College news, March 7, 1918

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Vouume IV. No. 18
















Price 5 Cents



BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 7, 1918





lege graduates sent out a month ago.
Over eight hundred applied.

Owing to the introduction of Civil Serv-
ice examinations, the conditions on
which permanent positions in the Ord-
nance Department will be assigned have

‘not been finally settled. They will be

made public as soon as possible by Dr.
Marion Parris Smith, of the Advisory
Committee of the Registration Depart-
ment.

Circulars of the original appeal—for 50
college graduates immediately (January
22d), and 40 in June—have been sent to
the members of the Senior Class by Dean
Taft.

COCOANUT GROVE SAVES FOOD
CLEARS $33 FOR CORPS

Vaudeville Skits Between Dances
Bring Down House With
Parodies

A “Honolulu Heaven” of skits and par-
odies in “The Cocoanut Grove” cleared
$33 last Saturday afternoon in the gymna-
sium for the Varsity Service Fund. The
admission fee of twenty cents was the
only charge made. No refreshments were
sold. F. Howell 19 was manager.

No expense was spared in filming “Bars
of Iron,” the mammoth production of
1918’s movie corporation. It was the end
of a perfect day that saw Piers Evesham
(J. Ridlon) wounded on the battlefield
after he had wrecked the “home in the
bush”. §S. Belville as the wistful widow,
and J. Ridlon as Piers, showed the finest
technique. P. Turle deserves as much
credit for her convincing characterization
of the Evesham dog as for her creation of
the scenario. H. Huntting ‘19 at the
piano contributed many telling strokes.
The large number of reels was the only
criticism to be made.

H. Zinsser ‘20 and Z. Boynton ‘'20
opened the program with a Hawaiian
dance. The production of Ibsen’s
“Ghosts” by the “On the Square” players
included a necessary element lacking at
the original performance, an audience
trained to scream at the right moment.

“The Ballet Loose”, featuring K. Town-
send ‘20 as the six-foot heroine Coyella,
recalled last year’s Freshman Show in the
cavemen costumes of the hero and vil-
lain as much as it did the true model, the
“Ballet Russe”. E. Luetkemyer ‘20 inter-
preted part of the wood nymph as a com-
bination of the woodbird in “Siegfried”
and the robin in the “Babes in the Wood”.

Mme, Human Schank (L. Kellogg ’20)
and M. Rici Carousal (M. Littell '20),
Beerytone, of the Grand Uproar Com-
pany, declared their Bryn Mawr audience
the most appreciative they had ever sung
before. Mme. Human Schank’s voice was
unusually penetrating in timbre.





18 WELLESLEY FARMERS DRAFTED

The first draft of workers for the pro-
posed college farm at Wellesley includes
eighteen undergraduates, says the New
York Times. Each will serve one month,
beginning June 17th. Fifteen of the num-
ber will be regular farm hands and the
other three will be housekeepers for the
farmers.



Dr. Ferguson sounded a call to food pro-
duction and Miss Ehlers explained the ar-
rangements for this summer's Patriotic
Farm, was held in Taylor Wednesday
evening of last week. An exhibition of
farm trousers, especially designed for
women workers by Miss Marjorie Gregg
of Cambridge, followed the speeches. -

To bring out the alarming need for food

‘production Dr, Ferguson quoted from an

article in the Nation for February 14th—
“The Only Advancing’ General—Famine”.
The United States has exhausted not
only its reserve supply of wheat for con-
sumption, but its reserve supply for seed,
he stated. Since food must be produced,
and since the farmers are being drafted
and no one is going out from town to take
their places, college women must supply
the labor, he said. :

Dean Taft showed that college women
had the task of convincing not only the
farmers but other women, that women
can do farm work. The girl who never
went to boarding school or took part in
any athletics, she explained, needs to be
shown that working till she is hot and
out of breath or gets a pain in her side
is not going to hurt her. One of the ad-
vantages of farming over other war work
is that it can be begun at once without
waiting for the word from Washington.

Part of Bryn Mawr Farm on Campus

Admitting that she had questioned at
first the wisdom of repeating the experi-
ment of the farm, Miss Ehlers said she
had come to believe that since, econom-
ically or expensively, food must be pro-
duced, Bryn Mawr College must do its
share in this production.

The land this summer, she announced,
will include the twenty-odd acres fur-
nished by Mr. Hinckle Smith, south of
Morris Avenue and about a mile and a
half north of Bryn Mawr station; five
acres behind the Baldwin School; three
acres on the campus, which Dr. Huff has
pronounced well worth cultivating; and,
in the event of a large registration of
workers, seven acres opposite the Infirm-
ary which Mr. Collins may let the college
have for field corn.

Mr. Rufus Jones has promised to get
the land ploughed, Miss Ehlers said, but
students will do the planting. Volunteer
workers will go out during the spring for
periods of two hours, which they will be
allowed to count as exercise.

(Continued on page 5.)

DR. ROSS ‘TO LEAD CONFERENCE

Helped Launch Christian Association

Dr. Ross, former pastor of the Bryn
Mawr Presbyterian Church, will be the
principal speaker at the week-end confer-
ence of the Christian Association, which
will be held from March 21st to March

23d. Christian Fundamentals will be the

topic of discussion.

Dr. Ross, who helped organize the
Christian Association, lectures half the
year at the Union Theological Seminary
in New York, and devotes the other half
to speaking at colleges and conducting
conferences. During his stay here he will

the Deanery, where interviews may be
arranged. A tea will be given for him
in the gymnasium the afternoon of Fri-
day, March 22d.







Will Weigh Individual Portions

Voluntary food rations, under which
every portion of food for each individual
will be weighed, have been adopted by
the college at the request of Mr. Morris
L. Cook, Food Administrator for Pennsyl-
vania. Aside from the actual saving of
food the example of the college, Mr. Cook
said, will help the work of the Adminis-
tration.

A careful weighing of meat and bread
and the serving of individual portions of
sugar will begin as soon as possible in
the halls and other college buildings.

(Continued on page 5.)

TACTICAL STRATEGY OF EARLY
DAYS OF WAR MAPPED OUT

Captain Paul Candé Explains
Manceeuvers of Victory of Marne

SERVICE CORPS CLEARS $90

The first three months of the war,
from the viewpoint of military tactics,
were described by Captain Paul Candé, of
the First French Engineers, in Taylor
last Friday night for the benefit of the
Graduate Service Corps and the Nouville
Etoile. About $90 were netted for the
Service Corps. Captain Candé wore the
Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor
with three palms,

Marshal Joffre’s manceuvres leading to
the victory of the Marne, in which Cap-
tain Candé fought, were mapped out in
some detail. The evening ended with
Captain Candé’s wish that French and
Americans together might send to our
troops in France our hope for “the great
victory’! and with the singing of the
Marseillaise by the audience.

Inadvisable to Attack Paris

On September 3, 1914, the German Ad-
vance Guard was within thirteen miles
of Paris, Captain Candé said, but, true to
the principles of modern strategy, the
General Staff did not allow itself to be
tempted by the nearness of Paris to give
up its real object, the destruction of the
Allied armies; realizing, also, that the
capture of Paris would involve heavy
losses in the street fighting and that a
siege would require too many of their









troops, the Germans turned south.

The battle of the Marne, fought from |
September 6th to 11th, over a front of |
150 miles, was such a victory as in the |
Napoleonic wars would have meant the |

entire destruction of the conquered army |
and government, Captain Candé pointed |
out. But in 1914 the result was that the
Germans simply retreated for two days |
until they reached their formidable line |
prepares tas gh Soissons and north of
nitead cdl Coniet. The conduct in re-

treat of the third German army corps

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THREE B. M. ALUMNA NOW DOING [FACULTY SPEECHES RALLY : : THE ADM
WORt IN ORDANCE DEPARTMENT |" WORKERS FOR PATRIOTIC. | "re aut ivy tas Dive ws | CHOSEN AS VARSITY PLAT
New Requirements for Positions To Be FARM eT — a a i ra rca Woo ‘ . epg Will b
Explained Ars, Smith HS og e @ e of the ! es Barrie’s Fantastic Comed
Tempore pontiot the fetieene Announce M: a to pet sn into: the 'War. ‘Gen for Service Cones :
Departmen ve ven
Bryn Mawr alumna, 0. Dowd '16, B. Hill T ere “The Admirable Crichton”, by J. M.
1. "16: : —— COLLEGE GOES ON RATIONS AS w sented at college by a
ington in answer to the appeal for 60 eol-|, ‘8m rally at which Dean Taft and |“ VOLUNTARY WAR MEASURE | |Varsity cast on April 19th and 2000.” it

was chosen last week by the Undergrad-
uate Association in place of “If I Were
King’, by a vote of 55 to 23.

“If 1 Were King”, though the original
choice of the four classes, was found to
exist only in manuscript and was, there-
fore, voted down to prevent the long de-
lay which getting copies of it would have
entailed. “The Admirable Crichton” was
written, and first produced, in England in
1903.

Tryouts began Monday night in the
gymnasium. The large cast includes six .
men and six women in the major parts
and twelve minor servant rdles. The
hero is a butler, the admirable Crichton
of the title. The play is concerned with
the adventures of a family of the British
nobility who entertain their servants at
monthly receptions much to the discom-
fort of both hosts and guests and who
are later marooned with several of the
servants on a desert island in the Pacific.

The Varsity Dramatics Committee, of
which M. Martin '19 is chairman, is in
charge of the casting and production and
will make recommendations for stage
manager. The stage manager will be
elected at a meeting of the Undergradu-
ate Association today at 1.30. Mrs. Patch
is coach,

WASHINGTON CLUB HOUSE FOR
COLLEGE WOMEN IN WAR WORK



(From the Committee on Public Infor-
mation.]

A new Club House for College Women
engaged in War Work in Washington will
be opened March Ist under the auspices
of the Washington Branch of the Asso-
ciate College Alumnae, of which Mrs,
Raymond B. Morgan is president. The
property, which was once the home of
the British Embassy, consists of two
buildings, 2506 and 2508 K Street, sur-
rounded by a fine old garden, which will
be used as a War Garden by the women.
Twelve active workers in the Associate
College Alumne@w have taken a lease of
four years on the place and have put it in
excellent condition.

NO SUIT AGAINST BRYN MAWR



Right to Cocoanut Grove Disputed

The establishment of a second ‘“Cocoa-
nut Grove” at the Ziegfield Midnight
Frolic in New York raised a controversy
last week with the owners of the first at
the Century Theatre, according to the
New York Times. The Century Theatre

'concern refused to give up their right to

the name. While the dispute was still hot
a third Grove was planted in the Bryn
Mawr gymnasium. No suit has yet been
brought against the manager.

TEA ROOM OPEN ON SUNDAY
Beginning March 10th the College Tea

| drunk with good champagne”.
be entertained by President Thomas at |



was disgraceful, he said, for its drunken- | Room will be open on Sundays from 4 to
ness and pillaging, and “the French took 7 o'clock. Tea and supper will be served
many prisoners of the Prussian Guard | every day except Monday, from 4 to 7;
(and luncheon every day, including Mon-
Captain Candé began his lecture with a | day, from 1.15 to 2.
summary of events leading up to the dec- Sandwiches and cakes will be made to
larations of war and an explanation of the : order, and special: suppers served when
relative positions of the enemy forces on | ordered in advance. The tea room may
August Ist. lalso be engaged for evening parties.








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“Robbing Peter”
The plan for a war grocery store, which

is to come up for discussion in the Under- |

graduate meeting today, has been care-
fully conceived, and is in many respects
admirable. To do away with the pur-
chase of unpatriotic food elsewhere, a
campus “Hoover” store, to which the
College would pledge its exclusive pa-
tronage, My at once a simple and effective

Onlectinis to the project on the ground
of the increased consumption of food—
even though “patriotic” food—which an
easily accessible campus store would en-
courage, have to the Food Conservation
Committee appeared to outweigh its ad-

Tt is to be hoped that the College will
do more with the new food conservation
pledge than admire the flag on the cor-
' ner,



The Serpent in the Garden

There is an infection prevalent in col-
lege that is more contagious and far more
dangerous than the measles. Rumor, the
College plague breaks out apparently
without why or wherefore, and unless
caught in its early stages, sometimes has
quite serious results. People are sent
to the Infirmary daily with the measles.
Would that there were also some isolated
place where rumor venders might be sent
before they infect others!

A Second Pennsylvania

Philadelphians and others who have fol-
lowed with interest the blunders of the
University of Pennsylvania, from the ex-
pulsion of Scott Nearing to the withhold-
ing of a degree from Joseph Pennell,
will perhaps enjoy The New York Trib-
une’s comment on an analagous situation
at Columbia:

“Professor Ellery C. Stowell was one
college professor who stood out very
clearly for this country’s entry into the
war. It is announced that he purposes
to take up war work.

“There is no hint, or taint, of a pacifist
about him.

“Professor Stowell, of high standing as
a professor of international law, has re-
signed from the faculty of Columbia Uni-
versity.

“This is the fifth Columbia professor
to resign or be dismissed within a year.

“These things do not seem to happen
at Harvard or Yale, at Princeton or Cor-
nell.

‘We hope there is no room in this coun-
try, and certainly not in New York City.
for another University of Pennsylvania.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The editors do not hold themselves respon-
sible for opinions expressed in this column.

To the Editor of the College News:

We wish to take issue with the anony-
mous critic who censures the Class of
1918 for dispensing with the compara-
tively simple Class Book while retaining
“the extravagant Commencement festivi-
ties, including a before-the-war Garden
Party”. If the Senior Class has decided
that the “enjoyment for years to come”
to be gleaned from the Class Book doés
not compensate for the present expendi-
ture of time, effort and money there
seems little more to be said on that sub-
ject.

As far as Garden Party is concerned
it will not be by any means the elaborate
function our critic presupposes. Some
way must be devised for entertaining our
families and friends who are here for
Commencement, and Garden Party, as it
will be given this year, seems the sim-
plest method of doing it. It will, in fact,
be far less expensive than the many pri-
vate teas which, if there were no Garden
Party, would undoubtedly be the order
of the day.

M. S. Munford ‘18.
BE. Houghton °18.

long time Austria demurred. At length,







‘The pabliantion. was a. protest against
secret diplomacy, ‘and not the least in-
forming of the documents published was
the argument by which England, France
and Russia induced Italy to enter the
conflict.

As soon as Austria, in 1914, pro-
ceeded against Servia, Italy began to ask
for compensation. Compensation, she
claimed, was due her in virtue of Article
VII of the treaty by which the Triple Al-
liance was formed in 1882. The article
provided that, if either Austria or Italy
should, for any reason, gain increased
influence in the Balkans, the other power
should be entitled to corresponding ex-
pansion. As quid pro quo in the case of
the moment, Italy intimated that she
would prefer concessions, not in the
Balkans, but from Austrian territory on
her own northeastern frontier. For a

however, impelled by German influence

and by the desire to maintain Italian neu-
trality, she consented to consider the

Italian proposals. Active negotiations
were under way from March to May, 1915.
Transfer of Austrian lands at four
points was asked for by Italy. She re-
quested:
1, The cession of Trent and the neigh-

boring territory (the Trentino);
2. A rectification of the Isonzo fron-

tier which would give her the cities of
Gradisca and Gorizia, together with a
strip of the littoral reaching well round

the head of the Adriatic;
3. The creation of Trieste, with the sur-

rounding country, into a free port subject
to neither country; and,

4. The cession of certain islands of the
Dalmatian coast.

To grant these requests would have
been to cede what the Italians have long
known as “Italia Irredenta”; for the jus-
tification of the claims is that the popu-
lations of the districts in question are
largely Italian. Joined with the desire to
round out a nation of Italian-speaking
peoples was the wish to extend Italian
prestige in the Adriatic. In the latter
aspiration Italian ambitions came sharply
into conflict with those of Austria, of
Hungary, and of the Southern Slavs, each
of these peoples attaining access to the
sea solely on the eastern Adriatic coast.

Of the four Italian requests, Austria, on
April 17th, refused the last three. Only
as regards the Trentino did she make

concessions, but even here declined the
boundaries asked. The Italian request

that the transfer of ceded territory take
place at once was also declined. On May

ALUMNA NOTES

Caroline Stevens ‘17 is sailing under
the Red Cross to do refugee work among
the children coming from Switzerland
into France. She will go straight to Paris
and be detailed there to a canteen or
clinic. Miss Stevens was president of !
Self Government here last year and has
been doing microscopic work on blood
corpuscles this winter at the Massachu-
setts General Hospital.

Emily Van Horn ‘15 is private secretary
to Mr. L. H. Shearman, a member of the
Shipping Board.

Anne Wildman has given up her Phila-
delphia position under the Woman’s
Committee of the Council of National De-
fense, and is teaching in Leesburg, Va.



Dr. Robert Speer to Preach Next Sunday |

Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Secretary of
the Board of Foreign Missions in the |
Presbyterian Church, will preach here |
next Sunday evening. Mrs. Speer, Presi-
dent of the Y. W. C. A., was instrumental
last spring in changing the Bryn Mawr
delegation from Eaglesmere to Silver
Bay.



May 4th better terms were conceded rel-
ative to the Isonzo frontier, Gradisca
being offered, and assurance was given
that in Trieste the long-desired Italian
university would be established and the

| municipal statutes would be so revised as
to safeguard “the national and cultural

existence of the Italian-speaking popula-
tion”. On May 10th the erection of
Trieste into an “imperial free city” was
proposed. Finally, on May 22d, Austria
was ready to agree to the immediate
transfer of territory, hitherto refused.
On May 23d, however, Italy declared war.

The course of the negotiations above
described has been known since the pub-
lication of the Austrian Red Book and
the Italian Green Book. What our new-
est information shows is that during the
last month of the diplomatic exchanges
with Austria, Italy was already com-
mitted to an alliance with the Entente.
On April 26th the agreement was signed
in London, afd from that day. the am-
bassadorial notes meant little. The final
vigorous effort of Prince von Biilow had
been foredoomed. The acquisitions as-
sured to Italy “under the imminent treaty
of peace” were liberal. They took from
Austria all the Trentino with a part of
Southern Tyrol; the cities and suburbs of
Trieste, Gorizia, and Gradisca; all of
Istria; and all of the province of Dal-
matia. They were more extensive than
the acquisitions ever demanded from
Austria, and, if secured, would have given
Italy control of the Adriatic.

Not least interesting of the new pro-
posed cessions is that of Dalmatia. This
narrow strip of coast, with its numerous
islands, reaches along the eastern Adri-
atic to Albania. Its value is strategic
rather than economic, since its produce is
small and it comprises only three cities
of more than 10,000 inhabitants, Of its
population only 3 per cent is Italian,
whereas the other districts promised
by the treaty are largely occupied by
Italians. Nearly 97 per cent of the in-
habitants of Dalmatia are Slavs, akin to
the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
provinces which constitute the Hinter-
land. In the event of the annexation of
Dalmatia to Italy the ambitions of the
southern Slavs would be adversely af-
fected. They, even more than Austria,
would have ground for opposition. Of all
the Italian expansionist claims, therefore,
this is the one which critics of Italian
foreign policy would, with most justice,

hold up as indicative of imperialistic
aims,

COMPETITION FOR BEST THRIFT
STAMP POSTER OPENS TO-DAY



The Liberty Loan Committee is offering
a reward of a War Saving Stamp, worth
$4.14, for the best poster advertising
thrift stamps. The poster will be judged

on design and on the most appropriate
slogan made from the initials W. S. S.

The competition is open to all the War
Saving Societies in the schools in Bryn
Mawr and in the college. Posters should

be given to C. Dodge, Pembroke Bast, | =

before March 2ist. After the posters
have been judged they will be exhibited,
probably in Taylor.

War Saving Stamps are on sale at the
Loan Desk in the Library.

PRESS BUREAU MATERIAL DUE

All who have taken pamphlets to re-
view for the Foreign Press Bureau are
asked to return them by Monday, March
lith, to P. Turle "18, chairman of the
Education Department of the War Coun-

: cil, Pembroke East.

‘Italy formally denounced ‘the Triple

. ‘At once Germany, as well ‘98 Austria,
| Billow, “German Ambassador. in Rome, | 3
took active part in the negotiations. On|



















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THURSDAY and
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MARCH 21 and 22



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dencing the new CUTA-
WAY SILHOUETTE.

STREET DRESSES, silk-and-
wool, cut along war lines and
proving that sparing the serge
does not spoil the style.

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plain-tailored suits, inclining
just a bit toward the mannish.

NORFOLKS and
Riding Habits.

the new

WOOL JERSEYS —which
feature the SUCCESS OF
THE SEASON—the sleeve-

less coat.

BLOUSES—Habutai and Jap
silk conveying new ideas in
smart, separate shirts; sport
styles in batiste; hand-made
French blouses; distinctive
Georgettes.

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A HALF DOZEN new ideas
in everyday and evening bras-
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EXCLUSIVE DRESSES for
the May-time parties and
those for later Spring. Prac-
tical frocks for every occasion
of day and evening. Fresh
dashing ginghams.

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games, , which begin next Monday night,
_ is as follows: -
First Teams
Monday, March 11.—8.30 and 9.00.
Thursday, March 14.—8.30 and 9.00.
Monday, March 18.—9.00 (if necessary,
8.30.)
Thursday, March 21.—9.00.
Friday, March 22.—9.00 (if necessary).
Monday, March 25.—9.00 (if necessary).
The second team games come in every
case on the day following the first team
games, at the same hours.
The captains will draw lots to-night to
see which classes meet in the prelimi-
naries. 6



SPORTING NOTES

H. Weist ’21 has been elected wand
drill captain in place of M. Morton
’21, who resigned.

Ten cents will be charged for ad-
mission to the Gymnasium Contest on
March 15th. The money taken in will
go to the Freshman and Sophomore
Service Corps Funds.

E. Cecil '21 is temporary manager
of the Freshman first team in place of
W. Worcester ’21, who is in the In-
firmary.

A mock swimming meet is planned
to take place in May for the benefit
of the Service Corps.

DANCING FESTIVAL PLANNED
FOR LIBRARY CLOISTER THIS MAY

Ballet and Solos on Program

A dancing festival in the cloisters has
been planned for May for the benefit of
the Varsity Service Corps Fund. “Ely-
sian Fields” will be the ballet by Miss
Kirk’s Senior and Junior dancing classes.
M. Boyd “17, who danced in the festival
last year and has been studying this year
at the Newman School of Dancing in
Philadelphia, will give a solo. Folk danc-
ing will be managed by J. Peabody ’19.

Miss Rand has been secured to run the
lighting. Last year she and Dr. Ferree
used flood lighting for the festival. Miss
Kirk is director, and the Festival Com-
mittee of the Red Cross and Allied Relief
Department is M. Littell ’20, chairman, J.
Ridlon ’18, I. Loeb '18, A. Moore ‘19, C.
Hayman ’19, Z. Boynton ’20, and E. Kim-
brough °21,



YALE SOLDIERS MAY GRADUATE

New arrangements concerning the
award of wartime degrees at Yale, pro-
viding for every contingency, have been
approved by the Yale Corporation, ac-
cording to the New York Times.

A student entering the service within
two months of a term’s end may apply for
special examinations in any or all of his
subjects provided his previous record is
complete, and will receive credit for the
unfinished term. A student who has com-
pleted the junior year work and then en-
ters the service may have his name
printed in the commencement program of
his class as that of a member “absent in
service”,

“The regulations provide ways in which
a student, serving as a commissioned offi-
cer, may become a candidate for a degree
at any subsequent commencement.”



GERMAN WOMEN
SACRIFICE PEARLS

An appeal to German women to give
their pearls for the Fatherland is made
in this advertisement, “inserted in the
press,” says the New York Times, “by
the jewel hunting officials of the Reichs-
bank:

“Bring in Your Jewels!

“‘Pearls mean tears. But pearls can
also dry tears if you sacrifice them on
the altar of the Fatherland!’

“German papers recently received in
London show that no effort is being
spared to induce the German people to
turn over its jewery for sale abroad to
stiffen the mark exchange rate which is

running so heavily against Germany.”





THE SoU

alae ae asia af 0 an
Corps Committee we print the following

extracts from a letter from Elizabeth

Shepley Sergeant '03 to Marion Reilly ‘01,

Chairman of the Alumne War Relief
Committee and the Joint Administrative
Service Corps Committee.

Miss Sergeant is one of the first two
members of the Service Corps and is
working in France, writing war articles
for the New Republic. Her letter, dealing
with living expenses, equipment, and the
activities of canteen and hut, describes
in unusual detail the qualifications for
war work in France. The letter will be

continued in a subsequent issue of the
News.



Paris, January 31.
My Dear Marion:

Your letter of January 8th reached me
about a week ago—pretty quick for these
days. I am enormously interested in the
B. M. Service Corps, and feel sure you
are right not to send a “unit.” The day
for that has a little passed, and even
Smith, which has been doing splendid
work (much praised by the French), has
found it best to give up independence
and come under the Red Cross. I adjoin
some scratchy notes, very incomplete,
but all I have been able to manage in a
particularly busy week. I am convinced
that the Bryn Mawr woman would be in
valuable here; there is far more than
enough work for the able, but the inca.
pable and the unserious are going per-
haps to make difficulties for the rest of
us. I think passports will be and should
be more and more closely watched, and
any one who comes should be prepared
to stick to her job for a reasonable time,
like six months, whether or not it is
what she expected. Lots of women have
come supposedly for a definite society,
that society having guaranteed the pass-
port—and then leave the society prompt-
ly for one they like better. Another in-
teresting point: American women draw
back from the more disagreeable jobs.
This is asserted by the American in
charge of the Y. M. C. A. “Eagle Hut” in
London. The English women do the 6
a. m. work and the night work, ete—
the Americans never can. Americans in
the English Red Cross say the same
thing. I haven't heard this said often
in France, but there are endless women
who are not working eight hours a day—
who are here primarily for fun. Tell
your people they must be ready to con-
vert the American army to a belief in
women by their efficiency and serious-
ness, |

Expenses High—Must Have $5 a Day —

The cost of living is very high, indeed,
not only food, room, but all incidentals,
such as cleaning, cobbling, veils, gloves,
washing, etc., In my opinion, nobody,
even though she works in an office from
9 to 6, wears a uniform (as the A. R. C.
and Y. M. C. A do), and is pretty sturdy,
should have less than 700 frs. per month,
and if she had no resources of her own
that would be a narrow margin. Seven
hundred and fifty would be fairer—say
$5 per day. This is Paris, and it does not
mean hotels, either, generally speaking.
They cost—the reasonable ones—any-
where from 18 to 25 frs. per day.. I know
of just one pension at 10 frs. a day. No
bathroom, unheated, and out of the way.
Most pensions are 14 or 15 frs., and this
does not include sufficient heat usually.
That question will not be as important in
the spring (heat, I mean) as it is in mid-
winter. The Red Cross building is splen-
didly heated; so are most other places
where Americans work—unless they are
not heated at all, like the Alcazar d’Eté,
where girls pack all day in sweaters and
mittens.

ing to the age of the worker. But cer-
tainly the “young and healthy and un-
trained” can get along with less, espe
clally if they are doing out-of-door or
office work, than women of more years

IN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEA

I don’t know whether it would |
be possible for you to adjust your financ- |






ere ABWS




Says

ity and fatigue. But I think any one
without personal resources to supple-
ment the B. M. money would be .worried
if she had less than 25 frs. a day allow-
ance. As an example of what things cost,
I find having my shoes soled and heeled
will cost 20 frs. ($4.00). Washerwomen
charge 1.25 for a nightgown ($0.25) and
other things in proportion. A very pe-
nurious week’s wash costs at least $2.00.
I am looking forward with dismay to
having to buy shoes for $15 or $20. Be
sure that people bring plenty of boots,
shoes, stockings, underwear, sweaters,
etc. Hard alcohol, cold cream and soap
are very expensive here.
not to be had. Bring a little extra sugar
if tea at home is ever desired, as it
can’t be bought ‘by anybody without a
card, and you don’t have a card if you
live in a pension or hotel. Bring type-
writer paper for personal use. No type-
writers can be bought here except with
French keyboards, and at a very high
price, and very scarce at that.

I find Mrs. Ford, of the Women’s War
Relief Corps (registering all women),
confirms me that 750 frs.:is the right
amount for Paris. She says from 500
to 600 out of Paris—i. e., in canteen
towns. The A. R. C. allows 360 frs. per
month as bare living expenses for work-
ers it partially supports in canteens and
the Y. M. C. A the same amount, but this
would not cover journeys, stops in hotels
between assignments (they are changed
about and often we have to wait several
weeks in Paris before being sent any-
where) and stops in hotels in canteen
towns before lodgings are found; A
friend who has been at one said she had
to pay 8 frs. a day for her room for three
weeks before getting other arrange-
ments. The hotels in the war zone are,
however poor, almost as dear as Paris,
because practically “officers’ clubs.”
Meals on trains cost 6 frs. The friend
just mentioned, who has been here since
September, says 600 frs. a month would
be just right in canteens. But, remem-
her, both for the 750 frs. and the 600 frs.,
that prices may go up still more at any
moment.

(To be Continued in Next Week’s News.)



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CHOICE FLOWERS

Daily Free Delivery Along the Main Line
1514 CHESTNUT STREET



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IN PHILADELPHIA
Adelphi—“The Man Who Came Back”.
Broad—‘General Post”. -
‘Chestnut Street Opera House—"Over

the Top”. Next week, “Katinka”.
Forrest—“Toot-Toot”.
Land of Joy’.
Garrick—“Blind Youth”, with Lou Tel-
legen.
‘Lyric—“Odds and Ends of 1917”. Next
week, “Lord and Lady Algy”, with Wil-
liam Faversham and Maxine Elliott.









MRS. SLADE, HEAD OF W. &. S.
NEW YORK, TO SPEAK ON
THRIFT STAMPS



Mrs. Francis Slade (Caroline McCor-
Mick e#*96), head of the War Savings
Stamps campaign in New York, has been
secured by the Suffrage Club to speak in
April on Thrift Stamps. Mrs. Slade was
prominent in the suffrage campaign in
New York last fall, and has done a great
deal of welfare work there. She spoke
‘on Woman's Suffrage at the Alumne
meeting here last month.

“SCHOOLS.

THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL

Preparatory to Bryn Mawr College

BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA

Principals
Eleanor O. Brownell

Alice G. Howland





THE HARCUM SCHOOL

FOR GIRLS—BRYN MAWR, PA.

For Girls wanting college preparation
a thorough course is offered.

For Girls not going to college the school
offers special opportunities to pursue
studies suited to their tastes and needs.

For Girls desiring to specialize in Music
or Art, there are well known artists as
instructors, Catalog on request.

MRS. EDITH HATCHER HARCUM, B.L.
(Pupil of Leschetizky), Head of the School
BRYN MAWR PENNSYLVANIA









THE MISSES KIRK’S COLLEGE
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Bryn Mawr Avenue and Old Lancaster Road
BRYN MAWR, PA.

Number of boarders limited. Combines advantages
of school life with private instruction. Individual
schedule arranged for each pupil.

Gymnastics and outdoor games.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
OF NURSING

Nursing offers to women an opportunity
for patriotic service, a splendid preparation
for life and a profession of broad social use-
fulness.

Washington University gives a three years’
course in Nursing. Theoretical instruction
is given in the University, clinical instruc-
tion in the wards of the Barnes and St. Louis
Children’s Hospitals, Washington University
Dispensary and Social Service Department.
Six months credit is offered to applicants
having a A.B. or B.S. degree from this col-
]
ven inquiries to Superintendent of -
Nurses, Barnes Hospital, 600 S. Kingshigh-
way, St. Louis, Mo.





any time.



Especial attention



The Little Riding School

BRYN MAWR, PA.
TELEPHONE: 68 BRYN MAWR

Mr. William Kennedy desires to announce that he has
opened a Riding School for general instruction in Horse
Back Riding and will be pleased to have you call at

iven to children.
ring, suitable for riding in inclement weather.

In connection with the school there will be a training
stable for show horses (harness or saddle).

A large indoor





SE MENTION “THE COLLEGE NEWS”

Next week, ‘The -




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\
|

Lo MATCH GAMES
- FROM MONDAY TILL EASTER
"Captains Draw Lots To-night
The ‘schedule for the water-polo match,
games, , which begin next ee night,



_ is as follows:

First Teams

Monday, March 11.—8.30 and 9.00.

Thursday, March 14.—8.30 and 9.00.

Monday, March 18.—9.00 (if necessary,
8.30.)

Thursday, March 21.—9.00.

Friday, March 22.—9.00 (if necessary).

Monday, March 25.—9.00 (if necessary).

The second team games come in every
case on the day following the first team
games, at the same hours.

The captains will draw lots to-night to
see which classes meet in the prelimi-
naries. ‘



SPORTING NOTES

H. Weist ’21 has been elected wand
drill captain in place of M. Morton
’21, who resigned.

Ten cents will be charged for ad-
mission to the Gymnasium Contest on
March 15th. The money taken in will
go to the Freshman and Sophomore
Service Corps Funds.

E. Cecil '21 is temporary manager
of the Freshman first team in place of
W. Worcester ’21, who is in the In-
firmary.

A mock swimming meet is planned
to take place in May for the benefit
of the Service Corps.

DANCING FESTIVAL PLANNED
FOR LIBRARY CLOISTER THIS MAY

Ballet and Solos on Program

A dancing festival in the cloisters has
been planned for May for the benefit of
the Varsity Service Corps Fund. “Ely-
sian Fields” will be the ballet by Miss
Kirk’s Senior and Junior dancing classes.
M. Boyd °17, who danced in the festival
last year and has been studying this year
at the Newman School of Dancing in
Philadelphia, will give a solo. Folk danc-
ing will be managed by J. Peabody ’19.

Miss Rand has been secured to run the
lighting. Last year she and Dr. Ferree
used flood lighting for the festival. Miss
Kirk is director, and the Festival Com-
mittee of the Red Cross and Allied Relief
Department is M. Littell ’20, chairman, J.
Ridlon ’18, I. Loeb '18, A. Moore '19, C.
Hayman ’19, Z. Boynton ’20, and E. Kim-
brough °21,



YALE SOLDIERS MAY GRADUATE

New arrangements concerning the
award of wartime degrees at Yale, pro-
viding for every contingency, have been
approved by the Yale Corporation, ac-
cording to the New York Times.

A student entering the service within
two months of a term’s end may apply for
special examinations in any or all of his
subjects provided his previous record is
complete, and will receive credit for the
unfinished term. A student who has com-
pleted the junior year work and then en-
ters the service may have his name
printed in the commencement program of
his class as that of a member “absent in
service”,

“The regulations provide ways in which
a student, serving as a commissioned offi-
cer, may become a candidate for a degree
at any subsequent commencement.”



GERMAN WOMEN
SACRIFICE PEARLS

An appeal to German women to give
their pearls for the Fatherland is made
in this advertisement, “inserted in the
press,” says the New York Times, “by
the jewel hunting officials of the Reichs-
bank:

“Bring in Your Jewels!

“‘Pearls mean tears. But pearls can
also dry tears if you sacrifice them on
the altar of the Fatherland!’

“German papers recently received in
London show that no effort is being
spared to induce the German people to
turn over its jewery for sale abroad to
stiffen the mark exchange rate which is
running so heavily against Germany.”



THE COLLEGE NEWS



" Serious Workers Wanted, Writes First Member of Corps From France



Americans Shirk Hard Jobs, She Says”

“ Gidibk i iaheate of tel Geieics

Corps Committee we print the following

extracts from a letter from Elizabeth

| Shepley Sergeant '03 to Marion Reilly ’01,

Chairman of the Alumne War Relief
Committee and the Joint Administrative
Service Corps Committee.

Miss Sergeant is one of the first two
members of the Service Corps and is
working in France, writing war articles
for the New Republic. Her letter, dealing
with living expenses, equipment, and the
activities of canteen and hut, describes
in unusual detail the qualifications for
war work in France. The letter will be

continued in a subsequent issue of the
News.



Paris, January 31.
My Dear Marion:

Your letter of January 8th reached me
about a week ago—pretty quick for these
days. I am enormously interested in the
B. M. Service Corps, and feel sure you
are right not to send a “unit.” The day
for that has a little passed, and even
Smith, which has been doing splendid
work (much praised by the French), has
found it best to give up independence
and come under the Red Cross. I adjoin
some scratchy notes, very incomplete,
but all I have been able to manage in a
particularly busy week. I am convinced
that the Bryn Mawr woman would be in
valuable here; there is far more than
enough work for the able, but the inca.
pable and the unserious are going per-
haps to make difficulties for the rest of
us. I think passports will be and should
be more and more closely watched, and
any one who comes should be prepared
to stick to her job for a reasonable time,
like six months, whether or not it is
what she expected. Lots of women have
come supposedly for a definite society,
that society having guaranteed the pass-
port—and then leave the society prompt-
ly for one they like better. Another in-
teresting point: American women draw
back from the more disagreeable jobs.
This is asserted by the American in
charge of the Y. M. C. A. “Eagle Hut” in
London. The English women do the 6
a. m. work and the night work, ete—
the Americans never can. Americans in
the English Red Cross say the same
thing. I haven't heard this said often
in France, but there are endless women
who are not working eight hours a day—
who are here primarily for fun. Tell
your people they must be ready to con-
vert the American army to a belief in
women by their efficiency and serious-
ness, |

Expenses High—Must Have $5 a Day —

The cost of living is very high, indeed,
not only food, room, but all incidentals,
such as cleaning, cobbling, veils, gloves,
washing, etc., In my opinion, nobody,
even though she works in an office from
9 to 6, wears a uniform (as the A. R. C.
and Y. M. C. A do), and is pretty sturdy,
should have less than 700 frs. per month,
and if she had no resources of her own
that would be a narrow margin. Seven
hundred and fifty would be fairer—say
$5 per day. This is Paris, and it does not
mean hotels, either, generally speaking.
They cost—the reasonable ones—any-
where from 18 to 25 frs. per day.. I know
of just one pension at 10 frs. a day. No
bathroom, unheated, and out of the way.
Most pensions are 14 or 15 frs., and this
does not include sufficient heat usually.
That question will not be as important in
the spring (heat, I mean) as it is in mid-
winter. The Red Cross building is splen-
didly heated; so are most other places
where Americans work—unless they are
not heated at all, like the Alcazar d’Eté,
where girls pack all day in sweaters and
mittens.

ing to the age of the worker. But cer-
tainly the “young and healthy and un-
trained” can get along with less, espe
clally if they are doing out-of-door or
office work, than women of more years

IN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION



I don’t know whether it would |
be possible for you to adjust your financ- |

and judgment, and therefore canna
ity and fatigue. But I think any one

without personal resources to supple-

ment the B. M. money would be .worried
if she had less than 25 frs. a day allow-
ance. As an example of what things cost,
I find having my shoes soled and heeled
will cost 20 frs. ($4.00). Washerwomen
charge 1.25 for a nightgown ($0.25) and
other things in proportion. A very pe-
nurious week’s wash costs at least $2.00.
I am looking forward with dismay to
having to buy shoes for $15 or $20. Be
sure that people bring plenty of boots,
shoes, stockings, underwear, sweaters,
etc. Hard alcohol, cold cream and soap
are very expensive here.
not to be had. Bring a little extra sugar
if tea at home is ever desired, as it
can’t be bought ‘by anybody without a
card, and you don’t have a card if you
live in a pension or hotel. Bring type-
writer paper for personal use. No type-
writers can be bought here except with
French keyboards, and at a very high
price, and very scarce at that.

I find Mrs. Ford, of the Women’s War
Relief Corps (registering all women),
confirms me that 750 frs.:is the right
amount for Paris. She says from 500
to 600 out of Paris—i. e., in canteen
towns. The A. R. C. allows 360 frs. per
month as bare living expenses for work-
ers it partially supports in canteens and
the Y. M. C. A the same amount, but this
would not cover journeys, stops in hotels
between assignments (they are changed
about and often we have to wait several
weeks in Paris before being sent any-
where) and stops in hotels in canteen
towns before lodgings are found; A
friend who has been at one said she had
to pay 8 frs. a day for her room for three
weeks before getting other arrange-
ments. The hotels in the war zone are,
however poor, almost as dear as Paris,
because practically “officers’ clubs.”
Meals on trains cost 6 frs. The friend
just mentioned, who has been here since
September, says 600 frs. a month would
be just right in canteens. But, remem-
her, both for the 750 frs. and the 600 frs.,
that prices may go up still more at any
moment.

(To be Continued in Next Week’s News.)



PENNOCK BROS.
CHOICE FLOWERS

Daily Free Delivery Along the Main Line
1514 CHESTNUT STREET



Smart New Models in Georgette Crepe



1120 CHESTNUT STREET

Next Door to Keith’s Second Floor



Cleaning fluid





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on
—





IN PHILADELPHIA
Adelphi—“The Man Who Came Back”.
Broad—‘“General Post”. ~
‘Chestnut Street Opera Wacee—"Over

the Top”.
Forrest—“Toot-T
Land of Joy’.
Garrick—“Blind Youth”, with Lou Tel-
legen.
‘Lyric—“Odds and Ends of 1917”. Next
week, “Lord and Lady Algy”, with Wil-
liam Faversham and Maxine Elliott.

t”. Next week, “The -





MRS. SLADE, HEAD OF wW. S. S. IN
NEW YORK, TO SPEAK ON
THRIFT STAMPS



Mrs. Francis Slade (Caroline McCor-
Mick e#*96), head of the War Savings
Stamps campaign in New York, has been
secured by the Suffrage Club to speak in
April on Thrift Stamps. Mrs. Slade was
prominent in the suffrage campaign in
New York last fall, and has done a great
deal of welfare work there. She spoke
on Woman's Suffrage at the Alumne
meeting here last month.

“SCH ° oO —
THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL

Preparatory to Bryn Mawr College

BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA

Principals

Eleanor O. Brownell Alice G. Howland





THE HARCUM SCHOOL

FOR GIRLS—BRYN MAWR, PA.

For Girls wanting college preparation
a thorough course is offered.

For Girls not going to college the school
offers special opportunities to pursue
studies suited to their tastes and needs.

For Girls desiring to specialize in Music
or Art, there are well known artists as
instructors, Catalog on request.

MRS. EDITH HATCHER HARCUM, B.L.
(Pupil of Leschetizky), Head of the School
BRYN MAWR PENNSYLVANIA









THE MISSES KIRK’S COLLEGE
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Bryn Mawr Avenue and Old Lancaster Road
BRYN MAWR, PA.

Number of boarders limited. Combines advantages
of school life with private instruction. Individual
schedule arranged for each pupil.

Gymnastics and outdoor games.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
OF NURSING

Nursing offers to women an opportunity
for patriotic service, a splendid preparation
for life and a profession of broad social use-
fulness.

Washington University gives a three years’
course in Nursing. Theoretical instruction
is given in the University, clinical instruc-
tion in the wards of the Barnes and St. Louis
Children’s Hospitals, Washington University
Dispensary and Social Service Department.
Six months credit is offered to applicants
having a A.B. or B.S. degree from this col-
lege.

"abe inquiries to Superintendent of -
Nurses, Barnes Hospital, 600 S. Kingshigh-
way, St. Louis, Mo.





any time.

Especial attention



“THE COLLEGE NEWS”

The Little Riding School

BRYN MAWR, PA.
TELEPHONE: 68 BRYN MAWR
Mr. William Kennedy desires to announce that he has

opened a Riding School for general instruction in Horse
Back Riding and will be pleased to have you call at

iven to children.
ring, suitable for riding in inclement weather.

In connection with the school there will be a training
stable for show horses (harness or saddle).

A large indoor



Next week, “Katinka”. = ==













se news IN BRIEF





iia of Biistanis Ga eine of abeence tor |

: war service, has received a captain’s com-
Mission at Sea GENS, Charlotte, North
Carolina.

Vivian Turrish ex’19 was married to

“Myron J. Bunnell in Duluth on —

127th.

Dr. Hugh Black, of the Union Theolog-
‘ical Seminary in New York, will give the
Baccalaureate address in June.

Dr. Ethel Sabin will speak to the Grad-

‘uate Club next Sunday afternoon on the.

‘“Fundamentals of Pragmatism”.
Dr. Patch spoke on “A Fourteenth Cen-
tury Apology for Fair Ladies” at the Eng-

lish Club Tea last Friday in Rockefeller.
‘V. Kneeland ’18 received in the absence
-of M. Rupert ’18, president.

The competition for the Glee Club Pos-
ter designs is now open. The reward for
‘each of the two designs chosen is two
tickets for the Glee Club performance.
'The competition closes March 16th.

“Confucionism and the Religions of
Japan”, will be the subject of the next
‘Class in the course in Comparative Re-
ligions given by Kate Chambers Seelye
’11. Mrs. Seelye’s last class on March
20th will be a survey of the whole course
‘illustrated by lantern slides.

After a complete canvass of the class
twenty-four people have joined 1918’s
War Saving Society.

Students from the college are visiting
the Women’s College Hospital on Wednes-
day and Saturday afternoons under the
auspices of the Social Service Commit-
tee. Anyone who is interested is asked
to communicate with E. Lanier ’19.



IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM



Miscellaneous

Rodin: The Man and His Art, by Judith
Cladel—A critical and biographical study,
‘with pages from the artist’s diary, giving
his meditations on his art, and illustra
tions showing his workshop and many of
his works.

Madame Adam; from Louis Philippe
Until 1917, by Winifred Stephens—Based
on the distinguished French woman’s
Souvenirs and showing her as the hostess
for many years of a leading political
salon, and intimate friend of such lit
erary notables as Georges Sand, Flau-
bert, Victor Hugo and Daudet.

Letters About Shelley Interchanged by
‘Three Friends—Edward Dowden, Richard
Garnett and William Michael Rossetti,
edited with an introduction by R. S. Gar-
nett. Discussion and interpretation of
points in Shelley’s life and writings by
his approved biographer and two other
friends.

Influence of Italy on Lamartine, by
Agide Pirazzini—A study of the French
poet’s debt to Italian landscape and liter-
ature.

On the War

The Commonwealth at War, by A, F.
Pollard, Professor of History at the Uni-
versity of London—Thoughtful essays
and speeches on Britain and the war,



MEASLES CASES INVESTIGATED



Undergraduate Committee Appointed

To co-operate with Dean Taft in investi-
gating the cases of measles patients un-
able to pay the full amount of the In-
firmary expenses. A. Landon ‘19, L.
Davis ‘20, and L. Ward ’21, have been
appointed a committee of three by the
President of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion.

A petition for exemption from the fees
for deferred examinations is being drawn
up by the students who were in the In-
firmary during midyears.

K. SHARPLESS CLASS COLLECTOR

K. Sharpless has been elected the 1918
class collector for the Alumnew Associa-
tion.

chewing gum, are among the attractions
‘of the evening.



RABBI WISE SCORE! ES PEACE-MONGER AR’

aoe
Declares Soul “of World Is at Stake
Chapel last Sunday night, Rabbi Stephen
Samuel Wise, of the Free rc
New York, warned his audience against
the dangers expressed in his text: “Peace,
peace, when there is no peace”.

“No greater wrong,” he said, “could be
done to the spirit of our people and of
our associated nations than to allude to
the present struggle as ‘just another war’.
We have not gone to war. We have been
challenged to safeguard the sanctities of
life and we dare not refuse. The soul of
the world is at stake.”

“Granted that we could trust the word
of the Central Powers,” continued Rabbi
Wise, “peace to-day would leave the
whole of Europe under the shadow of
Prussia. We have no hatred of the Prus-
sians, but we have a deep conviction that
God has given it to each people to live
its own life, and this conviction Germany‘
must accept.”



BATES HOUSE PARTY SATURDAY



Only Free Thing on the Campus

The Bates House Party, advertised as
“the only free thing on the Campus”, will
be given in the gymnasium on Saturday
evening. A drama entitled, ‘A Week at
Bates”, in which many of the original
performers will appear, dancing, and re-
freshments consisting of peanuts and

Miss Virginia Deems, who managed
Bates House during the summers of 1915
and 1916, will speak on the founding of
Bates and its work.

COLLEGE GOES ON WAR RATIONS
(Continued from page 1.)
The amounts specified in the rations
are those per week per person.

Bryn Mawr College Food Ration

Meat—Beef, fresh and salt; Pork, fresh
and salt; Bacon, Ham, Sausage; Mutton,
Lamb, Veal, 2 lbs. Fish, Oysters, Clams,
Crabs, Poultry, Mushrooms, Cheese and
Nut Dishes_ being substituted as fre-
quently as desired to supplement the
Meat Ration.

Butter—For Cooking and Kitchen Fats,
% lb. Butterine, Lard Compounds, Olive
Oil, Cottonseed Oil, % Ib.

Wheat Flour—In combination with
other flours and cereals, 50 per cent.

For Gravies, Sauces and Soups—Corn-
starch or Rice Flour as much as neces-
sary.

Bread—Made according to regulations
of the Food Administration, 2 Ibs.

Sugar—% Ib.

Milk—As much as desired.

Cream or Top Milk—As much as de-
sired. ¢- |

Vegetables, and especially Potatoes,
Dried Fruits, Fresh Fruits—As much as
desired.

This ration is in exact accordance with
the volunteer system recommended by
the Food Administration of the State of
Pennsylvania.

NEW YORK SETTLEMENT WORKER
SPEAKS AT COMMUNITY CENTER
Miss Schain, assistant head worker of

the College Settlement in New York,

spoke at the last regular monthly meet-
ing of Community Center workers.

The speaker at the last monthly sec-
tional meeting of library workers was
Miss Helen Lathrop, demonstrator in art.

Miss Dickinson, graduate student, has
taken over the classes in story plays at
the Community Center.

FACULTY SPEECHES RALLY
WORKERS FOR PATRIOTIC FARM

(Continued from page 1.)
Registration cards for student workers
were collected last Monday, but applica-
tions may still be filed with Miss Ehlers
or with M. Peacock ‘19. Students who
registered before March 4th will be given
the preference as to time they are to

‘In a stirring war sermon preached in|

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second quotation from the enbbicediag ia

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vicinity, you will find that practical ex-
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use no more coal during the months of
January, February, and March, and in
many cases also in April, for supplying
their total requirements of heating and
electricity than they would for supplying
their requirements of heat alone. This
is such a well-known fact that it is hardly
disputed by unbiased engineers.”

Royalties for 1920 Service Corps
The Sophomores’ patent on skits trav-
elling from hall to hall to make money
for the Service Corps, will net them a 10
per cent royalty on profits from produc-
tions of the 1918 movie corporation,

should the Seniors infringe on the patent
by starting on circuit.

Money-making schemes have been pat-

‘ented by all classes with the Red Cross

and Allied Relief Department.





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wounded, he said, “poured in clad in rags
and tatters,—brave fragments of brave
men.” One man told him he had lain
helpless in a shell hole for thirty-six
hours, parched with thirst. After almost
superhuman effort he managed to find
his water bottle, only to discover that it
had been pierced by a bullet long before.

Major Watt emphasized the absence of
religious difference at the front. At one
time, he said, he shared his billet with a
Jesuit priest, and the soldiers called
them the “Confederated Societies of
Peter and Andrew”.

Speaking of the sensation of being un-

der shell-fire, Major Watt stated that one |

morning he awoke to find an unexploded
shell lying on the doorstep of his billet.
He described the stillness that reigns in
“Snipers’ Land”, or the front line, as

“more intense than the silence inside of |

a tree.” “That is the place,” he said,
“where to keep your head on, you must
keep it down.”

COLLEGE TO CLOSE AS USUAL
Small Minority Want Shortened Term

The project of closing college early has
been dropped. 248 undergraduates and
38 graduates registered their disapproval
in an investigation conducted by a War
Council Committee, stating that no work
they planned would suffer on account of
finishing the full college year.

The minority of 35 undergraduates and
3 graduates who approved the plan regis-
tered as needing the extra time for war
work.

CALENDAR

Friday, March 8

8.00 p. m.—Freshman Entertainment in
‘the gymnasium. Benefit of 1921’s Serv-
ice Corps Fund.

Saturday, March 9

8.00 p. m.—Bates Party in the gymna-
sium.

Sunday, March 10

6.00 p. m.—Vespers. Leader, Miss
Anne Wiggin, of Spring Street Neighbor-
hood House, New York City.

8.00 p. m.—Chapel. Sermon by Mr.
Robert E. Speer, Secretary of the Pres-
byterian Board of Foreign Missions.

9.15 p, m.—Denbigh Sitting-room. Dis-
cussion of Fosdick’s “Meaning of Prayer’.

. Monday, March 11

Water-polo matches begin.

8.30 p .m.—President Thomas at home
to the Senior Class.

Wednesday, March 13

7.30 p.m.—Lecture on “Comparative Re-

ligions”, by Kate Chambers Seelye '11.
Friday, March 15

8.45 a. m.—Announcement of European
Fellowships.

4.30 p. m.—Gymnasium Contest,
vs. 1921.

6.00 p. m.—Fellowship Dinners.

Saturday, March 16

9.00 a. m.—Senior Written Examina-
tions in French.

8.00 p. m.—Piano Recital by Constance
Rulison ‘00, under the auspices of the
Music Committee.

Sunday, March 17

6.00 p. m.—Vespers. Leader, E Hough-
ton ‘18.

8.00 p. m.—-Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Charles P. Erdman, of the Princeton The-
ological Seminary.

1920

Treasurer of the “Red. Cross and “Allied
Relief Department, which is managing the
Varsity Fund, at a Service Corps com-
mittee meeting last week. Part of this
sum was left from the proceeds of last
semester and part made this semester.
Proceeds from entertainments last se-
mester totalled $3225, $10 less than spe-

| cial canvasses, said Miss Kellogg in.sum-

a|Marizing the first semester’s contribu-
tions. Gross receipts were $6586.13 and
total disbursements were $4751.10, leav-
ing a balance of $1835.03. The largest
gifts were $3000 to the Students’ Friend-
ship War Fund, $285 to the Armenians,
and $250 to the Main Line Branch of the
Red Cross. Other payments were for
wool, Christmas kits, and general running
expenses,

This semester the. Varsity Service
Corps Fund has received $1234.87 in cash,
of which Mrs. de Laguna, secretary of
the department, collected $122 from the
‘Faculty.

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Earnings Will Go to Red Cross
With a cash balance of $6.30, to be
given (as advertised) to the Red Cross
and Allied Relief Committee, the Inter-
World International Letter Company has
gone out of business. The “company” has
functioned for a little over a month, sup-
plying customers with letters from dis-
tinguished men and ghosts, at the rate

of twenty cents apiece. ,
Extensive advertising by means of pos-
ters and sample letters served to elicit
orders from both students and Fac-

Shakespeare, Robert W. Chambers, Dido,
and several local celebrities were re-
quested and punctiliously supplied. The
personnel of the organization, for some
time mysterious, was M. Worch ‘18, J.

liamson '20.
“Tip” Finds “News” Lacking in Abandon

The last production of the Letter Co., a
communication from the Editors of Tip
to the News, follows:

Office of Tip.
To The College News:

In reply to your request for the higher
criticism, we would make the following
comments, however diffidently offered:

Though your publication could not be
expected to have the delicate abandon,
and the joie de vivre of its more polished
contemporary, still it might be hoped that
it would strive to emulate the suavity of
its elder sister. Instead of treating of
such esthetic experiences as the shadow
of the spoon on the cup, and the high
light on the green pea, you descend to
the vulgar trivialities of the War Council.
But perhaps an abortive effort to convey
something of the aroma of the tea-cup
which pervades the Little Publication in
the Yellow Cover exists, grossly ex-
pressed, in your advertisements of Mrs.
Miller’s. Your most striking weakness,
however, lies in your editorials. Refined
criticism can hardly be applied to efforts
which are characterized by such puerile
lucidity. Your readers, unlike ours,
never enjoy the mental stimulus which is
conveyed in the haunting lines:

" Then I am in pain

to think how to unthink that thought
again.”
Sincerely yours,
Editors of Tip.

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Trveste Tuesday for Speakers’ Bureau

'| Candidates for the Patriotic Speakers’

| Bureau are asked to come to the Library,
| Room 7, at 8 P. M.,, next Tuesday evening.
The subject for the four-minute speeches
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; urged to try out.

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