Managing Editor, ...........-KATILEEX Jouwsros ‘21 Petetna pian ASSISTANT EDITORS Briere '21 MAarcery BARKER ‘23 M Wit Exvizaners Caitp ELizaBeTH VINCENT '23 USINESS BOARD Exvmasetra Mnus ‘21 Corne.ia Bammp '22 ASSIBTANTS Mant Doverss Bay 3 Pete vat aie eran me Margery Barker and Elizabeth Vin- cent have made the News as assistant editors from 1923. The 1922 competition will be held open until midyears. Sana ArcHBALp '23 °23 Florence Billstein was assisting editor this issue. There will be no issue of the News until January 12, because of Christmas vacation. tion. Chris’mus Gif! Even in the best regulated families omis- sions are sometimes made in the list of Christmas presents. This year, even though debutante cousin’s feather arm band or Aunt Netty’s inevitable lavendar sachets be forgotten, one memorandum should be un- derscored on every Bryn Mawr list: “To the Students’ Building—one fat cheque.” The Higher the Fewer We all realize that upon the small groups of Freshmen that hold session after 10.30 P. M., the responsibility of rearranging the world rests. They have come here to learn to be leaders, and it is seemly that they should discuss seriously problems of the greatest weight. Often, no doubt, argu- ments exchanged in these meetings are beneficial, and probably the later the hour the greater the benefit. During the ensu- ing two years, however, these pioneers thin out, or turn their attention to more local situations, or even degenerate to gossip. We hear that by the time Senior year comes, the erstwhile leaders crawl away to bed early, considering nothing more impor- tant than a good night’s sleep. Bryn Mawr or New York Week-ending at Bryn Mawr bids fair to become a much looked-forward to, instead of dreaded, event. What with dances in the gymnasium, instituted by a spirited organization in Merion, and numerous teas on Sunday afternoons, those who plead a desire for the gay social life as their reason for leaving each week-end, all find them- selves bereft of an excuse. RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP LOW 1923 HAS HIGHEST PERCENT With 1923 receiving the banner for the largest per cent membership, about 250 members joined the Red Cross in the recent college drive, through the So- cial Service Committee; $24 was received from tle faculty and staff, $8 from the graduate students and $10 from the workmen. Compared with last year, when almost 100 per cerit membership was obtained from the college, the present results are poor, according to the Social Service Committee. Class membership is: ME dca ccaneceacick 74.1% are 60.7% as Hike 55.3% oo ice ek cts cas 43.4% NEWS AND LANTERN SCHEDULE HOCKEY MATCH TOMORROW Challenged by the News, the Lantern and Welsh Rarebit have agreed to play a hockey match tomorrow afternoon, at 4.15, Miss Applebee will referee. Helen Whitcomb, "18 has just sailed for China, for a long visit in Pekin. | cite ‘eden do nae held fameave! responsible for opinions expressed in these) columns. ) Gifted sdbibemastaans Destitute To the Editor of the College News: Madam: An English friend living in Switzerland has found two very gifted mathematicians in a state of destitution in Vienna. One is a boy of twenty-two, named Kerékjart6é, who was practically starving; the other a Professor Dienes, who has a wife and two little boys, aged four and six. The children were put in a home for abandoned children sup- ported by an English mission, but the home was so overcrowded and the food so inadequate that they were pining away; Madame Dienes was giving danc- ing lessons to try to support them. Pro- fessor Hadamard told my friend about them, and she has decided to ask them all to come to live in her house in Vaud. She has appealed to me to ask for help in America to buy the food neces- sary for the five visitors until they can be got into England, where modest po- sitions have been found for them. There are, however, still difficulties in getting admission to England to take up work. Two dollars a day is necessary for the food. It has occurred to me that stu- dents who have been planning to give to the Hoover Fund for Starving Chil- dren, or knowing friends who are sub- scribing to the fund, might be willing to give me a portion of their subscrip- tion, knowing that it will go to scholars who are suffering from no fault of their own. These unfortunate people are Hungarians and took no interest in the war. Sincerely yours, IsABEL MADDISON. CHRISTMAS TEA FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS NEXT SUNDAY Twenty foreign members of the Inter- national Students’ Club in Philadelphia will be entertained in Merion at a tea given by the World Citizenship Com- mittee next Sunday. Invitations have also been issued to the foreign students at Bryn Mawr and to other graduates and undergraduates to meet the students from other’ countries, DIRECTORS SEND RESOLUTIONS TO ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE Mrs. Slade Recognized Especially Resolutions expressing the gratitude of the directors of the college have been sent to Mrs. Caroline McCormick Slade and members of the joint committee of the Bryn Mawr Endowment Fund. Special recognition is given to Mrs. Slade, of whom the resolutions say: “Above all and beyond all the unex- ampled success of the campaign is due to the wide vision of the Chairman of the National Committee, Caroline Mc- Cormick Slade, to her genius for or- ganization and to the rare power that she possessed to put into moving and eloquent words the love and gratitude felt to the college by her daughters, and to arouse in them, and also in outside people, enthusiasm for Bryn Mawr's ideals.” Christmas Dolls To Be Exhibited Ninety-four dolls, which are _ being dressed by the students, will be on ex- hibition in the Christian Association Library on Saturday before they are sent to the Sunnyside Day Nursery in Philadelphia. The stockings being filled will be sent to the Kensington Light- house Settlement, to negro schools in the South and tothe Spring Street Set- tlement in New York. Special stockings are being filled for seven old ladies at the Spring Street Settlement. Quoted from a quiz-book in Major Eng- lish: “And the fair Cressitla acted accord- ing to the old Romantic law of immorality.” ‘were proposed: st the eéeond meeting of the Deanery. President Thomas presided. Voicing a faculty opinion that the level of the students’ work has deteriorated ; that students who spend only four days of the week at college have no leisure to do their atmosphere of college, and that constant week-ends are a drain on the health of the students, President Thomas outlined three remedies. The faculty may have classes on Saturday instead of Wednesday, and have scheduled quizzes on Mondays. The students may regulate the number of week-ends a student may be away from college. Or, finally, the question may be regulated by public opinion. The student members of the Council were in favor of the last proposal. It was decided that before the next meet- ing of the Council the class presidents sheild take the matter up with their classes, and that definite statistics should be com- piled. These statistics would cover the first semester last year and this fall up to Christmas vacation, and would show which classes leave college most, and whether a great many people go away frequently or a few go away every week-end. Meetings May Be Held Till Six Fifteen It was moved that the motion of the last Council meeting, forbidding any meet- ing after 6 o’clock, be amended to read, “All meetings must close punctually at 6.15.” The motion was carried. The Coun- cil decided that a recommendation to this effect be sent to all college organizations, and that each association should notify its committees of this: rule. The procedure for students who wish to use the Gymnasium or other buildings for meetings was outlined again. Students should see Miss Maddison about the date, and get permission from President Thomas, if necessary. Miss Maddison fills out the slip, giving the original to the student and keeping the carbon copy, which is sent to Miss Adair, the business manager, and then to Miss Applebee, director of gymnastics. The student keeps the original until she is able to make final arrangements with Miss Adair. This should be a week before the entertainment, if possible, and not less than twenty-four hours before. Wardens and hall representatives will discuss a system of having a fixed sum collected from the students and distributed by the wardens, to all maids at Christmas and in June, according to a decision of the Council. Extra fees could be given to chambermaids for extra service. ALUMNAE BULLETIN TO COMPRISE MANY FEATURES OF INTEREST “Campus Notes” reviewing recent im- portant events at Bryn Mawr, a letter column open to both alumnae and un- dergraduates, and editorial comment on alumnae and academic affairs both at Bryn Mawr and in the country at large, are departments planned for the Alum- nae Bulletin by Margaret G. Blaine, "13. Miss Blaine, who is also Executive Sec- retary of the Alumnae Association, is being assisted in editing the monthly magazine by Dorothea Baldwin, ’13, a member of the staff of the New Republic. With the January number, the first issue of the Bulletin, begins the series of articles by President Thomas on “The Mediterranean Basin.” “Whys of Ad- vertising,” an article on the possibilities of advertising in an alumnae monthly, has been contributed by Carolyn T. Brown, 99 (Mrs. Radnor Lewis), who is in charge of the advertising of the Mal- linson Silk Company in New York City. “Campus Notes” for this issue are com- piled by D. Burr, ’23. A complete report of the reorganization conference and the proposed by-laws will appear. Teachers Wanted—for schools and col- leges. Big salaries. Contracts waiting. NationaL TEacHers’ AGENCY, Philadelphia. the College Council last Monday night, in| work carefully and miss the real spirit and Kate Du Val, ‘08, (Mra. Hse & Pitts), has gone to Boston to live, and this winter will be at 35 Arlington Street, Cambridge. Anna Carrere, '08, after a Summer in France and England, is studying land- scape gardening at Harvard this Winter. Genevieve Wilson, '10, is teaching French in the Bridgeton High Schoo), New Jersey. Peggy Dent, ’20, is selling children’s books at the Old Corner Book Store in Boston. She lives at the Stuart Club. Catharine Arthurs, ‘12, is studying science at Johns Hopkins, preparatory to teaching in the True Light School, in Canton, China. Carlotta Welles, '12, is teaching French at Clark School, in New York, and is studying French at Columbia. Ida Langdon, '03, is teaching English at Elmira College. Mr. Henry Crosby Emery, husband of Susanne Allinson, 10, and cousin of M. Crosby, '22, is manager of the new Bank of Asia, which the Guarantee Trust has. started in China. Mr. Emery has been appointed their agent to do relief in the present Chinese famine. The Service Corps has received a letter from Dorothea Chambers, '19, saying that she is working under the Y. M. C. A., at Adana, Turkey. VIOLET OAKLEY PRAISES PYLE (Continued from Page 1) East..—It was Michael Angelo, the prince of mural painters, who taught us. that ‘when you can draw correctly so much as a little finger, you can draw a hand, anything in the world; then no wall will be big enough for you, so great is the power of design.’” “The Church Militant and Triumph- ant” in the Spanish chapel of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, was one of the most beautiful compositions of all the large f:escoes shown. “This is one of the first paintings that inspired me with a desire to paint great wall surfaces,” said Miss Oakley. » Speaks of Pyle and Du Maurier “The spirit of Howard Pyle is still alive,” Miss Oakley said. “He was one of the great masters of composition; he taught how to create a composition from the inside. I find his spirit very dis- turbing at times; it forces me to do my work over and over again.” Miss Oakley was a student under Mr. Pyle at the Philadelphia Academy. A true illustrator such as Howard Pyle or George du Maurier does not merely repeat photographically the words of the text, Miss Oakley pointed out. He realizes out of the words some parallel idea which he portrays. Bryn Mawr Posters Praised On her way to the Art Club reception, after her talk, the illuminated poster done by D. Wycoff, '21, for the Art Club lecture arrested Miss Oakley’s at- tention. “This is very beautifully done,” she said after examining the work. One of the posters was presented to Miss’ Oakley, who later told a News reporter that the poster exactly fits into the book containing her illuminated manuscript of the lecture given at Bryn Mawr. Miss Oakley and Miss Emerson, winner of the May Day poster competition, both complimented D. Fitz, ’23, on her work on the May Day programs and the poster done for Sophomore Play, which, Miss Emerson said, achieved the poster ideal of flatness and ‘carried’ remark- ably well. “I was fortunate enough,” said Miss Oakley, “to witness your May Day fete and to rejoice with you at the triumph- ant conclusion of your drive. “I have one more thing to hope for Bryn Mawr—that you may some day build a great cloister where I may end- lessly paint for you a series of frescoes representing the marvelous beauty of that pageant of May Day—and symbol- izing all that Bryn Mawr stands for in the enfranchising of women.”