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The College News

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



Managing Editor
Ass’t Managing Editor .
Business Manager .
Ass't Bus. Mgr. .

-.»« + : ISABEL: FOSTER, '15 |
ADRIENNE KENYON,’ 15

MARY G, BRANSON, '16 |
KATHARINE BLODGETT, '17 |

EDITORS
CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE }
RUTH TINKER,'15 ISOLDE ZECKWER, '15
FREDRIKA M,. KELLOGG, '16



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. Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, at the,
post office at Bryn Mawr, Pa, under the
Act of March 3, 1879

NOTICE









Owing to Christmas vacation there will
be no issues of “T he College News” on
December 24th and 31st.

HIBERNATION
Hiberfation has set in at Bryn Mawr.
student has wrapped herself in a
of windows,
ordered her

Each
shut her
fire and laid in a
of cake and jam.

skin “ray wool,
good store
This retrogressive st

takes place each year in the ae.
ment the woman, although
she is supposed to. demand better phys-
ical conditions. What can be the cause
for this relapse? Many blame the fact
that they do not fresh air on
the exercise rules require three
’ periods of exercise, Which must
be taken in the gymnasium, The work
in the gymnasium certainly its ad-
vantages—better carriage, physical co-
ordination and grace. Two days in the
week does not Seem too much to devote
to this when there are three other
not. counting Saturday. and
which can be given outdoor exer-
cise, This next objection is that if you
play water polo you take all your exer-
cise indoors. Still one day left
for the water polo to be out-
doors, and they constitute a minority of
the students. There is One difficulty left,
work has piled up so we must have more
time for study. Is our winter work any
better than our fall and spring work be-

cause it is more continuous? Do we not
at any

of educated

more
which
two of

get

has

days,
Sunday,
up to

there is

players

work better for having
fresh air and change of thought?
Few people study more than eight or nine
and of the seven eight other
day they might spend at least
one in physical development. But-there
another unfortunate result of this’ hi-
bernation, more. time spent “socially
and this means the reverse of plain liv-
ing and high*thinking. Teas have more
dainties now that the restrictions of the

exercise,
rate
hours or

hours of

is

is

| Wellesley

|; was,

shies cele rules are removed and |
again only a few are training for water
polo, If we dre trying to economize this |
year it would seem to be for our own

good to do it on our winter store of nuts |
and candies.’ The exercise rules and
overwork are not the causes of our ces-

| sation of activity, but our own inertia.

THE NEW FIRE SYSTEM

After the long delay, made necessary
much.red tape, the fire drill system
been reformed. At the time of the
fire last year,
aware how
The new regulations are a
reform in many ways.

by
has

came
true
They will save

| time alone in closing windows, doors and
| accounting

for. the occupants of
rooms and emptying the building all at
once. The use of one staircase at a
given signal is a wise provision. One
might suggest the addition of a signal
for the use of the fire escape. The sys-
tem on the whole shows careful planning
and consideration. There we think,
however, one fundamental an@ most im-
portant defect-in-the-system.People do
not like drills, they take no pains
with them, no pride in them, cut them
whenever it is possible, complain of them
and them, and make the
the captains miserable. Will the
new system stop that? Good fire drills
depend on the spirit in which they are
carried out. Is this the way to get the
good-will of the College, to give out four

is,

fire

curse lives of

fire

pages of written instructions; to call
meetings of aides which are finable for
non-attendance? To tell people. they

must, to call the majority ‘‘ordinary stu-
,- and to herd them out “like dumb
driven cattle’? Decidedly no. The
thing a feeling of co-
would be ever advisable if
be laid upon a com-
of speed between the halls. To
publish for example the. individual rate
in each hall, or for each corridor. Some
plan like this and some abridgment of
the details of the rules and more consid-
eration on the part of the hall,captains
would make this new and

dents
and
to do is to arouse
Tt

tress

operation
more would

petition

system a sure
permanent

SUCCESS,



ORAL Sr ATIOTICS
For the benefit of future “Oralists” we
offer the following suggestions, gleaned

from the experiences of sadder but wiser
Seniors:
Don't. try your cap on the
presidential desk to appear at your ease.
Don't think you can help your friends
in the corridor by translating at the top
of your lungs. The device is too obvious,

to place

Don't, don’t, don’t (as one of our rever-
end. editors. did) translate Géfz and
Werter as “charm” and ‘worth.”. If you

everyone be- |
inefficient our system |

the |

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tas COLLEGE NEWE

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| don’ t know a proper name when you see
it, omit it. ;

The following statistics were compiled
from the forty-eight Seniors in regard to
the “essential, condition for passing”:

Be confident; appear to know more
than you do (Say 33 per cent).

Don’t “bluff” whatever you do. Be
| quite honest, if you can’t guess with a
‘reasonable degree of success, confess
|your ignorance. Don’t, as one of. our
number, call “Iphegeneia auf Taurusa,”
“Iphegenia on the bull.” It makes a bad
impression (69 2/3 per cent).

Read slowly. and accurately.. This is

/more important than fluency in transla-

-and_elfortto_produce a “real team,”

tion (42 per cent).

Read quickly and glibly. It is rapidity
and catching the sense of a passage that
counts (69 per cent). r

If you are allowed to read only one
passage it is a bad sign. The judges evi-
dently can stand no more (1 per cent),

If you are allowed to read only one pas-
sage it is a good sign. You have con-
vinced the examiners of your knowledge
at once (79 4/9 per cent).

CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN

(The Editors do not hold themselves
responsible tor the opinions expressed in
this column.)

Dear Editors:

Hockey is over and football has ended
its brief career. Two nights a week we
gs0 Shivering across the campus to prac-
tice water-polo, the most strenuous game
that most of us will ever play. Yet if,
after three months of faithful practice.

we
win the water-polo championship, we
,have won no more glory for our class

than if through the conspicuous skill of
one or two athletes they had’
ming meet

gained swim-
or track meet’ Our class name
is engraved on a cup and on the panels
of the trophy room in the Gymnasium,
but our banner is not hung out.
engaged in a “minor sport.”
There is-no real reason why water-polo
should not be put on an equal footing
with basket-bail and hockey and why our
banner should not be hung in the Gym-
nasium, for this as well as for any other
sport, tor it requires just as much grit
and teamwork as either-of the so-called
“Major sports.” In a system of hanging
the banner the Gymnasium for one
winter sport indoor game, the College
year would be divided into three nearly
equal parts, whereas at present the ban-
ner for hockey hangs out for five months
of the College year and the banner, for
basket-ball for less than three months.
We now have a Varsity water-polo team
whose members receive the highest indi-
vidual athletic honor in College—a B.M.

We have

in

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