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Vol IX, No.-12, January. 17; 1923

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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NEWS IN BRIEF
As’a result of the Council meeting of

their: own self-sacrificing “offer, the large:
room on the first: floor of Taylor which
has been alumnae peadquarters has been
‘ reconverted into a class room. The alum-
nae now occupy two smaller rooms in
Taylor.

Obtaining. a position at the price of $2
from a Sixtk Avenue Employment Bureau,
‘ M. M.. Dunn,. ’23; spent’ a. week during
Christmas -vacation as a waitress at a res-
taurant in East New York.

Many Japanese cherry trees and a dead
cat were found in’ Pembroke Hall after
the vacation.

The Athletic Association has nina ar- |

rangements to, fleod the tennis courts for
‘kating as soon as the weather is cold

enough, The skating this year will be
free. o ;
Dr. Bissel, associate in geology, spoke

at a meeting of the Science Club in the
Biological Laboratory this afternoon.

The January issue of the Alumnae Bul-
letin is out and contains articles on “Bryn
Mawr w omen in politics and on the Alum-
nae Fund: : *

Katharine Townsend, ’20, is instructor of

physical education and hysienggt. ‘Smith.
1922

‘Cometix Baird is working in the Wom-
an’s’ Press ‘of the Y. W. C..A,

Ursula Batchelder is’ teaching in Mrs.
Caskin’s School in Overbrook.

Jane Burges i$ studying law in
father’s ,office in E] Paso.

°

her

REFUGEE FROM SMYRNA STUDIES
AT WHEATON WITH HELP. OF’ C..A,

A letter, thanking the Chrigtian Associa-
tion for a gift of $200 to p e tuition
of a refugee from Smyrna, waSweceived

from Dungnia Simeonidon, who with this
help has been enabled ‘to study at Wheaton
College, Nagton, Mass. The letter runs:
“Dear Friends:

 

Dorothy Dessau is taking’ a * business
course ‘and at the same time is doing vol-
unteer social service work in Stamford.

Elizabeth Donahw€ is teaching -Latin and -
French “in the Public Schoof in Bound-
brook, New Jersey.

Mary Ecroyd is teaching mathematics
at Foxcroft School:

Olive Floyd and Mariam Garrison are
both teaching at the — School. in
Maryland.

Vinton Liddell ‘is, clus ‘Modding at
the Art Student’s League in New York.

Louise Mearns is studying at the Busi-
ness School at Columbia.

Guliema Melton is making her debut in
Columbia, and studying French at the Uni-

vlar

» “T hope you all had 4 levely Christmas.

@ am very sorry I could not write you
{until now my hearty appreciation.for, your

Anna Dom is teaching school somewhere |
near Greensburg, Penysylvania. . :

loving spirit and sympathy that you showed
me by taking care of me this year... .
“Maybe you would like to know some-
thing about my lessons. I am not a regu-
student but a special one, as all- the
other Smyrna girls are. I have two
courses in house hold economics, two: Eng-
lish and gyin. { wish I could take more,
because this is a great opportunity for me,
but I am sorry I couldn’t. One of the
reasons as you know all our minds ‘are
so ‘scattered it is really very hatd to ‘sit
dawn and concentrate the mind entirely to
the lessons. It was more hard: for me be-
cause it is about ten years, I have -been
graduated and most of the time I didn’t

 

versity of South Carolina.
Cornelia Skinner*has a part in a Play ,

have any. chance to tse the language, ‘you
know what a. great ‘difference it makes.

brothers in Cesarea and a sister in. Cilicia.
Until last- night I--didn’t have ‘any idea
‘where they were and how they were. : . .”

Born | een

Lucy Lombardi Barber, 04, (Mrs. Alvin
Barber) has a fourth child, Alvin B. Bar-
ber, Jr., Born in September.

Martha Rockwell Moorhouse, 04, (Mrs.
W.. Moorhouse) has a fourth child, June,
born on November. 10. i

Mary Cockrell, 08, (Mrs. A. V. Cock-

rell) has a third daughter, Frances Joseph-

ine,, born last spring,

Anna Welles Brown, ’08, (Mrs. J. W.
Brown) has a_ third daughter, Frances,
born in August. :

Gertrude ingsbacher Semetelin 10, (Mrs.

G. Sunstein) has a fourth child, a girl,:

born last. spring.

Oiary Alten Cane tae Ee fase

has a_ third daughter,
October 28.

Helen Colter Pierson®’12, (Mrs. N. L.
Pierson, .Jr.)’ has a fourth child, a son,
Stuart Lathrop, -born last spring.

Polly Vennum Van Cleave, '12, (Mrs.
B. Van Cleave) has a son, Benjamin, born
October 28. :

Elizabeth Holliday Hitz, ’16, (Mrs.’Ben-

 

Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury, professor of
social economy, addressed chapel Monday
morning, on the conditions in Germany.

Thomas Guthrie Speers, a graduate in

1912 of the Union Theological at Prince-

ton, chaplain during the Great War, and
now Dr. Fosdick’s assistant at the - First
Presbyterian Church in New York City,
will speak in chapel Sunday night.

Tonight Varsity Basket Ball Team played

girls’ rules against a. team organized by
Miss Applebee, of some of the English
coaches: nearby, including Miss Adams,
Miss Barrows and Miss Hutchins.~ Satur-.
day Varsity will play against a Philadel-
phia team, again with girls’ rules.
- Dr. Ellen C, Potter, a former lecturer in
hygiene here, has just been appointed Pub-
lic Welfare Commissioner of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Potter is the first woman,to holds this
position.

* F. Bliss, ’22, former editor-in-chief a the
News, spent last week-end here.

R. Neel, ’22, who is Athletic Instructor
at Miss Walker’s Schow,* visited Bryn
Mawr immediately after vacation.

Dr. .Fenwick spoke on present conditions
in Europe in chapel last Wednesday
morning.

An informal tea was given by the Faculty
and staff to the Graduate Students in
Rockefeller Hall yesterday afternoon. Re-
ceiving were Dean Maddison, Professor

Wheeler, Professor Kingsbury, Profesgor
and Mrs. Carpenter, and Dr. and ve,
Bullgck.

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ALL OF EUROPE COVERED BY
VARIOUS. STUDENTS’ TOURS

, International Students’ Tours have been
otgarived to meet the need for travel's as an
element in edtication.

The Art Students’ Tour offers an op-
portunity to visit the great galleries,
churches, and palaces of Europe under the
guidance of authoritative lecturer on art,
history and appreciation. The itinerary in-
cludes France, Italy, Holland, Belgium and
England. The Students’ Tours of France
and Italy provide opporfynity to study the
history, traditions, arts,’?and social and
commercial conditions of those countries.
Automobiles will be used extensively and
many of-the most interesting and pictur:
esque places will be visited.

Members of the Student’s Tours will sail
from New York on June 30, on the SS
“Saxonia” of the°Cunard Line and will re-
turn on the same ship reaching New York
September 4. Calendar itineraries and alk
other information may be secured from

Mr, Irwin Smith, 30 East 42nd Street, New

“York City.

ALUMNAE NOTES
Gertrude Slaughter’ (Gertrude Taylor),
93, has’a new book out, Shakespeare and
the Heart of a Child,

Millient Carey, ’20, is teaching English | —

at Rosemary Hall and living in an apart-_

called “Will Shakespeare,”
duced in New. York.

Margaret Speer Mas been taking several the

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now being pro- !
my. dear parents,

them.

Also it was very hard for me to leave all
sisters and brothers with
Turks and not know anything about
1 have my parents with my two

born October 28.

 

Willie Savage Turner,
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}jamin Hitz) has a son, Benjamin Hitz, 3rd,

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men broke their necks
trying to fly. They had
not troubled to discover
what Solomon called * ‘the way of
an eagle in the air.”

In 1891 came Samuel Pierpo

 

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' Langley, secretary of the Smith-

sonian Institution. He wanted
facts. His first step was to whirl
flat surfaces in the air, to measure
the air pressures required to sus-
tain these surfaces in motion and
to study the swirls and currents of
the air itself. Finally, in 1896, he
built a small steam-driven model
which flew three-quatters of a
mile.

With a Congressional appro-
priation of $50,060 Langley built
a large man-carrying machine. Be-

_ cause it was impreperly launched,

it dropped into the Potomac River.
Years later, Glenn Curtiss flew it
at Hammondsport, New York.

Congress regarded Langley’s
attempt not asa scientific experi-
ment but as a sad fiasco and

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refused to encourage him further.
He died a disappointed man.

Langley’s scientific study. which
ultimately gave us the airplane
seemed unimportant in 1896.
Whole newspaper pages were given
up to the sixteen-f0-one ratio of
silver to gold.

“Sixteen-to-one” is dead polit-

ically. Thousands of airplanes
cleave the air—airplanes built

with the knowledge that sangny :

acquired.

In this work the Laboratories of
the General Electric Company
played their part. They aided in
developing the “supercharger,”
whereby an engine fay be sup-
plied with the air that it needs for
combustion at altitudes of four
miles and more. Getting the facts
first, the Langley method, made
the achievement possible.

What is expedient or important
today may be forgotten tomorrow.
The spirit of scientific research
and its achievements endure,

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of an Eagle in the air”

Mildred, born on