College news, February 14, 1918

Votume IV. No. 15

BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 14, 1918

Price 5 Cents





‘WAR CORRESPONDENT TO DESCRIBE
FRONT WITH MOVING PICTURES



Has Been With American Engineers

“The Front”, a lecture illustrated by
British official moving pictures and by
slides, will be given Saturday evening
at eight o’clock in the gymnasium by Ful-
lerton Waldo, F'.R.G.S., American corre-
spondent of the London Observer and as-
sociate editor of the Public Ledger.

Mr. Waldo visited the British front
last fall, by invitation of the Foreign Of-
fice, and was with the Amorican engi-
neers under General Byng in the Cambrai
sector. In 1915 he was in Belgium,
France, the Balkans and Turkey. Wom-
en’s war work will be included in Mr.
Waldo’s lecture.

Admission, twenty-five cents for mem-
bers of the college and fifty cents for
others, for the benefit of the Service
Corps.

GHOSTS A FAILURE

Obscure Company Travesties ‘Ibsen’s
Famous Problem Play

Staging Expenses Lost

Ibsen’s Ghosts, the epoch-making drama
of heredity, was played by the Clifford
Devereux Company in the gymnasium
last Saturday evening for the benefit of
the 1918 Service Corps Fund. The play
was a financial as well as an artistic fail-
ure. Enough money was taken in to pay
the company’s fee of $150, but practically
no other expenses were cleared.

Opinions of the play itself may differ,
but there can be but one judgment of the
presentation. Meager stage settings, con-
sisting of patched gray drops, some mis-
sion furniture,-and a bunch of glaringly
artificial roses, were only less inadequate
than the actors. Audible prompting, es-
pecially of Oswald, did not help matters.
The haphazard cutting of the text and
startling interpretation of the parts must
have made the ghosts of more illustrious
actors of Ibsen rise.

The subtlety of Ibsen’s heroine was en-
tirely missed by Miss Zinita Graf as Mrs.
Alving. Instead of the strength of the
rebel against convention she exhibited
the purposeless emotion of the mid-
Vivtorian “female”.

To Oswald’s repeated question about
Regina, “Isn’t she splendid, mother”? one
must emphatically answer, “No”. The
brutality of Regina’s final lines, where
she asserts her right to the “joy of life”,
came as a complete shock after Miss Cop-
ley’s distorted conception of the part as
that of a pert parlor maid.

Regina’s pseudo-father, the hypocritical
Engstrand, departed less widely from the

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M. O’SHEA’S PLAY PRODUCED IN
NEW YORK TOMORROW



“The Rushlight” Curtain Raiser for
Henry Arthur Jones
“The Rushlight”, a one-act play by

Monica O’Shea ‘17, given here last May
as one of the Senior plays, will be pre-
sented tomorrow afternoon at the Ly-
ceum Theatre, New York, by the Ameri-
can Academy of Dramatic Arts. It is to
be a curtain raiser to “The Triumph cf
the Philistines”, by Henry Arthur Jones

“The Rushlight” was first written last

winter for Dr. Savage's course in Tech-

nique of the Drama. Later it was chosen
to form the Senior Play program wit!
“On a Mantelpiece”, by C. Wilcox ‘17, and
Miss O'Shea acted in one of the principal

Pat ts

| justice”.



SER VICE CORPS WINS SUPPORT
OF ALL COLLEGE



COLLEGE BACKS WAR COUNCIL

Action to Reconsider Fails When
Project is Explained

Mass Meeting Supports Service Corps
After Long Discussion

A.mass meeting of nearly two hundred
persons, including Faculty, Staff, alumna,
and students, has again put itself on rec-
ord as supporting the Bryn Mawr Sérvice
Corps. The meeting, called Tuesday
night by petition of thirty-one students to
reconsider the Service Corps, took no ac-
tion to reconsider, but seemed satisfied
with the explanation given by the Chair.
Final knotty points were cleared up by
discussion.

Virginia Kneeland '18, Chairman of the
War Council, outlined the aim and func-
tion of the Service Corps as follows:

1. The Service Corps is an organization
of war workers supported by a joint fund
raised by the alumne and the college
community.

2. By support of workers is meant the
payment of their travelling expenses to
the place of work, their living expenses,
and, if possible, the furnishing of equip-
ment to be used or dispensed in the work.
(Miss Kneeland characterized the living
expenses as modest, saying that the work-
ers would live as nearly as possible on
the seale of those among whom they

worked. About $3000 a year, if equip-
ment is included, will support one
worker.)

3. The type of worker is always open
to revision, but is now taken to include
trained workers, such as doctors, nurses,
canteen workers, and so forth, and un-
trained workers of intelligence and exec-
utive ability when these qualifications
alone are asked for. Excellent health is
always a question. Extreme youth, un-

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OUTLOOK HAS ARTICLE BY
DR. BARTON ON PACIFISM



Says Killing is Sometimes Justifiable

“The Confession of a Quaker” is the
title of a war article by Dr. Barton in the
Outlook for February 6th. The article
says:

“It is cause for gratitude that there is
growing among men a new sense of the
sacredness of human life. The Friends
have long tried to live so as to express to
the world their sense of its sacred value.
; To hold, however, that life is so
sacred that man may never take it is to
distort the truth. It makes the posses-
sion of physical life of more value than
liberty, justice, and right.

“To interpret Jesus’ words so as to
make them command us to stand by and
see a murderer kill a woman or a child
and lift no hand, or to command us to
make no effort to restrain robber nations
from working murderous wills on Serbia
and Belgium, is to do Jesus a gross in-

Dr. Barton’s new book, Miscellaneous

Sumarian Religious Texts, published by |

the Yale University Press, will appear in
about two weeks.

Help the Government Propaganda

An official government appeal has come
through the Education Department to
college students for help in the work of
Bureau Applicant
rurle, Pembroke Fast

Press

Foreign

hould go to P

the



ALUMNAE VOTE UNANIMOUSLY
FOR BRYN MAWR SERVICE
CORPS AND PLEDGE
SUPPORT TO FARM

Will Co-operate with War Council in
Main War Work for the Year

The support of a Bryn Mawr Service

Corps as the main object of their war.

work for the ‘year Was voted unanimously
by the Alumne Association at their an-
nual meeting February 2d in Taylor.
The action was taken in accordance with
a recommendation from the Committee on
War Relief Work.

“I think the Service Corps the finest
thing that has been thought of by any
college”, declared: Mrs. Francis Louis
Slade (Caroline McCormick ex-’96) in the
lively discussion of other possible enter-
prises which preceded the final vote.
Several speakers pointed out that the

plan for a Service Corps was especially |

feasible--sinee—it-did- not preclude other
things, such as supplying and
physicians: for field
supporting canteen workers in Y. M. C. A.
huts.

The idea of the Corps, Dean Taft
pointed out, was for the workers to be
willing to go where they were sent—not
to start out as a group of women who
knew each other and wanted to stay to-
gether,

nurses

An executive committee of six—three |

from the Alumne and three from. the
War Council—will make final decisions in

arranging for members of the Serviee

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PLANS FOR COMING SPEAKERS ON
WAR TOPICS UNSETTLED AS YET



Head of Red Cross Ambulance and Editor
of Harper’s Weekly May Come

Negotiations are under way for several
authorities on different phases of the war
to come to Bryn Mawr under the auspices
of the Education Department.

Charles Norton, head of the American
Red Cross Ambulance and a member of
the American Red Cross Commission to
the Allies, may be secured. Other pro-
spective speakers are Norman Hapgood,
former editor of Harper’s Weekly, who
has recently returned from abroad; Isaac
Markeson, author of the articles on the
“business management” of the war which
appear in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr.
Markeson's subject would probably be
“Allied Leaders”, taking up Asquith;
Lloyd George, and Sir Douglas Haig; and
Hugh Gibson, of the National Red Cross
Committee, who would speak on the Ger-
man Occupation of Belgium.

MASEFIELD HERE IN MAY
John Masefield, the English poet, will
speak at Bryn Mawr, May 3d, under the

.|auspices of the English Club. Masefield

is in this country on a lecture tour. Pro-
ceeds will go to the Service Corps.
Spanish Club Formed

The. seven students who are taking
major Spanish have formed a Spanish
Club and have elected Annette Gest ‘18
president and Katherine Dufoureq ‘1S
secretary All minor students who re
ceived a grade of 85 per cent at mid

; years are eligible

hospital service or |

ALUMNZ OFFICERS FOR 1918-1920

The result of the election of officers of
the Alumnz Association for the term
1918-1920 are: President, Louise Congdon
Francis 00; vice-president, Catherine Del-
ano Grant ’11; recording secretary, Hilda
W. Smith ‘10; corresponding secretary,
Margaret Bontecou ‘09; treasurer, Bertha
S. Ehlers ’09.

Miss M. Bontecou has resigned because
she is to sail for France next month.
Katharine McCollin ’15 has been ap-
pointed in her place.

Esther Lowenthal 05. was elected a
member of the Academic” Committee. ore

VASSAR NURSES CAMP THEME
OF ADDRESS AT ALUMNAE
MEETING

President Thomas, Alumnae, and
Undergraduate Among Speakers

Addresses on a wide range of subjects
of interest to college women were given



at. aj open meeting arranged by the
Alumnze Association, Friday evening,

February 2d, in Taylor. The speakers
| were President Thomas,Professor—-Rufus
M. Miss Katherine Tucker, Mrs.
Francis L. Slade ex-'96, Ida
| Ogilvie '96, and Louise Hodges ‘18, who
spoke instead of Virginia Kneeland ’18,
‘on the college War Council.

As a graduate of

Jones,

Professor

Vassar and head of
| the Philadelphia Visiting Nurses’ Associa-
| tion, Miss Tucker described Vassar’s plan
| for an intensive nurses’ training camp to
|be held on the campus during the sum-
imer. The idea, she said, is to recruit
|; women from the Class of 1918, and older
classes for ten years back, from all the
| colleges, but to take only those that-are
| fitted temperamentally for the training.
The faculty will be chosen from univer-
| sities all over the country. Chemistry,
| bacteriology, and other theoretical sub-
| jects will be taught, and such practical
| exercises as making hospital beds. « un-
‘ics will be held in shell-shock, and tuber-
culosis, and the training designed for pub-
ilic health service and _ reconstruction
work after the war as well as for military
;nursing. Those taking the course must
sign up for two years of hospital training,
to be followed by three months either in
/cantonments or in civilian health work,





Farm Unit Successful Experiment

An account of a woman's farm unit,
which she supervised last summer, was
given by Professor Ida H. Ogilvie °96,
| Dean of the Women's Agricultural Camp
iat Bedford, New York. The idea of the
unit system, she explained, is for the
women to live in camp and the farmers
in the neighborhood to telephone each
day for as many workers as they need.
One of the tasks of the superintendent
was to convince the farmers, as each new

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SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING RULE TO
REMAIN IN EFFECT INDEFINITELY
The fuel-saving measure of closing the

academic building at night and on Sat-

urday and Sunday will be lifted as soon
as possible, but for the present must con-
tinue indefinitely, the statement of

Miss Louise Watson, Business Manager

of the college.

By the emergency schedule, which has
been in effect since mid-years, the Library,
Taylor, and Dalton are closed after six
o'clock on Saturday till eight o'clock Mon
day morning

Several exceptions are made in the case
of Taylor, which is kept open for Vespers,
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How to Win the Corps

After a more complete understanding
of the fact and aim of the Service Corps
as explained at the mass meeting, the col-
lege community now backs the project as
a whole. The only danger now is that
merely passive consent will be allowed to
take the place of active hostility. The
danger is comparatively small, for cam-
paign plans are fast maturing and they
need only the enthusiastic support of the
community to bring great results for the
Service Corps.

The Point

The discussion of Tuesday evening as
to whether help to the Armenians should
or could go through the Service Corps, in-
dicates a philanthropic confusion of mind
on the question. No distinction was made
between helping the American and Allied
soldiers through workers and the Arme-
nians through money, except the present
impossibility of sending a woman to Pal-
estine. The distinction lies far deeper
than this and relates to the very nature
of the Service Corps: no one expects the
cruelly persecuted Armenians to be a fac-
tor in‘any way in winning the war and
everything is expected of our soldiers
and those of our Allies. The Service
Corps was never formed as a charitable
organization, but that Bryn Mawr might
share in the fight through her workers,
like our men, “in the service’.

Paying the Piper

The indignation of the college as a
whole over last Saturday’s travesty of
“Ghosts” has largely abated, for the harsh
ruffling of the artist’s feelings is
smoothed by time. But the injury to the
financial sense is less quickly healed.
Those who have.to make up the deficit
for which “Ghosts” is responsible are still
feeling gloomy. Though they deserve
sympathy, it is to be hoped that the risk
of engaging an obscure company at a
high fee will not be repeated. Both the
feelings of the audience and the money
of the too optimistic backers are need-
lessly sacrificed.

DEATH OF AMELIA RICHARDS

Amelia Richards, ex-1918, died at the
Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, on
Wednesday, February 6th, of pernicious
anemia. Miss Richards attended college
for her Freshman and Sophomore years.
She sailed for France with C. Kellen ‘16,
in November to work on surgical dress-
ings, but was obliged to return on account
of illness.

Death of Helen Bolles ex-1920
Helen Bolles ex-1920 died last week of
tuberculosis at Wilmington, N. ( Miss
Bolles left college last May.

FIRST OPEN SILVER BAY MEETING
DISCUSSES DR. FOSDICK’'S BOOK
“Christian prayer is a condition, not

an act or a series of acts”, said E. Biddle

‘19, bringing out the naturalness of

prayer, at the first of a series of open Sil-

ver Bay meetings last Sunday night,

The Colleze Ne ws.





THE COLLEGE NEWS

sists the discussion colliak on ‘the |

opening chapter of Dr. Fosdick’s . book,

“The Meaning of Prayer”. “Deep in every
one of us is the tendency to pray, which,
properly disciplined, reveals unbounded
possibilities”, went on Miss Biddle. It
our prayer is spasmodic and we only pray
when we want something, it ceases to be
Christian.

“That Christian prayer always expects
an answer and depends for the consum-
mation of fulfilment upon the person who
is praying”, was brought out in the dis-
cussion.

In next week’s “College News”,
“WAR:
THE CONSOLATIONS OF
LITERATURE”,
by
MRS. WILMER CAVE WRIGHT
The third of a series of articles by
special contributors

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The editors do not hold themselves respon
sible Sor opinions or in this column.

PERSONAL PLEDGES :DGES SUGGESTED BY
FOOD COMMITTEE

To the Editor of the College News:

The Food Conservation Committee has
now held three meetings at which there
have been discussions as to the best and
most practical way in which members of
the college community can co-operate
with the Food Administration. It was
agreed that to eat three meals a day reg-
ularly, and only three, was the best way
to obtain the most nourishment with the
least waste. It was the sense of the
meeting that the committee is against
eating between meals, and _ therefore
against the selling of-any food on the
campus, on the ground that such selling
makes it easier to obtain food, and thus
tends to increase consumption. It was
moved and seconded that food should not
be sold for the benefit of the Service
Corps.

At the request of the undergraduate
members of the committee, the following
form of pledge is suggested:

“I hereby pledge myself to adhere
strictly to the regulations of the Food Ad-
ministration by observing Mondays and
Wednesdays as wheatless days, Tuesdays
as meatless, Saturdays as porkless, not
only at the three regular meals, but
throughout those days; and that further-
more I will eat as little as possible be-

tween meals, especially avoiding the un-|in it, sent prices up.

necessary consumption of such articles |
as contain meat, wheat, sugar, fats, and |

other things which should be saimeried |

| dot,
| Sheppard, M. Southall, L.
| brough is stage manager, and E. Taylor
| business manager.

for the army and our Allies”.
Martha G. Thomas,
Chairman of the Food Conservation Com-
mittee of the War Council.

NEWS IN BRIEF



Dr. Fenwick will speak on “The Re-
establishment of International Relations”,
at the History Club Tea this afternoon.

Dr. Frank. Wright, Instructor in Geo!-
ogy, is representing his district in the Vir-
ginia State Legislature. He has leave of
absence until the first week in March.
Miss Bascom is taking his place in the
Geology Department.

President Thomas gave a tea for Tong |
Kei Liu, the Chinese Scholar, to meet the |
Scholarship Committee on Saturday after |

the Alumnz meeting.
Those receiving at the Faculty Tea to

the Graduates this afternoon in Denbigh |

are Miss Donnelly, Dean Taft, Dr. and
Mrs. Sanders, Dr. and Mrs. Patch, Miss
Emily Noyes, and Miss Helen Noyes.

Helen Hammer Link ex-19’ has a
daughter, Helen Stuart Link, born Janu
ary 3ist.

Dorothy Kuhn ex-’18 has announced hei
engagement to Lieutenant Leonard Min-
ster, O.R.C.

An entertainment to take the place of
Freshman Show will be given by 1921 in
the gymnasium on February 23d, for the
benefit of the Servieg Corps. The “Show”
Committee is V. Evans, chairman; L. Ca

“THE ROMANCE OF THE MARKET









Siosaintin Written by Marion P. Smith, Professor of Economics



[The second of a series of articles by
special contributors.]

Within the past year I have heard two
spirited defenses of the American news-
paper. One was by a woman reporter,
with long experience on many city pa-
pers, a stormy petrel of the newspaper
world. She claimed that in the absence
of a folk-literature of story and legend,
the newspaper, recording the tragedies,
comedies, and casual happenings of cur
daily world, is the great source of our
common knowledge, and she did not hesi-
tate to add—of inspiration. The other
was an English critic, who, failing to dis-
cover an American novel or an American
essay, had nothing but praise for the
American newspaper. The standard of
writing he finds higher than in European
papers; it calls for the best brains of the
country; it truly reflects national life.

Neither of these apologists mention
the news that makes the poorest paper
tolerable, the best paper delectable, and
some papers indispensable. The be-
nighted triflers who skim the headlines,
dip into the news column, peep at the
marriage and death notices, and with a
sense of public duty worthily performed
read an editorial, stultify their souls.
They have omitted in reading their Ham-
let the speeches credited to the Prince of
Denmark,

The romance of American life is found
on the financial page in a prim column
of figures recording the fluctuations of
Stock Market quotations and in a few
terse paragraphs commenting, in the light
of the Market’s activity, on the news of
the day. That the Stock Market has per-
sonality is revealed in the terms in which
it is described. When the man who has
not seen the evening paper asks the man

who has, “What did the Market do?” the
answer may be, “It’s nervous”, or “de-
pressed”, “Its worried over Wilson’s

speech”, “it’s climbing right along”! The
Market is always a prophet. It antici-
pates the future. Prices vary with re-
gard not to present conditions but to
those which may obtain in six months or
a year’s time. Three months before the
United States entered the war the Market
had recognized the inevitability of such
an act and finally became desperately
anxious to hasten the event and to get
the worst over. All “bad news” indicat-



ing a long war, as America’s participation
All “good news”, an
allied victory, or the “leak” of the famous





E. Cecil, M. Morton, F. Riker, E.

Ward. E. Kim-

The competitive fire drills; which con-
sist of surprise drills arranged and in-
spected by Miss Watson, Business Man-
ager, Mr. Chandler, Superintendent of

| the Grounds, and M. Bacon, head fire cap-

tain, have begun. The drills will be
judged on a basis of both speed and order,
and the money collected from the fire
| fines will be awarded to the winning hall.
Pembroke voted that the money be con-
| tributed to Red Cross and this will prob-
;ably be done.

The two stars which have been added
| to the Service Flag on Taylor are for two
of the employees in the halls.

1919’s Service Corps Committee is H.
Jehnson, chairman; J. Holmes, E. Fuller,
T. Haynes, H. Reid, A. Landon, and FE.
Hurlock.

White elephants will be auctioned off
at a Thé Dansant given by 1919 for the
benefit of the Service Corps in the Gym-
nasium, on Saturday afternoon.

1920 has elected new hall representa-
tives: M. Littell, Denbigh: G. Steele, Rad-
nor; M. S. Cary, Merion; M. Lindsey,
Pembroke East; E. Holmes, Pembroke
West, and M. Chase, Rockefeller

A. Newlin ‘18, M, Timpson ‘18, and L
Wood "19, had fifteen hours of high credit
last semester



Peace note in December, 1916, sent prices:

tumbling down. Now, after ten months
of warfare, the Market, though not war-
weary, anticipates peace and reconstruc-
tion.
ment to the farmers of the country that

the decisive action of the war would come.

in 1918, sent prices up from two to five
points.
mento fro mthe Allied war council, inter-
preted by the Market as tending to stiffen
German resistance, sent prices down.
Like complex characters in fiction—and
in real life—the Market’s motives are not
always clear. Sometimes prices go down
or up for no good reason at all, or con-
trary to good reason. “The Waldorf
Crowd” may organize a “bear raid”, or
the bulls drive up prices “to unload on
the lambs”. Manipulation from within
afflicts the Market like an internal com-
plaint with contradictory symptoms, or a
fever of speculation may sweep the
country and the public may enter the

Market and carry all before them as in
the famous Rubber boom in England in>

1910, and our own great bull Market in
September to November, 1915.

To appreciate the romance of the Mar-
ket we must read all the news of the day
every day and develop a sense of its dra-
matic guality. To participate one must
own a stake in the game, A “punter” is a
person who owns one or more shares of
stock—generally a very few—in a variety
of railroad, industrial, domestic and for-
eign corporations, and owns them not
only for purposes of investment but for
the emotional reactions they afford to the
daily news. I unhesitatingly place “punt-
ing” as the Queen of Indoor Sports.

YOU HAVE HEARD

MISS HELEN FRASER’S

inspiring lectures: You have wished that
your people at home could hear them;
perhaps they will since her tour covers the
entire country—you can find out by writing
to Mr, Shaw. In order that Miss Fraser's
message may reach as many people as
possible as soon as possible, she has written
a_ book to which President MacCracken of
Vassar has written a foreword.

Will you help to make it known either
by ordering a copy from one of the book-
stores named below or by sending to the
Publisher for some circulars to send to your
friends?

On entering your bookstore you will
recognize Miss Fraser’s book by this cover
design

WOMEN® WAR WORK







HaLEN N FRASER

12mo 16 illustrations $1.50
Foreword by President MacCracken. of
Vassar.

On March 25th the Publisher will send a
check for 20% of the net sales to the College
sending in the largest number of orders;
15% to the College winning second place;
10% to each of the Colleges winning third,
fourth and fifth places. These checks to be
donated to the War Service work of the
Colleges.

Be sure to order before March 20th from
the College Book Shop or direct from the
Publisher so. that your College may receive
credit for your order.

G. ARNOLD SHAW

Pudlusher to the University Lecturers Associatwa
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL NEW YORE

President Wilson’s recent state-.

In the same week a pronuncia-.

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No. 15—February 14, 1918]
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A plan worked out by the Government
for systematic saving is being started in

Classes Take up



the different classes by the Liberty Loan |.

Committee.

The system was explained by Mr. Pat-
terson, chairman of the State Committee
for the Organization of War Saving So-
cieties, at a meeting of the Liberty Loan
Committee last week. In this system ten
people form a society by pledging them-
selves :—

1. To save systematically. _

2. To avoid buying luxuries.

3. To encourage thrift in the commu-
nity in which they live,

4. To invest in United States War-
Saving Stamps and Thrift Stamps.

The class representatives of the com-
mittee are encouraging the formation of
these societies in the different classes.
1918 as a class has formed a War Saving
Society and has elected I. Loeb president
and H. Hobbs secretary. The other
classes as yet have no definite plans.



NEW ‘BOYS’ CLUB AT CENTER



Class in “Story-Plays” Opened

Part of the basement at the Community
Center has been partitioned off for the
use of the older boys, who have formed
three clubs and have collected enough
money to buy a pool table. When asked
how their clubs started the boys replied
that they owed their inspiration to RB.
Lanier ’19.

A class in so-called “story-plays” has
been opened under the direction of Miss
Allard, graduate student. Stories are
told or read to the children, who then act
them out. Another new class, in bas-
ketry and weaving for boys under 14, has
been started.

Patriotic Plays will be given by the
children on Washington’s Birthday.



Six Leave, One Enters, at Mid-years

R. Gatling ’19, A. Eberbach 20, F. Van
Raalte ’20, M. L. Fearey ’21, G. Hendrick
21, F. Curtin ’17, and A. B. G. Hart, grad-
uate scholar in English, have left the col-
lege. Miss Hendrick has scarlet fever.
L. Ehlers, sister of A. Ehlers 19, entered
at the beginning of the semester, and has
R. Gatling’s old room in Merion.



THE COLLEGE

_ SPORTING NOTES

M. Tyler '19 has been elected
varsity hockey captain for next year.

The Sophomore-Freshman ' gym
meet is scheduled for the afternoon
of March 15th, No date has yet been
set for the individual apparatus cup
contests.

The Sophomore and Freshman gym
captains are: Apparatus, H. Ferris
20 and E. Cecil ’21; floor work, L.
Sloan ’20 and M. Morton ’21; clubs,
M. L. Mall ’20 and E. Godwin ’21. .

SEX NO DISABILITY AS SUCH

Muscular strength tests of women have
recently been carried out by two pro-
fessors of Leland Stanford University to
determine how far the heavy burdens of
war work can be entrusted to women, ac-
cording to the January Journal of the
American Medical Association. The ten-
tative conclusion is that no difference in
the strength of men and women is due
to sex, as such, and that a woman’s racial
efficiency is not impaired by a high de-
gree of muscular power...

Forty-five college women of ‘ average
health were studied, most of whom had
always been physically active, but not
specially athletic. Thirty-six groups of
muscles were each tested two or three
times. The ages of the women ranged
from sixteen to fifty-six. Those women
who had, as children, shared the activities
of brothers and other boys, were, in gen-
eral, the strongest. “Such differences as
are frequently found (between men and
women) are due to differences in the use
of muscles, brought about by the conven-
tional limitations of activity or by dress,
* * * We may therefore conclude that
sex is not necessarily a disability, and
that if some method be found of adjust-
ing work to the individual strength under
proper hygienic conditions, without ref-
erence to sex, there is no reason why the
potential power of woman may not be
used without danger of lessening her
racial efficiency”.



Taylor Opened for Ex-Chaplain
By an exception to the regulation clos-
ing Taylor over Sunday, Rev. William
Cox, who was a chaplain in the British
army during the Boer War, will preach
Sunday night. Mr. Cox is rector of St.
Andrews, Philadelphia.

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Water-polo practices began again
last Monday night. ‘Special physical
examinations of conscientious objec-
tors are being made.

The varsity tennis committee elect-
ed at the end of last semester is M.
Stair '18, chairman; B. Biddle 19, M.
S. Cary *20, and H. James '21. The
committee plans to have matches
with some of the clubs around Bryn
Mawr in the spring, and the usual
game with the alumnz will be played
at Commencement.

Alumnz Vote for Service Corps
(Continued from page 1, column 3)
Corps and in expending the funds. The
Alumneze War Relief Committee, consist-
ing of Miss Reilly, Miss Martha Thomas,
and Miss Dimon, will constitute the three
Alumnz members; and the chairman of
the War Council, the head of the Red
Cross and Allied Relief Department, and
a Faculty member, the three representa-
tives from the War Council. The Alum-
nz members of the committee will also

carry: on-the work of collection and en- |

rolilment for the Service Corps among
alumnz and former students. The Treas-
urer of the Alumne Association has been
empowered to receive money for the
Corps, including amounts raised by the
Committee on Red Cross and Allied Re-
lief if they so desire,

A suggestion was made that the Service
Corps should include those giving their
full time to government work in the
United States, as well as those in war
service abroad.

Plan to Raise $7000 for Farm

To further the work of the Bryn Mawr
Patriotic Farm, the Association will ap-
peal to its members to raise a guarantee
fund of $7000. Pledges were taken during
the meeting and a vote of thanks ex-
tended to Miss Johnson, principal of the
Baldwin School, for her offer of the
school grounds and equipment for the use
of the college farm next summer. A com-
mittee of three, composed of Dean Tatt,
chairman; Mrs. Anna Rhoads Ladd "87,
and Professor Ada Ogilvie '96, was ap-
pointed, with power to accept this offer,
and will co-operate with the Food Pro-
duction Department of the War Council
in securing the best available farm land
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Garrick—“Upstairs and Down”.
Forrest—“Toot-Toot”.

Adelphi—“The Gay Lord Quex”, with
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Lyric—“A Cure for Curables”, with Wil-
liam Hodge.

Chestnut Street Opera House—“The
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Broad—‘Love Forbidden”, with Robert
Edeson; adapted from “L’Amour De-
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The project of closing the college three
weeks before the end of the semester,
June 6th, in order to release students and
members of the Faculty for patriotic
work, was discussed by the War Council
at its meeting last Monday night in van
broke West.

Those behind the early closing move-
ment believe that by omitting Baster va-
cation and the week of Commencement
festivities and by having Saturday ‘lec-
tures, the college work would not be in-
jured. They urge the necessity of begin-
ning government positions the first of
June and of having part of May to work
on the farms.

Against the plan almost every member
of the War Council raised objections.
Three weeks of work could not be
crammed into Saturdays and vacations
on such short notice, was Dr. Frank’s
view. Both the Health Department and
the Wardens thought that Easter vaca-
tion could not be omitted without-injury
to the students’ health, and consequently
to their work, declared Miss Ehlers,
Chairman of Food Production. The prob-
able small percentage of persons who
would actually profit by the change was
also stressed.

Committee to Investigate Closing Plan

A committee to find out from the Fac-
ulty, the undergraduates, and the Regis-
tration Committee what real need there
is for early closing, and make recom-
mendations to the War Council, was
voted.

Miss Kingsbury, at the same meeting,
outlined the threefold program of the
Registration Committee as regards train-
ing and placement. It includes a week-
end conference, April 12th and 13th, in
which alumnez engaged in professional
work or in business will discuss with the
students the special lines in which thev
have succeeded; the engagement of out-
side speakers on openings for women;
and the work of the Appointment Bureau
under Dean Taft.

Miss Julia Lathrop, it is hoped, will be
secured to speak on Government Posi-
tions for Women, and Mr. William Har-
ned on Opportunities for Women in Jour-
nalism.



College Backs War Council
(Continued from page 1, column 2)
less specially demanded, will be consid-

ered a disadvantage.

4. The methods of placement are three:
first, where an invaluable worker is avail-
able, a position in some organization de-
manding such a worker will be found;
second, where a position is open, the
Service Corps list will be gone over, and
the position, if possible, filled; - third,
where people connected with the college
are already in the field, but are unable to
continue work through lack of funds, they
may be supported by the Service Corps it
doing valuable work.

5. Direct contributions of money may
be made through members of the Service
ee the work in which these mem-
berS are engaged. (To work with which
members of the Corps have no connec-
tion, contributions may be made through
the Red Cross and Allied Relief Depart-
ment of the War Council. No formal
canvass, by vote of a previous mass meet-
ing, may be made this year for any war
object except the Service Corps.)

6. People who have had connection
with the college will be given preference
in choosing members of the Corps, but
no one will be exeluded simply on the

ground of not being connected with Bryn |

Mawr.
Additional Undergraduate Voted
The meeting voted that an undergrad-

uate, to be elected by the Undergraduate |

Association,
which is to administer the Service Corps
Fund and place the workers

be added to the committee |

This administrative committee, oriz- |
inally recommended by the War Relief
Committee of the Alumnew Association, |
was ratified Tuesday night with the

amendment that another undergraduate

‘Close College Early to Release War





begin

be included. - now consists of seven
members:
Three elected by the Alumne, Ex-Dean
Reilly, Miss Dimon, Miss Martha Thomas;
three from the War Council, the chair-
man, V. Kneeland ’18, the head of the Red
Cross and Allied Relief, E. Houghton ‘18,
and a member of the Faculty, Dean Taft;
an undergraduate to be elected by the
Undergraduate Association.

Primitive Religion Ancestor of
Superstition Says Mrs. Seelye

FIRST CLASS WELL ATTENDED

The first of the series of seven lectures
on Comparative Religions being given be-
fore Easter by Kate Chambers Seelye ’11,
was delivered in the gymnasium last
Wednesday evening to an audience of
over a hundred. This was approximately
the attendance averaged at Dr. Molde-
hauer’s classes in the first semester.

Mrs. Seelye emphasized the relation
between “primitive religions”, the subject
of her lecture, and Christianity; between
the early beliefs, such as Fetishism, and
the superstitions which persist to-day.

“Mankind”, she said, “has always been
looking for God; Buddhism, Mohemma-
danism, and Christianity, are all on differ-
ent rounds of the ladder which leads to
God. Christianity is the message
of love plus the fact of Christ himself and
his teachings, whereas in the primitive
religions the chief elements were fear
and anger’.

The sacredness to the believers of the
primitive beliefs, and the corresponding
respect due them, funny as they seem
from the modern viewpoint, were pointed
out by the speaker.





Books on Hinduism, Buddhism, and
other primitive religions, will be studied
each week by groups in the different
halls in preparation for the next class.

Ghosts a Failure
(Continued from page 1, column 1)
original. Though perhaps too menacing,
he received the sincerest applause. His
lines were meant to be funny.

Edmund Forde overacted the innocence
of Pastor Manders and so emphasized his
ludicrousness that it was impossible to
understand why Mrs. Alving ever ran
away to him. Oswald’s taste in smok-

ing jackets condemned him from the
start. It is difficult to unaerstand why
Mrs. Alving hesitated to administer the

morphia; for in Oswald the border line
between sense and insanity was always
indistinct.

With at least one line in the play,
however, the whole audience was in sym-

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Mrs. Alving, a widow......... Zinita Graf
Oswald Alving, her son.Clifford Devereux
Rev. Manders, pastor of the parish,
Edmund Forde
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Ruth Copley
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The Stave E. dasiatt. Memorial Endow-
ment Fund, which was started in the fall

of 1915 as a memorial to Miss Garrett,

who died the previous spring, has been
completed. The deed of gift was. made
over to the Trustees at the annual meet-

ing of the Alumnz Association, Febru- |

ary 2d.

As soon as the Trustees accept the
deed of gift, the fund, which consists of
$100,000, will be turned over to them.
$90,000 was contributed by the alumnze
and friends of the college, and $10,000 by
the undergraduates.
| The professorship of English was
chosen by the Alumne Association as the
one to be endowed, and the holder of the
new chair will be called the Mary Q&.
Gaireit Alumne Professor of Englisa.
Two other new chairs will be named in
the departments of Greck and Latin.
| The Alumne acquired the right to
name two chaiis in 1910, when they made
over a fund of $200,000 to the Board of
Trustees of Bryn Mawr, but they took no
action until this year.

Professors’ Salaries. Increased

The endowment of a chair at Bryn
Mawr by a fund of $100,000 means the
perpetual payment of the salary of one
full professor through the annual interest
on the endowment fund. The money
hitherto spent by the college on the sal-
ary of the professor whose chair is en-
dowed is thus released for other purposes.
In this case it will go to increase the sal-
aries first of associate professors and
then of full professors, Any surplus in
the fund will also be used for this pur-
EO6S.

Will Meet Requests for College Pictures

At the same meeting a collection of
slides and pictures of Bryn Mawr was
decided upon to meet the requests which
frequently come to the college from
schools. The college itself is unable to
do this through lack of funds. Miss
Dimon explained the need for such a col-
lection and a motion was passed making
the necessary appropriation.



FORTY-FIVE VOLUNTEER TO MAKE
FIVE-MINUTE WAR SPEECHES

Forty-five students are willing to make
four- or five-minute speeches on the Lib-
erty Loan and other War matters, in the
Schools in Bryn Mawr, according to the
list of the Education Department.

The applicants will have their material
furnished them, probably in Government
pamphlets, and must try out before the
Committee on Outside Speaking, made up
of the club presidents.

Other volunteers should give their
names to P. Turle, chairman of the Edu-
cation Department.

Call for Speakers Official

To educate women as speakers to bring
the message of war necessity to all com-
munities is the subject of the call sent
February ist by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt, Chairman of the Educational Prop-
aganda Department of the Woman’s Com-
mittee of the Council of National Defense.

CALENDAR
Friday, February 15
8.00 P. M.—Recital by Mr. Thomas Wil-
fred, lutist, under the auspices of the
Music Committee in Taylor.
Saturday, February 16
4.00 P. M. —White Elephant Sale in the
gymnasium, for the benefit of 1919's Serv-
ice Corps Fund.
8.00 P. M.—Lecture on “The Wai
Front”, by Fullerton Waldo, F.R.G.S._[I-

lustrated by British Official Moving Pic- |

tures. For the benefit of the Service
Corps.
Sunday, February 17
9.00 P. M.--Open Silver Bay meeting in
Denbigh.
Wednesday, February 20
8.30 P. M.--Exhibition of swimming, by

Miss Olea Dorfner, holder of the world's
record in the 500-yard swim and plunse
for distance, and Miss Gertrude Artelt, in

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‘cr JAPANESE

Rate eek ME dies of Like
Aim of Dancers

Four of the N6 Mai, dances from the
N6, the classical drama of Japan, were
given by Miss Clara Blattner in genuine
old costumes, assisted by her mother,
Mrs. Elise J. Blattner, last Friday even-
ing in Taylor Hall.

“In the Nod dances the body is held
rigid, the hands and arms playing the im-
portant part”, said Mrs. Blattner, illus-
trating her lecture by colored slides.
“There is only one step, that of sliding
the foot along the floor and then raising
the ‘oe. In contrast to the Geisha girls
the !'6 dances try to be so heavy that the
floor will squeak. Every step that a dan-
cer takes must go toward making the
curves of a fan open or closed.

“The Nd has two or three actors and
an orchestra and chorus. The speaking
and suggestive dancing are the essential
features. .
idealized conscience of the audience and
as almost no scenery is used, the dancers
must be so perfect that the audience will
be able to imagine the background.

“The No, which is usually given in a
temple enclosure or a private house, was
introduced by the Chinese Buddhist
priests and often embodies some virtue.



On account of its religious significance it

enjoys a high form of respect and all the
nobles except the emperor take part in
it”.

Niss Wlattner studied in the Kwanzé
School in Kyoto and is the only foreigner
who ever entered a regular Mai school.
There are only seven schools of any im-
portance and these have existed for gen-
erations under the same name. The
schools are handed down from father to
son and from teacher to star-pupil. The
grandfather of Fumi Uchida ’20 was a dis-
tinguished No Mai dancing teacher.





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season came around, that the work it
| brought—ploughing, harvesting, or apple
picking,—was not too hard for women.

The Bedford camp was made up of
about 75, recruited from the ranks of
shop-girls, college undergraduates, sing-
ers, and teachers. Commenting on the
good influence of college women in such
units, the speaker said that the best re-
sults would be obtained if college stu-
dents and alumnzw would spread them-
selves through the units, instead of all
going togéther into one unit, “as all the
baking powder into one pan”.

President Thomas explained the work
of the War Committee of the Association
of Collegiate Alumnzw of which she is
chairman. The committee is endeavoring
to rally college women to support the
government in winning the war by patri-
otic speaking. College Women’s Patri-
otic Speaking Bureaus are being opened
as rapidly as possible in different states
to train speakers and supply them with
patriotic speeches. Three bureaus are
already organized in Pennsylvania. Miss
Elizabeth B. Kirkbride '96 is Director of
the Philadelphia Bureau, and Miss Doro-
thy Shipley '17 is its Treasurer.

Giving a brief history of the victorious
|} Woman suffrage campaign in New York
State, Mrs. Francis Louis Slade (Caroline
MecCarmick ex-’96), chairman of the War
Service Committee of the Woman Sutf-
frage Party, told of the assistance the
suffrage party has been able to give to
the Federal and State government on
various occasions, as in the military cen-

and of the schools for citizenship



which the women suffragists have estab-
lished for alien or uneducated women
Prefosser Rufus M. Jones, President of
the Board ef Directors of the college, de
scribed the Friends’
struction unit which has charge

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