és Lucy Kate Bowers, ’23 a Subscriptions, $2.50 “all undergraduates, that no honor the Col- . lege could- confer on President Thomas - time for them to speak. ‘presented their faculty with an outline of . Far from taking this as an impertinence, could be welded into tangible form, fought “over and modified | into the nearest sem- _.. flaunt their criticism as a revolt: against - despotic authority, and it would qualify | _ the ‘views of professors for whom the un- The College News [ Founded. in 1914.] - «Published weekly during the college year in the interest of Bryn Mawr College { Managing Editor...:.... EuizasetH VINCENT, 723 EDITORS Fexice Beco, '24 *Ev1zaBeTH CuILp, ’23 ASSISTANT EDITORS Oxia FountTatn, '24 Saran Woop, ’24 Emity GLessner, '25 BUSINESS BOARD Manacze—RutH BEARDSLEY, 23 : RCHBALD, '23- ee ASSISTANTS Lovise How!tz, ’24 - MARGARET SMITH, ’24 Mathilda Hansen, ’25 Margaret Boyden, ’25 Subscriptions may begin at any time Mailing Price, $3.00 Entered as second class matter September 26, 1914, at the post office at Bryn Mawr, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1889. ae a = wi seen M. CAREY THOMAS, PRESIDENT. ‘ EMERITUS «< The directors of the College, meeting in ‘November, unanimously agreed to confer on M. Carey Thomas, former president of Bryn Mawr, the’ title of President Emeritus | of the College. 'The news could not be announced until Miss Thomas’ acceptance was secured and this she sent from Singa- pore on Christmas Day. It seems to the News, and we believe to ‘Po the directors we offer our hearty applause and to President would be too “great. Thomas our singere congratulations! KICKS AND KICKS : There are organic fault-ffnders, and imi- tative ones, and trivial and personal ones. if we discount these and others who nat- urally join the Strafe chorus at this time of year, how many will be left whose mo- tives for criticising the methods of their Cer- tain it is that since last year there has been education are grounded on reason? a new note-among the ordinary dissatis- factions, voiced at meals and between classes and in dejected intervals of study and exercise. It is possible that this comes from students who have gone a step be-|' yond mere objection, and have actually convinced themselves how the system could be bettered. If there are any who have done so or who think the matter important enough for thought, surely this is the The students of Mount Holyoke recently what theys considered an ideal curriculum. the faculty was. delighted, as it well might be, and found valuable suggestions in the In, fact, the idea that such sug- gestions» would be anything but valuable Provided the student plan is carefully weighed and shorn of extrava- document. is ridiculous, gance, or even if it isn’t, it supplies a point of view which faculties get only with -diffi- culty, but which is of the most obvious} importance. If recent complainings at Bryn ates blance of ‘ ‘undergraduate opinion” and pre- sented to the faculty, there is not a doubt that they would be heard, and with grati- tude. A-little rapport between teacher and tanght would not be amiss. It would take the’ wind from the sails of students who. a is a child with unconquerable | ralons Sicestopeatioas te to study.” This year of all yeasss| APPLIED PHILOSOPHY Everyone at present is amore or — con- |. Composition, and others. : Former members. of the facult# ike cerned with the approaching Mid-Years. It is true “some assum “indifference, some even parade it, but fe Now, like all great life, this ordeal is ing themselves of it. immutable facts of hedged around with superstition, tradition | and convention, and many are the theories } advanced for appeasing the ‘bogey. The masses, of course, stick to the old tried palliatives of wet towels and mid-night oil, a few spirits who claim be independent and emanéipated maintain with pseudo- scientific assurance that a week-end before serves to clear the brain, while there are still“certain obscure atavistic, persons who ‘tremble at the railroad train over their heads—happy they who assume no respon- sibility themselves! However, one’ can cultivate only one’s own indivitual_ state Lof mind in which to face the crisis—and itis ‘cheerful to contemplate that by the: end of the short week some of us_ will already have partially sealed our fate. : cialis : HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SNEEZING FROM YOUR COLD? The health rules were made for the good of the College community: —The girl with a slight cold who plays water polo: “through class spirit, because every practice counts” makes an irretrievable error. Aside from the fact that she may give iiannald pneu- monia or the rest of the College measles, she “inevitably spreads a trail of germs which may later keep half the team from practicing or even from playing in match games. “No person with a cold shall enter the . ‘swimming pool,” says the A. A. rule, “And this is the Law of the Jungte—as old and qs true as the sky: . And the Wolf that shall keep it may pros- per, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.” at DR. SAVAGE WRITES ON COLLEGE SLANG IN “DIALECT NOTES” College slang in general, and particular phrases from Bryn Mawr College, is the subject of an_article by Dr. Howard J. Savage, Director of the Work in English Composition, in a recent number of Dialect Notes, one of the publications of the American Dialect Society. Dr. Savage formulates certain laws which govern all college slang and explains methods by which words and phrases be- come current, drawing his from observations made at Bryn Mawr since 1915; in which he has been helped by his classes. Finally, he lists over a hun- dred .common Bryn Mawr slang expres- sions, including all such terms as “chloro- plasts,” “fire-balls,” “pest house,” “muggle,” and the nicknames of professors. FACULTY MEMBERS PRESENT AT MODERN LANGUAGE MEETING Many present and former members of the Bryn Mawr. Faculty attended the meet- ing of the Modern Language Association, which was held December 28-30, at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Savage, Director of Le Work in English, Composi- and: Dr. aes” avcisiee: (elect) in nine lish Literature, and Dr. Prokosh, Associate Professor of German, were among those who presided at group meetings:; Present faculty who were at the meeting were Dr, Savage, Dr. Brown, Professor of English Philology Dr. Hughes, Dr. Pro- a Miss Trotain, ‘eum ia French; Schenck, Associate Professor. of yak ; Mr. Gilli, Associate Professor of French ; Dr. Bullock, Associate (elect in THE €OLLEGE’ EE eeneat NEWS id SS wo ; : succeed in convinc- conclusions | “lelse? | with what Maggie O’Riarties and Bridget McQuins there are in this world. It is t Gorse, “Northwestern: University, and ‘Pacific berated are “included in this - Italian; Dr. Crandall, Professor of English +“ were present were Dr. Dunn, now of Smith; Dr, Riddell, of Wheaton; Dr. Schinz, of Smith; Dr. Gerould, of, Prince- ton; Dr. Patch,, of Smith. \ FACULTY NOTES Dr. Feree presented a ‘paper at the thirty- first annual meeting of the American Psychological - Association on December 27th at Cambridge, Mass., entitled “The Theory of Flicker. Photometry,” and Dr. ‘Raped a_ paper entitled, “Comparative Stndies of Equality -of: Briglttness and Flicker Photometry with Special Reference ‘to the Laz of Visual Sensatiort’’ In the absence tof Dr. Ferree, both papers were read by Dr. Rand. THE LANTERN. (Specially contributed ) Would that all things improved from month to month as das the Lantern. This ‘is a far fatter issue, and one filled with material of a class quite different from any which’ has appeared before. Two articles, two short stories, two poems and the usual book-reviews may not present a very bold face when ‘listed, but they are all ample, interesting, and, in varying degrees, well- written. The chief fault with the material seems. to be a’ certain lack of finish rather than any fundamental weakness; a wood- enness of style,-an inflexibility of expres- sion pervades each articles. © Even. Miss Scribner, agile, as she is. with her words, wants ye suppleness of phrase and point of. view which is a reader’s” enchantment. It is regrettable that Miss Scribner's arti- cle does not maintain throughout the pace of the first two paragraphs. But the rapid- fire phrases lag a little toward the end and although the end is very good inde it is not so good as it should be. Where, oh where, have Miss Scribner’s delightful “|short stories gone? » This Frenzied Campus by Louise San- ‘\ford is a level-headed and clearly-expressed exposition of the curriculum questions which have for so long been. stirring vaguely in the minds of all of us.’ She is to be commended for her coolness and de- termination, for her engaging yet perfectly clear_presentation,.and_ above all for the simple directness which is in this article. The issues which she raises are of, para- mount importance because they. are very near to all undergraduates. In. the settle- ment which must soon be made her reason- able statement should surely be a great help in determining public opinion. Of the two short stories, Spanish Paper by Miss Child has the greater. plot inter- est, although in this, as in character, it runs very much on the established order of such things. To have a stamp the be-all and the end-all of our hero’s efforts is some- thing out of the ordinary, it is true, and a reader is very much taken up with whether Ludlow will get away with his exotic loot or not, but it is essentially a story that slidés in one ear and out the other, with a’ certain read-it-with-your-eyes-shut quality common ‘to. its kind. And yet why should a story, especially a ‘short one, be anything Such things are creatgd to entertain and Spanish Paper does not fall short of its~ mission. Miss Gray’s Sisie, on the other hand, relies for interest not on the plot but on the characters. For so short a ‘story, the characters remain fixed in the reader's ‘}mind with a most creditable clearness— creditable to Miss Gray, not the reader— and they have, moreover, a consistency of action with character which is rare in amateur productions. _ Early writers seem woefully determined to fix any deed what- soever on a character, utterly regardless of the impulses which might move him. With Miss Gray, however, a deed has a motive, |and therefore her writing can never be | < wholly trash. But Miss Gray’s story suffers | badly from her lack of personal experience “THREE AND HENRIETTA” ‘SEEK EEK SUNNY. SOUTH Mi isses