College News, 1916-04-13, Vol. 02, No. 25

              The College News
Volume II.    No. 25
BRYN MAWR, PA., APRIL 13,  1916
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
FRIDAY.  APRIL  14
7.30 p. m.�Junior-Senior Supper.
8.00 p. M.�Sophomore Banquet.
SATURDAY. APRIL IS
10.00 a. m.�Track Meet.
8.00 p. m.�Junior-Senior Supper Play.
SUNDAY. APRIL 16
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker. K. Blodgett,
'17.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
H. E. Adriance of Englewood, N. J.
MONDAY. APRIL 17
8.00 p. m.�Shakespearean Recital by Mr.
Samuel Arthur King.
TUESDAY. APRIL IS
7.30   p.  m.�Undergraduate    Association
Elections.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19
1.00 p. u.�Easter Vacation begins.
THURSDAY. APRIL 27
9.00 a. m.�Easter Vacation ends.
FRIDAY.  APRIL 28
8.00 p. m�Address by Mr. Leo Stein on
Modern Painting.
9.00 p. h��Freshman Banquet.
SUNDAY.  APRIL 30
6.00 p.m.�Vespers. Speaker, A. Thorn-
dike, '19.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Charles A. Richmond, D.D.
COACH PRAISES GLEE CLUB MIKADO
N. McFADEN MAKES NEWS BOARD
The new member of the "News" board
from the Class of 1917 is Natalie Mc-
Faden. Miss McFaden was appointed to
take the place of Sarah Hlnde, who has
gone on the Editorial Board of the
"Tipyn o' Bob". For two years Miss Mc-
Faden has been the class track captain
and last year she was class secretary. In
1914 she was the secretary of the Chris-
tian Association and two weeks ago she
was elected Christian Association Presi-
dent
CHRI8TIANITY DEFINED
Dr. Burleson Says It Is Not Merely Per-
sonal
Dr. Hugh Burleson, Secretary of Mis-
sions of the Episcopal Church, took as his
text Sunday night the last earthly words
of Jesus, "And ye shall be witnesses of
me". Christianity, he said, is not the at-
tending to personal spiritual culture, but
the transmitting of our religious faith
and love to others who have less or none.
Christianity does not exist to make
men good, but to make them good for
something. "We may keep lumps of dirt
which men call land, stones which men
call houses and metal which men call
money, without sharing them, but we can
not keep our Christianity unless we are
giving it away. Just as muscular dex-
terity and mental ability grow in the
spending, so does Christianity".
Missions the Price Mark of Religion
"Missionary interest is the price mark
you put on your own religion, your de-
sire to share It is the sign of its value.
. . . We have no right to be blind al-
leys of grace up which Christ walks to
meet a blank wall with nothing beyond".
Dr. Burleson showed that the world has
been worshipping false gods. The king-
dom of God, he said, does not come by
education, civilisation, or commerce, but
by the one thing that has not been tried,
Christianity�not Christianity but Chris-
tians have failed In the past "Civilisa-
tion in a day fell into chaos" because
"Ood has been making his world a neigh-
borhood much faster than we have been
making It a brotherhood''.
F.  Fuller Notable in  Farcical  Role
The Olee Club's production last Satur-
day of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado",
praised by its coach, Mr. E. S. Grant, as
the best amateur performance he had
ever trained, though amusing and
smoothly presented, was not striking for
acting or costuming. The singing, how-
ever, especially of the choruses, was un-
usually good and F. Fuller's spirited in-
terpretation of the Lord High Execu-
tioner maintained the interest of the
opera throughout.
To the sustained comedy of this part
the less lively charms of the "second
trombone", M. Jacobs, '15, furnished a
picturesque foil. Her high, flexible so-
prano was particularly sweet in "A Wan-
dering Minstrel I", and her sure touch In
acting was appreciated when she showed
what she'd "never, never do", in the duet
with Yum-Yum.
Yum-Yum, C. Eastwick, '18, cannot be
fairly criticized because of the fact that
her voice had almost given out in re-
hearsals. Considering this handicap, it is
remarkable that so much of its pleasing
quality remained and that the appeal of
her acting was not lost. Together with
Yum-Yum, Pitti-Slng and Peep-Bo, T.
Smith, '17, and E. Dabney, '19, attained
the necessary daintiness for the "Three
little maids from school". For once T.
Smith had a part entirely suited to her
skill and grace.
The pompous comedy in the parts of
Pooh-Bah and Pish-Tush was adequately
brought out by E. Biddle. "19, and by A.
Kerr, '18. The Mikado, E. Pugh, '15, al-
though she adopted the musical comedy
method of practically speaking her songs,
was particularly effective in "making the
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ART PARALLELS CIVILIZATION
�WHAT'S   IN   A   PAGODA"?
High Praise for Model School from B. M.
Graduate
In a clever and comprehensive article
in "The New Republic" for April 1st,
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, '03, describes
the aims and methods of the Model
School.
"It is, if you like", she says, "a labora-
tory experiment in modern methods of
teaching, the type of experiment which
contains the germ of the future. It looks
to the future when education shall emerge
as an organic coordinated process instead
of a Jumble of warring forces".
School a College in   Embryo
"A school need not be a forcing house",
she went on to demonstrate, "but a warm,
rich soil for the mind to grow in, a sort
of college in embryo. ... In this
school intellectual curiosity plays like
lightning around the room, runs like
quicksilver through the veins". In regard
to the school child's entrance into college,
Miss Sergeant prophesies amusingly;
"When girls who have used their minds
creatively Instead of receptively for seven
years reach the lecture system something
spectacular is going to happen, something
very like the famous meeting between the
Immovable body and the Irresistible
force".
And the model school child is prepar-
ing not only for college but for society
too. �/?This we know from a young stu-
dent who recently wished to change her
hours for gymnastic exercise in order that
she might attend the class for good man-
ners, which consisted In tea parties.
Fine Slides Illustrate Cram's Lecture
The distinct appeal of Mr. Cram's lec-
ture Saturday evening was largely due to
his vivid way of connecting whatever he
had to say on "Gothic Architecture" with
the civilization and society which pro-
duced it The slides shown were unusu-
ally good and illustrated Gothic architec-
ture in the abbeys and cathedrals of the
England of the Middle Ages.
In speaking of American architecture,
Mr. Cram praised the Colonial or
Georgian type as really American. The
Georgian style in England, he said, had
become decadent and worn-out, but
America had vitalized It and made it her
own. In 1830 came the end of the break-
down of Renaissance tendencies, and
Gothic church plans were sent over from
England to America. The style was
called Victorian Gothic. "It was Victo-
rian", said Mr. Cram, "but It wasn't
Gothic".
"The rising of a new Gothic tendency,
however", Mr. Cram went on to explain,
"was the first evidence in visible form of
what was bound to take place in the
whole make-up of society. The passing
of classical or instinctive art was a fore
cast of the breakdown of modern civiliza-
tion. The coming of the Gothic was a
forecast of what is to happen".
Nightmare of  Acquisition
After pointing out the similar break-
down, later on, of music in Germany and
poetry in England, saying that in bis opin-
ion Brahms and Browning were the last
great commanding figures, Mr. Cram
turned to the situation to-day. "None can
predict", he said, "the line that we shall
follow in order to extricate ourselves
from the nightmare folly into which we
have plunged ourselves through our in-
sane Intellectuality. We have forgotten
character in acquisition; we have piled
up potential forces, both material and in-
tellectual, with no knowledge of what we
were getting them for.
"There are two openings for us: either
to learn to use our acquired power, to
work towards construction; or, if we do
not heed the warning of the war, to pay
the same price in the same coin as those
on the other side are paying". Mr. Cram
believed that we would heed the warning
and that after the war a new era In art
would begin.
Old Architecture Foundation of New
Before  showing  the  slides  Mr.  Cram
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M.  O'SHEA  AND  M.  LOUDON
WIN  MA8EFIELD PRIZE
The winners of the Masefleld Competi-
tion, announced in Chapel Monday morn-
ing, are Monica B. O'Shea, '17, with her
story of Ireland, "The Crown of Bells",
and Margaret London. '16, with a poem,
"The Return". Miss Loudon's poem will
appear In the next issue of "Tipyn o'
Bob".
As Mr. Masefleld has gone back to Eu-
rope, It has not been decided when the
prizes will be given out.
UNDERGRADUATES     DISCUSS     SUS-
PENSION
Daisy Chain Abolished
Isabel Whlttler, 1919, has been sus-
pended from College for two semesters
because of breaking the rules of the
Senate, by quotation without acknowl-
edgement In a critical paper on the bal-
lads. Miss Whittler was called before
the Senate Monday afternoon and on
Monday evening, at a meeting of the Un-
dergraduate Association called for other
business, her suspension was considered.
Latest Report Prevents Petition
A resolution passed to petition the Sen-
ate to reconsider its decision on the
ground of the technicality of the offense
was rescinded later in the evening when
the facts of the case were more fully
learned. In view of the contradictory re-
ports going about, It was voted that the
Undergraduate Association should ask
President Thomas if she could send to
the president of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation, In writing, the reasons of the
Senate for suspension or expulsion.
Why Is Sunny Jim?
At tliis meeting it was also voted to
abolish the daisy chain and to send two
committees to President Thomas, one to
consider changes in dally Chapel and the
other to discuss the qualifications for the
Helena Ritchie prize. The Association
feels that the qualifications for "Sunny
Jim", such as "high fortitude" and "cour-
age", are too indefinite and vague.
C.   A.   BOARD    APPOINTS    CHAIRMEN
STORM   SPOILS   TRACK   MEET
Press Makes Veiled Comments
The unprecedented fall of snow, which
prevented the preliminary track meet
from coming off last Saturday and frus-
trated the financial hopes of Garrett En-
dowment Flinders, received the following
slight notice In the weather report of one
of our leading papers: "The remarkable
feature of the occurrence"�the Weather
Bureau Is referring here to the unseason-
able conditions of April 8th�"was the
widespread snow which fell in the Middle
AtlanUc States".
The allusion to Bryn Mawr, though
cleverly veiled, is unmistakable, for
Pennsylvania Is one of the Middle Atlan-
tic States. But why was no space given
to the numerous storm centers and to the
prevailing fall of spirits attending the dis-
turbance ? The whole attitude of the
press In regard to this affair Is baffling.
Class  Representation on Committees
In accordance with the new constitu-
tion,  1917,  1918, and  1919 have elected
their representatives to the C. A. Cabinet,
and the Board has appointed the chair
men.   Each committee will meet with the
Board and the former head of the com-
mittee some time before the Easter holi-
day, so that they may be able to take up
j their work immediately upon their return
'to College.    The committees are as fol-
. lows,   the   chairman's   name   appearing
first in each case:
Membership:   M. Stair '18. C. Stevens
'17, M. Thurman '19.
Federation:   J. Pea body '19, L. Collins
17,  L. T. Smith "18.
Religious Meeting: V. Litchfield '17. J.
Rldlon '18. E. Adams '19.
Finance: M. Bacon '18, K. Blodgett '17,
C. Dodge '18. A. Stiles '19.
Bible and Mission Study: M. Scatter-
good '17. R. O. Rhoads '18. D. Cham-
bers '19.
Sewing and Junk: M. Worch '18, E.
Faulkner '17, R. Woodruff '19.
Bates  (amp:    H.  Harris  '17.  I.  Loeb
18.  F. Clarke '19.
Settlement and Hospitals: K. Dulles
�17, F. Buffum '18, L. Wood '19.
R. Sato, '17, has been appointed by her
predecessor. A Grsbsu. 'Is. hesd of the
Student Volunteer Bsnd.