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BRYN MAWR, PA.,

DECEMBER 2, 1915

Price 5 Cents





CALENDAR

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

8.00 p. m—Lecture on Suffrage by, Mrs.
Antoinette Funk, of Chicago.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

9.00 a.m.—Senior Oral Examination in
French.
» 10.00 a. m—’Varsity Hockey Match vs.
Baltimore.
4.00 p. mw—Demonstration of Eurythmics
in the Gymnasium.

8.00 ep. M—Dancing in the Gymnasium.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5
6.00_p. m.—Vespers. Speaker; R. Cheney,
"18.yre-3
8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
FrankgLatimer Janeway, of the Brick Pres-
byterian Church.:

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6

8.00 p. M.—Pyesident. Thomas’ reception
to the Seniors.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8

8.45 aA. 2 ipheane eres Chapel. Miss Har-
riet Daniels, head of New York College Set-
tlement House.
» 7.30 p. Mi—Mission Class. Speaker, Mrs.
Kate Chambers Seelye, ’11. ‘Mission Work
in Turkey.”

9.30 p. m.—Mid-week meeting of the C. A.
Leader, E. Biddle, ’19.

: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10
8.00 p. m.—Settlement speaker, Hilda
Smith, ’10.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11
9.00 A-3M.—Senior Oral Examinations in
German. g J
8.00 p.'u.—B.tes Camp Party in the Gym-
nasium.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12
6.00_p. M.— Vespers.
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8.00 p.m. Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
J. V. Moldenhauer, D.D.



THREE CUTS PER STUDENT,
AVERAGE



President Thomas ‘Congratulates
Students



President Thomas congratulated the

students in Chapel on Monday, Novem- |
ber 22nd, on their good record of atten-
dance during the first third of the current |

year. She said: “Our statistics show

STUDENTS BUILDING MEMORIAL;
PROJECT OF UNDERGRADUATES



Alumnae Codperation to be Asked



That the long-hoped-for Students’
Building be erected as a. memorial to
Miss Garrett, was the sense of the under-
graduate meeting last Monday night.

The association voted to accept the
offer of codperation in regard to the me-
morial from the Philadelphia Branch of
the Alumne and to communicate to them
the desire that the memorial be the Stu-
dents’ Building.

To carry through the project, however,
it was decided that the help of the
alumnze must be had.

It was urged that such a memorial
would be more fitting to Miss Garrett be-

book room, or a Professor’s Chair.
$50,000 are needed to start work upon
the Students’ Building and $21,000 of this
have already been raised, but are in-
vested so as not to be available until the
whole sum is completed. $29,000, there-



Speaker, Ryu Sato, |

fore, must now be raised to make the
| even fifty.

In speaking afterwards to “The News”
|reporter, President Werner said: ‘‘The
| Students’ Building is the thing most de-
|sired by the whole undergraduate body
/as a memorial and, if the alumnz co-
| dperate, the undergraduates will work for
‘it with the very greatest enthusiasm and
interest”.

President Werner spoke very seriously
to the association about the cutting in
the last month. She said that by such
illegitimate cutting the students were

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cause of her deep interest in the social |
side of College, than would purely aca-|
demic memorials such as a new wing for |
the Library, an endowment for the new)

SOCCER SEASON IN FULL SWING



Rock. Grovels to Radnor



Soccer affords great amusement even

to the uninitiated, and the true Boston-
ians who respectively call it “Socket”
and “Socca”. The College student seems
to be deficient in the art of kicking a
ball. In the games often kicks were de-

livered against the thin air when the.

ball was the intended target. Often the
players mistook each other for the ball;

head-on collisions resulted. The goal-|

keepers who had an uninterrupted view
of the field appreciated to the full the
awkard gestures and wild manceuvres
of the other participants in the game.
The scores for the games played before
“The News” went to print were:
Denbigh vs. Pembroke West,. 3-2.
Pembroke East vs. Merion, 2-1.
Radnor vs. Rockefeller, 4-0.
Schedule for next week:

Monday—Radnor vs. Pembroke Last, |

3.30.
Tuesday—Rockefeller vs. Merion, 3.30.
Wednesday—Radnor vs. Denbigh, 3.30;

/Pembroke West vs. Merion, 4.00.

Thursday—Denbigh vs. Rockefeller,

| 3.30.

Friday—-Pembroke LEast vs.

+ 3.30,

breaking their pledge—of last—-yearand-,

that, as a result of it, several of the pro-

fessors had already prophesied a perma- |

nent cut rule. A. Smith, President of the
Christian Association, proposed signing
pledges not to cut, but no motion was
made. H. Harris, Junior President, urged

the necessity of not cutting before plays. |

that 200 out of 365 undergraduate stu-|

dents have not cut at all. The average

number of cuts per student, if the same

ratio continues throughout the semester,

GREAT THINGS TO BE DONE IN
SETTLEMENT WORK

will not amount to more than three cuts.

per student. Ofcourse the 200 students

who do not cut at all will be responsible

for this very low average”.

“The result of our cut rule last year
was admirable, but if you continue to do
as well during the remainder of the sem-
ester the result this year will be still
more admirable”, President Thomas said
in emphasizing the importance of attend-
ing regularly “because we want to do it
rather than because we must do it”.

President Thomas urged the students.

not to be absent for any cause during
the first five days of the week and
stressed the importance of training in
“faithfulness in the performance of ob-
ligations” without which “mental ability
is of very little service”.

“I wish to close, however’, President |

Thomas said, “not with advice, however
timely, but with my sincerest congratula-
tions on your wonderful success in regu-
lating cutting during the first few weeks
of this year. As a result I am confident
that you are more interested in your col-
lege work. I am sure that the 200 stu-
dents who have not cut at all must feel
a peculiar glow of satisfaction. Most of
all I congratulate these students”.



“It is in our power to do tremendous
things” said Miss Davies, the head worker
of the Philadelphia College Settlement
House, in morning Chapel on Wednesday.
She regretted that the students can no
‘longer do settlement work in Philadel-
phia, but said that the work to be or-
ganized in Bryn Mawr village bids fair
to be very important both to the village
and the College. The value of such work
she pointed out in the story of a young
man she met at Hull House, who said
that the happiest day of his life had been
a picnic on the Bryn Mawr campus, when
he was a boy from the slums ‘df Phila-
delphia.

The separation of classes never more
serious than now she went on, must be
done away with by the distribution of
/material things and the spreading of
knowledge. The Settlement is a present
means to this end. These houses, or
rather groups of people are of great in-
fluence. The College Settlement in
Philadelphia is visited each week by
|from three to four thousand people of
the poorest and most ignorant classes.

E. GRANGER TO BE ON “NEWS”
BOARD



Plans for Other Competitions
As a result of the competition for 1917
E. Granger has been elected to the Edi-
torial Board of “The News”. A cut was
made several weeks ago among the com-
petitors and H. Allport, E. Granger, H.
Harris, and N. McFaden were left in.
Two more editors, one from 1918 and
one from 1919, will be chosen this year.
The competition for 1919 will begin next
week. An assistant business manager
from 1918 will also be elected in the
spring and one of the present assistant
business managers from 1917 will be
dropped. The one remaining will be
business manager next year.

MODEL SCHOOL GIVES LATIN PLAY





French Play by Younger Children

The twelve-year-old students in the
highest class of the Model School gave
“Pyramus and Thisbe” in Latin- on No-
vember 24th. The next class of eleven-
year-old students gave “Red Riding
Hood” in French.

Miss Swindler coached the Latin play.
The class has studied Latin only one year
for about sixty school periods with no
outside work. The children were told
to do the actions that the story sug-
gested and they explained in Latin, in
their own words, what they were doing.
They did not learn any set lines.
French play conducted on similar prin-
ciples was under the direction of Miss
Thayer.

A public performance of the two plays
will probably be given at Christmas time.

HEAD OF NEW YORK SETTLEMENT
HOUSE TO SPEAK



Miss Harriet M. Daniels, head of the
oldest settlement house in the United
States except Hull House, the College
Settlement in New York, will speak in
morning Chapel on Wednesday, Decem-

ber 8th. She was organizer and director

of a Social Center in Princeton like the

one which. is to bé started in Bryn Mawr.

Merion, |

The:

ALMOST 3000 NEW VOLUMES IN

LIBRARY
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The annual report of the College Li-
brary for the year ending September
30, 1915, has recently been compiled and
a brief summary of the work may be of
interest. During the year, 2,997 volumes
were added, of which 1,798 volumes were
purchased, 588 volumes were periodicals
| bound, 427 volumes were gifts, and the
remainder came from various sources.
The total number of volumes belonging
‘to the library at the beginning of the
| present academic year was 1,722.
| Besides cataloguing the new books
| which have been added to the library,
'the staff has been working on the re-
| cataloguing, and several long sets of

yerman works have been analyzed. In
_all 13,390 cards were made and added
to the main catalogue during the year.

_ Our circulation has been increasing

each year for the past few years until
it has reached 25,486 volumes. Of this
'total the students drew out 65 per cent,

the faculty 18 per cent, and 17 per cent

were placed in the Reserve Book Room
‘and in Seminary rooms. Unfortunately
| we have no way to keep a record of the
circulation of the reserve books in the
building, but as 4,333 were placed on re-
+ serve, we know a large number are used.

Besides the regular appropriation given
to the library for the purchase of’ books,
_ there were several gifts. The Bryn

Mawr Club of Washington gave $30.00
for the purchase of books for the new
book room; the class of 1911 gave $58.50
for the new book room in memory of
Isabel Buchanan, and several alumnz#
gave varying sums amounting to $39.99
for the new book room. As we depend
upon gifts for the support of the blue-
starred collection in the new book room
we appreciate all that is sent us. Other
_gifts, varying from one hundred to three
“hundred dollars each, were received from
the class of 1898, the Philadelphia
branch of the Alumne Association the
class of 1900, and the class of 1903.
Lois A. Reed, Librarian.



COURSES EFFICIENTLY ELECTED

Princeton has adopted a plan of hav-
ing the new professors each year give a
public lecture, previous to the time
eourses are elected and study cards made
out for a. following term, to explain to
all interested students the nature of the
courses they are to give and the amount
of work to be required in each instance.
It is hoped at Princeton that this scheme
will remedy the evils of the old system
whereby men elected courses at the
eleventh hour largely according to the
reputation the courses had among the
students.

RED CROSS BOX GOES TO POLAND



The Red Cross box for Poland has been
packed and shipped. The box contains
250 dozen sponges, 48 dozen bandages,
41 dozen compresses, 29 dozen handker-
chief-dressings, 5 slings, 3 mufflers, and
2 pairs of stockings. Except for the
muffiers and stockings, everything was
made in the non-resident room on Tues-
day nights. Four nights were given to
making the articles and one night to
packing them. The work this month is
for Belgium. Notices about the Dollar
Relief. Fund will be found on all the
hall bulletin boards.