College News, 1928-10-24, Vol. 15, No. 03

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The College News
VOL. XV, NO. 3
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24,1928
PRICE.   10 CENTS*
GRAND AND GLORIOUS DEBUT
PLANNED FOR GOODHART HALL
Our New Program to Feature
. ..  Music, Literature and
� a Ballet.
BEGGAR'S OPERA NOV. 1
This is a yea/ of innovations.
Around every corner and behind every
bush surprises lurk, big and' little.
And now the climax has been reached.
Rumors have trickled about the
campus for the last week, but nothing
definite was known. Today the Pub-
licity Office issued the official state-
ment of fact. In the past there has
been a series of concerts each winter
arranged by the Music Department.
This year, says the official announce-
ment, "it has been possible due to the
completion of Goodhart Hall to widen
the scope of the series so as to in-
clude representations of the other
arts." The series as announced for
this year is alrnpst overpoweringly re-
markable. - It may . be naiveyto be
excited, but read on and Judge for
yourselves. The price for the series
is six dollars for those in college, and
ten dollars for outsiders, with all seats
reserved. The full program for the
winter is as follows:
Thursday, November 1, 1928, at 8.20
o'clock�"The Beggar** Opera,", by
John Gay with the full London Com-
pany direct from the Lyric Theater,
London.            ,       %
Thursday, November 22, 1928, at
8.20 o'clock�Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Readings of her own poems.
Wednesday, December 12, 1928,'at
8.20 o'clock�The New York String
"Quartet and Horace Alwyne, Pianist.
Wednesday, January 18, W29, at 8.20
o'clock�Pianoforte Recital by Ossip
Gabrilowitsch."   �
Wednesday, March 6, 1929, at 8.20
o'clock�The Doris Niles Ballet.
Complete New York production.
Wednesday, April 17, 1929, at 8.20
o'clock�Naoum Blinder, Violinist;
Anton Horner, Horn; Boris Saslaw-
sky, Baritone; Horace Alwyne, Pianist.
CONCERNING THE ARTISTS
"The Beggar's Opera." This year
marks the two hundredth anniversary
, of this the most successful piece ever
produced on the English stage. It
was first performed at Lincoln's Inn
Field Theater, London, January 29,
1728. Dean Swift Pope, Addison,
Congreve, were among the literary
giants of the period who advised with
Gay in his production. It was brought
to the Colonies first in 1750 and is
said to have been George Washing-
ton's favorite play." In 1920 it was
revived in London, where it ran for
four years continuously.
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Socialists Meet
Issues and Candidate Are Dis-
cussed by Faculty
Members.
In the midst of the noisy fervor of
the Smith supporters and the more re-
strained enthusiasm of the Hoover
following, a new element appears on
the campus. On Sunday evening a
group of liberals and other interested
people met in the Common Room to
consider the Socialist platform and the
party  candidate, Norman  Thomas.
When the platform had been read
and copies distributed to be studied
at leisure, the meeting was thrown
open for discussion. Mrs. Hornell
Hart, who has been a Socialist all her
life, gave some of her reasons for it
Chief among them is her observation
of conditions in Milwaukee, a city
which is run efficiently, and remark-
ably without corruption, by a Socialist
administration. Dr. Hart is not vot-
ing the Socialist ticket, largely because
of the intolerance which he believes
' is exhibited by so-called' liberals to-
ward each other, as well as toward
those    of    more   conservative   mind.
CONTINUBD ON  PAOB  3   .
Light on Boawell
"James B,osweII's Collection of
Anecdotes -'-this is the alluring
title of the Ann Elizabeth Shcble
Memorial Lecture in English
Literature which. Dr. Chauncey
Brewster Tinker will deliver in
Goodhart Hall at 8.15 on Friday
evening. Dr. Tinker, of Cook and
Tinker fame, is no stranger to the
campus. For two years he once
taught Bryn Mawr graduates and
undergraduates in the class rooms
of Taylor and the seminars of the
Library, long before his brilliant
work in the field of English Litera.
Mire had won him the Sterling pro-
fessorship at Yale University,
which he now holds. In speaking'
on Boswell he is on his chosen
ground, and will undoubtedly shed
new tight on that somewhat
peculiar character.
Rapid Growth of Education
in China Explained by Yen
An eager and attentive audience lis-
tened to Mr. Y. C. James Yen, Direc-
tor o.f the Chinese Mass Education
Movement, as he spoke in Goodhart
Hall Friday evening, October 19. The
Far Eastener was very much at his
ease, and told his listeners that he
was glad to be back to the country
where he spent his best college years.
His subject of the evening, however,
was about the mass education move-
ment.
"The Chinese Mass Education move-
ment originated in the World War
when the Allied armies needed Chinese
labor for the manufacture of ammu-
nitions. I had charge of five thousand
Chinese laborers in Bologne in north-
ern France," Mr. Yen continued.
"They were very industrious workers,
some of them decorated with medals
for their bravery. But they were
homesick and illiterate. This pained
me very much. So I thought of teach-
ing them the fundamentals of Chinese
language. In order to do so, I wrote
text books for them, and posed myself
as their teacher."
The people who enlisted under Mr.
Yen's flag of learning ranged from
twenty to fifty years of age. The first
group of'these labor students num-
bered forty. But soon, the interest of
the other laborers was roused and
more came to register until more
teachers were needed. Mr. Yen, there-
fore, asked eighty Chinese students
who were then in Paris to help. A
conference was- held, alter which the
volunteer teachers went back to the
camps and started a ten-sheet paper
called "The Chinese Laborers'
Weekly."       >-"
From that day on Mr. Yen devoted
himself to the education of the illiterate
mass.
The beginning of the Mass Educa-
tion Movement consisted in three dif-
ferent steps, the speaker told his atten-
tive audience.
Revision of Text-Books Needed.
First, the writing of text books in
the spoken language, or Pei Hua. In
China the written, or classical, lan-
guage is different from the spoken
language. It lakes a long process of
painful study to master the classical
language. So ther95 per cent, of the
whole population who have to pro-
duce the rice or weave the cloth for
their countrymen are either too busy
or too poor to go to school to learn
-how to read and write. For the classi-
cal language is the only recognized
medium for written communication.
Hence they become illiterate. "Im-
agine," added the speaker humorously,
"your prominent men conducting things
in Latin. Then you too will have
illiteracy in America."
"But," Mr. Yen went on explaining,
"everybody speaks Pei Hua, even the
scholars. There are about forty thou-
sand characters in Pei Hua. This also
the mass of the people can not afford
CONTINUED  ON  PAGE  4
Miss Thomas Cables
Reasons for Voting for Hoover
.    ^   and Against        4
. Smith.

REASONS   WHY   I  SHALL   VOTE
FOR HOOVER
� {Signed by Miss 'M. Carey Thomas and
Cabled lo Caroline McCormick Made,
Mrs, /�*. Louis Slade, Chairman of the
Women's ' National Committee for
Hoover, by her request.)
I shall vote for Hoover first because
he is a great organizer. He planned a
supremely successful system of voluntary
food conservation during the war. He
fed children in Belgium and organized
the Quaker feeding of children in Russia,
he fed and sheltered thousands in the
recent Mississippi floods. He is the
greatest Secretary of Commerce we have
ever had and has raise/1 the position to
one of the first cabinet rank. His com-
mercial secretaries attached to United
States Consulates abroad have already^1
materially increased American .exports; if
elected I am sure he will put in opera-
tion adequate and permanent farm relief
and he will save our stupendous water
power for the people of the United States
and he will, I hope, be able to devise
international economic agreements that
will help prevent dangerous international
friction. As President of the United
States I am confident that he will use his
splendid organizing genius for the good"]
of us all.
1 shall vote for Hoover .second because
he believes in world peace. He wtt'l bci
our first highly trained scientific Presi-
dent and he possesses an A-plus ^intellect.
Through his practical experience as a
great engineer fn th^s country and abroad
he knows at first hand world conditions
better perhaps than any American living.
No one so ignorant of the world outside
of the State of New York as the Demo-
cratic candidate should be considered
at a time when another great war will
destroy civilization. Hoover's statement
in his speech of acceptance assures me
that he will work for peace. I believe
that he will put our merchant marine
back on the seas where it belongs and
will remove our fighting marines from
the soil of Nicaragua where they do not
belong. I agree with him that adequate
navies of peaceful republics make for
peace and hot for war. I believe that
Hoover's administration will aid. and I
hope initiate, practical plans for inter-
national  peace.
I shall vote for Hoover third because
he believes Tn prohibition honestly en-
forced. In all the many countries I have
visited drink is regarded as a terrible
menace. 1 believe that if our prohibition
law is intelligently administered the ex-
ample of the United States wjll be fol-
lowed by the  rest of the  world.
I shall vote for Hoover fourth because
I believe that he is free to give us the
best administration he is capable of. I
believe that the Democratic candidate is
not "Tree of entangling alliances, Smith
is a product of. and is enthusiastically
supported by the Presidency by, the most
corrupt political organization of our
generation. Whatever may be his per-
sonal wishes he cannot in my opinion fail
'continued on page 3
Mi88 Swindler's Book
At last the book is Hearing com-
pletion. Its name is "Ancient
Painting,"* an unassuming title,
which implies a great deal. It has
five hundred pages of text, a mere
seven hundred illustrations in
black and white, five intricate color
plates, and will appear both in a
hand-book edition selling for $5
and a large*edition. The Yale
Press is .advertising its advent
for the fourteenth of December,
and all 'concerned are feverishly
polishing last details. Miss Swind-
ler has been working on it, with' a
final immense effort this summer,
for fifteen years, and has made
five trips to Europe to study the
caves of France, the Etruscan
tombs, the^ museums of Naples,
Pompeii and Egypt (as well as all
other museums). We all congratu-
late Miss Swindler on her achieve-
ment, and we all eagerly await the
fourteenth of  December.
Victory for Varsity
Opening of Hockey Season Col-
� lege Team Triumphs
Over Main Line.
The Varsity hockey game against
the Main Line on Saturday morning
fell below even the low standard set
for the first game of .the year. Per-
haps this is due to the fact that there
are a number of Freshmen on the team
this year, and though they are good
individually, the whole team has not
had time to orient itself. The final
score, 5-3, in our favor does not prove
the superiority of our team, for two
of our goals were purely flukes.
The first half was dull and uninter-
esting; the Main Line backs were very
fast, and our forwards were not ag-
gressive enough in the circle. Wills
scored a pretty goal by scooping, but
the team became inaccurate again, and
the half ended with only the comic
relief of Hirschberg knocking a stick
forcibly from her opponent's grasp.
Both teams picked up after the rest,
and Main Lind made a goal by rush-
ing, a principle which Bryn Mawr
seemed to have forgotten. It took a
lesson from its opponents, however,
and though the latter scored twice
more by difficult angle shots, Bryn
Mawr found its much-needed "push,"
and won by two goals.
�n the whole our backs are better
than our forwards, with Hirschberg
and G. Woodward the impregnable
points in our defense. We can only
hope that the forward line will make
its collective eye more accurate before
the next game.
(  The lineup was:
Main Line�Wilkie, John, Hare,
Gay, Campman, Davis, Strebeigh,
Lewis, Hawes, Brill, Hurlbrink. Goals
�Wilkie, Hare.
Bryn Mawr�-Blanchard, Moore,
Wills, Longstreth, Adams, Balch, G.
Woodward, Freeman, Hirschberg, Mc-
Cully, Parkhurst. Substitutions�
Crane for Adams. Goals�Wills,
Moore, Longstreth, Crane (2).
Martin, Merrill and Taylor
Will Be Junior Class Officers
The Class of 1930 has elected the following officers for the year
1928-29: Margaret Martin, president; Adele Merrill, vice president;
Helen Louise Taylor, secretary, and Kate Hirchburg, song mistress.
Miss Martin was secretary of the class, 1927-28; class tennis captain.
1927-28. 1928-29; hair president of Pembroke West, 1928-29 (resigned);
junior member of the Executive Board of fhe Self-Govcrnment Associa-
tion, 1928-29: treasurer Self-Government, 1927-28, and GooBhart Com-
mittee, 1928-29.
Miss Merrill was class Song Mistress, 1927-28.
Miss Ta^lpr is the hall president of Pembroke East; secretary of
the Athletic Association, 1928-29; Business Board of the Lantern, 1927-28;
class swimming and water polo captain, 1927-28, J928-29, and is on the
Maids' Committee, 1928-29.
M0RLEY WILL BE
JUDGE OF PROSE
Lantern Offers $50 Prizes for
?      Best'Prose and Verse
This Year.
NOVELIST      REMINISCES
(.Specially Contributed.)
The Lantern takes pleasure in an-
nouncing that a generous friend has
offered two prizes of fifty dollars each
�one for the best piece of prose, the
other for the best piece of verse writ-
ten by an undergraduate and published
in one of the first three issues. The
prize-winners will be announced in the
last issue. The judge for the verse
has not yet been decided, but the judge
for the prose is no less a personage
than  Mr. Christopher Morley.
Beginning with the statement that
he is "too old a friend of the 'Lan-
tern, to call any of its editors 'MISS',"
Mr. Morley writes:
"Of course I shall be glad to act as
judiciary, f take it that I will only
have to read the contributions actually
printed in the magazine, not the whole
run of the mill. Anyhow, send them
along, as and when; I'll do rny best.
"I hope the Lantern is still (I'm
sure it is) as charming a magazine as
it was twenty years ago (count them)
when we youngsters on the Haver-
fordian used tq Wonder how our
neighbors of Pallas Athene seemed to
know so much about life and litera-
ture and could so gracefully convey it
in print."
The Editorial B*oard urges the lit-
erary-minded not to lose their chance
of these prizes, and to have contribu-
tions for the first issue in by Novem-
ber fijst. Hand.them to a by editor;
or if shy, insinuate them into her room
when she is out.
Another pleasant announcement is
the addition of Evelyn Waples, '31, to
the Editorial Board, to take the place of
Emily  Lewis."
Don't forget the Art- Competition,
and even if you don't want to tut out,
hand in drawings. Being a Qrw ex-
periment, our art needs encouragement
if it is to succeed.
Thomas Receives Miss
King's Vote and Praise
Miss King has authorised us to publish
the following statement, givin'g her rea-
sons for supporting Norman  Thomas in
the coming Presidential election:
WHY/VOTE   FOR   NORMAN
THOMAS?   BUT WHY NOT?
Y.pu could not ask mc to vote for the
candidate who sat in the Harding cabi-
net to the^end and after; nor for the
candidate /who sits in Tammany Mall and
is not qufte easy about keeping the law.
I want to see the whole country vote
about prohibition and to vote for it. di-
rectly and immediately; but prohibition
apart. I cannot see that the Democratic
party 's any different from the Republi-
can, nor the leading members" thereof any
more to my taste, any nearer my con-
victions. True. I am not a Socialist,
being too stubbornly individualist ever
to come in to that party; but they and I
have a long distance to go together be-'
fore the parting of the ways�further
than  we shall get just yet
But why not Norman Thomas, when
I can stand on his fundamental prin-
ciples and approve his record, even
though I may not go so far myself on
the former and can only, applaud him
along the latter? We hold the same
faith and we have a common trust.
Therefore the best I. can do is to
strengthen a strong minority, the �more
content as I question if. one ever saw
a majority that was nut in the wrong.
What candidate of any party strong
enough to-rlect him. represents a body fit
to have the power? I can, however, vote
for the future. Glad am I to have been
allowed to cast my first ballot for Eugene
V. Debs; I shall be well satisfied this
year to cast one for Mr. Thomas.
Georgiana  Goddard   King.
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