Why Wait Till Easter? A stretch of ten weeks between mid- year and Easter vacation is bound to have a deadening effect upon everyene’s effort and enthusiasm, an effect which the short crowded weeks after Easter by no means serve to remedy. Yet such is the schedule to which we are bound when- ever there happens to be a late Waster. Many other colleges avoid this unequal distribution of work by having a fixed spring vacation, for instance, the last week in March and the first week in April. Certainly the advantages of hav- ing a vacation midway in the semester are unquestionable, such a vacation af- fording just the relaxation necessary to save a certain per cent of our number from “breakdowns.” For this second se- mester vacation to be dependent upon a “movable feast” (which always seems to fall, perversely, at just the wrong time), defeats one of the chief ends which the vacation should serve. Hunting the Snark Hunting the snark is nothing to hunt- ing books in the reserve room, for the simple reason that there are no books— it’s alla myth. Two minor French classes of thirty students each have been trying to survive on one copy of each required reading book. There are said to be copies in the hall libraries, but they are rare and transient. A class of sixty in Poets are reduced to the same situation—and what books there are belong to the professor. Is not there some way by which the col- lege can save enough money to buy—say one book for every fifty people. Much as the Bryn Mawr student loves her food there are times before quizzes when she would willingly sacrifice mushrooms and other expensive accessories for a chance at some illusive book. Sophomore Rules The term class spirit has been anath- ema ever since an incident effectively staged in Bryn Mawr village a year ago last fall. That incident sounded the death-knell of the Radical faction then in control, and the Conservatives, with their doctrine of sisterly, but not necessarily Class-sisterly love, have been in the as- cendant ever since. They are now beginning to assert their power in a positive way. They propose that Sophomore rules be applied with more gentle ministrations. No more gowned figures and dark cellars may be the attributes of the “Reading of the Rules.” Maybe, instead, the rules will come to be posted in Taylor or announced : " Aligone who in taterested please soo me} ly after chapel any morning in Taylor. Helen Emily Kingsbury, Chairman of the Social Service Committee. : IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM Some of the war poetry suggested by Miss Spurgeon in her lecture here last fall, has just been received by the New Book Room from Bngland. Included are Mariborough and Other Poems, by C. H. Sorley (third edition with illustrations in prose), who, according to Masefield, would have been the greatest English dramatic poet since Shakespeare, if he had lived. The Old Way and Other Poems, by Captain Ronald Hopwood, R. N., of which Miss Spurgeon read. The Old Way, as “embodying the spirit of the British Navy.” Songs of Youth and War, P. H. B. Lyon, M.C. London: Erskine MacDonald. Soldier Poets—Songs of the Fighting Men, compiled by Galloway Kyle, in two series. A collection of new poems, not previously published in volume form, by Captain Julian Grenfell, Edward Mel- bourne, Sergeant J. W. Street, Sorley, and others, which “record the aspirations, emotions, and experiences of men of all ranks and branches of the army.” Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg, ‘‘dis- tinguished by the trenchant note of social criticism and by its vision of a better social order.” While Paris Laughed, by Leonard Mer- rick, “being the Pranks and Passions of the Poet Tricotin.” Walking Shadows—Sea Tales and Others, by Alfred Noyes. Bleven short stories with wartime plots. 1918: Stokes and Co, Colour Studies in Paris, by Arthur Sy- mons. Collection of essays on French writers and life in the French capital in the nineties. Freely illustrated with car- toons, photographs, etc. Contains 4 chap‘er on Yvette Guilbert. 1918: Dutton and Co. The Book of Lincoln, compiled by Mary Wright Davis. An anthology of poems and prose extracts dealing with Abraham Lincoln, supplemented by quotations from his speeches. Illustrated with photo- graphs of Lincoln statues and of places connected with his life. 1919: Doran Co. Art from Japan Japanese art work in two valuable col- lections has been purchased by the Library for the Art Seminary. They were both edited in Tokyo by the Shimbi Shoin Society, and imported from Japan. One yolume contains reproductions of the work of Kano Motonabu, a great Japanese painter. The printing is in Japanese, and the book opens at the back, tied by thongs within its box cover. The second book, “Japanese Temples and Their Treasures,” contains five hun- dred plates and colored wood-cuts, with critical studies in English. This edition, limited to two hundred copies, was pre- pared by His Imperial Majesty’s Commis- sion to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, “for the purpose of presenting an ade- quate idea of our art to the American at Vespers. people.” Service—Dr. Elizabeth Kemper Adatns, Head of Professional Women’s Section, U. 8S. Employment Service, Washington, DC. Employment under Private Firm or Corporation — Lieutenant-Colonel Robert C. Clothier, formerly member of the Com- mittee on Classification of Personnel in the Army, and Employment Manager of the Curtis Publishing Company. The Community in Relation to Industry —Mrs. Eva Whiting White, Member of the Federal Commission on Living Condi- tions, United States Department of La- bor, formerly head Blizabeth Peabody House, Boston, and Director of the Bos- ton School Centers; Elect Head Worker of the New York College Settlement. Discussion by Miss Ernestine Fried- mann, Field Work Executive Secretary, Industrial Section, National Board of the Y. W. C. A. SATURDAY, 2. P. M. Medicine and Public Health The Physician and Public Health—Dr. Martha G. Tracy, Women’s Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia. The Physician Abroad—-Dr. Dorothy Child, lately returned from work with a Pedriatic Unit in France. Medical Social Service—Miss Katherine Tucker, Director Visiting Nurse Associa- tion, Philadelphia. Discussion by Miss Antoinette Canon 07, head of Social Service Department of University Hospital, Philadelphia. Madame Breshkovskaya Wil! Russian Revolution (Continued from page 1.) a young nobleman, a liberal, she realized no improvement could be brought about until the autocratic government was over- thrown. Leaving her home, she lived among the peasants, suffering with them, teaching them, until for her revolutionary ideas she was imprisoned, and sent to Siberia for more than twenty years. After her release, she continued to rouse the peas- ants, avoiding the police by tricks. Cap tured again, she was exiled until the revo- lutionary outbreak. Fights Red Guards at 73 “With the end of Russian autocracy Madame Breshkovskaya was hailed as the foremost of Russia’s deliverers,” says the “Literary Digest.” “Then, under the bloodier autocracy, although she was 73 years old, she took up the fight against Leniné, Trotzky, and the Red Guards. ‘To get to this country to enlist help, she rode horseback scores of miles, lay in hiding from them, ran risks, and endured priva- tions most women 50 years younger would have hesitated before attempt- ing.’” Tickets for Madame Breshkovskaya’s lecture may be obtained from D. Smith, Pembroke West, for $1.00; members of the college, 75 and 50 cents. Tell of Foundation (an Association for Social /dith”; and “Mr. Berenson Paints Giensee United States Federal Employment} Guidance), Philadelphia. Painting.” In the same nuniber Sefiorita SATURDAY, 9.80 A. M. Dorado has an article on “The Charm of Industrial Supervision and Employment |Spanish Fairy Lore.” - Management Pr. Wright will speak in chapel Friday Thomas’s absence the Department of His- tory and Economics has taken over Mon- day morning talks in chapel, and the De- partment of Social Economy the talks on Wednesday mornings. At the faculty tea for the graduate stu- dents, to be given in Denbigh tomorrow afternoon, those receiving will be: Dr. and Mrs. William Roy Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Frank, Dr. and Mrs. Tennant, Dr. and Mrs. David, Miss E. Noyes, Miss Franklin and Dr, Fenwick. C. La Boiteaux is Freshman song leader for M. Krech, who has resigned on -ac- count of merits. R. Neel has been elected permanent water-polo captain for 1922. An anonymous gift of $151 has been re- ceived by the Christian Association. $100 will go to the Armenians as designated by the donor and $51 will go towartis the tm- stallment of a new heating plant in the College Settlement House in Philadel- phia by the decision of the board. B. Clarke '22 has been elected to the Bates House Committee in the place of B. Donohue '22, who resigned on account of merits. The part of “An Old Woman” in Senior Play will be taken by Elizabeth Biddle. J. Palache '22 will serve on the Food Conservation Committee for C. Baird ’22, who has resigned on account of merits. M. Kennard ‘22 will fill Miss Baird's place on the Employment Bureau Com- mittee. L. Kellogg has been elected 1920's song leader in place of M. Carey, who resigned. H. Huntting 19 will be Major-Géneral Stahley in the Glee Club operetta, in place of G. Hess 20. ®Wdward, sergeant of police, is J. Peabody ’19. Dancing is to be allowed by the Bryn Mawr School Board in the part of the school building used by the Community Center. Miss Hilda Smith "10 has been trying to get this permission for many months. Until now all dances have been given in the Fire House. Mr. Edward C. Newton, author of “The Amenities of Book-Collecting,” may speak to the Englich Club on “Old Books.” Blizabeth Fuller has been elected toast- mistress for the Senior Fellowship Din- ner to be held next Friday, March 21, in Rockefeller. 1922 May-Drop Sophomore Rules The Freshman Class is considering the question of abolishing Sophomore rules hext year. At a meeting held today, after the News went to press, a plan was brought up, accorditig to which the tradi- tiots of college etiquette should be ex- plained to the entering Freshmen by the Sophomores at a joint meeting of the two classes. ie et a es biti aoe De , Ba AE nee Reta orig 88, Mae 92 hg : i se oaacie aaa 3 est gs, :