College News, 1926-10-02, Vol. 13, No. 01

              �*�=>
The College News
VOL. XIII.   No.l.
BRYN MAWrt  (AND WAYNE), PA.,   SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1926
PRICE,   10 CENTS
DR. TENWICK VlSlTS Ge&EVA^S
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT GUEST
�o
\-
' J
FRESHMAN WEEK PROVES
-    UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS
�                            _____
Christian Association Officers En-
tertain and Assist Incoming
�    Class
Calls League Most Important Fact in
Political Life of Europe Today
ANNOUNCE   MEMBERS   OF   1930
The Christian Association did much to
enliven the first few days of college for
the freshman. During the four days be-
fat%  the   upper   classmen   arrived*  otic
member elf the Weicoriiing Committee
lived Si each hall, doing everything in her
power to make things easy. B. Loines,
'28, looked after Rockefeller Hall; J.
Stetson. '28, was in Pembroke West, B.
Pitney, '27. in Pembroke East; C. Field,
'28, in Denbigh; B. Simcox. *27, in Mer-
ion, and C. Platt, '27, was lb Radnor.
The experiment of having\ the fresh-
men come to college a few d%ys early
seems to have been an unqt dificd suc-
cess. They arrived on Wedt esday eve-
ning, and started right in ot Thursday
with appointment* and phys cal exami-
nation*. When they were n n busy in
Taylor or the gym, they were occupied
with athletics. The tennis tournaments
were started, and hockey squads were
organiaed,
Friday iiight the committee led sing-
ing on the Library steps, where they
taught the freshmen many of the college
songs, and got them interested in the
non-academic side of college. On Satur-
day the college provided a picnic supper,
which the ever busy committee served on
the grounds outside of Wyndham. This
was followed by a Barn Dance in the gym.
Miss Applebec conducted some folk
dances, but, due 'to the heat, the mpst
popular feature of the evening was the
punch bowl.                             (
CONTINUED  ON  PAGE 4
NEW APPOINTMENTS INCLUDE
MANY ALUMNAE OF COLLEGE
Eighteen Regional Scholarships Given
to Incoming Freshmen
The freshman class this year numbers
128 which means that as last year two
out of three successful candidates have
been admitted. Until ten years ago Bryn
Mawr was able to accept every qualified
applicant, but now students are admitted
on a strictly competitive basis according
to the number of rooms available after
the upper classes have been supplied.
The new appointments for 1926-27 are
nr. Henry Joel '.Cadbury, coming from
Harvard University, to be Professor of
TVblical Literature; Dr. David I. Hitch-
cork, from the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, to be Associate Pro-
fessor of Physiology and Biochemistry,
and Dr. Ernst Diez, from the University
of Vienna, to be Associate Professor of
History of Art. Mrs. Grace Frank will
be lecturer in Roman Philology, Mrs.
Louise Brownell Saunders, lecturer in
English composition; Dr. Edith Hall
Dohan, substituting for Dr. Rhys Car-
penter, lecturer in Classical Archaeology;
Dr. Conyers Read, non-resident lecturer
in History, and Dr. Duane Reed Stuart,
professor of classics at Princeton Univer-
sity, will be non-resident lecturer in Latin.
Miss Milliccnt Carey, Bryn Mawr, '24,
will be an instructor in English, Mr. Ab-
bott Fraser in Latin, Dr. Echo D. Pepper
in Mathematics, and Mrs. Hortense F^ex-
CONTINDED  FBOM PAgB 2   ^
At the invitation of the Carnegie Endow-
ment ofr International Peace, a partyof some
SO professors of International Law and allied
subjects visited Paris, The Hague and
Geneva this summer with the object of
studying at close range the activities of the
various international bureaus and commis-
sions which have their headquarters in
those cities. Dr. Feiiwick, professor of In-
ternational Law at Bryn Mawr, was one" of
the guests of, the Endowment and speaks of
the trip as one of the most interesting ey-
periences he has ever had.
In Paris the party visited the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and was given an oppor-
tunity to examine documents of great his-
toric interest, such as the treaty of 1778
between the United States and France.
Other visits were to the International Com-
mission on Aerial Navigation, the Interna-
tional Office of Public Hygiene, the National
Library, the International Institute of In-
tellectual Co-Operation, the Internatioal Bu-
reau of Weights and Measures at Sevres,
the. International Bureau of Bibliography at
Vincctlnes.
At The Hague the chief interest of the
party centered in the Palace of Peace, the
gift of Mr. Carnegie, where both the older
Court of Arbitriation and the newer Perma-
nent Court of International Justice hold their
sessions. Conferences, were had with Mr.
Hammarskjpld, the Registrar of the World
CoTTrt, and with Judge Lodcr. Judge and first
President of the Court. The party also
attended a session of the Academy of Inter-
national   Law.
During the first week of the visit to
Geneva, the group attended the sessions of
the Geneva Institute of International Rela-
tions and had the opportunity of meeting a
number of the leading officials of the Secre-
tariat of the League of Nations. The sec-
ond and third weeks were given over to
private conferences by the group with the
technical administrative officials of the
League, while the fourth week was spent in
attendance upon the sessions of the CounciT
and of the Assembly of the League. In addi-
tion to the two or three conferences a day
which the program called for there were
almost dailv luncheon and dinner confer-
ences and meetings so that there was prac-
ically no leacfnig s'a'esman or administra-
te official of whatever nationality, whether
CONTINUED   ON   PAOK   2
PRESIDENT PARK PRAISES GRADUATE SCHOOL
AND FRESHMAN RECORD IN OPENING SPEECH
MUNICIPAL RECEPTION AC--
CORED MISS KING IN SPAIN
Gallegan Journal Acclaims Her Splendid
Achievements.
LOST MOZART SCORE WILL
BE PLAYED BY ORCHESTRA
Forgotten
During    French   Revolution,
Found Recently.
(From   the   Public   Ledger)
A music score written and forgotten for
almost a century and a half is to be played
by   the   Philadelphia   Orchestra   when   it
opens its season on October 8 and 9.
The work is one of Mozart's compo-
sitions, lost to the world for many years
and recently brought to light in the Paris
National Conservatory by Louis Bailly.
the celebrated viola player, who pre-
sented  it to Dr.   Leopold  Stokowski.
Some time in the years preceding the
French Revolution, the manuscript occu-
pied a place in the King's Chapel of Louis
XVI. -Then when the tide of revolt
swept the people and the Tuileries was
stormed by a maddened population that
left destruction and death in its wake, the
score was believed to have been removed
to the Paris National Conservatory.
There it lapsed int
forgotten.
' From F.I Ideal Galleyo
The distinguished professor of the uni-
versity of Bryn Mawr College of Pcnsyl-
vania, Miss Georgiana Goddard King', came
to La Conmina for Santiago. She is an en-
thusiastic admirer of Galicia to which she
has devoted many pages of praise in her
works, i Her studies have dealt in the most
part with monuments, especially the Visi-
gothic, Mo/araliie and Romanesque ones,
which she has recently written about in a
curious work, a book about the Way of
Saint James, followed by the Santiago pil-
grims, which she lu\s retraced step by step.
She is also the editor of the interesting work
by Street about the churches of Spain in
which she treats at length of the churches
of Galicia. Since this was out of print, Miss
Georgiana rcpubrisHcd it with interesting
notes. It is a pity that these were not in-
cluded when the tvork was first translated
into Spanish.
The Mayor, Sri Manuel Casas, the tempor-
ary president of jthe Gallegan Academy, Sr.
Carres Aldac, and the academicians Castillo
and Fernandez Moras went to receive and
salute her. Accompanied by Senores Cams,
Moras and Castillo, she returned the visit
of Sr. Casas in his office at the City Hall
and also visited the home of the academy
where her appointment as Corresponding
kiembej of the society was conferred upon
her in consideration for her work in dis-
seminating knowledge of Galicia and in-
creasing its glory.
Miss (ioddard King thanked them for this
consideration and a sign of regard which is
all the greater because there are only four
such Corresponding Members in North
America.
At the invitation of Sr. Casas luncheon
was served at the restaurant AJfonzo. Among
those present were Sr. Carres Aldao. tempor-
ary president of the academy; the distin-
guished journalist. ElOy L. Andre: the
academicians Castillo and Martinez Moras
and Sr. Hernandez Robredo. During lunch
then was much cordial conversation touch-
ing on various literary and artistic subjects
Sr. Casn< in a few but eloquent words
praised the work of the dtstteguWied pro-
CONTINUED PBOM   PAOB 2
Outlines Responsibility of Under-
graduate to Bryn Mawr as Well
as of College to Undergraduate
STUDENTS BUILDING PROGRESSING
COMMITTEE GIVES TEA FOR
SOCIAL SERVICE ENTHUS^STS
Tremendous Opportunities for Experienc
Offered.
The Social Service Committee is hold
teg a tea on Monday afternoon. October
4, in the Pembroke West Sitting Room.
Everyone who is interested in Social
Service work, even if she docs not expect
�to. do any work, is invited to attend. Dr.
Kingsbury will speak on the pluu for
the year.
The committee is having preliminary
classes for the volunteers to give them a
start on the work. Then informal meet-
ings wiir'be held to discuss difficulties as
they arise. The Social Economy Depart-
ment is going to assist. These classes
should be very interesting and valuable.
The Social Service Committee has never
before offered such an opportunity for
really worth while experience. They are
planning   field   .trips   and.. lc.cturejt
which will be announced later.
President Marion Edwards Park opened
the college year of 1920-27 on Wednesday,
September 29,- speaking in chapel.. She
stressed the change wrought in the college
atmosphere by the mnovation of freshman
week, the development of the graduate "
school and the responsibility of the under-
graduate to the college.
"The formal opening hour of the college
has been already preceded by so many busy
days that I can hardly bring myself to be-
lieve it is actually only this moment taking
place,"   said   President   Park.     "Always   of
course the stated 'Wednesday morning at U
o'clock'   has   followed   a   crescendo   accele-
rando of preparation, but this year the pres-
ence of the freshmen on the campus for a
week  back  has  brought with  it  all. of  the
lively movement and stir which usually dies
down  after the  last ringing of the Taylor
bell in June and wakes only with this week
in   the  autumn.    Will   the college year   go
more softly and pleasantly for an entering
class which already almost to the last man
has answered  and questioned  the president
and dean, transferred cards  from dignitary
to dignitary, yielded up  its secrets,  volun-
tarily   or   involuntarily,   to   Miss   Applebee.
Dr. Wagoner or Dr. Rogers, found its way
through the library and registered its initials.
M    S.  BO,  II.  B. 28, that silent witness of
the passing of years?    This summing up of
impressions   of   our   experiment   by   dean,
wardens. upperclassmcn, the freshmen them-
selves is still to be made.   At least I can at
once say that all this has been carried on in
peace and tranquillity, not in  the  thick  of
finding   class   rooms,   understanding assign-
ments,   recognizing   upper   classmen,   those
mazes   of   heat   and   sound   in   which   the
classes    from   '89   (1   suppose)   to   '25    (I
know)   took their first exploring steps.    It
lias   seemed   to   inc  that   to   borrow  James
Russell  Lowell's figure the college might as
well ask a setting hen to answer the door-
bell  as   expect   its  liewildcred   freshmen   to
keep   the  many   and  irregular  appointments
of their induction to Bryn Mawr and to start
college, work at the same time.    I hope that
a good beginning of the semester may shape
a better ending than other classes have some-
times found.
The class already knows what I can an-
nounce to the college this morning, that it
has 127 members�not of every age and
condition, but of a mild variety of age and
no condition! There have been only two
classes larger than this one�1921 with .139
members and 1M7 with ISO. The highest
record in the examination close to a H. C.
average, Mid the lowest record of age are
'�eH bv the same member of the class.
doclu'sima fwtlla and i:s member* of the
�la's presented a credit avenge in' their
"xnmteationa, barked hv an equally good or
better school record and a fanfare of trum-
pets from the heads of their schools. At a
later time 1 shall speak at length of the
heredity, and environment, the religion and
the politics, the ambitions and the limitations
of the newcomers.
"The graduate school already numbers 7S
and unlike the undergraduate college its
registration is never complete until several
weeks after the opening of the year. Resi-
dent fellows in English. Romance Lan-
guages. German. Biblical Literature, History,
Economics and Politics. Social Economy and
Social Research. Philosophy. Psychology,
History   of   Art.   Education,   Mathematics,
CONTI
Ni-Er>
ON   PAOB 8
130879