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BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 11, 1920

Price 5 Cents

 

 

No Limit Set Yet For Quarantine

Dean Smith and Dr. Branson cannot
yet give definite information as to the
end of the quarantine. “At least it won’t
be lifted this week-end,” said Dean
Smith, “because the epidemic is still on
the increase in Philadelphia.”

According to Dr. Rea, in the two
weeks since the quarantine was put on
nine cases of influenza and four of
bronchial pneumonia have developed in
the college. “The influenza is lighter
this year than last year,” said Dr. Rea,
“and with less serious after-effects. The

epidemic seems to have been harder on

the graduates than on the undergradu-
ates,” she concluded.

 

MRS. SLADE PUTS ENDOWMENT
~ (BEFORE MASS MEETING

National Chairman Outline Plan of
Campaign to Student Body

Caroline McCormick Slade, ’96, nation-
al chairman of the Endowment Drive,
made the first formal appeal to the stu-
dent body in behalf of the Endowment
at a mass-meeting of graduates and un-
dergraduates last night in Taylor Hall.

“No college in the world has ever at-
tempted so gigantic a feat, as to get
$2,000,000 from 2,000 alumnae, said a
New York ‘business man to me the
other day,” began Mrs. Slade. “That
is the very reason why we are not go-
ing to fail....Our task is tremendous,
but we are going to put it through.

Emphasizing the gravity of the pre-
sent crisis, Mrs. Slade declared that of
all the people who enlisted in the war,
no group made the supreme sacrifice
that the teaching profession made. “We
know all too well that if tomorrow our
faculty had to leave us, we could not
get another to take its place.”

Faith in Publicity.
“How are we to get this money? There

steps in the Queen of Belgium,”
Mrs. Slade continued. “The one thing
I learned in my Bryn Mawr student days
was to avoid publicity, but experience in
war drives has shown the need for it.
Newspaper men tell me that even if we
put our message in the blackest type
on the front page of every paper, we
could not get it across. We must first
of all rouse interest and attention.”

 

 

TO DISCUSS CHAPERONE RULES
FOR GRADUATES

Three important matters have been
registered by a number of graduates for
discussion at the monthly Self Govern-
ment meeting to be held next Tuesday
evening in Taylor Hall.

Abolishment of the ruling that gradu-
ate students without academic appoint-
ments be forbidden to have social en-
gagements with members of the faculty
is the first question. Secondly, that grad-
uates be freed from all chaperone rules.
The final business would make all grad-
uates, regardless of age, authorized
chaperones. i

GRADUATE CLUB EMPHATICALLY
OPPOSES CHANGE IN RULES
The Graduate Club passed a sense of
the meeting Monday night, (to be pre-
sented to the Self Government meeting
next Tuesday,) which sets the Graduate

Club as definitely opposed to:

(1) Abolishing rule about social en-
gagements with men of the faculty.

(2) Freeing graduates under 25 years
of age from chaperone rules.

(3) Allowing all graduates, regard-
less of age, to be authorized chaperones.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON STRIPS
WAR OF ILLUSIONS

Soldier Poet Reads Poems Under
Auspices of English Club

The second of the British war poets
to lecture at Bryn Mawr, Siegfried Sas-
soon, proved to be a man whom war
had changed from the idyllist to the
satirist, a man whose power of portray-

ing natural beauty has been stifled by in-

dignation, and yet a man who is still
an idealist at heart. Mr. Sassoon gave
a commentative reading of his poetry
last Friday evening in Taylor Hall, un-
der the auspices of the English Club.

When Robert Nichols, the first repre-
sentative of “The Young Elizabethans,”
came to Bryn Mawr last year, although
the armistice had been signed, war was
still uppermost in everyone’s mind. In-
fluenced by it, Mr. Nichols’ audience re-
sponded to him with their emotions. The
poet was too close to the war to cull
from his own horrible experiences a gen-
eral theory.

Coming a year later, Siegfried Sassoon
rekindled in his audience, by appealing
to the intellect, a truer and deeper hat-
red of war and of all that it represents.

Reads Series of Ironic War Poems

“Blinded by no illusions concerning
the glory of war, the soldiers placed
truth above all,” said Mr. Sassoon.
“They realized that it was neither he-
roic nor necessary. It was for them
that I wrote my series of war poems—
records of the effects of war upon the
individual.”

Mr. Sassoon first read “Absolution,”
a poem written before he knew what war
really meant and when he too was influ-
enced by the glamour of August, 1914.
“In the Pink’ showed a step towards a
fuller realization of the horror involved
in fighting. It tells of a Tommy who
from his mud writes home that he is “in
the pink.”

“Tonight he’s in the pink; but soon he’ll
die,
still the
know why.”

And war goes on; he don't

“The Redeemer” and “Base Details”
show further the growth of indignation
that finally culminates in a poem,“ The
General,” the epitome of Sassoon’s sa-

tiric poems.

“Good the

morning; good morning!”
General said

When we met him last week on our way
to the line.

Now the soldiers he smiled at are most
of ’em dead

And we’re cursing his staff for incompe-
tent swine.

“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry
to Jack

As they slugged up to Arras with rifle

and pack.

* *« * *« &© &

But he did for them both with his plan
of attack.”
Quotes from New Book, “Picture Show.”

Below all the irony and choking fury
against the established order of politi-
cal events, Sassoon
the idealist.

“So from these words you'd never guess
The stars and lilies I could see.”

This spirit becomes more apparent
when Mr. Sassoon read from “The Old
Huntsman” and from “Picture Show,” his
new book containing forty poems, only
seven of which are war poems. Of all

there are hints of

 

he read, “The South Wind” best shows

(Continued on page 2)

Dean Smith,

DR. J. GORDON GILKEY LEADS
ANNUAL WEEK-END CON-
FERENCE

Urges Rational Basis for Faith |

Three talks and an open forum led
by Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, of Spring-
field, constituted the thirteenth annual
conference of the Christian Association,
held here last Saturday and Sunday.
introducing Dr. Gilkey,
called him the man “under whose wing
a church in Springfield, other than his
own, voluntarily put itself for commu-
nity service work.”

Questions ranging from “Is God Om-
nipotent?” “Are the Miracles necessary
to a living faith?” to such as ‘What is
there in life to prove a purpose behind
it?” were answered by Dr, Gilkey in a
crowded. Forum on Sunday afternoon.
The time allotted was so short and the
questions so many that the discussion
was continued in the evening after the
chapel service.

Personal interviews were held early
Sunday afternoon. Speaking of them,
Dr. Gilkey said that they were the most
satisfactory he had ever held at a col-
lege. Committees wishing interviews
had to be refused because of the num-
ber of individual applications. The at-
tendance at the talks was good—I86 on
Saturday night, 136 on Sunday morning,
and 195 on Sunday evening.

Modern Man’s Convictions About God

“The acid test of reason does not de-
stroy religion. Intelligence would have
us believe at least three great things
of God,” Mr. Gilkey insisted in his first
lecture on Saturday evening, though he
admitted that there are many things
about God that the modern man realizes
he does not know.

“We can believe that there is a living
God behind life, a being of intelligence,
purpose and power,” he asserted. “God
is our best explanation of the physical
universe and its evolution, and of the
moral universe with its capacities for
love and sacrifice.

“We can believe that God cares about
us,” declared Mr. Gilkey. “Granted that
there is a God, He must care about’
something, and that something is human
beings, the most important things in
life.”

“God cannot alter the laws that He
Himself has made,” according to Mr.
Gilkey’s creed. God is fighting against
obstacles just as human beings are.
“This does not mean that some day God
will be conquered. As humanity grows
stronger and God gains co-operation of
more generations, He will become more
and more successful in working out his
purpose.”

(Continued on page 2)

 

— oo
MOVIES OF QUEEN TO BE SHOWN
HERE FRIDAY IN GYMNASIUM

Hockey Games, Five-Reel Drama and
Comedy Included
Queen of Belgium at
Mawr,” and Bryn Mawr hockey games
will be featured in the movies to be
given under the Social Service Commit-
tee in the gymnasium Friday evening at
“The Misfit Earl,” a five-
Star-

“The 3ryn

eight o'clock.
reel thriller,
ring, is on the program, and a comedy

the

with Louis Benitson

or animated cartoon will conelude

performance.

 

35 cents, and the pro-|
the

Service

Admission 1s
ceeds will be
giate Community

given to Intercolle-

Association

 

i King Wiliiam--\

Alumnae Re-elect Mrs. Francis

Louise Congdon Francis '00 was re-
elected president of the Alumnae As-
sociation in the biennial elections, the
results of which were made public at the 7
annual meeting last week. Mrs. Francis
who lives at Haverford has been Presi-
dent of the Association for the last two
years. The other officers are:

Vice-President: Leila Houghteling '11,
of Chicago.

Recording Secretary: Myra Elliot
Vauclain, 08 (Mrs, Jacques Vauclain), 0:
Rosermont.

Treasurer:

Philadelphia.

LARGEST ANNUAL ALUMNAE
MEETING EVER HELD

Hold Round-Table Session During
Midyears to Launch Endowment

Two hundred and fifty alumnae
crowded the chapel on January 31 at the
opening of the largest annual meeting
ever held by the Alumnae Assoviation.
The three day meeting was turned into
a rournd table session in connection with
the launching of the $2,000,000 drive.

The opening of the drive was announ-
ced for March 1, when the first applica:
tions to the public will-be-made>—it-is 4
expected that all the Alumnae will have
been canvassed by that date.

A proposal to increase the goal of the
drive to a minimum of $4,000,000 was re-
jected on the grounds that it was better
to ask only for the $2,000,000 absolutely
necessary to meet immediate needs. As
the figures stand, an average of $1000
must be raised by each member of the
Alumnae Association.

It was voted to call the campaign
officially “The Bryn Mawr Endowment.”
The suggestion of “Bryn Mawr Pilgrim-
age, Crusade, and Quest,” was rejected,
aS was a suggestion to increase the en-
dowment by $1,000,000, the extra sum to
be used to found a department of music.

Bertha S. Ehlers ‘09, of

 

 

 

FOUR MAY-DAY PLAYS CAST.

 

Mrs. Skinner to Coach “Nice Wanton.”

With the casting of four plays practi-
cally completed, rehearsals for May Day
began Monday evening, under Mr. King
During this week he will give each of
the plays under his direction one rehear-
sal, and during his absence from the Col-
lege, which will last from the end of
this week to March 22, rehearsing will
under
from the cast.

The graduate play, “The Nice Wanton,”
to be coached by Mrs. Skinner, will be
cast tornorrow afternoon.
will be

 

go on student chosen

managers

The masques
cast next week.

The four casts already chosen (subject
to change) are:

Robin Hood.

Cast Manager: A. Harrison, '20,
Robin—L, Kellogg, °20
King Ricbard—-A, Harrison, °'20
Prince John—E, Cecil, °21
Leicester M, MeFarren, ‘23
Little John—C. Garrison, '21
Scearlt—-Frances Knox, ‘23
Alan a Dale—H. Humphries, "23
Friar Tuck—Peek, “22
Sherif-—M, Kirkland, ‘21
Bishop J, Conklin. ‘vO
Ellen's Father—H, Holmes, ‘20
Fitzwtter—-E Bliss, “21
Sir Richard—E, Anderson, ‘V2
Marian-—E. Vineent, “23
Elien—E. Jay, ‘21

St. George Play.

Cast Mamager—A. Taylor, ‘21

St tieerye——A Fraser, ‘23
King Alfred—M. Holt, ‘23
Queen CC. DPennelly a
Pragon--4’. Raht, ‘23
Qiiamt-—A Westen =

L.ditthe Jack
Evate, ‘Y1

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