College news, March 18, 1915

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BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 18, 1915

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CALENDAR —

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FRIDAY, MARCH 19
Announcement of European Fellows.
Fellowship Dinners.

8.30 p. m.—Lecture by Mrs. Arthur Man-
niere on “The Painted Teese Country.”

SATURDAY, MARCH 20

‘Senior Orals in German.
8 p.mM.—Dance in the Gymnasium under
the auspices of ‘The Committee of Mercy.”

SUNDAY, MARCH 21
6 p. M.—Vespers. Speaker, L. T. Smith,

"tS,
8 p.mM.—Chapel. Preacher, the Rev. Rob-

ert Speer.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
7.30.—Bible and Mission Classes.
9.30.—Mid-week meeting of the C. A.

Leader, N. McFaden, ’17.

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

4 pe. m.—Gymnastic Contest between 1917
and 1918.

SUNDAY, MARCH 28
6 p. M.—Vespers. _ Speaker, Miss Marie
Spahr, College Settlement, N. Y. C.
8 p. Mi—Chapel. Preacher, the Rev. Joseph
Ross Stevenson, D.D., Director of the Prince-
ton Theological Seminary.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
Easter Vacation begins at one o’clock.





NEW PROFESSORSHIP IN SOCIAL
RESEARCH



President Thomas Speaks in Chapel on
March 12, 1915



It gives me great pleasure to announce
to you that a new professorship has been
founded by the directors of the College
in memory of Carola Woerishoffer who
graduated from Bryn'Mawr College in
1907 in the group of economics and phil-
osophy, and during the remainder of her
short life, from 1908 to 1911, became one
of the most original and.most truly help-
ful workers for social betterment. Car-
ola Woerishoffer set herself to investi-
gate the social conditions of wdémen in
New York City in a way in which, I
think, it had scarcely ever been investi-
gated before. For example, she took a
position as a working laundress in one
of the steam laundries of the city, run-
ning the risk of having her fingers and
hands cut off that all laundresses have
to run, because the launderers will not
put in properly protected machinery; and
she effected many reforms in this trade
and in many other trades, as, disguised
as a working woman, she went through
one after another different dangers and
hardships to which New York working
women are exposed. Her devoted per-
sonal work and her large fortune were
always at the disposal of labouring wo-
men. At the time of the great shirt
waist strike in New York, she protected
on the streets and bailed out of prison,
poor girls who would otherwise have
been unjustly imprisoned. Indeed, she
lost her life in the service of working
men and women, for she was on her way,
as special inspector of labor, to investi-
gate the abuses of alien camps in New
York State, when the automobile in which
she was driving overturned and killed
her.

Carola Woerishoffer was a student in
Bryn Mawr College at the time when the
College, which was running behind about
$30,000 a year, was face to face with the
alternative of closing department after
department of teaching or of getting
more endowment. She made her will
when she was a Senior and left the Col-
lege three-quarters of a million. This
splendid gift. added to the endowment
reeéived through the gifts of its Alumnes
and friends in 1910, has made it possible

for Bryn Mawr College to continue and
broaden its academic work. Ever since
Carola Woerishoffer’s death the directors
and every one that knew and loved her,
have felt that her name and life-work
ought to be commemorated in some fit-
ting way in the College which she loved
and endowed. The directors feel that the
time has now come to create a Carola
Woerishoffer professorship and a Carola
Woerishoffer department of graduate
work which shall give graduates of Bryn
Mawr and other colleges, who wish, like
Carola Woerishoffer, to devote them-
selves to social service, scientific train-
ing in investigating social conditions
such as only a college like Bryn Mawr
can .give to the best advantage. We
hope that as year after year the fellows
and graduate scholars of Bryn Mawr
with the Carola Woerishoffer Professor
of Social Economy and Research in the
investigating of social conditions with all
the help that our admirable departments
of economics and politics, psychology
and education can give them they may
be able to make genuine contributions
to their study and improvement. Such
scientific studies are far more needed,
in my opinion, than active workers. Ac-
tive workers are everywhere in plenty,
but very little preventive work is being
done in a scientific way. The two lines
of human endeavor and research that
seem to me to be attracting the greatest
ability of the younger generation are
medical research—the cause and the cure
of disease, the study of the effect of dis-
ease and heredity on the human race—
and social service and the study of the
conditions of our present civilization.
Many of the most intellectual eager and
self-sacrificing members of your genera-
tion will devote yourselves to this latter
work.
Mawr graduates are doing some kind of
social work. It is a great satisfaction
that Bryn Mawr College is able to offer
its own graduates and graduates of other
colleges this great opportunity for prepa-
ration.

I think that you may be interested to
know that the last time I saw Carola
Woerishoffer I asked her, with the knowl-
edge she had then of practical philan-
thropic work, what course or group she
would have taken in Bryn Mawr College.
She said that it seemed to her that her

At a meeting of the Board of Directors,
minute was passed:

i}ment of the Board, the time has now
|} come to take the first steps toward as-



| sociating’ the name of Carola Woeris- |

/hoffer in a fitting and lasting way with
| Bryn Mawr College by opening a gradu-
‘ate Department of Social Economy and
| Social Research to’ be called by her
/name, which will give advanced scientific
‘training to women in the field of philan-

| thropic and social work to which Carola |
| Woerishoffer devoted her best energies |

a*ter her graduation from Bryn Mawr Col-

life.
may be developed by endowments and

'the most important and helpful graduate
schools of Bryn Mawr College. It was

Woerishoffer Department of Social Re-
search. It .was further voted to found



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Already one-fourth of all Bryn)



group of economics and philosophy had |
given her the best possible preparation. '

lege, and in which service she gave her |
It is hoped that this department |

| Sifts and may ultimately become one of |

further voted to create the position of
Carola Woerishoffer Professor of Social |
Economy and Director of the Carola | mistress has consented to let every one

a Carola Woerishoffer Fellowship in So- |
cial Research of the value of $525, and in|
the year 1917-18 to create another such |
fellowship so that there shall always be |

two in this department, and to author-
ize the appointment of a Statistical Sec-
retary of Social Research to be followed
as soon as necessary by the appointment
of a Reader in Social Economy.

The directors then elected to the posi-
tion of Carola Woerishoffer Professor of
Social. Economy and Social Research,
Professor Susan M. Kingsbury, now Pro-
fessor of Economics at Simmons College
and Director of Social Economic Re-
search of the Women’s Educational and
Industrial Union of Boston, where she
had been working under her for the last
five or six years, four fellows and a
number of graduate scholars whose in-
vestigations have already contributed
to our knowledge of social conditions.
She comes here as an experienced inves-
tigator and director of this kind of re-
search. Dr. Kingsbury is a Bachelor of
Arts of the College of the Pacific, a Mas-
ter of Arts of Leland Stanford Junior
University and a Ph.D. of Columbia Uni-
versity.

Our hope is that in each year those
members of our graduating classes who
wish to go into social work will be will-
ing to give at least a half year or a year
preparing themselves for such work by
modern scientific methods. I believe the
directors will be very liberal in creating
Carola Woerishoffer scholarships to as-
sist such preparation. We believe that
the new department of Social Economics |
and Research will become a very impor-
tant and useful addition to the Bryn
Mawr College graduate school.

VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE



The following subjects will be pre-
sented at the Students’ Vocational Con-
ference on Saturday, March 27th, in Tay-
lor Hall, between the hours of ten and
one o'clock:

1. “Scientific Agriculture,” Mr. A. B.
Ross, Agriculturist of the Extension De-
partment of the State of Pennsylvania.

2..“Landscape Gardening and Archi-
tecture,” Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee,
Landscape Gardener,. Philadelphia.

3. “Social Work,” Mrs. Martha P. Fal-
coner, Superintendent of Sleighton Farm,
Darlington, Pennsylvania.

4. “Medical Work for Women,” Dr.
Gertrude Walker, of the Woman’s Med-
ical College of Pennsylvania.

5. “Law,” Miss Bertha Rembaugh, |
A.M., Bryn Mawr College, Lawyer in |



| New York City.
held on February 19, 1915, the following |

That in the judg- |

6. “Journalism,” Miss Rose Wiston, of |
the Philadelphia “North American.”

7. “Advertising,” Mrs. H. H. Moore, |
A:B., Wellesley College, of Wanamaker’s |
Advertising Department.

8. “The Commercial Secretary,” Mrs. |
Edwin S. Kelly, late with Brown Broth-
ers & Company, New York City.

9. “The Bureau of Occupations,”’ Miss
Theodora Batches, Manager of the Bu-
reau of Occupations in Philadelphia.

The speaker on “Tea-room and Lunch- |
room Management” will be announced |
later. The speeches will be limited to
fifteen minutes each. The order of
speeches and the time of each speech will |
be posted in Taylor Hall before the Con- |
ference.



AN INNOVATION IN HYMNS

In response to a request, the choir

have a hand in chooging hymns. If any-
one wishes a particular hymn sung, she

‘is to hand in the number to Isabel Smith,

43 Rockefeller Hall. If it is within the
range of musical possibilities, it will
surely be sung at some morning chapel.

|M. MacKenzie,

| better.

CUT RULE COMES UP FOR DISCUS.

o SION AGAIN

New System to Authorize All Collections
of Money





_ The Undergraduate Association meet-
ing of March 2d recalled October days,
for the cut rule was again the chief busi-
ness. In reply to a suggestion of Presi-
dent Thomas that the undergraduates
submit to the faculty a plan to regulate
cutting, the following motions, were
passed: :

1. That the Undergraduate Association
inform President Thomas that, although
the undergraduates still think that a rule
regarding attendance at lectures should
be avoided, nevertheless, in accordance
with the President’s request they would
suggest that cases of excessive cutting
be regulated by the office at the recom-
mendation of the individual professor.

2. That the Undergraduate Association
will do all it can by announcements each
year to keep up public opinion regarding
cutting.

3. But that it be stated in the note to
the President that whatever the Under-
graduate Association may do by way of
announcements to keep up public opinion
is, in the judgment of the undergradu-
ates, of little importance in comparison
with a frequent definite expression by
the faculty of its standard regarding
cutting.

4. That, in the note sent to the Presi-
dent, it be pointed out that if the method

|of regulation of attendance is effective,

and if public opinion is maintained, there
will be no necessity for special regulation
of absences from Bryn Mawr during the
week.

The Association decided that because
of the excessive canvassing for money,
particularly in—evidence—this-year,—all
future collections must be authorized by
the Christian Association or by the Un-
dergraduate Association Boards or by a
majority vote at a meeting held for this
purpose. The regulation does not include
the selling of tickets for charitable en-
tertainments.



G. BRYANT, '17, FIRST HOLDER OF
THE APPARATUS CUP



The new and very handsome cup for
the best individual work in apparatus,
presented by M. Morgan, 1915, was won
Saturday by G. Bryant, 1917, who won 327
points out of a possible 340. E. Dulles
was a close second with 323 points, while
1918, got 309 points.

| There were not so many people in this

second competition as there were in the
first, but the work was, on the whole,
G. Bryant, E. Dulles, E. Faulk-
ner and A. Davis entered from 1917;
from 1918, M. MacKenzie, L. T. Smith
and R. Cheney entered. The Freshmen
again lacked form. It must be remem-
bered, however, that the Sophomores
have had a year more drilling. There
were five set exercises on the horse and

/on the parallel bars, which had beer

practised by the competitors beforehan .
Then there was an exercise set by one

‘of the judges which was entirely new to

those in the competition, and, finally,
there was an exercise which each one of
the competitors decided on for herself.
There were only two set exercises on the
ropes’and then one set by one of the

judges. This competition has -proven

highly successful, and promises to be
even more successful in the future










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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Published weekly during the college year in the
interests of Bryn Mawr College

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Managing Editor . . . ISABEL FOSTER,'15
Ase’t Managing Editor . ADRIENNE KENYON, '15
Business Manager . . MARY G. BRANSON, ’16
Ase’t Bus. Mgr. . KATHARINE BLODGBTT, '17

EDITORS
CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE
CONSTANCE DOWD,'16 EMILIE STRAUSS, '16
FREDRIKA M. KELLOGG, "16
ELEANOR DULLES,'17 | MARY SENIOR, ’18

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Considering that it was a well-known
fact that the authorities of the College
were opposed to having the name of
Bryn Mawr in any way connected with
the revival meetings of “Billy Sunday,”
we think a grave mistake was made by
the student who advertised Mr. Sunday’s
presence in a church right outside the
College gates. We grant that individuals
had the right to attend the service at the
Presbyterian Church on Tuesday morn-
ing, but we’ feel that the students who
went knowing that large numbers would
attend and who sat in reserved geats
were doing something unfair in inevit-
ably coupling the name of the College
with the revival meeting. They must
have known not only that the authorities
were adverse to it but also that there
was a chance that a majority of the un-
dergraduates would object.

We for our part. do strongly object.
We believe that neither Bryn Mawr nor
any other institution of higher learning
should sanction his emotionalism. We
reprint with entire sympathy the follow-
ing editorial from the Cornell “Sun” of
March 15th:

A rumor has been in circulation about
the Campus during the last few days to
the effect that a movement is on foot in
certain quarters to have Sunday, the
evangelist of slang, pay a visit to the



University and try his powers of conver-
sion on Cornell’s “unregenerate multi- |
tudes.” If such is the case, it is to be
hoped that the University administration |
will not lend its sanction or approval to |

a man who gains his effects by arousing |

the hysterical emotionalism of his hear-
ers.

Such propaganda has no place in an |
institution dedicated to reason and clear |
thinking. The trend and purpose of a.
University education is to teach men to}
rise by the power of their intellects. In
such an atmsophere, Mr. Sunday’s in-
temperance would be decidedly out of
place.

“Putting one foot out of the grave’’ is |
the expression used by a Vassar student |
to describe the response made to the de- |
mand of 1918 for more “modern and up-|
to-date courses.” In several departments, |
it seems,

some of the tendencies of the time. In)
the English Department, for example, the |
traditional dry-as-dust exercises in expo-
sition or description have been replaced
by reports or short essays on current
topics of interest. While technical train-
ing is in this way, by no means, neg-
lected, the instruction gained and the in-
terest roused by some slight research on
vital subjects is, in itself, invaluable.
The whole movement tends to make the
College less “an isolated and self-suffi-
cient community,” and more “an integral
and interested part of the modern world.”
“It is especially interesting to note,” says
the Vassar student, “that the movement
comes entirely from the undergraduates
and not from the College authorities, but
that, by their attempts to satisfy the de
mands the authorities recognize the
movement as praiseworthy.

the effort has been made to}
connect the work with passing events or |

CORRESPONDENCE CQLU! MN

Lefties a gc!

‘The Editors do not hold ‘ble
Jor the opinions
To the Editor of “The College News”:

We have seen in the schedule of events
that there is to be a recital under the
auspices of the “French Club.” As stu-
dents of Major French, we are interested
in all that may be connected with this
course, and so we regret that we have
never been told of this “French Club.”
So we turn to “The College News” as
the most reliable source of information.
What is the “French Club’? Is it an
organization on the basis of the English
Club, the membership of which is open
to those who have attained high grades
in the course for_two years? Or is it
on the wider basis of the Science Club
and open to those who are majoring in
the subject? Perhaps it is a social gath-
ering of congenial acquaintances who en-
joy French conversation with their tea.
In any case, we ask what is the “French
Club’?

Two Students of Major French.



To the Editor of “‘The College News”:

Is “Lost and Found” mostly lost or
mostly found? When one is so unfortu-
nate as to drop a shoe on the way to
gym or leave a pen in a classroom, the
prospect is dismal. She can, of course,
arrange to spend some time tugging at
the drawers that stick and poking about
in the conglomération of dirty articles,
but the effort is great and the results
are slight. She is apt to recover some
things at the final glorious auction sale,
but why need she wait till then? Why
not have a system of segregating hockey

skirts, gowns and sweaters in different |.

drawers? Why couldn’t the things that
have been kept for two weeks be packed
away in some inconspicuous and safe
place? Then there would be room
enough for systematic arrangement and
most things would be found long before
the two weeks were over without the
unpleasant search among the piles of
dilapidated lost. We would then co-oper-
ate more with the long suffering com-
mittee, for we would not consider that
we were consigning things to a bottom-
less pit in taking them to “Lost and
Found,” nor would we begrudge the five

| cents in the joy of recovering easily and

8 d other things
surely the fountain pens and o ® | caps and gowns makes our service digni-

that are safe in ‘Lost and Found.”
B. L.: D.

‘take them off. The custom of wearing

sinha oi itilia S hici dash, bates one

among many students who like this par-
ee
day’s work.

G. O. M., 16,



To the Editor of “The College News”:

After reading the last week’s editorial
on the new method of making up the
board of the Christian Association each
year, I thought the Radcliffe fight against
the “Progressive System” might interest
Bryn Mawr. Two years ago they had a
big fight in self-government. It was re-
organized so that no one is elected as an
officer till her Junior year. Then, like
our system, there are two officers to
choose from for president or the possi-
bility of electing someone else. This new
system has spread to another big college
organization, the Guild, but the third big
one, the Idler, still remains conservative
and unchanged. The feeling against the
Progressive System, whether by election
or by appointment, however, has become
so strong that all the small clubs have
adopted the new id In fact, when I
was present at the organization of a small
club of twenty, with eleven Freshmen as
members, I was violently opposed when
I suggested that one officer be a Fresh-
man. The conclusivé response was, “We
don’t want the Progressive System.”

S. Brandeis.

To the Editor of “The College News’:

It was suggested in a letter last week
that we take off our caps in Chapel so
that those in the back of the room could
see better,
and if they are worn straight only the
narrower edge can obstruct the vision.
If, however, we take them off we have no
place to put them. If we don’t wear them
at all, we make no distinotion between
week days and Sundays. Furthermore,
anyone who is very anxious to see the
speaker (who stands on a platform and
is visible from every part of the room)
can go five minutes early and take one of
the front seats, which are often vacant.
This seems like a very unimportant mat-
ter, but it isa question of a much revered
Bryn Mawr custom because we will not
wear our caps and gowns if we have to

|ner of your shelves, now gaily ¢irculating | ~

Caps are really very small |

| “INTERCOLLEGIATE COLUMN



College Peace ‘Movement



An Anti-Militarist Club has been

| formed with branches at Princeton, Har-

vard, Pennsylvania, Trinity, New York
University and other colleges. One hun-
dred Barnard girls have joined the Co-
lumbia Club. The platform or pledge
expressing the purpose of the movement
is as fdllows:

“The \phenomenon of war among civ-
ilized nations is the most shameful of all
human spectacles, the most hideous of
all national disasters. Its persistence is
due not to inadequacy of military prepa-
ration, but to the perfection of military
preparation. 4

“Holding these views, I set myself
against the spread of militarism under
any guise or color. I look upon every
influence used by individuals to bring
about the perfection of international
order and to champion the cause of in-
ternational solidarity, as true expression
of the highest American patriotism.”

In spite of the peace movement in
many of the colleges, there seem to be
groups who feel that the country needs
more adequate defense. Harvard has or-
ganized a National Security League to
emphasize the unpreparedness of the
United States. Princeton is introducing
a new plan for optional military train-
ing. There will be weekly lectures on
arms and tactics, by officers selected by
the War Department, and the undergrad-
uates will be given practical experience
by rifle practice and tactical excursions.

Changes in the Courses at Vassar



Changes have been made in the courses
at Vassar in order to make them more
“modern and up-to-date.” The changes
have been especially thorough in the
English courses. In these the traditional
subjects for weekly exercises in exposi-
tion have been replaced by such themes
as “The Difference Between Culture and
Kultur,” “The Effect of War on Culture,”
“War and Economics,” “War and Wo-
men,” and other similar subjects. The
course also includes bi-weekly reports
on current newspaper topics, reviews of
recent books, summaries of current na-
tional events, and sometimes critical es-
says on modern writers. In the French
Department the reading of a French



fied and is pleasing to speakers and |





To the Editor of ‘The College News”:
Would it be possible for the College |

authorities or some charitable persons to |
serve tea from 4 to 6 in the New Book |
‘Room, as the room seems now to be_

used as much for conversation as for |

reading? If the talkers were encouraged | | dents had the opportunity of hearing Dr.
to congregate and talk between the hours | | Johnston Ross, who is considered to be
‘of 4 and 6, the readers might then be able | peculiarly one of our “college pastors.”
to read in peace at other hours without) ‘He said that the world gauges people

having to hear about the delights of a /not according to their beliefs or their
\dance they didn’t attend or the drawbacks | ‘acts, but their dispositions.

of roommates they are not living with. |
Bookworm.

|To the Editor of “The College News”:

As some one most aptly wrote in the
last issue of “The College News,” “the
Denbigh Fiction Library has come to
life,” but in the customary manner of
things just coming to life, it is not a very
independent organization and needs all
the help that you can give it. The under-
graduates have responded nobly, and I
am sure that we cannot thank Miss Don-
nelly sufficiently for the personal interest
she has taken. Recently the suggestion
was made that I appeal to the Alumna,
or rather those of the Alumne who
chance to read “The College News,” and
ask. them if, instead of relegating to their
bookshelves some book that had. been
read once and perhaps would not justify
re-reading, they would send it on to us.
Surely there is great: altruistic recom-



pense in the thought of your book, long

guests.

‘this which counts in missionary work.
|He read a personal letter from Tagore

Why change such a custom?
An Undergraduate

newspaper constitutes part of the course.

The poet, Alfred Noyes, has accepted

the chair of English Literature at Prince-

| ton.

DR. ROSS PREACHES FOR THE
WEEK-END CONFERENCE



For the second time this year the stu-

It is this
| which counts in every-day life, as it is

to a young missionary, regretting the
“western mind obsessed for conquest”
in missions when it is not doctrine, but
disposition, that is wanted. The theol-
ogy of the world will probably never be
one, but since there is one God, He cre-
ates one disposition for all the world.
Since we realize that character is the
most important thing for us to attain,
we must have an ardent, trustful attach-
ment to Jesus in order to imitate His

rfections. “You are not,” he said,
‘lights shining more and more, but
rather shining ‘more or less,’ for when
you feel most confident, one of the devil’s
own submarines gets at you suddenly.
The disposition which we are trying to
achieve is not so much a change of con-
vietions as a change of temperature, the
warmth and glow of a larger life which
we can most nearly achieve when we





are ever ‘looking unto Jesus.’”

|The Work of Reconstruction at Wellesley



The Committee of the Wellesley Alum-

ne Association reports two million dol-

lars as the total amount given and
pledged for the restoration and endow-
ment of the college. In four of the early '
classes 100 per cent, and in several other
classes over 90 per cent contributed to
this fund. Mr. Frank Miles Day, of Phil-
adelphia, has been elected to supervise
the erection of the new building. Mr.
Day is acting as consulting architect at
Yale, Johns Hopkins and New York Uni-
versity, and is at present erecting build-

|ings at Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania

State College and the University of Penn-
sylvania.

CAMPUS NOTES

Miss Wiggin, of Spring Street, an-
nounced at Vespers on Sunday, that the
house at Long Branch has been leased by
Bates’ Camp for a time of five years.

The subject of the debate last night
was: “Resolved, That moving picture
shows are beneficial to the masses.”
1916 argued for the affirmative, with F.
Kellogg, A. Lee and G. Moses on the
team. The 1918 spéhkers were: M.
Senior, T. Born, BE. Houghton. .—j.

Helen Bley, European Fellow of ‘10,
is teaching Latin and Greek and Ancient
History at St. Margaret's, Waterbury,
Conn.


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EGE NEWS*

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ALUMNA NOTES

Emily Greene Balch, ’89, has en eitiole
in “The Survey” of March 6, a number)

largely devoted to War and Social Re-
construction, entitled “Racial Contacts
and Cohesions.” Miss Balch, “recalling
that from the old religious wars came
toleration, holds aloft the hope that out
of this conflict, in which racial elements
are so inwrought, may come a new inter-
play and flowering out of cultures.”

Mrs. David Updegraff (Melanie Ather-
ton, 08) sailed last week with her hus-
band from San Francisco for Kolhapur,
Bombay, India.

Dorothy Childs, 09, M. D., Johns Hop-
‘kins, 1914, is Interne at the Women’s
Hospital, in Philadelphia.

Margaret Prussing, ‘11, is acting for
moving picture films.
cently, as Priscilla, in a play called “The
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” she
narrowly escaped being upset by “John
Alden” as she was making the perilous
landing.

Mary W. Brown, '12, is studying at the
Rush Medical College, at Chicago.

Nora Cam, Buropean Fellow, 1912, is
teaching at Miss Edgar’s School, Mon-
treal.

Katharine Page, ‘13, is engaged to
Charles Greely Loring, Harvard, ’03. Mr.
Loring is a member of the firm of Lor-
ing and Leland, architects, Boston.

Marion Edwards Park,
Professor of Classics at Colorado Col-
- lege.

At Plymouth re-|



« CAMPUS NOTES



the English Club after Easter.

The College has arranged for the Co-
burn Players to give on the first of May
a performance of “The Yellow Jacket,”
a remarkable Chinese play. The play
will be: given in the Chinese manner,
with the scene shifter strolling about
the stage, cigarette in mouth, during the
scenes, regardless of the players.

The Judges at the Gymnastic Contest
are to be Dr. Tait McKenzie, Director of
Physical Education at the University of
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Bishop, of Haver-
ford School.

In the French Oral on Saturday ten
passed, and nine failed, and one received
merit,

Mr. Robert Speer, who is to preach on
Sunday, is the Secretary of the Presby-
terian Board of Missions. His wife, Em-
ma Doll Bailley, ex-’94, is the new Presi-
dent of the Young Women’s Christian
Association.

It has just been announced that Miss
E. B. Daw has won the Babbot Fellow-
ship at Vassar. She will use it to con-
tinue her graduate work in English here
next winter.



98, is assistant |

1917. Dora Fishbein, who entered
from Barnard, has been voted into the
‘Class of 1917, and will graduate with
| them.

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Granville Barker, who is now in this
country, has promised to speak before |

MISS KING CONTINUES HER SPEECH

In Chapel, March 10th,’on the Prizes
Awarded at the Exhibition of the
' Phitadelphia Academy of
Fine Arts



I was to speak about the prizes to-day.
The first of those and the most desired
is the Temple Medal, which is open to
all American artists. In going over these
prizes I am mentioning the conditions
which are attached to each of them, be-
cause there is not a single one which is
open to all comers, which leaves the
prize free for the perfect picture, regard-
less of matters quite irrelevant to e&xs-
thetics. The Temple Prize went to
Charles Hawthorne for some men and
some dead fish. We have seen him paint
those for twenty years now, and he paints
almost the same way now as twenty
years ago, and the consequence of the
perpetual hammering with his oil-skins
and his dead fish at the doors of the

medal. The jury must feel that no one
could possibly be disappointed at their |
giving the best prize they have to an

cordance with all sound rules. The
painting is serious and substantial.. There
are no tactile values, because that gift |
has been denied to Mr. Hawthorne—as |
to most men. The scene is familiar, the
coloring conventional and there is quite

and oil-skins.
subtlety or freshness in the composition,
any more than in the color, and the
trouble, it seems to me, at bottom isn’t
that it is behind the times (that doesn’t
count), but that it shows no real or great
intelligence, . He is a good man, a-—good
husband and father, and makes an hon-
est endeavor to give you your money’s
worth, Intelligence is not expected, any
more than tactile values.

The next prize, the Walter Lippincott,
given for a figure piece in oils painted
by an American citizen, went to William
Paxton for a picture called “1875,” a wo-
/man in a curious green satin dress lean-
|ing forward to a little Chinese idol, with
a few other Chinese magots around. A
chair finishes out the composition. The
whole interior has intimité but has not
the exceptional charm-—-of—one--or_two
| American men who have given the same
|attention to small issues. The period is
recalled by all the Chinese things, as
much as by the costume. He gives the
feeling of a bygone day like an old album,
but no more. Mary Cassatt has some-
|'where a woman in an opera box which
| sums up the whole of the Second Empire,
as much as the novels of the Goncourts.
| It is a perfect manifestation of an epoch.
Many of you may recall this, as it has
been shown more than once. Mr. Pax-
ton’s piece is more clever and more in-
teresting than Mr. Hawthorne's, but it
| hasn’t real distinction.

The Mary Smith Prize is given to the
| best picture by a woman resident in
Philadelphia, who cannot have it twice
‘running nor more than twice in all, so
| that if there should be one very good
woman, then after three years her pic-
| tures would no longer get the prize, but
some one not quite so-good would get it.
|The subject which won, you will remem-
| ber, is “Carpet Rags.” The thing she

| worked for was a particular effect of
| light, and to me, it has more merit than
| either of the other pictures because it is
| serious, but it has no tactile qualities
| whatsoever. The placing of light in spots
|across the canvas is a virtue, and this
|is what Gertrude Lambert sought to do.
| ‘The Beck Medal, for a portrait in oils
finished within three years by an Amer-
| ican, which cannot be given to the same)
man twice, went to Charles Hopkinson.
Although I looked at it and made a mark |
under the number in my catalogue, I can-
not remember what it was about. That |



seems to me as good a comment on the |
picture as I could possibly give.

The Jennie Sesman Medal for the best |
landscape went to Carroll Tyson, I sup |

academies is that he carries off the

artist whose pictures are painted in ac-.

an amazing glimmer on the slimy fish |
There is no particular,

well as masses.

pose, because in Philadelphia we want
to keep things in the family. These-are -
Philadelphia names. “Bass Harbour” is
an American scene, carefully done, ex-
actly as all the men who are on the jury
were taught that painting ought to be
done, and as they go on teaching it. It
is uninspiring in treatment as in design,
and the scene itself is not inspiring.
There is one picture of a wharf which is
far from uninspiring or unpleasing or
dull, done in a purplish blue, but this did
not win a prize. It hangs by “The Little
White Lady.”

Then there is the Philadelphia Prize,
given by Mr. Bok, who does so much for
our demoralization in “The Ladies’ Home
Journal,” on which, if you go this week,
you can all have a vote. All visitors are
invited to vote for the picture they like
best. This is an iniquitous thing. It
encourages people to feel that—just as
they fancy, as long as they have a tongue
they can write excellent English with-
out being taught,—so, if Mr. Bok is right,
|as long as they have eyes they can judge
of a picture without any canons of criti-
| cism. But the things the plain man likes

best are not the things that should be
|prized. Artists should not go about to
/paint the things that most people are
likely to vote for.

There are two or three other things
‘I want to call your attention to: a pic-
|ture by a man named Woodbury, of fly-
‘ing fish against blue water, lovely in
color and design; one called “Her Lit-
tlest One,” by Mary D. Page, which is
a subtle composition of mother and child;
another picture of mother and child, by
Adolph Berie, different in its balance.
/Then look at the portrait by him. It
|gives not only a full idea of the char-:
acter of the man, but more, it is individ-
‘ual-plis- race and tradition, individual
plus family and stock. It seems to me
quite different from the pictures that won
the prizes he didn’t get. There is a por-
trait. by Mr. Chase of a lady with a pearl
‘necklace which shows more than the
‘truth, for we feel that the character of
‘that lady is really not so horrid as she
‘appears. Still, it is not right to do pearls
so well. Another new name is that of
/ Varian Cockcroft.

He has been exhibiting in New York
at the Reinhardt gallery with some prom-
sing--younger painters. - His “‘Arrange-
ment-with Figure” showsa conscious and
rather happy preoccupation with color as

The “Girl in Black,” at
the opposite end of the building, is not
so promising. True, the figure is prettily
balanced—poised so as to swing into



equilibrium like a bough—but it lacks

tactile quality completely and offers noth-
ing to take the place. The figure-pieces,
roughly speaking, look shy of strong
color, fresh feeling or new ways, in com-
parison with the landscape. That, as
usual, keeps well ahead. Maurice Pren-
dergast shows one composition pleasantly
like wool work (by which I mean that
the gets lost in the oddity of the
pregentation ~and the design remains)
while near together in the central
octogon (numbers 319 and 320) hang
two compositions done in little square
squeezes of flat color—such good color!
(Speaking of color let me recommend to
you Gino Perera’s glorious arrangement,
number 556.) “The Dance of the Boats,”
by Hayley Sever, has some color and
some design, and is worth your looking
up. Mr. Colin Campbell Cooper’s view of
a cathedral comes just 35 years too late.
Monet was in New York in 1890. “New-
foundland,” by Arthur Davies, is out of

‘time and out of space—it is the Hollow

Land, the isle of Avallon. Like all he
does it is neither modern, nor archaic,
‘it is simply magical. This is not the
only painting, in the Academy, of the
‘land of heart’s desire, but I should do
‘you no good by giving you the numbers
of the canvases, for everyone must find
‘out for himself the road to fairyland.



Helen Barrett, 13, is the general. sec-
retary of the Y. W. C. A. at Meadville,
Pa.








THE COLL

EGE NEWS





The Morning Watch

_Monday, Rom, 16: 1-13." i.

- ‘Thess. 1:1-3—For Paul’s spirit of love
_ for individuals. a

: ‘Tuesday, I Cor. 1:10-17.

John 17:20-23—For Christian fellow-
ship in ourework.

Wednesday, I Cor. 1:20-31.

Il Cor. 12:9-10—For humility and
strength.

Thursday, I Cor. 3:3-15—For deepening
of spiritual discernment.

Friday, I Cor. 3:3-15—For a right atti-
tude towards our work.

Saturday, I Cor. 3:16-23—Thanks for
the spiritual possibilities of man.

Sunday, I Cor. 4:1-7—Thanks for our
individual opportunities and responsi-
bilities. «

Federation Committee.—A list of ar-
ticles on the work of the World Student
- Christian Federation in the various coun-
tries of Europe has been placed or*the
Federation desk in the C. A. Library.
The number of the “Student World” and
the Conference reports from which these
articles are taken are also on the desk.

Bible Study Committee.—Although it
is near the end of the classes, the lead-
ers are always glad to have any visitors
who may care to come. The regular at-
tendance has been good, even in trying
times, like Freshman Show week and
nights before quizzes.

Subjects for March 24th

A. Grabau—‘Miracles of Christ.”

H. Taft—‘“Jeremiah.

Miss Applebee—‘The Doctrine of Pro-
pitiation.”

Ryu Sata—‘The Entry of a
Into Japan.”

Mrs. Branson—‘The Good News by
Word and Deed,” The Spiritual Side of
Medical Missions.”

BOOKS ON THE HISTORY AND
ECONOMICS SHELF



Additions to the Library

“The Encyclopedia of American Agri-
culture” is the “popular survey of agri-
cultural conditions, practices and ideals
in the United States and Canada.” Not
only is it, as its editor, L. H. Bailey
hoped, “a great repositorium, to which
the farmer, editor, author, speaker, and
teacher will go with increasing freedom
and confidence for his facts,” but-it-alse
offers to the general student exception-
al opportunity for informing and amus-
ing reading. The last volume includes
accounts of social and service associa-
tions, of education by means of agricul-
ture, and of government and legal aid
and control.



Some of the difficult problems of mid-
dle-class home making are solved in “In-
creasing Home Efficiency,” by Martha
and Robert Bruére. The book records
the ‘‘real experiences of real middle-class
people.” The conclusion drawn is that
housekeeping to be successful must be
made a business. The last pages are de-
voted to well-arranged and interesting
statistics. on typical “family budgets.”



In two volumes, entitled “The Home
of the Blizzard,” Sir Douglas Mawson
gives an extensive account of the Aus-
tralasian Antarctic Exploration of 1911-|
14, of which he was one of the leaders.
The account of daring adventure scien-|
tifically carried out, is made the more
fascinating by remarkable illustrations,
both in black and white and in color.





Mr. Bodley’s new book, “France,” pre-
sents a review of “political France after
a century of revolution.” He traces the
changes in Government from 1789 down
‘to the present, an era “whose political
ideas have convulsed the world.”

Religious Revivals at Colleges



The. presént movement toward relig-
ious revivals in the men’s colleges and
universities of this country was begun
last year by a successful campaign at

| Yale.

campaigns were also held at the Uni-
versity of California and the University | ,
‘of Chicago. During February of this
year a series of wneetings was held at
G. Sherwood Eddy was the

speaker. Several hundred men declared | |

themselves “Ready to work for Christ.”
The lively interest evinced by the Prince-

ton student body in the visit which |:

“Billy” Sunday paid to Princeton last
week is the latest evidence of revivals at
a college.

1917 FINALLY BEATS 1918.



The long-fought-out preliminaries in wa-
ter polo came to an end Thursday night,
when 1917 won from 1918 with a score
of 3-2. Both teams have shown splendid
team work and fast playing in all the
‘games, being very evenly matched as we
can see, for it took 6 games to prove
that the Sophomores were a shade bet-
ter than the Freshmen. At the very out-
set of the game Thursday, H. Alexander,
1918, made a goal, 1917 soon evenin
matters up however. Then as the score
was a tie, both teams plunged into the
second half with renewed vigor, 1917
speedily making two goals. The Fres!
men were bound not to be beaten with-
out a good fight, so they worked even
harder than before, and added one more
goal tu their score; 1917 then kept 191°
from scoring again, the defense doing
some really wonderful work at this
point. It was more good team work than
any star playing which brought 1917 out
victorious. V. Kneeland, 1918, played
particularly well, making 3o0me_ excel-
lent stops to the fast shots of 1917's for-

wards. The line-up was as fohows:

1917 1918
i. OS Sree mee. 655k else P. Turle
Eo Re Oe Es .G. Flanagan
M. Willard.......... Be eek eabe "TH. Alexander
V. Litehfield......... Wie iki caeeus T. Howell
CEE ee eS ES L. T. Smith
C | oe ag Lvkeas saa Ba Bs Oe deen dens H. Wilson
PR Se ee as asaaees Vv. Reet

one 4917; . et 2; a Harris, 1; 1918,
H. Alexander, 1 Smith,

*Referee—Mr. bition. Time a halves—6 min-

utes.



_ FIRST GAME IN THE FINALS OF
WATER-POLO WON BY 1917
1915 was defeated on Monday night by
1917 with a score of 5-1. There was no
particularly good team play, nor did any
individual star...The game was on the

‘whole, less exciting than those of the last

two weeks. The line-up was as follows:
1915 1917
Rs MN iio covssenciacss Be desercscstccrnions M. Willard
Ps FOE vin icacsccosavivess ee | assis eetibae L. Chase
E. Dulles
M. Robinson................ Ds cis -H. Harris
M. G. Brownell............ mie. Sn _.V. Litchfield
Bes I hecinviscscnive ee iiss C. Hall
. Ea ia eB ..C, Stevens
EIS AC }. * A. Davis
Eee rs M. Keller, 1; 1917, “M. Willard,
3; H.: Harris, 2.
Referee—Mr. Bishop. |

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