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(SRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA.   WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14,1927 "
PRICE.  10 CENTS
SIX COLLEGES IN
NEAR EAST JOIN
President Adams, of Constan-
tinople, Tells About
.        the Work.
TEACHING    IN   ENGLISH
"Six American colleges of the Near
East have joined under the Near East
College Association to raise an endow-
ment fund," said Miss Kathryn Newell
Adams, President of Constantinople Col-
lege, speaking in Wyndham on Thursday,
December 8. "They want to get $15,-
000,000. which Mo be divided among
them according toup plan submitted by the
Board of Trustees of the Association.
These colleges are doing a very neces^
sary work; their scholarship ranks high,
even by comparison with American col-
leges, but they are very poorly endowed
and much in need of funds for their past
debts, professors' salaries and equipment."
The first and oldest of these colleges
is Bayreuth, which ha* besides its col-
legiate course a very good medical col-
lege and a training school for nurses.
The British Government sends young
men there from Egypt to get their medical
degrees. It is an important post, and a
center of learning for Egypt, the Sudan
and all of Palestine.
Robert Has Community Spirit.
Robert College, in Constantinople above
the Bosphorus, is another excellent col-
lege. It has. a preparatory school for
boys, a college and an engineering school
of the first rank. Many young men from
Bulgaria and Turkey come there; in fact
it is two-thiids Moslem. The Turkish
Government, formerly hostile to foreign
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The Philippines
Policy   of   the   United   States
Should Be Made More
Definite.
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"President Coolidge's message to Con-
gress brought to light the ignorance
and feeling of disinterestedness which
seems to be general throughout the coun-
try in regard to the question of the
Philippine Islands."
Mrs. Manning, speaking in Chapel on
Friday, December 9, somewhat obviated
our own ignorance by giving a concise
resuftie of the subject.
"The United States," said Mrs. Mann-
ing, "lost her interest in the Philippines
early in the day A Yale historian lias
noted that Roosevelt, on one of his
Presidential tours, began talking about
the American policy in the Philippines,
but he found the subject so unpopular
that he was forced to change the sub-
stance of his speech to an attack upon
the trusts.
"After the Spanish American War, the
United States found herself in a peculiar
position. Cuba, she thought, had a right
to be free from her cruel suppression
under Spanish rule. Suddenly it was dis-
covered that the Philippines were also
struggling for freedom. The question
arose: shall we allow these twenty million
unexperienced people to rule themselves,
or shall we hold them subject to our own
better discretion in the art of administer-
ing government?
"On the one side stood the anti-im-
perialists who believed that we should
give up the islands at once with out,more
ado. McKiiiley, on the other hand, ad-
vocated a civil government with an
American at its head. In 1907 the first
Philippine assembly was called and has
proved fairly successful, although the
American Commission still holds the
right of veto.          .
"Francis Harrison as Governor of the
Philippines, probably did as much to
wreck the work of the civil government
on the islands as any one man had the
pcwer to do. As a result of his ad-
ministration the Americans there grad-
ually resigned their positions and- the
government rapidly deteriorated. Some
time after this Harding, rejecting the
proposed Jones-Bii� sent General Wood
out-to investigate-and make a.report on
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Queen Walks Again
As a result of the voting in the
halls last Tuesday, the six girls
chosen for reconsideration as May
Queen were M. R. Humphrey, '29;
E. Nuckols, '31; C. Sullivan, '30;
I. Richards, '30; G. DeRoo, '29,
and V. Gendell, '29. So that the
voting might be really" impartial,
the Undergraduate Association
did not list or announce these
names in the order of the number
of votes  received.
As a result of this week's vote,
the nominees are as follows: V.
Gendell, 102; M. R. Humphries,
60; E. Nuckols, 53.
Review of Exhibit
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SONGS AND DANCES^
HAVE DISTINCTION
Foreign Students Amuse Col-
lege With a Varied
Program.
SCOTCH     REEL    STARS
NO LONGER "MINI? AND MATTER;"
WORLD IS MADE UP OF EVENTS
Degas and Mary Cassatt
Realists of French
School.
Both
(Specially contributed by M. Law-
rence, '23, Instructor in History of Art.)
At the Wyndham exhibit, Degas and
Mary Cassatt are fittingly coupled" to-
gether, as both belonged to the same
school of French impressionists and as
each admired the other's work..
Degas produced occasional etchings
and lithographs during his long life which
are only second in importance to his draw-
ings as showing the artist at work and
his untiring search for a fresh aspect of
reality. The dozen prints on exhibition
here show only one of the two lifelong
preoccupations of the artist, the ballet
and the hunt. The former we see in the
Loge d'Avant and entirely characteristic
of Degas is the absence of all romance
or illusion. The ungainly view of the
stage over the back of a spectator, the
glare of the footlights and the tired and
forlorn dancers are such as appear in
many of his paintings. Le iBIanchisseuses
exemplifies another favorite motive.
Above all, however, we may have the
study of the nude and here Degas' tech-
nique, the lithograph, reproduces to per-
fection the quality off a crayon or ink
drawing. Le Sortie du Bain in three
states, La Femtne nue debout a sa Toil-
ette and Apres le Bain show us the free-
dom of his technique, his interest in
effects of deep shadow and his extreme
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Greek and Latin a Menace,
Thinks Bertrand Russell
After his lecture, the Hon. Bertrand
Russell, was asked a great many ques-
tions concerning education, America,
and religion.
The school which he has founded
for his own children opened after he
sailed, so he has had no opportunity to
observe it in action. It includes both
boys, and girls, because Mr. Russell
believes very firmly in co-education.
Thy are to be taught only as much
Latin and Greek as they will need to
enter the universities, which, he said, is
too much. "In froportion as a people
know more deadllanguages, they write
worse." Moder* languages should be
taught through/conversation.
The forma^eaching of science, said
Mr. Rusself should begin when the
child is about eight, but a scientific
outlook should be encouraged from
the start. Children should be brought
up in an atmosphere of intelligent in-
quiry, and should be left to find out
things for themselves whenever pos-
sible, with special stress on accuracy.
Mr. Russell has had the opportunity
to observe co-education in the west
at the University of Wisconsin, where
he saw a great deal of Dr. Meickeljohn.
Mr. Russell feels that most eminent
people have a common desire to cause
misery. This is a result of their ex-
cessive morality. "All morality," he
said, "is based on Sadism�the desire
to persecute"others." The older gen-
eration in America is particularly Puri-
tanical, because America consists of
people who emigrated, and the only
tradition they could bring with them
was religion. "Religion," he defined
as a "belief not based on reason, and
intended to supply comfort," and he
believes that "religion is stronger in
America than any where else."
On Friday evening, December 9, the
foreign students in the college entertained
for the benefit of the Student Friendship
Fund. The music room in Goodhart Hall
was initiated in this delightful way, and,
despite the fact of an extremely muddv
entry, no opening performance could have
demanded a larger audience.
The program was most successfully ar-
ranged by Cicely Hamilton, an English
graduate student, and, we may add, an
actress to whose performance in the
Varsity play we are looking forward with
great expectation. The acts included
French, Scotch, German, Viennese and
English songs, as well as Polish, Scotch
and Spanish dances: Vaung Tsien Bang,
'30, gave a sketch of the life of a fifth
century Chinese lady, illustrating it very
cleverly and amusingly, up to the time
of the delightful lady's wedding. Miss
Bang claimed ignorance of life beyond
this point.
"Miss Bryn Mawr" introduced the per-
formers, and her costume, as well a*s all
the others, was extremely well designed.
The bagpipes used by the vocal Scotch
band deserve special mention: they gave
a striking illusion of reality, although
they were made of nothing less domestic
than umbrellas and clothes hangers.
The German folk songs were accom-
panied by the guitar, which, we were told,
is the instrument of the German Youth
Movement. They were gayly bedecked
with ribbons, each of which is supposed
to be tied on by a friend of the musician.
Others of the songs were also accom-
panied by the guitar, very delightfully
played by Miss Garvin, whose acting was
very much appreciated by the audience.
Folk Songs Met With Hilarity.
Several songs were dramatized most
effectively. In French, with colorful cos-
tunes, Mile. Ribes. Miss Hamilton, Miss
Garvin and Diebreiul, '31, sang and acted,
their most popular selection being Joli
Tambour. Later they appeared in Eng-
lish guise, and interpreted some charm/
ing folk songs, "The Coal Black SinjthT
"The Garden of Love" and others. The
audience joined with great hilarity into
'"Green Grow the Rashes�O." In all of
these, the properties, ships, flowers,
mitres and crowns, were not the least of
the attractions; they displayed an origin-
ality and talent on the part of some un-
known artist.
Miss Baillou's songs, in the costume
oi an early nineteenth century Viennese
lady, and Miss Prokosch's exceedingly
amusing interpretive dance were other
outstanding features of the program. The
entertainment as a whole was extremely
good, and the cider and ginger bread men
which enlivened the intermission helped
to create the atmosphere of an informal
and spontaneous performance by the
foreign members of our community.
The people who took part in the per-
formance were Misses Baillou, Hof-
richter, Geiger, Prokosch, Bang. '30.
Ribes, Diebreiul. Patkaniowacka, de la
Vega, '29, Shaw, Hope, Hamilton, Garvin
and MacFarlane. They were assisted by
Misses Hutcheson, Gehrig, Channing, '29,
three children from the model school and
a "vocal bagpipe" band."
Flower Cards
The cast of Varsity Dramatics
and the Glee Club are generously
co-operating with the Bates House
Committee in asking their friends
to send them flower cards instead
of the usual orchids. The cards
will be on sale in each hall this
week. The Bates Committee hopes
that everyone will take this)oppor-
tunity of serving "under two flags."
No Repetition in Social
Work, Says M. Sauhders
Specially   contributed   by   Marjokie
^          Saundebs, '28
Just because* of the very number of
things we did and saw during July we
"Juniors" could draw some universal and
fairly accurate ideas concerning modern
social work. Perhaps one of the most
surprising things I observed was the de-
gree to which social work has become a
profession. As a general rule eighteen
months of training are required in fields
as different as health and law before a
college graduate can be independently use-
ful and worth a salary, although, of
course, all social agencies welcome volun-
teers.
The peculiarities of social work as a
profession appear when you compare it
with another, such as  medicine,  for in-
stance.   Apparently a doctor observes in
his ,patient  definite  symptoms  and   has
definite   orthodox   treatment   for   each
symptom or group of symptoms.   When
dealhig   with   individuals   as  such,  how-
ever,   you   can   not   make  general  rules.
As no two people are ever identical, no
two  treatments  can   be  identical.    The
most exciting side of social work, aside
from the fact that the worker may dis-
cover almost  anything,  is  the  fact that
there is no repetition, and the good work-
er  keeps  wide  awake to prescribe  new
and   effective   medicine   for  unexpected
combinations   of   symptoms.     But   here
again arc more difficulties.    Every indi-
vidual has rights with which no one may
tamper, and the worker must avoid pa-
ternalism.    She must manage rather to
bring about re-education.   The immedi-
ate difficulty may be an illegitimate child,
the   fundamental  one  the  attitude of  a
proud .family   towards   a  daughter   who
was less attractive than her sisters.    Pa-
ternalistic treatment in  the  form of ad-
monishing   the   mother   and   giving   the
child  proper care may  merely clear the
way   for  a   recurrence   of  the   situation,
whereas acting as interpreter between the
family and their daughter, trying to give
them both a new slant on the situation,
may  achieve a  lasting  end of the diffi-
culties.
Success of Social Worker Is Great.
One of the most common criticisms of
the social worker is the very  fact that
she does not achieve lasting effect.  This
criticism,  as  a   rule, comes   from   some-
one who lacks first-hand" information. Of
course,   sometimes   a   worker   may   fail,
either through  her own  inadequacy or
the case itself, but the number of times
she is successful, and the degree to which
she   is  successful,   as  is  testified   in   re-
corded  results   and   unrecorded,  but  not
unexpressed, gratitude   is  indisputable-
A   colder   criticism   of   social   work
comes   from   those   who  say,  "Let   the
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Bertrand Russell Describes So-
lution of Age-Old
Quarrel.
MOTION   Is    RELATIVE
Glee Club Concert Thursday
Lipkin Quartet to Accompany
On Thursday evening, December 15th, the ,Bryn Mawr College Glee
Club will hold a concert in Taylor Hall at 8.15 o'clock. This concert
takes the place not only of the Operetta which the Glee Club gives
each year, but also replaces the series of concerts given by the music
department last year.
The interesting and varied program which the Glee Club is pre-
senting has been reported as more worth while than the usual college
glee club concert program. The Glee Club will be assisted by the Lipkin
String Quartet from the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Publicity Office. Re-
served seats for the college, $1.25; reserved seats for those outside, $1.50;
all other seats unreserved, 75 cents.         A
(The program will be found on another page of this issue.)
The old question of the relation be-
tween mind and matter, and their
reality'or unreality, was the aspect of
Philosophy that the Hon. Bertrand
Russell took for his subject when he
spoke in Taylor Hall, Saturday, De-
cember 10.
Two positions may be taken on this
subject, the first, that mind is matter;
the second, that matter is mind. The
conflict between these two theories
has been going on ever since Berkeley
questioned Descartes' division between
mind and matter. Therc^arc these two
substances, Descartes said, and "the
essence of mind is to think," while
"the essence of matter is to extend."
Starting with the idea that wherever
there was extension there was matter,
physics developed along curious lines,
Theories, such as the indestructibility
of matter, and the "billiard ball" con-
ception of it grew up.
People See Things Differently.
Berkeley, however, -questioned all
this; he said that things were sub-
jective, that no two people see, hear or
smell the same thing in the same way.
Every perception is private to the ob-
server, and there are as many objects
as there are observers. What yqu per-
ceive is not matter (even if there is
such a thing), but something in your
own head. This put the Physicist in a
difficult position, with his "billiard
ball" bits of matter, and for 200 years
the Struggle between him, and the
metaphysician continued. The oppos-
ing camps have now been reconciled,
because great changes have taken
place in Physics since the time of
Newton, and in metaphysics since the
time of Berkeley.
Descartes' two essences need analyzing;
the "billiard ball" theory of matter, that
no two things can be in the same place
at the same time, and so on, extends
back to the Great Atomists. It is not
right; but it seems so.
Newton's theory of absolute motion
has been disputed by Einstein, who
has changed the technique of dealing
with it. One can no longer say that
one thing moves and another is fixed,
just because it seems so; there is even
doubt as to whether the train goes
past the station, or the station past the
train.   It is merely a convention to re-
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Religion a Leap in the Dark
But Light and Life Result
"A Scotchman,", said Dr. Andrew
Mutch in chapel on Sunday, December
11. "is a man who keeps the Sabbath
and everything else he can get his hands
on."            .
"There are two races in the world who-
for ages have received the brunt of jokes
and banter which other people have made
at their expense. They are the Jews and
the Scotch. So far as the Jews are con-
cerned, their willingness to take any risk
for the possibility of profit is no new
aptitude. When Rome was beseiged by
Hannibal, not an acre of land in the city
was worth a cent. No one would risk
his money, because no one had enough
faith in the government. But when
Jeremiah was hurled into prison for dar-
ing to forsee the downfall of Jerusalem,
he staked his life on the purchase of his
family home on the outskirts, of the city
because he had implicit faith in his God.
"The above story is a suggestion. The
call to Jesus Christ is the challenge to
a great adventure. In every action of
our lives we take some risks. Riding
into Philadelphia on the train involves
risks of no small consequence. The sig-
nals may not be up to the minute in
correctness: the rails may be out of
order.   And yet we put our faith in the
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