2 Re ae mr Pee THE Geks EGE NEWS The College News Dehtihedh wseite Gein Uk Gfns ons Oe interests of Bryn Mawr College Managing Editor . . . EMILIE STRAUSS, '16 Ass't Managing Editor, FREDRIKA M. KELLOGG,'16 Business Manager . MARY G. BRANSON, ‘16 EDITORS CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE CONSTANCE DOWD,'16 ELEANOR L. DULLES,’17 SARAH HINDE, "17 MARIAN O'CONNOR, '18 Assistant Business Managers KATHARINE B. BLODGETT, '17 VIRGINIA peS. LITCHFIELD, '17 ‘ Subscriptions may begin at any time Subscription, $1,50 Mailing Price, $2.00 Entered as second-class veneers pa hoya Mawr, Paap September 26, 1914, at the under the Two printer’s errors were made in the Library Report published in the last issue. The total number of volumes in the Library on October 1, 1915, was 77,221, not 1722, and the amount given by the alumnzw was $30.00, not $39.99. Suppose that a class should go through three years of College without seeing Seniors set apart in caps and gowns, and led away to their Orals as though to an ordeal. Suppose that they had sent no flowers to express their sympathy for those whose sufferings they were told Suppose they had never been warned, “Beware of your Fate, you'll find that Orals are: flunked while you wait”, and had never heard of the “tri- umvirs”. In short, suppose they came to Senior year without having worked up terror of what every Senior class must experience. It would be safe to say that that class would have at least ten per cent fewer failures in the first Orals than are usual now. Undoubtedly Orals are a very serious matter. As long as they require so much extra work and as long as chances to pass them are limited, they will be dreaded. But if we could only get rid of these arti- ficial methods of encouraging nervous- ness beforehand, the stock phrase that “Orals are nothing but a test of nerve” would lose much of its applicability. were terrible. The article on play-writing printed in this issue, is a revelation as to what we are not getting at Bryn Mawr. Not only do we lack a Professor Baker, a “Work- shop” and a John Craig who offers pro- fessional production as a prize,—these things perhaps are supplied to Radcliffe more by fortune than by good manage- ment,—but we have not even a co in play-writing, nor have we a single course in modern drama. . Shaw, Galsworthy, Pinero, Yeats, and the other dramatists of to-day are touched upon at the end of a two years’ course that begins with the origin of language. Of Livingston Platt, the scenery painter, of William Archer, the critic, and of countless others who are vitally influencing plays and play making, we hear nothing. Why have we not seen this opportunity that lies in the many fas- cinating phases of the present-day drama? It is an opportunity for real work, work that counts, and it has been neglected so far because of the persistent barrier which, in so much of our work, stands be- ‘tween academic standards and anything ap to date. ' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR on annen themselves responsible | opinions oho tha this column) |College calmed down a little and people New Magazine Recommended To the Editor of “The College News’: I am wondering if the students have seen the “World Outlook” for December. This magazine, which is just celebrating its first anniversary, is recognized by all who know it as one of the most brilliantly edited in the world. For wide and au- thentic news of the work of extending the kingdom of Jesus, from the leading work- ers in every department of life’s activity; for wonderful photographic illuminations, made possible by skilful camera “click- ers” in all the nooks and corners of the earth, and for fresh, vigorous treatment of every topic presented, it has no su- perior. — A world outlook it gives indeed, for its interests encircle the whole world. The students will find it on the table of the Christian Association Library. I hope they will read it and call the attention of their friends to it, for their own profit and that of their friends. Amy Blanche Greene. The Depravity of the Umbrella Borrower To the Editor of “‘The College News’’: Two girls were standing by the de- pleted umbrella stand in Taylor, looking ruefully at the torrents of rain outside. “Let’s write a letter to ‘The News‘ about it”! “Oh, they’d think we cared about losing the’silly umbrellas, and it’s just the prin- ciple of the thing”. Now I have never lost an umbrella (I never had one), and I feel that I can write on behalf of those who care only for “the principle of the thing’, but must refrain from expressing their rage because of personal loss. An umbrella has, of course, an impersonal appearance, but it is not community property. However, I am not wishing to attack those who “ac- quire” an umbrella, and, forgetting in the course of time that theirs was one with a knobby brown handle, continue placidly to use one with a straight black handle. That implies carelessness, of course, and perhaps a failing mind, but it does not in- volve any moral delinquency. And the “loss” of an umbrella, once for all, arouses only mild indignation and regret on the part of the original owner. But there is a righteous indignation which can hardly be excessive at the de- pravity and temerity of the “borrower” who can take an umbrella from the stand in Taylor in the midst of the downpour, and return it to the exact spot the next day, for the owner to find, when, as she opens Taylor door, the umbrella stand is bathed in a flood of sunshine! i. O ae True Sport in Question To the Editor of “‘The College News’’: While people are busy complaining of the lack of college spirit here at Bryn Mawr in proportion to the abundance of class-spirit, I wonder if it has ever oc- curred to them how unnecessary and even harmful much of this so-called class- spirit is. 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