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The College News

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interests of Bryn Mawr College

Managing Editor . . . EMILIE STRAUSS, '16
Ass't Managing Editor, FREDRIKA M. KELLOGG,'16
Business Manager . MARY G. BRANSON, ‘16
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CONSTANCE DOWD,'16 ELEANOR L. DULLES,’17
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Two printer’s errors were made in the
Library Report published in the last issue.
The total number of volumes in the
Library on October 1, 1915, was 77,221,
not 1722, and the amount given by the
alumnzw was $30.00, not $39.99.

Suppose that a class should go through
three years of College without seeing
Seniors set apart in caps and gowns, and
led away to their Orals as though to an
ordeal. Suppose that they had sent no
flowers to express their sympathy for
those whose sufferings they were told
Suppose they had never
been warned, “Beware of your Fate, you'll
find that Orals are: flunked while you
wait”, and had never heard of the “tri-
umvirs”. In short, suppose they came to
Senior year without having worked up
terror of what every Senior class must
experience. It would be safe to say that
that class would have at least ten per
cent fewer failures in the first Orals than
are usual now.

Undoubtedly Orals are a very serious
matter. As long as they require so much
extra work and as long as chances to pass
them are limited, they will be dreaded.
But if we could only get rid of these arti-
ficial methods of encouraging nervous-
ness beforehand, the stock phrase that
“Orals are nothing but a test of nerve”
would lose much of its applicability.

were terrible.

The article on play-writing printed in
this issue, is a revelation as to what we
are not getting at Bryn Mawr. Not only
do we lack a Professor Baker, a “Work-
shop” and a John Craig who offers pro-
fessional production as a prize,—these
things perhaps are supplied to Radcliffe
more by fortune than by good manage-
ment,—but we have not even a co in
play-writing, nor have we a single course
in modern drama. . Shaw, Galsworthy,
Pinero, Yeats, and the other dramatists
of to-day are touched upon at the end of a
two years’ course that begins with the
origin of language. Of Livingston Platt,
the scenery painter, of William Archer,
the critic, and of countless others who are
vitally influencing plays and play making,
we hear nothing. Why have we not seen
this opportunity that lies in the many fas-
cinating phases of the present-day drama?
It is an opportunity for real work, work
that counts, and it has been neglected so
far because of the persistent barrier
which, in so much of our work, stands be-
‘tween academic standards and anything
ap to date.



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To the Editor of “The College News’:

I am wondering if the students have
seen the “World Outlook” for December.
This magazine, which is just celebrating
its first anniversary, is recognized by all
who know it as one of the most brilliantly
edited in the world. For wide and au-
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students will find it on the table of the
Christian Association Library. I hope
they will read it and call the attention of
their friends to it, for their own profit
and that of their friends.

Amy Blanche Greene.



The Depravity of the Umbrella Borrower
To the Editor of “‘The College News’’:

Two girls were standing by the de-
pleted umbrella stand in Taylor, looking
ruefully at the torrents of rain outside.

“Let’s write a letter to ‘The News‘
about it”!

“Oh, they’d think we cared about losing
the’silly umbrellas, and it’s just the prin-
ciple of the thing”.

Now I have never lost an umbrella (I
never had one), and I feel that I can write
on behalf of those who care only for “the
principle of the thing’, but must refrain
from expressing their rage because of
personal loss. An umbrella has, of
course, an impersonal appearance, but it
is not community property. However, I
am not wishing to attack those who “ac-
quire” an umbrella, and, forgetting in the
course of time that theirs was one with
a knobby brown handle, continue placidly
to use one with a straight black handle.
That implies carelessness, of course, and
perhaps a failing mind, but it does not in-
volve any moral delinquency. And the
“loss” of an umbrella, once for all,
arouses only mild indignation and regret
on the part of the original owner.

But there is a righteous indignation
which can hardly be excessive at the de-
pravity and temerity of the “borrower”
who can take an umbrella from the stand
in Taylor in the midst of the downpour,
and return it to the exact spot the next
day, for the owner to find, when, as she
opens Taylor door, the umbrella stand is
bathed in a flood of sunshine!

i. O ae



True Sport in Question
To the Editor of “‘The College News’’:

While people are busy complaining
of the lack of college spirit here at Bryn
Mawr in proportion to the abundance of
class-spirit, I wonder if it has ever oc-
curred to them how unnecessary and
even harmful much of this so-called class-
spirit is. Far be it from anyone, espect-
ally an undergraduate, to criticize true
class-spirit, that indefinable something
that holds seventy or more girls together
with a common purpose, that puts the
germ of success in a class play, or that
gives the punch in the final rally to win
a hockey game. But when class-spirit
has gone so far, and instances are all too
many, that the opposing teams actually
hate each other, and one’s nerves are
stretched to the breaking point in terror
lest the rival class banner will hang

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