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Elizabeth Cecil was Managing Editor

for this
sistant Managing Editor

_ Notice To Subscribers

The News board apologizes to its sub-
scribers for the failure to get out last
week’s issue. The entire copy was lost
in the mail, and when finally traced, was
too late to publish last week. We are
issuing an extra supplement in this num-
ber to include the-articles of importance
of last week’s News. ©





THE POINT SYSTEM

One of the advantages of a college
education is admittedly the training af-
forded in leadership and organization
through college activities. In as small
a college as Bryn Mawr, there are of-
fices enough for the majority of the stu-
dents to have a part in the college ma-
chinery. One of the advantages ‘of a
point system would be wider distribu-
tion of offices and the reduction of the
submerged tenth to a much smaller
fraction, The overworked general fac-
totum would vanish, and with her the
student who slips through college nu-
noticed to develop later into an organizer
of no mean ability. Why deprive the
college of good workers simply because
the voters, catching sight of familiar
names on a list of -nominees, react to
these as a matter of habit?



“R, i. P.”

It takes more courage to shoot a dog
than to let him die a lingering death.
The action of the editorial board of the
Lantern in definitely closing the life of
that publication is to be heartily com-
mended. The Lantern had outgrown its
usefulness in college thought and life
It was rarely seen by the undergraduates
because it was published during the sum-
mer, and if, it constituted a definite in-
terest for the Alumnae, it did not gain
their support in the form of spontaneous
contributions. The Alumnae number of
the Bryn Mawr Review can provide a
more living and up-to-date channel for
bringing Alumnae work to the college.

May the ashes of the Lantern rest in
peace until a definite need shall call
them to life again!



“Flung roses riotously with the throng

To dance the dim gray library out of
mind.”

With apologies to Ernest Dowson.

But what is the use of dancing, riot-
ously or not, to the tune of one ukelele,
_one comb, one pair of shoe trees, and one
saucepan. Maybe pianos and phono-
graphs would be allowed in the halls

if the authorities realized that the stu-]

dent body was being shellshocked while
all the household utensils were being
broken in our attempts for melody.



By the Side of the Pool
“Oh knither, shimmery waterpleams,”
She chorgled to the fround.
“So long we gluxed, come now
smarve,
The glingerers will be scrowned.”
** «
Twice-brump, the glimmers clive the
greep,
Rawb, rast, they seek to smeed.
A gramply fray, all grube and bleene,
While fortems rawked and shreed.

to




issue, Elizabeth Kellogg was As-

is the interest of the student body as
a whole. ‘ Pres

I am speaking in behalf of the Em-
ployment Board. We have introduced a
few innovations and we need your help
to make them successful. We put up
the Employment Bureau bulletin board
in Taylor, on the second floor, just out-
side the room F. Upon that board we
have been posting slips of papers so that
those who want work done can put their
names and the kind of work they have
upon that paper. Those who can do that
work sign up in the space provided for
that purpose. This device has been put
up for you. Use it.

I would also like to make an appeal
to the faculty to use this device as much
as possible.

In each hall we have appointed some
girl who is willing and anxious that you
go to her for help or information about
the Employment Bureau. Pembroke
East, F. Howard; Pembroke West, L.
Davis and G. Rhoads; Denbigh, A. Dunn
and E, Vincent; Merion, J. Burgess.
Radnor, S. Aldrich; Rockefeller, R.
Karns and E. Copenhaver.

Look at the list again and remember
the one in your hall. She is there for
your use.

Passya E, Ostroff, '21.



To the editor of the College News:

In behalf of the present board, I wish
to state that no “Lantern” will be pub-
lished this year, and to explain why
such a step is necessary.

“The Lantern” which started in 1891,
and of which Miss Donnelly was editor-
in-chief during her senior year, was
originally the only gollege magazine.
Later The Philistine and then Tipyn
o’ Bob were: published, but The Lantern
continued to be the most important Bryn
Mawr magazine. In 1914, Winifred Good-
all who was editor-in-chief of Tipyn
o’Bob, was also editor of The Lantern
and from that time the two magazines
have been brought out by the same
board.

Recently, The Lantern came to be
regarded as an alumnae magazine—a
very different state from that which had
prevailed a few years earlier—and the
editors found, owing possibly to war
conditions, that the alumnae’s contribu-
tions were so few in number that it was
difficult to get out a Lantern at all. In-
deed I know that last year in answer to
about twenty letters that I wrote, I re-
ceived work from only one contributor.
The year before I had had an experience
practically similar. Interest among the
undergraduates was so slight that many
of them had no idea what The Lantern
was.

While The Lantern was thus passing
into a decline, printer’s rates were rising.
For awhile The Lantern’s deficit was
made up fom the Tipyn o’Bob funds, but
when prices rose fifty per cent in one
summer, it became impossible to sup-
port a magazine that had been brought
out at a loss when rates were lower.

In view of these facts, the editors
hope that those who care particularly for
The Lantern will realize that it is impos-
sible for it to appear this year, and, that
the college may not be wholly deprived
of alumnae work, the editors have made
the present issue of the Bryn Mawr Re-
view an alumnae number.



Doris E. Pitkin.

on | Setting the aid and interest of the Christ
| Association Board as, perhaps, they had
ever had before. What they need most



acknowledged standing, Bryn Mawr
would be the first woman’s college to



next year we could start |
would consist of a series of lectures, and,

far more important, a large number of
informal meetings to help undergradu-

ates individually in their work. With
this position occupied by a. poet of

join in a movement of which Amherst,
with Robert Frost, and the University of
California, with Witter Bynner, are the
leaders. If this attempt started by the
undergraduates could be set on foot
when the Endowment Campaign is
launched on March 1st, publicity regard-
ing this new idea might attract individu-
als whose contributions might not other-
wise be forthcoming.

Should such a lectureship prove suc-
cessful when tried out next year, we feel
sure that there would always be organi-

|zations in college which would make

possible its) continuance for each suc-
ceeding year until the directors could
permanently endow a chair of poetry.
The founding of such a chair would

mean increasing opportunity for direct
contact with what is being accomplish-
ed in the world of art and literature. It
would mean, furthermore, a broadening
of college life in point of view and ac-
complishment.

HELEN HILL,

KATHARINE WARD,



HALLS TO COMPETE FOR FIRE
DRILL PRIZE

‘Competitive fire drills start within the
next few weeks. The drills, which are
to be judged by C. Bickley, ’21, head
fire captain, Mr. Chandler, Superinten-
dent of grounds, and Miss Watson, Bus-
iness Manager, will be marked on a bas-
is of time, order and dress.

Merion Hall won the prize last year,
—$6.00 collected from the fines of the
other halls. For the two previous years
Radnor Hall was the winner.



Blasco Ibanez, Spain’s Leading Novelist

(Continued from page 1)

an evolutionary glimpse of the Struggle
between the old and the new Spain. In
the propagandist class is “The Shadow
of the Cathedral,” attacking the Church
and the Jesuits,” and the “Blood and
Sand,” decrying the Spanish lust for bull-
fighting. “Mare Nostrum” (“Our Sea”
—the Mediterranean), recently translated
into English, is an indictment of German
U-boat methods.



Suffrage Association Votes Chair to B. M.
(Continued from page 1)
Committee to raise the funds for . the
Memorial. She will pick the Commit-
tee in consultation with Mrs. F. Louis
Slade, National Bryn Mawr Endowment
chairman, and Dr, Ellen Potter, who was
instrumental in securing the decision for
the Medical College. The ultimate aim
of the memorial will be to establish the
foundation of a whole department of
Politics at Bryn Mawr. The drive for

|the National Memorial will go on side

by side with the Bryn Mawr Shaw Mem-
orial launched last fall.

With the creation of this committee
to raise the Shaw Memorial, the Nation-
al Women’s Suffrage Association went
out of existence, its work in securing the
vote for. the women of America practi-
cally completed. The National League
of Women Voters, (or Citizens, in states
ogy two weeks ago by Major Adams,
its place.

a course that

ttee. H. F

niss, '21, and V. Evans, '21, students in

| Dr. Savage's class in the technique of

the drama, are collaborating in writing

the scenario, which will have a plot con-

taining scenes on the campus, in the |
halls, the swimming pool, gymnasium,
etc;

_. Professionals will probably act the
leading parts, but it is hoped that under-
graduates can take most of the smaller
‘women’s parts.





ATTENDANCE AT C. A. SERVICES

SHOWS INCREASE SINCE LAST YEAR. |
Larger attendance at both Chapel and
Vesper services this year is shown by
Statistics compiled from the services of
the first eleven weeks of 1919—’20, The
figures are as follows:
1919—’20 1918—’20

Vespers Average ..... «. 106 92
a 160 195
ee 59 50

Chapel Average ......... 151 147
mene .........., 300 230
PO os ova eck 79 72

The record attendance of three hun-
dred was made when Mrs. Booth spoke
at the Chapel service held in the Gym-
nasium.



NEWS IN BRIEF

Friday morning chapel for the rest of
the year will be devoted by President
Taft to a discussion of the new books
of the year.

Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury addressed the
Bryn Mawr Club of Boston on the En-
dowment Fund Drive on February 11.

Beginning March third Dr. Chew will
give a course ‘on the literary inter-
pretation of the New Testament under
the auspices of the Bible Study Com-
mittee. Last winter Dr. Chew interpre-
tated the Old Testament from the point
of view of a literary critic.

New members admitted to the Eng-
lish Club as a result of grades obtain-
ed at mid-years are L. Hales, 7 YT,
Flexner, '21, I. Maginnis, ’21 and E.
Sheppard, ’21.

Evelyn Page, '23, was elected presi-
dent of the Reeling and Writhing Club
at a meeting on February 12. Marie
Willcox, '22 is secretary.

A Vesper Choir with L. Grim as lead-
er, will be made up of: Sopranos: J. Pey-
ton, M. Foot, D. Stewart, E. Hall, C.
Bickley, M. Morton, K. Woodward, H.
Bennett, I. Arnold, A, Gable; altos: M.
Hardy, O. Pell, S. Hand, A. Orbison,
H. Guthrie, E. Hobdy, M. Tyler: bass-
es: J. Palache, K. Tyler, I. Jacobi.

A change has been made in the stud-
ent coaches for May Day plays: Robin
Hood, C Skinner, 22; The Old Wives
Tale, H. Hill, ’21; A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, A. Harrison, 20; St. George, A.
Martin and E. Taylor, ’21,

E. Page has been elected vice presi-
dent of 1923 in place of E. Bright who
resigned because of merits.

The sewing committee has started
work on 60 garments for the children
of Dr. Grenfell’s mission, in Labrador.

The second edition of Humble Voy-
agers, the booklet of the Reeling and
Writhing Club, will be on sale Friday
morning; price thirty five cents.

H. Scribner, '23, has been elected to the
central May Day committee in place of
E. Bright who resigned because of
merits.

Acting President Taft will address
the Springfield (Mass.) Women’s Club
on Wednesday.

A. Rood, '20; H. James, '21; C. Bick-
ley, "21; E. Donnelly, "21, and V. Liddell,
"22, were chosen by the Christian Associ-
ation to “adopt” orphans in the Home



of the Good Shepherd at Garrett Hill.