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College News
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE)� PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1929
PRICE,   10 CENTS
VARSITY CRUSHES f
BUCCANEERS
Game     Is   a   Disappointment
Afoer a Most Promising
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OPPOSITION
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The basketball game Saturday morn-
ing, March 2, Was a total disappoint-
ment. Varsity walked away with a 47-6
victory, but the game was sadly devoid
of excitement and spectacular playing. It
does not seem .possible that the Buc-
caneers who played "such a consistent
game against Baltimore .several weeks
* ago could be the same team that took
such a "lickjng" Saturday morning.
Varsity 4iad   no   competition   so   it   is
hard to judge the merits of the players.
It is safe to.say*4hat the team did not
play as well as it did in the last varsity
game,   ^asch, who graduated from sec-
ond   to   first�"var�ity,   looked   promising.
She   is   quick,   alert^ and   accurate,   and
"plays well with Totten.   Baer, in center,
and    Freeman    and    McCully,    guards,
1 played tht smoothest and most depend-
able game, hut they didiiot hav�4o work
f    very  hard.    Blanchard   was wild.    Her
passes   were   hard,   fast   and _ inaccurate.
While   it   did   not   matter   very   much
"�    where the ball was thrown on Saturday,
it might make a very material difference
in a. close game.
As for the Buccaneers the least said
the better. Saturday must have been
their off day for in spite of Miss Brady's
valiant efforts and frequent shifts in the
lineup they dia not have a prayer.
In most games when victory is assured
the subs are run in at the beginning or
during the last quarter. This seemed the
logical thing to do Saturday. It not only
is an opportunity for the subs to show
their worth and to make a blaze, but it
also gives the player who just misses the
first team an incentive to work harder.
Bitt perhaps the team needed the practice
for the Swarthmore game.
The lineup was-:
Varsity�Totten, 31. 21222122221222;
Rasch, 32, 2212212212212; Baer, '31;
Blanchard, '31: Freeman, '29; Mc-
Cully, '32.
Buccaneers�McLean. 2; Brown. 2;
Baetie; Brady; McWilliams; Davenport.
Substitutions� Mutch for McWilliams,
Brady for Brown, 2; Mackey for Brady.
McWilliams for Davenport, Mutch for
Brady.
Promising!
The following Freshmen are
trying out for the Editorial Board
of the College  News:               "
Anne Burnett, Virginia Butter-
worth, Agnes Knopf, Rose Hat-,
field", Susan Noble, Jane Oppeti-
heim. Dorothea Perkins, Alice
Rider. Lucy Sanborn. Patricja
Stewart.  Eleanor Stonington.
Those trying out for the Busi-
ness Board are:
Moore. Alexandejjon.- Cameron.
Bruere;  Mueller,  Thomas,  Beyer-.
ley, Atmore. Doak, Shuttleworth.
WhaHs the Cross?
Goodhart Radio Gives
Us Inaugural Ceremonies
A radio installed ' in the Common
Room through the efforts of Virginia
Fain on Monday morning did much to
make up to those politically-minded stu-
dents who wanted to be in Washington
but were not, by bringing the ceremonies
of the inauguration within their auditory
reach.
Beginning somewhat feebly, the radio
found its voice just as the chaplain was
asking a blessing on the day's events,
tflen lapsed into silence, and finally came
out loud and clear in time for the most
important parts of the program. A large
crowd    of-   verv    silent    listeners    was
Cross Stands for Addition, Dr.
Steer Said at
',           Vesper.   .
0tr Douglas Steere, Rhodes Scholar to
Germany atid now prpfessor of psy-
chology and philosophy at ^Haverford
College, gave a most interesting talk at
the Vesper service of the Bryn Mawr
League on Sunday evening. March 3, in
the Music Room of Goodhart Hall.
The Lenten period. Dr� Stecre suggest-
ed to us, is one in which people are glad
to - have redramatized for them the life
of one of the world's, greatest personal-
ities. It represents the weeks in the most
intensive portion of Christ's life and gives
us the most poignant realization of His
humanness. The great symbol ,of the
period, as it is the symbol of. all Christian
life, is the* Cross.
What, exactly, should the Cross mean
to us? It should represent for us a
permanent and tangible Something, simple
enough for us to understand iri itself and
strong enough for us to grasp in the
countless crises which besiege our lives.
Symbolically, the/Cross represents two
ideas.
Cross Stands for tragedy
In the first place, the Cross stands for
Tragedy�the tragedy in life which no
one can escape?" The vision of the Cross
has a curious effect upon us; it quickens
the sense of the value of life and enables
Opportunities for Study
in France Unusually Many
"Opportunities for studying in France
during the summer, are more numerous
this year than they have been for several
seasons/' said Miss Shenk in chapel on
Friday morning, March 1.
' In Paris the Sorbonne offers a reguTar
course in French Language aijd^ Litera-.
ture, June liO.August 10; and an
Academic Tour, August 12-21, which will
include Touraine, Mont St. MicHel and
Normandy. Among the courses offered
at the Sorbonne is one very interesting
one given by Professor Baldensperger on
the Contemporary Novel. The cost, from
June 30 to August 21, is between $200 and
$300. including living, tuition, excursions
and trips.
The^.Alliance Francaise, also in Paris,
offers two series of courses in the French
Language and Literature; from July 1-
30. and from August 1-31. The cost in-
volved is ridiculously cheap; 140 francs
a month  (S.VOO).
The Institut de Phonetique is repeating
the courses it lias offered for the last
several years. They include intensive
work in small discussion groups and are
intended for students who wish to perfect
their pronunciation. The first series runs
from July 15-AugUSt '�'<: and the second,
from August V24.   Cost": 200 francs.
In the provinces tuition averages about
$8 a month, living. $L30 to $2 a day. and
excursions are very inexpensively ar-
ranged by the authorities
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noyances.    There  were no  bickerings  in
MUSSOLINI'S DRASTIC METHODS
ENFORCE POLICIES ON PEOPLE
first public utterance since the election.
The swearing in of new Senators, and
the process of removal from the Chamber
of the Senate to the west front of the
Capitol was made vivid to the listeners
by two sprightly radio announcers and
the chief clerk of the Senate, famous as
the man who first announced that
"Alabama gives twenty-four votes for
Oscar W. Underwood." We were told
that Curtis was speaking to a lady, that
it was raining slightly, adding the color
of variegated umbrellas to the landscape,
{hat former President Coolidge had his
hand up to his chin, and tha| the digni-
taries were reluctant to sit down on
their damp chairs. We were also in-
debted to Mr. J. F. Wile, veteran, if
rather absent-minded political announcer,
who described Senator Shipstead, of
Missouri, as "That tall sycamore of the
plains."
The voice of Chief Justice Taft, ad-
ministering the oath of office (and it
was an oath, not an affirmation) put the
tones of the announcers to shame, for
clarity and resonance, and Hoover's
answering "I do" was likewise loud and
vigorous. His address, laying emphasis
oh judicial reorganization and prohibition
enforcement, was short and eloquent
enough for anyone io read in the paper.
He expressed a wish that the United
States might enter the World Court, but
without abandoning her reservations^ and
declared his intention of abiding by the
exusessed will of the people not to ham-
per her freedom of action by joining the
League of' Nations. In this connection
Dr. Fertwick wishes to refer the students
to Hoover's statement concerning the
League of Nations in 1920. The new
President indicated that the coming spe-
cial session of Congress will deal with
Farm Relief and "limited Tariff reform."
He affirmed his intention to keep the
Government out of business, while re-
serving the right, however, to regulate
rigorously all Public Utilities and#eh-
courage co-operative associations.. He
indicated his intention of reorganizing
the administrative departments of govern-
ment, and furthering the practice of
economy. The rest of the address was
largely devoted to appreciation in not too
oratorical terms of peace, progress,
prosperity and the American people.    .
Allinson Here Saturday
Mr. Brent Allinson, a young man who
has travelled in Soviet Russia and is
popular as a lecturer on the subject, will
speak and show movies in Goodhart
Hall on Saturday evening, March 9. Mr.
Allinson is lecturing at Haverford on
Friday evening and has kindly consented
to proceed to Bryn Mawr to tell us about
the present situation in the most inter-
esting country on the modern  map.
the trenches; there was little fussing over
trifles; with Death so near at hand these
lesser things faded into the background.
And so the vision pf the Cross makes a
good many of our foibles seem insigni-
ficant arid worthless. It changes our at-
titude toward life in general.
When . Christ was faced with the
knowledge that He would Ik crucified,
His thoughts were not those of despair.
He felt at once the great desire to carry
out all His endeavors, so that in the end
there might exist within Him a feeling
of accomplishment. He gives out a new
challenge to 'the disciples and clarifies
the vision of what they must do. He
emphasizes the necessity of going on in
.the remaining time with a new spirit of
consecration.
Tltcre is the tragnc element in the
vision of the Cross. Death docs come;
and it is impossible to put off decisions
and to procrastinate in straightening out
the vexing entanglements which surround
us. We cannot afford to wait for the
"next step:" there is a certain intenseness
in the symbol which makes us "realize the
need of "doing it now."
Cross Stands for Addition
But the Cross stands for more than
this. It also stands for the vision of
Christ as the Sign of Addition of our
lives. To illustrate this Dr. Douglas re-
told for us a charming legend of
Brittany.                           �,            ____
Some children were playing around" in
a large field and being tired they sat down
at the foot of a Crucifix which stood
near by. Presentl\v Christ came down
from the Gross ao3) asked them what
they thought of Him. Two of them of-
fered an opinion on the subject, but the
third, excused by his friends as "stupid,"
could think of nothing to say.
Fifty years later the three were again
assembled in the same place. The oc-
casion was the dedication-of a church, at
which one of the three preached a great
and dramatic sermon. The "stupid" one
had returned with the Others, but he did
not go into the church. He stayed out-
side, and when the sermon was over and
everyone had gone his way, he went out
into the field and sat down again at the
foot of the old Crucifix. Again Christ
came down and asked what he thought
of Him now. And the man answered that
he had always thought of Christ as a
sign in his arithmetic book�the sign of
addition, the power, which, combined
with the strength or weakness of the Self,
is the only thing which makes life at
times seem bearable.
Life cannot be lived alone. We need
this Sign of Addition to complement our-
selves. The Cross is the symbol of this
complementary thing and not of the
necessity for quick, sound decisions'.
Aw�*"�red at Last   -
For the past three weeks try-
outs for the Glee Club production
of "Patience" have been in prog-
ress. The cast, at length made
public, though tentative, will be as
follows:
Colonel Calvcrly ___L. livens, '32
Major Murgatroyd, Hirsehberg, "80
Lieut., the  Duke of  Dunstable,
A.  Rurrows, '31
Officers of Dragoon Guards
Heginald   Bunthornc,   a   fleshy
poet '.........y.H. Bell, '31
Archibald Grosvenor. an idyllic
[�oet   ............A. Merrill, '30
The lady Angcla.^R. Moonson, '30
The lady Saphir, H. Stevenson. '31
The lady Klla.....C. Sullivan, "30
The lady Jane ......S. Rebcn, "31
Patience,     a     Dairy     Staid,
A. Howcll, "80
The chorus is made up of other
officers of Dragoon Guards and a
chorus of Rapturous Maidens. The
whole title of this which has been
one of the most popular Gilbert
and Sulivan Operas is' "Patience,
or Bunthorne's Bride," an entirely
new and original aesthetic opera
"In two"acts. It was first produced
at the Opera Comiqiie. London, on
Saturday. April 23, 1881. Need-
less to say, Patience is the heroine
and Bunthornc aesthetic, purple-
eyed and mediaeval, is the hero.
Mr.  ? ' zemini -Stresses- Fsct
That Italy Did Not Need
a Savior.
SELF - RESPECT       LOST
Work Awaits Hoover
Foreign and Domestic Problems
Outlined by Dr.
Smith.
Dr. William Roy Smith spoke "in
chapel on Monday morning, March 4, on
the problems that are before the Presi-
dent. He classified them into domestic
and foreign, and discussed the domestic
ones first.
The rearrangement of the administra-
tion departments at Washington is very
important. Many, of them overlap and
the taxpayers could be saved 10,000,000
a year, but some people would have to
be thrown out and this would necessarily
involve political opposition. The second
problem is that of the foreign immigra-
tion laws. The act of J924 has been
postponed twice and though the House
voted in favor of ft on Sunday, the Sen-
ate adjourned and will probably let it go
until the speciaTscssioh in April. The
third problem is that of (arm relief, and
President Hoover is opposed to the Mc-
Xary-Haugen bill. He will-probably try
to institute a Federal farm hoard at
Washington and a stabilization corpora-
tion for'each major industry.- In years
when there are good 'crops the farmers
will be encouraged to hold the crops until
the prices rise. Money, will be loaned
them by the Government from a revolv-
ing fund, but it will be difficult to hold
prices up.
Fourthly, tariff must be revised to help
fanners and manufacturers. There is a
conflict between the extreme Republicans
and the more moderate Democrats headed
bx LoXffWOrtk, but Dr. Smith believes
that Hoover will be rather moderate, and
that there will only be great increases
where it is very urgent, or where foreign
competition is very keen. Difficulties will
undoubtedly arise, as was the case when
farmers demanded an increase in the
rate on cocoanuT oil, so that cottonseed
oil would be used in its place. This
would raise the price of soap; so the
manufacturers at once, objected and
want a lower tariff. In the case of for-
eign countries, Canada especially would
retaliate, and political differences might
arise. Another point is that Republican
high tariff brought the Democrats into
power in 1890 and 1912 so the Repub-
licans will probably try to keep it low.
Congress as well as Hoover will have
to face the Fenn reapportionment bill. At
present the House is based on the census
of   1910 and this so decidedly unfair to
Only a few days before the Fascist
viewpoint had been dealt out to us very
convincingly. On Saturday night the
case for the anti-Fascists was presented
even more convincingly by Professor
Gactano Salvemini. He spoke on "Pres-
ent-day Conditions in Italy,'' andr
so that no one could fail to be impressed.
The sense of deep personal conviction,
the unadorned and unjugglcd facts, the
incontrovertible logic,, that he gave the *
audience, were very persuasive without
smacking at all of propaganda.
Professor. Salvemini began by saying
that to^uilge fairly one must know .that
in 1012, when the Fascists captured the
government, the economic machinery of
Italy was.no/ in a breakdown. Mussolini
did not rescue an Italy expiring on the
brink of bankruptcy. In the period be--*
twecn the end of the war and the coming
of Fascism the country underwent not
a crisis ,,f disorganization hut one of re-
adjustment : a crisis whose outstanding
symptom was an epidemic of strikes both
industrial and political. The post-war
unrest was dying down gradually, and
the Fascists had nothing to do with the
nation's recovery.
During 1919-1920. the two most danger-
ous years. Mussolini actually did his best
to help the unrest rather then to allay it.
He urged the people to start a new war, a
war of the proletarian nations against
the capitalist nations. He opposed the
Socialists not liecausc they were too revo-
lutionary but because they were not*revo-
lutionary enough. The credit for there
being no revolution is due Io the Italian
people, who could have risen but re-
trained, rather than to Mussolini as the
I'ro-Fascists declare. When the danger
was over Mussolini no longer attacked
the Socialists from the left, but assailed
them from the right, calling thenT now
dangerous revolutionaries rather than in-
effcctu� revolutionaries.
As the post-war ncura^tl^ft died
down Fascism began to develop, and Italy
entered a^ncw phase of political life. It
was a period of authorized lawlessness,
organized by the military and helped by
the judges and police. The military au-
thorities armed the Fascists, seeing them
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Series of Lenten Lectures
Will Be Given in Goodhart
A  course of  five   Lenten lecture-con- '
ferencei   for   parents,   teachers   and   all
others   interested   in,   or   working   with
children, is to be given in Goodhart Hall
j on Tuesday and Friday ai'ternoons of this
month at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of
the Bryn Mawr Kducational clinic and
the Parent's Council of Philadelphia. The
subject of the course will be: "Character
V&fucatUM�TtU Joint Responsibility of
School and Home."                 '   ^
The five lectures together form a unit
on methods of character education. The
first, at which Miss Park will preside,
will be delivered this Friday afternoon
by William Heard Kilpatrick. Ph. D..
professor of the philosophy of education.
Teacher's College. Columbia University,
and author of many books on education
and character, the best known of which
are probably "Education for a Changing
i Civilization" and "Foundations of
Method"
The subject oi this tirst lecture will be
"The Laws of Character Formation."
"The growth of character is not a mystery.
The lecturer will describe how character
traits develop in ami through daily exper-
ience^ Good character is learned as,
everything elsei<learned�-By practice "
under favorable conditions. ".It is im-
portant for parents, teacher (and pro-
spective parents i to understand just what
kind of character is being practiced and
to try to provide the conditions which will
develop good character "
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