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Acting upon a suggestion made by the
Bryn Mawr delegates at the Christian

 

Association conference in February, the

“Vassar Miscellany” of this week prints
a “Morning Watch” similar to those ugu-
ally printed in these columns. This sug-
geste the great advantage of conferences
and other means of considering the plans
and methods of different colleges. Vassar
was interested in various phases of Bryn
Mawr Christian work and planned to copy
the Sewing Committee in giving out sum-
mer sewing. The Bryn Mawr Association
in its turn hag put into effect some of the
suggestions of the conference. The daily
prayer meetings before the week-end con-
ference were made more like those of

Smith and a board Bible class has been %

started like those in some of the other
colleges. Other ideas may materialize
later and because of the failures of other
colleges, some useless experiments may
be avoided. Certainly all the branches of
college life do not fully avail themselves
of the opportunities to learn from other
colleges. Bryn Mawr can not be per-
fected entirely from within; inspiration
and ideas from without are essential.

Outsiders who see the jam and push
which occurs at the Gymnasium balcony
door the night of a play may easily have
their opinion of the undergraduates de-
cidedly upset. For some time ahead,
people begin to collect outside, all is or-
derly till almost time for the doors to
open. Then begins a herding toward the
doors until there is scarcely breathing
room for the poor unfortunates who are
small and do not tower above the rest.
The doors are opened (and, of course, for
safety they open outwards), the crowd is
pushed back. A wild stampede forward
follows. Bach person thinks only of her-
self, and of the coveted front seats, and
in consequence cares little how she treats
others. Those who have come late and
are on the edges push and elbow their
way in, using sheer brute force to gain a
quick entrance. Perhaps some people
may say this is fun, but to an outsider the
spectacle does not speak well for the
good breeding of the undergraduates.

Although we could not manage to
send an ambulance to the front, we feel
that we are making a real sacrifice in
giving up Miss Davis and Miss Hinckley
for service as nurses in Paris. We are
glad to be immediately connected with
Red Cross work, and we hope soon to be
able to publish letters about their life
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GIFT MADE To. THE FICTION ,
LIBRARY

| The Denbigh Fiction Library has re

ceived a generous response to the appeal
recently made in “The College News.”
Mrs. Bancroft, 98, has presented a dozen
books adding Galsworthy, Maeterlinck and
Bennett to the collection. The readers of
fiction are delighted at the additions and
the librarian and committee are no less
pleased at the interest shown in their
work, It is to be hoped that Mrs. Bai-
croft’s shining example will not fail to

{excite emulation in the near future.

 

GRADUATE CLUB PASSES RESOLU-
TIONS IN REGARD TO MISS
GARRETT’S DEATH

Whereas, In the death of Mary Eliza-
beth Garrett, Bryn Mawr College sustains
the loss of a large-hearted benefactor,
and the Graduate School the loss of a
friend whose thought and aid have done
much for the furtherance of graduate
study among women; and

Whereas, In the death of Mary Eliza-
beth Garrett the advancement of women
has lost one of its most loyal supporters,
be it

Resolved, That we, the members of the
Graduate School of Bryn Mawr College,
express to President Thomas, to the
Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College
and to the members of Miss Garrett's
family our appreciation for Miss Gar-
rett’s great generosity in behalf of women
and our common sense of loss, and be it

Resolved, That a copy of these resolu-
tions be presented to President Thomas,
the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr
College, and to the members of Miss Gar-
rett’s family, and be inserted among the
records of the Graduate School.

CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN

The Edilors do not hold themselves responsible
for the opinions expressed in this column.
To the Editor of the College News:

The growing dissatisfaction with the
service at the tea-house which I have
lately notice, has determined me to turn
to--you-for some help in getting to the
root of the trouble. I do not wish
merely to complain of the many objec-:
tionable features of the tea-house, but
to arouse the attention of those who are
interested in it and to have the matter
definitely referred to the responsible
authorities. It is a fact that the tea-
house is the most convenient, in fact
the only convenient and close “eating
house” outside of the hall dining rooms.
We-can go to no othér place in the com-
fort of gym and hockey clothes. There
is no other place in which we may freely
lounge and sing and shout. Is it real-
izing our dependence on it, that the au-
thorities take advantage of us in making
the prices unwarrantedly high and the
service correspondingly bad? For ex-
ample, last night, at 6.30, we arrived at
the Inn; by 6.35 our order for two chicken
sandwiches, two baked beans and two
glasses of grape juice was in. One hour
and twenty-five minutes we waited for our.
order to be filled. When it did come,
we found that we had to content our-
selves with chicken-salad sandwiches and
orangeade, as they were “just out of”
chicken and grape juice. We had to
call for spoons and napkins. The price
of this meal was $.80. Why does such
a orying state of things exist? Charging
the very high prices they do, is there any
excuse for furnishing such inefficient
service? Are the kitchen accommada-
tions too small; is there not sufficient
help? I have often eaten at small res-
tauraiits charging half as much as the
tearhouse, where a substantial and edible
meal is served with decency and speed.
Here all is clatter and confusion. Where
does the trouble lie? I ask not rhet-
orically, but for information. And if it is
beyond your powers of calculation to an-

A. T. Totaler. |

 

To the Editor of “The College News”:
Can’t we have some arrangement about
the hymns at vespers so that every one
will know what stanzas are to be sung?
At present we often have some people

the effect is a mumbling. I should think
if the leader would always state what
‘stanzas she desires to have sung, any
such confusion could be avoided and the
singing would be much more enjoyable.
A Member of the C. A.

 

To the Editor of the News:

A poor student who has a history quiz
coming the next week reserves an im-
portant book for the day before the quiz.
She tries to get the book at the time for
which she reserved it, and finds that the
original reserve slip has been lost and
another substituted. Consequently she
fails to finish her reading.
me that the losing of the reserve slip is
a. plece of inexcusable carelessness.
Whether another student in the same
class or the girl who keeps the reserve
desk is responsible, it is an equally se-
rious matter for the student who has
signed on the lost slip.

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To the Editor of “The College News”:

People are singularly inconsiderate in
their behavior at College functions.
When a strange, uncontrollable impulse
comes over the happy group outside the
gallery door to push—they push. When
they see someone vainly trying to reach
the doors to open them—they push harder.
When the doors are opened at last, the
mad shove bears along young and old
with an irresistible force. The young
and fragile maidens who would be willing
to wait politely for others to go in are
borne helplessly off their feet, nearly
crushed in by the pressure on all sides,
and finally left breathless and exhausted
to pick out what seats they can. Can we
not cultivate more considerate behavior
at these gatherings atid banish this rude
custom of shoving?

Phiz.

 

To the Editor of the “College News”:
The writer of the anti-Sunday editorial
in a recent issue of the ‘‘News” seems to
have overlooked several facts which make
her objection particularly inapt. It is
assumed, a priori, that the editorial ex-
presses the opinion of the whole editorial
staff. Such being the case, those editors,
who not long ago expressed approval
and deep admiration of Mr. Sunday’s
work, and delight at the prospect of his
visit to the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Chureh, and those, who with perfect
readiness availed themselves of the “re-
served seats” that have been such a
disgrace to the College, stand now in a
most peculiar position. There was no
reason on the one hand for their ex-
pressing an opinion which they have
since shown themselves unwilling to
support, nor on the other hand for their
attending the meeting and occupying
their reserved seats at that “emotional”
revival of which they did not approve.
However, the fact remains that they did
both. In view of that fact there seems
to be no adequate excuse for.the stand
they have taken in the editorial column
of the “News.” gy 2. FT. 6.

 

To the Editor of “The College News”:

Why do people sit on the outside seat
in Chapel so that all the people coming in
later have to climb over them? It would
seem wiser if the front rows and outside
seats were filled first. Also might it not
be better if those who come to meetings
in the Christian Association Library and

 

elsewhere did not always sit with backs

singing one stanza and some another and

It seems to.

 

 

WHO WAS FRANCOIS VILLON?

It is interesting just now at quiz time to
hear of a test of general information
which was given at Cornell by a member
of the Department of Romance Languages
several months ago. In an examination,
the questions “Who was Francois Vil-
lon?” and “Who was Euripides?” were
asked, although neither of thesd\mnen -had
been discussed in the course. Out of a
class of thirty, only two could identify
either.

Two weeks later the same questions
were asked to see how much intellectual
curiosity would have been shown. Only
three more could answer. The question
which suggests itself is, how would Bryn
Mawr have stood the test?

Here is a Bryn Mawr story that equals
it. A Senior was heard saying to a friend:
“Who was I. Socrates? I didn’t know the
Greeks had Christian names.”

ENGLISH IN OUR AMERICAN
UNIVERSITIES

Harvard has decided that some remedy
must be found for the incorrect English
used by the students in all their courses.
A committee of professors formed to in-
vestigate the subject says that this is the
result of present-day muddled. thinking.
The present plan is to have special
coaching given to each student who is
unable to write clear Hnglish. The
faculty expects this to be the beginning
of similar movements in other American
colleges.

“MEDIATION WITHOUT ARMISTICE”

A pamphlet called “Mediation With-
out Armistice” has been placed in the
New Book Room. The article, which was
sent by an alumna, was written by a
member of the English department of
the University of Wisconsin. Jane Ad-
dams considered the pamphlet such a
success that she requested the writer to
read at The Hague. The alumna has
furnished the following outline of the
Wisconsin Peace Plan:

“This: plan will undoubtedly be one of
the foremost considered at The Hague
conference of women. Its author is a
college woman, a graduate student and
instructor in English at the University
of Wisconsin. This conference of women
is such a remarkable thing in itself and
may be so stupendous in its influence
that none of us dare go about our work
uninformed and unconcerned.

The plan proposes a conference of the
neutral nations to be called at once by
the President. of the United States,
without waiting for armistice,—the con-
ference to be composed of experts who
will draw up proposals as the basis for
peace and submit them simultaneously
to all the warring nations. The under-
standing is that they are to be accepted
simultaneously. Even if they are re-
jected (a thing that we fully expect),
the conference will meanwhile become
known to the people of the belligerent
countries, and its psychological effect
will bring more and more pressure to
bear on the: belligererit governments.
This conference which will sit while the
war continues, will receive any sugges-
tions from the warring nations at any
time and be ready to frame new propos-
als to meet their demands.

_ Such a plan seems perfectly natural
and reasonable. If you wish to be con-
vinced read it in full (it is not long, and.
a valuable addition to English litera-
ture). It gives a wonderfully clear in-
sight into the terribly complex European
situation. You exclaim impatiently
after reading it, “Why didn’t somebody
think of it before?” Well, mediation
without armistice has never been. Men
are accepting the idea readily—but it is

 

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