College News, 1915-02-25, Vol. 01, No. 18

              The College News
Volume I.    No. 18
BRYX MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 26,  1915
Price 5 ('tuts
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Faculty tet to ii <� graduates, Denbigh.
FPIOAY, FEBRUARY 26
Dranvitic Recital by Mr. Bnmuel Arthur
King for tl.i' benefit of the Belgian relief
fund.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
B !�- u.�Bate C imp party in Gymnasium.
Meeting of the Graduate Club.   Addreea
by Profeasor II. A. Oventnet.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28
7p. m.�Vefpera,    Speaker, I.. Qarfield,
s v. it.�Ch:�i>oI. Preacher, the Rev. II 60-
dorc S. Herman, of the Theological Seminary
of tic Reformed Church of die united States.
WEDNESDAY,  MARCH 3
7 30�Bible clase-
8.30�Deaconess Goodwin and Mrs. Pot-
ter'- d I��'-.
8.30��8enior-8ophomore Debate.
9.80�Mid-week   meeting of  the C.  A.
late Haupt, '17.
FRIDAY,   MARCH   5
8 r. M.�Lecture by Dr. Bakewell, of Vale.
SATURDAY,   MARCH  6
s e. m.�Freshman Show.
SUNDAY,   MARCH 7
ft p. m.�Vecpara   V. Lhehfield, '17.
s i>. m    Chapel.
"THE   SUN-THIEF"
By   Rhys  Carpenter
Oxford  University   Press,  1914   -------
Prometheus, the great demon who de
fled Zeus and suffered for his benevo-
lence to the human race, has Inspired
more and finer poetry than any other
hero of Greek myth. There coidd be no
better mouthpiece than the tortured
Titan for noble rhetoric about freedom
and its oppressors, and the high destiny
and pathetic shortcomings of men. But
all his poets, of whatever nationality,
hark back to Aeschylus who. in the
"Prometheus Bound." created for his
torments that incomparable setting of
fin/,mi peaks on the verge of the won-.
"an unearthly desolation." And when
the Prometheus of any later poet rises
in bis speeches to the Titanic heights
of the grand manner, in proportion as he
is impressive he reminds us of Aeschylus.
Nearly all, however, of the later poets
have sided against Zeus in this great
conflict of wills, whereas Aeschylus al-
ways foresaw his final justification as
the representative of Olympian law and
order. All down the centuries Zeus has
lost steadily to Prometheus, till the latter
has come to symbolize the soul o'f man.
shaking off, as  a   step   in   its  triumphal
progress the fetters of superstition. In
the "Sun-Thief" Zeus sinks as low as a
god well can. At one moment he is
sending a terrific ultimatum by his in-
vulnerable aviator. Hermes, and hurling
bombs that split the frosty Caucasus;
the next, with no hint of exhausted am-
munition, he comes whining, like the
starving gods in the "Birds" of Aristoph-
anes, about the economic pressure on
Olympus, now that ephemeral man (sud-
denly become indispensable) lias with-
drawn his prayers and sacrifices. Coils
may behave thus in a satire, but not in
high tragedy. Aeschylus had the happy
idea of confronting Prometheus with an-
other being whom Zeus had afflicted, Io,
whom, transformed to a cow "the tor-
turing sting drove wandering through tin-
world." The choice of MMB victims was
almost unlimited, hut she alone could he
conveyed to that remote place witli any
verisimilitude. Aeschylus had no senti-
mental design, but in the "Sun-Thief"
the love passages between Prometheus
and io are the riiost considerable episode.
'(�r beauty is exquisitely described,
whereas Aeschylus had not let as forget
her bovine shape, or at least her horns
It is about here that we perceive the
"Sun-Thief" to be an allegory, which the
"I'rometheus Mound" most certainly was
not. When it ap~pears that the � imao
will absorb him and interfere with bis
work tlie Titan turns from her. like St.
Anthony. This is only one of the sev-
eral finishing touches added by Mr. Car-
penter to the transformation gradually
achieved of the rebellious and not ini
peccable Titan of Aeschylus into an al
truist with a mission to reform society
The versification of the "Sun-Thief" is
admirable, the descriptive passages most
effective, and the songs of the Voices
(which replace the Oceanides of Aeschy-
Iiim are all light and air. The shorter
poems in the volume show a great
variety of metres, skilfully handled, and
a sympathetic and delicate treatment of
nature. Mr. Carpenter's pages contain
almost as many swallows as Swinburne's.
Those who need to brace themselves be-
fore reading any long poem sliould read
first the "Cypress" and the fine ode on
Thermopylae. All the poems belong to
the Victorian rather than the Georgian
poetic tradition. That is to say, the il-
lustrations and many of the themes are
classical: they avoid the social problems
of the day; they aim at beauty of rhythm
and language; in short, they would have
given pleasure to Matthew Arnold,
whereas Brooke and Daviea and Gibson
would have given him a headache
Wllmer  Cave Wright
DR.    HOWELL    WINS    SCHOLARSHIP
OF $1,000
SARAH    BERLINER    RESEARCH    FEL-
LOWSHIP
Dr. llowell has been awarded one of
the highest honors given to women in
this country. Students of her physics
classes will be interested in the follow-
ing account taken from the "Baltimore
Sun."
Miss Janet T. llowell, daughter of Dr.
William Henry llowell, professor of
physiology at Johns Hopkins Medical
School and formerly dean at the school,
was awarded yesterday afternoon the
Sarah Berliner Fellowship for Women
This fellowship carries with it a gift
of Jl.ooii to enable the recipient to en-
gage in research work in physics, diem
istry or biology, it is considered one of
the highest honors that can be won by
women in this country and the one gain-
ing it must attain an unusually high
standard of scholarship. She must have
received the degree of doctor of philos-
ophy, mr.st have shown original research
work and tun x submit a thesis on one
of the suiijei ts which  come under the
rules  of  the  contest
The announcement  made by the com
lliittee   yesterday   alter.....in    was   to   the
effect that Miss llowell had passed an
unusually brilliant examination in a
class Of eight candidates. One of these
candidates is a prorQllOT in botany in
the University Of Texas. The others are
from  different  parts of the country.
The announcement  of  Miss  riowoll'a
success came after a meeting of the
committee of awards held at the home
of Dr. Florence u. Babln, 1431 Park
Avenue. |)r Sahin. who is one of the
members  of  the  committee,   i               ate
professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins*
Hospital. The other membera ot the
board, all of whom WOTS present, are
Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, of Co
lumbia University, chairman: Miss M
Carey Thomas, president of Hryn Mawi
College, and Dr. Ira Kemsen. former
president  of  Johns   Hopkins   University.
FIRE RULES FOR TAYLOR AND
DALTON
Taylor: 1st floor.�People in each room
to leave the building by the nearest door
way.; 2nd floor�People in room nearest
back stairs to go down those, those in
Miss Donnelly's room across the chapel
and down the front stairs. 3rd floor.�
Everyone to go down the fire escapes.
Dalton: 1st and tad floors�Everyone
to go down the stairs. 3rd and 4th
floors Everyone to go down the flre-
eacapi