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Lest We Forget
The British Day, which we as a people
celebrated last week, was very inspiring
in its call to a closer Anglo-American
friendship. Now that it is over, let us not
for a moment forget our respect and love
_ for the great British nation. In the past
we have criticized her and at times even
mistrusted her. German propaganda is
making the most of this old feeling. As
educated and right-minded Americans let
us try to look beyond surface prejudices

to the true genius of Britain.

 

Joys and Glooms

There are two kinds of people in col-
lege—grumblers and other people. A
grumbler is one who has more quizzes
than anyone else, who dislikes carrots
and talks about it, who hates drill and
does her best to make everyone else hate
it. A grumbler is glad hockey is over,
but sorrier that gymnasium is beginning.
“Other people” do not need to be de-
scribed—their scarcity makes them con-
spicuous. They are everything that
grumblers are not. It is their small mi-
nority that makes college a decent place
to live in. Stop and think: to which
class do you belong?

To the Editor of the College News:
Everyone is opposed to conscription
now that the war is over, but the recent
decided slump in war work, and especially
in garment mending, shows that some-
thing must be done. Those who do not
think that even a modified form of con-
scription is justified now that the war is
over, must prove that we can maintain

our former high standard of efficiency by ©

going to the Red Cross voluntarily.
Some kind of class or college compul-
sion will be necessary if public opinion
does not improve the attendance. In the
last two weeks only two workers in all
appeared at the workroom, as compared
to thirty-five a day under conscription.
Adelaide Landon 1919,
Head of Red Cross Workroom.

CHRISTMAS CARDS SOLD TO HELP
FRENCH CHILDREN

Christmas cards for the benefit of the
fatherless children of France are on sale
in all the halls. A ten cent card will keep
a child for one day, a three dollar card
for one month, and a thirty-seven and a
half dollar card for one year.

The number of cards available is lim-
ited, but ten-cent cards and some five-
cent postcards will be sold outside the
hall dining-rooms on Thursday and Fri-
day nights. Orders for the others can
be given to A. Sanford, Rockefeller; G.
Hess, Pembroke; C. Cameron, Denbigh;
BE. Donohue, Merion, and H. Hill, Radnor.

 

The News wishes to correct a typo
graphical error in the notice of Mrs.
Sage’s gift to the college. The News
understands that the annual income of
about $200,000, instead of $20,000 (as was
stated in the News for November 27th)
would be required to enable the college
to join the professors’ pension fund of the
Carnegie Foundation.

Notice

Dean Taft wishes to announce that she.

would be glad to see any Seniors who
may wish to make use of the Appoint-
ment Bureau.

: | cwith Apologies to Me Mr. Helaire Betoe)

| Marie was her slain mitts
( | She asked them questions on the side.
3°! Both French and Spanish she could speak

‘And loved to write reports in Greek. —
But in a case of Principle :
Her stand was quite invincible.
When her professors told her they
Would give her two weeks’ holiday,
She firmly said it was too soon
'To come back Friday afternoon.
She braced herself against the door
And said she would take two days more.
She did not heed their warning cries
That she would be demoralized.

* * * * * *
That week-end, as I’ve heard related,
Marie was dreadful dissipated.
She saw the way the tiger roams
In Africa, with Burton Holmes.
A chocolate soda filled her tummy,
And caramels all soft and gummy,
The night of Saturday she read
“The Youth’s Companion” in her bed,
When morning came her mother knocked
Upon the door, but it was locked.
In fright she battered down the door
To find Marie upon the floor,
Who scratched, and clawed, and screamed

and bit

The carpet, and then swore at it.
The girl, as you perhaps surmised,
Was totally demoralized.

* * * * i *
If you would shun that awful fate,
Return on the required date.
The safest place for you is here,
In academic atmosphere.

TEN EXTRA VOICES TO AID CHOIR
IN CAROL SINGING

 

Waits Start from Library at Eight

 

With the addition of ten extra voices,
the choir will make its rounds next
Wednesday evening, singing the old Eng-
lish carols according to custom.

They will start from the Library at
eight in the evening and go to the Dean-
ery first. From there they will go to
Rockefeller, Pen-y-groes, Yarrow West
and East, along College Hill by Miss
Maddison’s, Dr. Beck’s, and Dr. Scott’s, to
Low Buildings, then to Mrs. Abernethy’s,
Radnor, Merion, Denbigh, the Infirmary,
and Pembroke.

The choir will sing the Sanctus at the
Sunday evening service before Christmas.

COLLEGE OBSERVES BRITISH DAY
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rise the small ‘pill-boxes,’ put up by the
Germans during their first advance as a
protection for their machine guns. The
British converted these into field hos-
pitals, as any other shelters became at
once a target for German shell-fire.”

In the last battle of Passchendael Ridge,
Lieut. Kersley’s company was sent to the
front to reinforce a weak section of the
line, and out of one hundred and fifty men
he was the only one to come back. When
walking to the rear for fresh troops he
was twice buried by shell explosions and
was wounded in the leg.

Lieut. Kersley has been addressing
workingmen under the auspices of the
United States Shipping Board.

QUESTION OF DATES OF VACATION
BEFORE FACULTY TOMORROW
NIGHT

The desire of the undergraduates that
the dates of the Christmas vacation be
changed will be submitted to the Faculty
at their meeting tomorrow night (Thurs-
day) in the form of a sense of the Under-
graduate meeting of last Wednesday.
The proposed change would involve an
extra day’s session before the vacation,
so that college could reassemble on Mon-
day, January 6th, rather than on Friday,
January 3d, without loss of academic

 

work.

      

 

ican troops along the Western front all
the way from Arras to the Swiss border,

{Captain Herman, who addressed ‘the

French Club last Monday, has been
wounded twice and decorated with the
Croix de Guerre with two stars. -

_ Captain Herman saw service at Rheims,
Verdun, and in the Vosges. Describing

the havoc wrought in Rheims by both

German and French shell-fire, he declared
that the cathedral can still be restored,
though the rose window and many fa-
mous statues are shattered beyond recall.
A large part of the population remained
throughout the bombardment, living in
an elaborate system of tunnels beneath
the city.

The fighting in the Vosges Captain
Herman characterized as scarcely war at
all. During three months there he only
lost one man. The fighting was confined
to occasional raids for prisoners.

Before the war Captain Herman was a
professor at a French university. He
holds the degree of Agrégé des Lettres
from the Sorbonne.

PLAN C. A. CABINET CONFERENCE

 

Other Colleges To Be Represented

A Cabinet Conference on the Adminis-
tration of a Christian Association is being
planned by the C. A. and will be held
here some time in January. Christian
Association presidents and representa-
tives from several other colleges will be
invited and Miss Grace Hutchins ’07 will
be asked to speak:

There will be three meetings, one of
the C. A. Board with the representatives
from other colleges, one including the
C, A. Cabinet, and one open meeting.

PIETY AND RELIGION CONTRASTED

 

Religion Does Not Flee from Problems,
Declares Dr. Matthews

“Acute enthusiasm is easier than a
chronic sense of duty,” said Dr. Shailer
Matthews, of Chicago University, preach-
ing in chapel last Sunday on the differ-
ence between piety that seeks refuge
after fighting, and religion that faces the
impending problems of internationalism.
To illustrate the religious spirit, he
quoted the story of Nehemiah.

Nehemiah, builder of a little nation,
was opposed by odds like those of today.
He faced the labor problem, organizing
himself into a labor bureau to make men
work and fight. In the réle of Red Cross
Society he induced the profiteers to con-
tribute their mortgages to capital for the
poor. When, after discouragements, he
was tempted to seek refuge in religious
life, he refused to desert his duty.

This sort of loyalty is found today in
devotion to the nation whose mission is
helpfulness, declared Dr. Matthews. Such
nations, in their relations to each other,
are Gigat Britain and the United States,
whose democracy is not that of the Bol-
sheviki, but Anglo-Saxon, based on hu-
man experience in God.

ALUMNA NOTES

 

Dora Shipley ’17 and Betty Granger '17
are taking a nurses’ training course at
the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Virginia Litchfield "17 has sailed for
France.

Katherine Branson ’09 is secretary at
Miss Madeira’s School, Washington.

Margery Brown ex-’16 is Instructor in
English at Stephens College, Columbus,
Mo.

Grace Bartholomew °13 is head of the
Department of English at Miss Mills’
School, Philadelphia.

Alice Beardwood '17 is teaching Latin
and Mathematics at the Flagler School,
Jacksonville, Fila.

Katherine Clifford ex-’'20 is teaching in
the primary department and is instructor
in athletics at the Waynefleet School in
Portland, Maine.

‘Belided with, Poetieh, Dettish, nti mee

 

       

Third Group of students to

Enter in
ov ’

 

(The tent ie ‘the Bryn Mawr courses in
Industrial Supervision began last June.
A second group of students entered in
the fall, and a third will enter in Febru-
ary when the first group graduates. The
courses were organized by Professor
Susan M. Kingsbury, who enlisted the
Government's co-operation and arranged
for the financing. They are given under
the direction of Miss Anna Bezanson,
A.M., who has made the following state-
ment for the News of the coursés’ aims
and methods.)

The Bryn Mawr Industrial Courses
cover a training period of eight months.
During the war the groups overlapped in
order to graduate three classes in six-
teen months. Only college women with
a background of training in economics —
and sociological problems are admitted
for study. :

The method of training is to provide
four months of field experience uninter-
rupted by college work. During this
time students are placed in industrial
Plants with well-organized Employment
Departments. To arrange for this the
Director of the Course personally visits
each plant and explains to the superin-
tendent and employment manger the pur-
pose of the experience and enlists them
in securing to the student as great
variety as possible. In what way does
the firm benefit? Rarely is such a ques-
tion asked by a business official. Busi-
ness firms are becoming more and more
alive to the fact that an industrial
enterprise is not a self-sufficient factor
in a community and that it has a con-
tribution to make to the industrial edu-
cation of the community as well as to
the net product.

Experience Always the First Object
The student goes for real experience,
not for observation or information. She

{usually gets “hired” in the regular way,

passing any mental or physical tests
requisite to employment. Being wholly
new to the organization, she is usually
placed first in the Employment Depart-
ment to learn the routine of the office and
perform any work which can be entrusted
to her. Frequently errands from the of-
fice bring the students into different
parts of the works. Having gained an
idea of the employment policies she is
given a job in the shop to enable her to
see the labor problem in the light of shop
processes and conditions. Every three or
four days she is transferred to a new job.
She learns in this way the difficulties of a
new employee, the necessity of careful in-
struction, and the difference in depart-
ment needs and methods. After the shop
experience she returns to the Employ-
ment Department, able to appreciate its
activities in a wholly new way.

The schedule of the student is invari-
ably arranged by the employment man-
ager and assistants. Whether or not the
student is known to co-workers in the
shops is wholly a matter for plant execu-
tives to decide. In a few cases managers
have felt that better training with less
window-dressing would be secured if stu-
dents went to work as new employees in
the department. Foremen who know the
arrangement ordinarily take special pains
to have other processes in their depart-
ment explained.

Weekly Trips to Philadelphia Firms
The four months spent at Bryn Mawr

consists of theoretical work combined
with some field experience. Firms in
Philadelphia and nearby suburbs have ar-
ranged to let students work in Employ-
ment Departments on Mondays of each
week, the same student going to the same
firm each: Monday. On Thursdays ob-
servation trips are arranged, the students
going in groups of five to each firm vis-

ited. ‘

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