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‘SECOND “PLACEZGOES TO 1919 WITH ONLY







_BRYN.MAWR, PA, APRIL 25, 1917.







Price 5 Cents











In spite of an extraordinarily interest-
ing and varied program the recital by
Miss Edith Wynne Matthison last Satur-
day evening, given for the benefit of
1919’s Endowment Fund, was monotonous.
It is well known that a dramatic recital
is often disappointing and, although Miss
Matthison’s uniformly deep pitched voice
is highly successful in the portrayal of a
single dramatic role, it was not satisfac-
tory in the reading of many different
poems. The recital cleared $240.

Among the selections on the first half
of the program were “The Child’s Grace”,
by Robert Herrick, very simple and ap-
pealing, and Coventry Patmore’s “The
Toys”, which showed finely the remorse
of the father, who, having sent his moth-
erless boy to bed in a moment of anger, is
now weeping over him and his pathetic
little toys.

In her recitation of Shelley’s “Skylark”
Miss Matthison portrayed to her audience
the poet, aspiring to the heights of song,
but in trying for lyrical swiftness she
missed the proper lightness of effect.

The “Recessional” an Appropriate Encore

In the latter half of the evening the se-
lections most enjoyed by the audience
were “A Musical Instrument”, by Mrs.
Browning, “The West Wind” by John
Masefield, and Kipling’s ‘“Recessional”,
which Miss Matthison gave as an encore.
In these poems Miss Matthison reached
the height of dramatic expression of the
whole recital.

The poems from “The Gitanjali” by Ta-
gore were typically oriental. The con-
trast between the serious beginning and
lighter ending was well conceived and
rendered.

Mr. King said of the recital that Miss

Matthison was one of the few actresses
with really good diction.



THREE RECORDS BROKEN
IN ,TRACK—SENIORS
CAPTURE HONORS

—_—_——_

HALF AS MANY POINTS



By breaking three records and winning
95 points the seniors captured first place
and a big margin in the preliminary track
meet held last Saturday. The sopho-
mores, showing up well in the dashes and
hurdles, came out second with 40 points,
but will have to contest the winners hotly
in the final meet if they wish to cut down
their long lead and get a chance at the
championship.

In several events the juniors were
obliged to default and their consequent
failure to secure a single place will prob-
ably not be repeated next week when
their entry list is complete. E. Downs
and R. Cheney, who formerly starred

for 1918 in the dashes, and P. Turle,
who won third place as_individ-
ual champion last year, were badly

cuneiform tablet
some time ago in the collection of the
University of Pennsylvania and has since
been working on.
complete account of the creation.

both sides.
discovery at a meeting of the Oriental



M. O'CONNOR TO MANAGE NEWS



F. Buffum Chosen Business Manager



M. O'Connor '18 was elected manag-
ing editor of the News for next year
at a meeting of the board on Monday.
Miss O’Connor has been on the News
since her sophomore year. She is
vice-president of Self-Government and
was class secretary sophomore year.
F. Buffum '18 was elected business
manager. She is a member of the Un-
dergraduate Association Advisory
Board. The two assistant’ business
managers from the class of 1919, F.
Clarke and C. Hollis, were chosen by
competition several weeks ago. This
new board will get out the next issue
and goes into office to-day.







1912 SECURES GABRILOWITSCH TO
PLAY FOR ENDOWMENT FUND



Concert To Be in Cloisters—Sounding
Board Will Be Built



Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who will give a
concert May 18th in the cloisters for the
benefit of 1912’s Endowment Fund, is
classed as “among the four or five leading
pianists of the world”. When the Rus-
sian Choir tried to give their concert in
the cloisters last year the acoustics were
too bad. 1912 plans to build a huge
sounding board for the occasion.

When Mr. Gabrilowitsch first visited
this country fourteen years ago he was
a player of “wonderful freshness and
fire’, one critic has remarked, but his
reputation was not made until a later
visit. One of the most interesting of his
recent exploits was a series of orchestra
concerts given in Berlin and Munich be-
fore the war illustrating the development
of music from Bach to the present day.
At the outbreak of the war Mr. Gabrilo-
witsch, who with his wife (Clara Clem-
ens, the contralto, a daughter of Mark
Twain) was living in Munich, was ar-
rested as a spy, but fortunately only de-
tained a short time. They had to promise
not to return to Germany until after the
war.

Several years ago Mr. Gabrilowitsch
wore the usual artistic long hair, but an
incident in Chicago convinced him that
flowing locks were a source of danger.
He was standing near a cigar lighter

not well. Prompt investigation led to the
discovery that his forelock was aflame.
“Rub it out”, cried someone, but he real-
ized that while he could play with his
hair burned he could not play with his
hands burned so he seized a handkerchief
and put out the fire. “Since then I have
visited the barber at prudently frequent
intervals”, he said.

ASSYRIAN TABLET DISCOVERED
AND TRANSLATED BY DR. BARTON



Dr. Barton has recently translated a
which he discovered

It proves to contain a
In size
it is about 5 x 3 inches and is written on
Dr. Barton made public his



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Society this month.

when a scream and an odor of something |
burning made him realize that all was!

|1918 GIVES “BEAU BRUMMEL ”
|Four-Act Play Written for Mansfield

“Beau Brummel”, a play in four acts by
Clyde Fitch, will be given by 1918 as their
Junior-Senior Supper Play on Friday and
Saturday nights of this week. Virginia
Kneeland will appear in the title réle.

“Beau Brummel” was written by Clyde
Fitch for Richard Mansfield and the idea
of the play was Mansfield’s. It was first
produced at the Madison Square Theatre
on May 17, 1890. The 250th performance
took place at the Garden Theatre, on
January 30, 1891. Clyde Fitch spent a
year in London getting local color for the
play and studying the period from 1778
to 1840, when the historical Beau Brum-
mel lived. Penniless and forgotten after
long reigning in society Beau dies in a
garret in the play as in real life.

Automobiles are requested not to park
behind the gymnasium or to drive up be-
hind it except until eight o’clock, when
the rear door of the gymnasium will be
locked. After eight automobiles must
drive round by the Gulph Road and enter
through the Merion driveway.



PASTOR FETLER THE
BILLY SUNDAY OF RUSSIA
PREACHES AT VESPERS



Russian Girl Students Suicides for Lack
of Aim in Life



Pastor Fetler, the Billy Sunday of Rus-
sia, who was sentenced to Siberia for
holding tabernacle meetings in Petrograd,
drew a vivid contrast between student
conditions at Bryn Mawr and in the uni-
versities of Russia.

Fifteen thousand students, he said, live
huddled in one building at the cost of 15
kopecks or 7% cents a day, while many
who cannot attend the universities com-
mit suicide for lack of aim in life. Pastor
Fetler, who is in this country to arouse in-
terest in work among war prisoners. in
Germany and Austria, came here a con-
vict under a four months’ sentence and re-
turns a free man by the recent proclama-
tion of religious liberty in Russia.

FORMER BRYN MAWR
STUDENT WANTS HELP FOR
BABIES OF PARIS

1S DEPENDENT ON INDIVIDUAL GIFTS



Helen Davenport Gibbons ex-’06, who is
now doing war relief work in Paris among
the children, has sent an appeal to Bryn
Mawr College through the News to aid in
her work. Since the war began she has
taken care of 1300 children. Her work is
entirely dependent on individual contribu-
tions, and six dollars will clothe one child.
Mrs. Gibbons is the wife of Dr. Herbert
Adams Gibbons, author of “The New Map
of Europe”, and is herself an author. Her
recently published “The Red Rugs of Tar-
sus”, is a vivid and interesting description |
of the Armenian massacres of 1909 from
a fresh and unusual viewpoint, that of an
outsider on the spot. Her admiration for
the Armenians is intense and “The appeal
on my sympathies”, she says, “made by
the sufferings of the Armenians of to-day
peauired that something should be done”.
For her work in Paris Mrs. Gibbons
wants money especially. Checks may be
made out to her order and any supplies
may be sent through the War Relief
Clearing House, 133 Charieton Street,



UNDERGRADUATES DO NOT
BAR MERITLESS FROM
PREPAREDNESS COURSES

May Petition to Continue Patriotic Work
MOTION AFFECTS TWENTY-FIVE



The meritless will not be barred from
preparedness courses by the student body,
for the original decision advising that
they be kept out was reversed at a sec-
ond undergraduate meeting Monday noon.
The vote taken at this meeting affects
about twenty-five students, who will now
petition the faculty to allow them to con-
tinue the courses which they have begun.

D. Shipley '17, president of the Asso-
ciation, read a statement from the Under-

graduate Board defending the power of
the Association to keep the meritless out
of preparedness classes. “There are two
courses of appeal’, she said, “who may
decide the question, and first comes the
Undergraduate Association. The faculty
acts as a higher court of appeal”.

Last Week’s Meeting Transacts Odds and
Ends of Business

At the meeting held the Friday previ-

ous Miss Shipley announced the cut sta-

tistics, which show a much higher rate

this semester than last. Twenty-nine stu-

‘|}dents have cut six times while last sem-

ester only nine had cut six times. A sense
of the meeting was suggested but not
passed that the magazine room be moved
down stairs to the present Christian As-
sociation Library. The bad light in the
C. A. Library was urged as a conclusive
argument against such a change.

A motion was proposed and almost
unanimously defeated that the Associa-
tion should regulate dress worn at plays
where men. were admitted, with a special
protest against jumpers. The prevailing
opinion was that such a matter was one
for individual taste and public opinion.

DR. GRAY TRAINS FOR ARMY



Will Leave Bryn Mawr Two Weeks Early



Dr. Howard L. Gray is planning to
leave Bryn Mawr on May 4th or 5th to
enter one of the fourteen government
camps of the Reserve Officers’ Training
Corps. Each of these camps purposes to
give 2500 men three months of intensive
training, and those who pass the final ex-
aminations will probably receive coni-
missions in the cavalry, infantry, artil-
lery, or engineers.

Preparatory to leaving Dr. Gray is giv-
ing his classes two lectures instead of
one each day.

Free Sunday Afternoon
Concert Next Week



As an experiment two free concerts are
being given on successive Sunday after-
noons at the Academy of Fine Arts, the
first last week and the second next Sun-
day. If the venture proves successful
such concerts will be given all next win-
ter. This week the Schmidt quartet will
play.

The performers for these two concerts
have volunteered their services, but the
intention is that next year there will be a
fund upon which the management will be



New York.

able to draw in case of need.