College News, 1927-11-16, Vol. 14, No. 06

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VOL. XIV.   No. 6.
BRYN MAWR   (
WAYNE). P.
HAS YOUR I. Q.
GONE UP DUt. M.?
Education Department Wants
to Test Large Number
to Prove Theory.
PRIZES    AND   .RESULTS
(Specially contributed by Dr. Agnes
Rogers).
One of the crucial issues today in
the field of higher education concerns the
limit of intelligence development. Does
the mind cease to mature at sixteen, as
the Stanford-Revision of the Benet-
Simon scale, the most widely used in-
dividual test of intelligence in the United
States, implies ? Or does mental growth
go on to the age of twenty, or even into
the thirties?
. Bryn Mawr College has the privilege
of showing what the truth about mental
development between 18, 19, 20 and 21 is
for a selected group of college women.
Professor Thorndike, of Columbia Uni-
versity, has given the material for the
study. It represents in money a gift of.
$300, in actual market value. But this
value is far outweighed by the scientific
value, for the examinations represent the
product of research coveiing a period of
twenty-five years.
Students to Be Told Results.
To take the test means three and a
half hours of strenuous mental effort,
but the knowledge attained about oneself
cannot be bought at any price from any
person. The opinions of individuals,
however estimable are subjective, influ-
enced by superficialities such as personal
appearance, manners and accidental en-
counters, pleasing or painful. The great
value of the Thorndike Examination is
that it measures what it measures in a
reliable fashion and independently of the
judgment of the examiner. To discover
the truth about one's own powers, evert
for such a limited selection of them as
the Thorndike Examination provides, is
to increase one's mastery over destiny it-
self.
The results of the application of the
test will be published. The amount of
development for this group of college
//women will be determined by calculations
of the amount of improvement in the
1927 score over the earlier score, allow-
ance being made for interfering factors
such as practice in taking the test. Each
student's own score and improvement in
score will be communicated to her alone
and interpreted in a personal interview.
Only sophomores, juniors and seniors
are to  be tested.
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Notice
The   Self-Government   Associa-
tion requests that its members do
not smoke on Gulph road east ok
Roberts road.
News
EDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16,192?
^RJCE,   10 CENTS
MONET EXCELLED
PAINTING LIGHT
With Cezanne and Picasso He
Started School of Im-
pressionism.
LIVED
FOR
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AN   IDEAL
SWARTHMORE AND MERION TEAMS
FALL BEFORE TRIUMPHANT VARSITY
Suffered  From "Varsity's  Su-
perior Stick-Work and
*J          Speed.
FINAL SCORE WAS 8 TO 1
Chinese School
Lui Tung Kei, a  Bryn Mawr
Alumnae, Wants Practical
Religion in China.
Mrs. Edward Howe, who spoke in
chapel on Wednesday morning, Novem-
ber 9, gave a short talk on the Christian
School in Canton, China.
"The first time I saw Lui Fung Kei,"
said Mrs. Howe, "she was a little girl
with pigtails in the Canton Christian
School. Her father thought that all girls
should be educated, although the problem
was a difficult one in a family of nine
girls and one boy.
"The next time I saw her she was a
student at Bryn Mawr. She had bobbed
her hair and assimilated many American-
mannerisms. Now she is back in China
and has fitted back into the Chinese at-
mosphere miraculously well. Her life is
devoted to her school, in which she is
trying to work out a practical religion for
the Chinese. She scorns the possibility
of being called an imperialist because she
has foreign teachers in her school.
"Her dependability is her pride. There
is one thing, she says, which may be ex-
pected of her: that her school will be an
experience in education on a thoroughly
Chinese basis. If it is, apd there is no
present doubt but that it will be, she is
fulfilling one of the greatest needs of
the Chinese people today."
On Thursday evening, November 10,
a lecture on KTlaude Monet was given by
M. Desclos. M. Desclos, who is the
assistant director of the "Office Nation-
ale des Universites," spoke in Taylor
Hall; his lecture was fully illustrated by
lantern slides.
There are examples of Monet's work
in both Chicago and Boston. It is im-
possible, however, to understand his con-
tribution to art before visiting the newj
Monet Museum in Paris. In this build-
ing are contained the series of Monet's
last work. It represents the fifth period
of his artistic development, and it is
particularly significant in his compre-
hension of light reflected in water.
These pictures have been well placed in
the museum by M. Lefevre, who is him-
self an artist.
Early Art Was Religious.
M. Desclos gave an historical back-
ground to his lecture by emphasizing the
development of art before the time of
Monet, by enlarging upon the artistic
influences which helped to form Monet,
and, finally, by analyzing the five periods
of Monet's own work. Early art was
almost all religious; acsceticism was its
chief interest. During the Renaissance
life itself l>ecame broader in scope, and
art expanded accordingly; it was no
longer so strict in choice of subject
matter. During this time there was an
interest in movement and color, as well
as numerous experiments in landscape
painting. During the seventeenth cen-
tury we find nature arranged according
to a preconceived idea; form is made to
harmonize with subject matter, and it is
a period of idealization, a curious mix-,
ture of realism and convention. Later,
in Holland, comes the revolt against dog-
matic art. The wealthy bourgeois did
not care for religious paintings, and, like
Sam Weller, they disliked figures of
"Wenus and like nonsense." "La realite
modeste," pictures of familiar things be-
came most popular. This is the most
banal of reality. "Pas de dieux, ni de
heros, rien que le sentiment de la na-
ture."
Between 1830 and 1860 flourished the
School of Barbizon in France. It
showed the direct influence of such Eng-
lish painters as Constable, and among
its numbers may be included such names
as Rousseau, D'Aubigny, Carot, Manet,
Millet, and Courbet.    They were  inter-
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In spite of the gathering twilight,
Varsity fought its way to victory over
Swarthmore on Friday with a score of
8-1,. cheered on by enthusiastic supporters.
The Bryn Mawr team made a better
showing than usual, probably due to the
fact that Swarthmore was slower than the
veteran club teams we have met this sea-
son. For this reason the Varsity forward
line was more successful in using dodges
and in breaking through the Swarthmore
defense. The Bryn Mawr backfield was
execptionaly good. Brown tackled well
and followed up her shots with vigor,
while Hirschberg and Batch would have
been more effective if they had not inter-
fered with one another.
Though deprived of some of their best
players by Varsity's devastating stick-
work, Swarthmore put up a good fight
until the end. Rushing a goal in the
second half, they avoided the ignominy
of a scoreless defeat.
The line-up was:
Swarthmore�Vaughan, Hinlock, Har-
per, Walton*, Richards, Tily, Jackson,
Cleaver, Kennedy, Calwell, Seaman.
Bryn Mawr�B. Loines '28*, S. Long-
streth ':u*. R. Wills '29***, H. Guiter-
man '28**, H. Tuttle '28, B. Freeman '29,
C. Hamilton, grad, K. Balch *29, A.
Brown '30, K. Hirschberg '30, A. Bruere,
'28.
Folk Dances Described by
One Who Should Know
May Elliot Hobbs is to lecture on Fri-
day evening at 8.15 in Taylor Hall on
Morris, Sword and Country dancing. She
will illustrate her subject with lantern
slides and music.
Mrs. Hobbs has been a musician since
she was a child in Scotland, where she
was brought up on the colorful songs
and dances of that country. Since her
marriage she has lived in the Cotswolds�
a district of great individuality which has
kept many of its old traditions, its local
amusements, its songs and dances.
But besides this rich background, Mrs.
Hobbs was in close contact with Cecil
Sharp who collected old folk songs and
dances. She thus knows her subject
thoroughly. She has spoken in this
country before, in 1919, and her lectures
were described as "vivid and convincing
to all who heard them."
This lecture will be interesting, not only
to those taking dancing for May Day, but
to the whole college which will see those
dances.
News of Alphabet
Lake   Speaks   on   Discoveries.
Phoenicians Antedated
Now.
The speaker in chapel on Tuesday
morning, November 8, was the Rev.
Kirsopp Lake. Professor of Ecclesiastical
History at Harvard University, who
spoke most interestingly on his. experi-
ences at Mount Sinai.
"When we reached Cairo," Dr. Lake
began, "a friend asked us if we would
stop at the monastery, On our way back
from Sinai, and pick up the fragmentary
inscriptions which were left there in
1906. We agreed only after long con-
sideration, for Sinai is a triangle of
wilderness. There is little water in the
vicinity and few easy paths to the monas-
tery.
Moses Writes to Pharaoh's Daughter.
"The journey proved to be very diffi-
cult. It took eleven days by camel, at the
end of which we felt we knew all about
camel riding. The last human being
there had come in 1906 and had copied
the inscriptions in the temple there. Some
he found so badly written that copying
was impossible, so these were left. The
Egyptian words he was able to interpret,
but the odiers he could only guess were
Semitic. Later a German translated these
discoveries and found, curiously enough,
that they were a correspondence between
Moses and one of Pharaoh's daughters.
These translations known as the Moses
Inscription, as might be expected, were
great news for the Berlin newspapers*. It
was the fragments of these, which were
left in 1906, that we were asked to bring
back.
"We found them easily enough and
at once began to make them ready for
transportation. Most of them needed
trimming before they could be placed on
the camels. Photographs were taken of
each one Before it was packed. All this
proved a 'very pleasant occupation in a
temperature of 115 degrees F.
"As neither of us knew the Semitic
language, we took the inscriptions to
Jerusalem where an interpreter of early
Semitic worked on the photographs and
finally produced a transcription and a
nearly complete translation of the whole
discovery. It was disappointing to find
nothing more concerning Moses, but h is
not  strange since the inscriptions  were
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Scotch Speaker
The Reverend J. R. P. Sclater,
of "Toronto, who is* to speak at
1 Sunday night chapel on "November
20, was a famous preacher of
Edinburgh before he came to
Canada, and particularly liked by
the students of the University.
How can the Scotch, so renowned
for their ministers, spare us so
many  of them?
Freshman Officers
Thompson,   Baer   and   Caparn
Chosen After Lengthy
Debate. '
After a long struggle, 1931 was at last
able to make up its mind on the subject
of Class officers. Emulating their elders,
they spent several days about it; two
whole meetings, indeed, were necessary
before they could decide on their- Presi-
dent.' Caroline Thompson was elected,
and considering her school record, one
wonders why they took so long over it.
Miss Thompson is a graduate of Miss
Madeira's School, where she was Presi-
dent of Student Government, an Associa-
tion with which she was connected for
several years. She was also prominent in
athletics, playing on the hockey and
basketball teams.
The two other officers were elected
with less difficulty at a meeting held Mon-
day, November 14. They are Elizabeth
Baer, Vice President, and Rhys Caparn,
Secretary.
Miss Baer comes from the Bryn Mawr
School; and was President of the Senior
Class there.
Miss Caparn was prominent at Brear-
lcy, and entered college with a scholar-
ship. All the officers have had turns in
running the class; they were all on the
Freshman Committee for the first weeks
of college.
Women Require Training
to Compete in Politics
Mrs. Carroll Miller, of Pittsburgh,
spoke in Chapel on Monday, November
14, on "Women in Politics." Women
should consider politics, she said, not as
a vocation but as an avocation, and they
should be thoroughly trained for the field
before they attempt to enter it.
Mrs. Miller herself has been in politics
since 1920, when she spoke in the cam-
paign of that year. In her varied experi-
ence of seven years, what she noticed
chiefly was, that the women of the coun-
try, unlike the men, are not as a whole
interested in politics. But the chief rea-
son for their disrepute is that it is the
failures who are prominent: you hear of
"Ma" Ferguson, but not of one of
Wyoming's best Governors, Nelly Ross;
of Mrs. Knapp's mismanagement in New
York, but not of the many other women
who have successfully controlled large
sums of money.
"Women are always in a hurry to
achieve their ends," said Mrs. Miller.
"They try to take a short cut. That is
why they are so much in favor of cen-
tralization; instead of starting at the
bottom, they think they can get things
done by going straight to headquarters.
Although they did not have the vote at
the time of the Eighteenth Amendment,
they are probably largely responsible for
the passing of a piece of legislation that
has been the cause of more graft than
any other in the country. The Child
Labor Amendment is another plank on
which they insist, not realizing that cen-
tralization will eventually cause the
break-up of our type of government.
"Politics is an old game and the men
in it are clever, well-trained, sometimes
unscrupulous. Before women can hope
to compete with them, it is necessary that
they should prepare themselves by study-
ing past history as Wilson did. or start-
ing from the bottom like Coolidge.
"Finally, any woman who is eager to
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Hirschberg Stars in Gafrte Dis-
tinguished for Its
Teamwork.
MERION  IS  OUTPLAYED
Prospects for next week's-game with
All-Philadelphia are not so gloomy as
they were two weeks ago since Varsity
defeated the Mcrion Cricket Club, on
Saturday  morning, 4-0.
The outstanding feature of the game
was the splendid' work done by Hirsch-
berg in checking Anne Townsend. Time
and time again, that swift forward eluded
her opponent but lost the ball to Kate�
who always seenicd to be "where she was
needed.
The first half began with a series of
rushes up and down the field, then a long
run by Tuttle almost gave Varsity a goal,
but the shot went- wide. That was Bryn
Mawr's greatest weakness all morning�
no ability to push the ball in, though they
brought it to the striking circle many
times.
The first goal was made shortly after
this by Guiterman. Varsity was now on
the offensive, where it remained for most
of the time". The ball was continuously at
Merion's end of the*-field where their
backs did good work, only to be outdone
by our forwards returning to the attack.
After the second goal by Longstreth,
the game opened up somewhat with sev-
eral long* runs down the field by both
sides. Bruere was given a chance to
make several good clears, but on the
whole she was not pressed hard.
Both teams were bothered by the heat
which was almost oppressive. This made
the playing of tlie second half a bit less
purposeful and more fouls and roll-ins
occurred.
The second half began with an im-
mediate drive on the part of Varsity, re-
sulting after a short scuffle in a goal by
Wills. The final goal was made by
Oliiterman.
There seemed to be a chance of Mer-
ion's scoring when Anne Townsend made
a pretty shot on a penalty corner, but
it missed, by indies.
On the whole, Varsity seems to be
developing more team work. The in-
dividuals while playing a good game still,
seem to be more conscious of one an-
other.    There is more co-operation.
Balch, who has been only a substitute,
did some good work, but Hamilton at
center-half, while she distributed the play
well, was slow in getting on the ball, and
weak in hitting it
The line-up was as follows:
Merion Cricket Club�Mrs. Smith, S.
Carson, Mrs. Madeira, K. Rolin, A. Page,
B. Holman, E. Foster, A. Townsend,
Daly, Byron.
Varsity�A. Bruere, "28; K. Hirsch-
berg, '30; A. Brown, '30; C. Hamilton,
grad.; B. Freeman, '29; H. Tuttle, '28;
H. Guiterman", '28; R. Wills*, '29; S.
Longstreth*, '30; B. Loines, '28.
See Summer School
Miss Hilda Smith Is to Speak
at Party.
An opportunity to find out more about
Summer School is offered in the form
of an informal party to be held in the gym
on Saturday, November 19.
Among the attractions offered are
speakers of widely varied sorts, singing
in several languages, and fqpd.
Miss Hilda W. Smith, Director and
leading spirit of the Summer School wifl
be present in person, and will speak. No
one who has not met Miss Smith uni-
versally known as "Jane," can form any
idea of what she is like, and even those
who have met her, find it impossible to
describe her. However, there is no need
to do so, as she will be very prominently
present on Saturdayvnight.
Celia Pinkson. a Russian girl, will also
speak. She has been in this country onlr
three  years,  but  during  that  time her
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