College News, 1928-02-15, Vol. 14, No. 13

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College News
VOL. XIV.   No. 13
BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE), PA.,   WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1928
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GEORGE RUSSELL
HERE SATURDAY
AE, Irish Poet and Economist,
Will Speak on Ireland's
Writers.
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EDITS   DUBLIN   WEEKLY
George Russell, better known as AE,
and distinguished in the'various fields
of poetry, painting, drama and economy,
will deliver the Ann Elizabeth Sheble
Memorial lecture in English Literature
in Taylor Hall on Saturday, the 18th of
February. This versatile Irishman, who
has already lectured at Harvard, Vassar,
and Princeton, will speak on "Some Per-
sonalities in- the Irish Literary Move-
ment." Of the man. and of his place in
literature, Mr. Ernest Boyd writes:
"The smallest pseudonym in Irish lit-
erature stands for the most manifold
and, most people will agree, the greatest
personality in Ireland today. AE, mys-
tic poet, painter, and essayist, whose
diphthong signature was once the cher-
ished friend of an esoteric few, is now
universally known as George W. Rus-
sell, the co-operative economist and
editor of 77!* Irish Statesman. It is
difficult to find a recent parallel for such
a diversity of interests and activities, all
the faithful expression, nevertheless, of
a consistent personality.
Influenced By Yeats.
"The evolution of George W. Russell,
the economist, from AE, the mystic poet,
has been gradual. The one has so grad-
ually and completely merged into the
other that "it is now difficult to dissociate
them. AE was born in J.urgan, County
Armagh, on the 10th of April, 1867, but
-came to Dublin at an early age, where
he had his schooling not far from the
place where he has lived for the greater
part of hfs life. It was not ifntil he was
�:...�.. ^�nd '.a Stu3e>it*7aV_j*ie Dublin
School of Art, that his real education
began. There he met VV. B. Yeats and
formed those ties of young manhood
which were to result in the formation of
a group of mystics and poets to whose
existence   we   owe- the   prose   of   John
-Eglinton and the poetry of AE. Indeed,
it is safe to say that there in the germ
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Cite Universitaire
American   Colleges   to   Build   a
Dormitory for Their
Students.
Bips Is Back
k The College News announces
with great pleasure the return of
Elizabeth H. Linn, '29, to its Edi-
torial Board. Miss Liitn was on
for two yeafs
back
the News board
and is welcomed
semester's absence.
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MME. SIKILIANOS
TELLS OF DELPHI
Former       Student       Revives
Greelc Chorus With Poses
Taken From Old Vases.
DANCES     IN     COSTUME
Filteeii'^-^'ueulajnkersity 4"<1 co�
-lege presidents, �representing"all sections
of the United States, have issued a joint
statement urging that a dormitory for
"American students be included in the
building program of the Cite UnfveTsi-
taire.
The Cite Universitaire. an interna-
tional student city now being built on a
seventy-acre tract at the far end of the
Latin Quarter, Paris, contemplates a
group of dormitories erected upon the
American dormitory plan to house the
students from all over the world who
go to Paris to study.
Each dormitory is. to be built on a site
donated by the University of Paris, out
of funds provided by the country whose
students will occupy it, and will be con-
ducted under the supervision of a Coun-
cil of Administration composed largely
of citizens of the country concerned. A
central building will provide auditorium,
library, restaurant and gymnasium facili-
ties.
Canada was the first nation to erect a
dormitory for hs students. England fol-
lowed, Seven French dormitories and a
Belgian dormitory have- been built and
occupied. Japan has raised the money
for its building.
Committees in Spain, Holland, Sweden,
Switzerland, Mexico, Cuba, Persia,
Egypt, Jugo-Slavia, Denmark and Brazil
have completed arrangements for dormi-
tories for^their students.
An American Committee, with head-
quarters at 50 East Forty-second street,
New York, has been organized to raise
$400,000    by    public    subscription,   with
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Mme. Sikilianos in her blue-green
Grecian draperies, sandals, unbound red
hajr, was an unusual figure for the
Taylor Hall platform. Intense and obvi-
ously nervous � she faced the crowded
chapebas if bewildered by the audience
and the familiar surroundings. Her
friends advised her not to come back to
America, she began by saying, as in' her
twenty-five-year absence the country had
progressed by leaps and bounds so far
that it would not be interested in her
impractical doings at Delphi. She her-
self however, felt that an America, with
its reproductions oi Greek theaters and
interest in archeological excavations,
was not so wholly practical.
Mme. Sikilianos then went on to tell
us something of the history of the Greek
drama which she is so interested in
reviving. The chorns existed long be-
fore the drama in Greece. It was a
chorus" very unlike our modern idea of
a chorus: .it sang and danced at the
same time with every gesture expressive*
of the word being sung. This" gave the
effect of a varying pantomime almost
like a moving frieze. In the interim
of the dancing the leader of the chorus
recited a story of the actions of the gods
or heroes which the chorus was express-
ing. The leader on the leff conversed
with leader on the right, and a third
speaker was added only in the classic
period. Thus there were all the elements
of the drama just in the chorus The
costumes were very simple so it was
easy � to change from one character to
another. At this period all the action
took place in the ring, and it was only
later that a stage was added and the
actors divide off from the chorus. At
all times the heart and chief interest
of the Greek drama was the chorus.
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PROMINENT CONTRIBUTORS TO G00DHART
EDITION INCLUDE PRES. PARK AND MR. MEIGS
Mr. Cram's Idea to Combine
Three Buildings Under
One Roof.
MANY      HAVE      GIVEN
President
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C. I. E. Offers Tours of
Interest to Students
Miss May Hermes di "fhe University of
London and field secretary of the C. I. E.
(Confederation Internationale des Etudi-
anles) will speak in chapel on European
student organizations on Wednesday
morning, Fel>rua>y 22.
Miss Hermes, who has done a great
deal of organizing for the National
Union of Students in England, is spend-
ing the winter in this country arranging
for the tours of the C. I. E. Through
the N. S. F. A., Bryn Mawr is invited
to send three students on any of these
trips that they choose, as representatives
of the college. Anybody who is inter-
ested will have a chance to talk to Miss
Hermes and may get details from either
B. Brown, '28, or C. Rose,�'28, in Pem-
broke West.
The tours are of great variety, includ-
ing all the more usual itineraries as well
as special trips to Scandinavia, the Baltic,
the Balkans and Central Europe. The
groups which consist of fourteen mem-
bers and a more mature person as leader
are entertained everywhere by the stu-
dents of the countries which they visit
and have opportunities open to no other
student tours. The price is just sufficient
to cover expenses as the C. I. E. operates
on a non-profit making basis.
Student identity cards which any stu-
dent going abroad may have for $1, can
be secured through the N. S. F. A. They
are extremely useful in obtaining reduc-
tions of railroad fares, hotel accommoda-
tions, and in some countries, visas.
(Specially   Contributed   by
Park.)             -    �
Mr. Cram, the supervising architect of
the* college, contributed the idea of
putting under one roof three buildings
which the college needed�the students'
building and " the auditorium�old and
well-worn aspirations�and the class
rooms and recital room for the depart-
ment of Music, need for Which arose
with the creation of the department. He
alsg- chose the site for* the combination
building, first for . its accessibility both
to the students and for the public, and
second, and a close second, for the pic-
turtsqueness of its varying levels. His
also was the choice oitf^architcct. The
designs were made fl Mh\ Arthur I.
Meigs of the IMiiladc^rrfl^nn of Mel-
lor, Meigs and Howe, and he was also
commissioned to make landscaping plans
for -the slopes immediately below the
building, the road which enters the cam-
pus at the upper side and the walls which
connect it architecturally with Rocke-
feller. He has also indicated the gen-
eral form of the design for all the iron
work of the interior which is being car-
ried out in detail by Mr. Samuel Yellin,
of Philadelphia, probably the greatest
iron worker in America. The old estab-
lished Quaker firm of R. H. Ballinger
and Company are the general contractors,
and their construction looks as solid as
the  Pyramids.
Many Have Contributed
All the direction from the college end
has come through the Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the Board of
Directors, headed by Mr. Arthur H.
Thomas, of Haverford, who from its
first spadeful of earth has seen the build-
ing through every difficulty and almost
moved the stones into place himself by
sheer interest. A committee of the
alumnae with Mrs. Adolphe Borie as
chairman have had general charge of the
furnishings for the many rooms.
And, obviously, back of all and-mak-
ing all possible, are the givers of the
building fund, first of all Mr. Howard
Goodhart for whose wife the great hall
is a memorial, President Thomas, the
alumnae of the college, the present
undergraduates, and the families, friends
and neighbors of us all. Alumnae and
students have given as classes and as
individuals to the general building fund,
to the decorations, to the furnishings in
everv permutation or combination of
generosity.
Organ to  Be Dedicated.
The formal turning over of the Com-
mon Room by the Class of 1897 to the
undergraduates has taken place. The
organ, the gift of Clara Vail Brooks,
181)7, is to be dedicated next Tuesday.
The dedication of the hall will probably
take place on Saturday, June 2, before
the undergraduates have gone and after
the alumnae have come. The guests will
b( those most closely connected'with the
building. Next October the ^college will
invite its many outside friends and neigh-
bors for a. formal opening of the hall,
but in June the ceremony will he for
those neaily concerned�those who have
wanted such a building most keenly in
the past and those who will use it most
constantly in the  future.
Geology Professor Speaks
Under Auspices of C. A.
Dr. Kirtley Mather, professor of geol-
ogy at Harvard, will lecture here twice
this week under the auspices of the
Christian Association. On Thursday
evening he will speak on "The Search
for God in a Scientific-. World" and on
Friday evening his subject will be" "Free
Will in a World of Law."
Dr. Mather is an unusually stimulating
and able speaker and .is tremendously
admired by his students at Harvard. He
presented these two subjects very effect-
ively at the Silver Bay conference last
Jane.
. News to Move In
This issue of the News was to
be a Goodhart number in honor
of the first use of the Jiew News
office. Alas, of all the lights' in
the building, those in "our- office
are the ones which "do not choose
to run." So that we are some-
what  before-hand.
But electricians willing, we hope,
though we dare not expect, to be
in  our  new  quarters  by  the be-
ginning of  next  week.   �
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"What Goodhart Hall Means
to the Music Department"
(Specially contributed by Horace
Ahvync.)   :
Having been asked to write my views
on "What Goodhart Hall means to the
Music Department" and having sat down
to attempt �o find out just what my views
are, I come to the conclusion that this
cannot be done under such a title, using
the present tense, without being inevi-
tably prejudiced by the unending proces-
sion of petty annoyances and Incon-
veniences attendant upon the premature
occupation of a new building. After at-
tempting to lecture to the obbligato of a
steam-shovel on one side, stone-cutters
on the other, organ-builders above, tin-
smiths below and the clatter of pianos
from several practice rooms, later to be
made sound-proof but at present having
walls through which one can hear the
slightest whispered conversation," one's
views are apt to be somewhat distorted.
So I will occupy myself by saying "What
,Goodhart Hall xvill mean to the Music
Department." Here I find myself on
safe ground and in a very happy posi-
tion. In fact I could almost content
myself by stating my reply in one word.
"EVERYTHING F
In the first place there has been a
progressive "raising of the tone" of
music from the physical standpoint. Oji
October 5, 1921, an Editorial in the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, commenting
on the opening of the new Music De-
partment on that date, stated that music
had now been promoted from the cellar,
where it had hitherto resided and had
occupied the position of being "like
hooch, not" to be mentioned:" The pro-
motion was to the delightful Music Room
on the i/round-floor of Wyndham. where
the Department spent a happy six years.
Now it is again promoted to a still more
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Architect   of   New   Building
Writes on Difficulties of
Construction,
ARCHES - FOUNDATIONS
Pass on the Trust and
Love of Life by Worship
.The Rev. Alexander MacColI, of-the
Second Presbyterian Church of Philadel-
phia, speaking in chapel last Sunday eve-
ning, defined worship as "the celebration
of  life."
If people today, with their love of
life, their instinct for festivities and
fellowship, realized this truth, Dr. Mac-
Coll said, there would be no problem in
filling cbttroMft and chapels for pur-
poses of worship. (Unfortunately the
almost empty hall was silent proof that
the problem is at present a serious one.)
To be in love with life, the minister
continued, and to love God as the author
of life, is religion'. The ancient Hebrews
expressed in the psalms their feeling that
man should not be silent, when all nature
is continually praising the Lord; and
Jesus, too, withdrew to the mountains
to talk to God of the beauty of life, and
to express to Him his gratitude for the
trust of life which he had received. The
Apostle Paul, for all his trials, bubbled
over with the joy of living.
Express Thanks in Prayer.
Similarly, prayer is a process of .giving
thanks to God, telling him of the good-
ness of existence. Prayer has been vari-
ously defined as "the loving exploration
of God's will;" as "the intercourse of
the family of God;" as "the art of mak-
ing a friend of God." But above .all it
is an opportunity to express our grati-
tude for the whole of life, its sorrows
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(Specially   contributed   by   Arthur  J.
Meiyhs.)                                '
A mass of stone, high in the air, chal-
lenges the imagination of its beholder.
Looking up from-below,.it makes us
wonder.
The feudal castle clinging to its perch,
a stone fleche pointing to the sky�Who
wanted it, Who put the stones in place?
What  supports  it?
A building may be quick or dead; it
may stir us, or it may bore us; it may
be a building and nothing more; or
it may be�Architecture.
Buildings Have Functions.
All buildings have a function to ful-
fill, but Architecture is the aesthetic ful-
fillment of that function. Yet functions
vary as the poles asunder; as, for ex-
ample, a church spire differs from a
high chimney stack, and, while we may
apply an unlimited amount of architec-
tural ornament to the chimney stack, yet.
we cannot make it the same as the
church spire..
Architecture, like sculpture, must be
modeled and arranged until it achieves
shape.
As a church spire is to a chimney
stack, so may we consider collegiate
architecture to commercial architecture
with which we are all too familiar. If
the former fails to be aesthetic, if it fails
to have shape, harmony, and inspira-
tion, it fails to be architecture.
Built  Around Great  Hall.
In this building, the principal element
is the Great Hall, which dominates the
scheme within and without. Around and
against this the other elements are ar-
ranged: the foyer to the smith, the stu-
dents' wing to the north, the stage en-
trance to the east; and to the, west, the
music wing, pusjiing against the main
mass from below, and holding it from
slipping from its position. These lesser
architectural elements buttress the ma!n
architectural element precisely as the
stone buttresses on the outside brace the
great flying arches which arc within,
and these, in tum.isupport the roof with
its stone fleche which dominates all.
So it builds up from the ground to its
pinnacle  and accent.
A stone fleche held aloft in the air
grips the imagination more- than one
made of a lighter material, because, con-
sciously or unconsciously, the mind and
the senses seek for its support. And
the support is there, namely, the double
stone arch in the center of the interior,
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Study People
Youth Must Question Elders *nd
Discard Past Solu-
tions.
Speaking at a recent meeting of
the Student's International Union on
"Youth's Part in International Affairs"
Senor de Madariaga said that the great-
est service youth could perform is to
question their elders, not in any >�irit of
disrespect, but in one of discarding that.
which no longer fits the pftsent situation...
The day is past when we can say "the
Hell of my fathers is goi.d enough for
me."
"The time is past.'' *aid Senor de
Madariaga. "when it > it wanted peace,
you must prepare for war. Today na-
tions arc no longer in<lcpen"<Icnt unities.
They have national characteristics which
differentiate them, hut they are inex-
tricably united. Peace is an international
phenomenon. Having tfu; sense that the
world is a unity, then youth must get
that which is even more important, the
spirit of other-  as only youth can."
Finally Senor de Madariaga urged
youth to study not problems, but the
people who make those problems.