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BRYN MAWRj (AND WAYNE), PA..   WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9J�27
PRICE.   10 CENTS
SELF-GOV. AIMi
AT FAIR PLAY
Suspension  Necessary Power
of Board, Explained
at Meeting.
SHADES DOWN,   PLEASE
The power of the Self-Government
Association to suspend and expel stu-
dents was the main topic of discussion
at the meeting held November 2 in
Taylor. '
"It is necessary that there should be
hi the hands of the Hoard some such
real power as that of the suspension and
expulsion of students who show them-
selves unwilling to live in accordance
with our accepted system," said J.
Young, '28. "This power the Executive
Board has, with the full support of the
college authorities. It is a power which
has not been exercised in the past few
years, previously it was more commonly
used�at one point the European Fellow
was unable to attend Fellowship Dinner,
so tradition says, because she had been
suspended.
"Every member of the Association
must realize that such a power is neces-
sary. The Executive Board is anxious
that the Association should realize that
this power can and will be employed
The judicial function of the Board is one
v.hich it is forced to exercise for the
protection of the spirit of the Associa-
tion. The members of the Board do
not fulfill their obligation if this func-
tion is not exercised with conscientious-
ness and equity. The single desire of
the Board in this respect is to be' fair; it
fails in its duty and "> its purpose if it
is not as fair as is humanly, possible. To
be fair to the Association, to the in-
dividual, and to its own responsibility is
the moving spirit of the Board.
"From the decisions of the Executive
Board an appeal to a higher court is
always possible. I do not think that it
is generally realized that the Board is
only a lower court; the whole Associa-
tion, sitting as a judicial body, is the
higher court to which appeals may be
made. This is the c institutional check
upon the decisions of the Board."
Other Announcements.
What to do if you miss the last train
out from Philadelphia was explained in
detail. First, the student must telephone
her Warden, and then she must spend
the night in town at a Y. W. C. A. Stu-
dents are not supposed to come out on
�the early morning milk train, nor may
they take a taxi out from Philadelphia.
Students were reminded that Wardens
may not give special permission; only the
Self-Government Board and the Hall
Presidents are thus empowered.
Two other points were brought up,
and the co-operation of the Association
sought. First, the question of pulling
down shades at night -when the light is
on;   Miss  Park  is  particularly  anxious
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Lantern Business
-       Board
The Business Board of the
Lantern reglfcts to announce the
resignation of M. Gessner, '29. As
a result of the recent competition,
J. Van Buren, '29, G. De Roo, '29,
M. Stevenson, '30, and H. L, Tay-
lor, '30, were elected to the Board.
VARSITY WINS 6-4
IN HARD FIGHT
Long Runs by Tuttle and San-
born Cause Reds'
Downfall.,
WET FIELD SLOWS GAME
Bates House
Less General Interest on Part of
College Viewed With
Alarm.
Ellenor Morris, '27, presented the prob-
lem of Bates House in chapel on Mon-
day, November 7. The committee is
gradually trying to change the "base of
supplies" from New York to Philadel-
phia. Although minor changes occur
from year to year the main problems that
face the Bates House committee are
always the same. First the continual cry
for money; secondly the need for work-
ers. There seems to be less general in-
terest every year in - satisfying these
needs. Unless the college as a whole
faces these problems the long-standing
institution of Bates House will have to
be given up, said Miss Morris regret-
fully. It is the people who do not know
that lack interest. Everyone who has
actually been there feels -intensely what
valuable work is being done. It should
be the work and responsibility of every
single person in college.
Varsity carried off the laurels, 6-4, in
an exciting game against the Philadelphia
Cricket Club Reds on Saturday. No-
vember 5. Cloudy weather and a soggy
field made the playing slow at first, and
Varsity showed its usual inadequacy at
the striking circle. The Reds arrived,
two players short, and their places were
filled by H. Adams, '30, and E. Blanch-
ard, '31. The Cricket Club took the
offensive at once, and made two goals
in rapid succession, one of them by
Blanchard. Sloppy playing and lack of
co-operation hindered Varsity, although
Tuttle and Guitermaii made several nice
runs down the field. Eventually one of
these runs ended by the ball finding its
way somehow into the goal, and after a
second goal, Varsity played a better and
speedier game. The half ended 3-2 in
Varsity's favor.
In the second half the game was clearly
Bryn Mawr's. L. Sanborn, '31, although
occasionaly caught out of position, dis-
tinguished herself by a beautiful long
run and goal, followed by others. Wills
played a fine game, and Hirschberg and
Hamilton were notable in the defense. In
spite of Al's remarkable foot work, which
certainly would win her recognition on
the soccer field, the Reds got two more
goals, but they had to admit they were
outplayed;
Line-up:
P. C. C�Hillary, Chapman, Cross,
Porcher, H. Adams, '30; George Frane,
Morris, Miachold, Griffith, Ferguson, E.
Blanchard, '31.'
Bryn Mawr�H. Tuttle, '28; H. Guiter-
man, '28**; *R. Wills, '29**; S. Long-
streth, '30*; L. Sanborn, '31*; C. Hamil-
ton, grad.. E. Brooks, '28; B. Freeman,
'29; K. Hirschberg, '30; A. Shaw, grad.;
A. Bruere, '28.
Entrance Exams
Board System Now Obligatory
For A1J Candidate* to
Bryn Mawr.
The subject of Miss Park's talk <n
chapel on Friday morning, November 4,
was the College Entrance Examination
Board and the new interest of Bryn
Mawr in the proceedings of the board.
The reason for our interest is that Bryn
Mawr has now gone over entirely to
board examinations for entrance. The
system is in itself an enormous-one. Ten
years ago there were nine thousand boys
and girls taking these examinations; last
year there were twenty-three thousand,
which shows an incredible increase.
T|je Board began in 1900 with Miss
Thomas and President Eliot among its
members. New colleges have gradually
come into its system and last year some
very interesting new ones were added: all
the universities of California and the
Head Mistress' Association of the Pacific
coast.
The examiners for the board are
chosen from various college faculties.
The examinations themselves are made
out two years in advance and submitted
to a special board for revision. The
leaders are very widely chosen, although
a surprising number are chosen from the
Bryn Mawr faculty. This year it took
the seven hundred readers twenty-one or
twenty-two days to mark the entire set
of papers. The rules for marking are
very^igid. All English papers are gone
over many times by at least two people
working together.
The students taking the examinations
conic from one thousand different public
schools and eight hundred and fifty
private scltools. There are usually about
twice as many boys as girls. A list is
published each year of the boys and
girls with the highest honors. The names
of several members of the Freshman
class this year were included in the list
SENIOR RECEPTION DRAWS
BRILLIANT SOCIETY THRONG
COMFORT MAKES
UNHAPPINESS
Triangular Archery Meet
Won By Bryn Mawr
On Tuesday, November 1, Bryn Mawr
defeated Swarthmore and Smith in an
Archery Meet. It was a particularly ex-
citing event because, for the first time,
one of the opposing teams, Swarthmore,
was on the spot. Heretofore we have al-
ways had to shoot against an invisible
rival. In spite of this incentive, the meet
was far from hotly contested. In fact
the Bryn Mawr team was quite evi-
dently winning from the beginning. Both
their form and their accuracy were more
marked than that of Swarthmore. But
it should be remembered, in considering
the scores, that we have had archery here
as a sport for a whole year longer than
either of the opposing teams, and that we
have had a coach nationally famous for
his form tn Dr. Elmer.
Marion Barber, '29, with a score of
66-392, shot the best Columbia round
we have had in a varsity tournament,
the best round she has ever made o:
dally or unofficially. The Bryn Mawr
team consisted of M. Gregson, *28; V.
Atmore. '28; M. Barber, '29, and H.
Seligman. '30.
Brvn Mawr......  ......*37          1231
Smith    .................. 1�1           939
Swarthmore      ..........139           571
Kirsopp Lake Blames Church-
es for Overstepping
Philanthropy.
ARE   THREE   PROBLEMS
The Play Is Cast
The cast for The Cradle Song
has been chosen, as a result of the
tryouts held last week. It is as
-follows:
Prioress   ..........C.  Crosby, '28
Vicaress,
C. Hamilton, or M. Burgess, "30
Sister Joanna of <he Cross,
M. Barker, "30
Theresa  .........K. Hepburn, '28
Sister Marcella,                   � �
M.   Burgess. '30, or  C.   Hamilton,
grad.
Mother <>f N'ovicej,
J. Hopkinson, '30
Sister Maria Jesu,
B. Humphries, ':.�<>
Sister Segrario ......P. Burr, '28
Sister  Inez   ......E.  Bigelow, '30
Sister Tornera .....I. Yerkes, '29
Doctor ..........M. Lambert, '29
Antonio   ..........M.  Mupfel, '28
Stewy Star of Skit Which Hits
Many High Spots, But
t,       Lacks Unity.
EVENING ENDS IN HELL
Study at Oxford
Scholarship Open to Those Who
Would Seek Wisdom
Among Spires.
"Two questions arc being asked of
teachers of theological schools and uni-
versities," said the Reverend Kirsopp
I^ake, speaking in chapel on Sunday, No-
vember 6. "First, why is it so difficult
to get good ministers? Second, why is it
so difficult to get good congregations?
These questions are complementary, and
they    are    important    to    others    than
teachers.
"The difficulty   is that there are three   �"'�;"�"   -��*-   ����T     �-
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problems in our minds today for which
no one can find a satisfactory answer;
so instead of trying to answer them, the
churches are avoiding the issue and de-
voting themselves merely to philanthropy,
which is not so much their business.
"The first problem is an account of
the world�what does it mean? where
did it come from? where is it going?
No one cSn answer these questions and
we are no longer satisfied with the old
conventional answer from the Bible.
There is a common ignorance and quest
between the minister and his congrega-
tion.
New Theory of Conduct la Sought
"The practical application of science
has made too many people too com-
fortable. The result is that they are un-
happy, for when you are comfortable
you have leisure to realize that you are
unhappy. The quest for happiness by
studying the rules of conduct is the prob-
lem of the new generation; and a fitting
theory of conduct is the second question
that congregations are asking.of minis-
ters. They cannot give a satisfactory
answer to this either, but the pfqMem is
best settled by the method of observation
and experiment.
The third problem is the most impor-
tant. In the past, the church has always
been a society of those who knew how
to transmute the values of life.   One of
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Iii these latter days, with our broaden-
ing horizons, there has come to many
American college students a glimpse of
those towers of Oxford that through tlie
ages have beckoned scholars of all lands.
These young persons have been fired
with the ambition to study within sight
and sound of these spires. It's a laudable
ambition, a splendid idea, but there is not
room for all of them! Not ever? stu-
dent is qualified for admission. The
Rhodes Scholarships have provided op-
portunities for a number af men to sat-
isfy this ambition, and returned Rhodes
Scholars have been a source of informa-
tion about Oxford for men students.
Their enthusiasm has added to the eager-*
ness of women students to study there,
hut in the nature of the case they have
not been able to disseminate information
about the admission of such students to
the University. It is in regard to the
women students , especially that this
column is written.
Although women students have been
admitted to lectures and examinations for
a good many years, it is only since 1980
that they have been admitted to degrees
in the University. Even now, the num-
ber of students in the women's colleges
is not large. But each year, in the inter-
ests of international friendship, the
women's colleges�Somerville, Lady
Margaret Hall, St. Hugh's, St. Hilda's,
and the Society of Oxford Home Stu-
dents�reserve a limited number of places
for   American  women  graduates.    The
recommendation of a committee on selec-
tion in this country, of which President
Mary E. Woolley, of Mount Holyoke
College, is chairman�a sub-committee of
the Committee on International Rela-
tions of the American Association of
University Women.
Selection Is Different
The task of selection, difficult enough
in itself, is complicated by two things:
First, the fact that the Oxford colleges
welcome warmly only students who will
remain for two years and read for an
Oxford degree; and second, the pro-
found lack of understanding by many
"intending students" of what an English
university, and especially Oxford, really
is�of what it offers to and expects from
its members.
Probably the very best thing for any
student who contemplates study at
Oxford to do is to read "Oxford of
Today," by Crosby and Aydelotte. Presi-
dent Aydelotte, of Swarthmore, himself
a Rhodes Scholar, knows American col-
leges and students, and�he knows Oxford.
This manual for Rhodes Scholars, if it
were more widely known and read, would
considerably lighten our darkness.
Women students should apply for de-
tailed information and for blanks of
application to the committee on.selection.
Degrees: Students are admitted to read
COSTINUBD  OH  PAOB 4
The   Senior   Reception   to  the   Fresh-
men, held Friday night in the gym, was
attended   by   the   gayest   and   most   at-
tractive  crowd  we  have yet seen at a
college function. The music, which lasted
from 8 to Id. was excellent and obviously
appreciated by everyone.    At 10 o'clock
the Radnor end of the gym was trans-
formed into the Lower World�the trans-
formation being largely effected by the
presence of a definitely three-headed Cer-
berus.    Among the many things missed
at   the   moment  but   learned  later  was
that the three heads represented Entrance
Examinations.    Intelligence    Tests    and
English   Rating.     After   a   song,   King
Pluto, played by J. Morgenstern, entered
carrying  a bag  adorned   with   strangely
familiar initials.   With perfect diction he
called the role for a Hadean fire drill;
those present were such famous souls as
the Furies, Sisyphus, Tantalus,,Helen of
Troy and  Prometheus, accompanied by
an attentive vulture.    Following the roll
call and a short talk on the necessity of
fire drills and vibrations, the souls pro-
ceeded   to  "join   the   daily   round"  by
marching in a circle.   The monotony of
this*was broken by E. Amram and M.
Coss,   who.   as   Paoli   and    Francasca,
sang an amorous duet.   This was greatly
appreciated, by those who were new to
college   skits   in   particular.    M.   Haley
as Eurydice, the spirit of Goodhart Hall,
did a dramatic dance, strongly suggestive
of   a  prominent   campus   terpsichorean.
P.   Burr,  who  spoke  briefly about the
inner life, and the chorus of hell-cats,
were   greeted   like   old   friends   by   the
whole audience but most delightedly by
the Freshmen.    E.  Stewart,   the  last to
appear,   undoubtedly scored  the hit  of
the evening.   She strode about the room;
clad in a linen gym suit, shouting com-
mands and witty remarks�that is, she
was  conducting  a  Pageantry  rehearsal.
Such  was her popularity that she was
hardly allowed to speak.   There was no
one who did not recognize her.
As a whole, the skit was not good; it
(-did  not  hold  together well  and  many
points did.not get over, even to that will-
ing audience.    Rut why should a skit be
considered as a whole?   Parts of it fell
very  flat, but other parts will be long
remembered and appreciated.
Join Red Cross
In
Last Year It Has Relieved
Average of 4 Disasters
Per Day.
"Five million members for 1928." .
With this as the slogan for the
Eleventh Annual Roll Call and with a
goal which calls for an increase of some
two million members, the Red Cross
comes to the American peorle this year
with twelve months of service behind it
greater than any given since the war.
Armistice Day, which marks the anni-
versary of the end of the world war,
will launch the annual membership en-
rollment effort of the Red Cross to con-
tinue until Thanksgiving Day.
Increased support from the American
people is necessary if the Red Cross is
effectively to assume the new and great
responsibilities which rest upon it In
disaster relief, at home and abroad, there
is a persistent demand for a broadening
of Red Cross disaster service. During
the Mississippi flood, the Red Cross gave
emergency relief to 750,000 persons, and
at one time served a million meals a day.
How gigantic is this task of administer*
ing disaster relief is evidenced by the last
annual report.
During the last fiscal year the Red
Cross gave relief in ninety-one major and
minor disasters in the United States�
in other words it was called upon to
relieve distress somewhere in the country
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