College News, 1928-11-21, Vol. 15, No. 07

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College News
VOL. XV, NO. 7
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1928
PRICE.   10 CENTS
VARSITY BEATEN
INTEDSE BATTLE
All-Philadelphia Outplays Us
in Best Game of y
the Year.
BACKFIELD      BRILLIANT
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A gallery unprecedented in size and en-
thusiasm saw Varsity play the best game
of the season against the All-Philadel-
|.hia team Saturday. All-Philadelphia
had the advantage in teamwork, hard,
� Mfrc hitting, and superior experience, but
tven with this in their favor, VarsityJ
pave them a hard fight.
During the first half it looked, as if
Varsity would .tic or even win the game:
�The halt" began with a hard shot from
Woodward to Crane, but the shot went
wild. Crane, however, soon centered the
1 all, which was accidentally kicked into
the goal, spoiling an excellent chance for
a point. All-Philadelphia sensing danger,
spt-eded up its playing, and sent the ball
through the backfield. Rieser, however,
almost, kitted their hopes. Again and
again she rushed out and stopped sure
points. She played so consistently well
that all eyes focussed on her whenever
tiie ball was within shctoting distance ot
I'ryn-Mawr's goal. Even Rieser could
not stand forever against such a swiftj
onrush., She ran out to stop the ball.
Boyd~ failed to interrupt the pass, and,
Weaver scored. Varsity came back with
a pass- from Woodward to Mo�re to
Wills. Thai with a clear shot from the
right side of the circle Longstreth tied
the score. Philadelphia rushed the ball
Lack down the field and Weaver scored
again.   Varsity held them to this 2-1 lead
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Winter Athletic Program
Outlined by Miss Petts
At  a  meeting on  November 13  of
the   Physical   Education   Department
witfi the Council of the Athletic Asso-�
ciartion and a^number of students rep-
y resenting   the    non-athletic   group   in
'   college    the    following    program,   of
Physical Education  was decided upon
for the  winter  months:
(1)    Body   Mechanics
Fencing
Swimming
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
Natural Dancing         �
Basketball                ^        ,      � i
Lacrosse
Tumbling
Sun Baths
Several of the students asked that
Water Polo be added to the list If
enough people arc interested this will
4 be done. A student who plays Water
Polo must have passed her Physical
Examination in the fall with an aver-
age of. (A) and have had no severe
illness since." The Water Polo group
must be large enough so that no .one
will be called in to substitute at the
last minute without having worked up
gradually, to playing the game.
A few people asked if Clog Danc-
ing might be included in the program.
This, too, will be. added if enough
people wish it.
As to the Physical Education Re-
quirements, they were made quite dif-
ferent from those of the fall. We
think the plan is better and we hope
that it will be possible to make it
permanent.
For the Freshman, it was decided to
require one hour a week of Body Me-
chanics and two hours a week of either
Dancing or one sport chosen from the
above list.
For the Soph'omores, one hour of
Hygiene, as before, and two hours a
week of Dancing or one sport.
Other sports may be elected by the
Freshmen and Sophomores in addition
to the one required, provided the
Physical Education Department does
not think the extra exercise too much
for the strength of the student wishing
to take it.
The schedule of the required classes
will be as flexible as possible. Attend-
ance will be taken in these classes and
it   will  be   possible   to make up  work
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BEHAVIORISM IS
A POINT OF VIEW
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Miss Millay, a Gifted
. Lyricist, Speaking Here
Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet and
playwright- is eoftfirig- to read her own
noems Thursday evening. November 22,
in Goodhart Hall.
Miss Millay was born on February 22,
1892, at Rockland, Maine. After .a
childhood spent almost entirely in New
England, she entered Vassar Col-
lege, from which she was graduated in
i'.M7. Since that, time Miss. Millay has
lived in New York City. At first reduced
to a single room, sustained by tea and
coffee, Miss Millay in "a year or two
began to enjoy an extraordinary literary
popularity.
Louis Untermeyer speaks of the poet
cs "the most gifted of the younger
lyricists." And truly Miss Millay' de-
serves the comment. Her first long
I oi-ni, "Renascence," was written when
the poet' was scarcely IB years old. The
potm is keenly individualistic. "The sheer
cumulative power of this poem is sur-
passed (illy by its passages of individual
beauty."
Renascence, containing the title poem,
published in 1B17, was Miss MillayY
first volume. It was followed by A Few,
rigs from Thistles. 1920; Second April,
1921; Three Plays, 1921, and The Harp-
Weaver and Other Poems, 1924.
Besides Lyrics, Miss Millay has written
a number*'of short stories. Distressing
Dialogues, 1924. was published under the
name of "Nancy Boyd."        �
Miss Milfciy has also translated sev-
eral songs and has been connected with
the Provincetown Players both as play-
wright and performer.
The King's Henchman, an operetta,
published in 1927. received the loudest
acclamation from the publier*
The -latest book of poem is The Buck
in the Snow, published this year.
As we remember how Willa Cather
charmed her audience in old Taylor, we
are sure a large gathering will greet
Miss  Millay in  spacious Goodhart.
Debate Drew Crowd *
Method of Education Is Topic;
American System Wins
Critics Present.
Watson   Surprises   Audience
as a "Simple-Minded
Fellow."    .
HE    BEGINS
RATS
The debate which was held in the
Common Room last Thursday eve-
ning was one of the most successful
"First-Nights" ever witnessed at Bryn
Mawr.    The new club came in like a
Cast Announced
The cast for the French Club
play "Le Professeur," which will
be given on December 8, has been
chosen, and rehearsals are in prog-
ress. The cast is as follows:
M. Tomenteux ... M. Lambert, '29
Mme. Tomenteux,
M.  Gelhorn,   *30
Germaine Tomenteux,
A. L. Hubbard, '29
Bertrand   ...........E.   Linn,   '29
A Beha,viorist was to us an unknown
quantity. What would a man look
like who was popularly supposed to
believe that there was no thought cx-
cept in the larynx? Vaguely we ex-
pected to see a Robot sort of creature
appear on the platform. When Dr.
Watson rose to speak wc were half
disappointed, half pleasantly surprised.
For he looked so very human, so very
natural and like everyone else, even to
the  horn-rimme'd   glasses.
And his first words bore out his ap-
pearance. "Bchayiorists arc simple-
minded fellows." he satrf. "What they
are alter is a return to"common sense.
They want to rcmoye the mysteries
from psychology and get down to
rock-bottom again." He admitted that
consciousness could not be denied, but
said that a study of it got nowhere.
"You just beat about the bush and
define consciousness in terms of con-
sciousness." Behaviorism docs- not
claim to be a method but only a new
point of view. It started the first
really objective school of psychology.
Dr. Watson worked first of all with
rats, and found that almost anything
could be done with them. Then he
decided to work out human psychology
in the same objective way as with rats.
Thus the Bchaviorists' platform is very
simple: the study of human behavior
by an objective scientific method. The
general hypothesis is, given the stimu-
lus, to try and predict the response; or
else to predict the stimulus from study-
inn the action. This premise is hard
to quarrel with.
Human Infant Worked On.
Senior Reception
The Senior Reception for the
Freshmen will take place on
Friday evening, " November 23.
All Freshmen arc invited. Do
not wait for a private and per-
sonal invitation. ThclJ arc not
going to be any. But every
I-1 r-.hiii.ui is invited and will be
made welcome. Members ol
other classes may come to see
the skit.
Balch Talks Peace
Secretary  of  Woman's   League
and European Fellow Asks
Open Mind.
On deciding on the objective method
for   human   psychology,   Dr.   Watson
lion,  with   a large  crowd,  a   well-eon-   suaLJj0 .��._.huluau infam  for  a subT
dlicfed   program,  and   refreshments.
E. Stiff, acting- as temporary presi-
dent, presided. Miss Carey, Miss
Grierson and Df. Qray were present in
the  capacity   of critics.
The topic for debate was: Resolved:
that the English'tutorial system of edu-
cation is better than' the American
lecture 'Ad examination system. The
speakers for the affirmative were
A. Lord, '.II, and V. Hobart, "31; for
the negative: A- Merrill, "30, and
J.' Wise. '30.
Defines English System.
Miss Lord opened the debate. After
giving a brief definition of the English
system, as one in whjch each student
has the personal assistance of a tutor
and opportunities fot, independent .re-
search, with no compulsion to attend
lectures and few examinations, the first
speaker for the affirmative pointed out
three advantages of ~ such a method.
What is education, she asked? It is
preparation for life after college.
Those who are trained* to specialize in
some subject and to get their educa-
tion from independent research, rather
than from lectures, arc better prepared
for life.
Next comes the question of attitude.
In the English system the college
offers to the student excellent facili-
ties, but makes no effort at compul-
sion, H*� feels that to accept them is
a privilege, instead of a carking neces-
sity. His intellectual obligation " is
measured only by his own ambition.
As it is modern and constructive in
its other aspects, the English educa-
tional method is modern in its em-
phasis on individualism. Each stu-
dent works for himself rather than
with a group.
Miss Lord spoke without notes, and
while she showed some nervousness in
manner, she is to be complimented on
the straightforward development of
her thought.
Wise Is Resourceful.
Miss Wise spoke first for the nega-
tive.    Her first point aroused a laugh
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ject, the new-born baby being the pur-.
est subjtct available. He said that up
to the time of .Behaviorism, instincts
were regarded as God-given and heredi-
tary. Bui when a Behaviorist watches
for different instincts to develop in the
squirming mass of protoplasm that is
a baby, he finds simply that they do
not. Laboratory experience makes
him skeptical of the whole theory of
instincts. He finds a long list of sim-
ple types of response, but no complex
innate patterns such as were previ-
ously believed in. In his own experi-
ments Dr. Watson only found two
stimuli which would make the infant
show the reaction that psychologists
call fear, the reaction that Bchavior-
ists prefer to call Reaction X. . And yet
adults are shot through with all sorts
of fear reactions. The stimuli for
bringing out the other emotion reac-
tions were likewise found to be few
and simple in the young infant. Thus
all our complex emotional life is built
up ,qn this extremely simple basis.
Not until the Behaviorists was there a
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A Chance Error
U was the practice of the Greek
historians to put fictitious specchejL
in the mouths of the great, biW
despite this precedent, we were a
little startled to find this sentence
in our write-up of a speech by
Mrs.  Manning in chapel:
"He (Mr. Hoover) is exceeding-
ly shrewd in appointments, and if
he is able freely to chose the men
to work with him, his Presidential
career will begin  fortuitously."
Fortuitously, says the Dictionary,
means "accidentally, casually, by
chance." Much as we would like
to think it. we very much fear Mr.
Hoover's Presidential career will
begin neither by accident nor by
ehance. We- suppose we meant
"auspiciously." Anyway, we beg
everyone's pardon.
Miss Emily G. Balch. who entered
Bryn Mawr with the second class that
ever attended it, hut graduated with
the first, and became its European
Fellow, spoke in chapel on Wednes-
day morning on possibilities for world
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Miss Balch began with the.plea that
wc should keep our minds open to
the possibilities of change All we
know of the future is that it will not
be the same as the past. As the In-
ternational Secretary of the Woman's
International League for Peace, Mist
Balch said she once received a letter
from a woman who said that she had
begun her career by working for the
Abolition of slavery. After the Eman-
cipation, she turned her attention to
the struggle for women's suffrage.
Now that this too was an accomplished
fact, she wished to devote her ener-
gies to the abolition of war. Perhaps,
Miss Balch said, the third reform will
also come within the span of that
woman's life The others seemed no
more impossible when they were first
discussed. Perhaps wc have already
come through the last.wjuv We can-
not tell, any more than we can tell
when wc have had our last toothache
or our last love affair.
3           Thinks Pact Hopeful.
The Kellogg pact for the renuncia-
tion of war is at leasts basis for hope.
It declares that all the gelations 0f jts
adherents arc to' be sought only by
peaceful means, and arc to be the re-
sult of peaceful and orderly process.
Nor is it alone in its protest. The
League of  Nations, the -various asso-
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Alumnae Council Meeting
Has Interesting Speeches
Specially contributed by li. Cross, '*).
The annual meeting of the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Council was held at New
i iaven Novitmber 12, 13 and 14. The
council is made up of the various officers
of die Alumnae Association, the District
Councillors, Alumnae Directors, Chair-
lien offthc Standing Committees, a mem-
fc.'r of tl-e most recent class to graduate,
. nd an undergraduate representative who
f.ie invited to the Council to give a sug-
gestion of undergraduate life and its
problems first hand,   *
A discussion of the budget and the
Alumnae Fund occupied the first meet-
ing of the Council and -was most en-
lightcnihi; to an undergraduate, for it
brought out the really tremendous amount
the Alumnae have given toward the fur-
nishings for Goodhart Hall. Scholarship
Committee, reports and the District Coun-
cillor reports were taken up at the next
meeting . These were very interesting,
!i lliug �f the trials and tribulations of
raising money for scholarships; giving an
account of the various scholars: and tell-
ing of the conditions in the different dis-
tricts, that is.- whether girls were prepar-
ing in the schools there for*Bryn Mawr.
One of the most interesting reports of
the Council was that concerning the
Alumnae Committee of the Seven Wom-
en's Colleges which is working to arouse
interest in endowments  for the colleges.
Among the strictly social events was
a dinner given for Miss Park at which
she spoke, a tea given for the alumnae,
heads of schools, and other persons in-
terested in Bryn Mawr at which Presi-
dent Angell of Vale and Miss Park
spoke, and two very delightful plays
given by Professor Baker's School of
Drama.