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College news, March 30, 1916
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1916-03-30
serial
4 pages
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 02, No. 23
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There are many statesmen who regret
the fact that national spirit exists, yet
none would neglect the divisions among
men. In the same way many of us lament
class spirit, feeling that it works against
the best interests of the College; never-
theless, we accept it, and those who wish
to encourage enthusiasm in athletics or
to raise large sums of money find it a
convenient tool for their purposes.
The Christian Association has for sev-
eral years tended to accept the necessity
of recognizing class spirit to attain effi-
ciency. Two years ago it was felt that
adequate class representation on the
Board was essential for proper interest
in the Association, and a Freshman was
put on the Board and the number of
Sophomores increased. Last year the
Board was chosen from candidates nomi-
nated by the classes. The reorganization
along class lines which took place on
Monday evening is the logical outcome of
these measures.
Undoubtedly the Association has chosen
the best way to get wider support, but it
incurs one great risk. We'do not want
four class Christian Associations. We
want four executive units, but one enthu-
siasm.
G. K. Chesterton’s haunting little lyric,
entitled “The Shakespeare Memorial’, is
particularly fitting at this time of
Shakespeare’ tercentennials. For the
benefit of our less well-read readers, we
reprint the first exquisite lines:
“Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten
That Shakespeare should be quite for-
gotten,
And therefore got on a Committee
With several chaps out of the city.
And while the vain world careless sped—
Unheeding the heroic name—
The souls most fed with Shakespeare’s
flame
Still sat unconquered in a ring,
Remembering him like anything”.
It is to be regretted that Bryn Mawr
has wandered so far from the Chesterto-
' Mian ideal. “Remembering him like any-
thing”! How little of that reminiscent
mood will be felt in three hundred years
toward the old constitution of the Chris-
tian Association, for instance, or towards
the‘once famous Trophy Club.
BASKET-BALL AND TRACK
SEASON OPENS
Outdoor athletics, track and basket-
ball, have begun this week. The lower
hockey fleld has been laid out into four
basket-ball fields and all the necessary
track paraphernalia has been arranged.
The track house has been moved from the
far side of the field to the terrace at the
end of the path coming down from the
campus. The new field will not be used
at all as it is to be seeded so that it will
be good for hockey in the fall.
has been given her for that purpose.
“I am going to understate rather than
overstate some things, for I do not
wish to seem to draw a bit on my
imagination. One hospital which I visited
has no water except in the garden, and
the infirmieres must carry up every drop
even to the third story. Even the mede-
cin-Chef said that the beds were impos-
sible for wounded, the mattresses being
something thin and lumpy in a ticking
hardly two inches thick. They had no
pillows also, and begged for them for the
gravely wounded. Here, too, they asked
for beef-juice or some similar dainty and
fortifying fare, for, as the infirmiere re-
marked, ‘Boiled meat and potatoes da
not tempt those who are enfeebled from
long. suffering, and we find it nearly im-
possible to get anything else’.
“Clothing is needed too, especially
socks and woollen things, pillows, gauze,
and cotton—but above all else surgical
appliances large and small. If people ask
what they can knit, say socks. Every-
where we are asked for them, large size,
because they shrink. No one asks for
scarfs or slings any more”.
Money for the Emergency Fund should
be given to me or sent to The French
Wounded Emergency Fund, 34 Lowndes
Square, London. In either case those who
give any sum_of money to the French
will receive a letter telling how it has
been spent.
E. Houghton, 718.
FOR THE POLISH BABIES!
Alumna to Speak on Preparedness
for Women
The Honorable Mrs. Bertrand Russell,
who will speak Saturday afternoon in the
chapel on “Preparedness of Women for
Peace or War”, is a Bryn Mawr graduate
of the Class of 1890. Mrs. Russell has al-
ways been interested in social questions,
especially in their bearing upon children.
She is Chairman of the St. Pancreas
School for Poor Mothers, President of the
Abingdon British Women’s Temperance
Association, and a member of the com-
mittee of the National Women’s Suffrage
Societies of England.
Mrs. Russell’s talk on preparedness, il-
lustrated from the experience of women
in the present war, is for the benefit of
the babies of Polish refugees in Petro-
grad. Admission for members of the col-
lege is twenty-five cents, for outsiders
fifty cents. Contributions and pledges
may be given to the ushers at the door.
This lecture is to be given under the aus-
pices of the Bible and Mission Study Class
of the C. A., and also of the Red Cross
Committee.
SANDBY SOLOIST AT CONCERT
Herman Sandby, first violincellist of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, will be the
soloist at the concert Saturday evening
in the Gymnasium. Tickets for members
of the College are fifty cents, for out-
siders one dollar. Reserved seats may
be obtained at the office.
The program is:
Overture—“Hebriden”,
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdi
Symphony in D Minor...... Cesar Franck
I Lento: Allegro non troppo.
Il Allegretto.
Ill. Allegro non Troppo. .
Variations on a Rococo Theme,
Peter Iljitch Tschaikowsky
Herman Sandby
Vorspiel “Die Meistersinger”,
Richard Wagner
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