t further-
more organized for the United States a
gratuitous bureau of expert advice and
assistance, presided over by a biblio-
graphical specialist in close touch with
literary and learned circles in France
and America. It is for these services
that he has been decorated with the
Legion of Honor.
Symbol of Erudition.
For more than half a century the
House of Champion has stood for French
erudition. It has been in constant de-
mand among literatti and scholars the
world over for expert opinion on biblio-
graphical problems, for the cataloguing
and selling of libraries of international in-
terest, for the purveyance of costly and
rare editions and for the ferreting out of
works long out of print.
Linked With A. France.
The House of Champion was founded
about 1870 by Honore Champion, father
of Edouard. Honore Champion succeeded
the bookseller Thibault, who was the
father of Anatole France. Edouard
Champion has continued the tradition of
his father's establishment, making book-
selling not a trade but an art. He has
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The wailing^of weird instruments and
the smooth utterance of strange tongues,
against a background of Oriental' rug*
and many-colored cushions brought some-
thing of the charm of foreign lands to *
Wyndham music room on Saturday eve-
ning when the foreign students of Bryn
Mawr conducted a large college audience
on a sixty-minute tour of the world. The
scenery was completed by the national
costume of six different regions when the
nine foreign students, gay with peasant
aprons and Japanese butterfly "bows
clumped in on clogs and wooden shoes.
Miss Beatrice Pitney, '27, as President
of the Christian Association, under whose
auspices the entertainment was given,
made a short opening speech, and intro-
duced the performers before each num-
ber.
Miss Hilda Taba, who made an effec-
tive picture with her red headband
striped skirt and numerous beads, opened
the program with two songs of her na-
tive Esthonia songs whose gay lilting
rhythm and reiterated choruses were
peculiarly attractive. Next came a brief
talk by Miss Aubertin, of Germany, on
the German Youth movement delivered
with an earnestness and sincerity which
made all her hearers share her faith in
these young Germans, who devote them-
selves to the attainment of perfect truth
in life, speech and human   relations.
The next number carried the audience
back from the youth of today to the
ancient customs of 250 B. C. when Miss
Vaung Tsein Bang, with cherry blossoms
in her hair, gave a representation of a
birthday party in ancient China. She,
herself took the multiple role of* host
and hostess, chief guest and two servants,
from which the audience learned two
things about China : one. that the ancient
Chinese had beautiful manners, and the
other that the modern Chinese need not
come to America to learn how to giggle.
But when Miss Bang became the court
musician, and played old tunes on an
archaic stringed instrument, the audience
was translated from the realms of learn-
ing   to   those   of   feeling,   and   saw   in
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WHAT YOU THINK IS
VITALLY IMPORTANT
CONFERENCE HELD HERE
Vaesar, Smith,  Mt.  Holyoke, Welles-
ley and Bryn Mawr Represented.
The Conference .of  the  heads of the
five  Colleges,   Vassar,   Smith,   Holyoke,
Wellesley   and   Bryn'^fawr   was   held
here last week.                          4
It is the custom for each of trje col-
leges in the conference to send in ma-
terial for the agenda which is then en-
tered under the name of the college
There was various types of subjects for
discussion both academic and otherwise.
Some of the subjects discussed were:
Sectioning on the basis of ability; method
of setting examinations; making out col-
lege schedules; the use of the Scholastic
Aptitude test; the results of the general
examination; combined action by colleges
with regard to immigration laws as af-
fecting college faculties; control of the
college calendar, freshman course of
. �* credit for the junior year in
France.
Student Friendship Fund a Construc-
tive   Factor for Peace.
"Some one has said what students
think today, nations will think tomor-
row." With this statement Mr. S. Ralph
Harlow began his talk in Chapel on Sun-
day, November 7. If this be true, all
thinking along the lines of international
peace and friendship should be encour-
aged. The Student Friendship Fund is
doing a great deal of work in this field.
A British student leader has said of us
that "In America you are serious about
trivial things, and trivial about serious
things." This may seem unfair, but last
Saturday nearly half a million dollars
were spent on tickets to football games.
The same students who get wildly excited,
and highly emotional about their sports,
say, about their Christian Associations,
"We don't want any emotion in religion.''
These discrepancies can be found also in
the very purposes for which people go to
college; the social, and atheletic reasons
come first, and interest in education is
put second. College should train you to
think clearly, and want to know the facts
about current problems.
One great fact that our generation
must face is "the danger of another
great international conflict." There are
all sorts of destructive forces at work in
the world today, but there are also con-
structive forces of which one of the more
important is the Student Friendship
Fund.   -
When America went into the war there
were more students in orison camps be-
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