The College News.

 

 

 

 

VotumE VI. No. 12

BRYN MAWR, PA.,:- THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920

Price 5 Cents

 

 

Faculty Concert for Endowment Fund
in Gymnasium Saturday

 

Numbers by Mr. Noah Swayne and
Members of Faculty.

A faculty concert, arranged by Mrs.
Leuba, Dr. Wheeler, and Dr. Schenck
will be given in the gymnasium Saturday
evening, at eight o’clock for the bene-
fit of the Two Million Dollar Fund for
Professors’ Salaries. Mr. Noah Swayne,
baritone, a classmate of Dr. Wheeler’s,
has offered his services for the concert.
Mr. Swayne is a member of the Or-
pheus Club, and has sung solos with
that club and with the Philadelphia Or-
chestra.

Dr. Brunel, as violinist, is among the
faculty who appear on the program. Mrs.
Tennent will sing, and Mr. King, who
has recently returned from England,
will give a dramatic recitation. Eu-
rhythmic dancing will be illustrated by
Mme. Placido de Montoliu and Gladys
Leuba.

Posters of the concert, designed by
Miss Fernald, instructor in History of
Art, will be auctioned at the end of the
Concert. Tickets may be obtained from
the Endowment Fund Headquarters, or
from Mrs. Leuba; reserved seats, fifty
cents, unreserved, $1.00, members of the
college, seventy-five cents and fifty
cents. a

Among the patronesses are Mrs. W.
L. Austin, Mrs. Henry Collins, Mrs.
Samuel Fels, Mrs. George Robbins, Mrs,
Otis Skinner, Mrs. John Thayer, and
Mrs. Jacques Vauclain.

The Program is: ;
p
Mr. Noah Swayne
a.) Qui S’degno non S’accende. . Mozart
b.) The Worldly Hope ....... Lehman
ec.) Drake’s Drum .........--. Stanford
2.
Prof. R. F. Brunel
Mr. Placido de Montoliu
a.) Sonata in A. ...ceeeeeeees Handel
b.) A Romance .....--+-+++++s Wagner
3.
Mrs. David Tennent

a.) The Wind is in the South ...Scott
b.) Cradele Song ...-+-++++++:: Kreisler
4,

Mr. Samuel Arthur King
Recitation

 

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1921 LEADS BY LARGE SCORE
SAIN FIRST SWIMMINGJMEET

Juniors Break Two Records *3%

Breaking two records and winning four
first and five second places, 1921 piled
up a score of 56 points in the preliminary
swimming meet last Friday night, against
1920’s 17% and 1922’s 15%. K. Wood-
ward, Junior captain, was a half point
lead over K. Townsend, ’20, in the race
for the individual championship.

Interest centered in the outcome of the
struggle between K. Townsend, ’20, and
K. Woodward, ’21. Miss Townsend, who
has broken both the front swim records
annually since Freshman year, equalled
her 13 1-5 sec. record for the 68 ft. front
swim, while Miss Woodward cut down
Miss Townsend’s 32 1-5 sec. record by
4-5 sec. (in the double length front), and
was only 1-5 sec. behind in the single
length front.

The red relay team clipped 4 4-5 sec.
from the 67 sec. record established last
year by 1920, by doing the four lengths
in 62 1-5 sec.

 

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THOUSANDS GATHER FOR THE
DES MOINES CONFERENCE

Robert E. Speer, Sherwood Eddy and
John R. Mott Among the Speaker

Bryn Mawr Sent. Eight Delegates to
Largest Conference Ever Held

Over 7000 students from 40 different
countries, representing 1000 colleges, at-
tended the Student Volunteer Confer-
ence held at Des Moines, Iowa, from De-
cember 31 to January 4. Bryn Mawr
sent a delegation of eight led by Marga-
ret Speer, ’22, The other delegates were
Dean Smith, M. Carey, ’20, C. Bickley,
21, E. Cope, ’21, M. Rawson, ’22, Fung
Kei Liu, ’22, and Gwei Hsin Wang, grad-
uate student,

John R. Mott, Robert E. Speer, Sher-
wood Eddy, Dr. Mackenzie, of the Hart-
ford Theological Seminary; Dean
Charles Brown, of the Yale School of Re-
ligion, and many foreign workers, includ-
ing Dr. Kanamori, from Japan, were
among the most prominent speakers, Mr.
Lawrence led the singing of the 7000
men and women who gathered in the
huge auditorium for meetings morning
and evening. Dean Smith said, describ-
ing the Conference, in chapel last Thurs-
day morning, “it seemed as if the win-
dows of all the world had been flung
open and we could gaze out not only on
our own town or city or country, but
on every town, city or country in the
world. The crying need for skill of all
kinds in many forgotten corners of the
world was brought home to us very sim-
ply by foreign students of different na-
tionalities. One by one, African, Chi-
nese, Mexican, Japanese, East Indian,
they stepped forward on the platform and
told us of conditions in their own coun-
tries, adding earnestly at the end of al-
most every short statement, ‘Come, come
and help us!’”

Missionaries Are Practical Statesmen

“Missionaries as we used to picture
them to ourselves some years ago, no
longer exist,” said Dean Smith. “The
typical cartoons of the pious individual
forcing his doctrine on the unwilling
heathen is gone. Missionaries are to be
considered in the light of practical states-
men, molding on international morality.”
The fact that Social Service cannot ex-
ist without Christianity was emphasized
at the conference, according to Dean
Smith. One African chief on hearing
about Christ asked: “Why didn’t you tell
us sooner; why didn’t you let us know?”
“The big fact of the conference was the
need of putting Christ in our own lives
first,” concluded Dean Smith.
Cablegrams From All Over the World

At the closing meeting of the confer-
ence Dr. Mott read cablegrams from
Egypt, Sweden, Japan, China, Argentina,
Mexico and one from New Russia ask-
ing for evangelization. $44,000 yearly was
pledged at one meeting as the result of
an appeal made by Dr. Mott for running
expenses of the Student Volunteer Move-
ment. The Student Volunteer Movement
was started in 1886 for the purpose of
getting volunteers for foreign mission
fields. Since then it has sent out about
eight thousand workers.

An exhibition of posters, maps, charts
and photographs showing the work and
needs of the various countries was held
during the conference. The Bryn Mawr
delegates are planning to secure as many
of these as possible and exhibit them in
the C, A, Library next week.

Ten Special Trains for Delegates

Special trains from almost all the big
eastern cities left on Monday, Decem-

 

 

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Lois Kellog Elected May Queen

 

Mrs. Skinner General Director. Mr. King
to Coach. Casts Chosen After Midyear
Lois Kellogg, ’20, was elected May

Queen at the close of a spirited session

in the mass meeting of graduates and

undergraduates last night. Five ballots
were cast before a deciding vote was
reached, Elizabeth Vincent, ’23, running

a close second. Miss Kellogg, who is

chairman of the May Day Committee,

took prominent parts in the Varsity Dra-
matics productions of the last two years.

The announcement that Mrs. Otis
Skinner has definitely consented to act
as General Director of May Day, and that
Mr. King, who returned recently from
England, will undertake the larger part of
the coaching, opened Miss Kellogg’s com-
mittee report. The costuming will be
directly under Mrs. Skinner, who will
be assisted by an alumnae business man-
ager, to be appointed later.

Mr. King Reads Plays

Scenes from “Robin Hood,” “The Old
Wives’ Tale,” and the “St. George Play,”
cited by Miss Kellogg as the three plays
to be repeated from the last May Day,
were read by Mr. King at the close of
the meeting, with indications as to the
requirements for the principal parts. It
was voted unanimously to repeat the
scenes from “The Midsummer Night’s
Dream.” A fifth play, not yet chosen,
will be given. The masques, chosen ten-
tatively, are Ben Pohnson’s “Hue and
Cry After Cupid” and the “Masque of
Flowers,” neither of which were present-
ed in 1914.

Neither Mrs. Skinner nor Mr. King
will assist in the casting, which will be-
gin immediately after Midyears under
the direction of the central and casting
committees. The lines and business of
the plays must be learned by the first
of March, when intensive rehearsals will
begin. Copies of the plays have been
placed in the reserve book-room, and, are
to be found in most of the hall libra-
ries.

A motion was carried in favor of giv-
ing two performances of May Day. The
choice of dates has been postponed pend-
ing the plotting of weather-graphs by
the geological and statistical depart-

ments.
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British War Poet, Siegfried{Sassoon,
~~~ Coming Here February, 6th

Siegfried Sassoon, M. C., a British
poet of the Great War, will lecture under
the auspices of the English Club on Fri-
day evening, February 6.

“The man of the younger generation
who takes the biggest subjects and the
poet who has suffered most in the war,”
so Robert Nichols, speaking at Bryn
Mawr last year, characterized Mr. Sas-
soon, The subject of his lecture will be
announced later.

 

EX-PRESIDENT TAFT WILL SPEAK
AT DINNER FOR ENDOWMENT
FUND
Ex-President William H. Taft, will
speak at a dinner in the interest of the
Bryn Mawr Endowment Campaign, at
the Ritz Carlton, on January 28th. The
Gertrude Ely, ex-’96.
chairman of the Philadelphia branch
of the Endowment Fund Campaign, and
Mrs. Herbert L. Clark, (Elizabeth C.
Bent, ’95,) vice-chairman of the same
committee. One hundred guests have

been invited to the dinner.

hostess will be

 

TREATY REFERENDUM AT BRYN
MAWR DRAWS CROWD TO POLLS

 

Votes Closely Divided Between Com-
promise and No-Reservations

 

Vigorous Campaign of Discussion
Rouses College to the Issue
Final retufns from the intercollegiate
referendum on the Peace Treaty polled
at Bryn Mawr yesterday, showed an
overwhelming sentiment for ratification

of the League and Treaty, but with votes °

approximately evenly divided between
unconditional ratification, (Prop. I.) and
a compromise based on the Lodge and
Democratic reservations (Prop. IV.)

This close division of opinion is in con-
trast to the genial intercollegiate senti-
ment throughout the country, The earli-
est returns, (at the time that the News
went to press) flashed from the 700 uni-
versities of the nation to the central
office in New York, indicated a strong
vote for a compromise on the reserva-
tions,

The polls at Bryn Mawr were open
yesterday from 9.00 a. m., to 3.00 p. m.,
at the voting-booth erected for the
purpose in Taylor Hall. Voting was
particularly heavy between class hours,
when faculty and students thronged the
polls, and members of the College News
board, in charge jof the referendum,
were kept busy tabulating the results,
which were wired to New York at 3.30
p. m., when the final count was com-
plete. Special photographers were call-
ed from town during the morning to
snap pictures of the college community
“deciding the fate of the Treaty.”

Ballot Embodies Four Alternatives

Registered at the polls were 83 per
ent of the faculty and staff, or 65 out of a
total enrollment of 78, and 87 per cent.
of the students, or 394 out of 450. Tab-
ulated results of the vote show that,
(1.), 25 of the faculty and 173 students
were for the Treaty without reserva-
tions; (2.) no faculty and 31 students
were opposed to the treaty in any form;
(3.) six of the faculty and fourteen stu-
dents were for the Lodge reservations;
and (4.) 36 of the faculty and 176 stu-
dents for a compromise between the
Lodge and Democratic reservations.

Crowd Morning Chapel to Prepare for
Vote

To stimulate a thorough advance dis-
cussion of the Treaty situation, a ser-
ies of chapel talks was arranged for
during the two weeks preceding the
vote. Dr. Fenwick outlined the general
background of the situation, and Dr.
Gray discussed criticisms that have been
raised against the League of Nations.

Mass-Meeting Overflows Taylor

To an audience crowding the chapel
to its capacity, 400 strong, and stirred
to patriotic excitement by the singing
which had gone before, Acting-President
Taft outlined the four propositions to
be voted on, in her opening speech as
chairman of the rally last Tuesday.

Calling college women to meet the
challenge which the Treaty referendum
offered to show themselves as fit voters,
Dr. Derry, as the first speaker on the
program, warmed to the “electric atmos-
phere” of the mass-meeting, and demand-
ed a compromise on the Treaty for
speedy ratification.

Muriel Barker, graduate student from
England, with a more serious appeal,
reminded Americans that Europe had
renounced European principles of so-
vereignty for .the sake of President
Wilson’s League.

 

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