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THE COLL

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The College News

Pubiithed wei Gising the callin your in the
interests of Bryn Mawr College

Managing Editor . . . EMILIE STRAUSS, '16
Aas’t Managing Editor, FREDRIKA M. KELLOGG,'16
_ Business Manager . MARY G. BRANSON, '16

CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE
CONSTANCE DOWD, '16 ELEANOR L. DULLES,’17
SARAH HINDE,'17 - E. GRANGER, '17
MARIAN O'CONNOR, '18

Assistant Business Managers

KATHARINE B. BLODGETT, '17
VIRGINIA pz8. LITCHFIELD, '17

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On account of the mid-year examina-
tions and the vacation which follows,
there will be no issue of “‘The News” until
February 10th.







Now that the season of examinations
has come and that the College is analyz-
ing its knowledge of tariff and of acids,
of Chaucer and of Royce, “The News”
has determined to call attention to the
ignorance of the unobserving student. A
Sophomore who could probably have lo-
cated Gallipoli was heard inquiring, the
other day, “Where is the magazine room”?
and the tale of the note addressed to the
Leader of the Student Volunteer Band,
which was carried by a Freshman to the
choir leader, will probably pass into his-
tory with the story of the person who
asked at the book shop for an English
reader.

As a suggestion for some ambitious
statistician who wishes to supplement the
Finding List and the C. A. Handbook by a
“Who's Who and What’s What”, we sug-
gest the following questions:

I. How old is the Gym?

Il. Who are the College architects?

III. Distinguish between Taylor Hall
and Hall the Taylor?

IV. Who founded the College and who
have been its presidents?

Vv. What has become of the Trophy
Club? '

VI. What does “Bryn Mawr” mean?

VII. What caused the Denbigh fire?
When did it occur?

VIII. Who endowed the Potato Fund?
The Ice Cream Fund?

IX. Analyze by taste and smell the
chemicals in the swimming pool?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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

oo
Chance for Criticism of the C. A.
To the Editor of “‘The College News’:
To the Editor of “The College News”:
Elsewhere in this edition of “The

News” will be found an announcement of
the new plan for Wednesday evening
meetings after mid-years. The first four
are to be discussions, not of religious sub-
jects, but of the policy and organization
of the Christian Association. This asso-
ciation does more different kinds of work
than any other in College, and at the
same time it is more criticized than any
other. But a large number of the criti-
cisms are vague or impractical, and those
who made them have not taken sufficient
interest in them to try to correct the evils
they condemn. Perhaps one reason for
this is because they felt that little atten-
tion was paid to them; but the President
of the Christian Association has prom-
ised that any valuable suggestions made
at these informal talks will be taken up
and voted on in a big meeting. With this
opportunity to make changes, there will
be no reason for anyone to withhold her



active support from the Christian Asso-
ciation on account of dissatisfaction with

the execution of its ideals. So we earn-
.}estly hope that there will-come to these

Wednesday evening meetings all those
who aren’t interested in the Christian As-
sociation, all those who feel that it isn’t
a power in the community, and all those
who feel that it is inefficient!
R. Cheney, '18.
M. Bacon, ’18.



1919 Writes to Foreign Students
To the Editor of ‘The College News’’:

The. Federation Committee feels much
encouraged by the interest that the Class
of 1919 is showing in its work. On Janu-
ary 10th, the Federation Committee asked
some 28 Freshmen to come to a meeting
to discuss writing to women students in
foreign universities in order to find out
a little about the Christian work in these
centers. Twenty-five Freshmen came and
of these seven immediately volunteered
to write, while many more said they
would like to do it, but would wait until
after mid-years to volunteer.

If there is anybody else in College that
would like to write such a letter will she
come to me (68 Rockefeller) for the ad-
dress as soon as possible in order to get
an answer this year. The countries al-
ready taken are Austria, Argentina, Ru-
mania, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Japan,
France, Germany, and India.

Lucretia Garfield.

MR. KING’S PROGRAM HAMLET



Recital Makes $155 for Polish Relief Fund



On Friday evening Mr. Samuel Arthur
King gave a Shakespearean recital for
the Benefit of the Polish Relief Fund.
The program was entirely made up of
scenes from ‘Hamlet’. An encore was
given at the end of the evening, Mercu-
tio’s description of Queen Mab, from
“Romeo and Juliet”.

Mr. King began with the court scene
in which Hamlet plans to go to Witten-
berg and the queen begs him to stay;
next, the scene on the ramparts with the
ghost, and the great soliloquy at the end
of Act II. In the scene with Ophelia,
where Polonius and the king are hidden,
Mr. King said that he followed Edmund
Keane’s tradition, in which Hamlet is
supposed to know that the king is behind
the curtain. He also quoted Coleridge to
support this interpretation.

Persons Skillfully Distinguished

Mr. King next gave Hamlet’s advice to
the players, and then the entire play
scene, where the distinction between the
persons speaking was skillfully made.
Act III, Scene 3, where Hamlet chides his
mother, and his father’s ghost appears,
came next, and finally the graveyard
scene, with Laertes’ lament over the body
of Orphelia.

S. H. ATHERTON, '13, MAKES
NOTABLE REPORT ON GIRLS
IN INDUSTRY



The report on the conditions among the
young working girls of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
which has just been published by the Na-
tional Consumers’ League of New York,
was made by Sarah H. Atherton, ‘13. Miss
Atherton’s survey is not the usual dreary
compilation of facts, but, according to all
those who have read it at first hand, it is
an exceedingly human document. The
object of the report is to present the facts
in the lives of girls from 14 to 16 years
of age, who come from working homes in
the coal regions and have left school to
make money by their own efforts.

It was found that 79 per cent of the
girls gave all they earned to the family.
Only 9 per cent kept all their pay. Of
281 girls there were but 7 who worked
for pin-money or pretty clothes.

Music and Movies Favorite Amusements

In giving their favorite amusements,
the majority preferred moving pictures or

music, Reading held third place; church,
theatre, and Y. W. C. A. came fourth; and
‘outdoor spofts were last. “Talking” was

other put down “wheeling the baby car-
—

The work covered by the report is re-
ferred to in the newspapers as the first
almost entirely volunteer investigation of
its kind in the country. At present Miss
Atherton has a position in Philadelphia

the favorite amusement of one girl. An- |-

MISS SWINDLER PUBLISHES
ARTICLE ON GREEK VASES

Miss Swindler published an article in _
the last issue of the “American Journal of
Archeology” on Greek Vases in New
York and Boston collections and one in
the Bryn Mawr collection. Miss Swindler
has written an article on the vases in the
collection owned by the College which
will appear in a later number of the

inspecting housing conditions. “American Journal of Archeology”.





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