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THE COLLEGE NEWS



The College News

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Managing Editor . ELISABETH GRANGER, ‘17
Business Manager . VIRGINIA LITCHFIELD, ‘17

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ELEANOR DULLES,'17 NATALIE McFADEN,'17
MARIAN O’CONNER,'18 K. HOLLIDAY, '18
ETHEL ANDREWS, '19

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FRANCES BUFFUM, '18

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Not long ago at an undergraduate meet-
ing a motion was passed to have several
simple changes made in the morning
Chapel service. A committee was ap-
pointed, the changes were brought about,
but from the murmurs frequently heard,
satisfaction has not been secured. There
are two explanations for this: either the
unsatisfied were not at the meeting, or
they did not express their opinions. Will
we never learn that all Association meet-
ings are important, that sooner or later
the business transacted in them will ef-
fect our College life in some minor or
major way, that then is the time to make
our criticisms that they: may be con-
structive and not destructive?







At last a logical method for awarding
the Helen Ritchie Memorial Prize has
been devised. ‘To discover which one of
the Seniors has the finest character, high
courage, faithfulness and joyousness, isa
difficult task at best and heretofore, when
the decision has rested only in the hands
of a committee composed of President
Thomas, the senior warden, and the presi-
dents of Self-Government, the Athletic
Association, and the Undergraduate As-
sociation, the choice has seldom been
satisfactory to the rest of the undergrad-
uates. This year the Seniors, who might
reasonably be expected to know which of
their number most deserved the prize, ex-
pressed their chvuice by a vote, the results
‘of which were given to the committee to
aid them in their decision. Though their
vote is in no way final, it is the expression
of an opinion that might be respected,
and therefore might be of considerable as-
sistance whenever agreement is difficult.
This seems to be a fairly reasonable solu-
tion of the difficulty, but would certainly
be helped by adding the presidents of the
Christian Association and the Senior
Class to the committee.

PENN LIBRARY CLUB MEETS HERE



First Time Since 1899



The Pennsylvania Library Club held its
annual meeting for the election of officers
in Taylor on Monday afternoon.
was the first meeting held at Bryn Mawr
since 1899.

After the election of officers, among
whom Miss Lois A. Reed, the Head Libra-
rian at Bryn Mawr, was elected Second
Vice-President, Dean Reilly delivered a
short address in which she described the
changes that have taken place at Bryn
Mawr since 1899. In. that time Rocke-
fellow, The Gym, the Model School, and
the Library have been built. Before, the
present building the Library, about 50,000
volumes, was kept downstairs in Taylor,
where the lecture rooms now are.

Miss Reilly went on to explain the or-
ganization of the new Library. The num-
ber of books, she said, had increased to
about 80,000 volumes, and each year each
department is given an apportionment to
buy new books. The circulation is about
25,000 volumes a year, which has lately
been increased, she said, by establishing
the New Book Room.

After the meeting tea was served in
Pembroke East. Those receiving were

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Dr. and Mrs, Smith, Dr, and Mrs. Leuba,

Dr. Brown, Dean Reilly, Dean Maddison,| |
| Miss Schenk, Miss Reed and Miss Louise |

Watson.

“Victoria’s Nightingale Whistles”
(Continued from Page 1)
“Do not listen”, she said, “to the cry of

‘Stop working for suffrage and work for |

preparedness’, The women in the Civil
War did that, and after the war, when
they went to Congress and asked for the
vote, they were told: ‘This is the ne-
groes’s hour. The women must wait’.
And they are still waiting”.

“Let the alleged 82 per cent”, concluded
Dr. Shaw, “who are scraping lint for im-
aginary soldiers, do all the imaginary
things they want to. But let the 18 per
cent who are loyal stay on the job”.

Cc. A. ADOPTS NEW CONSTITUTION



All Committees Have Class
Representation



The new Constitution of the Christian
Association, drawn up by the Constitution
Committee along the lines of the motions
passed at a former meeting, was accepted
without any objections last Tuesday. It
embodied provisions for the representa-
tion of each class on each committee, for
the meeting of the committees with the
central Board of the four officers, and for
Cabinet meetings of all committees.

Two changes were made in committee
names. “Bates Camp Committee” was
changed to “Bates House Committee”;
“Settlement and Hospitals Committee”
was changed to “Social Service Commit-
tee’,

The President announced that since
morning Chapel has been changed by
President Thomas, at the request of the
Undergraduate Association, to include the
Lord’s Prayer and responsive reading, so
that the students may have more part in
the service, the ten-minute prayer meet-
ings formerly held by the C. A. Board at
8.35 A. M. will be discontinued.

A Cabinet meeting followed.

BRANDEIS OFFERS ESSAY PRIZE



Louis Brandeis, the recent appointee as
Judge of the Supreme Court ofthe
United States, is the donor of a prize of
$100 offered by the Federation of Ameri-
can Zionists for an undergraduate essay
on some phase of Jewish Life and Culture
in Palestine. The contest closes Decem
ber 1, 1916.

For essays on economic subjects $2,000
in prizes is offered by the firm of Hart,
Schaffner & Marx.
June 1, 1917.

Further particulars may be found on
the bulletin boards in the Library and
Taylor.

ALUMNA NOTES



Madeleine Fleisher '14 (Mrs. James
Wolf), a son, Thomas Howard Wolf, born
April 22nd.

Michi Kawai ’04, founder and head of
the Japanese Y. W: C. A. and for some
years a teacher in Miss Tsuda’s school in
Tokyo, spoke on April 16th before the
New Haven branch of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage on “Condi-
tions Existing among Japanese Women in
California”. It was to investigate these
conditions that Miss Kawai was sent over
to this country by the Japanese Y. W. C.
A. this year. Mrs. Tyler (Alice Jaynes
05) gave a reception, at which Miss
Kawai spoke on behalf of the Japanese
t. Wis. A,

At the “Second Symposium of Contem-
porary Poets”, held recently in New York,
Theresa Helburn '08 read three of her
own poems, one of which was entitled
“The Aviator”. Miss Helburn was the
first student to be awardéd the Helen
Ritchie Memorial Prize for high courage
and faithfulness.





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