Page 2

Managing Editor



2 : THE COLLEGE NEWS

The Colleae News

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

ISABEL FOSTER, '15
Ase'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
ELEANOR DULLES, '17 MARY SENIOR, "18

Office Hours: Daily, 2-3
Christian Association Library



Subscriptions may begin at any time
Subscription $1.50 Mailing Price $2.00

Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1014, at the
-post office at Bryn Mawr, Pa, under the
Act of March 3, 1879

It is seldom that Bryn Mawr hears a
sermon which appeals to the whole col-
lege as did Dr. Fitch’s this Sunday. The
sermon was typically a college one, and
made the sure appeal of that which lies
nearest to the heart. He spoke about
the good and the clever at college, quot-
ing the following poem:

“If only the good could be clever
And only the clever be good.
The world would be very much better

Than ever we thought that it could.
But, alas, it is seldom or never

The two hit it off as they should,
The good are so harsh to the clever;

The clever so rude to the good.”

A point which particularly struck
home was that service should not be
measured in quantity, but in quality, and
that our greatest social service at pres-
ent is study.

He suggested the ‘medias res,” where
the gift of the devotee, high and cour-
ageous feeling, and the gift of the
scholar, which may become mere pedan- |
try and diabolical pedantry at times, are
combined in the man of true religion and |
scholarship.

CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN



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

Dear Editors:

In so much as we Freshmen have been
exalted against our will in many cases
to the high position of proctor, we beg
you to remember that, as in the case of
flower-girls and duchesses, a proctor is
not a proctor merely because she is

«“‘blues.”
ened by



elected, but because she is treated like



one. The very pathetic example of a
Freshman whose sad duty it is to be
proctor in a corridor full of Seniors
comes to the mind. This poor person
hour after hour heard the’ shouts of
laughter issuing forth through the open
transom of a Senior’s room, and time
after time she debated to herself whether
duty should be stronger than those
dreaded epithets “trite and presumptu-
ous.” At last when she had mustered
up all her available courage, afid with
trembling knees and shaking fingers, she
had approached the door, and had en-
treated, begged that “the Seniors-er-ah
make just a trifle-er-less noise,” we re-
gret to say that her presence was ig-
nored! Could anything be more tragic
than this? So we requested you of the
upper classes, even if you do not regard
the Freshman proctor as the personifica-
tion of law and order, at least to remem-
ber that she is taking herself most seri-
ously, and that it would be an act of
kindness, if you were to preserve this
pleasing little hallucination.
Sieaiailiacncaatie

Dear Editors:

Did someone say Bryn Mawr students
were poor sports? We should like to
introduce that person to the Class of
1916. Nothing could have shown better
clean sporting spirit than '16’s attitude
toward the mistake in the swimming
meet scores. To have enjoyed the thrills
of your first victory after two years’
hard work in athletics and then have all
your exultation dashed to the ground
would be enough to give anybody the
But ’16 was not to be disheart-
that. Their captain showed

-were



what thoroughly good sports they are
when she said to a 1917 person, “Well, |
we're pretty close rivals! Remember the |
gym meet? Never mind! We'll beat|
you yet!” sc Bay ks

ALUMNZ NOTES



Kate E. Chambers, ’11, has announced
her engagement to Laurens Hickok
Seelye. Mr. Seelye, who is finishing his
last year at the Union Theological, is the
son of the Rev. William Seelye, of North
Conway, N. H. No date has been set for
the wedding.

Katherine Page, '13, has charge of the
“Health Department” for the care of the
Belgian refugees in London. The office
of the department is at the War Refugees
Headquarters and is open from 9 to 5
daily.

Georgina Biddle, who was doing grad-
uate work at Bryn Mawr, preparatory to
entering Johns Hopkins next year, has
been obliged to give up her work owing
to slight injuries sustained from a fall



when riding.

STRIPED MUFFLERS FOR LEPERS



Many will remember the interesting

sermon The Rev. Mr. Higginbottam gave
to us about the lepers in India. These

lepers need mufflers, 12 inches wide and
2 yards long, the brighter the better.
Striped mufflers or plain are wanted, the
only restriction being, that much blue
must not be used as it is a low caste
color. These mufflers are wrapped about .
the head in the day and at night the
lepers roll themselves up in them. Please .
everyone knit mufflers and bring them to
F, Kellogg, Pem. East, when finished.

You have until the end of college to make
them.



(Continued from Page 1)
ing debt of gratitude. Everyone of you
who are now growing up and forming
your thoughts and imagination for the
rest of your life should learn to appreci-
ate Wagner’s operas. You may not like
them at first, but persevere and sud-
denly they will seem to you surprisingly
wonderful. When I was in Leipsic in
1879 the operas were given by one of the
greatest Wagner conductors in the world.
The merchants in Leipsic were rich and
could afford to bring famous singers
there and pay the prices they demanded.
But when I first heard the Wagner
operas they were absolute gibberish to
me. After about a year of hearing them
over and over again the redlization of
what Wagner was, came to me. His
music gave me my musical education
and has been one of my greatest joys.
The two great musical composers that
seem to have- influenced Wagner most
Mozart-_and . Beethoven. From
Mozart and Beethoven, love of Wagner
leads one back also to other earlier mus-
ical geniuses. Then, of course, his music
leads one forward. Any one that loves
Wagner loves, too, Strauss, Dubussy and
other modern musicians. One can read
nothing more delightful than Wagner’s
life, It shows us how much more sensi-
tive to genius we shall be when ‘women
wield more influence. Women are very
susceptible to Wagner’s genius. In his
lifetime they could not turn a deaf ear
to his music. They gave him their

money, their time and their husband’s
houses. German merchants went off on
their business trips and returned to find
Wagner in possession of their houses, .
writing his operas. Women seemed to
be overwhelmed by the great power of
his genius. Women, at the present time,
have more leisure to read and more time
to study really difficult artistic things.
They are the greatest admirers of Wag-
ner. If you look around at a Wagner
opera night. you will see that the audi-
ence is made up of appreciative and en-
tranced women who have succeeded in
bringing with them perhaps one man for
every ten women. This only shows that
women have had the leisure to under-
stand what Wagner’s music means.