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Votume I. No. 23

BRYN MAWR, PA., APRIL 15, 1915

Price 5 Cents





CALENDAR
FRIDAY, APRIL 16
8.30—Meeting of the Graduate Club.
Address by Mr. Rhys Carpenter.
SATURDAY. APRIL 17
8.30—Performance of H. M. 8S. Pinafore by
the Glee Club.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18

6 p.M.—Vespers. S er, A. Smith.
8 p. M.—Chapel. acher, The Rev.
William Douglas, D.D., Canon of

the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

MONDAY, APRIL 19
7.30 vp. M—Meeting of the Undergraduate
Association.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21
7.30—Bible Classes. 4
9.30—Mid-week meeting of C. A.

: FRIDAY, APRIL 23
Junior-Senior Supper.

SATURDAY, APRIL 24

Track Meet.
8.00—Junior-Senior Supper Play Repeated.

SUNDAY, APRIL 25
6 vp. m.—Vespers. Speaker, M. Bacon, '18.
8 p.m.—Chapel. Preacher, The v.
Henry Tweedy of Yale.

SATURDAY, MAY 1
8 p.mM.—The Coburn Players in
Yellow Jacket.”

“The





OFFICIAL NOTICES



The last day for physical appointments
is Friday, April 30th.

All undergraduates, resident and non-
resident, not examined on or before that
date, must pay a fine of $2.00 for a special
appointment.

IN MEMORIAM



Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett

On Saturday morning, April 3rd, Miss
Mary E. Garrett died at the Deanery.
After a long illness which she had borne
with so much fortitude, death came
quietly and peacefully early in the Baster
recess of the College, and we, among
whom she had lived, could only re-assem-
ble after the vacation to mourn the loss,
not only of a benefactor, but of a true
friend of the College. ;

Miss Garrett, through her friendship
with President Thomas, has been so
closely associated with the College and
so completely in sympathy with all of
its aims and ideals from the foundation
until the present time, her interest and
influence have been so ever-present, her
help and assistance so ever-ready, that,
where so much has been given, it is
hard to take some definite part from
the whole and say, this was her contribu-
tion. Certain things stand out in our
minds, however, as having received her
particular care and attention. She had
excellent taste, a certain genius for in-
terior decoration, and she believed in
the educational effect of a beautiful en-
vironment. The quiet beauty and har-
mony of the halls of residence are largely
Miss Garrett’s work. She gave her per-
sonal attention to the chdice of furniture
and fabrics and to the arrangements of
the rooms. The many lovely and valu-
able. prints and engravings which hang
on the walls are lent from Miss Gar-
rett’s own collections or have been given
by her to the College. We are very
proud of our campus and buildings, but
we do not realize to what extent the
whole beauty of the College has been
preserved and enhanced by a careful at-
tention to each detail.



“Miss Garrett has given to the College
during her lifetime, $350,000, next to the
Woerishoffer bequest by far the largest
amount the College has ever received
from a single individual. This sum was
not given all at once, but was contributed
from time to time to meet the needs and
to further the true aims of the College.
To every fund that the College has so
laboriously collected, Miss Garrett con-
tributed; to every appeal for help in
what really affected the life of the Col-
lege, she responded liberally. She vastly
increased the Librdry, she brought to
the College many notable speakers, she
made four years of college life possible

‘for many students, and she furthered the

work of the graduate school by gifts of
scholarships and fellowships.

In 1906 when it was made possible
under the charter of the College, to en-
large the ‘Board of Directors from thir-
teen to sixteen, and two alumne Direc-
tors were appointed, Miss Garrett was
also made a member of the Board: She
then formally took her place on the gov-
erning board of the College to which she
had already given so much thought and
interest. She was eminently fitted for
her work as a director, not only by her
unusual knowledge of business and
finance, but also because of her intense
interest in everything that related to
women. It is not possible to separate
the problems which arise in the higher
education of women from the woman
question as a whole. To do so would
be a failure in understanding. The leg-
islator for women’s education must have
in mind at least a tentative solution of
the problems and difficulties which con-
front the trained woman in the world.
Miss Garrett desired intensely to solve,
at. least in part, these problems, and
Bryn Mawr College was but one of her
many interests.

With President Thomas anda few
other women she founded the Bryn Mawr
School of Baltimore, in order that the
girls of her own city might have the op-
portunity and incentive to prepare for
and to enter college. She gave half a
million dollars to the Medical School of
the Johns Hopkins University upon the
condition that the school should be op-
ened to women on the same footing as to
men. This one gift gave to college wo-
men the opportunity of working on a pro-
fessional equality with men and set a
standard for the medical education of
women throughout the country.

Miss Garrett realized that in creating
opportunity and a responsible place for
women in the world the question of suf-
frage was fundamental. When Miss
Susan B. Anthony died and there was
danger that the National Women’s Suf-
frage Association which she had built up,
would disband, President Thomas and
Miss Garrett assumed the responsibility
of raising $60,000 to carry on the work
for five years. The sum was raised and
the work of the association was continued
through a critical period and we to-day
are reaping the results in the marvelous
advance of Woman's Suffrage throughout
the country. Miss Garrett was interested
in getting the college women into’ suf-
frage work and for many years she was
treasurer of the College Equal Suffrage
League.

It is not, however, as the benefactor of

the education of women in general that
we shall think primarily of Miss Garrett
here, but rather we shall miss her as the

in our success, and to whom we shall ever
owe a deep and personal debt of gratitude.

’

FUNERAL OF MISS MARY ELIZABETH
GARRETT

. Miss Garrett’s funeral service was held
in Baltimore on April 6th.. A special car
left Bryn Mawr in the morning, carrying
the Trustees of the College, members of
the faculty and staff, and representatives
of the Graduate, the Alumnz and Under-
graduate Associations. The° interment
was private.

AGNES SMITH PRESIDENT OF THE

CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION é



A very successful year of-the Christian
Association ended Monday night when the
annual meeting for the elections was held.
Ruth Tinker, in the President’s report,
brought out again the great importance
‘and usefulness in the College of the effi-
‘cient’ board. The Treasurer’s report
| showed us that we could fully meet the
budget this year. The election of officers
followed the reports. Agnes P. Smith, '16,
was elected President of the Association.
Miss Smith has worked for the Associa-
tion as Assistant Treasurer and in other
capacities and has always been thor-
oughly interested in all its activities.
Agnes Grabau, '16, was elected Vice-Pres-
ident. Katharine Blodgett, '17, was elect-
el Treasurer and Charlotte Dodge, ‘18,
Secretary. :



BRYN MAWR CLUB OF NEW YORK
VOTES PRESIDENT THOMAS
FIRST HONORARY MEMBER



The Bryn Mawr Club of New York City,
at their annual meeting held February 3,
1915, established a new class of member-
ship, that of honorary members. The
club voted unanimously to ask President
Thomas to become its first honorary mem-
ber. In doing this the members wished
to express “their appreciation, as alumnz
of Bryn Mawr, of the enduring elements
in the structure and development of the
College,”” which the College owes to Miss
Thomas and “which not only have deter-
mined its own fundamental character, but
have influenced all grades of the aca-
demic education of women.”

MRS. BEATRICE FORBES-ROBERTSON
HALE SPEAKS ON SUFFRAGE



Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
was introduced by M. L. Hickman, '16, to
a very enthusiastic audience. She spoke
on. the awakening of women to democratic
government. Beginning with American
colonial history she showed woman’s
place, from the laws regarding her. She
then ran through the movements for
higher education, professional life, and
the repealing of the common law, which
have paved the way for suffrage. She
met the various objections, taking up
suffrage from the point of view of the
educated woman, the woman in the home,
and the working woman.
Hale presented no startling arguments,

That woman might supplement man’s
work and his knowledge was her final ar-
gument for bringing about true democ-
racy by giving women the ballot.



A SUGGESTION FOR BRYN MAWR

| At Vassar the undergraduates have
formed a police force to keep people from
/erossing the grass on the campus. Mem-

BRYN MAWR DEFEATS GOUCHER
; Score, 20-9

Saturday afternoon the Varsity Basket-
ball team opened the new season by win-
ning the first game of the year from
Goucher College, the score being 20-7. .
Bryn Mawr got two field goals within the
first five minutes of play and continued
to lead throughout the game. The Bryn



her talk was extremely logical and almost
every point she made drew applause.|Signora di Vincenzo. The accompani- -



Mawr forwards played well, H. Alexander,
/1918, making four goals and J. Pauling
playing quite as well as she did at guard
last year, S, Smith made some of her
extraordinary catches, although she found
‘it very hard to hold to the girls’ guarding
rules. Bryn Mawr had the advantage in
‘height, but Goucher balanced it by greater

‘agility. There was good passing on both
|sides; that of the Bryn Mawr team was
‘due to Miss Wesson’s coaching during the
short period of practice. In the second
jhalf Goucher came on the field with a
‘Tush, putting up a vigorous defense.
Their game was free and open, with some
swift passing; so that Bryn Mawr’s goals
were less frequent, while theirs were
‘remarkably neat and pretty.
' Goucher brought about forty support-
ers, Who were met by a committee of the
|Athletiec Association who served luncheon
'to them on the campus. Between halves
‘they sang some very good songs while
; Bryn-Mawr’s supporters came out strong
during the progress of the game. The
|crowd was quite large despite the blazing
sun and sultry weather. At the end of
|the game the teams of the two colleges
|cheered each other enthusiastically. The
game was a great success; even the con-
fusing compromise of rules did not cause
Miss Applebee to blow her whistle very
often as the play was so very clean.

The line-up for the game was as fol-
lows:

Goucher Bryn Mawr
Me OPIN | oe os cc Be ks CRS H, Alexander
I ihe ei ib eco I,P
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SO nes SS «See eer L. Brown
. Hayden, capt...... G, ....8. R. Smith, capt.
A NE eae cesses Gaisese, M. Thompson
(M. Ellinger)
Goals—ioucher; Field goals, B. von Bories,
; S. Nagel, 1. Free eel. 8. Nagel 1.
Bryn Mawr: Field is, J. Pauling, 4; H.
Alexander, 4; H. Harris, 2.
Referee—Miss Applebee, Umpires, Miss
ries and Miss Wesson.
m

e of halves—20 minutes. ’

DR. GIROUD LECTURES ON “MIARKA”
| Illustrated by Songs



Last Friday night Dr. Giroud, assisted
by Signora G. Di Vincenzo, gave a lecture
in Taylor Hall, on the novel “Miarka,” by
Jean Richepin. He introduced his talk
by a few words about the Bohemians,
“Les Romanis,” diverging a little to speak
of Richepin, who has done so much to re-
vive the interest in the Romany Folk-song. |

Dr. Giroud then went on to tell the



| story of “la farouche Grand-mére,” who
|devoted her life to her native tribe, of
'which her gramd-daughter, Miarka, was to
/become queen. Here and there, to keep
Although Mrs.|the audience in harmony with the spirit
‘of the tale, some of the songs which

Richepin has introduced were sung by

ments, written for these songs by Alex-
ander Georges, are fully in keeping with

‘their weird and fantastic words.

'CO-EDUCATION A POSSIBILITY AT

DARTMOUTH
A persistent rumor is abroad at Dart-

mouth that a wealthy friend of the college

is anxious to have it co-educational and

| bers of the squad, armed with badges and | has offered to build several dormitories
friend of Bryn Mawr College who took whistles, are stationed on the various | for women. Although the college officials
pleasure in our pleasures, who triumphed | walks. When they see a student about to/ will not confirm this, it is admitted that

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jeut across the grass she is warned by a
blast of the whistle to turn back.

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i there is nothing in the charter to prevent
‘a woman from graduating at Dartmouth.