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“They Toll Not”!

With the example of Beau Brummel,
the “glass of fashion and the mould of
form”, before us on Saturday evening,
the decision of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation as to jumpers worn at plays seems
heresy indeed. 1918 plans to station at
the door a fashion expert who will censor
all costumes in order that we may be
quite A la mud and correct in every par-
ticular’. Those arriving in deshabille
can only exclaim, in the immortal words
of the play: “Great Heavens! the bailiff”,
and retire in confusion to their boudoirs.



The Right of Eminent Domain

Many events of late, both national and
local, have conspired to point out the vir-
tues of unanimity. President Wilson em-
phasized it in his proclamation of April
17th: “The supreme test of the nation
has come. We must all speak, act, and
serve together”! This week’s Independ-
ent, in an article entitled “United We
Stand”, declares:

“Never in the history of the United
States have the people of this country
entered a war with such unanimity of
mind and given it such united support.
In the days when an Englishman named
George Washington took up arms against
a German king called George III we were
very far from being united. A large and
influential part of the population took the
Tory side and all through the Revolution
the country was torn by dissensions. The
War of 1812 was a sectional war. It was
approved by a bare majority in Congress
and New England threatened to secede
because of it. The Mexican War was re-
garded with abhorrence in the North—
and the popular song of the day was:

“Go, go, g0,
Mr. Polk, you know,
Bids you fight and kill and quell,
Cut their throats and make them yell,
Send their spirits down to hell,

”Y

Conquer Mexico”!

Again, in a recent question nearer
home, the singlemindedness with which
the whole college, faculty and students
attacked preparedness was a strong ar-
gument for taking common counsel.

But no matter how united a nation or
even a college may become there must
still be division of powers. The action
of the undergraduates in making deci-
sions concerning “merits” looks like an
infringement on the academic domain of
the faculty which is not likely to prove
of much value. The case of merits is too
personal a one to be decided by a court

partly composed of the culprits.

wo tek Milan ot fas Oia ek

the liberty of commenting upon the letter
and editorial in the last number of your
excellent paper regarding the use of the
college grounds for the raising of food
crops.

The present movement to stimulate pro-
duction and avoid waste is most com-
mendable, but it is quite possible that
such efforts may be misdirected and re-
sult in an economic loss. ~

Let us suppose that the college grounds
are planted with potatoes (which offer
the greatest possibilities) and consider
what would be the probable result.

The college grounds have not been
plowed for many years; the soil is hard
and compact; tree roots extend close
under the sod over much of it; there is a
lack of humus, and when plowed it would
be difficult to get a seed bed that would
yield a fair crop. Several years of plow-
ing and the addition of manure well
plowed in would be necessary to secure
this.

Therefore, if it is decided to put a crop
in this year, it would be necessary to use
ground quite unprepared for the purpose.

To get even fair results it would be nec-
essary to add large quantities of potash
fertilizers, and as these come only from
Germany and the American stocks are al-
most exhausted, this would be very ex-
pensive, if not indeed impossible.

It is my judgment, therefore, that any
crop which is put upon the college
grounds within the next year or two
would be a disappointment.

Another question which should be con-
sidered is that of the labor which would
be used in preparing the ground and tend-
ing these crops. This would all have to
be hired, as I should not expect the col-
lege girls to do more than drop the:pota-

by “some farmer. This farmer and his
teams and plow and the men-who are
employed later to care for the crop would
be taken from farms where they could use
their energies under better conditions and
produce more than they could possibly
produce on the college campus.

I assume that it would not be proposed
to use the college grounds in this way
more than one or two or three years (in
producing each time a disappointing
crop) and at the end of that time the
lawns would be restored. This would re-
quire a large amount of labor which
should be charged up against the experi-
ment.

Altogether, therefore, I feel that in
making this venture the college itself
would be contributing nothing and doing
nothing of value to the community, but
would, on the other hand, be diverting
labor from useful occupations to an en-
terprise that is exceedingly doubtful, to
say the least.

In my opinion, anyone who desires to
aid in the present movement for national
economy should consider what labor he or
she is best fitted to undertake and do
with. the worker’s own hands, and not at-
tempt to direct labor in occupations which
are entirely unfamiliar. I believe that the
college girl can best help by continuing
her course without being agitated by
these efforts to find something unusual to
do, and when her college year is over,
take a hand in solving some of the domes-
tic problems which she will find at home.

Yours very truly,
Charles G. Rupert.
April 20, 1917.



To the‘Editors of the College News:

Now that my garden is waking up after
the long winter, I venture to trespass on
your space with an invitation to any mem-
bers of the college to visit it at any time
and investigate any corner of it, regard-
less of whether anyone is there to give a



personal welcome. C. A, Seott.

IN PATRONIZING

"As the husband of one Bryn Mawr girl| gia
}| and the father of another, I am assuming

tees when the ground ‘had been prepared |



ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION “THE COLLEGE NEWS"

ties, from ten to fifty cents’ worth, on any
week-day when conditions (of weather,
growth, etc.) are favourable. For cash
only.

C. A. Scott.

SCHOLARSHIP TO JUNIOR
TO LIVE IN NEW YORK FOR JULY

The Charity Organization Society of
New York has invited a junior to be its
guest in New York, living at one of the
settlement houses and working under
them for the month of July. The ex-
penses including board and the railway
fare from college to New York is given
them.

Eleven other students will also repre-
sent eleven other colleges, the six women
staying together in one settlement house
and the men in another, and all meeting
for discussion.

The work will include taking a boy or
girl to a dispensary, taking allowances to
the aged, the finding of employment for
the head of a family, and helping children,
crippled, unemployed and sick. Saturday
afternoons and Sundays will be free and
recreations will be planned for the stu-
dents so that they will see how the people
of New York find their amusements. Any
one interested should communicate with
Dr. Kingsbury at once.



English Peer Describes B. M.

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Emphasizes High Standards of Exam-
inations



In a of a Recent Tour in

Mh,

ies near Havertord” and nite
“stiff” entrance examinations and a “se-
lect” membership. The quotation reads:

“The third of the best-known colleges
for women in America is Bryn Mawr,
which is in Pennsylvania, near the univer-
sity for men, Haverford. It was later in
foundation than the other two colleges
mentioned (Wellesley and Vassar) having
come into existence in 1885. The princi-
pal of Haverford, Dr, Isaac Sharpless, is
on the governing board of Bryn Mawr,
and both colleges are under the Society
of Friends. It educates about four hun-
dred girls, and its entrance examination
is always stiff, so as to keep the members
select as the space is limited”’.

NEW HEAD PROCTORS IN OFFICE



1919’s new head proctors went into of-
fice last Tuesday. E. Biddle who was
elected from Merion, tendered her resig-
nation at a hall meeting, saying that she
was often away over the week-ends, and
E. Carus was elected in her place. The
new proctors are: Pem West, Marjorie
Martin; Pem East, Frances Day; Rocke-
feller, Marjorie Ewen; Denbigh, Augusta
Blue; Merion, Clara Hollis; Radnor,
Eleanor Marquand.

B. M. CLUB OF NEW YORK
INVITES SENIORS TO JOIN

Initiation Fee Waived for Those Who Will
Join Within One Year





Seniors are now eligible to the Bryn
Mawr Club of New York. By joining
within one year of graduation they n
not pay the initiation fees.

There are three possible classes of
memberships—resident, suburban {within
forty miles of New York), and /non-resi-
dent—all of which give the use of rooms
and restaurant. The club hovse is situ-
ated at 137 East Fortieth St
ently near the Grand Central Station.










Represented in Fiction

A cosmopolitan collection of new books
has gathered on the shelves of the New
Book Room during vacation. Among the
most important is the series of “Pelle the
Conqueror”, comprising four volumes; .
“Boyhood”, “Apprenticeship”, “The Great
Struggle”, and “Daybreak”, by the Danish
writer, Martin Andrew Nexé, translated
by Jessie Muir and Bernard Miall. Al-
though each is in itself a unified story,
the four volumes when taken together de-
scribe “a career of experiment, of search
for the meaning of life—and a successful
search”. It is a study of the labor move-
ment as a whole through the story of the
life of a Bornholm peasant.

Other novels that are new for the li-
brary are “Anna of the Five Towns”, by
Arnold Bennett, and “The New Machia-
velli’, by H. G. Wells. Here also are
three works of Dostoevsky, “A Raw
Youth”, “The Insulted and Injured”, and
“The Eternal Husband and Other Sto-
ries”, which have recently been translated
by Susan Garnett. These translations are
the first version in easy idiomatic Eng-
lish that has been made of this “most
deeply Russian of the Russians”.

The Drama Criticized

Among the new critical works there are
three books on modern drama and drama-
tists, two of which, ‘“Dunsany the Drama-
tist”, by Edward Hale Bierstadt, and “The
Contemporary Drama of Ireland”, by Er-
nest A. Boyd, treat of Lord Dunsany. The
former is a fascinating sketch of that
Irishman’s works and personality, and the
latter describes the movements and ten-
dencies of modern drama in Ireland, and
shows how “after long years of purely..
political struggle the soul of Ireland has
once more found expression in literature”.

In “The Contemporary Drama of Eng-
land”, by Thomas H. Dickinson, the au-
thor has taken a rather critical attitude in
writing of the successes and failures of
English drama from the accession of Vic-
toria to the beginning of the Great War.



ETHOS SUPREME

Even though the substitution of women
in the trade of printing would result, it is
said, in more detailed and careful work,
it could hardly result in-a- more supreme
esthetic feeling than that evinced by the
printer of the Lantern, who encouraged
the editors to mark all the blank verse
plainly, so that the compositor would not
try to make “poetry” out of it.

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