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College news, January 21, 1915
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1915-01-21
serial
4 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 01, No. 14
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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The College News
Published weekly during the college year in the
interests of Bryn Mawr College
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Managing Editonie . . ISABEL FOSTER, '15 |
Ass't Managing Editor -ADRIENNE KENYON, '15 |
Business Manager . MARY G. BRANSON, '16
Ass't Bus. Mgr. KATHARINE BLODGETT, '17 |
EDITORS
CONSTANCE M., K.. APPLEBEE
CONSTANCE DOWD,’'16 EMILIE STRAUSS,’16 |
FREDRIKA M, KELLOGG, '16
Office Hours: Daily, 2-3
Christian Association Library
Subscription $1 50 Mailing Price $2.00
entered as second-class matter September °6, 1914, at the
post office at Bryn Mawr, Pa, under the
Act of March 3, 1879
Cramming is, of course, we all grant it, |
frightfully immoral. If you have inves-
tigated the subject at all thoroughly (as
we have), however, you must also admit
that moral or unmoral or immoral cram-
ming is a fine art. The girl who sits
in the library day after day patiently ac-
quiring a mass of detail is a “grind.”
Anybody can do that, But the girl who
sits down the night before an examina-
and masters whole semester’s
tion a
work in twelve hours is a true artist.
Her’s are the master qualities of con-
centration, keen analysis, good judgment,
the faculty of grasping things in their
relations, courage, imperturbable coolness
undisturbed by ‘the thought of the stu-
task
Aboeve-all_ she must have unbounded con-
pendous between her and dawn.
fidence in er ability to overcome the im-
possible. And what is-that but genius!
Out in the world, they say, there are mul-
titudes of people who faithfully fulfill
their routine duties, but the man who is
needed and who.is seldom-found is the
man who, when necessity commands, can
work at white heat, can cross chasms
impassable to other folk, can summon all
his powers in a moment, the man who
ean rise to an emergency—the man who
can cram!
“Pride goeth before a fall’—and we
who boast of Athenian supremacy, let u#
well consider the worth of our claim.
Are we really the best-known female col-
lege of our generation?” Such Dr. Wilm
assures us is our European reputation,
but “a prophet is without honor in his
own country,” and from Cincinnati comes
the following communication to our un-
dergraduate president.
Students of Bryn Mawr College:
Gentlemen:
What about a college song book?
/10.30 p. m.
slippers.
THE COLLEGE NEWS
CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN
(The Editors do not hold themselves re-
;sponsible for the opinions expressed in
| this column.)
Dear Editors:
I stand in the’horns of a dilemma. Last
week the fire bell rang for a drill at
I leaped out of bed and
slipped on a coat and hockey skirt and
Can you imagine my consterna-
tion when I was ordered out on to the
Campus? I was an aide in the Fire De-
partment, but I was also a _ bare-legged
member of Self-Government.
Yours,
Conscientious But Perplexed.
Dear Editors:
We inclose the following clipping from |
the “New York Post”:
A very valuable new institution at
Bryn Mawr College is the newspaper, “The
College News,” of which the first num-
ber was published in September. It has
appeared ‘weekly since ‘the College
opened, and is both useful and success-
ful. It is a four-page sheet beginning
with a calendar of the week’s eyents. It
has given short and well-written“accounts
of the diff@rent events in the College;
each week there is an editorial on some
matter of college interest: under the
heading, Alumnz Notes, brief items of
interest in regard to the alumne are
given, and the newspaper has proved use-
ful in giving a clear account of changes
in the students’ organizations. “The Col-
is published by a board of
six students—a managing editor, an as-
sistant managing editor, four editors, a
business manager, and an assistant busi-
ness manager.
Sincerely yours,
A. Subscriber.
lege News”
AT A MID-YEAR TEA
Dear Editors:
Where is the “melancholy gloom which
pervades the College atmosphere and
weighs upon our spirits like a load?”
How long since it that the College
ceased “to take examinations sensibly?”
Your editorial sounds.to me as if it had
is
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been written by one who never took an |
examination at Bryn Mawr, or had at
least never lived in a College hall during |
To me, Mid-years seems the,
Never are we so |
Mid-years.
healthiest time of year.
well fed—five meals a day and tea in the
afternoon. Never.do we take so much
|voluntary exercise. The strain, particu-
| larly this year, of rules and regulations is
‘lighter upon us. Most of us go to bed at
|a reasonable hour. Not all of us are
cramming for a life and death struggle.
Not all of us are so “anxious” or so “fear-
ful.” After having gone through six sets
of Bryn Mawr ordeals such as you de-
scribe, we would beg you to be careful of
generalizations upon the attitude of the
College in a paper with so wide a cir-
culation as ‘The College News.”
L’Allegro.
MRS. KATHERINE FULLERTON GER-
OULD SPEAKS BEFORE THE
ENGLISH CLUB
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On Friday afternoon the members and
| friends of the English Club had the pleas-
| ure of hearing Mrs. Katherine Fullerton
|Gerould speak on “Imagination and the
Short Story.” A short story, Mrs. Gerould
| Said, cannot be truly realistic in that it
must necessarily isolate, emphasize, ex-
aggerate, in order to produce a single im-
pression within the brief space allotted to
it, otherwise it becomes anecdotal in char-
acter. One of the best tests of a good
Short, story is whether or not it can be
expanded into a novel. It is interesting
in this connection to think of the stories
of Kipling, O. Henry, and Conrad espe-
cially, and to see whether they are imagi-
natively suggestive enough to stand when
judged by this criterion. Mrs. Gerould
pointed out that the old rule, which we
heard so often in our schooldays, “Never
describe anything which you have not
seen yourself,” is perhaps a trifle too re-
stricting for most of us. It is possible
to describe places which we have not
seen or types of people whom we have
never known. The best test is whether
| the description really “holds” or not, and
carries with it conviction for the reader,
and of that the author himself is compe-
tent to jiidge. He can, with practice,’soon
come to know the limits of his powers
and can make a map as it were of his
own imagination. Certainly when we
read “Vain Oblations,” and learn that the
author herself has never been to South
| Africa, we cannot doubt the truggrot this
statement. In closing, Mrs. Gerould
placed more emphasis upon style than
upon substance, contrary to the preva-
lent popular impression that it is con-
tents alone that count. After the lecture,
which was very interesting and stimu-
lating throughout, tea was served in the
Rockefeller drawing rooms.
Mrs. Gerould was at one time a mem-
ber of the English Department of Bryn
Mawr and is well known as the author
|of “Vain Oblations,” a copy of which is
now in the New Book Room. Her latest
|story, “A Moth of Peace,” the scene of
'which is laid in Belgium at the outbreak
| of the present war, is published in the
January number of the Atlantie Monthly.
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