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College news, March 7, 1917
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1917-03-07
serial
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 03, No. 18
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BMC-News-vol3-no18
VoLume III. .No. 18
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday, March 7
7.30 p. m.—Bible Class, Miss Agnes
Tierney. Social Study Class, Miss Kings-
4
bury.
Friday, March 9
4.30 p. m.—Lecture in Taylor Hall by
Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith on “The Chil-
dren of the French Frontier”.
8.00 p. m.—Lecture by Francis Hackett
of the New Republic under the auspices
of the English Club, in Rockefeller.
Saturday, March 10
11.00 a. m.—Apparatus Cup Competi-
tion.
8.00 p. m.—Mr. Rheinhold Warlich,
Song Recital. Arranged by the Class of
1920 for the benefit of the Endowment
Fund.
Sunday, March 11
6.00 p. m.—Vespers. Speaker, M.
Hardy ’20.
8.00 p. m.—Chapel.
Huntington, O.H.C.
Monday, March 12 “
Sermon by Father
8.00 p. m.—President Thomas at home |
to the Senior Class.
Wednesday, March 14
7.30 p. m—Bible Class. Miss Agnes
Tierney.
Friday, March 16
8.45 a. m.—Announcement of European
Fellowships.
4.30 p. m.—Gymnastic Contest.
6.00 p. m.—Fellowship Dinners.
Saturday, March 17
9.00 a. m.—Senior Oral examination in
French.
11.00 a. m.—Apparatus Cup Competi- |
tion.
8.00 p. m.—Lecture by Dr. Jane Rob-
bins on Immigration.
Sunday, March 18
6.00 p. m.—Vespers. Speaker, A. Lan-
don ’19.
8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by the
Rev. William P. Merrill, D.D., of the
Brick Presbyterian Church.
REFUGEE CHILDREN OF
FRANCE IN NEED
Story To Be Told by an Eye-witness
In the first onrush of the war, when
fighting raged about Mons and the Marne
and the Aisne, hundreds of villages of the
French frontier were swept away and the
people left homeless; the suffering of the
refugee children of these villages, whose
families if not killed are often lost from
them, will be described by Mrs. Joseph
Lindon-Smith ex-’97, Friday afternoon at
four o’clock in Taylor. Mrs. Lindon-
Smith came back two months ago from
France, where she went to investigate
the condition of the children on behalf
of the Franco-American Committee for
the Protection of Children of the Frontier.
Mrs. Lindon-Smith’s appeal is not con-
nected with the fund for the “Fatherless
Children of France”, which is in part sup-
ported by the government. In the case of
these children their fathers have been
soldiers killed in battle while those of the
“frontier” children may have been civil-
ians lost in the destruction of their vil-
lages.
Mrs. Lindon-Smith has the distinction
of being the only Christian ever admitted
to a certain Egyptian mosque. The per-
fect recitation of a chapter of the Koran
in Arabic gained her this privilege. Mr.
Joseph Lindon-Smith is well known as
a landscape painter. Some bas-reliefs,
copied by him from the Egyptian, are now
in the Boston Museum.
LISTENERS HELD SPELLBOUND
BY MR. RUTH
Faculty Concert Clears $225
.
MR. CARPENTER AS AUCTIONEER
The four encores demanded of Mr. Ruth
at the Faculty Concert last Friday night
gauge to some extent the charm which
;his voice cast over his listeners; Mrs.
Gibson’s singing and Mr. Brunel’s violin
solos were received enthusiastically. Mr.
Carpenter after the program auctioned
off the posters, made by E. Russell '17 for
the concert, in which he was one of the
| principal figures; for the nine he secured
$86.56 to go to the Red Cross with, he as-
BATES CHILDREN
‘sured the audience, the lowest possible
| percentage deducted for his services. The
GALA WEEK END FOR
FRIENDS OF BATES
Miss Deems Tells What to Do
|
| Though the Bates House party Satur-
|day night only made enough money to
| cover expenses, it aroused great enthu-
| siasm. Miss Virginia Deems, for two
years head of the House, Miss Applebee,
| and H. Harris '17, chairman of the Bates
| House Committee, spoke, and Rose Hof:
/man, of the Newman School of Dancing in
Philadelphia, who is about to enter Pav-
|lowa’s school, gave an extraordinarily
| lovely exhibition of Greek dancing. Slides
| illustrated the speeches.
| “What you do at Bates”, said Miss
|Deems, “is to work hard from six in the
| morning until ten or eleven at night. If
| you can’t find any work you make some”,
'The Bryn Mawr students do everything
'for . the babies, Miss Deems said, from
| dressing them in the morning and taking
‘them in bathing to putting them to bed
|at night. When the girls come they must
‘be chaperoned, and little parties are ar-
‘ranged for the older women.
‘of it’, is the biggest part of the work.
admission brought in about $225.
Mr. Ruth’s beautifully full, bass voice
However, |showed best perhaps in the selections,
“not what you do in Bates House”, Miss |“The Sea” and “I Know a Hill”.- It was
Deems emphasized, “but what you get out | after this English group that he was ap-
| plauded up to three encores, “Down
Miss Applebee also stressed the fact|among the Dead Men”, Hawley'’s “Noon
in her explanation of what “clean-up and Night”, and Rubenstein’s “Der Asra”.
week” means to the cleaners and what its | :
results mean to the Spring Street people, Selection from Russian Composer
that one must be prepared to do work} The varied selections chosen by Mrs.
harder than “hard gym”, Through this | Gibson, French, German and Italian, were
effort of the Bryn Mawr workers to make | delightfully rendered; “Chanson Indoue”
the place homelike and attractive the |! of especial interest, for its composer,
people of Spring Street are given a | Rinsky-Korsakow, composed the music
chance to live decently for once in their|for the startling “Scherazade” of the
lives, she said. Russian Ballet. “Der Schwan” by
Miss Hofman danced two exquisite | Grieg, “Si mes vers avaient des airs” by
Greek idylls. “Summer” interpreted the | Haln, and “Aime-moi” by Bemberg, were
season’s joy in her flowers and her sorrow | Mrs. Gibson's encores. Mrs. Mahon ac-
that she must die; “Autumn” chases the | Companied her.
deer, drains the wine from the grapes she| Mr. Brunel was accompanied by Mr.
has crushed and ends with a mad Bac-|arpenter. His first encore was Kreisler’s
chanalian revel. Twice Miss Hofman |“Liebesfreud”. The quaint Dutch folk
danced to music she had never heard be-|S0ngs were particularly charming and
fore, simply taking the steps to which the following them Mr. Brunel played the
notes inspired her and grasping the | “Meditation” from “Thais” and a Beetho-
| changing rhythms with surprising skill. | ven minuet.
|FRESHMAN CONCERT SECURES
| GREAT FOLK SINGER
| Reinhold Warlich Only Man Kreisler
Accompanies
| The only man whom Kreisler ever ac-
companies on the piano, Reinhold War-
lich, basso cantante, will give a song re-
cital of Russian, French, German and
Elizabethan folk songs Saturday night at
8.15 in Taylor. The concert, for the ben-
efit of the Endowment Fund, is under the
auspices of 1920.
Reinhold Warlich, of German family,
began his musical career as a boy in Pe-
trograd, where his fathér was director of
the Czar’s private orchestra. In those
the beginning of the war his hatred of
Prussian imperialism led him to change
his ‘name to de Warlich; since then he
has wished to emphasize his strict neu-
trality by being simply Reinhold Warlich.
At the age of fifteen he had a position as
organist of a large church; later in con-
cert he sang before many of the royalty
of Europe and in Vienna attained success
in opera. This he gave up to become a
“lieder singer’.
When the war came Mr. Warlich was
living with his wife, an American woman,
outside of Paris, but they immediately
turned their villa into a convalescent hos-
pital and he served in the Ambulance
In 1915 Mr. Warlich came to the
Corps
| “Most Discreet” Poster Starts Auction
United States and has given a number of |
private recitals, but few public ones.
The admission is $.50 for those con-
nected with the College, $1.00 for others,
and reserved seats $.75.
With the injunction that anyone not in-
|tending to bid should leave the room Mr.
| Carpenter began the auction, but only two
| people were seen to depart. “The most
| discreet of all the posters” was put up
| first though Mr. Carpenter urged the audi-
‘ence to pick out which they wanted of-
‘fered as “personal reasons made him un-
able to choose”. In the words of the auc-
tioneer, “all were done with the most un-
fecinliecice failing tact and skill”.
1917 pushed 1918 to defeat, 4 to 2,in the| The bidding was chiefly run up by out-
‘17 FIRST TEAM WINS
Mighty Red to Battle in Finals
| Monday.
days he was Reinhold von Warlich, but at |
last of the water-polo preliminaries last
The game showed more spirit
than skill. Both sides fouled constantly.
T. Howell '18 swam the length of the
pool and shot ‘18’s first goal almost im-|
mediately after the whistle blew. Backed
by A. Newlin, '18’s fullback, she played
a clean aggressive game. At the begin-
ning of the second half, after swift pass-
ing, E. Dulles ‘17 shot two goals in suc-
cession. T. Howell twice sent the ball
soaring to ‘17's goal, but H. Harris
stopped the ball squarely each time. E.
Holcombe and E. Dulles made ‘17's last
two goals by good team work.
The line-up was:
w17 1918
M. Seattergood F L.. T. Smith
FE. Duilles.. 7 lL. Pearson
FE. Holeombe F M. O'Connor
V. Litehfield Hl T. Howell
C. Stevens F.R M. Bacon
( Hall F.B A. Newlin
tt. Harris iF H. Wilsen
Secor Ixt half, 1917. FE. Helcombe, 1. 1918,
M. O'Conner, 1 2nd half, 1917, EB. Dulles, 2;
E Heleombe. 1 1818 Team, 1
Referee Miss Apple bee
| Siders; $3.75 for the first of all was the
‘lowest price obtained, and the last
| brought $25. When the students hesi-
tated to compete with the outsiders in
‘this last instance Mr. Carpenter urged
(Continued on Page 5)
(A. DUBACH '19 MAKES NEWS BOARD
Another Sophomore Comes On in Two
Weeks
A. Dubach '19 has been elected as the
second Sophomore on the News Board, to
take the place of N. McFaden ‘17, who
has resigned. A third member from the
Class of 1919 will be taken on in two
weeks. Those who are still in the com-
petition are: F. Howell, E. Hurlock, F
Day and M. Gilman.
The Freshman competition begins this
week and will probably last . through
May. The competitors are: M. S. Cary,
D. Clark, E. Davis, L. Davis. M. Dent.
L. Kellogg, A; Harrison, DPD. Rogers, A
Sanford, and F. Van Hofsten
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