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BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, FEBUARY 26, 1920

Price 5 Cents





-M. LOUIS CONS OF PRINCETON
TO SPEAK FOR FRENCH CLUB
‘Won Croix de Guerre at Verdun

“Souvenirs d’un Ecouteur” (At the
Listening Post) will be the subject of
the lecture to be given in the chapel
next Saturday evening under the au-
spices of the French Club, by M. Louis
Cons, of Princeton University. Profes-
sor Cons was Associate in French at
Bryn Mawr from 1911 to 1914.

In August, 1914, he was teaching at
the summer school of Columbia Univer-
sity, and upon the news of the mobiliza-
tion, he and Madame Cons, who is an
American, took the first boat for France,
so that M. Cons might join his regiment,
the 112th Infantry (Corps Alpin). He
was in active service during the entire
war, being for ten months an “ecouteur
interprete” engaged in the very dan-
gerous and important task of tapping
German telephone wires, “un joli me-
tier,” to quote his own words. In No-
vember, 1915, at Verdun, he received the
Croix de Guerre.

Madame Cons, who may come to Bryn
Mawr with her husband, organized ac-
tive and valuable relief work among the
soldiers whose families were in the in-
vaded districts, and established a con-
valescent home near Paris for those of
her men who had been wounded.



TO RAISE MAY DAY EXPENSE
FUND BY STUDENT GIFTS

Graduate Play Cast

Funds to start May Day preparation
will be raised by voluntary student sub-
scription, according to a vote taken at
the Undergraduate Association meeting
last week. Members of the May Day
Committee will be in the halls next
Monday after luncheon dinner to receive
contributions.

This fund will cover damages to cos-
tumes, etc. Last May Day each student
was assessed two dollars for the same
purpose.

The graduate play, The Nice Wanton,
was cast last week as follows:



Delilagh—J. Davies
Ishmail—M. Barker
Barnabas—M. Price
Iniquity—M. Knapp
Zantippe—M. Flannery
Eulalia—F. Penrose
Worldly Shame—H. Spalding
Judge—R. Woodruff
Messenger—E. Copenhaver
Bayley—A. Newlin
Bayley—I. Haupt
Prompter—A. Martin



WANT PIANOS AND VICTROLAS IN
HALLS OF RESIDENCE



Undergraduates Ask to Confer With Trus-
tees

That the majority of the undergraduates
wish to have removed the restriction for-
bidding pianos and victrolas in the halls,
is shown by an almost unanimous sense
of the meeting taken at a meeting of
the Undergraduate Association last
Thursday. An amendment to the effect
that the students would like to be al-
lowed private victrolas in their rooms
was voted down in favor of a single
hall victrola.
It was voted that the Board appoint
a committee to ask a conference with



BLASCO IBANEZ





To Study College Life for New Novel
“Many American girls and a great col-
lege will appear in my new novel, El
Paraiso de las Mujeres (The Paradise
of Women),” wrote Blasco Ibanez to
the president of the Spanish Club, when
he was accepting her invitation to come
to Bryn Mawr.
Since Ibanez refused an offer to go
to the University of Pennsylvania to
come to Bryn Mawr because he is anx-
ious to study the life of an American
woman’s college, he will be given an
opportunity to see as many of the col-
lege activities as possible. A water polo
game will be staged for him, so that his
desire to “see women run after a ball”
will be gratified, and he will have dinner
with the Spanish Club in one of the
halls.

VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE TO AID
PUBLICITY FOR ENDOWMENT DRIVE



Postponed Until April 9

$y a special vote of the faculty com-
mittee, the Vocational Conference has
been linked with the Endowment Fund
Drive and has been postponed until the
week-end of April 9. A rally will be led
that Friday evening by a noted educa-
tionalist, possibly President Lowell, of
Harvard.
Dean Smith, speaking in Chapel on the
results of the class votes, showed that
scientific work is the most popular, hav-
ing 291 votes. “One Freshman when ask-
ed why she had voted for astronomy re-
plied ‘Because it is the only subject of
which I know absolutely nothing.’”
Social work is second, having 246
votes. Votes for business, art, journal-
ism, home economics, teaching, law, mis-
sions, agriculture and library work fol-
low. This vote is not conclusive, since
classes conducted their voting different-



the Trustees in the matter.

BLASCO IBANEZ, SPAIN’S LEADING NOVELIST, HERE FRIDAY

ists,” the New York Times rates Vi-
cente Blasco Ibanez, who will speak here

auspices of the Spanish Club. Taking as

Theme is Spirit of Four Horsemen

“One of the greatest of living novel-

Friday evening in Taylor Hall, under the

his subject, “The Spirit of the Four
Horsemen,” Blasco Ibanez will show the
author’s view of the sensationally suc-
cessful novel of the war, “The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse,’ which
established his popularity in America.
Mr. J. P. Wickersham Crawford, Pro-
fessor of Romantic Languages at the
University of Pennsylvania, will act as
interpreter for the lecturer, Tickets are
$1.50 and $1.00 for outsiders; $.75 and
$.50 for members of the college.

Prison a Second Home for Ibanez

A self-made man and a “fighter from
the first,” according to Senorita Dorado,
Ibanez, now in his fifty-fourth year, can
look back at a life of active struggle. At
the age of 18 he was imprisoned for an
anti-government sonnet, and has been
sent to jail more than thirty times dur-
ing his life for political offenses. Exiled,
pardoned, pleading the radical cause in
person and in his writings, he was ac-
claimed leader of the Republican party.
Later, disheartened by the lack of or-
ganization among the anti-monarchists,
he set out to colonize South America,
and built a town around the bust of Cer-
vantes. When the war broke out, he
had special permission from the French
government to go to the Marne battle-
front for a realistic picture for his novel,
“The Four Horsemen.”

Celebrate Ibanez Feastday
In intervals of exile and imprisonment
he founded a Republican newspaper, di-
rected his own publishing-house, and is
at present writing a monumental “His-
tory of the War of 1914.” He was hon-

SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION VOTES
CHAIR TO BRYN MAWR

Memorial to Anna Howard Shaw

Joint foundation of a Chair in Poli-
tics at Bryn Mawr and a Chair in Pre.
ventive Medicine at the Women’s Medi:
cal College in Philadelphia is to be the
Official National Suffrage Memorial to
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. The vote for
the Memorial was taken at the conven-
tion of the National American Women’s
Suffrage Association, held in Chicago,
February 13.
“Pennsylvania women certainly dic
good team work in procuring for their
state the two memorial chairs,” says
the Public Ledger. The first decision of
the convention by a vote of 159 to 154
was to raise the memorial solely for
Bryn Mawr. But the Bryn Mawr dele-
gates protested that since the vote was
so close, the Women’s Medical College
should be given another chance. After
reconsideration, the final vote was to
raise a joint memorial for both colleges,
all money subscribed to be divided even-
ly between the two institutions, except
when otherwise designated.

Aim Beyond $100,000 for Bryn Mawr

Mrs. John ©. Miller, president of the
League of Women Citizens of
sylvania, was selected chairman of the

Penn-

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MAJOR BLES DESTROYS MY1H
OF GERMAN SUPERIORITY



'Rates Psychology of French Strategy
High

“Every time the Germans had a chance

to get the better of us they made a mis-

take.” said Major Arthur Bles, speaking

man Intellectual Superiority.“ Major Bles,

late British administrator of Cologne



ored as a literary and political leader
when his native province, Valencia re-
cently celebrated a Blasco Ibanez Feast
Day, the event of the occasion being the
launching of a. vessel with the names
of his novels upon the sails.

Ibanez’s international reputation is
based on a steady succession of novels
numbering 17, with two in preparation.
Divided into three classes—war, propa-
gandist, and regional novels—they give

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FORMER EDITOR OF NEW YORK
TRIBUNE TO TALK ON JOURNALISM



Mr. Robert MacAlarney Coming March 5
Under Auspices of “News”

“The Adventure of Journalism” is the
subject of a talk which Mr. Robert Mac-
Alarney, former City Editor of the New
York Evening Post, Evening Mail, and
Tribune, and Assistant Professor of
Journalism at Columbia University, will
give at Bryn Mawr a week from Friday
in Taylor Hall.

Mr. MacAlarney is coming to Bryn
Mawr at the invitation of the College
News Board, and will direct his appeal
particularly to all students interested in
making writing commercially successful.
“What I shall say to you at Bryn Mawr
is not going to be all in the nature of an
address,” Mr. MacAlarney wrote to the
editor of the News. “I am coming down
to talk practically, I hope, about certain
phases of work on newspapers, and I

tain fundamentals.”



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if I were to prepare in rounded out form
a perfectly well sounding, but more or president, A paper was passed through
less unsatisfactory, presentation of cer-|the audience for signatures

lectured under the auspices of the His-
tory Club, illustrating his talk with
strategical maps.

| Major Bles demonstrated the uncanny
| pyschological sense of the great Frencti-
|men, which pierced every German plan as
fast as it was made and turned it against
itself. “Strategy,” he declared, “is the
psychological art of reading the other
man’s brain and forestalling his move.”

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|

French Strategy Outwits Germans.

The situation at the battle of the
Marne illustrated the difference between
German and French psychology. The
Germans, with all their reserves in Kus-
sia, had to move up men from some
other part of their line opposite the
French strongholds. When Foch left a
gap in his line, instead of taking advan-
‘tage of breaking through there, as they
could easily have done, the Germans re-
imoved men from opposite the weak place
\to strengthen their, threatened flank.
| Foch was so sure of this move that,
twenty hours before the Germans left, he
brought up his reinforcements opposite
the gap thus formed, and later broke
through the German line. Foch’'s only
mistake,” concluded Major Bles, “was
that he thought no nation on the earth
was yellow enough to accept his armis-
tice terms.”

Declaring that “the best means of en-
suring peace is to remember the war,
and those who made the supreme sacri-
Major Bles urged everyone to en-



fice,”

should fall short of what I desire to do list as a member of the “Remember the

War League,” of which he is acting



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