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BRYN MAWR*(AND WAYNE). P�..   TUESDAY, NjOVEMBER^2,1927
PRICE,
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DISASTROUS GAME
HAS HIGH SPOTS
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All-Philadelphia Outplay Var-
sity by Wide Margin.
MOVIES'
HELP
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SPIRIT
'Rabbi Wise
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise lias ac-
cepted the invitation of the class
of 1928 to speak at their Bacca-
laureate  Service.
Although Varsity was completely out-
classed By All-Philadelphia an Saturday,
November 19, they made a truly valiant
effort to conceal that fact. They put up
a better fight than the final score of i:�-l
would indicate.
The event   was considerably enlivened
by the presence of  movie cameras and
movie-tone  apparatus,   and   a   large   and
enthusiastic    au'diencc.     Between   halves
they were gathered to sing a vociferous
"On  Varsity" into  the microphone,  and
to "look beautiful"' before the canferas.
From the very beginning the game was
in the hands of the visitors; after a�few
minutes   of   jockeying   back   and   forth,
during which Balch and  Hirschherg did
their best to  give  the  ball to our   for-
' wards, there was a rush, and All-Phila-
delphia scored their first goal.    Immedi-
ately our forwards tried to do the same
thing,   but    Elliott,    the   opposing   goal
keeper,  was  ready,  and,  after a  pretty
stop, sent the ball out of danger.
Philadelphia Had Advantage of
Speed
All-Philadelphia's   speed,  both  in  run-
ning and in hitting, gave them a great
advantage.     They  piled   up   goal   after
goal, in spite of Hirschberg's good work
in  the  backfield.    Time after time she
was the only person between the oncom-
ing forwards and the goal, and time after
time she proved a formidable Charybdis.
Bruere, in the goal, was unprepared for
the swiftness with which the ball changed
direction; if she expected** on her left,
it flashed by on her right, or between her
feet.    At one time she ran out to meet
Cadbury, who  passed at  just  the   right
moment to   Adams�the  goal  was only
saved by the fact that Balch had gone in
to take Al's place.   Throughout the game
Bakh showed great presence of mind, and
ability.
Toward the end of the first half Var-
sity scored its only goal. The ball was
rushed past Seeley (who plays just as
well on this team as she always did on
Varsity), and into the striking circle.
There it was kept, with dogged persever-
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S. S. Speakers
BRYN MAWR DROPS
FROM W. I. A. S. G.
Five Large Colleges to Form
Separate Union fory
the East.
CONFERENCE AT SMITH
Students    Tell    What    Coming
Here Has Meant to
Them.
The first evening entertainment to be
held in Goodhart Hall was the Summer
School party held there on Saturday eve-
ning, November 19. It was a large gath-
ering, including not only guests from the
college, but also students from several of
the private schools.
E. Stewart, '28, *was the master of
ceremonies, and to her the credit for the
success of the evening is due. She in-
troduced the first speaker, Miss Hilda
Smith, the director of the school.
Miss Smith stressed the point that it
is not so much the actual two months of
study here that is'of value to the girls,
but what they do later. After they leave,
they have something to work on, and a
clearer understanding of present-day
problems. Many Summer School stu-
dents have been able to help in securing
legislative measures for the improvement
of industrial conditions. Others are busy
organizing classes in their own commu-
nities ; and still others have raised money
for scholarships. "The workers' educa-
tion movement is a growing one," she
said, "not only in this country, but all
over the world."                       a
Telephone Operator in a Rut
The.second speaker was Lucy Liebert,
a telephone operator, who had been at
the school in 1924, and again last year.
She said that she had wanted more edu-
cation because life was so dull. "I wai
in a rut"; I never heard any new ideas or
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(Specially   contributed   by Josephine
Young, '28)
It took more than the New England
flood to keep the delegates to the
Women's Intercollegiate Association
for^Student Government Conference at
Smith' away from Northampton.
Trains might be late and roads blocked,
but all of the representatives of �mic
seventy odd colleges turned up for the
three days' meeting.
On November 10 all the delegates
met for the first general session, to be
greeted officially by Mrs. Scales, the;
Warden of the College. President
Woolley, of Mt. Holyoke, spoke on
"The Realm of Student Government,"
followed by two student speakers. The
other sessions of the conference were
arranged in the same way; an outside
person of experience and interest spoke,
then two or three of the members
themselves discussed different aspects
of student government. Thus we had
varying points of view, and in every
case the. discussion and questions
after the speeches were lively. The
definite 'discusion groups' were not as
successful, for it is always difficult to
gain anything really valuable in a
widely varying group discussing one
aspect of a subject upon which all are
limited to their own experience. The
most valuable gains of the conference
came on the one hand from the
speeches which presented views of stu-
dent government in its larger aspects,
and on the other hand from the .small
and very informal discussions of par-
ticular problems which took place
wherever two or three delegates, har-
assed by trouble and responsibility at
home, came together to talk over their
problems. It was this feeling of the
value of small conferences that led in
part to the big step which was taken
at this meeting.                        .
To Support N. S. F. A.
Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Mt. Holy-
oke and Bryn Mawr felt that the W. I.
A. S. G. was not exactly satisfying
their needs as a channel for the con-
tacts with other colleges, both near -and
far, who could offer different points of
view, an advantage and a gain which
High I. Q. of 87.8
Has   This   Fine   High  Average
Group Developed or Is
This tfce Limit? �
Psychological testing is now extensive-
ly used in colleges and, universities
throughout the United States as a means
of determining the selection of candi-
dates for admission to college,'the classi-
fication of students according to ability,
and for an increasing variety of other
purposes.
Bu,t as it was stated in a previous issue
oi the Cou.kok News our interest in the
retesting of Sophomores. Juniors and
Seniors of Bryn Mawr College is not
for any of these reasons given above
but for the purpose of determining the
limit of intelligence development. These
classes have already taken one Thorn-
dike Intelligence examination. The
arithmetic "mean of one of these classes
was 87.8, which indicated that this group
was as line a group of students as had
been found in institutions measured by
the test at that time. Have these stu-
dents continued to develop mentally dur-
ing their college course, or did this high
score represent their maximum mental
growth? That is the question to be de-
termined by this second test, namely,
does the"-mind cease to mature at sixteen
as the Stanford' revision of the Binet-
Simon scale implies! or should this doc-
trine be abandoned, as Thorndike advo-
cates, because there is evidence that abil-
ity improved beyond eighteen, at least in
the case of individual subject to in-
tellectual education ?
In order to make the results valuable it
will be necessary to have as large a
sample of each class as possible. See
your class president about signing to take
the examination, and state which day
vi m can take it.
"THE MOST VIRILE THINKER
OF OUR DAY" COMING SOON
Bertrand  Russell   Is   Both
Mathematician and a
*  Philosopher.
Bertrand Russell
Folk .High Schools
EFFORTS TO UNITE
THE THREE ARTS
Morris Dancing Allied to the
Heathen Ritual and
, May Days.
GENIUS       OF       SHARP
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Good Triumphs Through
Pain�Cross a Symbol
"One of the greatest lessons of life
is the fact that* there is no denial or
suffering in the world out of which it
is imposible to extract reformation,"
said the Reverend J. R. P. Sclatcr, of
Toronto, who spoke in Chapel on Sun-
day, November 20.
"The trial and death of Jesus may be
regarded as an historic event; or as an
age-long struggle between Good and
Evil in which Good triumphed through
untold pain. Christ was crucified be-
tween two thieves. The differences in
the attitudes of the three men who hung
there together is symbolical of Chris-
tianity's answer to pain.
The Three Crosses
"On one side hung the impenitent
thief, his face blazing with anger, his
whole being contorted with blasphe-
mous rage. On the other side was the
penitent thief. His face portrayed no
semblance of rage. ' He was quiescent
save for a gesture of entreaty and ap-
peal to the central figure. In the mid-
dle stood the Cross of Christ; the
figure thereon was dignified, the head
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"The unification of music, poetry and
dancing, the three sister arts, as the ex-
pression of man's aspiration and ideas,
in his attempt to identify himself with
the natural world."
This was the theme of Mrs. May
Elliott Hobbs' talk on folk-dancing,
Friday, November 18. "These three
arts have the common basis of rhythm,
and in man's earliest artistic attempts
they were always combined. In later
development, the separation of the
three aided their technique, but it was a
loss to their spiritual expression.
Wagner Wanted Combination
"Wagner was the first to foreshadow
the combination of the three, but he
was unable to create it; there was no
dance material available; he saw that
the dancing of the French stage was
too artificial from both the physical and
artistic points of view. Anything cre-
ative must be traced back to the folk-
dance and folk-music.
"The English masque-writers made
attempts at the combination, but as
they were not interested in the English
material, they based their dancing mo-
tives on the-affected Italian styles."
"Today in England, musicians and
writers are co-operating in order to
create a new force, through the com-
bination of singing, music and the
dance, and they are using the material
made available by the research of
twenty years."
Mrs. Hobbs described the situation
twenty years ago, when no one real-
ized that England had a folk-music.
The investigations of Cecil Sharp and
others,  Tjowever,   yielded   astonishing
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Co-operation   Between   Nations
Basis for Adult
Education
Peter Mannike, who founded the In-
ternational Peoples' College at Elsinore
in Denmark, told about the start and
purpose of this movement in his lec-
ture on Thursday evening, November
17.
In Denmark adult education and ag-
ricultural reform have gone hand in
hand. Early in the last century Bishop
Gruntvig founded the ".folk, high
schools" with the idea that books
should not have great importance, but
that education should be personal in
order to arouse the peasants, against
their own wills, to give them mutual
self-confidence and a desire to do their
best. These schools, while very suc-
cessful, appealed only to'the (arming
class.
Mr. Mannike said that he became
interested in the industrial workers
and felt that something should Be
done for them. Then came the idea of
an international college to promote
friendship between countries. The col-
lege was begun with twenty-four stu-
dents while now there arc eighty-five.
These students represent different
standpoints and different tempera-
ments. This difference in tempera-
ment creates more difficulties than the
difference in languages and it is hard
to find a method of instruction which
will suit all. The English students want
knowledge for practical purposes and
don't bother with theories. The Ger-
mans are skeptical about the use of
knowledge "and want to be inspired
with an ideal towards which to work.
However these temperamental differ-
ences make for advantage even more
than for difficulty. The students learn
from each other. The Germans con-
tribute  system;  the  English  practica-
OPPOSED TO THE  WAR
Bertrand Russell is to speak at the
collage on Saturday evening, December'
in. Mr. Russell has been in the country
all fall either speaking or debating. One
of his debates was with Will Durant on
the subject "Is Democracy a Failure?"
He was bom in 1872, and his di-
versity of interests was shown early
when he took a first in both the mathe-
matical tripos and the second part of
the moral sciences. He was a lecturer at
Cambridge until 1916, when he was dis-
missed for having been fined �100 as a
"conscientious objector" which he was
throughout the war, even going to prison
once. He continued to lecture unofficial-
ly, and to write. Up to the war, his chief
published works were German Social
Democracy, Principles of Mathematics,
and in collaboration, Principia ^lathe-
mat ica. Since the war he has written,
among other things, Principles of Social
Reconstruction, Mysticism and Logic, and
The A. B. C. of Atoms and The A. B. C,
of Relativity.
After the war, Mr. Russell traveled in
Russia and China, as a* result of which
he wrote The Theory and Practice of
Bolshevism and The Problem of China.
Sought a Neo-Realism
The Encyclopedia Brittanica in consid-
ering Mr. Russell says: "He began to
impose upon psychological and meta-
physical speculation the order and logic
of pure mathematics. As time went on
he came to despair of a successful issue
and his later work admits that neither
mathematics nor idealism can wholly sat-
isfy him. Therefore he tried to formu-
late a neo-realism. He is a desperate
man. loving extremes and too many of
his spccufltions are deliberately intended
"a epatcr les bourgeois."
Contrast with this, the statement of
Harry Ilanscn in The New York World
in reviewing his recently published
Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell pre-
pared by himself:
"Inasmuch as Russell has trained him-
self to write for the general public, and
not for cloistered scholars, his papers
are easily understood by the layman. In
fact, Russell is intensely practical in his
thinking, and far from outlining ideal
conditions that seem unattainable he is
primarily interested in getting to a higher
stage of culture by making use of the
best in the present system.
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Wide Field for Reform
in Present-Day Politics
.The subject of women in politics be-
gun by Mrs. Miller last Monday, was
continued by Mrs. Manning on No-
vember  16.            � ,
"The vocational committee tries
every year to have a speaker on this
subject who was an alumna of the col-
lege," she said.. "Fortunately, this is
not hard, as more of our alumnae seem
to be distinguished in that line than in
any other. Politics present a good
opening to a woman with college train-
ing.
"The intelligent and educated peo-
ple of this country are loath to go into
politics. In England politics are a
family tradition; here too mach unscru-
pulousness is involved to make the
prospect attractive. Still, there is a
wide field for reform, and women of
education can do no better than at-
tempt to assist in it."^
Body Is Machine
Primitive Motion Becomes More
Complicated With
Development.
Animal Mechanism was the subject
on which Dr. Ulric Dalhgren, of
Princeton, lectured under the auspices
of the Science Club on Monday eve-
ning,  November 21.
Dr. Dalhgren introduced to most of
us a new point of view from which to
regard living organisms. Motion is a
very primitive attribute of all living
matter, he said, and in the simplest
cell organisms consists merely df
chemical changes called metabolism.
In these simple cells the protoplasm
forms pathways and is continually re-
volving and interchanging material
with the nucleus. In the higher animals
this vital factor of motion is still just
as important, but is accomplished by
more involved means. The primitive
form of movement is given up and
machines come into play. These
higher organisms make use of tools
in the movement which inevitably is
the importance of life.
Lever Principle Uswd.
The bodies of all higher animals are
intricate  engineering  structures which
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