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ASSISTANT EDITORS
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USINESS BOARD

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ASSIBTANTS

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Margery Barker and Elizabeth Vin-
cent have made the News as assistant
editors from 1923.

The 1922 competition will be held open
until midyears.



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Florence Billstein was assisting editor
this issue.

There will be no issue of the News until
January 12, because of Christmas vacation.
tion.

Chris’mus Gif!

Even in the best regulated families omis-
sions are sometimes made in the list of
Christmas presents. This year, even though
debutante cousin’s feather arm band or
Aunt Netty’s inevitable lavendar sachets be
forgotten, one memorandum should be un-
derscored on every Bryn Mawr list: “To
the Students’ Building—one fat cheque.”

The Higher the Fewer

We all realize that upon the small groups
of Freshmen that hold session after 10.30
P. M., the responsibility of rearranging the
world rests. They have come here to learn
to be leaders, and it is seemly that they
should discuss seriously problems of the
greatest weight. Often, no doubt, argu-
ments exchanged in these meetings are
beneficial, and probably the later the hour
the greater the benefit. During the ensu-
ing two years, however, these pioneers thin
out, or turn their attention to more local
situations, or even degenerate to gossip.
We hear that by the time Senior year
comes, the erstwhile leaders crawl away to
bed early, considering nothing more impor-
tant than a good night’s sleep.

Bryn Mawr or New York

Week-ending at Bryn Mawr bids fair to
become a much looked-forward to, instead
of dreaded, event. What with dances in
the gymnasium, instituted by a spirited
organization in Merion, and numerous teas
on Sunday afternoons, those who plead a
desire for the gay social life as their reason
for leaving each week-end, all find them-
selves bereft of an excuse.

RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP LOW
1923 HAS HIGHEST PERCENT

With 1923 receiving the banner for
the largest per cent membership, about
250 members joined the Red Cross in
the recent college drive, through the So-
cial Service Committee; $24 was received
from tle faculty and staff, $8 from the
graduate students and $10 from the
workmen.

Compared with last year, when almost
100 per cerit membership was obtained
from the college, the present results are

poor, according to the Social Service

Committee. Class membership is:
ME dca ccaneceacick 74.1%
are 60.7%
as Hike 55.3%
oo ice ek cts cas 43.4%

NEWS AND LANTERN SCHEDULE
HOCKEY MATCH TOMORROW
Challenged by the News, the Lantern and
Welsh Rarebit have agreed to play a
hockey match tomorrow afternoon, at 4.15,
Miss Applebee will referee.

Helen Whitcomb, "18 has just sailed for
China, for a long visit in Pekin.











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responsible for opinions expressed in these)

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Gifted sdbibemastaans Destitute

To the Editor of the College News:
Madam: An English friend living in
Switzerland has found two very gifted
mathematicians in a state of destitution
in Vienna. One is a boy of twenty-two,
named Kerékjart6é, who was practically
starving; the other a Professor Dienes,
who has a wife and two little boys, aged

four and six. The children were put in

a home for abandoned children sup-
ported by an English mission, but the
home was so overcrowded and the food
so inadequate that they were pining
away; Madame Dienes was giving danc-
ing lessons to try to support them. Pro-
fessor Hadamard told my friend about
them, and she has decided to ask them
all to come to live in her house in Vaud.

She has appealed to me to ask for
help in America to buy the food neces-
sary for the five visitors until they can
be got into England, where modest po-
sitions have been found for them. There
are, however, still difficulties in getting
admission to England to take up work.

Two dollars a day is necessary for the
food. It has occurred to me that stu-
dents who have been planning to give
to the Hoover Fund for Starving Chil-
dren, or knowing friends who are sub-
scribing to the fund, might be willing

to give me a portion of their subscrip-

tion, knowing that it will go to scholars
who are suffering from no fault of their
own. These unfortunate people are
Hungarians and took no interest in the
war.
Sincerely yours,
IsABEL MADDISON.

CHRISTMAS TEA FOR FOREIGN
STUDENTS NEXT SUNDAY

Twenty foreign members of the Inter-
national Students’ Club in Philadelphia
will be entertained in Merion at a tea
given by the World Citizenship Com-
mittee next Sunday. Invitations have
also been issued to the foreign students
at Bryn Mawr and to other graduates
and undergraduates to meet the students
from other’ countries,

DIRECTORS SEND RESOLUTIONS
TO ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE



Mrs. Slade Recognized Especially

Resolutions expressing the gratitude
of the directors of the college have been
sent to Mrs. Caroline McCormick Slade
and members of the joint committee of
the Bryn Mawr Endowment Fund.

Special recognition is given to Mrs.
Slade, of whom the resolutions say:
“Above all and beyond all the unex-
ampled success of the campaign is due
to the wide vision of the Chairman of
the National Committee, Caroline Mc-
Cormick Slade, to her genius for or-
ganization and to the rare power that
she possessed to put into moving and
eloquent words the love and gratitude
felt to the college by her daughters, and
to arouse in them, and also in outside
people, enthusiasm for Bryn Mawr's
ideals.”



Christmas Dolls To Be Exhibited

Ninety-four dolls, which are _ being
dressed by the students, will be on ex-
hibition in the Christian Association
Library on Saturday before they are
sent to the Sunnyside Day Nursery in
Philadelphia. The stockings being filled
will be sent to the Kensington Light-
house Settlement, to negro schools in
the South and tothe Spring Street Set-
tlement in New York. Special stockings
are being filled for seven old ladies at
the Spring Street Settlement.

Quoted from a quiz-book in Major Eng-
lish: “And the fair Cressitla acted accord-
ing to the old Romantic law of immorality.”



‘were proposed: st the eéeond meeting of

the Deanery. President Thomas presided.

Voicing a faculty opinion that the level
of the students’ work has deteriorated ; that
students who spend only four days of the
week at college have no leisure to do their

atmosphere of college, and that constant
week-ends are a drain on the health of
the students, President Thomas outlined
three remedies. The faculty may have
classes on Saturday instead of Wednesday,
and have scheduled quizzes on Mondays.
The students may regulate the number of
week-ends a student may be away from
college. Or, finally, the question may be
regulated by public opinion. The student
members of the Council were in favor of
the last proposal.

It was decided that before the next meet-
ing of the Council the class presidents
sheild take the matter up with their classes,
and that definite statistics should be com-
piled. These statistics would cover the first
semester last year and this fall up to
Christmas vacation, and would show which
classes leave college most, and whether a
great many people go away frequently or
a few go away every week-end.

Meetings May Be Held Till Six Fifteen

It was moved that the motion of the
last Council meeting, forbidding any meet-
ing after 6 o’clock, be amended to read,
“All meetings must close punctually at
6.15.” The motion was carried. The Coun-
cil decided that a recommendation to this
effect be sent to all college organizations,
and that each association should notify its
committees of this: rule.

The procedure for students who wish to
use the Gymnasium or other buildings for
meetings was outlined again. Students
should see Miss Maddison about the date,
and get permission from President Thomas,
if necessary. Miss Maddison fills out the
slip, giving the original to the student and
keeping the carbon copy, which is sent to
Miss Adair, the business manager, and then
to Miss Applebee, director of gymnastics.
The student keeps the original until she
is able to make final arrangements with
Miss Adair. This should be a week before
the entertainment, if possible, and not less
than twenty-four hours before.

Wardens and hall representatives will
discuss a system of having a fixed sum
collected from the students and distributed
by the wardens, to all maids at Christmas
and in June, according to a decision of the
Council. Extra fees could be given to
chambermaids for extra service.

ALUMNAE BULLETIN TO COMPRISE
MANY FEATURES OF INTEREST

“Campus Notes” reviewing recent im-
portant events at Bryn Mawr, a letter
column open to both alumnae and un-
dergraduates, and editorial comment on
alumnae and academic affairs both at
Bryn Mawr and in the country at large,
are departments planned for the Alum-
nae Bulletin by Margaret G. Blaine, "13.
Miss Blaine, who is also Executive Sec-
retary of the Alumnae Association, is
being assisted in editing the monthly
magazine by Dorothea Baldwin, ’13, a
member of the staff of the New Republic.

With the January number, the first
issue of the Bulletin, begins the series
of articles by President Thomas on “The
Mediterranean Basin.” “Whys of Ad-
vertising,” an article on the possibilities
of advertising in an alumnae monthly,
has been contributed by Carolyn T.
Brown, 99 (Mrs. Radnor Lewis), who is
in charge of the advertising of the Mal-
linson Silk Company in New York City.
“Campus Notes” for this issue are com-
piled by D. Burr, ’23. A complete report
of the reorganization conference and the
proposed by-laws will appear.

Teachers Wanted—for schools and col-
leges. Big salaries. Contracts waiting.
NationaL TEacHers’ AGENCY,
Philadelphia.



the College Council last Monday night, in|

work carefully and miss the real spirit and







Kate Du Val, ‘08, (Mra. Hse & Pitts),
has gone to Boston to live, and this winter

will be at 35 Arlington Street, Cambridge.

Anna Carrere, '08, after a Summer in
France and England, is studying land-
scape gardening at Harvard this Winter.

Genevieve Wilson, '10, is teaching
French in the Bridgeton High Schoo),
New Jersey.

Peggy Dent, ’20, is selling children’s
books at the Old Corner Book Store in
Boston. She lives at the Stuart Club.

Catharine Arthurs, ‘12, is studying
science at Johns Hopkins, preparatory to
teaching in the True Light School, in
Canton, China.

Carlotta Welles, '12, is teaching French
at Clark School, in New York, and is
studying French at Columbia.

Ida Langdon, '03, is teaching English at
Elmira College.

Mr. Henry Crosby Emery, husband of
Susanne Allinson, 10, and cousin of M.
Crosby, '22, is manager of the new Bank
of Asia, which the Guarantee Trust has.
started in China. Mr. Emery has been
appointed their agent to do relief in the
present Chinese famine.

The Service Corps has received a letter
from Dorothea Chambers, '19, saying that
she is working under the Y. M. C. A., at
Adana, Turkey.



VIOLET OAKLEY PRAISES PYLE



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East..—It was Michael Angelo, the
prince of mural painters, who taught us.
that ‘when you can draw correctly so
much as a little finger, you can draw a
hand, anything in the world; then no
wall will be big enough for you, so great
is the power of design.’”

“The Church Militant and Triumph-
ant” in the Spanish chapel of Santa
Maria Novella, Florence, was one of the
most beautiful compositions of all the
large f:escoes shown. “This is one of
the first paintings that inspired me with
a desire to paint great wall surfaces,”
said Miss Oakley. »

Speaks of Pyle and Du Maurier

“The spirit of Howard Pyle is still
alive,” Miss Oakley said. “He was one
of the great masters of composition; he
taught how to create a composition from
the inside. I find his spirit very dis-
turbing at times; it forces me to do my
work over and over again.” Miss Oakley
was a student under Mr. Pyle at the
Philadelphia Academy.

A true illustrator such as Howard
Pyle or George du Maurier does not
merely repeat photographically the
words of the text, Miss Oakley pointed
out. He realizes out of the words some
parallel idea which he portrays.

Bryn Mawr Posters Praised

On her way to the Art Club reception,
after her talk, the illuminated poster
done by D. Wycoff, '21, for the Art
Club lecture arrested Miss Oakley’s at-
tention. “This is very beautifully done,”
she said after examining the work. One
of the posters was presented to Miss’
Oakley, who later told a News reporter
that the poster exactly fits into the book
containing her illuminated manuscript of
the lecture given at Bryn Mawr. Miss
Oakley and Miss Emerson, winner of
the May Day poster competition, both
complimented D. Fitz, ’23, on her work
on the May Day programs and the
poster done for Sophomore Play, which,
Miss Emerson said, achieved the poster
ideal of flatness and ‘carried’ remark-
ably well.

“I was fortunate enough,” said Miss
Oakley, “to witness your May Day fete
and to rejoice with you at the triumph-
ant conclusion of your drive.

“I have one more thing to hope for
Bryn Mawr—that you may some day
build a great cloister where I may end-
lessly paint for you a series of frescoes
representing the marvelous beauty of
that pageant of May Day—and symbol-
izing all that Bryn Mawr stands for in
the enfranchising of women.”