College News, 1926-11-17, Vol. 13, No. 08

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VOL. XIII.   No. 8.
BRYN "MAWR   (AND WAYNE). PA.,   WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1926 . .'
DR. GILKEY URGES
CHURCH LOYALTY
Current Pessimism'Is Not Jus-
tified�Membership
Growing.
MYSTICISM TO DEVELOP
"I want to'-take up the cudgels'w
defense of ihe much-abused church,"
said Dr. Gilkey at the beginning of his
first lecture, on Wednesday evening,
�November 10. He discussed some of
"{he /alse ideas concerning the church;
and gave his reasons for believing in
,it and its future.
\ There are two current beliefs whieh
are false. The first is the more im-
iportant: that the church is about to
collapse and dBappaar. Articles in
:magazines, discussions on every hand,
�do much to foster this idea. But a
rapid glance at statistics will show how
mistaken it is. For the'last hundred
years the American church has been
growing three times as fast as the
population; and during the years 1910
to 1920 the membership of the Prot-
estant churches increased twenty-three
per cent, that of the Catholic, eleven
per cent. This refutes another argu-
ment that the Catholic church is gain-
ing power at a greater rate than the
Protestant.
The second false conception is that
the church is mainly made up of
women. Again, statistics show that
forty-four per cent, of the Protestant
membership is masculine, and this is
increasing rapidly. No one can say
that young men are not going into the
ministry, when at Amherst alone twen-
ty-eight are headed that way. "The
talk of the drift of this generation
away from the church is sheer non-
sense." An article in Harpers recently
refuted this idea, contrasting the de-
cline in the church with that in other
organizations. Secular institutions
change, but "it is harder to kill a
church than anything else."
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SPEAKS ON ANATOLE FRANCE AND PROUST
WHEN 2 CONVERSE
SEXTETTE OCCURS
'Simplicity,  Inner Autonomy
and Truth Essential," Says
Dr. Van Dusen.
Intimate    Life     of     Anatole
France Discussed by
Close Friend.
MME. DE CAILLAVET
COMPELLED WRITING
GOAL   IS   SELF-ONENESS
Science  and   Religion.
Science is crushing out religion; this
is another idea which is prevalent, but
ungrounded. When Matthew Arnold
wrote Dover Beach, seventy-five years
ago, he said that it was the ebb tide of
religion.    And it is true that the.scien-
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�FOUR TIMES A WINNER,
VARSITY WINS AGAIN
Unexpected   Game  with  Swarthmore
Is  Scrappy.   �
Varsity won its fifth consecutive
victory, playing against Swarthmore
on  Friday,  November 12.
Bryn Mawr might have been ac-
cused of adopting Helen Wills' habit
of keeping her opponent waiting,
because Swarthmore arrived at three-
thirty, and waited, getting colder and
colder, for about half an hour. At
four they started in pursuit of our
team, and the game began at four-fif-
teen. We could hardly be blamed for
the delay, however,, since through
some mistake no one had been noti-
fied that there was to be a match.
Backi   Steady.
During* the first half Bryn Mawr
did all of her scoring. The ball was
carried into Swarthmore's territory,
and kept there most of the time. There
was a great deal of scrapping in the
circle, and whenever the forwards lost
the ball, JatnSeeley was there to send
it back to them. Her defense and J.
Porter's stick work were indispensable
to the forwards, who. were slow and
unenergetic. Guiterman was the only
one of them who really fought; she
was indefatigable, and made two' of
Bryn Mawr's goals, one of which was
from a seemingly impossible angle.
Swarthmore's left inner, A. Wain,
made some nice dribbles, cheered
frantically from the side lines, but the
rest of her forwards were not up to
her, so her attempts proved futile.
At the beginning of the second half,
Swarthmore got the ball into Bryn
Mawr's   territory,   and   from   then   on
"Our true selves, and how we can
best bring them out," was the subject
of the Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen's
sermon on Sunday, November 14.
"When two girls talk together," he
said, "there are really six people in
the conversation: each girl as *the
other one sees her, as she sees her-
self, and as she really is. known only
to God."
Self at Least Two.
We recognize in ourselves at least
two persons: the one the world sees
and thinks it knows, and the one
known only to God and occasionally
glimpsed by ourselves. .Take the case
of the medical student, who in the
company of his fellows jokes, drinks,
treats his profession as a "rarified form
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IfoERICA FOUGHT FOR
TRADE, NOT IDEALS
Dr.   Fenwick   Stresses   Our   Duty   to
Join   League.
"What has victory meant to us?"
asked Dr. Fenwick, professor *bf Poli-
tics, speaking in Armistice Day chapel.
We did did not enter the war until
April of 1917. For nearly three years
we stood by and watched the break-
ing of treaties, the devastation of Bel-
gium. Not until our commerce was
affected did we cease to be neutral.
The sinking of the Lusitania aroused
us to send a note of protest: Germany
apologized, and the matter was for-
gotten. There was an enormous
boom in commerce here until Germany
decided to starve Great Britain out,
and proclaimed a war zone, which our
ships should not enter except at their
own peril. Then we arose and armed
our merchant ships and  declared war.
But we had to have a higher aim to
fight for, and so we made slogans.
It was to be a war to end wars, to
make the world safe for democracy.
Our soldiers were told that they were
crusaders who should deliver human-
ity from the tyrants of the world.
Peace came. Wilson went to Paris,
and found himself in the midst of pas-
sions curiously unsusceptible to pleas
J.for impartiality. But Europe made
concessions, and the League was
formed.
Ideals  Discarded for Business.
Then the League was rejected by
the Senate, we withdrew into our tra-
ditional isolation. We remembered
that we had saved our trade�we for-
got the ideals for which we had fought.
We demanded that the moneys we
had lent for the prosecution of the
war be repaid. Yet we lost only
50.000 men on the field of battle, and
would have lost 350.000 if France and
England had not offered to fight for
us until our troops were properly
�rained, in return for supplies.
Europe is now working out the
scheme we 'proposed, and it has be-
come the cornerstone of Europe. All
statesmen turn their eyes to Geneva.
Our co-operation is not essential to
Europe. But 'co-operation with
Europe is essential to our honor. Till
we co-operate willingly, Armistice Day
is not a day for rejoicing, but a day
to meditate whether we are doing all
we ought to carry out the high ideal
*" -::u:ch those 50,000 died.
"L'homme de genie est tin mannequin
sou ffrant" .... "L'homme est un
animal ]x>litique, mais la politiquc est le
pire des animaux" are both phrases
turned by Anatole France, not. as might
be expected, in his writings, but in the
ordinary�or rather extraordinary course
of his conversation. It was this side of
Anatole France, the ^utimate side, at
home among his booW and bric-a-brac
that M. Edouard Champion took as the
subject of his lecture on Tuesday eve-
ning, N'ovemlier 16.
Anatole France spent his youth in the
Quai Malaquais, the site of the House
of Champion. In fact. M. Honore Cham-
pion, Edouard Champion's father was"
the business successor of Anatole
France's father. The traditions of
France's youth are therefore the same
as those of the Champions�an atmos-
phere of books of all kinds dominated
by the literati and bels esprits of the
age. Le Petit Pierre, Le Livre de Man
Ami and La lie en Fleur all reflect this
period of Anatole France's life, when all
he had to do was to glance out the win-
dow to see the old book stands of the
Rive Gauche and the outline of Notre
Dame.
Not  Brilliant Student.
As a student, Anatole France was not
what might be termed brilliant. He re-
ceived most of his schooling at the In-
stitute Stanislas, where all his compan-
ions were far richer and better dressed
than he- They used to tease him about
his shabby attire and even went as far
as to put pebbles down his neck when on
one occasion he appeared with a collar
so ill fitting that it might have been
mistaken for a ruff.
His entry into the world of Beaux
Arts immediately brought forth diverse
frtlit Forced to accept any task offered
he rirst had to proof-read a Dictionary
of France and then a cookbook. In
1866-67 he occupied the position of a
government clerk and was then appointed
to the, library of the Senate. Although
only three hours a week were expected
of him, so lazy was Anatole France and
so intent upon vacations, that his supe-
rior summed up his work as "nothing-
ness" and he himself gained the nick-
name of folded-arms. As might be sur-
mised, his discharge was almost immedi-
ate.
Influence of Mme. de Cavaillet.
Then came a marriage d'amour which
was followed by a succession of affairs
ending with a mannequin, Mme. de
Caillavet, whose salon was frequented
by most of the great French and inter-
national writers of the age, Bourget, La
Comtesse de Martel, Jules Le Maitre,
etc., soon succeeded France's wife in his
affections. But this was not at first
reciprocal, for Mme. de Caillavet was
fascinated at the moment with Jules Le
Maitre. But since a rival hostess of a
solan succeeded in capturing LeMaitre,
Mme. Caillavet soon decided in favor of
Anatole France.
"Although these details may at first
seem trivial," said M. Champion, "they
really are important in that they give
the undercurrents of contemporary Pari-
sian life." Mme. de Caillavet was of
great moment in his literary career, and
obliged him to write. She literally forced
the pen into his hand, and many are the
anecdotes of how Anatole France side-
stepped the tyranny of his obdurate task-
mistress.
Her goading, however, was not with-
out effect, in seven years he wrote Thais,
Balthazar, Le Jardin d'Epicttre, Le Lys
Rouge among others. In spite of the
domestic scenes of strife in which they
were   composed,   all   these   are   master-
Illness   Seen   as   Tremendous
Factor in Writings of
Proust.
DEALS WITH CAUSES �
-   OF DAILY ACTS
EDOUARD CHAMPION
VARSITY DEFEATS
GERMANT0WN 4-2
Only   Lights   in   Drab   Game
Are Visitors' Passes
and Dodges.
BACKS    ARE   STAUNCH
pieces.
One day, Mme. de Caillavet found him
dozing in his chair.   "What!    You are
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Again Varsity crashed through with
a 4-2 victory over Germantown on
Saturday, November 18. While the
team lacked complete cohesion, it
nevertheless functioned as a strong
machine.
Both teams were very even and the
play fluctuated continuously from one
end of the field to the other. (By the
way, one should hardly speak of the
field as all three fields were tried and
found wanting during the course of
the game.) Varsity had no difficulty
in rushing the ball down the field, but
the striking circle seemed to paralyze
their fighting powers; over and over
again they would lose the ball after a
brilliant long rush, and back to the
end of the field it would travel. Tuttlc
pulled off several of these pretty but
unavailing runs down the alley. The
play of the backs was noticeably bit-
ter than that of the forwards on both
teams.
Forward* Poor.
Our forwards did not seem to form
any "mighty line" and their lack of
co-operation was deplorable. Guiter-
man was good and Tuttle, after mak-
ing a bad start, played very well
towards the end. Loines was not
nearly up to her usual form and her
fall from grace seemed to demoralize
her confederates. Stix showed up
poorly as indeed she has for the last
few games: she does not seem to be
living up to her soaring Hockey Camp
and early season reputation.
Johnson showed ability, but seemed
a bit clumsy with her feet. She also
appeared unable to co-operate with
Varsity. Wills was substituted for herj
in the. second half and made a far bet-
ter cog, even if she did achieve some
graceful spills in the mud.
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Marcel Proust was the subject on
which M. Edouard Champion, distin-
guished publisher and bioliophile of
Paris, spoke at a meeting of the French
Club in Taylor at 4 on Tuesday, Novem-
ber  16.
"The fame of Marcel Proust has pass-
ed beyond the frontiers of his own coun-
try," he began. "All over the world so-
cieties have been formed for the purpose
of studying his methods and texts."
He w,as born in Paris on July 10, 1871,
of a Protestant father and Catholic
mother. When he was nine years old he
had an attack of croup which was nearly
fatal, and which proved to be the first
appearance of asthma which afflicted his
whole life. The effect of this illness on
the sensitive child can hardly be esti-
mated. It meant the complete repression
of all his impulses, and his condemna-
tion to a life which must be interior, with-
out any physical expression.
After going to school, he began to fre-
quent the salon of Madame Strauss, and
went about in society a great deal, where
his brilliance made him famous.
Bad Health Forces Isolation.
But soon his health failed, and he was
compelled to abandon all this pleasant so-
ciety and lead a life of practical isolation.
Young, passionate, welcomed every-
where, he suffered greatly at being forc-
ed into retirement. At his mother's
death he went to live on Boulevard
Haussmann. and from this moment his
l)k>graphy loses itself in his writings.
His life and his work were completely
opposed, so much so that one may feel
that he put into his books all his de-
sires, living in a sort of active torpor, the
result of which was the 20 volumes en-
titled "La Recherche des Temps Perdus."
He  lived in a large  room, always her-
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ROUND TABLE
Present   Problems   to   Bs   Discussed
Weekly.
At the meeting of the Round Table,
held on November l\, it was decided
there will be weekly discussions at
five o'clock on Thursdays, to consider
present  problems.
There is a chance that the Round
Table may organize as an international
relations club under the auspices of
the Carnegie Endowment for Peace,
and if this is so, the discussions, one
week, will be national and the next,
[-international in  character.
The subject for the coming week is
the Passaic strike. The place will be
announced later.
GRADUATE SCHOOL HAS
COSMOPOLITAN GROUP
Miss  Schenck  Speaks About  History
and Status of School.
Miss Schenck, who is at the head of
the Graduate School, spoke in chapel on
Wednesday morning, November 10. She
touched upon the history of the school,
and its present status.
The Graduate School is as old as the
college itself. In the very first pamphlet
about the opening of the college, dated
1883, it was forshadowed by the sen-
tence saying that the founder "enjoined
that girls be educated to be teachers of
a high order." In the second pamphlet
there was a whole paragraph on the
Graduate School. In the college's first
year there were eight graduates, and 44
undergraduates, and this proportion has
continued down to the present time, when
there are over 100 graduates. The Re-
sident and European Fellowships which
have been added by degrees, are proof
that the college has kept in mind the
needs of the Graduate School.
Foreign students came early, and now
there are always seven or eight in the
school. It is a very cosmopolitan group;
there are six European countries rep-
resented, which means an imposing array
of universities; four Canadian colleges
are represented, and the rest of the
graduates come from 25 different States,
and 53 different colleges. These statistics ~
show how much more scattered they are
than the freshman class.
From questionnaires which were sent
out, it has been found that certain things
stand out in favor of the school. First,
women students are welcomed here, and
not made to stand second to the men.
Then, they can get what they want
academically here.
Not a small factor in its favor is the
stimulus it gms to the faculty. They
find satisfaction and enrichment which
make them give the full measure of
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