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.LIA SMITH EUROPEAN FELLOW



GENERAL SENIOR AVERAGE HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR





MME. HUARD GIVES GRAPHIC

PICTURE OF “THOSE WHO WAIT”)|



Describes Flight Before Germans



ENEMY ONLY TWO HOURS BEHIND



At two in the morning on September 3,
1914, .Mme. Frances Wilson Huard left
her chateau, five peasant children in her
charge, a nag twenty-one years old draw-
ing a hay cart her only horse; two hours
later General von Kluck marched into
the chateau and made it his headquarters
for nine days. Mme. Huard’s description
of her flight before the German troops
kept her audience tense last Friday even-
ing, when she spoke in the gymnasium on
“Those Who Wait”. About $360 was col-
lected in gate receipts, one-half of which
goes to Mme. Huard’s hospital and half to
1919’s Endowment Fund.

For the first year of the war Mme.
Huard managed a hospital for 120 men in
her chateau, but now she has converted
her Paris house into a hospital accommo-
dating 100 men. One dollar a day is
needed for each patient and it is for these
brave French soldiers that she is seeking
help in America at this time.

Hairbreadth Escapes Described

The general incredulity up to the first
of August as to the possibility of war, the
absorption of her houseparty in bridge
and the Caillot case; then the first
month of the war when one million five
hundred thousand Belgian refugees
passed her gate and she gave them soup
and stewed fruit; all this Mme. Huard
has written of in “My Home on the Field
of Honor’. In the confusion of leaving
the chateau that night Mme. Huard caught

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C. DODGE "18 NEXT YEAR’S PRESI-
DENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION



Running against M. O’Connor, C. Dodge |

'18 was elected president of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association by a majority of 112
votes on Monday night.

Miss Dodge is Junior president and isa_

member of the board. She was elected
treasurer of Self-Government on the res-
ignation of R. Cheney in her Sophomore
year. She was stage manager of Fresh-
man Show and Banner Show. M. O’Con-
nor was elected vice-president.

F. HOWELL '19 MAKES “NEWS”



Third Sophomore on Board



F. Howell '19 has been elected to the
Editorial Board of the News. Miss How-

Miss Howell, the third Sophomore on
completes the number of mem-

her class. From these three
Managing Editor for 1919's Senior
be chosen.

s

CRIMSON BANNER ON GYM Nineteen Seniors Get Degree Cum Laude



Seniors Win Water-Polo Title





fashioned education. There is not a stu-
dent in this room that has not studied
Latin, which is now, as you are aware, a
rare distinction. I venture to
prophesy that when you leave Bryn Mawr
College and begin to work side by side
with men and women educated in other
ways in other colleges, that your old-
fashioned education, which we have given
with what we hope are new-fashioned
methods, will justify itself and that you
will find that you are able to do the work
assigned you with an ease and assurance
that is not ordinarily possessed by other
men and women less strenuously trained.

“Bryn Mawr stands or falls by the
|graduates shesends out. Itis very rarely
that a Bryn Mawr College graduate tells
us after outside experience that her edu-
cation has been wrong. As after leaving
College you match yourselves against
other men and women I hope you will
determine for yourselves what is the best
form of education to give your sons and
daughters and if you find that your own
education stands the test, I hope that you
will carry on the Bryn Mawr tradition
and see to it that the Bryn Mawr of the
future stands fast by her high educational
standards. As alumne you will have an
enormous influence in maintaining and
fixing those standards. A privately en-
dowed college like Bryn Mawr must de-

Thalia Smith is the 1917 European Fel-
low with an average of 88.37, President
Thomas announced in Chapel last Friday.
Miss Ormsbee, Cornell ’15, and Carola
Woerishoffer Scholar here for two years,
received the Mary EB. Garrett European
Fellowship, and Miss Turner the Presi-
dent’s European Fellowship. Nineteen
Seniors have an average of 80 or over
and three beside Miss Smith receive the
degree magna cum laude: K. Blodgett,
M. Milne and M. Hodge. Only two Seniors

In a brilliantly played game against
1919, the Seniors won the first team cham-
pionship in water-polo last Thursday and
hung their banner on the gym in place
of the blue one which has been there all
season.

The victory was hard fought, for the
Sophomores’ phenomenal goal keeper
stopped shot after shot and it was only
by seizing every chance, both offensive
and defensive, that the winners piled up
their final score of 4 to 0. 1919 never lost
courage and till the last moment put up a
hard fight against a superior defense and
a stronger team. had an average lower than 70.

M. Willard '17, playing a spectacular| The general average of this year’s
game at right forward against a substi- Senior class is considerably higher than
tute guard, scored the only goal of the | jast year. In 1916 only 2.1 per cent re-
first half on a free throw from E. Dulles |
"17, ‘Mastly. ten wore attempts were ceived their degree magna cum laude,
stopped by A. Thorndike "19. + this-year-5.6-per-cent.-This- year 21.1 per

After another goal by M. Willard '17 | cent graduate cum laude, last year only
early in the second half, 1919 started off 5.6 per cent.
with a rush and stormed the Seniors’) tp announcing the fellowships Presi-
goal. A. Davis '17, finally threw free and | Gackt ‘inthis ‘uaid in. part: “We owart
V. Litchfield 17 capturing the ball, shot | :

a goal from the center of the pool. Fast to-day the highest academic honors in our
play and good passing on both sides pro- | gift. For our three European fellowships
longed the tension until with a long slant-| we select each year the three students—
ing throw M. Willard shot her third goal |... in her first year of graduate study at

and closed the scoring. Time was called | B M tn be d f
é wieote later and 1917 had wos. the) "" OV". he & BOF secune yoar'o





championship. graduate study, and one member of our pdind: ence tha Boodle: aud Govetias of th

The line-up: graduating class—who seem to the fac- graduates because it cannot depend like

1917 1919 ulty_to have.the best intellectual and} state universities on State appropria-
eee p- e: ea / scholarly equipment for future success in| tions. Although the new world that is
M peigela Capi. . Cit. <<<... BSH | academic work. We also announce to- coming will be a world without great for
¢ oan... reve ee ke ig » pede sie = sae | day the Seniors who have won the high- | tunes, this does not mean that you will
Pe aR aR A! Thorndike est grades during their College course | not be responsible by smaller gifts from

Goals: First half—1917, M. Willard, 1./and will graduate with tlie degrees of your smaller resources for keeping up an

, . a . , .
1919, 0. Time—7 minute halves. Referee— need of that time as we like to believe

'academic distinctions do not always mean
‘that the students who receive them are | that the Bryn Mawr of to-day fills the
the most brilliant students in the College. | needs of this time”.

M SHIELD HANGS You can be brilliant and yet not steady | After reading the list of the graduate
ON SOPHOMORE BANNER and trustworthy. You can be able and |fellows and the first ten Seniors, Presi-
‘yet lack that kind of persistence and | dent Thomas went on: “The faculty has
1919 Victorious in Every Event | faithful day-in-and-day-out diligence which | the great satisfaction of nominating this
is necessary to maintain high standards | year for our European fellow a student
in your academic work. But I want to| Whose work has been uniformly excellent,
‘say again what you have heard me say ‘of a very high grade of intelligence, who
so often—and can never hear me say too | seems to us to give the greatest promise
often—that, on the whole, grades seem to Of future distinction, Thalia Howard
me as fair a way of judging of the quali-| Smith, average grade 88.376 per cent in
ties that go to make up success as any- the group of Philosophy and Psychology.
lintine, Physical Director of Vassar Col- thing else that has been invented by man.| “Before we separate I want to congrat-
lege; Miss Jones, of the Germantown ‘They are incomparably the best way of | Ulate the whole Senior Class on their
Friends’ School, and Mr. Bishop, of Hav- | judging the intellectual ability of young Work for the four years. As a class your
erford School. ' people. academic standard has peen high. It
| 2 presenting the shield to the winners | looks as if the recognition by the College
Mr. Bishop said that he was very much . “Bryn Mawr College, above all colleges |of good academic work by giving the A.B.
pleased with the work of both classes. |; the world, ought, in my opinion, to desree according to merit on three divi-
This year’s meet, he said, was perhaps stand for good, sound academic work, | #1ons was working well’.

the best he had ever seen at Bryn Mawr.
He mentioned the apparatus work in par- ,
| ticular as being as good as any that had
‘ever been done here.

An innovation in the floor work, which
with club drill, apparatus, and “stunt”
made up the contest, was the track exer. |
cise arranged by M. Krantz ‘19, leader of |
the Sophomores’ floor work. The mo-
tions for a crouching start, sprinting,
| shotput, broad jump, hurl ball, hop-step

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Miss Applebee.



|GYMNASIU





APPARATUS WORK PRAISED



| With the final score in points 386.5 to
'354.3, the Sophomores made a clean
sweep of every event in the gym meet
last Friday. The judges were Miss Bal-

}

When I look at you and think how
few you are as compared with the women |
|who are gathered in other women’s col-
'leges I realize that unless Bryn Mawr is
educating you for quality and not for
quantity we are failing in our duty.

The first ten Seniors are:

Thalia Smith, 88.37.
Katharine Blodgett, 87.44.
Marjorie Milne, 85.73.

Mary Hodge, 85.33.

Marian Rhoads, 84.88.

Janet Grace, 84.40,

Esther Johnson, 82.90.

Agnes Dorothy Shipley, 82.84.
Mary Cline, 82.71. ;
Henrietta Amelia Dixon, 82.03.

“Bryn Mawr then is educating you for |
quality by the best methods proved and |
tried by past experience. You are splen-|
‘did examples of the strenuous, old- |