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College news, March 22, 1916
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1916-03-22
serial
4 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 02, No. 22
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BMC-News-vol2-no22
VonumE Il. No. 22
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 23, 1916
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
4.30 Pp. m.—Gymnasium Contest
8.00 p. m.—Lecture by Professor Albert
Carnoy of Louvain.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
9.30 a. M.—A Cup Competition.
ao A. M.—Vocational Dnlhctaies, Taylor
11.00 a. m.—Basket Ball practice begins.
8.00 p. m—Lecture by Mr. George Arthur
—
SUNDAY, MARCR.26
6.00 p. Mi—Vespers. Speaker, M. Bacon,
18.
8.00 p. m—Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Henry Hallam Tweedie, of Yale Divinity
School.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
7.30 P. m.—Bible Classes.
9.30 p. m.—Mid-week Meeting of the C. A.
Leader, Miss E. Saunders.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1
4.00 p. m.—Lecture by the Hon. Mrs. Ber-
trand Russell.
8.00 p. m.—Philadelphia Orchestra Concert
in the Gymnasium.
SUNDAY, APRIL 2
—Vespers. A. P. Smith, ’16.
. M.—Chapel. Sermon b the Rev.
Hugh Black, of Union Seminary, N. Y.
SATURDAY, APRIL 8
m. and 8.00 P. M.—Performance of
the Mikado by the Glee Club.
FRIDAY, APRIL 14
Junior-Senior Supper.
SATURDAY, APRIL 15
Junior-Senior Supper Play repeated.
CRITICISM TO BE INVESTIGATED
BY THE C. A.
Representative Committee to Report
Ten people, representing different inter-
ests in College, have been chosen by the
C, A. Board to investigate and formulate
the constructive criticism of the Associa-
tion. ._A. Grabau,..’16, chairman of the
committee, said that it has been claimed
that the Christian Association has out-
grown its present organization and the
Board wishes to find out the different sug-
gestions exactly and to hand in to next
year’s Board a definite report.
The committee will find out from those
who resigned this year, from those who
have never joined and from any who have
improvements to suggest, what changes
might benefit the Association. Those who
are on the committee are: Chairman, A.
Grabau, ’16; A. Werner, '16; C. Kellen,
"16; M. Scattergood, °17; N. McFaden,
17; V. Litchfield, "17; R. Cheney, '18; M.
Stair, "18; M. Thurman, '19; D. Cham-
bers, ’19.
CHANGES IN MIKADO ROLES
The title réle of the Mikado will be
played by E. Pugh, ’15. M. Russell, 16,
hag been cast of the part of Katisha in
the place of H. Johnson, "19, and the part
of N has been changed from A.
Moore, 19, to M. Jacobs, "15, who was
“Ralph” last year in “Pinafore”. Both
performances of the “Mikado”, matinee
and evening, will be on April 8th.
V. Litchfield, "17, won the poster com-
petition. Her design will be used on all
the posters and on the programs.
DEATH OF KATHARINE REEVES, "19
Katharine Reeves, 1919, died at her
house in West Philadelphia, on March
14th, ef pneumonia. Miss Reeves was
Charles E. Ellis scholar and was prepared
at the Wegt Philadelphia High School.
She lived in Radnor.
dent Thomas said, “When we send abroad
M. C. KLEPS IS EUROPEAN FELLOW
Re
Eleven Seniors to Graduate Cum Laude
Marian Clementine Kleps, 1916, holder
of the highest average grade in the class,
has been awarded the Bryn Mawr Euro-
pean Fellowship and will be graduated
Magna cum laude. The announcement of
the European Fellow and of the winners
of the graduate European Fellowships, to-
gether with the roll of honour of the
Senior Class and the eleven Seniors
Chapel on Friday morning, March 17th, by
President Thomas.
European Fellow Very Young
Miss Kleps’ group is Latin and English
and she was prepared by the Girls’ High
School, Philadelphia. She is just twenty
years old. “Her age”, said President
Thomas in the course of her address,
“would be approved by President Lowell
of Harvard. In his last president’s re-
port he has made a study of the Harvard
men who enter college at sixteen as com-
pared with the Harvard men who enter
at eighteen and has reached the conclu-
sion that the man who enters the college
youngest wins a greater proportion of ac-
ademic honours than the man who enters
older. This does not mean that if every-
body entered college early the grade
would be raised. It means only that an
exceptional student is exceptional from
the beginning. An exceptional student
enters college before an ordinary student
because she possesses the kind of ability
that will mark her out in college”.
Graduate Fellowships
The Anna Ottendorfer Memorial Re-
search Fellowship in German and Teu-
sets.
between actors and audience.
vantage of a conventional background is
DRAMA TOO PICTORIAL
Mr. Housman Criticises Modern
Stagecraft
“The drama”, said Mr. Lawrence Hous-
man Saturday evening in his lecture on
‘The Moral and Immoral Influence of the
Drama’, “has shifted from the plastic to
the pictorial, with a consequent loss of
reality. We must subordinate our back-
ground and revert to the plastic repre-
sentation of the past”.
In defining “too pictorial’,
Living Drama of the Past
“The drama to be real”,
(Continued on Page 3)
NO ONE FOR BOTH FOURTH ORALS
As a result of the third orals, no one
will have to take both French and Ger-
man in May. Ten people are left, three
for French and seven for German, but all
of those taking French have passed Ger-
man and vice versa. The statistics of the
third orals for the last three years are as
tonic Philology was awarded to Ruth | ‘lows:
Perkins, of Abington, Massachusetts. French
Miss Perkins took her A.B. at Wellesley 1914 1915 ined
in 1912, her A.M. at Radcliffe in 1913, |P#88ed -... 14 10 2
and has been doing graduate work at | Failed ..... 2 4 }
Bryn Mawr for the last two years, scholar RR re 1
in German, 1914-15; fellow in German, German
1915-16. “She is particularly well Passed':..;:. 14 22 10
equipped”, said President Thomas, “for | Failed vase 4 ) 7
the study of German philology. She has |
the advantage of also having studied |
Anglo-Saxon. The Teutonic dialects in |
which she has made a beginning are Old |
High German, Middle High German, and |
Norse”. |
“The next fellowship”, continued Presi-
dent Thomas, “the Mary Elisabeth Gar-
rett European Fellowship, which is given | |
in the second year of graduate study at.
Bryn Mawr, has
twenty-two times. The faculty has nomi-|
nated Elisabeth Beatrice Daw. Like Miss |
Perkins, Miss Daw represents a number
of different colleges. She is A.B., Vas-
sar, 1909; A.M., University of Pennsylva-
nia, 1910, and has been a Fellow in Eng- |
lish at Bryn Mawr for the last two years. |
Her special work is English and the sub-
jects that she is studying in connection
with it are old French Philology and}
French Literature”.
The President's European Fellowship
was awarded this year in Geology to)
Helen Morningstar, of Columbus, Ohio.
Miss Morningstar is a graduate of Ohio
State University; A.B., 1913; A.M., 1915;
and is now a Fellow in Geology at Bryn
Mawr. In speaking of her work, Presi-
Miss Morningstar, we are sending a scien-
tific woman who has already given prom-)
ise of the power to do independent re- |
search work in science”.
(Continued on Page 4)
WILSON “FLEEING TO CANADA”
Paper Reports Mexican Victories
President Wilson was reported to be
| fleeing before Villa’s troops by a Spanish |p
| weekly published in Durango, New Mex- c
lico. The States of Texas and New Mexico
|were said to have been captured,
been already given | troops were pressing north and the Presi-
dent and his family were hastening to
|Canada for safety.
the
MASEFIELD WILL NOT COME BACK
John Masefield will not pay a second
'visit to Bryn Mawr to award the Mase-
field prizes, for on Friday, March 17th, he
sailed from New York for England.
The famous English poet»was given a
farewell ovation the day before he sailed
by an audience of 2000 in the University |
of Pennsylvania gymnasium. Mr. Mase- |
field did not give a formal lecture, but)
told tales of “Bill”, a sailor friend of his | land the Shakespeare Birthday Committee
before the mast.
Mr. Masefield is returning to continue |
his work among the wounded on the Eu-
ropean battlefields.
“TYP” NOTICE
Owing to the loss of the first proof of
'“Typ”, the number for March 15th will
‘be late in coming out.
Mr. Hous-
graduating with distinction, were given in| man explained that the drama is pri-
marily intellectual in appeal;
not depend on costumes and scenery.
“The fault of the modern drama”, he said,’ felt to be the beginning of a new prece-
“is that it over-visualizes in the direction
of illusion, and undermentalizes.
mere pictorial chatter; we think too little
and see too much. Draniatic reality cre-
ates its own illusion;
chucks it at your head at so much per
yard”.
it should. can go into effect.
It is
modern scenery
he went on,
“must be spontaneous as the Elizabethan
or traditional as the Greek. The stage
limitations of those times were really as-
The Greeks had no sharp division
The ad-
ASSESSMENT MOTION LOST
infirmary to Be Screened by Voluntary
Contributions
At a meeting of the Undergraduate As-
sociation last Thurseday the motion to
assess all the members of the College 50
cents to screen the Infirmary was lost,
but a motion was passed to raise the
money by voluntary contribution.
This first motion passed a meeting two
weeks ago, but, according to the consti-
tution, any assessment of more than 25
cents must pass two meetings before it
The motion of as-
sessment was not passed because it was
dent by which, in the future, the College
might call upon the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation to furnish or repair the buildings
at any time. But since the College is
again in debt this year and the need for
screens is so pressing, it was voted that
the Advisory Board consider paying for
them by contribution.
A motion was also passed that the rules
of the Association should be read at the
same time as that of the constitution,
within the first month of the first sem-
ester of each year.
The Association also voted to send to
the family of Katharine Reeves, '19, a res-
olution expressing sympathy and sorrow
at her death.
WATER-POLO TEAMS
“FIND EMPTY POOL
Like old Mother Hubbard who found
her cupboard bare, the Alumnew and Var-
sity water-polo teams found an empty
pool when they were ready to begin the
game on Saturday. Among the sugges-
tions which were offered for filling the
pool rapidly was to run water from the
fire hose in, but this was considered
slightly cold and any one who saw the
stream on the campus at a recent drill
will know that it is of a dark, muddy
color, Mr. Foley encouragingly said that
by 8 o'clock he could have three feet of
water. As no possible solution for the
difficulty could be found, the two teams
played a game of basket-ball, Varsity de-
feating the Alumne, 29-27.
The line-up for the basket-ball game
was:
Alumne Varsity
W.- Baker,.°14.....4:«.. etre eeeeer. E. Lanier
H. Alexander, ex-'18. Fr eee cecaenes C, Stevens
Wesson, '09...... Qe eséSSdede vice Cc. Hall
K. Shippen, me os ss We bhi beseecas T. Howell
i, Cagpary, “14....:. Gh iveveacus M. O'Connor
The water-polo was expected to take
place on Monday, but was called off by
the Alumnz. The Varsity line-up would
have been: M. O’Connor, M. Willard, F.
Howell, T. Howell, M. Strauss, C. Hall, A.
Davis.
First Subs were:
Stevens, A. Thorndike, EB:
L. Dillingham, C.
Lanier.
PRIZE OFFERED FOR
SHAKESPEAREAN BOOKPLATE
Two Hundred Dollars to Be Awarded
The American Institute of Graphic Arts
| concur in offering prizes of $100.00, $60.00
and $40.00 for bookplates of exclusively
Shakespearean motif. The drawings must
ps submitted before May 15th at 344
| West Thirty-eighth Street, New York.
| Each competitor must give in more than
‘one drawing and the drawings must be
signed with a pseudonym, which is to be
| sent separately with the real siqgature.
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