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The College News
Published weekly during the college year in the
interest of Bryn Mawr College ag

 

iS Managing Edito:.... #..ELizAnetH VINCENT, ’23

 

EDITORS 1,
Fetice Beco, 24 :
vee Kate Bowsers, ’23 EvizasEeTu CHILD, 23

 

ASSISTANT EDITORS ae
Oxivia Fountain, '24 Saran Woon, ’24
‘ MARGARET Srewanpsow, 24

 

BUSINESS BOARD he
ManaGer—RvuTH BEARDSLEY, 23 °
' Sara ARCHBALD, '23

 

ASSISTANTS’ = —°
LLovise How1tz,’24 MARGARET SMITH, "24
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Entered as second class matter September 26, 1914,
at the post office at Bryn Mawr, ta 1889,
under the Act of March 3

 

 

 

 

 

The following Sophomores are trying
out for the Business Board of the:
NEws: M. Boyden, M. Hansen, M.
Nagel, M. Henshaw.
EE, Glessner and E. Hinkley, ’25, are
trying out for the Editorial Board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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* " THE LANTERN
- “What hast thou lost? That. which }
never had’—a College Magazine. .

New policies are intriguing. They have
a. f4scination due: perhaps to the shine of
their first coat of paint. So the College
in general heard with interest the plucky
decision of ‘the Lantern Board last year, to
make its magazine represent truly the liter
ary attempts of the students themselves.
Net it was, and still is fighting against great

odds, against the indifference of a certain

portion of College which looks upon ‘it as
a private concern, affecting them only in
so far as it provides a half hour’s enter-
tainment. To make the Lantern what it
‘should be, and what the Board aspires to

* make it—a true College magazine — we

should be willing to, stand behind it. And
this is not in the capacity of an indulgent
public, but as active members, willing to
‘see that it gets the “right kind of stuff.”

A COMEDY OF TERRORS
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Envoys assemble at every coronation--
rich man, poor ‘man, beggar. man, college
president. The delegates who gathered for
President Park’s inauguration approached
, the court in varied ways. A rather timid

old lady quietly 6pened thé hall déor ani
walked to one of the rooms, Friday eve-

‘ning. She was retiring for. the night: when
* suddenly the door opened and a strange
gentleman was politely but quickly ushered
yin—and out again. A college president was
-preceeding’ in state to his room in Rocke-
As he mounted the steps, the ‘sur-
in the “Cata-
combs” burst into view, loudly, noisily, clad
Jin scanty parts of old athletic cloths, gasped
ence, and faded into the darkness of the
cellar stairs. The ‘president kept his eyes
on ‘the carpet until he reached-his room.

‘feller,
‘vivors of an lour’s “sardines”

‘Saturday morning, an elderly gentleman
elbowed his way through the: Reception
Committee and stalked into the “show
case”’ to learn, to his confusion, “how
Bryn : ‘Mawr | and Haverford get ac-
‘quainted, ” even before Dr. Comfort’s “re-
marks on that subject. =» . ¥
- Two hours Jater the delegates wended
their way into the Cloisters, between two
rows of -undergraduates.

‘ready to giggle at anything, a. dignified

“man chuckled audibly to his neighbor.
ee places farther down the line, a. size-

ble lady bent to her partner confidingly,
i serious and impressive they have
‘made this occasion,” she fluttered approy-
i Sete ibdeniea nicred. the. build:

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“These girls are

 

‘| ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION EXTENDS

THANKS TO COLLEGE e
The following’ letter from Mrs, Caroline
Chadwick-Collins, head | of the College
Publicity Bureau, who was in charge of
the arrangements for housing alumnae the.
night before the Inauguration, was received
on Monday by F. Martin, ’23, President of
the Undergraduate Association. «

-|“My Dear..Miss Martin:

“L want to thagk you, and through you
the entire undergraduate body, for your
kindness and hospitality last, Friday night.
Had it not been for the co-operation, of the
uhdergraduates the number of alumnae
who were able to return for the inaugura-
tion would have — been linpited, and the
alumnae supper in honor of: President Park
would have been impossible.

“The “alumnae who were able to avail
themselves of the hospitality of Pembroke-
West send their thanks to their hostesses,
and as for myself, my feeling of gratitude
to you all is quite beyond my power of

expression.
“Yours faithfully,
CAROLINE Cranes
me pe -
To the Editor of Tur Cottece News:

The rules governing the use of reser:
room, books are posted’ in a conspicuots
place ‘on the ‘bulletin board. Ignorance of
them is no excuse. ‘ :

A,sense of justice and fairness to one's
fellow. workers should put an end to ac-
tions which are causing infinite confusidn.

A lawless spirit is again manifesting it-
self among a small group of students in
the Reserve Book Room. Reserve slips
are destroyed, books are spirited away, ant
four hours pass like the permitted tw»
This is a state of affairs which must stop,
as complaints from faculty and students
are daily increasing. 4

Mary Louise TErrIEN,
Circulation Librarian.

E. RHODES EXPLAINS MEANING OF
C. A. PLEDGE
EV cata
Places Emphasis on Spiritua! Welfare
and Need for High Ideals

“The ‘Policies of the Christian Associ--

tion’ is, I think, a very forbidding title,”
said AZ. Rhodes, ’23, speaking in Vespers
last Sunday. “However, in spite of the
formality of the title what I hope to sav
is really very simple, though difficult te
express, for. | want to tell you’ of ou:
hopes for the Christian - A’ssociation . for
this year.”
—Miss--Rhodes explained that the Chris-
tian Association through its pledge means
to offer its membership to any student wh»
desires to live up to high ideals of life;
and that everyone, no .matter what her
theology, must realize the supremacy of
‘Jesus Christ as a moral and spiritual leader
She added that the word “worship” in the
second article means only that tribute of
admiration and appreciation that. we pay
to such supremacy.

Dividing the Christian Association in:o
divisions, the organization side, work at

.the Community Center, etc., and the evaa-

gelical afid spiritual side, Miss Rhodes said.
that first side. was well organized and that
what we need is to emphasize the spiritual
side more than we have done before. “We
go to chapel perhaps to be with our friends
or for half a dozen other ill-defined. rea-
sons, Or we stay away for. the same rea-
sons. We haven’t even cared enough to
think it out—we drift.

“For this year we do hope to emphasize
the spiritual side in a rather new way. We
do not want any religious ‘hysteria in the
College; what we do want is character.
We want intelligent enthusiasts, not saa
ferent folk.

“Our hope, for the Christian Association
this year,” concluded Miss Rhodes, “is that
we should become réal and positive char-
acters and live up to our ideals.” She added
that the influence of a group» who had the,

| courage to live out-their ideal of life would |
ix-|be beyond belief and that it would make |
the Christan Association a “real and liv-

 

 

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NATIONAL, | STUDENT FORUM
“HOLDS FIRST MEETING

 

Six Egan Students Tour Amer-
» > jean Colleges Soon

The Executive Committee. of. the ¢Na-
tional Student Forum met for the -first
time this autunin at the Forum office in
New York ,last Saturday. Although John
Rothschild, secretary of the Forum,’is still
in Etirope, other members of the Commit-
tee discussed the two important undertak-
ihgs proposed ‘for this.year. E, Vincent,
23, and J Wise, -ex-'24, who fg now a’
Radcliffe, ‘attended the meeting. :

A. plan for a “student. conference to be
held during the Christmas holidays on the
subject of the economic basis of college
education was the first item on the agenda.
This.-conference.“will..be. entirely..managed
by: students, and efforts will be made tu
have represented as many different types
of undergraduates as possible. : :

Discussion of the six foreign students
who are coming to America under the

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.|auspices of the Forum then. followed, and

it was decided that Colleges which have
affiliated with the Forum’should have pref-
erence over others when the booking ar-
rangements are made. Bryn Mawr will,
therefore, be upon the preferred list. A
bulletin announcing the coming of the six
dents reads in part:

“The National Student Forum is brinz-®
ing six European students to America
whom we plan to have visit the colleges
and universities. of America. These six
young people will be leaders.active in the
‘Youth Movement’ abroad, of fine social
consciousness, and“Avith full realization oi
social responsibility. . The Forum antici-
pates that the friendships» formed during
their ‘visit with the American students. will
be stimuli to international friendship and
an impulse *to’reat social service and more’
mature and socially more -effective intel--
lectual activity. Mr. John Rothschild
executive secretary, and Mr. George Pratt.
Jr., foreign secretary and treasurer of the
N. S. F., have been in Europe since July
forming contacts and’ interviewing, with
the-end_in view of ultimately selecting a
group of young men and women who wil
have a message of real importance for the
American ‘student.’ It is still uncertain as
to which countries will be represented in
the delegation. Present indications, how-
ever, are that they will come from Ger-
many, Holland, France, Czecho-Slovakia
and either Italy or England.

“The students will arrive about the sec-
ond week im December. A week or so will
be spent in becoming acclimated and meet-
ing the students in New York. Early in
the new year they will begin their tour of
the colleges. They will travel in two sec-
tions of three students each—each one of
these sections being aceompanied by a
officer of the Forum—thus making two
groups of four. In order that there may
be opportunity for the Ameyican students
to meet the Europeans and thresh out
ideas with ‘them we are planning a stav
of three or four days in each of the coi-
leges visited. This means that in all forty
colleges out of the 700 odd in the’ United
States can be visited. We have prepared
preferential lists of colleges where we be-
lieve the visit of the European students
would be most fruitful, and Bryn Mawr
College is-on the first list. We will do our

-hest to arrange for one of the sections tc

visit Bryn Mawr-.College, if you are inter-
ested in having them, and feel réasonably
sure that they will have sufficient .atten-
tion from the student body, or: that part
of it which might be expected to respond.
“The loan plan of financing the mission,
as set forth in the original announcements,
has proved impracticable. We must, there-
fore, ask the student group or the college
administration at whose invitation’ the
mission visits a college to pay what it can
toward the general expenses of the mis-
sion and to furnish hospitality. The bal-
‘ance of the general expenses we iwill man-

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swimming captain i

SUMMER ‘SCHOOL HAS TO’

-LEARN HOW TO PLAY

‘Denbigh Continually Beats - ‘Merion
Faculty Defeated In Matches

(S pecially contributed’ by F.. Begg and EF.

Hale, ’24, Assistants in Athletics at the

“ Summer School)” . ‘

To the “winter students”
habit of play is hardly a difficult one te
acquire, it seems strange that ” any group
of girls could know as little about the ele-
ments of play as did the summer students.
However, team’ work, initiatiye*and lack
of self-consciousness, though hard things,
to attain, wére finally learned through the
games in the evening and swimming and
folk dancing lessons.

The difficulties to be overcome in switi-
ming were greater for a while than ‘hc
desire to learn: Girls would practically
refuse to get their faces.wet or leave the
But a change came, a change sudden
and unexpected. In the pool it was most
noticeable. Those who had hitherto spent!
hours trying to put their faces under wate1
now refused to come up to breathe. The
pool was filled with dead man’s. floaters
Would-be swimmers showed ‘a streng de-
sire to spend the whole afternoon or eve-
ning in the water, and they were eager and
often alarming in their efforts to dive
Many, evén before. they had learned 12
swim a stroke, went recklessly head. firs‘
into the deep end of the pool. By the end
of the summer, about fifteen had learned
to swim will enough to be authorized “by
college standards.

Folk dancing even more than swimminy
seemed to take away their first awkward:
ness. The students danced folk dances of
some countries, -and sang the songs o9/
others of Peace Day, to emphasize the idea
of internationalism. This was the climax
for both singing and folk dancing classes °

Of the three out-of-door sports, base:
ball, basketball and volley ball, baseball was
possibly ‘the’most popular. Although Merion
was continually beaten, rivalry always ran
high during matches between the two halls
The tensest match was one between the
faculty and-students,in which the faculty
discovered the true extent*of their in
feriority. However, they plotted a revenge
A. basketball team was collected and prac:
ticed» together during the hottest part oi
one day. -Confident of victory the faculty
captain issued a challenge. Unfortunate!y
since it rained on the stated day, each in
dividual] on the faculty team took it upon
herself to stay quietly at home, forgetting
the. gymnasium. ‘Tfie result was fatal and
the students scored their final triumph.

 

News in Brief

At the meeting of the Class of 1925 heid ©
Thursday, October 19, the following weie
elected on Sophomore play committees:
Casting Committee: E. Walton, J. Gregory,
L. Boyd, M. Consfant, H. Grayson; Stage
Manager, M. Constant; Business Fel
M. Brown; Scenery Committee: Watts,
L. Barber, E. Dean, K. Fowler, C. Miller;
Costume Committee: E. Hinckley, F&F.
Bradley, H. Chisholm. :

Properties:- A. Eicks, E. Boyden, A.
Pantzer; publicity: E. Dean, E. Bafber, J.
Schoonover; lights, K. McBride.. |

Take Fugita, ’25, gave a short talk ‘yes-
terday on the Woman’s Union College,

Tokyo, at Galvary Presbyterian Church, +

Philadelphia.

Dr. Arlitt and Dr. nash have beer
invited. by the
give a short talk to students planning tc
work at Community Center this winter.

Dr. Fenwick is lecturing tomorrow at
the College Club on “America’s Position in
the World.”* He will give a series of six
lectures this winter in Wayne to_ the
League of Women Voters on: “Political
Parties; Their History and Present
| Policies.” sin

. E. Nicolls has x elected chairman of —

      

   
  

1926 for this week, Freshman: ssi
M, Burton.

for whom the

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