ep te i Pcs Gerrans Fighting to Break France “: ¢ “Englewood, ‘New Jersey, who spoke at a * ee “The Germans are fighting not the French soldier, but the French people”, said Dr. Alfred P. Fitch, ex-president of Andover Theological Seminary and Field Inspector of the American Red Cross in France last summer, giving an account of what he found there after his sermon last Sunday evening. “They are fighting to break their hearts, and tha the devastation of the land just reconqv®red”. The most moving sight, he said, was the return of the repatriated old peopie and little children from Germany, when they first saw the tricolor and heard the THE COLLEGE NEWS — WANTS EVERYTHING BUT DUST, ~ SAYS-MISS: APPLEBEE, IN- SPEECH | Miss Applebee, of the Junk*Commit- tee, and B. Sorchan ‘19, of the Sewing Committee, speaking at the Philanthropic Party in the gymnasium last Saturday night, inspired their audience to abandon the use of waste baskets in favor of junk bags. “Junk wants everything you can spare except dust and dead flowers”, said Miss Applebee. “We will go the rounds of the halls once a week this year collecting junk, and after the monthly sorting we will send the best things to France or Bel- gium, sweaters and warm things to Bates Marseillaise after two years of servitude. | Dr. Fitch was doubtful that the war | would be over in two years. Assails Bryn Mawr Provincialism Provincialism, Dr. Fitch took as the subject for his sermon, differentiating between the fresh provincialism that puts | a boy from the log cabin into the White House, and that of the “scholastic young woman who is about as broad as a knife edge”. “Some of you are abominably stuck on yourselves”, he said, “and no hu- man being is stuck on himself unless he be totally ignorant, or devoid of a sense of humor”. “The kind of provincial we thank God for’, said Dr. Fitch, “is he who never grows up, but still keeps a child-like sense of values. At college you should get so wide a human contact that you come back to the scale of values you started from. The best I can wish you | is that you get so much out of college | that no one will know you have been in a. ARTILLERY SHELLS CANARY BIRD NEARLY REVEALS BRITISH PLANS The story of how one canary bird threw a whole division of British troops into consternation has been brought back from the front by Dr. Robert Davis, of Sunday evening Chapel a year ago. Dr. Davis has returned to the United States to lecture at the Officers’ Training Camps on the activities of the Red Cross in Eu- | rope. At a point on the northeastern sector | of the line, the British were mining be- | neath the German trenches, and kept sev- eral singing canaries in the excavations | to warn the workers of the presence of fire damp, which is fatal to the songsters. | One of these birds escaped, and alighting | on a bush in the middle of No Man’s | Land, began to sing lustily. If discovered 4 by the Boches its presence would give |: away thd whole secret of the sappers. Infantry and sharpshooters tried in vain | to destroy the canary, and it was finally necessary to call upon the artillery to “blow bird, bush and song into nothing- ness”. CALENDAR Thursday, November 8 4.30 p. m.—Interclass hockey matches begin. 1920 vs, 1921. 7.30 p. m.—Lecture in Taylor Hall by the Rev. J. V. Moldenhauer, of Albany, on “Christ and the War”. Friday, November 9 4.25 p. m.—Lecture in Taylor Hall by Major M. C. Boehm. Saturday, November 10 10.30 a. m.—Varsity hockey; Mawr vs. Germantown. Sunday, November 11 6.00 p. m.—Vespers. Speaker, G. Steele *20. 8.00 p. m.—Chapel; sermon by Father S. C. Hugheson, of the Order of the Holy Cross, West Park, New York. « Monday, November 12 4.00-6.00 p. m.—Faculty Tea for gradu- ate students, Rockefeller Hall. Saturday, November 17 10.30 a. m.—Varsity hockey; Bryn Mawr vs. Lansdowne. 7.00 p. m.--Sophomore Dance. Bryn | \ ) and G. |day at Vespers, and Dr. Grenfell, furniture to the Com- munity Center, and. other things to the colored schools in the South or to differ- ent city settlements. Old hockey skirts or sticks we sell to pay the committee’s freight expenses, to raise money for a Chinese scholarship, and to get $7 to put in Christmas stockings going to seven old ladies in New York City”. Miss Applebee went on to tell how gratefully the poor gifts of junk were re- ceived, especially in the Southern colored schools. She spoke of the comfort gained during the winters by owners of cast-off college bathing suits, and of the evolu- tion of a ragged burlap curtain into first a junk bag, and then winter suits for two little girls. Tennis balls, “as dead as a door-nail’, when transformed by red ink, were received with great joy, she said, and shreds of old silk petticoats were used to trim hats. Any Freshman who would like to be on the Junk Committee is asked to speak to H. Whitcomb ’18, B. Sorchan '19, or M. G. Porritt °20. 3 NEWS IN BRIEF Dr. Frank has been asked to speak be- fore the Italians of Bryn Mawr on war conditions in Italy. On November 2nd he addressed the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Society of the Archsolog- ical Institute of America on archeeolog- ical work at Rome. Dr. Rhys Carpenter, who was drafted this fall’and is now a sergeant at Camp Meade, has been put in charge of a sec- tion of drafted Italians on account of his knowledge of their language. Three new basement rooms have been made this fall in the morth wing of the Library, one for an Educational Seminary and the others for Dr. Castro and Mrs. Arlitt. Hess. Like the Senior Class, 1920 has em- powered its class secretary, D. Smith, to | collect:.dues only for the first semester. W. Worcester has been elected Fresh- man representative on the 1919 vqged Monday for speakers whom they kG hear at Vespers: E. Biddle, F,. Howell, A. Landon, E. Lanier, R. Rein- hardt, S. Taylor, M. Thurman, G. Wood- bury. Trench rings, if. they can be procured, will be the class rings for the Juniors. C, Oppenheimer '19 has left college on account of ill-health. She will not return until the second semester. OVER 100 NEW C. A. MEMBERS Sixteen graduates and 108 Freshmen joined the Christian Association last Sun- after the membership canvass by A. MacMaster "17 and BE. Jay 21, elected for the purpose. D. Chambers '19 led the meeting, which was one ‘of the largest this year. The prayer of con- secration, written especially for the membership service by Dr. Barton, was ) used, Metropolitan Drops German Operas German operas have been abandoned this séason by the Metropolitan Opera Corfipany because. of. the growing senti- guage. This means~the loss from the program of a number of prominent Ger- man singers, including Madame Ober, and the .elimination of Wagner and Bee- thoven. wht” against’ the ‘yse of the German ian Somme Officer ‘Speaks To-morrow _ The German Retirement from the Somme in March, 1917, as seen by a Ca- ‘Hadian” officer, will be the*subject of a.” lecture , by Major M. F: Boehm, of the 169th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry, - to-morrow afternoon at 4.15, in Taylor. All hockey matches have been called off. Girlish Styles for Stylish Girls young girls and their frocks imaginable! — Women’s, 125-127 DRESS SHOP The Shopping Place of Discriminating Women Who Know The charm of youth is expressed in the Millard apparel for serges, beautiful afternoon frocks and just the sweetest dance Top Coats richly lined and warmly interlined older sisters. Be sure to see our smart Girls’ and Small Women’s sizes. S. 13th St. Mshey Sensible Prices Afternoon Dresses wing Utne coutourieres. 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