Irish Playwright Ccmes Here Friday

Shaw, Wells and Galsworthy and other
authors, and their effect on younger writ-
ers will be described Friday evening at
eight o'clock by Mr. St. John Ervine,
Irish novelist, dramatist and critic. Mr.
Ervine, who will speak under auspices
of the English Club, is best known in
America as author of the plays, Jane
Clegg and John Ferguson. :

In boyhood, reading was Mr. Ervine’s
chief pastime. ‘I read everything I could
lay hands on,” he has said, “from penny
dreadfuls to Paradise Lost. 1 cannot re-
member a time when I was not writing
something. I think my first story was
called ‘Thou Art the Man,’ and the vil-
lain. was a Russian ambassador, a dark
man with a waxed moustache who spoke
only in monosyllables, or rather in a
monosyllable, for his chief expression
was ‘Bah!’”

When Mr. Ervine was seventeen he
went to London. After working a short
time in an insurance company, he began
to write plays and contribute to metro-
politan papers. He became one of the
group of playwrights to contribute to
the Irish Repertory, and that of the
Gaiety Theatre. Among his plays are
The Magnanimous Lover, Mixed Mar-
riage and The Critic. John Ferguson, his
latest play, is now running in New York
His books include Changing Winds,
Mrs. Martin’s Man and Eight O'clock
Studies.

Mr. Ervine served in the war with
Germany in an English regiment, the
Household Battalion, was later given a
commission in the Dublin Fusiliers, and
was seriously injured in battle.

Admission for Mr. Ervine’s lecture is
75 cents, members of the college, 50
cents. Reserved seats are $1.00, members
of the college, 75 cents.

REDS WIN WATER POLO
First Team Fi-als for 1921, 10-2

Making nine goals in the second half of
a hard, exciting game, the Juniors won the
deciding match of the first team water-polo
finals last night, beating dark blue 10 to 2.
First team championship counts twenty
points toward the all-round athletic cham-
pionship.

Wild playing and many fouls kept both
scores low during the first half, leaving the
teams tied 1-1. In the second half clean
shots were more frequent, and the goal-
keepers on both sides were conspicuous in
blocking many attempted goals.

E. Anderson scored 1922's only goal dur-
ing second half in a clean shot, skillfully
aimed from three-quarters the length of the
pool.

The line-up was: 1921—E. Bliss,
Woodward,*** E. Mills,** E. Cope,**** E.
Cecil, W. Worcester, C. Garrison, team *
1922—A. Nichol, E. Hobdy, 0. Howard,*
FE. Anderson,* E. Donohue, A. Dunn, R.
Neel.

Reds Win First Game of Finals 11-3

Playing fast and strong, 1921’s first team
defeated 1922, 11-3, in the first match of
the finals last Thursday night.

Starting with a goal by A. Nicholl in the
first mintue of the game, the Sophomores
fought hard, but showed the loss of E.
Anderson, who had led them to victory in
the preliminary games. 1921's forward
line, with E. Cope as halfback, piled up a
score of eight points in the first half. Wild

throwing lost the red several possible goals
in second half.

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Since 1915; 19 Graduate With Distinetion

 

Price 5 Cen's

 

 

 

Marie Paula Litzinger, of Bedford, Pa.,

is European Fellow of the class of 1920.
“Her average is 88.9205, the highest in the

announcing the award in chapel Friday
morning. Miss Litzinger, whose group

by the Bedford High School. She was
James E. Rhoads Sophomore Scholar,
1917-18, First Charles S. Hinchman Mem-
orial Scholar, 1918-19, and Brook Hall
Scholar, 1919-20.

Five of the Senior class, or 6.75 per
cent, received the distinction of “Magna
cum Laude” (given for grades between
85 and 90). They are, Marie Paula Lit-
zinger, Isabel Hart Arnold, Margaret
Millicent Carey, Eleanor Marquand, and
Nathalie Clotilde Gookin. Fourteen, or
'891 per. cent. received the next dis-
inction, “Cum Laude” (for grades be-
-ween 80 and 85). The median grade of
the class, 76.53, is the highest since 1915.
A total number of 19 out of the class of

74 (25.59 per cent ) have grades above 80,
as compared with 2558 per cent. last
vear aud 1718 per cent in 1918.

T. Born “And C. Baechle Graduate European
Fel'ows.

The two graduate European Fellows,
announced at the same time as the Sesior
iellow, are Therese Mathilde Born, ’18,
of Indianapolis, Indiana, Fellow in Eng-
lish, and Cecilia Irene Baechle, ‘13, of
Philadelphia, scholar in Education. Miss
Born, who graduated from Bryn Mawr
in 1918 was awarded the Mary E. Garrett
European Fellowship for. students who
have completed two years of graduate
work at Bryn Mawr.

Miss Baechle, A. B. Bryn Mawr, 1913,
received the President M. Carey Thomas
European Fellowship for students who
have completed one year of graduate
work at Bryn Mawr. Miss_ Baechle
studied at the University of Pennsylvania
1913-14, and taught Latin and English
in the York High School, 1914-19.

No Seniors Left for Fourth French
Oral for First Time on Record

1920 is the first class on record to
have no fourth French oral. 100 per
cent. of those taking the third oral pass-
ed. The only class to approach this
record for the third examination in
French is 1914, of which 87.5 per cent.
passed. Seniors taking this oral were:
M. R. Brown, H. Ferris, A. Rose, K.
Townsend, I. Whittier, E. Coleman, E.
Brace.

 

PRESIDENT TAFT TO ROUSE WEST
IN INTERESTS OF ENDOWMENT

 

Will Journey To Pacific Coast

Acting-President Taft started today
on her tour to the Pacific Coast to speak
in cities of the south and west in the
interests of the Endowment.

Her subject at the New Century Club
in Pittsburgh tomorrow will be “Mod-
ern Tendencies in Education,” and she
will address a dinner of Bankers and
Credit men at the William Penn Hotel
on “The Educated Woman as a Busi-
ness Asset.”

Making her route through Cincinnati
and Louisville, she is scheduled to ar-
rive in New Orleans next Monday, and
will reach Los Angeles April 1. Other
California stops are Santa Barbara and San
Francisco, where she is to address the Com-
monwealth Club April 6, leaving for

 

the east April 9.

Senior class,” said Acting President Taft,

‘s Latin and Mathematics, was prepared |

HONOR ROLL INCLUDES NINETEEN.

The nineteen seniors who will receive
‘their degrees with distinction are:

Magna Cum Laude. }
Isabel Arwald oo. .. 86.518
Mv. Carey a 86.347
Eleanor Marquand ....... - 86.186 s
Nathalie Gookin ........ .. 85.504 3
: Cum Laude. ad
Miriam Brown ........... 84.771 $
Alice Harrison ...-..... 84.438 |
ere Pe. C¥. eink 28 |
Derctay Seth ........:; 84.414 |
Dorothy Jenkins ......... 83.514 |
Meine «OREN... ceca css. .. 83408
Pere FVEMON 2. oe. occ cc sek, 83 338
Catherine Robinson .:.......... 83 133
eee Boyton (iio soe 83.123
Frances von Hofsten .:...;.... 82 057
Kathleen Outerbridge ......... 81.641
Litien Davil jj. 0.5 sess: 81 3809
Hilda Buttenweiser ...... bese $1,007
Pale COCHION oc isis 80 876

The other seniors in the upper half of

Mali (79971), D.-. Clark (79.361), : M.
Healea (79.089), M. Hardy (78.942), M.
K. Cary (785904), M. Canby (78.523),
B. Zilker (78.3904), M. Frost (78,3009),
V.. Park (78228), A. Santord (77.084),
'L. Sloan (77.726), L. Kelloge (77.609), M.
Dent (77 547), T..D. James (77.528); D:
Allen (77.409), EE. Stevens (76895), A.
Coolidge (76.688).

MRS. SLADE ALTERNATE NEW YORK

DELEGATE ON HOOVER TICKET

Caroline McCormack Slade (Mrs. F.
Louis Slade), National Chairman of the
Bryn Mawr Endowment campaign, has
joined the New York committee fighting
to elect Hoover candidates for national
delegates in the Seventeenth Congres-
sional district. Mrs. Slade has taken the
place of Miss Edith Percy Morgan as
candidate for alternate delegate on the
Hoover ticket

WAR VISTAS DESCRIBED THRU
EYES OF POET-JOURNALIST

°
Mr. Cecil Roberts, Official British
Corre spondent for Air, Land and Sea
' More raconteur than poet in his lec-
ture Thursday evening in Rockefeller
Hall, Mr. Cecil Roberts, British war
correspondent and poet, narrated war
experiences in a series of vivid word-
pictures, as a background for the read-
ings of his poems. His lecture, “Th ough
the Eyes of Youth,” was under the aus-
pices of the English Club.

Mr. Roberts held the honorary rank
of captain during the war, and acted as
official war correspondent with the Brit-
ish armies on the western front, with
the Royal Air Forces, and as special cor-
respondent with the Dover Patrol anc
the Grand Fleet in the North Sea.

A. pre-war of ha:
qualified him for the position, which he
will hold next year, of editor of the Not-
tingham Journal and the Birmnghar
Gazette.

Object of Terror to Germans

H's “The Patrol.”
came quoted the Germans
“most offensive piece of literature pro-
duced by an Englishman du ing the
war,” and Mr. Roberts’ portrait was re
produced in the Berliner Tageblatt, as
an “example of odious frightfulness”
One of the greatest feats of the British

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INSPIRED RADICAL” INDICTS
ALLIED RUSSIAN POLICY

L iscusses Russia from Sane
Vi om ‘ ;

(SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED BY PRO-
FESSOR HOWARD LEVI GRAY)
The History Club is to be congratu-
lated upon bringing to Bryn Mawr with-
.n a week two of the best speakers re-
cently heard here. Between two men
here could scarcely be sharper contrast
than between Mr. Whyte and Mr. Zil-
boorg. The former is a trained Pa.lia-
mentarian, reserved, polished, informed,
judicious; the latter an inspired Radical,
impassioned, humanitarian, resentful, ap-
pealing. One set forth sympathetically
the latest aspects of British politics; the
other preferred against the Russian pol-
icy of the present British government a
sharp indictment. It is possible that
Mr. Zilboorg would group Mr, Whyte

 

 

the class are: M. Littell (79.994), M. L !

among those Englishmen with whom he
feels international fellowship; — it
equally possible that Mr. Whyte would
agree that recent Allied action in East-
ern Europe has been short-sighted (to
use no harsher term). That the two men
would assume towards each other this
conciliato y attitude is much to be hoped,

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‘since both represent the present temper

of their respective nations at its best.

Not the least surprising feature of Mr.
Zilboorg’s lecture was the phrasing of it.
The acquisition of a foreign tongue with-
in eight months, resulting in so perfect
a mastery of idiom, deserves pious con-
templation by past and future candidates
in “written orals.” The subject an-
nounced at Bryn Mawr was “Behind the
Scenes of Russian Policy.” Actually
there was little enough that had been far
hidden behind the scenes. Most intimate
perhaps was the revelation that all mem-
bers of the Kerensky government, ex-
cept the Minister of Education, left Pe-
trograd to lead the 1917 offensive at the
front, an offensive which broke down
only when English ammunition would
not fit Russian guns.

Fear Threatened British Dominance

Mr. Zilboorg, nevertheless, stands
ready to lectu:e upon some fifteen sub-
jects, always treating each spontaneous-
ly. Which again adds to the marvel of
the presentation. Whatever the theme,
however, we may be sure that three
threads run through these discourses.
One is the horror of the Russian people
for the anachronism of Tsarism in the
twentieth century, a horror which made
them reluctant to enter the war, seeing,
as they did, that every Russian victory
wauld be used to vindicate the old
regime. A second is the despair and
thankfulness with which they rallied
around Revolutionary leaders, especially
around the Bolsheviki, when énly the lat-
ter offered efficient leadership against
Allied assistance “Counter-Revolu-
tionaries.” A_ third Mr. Zilboorg’s
(and possibly the Russian people's) be-
lief that Great Britain is at the moment
endeavoring to establish an economic
dominance in Russia, substituting for her
support of the Russia bourgeoise, sup-
port of the commercial ambitions of the
English bourgeoise.

includes America in Indictment

This last belief brings Mr. Zilboorg
into touch with the United States. The
Lenine government prefers American to
English economic exploitation. It feels
that the one would be pure “business for
business’ sake.” that the other would

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