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The Sabbath, a day of rest, has a fa-
miliar ring but little else in Bryn Mawr
College. In most self-respecting commu-
nities Sunday is set aside from the other
days in the week—not so here. Every
activity with the exception of lectures
and athletics continues as on any other
day. There are board meetings, commit-
tee meetings and rehearsals. Why not
have lectures and athletics? Athletics
are healthful and lectures provide learn-
ing. If they are omitted because Sunday
is intended by the college authorities for
a day of rest, it is up to the undergradu-
ates to do their part in carrying out the
intention.

It’s a poor rule that won’t work both
ways. Some people don’t believe half
they hear, and some don’t hear half they
believe.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
(The editors do not hold themselves
responsible for opinions expressed in this
column.)

NEW BAN ON BUTTER
To the Editor of the College News:

With peace in sight we need to con-
serve food more than ever, since we will
not only have to continue feeding our
own armies and the allied nations, but
we will also have to feed Germany, who
is surrendering because of starvation.

The new butter ration established by
the government is one-half ounce a meal
for each person. Anyone who takes more
than her square is robbing her neighbor.

The Seniors of Denbigh and Llysyfran
have decided not to eat anything between
meals other than fruit and tea without
sugar and cream. The only exception
will be birthday parties.

This is America’s chance to save Eu-
rope from starvation. Mr. Hoover has
given his word. Don’t be the one to break
it!

Alice Harrison 20,
Cttairman of the Food Conservation
Committee.

To the Editors of the College News:

A question has arisen in the minds of
some persons as to what should consti-
tute conscription work, because of the
wrong connotation of the term
work” so generally applied to conscripted
work.

First, there is the decision allowing
committee work to count as “war work.”
Obviously it is not directly war work, but
it is conscripted work which is necessary
to clear the way for more.and better
actual war work. Those people who have
administrative duties can concentrate
their time and thought on their immedi-
ate work, because they are no longer per-
sonally responsible for mending gar-
ments, knitting and other needful war
work.

Second, the direct war work can, on
the other hand, be more carefully and
steadily accomplished if the organization
and business end has been carefully
looked after, and the workers themselves
are not overwhelmed with other non-
academic work.

Conscription aims at creating an equi-
librium of work in the college community;
it is a reciprocating organ between those
who take care of the business end of col-
lege activities and those who are doing

the work.
Derothy Peters,
Chairman of the Conscription Board.

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vii kad ‘upon as an “oxpetkinent.” and
she “experiment
of a questionnaire which made most
searching inquiry ‘of their very souls.
One gem from the collection is recalled:

“How would you describe your state of
mind if presented unexpectedly with
$5.00, which you could spend either for
railroad fare to go to see a dear friend
whom you had not seen for some time,
or for a ticket for an opera that you had
longed to see, but the money was not
sufficient to cover both and you had no
other means of accomplishing either?”

The sum total of the amusement
afforded Mrs. Smith by these papers we
are only now beginning to understand.

At the end of her discussion of them
shé sdid that she would return them to
us at the end of ten years.

‘To some of us with unidecennials loom-
ing near, and with many doubts in our
minds as to “just what we do think about
things anyway,” it would be interesting
and instructive to ascertain just what
clear-cut and decided ideas on things in
general we held when mature undergrad-
uates.

So—“The time is at hand,” Mrs. Parris
Smith. We “want those presents back!”
A Member of 1911.

To the Editor of the News:

It appears that Arnold Bennett —is
right. Who, by this time, is not aware of
the fact that she is a “human machine”
and that she knows little of the art of
“living”?

Alas! it is all too true: “We certainly
do not learn this art at school to any ap-
preciable extent. At school, we are
taught that it is necessary to fling our
arms and legs to and fro for many hours
per diem.”

But, “you confounded grumbler,” c’est
la guerre.

Mechanically yours,
till the war ends,
Une nuit Blanche.

Will Entertain Mr. Nichols

A reception will be given by the Eng-
lish Club for Mr. Robert Nichols, the war
poet, following his lecture on November
22nd.

Mr. Nichols’ poems, as well as those of
Sorley, Graves, and Sassoon, from which
he will give selections, will be read at
the next meeting of the English Club.

While in Bryn Mawr, Mr. Nichols will
be the guest of President Thomas at the
Deanery.

FRENCH WILL STUDY’ AMERICA

 

M. Cestre Opens Course at the Sorbonne

A course in American Literature and
Civilization has just been instituted at
the Sorbonne under Professor Charles
Cestre, head of the English Department
at Bordeaux, who lectured at Bryn Mawr
last spring on English Poetry. The pur-
pose of the course, according to the New
York Times, is to promote in the sphere
of intellectual interests the same close
and cordial relations between France and
the United States that are now binding
the two republics in other ways.

M. Cestre, who was last year’s Ex-
change Professor to Harvard, has made
several tours of the United States as offi-
celal lecturer of l’Alliance Francaise. He
received a diploma from Harvard in 1897,
having come there from the Sorbonne to
take advantage of the English Depart-
ment.

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Par- described next Sunday at Vespers by spe-|
‘cial speakers.” :

The canvass for pledges to chew causes
wilt be made next week.

The foyer at Geneva, to which the C. A.
last year sent $225, will be told of Sunday
by Mlle. Marthe Sturm, French Scholar.
The foyer is a center of social life for the

foreign students at the University of

Geneva.

M. Scott ’19 will speak on Bates House,
which Bryn Mawr supports entirely. Last
year $1000 was raised. E. Lanier '19 will
speak on the Bryn Mawr Community
Center, to which the contribution last
year was $300.

The Germantown Summer School will
be explained by M. Dent ’20, who worked
there last summer. The purpose of the
summer school is to take little children
off the streets by holding an outdoor kin-
dergarten for them. $200 was Bryn
Mawr’s contribution to this last year.

Miss Applebee will speak on Mr. Tono-
mura’s mission house in Tokyo, last year
given $300; and F. Uchida ’20 on Miss
Tsuda’s school in Japan, which prepares
Japanese girls for higher education in
America.

M. Hardy ’20, chairman of the Finance
Committee, will tell about Dr. Grenfell’s
work among the fishermen of Labrador.
Last year Bryn Mawr sent Dr. Grenfell
$200.

VARSITY ORCHESTRA FORMED

 

Has Nineteen Pieces

Through the initiative of H. Huntting
"19 a Varsity Orchestra has been assem-
bled and will soon be fully organized
along the same lines as the Glee Club.

The Orchestra made its debut Satur-
day evening at the Social Service Party.
It will play at college events throughout
the year and is to have regular orches-
trated scores of music.

At a meeting some time this week a di-
rector, a manager and a treasurer will
be elected.

The nineteen pieces of the orchesira,
chosen from tryouts held last week, are:

Drum—M. K. Southall '21, D. Rogers
’20. Piano—H. Huntting '19, K. Tyler
"19. Banjo—W. Stuart '22. Guitar—L.
Reinhardt '21, E. Hobdy '22. Violin— E.
Howes '19, C. Oppenheimer °19. Saxo-
phone—H. Huntting '19, K. Tyler ‘19.
Banjo Mandolin—M. Archibald ’21. Man-
dolin—Iist, M. Martin 19, E. Biddle ’19, A.
Landon '19, P. Smith ’22, C. La Boiteaux
22; 2d, J. Herrick '20, M. Baldwin ’21, C.
Dimeling ’21, F. Riker ’21, Substitutes—
A. Sanford '20, H. Collins '19, M. Rem-
ington ‘19.

KNITTING MACHINES NEGLECTED

 

The knitting machines have been idle
for want of workers, reports M. Janeway
"19, in charge of the machines during D.
Walton’s absence. From the beginning of
college up to last Saturday only twenty
pairs of socks had been-turned out. Two
machines had been ready for use for six-
teen nights, and three for five nights. In-
structors were on hand. With a liberal
allowance of one pair a night on each
machine, forty-seven pair should have
been completed.

“NO ADMITTANCE” TO PEMBROKE

 

Pembroke West boasts a maid who
rigidly enforces the quarantine rule for-
bidding outsiders to enter the hall. In
one case, however, her efforts were un-
successful. Last week she attempted
grimly to turn away an aunt who called
to see her niece. The “outsider” was the

the ‘Federal Amendment, which is still: in
the balance. Hither Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw or Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt will
be asked to address the club on the sub-
ject of the Amendment, and it is probable
that a suffrage carnival, on the order of
the political rally of two years ago, will
be held in the gymnasium.

The Suffrage Club was enabled by the
kindness of President Thomas to distrib-
ute copies of President Wilson’s speech
on Suffrage among the students.

The News of October 10th printed a
statement by Z. Boynton, president, to
the effect that the club would either be
converted into a civics club for the in-
struction of voters or would be abolished
entirely.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

 

President Thomas’s reception to the
Freshmen will be at 4 o’clock this after-
noon in the Deanery.

1922 has appointed a song committee as
follows: M. Krech, chairman, BE. Ander-
son, F, Bliss, E. Hobdy, A. Nicoll, E. Hall,
C. Skinner, P. Smith, M. Wilcox.

M. Canby ’20 has been elected to the
Maids’ Committee of the C. A, in place of
H. Ferris, who resigned on account of

ts.
ge classes in French under the
new plan are beginning this week. The
four French Scholars will each take three
or four of the classes to assist Miss Dun-
can, Instructor in French.

Five of the non-resident Freshmen, ad-
mitted because they have undergone the
ordeal of influenza, are attending college .
lectures this week for the first. time.
They are: E. Bennett, M. Glasner, M.
Meng, D, Stevenson, and S. Thurlow.

BE. Titcomb has been elected 1922’s
War Council representative.

S. Hand ’22 has been elected secretary

of the Liberty Loan Committee.
The results of the indicating vote taken
in the Senior Class as to the three speak-
ers preferred for baccilaureate were: Dr.
Mutch, 40; Prof. Soares, 28; Dr. Fos-
dick, 23.

The committee for Senior Reception is:
E. Marquand (chairman), F. Allison, M.
Butler, J. Holmes, and F. Howell.

M. Moseley 19 has gone to New York
to meet her brother, Ensign George Mose-
ley, U. S. N. R. F., who is expected in this
country shortly on a thirty days’ leave
from France. During his leave he is to
be married, and Miss Moseley will act as
bridesmaid at the wedding.

D. Clark ’20 has been appointed to the
Cut Committee of the Undergraduate As-
sociation to succeed M. Gregg ’20, who re-
signed.

Items of interest from the newspapers
and government notices will be posted on
the bulletin board in the New Book Room
by the Education Department of the War
Council.

Dr. Potter, at the request of some of
the students, will hold interviews Wednes-
day afternoon, November 13th, frgm three
o'clock on. Students may sign for inter-
views in the gymnasium office.

Captain Boyd Fisher, of the Ordnance
Department in Washington, spoke last
Saturday to the graduate students of the
special course in Industrial Supervision,

 

President of the College.

on the Labor Turn-over.