College News, 1929-10-23, Vol. 16, No. 03

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T h e G o 11 e g e News
VOL. XVI, NO. 3
BRYN MAWft (AND WAYNE), PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23, 1929
PRICE,   10 CENTS
Revived Players Start
Season Successfully
TKe first production of the reorgan-
ized Varsity Players was given in
Goodhart   Auditorium   on   Thursday,
October 17. The play, "Riders to the
Sea," by John Synge, seemed a some-
what ambitious choice for so inex-
perienced an organization, but the
selection justified itself under the com-
petent  direction  of  Mary  Drake.
Catherine Rieser, as " Maurya, the
aged mother who has lost all of her
menfolk to the sea, played her part
with complete understanding and cre-
ated an atmosphere of mystery and
tragedy which kept the audience in a
statr of tension during all her scenes.
Mary Coss and Betty Young, as the
two daughters, were extremely decora-
tive in their peasant costumes. Miss
Coss did an especially fine piece of
work at the opening curtain in estab-
lishing the mood of the piece. The
scene in which Michael's clothes were
identified gave Miss Young an oppor-
tunity to do a difficult bit of acting in
which she distinguished herself also.
Lucy Swift made a very-wistful and
real young man of Bartley, holding up
the high standard of the performance
in her brief entry.
Perhaps the hardest task of the di-
rector was to introduce the keening
women in a natural way and make
them blend into the background with-
out being wholly passive. The effort
was not entirely successful. The en-
trance of the women was somewhat
out of keeping, as their moaning was
forced and unnatural at first. After
they had knelt, however, the moaning
seemed to become more monotonous
and intruded less on the sensibilities of
the observer. Undoubtedly the weird
effeci of the scene by the corpse was
heightened by these low, unearthly
sounds.
The scenery, costumes, and make-up,
though not entirely realistic, w�re
artistic and striking. As the Players did
not attempt to speak in the Irish dia-
lect, their lack of realism cannpt be
considered a fault of production, and
they are to be applauded for sustain-
ing throughout, the brooding and
fatalistic mood of  Synge's play.
Art Club Plans
On Thursday, October 17, the Bryn
Mawr Art Club gave a small informal*
tea in Merion. The_Qfficers. this._year
are B.  Kirk, '31.  president;  E.  Suss-
*man, '31, treasurer, and D. Moos, '31,
studio manager. The first meeting of
the season on Saturday, ^October 19,
was attended by the customary display
of talent and enthusiasm. The latter
is occasionally greater than "the former,
but to the happy and besmocked art-
ists -this matters no whit. They merely
beg that the final judgment be re-
served until the exhibition of original
work with which they intend to please
' and surprise the rest of*the college
sometime next spring. In the mean-
while they will faithfully endeavor to
follow the guidance of Mr. Henry Mc-
Carterj,of the Philadelphia Academy of
Fine Arts, who is himself a modern
painter, and can wish them, as he
said, nothing better than that they "be
their age." This, he explained, meant
learning the fundamentals of drawing
through learning to see clearly, which
is the real basis of modern painting.
We must not lose whatever orjginality
we may possess by too close and
wearying an attention to academic de-
tails at first, but try to see each com-
position as a whole.
Included among the Art Club's plans
for the future are trips to various nearby
�collections of modern paintings. These
excursions will be arranged and con-
ducted by Mr. McCarter. The first
one will be to the La France exhibi-
tion in Frankford, Pa. The Club also
hopes that they may succeed in having
a few exh&itions of professional work
displayed[at the college. The last, but
by no means the least important of
the Club's plans is for a tea to be
given later in the -fall for Mr. McCar-
ter and the members of the History
Art Department.
News Competition
The competition for the open
'places on the Editorial Board of
The News is to be continued for
another week. Those still in the
running are G. Mueller, '52; M.
Williams, '32, and C. Page, '30.
' It is hoped that "the second open-
ing on the Board will be filled by
a member of the Graduate School;
this member will also be an-
nounced  in next  week's  issue.
Miss Carey Talks
on Senate Rules
First Varsity Hockey
�         Game Is Disastrous
Individual Integrity Is at Heart
of College's Pur-
pose.
WANT   NO   DISHONESTY
"It is the custom," began Miss Carey
in Chapel on Tuesday, "not to say the
rule of the college, to read in each-
semester and at the beginning of ex-
amination periods the rules of the
senate about the integrity of written
work. This fall Miss Park has felt
that instead of reading the rules it
might be wise to discuss briefly what
lies behind them. One hears them so
often that in their very familiarity one
forgets both their meaning and their
importance.
"Every institution in the world, I
suppose, has its rules and its own ways
of enforcing them. Bryn Mawr has
fewer than most, because, as Miss Park
always tells the Freshman Class, it is
founded on the Quaker ideal that the
individual should be at the same time
responsible and free. But among its
most cherished traditions is its* hfgh
standard in regard to integrity of work.
This, I suppose, is at the heart of our
purpose as a college. Without vision,
says the Prophet, the people "perish;
and without a clear-cut understanding
of adherence to this principle a college
becomes sounding brass and clanging
cymbal.
"The Senate rules are very simple.
The source of them all can be put into
one sentence; that one must never put
forward as one's own, work that is
someone's else. Thus, in laboratory or
in wrk;.. ,r work,-w+iencm-vraterial is
gathered from outside, acknowledg-
ment must be made of the source of
information.
"As soon as this statement is ex-
amined carefully, we realize that it
is different from the ordinary regula-
tions of a school about cheating. An
important principle is involved; the
fact that a college like, Bryn Mawr will
tolerate no shadow of dishonesty in
its work. In the pursuit of learning
we are all equal; what we want is un-
derstanding and knowledge. What are
these worth if they are not our own?
There can be no second-hand approach
to wisdom, and �when we deviate from
a straight forward personal attack on
the material which we must either ab-
sorb or present, we vitiate the whole
point of our trying to get an educa-
tion. Our very presence in college be-
comes a hollow mockery.
"You are no longer schoolgirls who,
when hard pressed, try to see how
many Latin verbs you can write into
a book without being caught. No
longer can you be content to use text-
books or encyclopedias for your au-
thorities and take your opinions sec-
ond-hand from them. You are self-
conscious, honorable members of a
community of scholars, who must up-
hold its standards of integrity if we
are at ail to justify our existence as
rational beings.
Student Honor  Must  Enforce  Rules.
"It is almost impossible to force peo-
ple to obey rules, unless a police sys-
tem is instituted which would make in-
tolerable the life of' an intelligent in-
dividual. *This is as true of self-gov-
ernment as it is of academic matters.
Oatlaaed *a  Fa�* TfcrM
Varsity went down in overwhelming
and unprecedented defeat, 7-0, to Main
Line in the first game of the season, on
Saturday, October 19. A -perfect day,
blue and warm, and a riot of color, as
orange and yellow tunics met against
the green background of the field*
made the game a pleasure to watch,
although the playing itself was dis-
heartening. The forward line was
slow, and weak in passing and receiv-
ing passes. Their stick work was un-
inspiring, and no successful, dodging
was done. The opponents' backs in7
deed were able to intercept the ball
regularly before it reached the Bjyn
Mawr Circle. Because of the superi-
ority of the Main Line forwards, Var-
sity was forced to a defensive game,
and the brunt of the work fell on Mc-
Cully and Hirschberg. The steady
effectiveness of the 'former and the
spectacular dodges and dribbling of
the latter marked the strongest points
of the   Bryn   Mawr team.
Continued on Pace Two
Banner Night Skit
Proves Amusing
The Fresimien wen- officially taken
under the Junior wing on Banner
night, Friday, October 18. The gym-
nasium was comfortably filled with
1931 and 1933, while the legs of the
invited 1930 and .1932 dangled from the
gallery. The hall grew dark, quiet fell,
and the skit was on. A most ani-
mated heroine and a hero-villian-mas-
ter-of-fencing entertained the company
with feats of dancing and correct
speech. A complicated theft of ear-
rings and valuable documents ensued,
and we were still at sea as to the
whereabouts of the missing articles
when the curtain raiig down, or, more
accurately, the actors excited, under
the blessing of a" five-dollar fine.
After the skit followed the sacred
rites of 1931 and 1933. The Freshmen
marched down Senior Row accom-
panied by Juniors with green lanterns.
A few minutes later, a lurking "even"
might have heard the strains of the
Banner, Side-bv-Sidc, and class songs
rise, as the athletic banner was pre-
sented to the younger, class.i   '
Fencing
Elections held by those who
fenced last y^r have resulted in
the choice of A. Parkhurst as Cap-
tain and L. Swift-as Manager of
the sport for 1929-30. All who
are interested in fencing are in-
vited* to join this year's class.
Liberal Club to Stress
International Politics
Fenwick "Reports
Legal Meeting
.Students of International Law will be
interested to learn eS the meeting of the
Iiistilut dc Droil ititernatioitatat Briar-
cliff Lodge on the Hudson from October
11th until October 18th. The lust it ut is
composed of the mast distinguished in-
ternational lawyers in both hemispheres,
and among its members are a number of
judges of the World Court, as well as
Foreign Ministers and Professors in the
large  European  universities.
Meeting jointly with the Institut was
the Association o'f Teachers of Interna-
tional Law in the United States, repre-
senting all of our leading universities
and colleges. Bryn Mawr was repre-
sented- by the presence of Dr. Charles
Fenwick, Professor of Political Science
and of International  Law.
Dr. Fenwick reports that the gathering
of jurists was the most interesting meet-
ing-he had ever attended. The out-
standing characteristic of both meetings
was the conviction expressed on all sides
that international law is passing from
the old order to the new, that rivalry be-
tween nations is giving way to co-opera-
tion, and that it is coming to be seen
that the individual interests of each state
can frequently be best furthered by pro-
moting the common interests of the
nations at large. It is^greatly encourag-
ing to find the leaders of scientific
thought taking a stand which gives such
promise for the future peace and pros-
perity of Europe and of the world at
large.
Sir Cecil Hurst, the newly-elected
British judge on the World Court, was
prominent among the delegates, as were
Coatlaaed �� Pas* Paar
'
The Liberal Club is once more to be
revived, and to fill the place in college
which has so often been left empty.
The D. A. R. have recently shown the
only active interest in this Bryn Mawr
organization and they gave it a strong
boost to life when they placed it upon
their ill-famed "blacklist." Now, we
of the present Bryn Mawr generation
are to see just how radical we really
are, and to express ourselves in th�
discussion meetings of the Club. Any
undergraduate or graduate student may
belong^ to the Club, and there is not
even the obstacle of dues to be. over-
come. One must simply give her name
to H. Seligman, 10-12 Pembroke East,
sometime during the current week. In
this way Miss Seligman, who is presi-
dent of the Club, will have some idea
of the number of people who will be
interested in the Club's activities
throughout the year. She will be in
her room every day this week betweetr
1.30 and 2 o'clock. Freshmen and
Sophomores arc especially urged to
hand in their names among those in-
terested. There will be meetings every
two weeks, and there will probably be
some outside speakers in the course of
the vcar.
The Liberal Club, as it now stands,
is^o'ne fo? the discussion of liberal ideas
in national and international politics.
This year, however, it is� to be hoped
that the interest may be centred largely
upon international affairs, and that the
name of the club may even be so
changed as to indicate this change of
emphasis. The reason for this would
be the interest of the Carnegie Founda-
tion, which has promised Bryn Mawr
a library of books on subjects whereof
an international club might treat. . It
is felt that such a change as the one
suggested above would in no way limit
the discussion of liberal ideals in na-.
tional politics. It would, on the other
hand, widen the scope of interest of
the Club. Another point in favor of
the shifted: emphasis- is" the very evi-
dent fact that'most of'the liberal politi-
cal ideas which would be considered
arc international in character and ap-
plication;' therefore there should be no
difficulty about making the change; it
would seem -to be a matter of clarified
ambitions, more than anything else.
To those interested, there is the pos-
sibility of the-award of a scholarship,
next spring, for the Geneva Summer
School of Mr. Zimmern. This school
is a project of the National Student
Federation, and the scholarship *is
awarded by the Carnegie Foundation.
The person chosen will most probably
be a member, of the Liberal Club
group, since interest in international
affairs is one of the chief prerequisites
for the award.
Mystic Religion
Not to Be Feared
Dr.   Bell  Emphasizes  Saints  as
Inner Circle of The
Church.
SAINTS   DIVINELY   SANE
Bach Program
For Sunday Chapel
On Sunday next the second of the
musical services in connection with the
Bryn Mawr League will be held irt the
Music Room at 7.30 P. M. The music
given will be devoted to the works of
Bach and the program is as follows:
Organ�"Bourree in D (from the
4th Orchestral SuiteO, "Air" (from the
Suite in D), "Sonatina" (from the Can-
tata "God's Time h Best"),. Prelude
and Fugue in A Minor.
The Choir will sing the following:
"O'er the Cool Enameled Green"
(from "Peasant Cantata"), "N'ow All
the Woods Are Sleeping" (chorale a
cappella), "Care and Sorrow Flee Be-
for Thee (chorale with obligate for
organ).
Hymns for the congregation will be
sung between some of the above items.
Sunday chapel; October 20, was led
by Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, warden
of St. Stephen's College, Columbia
University. The text selected by Dr.
Bell was the Thirteenth Verse in the
Sixteenth Chapter of the Gospel ac- .
cording to St. John: "Howbeit when
He, the Spirit of truth is come, He
will guide you into all truth."
"The quest for the meaning of one-
self in terms of all there is, cannot be
postponed during the years which one
gives to the various pursuits in life-
even to the culture of one's mind.
Amusements pall as youth departs, and
even one's family is bound to grow�up,
while the man of scholarship becomes
auspicious that what he knows is ex-
tremely little in comparison with what
he cannot know. The latter half of
life ought, to be the better half, but
that cannot be unless one has learned
to tap the sources of reality deeper
than the world of the flesh. This pos-
sibility may be fprseen when young ji
one looks on the sterility and discon-
tent of older minds. Only by so tak-
ing thought can we avoid the Ameri-
can animalistic and rationalistic para-
dise where we shall find later years in-
tolerable. The day when people were
satisfied with what the world offered of
material rewards is not so shining
now. Even the day that centered it-
self upon the mind is very old-fash-
ioned. But, there is no means to per-
suade everyone that all Americans are
enjoying themselves.
"To ascertain something of the mean-
ing of things and ourselves within
them, is the real life. A vast number
are ready for better things than ani-
malism, but many people are afraid
of religion. I have tried to find out
what are the reasons for this hesitant
attitude of mind, and I' have the high-
est sympathy with the difficulties be-
him them, for they were my difficulties
formerly.
"The first difficulty conies^ from the
faet that few understand what religion
j.s._abouU,�iii'1 '�*�;� Uwk -too relemi�c;;iy-*-
at external appearances; its prestige
is more suited to. secular exercise; its
priests and prophets seem like other
people, men driven by routine, a little
hesitant about God and apologetic
about religion. There was a time when
the ecclesiastical world was a social
necessity; today the secular founda- '
tions arc curtailed, and the church
stands stripped to the essentials�or we
think it docs�the essential vermiform
appendix. The thing we must remem-
ber is that there still exists that quest
for life shown in the long succession
of saints; the mystics preserve the life
of the church; the inner circle of seek-
ing has been finding God. The church
is useful in spite of its unlovely shell
because it is the pathway trod by those
who.have given their fives to the real
search of the heart of man. Religion
is not being or doing good; a religious
�ian tries to be good because it is a
source of joy beyond all lesser joys.
Religion is not a social phenomenon or
an ethical system; it is living and con-
ceiving contact with the spirit beypnd
all things. A pulsing energy eternally
creating our whole universe and us
within it, such was the find of the
>aint~.
"The second difficulty is in believing
that it is possible to arrive at know-
ing, by spiritual intuitions; we are not
brought up that way. Our difficulty is
our defective theory of knowledge, a
theory that our only true contact with
things ourselves is through our five
sense; as Aristole said, 'You can't
think about anything unless you've first
laid hold with your senses.' It is oc-
cidental and scarcely more than acci-
dental; were it true, religion would be
Caatlaard  oa   Paf*   Faar