College News, 1928-03-07, Vol. 14, No. 16

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BRYN MAWR  (AND WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY. MARCH 7. 1928
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	The First Robin
	Mayh came in, not like a lion
	or  a  lamb,  but  like  a  sheep  in '
	w�lf's   clothing. Nevertheless   the
	mild  face of spring   appeared  be-
	Rind the wolfish frown: The first
	robin  was   actually seen on the
	campus    last    Friday, chirruping
	feebly, with his red waistcoat but-
	toned up to his chin.
LEAVE PROBLEMS
TO WH40F GOD
Relations   With   Parents   and
Friends Solved by
Relaxation.
#   DR.   HART   IN   CHAPEL
"What power has religion to solve the
problems of life?1' asked Dr. Uart in
chapel on Sunday evening.
'There are four problems which are
typical of those which present themselves
to us during our college careers. The-
first is the case of the college student
who is absorbed in an ambition to study
medicine. Her parents, with some sacri-
fice, have given her the advantage of a
thorough education�an exclusive pre-
partory school and then college. The
student returns home and meets decided
resistance from her family, She finds
berself bound by duty to give up this
vivid, vital ambition and remain with her
family.    She has a problem to solve.
Secondly, there is the case of the girl
who finds her relations with men very
perplexing. When actually in their com-
pany she feels ill at ease and embar-
rassed; she finds nothing to say and is
unhappy because she feels that she was
not born with the knack of being witty
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Christianity Was Topic at
Gettysburg Conference
(Specially contributed by E. Baxter, 'jo.)f
Last Friday six of us started out for
the conference which was held at Gettys-
burg, under the auspices of the Y. M. &
Y. W. C. A. and the Student Volunteers,
for the colleges in this region. This year
it was especially interesting as it followed
up the Detroit conference held at Christ-
mas. The subject was "The challenges in-
volved in the spread of Christianity." The
� conference was carried on by general lec-
tures and group discussions of the vari-
ous aspects of the question. The dis-
cussions fell into two main groups�the
appreciation of other religions and cul-
tures, and the translation 'of international
mindedness into individual living.    Each
1 of these discussions proved very interest-
ing because of the able leaders and be-
cause fit the variety of attitudes ex-
pressed.
Some of the subjects discussed were:
. "Are the basic principles of all religions
alike?" "What is unique about Chris-
tianity?" "Should we take the good of
other religions and add it to Chris-
tianity?" "Do we want missionaries from
other races and religions?" The con-
clusion reached was that the finest things
of other religions can be found "in Chris-
tianity as taught by Christ, if not in
present-day doctrines, and that, far from
.contradicting other religions, Christianity
rather   fulfills them.
The other main theme related-prin-
cipally to the value of western civiliza-
tion, and especially of American ideals,
and the extent to which we can make our
civilization as a whole, and our own ac-
tions conform to the highest ideals.
Racial antipathy, narrow nationalism, in-
dustrial autocracy, undemocratic govern-
ment and imperial foreign policy were
discussed. While everyone agreed on the
need of changing these things, many
people seemed to fear the influence of
foreign idea?. The chief suggestions
�gre to think about these matters more,
to read, and to get the point of view of
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For STCA passage see Silvine
Slingluff, 48 Pembroke West, or the
STCA. 24 State Street, New York
City, NOWN-Advt            *"
Thrills and Defeat Found *
in 2d Team Basketball
Nip and Tuck: those two good old
birds made a morning ot it on Saturday.
Second Varsity played Roscmont College
in a game replete with thrills and heart
throbs. Rosemont finally won, 27-26, but
we nearly fell from the balcony in our
excitement during the last few hectic mo-
ments.'^v^
�Not-that it was a good game; it was
just exciting. Our team,, as a team, was*
even poorer than second varsities have a
habit of being. It lacked all sense of
teamwork and could not even hide behind
the boas] of uncoagulated individual bril-
liance. The only individual brilliance was
displayed by Sappington who made rather
a sparkling first appearance. She was
the only person on.the team who seemed
to have any basketball sense, and she
had an easy and satisfying affinity with
the basket. Unfortunately for us sb;
did not get her hands on the ball often
enough.
The centers
Swan, although most divinely tall, does
not seem to be divinely endowed with
the qualities that ;make a good side-
center; and Dean to be any good at all
needs fast and skillful co-operation. As
for the guards: Thompson reminds us
irresistibly of a stately Spanish galleon
in action (but jieed. we recall the fate
of the Armada?); Totten on the other
hand was quite fast but never knew the
location either of the ball or of the
person she Was guarding; Hruere, who
succeeded her, was much better,, even
though not playing in her regular posi-
tion Boyd, not up to her usual form,
was at forward for the first half. Hilda
Thomas, taking her place in the second
half, played a good g^mc and had ex-
cellent teamwork with Sappington.
Their combined play at forward was the
only highlight of the game, and the score
MUKERJI CALLS INDIA HOME
OF MEDITATION AND PIETY
An Invitation
The Bryn Mawr Art Club in-
vites you to visit its studio from
10 to 1 o'clock on Saturday mom-
irfg. March 10, on the third floor
of  Tavlor  Hall.
Bloodless Revolution
. Will Make India Free
"Within a year the cyis of the, world
will be focussed on India," predicted
Dhan Gopal Muskerji when he was inter-
viewed by a member of the News staff.
Already, under the influence of Gandhi.
changes  have  taken   place   in the  social
world;   very  soon, the caste system will
be blown to bits.    In the political world.
a bloodless revolution, passive resistance,
No Co-operation.   .    _-,\LiH drive out England.    All this great
rs were excessively ineffectual.                   .    ,    "      ,        ',.*.'"     ?"  '
movement is^ founded on religion.   Every
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Is Social Work Worthy?
Passing Modes                 Conference Will Decide
'27 Leaves Few H�rir*<r�s *n *hiy,    J,ph;>*}^^p,li,ade,pWa Conference
great movement in history is carried by
religious fervor at the beginning, but
that dies out�posterity will have none of
it. Gandhi's own religion looks more to
the physical world than to an after-life';
he is interested in an "experimentation
of human relationships."
Art and literature have already suffered
under this movement. Cubist painting is
no new thing in India, and the manner
oi writing has changed. No longer do
they write of the vast conceptions of
human and divine nature, but of the
pttty problems of individuals. Literature
has become introspective and is not good.
Mr. Mukerji felt that this type of work
would not last, as it is not universal in
its application. "It is no good howling
about happiness," he said. "The happiest
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West Must Learn Syntheses of
Being and Doing From
Gandhi
MAYO'S    BOOK    DYING
Fickle Collegian.
The hour-glass has been  turned over,
and a new year is already slipping slowly
away.    It  is  now   1928   (and  doesn't  it
sound funny- and   ultra-modern?);   1927
has passed from our horizon forever, but
it   has   left   us   several   heritages   with
which to start the new year.    Snooping
about the campus we find that the  first
of January does not strip the undergrad-
uates bare of all follies and foibles, hates
and passions.    No, the college seems still
to be in its late 1927 state.   These modes
and manners are of the most temporary
and ephemeral sort.    They may change
overnight,   they   may   stay   in   vogue   for
months, but while they last their power is
supreme.    It   is   too early  yet  to  divine
the coming fashions.    All we cafh do is
to note the heritages with which/we start
the new year, the passing modes of 1927:
Berets have passed from popularity and
baitftanas   or   frankly   bare   heads   have
taken their place. A few of these brightly
colored round caps with their invigorat-
ing top-knots still survive but the over-
whelming vogue of last year is in absen-
tia.    (This raises the question as to what
has. become of. the discarded berets. They
do" not    seem    to    have    the    practical,
uses     of     ex-German   helmets.       They
could be used as hot-water bottle cover-
ings on   a  pinch,  or   perhaps  as  winter
wraps    for    transplanted    ostrich    eggs.
Probably they have been given to the Sal-
vation Army and will soon appear on all
the   poverty-stricken   streetsweepers   and
window-washers in the city.    Personally
we think that butchers might wear them
in winter instead of their everlasting dirty
straw hats.)
Sciences are going out and history of
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Still Striving
As a result of the first week of the try-
outs for the Editorial Board of the Col-
lege News the following people are still
in the running: E. Lewis, '31; V. Hobart,
�31; V. F. Shyrock, '31; E. G. Zalesky,
�30; R, Hollander. "31, and B. Faust, *31.
Going to Europe? Start now by
booking an STCA  passage.�Advt.
on Social Work will be held at the Ben-
jamin Franklin Hotel, Ninth and Chest-
nut streets, on Thursday and Friday.
.March eighth and ninth. The Conference
this year will be of particular interest
to Bryn Mawr students in view of the
fact that the program for one afternoon,
the afternoon of the ninth, will be de-
voted to a lecture and discussion ar-
ranged by a group of college undergrad-
uates for college students. The speaker
will be Dr. Hornell Hart, of Bryn Mawr.
and his subject, "Can Social Work Create
a New Social Order?" The lecture
itself begins at four o'clock, and will be
followed by an Open Forum led by Ken-
neth L. M. Pray, Director of the Penn-
sylvania School of Social and Health
Work. This hour of discussion will give
an opportunity fpr students to question
those actively engaged in social* work-
as to the larger significance of that work.
The college student can often hear lec-
tures on the details of social work jn
particular fields, but it is very rare that
a group of sociologists and social work-
ers offer to discuss the probable effects
of social work on society as a whole,
both now, and in the future: to give their
opinions, for example, on the degree to
which social work actually prevents the
multiplication of the unfit; whether there
is any longer any practical distinction
between the treatment of the "deserving"
and the "undeserving" poor, and if so,
what; what is, and what can be the atti-
tude of the college student toward social
work, etc.? The discussion will cover
a range of topics wide enough to inter-
est even those who are not sociology
students, and it is hoped that many whose
interests are not strictly sociological will
attend and enter into the discussion. Ab-
stracts of Dr. Hart's speech may be
obtained from V. Fain, '29, Pembroke
West, so that those who wish may con-
sider the subject in advance.
At 6.30 there will be,a buffet supper
at which Dr. Marion Kenworthy.
Psychiatrist, of the Institute of Child
Guidance,   will   speak.
'�'Kipling and not Kathcrine Mayo gives
the fairer picture of India," said Mr.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji in his address in
chapel on  Saturday, March 3.
�Mr. Mukerji spoke very briefly about
Mother India. For a long while he re-
fused to read the book, but then he was
told that as a speaker about India he
must know it. It has had a distinct in-
fluence in both Kngland aiuUAmeriea. In
England, it has been one of the causes
of the conservatism of the committee
sent to discover if India is fit for self-
government; in America it has* made
everybody feel that even if it is only 5
per cent, true, he must go and clean up
India. But India is not cleanable in that
way; the Westerner who judges it from
the market place he sees is as unfair as
the Indian who judges America from the
movies, or from the average American
novel. To understand India, one must
understand India's religion. ideals,
morals.
Caste System Has  Endured.
! "I should rather talk about India it-
self," said Mr. Mukerji. "I .often hear
expressions of wonjler that the caste
system has endured so long. The rea-
son is that the Brahmins, the teachers
and highest caste of India, are the poor-
est class; no Brahmin is ever rich, except
in the South of- India where the greatest
trouble  lies.
Hugh Black
The Christian Association has
been fortunate in securing Dt\
Iiugh Black, who is well remem-
bered from last year, for the Sun-
day evening service of March 11.
Only the unexpected cancellation
of-another engagement has enabled
Dr. Black to come again this year.
NEW PLAN MADE
FOR MAJOR FRENCH
University   of   Paris    Offers
Work Adapted to
ericans.
WILL
HOMES
The ^iew possibilities for study in
Prance during the Junior year of col-
lege work that are now open to Bryn
Mawr were explained by Miss Schenck
. aaJWcdnesday,. February 29.
"The college has always allowed an
undergraduate to take one-half of her
course elsewhere if she can be examined
on it profitably on her return. Many
students have wanted to go to Paris, but
this has never been possible before. The
courses at the Sorbonne are different
from ours here; the student does not
get a chanee to meet the professor, he
does not know where to find his sup-
plementary reading, and. he is puzzfed
by French  methods of work.
"Now a plan has been evolved where-
by an American student can take his
Junior year's work at the University of
Paris. Professor Kirkbride of the Uni�
versity of Delaware' has worked up the
system which is called 'the Delaware
plan for foreign study,' and it has been
opened to students of other colleges, on
the condition that  they choose students
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�Ml  -will   let   the-French   Department
recommend   the suuleute �*'"�  win mn,t,
profit,  selecting those with the capacity
and will to work.
Mediaeval Women
Tout to  Lecture  on   Important
Aspect of His Specialty.
Mediaeval Women. will be the subject
of the lecture which Dr. Thomas Fred-
erick Tout, professor of history at Man-
chester University in England, will de-
liver here this Saturday evening, March
10.
Professor Tout probably knows more
alx)ut early English History than any
man in England at the present time.
His specialty is the history of govern-
mental institutions, to which field he has
made some important contributions,' be-
sides having developed at Manchester the
best school of mediaeval institutions in
existence. His latest and most hnportam
book, which went to print just at the
time Professor Tout left England, is a
four-volume work on governmental in-
stitutions in mediaeval England, which
develops the idea of the control of gov-
ernment by the King, acting through the
wardrobe. He has also published a book
on the past and present relations of
France and England, and many other his-
torical  subjects.
As a lecturer Professor Tout is known
in this country especially through the
series of lectures which he delivered at
Cornell. His popularity rests not only
on his scholarship but also on his power
of witty and picturesque expression. His
appearance here will worthily continue
the series of remarkably interesting lec-
tures which the college has enjoyed in the
last few weeks.
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STCA�weekly sailings to Europe
on the steamers of the Holland-Amer-
ica Line�STCA�Advt.
Calendar
Friday. March 9�Social service con-
ference at Benjamin Franklin Hotel.
Saturday, March 10�Varsity basketball
at 10 A. If. Professor T. F. Tout will
speak on "Mediaeval Women", at 8.15 in
Taylor Hall.
Sunday. March 11�Dr. Hugh Black
will conduct chapel at 7.30 P. M.
Friday, March 16�Morning chapel.
Announcement of academic honors. 8.30
P. M.�Fellowship Skit.
Two thousand college people can't
be wrong; they have already booked
STCA passage for the coming sum-
mer.�Advt.
Group Being Formed
to Study in Geneva
Mrs. Elbert F. Baldwin offers unusual
opportunities to those wishing to spend
the summer in Geneva. For the past
four years she has organized a represen-
tative group of twenty-five girls selected
from American colleges. One of the
many charms of the system is that the
housing and chaperoning problems are
cared for automatically by Mrs. Bald-
win. Besides the "lectures at the Zira-
mern School and the summer school of.
the University of Geneva, members of
the group have the opportunity to attend
a series of lectures, followed by general
discussion, especially arranged by Mrs.
Baldwin. The speakers include such
personages as Dame Crowdy and Mr.
Howard Huston and the subjects deal
with various aspects of political, eco-
nomic, historical and international ques-
tions. That Mrs. Baldwin is eminently
qualified for the organization of such a
group is shown by her long residence
abroad and her years of direct-contact
with the actual work of the Ueague. The
program includes an optional week in
Paris and as, many excursions in the
vicinity of Geneva as the individual may
desire. Mrs. Baldwin will also make all
requisite arrangements for attending the
annual international conference of the
C. I. E. The sailing is scheduled for
June twenty-third in third class on the
Majestic, returning on September fifth
on the same boat. All of this (including
laundry, possible excursions, etc.) is
offered for six hundred dollars. There
are two places still vacant and Mrs. Bald-
win is most anxious that Bryn Mawr
be represented, for the probable benefit
both to her group and to the college.
�(For further information see
C. Crosby, 34-38 Pembroke west, or
write Mrs. Moorehead. Foreign Policy
Association. 14- East Forty-first street.
New  York  City.)
You'll  find all your  friends  on   an
STCA sailing.�Advt.
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