College news, December 14, 1915

VoLuME II. No. 12

BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 16, 1915

Price 5 Cents





CALENDAR
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17
8.00 p. m.—Sophomore Dance to the Fresh-
men.
_ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18
8.00 p. m.—Senior Reception to the Gradu-
ate Students.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19
ws Pp. M.—Vespers. Speaker, C. M. K.

.00 Pp. M—Chapel. Sermon by the Right
Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, Bishop of Penn-
sylvania.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 20
8.00 p. m.—President Thomas’ Reception
to the Graduate Students.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21
1.00 p. m.—Christmas vacation begins.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 1
4.00-6.00 p. m.—Philadelphia College Club
Reception to Undergraduates,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5

9.00 a. M.—Christmas vacation ends.
9.30 p. m.—Mid-week mecting of the C. A.
Leader, R. Rhoads, ’18.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8
8.00 pvp. m.—Piano Recital by
Schelling.

Ernest

UNIVERSE TOO SMALL FOR MAN,
SAYS DR. MOLDENHAUER



“I find it the most remarkable as well
as the most obvious thing about man”,
said the Reverend J. V. Moldenhauer in
his sermon Sunday night, “that instead of
being so little that you can’t find him in
the universe, there is no man for whom
the universe is big enough”. Dr. Molden-
hauer attacked the modern tendency to
belittle man and his works, saying that
every man feels that he needs “all the
time there is and then some” to express
himself, and “all the space there is and
then some” as a field for his activities.

Dr. Moldenhauer preached one of the
most optimistic sermons that has been
heard here this year. He himself, he
said, refused to believe anything else but
that all was coming out right at last.
“Life is as it should be”, he said, “and
the soul has peace on just two conditions.
The first is that we follow the real de-
sires of our spirits, and the second is that
we have the inner assurance of purpose”.
He pointed out that the most important
thing in life was to have this assurance
that the soul is at one with the universe.
“All the big things of life”, he said, “are
merely various expressions of the assur-
ance of the soul that we shall come to our
desired haven”.

APPARATUS CUP TO BE AWARDED



The Apparatus Cup will be awarded
again this year to the Sophomore or
‘Freshman who does the best work in the
exercises set by the judges on the par-
allel bars, the horse, and the ropes. The
judges are Miss Applebee, F. Kellogg, M.
Branson, M. Scattergood, and E. Hemen-
way. There will be fewer exercises this
year than last, for it was felt then that
there were so many exercises that by the
time the competitors reached the ropes
they were too tired to do their best. In
judging, the form of the approach and dis-
mount, and the form as well as the skill
in doing the exercise will be taken into
consideration.

The cup for Apparatus work was pre
sented last year by M. Morgan, ex-1915,

- and was won for the first time by G. Bry-

ant, ex-1917. The dates for this year’s
competition are Mareb 18th and 25th.

SHALL QUIET HOURS BE ABOL.-
ISHED?



A meeting of the Self-Government As-
sociation will be held in the Chapel at
7.30 to-night, Thursday, to consider a re-
form in the quiet hour regulations. About
the reason for calling this meeting Miss
Russell, President of Self-Government,
says, “The Executive Board would like
an expression of the attitude of the
Association in regard to the rules relat-
ing to quiet hours as they now stand.
There is a general disregard of. these
rules which leads the Board to feel that
they are not satisfactory. If the majority
does not approve of the regulations it is
foolish for the Board and the proctors to
waste time in trying to enforce them; on
the other hand, if the majority still de-
sires the regulations the Board intends
to use drastic measures, if need be, to in-
sure their being observed. Will any per-
sons, therefore, who desire a change in
the regulations please present their sug-
gestions in the form of motions at the
meeting on Thursday night? As a quo-
rum is required for changing a resolution
everyone is requested to attend the meet-
ing”.

WAR NEWS IN THE QUARTERLY



Alumnze Tell of Soldiers in London



War is the chief interest of the fall is-
sue of the “Alumnz Quarterly”, and, in
fact, except for the Quarterly’s regular
departments and the latter part of Presi-
dent Thomas’s opening address, war is
the only topic touched on. An account
of the Women’s Peace Congress, which
met at the Hague last spring, mentions,
among those prominent at the conference,
Rosika Schwimmer, who spoke at College
last winter on “Women and War”. An-
other alumna writes of war conditions in
Turkey and two more letters came from
London. Both the letters emphasize the
fineness of the British soldier and one of
them gives a graphic account of the work
of the Victoria Station Buffet. “The most
interesting part of the work”, says the
writer in part, “falls in the night shift.
About two o’clock each morning two
troop trains arrive at the station, bring-
ing home, on short leave, officers and men
to the number perhaps of a thousand,
straight from the trenches in France.
Vast heaps of sandwiches, all made by
workers in the Buffet, huge urns of tea,
cake, cigarettes, chocolate, and more
white enamel cups than, remembering
the later washing up, I quite like to think
of, are put on trucks and rolled out on the
arrival platform to meet the incoming
trains. In a moment, in the half-light pre-
scribed for the defense of the realm, one
finds one’s self stumbling over kit bags
and guns, in the midst of a mass of sol-
diers——”.

We have not space to reprint the. rest
of the account, but this is perhaps enough
to suggest the personal note sounded
through all the articles in this “war num-
ber” of the Quarterly.



CHOIR TO GO TO KENSINGTON



Christmas carols will be sung by the
choir at the Light House Settlement in
Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon. The
choir takes in gifts to a Ladies’ Bible
Class \nd their children. After singing



they are entertained ‘at tea.

WORKING GIRLS’ PROBLEMS



Hilda Smith Shows Way to Help



The necessity for reorganizing the
labor market was one of the points dis-
cussed by Miss Smith before College Set-
tlement Chapter Friday night. She ex-
plained many of the problems of the “self-
respecting working girl’, and told how
college girls can hope to meet them.
Special training such as is secured in
schools of philanthropy or by working
under some expert and observing her
methods, she said, is becoming more and
more necessary.

In speaking of city club work, Miss
Smith said: “The club’s self-governing or-
ganization and the personal influence of
the director of the club on the individual
girl can be important factors in solving
the problems. The president of one club
said of a girl who shirked her part of
washing the dishes after a party, that “If
I were her boss I'd fire her” and deter-
mined to impress upon her the obligation
of doing her share. The chance remark
of one girl at a club meeting that “she
just hated to go home because there was
a man that bothered her and hung around
the house”, led to the recommittal of the
man to an asylum. It is hard at first to
make the girls appreciate teamwork, and



| sulkiness often interferes with the plan
'of action, as when one girl refused to
| play basket-ball because, she said, “The
| lady called me a fowl”.

If a girl loses her job the result is that
she loses her working efficiency and her
self-respect, and her physical strength is
exhausted by job hunting. One girl said,
“If I can’t get a job around the corner I
haven’t spunk enough to go for it; I have
been hunting work three months”. Most
commodities are standardized and graded,
but work is still peddled from door to
door and the employer must sift out the
best material. from_many applicants at
great loss of time.

Country work, according to Miss Smith,
is one of the most fertile fields of social
work, for there are few good amusements
and lectures and almost no agencies for
social betterment. The gradual consoli-
dation of a town of four hundred, where
Miss Smith lived, had been through a self-
governing civic league. The interest had
been thoroughly aroused by an historic
pageant in which the farming people for
miles around had taken part. The regu-
lar entertainments of the league were
held in a schoolhouse where sixty desks
had to be unscrewed and put back-again
in time for school next day.

College girls can gradually get a hold
on such communities by starting with the
children and introducing general recrea-
tion. The people will come miles for
good amusement and can be gradually
aroused to help improve conditions them-
selves. Everyone should investigate the
conditions around her as there is much
immorality and child labor almost every-
where.

M. THOMPSON VARSITY HOCKEY
CAPTAIN

M. Thompson, 1917, has been elected
Varsity Hockey Captain for next year.
Miss Thompson has played fullback on
Varsity for two years and is the hockey
captain of her class. She won the Col-
lege Tennis Championship in 1913-1914
and this year is challenger to M. Winsor,
ex.-1918, for the Championship Cup. Miss
Thompson is Secretary of the Athletic





TWO-THIRDS PASS SECOND GERMAN
ORAL

Out of the forty who took the second
German oral on Friday and Saturday, fif-
teen failed. This is a better percentage
than in the second French oral last week,
when half the number who took it failed.
Dean Madison, Dr. Fernsemer and Dr.
Holbrook were the examiners on Friday
afternoon, while on Saturday Dr. Grace
De Laguna was the third person.

The statistics for the second German
oral of the last four classes are:

1912—18 passed, 9 failed.

1913—24 passed, 20 failed.

1914—-25 passed, 17 failed.

1915—17 passed, x failed.

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$100,000 FIRE AT WILLIAMS



The chemical laboratory at Williams
was completely destroyed by fire last
week. The loss is placed at $100,000, only
$40,000 of which is covered by the insur-
ance. Perhaps the greatest loss was the
library, which contained several thou-
sand volumes, many of them rare old
books now out of print. Professor Brain-
erd Mear’s notes of experiments in pro-
ducing dyes were also destroyed. The
fire started on the first floor, apparently

| from spontaneous combustion, and spread

rapidly. The only persons in the build-
ing, Professor Mears and an assistant,
were asleep on the third floor and had
narrow escapes.

BATES CAMPERS SHOW CAMPING



Sue Scarcely Sickly



“Bates camp means the brightest and
happiest part of the life of the Spring
Street people”, said Miss Virginia Deems,
the head of the camp last summer, in

| speaking at the Bates camp party in the

Gymnasium last Saturday. She went on
to describe the work at the camp, the
housecleaning, where everyone fully real-
izes her “scrubbing possibilities”; the
week of Mothers’ meetings, the week for
working girls, and so forth, the plan of
each week giving some special entertain-
ment and the afternoon tea every after-
noon for the older people. “Bryn Mawr’,

she said, “brought happiness to over two
hundred e, young and old, last sum-
mer”.

After Miss Deems had finished speak-
ing, a series of scenes representing the
city life of those who come to the camp,
and later their life at the camp, were
given. ‘The principal actors were A. Van
Horn, as the “Sickly Stenog”’; M. Thomp-
son, as “Bernice the Butterick Beauty”;
her rival for the affections of “Cutey

the Clerk”, T. Smith; “Mr. Christie
the Apple Man”, F. Kellogg; and
“Miss Canter, an Old Maid”, E.

Stark, who pursued Mr. Christie, much
to his disgust. The audience was
aided by placards, which helped them to
connect the scenes, but, as is the case
with a real movie, the thread of the plot
was sometimes lost. The first scenes
were in New York and the latter ones at
Bates Camp, where workers, mothers,
babies, and kindergarten children made
the scene realistic, while the romantic
touch was added by the attempted elope-
ment of Mr. Christie and Sue. After the
grand finale of “Everybody's Doing It:
Doing What? Getting Hitched”, there
was general dancing, and ice cream and



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* On account of the Christmas Vacation
there will be no issue of “The News” un-
til Friday, January 7th.

“Which would you rather have, a place
in the upper ten or a B.M.”? The ques-
tion came up before a group of under-
graduates the other day and nine out of
ten of them actually answered: “A B.M.”.
Does this mean that the supposed aim of
College is in reality not our aim. Does
it imply that academic distinction comes
second, with us, to athletic distinction?
Or is this rather astonishing situation in
any way the result of the fact that Bryn
Mawr does not give Phi Beta Kappa?

The fact that the question has come up
before the Self-Government Association
as to whether quiet hours shall be abol-
ished or not, shows one thing at least,
that they have not been observed in the
past. But whether or not they are ob-
served, at least they give the disturbed
student a right to demand quiet without
being disagreeable. There must be quiet
hours part of the time, because every one
who wants quiet for study cannot go to
the Library. With the new five-hour
courses, when work is much more con-
centrated, when reading which before
was spread over two semesters is now
crowded into one, it is even more neces-
sary than before that we have quiet in
which to work. If the Self-Government
Association feels that the present hours
are not satisfactory, well and _ good,
change them; but quiet hours there must
be. And furthermore, if we have quiet
hours that we may study in peace, let
them be more strictly enforced.

“ Bryn.Mawr has her kickers in abun-
dance, those who kick for the pure joy
of it (we do not refer to soccer), and
those who do it altruistically for the good
of the community. Many criticisms are
wrong, based on misunderstanding, and
some are constructive, pointing towards
improvement. Those who have com-
plained loudly of overwork now have a
clear view of the situation; those who
want to relieve the strain of too much
study now have a course of action
pointed out to them. President Thomas
has said that the work of the average
student should be eight hours a day (in-
cluding lectures). More should not be
necessary if this much is done regularly.
To some who love to complain, it may
seem strange that the faculty does not
want us to overwork; but to most of us



it seems natural that professors, no more
than undergraduates, want any one to be |
. driven “to the grave". That those who
work excessively Appreciably lower the |

grade of their work is evident in muddled
quizzes and the infirmary list. Even
those most obstinaté in kicking must real-
ize from generous deduction in work as-

| signed, that professors do not wish to be
‘slave drivers. Those who complain with

a desire to improve can do their part.
Any one who works regularly more than
the supposed forty-four hours a week can
be sure that her record will be sympathet-
ically considered by those who are in au-
thority. A course which requires the
student of average intelligence to work
twenty or thirty hours a week need not
necessarily be dropped, perhaps it can be
changed. :

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

(The editors do not hold themselves responsible
for opinions expressed in this column)

A Plea for Outside Interest

To the Editor of ‘‘The College News’’:

As protests seem to be the only suc-
cessful means of presenting one’s hobbies
to the Bryn Mawr public, I have decided
to make one last effort to arouse interest
in my particular hobby—the World Stu-
dent Christian Movement—in this way,
particularly as every other means has
failed. Perhaps we think that this move-
ment is of slight importance; but those
of us who heard Dr. Ross when he was
last here may remember that he pointed
out what a large factor the present col-
lege students are to be in the reconstruc-
tion after the war, and how necessary it
is for us to keep in touch with the stu-
dents throughout the world if we wish to
keep abreast of the times.

I do not mean to say that there are not
some girls in College who take the oppor-
tunity of finding out something of this
great movement if it is thrust upon them,
for I have found little difficulty in getting
people to do bulletin-board reports. But
people are unwilling to come half way.
Nobody has offered to do a report, al-
though a request for volunteers has been
on the C. A. bulletin board for more than
a month.

Before I close may I put in a little plea
that those who ordinarily go to the
Wednesday evening meetings may not be
frightened away on January 5th, when
they learn that the subject is to be the
Y. M. C. A. and the “Hight Weeks’
Club”. Although we do not want to be
affiliated with the Y. M. C. A., we owe
much to it in that it has invited us to
take part in the Eagles Mere Conference
from year to year. The E. W. C. idea will
be worked out here in connection with
the College Settlement work in the vil-
lage.

Lucretia Garfield.



College Spirit Not Lacking

To the Editor of ‘The College News’’:

I would like to call the attention of
those students who believe there is no
College spirit at Bryn Mawr to a few
facts. When last spring, as every one
knows, the three hundred and sixty stu-
dents raised, within a month, over four
thousand dollars, and the Alumnzw gave
about a thousand, in order to build a new
hockey field and,some new tennis courts,
here is an example of generous giving for
the sake of the College. The Varsity
games also were supported with great
enthusiasm. this year and the players
themselves were ready to fight to the end
for Bryn Mawr. A final example of Col-
lege spirit is the strong desire of the stu-
dents to erect a students’ building as a
memorial to Miss Garrett. This shows
that they want a place where they may
meet, without respect to their classes or
halls, as a united body of Bryn Mawr stu-
dents.

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_ A party is to be given to the -Bryn
Mawr Business Women’s Club on Thurs-
day evening at a regular meeting of the
club. The College Settlement Chapter
has charge of some stunts. Two classes
have been taught at the club this year,
one in French and one in current events.
Any friends of club’ members and Col-
lege students who are interested may go
to the party if they ask the committee
in charge. -



A VISIT TO SPRING STREET

Christmas dolls and stockings will be ~~
taken to Spring Street Neighborhood
House on Tuesday afternoon, December
21st. Several of the students who have
been there before will take all others who
want to go. The visit will be made after.
the two o'clock train gets in. to New
York and will be arranged so that those
who have to take trains out of New York
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& Ah ELECTORS MEET In posTon



Miss Weston “Unofficially Ripiesents
Bryn Mawr Alumnz



‘Phe fall meeting. of the Electoral
Board of the College Settlement Associa-
tion was held at Denison House, 93 Tyler
Street, Boston, on Saturday, October 30th.
Twenty-five members of the Electoral
Board were present, representing most of
the Eastern Women’s colleges.

Several interesting recommendations
were made which tended towards broad-
ening the scope of influence of the Asso-
ciation. The committee appointed last
spring to discuss the question of a field
secretary reported that, although it did
not seem wise to undertake the expenses
of a field secretary this year, such an ap-
pointment would do much to extend the
influence of the Association into rural
and town districts. The Publicity Com-
mittee recommended publishing articles |
by well-known members of.the Associa-
tion in college papers and alumne quar-
terlies. There followed a discussion of
having one faculty member from each
college represented in the Association as
a member of the Electoral Board. Miss
Vida Scudder agreed to bring: up the mat-
ter for definite action at the spring meet-
ing. After reports were heard from the
New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore
College Settlements, the Electoral Board
was entertained at luncheon by the Deni-
son House Local Executive Committee.

The afternoon meeting opened with a
report of the Boston College Settlement,
which was followed by a discussion of the
plan of the Wellesley Undergraduates to
give some working girls the use of some
of the Wellesley buildings and campus
during the summer months. There was
much enthusiasm over this project and a

committee was appointed to discuss the
matter and if considered wise, to present
the plan to the Wellesley trustees.

The question of establishing sub-chap-
ters in high schools was raised and a
committee appointed to find out the rela-
tion of men’s colleges to settlements with
the aim of establishing College Settle-
ment Chapters in those colleges.

In the evening, many of the delegates |
attended a fancy dress Hallowe’en dance, |
given at Denison House by a group of |
Syrian boys and girls in the neighbor- |
hood.

On Sunday, all the delegates were in- |
vited to be the guests of the Wellesley |
Undergraduate Chapter at supper in one)
of the society houses. The guests gained |
much inspiration from a splendid address |
by Miss Vida Scudder.

Dorothy Weston,
Bryn Mawr Alumne College Settlement
Elector.





FRENCH ORPHANS CARED FOR



The critical position of the French peo-|
ple was presented by two English women, |
Miss Schofield and Miss Fell, who spoke |
in Chapel on Monday and Tuesday. They
are in the United States to arouse inter-
est in the cause of the “Orphelinat des |

Armees”. Miss Schofield described elo-

rythmics, one at two o’clock and one at

THE. COLLEGE NEWS

_ CAMPUS NOTES



President Thomas and Dean Reilly are Sport
attending the Convention of the National |j[>
American Woman ‘Suffrage Association,
which will be held in Washington this

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will preside at the luncheon of the Na-



tional College Equal Suffrage League.

A French translation of Dr. Leuba’s
book, “A Psychological Study of Re-
ligions”, by Louis Cons, has been pub-
lished by Alcan & Co. in the Bibliotheque
de Philosophie Contemporaine.

Two classes have been started in Eu-.

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On Monday evening the choir will sing comparable.
carols on the campus. The order will be: You May Pay Less—
/8 o’clock at the Deanery, then Rocke- But it Costs You More.
feller, Pen-y-groes, Yarrow, Faculty Hill, Phone Filbert 48-47.
Low Buildings, Mrs. Abernethy’s, Mrs. Barrett, Nephews & Co.
Foley’s, Radnor, Merion, Denbigh, Pem- Old Staten Island
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Those who have been added to the 1223 Chestnut St:
choir for Christmas carolling are: L. Dil- ,
lingham, '16; F. Hitchcock, 16; E. Faulk- a: a Dyeing =
ner, ’17; E. Emerson, '17;. C. Westling, .
17; A. Kerr, 18; M. Allen, ’18; J. Hemen- |
way, "18. W. L. EVANS

There will be special music and daaeie |

at the Sunday evening service. The An- |
them will be Reinecke’s Christmas Carol.
Bishop Rhinelander, who is to preach the |
Christmas sermon, is one of the Christian
Association’s most popular speakers.

Miss Harvey, the Graduate Aghtette |
Representative, has reserved the Gymna- |
sium Tuesday evenings for basket-bail |

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ARMENIAN MASSACRES

-Triale of Exiles Told by Mrs. Seélye |

The importance of the Armenian to
Turkey and the marked development in
many of the people through the efforts
of Christian schools and missions was
clearly brought out by Mrs. Seelye (Kate
Chambes, "11) in her talk to the mission
stady classes Wednesday evening. The
exile of hundreds of Armenian Christians
means losing the backbone of the
country; in some cases the Armenians,
afraid to go back to their stores, have
been forced to return by the Turks, be-
causé they were the only ones who had
the ability to manage the trading. “Most
of the higher officials”, said Mrs. Seelye,
“are at their wits’ end to stop the abuses,
but the persecution is a flood that carries
all before it. Many of the Turks and
Germans are thoroughly opposed to it”.

Letters she read told how whole towns
had been driven from their homes and
sent away with a few ox-carts to carry
their baggage and perhaps one gendarme
to protect four hundred people from
thieves and persecutors. The men would
be separated from the others and im-
prisoned; often their money would be
taken away from them with the promise
of freedom and then they would be
promptly imprisoned again.

In one instance which Mrs. Seelye told,
a whole girls’ school was sent away, after
refusing to give up Christianity. Two of
their teachers managed to secure permis-
sion to follow them and did much to pro-
tect them from robbers and help them on
their journey for several days, preventing
the separation of any from the group.
Finally by their influence and by bribing
officials they managed to secure their re-
turn, a return almost miraculous in those
days in which hundreds mysteriously dis-
appeared and many were openly killed.

The story of the fight of four hundred
men against fifteen hundred, which Mrs.
Seelye read from the “Outlook”, was very
remarkable. A community instead of
yielding to exile retired to a mountain
and barrackaded themselves. They re-
pulsed several small attacking parties,
and when a large number of men was
sent against them, made a night attack
with great boldness, scaring the Turks
into believing them to be a large number.
The Turks retired to raise a force of
over a thousand against them and they
hung out a distress signal and waited.
Their signal for help by a red cross dis-
played on two large white banners was
visible from the sea and before the re-
turn of the Turks was seen by a French
warship. The whole community of over
four hundred, a large part women and
children, were taken on board the ship
in safety and transported to Egypt.

ALUMNA NOTES



An article by Mary M. Chamberlain,
15, and Jacques Loeb, “An Attempt at a
Physicochemical Explanation of Certain
Groups of Fluctuating Variation”, is pub-
lished in the “Journal of Experimental
Zoology” for November 20th.

Carlotta Welles, "12, is working in the
Val de Grace Hospital, Paris.

Marion Park, ’98, Acting Dean of Bryn
Mawr, 1911-12, is doing graduate. work at
Johns Hopkins.

Mary Cockrell, 08, has announced her
engagement to Alexander V. Cockrell.

Gertrude Hill, 07, has a studio in Yonk-
ers. She has been studying portrait
painting under R. Romanoffsky -— Rob-
ert Henri.

Members of the Class of 1912 living
in or near Philadelphia have started a
1912 Lancheon Club which will meet
every Saturday.

Olga Erbsldh, 1915, is studying at the
New York School of Philanthropy.

EARLY SKATING FULFILLS HOPES

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cember. On Saturday, with a tempera- Onder taken or binding Sd or so boos
ture of 29° F., there was good skating on| pLORENCE WELLSMAN

the Upper Field. Both the Upper Field thiheiiiae a.
and the New Hockey Field have been ’

see which one will prove the better.

The improvement in the skating facili-
ties this year is due not only to the sup-
pression of the mythical hot water pipes,

but also to the new method of flooding.
The water is now sprinkled on the field
when the temperature is low enough to
freeze it immediately, where as formerly
it was poured on to the depth of a foot,
and left to freeze. Thus the pond is now
made of solid ice, which will last longer
than the mere surtace ice of former
years.

The early. start in skating and the
longer and more continuous season which
is expected, promises well for ice-hockey.
Each member of the Athletic Association
is entitled to a ticket to the pond, which
may be obtained from T. Howell, Den-
bigh.

ANNOUNCEMENTS



Philadelphia College Club

The Philadelphia College Club, at 1300
Spruce Street, will hold its usual recep-
tion for undergraduates on New Year’s

Day from four to six o’clock. All Bryn |

Mawr students who live in or near Phila-
delphia are especially invited and are
asked to bring with them other under-
graduates who may be their guests dur-
ing the holidays.

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York

The Governors of the Bryn Mawr Club
wish to extend the privileges of the club
to undergraduates during the Christmas
Vacation. The address of the club is
137 East 40th Street.

The Bryn Mawr Club of New York |
would like to entertain at luncheon dur- |

ing the holiday any undergraduates who |

are in New York. If the students desir-
ing to go will sign their names on the
paper provided for that purpose on the
bulletin board, or send their names to
Mrs. Shepard Morgan, 829 Park Avenue,
New York; they will receive invitations.

Junk Committee

Please save old Christmas cards, book-
lets, favors, etc., and bring them back
for junk after Christmas Vacation.

ORCHESTRA TO GIVE FREE CONCERT



Newspaper Offices and Opera House to
Distribute Tickets



The first of three free concerts by the
Philadelphia Orchestra will be given next
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock in the
Metropolitan Opera House. The program
will be entirely Wagnerian music.

Tickets will be given to all those who
apply at the newspaper offices or at the
Opera House. Every seat in the house
will be reserved and no applicant will be
given more than two tickets. The dis-
tribution of tickets begins Wednesday
morning at nine o'clock.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS, ATTEN-
TION!



Using the lists sent by the booksellers
of forty cities of America, the “Bookman”
for December has made a chart of the
best selling books. The six books of fic-
tion which have proved most popular dur-
ing the past month are:

Michael O'Halloran. Stratton Porter.

Felix O'Day. Smith.

“K". Rinehart.

The Money Master. Parker.

_ The Heart of the Sunset. Beach.

The Story of Julia Page. Norris.





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