“The best war work you can do is to ‘stay in college and train yourselves to meet the problems that will arise after _ the war,” was the advice given to Bryn Mawr. by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who spoke in Taylor last Friday evening on “Woman Suffrage and the World War.” “It is impossible to talk of women’s pa- triotic service,” said the famous suffrage leader, “without speaking of woman suf- frage. Our soldiers abroad are struggling for the same principle that we ure. They are going to Berlin to fight for democracy. We are going to Washington for it. We will get it together.” Need for “Four-Minute” Women “Not a woman capable of rendering any line of service has a right to occupy space in this country if she is not giving back value for the space occupied. College women with trained minds and well- poised characters will be needed to help in the reconstruction that is bound to come in this country after the war. One of the immediate needs, to fill which we expect to draw on the colleges, is for ‘four-minute women’ to give short public talks on patriotic subjects.” Touching on the recent successful cam- paign in New York, Doctor Shaw con- tinued: “If we had given up our efforts at the beginning of the war, we would have had no such victory. But although the suf- fragists in New York have won now after eight years of steady work, they are not going to give up. They are going to work for the Federal Amendment. I have no doubt that it will go through this winter, and if*that is the case, the women of Pennsylvania will vote for the next Presi- dent of the United States. “It is not true that all women are nat- urally pacifists. Women voters have no- where weakened the Government. In Can- ada the only province to oppose conscrip- tion was the one where the women did not vote on the question. Women are ready to do their part and do it loyally.” URGES INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM Dr. Leuba Speaks in Chapel Taking Patrick Henry’s famous phrase, “Give me liberty or give me death,” as a point of departure, Dr. Leuba, Professor of Psychology, spoke in chapel last Wednesday morning on the value and meaning of intellectual freedom. People are so bound by convention they cannot even dress in the most beau- tiful or the most economical way, he maintained. To break away from hard and fast tradition and really think for themselves was the goal he set for hon est and intelligent college students. FREEDOM NOT ALWAYS VALUABLE Work for Big Issues, Says Dean Taft “In many things it is not worth while to have freedom,” said Dean Taft in chapel Thursday morning, qualifying the statements of Doctor Leuba the day be- fore. “If you dressed as you liked, you would probably have to fight about it all your life,” she continued. “Even if you were allowed to have your way, it would cost you too much time. should think about the things most worth while and not try to develop individual- ity along every line. “The early suffragists insisted on wear- ing bloomers, and consequently did a great deal of harm to their cause. If women of this generation are to be leaders of thought, as women have not been in the past, they must give up contention for small points and bring forward points in- teresting both to men and women.” HOW “SAMMEE” ORIGINATED A French officer's version of how “Sam- mee” originated says that when the Yankees arrived in France the French soldiers cried out, “Voici nos amis”, but the Americans took it for “Voici nos Sam- mees!" eae: * PROBLEM OF COLLEGE STUDENTS By Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War . (From the Patriotic News Service of the National Committee of Patriotic So- cieties, Washington, D. When the call to national service arose, spirited young men everywhere of course wanted to be employed in a patriotic way, and I suppose there is scarcely a young man in any college in the country who has not very anxiously addressed to him- self the question, “What can I do”? I think that there is no general answer to this question. * * * To the extent that the men in college are physically disqualified, or to the ex- tent that they are too young to meet the requirements of the department, it seems quite clear that in the present state of the emergency their major usefulness lies in remaining in the college, going for- ward with their academic work. The knowledge that the students will acquire at college will equip them for subsequent usefulness if the emergency lasts until their call comes. But we do not want to kill enthusiasm. We want to preserve enthusiasm and cul- tivate it and use it; but we do want to be discriminating in our enthusiasm, and prevent people getting the notion that they are not helping the country unless they do something different. * * * The largest usefulness may come from doing the same thing. * * * Our colleges can exercise a steadying influence in this regard. We are going to have losses on the sea; we are going to have losses in battle; our communities are going to be subjected to the rigid discipline of multiplied per- sonal griefs, bg s ° and we are going to search the cause of those back to their foundation, and our feelings are going to be_ torn and our nerves made raw. There is a place for physicians of public opinion to exercise a curative impulse. The young men who are in our colleges, who go to their homes from our colleges and make up a very large part of the direction of public opinion, can exercise a curative influence by preaching the doctrine of tolerance, by exemplifying the fact that it is not necessary for a nation like the United States, which is fighting for the vindication of a great ideal, to discolor its purpose by hatreds or by the entertain- ment of any unworthy emotion. PARIS MAY HAVE BRYN MAWR CLUB Herbert Adams Gibbons Gives Lunch for Workers in France Fourteen relief workers, representing classes from 1899 to 1917, met at an in- formal Bryn Mawr lunch given by Mrs. Herbert Adams Gibbons (Helen Daven- port Brown ex-06) in her Paris studio on October 2ist. Each person described Mrs. Women especially | what she had done since leaving college and what she is doing now. It is probable that some restaurant will be chosen as a Bryn Mawr rendezvous, to which the workers may come whenever possible without adding a definite engage- ment to their overcrowded time. Dr. Ferree and Dr. Rand have an article | on “The Power of the Eye to Sustain Clear Seeing under Different Conditions | of Lighting” in the October number of the | Journal of Educational Psychology, and another on “Radiometric Apparatus for Use in Psychological and Physiological Optics” in Series No. 103 of the Psycho- logical Monographs. Seniors! Notice! Help for Orals Mile Pourésy and Mile. Fabin (35 and 51 Radnor), French scholars, would like to spend the Christmas va- cation in the same or different fam- ilies. They offer French conversation or reading in return for board, resi- dence and traveling expenses. Tae. COLLEGE NEWS 5 NO AMERICAN FILLEULS, SAYS WAR DEPARTMENT “Gansta ‘Siebert tlaapeieres oan No personal godmothering of American soldiers with whom one is not acquainted, the War Department and the Woman’s Committee of the Council of National Defense has decreed. The Department will not furnish names, as is often re- quested, says the Public Ledger. “While the War Department appreci- — ately deeply”, explains Mrs. Philip Moore, chairman of the Health and Recreation Department of the Woman’s Committee, — “the fine spirit in which the women are — offering to write to the soldiers at thé front, the experiences of France and Eng- land have proved that the plan ultimately works more harm than good. 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