College News, 1920-04-21, Vol. 06, No. 24

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The College News
Volume VI.   No. 24
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920
Price 5 Cents
Applied Psychology Luncheon Topic
Managed by Dr. Leuba for Eadowmsut
Expert! in Applied Psychology will
address a long-table luncheon at the
Philadelphia City Club, Thursday, April
-.".'. at 13.89, on "Psychology as Applied
to Business and Industry." The lunch-
eon, which is given in the interest of
the Endowment Fund, is being managed
; Dr. Leuba. Students are invited^to
attend and may obtain tickets from the
Endowment Fund office for $1.00.
NEw SERViCE CORPS WORKER
PERSIA SCENE 01* LECTURE BY Commencement Speaker Or. anorey
HAROLD WESTON OF Y. M. C. A.!                        -------
It Noted Authority on Classics
Dr. Paul Shorey, head of the Greek
department, University of Chicago, has
been secured at commencement speak-
er; his address will be on "The Things
Thai Are More Excellent." Dr. Shorey
taught Greek at Bryn Ifawr from its
opening in 1H*3 until 1898. He has been
the most distinguished opponent of Dr.
Abraham Flexner in the educational con-
troversy of  Humanities vs.  Science.
D. Chambers, '19, Sent to Near East.
Lady Azgapetian Pleads for Armenia
Dorothea Chamber*, '18, will go out
to Syria in June as a'representative of
the Bryn Mawr Service Corps, accord-
ing to a statement made by Miss Mar-
i ii Rally, '03, who presided at the rally
for the Near East last Saturday. Miss
Chambers and one or two others will
work under an appropriation of $5000
made by the Service Corps Committee
to the Near East Relief, under whose
auspices Lady Azgapetian, the speaker of
the evening, is touring the country.
With work in France at an end and
only one Service Corps worker Pleas-
aiince Raker Parsons, 'o.i (Mrs. Ar-
thur Parsons) still in Europe, the Serv-
ice Corps Committee will in the future
concentrate their attention on the Near
East. Excluding the recent $:>000 appro-
priation, about $7000 still remains in
the  hands of the committee.
I.Lady Azgapetian, who wears the Rus-
sian Order of Stanilaiis and a decoration
from the Shah of Persia, pinned to the uni-
form of the Imperial Russian Red Cross,
served with her husband, who was for
two year- ;,n officer with the Czar's Array.
Sin observed at first han dthe work of the
\iimiiians who fought the Turk in Asia
Minor under the Grand Duke Nicholas.
"In spite of the offers from Turkey
of the longed-for 'Free Armenian Re-
public' should she remain neutral. Ar-
menia cast her lot with the Allies. Her
soldiers fought the Turk well, for they
were avenging centuries of insult. First
class fighting men. they are called by
missionaries 'the Irish of the Orient'
And they are capable of running their
own government, for they ruled them-
selves for many years before the Turk
came in."
When Bolshevik troubles came, Lady
Azgapetian and her husband fled across
the mountains of Persia to the Caspian
Sea in a Red Cross ambulance. After
ten months they reached Petrograd,
where they lived for weeks on six ounces
of bread a day, finally escaping to the
United States on a tramp steamer.
With British Troops Since  1916 in
Control of Eastern Fronts �p?S;
"Robber chieftains, women and mar-
riage customs, as seen by caravan
through feudal Persia." is the title of a
lecture to be given Saturday night in
Taylor Hall by Mr. Harold Francis
Weston, an student, and V. M. C. A.
worker during the war, with the British
forces east of Sue/. The talk, illustrat-
ed by lantern slides made from Mr. Wes-
ton'i photographs, will include such top-
ics a- the hanging of Bakhtiari robbers.
Persian marriage customs. British in-
trigue and the future of Persia. Mr.
WeStOn will speak under the auspices of
the History Club.
Obliged to forgo active service be-
cause of lameness from infantile par.il
ysis. Mr. Weston enlisted in the Y. M
C A immediately after his graduation
from Harvard in 1816, He was stationed
in India, Mesopotamia and Bagdad and
was eventually put in control of the for-
ward area between the three fronts�
on the Euphrates, on the Tigris, and into
Persia   as   far   as   Hamadan.
Showed   Movies   to   Harem   Ladles
'With the movies of one of his thea-
ins." iays the New York World, "at
the suggestion of the British Political
Department, Weston distinguished him-
self by being the first man to entertain
the ladies of the harems of the Bagdad
Sheiks. He was obliged to censor the
films with care. All love scenes were
cut, lest the veiled ladies should misun-
derstand the passionate movie tricks
of America. Only three men. Weston
and his two assistants, were allowed in
the theatre, and they were safely hidden
in the cinemetograph box. A cordon
of \rab police were thrown around the
theatre. Thus the ladies of the Orient
went to the theatre for the first time."
DR. VINCENT  DESCRIBES   "AN
ADVENTURE IN HEALTH"
RIVAL CLUBS FOR  LOWDEN AND
WOOD SPRING  UP ON CAMPUS
Lowden   and   Wood   Clubs   were   or-
ganized Monday night with twelve mem-
bers at each  meeting.
The officers of the Lowden  Club are
D.  Rogers.  '-'0,   President;   E.   Donnelly,
'81;  H. Guthrie, "22:  E.  Kimbrough. '-�1.
M.   Hay*.    22,   vice   precidents;    A.   Hay,
?3,   Secretary;   E.   Mathews.   '22,  Treas-
urer.      The   purpose   of   the   club   is   to
spread   j ropaganda     for   its     candidate.
This   has   already   been   begun   with   a
series of posters on the bulletin boards
M. Crosby, '22, was elected   President
oi  the   Wood  Club.     Literature  will  be
urnished to anyone applying at room 1,
Vmhroke  East.
ANAT0LE|SLE BRAZ TO TRACE
GROWTHlfOF BRETON LEGENDS
Breton Poet Secured By French Club
o Spjak Next Saturday
Brittany's poet and novelist, Anatole
Lc I'.raz will lecture in Taylor next Fri-
day night under the auspices of the
French Club, on the folk lore of his
country. The lecture will be given in
French; no admission will be charged.
Monsieur Lc Braz is "first above all.
a collector of legends, hut of legends
which he. in turn, recreates, enlivens and
renders poetic." say- Madame Claude
Riviere, last year a professor in the
French Department at Bryn Mawr, in
an appreciation of the Bard of Brittany,
in her magazine "La France." He en-
deavors to express the spirit of his peo-
ple to the rest of France through their
mystical and imaginative store of leg-
ends These he has gathered by untir-
ing and patient efforts from the peasants
themselves in their huts by the sea or
ai Ins own home where he always makes
them welcome. At first suspicious, they
now   acclaim him  their bard and  |-�i
\s exchange professor at Columbia
from the University of Raines, where
he taught Celtic Literature. Anatole Lc
Braz i< one of the most distinguished
Frenchmen to come to this country lor a
lung time He ha~ bjSSM awarded the
Legion of Honour. "Legende de la Morf*
is considered to l� his finest boob; treating
.1   Breton mv�ticL�m  and  *.idncss
QUEEN   ELIZABETH  CHOSEN
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Members oi Faculty Form Her Court.
Model School Children on Green g
Dean Smith will be Cjucen Elizabeth
in the court group which is to be a fea-
ture of May Day. Her ladies-in-waiting
are   Hits  Carpenter,   Miss  Sabin,   Miss
Irvin. Mile. Trotain and Mile. Chalu-
four. Dr. Barnes. Dr. Bye, Dr. Derry,
I >r. ( renshaw. Dr. Gray and Dr. Savage
will be courtiers.
Nil detail historically accurate has
been omitted in the plans for the village
green in front of Denbigh, where the
queen and her court will attend the per-
formance of the "Nice Wanton." An hour-
l\ program involving "remarkable feats,
juggling and tumbling," will be carried
on under the direction of the Mistress
of the Green, M. Carey, '-'0, a night
watchman, Miss Applcbee. and the town
crier.  E.  Donnelly, '-'1.
As Autolycus, the wandering minstrel,
H. Harris, '17, will sing at the "Nice
Wanton" and during Other parts of the
green program. F. Peabody, '19, will
represent William Kemp, "the nine days'
wonder." who danced a morris half
across England. She will be preceded
�boat the green by K. Tyler, '19, play-
ing a century old flageolet borrowed
from a rare collection in Philadelphia.
A bear, M. Barker, "88, will perform
tricks, led by his keeper, K. Woodward,
''.'I, playing a musical instrument M.
Chestnut, '2::. will accompany them as
jester. Marian Foley, a godchild of
Marian Gregg, ':.'o. is coming from St.
Louis to take the part of a village clown.
Country dancing will be supplemented
by dances of the gentry from the bridal
part) in the "Hue and Cry Alter Cupid."
Cakes, ginger ale, sweetmeats and jun-
ket will be sold from thatched cottages
around the green. D. Clark, '-'0. and
aides dressed as beef-eaters, will have
charge of the information booth in front
of the Library, the headquarters for
the   program   venders.
Pamela Wright, Wallace De Laguna,
Billy Huff and Gerard Bye will be court
pages; Audrey Saunders, Frederika De
Laguna anil SOUIC children of the Model
School will act as flower girls on the
green.
Pres.of Rockefeller Foundation Traces
Search for Yellow Fever Germ
"A league of nations banded together
to drive yellow fever from the earth,"
so Dr. George Vincent, President of the
Rockefeller Foundation speaking in Tay-
lor Hall last Friday evening, characteri-
zed the light against yellow fever which
is now being carried on in Central and
South America The proceeds of the
lecture, which was given under the aus-
pices ,,i the Student's Medical Society,
amounting to $s0, were contributed to
the Endowmeni Fund.
General Gorgas, upon his r-etirement
from the l S At my. was made head of
a commission to close in the seed beds
of yellow lever, relatively few in num-
ber, which have been definitely located
at Guayaquil, Yucatan, the coast of Brazil,
and the coast of Africa
"Tin germ is notoriously elusive," said
Dr. Vincent as he described the efforts
Hi Hi Nagouchi, a Japanese, sent to
Guayaquil, by the Rockefeller Founda-
tion, i<> exterminate the uegomyia, a
female mosquito, discovered to be the
carrier of the germ. From the results
Dr. N'agouchi has gained it seems fairly
safe to work on the theory that the
germ has been discovered ami a comba-
tive serum made.
Dr. Conner, a Foundation doctor at
Guayaquil, centered his attention 011 de-
stroying the breeding spots of the mos-
quito Although the Ecuadorians in their
ignorance thwarted Dr. Conner's efforts
at every step, he succeeded in nine months
in reducing the number of cases from
88 to none. Since last July, there has
not been a case of yellow fever in Guaya-
quil.
"Public health is a government func-
tion and ultimately must be run by the
government," declared Dr. Vincent in
conclusion. "Private enterprises, such
as the Rockefeller Foundation, are use-
ful in international relations where poli-
ticians cause delay and hinder scientific
research. Public health offers great vis-
tas, from the extermination of yellow
fever to the care of babies in slums, and
it is a worthy field for every intelligent
woman "
HOOVER COLLEGES MAJORITY
CANDIDATE IN STRAW VOTE
PRESIDENT   THOMAS  GIVES   $10,000
TO  SHAW  MEMORIAL
District 9 Leads in Ralslnq Quota
A gift of $10,000 from President Thom-
as, who is traveling in the Holy Land
brought the Endowment Fund last Sat-
urday to a total of $7*4.125 toward the
goal of Two Millions. President Thom-
as' gift is to be used for the Anna How-
ard  Shaw   Memorial
In   Delaware  and   Pennsylvania  $134.-
i 406 has  been   raised:  the  city of   Phila-
| delphia   is   credited   with   $06,269      Col-
\ lege concerts have netted $1,129 and the
rat  sales in   Philadephia $300.
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Wins 79 Per Cent of Faculty Ballot
Students Two-thirds Republicans
Filial returns from the Presidential straw
vote polled at Bryn Mawr yesterday show
a   majorit)    of   tentimenl    for    Herbert
Hoover�79 per cent ..r the faculty vote-
going to him and 54 per cent of the student
Mile-. Leonard Wood came third among
the faculty -""I -econd among students;
anil the third largest number of votes went
to uninstruetcd delegates
The Republican- earned off nearly two-
thirds ol the students, and Republican and
Independent     \otc-     received     first     place
among the faculty Twenty-eight Demo-
crat- voted for Hoover, 23 of them stu-
dent- and 5 faculty Three students are
Socialists
Thirteen student- enrolled themeelvei as
National Liberal-, proposing to follow a
new party platform lUggested by Professor
Feuwick. His platform for a National
d part] �ill b               I m 'he \'i�-
next weed
Registered at the polls yesterday were 5$
per cent of the facult* and staff, or 44 out
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