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Voume III. 3 No. 38

BRYN MAWR, PA.,

DECEMBER 20, 1916

Price 5 Cents

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CALENDAR
‘Thursday, January 4
9.00 a. m.—Christmas Vacation ends.

Friday, January 5
3.00 p. m.—vVocational
Speaker, Miss Jackson.
8.00 p. m.—Concert for the benefit of
the Endowment Fund by Herman Sandby,
’cellist. Arranged by the Senior Class.

Conference,

Sunday, January 7
6.00 p. m.— Vespers. Speaker, D, Cham-
bers ’19,
8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by the
Rev. F, L, Janeway, D.D., of New York.

Friday, January 12
8.30 p. m—First Swimming Meet.

Saturday, January 13

8.00 p. m.—Moving Pictures in the gym-
nasium for the benefit of the Endowment
Fund. Managed by the Class of 1919.

Sunday, January 14

8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Robert Speer, of New York.

Friday, January 19
8.30 p. m.—Second Swimming Meet.





POILUS HAVE THEATRES AND
NEWSPAPERS



Sorbonne Lecturer Speaks on the Literary
Life of the Front



The letters, songs, theatre and news-
papers of the “poilu” at the front were
the subject of a lecture by Monsieur Jean
Alcide Picard, of the Sorbonne, in Taylor
Hall last Friday afternoon.

“The business of killing”, said —M.
Picard, “does not occupy all the sildier’s
time. He has three other occupations:
eating, sleeping, and writing letters, and
of these the last is the one he loves
most”.

As official reader of letters found on
dead soldiers, M. Picard’s experience was
that a “poilu” writes not less than one
letter a day and each at least eight pages
long, never mentioning the war or his
own brave part in it. Some of them are
humorous, all show passionate love of
country and of people at home, as do
their songs, several of which M. Picard
read, explaining here and there the con-
fusing trench slang. “The essay is also
very chic”, he added; “they all write
them”,

Impromptu Acting a Favorite Occupation

Another interest beyond “la chasse des
boches” in the trenches is impromptu |

acting. Tragedy, deeds of heroism, etc.,
' are never shown, but the soldiers when
off duty like nothing better than to give
a bit of comedy or a burlesque for their
comrades.
_ “Their newspapers, too, are largely
comic”, M. Picard went on ta say. “Of
these trench newspapers 260 now exist.
They are printed on regulation presses

front and among civilians anxious to keep
in touch with the doings of the ‘poilus’.
Besides this important work of insuring
close contact between defenders and de-
fended, Le Lapin a Plume and Le Canard
Poilu enable army cooks to exchange
valuable receipts. They print poems ‘de
valeur poetique variable’, as well as offi-
cial communications of all sorts and pen-
and-ink illustrations”.



SANDBY, ‘CELLIST AND COMPOSER,
TO PLAY



1917 Plans Concert for Endowment Fund



Herman Sandby, 'cellist and composer,
who played here last year as soloist in the
Philadelphia Orchestra concert, is to give
a concert on January 5th in Taylor Hall.
The concert has been planned by 1917
for the benefit of the Endowment Fund.
Admission will be fifty cents for mem-
bers of the College, one dollar for others.

Mr. Sandby’s musical career began
with his playing the violin at the age of
five, and at seven he had his first experi-
ence with the larger instrument, the
‘cello. Born at Copenhagen in 1881, he
studied at Frankfort, Germany, and from
his early teens has appeared upon the
concert platform all through Scandinavia,
England, Germany and America.

Sandby is as well known in London as
he is in Philadelphia, where, until this
year, he was first ’cellist for the Philadel-
phia Orchestra. He is a particular favor-
ite of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, and
her sister, the Dowager Empress of Rus-
sia, both his compatriots.

Sandby’s tone on the ’cello is of the
richest and most mellow character, and
his singing style has called forth un-
bounded enthusiasm and high critical
praise in all the great art centres of the
Old World. His settings of Scandinavian
folk-songs are his best known composi-
tions.

The program:

Song of Vermeland (Swedish).

Elverhoj (Danish).

Bridal March (Norwegian).
CeO oo ak Saint Saens
Mrs. Sandby will accompany him at the

piano.

FATHER F. C. POWELL LEADS
CHRISTMAS SERVICE



Father F. C. Powell, of the Order of St.
John the Evangelist in Boston, preached
to a full Chapel on Sunday night. Christ-
mas greens and Christmas music were the
setting for an appropriate Advent mes-
sage.

“Belong to the future, keep your youth”,
said Father Powell. “Good and bad, chil-
dren of the day and children. of the night,
live together in the same dormitories and



| walk the same streets, but the Advent
|message is to watch for the light—‘For
| behold, your King cometh’. Come to Him
with open hearts and He will open your

eyes so that you will see that ‘the day

;cometh, the darkness is already past’ ”.

| ‘The children of the day, he said, are |
and have a wide circulation both at the |

| characterised by youth, purity, truth and
love. “I know that knowledge is rather
‘out of fashion now”, he said, “helped by
| Billy Sunday and others, but it will come
|back again. ‘The truth shall make you
| free’ ”.

| “The Luck of Roaring Camp” he cited
‘as an example of the enlightening power
lof love. The little baby in the wicked
}mining camp stirs the gentleness in the

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D.C os vi icin ese cen Golterman
Allegro—Cantilena—Allegro

4; GQUOar Bone akc Dvorak-Sandby

Indian Lament ........ Dvorak-Sandby

UE cc ohio ce eee Schumann

WOME Ge eee bint soviet Weber

Dy MOO oe hi eer, Debussy
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt,

Tschaikowsky-Sandby

WOM ol ol ee Sibelius

WG Be ook oes ee cs Sibelius

4, Scandinavian Folk-Songs ..... Sandby

CHRISTMAS PARTY IN EACH HALL



Radnor Revives Old English Christmas
Customs



Christmas parties were given in each
hall on Tuesday night as farewells before
vacation. Most interesting was Radnor’s
revival of the old English Christmas
revels. Yule-log and Boar’s head were
brought into the dining-room with tradi-
tional songs and ceremonies by pages
costumed in red and green. An innova-
tion this year was a Christmas tree.
Dancing followed the dinner at which J.
Grace ’17 was toast-mistress. -

Merion’s party began at half-past four
in the afternoon with a dance managed
by 1919. At dinner admission was
charged, for the benefit of the Red Cross,
to see stunts given by the Seniors and
Juniors. 1920 provided the decorations.

Pembroke began dancing at half-past
eight to the harp, violin and piano that
had played at Merion in the after-
noon. Cakes were sold by 1917 for the
benefit of the Endowment Fund, and the
Freshmen gave a stunt at dinner. The
party was managed by M. Martin ’19.

In Denbigh and in Rockefeller, where
admission was charged for the benefit of
the Belgian Relief, the program was the
same—stunts at dinner and dancing after-
ward. M. Hodge '17 managed the party
in Rockefeller, and 1919 that in Denbigh.

GERMAN PRISON CAMPS
NEED TEXT-BOOKS

German Prisom Camps are among the
most important institutions for which the
Junk Committee of the C. A. has been
making collections, Interest in these
camps was aroused by A. Davis ’17, whose
brother is working there trying to estab-
lish university courses, as there are many
professor and student prisoners. For this
all_sorts-of-text-books- are needed, novels





and magazines.

}and the colored schools in the South are |

COMMITTEE ON CHINESE SCHOLAR-
SHIP FORMS PLANS



Necessary Funds Ready by June 1

The Bryn Mawr Committee on the Chi-
nese Scholarship met on December 14th,
to lay definite plans for raising the pro-
posed endowment of $25,000. It is form-
ing committees in the larger cities of
Bryn Mawr alumnzw and persons inter-
ested in the East and the education of
women, and expects to raise the required
amount by June Ist.

“The time is short and the sum large”,
said Miss Donnelly, chairman of the
committee, in speaking to the “News” re-
porter, “but the opportunity also is large



and help given to China now means

twenty-five times as much as will help
given twenty-five years hence.

Student to Come to B. M. Next Fall

“A sub-committee is being formed im-
mediately in China itself to chose a stu-
dent fitted to study in the United States
and send her to Bryn Mawr next autumn
for two years’ training in the neighbour-
hood preparatory to entering the College.

“The committee hopes that the Chris-
tian Association will also form a sub-com-
mittee to interest itself in the scholarship,
and it will be happy, through the follow-
ing members, to answer any questions
concerning the scholarship and its endow-
ment:

The committee is: L. M. Donnelly,
chairman; Marion Parris Smith, treas-
urer; Gertrude Ely, Adeline Vepper Gib-
son, Marion. Reilly, Eunice Morgan
Schenck, Martha Gibbon Thomas.

DEMOCRACY OF COLLEGE WOMEN
COLLEGE SETTLEMENT IDEAL

Miss Baldwin Explains C.-S._ A. Exhibit

| The Community Center at Bryn Mawr | Grassy hills covered with tents and cot-

tages and a settlement house in which

| also claiming the attention of this com- | Varied activities are being carried on,

and magazines are needed and for the
schools everything.
2a eee |
B. M. ALUMNA HANGS SUFFRAGE
BANNER AS PRESIDENT SPEAKS



“What Will You Do for Suffrage”? the |
Slogan



Mary Gertrude Fendall ‘12 was one of
the six prominent members of the Con-
gressional Union for Woman Suffrage



who unfurled a yellow banner bearing the
words, “Mr. President: What will you do |
for Woman Suffrage’? during President |
Wilson’s address in the Hall of Repre-
|sentatives on December 5th:

| The banner was unfurled over the rail
.of the gallery directly opposite the ros-
trum on which the President was stand- |
ing, but was pulled down by one of the
doorkeepers. Capitol policemen were
|prevented from arresting those respon-
|sible for the disturbance.

“At the very instant the banner was un-
furled a messenger from the Congres-
sional Union headquarters appeared sud-
denly at the door of the press gallery of |
the House and shoved into a doorkeeper’s
hands more than a hundred mimeo-|
eraphed copies of an article about the
banner and the women responsible for its
display”,

Although the President saw the banner °
he made no break in the reading of his|
address. ;





mittee. For the Community Center read-| Were represented in the College Settle-
ing-room sofa-cushions, pictures, books, | °"t exhibit shown here on Wednesday,

by realistic models of the C. S. A. sum-
mer camp and Boston Settlement House.
Miss Baldwin, the organizing secretary of
the Association, explained the models,
pictures, posters, and samples of chil-
dren's work at a tea given in Rockefeller
by the Bryn Mawr chapter.

In speaking of the work and purpose of
the Association in general she said, “The
College Settlement Association was es-
tablished in 1889 when a great wave of
democracy and social work passed over
the country, not primarily for charity or
philanthropy, but to make stronger the
democratic ideal and to arouse an interest
in public affairs. It has stood for the
ideals of Tolstoi and St. Francis of As-
sisi”.

When 2 per cent of the people posse: s
60 per cent of the wealth, when 30,000,006)
people are living in indecent moral and
sanitary conditions, Miss Baldwin con-
tinued, something must be done by those
who have advantages to share them with
those who have not. “The $265,000,000,-
000 of actual wealth in this country, if not
hoarded up by the individual exploitation
of natural resources and instruments of
public utility, would mean an income of
about $1700 for every family.

Democracy Needed
Young college students banding to.
gether, as in the College Settlement Asso-
ciation, to share their advantages, can do
much against the deadening effect of the
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