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THE COLL



EGE NEWS



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

Managing Editor . . . ISABEL FOSTER,'15
Ass’t Managing Editor . ADRIENNE KENYON, '15
Business Manager . . MARY G. BRANSON, ‘16
Ase’t Bus. Mgr. KATHARINE BLODGETT, '17
_ *‘Eprrors

CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE
CONSTANCE DOWD,'16 EMILIE STRAUSS, '16

FREDRIKA M, KELLOGG,'I6 .
ELEANOR DULLES, '17 MARY SENIOR, ‘18

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Although many of us in College have
had little actual contact with Miss Gar-
rett, we have none the less felt her per-
sonality and her ability. Those of us who
have met her at the Deanery can truly
say: “To a stranger it must have been
difficult to associate the quiet, retiring,
almost shy gentlewoman, who never un-
necessarily used the personal pronoun and
apparently never thought of self, with the
heiress who so wisely disposed of her
wealth, unostentatiously furnished regal
tenets for the progress of her sex and was
a walking encyclopedia « on art and litera-
ture,

Always well poised, surrounded with
every refinement without wasteful ex-
travagance, well dressed, though never
conspicuously, a charming hostess with-
out undue display, Miss Garrett passed
through her world, leaving it richer, bet-
ter, for her presence.”

From a slight knowledge of Miss Garrett
we have admired her remarkable business
ability and her artistic gifts.

We welcome to our harbor the good
ship which enters port next Saturday.
“Pinafore” represents a daring venture of
a twofold character and we are all inter-
ested to see how she will weather the
gales. The substitution of a real musical
comedy for the old-time Glee Club con-
cert promises to be an attractive change.
Jolly sailors_and their relatives in gay
costumes on board a life-size ship (two
decks, so rumor hath it) cannot but be
more thrilling than rows of white-clad
maidens, however charming their singing
may be. Of course, such an undertaking
means a great deal more work, for to the
training of large choruses must be added
the coaching of acting and dancing and
the costuming and staging needed for so
large an enterprise. ‘Pinafore’ is a dar-
ing voyager. As a Varsity Show, Satur-
day night’s performance will mark, we
hope, the beginning of a new era. Under-
graduate plays are a feature of the life
of most colleges, but until now have been
quite unknown to Bryn Mawr. Here is
the chance to inaugurate a new tradition,
to have one very good play during the
year, drawing on the talent of the whole
student body (graduates, too, are on deck)
and helping to further that “esprit de
corps” of. which we hear so much. As a
pleasing variation of the Glee Club enter-
tainment and as a herald of future “Var-
sity Shows,” the arrival of “Pinafore” is
awaited with great excitement. May she
have a “bon voyage.”

CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN

The Editors do not hold themselves re

for the opinions expressed in this
To the Editor of “The College News”:

In your last issue you published a let-
ter which I felt was unjustly severe in
its attack on Bryn Mawr’s work in the
settlement movement. The writer appar-
ently did not know of our large interest
in philanthropic work and did not realize
that although we have no chapter in the
College Settlement Association, yet we

people and teach six classes a week at

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of lack of interest in the association is
just.’ Our “apathy” is’ not ue, however,
to lack of interest in

part of the undergraduates, but to the or-
ganization of the C.S. A. The only repre-
sentation of the association in College is
the Settlement Committee under the
Christian Association whose chairman is
the so-called “elector” from the College.
The duty of the committee is to arrange
settlement classes (which have practi-
cally no connection with the C. S. A.);
and the committee has no way of finding
out who is interested in social work out-
side of those who volunteer to teach set-
tlement classes.

So we are, as a College, represented in
an association with which, as a College,
we have practically no connection and
about which we know little. Is it any
wonder we are apathetic? It seems to me
that we ought either to get out of the
College Settlement Association alto-
gether or else start a chapter independent
of the Christian Association which would
take real interest in it.

But to get out of the association would
seem rather foolish because a great many
of us are interested in social work and the
College Settlement is especially designed
to give College educated girls a chance
to do efficient social work. Now why not
start a chapter next. year and let all those
interested enough in social work join it?
In this way we would accomplish the two
objects of membership in the association;
first, we would give future social work-
ers a connection with social workers
from almost all Eastern colleges in an
association which will enable them to do
the most efficient social work after col-
lege; and, second, we would raise either
by dues or entertainments a contribution
to the association. And it seems to me
that we have plenty of real interest in
social work to start such a chapter and
make it a success.

What do other people think about this?
I hope someone will give the committee
suggestions for next year.

M. Scattergood,

Chairman of the Settlement Committee.

To the Editor of “The College News”:

The “student who advertised Mr. Sun-
day’s presence in a church outside the
College gates” would like to state that
the Bryn Mawr students who attended Mr.
Sunday’s meeting did so as individuals,
and as such had the right to reserve
seats. This should not have “inevitably
coupled the name of the College with the
revival meeting’ any more than the at-
tendance of a number of students at a
play couples the name of Bryn Mawr
with a_ theatrical performance. of
course, there was a chance that the ma-
jority of the undergraduates would ob-
ject, although such an objection would
have appeared as an attempt to limit in-
dividual activities; but as the majority
attended the meeting the natural assump-
tion would be that they approved. How-
ever, had any opposition been voiced be-
fore Mr. Sunday’s address at the church,
all reservations might have been can-
celled.

Mr. Sunday needs no defence. The last-
ing results of his work speak for the man.
One-of our secular periodicals says, “His
campaign through the West and Middle
West can almost be’ traced by the ‘dry’
towns and cities in his wake.”

A professor of psychology, from one of
our oldest universities attended several
of the “tabernacle” meetings, and said
that what had impressed him most was
the entire lack of sensational emotional-
ism. Knowing the deplorable moral con-
dition of the undergraduates of Cornell
who are “rising by the power of their in-
tellects,” it seems hardly fitting for a
reputable woman's College to quote their.
opinion concerning any religious” move-
ment.



the Philadelphia settlements, and this



yong. Dave: Goms:n-grenk dasl.for the war
‘Sufferers.. But although she did not real-:

|ize that we have many philanthropic in-
| terests outside the C. S. A., her accusation

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more than intellect; that the avowed pur-

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velop his intellect alone. Surely no fault
‘can be found with students who desire
the development of their tri-partite na-
ture, inane soul, and spirit.

Eleanor Houston Hill:

To the Editor of “The College News”:

A few weeks ago one of the editorials
in “The College News” suggested that the
new plan for the election of the Christian
Association Board be put into effect in
the other College associations. By this
plan the individual classes nominate a
certain number of people from which the
election is made. We say that the classes
do not know the members who will be in-
terested in the work for which they are
nominated, that the association as a
whole is better able to judge. Now we
have a chance to end these disputes: . the
Christian Association appointments will
be made within a week, and then the re-
sult of class nominations will be mani-
fested at least in its beginnings. Will the
class in the first place nominate people
whom the president of the Association
would not think of as possible board mem-
bers; will there be any new people inter-
ested in the Association or will the same
people who always do class work be nomi-
nated? Even if we take it for granted
that some of the class nominees will bring
fresh vigor and interest into the Associa-
tion, can we be sure that these people will
be elected in the end? These are questions
which may often occur to us and which
dissuade us from attempting such inno-
vations in all our associations; they can
only be answered, however, by experi-
ment and experience. If we are anxious
to have the associations led by the mem-
bers who are best fitted to do so; feeling
that at present an improvement in meth-
ods of finding people can be made, we
must watch with interest the new board
of the C. A., which has had the courage
to try a new thing which it hopes will
bring greater vigour and success to its
work in the College.

L. B. D716.

To the Editor of “The College News”:

The Bryn Mawr Club in China exists—
little more can be said of it. The few
members live at such distances from one
another, and have their time so well occu-
pied, and are such poor correspondents
withal, that we cannot hope to accom-
plish much more than to let our Bryn
Mawr friends know we are here. A cir-
cular letter is now spreading information
about our activities and those of the
Bryn Mawrtyrs in Japan. It is inspiring
to feel how heartily we-seem to be in ac-
cord in our work. We wanted the best
that Bryn Mawr could give us, and we
want to carry that best to those among
whom we work, and as I look around me
here in Canton, I believe the spirit of
hungering and thirsting after the best in
life is being developed in the lives of
these young men and women.

The Canton Christian College began its
activity about 1900. No college depart-
ment was possible until a foundation had
been laid in thorough preparatory work.
The first eight years were given to estab-
lishing a ““Middle School,” the grade being
equivalent to a high school in the United
States. In course of time our Students’
Christian Association developed a _ pri-
mary school for us, and a year or two
later. a grammar school was opened,
which made it possible for a student to
take his entire school course here. We
have had Freshman and Sophomore
classes several times during the last few
years, and even one class in medicine;
but America beckons too enticingly and
65 of our students are to be found in
American colleges this year.

' Fanny S. Woods, ’01.

The Y. W. C. A. has an Association
Building in the San Francisco Exhibition.
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GYMNASIUM CONTEST Won BY THE
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The Gymnasium Contest beitreen 1917
and 1918, on March 26th, which was at-
tended by nearly everyone connected with
the College, was very close and exciting.
Out of a possible 310 points, 1917 won 243,
and 1918, 232. The best work ‘was in the
wand drill and in the parallel bars, and
the only maximum number of points given
was received by 1918 for its “stunt.” An
improvement in the drill as a whole was
noted and ascribed to the extra practice
which the new cup for individual work
called forth. G. Bryant’s work on the
horse and on the bars did credit to her
class and to herself. The judges, Dr. R.
Tait McKenzie, of the University of Penn-
sylvania, Mr. Philip Bishop, of Haverford
Grammar School, and Miss Elizabeth
Burchenal, Executive Secretary of the
Girls’ Branch of the Public School. Ath-
letic’ League of the City of New York,
were very pleasantly impressed with the
contest and were much interested in the
English country dances.

1917 1918
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Wee CIUDS: ois nk ko 24 21
English country dances... 27 36
Nb ok ccc owes cen ss 37 31
ME ee a eee ck hea cs 51 42
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MEMO ec cee toes 23 30

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THE TROPHY CLUB AND THE
GREENHOUSE



In-commemoration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the building of the green-
house at Dalton Hall, the Trophy Club
is about to come into possession of a let-
ter written on March 22, 1894, by the first
President of the College, Dr. James BE.
Rhoads. This letter, of which a copy ap-
pears below, was written to acknowledge
the receipt of a communication from the
representatives of the donors handing
over the greenhouse to the Trustees of
the College.

The greenhouse was not an original

part_of Dalton Hall, but was built about
eighteen months later when the need be-
came apparent for such accommodation
for laboratory. material for the Minor
Class in Biology.
The funds for its erection came partly
from a special grant by the Alumnew As-
sociation and partly from private contri-
bution. A benefit entertainment was held
in the former gymnasium and loyally at-
tended by undergraduates and especially
by the Freshman Class held to make up
the necessary sum.

The letter is as follows:

President’s Office
Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr, Pa., 3 Mo. 22, 1894.
To Harriet Randolph, Ph.D., Leah Goff,
A.B., and Thomas Hunt Morgan, Ph.D.
Dear Friends: It will give me special
satisfaction to lay your letter of the 21st
instant, touching the Greenhouse, before
the Board of Trustees, and in anticipation
of their action I desire to convey to you
my personal thanks for your zeal, liber-
ality and success in the planning and con-
struction of the Greenhouse.

Believe me yours very truly and grate-
fully,

James E; Rhoads.

ALUMNZ@ vs. VARSITY FENCING
MATCH



This afternoon at 4.30, in the Gymna-
sium, will be held the Alumnz vs. The
Varsity fencing match. The Alumna
team will be EB. Kirkbride, '96; B. Ehlers,
"09; C. Wesson, 09. Miss Kirkbride is
the Vice-President of the Fencers’ Club
of Philadelphia. Miss Wesson and Miss



Exhibition.

Ehlers are both members of this club.