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VOL. XV.   No. 1
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE). PA..   WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1928
PRICE,  10 CENTS
* HIGH AVERAGES
HAIL FRESHMEN
Twenty    of    Entering   Class
'.Have- Rating Above-'
�   Eighty. '       ,r
ONLY  TEN^SbM  WEST
, t     A am  an   excellent   physical  speci-
Ythriugh    it   is   my   guardians,
fal  or tutorial,   who  have watch-
^ed my bed hour, my morning milk, my
rubbers), an Episcopalian and an only
child"�These were the words which
President Park put into the mouth of
the average incoming freshman of the
class of 1932.
"So far." President Park added, "I
have noted only that the Hryn Mawr
student of 1U2K�by and large�comes
from a city, is a month or two over
eighteen and trained for the most part
, in private schp/rfs, that is, along with
her own kind and sex. She is of so-
called, American stock, transplanted
some time since from the British Isles
or Germany."
The statistics, not yet compiled at
the time of this speech, are now avail-
able in full. There are ,187 freshmen
representing 22 States and the District
ot Columbia. For the first time in
some years Pennsylvania heads the
list with 34 to New York's 25. For
once a prophet. hashpssSrin . his own
country. Of tke"*22 States 7 are west
>-i the Mississippi, but they furnished
only 10 students in all.
Fourteen ivfn Miss Kirk's School
Seventy-nine ^schools ha.ve contrib-
uted to the training of the class of '32,
rfknost entirely private schools. Only
15 of the-s-M^ ^ere wholly prepared
:>>   public schools, and seven partially.
z^ilss   Kirk's   School   in    Rryn   Mawr
/feads the school list with 14. Next
comes Miss Walker's with 8, and the
Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore with
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Scholastically   the   average   is   high.
Twenty  freshmen  have   averages,over
>Q, and only 8. fall below 69.
In die domain of less formal statis-
tics, p. has been noted during Fresh-
man week that the class pf. 1932 Is
quiet, well-behaved and'/<MitJrti�iastic.
They passed their self-government
tests with a hian average and only twd
failures, although few know the nw.il-
ing of the word jurisdiction, and some
startling statements wejry-Mftae. A stu-
dent it seems, must sign her "destiny"
.  before gfling nvt i-'-t1*� evening, and
'must frequent only certain '"proscribed
places." Above all she must nq*/ go
out in a car unless chaperoned by a
mother over 18!
"Some of  the statistics follow in de-
tail:
Statistics of the Freshnt an Class
Denominational Affiliations
Percentages
Episcopalians.........    61        43.0 1
Presbyterians    .........    23        18.1 '
Unitarians   .............      7          5.5
Society  of  Friends   ....      6         4.7
Catholics..............      5          3.9
Jewish   ................      4          3.1   .
Methodists   ............      8          2.4
'   Lutherans    ............      3          2.
Congregationalists   .....      2          1.
Christian Scientists   ....      2          1.
Baptists..............      1            .8
\o   affiliation    .......'..     10         7.8
Total    .............   127
States
'                                            Percentages
Pennsylvania   ..........    34        26.7
New  York   ...........       25        19.7
Massachusetts   .........       9          7.1
New Jersey   ...........       9          7.1
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Lantern Tea
The Lantern Board cordially
invites all Freshmen interested
in writing or in drawing to a tea
to be given on Monday, October
the fifteenth, from 4.30 to 6
o'clock in Hilda Wright's room.
No. 21,  Pembroke   West.
Passed Beyond
In the^fnidst of life we are in
death. We had been asked to
announce -the arrival in Merion
of a full-blooded young Florida
alligator, who was delivered to
^Jliss' Lucy Fry, '31, last Friday
/�'noon. But just as we were going
to press with a glowing descrip-
tion of his charms, and of the
rusty rat trap in which he was
housed, we received the tragic
ftews that he is dead. A blast
of hot-air from our too efficient
heating system proved too much
' for even a tropically educated
alligator, and he prematurely
shriveled   away. ��
A Musical Service
News for Athletes
Three  Periods  of  Exercise  In-
stead of the Usual v
Four.
An exhaustive probe of the athletic
situation, carried on by the News in be-
half of its public, shows no very drastic
Upheavals. The new director, Miss
Josephine Petts, late of Teachers College,
Columbia University, received our rep-
resentative   with   smiling   frankness.
"What I am aiming for "is a program
that will give each person, three hours of
exercise, three hours that she will en-
joy, suited to her, temperamentally and
physically. For the fall months we arc
planning three hours a week of required
instruction in any of the following
sports: hockey, tennis, archery, fencing,
swimming and sunbaths.-#hTb>�<**?cgular_
schedule of varsity hockey and basket-
ball games will be carried on exactly as
before and there will also be intcrhalt
and intcrclass first team games. The
winter schedule has not yet been fully de-
termined, but we do know that swimming
will be the big feature in every way.
Possibly we shall be able to have indoor
t'.'nnis."    _
goo
Other innovations mentioned* were a
tennis instructor from the Merion
Cricket Club, and.a freshman course in
d body mechanics. Miss Petts closed
the interview by saying that she hoped
to talk to the students herself very
shortly about future plans. There will
be no check-up on the students, but each
individual   is /xpected   to   complete   her
(Sj'Abree periods-as a master oi honor.
How
/
iWVote-?   /
ake a Look at Al
If the average age of the Freshman
class   fs   18,   something   more   than   a
fifth   of   the   stuj^nts   of   Bryn   Mawr
must  be of.AOThg age.    Of these as
many as can'^will probably cast a vote
�ayleast tbey ought to.   And even the
noci-votcrs.   with  the   radio dinning  in
thjeir   ears   anfl   unrescmbling   photo-
Wphs leering, at them  in  the streets
�i   Philadelphia,  can  take  an  interest
n  the election.    With  this  in  mind  we
are   printing? this   yteek   the   following
material about on* of the two big can-
didates.    Wext jfreek  we  will give the
other side �-a cnancc:
Owen D. Young,  Father of a  Recent
Bryn  Mawr Graduate, Defends
Smith
"Think// of the degradation, the
humiliation which touches all of us
when such a fine spirited, straightfor-
ward, clean-minded man as Governor
Smith is called a drunkard and politi-
cal  crook.
"What are we coming to in /this
country when a'mean's religion is the
test of whether he can hold public
office and when churches are mobilized
for political action? If the American
people are wise they will, in their own
interest, end this religious issue now.
Let every solicitation for a vote on re-
ligious grounds, whether it be made
openly or secretly, be a reason for
voting the other way. because the fact
of such solicitation makes the issue
itself one of prime importance.
"I am supporting Governor Smith
because I believe in his willingness arid^
his capacity to put the farms of this
country on an equality with its indus-
tries.    I  am   tired of hearing of farm
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Large    Attendance    Indicates
Popularity of New   -
�  Chapel.
Anyone who�attended tkc service of
t!i: Bryn Mawr League on* Sunday eve-
ning (and we assume from casual ob-
servation that most of fhe college did,
attend) will agree that the initial servia/
of the new organization wa*-**3uccess.  .
The League plans to have, during the
coming year, eight similar musical serv-
ices in which Mr. Willoughby, now per*
p.?.nent and official organist of the col-
lege, will play various organ numbers;
the choir will sing several anthems, and
at times chorales in which the congrcga-
t.on may join. Any. other talented people
ptnong the undergraduates and graduates
will be invited to take part in order that
tiiise services may be of interest to the
college as. a whole and may, therefore,
be a success.
There will also be, during the year,
five services similar to those of the
Christian. Association last year, i T'"-'
speakers which the League has obtained
for these special meetings are: Dr. Cof-
'hift- president of �Union Theological Semi-
nary in New York, March; Pitney Van
Dusen, February 10; Dr. Schlatcr, of
Toronto, November 23; Dr. Kirsopp
Lake, of Harvard University,.October 28,
and one other on April 28 to be decided
upon later in the year. *
The League has made every effort in
choosing these speakers to obtain those
whose~ popularity has been general in
the college in past years. In most cases
the speaker will remain at the college
until Monday in order that he may talk
1 more secular subjects, or may be ques-
tioned by the students.   The League has
so made arrangements for a special
shelf in the New Book Room on which
the hooks of these speakers will be kept
for anyone who  is interested.
Informality an* Object
The remaining services will be lead by
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� We Compete ..
The College * News won an All-
Amcrican Honor Rating in the compe-
tition for school newspapers held this
sjmmer, with a score of 811 out of a
possible 1000. The following note ac-
companied the award: "Your editorial
page could be made to lf>ok more at-
tractive. You lost first-place by your
poor make-up." The N'ews was given 00
cut of a possible 100 for Its news writ-
ing ; 183 out of- 225 for Its news content;
71 out of 90 for its editorial services, and,
to the glory of the Business Board, 49
out of 50 for its advertising. Although
we would like to have done better, we
aie pleased in view of the heavy compe-
tition of larger and busier 'fTrHcgts to
have done as well as we did, and will en-
deavor to the'best of our ability to "tor-
red the faults indicated.
Faculty and Graduates
Pursue Summer Labors
Bryn Mawr may moulder during the
summer, but_.its spirit goes inarching
on. Wherever learning flourishes, irs
representatives gather like Inmches of
iion filings in areas of magnetism. In
the sacred Round Room of the Record
Office in London no less than seven
of the graduates and Faculty of Bryn
Mawr were pursuing the fruits of
erudition through the pipe-rolls of
ancient manuscripts. Anyone who has
seen the seating arrangements in the
Round Room will realize that seven
people easily constitute a majority of
its devotees. Chief among the group
\a- Dr. dray who was .making a
study of royal finance in England at
tile end of the 100 year's war. The
general subject of royal finance- in the
fifteenth century also occupied the at-
tention of three-graduate studeijts in
the department of history: Miss Isa-
I el Abbot, Viss Margaret Harper and
Miss Julia \V�;rd. Miss Alice Beard-
wood, a graduate of Bryn Mawr, was
also there making a studjr of Italian
merchants in the fourteenth century.
Historical Researches
Miss Nellie Neilson and Miss Bertha
Putnam, ty*p more Bryn Mawr grad-
uates who are now in the History De-
partment of Mt. Holyoke, complete the
list. Miss Neilson is head of the Mt.
Uolyokc department, and a distinguish-
ed scholar. This summer she was en-
gaged on the very difficult work of
editing a year-book, a kind of semi-offi-
Cial record of legal cases, with philoso-
phical comments attached, which used
to be made in England at the end-of
the year, as- a guide to future legal
decisions. Miss Neilson was asked to
edit this year book (for the year 1470-
71) by the Selden Society, a learned
Fnglish legal society. That she should
be chosen to do this was a great com-
pliment to her scholastic ability. Miss
Putnam, who published a year ago a
book on the Justices of the Peace in
English history, was carrying on her
investigations in this field by research
into the records of teatta*1 of Justices
of the Peace in the fou' 'esa '> cen'ury
COLLEGE MUST BRIDGE THE
GAPS IN OUR EDUCATION
International Student
/   Conference a Success
The tenth Congress of the C. I. E.
(the Confederation Internationale des
Eludiants) met in Paris on the 10th of
August, 1928. After a grand opening
in the great hall of the Sorbonnc\ the
Congress settled down for more than two
weeks at the Cite Univcrsitaire. that mag-
nificent foundation for foreign students
in Paris, which has risen so suddenly
from the once- dreary vacant spaces be-
hind the 1'arc Montsoiiris.
Unfortunately for the C. I. E.� the two
most   coinincnted-on   events   of   its   so
skins were in the nature of misfortunes.
". . . At the finals of the football
championship at St. Ouen. in the middle
oi a grandstand full of Fascist Italians
delirious with enthusiasm, a very small
group of working men. obviously anti-
fascist Italians, protested. A scuffle en-
sued. The police broke in roughly. There
were wounded, especially among the
Italian students who were in the ma-
jority."
The Italians were dissatisfied by the
defeat of many of their motions in the
Congress itself.
In the second WMjfcUf
chiefs of the delegation were summoned
home by an official telegram from Rome.
The unfortunate effect of this first inci-
dent was heightened by the subsequent
departure of the German delegation.
There were two delegations from Ger-
many, one- representing the Deutschstu-
denschaft. a powerful conservative asso-
ciatkm among German students, and one
representing the Verband, equally devoted
to national interests, but much more dem-
ocratic and open-minded. -Apparently
everyone liked the Vcrliand, but the
Scha.fl was older and larger,, with a
slightly belter claim to recognition. When
the Congress. voted that the two groups
should be received on an equal footing,
the delegates from the Schaft, cold sileiit
and as if on parade, rose and quitted the
hall.
These two incidents created quite a
stir   in   the   Paris ' papers.
Enjoyed  Despite  Disputes
The � students themselves, however,
wire less pessimistic. Somehow, in the
general atmosphere of the Congress, these
scholars to Europe: Friedricka de
incidents were dwarfed to#insignificance.
For two weeks, in .the delightful grounds
of the Cite Univcrsitairjfwith its green
squares surrounded by pleasant red
brick pavillions, students from 3:t na-.
tuns walked and talked and discussed
with each other. One would see an Eng-
lish boy taking a picture of four grin-
ning German students from Heidelberg,
or a Roumanian girl deep in discussion
with an American.
The Congress, moreover, has practical
aims in addition to the spreading of in-
ternational good-will. It is trying in
every way to lessen the difficulties of
studying iii a foreign country.
The next international congress will be
held in Budapest. The German ques-
tion, more complex than ever, will again
be discussed.
Perhaps on the banks of the Danube
some sort of definite international accord
can be reached. If students cannot ac-
complish it, who can?
Importance of Link Between
Childhood and Maturity
Is Stressed.
A FRESHMAN'S FUTURE
Bryn Mawr College, diminished by
the passing of the class of '28, but
more than correspondingly increased
l.y the new class of '.'(2, gathered in
Goodhart fJail last Tuesday morning
for the first chapel of the year. Miss
lark's opening address, the first of its
kind to be delivered from that plat-
form, admirably expressed the feelings
which   the   occasipn   aroused.
"It comes, to me with a start of sur-
prise that, some�many of the students
who have hurried here under the crisp
rustle of the" trees this morning will "'
never know that opening days of the
college began anywhere else�will take
for granted that this building existed
in the ice age and that dinosaurs play-
ed around its buttresses. But many
of us though we cannot quite go back
to the first day of the first year, to
October of 188">, have nevertheless live-
ly memories of the annual calls to arms
from the platform, in Taylor Hall
when the college year was an infant
and prodigies of progress seemed pos-
sihjl and likely. 'Once more into the
breach, dear friends, once more!*- For
the forty-third time summer has
slipped by. the campus is silent, with-
out the songsparrows and thrushes of
June, the vines begin to turn red, we
havejforn up our daylight saving time-
tables and the moon of the last eve-
rings looks chilly rather than tender.
A sterner season is upon us. 'Once
more into the breach, dear friends, once
more!'                            �"�*"'
Centripetal Force Is Strong
"One hundred and twenty-seven new
undergraduates, forty new full time
graduate students enter Bryn Mawr
officially today.
"So   much  for  Bryn   Mawr's  centri-
tal force. It* centrifugal has sent,
many   of its  students, as   fellows  and
scholars to Europe.   .
"The college has this year once
more had more students completing
all its entrance requirements than it
could admit into residence and the
r.i'inbcr of girls presenting a first dt- �**'
vision of examinations this year is half
again as large as the number in June,
1987. Whether this is due to our na-
tive charm, to May Day or to the
change in the French requirement for
entrance is  debatable.
"What  will the .gntenitg student gcr
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Freshmen and Sophomores
Vie on Parade Night
Confident Freshmen massing around
the exciting band in the arch; Juniors
with red and green torches; Sopho-
mores in the traditional circle around
the traditional lire on the lower tennis
court, the procession of Juniors and
Freshmen toward the tennis court to
the tune of."We're in the Aritiy Now"
with the words
"H.urrah for ihe Freshman blue,
There's nothing they caiinot do.
They're young, but they're wise,
So  don't  try  to advise
The  class of  thirty-two;"
thus began   Parade   night on   the vopen-
ing   night^-of   college.     After   an   ex-.
hausting   amount   of   hilarious   snake
dancing around the fire, the college re-
ti.rned  ty'the arch  and sa.nj*- as usual
the   Parade   night   songs'of   preceding
years.     At   the   appropriate   time,   the
Sophomores   triumphantly   broke   into
their parody.
"We  went to the animal fair.
There were only  Freshman there,
They thought they  were sly.
But   they   went   far awry.
Poor   class   of   thirty-two."
Some of the Sophomores seemed to
find   a   curious   resemblance   between
"We're   in   the  Army   Now" and "We
Went  to tbe Animal  Fair."
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