F. fissile Guile toniennine edi- tor of the News for this issue. Date of “News” Changed Beginning with this issue the News will be dated Wednesday, rather than Thurs- day, and will be given out on campus Wednesday night. Mailed copies are sent out early Thursday morning. Sub- scribers who do not receive their copies promptly are asked to notify the Post Office. Other Colleges The cabinet conference with represent- atives from Mt. Holyoke and Vassar ful- filled the double mission of bringing the Bryn Mawr C. A. in contact with the or- ganization and problems of the other col- leges and of making the cabinet feel it- self as a body united with the executive board. Meeting with other colleges, as in the War Service and Self-Government Conferences and exchanging college papers, is bound to bring in new blood and new ideas and to have a generally broadening influence on the colleges con- cerned, Bryn Mawr’s prevailing fault, it is usually agreed, is self-satisfaction and aloofness from the other colleges, but this is usually from ignorance. Bryn Mawr’s size may prevent it from adopting many of the methods of larger colleges, but this is all the more reason for its trying to find good ideas which can be applied here, getting outside the four walls of the cam- pus and making every effort to keep alive to what other colleges are doing. Still to be Neat—Still to Drest! Were our childhood friend, Slovenly Peter, to wander about the campus these days he would undoubtedly meet many relatives. At classes, in the village, and above all at dinner he could not fail to recognize his little sister, telling her even from afar off by her fuzzy wig and glori- ous emancipation from the conventional hook and eye. Whether by temperament or by phy- sique she is an athlete par excellence, and loves to dress in character, refusing to abandon even at dinner the costume of her kind. Especially does she cling to the kindly gym shoe, delighting in the soft scuffing sound it makes in Taylor and along the village asphalt. Of all articles of dress, however, a battle-scarred middy- blouse is her favorite, though now seri- ously rivalled by the T-shirt for evening wear. It may be that Slovenly Peter, during his recent. years in the army has been forced to depart somewhat from the ways of his youth. If so he will probably be grateful to his little sister for keeping up the family traditions. MRS. GIBSON EX-'18 DIES IN FRANCE Mrs. Adeline Pepper Gibson ex-’18 died |in the v 8. Medical Corps. LETTERS To THE EDITOR To the Editors of the College News: The general opinion at Bryn Mawr is | that Pay Day is a success. The bills are collected apparently without any trouble, and no one is bothered by being con- stantly dunned for ten cents for this and fifteen cents for that. But all the work falls on one or two girls in each hall and each pay day means for some of them as much as eight houfs’ work or even more. It seems to me that the position of hall collector ought to be paid positions. The collectors certainly do as much work per hour as is required by any of the paid positions in college. They might receive a certain percentage of the bills they col- lect, or be paid by the hour or by the ‘semester. And is it generally understood that bills for small picnics and parties are to be collected by the hall collector? This has been done, but it does seem to be abusing the privilege of pay day. Clara E. Hollis '19. To the Editor of the College News: One thing gleaned from the Cabinet Conference of the C. A. with other col- leges was, I think, the fact that other col- leges seemed to possess more Christian intelligence than we have at Bryn Mawr. Their classes and meetings seem to be planned and worked out with a definite purpose in view and an intellectual grasp of modern religious thought. This may be partly due to the Faculty interest in other colleges which would bring another point of view into their associations. But whatever the reason, couldn’t we develop to some extent this more educational side of the C. A. instead of the somewhat hit- or-miss classes and meetings under the present system? Chanticleer. SCORN NOT THE SONNET Since the very souls of the members of the Second Year English Class have been laid bare by the compulsory composition of sonnets, we have entered upon a new realization of the almost universal mor- bid-mindedness of our friends. Girls who before seemed gay even to a point of friv- olity are now seen in their true colors: “clothed in the sabler tints of woe.” The company commander and orchestra leader, who poured forth her feelings on Revenge, will never more be misunder- stood; though she assume a mask of mirth, even approaching raucous jollity, it will never be forgotten that beneath this smiling exterior is concealed an in- ner being of Byronic bitterness. “Die, thou beast!” says she magnificently (re- ferring to the Kaiser, of course—and em- boldened by the “clarion blast” of Peace, referred to in a previous line). What a relief it must have been for her thus to vent her splendid inclination. One of less sanguine temperament chooses Friendship as best expressing her personality. Even she, however, is not untainted by the cynicism of the day: “Although the fangs of jealousy extend And like a rodent when his prey he brings Into his lair and soon aside it flings, Then gnaws again—they gnaw our faith, my friends.” One feels that this writer may have been a bit unfortunate in the selection of her comrades. ‘Even our veteran campus insurance broker has assumed a new aspect. Who would have guessed that under her blue gym suit there throbbed a sorrowing heart; that above her apparently prac- See ee | But freedom for this mortal ne’er can be ; Till to my resting place at last I go. But yet this world is not so hellish bad, And that I’m here I asservate* I'm glad. And while this great round ball is clad in green It has an antic grace, a lovely sheen. So while I can before it is too late I'll live my life and leave the rest to fate.” Ah, yes! Even sonnets enrich our un- *This is not a misprint. STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITIES OF FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND HELPED BY BRYN MAWR CONTRIBUTIONS An account of work among the students of foreign universities, to which Bryn Mawr has been contributing, has been sent to the college by Miss Ruth Rouse, travelling secretary of the World’s Stu- dent Christian Federation. She writes: “I know that at Bryn Mawr, as in all the American colleges, the girls are deeply interested in war work. You will easily see, I think, that what the World’s Student Christian Federation is doing in various countries in Europe has a vital bearing on war problems, and especially in preparing for the work of reconstruc- tion in some of the countries which have been devastated, notably in the Balkans and in Belgium. I am sending you two special reports, one on the work in Geneva and the other about. the women’s student conference at MAlons, in France. Many Foyers for French Students “FRANCE. The French Student Move-; ment has passed through deep waters this year. Their travelling secretary, Monsieur Charies Grauss, was killed at the front in August, and the Serbian sec- retary, Monsieur Jovitchitch, appointed for special work amongst the Serbian stu- dents, died in June. “The women’s work, however; has made marked progress. Next year they hope to have two or three conferences, such as the one at MAlons, in different parts of the country. Foyers are in full working order in Paris, Lyons, Montpel- lier and Toulouse. In each of these there is a secretary, giving her time to the work of the foyer and the Student Chris- tian Association. In Paris there are two secretaries. The Toulouse foyer is the latest addition. In Paris, thanks to gen- erous help from America, we have been able to open the longed-for hostel for women students in the Latin quarter. It is to hold fifty students. “In contrast to the work in the past, the large majority of the. students touched by our work are French. But this is because we have gained ground amongst the French, not because we have lost it amongst the foreign stu- dents. I think it is not too much to say that practically every Serbian woman stu- dent studying in the French universities today is in close touch with the French Student Christian Movement. We had hoped to have the same close tie with the men, but the death of M. Jovitchitch has hindered the fulfilment of our dream. Open Hostel in Geneva “SWITZERLAND. As you will see from the report from Geneva, this year has been a year of progress. The Hostel has been started, and already enlarged, the Foyer has moved into new and larger quarters, a Bureau de Traveil has been begun, and has proved a great success, doing away largely with the need for monetary help for students. A summer house for students has also been run throughout the summer vacation. EYEWITNESS. OF. BOXER UPRISING, : _ SUNDAY NIGHT SPEAKER ; A refugee’ of the Boxer rebellion, Dr. 7 John BE. Williams, professor at Nanking University, China, will preach the ser- mon Sunday night in chapel. Dr. Wil- liams has been on leave of absence in When in China at the time of the Boxer trouble, he and his family were forced to escape to Japan. Dr. Williams is work- ing. under the Presbyterian Board of For- “- Missions. OUTSIDE WORKERS TELL OF RED CROSS AT HOME AND ABROAD The work of the Red Cross at home and abroad was pictured in the Red Cross workroom in Merion last Thursday by Mrs. Ewing, head of the Reclamation De- partment of the Main Line branch of the Red Cross, and her sister, Miss Dewey, a navy nurse just returned from foreign service, . Mrs. Ewing described the shortage in new uniform underwear which makes the Red Cross mending so important just now. Workers are falling off, she said, but the present allotment of garments to the Main Line must be finished very soon, If more garments than are needed by our soldiers are mended, they will be sent to refugees abroad. A Carmelite nunnery at Brest, to which men from torpedoed boats were brought, was the scene of much of Miss Dewey’s work abroad. Sick men often had to leave their beds to make room for more desperate cases, the congestion was so great. Miss Dewey had been near Sois- sons and Chateau-Thierry last’ summer, and said that in every emergency the Red Cross had provided for all wants of both patients and nurses with more prompt- ness than could have been hoped for. IAN HAY’S LECTURE (Continued from page 1.) While in England last summer, Major Beith directed the sending of British speakers to this country, and headed the committee for the reception of American delegations to England. He is now at work on a book called The Last. Million, describing the American soldiers’ point of view regarding the “oddities“ of Great Britain. A dramatization by Major Beith of his novel, Happy-Go-Lucky, will be presented in London this spring. Major Beith’s Forecast Fulfilled— A. E. F. Can Spend Leave in England The hope expressed last Saturday by Major Beith that American soldiers would soon be allowed to spend their leaves in England, is to be realized this week, ac- cording to an article in The New York Times. The United States Government has granted the request of Great Britain that England and Scotland be included in the leave area, and soldiers are ex- pected to arrive at the rate of one hun- dred and fifty a day. Many English homes, according to. Major Beith, will be opened to the Ameri- cans. Rest stations have been estab- lished at Stratford-on-Avon and Edin- burgh. ALUMNA NOTES Gladys Byrant ex-'17 is an assistant in the New York branch of the State Health Department; her special work is on Was- serman tests. Adelaide Shaffer "18 is a reconstruction aide at the U. S. General Hospital No. 11, Cape May, New Jersey. Miss Shaffer took a course in Physiotherapy last sum- mer at Columbia.