In commemoration of the centennial
anniversary of Susan B, Anthony and
- the seventy-third birthday of Anan How-
ard) Shaw, both celebrated February
14th, the News prints the following ap-
preciation by President Thomas. The
article was written at the request of the
committee in charge of the memorial
service held by the National Women
Suffrage Association at St. Louis that
Saturday. “In view of the memorial |
chair, the students and alumnae are en-
dowing in memory of Anna Howard
Shaw,” writes President Thomas, “I
thought that the readers of the news
might be interested in this brief charac-
terization of Miss Shaw.”

* The two great women whose birthdays
are commemorated today were alike in
their trenchant leadership, their splen-
did intellectual equipment, and their ut-
ter devotion to our cause,

Susan B, Anthony seemed to me dis-
tinguished from all the other men. and
women I have known by the quality of
sheer, unadulterated greatness which
made of her a heaven sent leader to be
followed even to death itself.

Anna Howard Shaw had all the qual-
ities that go to make up what we call
genius—brilliant wit, humour of a pe-
culiarly high order; imagination; sym-
pathy; unerring logic which sped like an
arrow to its goal; withering scorn of
subterfuge; flaming indignation against
oppression and wrong; burning love of
justice and right; a prophet’s vision; im-
passioned patriotism, spiritual fervour
of consuming power. Her splendid elo-
quence inspired her audiences with
something of her own passion as she
went up and down through the land. She
was the greatest orator of our genera-
tion. She never fell below the high level
she had set herself. Often as I heard
her speak, I never once heard her speak
unworthily. She never said what her
audiences might like to hear. She told
them the exact truth. She was an ab-
solutely and as gloriously sincere on the
platform as in quiet discussion around
the study fire. She combined in wonder-
ful fashion the genius of a great orator

APPARATUS MEETS CONTAIN

REQUIRED AND ORIGINAL STUNTS

The apparatus meets will begin on
Wednesday, March 10, and last through
Friday, March 19, each team having two
meets. A certain number of required
‘and optional exercises for group and
individual work on the horse and paral-

‘with the wisdom of a great statesman,
for she and Miss Anthony were states-

 

lel bars, will be offered by each team.
Individual exercises only will be required |
on the ropes.

Each class is allowed four entries in |
the individual events, the points of which |

count toward both the total class score |
and the score of the individual. An in-|
dividual’s work in a group exercise will
not be counted toward her own score,
but the exercise will be judged as a
whole.

Five teams from each class will com-
pete and count points towards the All- |
Round Athletic Championship. The
size of the teams is flexible, the only
limitation being that if any person is in)
an event on one team, she cannot sub-
stitute down to a lower.

Start Fiction Library for Maids

“A circulating fiction library for the
maids has been started in the basement
of Merion Hall,” said H. Hill, ’21, chair-
man of the Library Committee, report-
ing in the C. A. Cabinet meeting last
Thursday night. About seventy-five
books, bearing on all subjects, have been
collected from the old Fiction Library
and from the students. The committee
hopes to receive contributions sufficient
to buy the works of colored authors and
thus put the maids in touch with the
current thought and progress of their

 

own people.

men in the truest sense of the word. I
never ceased to marvel at her power to

think out difficult subjects to their in-

evitable end. Her conclusions seemed
to me unerringly right. Her patriotism

rang true at every point. The world war

was the supreme test. She led us as we
should go. We followed her rejoicing
that our great suffragist was also a
great patriot. |

The last time I heard her was after
our May Pole dances at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege in a crowded chapel. She spoke
with the tongue of an angel and we saw
her transfigured before our eyes. It
crossed my mind then with vague fore-
boding that after a speech like that,
which could never be surpassed and per-
haps never again equalled, even an ora-
tor such as she might be content to die.
Within two months she was dead. Act-
ing on the suggestion of one of the col-
lege professors who had heard her speak
in chapel, a few weeks after her death
our professors, students and alumnae
began to raise $100,000 in order to endow
in perpetuity the Anna Howard Shaw
Memorial chair of Politics in Bryn
Mawr College. I can think of no great-
er memorial, nor of one that would have
pleased her more, than an endowment
such as this to teach women how to use
the vote she gave her life to win.

Ex-President Taft told me on his re-
turn from the speaking trip on behalf
of the League of Nations which cost
her life, that her presence as a speaker
on their platform in every city visited
brought to their audiences vast numbers
of women whom for the first time
through her they had been able to reach.
He said that he had been amazed to see
how women followed her and loved her.
We who know what she did for women
could never be amazed by any tribute,
however great. She was dearly loved
by us all in every State of the United
States—our golden orator, our gallant
defender, our intrepid advocate, our
guide, our leader, our friend, who spent
her life in our service. She never knew
how much we loved her.

SENJ .UNK TO. R. GI.ENFILL

 

Reorganized Committee to Collect, Every
Two Weeks

A special collection of clothes, books
and odds and ends was made last week
by the Junk Committee, to send to Dr.
Grenfell’s Labrador mission. On ac
count of the severe weather in Labra-
dor, the committee hopes to send a larg-
er contribution than in previous years.

In accordance with a request from
Mrs. Skinner, the committee is also col-
lecting from alumnae and members of
the college, materials for May Day cos-
tumes; the prices, according to Mrs.
Skinner,. have increased greatly since the
last May Day.

The Junk Committee, reorganized this
semester under M. Kennard, ’22, chair-
man, will make collections every fort-
night, Hall collectors are:

Radnor: J. Conklin, ’20; E. Gabell, '22;
S. Archbald, ’23; R. McAneny, '23; L.
Foley, ’23. Merion: H. Hoyt, '23; E.
Child, ’23; R. Raley, ’23. Denbigh: A.
Dunn, ’22; J. Schwartz, ’23; H. Rice, '23.
Pem. E.: M. Crosby, '22; C. Goddard,
23; M. Longyear, ’23. Pem. W.: H.
Baldwin, '21; M. Kennard, ’22; D. Me-
serve, "23; A. Fraser, '23. Rockefeller:
F. Selligman, '23; K. Goldsmith, ’23.

NEW SPANISH CLUB MEMBERS

The Spanish Club admitted sixteen
new members as a result of the midyear
examinations. From the major class: M.
Eilers, "20; F. Howard, ’21, and from
the minor: 1920, M. Lindsey, H. Zinsser;
1921, M. Archbald, E. Boswell, E. God-
win, M. P. Kirkland, C. Mottu; 1922, C.
Baird, C. Cameron, D. Cooke, O. Floyd,
H. Guthrie. L. Ehlers; 1921, F. Prentice.

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: ent Trieste
for Egypt on February 12, accompanied
by her cousins, Mr. Logan Pearsall
Smith and Mrs. Bernhard Berenson, Af-
ter six weeks in Egypt, the party will
go to Palestine. oe

Since Christmas, President Thomas

 

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has been in Paris and the Riviera, mak-| .

ing a short stop at Monte Carle. Prior

to this, she had been through parts of

the Great Desert, with the same guide
that Robert Hichens had, going to many
of the places mentioned in the “Garden
of Allah” and in his other books,

voneaaian PEOPLE MAKE
_ SWIMMING CLASSES

The swimming report made by K.
Woodward, ’21, swimming manager, at
a meeting of the Athletic Association,
showed that 217 people had tried out
during the first semester. Of these, 49
made classes—8 Seniors, 16 Juniors, 12
Sophomores and 13 Freshmen.

E. H. Mills, ’21, and E. Anderson, ’22,
are first class swimmers. E. Cecil made
second class, eight made third, twenty-
seven, fourth, and eleven fifth.

 

   

Swimming records at Bryn Mawr have
been steadily improving during the last
twenty years. In 1898 when the first
swimming meet was held, the double
length front was swum in 45 sec. and
the back in 60 sec., as against 31 2-5 sec:
and 37 sec. today.

In 1906 Carola Woerishoffer, who
was considered an unusual swimmer,
made the single length back swim ir
25 sec. Today the record established by
K, Woodward, '21, is 16 1-5 sec. The
plunge and the have improved
also.

relay
The relay in 1912 was made in-
79 2-5 sec., and today it is done in 62 1-5
sec. In 1909, the longest plunge was
47 feet, while now fourth place is 47 feet
10 inches.

In a recent swimming at Barnard, the
first place in the plunge was 34.5 feet,
and third place was 28.5 feet, as compar-
ed with 57 feet 1 inch and 50 feet, which
were plunged in the Bryn Mawr meet.
Mahr, of Columbia, recently plunged
69 feet, and Driscoll, of Princeton, 62
| feet.

 

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