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CHRISTMAS CAROLLERS FROM .
CENTER TO VISIT SICK

Following the old English custom, bands
of Christmas “waits” will go from house
to house.on“Christmas. Eve singing carols.
The first place visited will be the Bryn
-Mawr Hospital, where they will -sing their
entire repertoire. For the rest of the eve-
ning they will sing at the houses of as
many sick people as they have time to
“reach.
~The Tuesday after Christmas has been
set apart for the Community Christmas
tree at the Center. Groups of: the children
will sing special songs, and there will be
carolling for everybody. —

“Open house” on New Year’s Day will
_ draw-many people to the Center, where the
Christmas tree will still be standing, and
various attractions are being planned.

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Mr. Bishop Speaks on Boys’ Athletics “

Mr.--Bishop, who coaches. Bryn Mawr
swimming and diving, spoke on Tuesday
evening at a meeting held by the Center
for all those who are interested in boys’
athletics. “One of the greatest needs at
present is a place where the boys can have
athletic activities,” Miss Hutton said,

EARLY CHRISTMAS MUSIC TO BE
- SUNG BY MODEL SCHOOL —

Old World Christmas songs, some of them
in Latin and Catalan, and some partially
dramatized, will make'up the program to
be presented by the Model School pupils
of. Mr. De Montelieu in.Taylor Hall next
Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock.

The music which the children will sing,
according to Miss Elsie G. Hobson, head

" mistress of the Model School, is not spe-

cially prepared ‘for this concert, “but a
sample of the regular work carried on by
the School under Mr. De Montelieu’s direc-
tion. Except for a few songs in Latin
~and- Catalan, all of the-words will be Eng-
Jish. One or two appropriate Chrsitmas
scenes. will be simply dramatized.



, College Movies

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great enthusiasm in Los Angeles where it
was shown in behalf of the endowment
funds for. those three colleges. A second
film has. just been completed which will

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PACIFIC IS CENTER OF -MODERN
WORLD, SAYS DR. LUCE
The destinies of the world are wrapped
up in the relationship of the United States
and China, declared Dr. H. W. Luce, vice-
president of Peking University, who spoke
in Taylor‘ Hall last Wednesday evening.
Luce “opened the World Citizenship
in International Problems, with
After the lecture

course
China for his subject.
he showed colored slides.

“Eighty years ago W. H. Seward proph-
esied in the Senate that the Pacific Ocean
would become the chief theatre of the
world’s events,” began Dr. Luce: “Now
that that day jis here,’” he went on, “‘t is
most important to consider our affinity with
China. We are, alike, democratic in spirit,
pacifistic in temperament, possessed of a
sense of humor. Together we make up a
third of the civilization of the world, and
so inevitably control its destinies. Finally,
China is prepared for the large part she
will have to play, for in the last decade and
a half she has made more progress than
any other nation and such is her moral
fibre and potential mental ability that notte |
ing can withstand her.”

NEWS IN BRIEF

Miss Dong, graduate student, spoke’ at
the recent meeting in Washington of the
Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom,

The Senior Play Committee is E. Finch,
V. Grace, E.-Hobdy, K. Peek, and D. Wells.

G. Rhoads, ’22, has been elected to the
Religious Meetings Committee to take the
place of S. Hand, who resigned on account
of too many points.

C. ‘Rhett was elected Senior Indian Club

captain at a meeting last week, \_

Assistant editors for the Senior ~ Class
Book are: V. Liddell, E. Anderson, K.
Peek, and G. Rhoads. Assistant business
C. Baird, M. D. Hay, and
M. Crosby. :

Red Cross tuberculosis seals are on sale
in the halls under-the: “ses. oSth
World Citizenship Committee.

A party for the maids, with singing and
speeches, will be given on December 17,
instead of a play, as originally~ planned.
The play- will be given in the second



semester.



TERENCE’S “PHORMIO” TO BE
PRESENTED BY STUDENTS
AT BROWN ~~ *



(Reprinted from: the Conmecticet orale
News)

ihe Sock and Buskin, of Brown Univer-
sity, has a distinct novelty in store. The:
college actors plan to produce Terence’s
“Phormio,” a comedy, Greek in origin, and
later adopted by the famous Latin play-
wright-to-make-a—Roman-theatrical-_holiday.
it will -be done in English from a text
adopted and prepared by Professor John
F. ‘Greene, of Brown University, and. ‘is
expected to be one of the most interesting
performances which the Sock and Buskin
will give during its present Season “on the
campus,” ;

“The project of. the Sock and Buskin to
produce the ‘Phormio’ of Terence in Eng-
lish dress may seem to: some an attempt
to revive the dead,” said Professor Greene.
“We hardly think it that. The Sock and
Buskin lays no claim to miraculous powers
and, what is more, has no need of them.
in this .case. The ‘Phormio’ will be its
own excuse and defence. Of course it will
have an historical interest for those who

{are students of the development of the

drama, but we are sure that it has an in-
terest or a charm even-for those who take
the drama or literature ever so lightly—for
the tired. business man or the overworked
collese een... s.r

“The ‘Phormio’ was written in Greek and
performed at Athens between 300 B. C. and
260 B. C. It was deyjised to entertain a
cosmopolitan city and succeeded so well
that Terence, the Roman playwright,
adopted it for the Roman stage in. the Latin
dress. 100 years tater. Only the Latin
adaptation is in existence today.

“It is distinctly a comedy of manners,
like ‘She Stoops-to Conquer’ or ‘The School
of Scandal.’ Like those. plays, it is, of
course, colored by the timé~and-place- in
which it was first produced; also like them
it has a general human quality that makes
it true and acceptable in all times and
places.

“The play. was prodticed at Harvard in

$804, ° BS¥ “the benefit 6f those
whose ears were not attuned to Latin a
text with translation into English by Pro-
fessor Morgan was published at the time
of the production. . This English transla-|
tion ‘is made the basis-of the lines in the

@ WORK OF SEAMAN’S INSTITUTE
" DESCRIBED’ BY DR. MANSFIELD

Everything from a missing man depart-
,ment to a shoe storé is contained in the
Seaman’s Church Institute of New York,

the Institute, who spoke in chapel on Sun-.
day night. The Institute's New York build-
ing, the largest ofits kind in the world,

a night. The aim of the house, Dr. Mans-
field said, “is to provide an opportunity of,
community life for the merchant seamen,
a lonely class, strangers in a strange land.”
As a community, the house contains post
offiées, banks, stores, churches, |
movies, “endeavors, in fact, to. meet human
need in every possible. way. It keeps up
outside conta® through .its. radio service

sailor gets fair treatment from the govern-
ment. Buildings like thig one in New York

Jjare--bemg erected in ports all over the

‘United States,

“This particular service was signalled out
bécause many people felt that the merchant
sailor was homeless, with no control over
conditions in port’and an easy prey to ex-
ploitation: And to the merchant marine’
the world owes its present preservation,
the winning of the great war.”

NEWS FROM “OTHER-COLLEGES



Wellesley

Les Femmes Savantes,” by Moliére, was
recently présented by the Barnswallows, the

dramatic elub at Wellesley.

Skiing, snow shoeing, tobagganing and
skating are to be added to Wellesley’s or-
ganized sports this winter, under the super-
vision of the newly organized Outing Club.
The Club will also introduce an all-college
cross-country hare and hound chase in
December, and has made plans for an
elaborate winter carnival. This Outing
Club, is modeled after the one at Dart-:
mouth and by an extensive program hopes
to stimulate greater interest in heretofore
organized sports. Membership is honorary
and will be limited according to the appli-
cant’s~interest--and—ability.. The activities
of the Club will be carried on for the
entire college.



Chinese Students

In connection with the Disarmament Con-
ference now in session at Washington,
Chinése students of the various institutions

rvocate China’s cause. They are publishing
the China Advocate, a weekly paper, to fur-
nish facts concerning the problems of the
Far East and to voice the public opinion
of.the Chinese people. .

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Harvard ?

The Harvard Dramatic Club has. ghosen,
for its twenty-third production, two foreign
plays, which have never before been pro-
duced in the United States. A one-act.play,
Francois Coppee’s “The Violins of Cre-°
mona,” will precede “The Witches’ Moun-
tain,” a three-act play by one of the best
known ‘Argentine -playwrights,: Julio San-
chez Gartlel, The production of the Club's’
performances is managed almost entirely by
the students, who do the, acting, design
and make the scenéry, arrange the lighting,
and execute the business of the production.
The plays were given at Wellesley on
December 10.



Pe ' Vassar

Twenty per cent. of 1000-students at Vas-
sar have--bobbed* hair, according .to some
recent ‘statistics, or one among every five.

chance and won out.” ° Four brunettes
have cut their hair to every blonde, and the
proportion of “carrot tops” is 1.4:

“Baby” economics and English are the
most popular’ elective courses. at Vassar,
according to recently published statistics.
Psychology, political science and philosophy

mentioned, students continue with further



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