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The Collese Newe

Published weekly during the college year in the
interests of Bryn Mawr College

Managing Editor........,. FRANCES VON HorsTEN '20

EDITORS
Conesrance M. K, Apptesex Darrue ta CLarK ’20
Maroarer Batiov '20) MLIZABETR KELLOGG '21
Euizasern Cecr, ‘21 ELEANOR Dutugs, '17











ASSOCIATE EDITORS
KATHLEEN JOANSrToN, ‘21 CATHERINE DIMELING, '21
BUSINESS BOARD
CONSTANCE M. K, ApPLEBES AELENE 7 INSsER '20
Mary G. Porrirr '2h), Dororay McBaripe ’21,
E. Mitts, '21
Subscriptions may begin at any time
Subscriptions. $1.50 Mailing Price, $2.00

Watered as second ¢lass matter September 26, 1914, at
the pr st office at Bryn Mawr, Pa., under
the Act of March 3, 1889.





The Sophomores Make News Board

F. Bliss, B. Clark, and M. Wilcox
have been elected associate editors of
the News board, from 1922. They are
the first members of their class to be
represented on the News.

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The Referendum

The national movement for taking col-
lege sentiment on the Peace Treaty has
roused Bryn Mawr from the torpor of
Mid-Years, and Proved to all sceptics
that college students can take a live in-
terest in outside affairs. The first re-
turns from the country-wide vote pre-
dict that the eight hundred institutions
will swing overwhelmingly for ratifica-
tion of the Treaty, with a strong majority
for a compromise.

Bryn Mawr sentiment was recorded as
evenly split between this compromise and
unconditional ratification. Even after
discounting the fact that this divided vote
may have been due to a possible misin-
terpretation of the four propositions, it
is not a misplaced trust that serious
thought was back of each vote cast, and
that division of opinion proves depth of
consideration,

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Bread, Butter and Brains

“Too comfortable fo be intelligent”—
the words a near corollary to a state-
ment by Ordway Tread to the Discussion
Club Monday, are a challenge.

The question was the abolition of pro-
fit and debate turned to the capitalists’
arguments; “how do you meet the ob-
jections?” asked the student. “You are
too well off to understand the need for
reconstruction,” replied the speaker,

Was he right? Must the magnate’s
daughter inevitably take up the losing
battle of private wealth while the tem-
peramental radical necessarily contracts
the prevailing form of radicalism? No,
we will be radical or conservative if we
choose, but as a group, we must be liber-
al.

We are free. No cajoling nor threat-
ening the “future leaders” can force a
stampede to any program we will be in-
tense and loyal but no one should pre-
Suppose our support. No one can win
us by shouting “democracy” and “ser-
vice.” We must keep our eyes clear of









‘the mists of tradition and the too blind-

ing light of the coming years. Reser-
vation of, allegiance is not necessarily
conservatism. An open mind—not an
empty mind—is our highest right. We

_know that we shall have to fight for the
“much

talked “leadership;” you must
know that “you’ve got to show us.”

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The Passing of the Table Cloth

Pointing out that the high cost of
living had driven away all the prettiness
of the dining table, crisp white table
cloth, bright flowers, gleaming glass, and
trim maid servants, a writer in a recent
number of the English “Spectator” urged
that for it be substituted genial conversa-
tion and an effort to create pleasing
atmosphere.

At Bryn Mawr, it is not the high cost

‘of living that makes the dining room a

barren place. A long college table with
its plainly set places can never satisfy
any aesthetic longing. To counteract

‘its depressing influence extra effort on
the part of the diners is necessary. In-
‘stead, woes are poured forth incessantly.









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THE COLLEGE NEws

Latin texts and note books lie among
the dishes.

Midyears approach. The general col-
legiate atmosphere becames tense. And
still the undergraduate will prevent any
relaxation at meal times.

rede ei aS
RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPORTING
OFFENDERS CHALLENGED



Discussion

A heated discussion of the question of
abolishing the rule that every member of
the Association is responsible for report-
ing offenders was the feature of the
monthly meeting of the Self Government
Association Tuesday evening,

M. Hawkins, ’20, maintained that no
one kept the rule and that it was a dead
letter, while M. Dent, ’20, felt that the
difficulty of reporting one’s friends was
too great to justify it, Supporters of
the rule thought that the executive board
would involve into a police force if every
member did not co-operate and urged
that the spirit, not the rule, be changed.
The question was laid on the table until
the February meeting,

It was also decided that names of of-
fenders shall be read in the monthly
meetings. The majority of the Associa-
tion felt that if the names were read
there would be less gossip and the rep-
rimand might be taken more seriously,

Among the other decisions are:

Athletic costumes will be allowed in

Dalton and the Psychological Laboratory
in the library. Men may escort a student
out to Bryn Mawr on the 9.45.
_ The president said that there had been
some confusion in regard to walking off
the campus after dark with a man. There
is no rule against this and the Associa-
tion decided that none was needed.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Acting-President Taft spoke last Tues-

day to the Pennsylvania League of Wom-

en Citizens on “Problems that await us.”
Dr. Fenwick will speak on “The Citi-
zens’ Interest in Good Government,”
February 29, before the Common Cause
Society in Boston.
Dr. George H. Derry acted as toast-
master at a dinner given by the forty

Kansas University graduates from Penn.

sylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey,
which was held December 9, at the Hotel
Vendig in Philadelphia.

Dean Madison, Dr. and Mrs. Tennent.
Dr. and Mrs. Carpenter, Dr. Savage, Dr.
and Mrs. H. w. Wright, and Dr. Ellin
ger received at a tea given by the fa.
culty to the graduate Students last Tues-
day in Rockefeller Hall.

Susan G, Fitzgerald, ’93, (Mrs. Rich-
ard Fitzgerald) described her intpres-
sions of the Jackson Day Dinnér in
Washington, at the Pembroke Hall tea
last Monday, Mrs. Fitzgerald is the
woman member from Massachusetts of
the National Democratic Committee.

Miss Applebee, in the first vespers of
the New Year, spoke last Sunday of the
challenge of the gospel of Christmas as
it comes to the present chaotie world.

M. Carey, ’20, D. Clark.720°-C. Binks
ley, 721. K. Gardener, 722, and F. Martin,
"23, have been asked by Mrs. Caroline
McCormick Slade, National chairman of
the Endowment Campaign, to serve on
the Undergraduate Campaign Commit-
tee. Miss Carey is undergraduate mem-
ber of the National Committee.

Anna R. Dubach, 19, has been appoint-
ed by the Endowment Fund Committee
editor-in-chief of the special Alumnae
number of the News, which will come
out on January 30.

Students who cannot go to Community
Center during examination week are ask-
ed by the Committee to send substitutes
or send word to the Center.

The Religious Meetings Committee
has put up a box on the Christian As-
sociation board in Taylor into which it
is asking everyone to put suggestions
both for Vespers speakers and for
changes in the service.





America Faces Crisis in Education



Specially Contributed by Eliot Wadsworth
Chairman, Harvard Endowment Fund
It becomes more evident every day

that the plight of the college professor
is not confined to any one college or
group of colleges. The profession of
teaching in colleges is threatened all
over America.

The reasons given are always the
same: First, the existing staff is suffer-
ing from the high cost of living; the col-
lege is unable to give a square deal
and a living wage to the men without
whom no college can exist. Second,
the recruiting of teachers has become
almost impossible.

Call of Commercial Life Too Strong

Men of upusual intellectual attain-
ments, who would be selected by col-
lege faculties to carry on the work of
teaching, cannot see the possibility of
self-support in the meager salary of $100
a month which is offered as a beginning
Even if they are inclined to try; and
anxious to follow the profession of
teaching, the call of commercial life.
with its promise of financial reward,
greater at the beginning and limited in
the future only by their own abilities, is
a strong one.

In every college the men who were
already absorbed in the profession of
teaching and whose associations and
friendships are well established are car-
rying on as best they may. The discour-
agement of trying to keep up to a high
Standard of education under the con-
stantly increasing handicap of an inade-
quate staff, is almost as hard upon these
older men as their own individual trou-
bles with the rent and the grocer’s
bill.

Colleges of Country are Priceless Plants

The colleges of America are among
her greatest assets. . They have grown
in number and in size as the nation has
srown. The money available today for
carrying on these priceless plants which
belong to us all is insufficient. Like
any public service corporation they
must have enough income to pay ex-
penses and upkeep.

It is not only those who have had the
benefit of a college education who should
feel called upon in this emergency. Thei:
number is less than one per cent. of ow
total population. The other millions
have benefited directly or indirectly from
the work done by our colleges. School
teachers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, min-
isters, trusted public officials, have beer:
able to carry on for the community their
individual work because of what the col.
leges gave them,

Prime Needs of America is fer Trained
Minds

America’s place is unique. We have
everything that we had before the war
and infinitely more. Our industry has
developed in four years beyond any-
thing we could have hoped without the
stimulus of war demands. We have be.
come the main reliance of millions of
people for food and raw material with
which they may make a new start. We
have a heritage from this world catas
trophe which Staggers the imagination.
Whether we do well or ill with it de-
pends on each of us andcon our collec-
tive effort.

Like an army, we must have officers.
It is upon the type of men who are ai-
lowed to lead during the next few years
in education, in commerce, in banking
and in politics, that our future great.
ness will depend. The colleges are ask.
ing for funds which must be considere i
as the best insurance for the future that
the nation can provide.

All told, the amounts asked are not
much more than’the first war fund ask
ed by the American Red Cross—$100,.
000,000. America gave this fund gladly

Today we are faced with anothe:
form of emergency. On meeting thai
emergency depends much of our future
American business success.













Drive Opens in Philadelphia

Dr. James Leuba was among the
speakers at a meeting of the Philadel-
phia branch of the Alumnae Association,
held last Thursday at the Acorn Club.

Dr. Leuba, who spoke on the economic
situation of the college professor, was
followed by Mrs. Francis Slade, National
Chairman of the Endowment Drive, who
described the effort being made for one
hundred per cent. organization before
the Alumnae meeting on January 31,
Mrs. Slade pointed out the importance
of the third campaign zone, Pegnsylvan-
ia and Delaware, as virtually the home
zone of the endowment drive.

Miss Gertrude Ely, chairman of the
Philadelphia Committee, announced the
appointment of local committees and the
opening of Philadelphia headquarters at
the College Club.

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SOCIAL SETTLEMENT WORK IS
DESCRIBED BY MRs. WHITE



Not for Poor, but for Under Dog

“Settlement houses are for rich and
poor alike; they do more at present for
the poor man because he is the under
dog,” said Mrs, Eva Whiting White, head
worker of the New York College Set-
tlement, who spoke last Thursday eye-
ning on “Community Service,” in the
course on Social Problems,

“The settlement house aims,” said Mrs,
White, “to bring about an understanding
between people with different back-_
grounds. It is an intensive proposition,
trying to know a few people well. Each
house is responsible for only a certain
area of the city.”

Two-fifths of the settlement work, ae-
cording to Mrs, White, is carried on
within the four walls of the settlement
house, and three-fifths outside. Within
the walls are activities like discussion
clubs, and work with children, which
soon swing into larger activities in con-
nection with school work and legisla-
tion.

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Maeterlinck Lecture Cancelled

Luck was against the Philadelphia En-
dowment Committee last Monday, when
M. Maurice Maeterlinck failed to appear
for the lecture scheduled under their aus-
pices at the Academy of Music.

After a weekend uncertainty increased
by the mysterious disappearance of the
Poet between New York and Washing-
ton, Miss Gertrude Ely, chairman of the
local committee, received Monday a
wire expressing M, Maeterlinck’s regret
that “through no fault of his own” he
would not be allowed to speak that night
in Philadelphia.

A falling out between the poet and his
booking agency over M. Maeterlinck’s
“Phonetic English” is blamed for his fail-
ure to appear in Philadelphia, At any
Tate, to quote one newspaper, ‘“Phila-
delphia was not a port in the poet’s ‘Un-
known Shore.’”

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Faculty Concert for Endowment Fund in
Gymnasium Saturday
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5.
Mme. de Montoliu
Gladys Leuba
a.) Mazurka (Mme. de Montoliu), Chopin
b.) Ase’s Death (Gladys Leuba), Grieg
¢.) Morning Mood (Gladys Leuba),

Grieg
6.
Mrs. David Tennent.
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Professor Brunel
Mazurka and Obertasse ...., Wienearsk

8.
Mr. Noah Swayne (Mr. de Montoliu, .
accompanist)
a.) Freebooter’s Cradle Song... Wallace
o) \ Know Amin... Whelpely
c.) Negro Spirituals
I’Tis Me, Oh Lord.
II.Didn’t It Rain? ........ Burleigh