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Volume I. No. 17

CALENDAR |
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
8 p. M—Lecture on ‘The Dawn of Art”’ by |
Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, of Yale.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
-8 p.M.—Lecture-on “Women and Eeo- |
nomics” by Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21
First Sunday in Lent
6 p.M.—Vespers. Speaker, C. 5 urgent, '15.
- 8 p.M.—Chapel. _ Preacher, Dr. Francis
Brown, President of the Union Theological
Seminary.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Inter-class Water Polo match games begin.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
7.30—Mission and Bible clusses.
8.30—Deaconess Goodwin's class on Church
Work. :
9.30—Mid-week meeting A.
Leader, C. Dowd, "16.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 25
Faculty Tea to tke Graduate Students.
Denbigh.

or the CU.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
8 p.M.—Dramatic Recital by Mr. Samuel
Arthur King, for the benefit of the Belgian
relief fund.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
8.30—Address to the Graduate Club by
Professor H. A. Overstreet,

OFFICIAL NOTICE





at Easter, and those who succeed in
passing will be excused from the classes
for the remainder of the semester.

MRS. GILMAN WILL SPEAK TO
LIBERAL CLUB



On Saturday evening, at eight o'clock,
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman will lec-
ture in Taylor Hall on “Woman and Eco-
nomics.”
Gilman has been the leader and inspira-

tion of the woman’s movement in Amer- |

ica. She is the Ellen Key of American
feminism. In her books, “Woman and

Economics,” “A Man-Made World,” “The |
she has set!
_ forth her doctrines, which are now grad- |

Home,” and other works,
ually coming to be accepted by thinking
men and women, but which, at the out-
set, seemed startling, revolutionary and
dangerous.

| world poets, with Wagner.

' ophy in its fullest development,

_.. Students in the French and German |
oral tutoring classes will be examined |

| life.

For a number of years Mrs.

| He has
She has been devoting her |

energies to the cause so consistently that | phodied it in his “Parsifal.”

llege

BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 18, 1915

PRESIDENT THOMAS SPEAKS. ON
WOMEN AND WAGNER



I have concluded to close the modern
Wagner is
the one great genius of modern times

/that has given us some idea of the mu-

sical dramas of Greece and Rome, for
he believed, like the Greeks, that popu-
lar legends-treated with all the resources
of poetry, music and acting, become the
possession of a whole people. Wagner
has done this work for our generation.
He was born in 1813, in that wonderful
period in which so many geniuses were
born or were alive. He died in 1883, at
seventy, having recreated for us many
ofthe old medizval tegends. In speak-
ing of Shelley I said that “Epipsychid-
ion” was the most wonderful of love
poems. As a poem it is the most won-
derful, but it cannot compare in emo-
tional effect to the opera of “Tristan and
Isolde.” Wagner took the wonderful
mediwval love legend and made it into
the most overwhelming love tragedy that

{ean be imagined. The greatest of medi-

eval and modern poets have tried their
hand on this legend. You will find in
“Tristan and Isolde’ Wagner's philos-
Wagner
was very much influenced by the _ phil-
osophy of Feuerbach and Schopenhauer.
“Tristan and Isolde” is permeated by

| the view that love is the complete real-

ization of life and the complete negation
of the wish to live. As we know from
Waener’s letters, “Tristan and Isolde”
represented the most intense love of his
He regarded the woman he was
in love with at that time as his inspira-
tion. In the “Ring” he has embodied
the greatest of medigval legends, the
legend of Sigurd, the Volsung, in its
Norse-form. In “Lohengrin” he has
given us the Cupid and Psyche story of
the working of human curiosity against
the prohibition of a higher being and
the ruin wrought. “Tannhauser” gives
the legend of the mediwval goddess of
love. The “Flying Dutchman” treats the
famous legend of the flying Dutchman.
taken the greatest religious
legend of the medigwval world and em-
*“Parsifal”

her word is generally regarded as im-/contains some of the most glorious. re-

portant, if not authoritative.

There will be. general discussion after | jmagine.
the lecture, and Mrs. Gilman will be glad | of our race live for us.

ligious music that our generation can
Wagener: has made the legends
We owe him,

to try to answer all questions which the as poet and as musician, an overwhelm-

audience cares to ask.

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News

Price 5 Cents
DR. M. P. SMITH OUTLINES VOCA-
| TIONAL CONFERENCE

_ The fourth annual Vocational Confer-
ence will be held in Taylor Hall on Satur-
day morning, March 27th, between the
hours of ten and one o'clock. There will
be short addresses, not exceeding fifteen
minutes each, by women who are actively
engaged in the business or vocation they
represent. A schedule of the order of
the speeches and the time when each will
be delivered will be posted in Taylor
Hall before the Conference, so that stu-
dents who do not wish to remain through-
out the morning may hear any speech in
which they are especially interested. The
names of the speakers will be announced
later; the subjects are as follows: and-
scape Gardening, Scientific arming, Ad-
vertising, Journalism, Law, Medicine,
Secretarial Work, Social Work, Tea-Room
and Lunch-Room Management.

The College has invited the speakers
to. lunch in Pembroke. The members of
the senior class and the graduate stud-
ents who are interested in meeting any
of the speakers are invited to coffee in
Pembroke at half-past one o’clock. Stu-
dents who wish for more detailed infor-
mation about any of the subjects. of the
Conference may arrange for short inter-
views with the speakers in the afternoon
‘by notifying the chairman of the Stu-
dents’ Employment Committee, Miss A.
Werner, Denbigh Hall, before March 27th.

The first Students’ Conference on “Vo-
cations for Women,” was suggested Sy
the committee of the Association of Col-
legiate Alumnz on Vocational Appoint-
‘ments for College Women, and was held
at Smith College in the spring of 1911.
Bryn Mawr sent’ a delegate, and repre-
sentatives met from most of the Women’s
Colleges in the East. The speeches, dis-
cussions and personal interviews proved
so helpful to students who were planning
to earn their living, or who intended to
devote some of theirtime to volunteer so-
cial work, that similar conferences have
been held regularly in most of the wo-
men's colleges since that year. Smith,
Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke have voca-
tional meetings once a month, conducted
by Miss Florence Jackson, manager of
the Bureau of Occupations in Boston.

The committee on Vocational Oppor-
tunities of the A. C. A. of which Mrs,
Martin, Dean of Women at Corneil is
chairman, has also been instrumental in

organizing Bureaus of Occupation for Wo-
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