Voume III. 3 No. 38 BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 20, 1916 Price 5 Cents — CALENDAR ‘Thursday, January 4 9.00 a. m.—Christmas Vacation ends. Friday, January 5 3.00 p. m.—vVocational Speaker, Miss Jackson. 8.00 p. m.—Concert for the benefit of the Endowment Fund by Herman Sandby, ’cellist. Arranged by the Senior Class. Conference, Sunday, January 7 6.00 p. m.— Vespers. Speaker, D, Cham- bers ’19, 8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by the Rev. F, L, Janeway, D.D., of New York. Friday, January 12 8.30 p. m—First Swimming Meet. Saturday, January 13 8.00 p. m.—Moving Pictures in the gym- nasium for the benefit of the Endowment Fund. Managed by the Class of 1919. Sunday, January 14 8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by the Rev. Robert Speer, of New York. Friday, January 19 8.30 p. m.—Second Swimming Meet. POILUS HAVE THEATRES AND NEWSPAPERS Sorbonne Lecturer Speaks on the Literary Life of the Front The letters, songs, theatre and news- papers of the “poilu” at the front were the subject of a lecture by Monsieur Jean Alcide Picard, of the Sorbonne, in Taylor Hall last Friday afternoon. “The business of killing”, said —M. Picard, “does not occupy all the sildier’s time. He has three other occupations: eating, sleeping, and writing letters, and of these the last is the one he loves most”. As official reader of letters found on dead soldiers, M. Picard’s experience was that a “poilu” writes not less than one letter a day and each at least eight pages long, never mentioning the war or his own brave part in it. Some of them are humorous, all show passionate love of country and of people at home, as do their songs, several of which M. Picard read, explaining here and there the con- fusing trench slang. “The essay is also very chic”, he added; “they all write them”, Impromptu Acting a Favorite Occupation Another interest beyond “la chasse des boches” in the trenches is impromptu | acting. Tragedy, deeds of heroism, etc., ' are never shown, but the soldiers when off duty like nothing better than to give a bit of comedy or a burlesque for their comrades. _ “Their newspapers, too, are largely comic”, M. Picard went on ta say. “Of these trench newspapers 260 now exist. They are printed on regulation presses front and among civilians anxious to keep in touch with the doings of the ‘poilus’. Besides this important work of insuring close contact between defenders and de- fended, Le Lapin a Plume and Le Canard Poilu enable army cooks to exchange valuable receipts. They print poems ‘de valeur poetique variable’, as well as offi- cial communications of all sorts and pen- and-ink illustrations”. SANDBY, ‘CELLIST AND COMPOSER, TO PLAY 1917 Plans Concert for Endowment Fund Herman Sandby, 'cellist and composer, who played here last year as soloist in the Philadelphia Orchestra concert, is to give a concert on January 5th in Taylor Hall. The concert has been planned by 1917 for the benefit of the Endowment Fund. Admission will be fifty cents for mem- bers of the College, one dollar for others. Mr. Sandby’s musical career began with his playing the violin at the age of five, and at seven he had his first experi- ence with the larger instrument, the ‘cello. Born at Copenhagen in 1881, he studied at Frankfort, Germany, and from his early teens has appeared upon the concert platform all through Scandinavia, England, Germany and America. Sandby is as well known in London as he is in Philadelphia, where, until this year, he was first ’cellist for the Philadel- phia Orchestra. He is a particular favor- ite of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, and her sister, the Dowager Empress of Rus- sia, both his compatriots. Sandby’s tone on the ’cello is of the richest and most mellow character, and his singing style has called forth un- bounded enthusiasm and high critical praise in all the great art centres of the Old World. His settings of Scandinavian folk-songs are his best known composi- tions. The program: Song of Vermeland (Swedish). Elverhoj (Danish). Bridal March (Norwegian). CeO oo ak Saint Saens Mrs. Sandby will accompany him at the piano. FATHER F. C. POWELL LEADS CHRISTMAS SERVICE Father F. C. Powell, of the Order of St. John the Evangelist in Boston, preached to a full Chapel on Sunday night. Christ- mas greens and Christmas music were the setting for an appropriate Advent mes- sage. “Belong to the future, keep your youth”, said Father Powell. “Good and bad, chil- dren of the day and children. of the night, live together in the same dormitories and | walk the same streets, but the Advent |message is to watch for the light—‘For | behold, your King cometh’. Come to Him with open hearts and He will open your eyes so that you will see that ‘the day ;cometh, the darkness is already past’ ”. | ‘The children of the day, he said, are | and have a wide circulation both at the | | characterised by youth, purity, truth and love. “I know that knowledge is rather ‘out of fashion now”, he said, “helped by | Billy Sunday and others, but it will come |back again. ‘The truth shall make you | free’ ”. | “The Luck of Roaring Camp” he cited ‘as an example of the enlightening power lof love. 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Grace ’17 was toast-mistress. - Merion’s party began at half-past four in the afternoon with a dance managed by 1919. At dinner admission was charged, for the benefit of the Red Cross, to see stunts given by the Seniors and Juniors. 1920 provided the decorations. Pembroke began dancing at half-past eight to the harp, violin and piano that had played at Merion in the after- noon. Cakes were sold by 1917 for the benefit of the Endowment Fund, and the Freshmen gave a stunt at dinner. The party was managed by M. Martin ’19. In Denbigh and in Rockefeller, where admission was charged for the benefit of the Belgian Relief, the program was the same—stunts at dinner and dancing after- ward. M. Hodge '17 managed the party in Rockefeller, and 1919 that in Denbigh. GERMAN PRISON CAMPS NEED TEXT-BOOKS German Prisom Camps are among the most important institutions for which the Junk Committee of the C. A. has been making collections, Interest in these camps was aroused by A. Davis ’17, whose brother is working there trying to estab- lish university courses, as there are many professor and student prisoners. For this all_sorts-of-text-books- are needed, novels and magazines. }and the colored schools in the South are | COMMITTEE ON CHINESE SCHOLAR- SHIP FORMS PLANS Necessary Funds Ready by June 1 The Bryn Mawr Committee on the Chi- nese Scholarship met on December 14th, to lay definite plans for raising the pro- posed endowment of $25,000. It is form- ing committees in the larger cities of Bryn Mawr alumnzw and persons inter- ested in the East and the education of women, and expects to raise the required amount by June Ist. “The time is short and the sum large”, said Miss Donnelly, chairman of the committee, in speaking to the “News” re- porter, “but the opportunity also is large and help given to China now means twenty-five times as much as will help given twenty-five years hence. Student to Come to B. M. Next Fall “A sub-committee is being formed im- mediately in China itself to chose a stu- dent fitted to study in the United States and send her to Bryn Mawr next autumn for two years’ training in the neighbour- hood preparatory to entering the College. “The committee hopes that the Chris- tian Association will also form a sub-com- mittee to interest itself in the scholarship, and it will be happy, through the follow- ing members, to answer any questions concerning the scholarship and its endow- ment: The committee is: L. M. Donnelly, chairman; Marion Parris Smith, treas- urer; Gertrude Ely, Adeline Vepper Gib- son, Marion. Reilly, Eunice Morgan Schenck, Martha Gibbon Thomas. DEMOCRACY OF COLLEGE WOMEN COLLEGE SETTLEMENT IDEAL Miss Baldwin Explains C.-S._ A. Exhibit | The Community Center at Bryn Mawr | Grassy hills covered with tents and cot- tages and a settlement house in which | also claiming the attention of this com- | Varied activities are being carried on, and magazines are needed and for the schools everything. 2a eee | B. M. ALUMNA HANGS SUFFRAGE BANNER AS PRESIDENT SPEAKS “What Will You Do for Suffrage”? the | Slogan Mary Gertrude Fendall ‘12 was one of the six prominent members of the Con- gressional Union for Woman Suffrage who unfurled a yellow banner bearing the words, “Mr. President: What will you do | for Woman Suffrage’? during President | Wilson’s address in the Hall of Repre- |sentatives on December 5th: | The banner was unfurled over the rail .of the gallery directly opposite the ros- trum on which the President was stand- | ing, but was pulled down by one of the doorkeepers. Capitol policemen were |prevented from arresting those respon- |sible for the disturbance. “At the very instant the banner was un- furled a messenger from the Congres- sional Union headquarters appeared sud- denly at the door of the press gallery of | the House and shoved into a doorkeeper’s hands more than a hundred mimeo-| eraphed copies of an article about the banner and the women responsible for its display”, Although the President saw the banner ° he made no break in the reading of his| address. ; mittee. For the Community Center read-| Were represented in the College Settle- ing-room sofa-cushions, pictures, books, | °"t exhibit shown here on Wednesday, by realistic models of the C. S. A. sum- mer camp and Boston Settlement House. Miss Baldwin, the organizing secretary of the Association, explained the models, pictures, posters, and samples of chil- dren's work at a tea given in Rockefeller by the Bryn Mawr chapter. In speaking of the work and purpose of the Association in general she said, “The College Settlement Association was es- tablished in 1889 when a great wave of democracy and social work passed over the country, not primarily for charity or philanthropy, but to make stronger the democratic ideal and to arouse an interest in public affairs. It has stood for the ideals of Tolstoi and St. Francis of As- sisi”. When 2 per cent of the people posse: s 60 per cent of the wealth, when 30,000,006) people are living in indecent moral and sanitary conditions, Miss Baldwin con- tinued, something must be done by those who have advantages to share them with those who have not. “The $265,000,000,- 000 of actual wealth in this country, if not hoarded up by the individual exploitation of natural resources and instruments of public utility, would mean an income of about $1700 for every family. Democracy Needed Young college students banding to. gether, as in the College Settlement Asso- ciation, to share their advantages, can do much against the deadening effect of the (Continued om Page J)