~ wh ciel V BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 21, 1917 Price-5 Conte .LIA SMITH EUROPEAN FELLOW GENERAL SENIOR AVERAGE HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR MME. HUARD GIVES GRAPHIC PICTURE OF “THOSE WHO WAIT”)| Describes Flight Before Germans ENEMY ONLY TWO HOURS BEHIND At two in the morning on September 3, 1914, .Mme. Frances Wilson Huard left her chateau, five peasant children in her charge, a nag twenty-one years old draw- ing a hay cart her only horse; two hours later General von Kluck marched into the chateau and made it his headquarters for nine days. Mme. Huard’s description of her flight before the German troops kept her audience tense last Friday even- ing, when she spoke in the gymnasium on “Those Who Wait”. About $360 was col- lected in gate receipts, one-half of which goes to Mme. Huard’s hospital and half to 1919’s Endowment Fund. For the first year of the war Mme. Huard managed a hospital for 120 men in her chateau, but now she has converted her Paris house into a hospital accommo- dating 100 men. One dollar a day is needed for each patient and it is for these brave French soldiers that she is seeking help in America at this time. Hairbreadth Escapes Described The general incredulity up to the first of August as to the possibility of war, the absorption of her houseparty in bridge and the Caillot case; then the first month of the war when one million five hundred thousand Belgian refugees passed her gate and she gave them soup and stewed fruit; all this Mme. Huard has written of in “My Home on the Field of Honor’. In the confusion of leaving the chateau that night Mme. Huard caught (Continued on Page 6) C. DODGE "18 NEXT YEAR’S PRESI- DENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Running against M. O’Connor, C. Dodge | '18 was elected president of the Self-Gov- ernment Association by a majority of 112 votes on Monday night. Miss Dodge is Junior president and isa_ member of the board. She was elected treasurer of Self-Government on the res- ignation of R. Cheney in her Sophomore year. She was stage manager of Fresh- man Show and Banner Show. M. O’Con- nor was elected vice-president. F. HOWELL '19 MAKES “NEWS” Third Sophomore on Board F. Howell '19 has been elected to the Editorial Board of the News. Miss How- Miss Howell, the third Sophomore on completes the number of mem- her class. From these three Managing Editor for 1919's Senior be chosen. s CRIMSON BANNER ON GYM Nineteen Seniors Get Degree Cum Laude Seniors Win Water-Polo Title fashioned education. There is not a stu- dent in this room that has not studied Latin, which is now, as you are aware, a rare distinction. I venture to prophesy that when you leave Bryn Mawr College and begin to work side by side with men and women educated in other ways in other colleges, that your old- fashioned education, which we have given with what we hope are new-fashioned methods, will justify itself and that you will find that you are able to do the work assigned you with an ease and assurance that is not ordinarily possessed by other men and women less strenuously trained. “Bryn Mawr stands or falls by the |graduates shesends out. Itis very rarely that a Bryn Mawr College graduate tells us after outside experience that her edu- cation has been wrong. As after leaving College you match yourselves against other men and women I hope you will determine for yourselves what is the best form of education to give your sons and daughters and if you find that your own education stands the test, I hope that you will carry on the Bryn Mawr tradition and see to it that the Bryn Mawr of the future stands fast by her high educational standards. As alumne you will have an enormous influence in maintaining and fixing those standards. A privately en- dowed college like Bryn Mawr must de- Thalia Smith is the 1917 European Fel- low with an average of 88.37, President Thomas announced in Chapel last Friday. Miss Ormsbee, Cornell ’15, and Carola Woerishoffer Scholar here for two years, received the Mary EB. Garrett European Fellowship, and Miss Turner the Presi- dent’s European Fellowship. Nineteen Seniors have an average of 80 or over and three beside Miss Smith receive the degree magna cum laude: K. Blodgett, M. Milne and M. Hodge. Only two Seniors In a brilliantly played game against 1919, the Seniors won the first team cham- pionship in water-polo last Thursday and hung their banner on the gym in place of the blue one which has been there all season. The victory was hard fought, for the Sophomores’ phenomenal goal keeper stopped shot after shot and it was only by seizing every chance, both offensive and defensive, that the winners piled up their final score of 4 to 0. 1919 never lost courage and till the last moment put up a hard fight against a superior defense and a stronger team. had an average lower than 70. M. Willard '17, playing a spectacular| The general average of this year’s game at right forward against a substi- Senior class is considerably higher than tute guard, scored the only goal of the | jast year. In 1916 only 2.1 per cent re- first half on a free throw from E. Dulles | "17, ‘Mastly. ten wore attempts were ceived their degree magna cum laude, stopped by A. Thorndike "19. + this-year-5.6-per-cent.-This- year 21.1 per After another goal by M. Willard '17 | cent graduate cum laude, last year only early in the second half, 1919 started off 5.6 per cent. with a rush and stormed the Seniors’) tp announcing the fellowships Presi- goal. A. Davis '17, finally threw free and | Gackt ‘inthis ‘uaid in. part: “We owart V. Litchfield 17 capturing the ball, shot | : a goal from the center of the pool. Fast to-day the highest academic honors in our play and good passing on both sides pro- | gift. For our three European fellowships longed the tension until with a long slant-| we select each year the three students— ing throw M. Willard shot her third goal |... in her first year of graduate study at and closed the scoring. Time was called | B M tn be d f é wieote later and 1917 had wos. the) "" OV". he & BOF secune yoar'o championship. graduate study, and one member of our pdind: ence tha Boodle: aud Govetias of th The line-up: graduating class—who seem to the fac- graduates because it cannot depend like 1917 1919 ulty_to have.the best intellectual and} state universities on State appropria- eee p- e: ea / scholarly equipment for future success in| tions. Although the new world that is M peigela Capi. . Cit. <<<... BSH | academic work. We also announce to- coming will be a world without great for ¢ oan... reve ee ke ig » pede sie = sae | day the Seniors who have won the high- | tunes, this does not mean that you will Pe aR aR A! Thorndike est grades during their College course | not be responsible by smaller gifts from Goals: First half—1917, M. Willard, 1./and will graduate with tlie degrees of your smaller resources for keeping up an , . a . , . 1919, 0. Time—7 minute halves. Referee— need of that time as we like to believe 'academic distinctions do not always mean ‘that the students who receive them are | that the Bryn Mawr of to-day fills the the most brilliant students in the College. | needs of this time”. M SHIELD HANGS You can be brilliant and yet not steady | After reading the list of the graduate ON SOPHOMORE BANNER and trustworthy. You can be able and |fellows and the first ten Seniors, Presi- ‘yet lack that kind of persistence and | dent Thomas went on: “The faculty has 1919 Victorious in Every Event | faithful day-in-and-day-out diligence which | the great satisfaction of nominating this is necessary to maintain high standards | year for our European fellow a student in your academic work. But I want to| Whose work has been uniformly excellent, ‘say again what you have heard me say ‘of a very high grade of intelligence, who so often—and can never hear me say too | seems to us to give the greatest promise often—that, on the whole, grades seem to Of future distinction, Thalia Howard me as fair a way of judging of the quali-| Smith, average grade 88.376 per cent in ties that go to make up success as any- the group of Philosophy and Psychology. lintine, Physical Director of Vassar Col- thing else that has been invented by man.| “Before we separate I want to congrat- lege; Miss Jones, of the Germantown ‘They are incomparably the best way of | Ulate the whole Senior Class on their Friends’ School, and Mr. Bishop, of Hav- | judging the intellectual ability of young Work for the four years. As a class your erford School. ' people. academic standard has peen high. It | 2 presenting the shield to the winners | looks as if the recognition by the College Mr. Bishop said that he was very much . “Bryn Mawr College, above all colleges |of good academic work by giving the A.B. pleased with the work of both classes. |; the world, ought, in my opinion, to desree according to merit on three divi- This year’s meet, he said, was perhaps stand for good, sound academic work, | #1ons was working well’. the best he had ever seen at Bryn Mawr. He mentioned the apparatus work in par- , | ticular as being as good as any that had ‘ever been done here. An innovation in the floor work, which with club drill, apparatus, and “stunt” made up the contest, was the track exer. | cise arranged by M. Krantz ‘19, leader of | the Sophomores’ floor work. The mo- tions for a crouching start, sprinting, | shotput, broad jump, hurl ball, hop-step (ContNawed en Page 5) Miss Applebee. |GYMNASIU APPARATUS WORK PRAISED | With the final score in points 386.5 to '354.3, the Sophomores made a clean sweep of every event in the gym meet last Friday. The judges were Miss Bal- } When I look at you and think how few you are as compared with the women | |who are gathered in other women’s col- 'leges I realize that unless Bryn Mawr is educating you for quality and not for quantity we are failing in our duty. The first ten Seniors are: Thalia Smith, 88.37. Katharine Blodgett, 87.44. Marjorie Milne, 85.73. Mary Hodge, 85.33. Marian Rhoads, 84.88. Janet Grace, 84.40, Esther Johnson, 82.90. Agnes Dorothy Shipley, 82.84. Mary Cline, 82.71. ; Henrietta Amelia Dixon, 82.03. “Bryn Mawr then is educating you for | quality by the best methods proved and | tried by past experience. You are splen-| ‘did examples of the strenuous, old- | * Gornpon Woopsurr ‘19 Managing Editor . | ELUBABETH GRANGER. ‘7 Business Manager ©. VIRGINIA LITCHFIELD,:’17 eel BDITORS Conerance M. K. Arpieper Exveanor Duss ‘17 Marian O'Connor ‘18 Karsaamre Horumar ‘18 Exvimasera Hovenron '18 ANNA Dusacn 19 Assletant Business Managers MARY STAIR, '18 .FRANCES BUFFUM, '18 Subscriptions may begin at any time Bubecription, $1.50 Mailing Price, $2.00 oe Sep onee SS 1914, at the toMce at “iawn Pa, under the _— at Bra 3. 1370 Would Be Caustic Jibe Wire fences do very well at keeping the erratic off the grass. A few plunges into one by night only to be hoisted on to your head on the other side are sure cures for the grass-walking habit. But it is bitter sarcasm that has placed “Keep off the Grass” signs in the midst of a waste of pliant mud. “Keep off the Grass” signs are as appropriate to the campus as the “Hands Off” sign on a museum to the Venus de Milo. Why should not the un- dergraduate mutter scornfully, “I should worry”, adjust rubbers, and “cross here’’? Christian and Constitutional Though it cannot be unconstitutional to be Christian, it does seem Christian to be unconstitutional. The jungle of un- parliamentary proceedings between the College Settlement Association and the Christian Association in which the under- graduate mind has been obliged to grope, has grown out of ground that might have been kept clear by constitutional proce- dure. The vortex into which the College Settlement Association, as such, accord- ingly vanished is a warning. Let us be constitutional though Christian. MME. PADEREWSKI THANKS B. M. Gift to Polish Women's Fund Welcomed RED CROSS GIVES OVER $400 A letter from Mme. Paderewski has just been received by the Red Cross Commit- tee, thanking the committee for a gift of $50 for her Polish Women’s Home. The committee has already given out to vari- ous causes of war relief $416.50 besides expenditures for materials. This year they received $292 from admission to class plays and $547.70 in contributions. Mme. Paderewski says: “I am more obliged to you than I can express because the days now are Po- land’s most bitter hours and the needs are tremendous. The $50 will mean more even than you can realize. I added your gift to my Home for Polish Girls’ Fund, to the fund which is so dear to me and for which I offered all my strength and all the love of my heart”. A gift of tobacco to a Belgian soldier received this grateful acknowledgment: “Comment me sera-t-il possible de vous remercier ceci je me demande. Par cette occasion j'ai eu le plaisir ou plutot le bon- heur de constater que meme dans cette grande Amerique on songe A cette poignée de braves combattants pour Il'indepen- “NOW. IN, THE "NEW. ‘BOOK | ROOM H. G. Wells and “Friends of France” | Give Intimate Views of Facts | ee A number of up-to-date war books have just been placed on the shelves of the New Book Room. An especially interest- ing one is H. G. Wells’ latest work, “Italy, France, and Britain at War’, which is almost as good as “Mr. Britling”. Mr. Wells gives his information first hand and describes his tour of the battle fronts in 1916. The book concludes with a truly Wellsian section on “what people really think about the war”. The latest volume of ‘Friends of France”, the account of the work of the American Ambulance Service written by its members, contains fifty uncensored photographs and many drawings. “When the Prussians Came to Poland”, by Mme, Laura de Gozdawa. Turczyno- wicz, tells the tragic experiences of the author, a New York girl who married a Polish nobleman, when the Prussian hordes swept into Poland and devastated it. Mme. Turczynowicz spoke in Phila- delphia a few weeks ago. Of “A League to Enforce Peace”, by Robert Goldsmith, which denounces mili- tarism and urges that it be crushed be- yond recovery, ex-President Taft says: “He has written a timely book, but he has done something better than that. On a serious subject he has written a book in popular vein that ought to be read by every man and woman who wants to see his country, in this crisis of civilization, choose the course that will make the world a better and a safer place for us and for our children’s children”. “Tous les Journaux du Front” leaves an unforgettable sense of the humour and pluck of the French poilu. These news- papers were described in the French Club lecture given in December by M. Picard. “LUMIERE PROCESS” IN COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHY Dr. Brunel Before Science Club Coloured photography was the subject of Dr. Brunel’s talk. before the Science Club last Wednesday afternoon in Dalton. The plates are made by the “lumiére process”, Dr. Brunel said. The light passes first through the medium of starch granules and then through the ordinary negative. Only one colour penetrates and affects the silver bromide behind. After developing the plate, instead of fixing it, the silver deposit is removed. Normally this would give the complementary col- ours, but by “reversing” one gets the original colour on the glass. It is impos- sible to get prints of these pictures. Dr. Brunel showed coloured photo- graphs taken around College. Many of the most striking were of flowers. Y. M. C. A. MINSTREL SHOW LOSES ONLY. DATE AVAILABLE Money Was to Go to lan Hay The minstrel show to be held in the gymnasium April 13th by the Philadel- phia Y. M. C. A., for which 1918 had ar- ranged, has to be given up. The Science Club had tentatively engaged the thir- teenth and now claim the date surely. The minstrel show, which is of the reg- ular sort, including “end men”, was orig- nally planned for the benefit of the En- dowment Fund, but recently the Juniors had voted to give its profits to Ian Hay for his work with the soldiers at the front. The show has been presented sev- eral times around Philadelphia since Christmas. It is impossible to keep the men together for rehearsals later than dance de leur cher petite Belgique”. SELF-GOVERNMENT CHANGES inane 16. ‘Cavers Reports on Years Activities ee the Self-Government Association, gave a report of the year at a meeting on Mon- day, and announced that the directors had unanimously approved of the changes voted. by the Association. Just before this meeting the first ballot for next year’s president was taken in the differ- ent halls. “The board has felt”, said Miss Stevens, “that the Association is somewhat over- organized and has tried to simplify the rules. It has made no new rules, has taken off one and changed several”. Ruling on Social Engagements Approved Améng the changes which were ap- proyed by the directors last week were thése concerning having men in the stu- dents’ rooms till 10.30 on Lantern Night, having the elections earlier, and the freer ruling about social engagements with the men of the faculty. Concerning this last change, Miss Stevens said, “The more liberal formulation of the rule concerning social engagements depends for its suc- cess on the judgment and discretion of the members. It is a step towards greater personal responsibility instead of a multiplicity of rules. A new line of de- velopment, that of securing the honor system in academic matters, is a possi- bility for future. administrations of the Association. It would be in the spirit of the Self-Government to bring this about’. It was announced that the graduate member of the board would not be elected till after the announcement of the schol- arships and fellowships in May, as it is uncertain who is coming back next year. Miss Wieand will continue as graduate member of the board until that time. NEW VIEWPOINT IN BIBLE CLASS War Brings Reaction Against Religion The viewpoint that since the outbreak of the war the reaction against religion has been great among those most sensi- tive to suffering was expressed by Miss Agnes Tierney in the first meeting of her Bible Class on the Basic Elements of Re- ligion. “The problem of suffering”, she said, “has always staggered deep thinkers and people with imagination. It is too stupendous to be explained away”. ANTI-SUFFRAGE COMES TO THE FRONT Former Reporter on the Brooklyn Eagle Will Speak Miss Marjorie Dorman, organizer of the Wage-earners’ League of New York and formerly a reporter on the “Brooklyn Eagle”, will lecture on “The Economic Burden of the Double Suffrage” in Taylor, Friday afternoon, March 30th, at 4.30. Miss Dorman has worked for some years in a factory and is now studying law at New York University. * Caroline Stevens ‘17, the President of | The Bryn Mawr College Glee Club will present **Patience”’ Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31 In the Gymnasium at 8 p. m. ALL SEATS RESERVED Floor, 75c. Gallery, 50c. the middle of April. IN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION “THER COLLEGE NEWS" East. Checks payable to L. Evans, Treas. Tickets may be obtained from M. Willett, Pem., BLM. ADOPTS 400 CHILDREN cies Pledges to Support Them One Year FINANCE COMMITTEE Four hundred children were heated by the College for one year following the ~ report of E. Granger ‘17, Chairman of the Belgian Relief Committee, at the Christian Association meeting last Thurs- day. M. Bacon '18 read the report of the Finance Committee. The business of the standing of the College Settlement Chap- ter in the Christian Association could not be acted upon as a quorum was not present. Although $439 has been pledged per month for a year, the Belgian Relief Com- mittee recommended that a village of only 400 children be taken now, with a possibility of increasing it next year, in order that there might be no danger of a deficit. Miss Bacon’s report stated that after the second canvass for pledges for the budget, a deficit of $339.08 still remained. A further effort is being made to raise this amount by April Ist. RETIRING PRESIDENT LEAVES SELF-GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS IN SHAPE Beginning this fall with the publication of up-to-date blue books containing the most important rules indexed and sys- tematized, C. Stevens ’17, retiring presi- dent of Self-Government, has consistently carried out a policy of putting the Asso- ciation on a scientific basis. The minutes of the Executive Boards, unarranged since 1908, have all been card catalogued and the various documents and letters have been weeded out and filed, with cross references in the cata- logue. All papers have been made ready for use by future boards. CUT FLOWERS FLORAL DESIGNS Telephone GEORGE CRAIG FLORIST 211 S. Eleventh St. Philadelphia Many Styles fT cok ies Languages A Typewriter Exceptional Change Be . a instant from one style to any language. THE MULTIPLEX HAMMOND Two sets of type in each machine. “Jest Tere the Knob” Presto one or the other Simple—Compact—Portable Beautiful work—beyond compare. If not inclined to a new uire for our Factory Rebuilts. e Rent Machines of high quality. Dr. Alexander Graham Our special terms to collegians will interest you. Catalog for the asking. Hammond Typewriter Co, 8 tier 208 Seuth 1 ith Street, Philadelphia ‘, - x ete ‘ , REPORTS: LARGE DEFICIT ++ + a Ege Epc ge ened ge MUST SWIM _TO GRADUATE; | "NEW RULE AT VASSAR "+ Rope Climbing Required Too _ “No one who is not a swimmer can/ graduate from Vassar”, said Miss Ballan- News reporter, “unless she is physically unable to swim. This has been made a - faculty rule, going into effect with the class of 1920. There are only twenty Freshmen who cannot swim already. Every Freshman also has to learn how to come down a rope, if not to climb it, in case of fire, or other emergency”. Miss Ballintine has been compiling sta- tistics in regard to swimming require- ments in different colleges. Out of 18 colleges investigated, 9 required swim- ming and 2 did not reply. Only one of the remaining 7 had a pool. No Second Teams There is only one class team for a sport at Vassar. All those not members of the teams are coached in squads. Seniors are not required to exercise un- less they play on a class team. No one deficient in academic work can play on a Vassar team, except for ice-hockey, which has a very short season. PAINTER SPEAKS BEFORE CLASS IN MODERN PAINTING Says Picasso Is as Great as Rembrandt Mr. Sayen, an American painter who worked under Matisse, spoke before Pro- fessor Georgiana King’s class in Modern Painting last Friday. Color and form without “literary” associations, he said, make true art. Tracing the history of art from Dela- croix till to-day, Mr. Sayen said that Pi- easso was as great a painter as Rem- brandt. ‘He has all the essential qualities without the extraneous, picturesque non- essentials. Our complicated pictorial ideas”, he said, “interfere with our grasp of the purely visual combinations of color, form, and line”. The Synchromists, with whom Mr. Sayen has affinities, aim at giving color a formal and compositional value. Mr. Sayen was working in Paris until the out- break of the war. a eee re aan THE COLLEGE NEWS 1919 has postponed the election of season. V. Morgan, last year’s cap- a ate fr -|| tain, did not return to College, and B. tine, physical director at Vassar, to a| Lanier, last year’s manager, will act as captain for the present. The Freshmen will choose their basket-ball captain after a week's practice outdoors. Third team water-polo matches started this week, They are the last of the interclass games. K. Shippen ‘14 captains the alumne water-polo team, -which meets Varsity next Saturday. Alumne and Varsity fencing teams, to consist of three fencers apiece, have not yet been chosen. The Var- SPORTING NEWS| — ‘'|Miss Applebee favors their being pro- sity committee, Miss Applebee, EB. poses to hold try-oats as soon as pos- sible. Basketballs have gone up to $9.50. vided by the Athletic Association in- stead of by the classes. As in water- polo there should: be a new ball match games which, when worn out, could be passed down to the Fresh- men, The “outdoor season” started Mon- day with basket-ball practise inside the gymnasium and track ‘outdoors. The schedule of ‘first and second team basket-ball practise may be found in the News of March 14th, page 3, column 2. Emerson ’17 and L, Pearson ‘18, pro- || A. STILES 119 WINS THIRD INDIVIDUAL APPARATUS CUP Second Place Goes to Freshman A. Stiles ’19, receiving 210 points out of a possible 220, won the individual appara- tus cup last Saturday morning. UH. Weaver '10 won second place with 203.6 points. The judges were Miss Kirk, M. Scattergood '17, A. Davis '17, M. Strauss 18, and T. Howell '18. This is the third year that the cup has been awarded. It was presented by M. ‘Morgan ‘15. Sophomores have won it every year. G. Bryant ex-’17 and M. Mac- kenzie 18 are the other two champions. The standing of the contestants who re- ceived over 200 points is: