College News, 1929-02-27, Vol. 15, No. 14

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The College News
VOL. XV, NO. 14
BRYN MAWR (AND WAYNEy, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 4,929
PRICE,   10 CENTS
DUNCAN DANCERS
COMING TO B. M.
Will   Take, the   Place  of   the
- '* Z�"*o Niles Ballet in
Good hart Series.
PRAISED IN N^W YORK
�The Isadora Duncan Dancers, will
dance in Goodhart Hall next Wednesday
evening taking the place of the Dwis
. Niles Ballet in the Goodhart series, that
organization having been obliged to dis-
band while on a tour of the Pacific* Coast.
The Duncan Dancers "adopted daugh-
ters" , of Isadora, and trained in the
strenuous regime of her school came W
this country from Russia in the fall and
have been appearing in New York at the
Manhattan Opera House. They spent a
week in Philadelphia, dancing at the
Forrest Theater, where they enjoyed con-
siderable success. They are all young
girlsf the youngest and most popular after
lrma Duncan is "little Tamara," a Rus-
sian girl only thirteen years old. The
others are picturesquely named Alex-
andra. Maria, Manya, Vala, Vera, Lola,
Lilya and Maya.
The dancers will give a program of
dances designed by Isadora Duncan from
music by Chopin and Schubert, and Im-
pressions of Revolutionary Russia.
The New Yvrk Times said of these
dancers: "Tlwe eleven Russian children
.are disarmingly beautiful and spirited.
Their youth and simplicity escape all the
pi'falls of anaemia and precocity which
their elders have not always succeeded
in avoiding, and their complete sin-
cerity contains no hint of solemnity."
News Tryouts
Tryouts for the Editorial Board
of the.CoLUCE News begins this
week. All classes are eligible, but
Freshmen will be' especially jvel-
y^ A-�youts continue for mi....
weeks, so competitors will nave
time to show their good points, but
they must see the Editor this week
if they wish tojxjmpete. _ See E.
Linn, 21 Pembroke East, any day
this week between 1.30 and 2.. The
sooner you start the better your
chance will be!
Business Board tryouts will be
held during the same period. All
who are interested must see J.
Barth. Pembroke East, some day
this we*ek, after lunch.
Balanced Religion
Cadbury Calls Jesus Enemy of
Formalism, Modern Danger
to Belief.
Present Italy Will Be
Discussd by Salvemini
Professor Gaetano Salvemini will de-
liver an address on "The present-day
Italian Situation" in the Music Room
of Goodhart Hall on Saturday evening,
March 2, 1929.
Professor Salvemini has spoken at
Bryn Mawr" more than once before.
His career has qualified him only too
well to give the anti-Fascist viewpoint,
but his scholarship and wide knowl-
edge of affairs assure a viewpoint that
is historically accurate as well as per-
sonally emphatic.
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Professor Salvemini. Ph. D., Uni-
versity of Florence, 1894, was a
Secondary School Teacher, in Palmero,
; Faenza. Lodi and Florence, from 1895
to 1902; at the University of Messina
from 1902 to 1909; at the University of
Pisa from .1910 to 1916; at the Univer-
sity of Florence from 1916 to 1925. He
held the position of editor of the week-
ly paper L'Unita from 1911 to 1921 and
.was  a  member  of  the   Italian   Parlia-
wine on Sundays. There was another
nient from November. 1919, to April,'sLa? to whether Noah's flood had left the
1821. He was arrested under charge of
Use majeste in June. 1925, amnestied
on July 31, 1925. Left Italy in August,
1925. and sent in his resignation from
his chair of History on November 5,
1925. On December 1. 1925, the Min-
ister for Education, disregarding his
resignation, dismissed him from his
chair for being absent from his post.
His permanent residence is now Lon-
don. He has given courses of lectures
on mediaeval and modern Italian his-
tory at King's College, London, Bed-
ford College, London, the London
School of Economics. Lady Margaret
Hall, Oxford, All Soul's, Oxford, the
Universities of Manchester and Edin-
burgh.
In the winter and spring of 1927
Professor Salvemini lectured Wefofe the
Foreign Policy Associations 'of New
York, Boston and Philadelphia, and
the Council for Foreign Relations of
Chicago; at Columbia and Cornell Uni-
versities, at Bryn Mawr, Mount Holy-
oke -and other colleges, and at the
Colony and Cosmopolitan Clubs of
New York.

FRANKLIN FIRST *
MODERN SCIENTIST
Fay Distinguishes Eighteenth
Century Science "from
Our Own.
STOLEN   THUNDER
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On Tuesday evening, PebruaryT19, M.
Bernard Fay spoke in the Goodhart
auditorium on "Franklin and Eighteenth
Century Science." M. Fay is well known
in America as the author of The Ameri-
can Experiment and other books, as well
as by his reputation for being.one of the
most unprejudiced foreigners among our
political critics. The lecture was deliver-
ed in French.
The significance of the word "science
has changed considerably between the,
eighMgnfti century and our own. Origi-
nally it applied to a kind of "jeu d'esprit,"
and was considered fitting only for the
philosophers and intelligentsia of the day.
The study of literature and the arts, on
the other hand, was the practical pro-
cedure to be followed in the education of
any young man preparing for the busi-
ness world. Science consisted solely of
theories; it was capable of developing
thought, but in itself it was hardly prac-
tical ; ifcjras. in truth, disinterested specu-
lation. Towards the beginning of the
eighteenth century this idea had already
begun to be chartged. It was Franklin
who had a great deal to do with making
of it a practical study.
Two of the earliest influences towards
a science which was less "disinterested,"
and -more practical, were Fontainelle and
Isaac New ion. The theories of the latter
aid seem fantastic to the public, but, on
the othe* hand, they were fascinating.
Science ?till bordered upon the "jeu
d'esprit."
Benjamin Franklin lived and worked
in a period when "scientific" problems
could be discussed at great length: and
with little knowledge. There are records
of one argument that  lasted  for weeks,
shells and fossils to be found on the tops
of mountains, or whether they had once
been dropped there by pilgrims. All of
this sort of thing was carried on in good
Latin and Greek epigrammatic style, by
the most learned "philosophers" of the
time. Even Voltaire is known to have
had his say. These "savants" as a rule
wore lace cuffs, and worked in labora-
tories which, were filled with all sorts of
instruments. They were rathef frighten-
ing to 4he ignorant public, and the less
explicable they found a problem to be,
the more beautifully they were able to
write and speak about it.
The Growth of a New Science
Franklin was a scientist of another
sort. He- wore a calico vest, and he
could speak no Latin. He was forced to
use English, and therefore it was impera-
tive that he know whereof he spoke. He
made jjjs own instruments, and could
carry out his own experiments. Two
chief influences had made him regard his
scientific work as a study which could
and should be of practical value to man.
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The text to Dr._.CadburyY .�. in
chapel Friday morniag, February 22, was
"These things ought ye to have done
and not left the other things undone."
He ^hastened to add that he was not
going t% preach a sermon but was going
to give a  few scattered thoughts.
Balance is one of the most important
things in religion, Dr. Cadbury stated.
Most people have considered religion as
dealing "with matters of extremes; re-
ligion is absolute truth; religion is dedi-
cated to some causfc It is a pity that the
study of religion does not reveal more
about balance.
The Bible, however, has a great deal
of corrective in religion. It mostly at-
tempts to correct its own religion and
not that of other people's. The correc-
f've element is strong in college. We
have corrective gym and corrective speak-
ing, we might have corrective religion.
Jesus had a good deal of this corrective.
Dr. Cadbury said that he had wanted at
different times to write on Jesus' con-
servatism, and on His realism, but now
he was tempted to write about His
sanity.
The Pharisees, continued Dr. Cadbury,
were extreme formalists; Jesus was the
sworn enemy of formalism. So a student,
who evidently was an Episcopalian, in
describing Jesus said that He was a very
lew church person 'ndeed. The' "Phari-
sees had a tithe which anyone who grew
BQy thing had to pay. To make doubly
sure of this the man who Iwught the
produce took off an additional tenth.
Jesus in his argument against the Phari-
sees did not blame them for the tithe but
for the things which they ought to have
done in the way of justice, etc. They
.should have done both. Jesus however
did not overemphasize the doing of good
works. This point VVr. Cadbury illus-
trated by the story of Martha and Mary.
Martha was certainly zealous in good
works and yet Jesus said that Mary bad
done the better thing. Then again JesUs
praises a woman who anoints his feet,
for her beautiful deed. All of these
illustrations go to show that Jesus real-
ized the importance of balance. I'aul
also recognized this. In his epistle, to
the Corinthians he says that there are
two kinds of religious teacfiei s: Those
who prophesy and those who s|>eak with
tongues.    There is room for both.
Modem life is full of extremes. The
atmosphere of Bryn Mawr has, however,
Mime advantages for religion. There arc
two groups of moderns; one with sin-
cere, vigorous, one-sided Religion, who
are likely to put too much stress on one
torm, and the other, uninterested', because
pa
the only religion which they had grown
up   t6  know   any  thing  about  was   dis-
Count Your Points
The following resolution was
passed by the Senate at its meeting
last June:
Resolved tjjat_ twenty . Honor
Points be regarded asa^ '. ' "i>,
standard for the first and second
year of .Major Work. Students
are warned that if they have less
than twenty Honor Points in their
Major subject they are liable to
exclusion. Students haying less
than fifteen Honor Points at the
end of the third semester of their
Major work shall be reported to
the Senate for serious considera-
tion.
Difficulties in Stage
Told by Miss Crawford
Many of-us are interested in the the-1
atcr, some even have practical ambitions,
but  it  is seldom that really first  hand
information on this subject is vouchsafed
as to whether a certain spring   in Ger-
many flowed water during the week, and, .losing   to Them.     They  ought -hut   to
give up religion for this reason nor
should the first group think that any one
form is too good.        �
The danger, here at Bryn Mawr, Dr.
Cadbury think.-, is not so much from lack
of balance as from too much balance;
even balance can be extreme. We need
to mix sane and earnest moral enthusiasm
with intellectuality. Hut we must cherish
our enthusiasm and try to commute
aloofness into enthusiasm - and enthusi-
asm into aloofness.
What Do You Think?
For the benefit of those register-
ing for courses for next year the
Nkws wishes to provide a brief
but enlightening dictionary of the
College curriculum. As the Board
does not take all the courses in
college we would be glad to re-
ceive brief appraisals of her
courses from anyone who is will-
ing to take the trouble. AH in-
formation will be treated as strictly
confidential. Hand to one of the
editors, or leave in the News
office.
us.
.First hand information of a directly
practical nature was what Miss Crawford
of the Theater Guild gave at the Dra-
matics Tea in the Commons room last
Thursday. She left out all theorizing
and informally poured out hard and use-
ful facts. One by one she took up vari-
ous aspects of woman's work in the
theater and how best it could be accom-
plished.
. Speaking about the acting end of the
theater game Miss Crawford said that
at present the New York field was ter-
ribly overcrowded. If you really want
to act professionally after college the
first thing is to decide whether you need
practical training. If so the best way
is cither to get in with a reputable stock
company.in ajmost any capacity or else
start with some New York Company in
a walk role. She said that she would
advise against any of the theatrical
schools in New York. They are "merely a
waste of time and money from a pro-
fessional point of view, and do not form
contacts that arc invaluable afterwards.
If you feel competent to start right in
on professional acting you should go to
New York at the beginning of August,
and go and interview managers in a
ceaseless round. One visit is no good as
it is the person on the spot who is given
the job. Casting agencies arc useless -as
they � never consider people without ex-
perience. Very few producers are will-
ing to consider lieginners. Hopkins. Har-
ris, Ames, Brady and Wynan, the Theater
Guild. Provincetown Players, and the
Hoboken group, these are perhaps the
only ones who are willing to take ajrhance
with inexperience. It is far better both
theoretically and for a practical profes-
sional future to take a small part in a
good production than to get a larger hit
with a shoe-string producer.
This is the way to get a foothold, but
even aftet the foothold- is obtained a
future #n the stage is both uncertain and
discouraging. The two all-but-necessary
assets are money and influence. A letter
to a producer is a definite door-oi>ciicr
which the beginner must have.
The technical angle has three or four
different sides. The .stage manager field
has just been opened to women. This
leads possibly and remotely to licing a
director. At present Eva La Gallienne
is the only woman director. If you con-
sider going into stage designing you
should get into a technical director's
office, or a designer's studio and sec what
they are doing.        ?
As for the writing end here again in-
fluence is important in getting one's play
read and considered. The Forty-Seven
Workshop at Yale is good, as there seems
to be a certain stimulus emanating frorr^,
many people all writing plays.
MODEL LEAGUE IS
A GREAT SUCCESS
Bryn Mawr Delegation Takes
Spirited rait in Debate
jron Italy.
FIRST     SESSION    SLOW
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A magnificent and instructive comedy
was played at Vassar last week-end at
the  Model  Assembly of the League of
Nations held under the" auspices of the
Middle Atlantic States.
The Bryn Mawr delegates, Virginia
Fain, Martha Gelttiorn, Constance Hand
and Elizabeth Linn; all expressed them-
selves as well pleased with'the results of
the Assembly. A few good arguments
and the invaluable co-operation of Mr.
McDonald would be worth a far longer
trip,' Miss Gellhorn said.
The Assembly got under way slowly,
somewhat like a rusty machine that has
long been out of use. The Friday after-
noon session was almost a total lost.
But by Saturday the atmosphere had
changed. Mr. James G. McDonald,
President of the National Foreign Policy
Association, who attend/d the Assembly
as its expert adviser, began the day with
an appeal to the delegates to plunge in ,
and talk. The subjects for discussion
had been announced y( advance and pre-
pared for by the delegates. A super-
ficial observer might perhaps have said
that nothing was accomplished, for out
of the four resolutions prepared for dis-
continued on Page Three
Chapel Announcements
Miss Schenck will speak in chapel on
Friday morning on the opportunities for
study in France this summer, both in
Paris and in the Provinces.
Mr. Willoughby's organ recital of
Bach will be in chapel sometime next
week.
On March 4 Dr. Smith will speak in
chapel on "Problems Before the Presi-
dent;" in other words, on what will be
facing Mr. Hoover at that same date.
Now's Your Chance for
Constructive Criticism
Juniors and Seniors are all eligible for--
the very interesting competition which is
now being conducted by The New Re-
public. To find ouf firs-hand what kind
of college students would like to go to,
and encourage thiukhig and writing about
standards of academic life, The New Re-
public is inviting the older students and
younger graduates of American colleges
to submit articles on the subject:
College as It Might Be   ,
1.  Members of the college classes from
l'.CM) back to LftM may submit essays.
2.   Kach essay must be not more than
MOO words long. (That is, about ten
page*.)
:t. It must be received in the oflice of
The New Republic on or before April 1,
r.i:.".i.
4.  The name, class, college, home ad-
dress, and, in case" of the alumni, present"
occupation of the author must appear on
every manuscript.                        t
5.  The writer of the best article will
receive $100 and his essay will be pub-
lished in The New Republic, if possible
before the close of the academic year.
The writer of the next best article will
receive $75.
f>. Articles should be addressed to Col-
lege Essay editor.
7. Articles will lie judged by the fol-
lowing Committee:
Alexander Mciklcjohn. of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, author of "The
Liberal College;" Max McConn, of Le-
high University, author of "College or
Kindergarten." Robert Morss Lovett, of
the University of Chicago and The New
Republic.
Articles should be addressed to College
Essay editor, The New Republic, 421
Watt Twenty-first street. New York city.
Amorfg the points which essays might
consider are the  following:
Location of the college: city or coun-
try ?
Size! the best number of students.
Selection of students.
Curriculum:   proportion
degree of specialization.
� Method   of   instruction
U'rcs.  seminars.____'_
Examinations; grades.
Intellectual    life   of    individuals
groups.
Living quarters; fraternities.
Co-education.
Athletics and other organized activities.
Advantages of the writer's own col-
lege, and how these could be developed.
of   electives.
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quizes,
and
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