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“ i EDITORS

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ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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tered ns second class matter © — er 26, 1914 at
”~ the on office at Beye } Mawr; Pa., 1889, under

the Act of arch a"

A cut in the News competition has
been made. Those remaining are: M.
Crosby, ’22;. D. ‘Dessau, °22; L. K.
Bower,.’23; A. Howell, ’23; C. Goddard,
'23; M. Barker, '23, and E. Vincent, 23;
This is the final week of try-outs.



Barbara Clarke was assistant editor
this issue.



Limitation of Week-ends

The question of limiting the number
of week-ends, students are allowed to
spend away from college, has been
raised for the first time at Bryn Mawr.
For many years Bryn Mawr has main-
tained a unique position among other
women’s colleges in its freed8m from
petty rules and restrictions. In spite of
having no light rule, no compulsory
chapel, no limits on week-ends, no Sat-
urday classes and other laws that mark
a college in the early stages of its evo-
lution from a boarding school, Bryn
Mawr has held its place as foremost
among women’s colleges in its intel-
lectual achievement. As long as this
desired goal can be reached by other
means than by those suggested, let us
keep our week-ends free and allow scope
for self-determination on the part of
each individual student. Public opinion
and not superimposed law should be the
rule,



“An Ounce of Prevention”

Yellow journalism is justly detested,
but legitimate information from an au-
thoritative source is essential to pro-
gress in any field. In the feverish
anxiety to raise the Endowment Fuad
last year publicity methods exceeding
the bounds of good taste were accepted.
Students were rightly annoyed when su-
perfluous, trifling and misleading inform-
ation was ruthlessly sent out all over
the country.

Margaret G. Blaine, "13, head of the
new Alumnae Office at Bryn Mawr, has
worked out a scheme of information that
is both legitimate and necessary. In
order that the college and what it stands
for may be known in all quarters so that
such drives as the Endowment Fund and
the Students’ Building may not fall on
deaf ears, reporters must not be turned
from the college doors to fabricate a
story that will alienate potential sup-
porters rather than win them. The new
plan of furnishing authorized releases to
newspapers and of guiding reporters to
the right sources deserves the support
of every student. It is a preventative
method formulated in self-defense and
not an aggressive program of concen-
trated publicity.



Art and the Artistic

It is a rare pleasure for Bryn Mawr to
welcome within a week two artists who
stand in the first rank among their con-
temporaries in their widely different
spheres, Violet Oakley and Robert
Frost. The Reeling and Writhing Club
and the Art Club, which are among
the “youngest” of the college clubs—
both founded since 1919, have achieved
something really worth while, They have
shown that art has its place even, per-
haps most of all, inside college walls.

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“There's Pe a “slip”

‘not to mention incidental quizzes, li-|
brary books even over week-ends are at
a premium scarcely equaled the rest of
‘the year. Yet for hours upon end one
may search for a reserved book among
the studidus forms in the Library read-
ing room without success; signed up
under one name, passed on to a friend

else, a book carefully reserved at one’s
only free hour, becomes the most elusive
object on earth. As a last resort, at eight
o'clock the student dashes to the Library,
a solitary figure on the landscape. By
ten or fifteen minutes past the hour
students stream toward the building,
and, after a prelonged search, from
among the tomes returned the hopeful
one draws forth her prize for a vente
five-minute perusal before chapel.



A La Mode

Strange unwonted forms frequent the
lower parts .of the gymnasium these
evenings. Costumes, never from Paris
or Fifth Avenue, are to be seen, rivaling
the wildest freaks of the imagination.
From the Arabian sheik’s robe to the
colonial uniform of the French Zouave,
many styles modes are combined re-
gardlessly- aired with wunconcern,
Can it be that Bryn Mawr is setting it-
self to be the center of a new fashion?
Not at all; it is only that the water polo
season has begun.

LETTERS TO THE NEWS

(The editors do not held themselves
responsible for opinions expressed in
this column.)



Week-ends and the Merit Law
To the Editor of The College News:

If too many week-ends are interfering
with the academic work of the college,
why not connect them with the work-
ings of the merit law? Would it not be
possible to arrange a scale, say an un-
limited number for students receiving
high credit in their quizzes and exams,
a certain number for those with credit,
fewer for merit, and so on down? This
would bear heaviest on those who most
need to study and thus would be fairer
than any arbitrary curtailment of privi-
This is only a tentative sug-

Nancy Fitzgerald, ’23.



leges.
gestion.

ILLINOIS COLLEGE ADOPTS
UNIVERSAL HONOR SYSTEM

Rockford College, Rockford, IIll., has
recently organized and adopted an
Honor System, applying to all branches
of college activity, class-room honor,
house rules and social regulations. Any
student violating the rules will be tried
by the Student Council and, if ntces-
sary, recommended to the president of
the college for expulsion.

Need for Teachers Still Great

Shortage of teachers throughout the
United States is still a serious problem,
according to reports received from a
large number of county and district su-
perintendents. As the result of an in-
vestigation conducted by the National
Education Association it was found that
average conditions are slightly better
than last year where salaries were raised,
but there are a great number of schools
which have no teachers or only incom-
petent ones. A great need is felt for ap-
plicants to fill these positions, who have
had two or more years of training after
high school.



Minor Spanish Class Writes Plays

Sefior Ortega’s Minor Spanish Class
last Monday gave a realistic dramatiza-
tion in costume, written and performed
by M. Chestnut, ‘23; I. Beaudrias, ‘23,

and H. Millar, '23. The cast was:
ES M. Chestnut
La Enfermera....... ...L. Beaudrias

Re MI, vv ks chivaccus H. Millar

This is the first of a series of dramat-
izations to be written and acted in Span-
,ish by members of the class.



At this hour of reports and ae ;

who isn’t yet ready, given to some one.



Sheceeee ig the Girls’ Di lcrma:
tory, the Spring Street Settlement, New
York, and the I. C. S. A. in Philadel-
phia, New York and Boston offer places
to students who wish to do social serv-
ice work during Christmas vacation.

Students at Sleighton Farms would be
given board, room and laundry free,
their work consisting of teaching and
directing recreation. A graduate —
Miss Lois Meredith, will go.

Social work through the I. C, S. -
could be in various fields, reform, ju-
venile court or probation work. Any

students who have no plans for Christ-

mas vacation and who wish to spend all
or part of it in social service work,
should apply to E. Bliss, ’21, Radnor,
Chairman of the Social Service Com-
mittee; :
ALUMNAE OFFICE WORKING FOR
RIGHT SORT OF PUBLICITY

Margaret G. Blaine, '13, the new Exe-
cutive Secretary of the Alumnae A$so-
ciation, discussing the problem of pub-
licity with a number of undergraduates
last Sunday afternoon, declared that her
aim was to give the newspapers legiti-
mate information about the college. Re-
leases describing important events at
Bryn Mawr will be sent through sthe
Alumnae Office to leading newspapers.
Reporters coming to the college will be
given what assistance is possible; in this
way, Miss Blaine hopes, they will be
inconspicuous and will not resort to sen-
sational write-ups for lack of other ma-
terial.

Alumnae to Have New Taylor Office

Classroom _D, on the first floor of
Taylor Hall, will be the Alumnae Office
as soon as necessary alterations are
made. According to Miss Blaine, the
room will probably be divided into sec-

tions, a stenographer’s room and a con.

sulting room beside the main room. Pic-
tures of college events will be sold in
the new office as they were in the alum-
nae room in Taylor Hall last year.
There will also be newspapers and mag-
azines from other colleges where stu-
dents may read them.

VARSITY WINS ALL-PHILADELPHIA
GAME BY ONE GOAL
(Continued from Pagé 1)

middle of the circle, only to have the

ball kicked out by M. Foot, Bryn Mawr

goal, in one of the most sensational
plays of the game. For a period then
neither side scored until in the last few
minutes of play E. Cecil raced down the
field, scoring the winning goal for Bryn

Mawr. The defense..on both teams star-

red during this half, both goal keepers

making several spectacular stops, while

E. Donahue put up a strong defense in

the circle. E. Cecil, on right wing, played

a fast game and proved clever at eva-

sion, while Miss Strubing, Philadelphia

left inside, was a fast dribbler and com-
bined well with Miss Townsend.

ITALIANS OF THREE PROVINCES

MOW BRYN MAWR CAMPUS GRASS
(Contributed by a News’ Heeler)

Twelve of the thirteen campus Italians
come from the Abruzzi and Rome, and
only one from Naples. A more equal di-
vision of northerners and southerners,
according to Mr. Chandler, the superin-
tendent of buildings and grounds, would
result in “rows,” since the sectional
rivalry, which Italy asserts to have out-
grown, persists among the day laborers
in America. Fortunately for the peace
of campus, Naples is in the minority.

Out of the thirteen, ten are married
and have from two to twelve children.
Except Palmerio Delfrizzi, lately ar-
rived, all have been in America between
eight and twenty years, and Frank An-
triola and Pasquale Falcone have
worked on the campus for fourteen
years.

The electricians, carpenters, painters
and plumbers, also the upholsterer and
tinsmith on the campus, are native-born
Americans.

National Association for the >



Lecturer at Harvard University and Uni-

versite Normale de Paris and Founder |
and Director of The Dagmar Perkins»
Institute of Vocal Expression, gave a

recital Saturday, December 4th, at the
Plaza Hotel, New York, for the benefit
of the “Voice Training Scholarship
Fund,” held under the auspices of the
mprove-
ment of American Speech. Miss Perkins
gives courses at Mme. Guilbert’s School
of the Theatre in New York.

Theresa Helburn, ’08, was appointed
last Spring executive director on the
board of directors of the Theatre
Guild, Inc., New York. Miss Hel-

burn, who is the only woman direc- _

tor of a professional theater, has written
and produced two plays and acted on
the advisory staff of the Washington
Square Players.

Mary Tyler, '19; Margaret Rhoads,
19; Fredericka Howell, 19; Edith Howe,
19, and Darthela Clark, ’20, were at col-
lege during the week-end.

teeiaa panes "15, Pibbass,


Edith Murphy, ’10, has accepted a po- S

sition as a secretary to Bishop Garland,
of Philadelphia.

Helen Annan Scribner, ’91, was elected
trustee of School District No. 3 of the
town of Bedford, Westchester County,
New York, in May of this year.

Jean Justice, '20, is teaching science
and mathematics at the High School in
Bordentown, N. J.

Georgia Bailey, 19, and Helene John-
son, "19, were at college on Tuesday,
December 7th.

IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM

“The Captives,” by Hugh Walpole.
His latést novel.

“The Age of Innocence,” by Edith
Wharton. A novel of the early seventies.

“In Morocco,” by Edith Wharton, rec-
ording her personal impressions anc
giving a sketch of the history and art
of the country.

“Old English Ballads, 1553-1625,”
gathered from manuscripts and edited by
Hyder E. Rollins, Ph. D.

“English Fairy Poetry,” by Floris
Delattre. The theme is traced from the
origins to the seventeenth century.

“History of Journalism in the United
States,” George Henry Payne. An ac-
count of the growth and development of
the profession.

“Sir Douglas. Haig’s Despatches,”
edited by J. H.: Braston, C. B., O. B.C.,
including those from December, 1915, to
April, 1919, with special maps and sketch
plans.

“Goldoni and the Venice of His Time,”
by Joseph Spencer Kennard. The de-
scription of the life of Carlo Goldoni and
a review of his plays.

BOOK SHOP SELLS COLOR PRINTS
FOR STUDENTS’ BUILDING FUND

Color prints of the campus taken from
original paintings by Hazel Margaret
Montgomery, ‘12, are on sale in the
Book Shop for the benefit of the Stu-
dents’ Building Fund. They represent
ten impressions of the campus taken at
various seasons and cost 50 cents apiece
or $4.50 for ten.

ROBERTA MURRAY NEW FRESHMAN
ON CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BOARD

With 104 of the total votes cast, R.
Murray was elected Freshman represei-
tative on the Christian Association

Board at the elections held last Monday.
The other nominees were D. Gardiner
Ives.

and E.



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