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College news, March 7, 1918
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1918-03-07
serial
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 04, No. 18
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BMC-News-vol4-no18
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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|
“Fifth Ave. at g5th St.
New York
will display at
MONTGOMERY
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THURSDAY and
FRIDAY
MARCH 21 and 22
The
Spring Fashions
of the
College Girl
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TAILLEUR SUIT S—Evi-
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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PAULTLESSLY CORRECT
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-
sieres.
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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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PETTICOATS, NEGLI-
GEES and SILK UNDER-
WEAR in shapes and shades
new and charming.
IMPORTANT ODDS AND
ENDS for the costume that
singles out.
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