College News, 1928-01-18, Vol. 14, No. 11

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College News,
VOL. XIV.   No. 11
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE), PA..   WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 18, 1928
PRICE   10 CENTS
NUCKOLS CROWNED. TN MAY DAY POLLING
IMPOSSIBLE, BUT
NEEKFUL, TO DISARM
League Faced  With  Problem
,   of Limiting Power
Fairly.          .
HOW TO OUTLAW WAR
"Disarmament in order to ensure
permanent peace is a Subject so co'm-
plicated that therjj/is much misunder-
standing about it." said Don Salvador
de Ivladariaga, speaking in Chapel on
Saturday, January 14. "The work:of
--the Lv*%ne in that Une has no**"*
liiere theorizing, but" has 'dealt' with
actual-difficulties."
The first confusion is over the -use
of the word; "disarmament" doesn't
mean doing away with ' all arma-
ments�there is an .element in human
nature that must be guarded against
by a modicum of arms. It means
simply the reduction of arms, and this
cannot be done � without the comman
consent  of all  nations.
Strength of Nations Is Relative.
There are no ways of measuring the
strength of a nation scientifically. In
the first place spiritual and moral el-
ements cannot be taken into accounts
Second, the force of a nation in men,
materials and money is relative and
based on different systems in differ-
ent countries. All nations, when
questioned, insist that they are peace-
ful and all their neighbors aggressive;
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Ski Race Winner
Helen Louise Taylor, '30, has
done credit .to the college by win-
ning the women's intercollegiate ski
race in the annual holiday winter,
sport's meet at Lake Placid, in
which she ^represented Bryn Mawr.
She isYsecretary oi the Atl'letic
Association here.
ROMAN ORGY PALLS
IN SPITE OF ALL
Leap   Year   Resulted   fn   No
Programs   for    Poor     I *
Upper Classmen.
MANY GOOD COSTUMES
SHVERMANON
GLASS MAKING
Authority Tells of Interesting
Methods of Manu-
facture.
BLESSING   TO   MANKIND
Glass, its manufacture and its uses,
was the subject of a very interesting
illustrated lecture by Dr. Silvermati, of
the University of Pittsburgh, on
Thursday evening, January 12. The
lecture, under the auspices of the Sci-
ence Club, was enthusiastically re-
ceived by a large audience.
First American Industry
Dr. Sjlverman began by telling us
that glass-making was one of the old-
est industries in the world. It was
also the first industrial enterprise in
the American colonies as there was a
factory at Jamestown.
He went on to tell us how glass ac-
tually is made. One hundred pounds
of sand to every 15 pounds of lime
and 35 of soda ash seem' strange ele-
ments to compose a transparent sub-
stance like glass, but such are the
facts. One can but wonder. As clay
is the only material capable of with-
standing the terrific heat necessary
for the making of glass, the materials
are baked in fine clay pots. The heat
of 2560 degrees Fahrenheit to which
they are subjected melts the three el-
ements into, a liquid-like molasses.
This embryo glass is then poured out
onto a flat steel table, where it is
rolled like dough. This flat sheet is
stamped down between two revolving
steel plates, and after that polished
with rouge or iron rust The product
resulting from this process is plate
glass. Bullet-proof glass is no more
r.or less, we learned, than three layers
of ordinary plate glass stuck together
with a collodion-like binder which
has a certain resiliency that keeps all
three layers from breaking.
Early Method Fascinating.
The earliest method of making glass
was perhaps the most fascinating. The
sticky molasses-like fluid was gathered
on  the end of a hollow pipe by suc-
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On Saturday, January 7. the college
assembled in the gymnasium to par-
ticipate in what was expected to be one
of the most wanton gatherings of the
year:    a Ionian Orgy.
There was everything needed for
just such a night of revelry for which
the dignified tribunes and lictors must
have 'donned their best laurel wreaths
and gilt aprons in the age'of chariot
races and Cleopatra.
� The assembled multitude was start-
lingly cosmopolitan. There were
Greek slaves with bewitching eyes,
gaudily attired in brilliant buskins and
bcjeweled ornaments raped from the
choicest set of portieres just for the
occasion. There was* Alexander, a
handsome youth in oilcloth and whisk-
broomed helmet; there was Cleopatra,
the sly minx, up to her old tricks and
limpid gesticulations. There were
Cicero, Vergil, Mark Antony and a
whole Roman bath, which proved its
usefulness by walking away with' a
laurel wreath for the best presenta-
tion, "sex undetermined."
The music was jflst hilarious enough
for an orgy; and the dimly-lighted
room, combined with the langurous
couches strewn around, gave everyone
a feeling of great  expectancy.
O Temporal O Mores! Quel from-
mage!
Never did any Bacchanalian revel
end in such mad confusion! Only the
ladies seemed to have the faintest
idea with whom they were to caper.
The poor men stood around in dazed
groups huddled against their family
pillar at the beginning of each dance.
No one claimed them. Mark Antony
himself was seen leaning dejectedly
against one of his serfs for three
whole dances before anyone discovered
his manly beauty. The greatest ca-
tastrophe of the evening occured when
the Papal Bull  became so bored that
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N. S. F. A. HONORS
.    B. M. STUDENT
Attended Conference as Dele-
gate of 3ryn Mawr, Elected
^ Committee Member.
REPORT; OF   CONGRES%
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Cornelia
Goodhart Rules
1.    The Students may smoke in
,Goodhart Hall in the Stu-
dents' Wing, but not in the
Auditorium or the Music
Wing.
2.    Students may take Guests
into the Common Room at
any time, and into the Com-
mittee Rooms when they are
not in use. This rule is an
experiment and may � be
changed later.
3.    The Common Room may be
reserved for Association,
Club, or Class functions.
Permission for such reserva-
tions must be secured from
the1 Goodhart Hall Commit-
tee.
4..   Students are asked to report
any damage to fucaitwe, etc.
The members of the Goodhart
Hall   Committee   are:    1>�.   D.
Pettit, '28;  E.  Fry,  '29,  and J.
Becket, '29.
(Specially    contributed
Rose, '28: j%
The Third Congress of�b$ National
Student .Federation of America "was held
at Lincoln. Nebraska, froinJ)'ece�nber J5
to December.^ \\\ll. ^Wis ihiafrsjsJBji
everybody: The \\ S. F. A. is an out-
grow'th'of the meeting at Princeton.two
|,vears ago called to discuss the WorTo1
Sottrt where a. �roup of colleges organ-
ized on a permanent basis. I,ast year,
the. Congress at Ann Arbor ado'p"tcd a
constitution which has since been rati
lied by the member colleges. This sum-
mer, the C. I. E. (Confederation Inter-
nationale des" Ktudtantcs) "admitted ais to
membership. Thus the N. S.^F; ~A\ ha
taken the first steps on the path it pro-
poses to follow as it stiftcs in the preamble
to jts Constitution: "We would.'achieve
a spirit of co-operationameffig the stu-
dents of the United States of America
to give consideration to questions affect-
ing students' interests; we would develop
an intelligent student opinion on questions
of national and international importance;
we would foster understanding among
the students of the world in the further-
ance of an enduring �pcace. In working
for these ends the Federation acts in-
dependently of any party or religious
creed."
Organized in Districts.
The Federation is organized along
regional lines.. and into standing com-
mittees. Thus every member of the
Executive Board represents one of the
six sections into which the country. is
divided. The committees are on Student
Government, Honor system, Curriculum.
Fraternities and Foreign Relations or
Travel. Each of these had a discussion
group at the Congress where the sub-
ject was talked over and plans made
for the work of the coming ^ear.
The- Travel Committee, for instance,
invite the C. I. E. to send over and en-
tertai ted ten foreign students this sum-
mer s well as sending a delegation to
be ca cd for by the C. I. E. E. Brown.
'28. I ryn Mawr's delegate to the Ann
Arbor Congress, was responsible for
much of this. She has reported on it in
Chapel.          ,
The most important accomplishments
of the Congress were the plans for next
year and those for the establishment of
the Federation on a firm financial basis.
The budget was carefully worked out and
discussed in full session. It would have
been a shock to those whb contend that
students are always so impractical to ob-
serve the interest taken in this subject
and the clear thinking that was given to
it. It was decided that if there are suffi-
cient funds on hand in.June the Execu-
tive Committee is to establish a Central
Office. The Bryn Mawr Summer School
has offered a room in it*, building in
New York, for a nominal rent. It is
absolutely necessary for the successful
continuance of the Federation that it
have a permanent mailing address and
a few permanent workers. The student
personnel shifts too continuously.
Student Heresy  Discussed.
Beside the discussion groups and Con-
gress sessions there were speakers on
topics of wide interest. Dr. F. N. Fling
of the University of Nebraska spoke on
the "Student  in  World   Affairs," declar-
Voted "Prettiest in Class
99
When She Left St. Agnes
To Head School
Miss Ellen Faulkner, who has been
manager of Halls for several years;
and this year assistant to the Dean,
is leaving Bryn Mawr next year to
become Head of Milton Academy, a
co-educational school in Massachu-
setts.
Miss Millicent Carey, '21, will take
her place as assistant to the Dean. She
has been a Reader in the English De-
partment  for  two  years.
Co-operate With God
Moderns Have Ceased to See Im-
portance of Prayer in
Religion.
"Prayer, more than conduct, is re-
ligion at work," said Dr. Samuel Shoe-
maker in chapel on Sunday, January
8.
"The Christianity of the present day
and age is too often measured by
deeds and generosity. There is no
longer the Godward attitude of mind
which surrenders itself to constant
prayer. We consider, such things ' as
the sentimental pasttimes of perverted
people. Many of us feel that our pray-
ers are received indifferently, and when
God doesn't answer as we would have
Him, we immediately turn into pro-
found atheists.
Intellectual Faith Still Possible.
"The result of this attitude is blank
agnosticism. The truth of the matter
is that We have failed to realize one
of the most essential phases of relig-
ion :. that God had a purpose in mind
when He created the universe. We
can still be as  modern as we would
In Spite of Politics and Agita-
tion, College Does Make
Up Mind.
FINAL VOTE IS 211 TO 77
After a very great deal of competition,
innumerable processes of elimination,
mass meetings, and queenly "walkings;"
after the cessation of party politics, and
the non-acceptance of a petition, Bryn
Mawr's. May Queen has finally been
elected by a large majority. Margaret
Nuckols, of the Class of '31, was an-
nounced as the choice of the college by
the overwhelming majority of 211 to 77
votes.
Many Honors at School.
and hold on to our intellectual faith
ing that the "students' first task is to'in prayer, through which God makes
educate   themselves   with   reference   to  it possible for us to seek out the sig-
world affairs and then to be enthusiastic
enough to induce others to become so
educated." Miss May Hermes of the
University of London told of the work
and organization of the C. I. E. and
Dr. A. J. Todd of Northwestern spoke
on the "Student Heretic." In a most
interesting speech he explained that the
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irfficance of our lives.
"The difficulty comes when we try
to bring prayer down from the region
of the abstract to concrete realism.
We hesitate to have prayer for the
basis of our prudence, even though it
has proved its worth by long experi-
ence.    Carlyle said of it:    "Prayer is
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Miss Nuckols lives in Albany and at-
tended the St. Agnes School there. Dur-
ing her senior year she was Class Presi-
dent. Vice President of Student Gov-
ernment, Treasurer of. the Athletic As-
sociation, Editor-in-Chief of the school
paper, and a member of basketball and
soccer teams. Besides all of this, Miss
Nuckols was voted by her class as the
prettiest, she who had done most for the
school, the most likely to succeed in
love and in life, the hardest worker and
the most original member of '26. After
graduating from St. Agnes, Miss Nuckols
returned for one year of post-graduate
work before coming on to Bryn Mawr
and   future  honors.
The May Queen elect entered college "
on a New York Regional Scholarship.
In the few months that she has been
here .she has become a member of the
choir, the Glee Club, and the Water Polo
team. Besides all of this, she trained
the Shiek's Chorus fn the. Freshman
show and took part in the skit during
the Rockefeller Christmas entertainment
All in all. we feel that the college has
chosen an extremely representative per-
son, and one who will do Bryn Mawr
proud when the time comes for queenly
hardships,    a                                           .  '
Vicissitude* of Elections.
A summary of the various methods of
making our final choice may help to
straighten out the poor muddled beads
of. those people who believe that the
election of "a May Queen entails some
most unusual proceedings.   First ol all
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