College news, March 25, 1915

Votume I. No. 22

BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 25, 1915

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Price 5 Cents



CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MARCH 26

4.30 p. mai—Gymnastic Contest.

8 p.mM.—Lecture by Paul Douglas under
the auspices of the History Club.

SATURDAY, MARCH 27

10 a. m.—Vocational Conference in the
Chapel.

SUNDAY, MARCH 28

6 p.m.—Vespers. Speaker, Miss Marie
Spahr, Settlement, N. ¥. C.

8 P.M. . Preacher, The Rev.
Joseph Ross Stevenson, D.D., Director of the
Princeton Theological Seminary.

MONDAY, MARCH 29

Basket-ball Practice begins.

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 8
Easter Vacation ends at 9 A. mM.

FRIDAY, APRIL 9
Mk Recital of songs “The Songs of Miarka”
by Signora G. Di Vincenzo, under the auspices
of the French Club, for the benefit of the
Belgian Relief Fund.
Faculty Tea for the Graduates, Radnor

SUNDAY, APRIL 11
8 p.m.—Chapel Sermon by _ Professor
Edward Steiner. Professor of Applied Chris-
tianity in Grinnell College, Iowa. :
SATURDAY, APRIL 17
Performance of H. M.S. Pinafore by the
members of the Glee Club.

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OFFICIAL NOTICE

A scholarship of the value of two hun-
dred dollars has been offered by Miss
Mary Rachel Norris of the Class of 1905,
in memory of her father, Austin Hull
Norris, for a student of ability and prom-
ise to whom scholarship is the chief aim
in College and who comes from a family
where education is thought worth the
sacrifice of comfort and amusement.

The scholarship is to be awarded for
1915-16, but only if a candidate with
these qualifications is found.

ALUMNA NOTES



Dorothy S. Wolfe, ’12, has announced
her engagement to Paul Douglas. Mr.
Douglas is doing graduate work at Colum-
bia University.

Grace Hutchins, ‘07, who. has been
teaching at St. Hilda’s, Wuchang, China,
has been appointed Principal of the
school for next year. The school, which
is under the Episcopal Board of Missions,
is one of the largest for girls in China.
The new building holds about three hun-
dred girls, and is well equipped even with
a large gymnasium, the gift of a Bryn
Mawr alumna. Wuchang is a large edu-
cational centre and we have heard ru-
mours that the aim of some of the Alum-
nw working there is to found a College
for Women finally, a Chinese Bryn Mawr.

Tracy Mygatt, 08, is the Field Secre-
tary for the East of the Church Socialist
League.

Jeanette C. Griffith, 08, is the Director
sar College.
the students as a club-house for the maids
on the campus.

Charlotte Claflin, "11, has an appoint-
ment as teacher of infant hygiene under
the Child Hygiene Division of the Depart-
ment of Health of Newark, N. J.

Fanny Barber, '09, is teaching in the
Cathedral School for Girls in Bagnio, Ben-
guet, P. I.

This house is supported by.

MARGUERITE DARKOW WINS EURO-
PEAN FELLOWSHIP



President Thomas’ Address
Friday, March 19

in Chapel



We have met together in Chapel this
morning to honor those students who
with an ardent and humble heart have
submitted themselves to instruction and
have gained knowledge and the begin-
nings of wisdom. All colleges exist to
give instruction. All students go to col-
lege to gain knowledge. In the _ hiero-
glyphics sculptured on the earliest Egyp-
tian pyramids, in the inscriptions and
writings of Greece and Rome, in the mon-
asteries and convents of the Middle
Ages, at the courts of the dissolute Ital-
ian princes of the Renaissance youthful
scholars were honored. From the begin-
ning of recorded time until the present
the ‘world has thought it a very great

ing knowledge. At Bryn Mawr College
to-day it is really a very great honor in
your graduate work during one or two
years to have proved to your professors
that you are eager for learning and able
to learn. It is really a very great
achievement to have been able to main-
tain through a college course like ours
at Bryn Mawr day in and day out for
four years a uniformly high level of in-
tellectual work. Such a record cannot be
the result of chance. It does not mean a
spurt of hard work and then periods of
neglectful work. It means steady, faith-
ful work from day to day which in itself
is an extraordinary quality and one quite
apart from inherited intellectual ability.
If to mental gifts these qualities of faith-
fulness, perseverance, self-denial are
added the combination makes a wonder-
ful equipment for your future lives. It en-
sures not only success in what ever you
undertake, but-—something much better
than mere succéss—a life of the highest
kind of usefulness. When we award
prizes for distinguished academic work,
we sometimes forget that we are honor-
ing not only the ability to study, but also
other qualities that make successful stu-
dents. The more I’ watch the after lives
of graduates of Bryn Mawr and of other
colleges, the more I have come to believe
that academic standing in college is a
very good proof of the possession of those
qualities which make men and women in-
fluential in the community. It is improb-
able that you will be among the first ten
honor students of our Bryn Mawr gradu-
ating classes unless you possess qualities
which will be of great importance to you
after leaving college. A careless, neglect-
ful student is not apt to be a very trust-
worthy or faithful sort of person. It is
barely possible that such a student may
have a change of heart after leaving Bryn
Mawr College, butitis not probable. Col-
lege students have already begun to mani-

remember that the race is not always to
the swift. A student who learns easily
may be out-distanced in the long run by

tors, but such a student rarely wins our
European Fellowships which are tests of
staying-power and hard work as well as
of intellectual ability.

Competitions like those for our Euro-
'pean Fellowships seem to me very use-



| ful. They teach us to honor ability when
| we find it, to feel pleasure tn each oth-
\er’s achievements, and to admire ability

- Alpine Parker, ‘11, is Director of Phys-/ and scholarly excellence. It is one of the

ical Training at the Friends’. School, Bal-
timore.

| most delightful conséquences of the past

ages of the repression, and perhaps I may

thing to be successful in youth in gain-

fest certain characteristics that will go}
with them through life. Of course, we must |

other less intellectually gifted competi-

add the oppression, of women, that wom-
en as a class have learned to stand to-
gether and to rejoice in the most gener-
ous way in one another’s successes. All
oppressed classes of the community learn
this class solidarity. Jews, even at pres-
ent, combine to assist one another. In
like manner, as women you will, I believe,
be able to rely on the assistance and gen-
erous praises of other women in your
scholarly work.

The trend of modern education is to
honor distinguished intellectual merit.
It is because democracy has not yet
learned to honor public service that we
have not developed great public servants.
According to Milton the love of fame is
the “last infirmity of noble minds,” but it
is a question whether a desire for true
fame is not one of the highest of human
enthusiasms. Let us then unite in prais-
ing and honoring to-day our European
Fellows who are just entering on their
career as students and, we hope, as schol-
ars.

“The faculty makes the following nomi-
nations to the Board of Directors for the
award of the European fellowships, the
gift of the College:

“For the Mary E.. Garrett European
Fellowship awarded to a graduate stu-
dent in her second year of work at Bryn
Mawr-for the doctor’s degree, who seems
to the faculty to give most promise of
success in scholarship and research:
Charlotte D’Evelyn, B. L. 1911, Mills Col-
lege, of San Francisco, specializing in
English Philology. Miss D’Evelyn came
to Bryn Mawr from Mills College where
she had. been trained by a Doctor of
Philosophy of Bryn Mawr College, Pro-
fessor Hope Traver to whom she does
great credit. From 1913-15 she has been
a Scholar in English at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege. Her dissertation which is well

Bodleian Library at Oxford.

“The Mary BE. Garrett Fellowship has
been given 21 times:—in Classics, 6
times; in English, 3; in Mathematics, 3;
in Romance nguages, 2; in Biology, 2;
in Semitic VZanguages, 1; in History, 1;
in Archeojogy, 1; in Physics, 1; in Chem-
istry, 1.° Of our 21 Mary E. Garrett
Fellowships 11 are at work in colleges
either teaching or in administrative
work; 4 are teaching in schools; 1 is a
curator of a museum, 2 are studying and
only 2 have no occupation (I really
wonder if they have no occupation).
Fourteen have received their Ph.D. de-
grees. 1

“For the President’s European Fellow-
ship the faculty has nominated Caroline
Austin Duror, specializing in Geology,
Barnard College, B.S. 1914; Scholar in
Geology, Bryn Mawr College, 1914-15.
She is only 21 years old. She too has



under’ way~ will necessitate her going |
abroad to complete it probably in the)



\studied under a Bryn Mawr graduate,

| Professor Ida Ogilvie, Bryn Mawr, 1900. |
| Professor Bascom tells me that all the

|
women geologists now working in the!
United States have studied in the Bryn
Mawr department of geology for one or
more years. Miss Duror will. continue
the good tradition.

“The President’s European Fellowship
awarded after one year’s work in the)
graduate school of Bryn Mawr to a wo-|
man intending to take her doctor’s de-
gree has been conferred 18 times: 4 in
Philosophy, 4 in Biology, 2 in German, 2
in Physics, 1 in Classics, 1 in French, 1
in History, 1 in Economics,'1 in Mathe-
matics, 1 in Chemistry. It has never
been awarded in geology, the subject in
which it has been given this year. Of
these 18, 8 are teaching in colleges, 4

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BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES OF
GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE



Bought Out of the Fletcher Bequest

en

The department of archeology has
acquired an interesting series of colored
plates illustrative of ancient Greek and
Roman life. These are now on ‘exhibi-
tion on the screens of the Art Reading
Room, where it is hoped that not merely
those who are interested in the classics,
but also the race of those who nourish
an “instinctive distrust for all dntiqui-
ties” will use the occasion to alter or con-
firm their impressions.

The subjects illustrated are very var-
ious. One plate is devoted to ancient
ships, and illustrates the Egyptian Nile
boat, the ship of the Homeric age, of the
Jater Greek traders, the narrow three-
banked war-galleys, and the types in the
Roman navy and merchant marine. On
the early Greek vessels it is interesting
to mark a curious animism which thinks
of ships as animals and gives them eyes
with which to see their way, or carves
the bow at the water-line into a great
boar’s head. It is to the remnant of this
feeling that our own ships owe their fig-
ure-heads and the rare distinction of
feminine gender. The eyes still survive
on Mediterranean ships to-day.

Two other plates illustrate the Greek
and Roman dwelling, with its Mediter-
ranean instinct for a central court and a
carelessness for exterior appearance
which still characterize Italian palazzi
and the houses of modern Turkey.

Two plates, illustrative of the ancient
theatre, may make more vivid the ma-
terial conditions of ancient drama. A
play acted in the open, before a large and
distant audience, makes mask and pad-
ding natural. In excluding minute dis-
play of emotion through facial expres-
sion and subtlety of pose, it forces itself
to be hieratic, to maintain the broadness
of gesture and restraint of action which
makes Greek tragedy so different from
modern play-house drama.

A set of seven plates illustrates mili-
tary antiquities. One exhibits the Greek
soldiery, from the pre-Homeric warrior of
the Mycenaean age, with horned helmet
and double shield, to the type that fought
at Marathon or, one hundred and fifty
years later, followed Alexander into In-
dia. Two plates show the types and
armour of the Roman war-system. In
other plates, the weapons and siege-ma-
chines, the camps and frontier defences,
are shown in detail. Perhaps it is not
without interest in these days to learn
the means by which a Roman general,
without gun-powder or other explosive,
could capture the strongest walled towns
by actual battery.

But the most attractive of the plates
are perhaps those which illustrate an-
cient costume, For the Greeks, clothing
was not the artificial limb-casing, the
tailor-made “bird-skin with changeable
feathers,” which the modern type tends to
produce. Instead of being rigid and un-
adaptable, it was fluent and ever-differ-
ent, so that merely to wear one’s clothes
was in itself an art,—an art, which in-
volved its own constant exercise and
adaptation. It was a poignant scoff which
Sappho uttered when she wrote,

“What country maid in robe arrayed
With snares thy sense enrankles,
Who hath not shift, her gown to lift
“With grace about her ankles?”

Nothing could illustrate the artistic ele
ment in Greek life more vividly than the

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On account of the Easter vacation the
' {ssues of the first and the eighth of April
will be omitted.

We have always been taught that a
Bryn Mawr European fellow is able to do
anything and to act in any emergency, but
there is a case on record in which even one
of this high race of beings was unable to
cope with the situation. One of the re-
cent European fellows whose present oc-
cupation is teaching has been trying to
stimulate and satisfy the “intellectual
curiosity” of her class of ten-year-old
girls. She has conducted sight-seeing
expeditions to law courts,_to.large fac-
tories and to the stock market at the re-
quest of various members of her class.
One day last week she made her usual
inquiry, ‘Well, children, what place shall
we visit this week?” For a moment there
was silence and then a meek, little voice
spoke from the back of the room, “Please,
miss, I ain’t. never seen a saloon,” and
just here it was that the vaunted Bryn
Mawr ingenuity met its Waterloo.

The Wellesley-Vassar debate was held
last Satutday evening in the Students’ |
Building at Vassar. Seeing the announce-|
ment of this event made us think of the
aim of the frequent debates which are)
being held here on Wednesday evenings.
If Byrn Mawr is some day to enter the
arena and match her wits with those of
the other colleges varsity material
must be trained. The one way to do this
is to support the class debates. The semi-
finals begin in April. The captains and
debaters have been working all the year,
and ‘the results of this practice promise

interesting and exciting finals. The songs |’

and cheers which accompany athletics
may be out of place, but a crowded
Chapel will show the same class spirit
and college spirit as well. When will the
announcement be published in the Vas-
sar Miscellany that the Bryn Mawr-Vas-
sar Debate will take place on Saturday?

CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN

The Editors do not hold themselves responsible
for the opinions expressed in this column.
We have been asked 40 print the following

letter:

WAKE UP, UNDERGRADUATES!

Have you yet heard that on October
$1, 1914, the New York branch of the
College Settlements’ Association indulged
in a Twenty-fifth Anniversary? Perhaps
you do not see at once any connection
between you and that event—and in all
too melancholy ° truth. there was no con-
nection, but there should have been, and

allied you with this enterprise twenty-

‘Bree nines, 1880 eyn Miws College

-|forces in what is called the Settlement
Movement: a force because we Bryn
Mawrtyrs believe that we represent dy-
namic power to every movement with
which we ally ourselves; vital because
of,our prominent place in that body of
college women of America who have
made possible the position which the Col-
lege Settlements hold today in the
world of social theory and practice.
Many of us have individually only a re-
mote connection with the C. S. A., but
even so we beam with pride at the prom-
inence attained in it by US and OUR
alumne.

Confident that Bryn Mawr’s end of the
Association was being upheld by “some
one of us” you have let get by you the
real facts of the case. YOU have taken
no steps to prevent it, because you did
not know until to-day, perhaps, that. your
end is dragging in the dust of disinterest,
that you have failed to keep the faith ta
this enterprise and to those alumnze who

five years ago, and that at the present
time Bryn Mawr’s name is almost all that
remains of the high purpose she once
had.

Why does the Undergraduate Chapter
stand to-day as a weak-kneed, anzemic,
asthmatic, apathetic part of the Christian
Association when it should be a big, live,
real, personal interest in the life of the
undergraduate body, with a basis of
membership as broad as the basis of
College enrollment? Whatever is the
reason for this, the result has been to
quash any interest on the part of so-
ciologically inclined students whose vis-
ion is riper than their years, and to
render abortive any efforts towards stim-
ulation from without.

Is it any great wonder, then, that those
uninterested, because uninspirited, un-
dergraduates become uninterested and
settlementally stagnant alumnze? I think
you will agree that there is not. Does
this offer to your mind any good reason
why we and you—who are so proud of
Bryn Mawr should any longer sit by and
let almost every other women’s college

in the east occupy a more useful and





you ought to know it.

honorable place in the College Settle-
ments’ Association than we? _

You have not known before that the
position of Bryn Mawr as an undergrad-
uate chapter of the C. S. A. is unworthy
both of the Association and also of the
College. Now that you do know it what
are you going -to do about it?

Will you help us to get together and
try to rescue our somewhat tattered repu-
tation by a renewed or new-born interest
in a movement which should touch you
because you are a college woman, and
more especially because you are a Bryn
Mawr College woman?

Bryn Mawr played a sorry part in the
Anniversary at the New York house—a
part unworthy of you and unworthy, of
herself. If you feel that you would like
to get back to a basis of square dealing
with the alumnae, with yourselves, and
with the Association, will you not take
some steps towards learning of the ig-
nominious situation which you have—
perhaps ignorantly, but none the less
certainly—created, and out of which you
alone can pull us?

It is because I have felt that you were
not wilfully unaware of your present
backsliding that I have asked for this
space in the organ of your undergraduate
body. I shall be glad to have proof that
I did not misjudge you.

‘ Signed,
Helen W. Army, ex-04, _—
Treasurer of the Standing Committee
of the College Settlements’ Asso-
ciation.

has stood to the world as one of the vital



To the Editor of “The College News”:

The writer of. the “Billy Sunday” edi-
torial évidently felt that her attack on the
students who advertised Mr. Sunday’s
presence “was justified by the fact that.
the students did it on their own responsi-
bility, knowing that the authorities ob-
jected.” But this very fact that the stu-
dents were entirely free agents in the mat-
ter prevents them from being regarded in
the least as representative of the College
sentiment. Their whole attitude was so
entirely personal that they can only be

considered enthusiasts about Sunday.
Why the attendance of the students at the
meeting should represent a “sanction” of
Sunday and his methods we fail to see.
It merely represents the interest and curi-
osity which Sunday’s widely advertised
campaign has aroused in a great many
persons besides the students of Bryn,
Mawr. To satisfy this curiosity is not to
sanction emotionalism.
Undergraduate.

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studying, 2 teaching in schools, 2 are
married with no occupation (I think we
will have to find some name for the oc-
cupation of marriage); 8 have received
the degree of Ph.D.

“Special European Fellowship in Mod-
ern Art:

“I am happy to announce to you that
since the faculty nominated Miss Duror
for the President’s European Fellowship
another traveling European Fellowship
has been given to the College for the
year 1915-16 with the understanding that
it is to be given to Fern Helen Rusk of
Missouri, A.B. and A.M, University of
Missouri, Fellow in Archeology, Bryn
Mawr College, 1914-15, one of the candi-
dates who was very carefully considered
by the faculty for the President’s Fellow-
ship, who must go abroad in order to
complete her dissertation on Renaissance
Treaties of the Fine Arts with special
reference to Leonardo da Vinci.

“We are now come to the nomination
of the faculty for our Bryn Mawr Eu-
ropean Fellowship awarded to the mem- |
ber of the graduating class who seems
to the faculty to give most promise of
distinguished scholarly work. Before an-|
nouncing to you the name of the senior
nominated I should like to give you some
interesting statistics. This fellowship
has been awarded 26 times. Of these 26
fellows, 6 are teaching or in the admin-
istration of colleges; 9 are teaching in
private schools, 1 a private tutor, 3 study-
ing, 1 a writer and lecturer, 6 married.
Only 2 Bryn Mawr European Fellowships
have not been made use of which is very
gratifying as they are awarded without
knowing whether it is possible for the
seniors so honored to use them. The 24
European Fellows who have gone abroad
have studied in 35 foreign universities:
6 in Paris, 6 in Munich, 5 in Oxford, 4 in
Berlin, 4 in Leipzig, 2 in Gottingen, 2 in
Zurich, 2 in Athens, 1 in Heidelberg, 1
in Cambridge, England, 1 at the British
Museum, 1 at the University of Rome.
Since 1900 the College has calculated the
averages of its Bryn Mawr European Fel-
lows. In order of grade they are as fol-
lows: Helen Tredway, 1911, 91.62;
Eleanor Louise Fleisher Reisman, 1905,
91.61; Clara Louise Whipple Wade, 1904,
91.54; Helen Moss _Lowengrund, 1906,
90.48; Emily Ledyard Shields, 1905, 90.06;
Norah Cam, 1912, 89.794; Katherine Dodd,
1914, 89.700; Helen Miiller Bley, 1910,
89.469; Ellen Deborah Ellis, 1901, 89.32;
Margaret Bontecou, 1909, 89.23; Mayone
Lewis, 1908, 88.49; Helen May Billmeyer,
1902, 87.57; Mary Elizabeth Perkins
Lyders, 1900, 87.20; Yvonne Stoddard,
1913, 86.877; Virginia Greer Hill, 1907,
85.57. Up to the present year only 4
seniors have attained the grade of 90 or
over on each of 105 semester hours.

“For the. Bryn Mawr European Fellow-
ship in 1915 the faculty has nominated
Marguerite Daisy Darkow, of Philadel-
phia, a graduate of the Philadelphia

Girls’ High School, holder of the first
Matriculation’ Entrance Scholarship for —

holder of the Simon. Muir Scholarship oa:
the value of $400 for four years and of
the Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall

Scholarship awarded for the highest

Junior grade, with the grade.of 92.50 on

111 semester hours (6 hours more than

the regular number) the highest grade

ever attained at Bryn Mawr College.
Miss Darkow has received the grade of

high credit on 91, credit on 17 and merit.
on 3 of the 111 hours that she has taken.

But extraordinarily good as these grades

are the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship

does not necessarily go to the senior with

the highest grade. The faculty endeavors

to consider not only grades but so far as

possible also the greatest promise of

future excellence in scholarship. Since

Miss Darkow entered the College from

the beginning of her freshman year she

has maintained European Fellowship

grade in all her work. In every class ©
she has been easily foremost. She has
really shown remarkable intellectual
power throughout her whole college
course. We look forward to her future
career as a student with very great con-
fidence.

“The following 10 seniors have received
the highest grades in 1915: Marguerite
Daisy Darkow, of Philadelphia, prepared
by the Philadelphia Girls’ High School,
group Mathematics and Physics, 92.50;
Harriet Bradford, of San Francisco, pre-
pared by the Lowell High School, group
Latin and English, 88.657; Helen Herron
Taft, of Ohio and Connecticut, prepared
by the National Cathedral School, Wash-
ington, D. C., and the Baldwin School,
Bryn Mawr, group History and Econ-
omics ‘and Politics, 86.076; Mary Mitchell
Chamberlain, of North Carolina; prepared
by the St. Mary’s School, Raleigh, N. C.,
group Chemistry and Biology, 85.1000;
Atala Thayer Scudder, of Brooklyn, pre-
pared by the Veltin School, New York
City, group Psychology and Biology,
84.908; Adrienne Kenyon, of New York,
prepared by the Horace Mann School
New York City, group Economics and
Philosophy and Psychology, 84.247; Flor-
ence Gage Hatton, of Ohio, prepared by
the Columbus School for Girls, Columbus,
Ohio, group Philosophy and Psychology,
83.754; Mary Albertson, of New Jersey,
prepared by the Friends’ antral School,
Philadelphia, group History. and Eco-
nomics and Politics, 83.628; Myra Step-
hannie Richards, of Connecticut, prepared
by the Normal College of the City of
New York and the High School, Norwalk,
Connecticut, group Latin and German,
83.409; Dorothea May Moore, of Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, prepared by Miss
May’s School, Boston, group History and
Economics and Politics, 82.698.

“These Honor Seniors come from 8
states, 7 were prepared in private
schools, 3 in public schools: they have
chosen 8 groups: History and Economics
and Politics, 3; Latin and English, 1;
Latin and German, 1; Economics and
Philosophy and Psychology, 1; Philos-
ophy and Psychology, 1; Psychology and
Biology, 1; Mathematics and Physics, 1;
Chemistry and Biology, 1.

“Seniors graduating with distinction:

“If Bryn Mawr College awarded the
A.B. degree in three grades the faculty
might perhaps adopt the following nu-
merical values: as summa cum laude —
average grade of 90 or over; magna cum
laude — average grade of 83 or over but
below 90; cum laude — average grade
of 80 or over but below 83. The follow-
ing seniors would in this case graduate
with distinction: summa cum laude, Mar-
guerite Daisy Darkow, 92.50; magna cum
laude, Harriet Bradford, 88.65; Helen
Herron Taft, 86.07; Mary Mitchell Cham-
berlain, 85.10; Atala Thayer Scudder,
84.90; Adrienne Kenyon, 84.24; Florence
Gage Hatton, 83.75; Mary Albertson,
83.62; Myra Stephannie Richards, 83.40;
cum laude, Dorothea May Moore, 82.69;
Helen Walkley Irvin, 82.11; Zena Jennie
Blanc, 81.78; Anna Wilkins Roberts, 81.57;

Laura Elizabeth Branson, 81.34; Kathar-

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. ine Snodgrass, 81.25; Olga Helen Clara

Erbsléh, 81.06; Isolde Thérése Zeckwer,
80.71;.
Mary Monroe Harlan, 80.49; Jean Sat-
tler, 80.47; Catherine Prescott eo,
80.23.”

Average Grades of seven Senior Classes





















from 1909-1915
of in Cites cian 00 Grade Grade
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spite of the spirited resistance of the
Senior defence, the Sophomores won 6-3.
The line-up was:

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Referee—Mr. Bishop,

ALUMN4Z NOTES



Marie Wing, ’07, is General Secretary
of the West Side Branch of the Y. W.
Cc; &,

M. Hobart, ‘11, is in charge of the
Church Board of Missions’ Educational
Exhibit which she arranged and collected
On
her way out she stopped at various cen-
ters to organize church pageants and
the mystery plays which her mother has
written. Miss Hobart is also. giving
weekly lectures in San Francisco and
Oaklands.

Lois Lehman, ’11, is studying at the
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H. M. &. PINAFORE DROPS ANCHOR

‘AT BRYN MAWR, APRIL 17

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For the first time in the history of the
Glee Club a light opera is to be acted at
Bryn Mawr College. Pinafore is undoubt-
edly the favorite of all Gilbert & Sulli-
van’s popular operettas. The catchy melo-
dies and witty dialogue make it a pleasure
to the performers, a pleasure which it is
hoped may be shared by an enthusiastic
audience. The “saucy ship” Pinafore
certainly will be a “beauty” when with
full sails and pennants flying from the rig-
ging, she arrives here April 17th. She is
manned by a lusty crew under the com-
mand of a gallant Captain Corcoran,
whose daughter Josephine rejects the
love of the “gilded lordling,” Sir Jos. Por-
ter, K.C.B., for the honest ‘heart of a-Brit-
ish sailor. In spite of the villainous
treachery of Dick Deadeye, the happy cou-
ple are united by the disclosures of
“sweet little Buttercup.” The rejected
lordling finds consolation in the sympa-
thetic heart of Cousin Hebe, and in the
fascinating feminine charms of “his sis-
ters and his cousins and his aunts.” It
may be noted that several of the crew
likewise find consolation in Sir Joseph's
“female relatives,” who brighten the ship
with their sunny smiles and gayly colored
costumes.

To present Pinafore is a stupendous un-
dertaking.
there are 26 musical numbers, most of
which are accompanied by dances. Fur-
thermore, it is a difficult proposition to
construct a man of war ina g fanasium.
is no reason ar Pinafore
for the
cast is not restricted to the members of

But there
should not be a great success,

one class, bit all four classes are repre-
sented as well as the graduate school.
Moreover, the task is made easier by the
co-operation of Miss Gildner, Miss Apple-
bee and Mr. T. Foley, not excluding the
strenuous efforts of the various commit-

9

tees.

(Continued from Page 1)

of Greek feminine attire.
Even in the Doric type the simplicity is
without irksome restraint.

two plates

In every one
there is variety and charm. And each
method of wearing a costume which
was after all little more than a plain rec-
tangular piece of cloth, expresses in a
different way the spirit and taste of the
In the contrast with the plates
of Roman costume, the difference be-
tween the two nations is curiously ap-
parent. The type of dress is basically
the same, yet all the opposed temper of
Greek and Roman seems to show in their
ways of wearing it.

The merit of the plates lies in their
clarity and accuracy. They summarize
pictorially the combined efforts of many
generations of scholarship. Behind many
of these pictures lie years of research
and controversy. Yet the total impres-
sion gained, for all the careful detail, is
rather one of learning half-concealed so
as not to obscure the graceful qualities
of ancient life with its astonishing insis-
To the peculiar
beauty derivable from classic literature,
these pictures add the charm of vividness
and intimacy.

The plates were bought out of the

wearer.

Fletcher Bequest in Archmology.

Rhys Carpenter.

The cast contains 75 people; |
>

1918 PROVES “MOVIES” NOT
BENEFICIAL

_ The “movies”. provided a very success---
ful debating subject for the meeting on
March 17th. The speakers were ap-
parently more at home with their ma-
terial than is always the case, and both
teams and audience seemed interested ;
1918 defeated 1916 by upholding the nega-
tive of the proposition, “Resolved, That
moving picture shows are beneficial to
the miasses.” The judges were Miss
Shearer, \F. Hatton and I. Foster. The
line-up was, 1916: F. Kellogg, A. Lee, L.
Goodnow; 1918, M. Senior, E. Houghton,
T. Borne. Miss Goodnow, the first
speaker for the affirmative, emphasized
the educational value for those who could
not read of such pictures as the Rainey
animal films, travel and current event
pictures, and their function in quickening
the mind and widening the interests.
Miss Senior, speaking for the negative,
maintained that the “movies” did not
offer any really satisfactory educational
opportunities and did not give to the
people the right sort of amusement.
Pictures like the Rainey films can be
seen only for a quarter or more, most
people can afford to go only to the
| smaller places where admission is five or
ae cents and where the management
jcannot afford to produce such pictures.
| Moreover, the managers seeking nat-
| urally to increase their trade, aim chiefly
to amuse and to cater to the crowd by
vulgar sensationalism and the emotional
‘film,
value of the scenic effects found in our





Miss Lee spoke of the wethetie

moving picture shows, the beauties of
natural the grand canyon, or
ithe artistic presentation of historical life

lad art as in Quo Vadis. The objection

scenery,

|made by Miss Houghton to the “movie”
the
strain on the eyes, the bad ventilation

shows was the danger to health,

jand the consequent spread of disease.
The social value that such shows may
well described by

however, was

They afford amusement,

have,
Miss Kellogg.
she said, for people who cannot get
amusement elsewhere, and keep people
off the street where the spread of dis-
ease in the dirt is as likely, especially
children, in the “movie” audi-

They may aid also in civic cam-

for as

torium.

|paigns by showing tuberculosis pictures,

=

etc., and so make the people feel they
are working together. Above all, the
moving picture shows are essentially
democratic, for rich and poor alike pay
the same price for the same sort of
seats. The debate was concluded by
Miss Borne who deplored the moral ef-
fect which the movies have over 18,000,-
000 people per day, the effect of the sen-

sational films on young people, the dan-
ger to girls and the lack of any real
censorship. Miss Shearer, in criticism,
said that the debate was a great deal
better. The rebuttal was still scattered,
however, and the partition of time was
too artificial, each speaker gave her
whole time to one point regardless of
its importance, and claim to more or less
consideration. ‘There was, she said, more
swing to the style, more “oratory.” There
were still too many “for instances” and
too few antithetical sentences. The
negative was better than the affirmative
chiefly because it took into consideration
what could be said on the other side.
Miss Kellogg, Miss Shearer said, had
much more ease in speaking than she had
shown in former debates. Miss Senior
and Miss. Borne had a good deal of
fluency, and Miss Houghton had made a



good oratorical start.






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CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION



Mee
yr eee

The Morning Watch
Mon.—Matt. 6: 1-8. For sincerity.
Tues.—John 12: 24-28. For faithfulness.
Wed.—John 13: 33-35. “More love.”
Thurs.—John 14: 18-21; 16: 31-33. For
trust.

Fri.—John 18: 4-9. For courage.
Sat.—Matt. 26: 38-46. For consecration.
Sun.—John 16: 12-14.

There will be a meeting of all those
who keep the morning watch, on Sunday
at 3 o’clock (56 Rockefeller). All those
who are in any way interested are urged
to come.

Watch the Clock

The results of the campaign to raise
money for Bates’ Camp are registered on
the Christian Assdciation bulletin board.
Six hundred dollars must be added to the
five hundred that the Christian Associa-
tion gives towards the running expenses
of the camp at Long Branch, N. J. This
gives meals to about forty people for ten
weeks at the rate of $2.50 a week, and
pays for other expenses, such as laundry,
repairs and service. Greet the collectors
- with a smile, for they can-tell’ many in-
teresting stories of camp life.

Bible and Mission Classes Committee.—
For April 14th, the topics are: A. Grabau,
“Opposition to Christ’; H. Taft, “Jere-
miah”; M. G. Branson, “The Doctrine of
Assurance”; Mrs. Branson, ‘Christ’s
Commands,” applied by the individual
members of the class and how they fulfil
them.

Eaglesmere Conference.—There will be
a meeting of all the people who expect to
go to Eaglesmere, Monday, March 29th, at
7.15, in the C. A. Library.

Student Volunteer Band.—The regular
meeting of the Student Volunteers will
be held in the C. A. Library, Thursday,
March 25th, at 9.30.

The Vocational Committee announces
the annual Vocational Conference on Sat-
urday, March 27th. The subjects and the
exact time of each speech will be posted
in Taylor Hall as soon as possible. Every-
one is cordially invited. Anyone wishing
a private interview with any of the speak-
ers. may make arrangements through A.
Werner, 4-6 Denbigh.

CAMPUS NOTES



Tickets for “H. M. S. Pinafore,” to be
presented by the Glee Club in the Gym-
nasium, April 17th, at 8 o’clock, are now
being sold by C. Dodge, 42 Denbigh. Seats
downstairs, $1.00; gallery, 75 cents.

The Liberal Club met Sunday evening
to discuss war topics. Lorraine Fraser,
’18, gave a synopsis of Bernhardi’s “How
Germany Makes War,” and Lilla Worth-
ington, '16,° talked about the “Germany
and England” of Cramb. The open dis-
cussion which followed would doubtless
have been more interesting if the attend-
ance had been greater.

Mr. Paul Douglas will speak under the
auspices of the History Club on Friday
night in Rockefeller sitting room on the
subject of “Our Labor Movement.” After
the lecture there will be a reception for
the club and its guests.

Twenty-two passed and five failed at
the third German oral on Saturday.

At a meeting of the Philadelphia Teach-
ers’ Association last week, Miss Applebee
read a paper on “Athletic Competition for
Girls.”

C. Fiske, 1918, has been elected Hall
Representative of Pembroke West in
place of S. Morton, who has resigned.

Those who heard Katherine Fullerton
Gerould, formerly English reader at Bryn

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is, in his own words, “an attempt to diag-
nose thé current unrest—the battle
against the chaos of a new freedom.”
From his own practical experience and
knowledge of the social and industrial
problems of the day, he tries to “arrive
at some sense of what democracy im-
plies.” 'The book offers a general view
rather than solution of the problems of

the day; but it is full of the interesting
ideas of a hopeful enthusiast.

Mr. Edward Strutt, in an attractively
bound and illustrated life of “Fra Filippo
Lippi,” “discards all tendency to dry ped-
antry” and gives an appreciative and elo
quent account of his hero. He pictures
vividly and romantically the life of an
artist of the Quatrocento—‘“that. wonder-
ful period of Florentine art which her-
alded the Renaissance like the glorious
dawn of a resplendent day.”

“What the historian of art may find dull
will justify itself in the eye of the histo-
rian of civilization,” in A. S. Mayer’s ‘‘Se-
villaner Mahlerschule.” Beginning with
the origin of the school in the artist
guilds of Seville, Mayer traces its history
through its early representatives in the
fifteenth century, until it reached a glori-
ous culmination in Velasquez, Murillo,
and Valdés Leal. Besides Mayer’s de-
tailed descriptions of innumerable paint-

ings; the book is supplemented by sixty
photographic reproductions. The work is
a splendid addition to the subject of Span-
ish art, “hitherto too little elaborated.”
Marie Sukloff tells her own tale of Rus-
sian injustice and cruelty in her “Life-
Story of a Russian Exile.” Born in 1885
of Jewish parents, she begins at sixteen
to be an agitator aid revolutionist. From
the time of the Kiev massacres, through a
period of nearly ten years, she endures
the horrors of the life of a “political con-
Imprisonment, Siberian exile, and
a final escape are the chief incidents in

vict.”

her story of unbelievable persecution.

Anna Welles, ’08, has announced her
engagement to Mr. J. Wylie Brown. Mr.
Brown is the secretary of the American
Chamber of Commerce at Constantinople.
Miss Welles has been connected for some
time with the American School for Girls
in Constantinople. Miss Welles is now
visiting in America.

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