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THE COLLEGE NEWS





The College News

Published weekly during the college year in the
interests of Bryn Mawr College



ELISABETH GRANGER, ’17
. VIRGINIA LITCHFIELD, '17

Managing Editor
Business Manager



EDITORS
Constance M. K. ApPLEBEE
Exzanor Du.uss '17 Marian O'Connor '18
Karsaarne Houirwar ‘18 EvizaBETa Hovaxron '18
Gorpon Woopsvry ‘19 Anna Dusacn ‘19
Freperica Hows ‘19



Aasistant Business Managers —

MARY STAIR, 18
FRANCES BUFFUM, '18
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Batered jas se00n4-class matter September 26, 1914, at the
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Woman's Place Is in the Field



On reading the letter printed in the
next column, the editor had a thought or
rather a vision of the future. Why not
raise potatoes (or onions) all over the
campus if necessary? Such an act of
sacrifice on our part would have a three-
fold advantage. It would start a prece-
dent by which eventually all colleges
would be self-supporting, it would tend to
lower the general price of potatoes, and
it would afford excellent opportunities
for the students to get some practical
training in farming.

Those who heard Miss Simpson, of the
National League for Women’s Service,
speak on Monday will realize how im-
mensely important agriculture is becom-
ing as a field for women especially at
present. As yet there is no course in that
subject among the preparedness courses
now going on at college, although the
practicability of such a course is now
under consideration. The question ought
to be how best we can take such a course,
and not do we want it. Even the Depart-
ment of Agriculture at Washington has
gone so far as to recommend the planting
of food instead of flowers. There is a
good deal of land belonging to the college
which could be used for this purpose, and
if necessary the lower campus, and the
village might take over the work during
the summer.

A rather facetious suggestion has been
made that the seniors start the good work
by planting a neat patch of onions in
place of the traditional class tree.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

(The editors do not hold themselves responsible
for opinions expressed in this column)

To the Editor of the ‘College News”:

The pride of Bryn Mawr is liberty of
thought and speech for all. The great
legacy of the Quaker foundation is postu-
late, not merely conventional but active,
that the spirit which moves men’s minds
to truth, imposes respect for the truth
that those minds see. It would be a pity if
the College News, like most of the daily
papers, came to speak of a pacifist as of a
forger or a leper, of pacifism as equiva-
lent to—where shall I find a parallel,
since working socialism, and philosoph-
ical anarchism have always had fair play
on the campus? I am a pacifist: there
are others here. At this tragic moment,
when such must feel that these United
States have lost the greatest chance there
ever was, to move the whole world a step
ahead, to help bring nearer the Kingdom
of God, it would be seemlier, it would be
more in keeping with the unbroken tradi-
tion of the place to hand still to pacifism
the respect denied to nothing else.

G. G. King.
April 4, 1917.

To the Editor of the “College News”:
The great call for women war workers
in England has been for farmers. Would
it not be better to train farmers at Bryn
Mawr than wireless operators, ambulance
drivers or bankers? Not only would
farming prepare workers in case of a pro-
longed war, but it would have definite re-
sults in a few months, for instead of us-
ing the potatoes, for instance, which
might be sent to the Allies, Bryn Mawr
could grow her own.

There are 5 acres on the campus be-
tween the Deanery and Penygroes which
have formerly been used for hay and
which could now be recultivated. It is es-
timated that the field would yield 500
bushels in October if planted this May.
The college buys approximately 1000
bushels a year.

Mr. Chandler, Superintendent of the
Buildings and Grounds, says that he con-
siders this a practical plan and that he
would be glad to help carry it out. He
also suggests that a crop of winter wheat
be planted next October.

Columbia University has given part of
its athletic field to St. Luke’s Hospital
to be used for the erection of temporary
extensions if needed. Bryn Mawr can
also give a part of her campus to the
service of the country and give it imme-
diately.

H. K. 14 and I. F. 15.



To the Editor of the “College News”:
The “young enthusiasts” of the Audit-
ing Committee are duly grateful to the
News for its solicitude on their behalf.
As the News suggested, they are feeling
the heat a trifle—but not excessively,
thank you! The Auditing Committee
thinks that since they were appointed by
the Undergraduate Association to audit
the accounts of the college, it is their
business to do it, no matter how hot it
gets. If the News thinks otherwise we
only refer them to the Undergraduate
Association.
“Young Hopeful” and “Old Faithful’.



To the Editor of the “College News”:

At the risk of intruding on forbidden
ground, I should like to raise the question,
What has become of the Philosophy Club?
Is it withering before our eyes like a ver-
itable Tithonus, or is a strictly nominal
existence its normal state? One would
think an atmosphere of concentrated in-
tellectuality such as is found at college
the one of all others in which a Philoso-
phy Club should flourish. Why, then,
does the Bryn Mawr organization, with
all its prestige of select membership and
distinguished president, still play so little
part in the college life? If its proceed-
ings are too esoteric to bear the light of
publicity, it would be a crumb of satis-
faction to the undergraduate mind merely
to be assured that activity of some kind
exists. For it is rumored that the Phil-
osophy Club is in such an advanced state
of decline that it fails to pay its lawful
debts, and that a former officer is at this
moment out $14.00 which she advanced to
make up the club deficit.

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To the Editors of the “College News”:

New enthusiasm ought to be put into
the social service interests of the under-
graduates with the change in the duties
of the Social Service Committee and the
readjusting of the connection with the
College Settlement Association. Al-
though the plan has not yet been ap-
proved by the College Settlement Asso-
ciation it is probable that it will be satis-
factory to them.

The duties of the committee—to ar-
range for volunteer work, to promote
study and discussion, to keep up the con-
nection with other colleges, other organi-
zations and the College Settlement Asso-
ciation, and to raise money, are broader
than .ever before. This arrangement
gives our interest in the College Settle-
ment a clearly defined connection with
one of the most active college associa-
tions. The connection is specific and yet
adjustable to the varying situations of dif-
ferent years.

It is thought advisable that the execu-
tives of the committee shall organize a
larger committee of those working and in-
terested who will arrange for the volun-
teer work and social siudy classes. Any
one will be eligible to this committee,
which will serve as the C. S. A. Chapter.

Now that our vagueness and experi-
mentation about the College Settlement
Chapter is over, we can partake more
fully in its work and in its help in educa-
tion and experience. The plan is an ex-
cellent one; it means a firmer basis for
the College Settlement interest in college
and wider contracts for the Christian As-
sociation. It is for us now, more than
ever, to understand and to help in the







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