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

EDITORS
CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE
ELEANOR L, DULLES,'17 SARAH HINDE, '17
E. GRANGER,'17 MARIAN O'CONNOR, °18
ETHEL ANDREWS, '19

Assistant Business Managers

KATHARINE B. BLODGETT, '17
VIRGINIA ps8. LITCHFIELD, ‘17

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The news that Dean Reilly had resigned
coniés as a complete surprise to the un-
dergraduates and the truth of it is hard
for them to realize. She was the first
person with whom we came in contact on
entering College. All through Freshman
year we learned to appreciate more and
more Miss Reilly’s ability to solve diffi-
culties. Her sympathy and interest were
as ready for the meritless as for the meri-
torious. But not only did Miss Reilly
make her influence felt inside the College.
Outside, and especially at other colleges,
she represented the ideals of Bryn Mawr.
The alumna, the undergraduates, and all
who ever came into contact with her, will
feel that they have lost through her resig-
nation a valuable adviser.





It is too bad that the clubs, of which
we have so many here at Bryn Mawr, can-
not be more loyally supported and more
influential. We have French, German,
English, Philosophy, History, and Science
clubs, most of which have a membership
list of from 20 to 30 members and whose
meetings are considered well attended if
half that number are present, at the
Philosophy Club meeting, Monday night.
Suchanguid-attendance certainly shows
that the clubs in their present form are
dead organizations; if they were of vital
importance they would be better sup-
ported. If they are out of date and use-
less, why not give them up? No organi-
zation made up of individuals can do any-
thing without the co-operation of each in-
dividual. But if the clubs are essential
to our pursuit of knowledge, let there be
keener interest and more loyal support.

For the past few weeks the swimming
pool has been the focus of all our interest.
With two hundred and eighty-three au-
thorized swimmers in College, there was
plenty of enthusiasm and competition for
the meets, and water-polo has found
large number of recruits.
that, when in 1905 swimming became an
Athletic Association sport, only one hun.- |
dred and twelve students in College were

authorized swimmers, there seems much |
reason to be proud of the progress made |

since then.

A great event in the history of the
swimming was the starting of water-polo
in 1906. This was the result of President
Thomas's visit to England, where she saw
the game played and found it sufficiently
good to wish to introduce it at Bryn
Mawr. Numerals were awarded for the
first time in 1907, Last year water-polo

was made a major sport, and the winning |

banner hung on the Gym.
1912 was the first class to come under
the compulsory swimming rule.

swimming for some years—at Columbia
it is necessary for a degree—but so far
Bryn Mawr has stood alone among wom-
en's colleges.

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To the Editor of ‘The College News’’:

'steps of the Parliament buildings, and as |

Several |
of the men’s colleges have had required |

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR




in this column) —
"Wanted! Skating!



Where is the fine skating that was
promised us last year when we raised the
money for the new hockey field?

That is merely a rhetorical question as
I am quite sure the editor knows no more
about it than I do. But I think that an
explanation is owing to the College in
general. We worked hard last year and
gave our money gladly that future gener-
ations of hockey players and skaters
might benefit thereby, but some of us
thought of the joys of really having good
skating when the weather permitted. It
seldom permits here as we all know, but
it seems to me that, knowing this, an
effort should be made to give us skating
during the very short season. So far, we
have had skating for three days this win-
ter—no more than that I am sure—yet it
has often been unusually cold. When we
did have skating, it was not on the pond
of the rosy vision called up last spring
by those getting money for the new
hockey field, but on the upper field
flooded in irregular layers by a sort of
sprinkling process.

Where, I ask again, is the good skating
we were to have this winter?

E. B. Kirk, 1916.

“MY OWN STORY”
BY MRS. PANKHURST



Tells of Her Life, Arrest, and Prison



Mrs. Pankhurst, who will speak in Tay-
lor on Thursday afternoon at 4.30 o’clock
for the benefit of the Servian Relief Fund,
tells the story of her lHfe in her book,
“My Own Story”, now in the Corola Woer-
ishoffer room in the Library.

In 1879 she married Dr. Pankhurst and
with him her work for suffrage first be-
gan. Dr. Pankhurst was the man who
first drafted the bill for the enfranchise-
ment of women, the “Woman’s Disabili-
ties Removal Bill”, of 1870, and when he
was running as a Liberal candidate
for Parliament in 1885, Mrs. Pankhurst
did extensive canvassing for him. After
his death in 1898, she had to carry on his





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