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- The: Matter of a Night :
Expulsion. is the penalty for allowing]
outsiders to sleep in the halls, At the
stroke of 10.30: o’clock our guests are
turned out of doors to grope their, way
to the Tans or, as College Inn is accessible
only to those who engage their rooms from
two to four months in advance, to sk
houses across the tracks, or even t
Philadelphia. .
“Anyone who has visited a friend at Wel-

-Jesley or Vassar has come away with. a

great enthusiasm for. the life there, and
with a debt of gratitude to the people who
entertained her. She would like to repay
them in kind, If she can afford it, she
asks them to come to Bryn Mawr, paying}.
their expenses at the Inn. But her visitors

-cari-only- see- the. outside. of Bryn Mawr;

they can never get that intimate point of
view that comes with living for a ‘day as
The loss is not theirs

alone.
Other colleges have no restrictions on

“outsiders” sleeping in .the halls.- The

‘strictness of -our regulation shows that) |

there is a reason for it—that without it
the College would be a veritable hotel on
certain week-ends, that too-frequent visit-
ors would intertere with our academic
work and College interests. Yet surely not

all compromise is evil. A new regulation

" allowing guests in the halls on Friday |.

and Saturday nights, or giving each stu-
dent the privilege of inviting a certain
number each year, is not an unreasonable
proposal. So we would give, not merely
show. :

 

The High Cost of Living

- Conditions were nearly ideal for Lantern
Night last ‘Friday: The weather was. clear
and mild and the stillness was such that
the singing really carried over the library
from the time the anthem was started at
Pembroke Arch. For a beautiful and suc-
cessful performance both the Freshman
and Sophdinore classes deserve credit.
However, there is one criticism which may

be made of Lantern Nights i in general, and|

® several which the audience seemed to feel’

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strongly on-this-oceasion—the long delays,
the inadequate seating arrangements, and}:
. the exorbitant admission. fee. If the charge
“is to be raised so disproportionately it
would seem at least as if the grandstand
could: be improved accordingly so that half
- the audience would not have to stand. Also,
if the continuous pauses could be elimi-

 

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but to criticize,

That Bryn Mawr Audience

that we have* to listen to Ne lectures,
And it seems rather hard t we should

| take out our, grudge against college life:

in general by meeting their mest brilliant
attempts with a yawn, their ‘most ¢her-
ished solutions with no: more interest
than a desultory pote.

Chapel speeches receive more active
criticism, although the only: thing that com-
pels us'to hear them is-our own desire and
do with the matter. 2

And. outside speakers get the worst
reception ofall, although they are even
invited, and nothing but our .own sweet
will drives us to hear them. But not
satisfied with finding flaws we whisper
them energetically and listen not to learn
It might be rather a
‘revelation if we would once try spend-
ing the energy ‘we devote to picking
faults to huntitig for truths. —~

Efficiency or Deficiehcy?
The Bryn Mawr campus is a scene of
At

any time the student may be seen hurry-

ceaseless activity, anyone wall grant.

ing to class, scurrying to a committee
meeting or hastening down to the hockey
field. There is not one moment, day or
night, which she squanders voluntarily.
She takes short cuts across the grass,
cuts chapel, skips lunch, dresses for exer-
cise on rising, eats and knits while study-
What is
she going | to do with this elusive article
that she is forever chasing (like the rain-
bows), when she finally captures ‘it?
Pickle it in alcohol if she’s scientific
and keep it on the lower shelf of her

ing, all in order to save “time.

it in birch bark and hang it next “God
Bless Our Home,” if she’s aesthetic, put:
it in an indexed card catalog for future
reference if she’s endowed with a “head
for Wasiness”’? Pethaps, but the trouble
is she never will get it, you know.

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: Direct Methods?

The students in the Summer School were
rightly proud of the way in which they
were ‘represented on all committees dealing
with questions-of College interest. Yet why
should: the honor of being able to express
the student’s point of view on’ all matters
belong to them alone? Except in unusual
circumstances the faculty do not hear the

is perhaps worse, the students never hear
that of the faculty. In the past, misunder-
standings might have been fewer if both
sides had known each others’ Opinion at
first: hand, instead of being forced to find
it out indirectly. .

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
The editors of the News wish to an-
nounce that
letters which discuss subjects of general
rinterest to subscribers and which clearly)
‘express their point. Letters may be pub-
ps Sande fictitious.name provided
the identity of the writer.is known to
the Editor of the News. The Board
hopes that a clear understanding of its
policy in publishing letters will encour-

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public opinion seems to’ want very little to}

book case behind the muggle can, frame].
-Greetings:

official opinion of the students, and what}:

they will gladly publish any}
my future stories.

age the free use_of the letter column for

 

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Lights Transform Scenes on.Stage ©
(From New York Times) -

The wonders accomplished in trans-
forming, scenes, costume$. and actual fig-
ures from one period of history to an-
other. by a mere change of light on the
stage of the. Hippodrwmie has set all Lon-
don talking. In a revue now playing
there is, a scene representing a oy
modern damsel sighing for her lov
avfrowning mountain pass. She s *
the echo answers and the audience is |
beguiled by the onenly sentimentality o
the situation.

Then behind the scenes somebody does
something and evegything is altered in a
flash, The grim mountains become a
Hindu temple, ‘the frowning rocks melt
into. sands and palms and the tall, slender
young woman turns into a stout Indian
maiden. It has all been brought abort
by a change in light, by the, manipula-
tion of more than 100 different switches
at the same moment, and the audience
is-carried back 3000 years and from one
continent to another, -

ry

Girls Vote Sport News Above Women’s
‘Pages
‘~€From the New York Tribune) .

Newspaper sporting pages attract more
of the young women students at Rad-
cliffe College than the women’s pages.
Ninety-six per cent. of the 600 students
at the college have been found, by a
cénsus just _ completed, to be regular
readers of the newspapers, but only four
claimed the women’s pages as their fav-
orite department. Fourteen placed the
sporting pages first.

Twenty-five per cent. of the: girls ex-
pressed a preference for the editorial
pages, 23 per cent. said the general news
of the day.interested them most, and 38
per cent. said they usually were satisfied
with the headlines.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
To the Editor.of Tue Cottece News:

~Would you marry a pugilist if you loved
him? Could you love a man who made his
fortune in the prize ring?

These are leading questioris, but I make
them in good faith. ” ."

Perhaps you have not followed the career
of Kane Halliday whose fistic romance has
been running serially and whose story in
novel form is now about to be published
under the title of “The Leather Pushers.”
That is of no importance. But several of
my critical friends have told me that such
a lovely girl as is pictured in the .story
could not and would not love, much more
wed, a man who had been a prize fighter.

I doubt it. But the criticism makes me
curious to get at the real facts. So I am
taking this very great: liberty of asking
what you and perhaps your friends in col-
lege think abouf it. It is, you can well
understand, necessary for me to know’ the
truth, for nobody has ever alleged before
that my heroines were not human. .Here
ar@ the:things I would like to know:

What’ is your favorite type of meen!

Is he athletic?

Could you love a man who had ‘been a
ptofessional boxer? - :

Tf you ‘did love him, would you marry
him? -

I am writing to several other colleges
and shall be much interested in comparing
the answers. which -will be helpful to ame in

eee Cordially,
a H. C. Wrrwer. -
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The, News is anxious to co-operate with
Mr. Witwer in discovering the opinion of
the College. Any letter answering the ques-
tions above or eee the matter will
be 2 ely: ance pita ee

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MR. ROWNTREE SPEAKS ON UNREST

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land is ahead here with her forty-eight-

hour week.” The third, economic security,
“during the wogking life and -old age of:
the worker,” -this is the most important, for’
there will ‘never’ be industrial peace untile
we have solved the ;problém of unemploy-
ment; we have accepted it as an inevitable
evil, but jt is not sa Tithe fact of unem-
ployment is*not a ‘tragedy, ‘but the suffer-
ing and demoralizatiun. it causes. Work is,
of course, the great cure and there are’sev-
eral lines .of approach; (a) the govern-
ment may advance and retard demands of

work, the building ,of. public , memorials,
parks, roads, etc.;.(b) the worker may
have two jobs, as is usually the case in Bel-
gium,. where-.an enormous percentage of
men have bits of land in the country that
they work in ‘spare time and when busi-

ness is slack (Mr. Rowntreé has spent feur |

years studying the methods of Belgium) ;

(c) the government may provide eae
and rapid transit sq as to give better op-
portunity for two jobs and to enlarge the
labér market; (d) seasonable trades may

unemployment, as Mr. Rowntree showed,
but when all this is done there is still a
reserve of workers, for.a reserve of work-
ers is necessary to industry. This being so
it seems nothing less than logical that in-
dustry should take care of them. For a
doctor or barrister to be out of work ‘for
a tite is no tragedy, for he can merely
cut down his recreation, but for the laborer
to be a member of this réserve is hell! The
remedy is so easy, industry has simply ‘to
remove the menace and it can do so by
insurangg There. is no financial difficulty,
95 per cent. of men are on the average un-
employed, this leaves only 5 per cent. to
be supported, and statistics prove that if
we -would put aside only 3% per cent. of
our wage bill, we could remove the menace
forever. Neither England or America has
done this and since they know its efficacy

-|the only reason .can be great and over-

‘whelining ‘stupidity.”:.
The fourth, the status of the: s worker,
“since..a..worker is an essential to indus-

try, educated and a citizen, who should he |

be regarded as a slave.” Mr. Rowntree has

tried the three essentials of democracy,

legislative, executive and judicial power, in
his works and found it successful. He’ has
divided government. equally between em-
ployer and employee and has made no pro-
vision for a drawn decision which he hopes
impossible and which would at least be “a
change of troubles, .which, according to
Lloyd George, is as good as a holiday.”
“It is great fun,” said Mr. Rowntree, “to
lead men, more fun to lead than to drive,

‘for any old fellow can drive, but it takes «

an artist to lead.” co ‘

. These points of wages, hours, economic
security and social status, Mr. Rowntree
said; he had “not been arguing but telling.”
Of the fourth he did not feel so absolutely
sure since for its advocation he had been
denounced as a “socialist and a cousin of
Gompers.” It is the plan of giving work-
ers a share in the business after capital

| has reserved a sufficient return’ to attract

all capital necessary for the business.

Mr. Rowntree ) believes, “if we will pay
the price of these remedies,” ‘although i.
may sound revolutionary and Gompers-
cousinish, we will solve the problem. But
we must pay quickly, for the price is going
up, and pay in full if we expect the full
results. Pay with faith in the future and
faith in our fellow-men; pay in the spiclt.
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_... ALUMNAE NOTES | :
Mrs. R. S. Francis,~ president of the
Alumnae Association, and Miss Blaine, .sec-

retary of the Association, attended a con-».

ference at Wellesley last week of the presi-
dents and executive secretaries of the
Women’s Collegiate Association. Miss

Blaine-also attended a luncheon of the Uni-

versity Women of America, which took

dent Thomas presided.
‘E. Cecil, E. Bliss, H. Murray, A. tevin.
1K “Woodward and W. Worcester, all ’21,

 

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