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NO “NEWS” FOR

Owing to the Easter Vikcution the next
issue of the News will appear April 11th
instead of April 4th.



“There Was a Sound of Revelry by
Night”

* “Aunt Desdemona, is this the music:
‘hall?” asked little Rachel as she walked
‘with her aunt down the campus one

“No, that is the gymnasium. All the
beauty, wit, and song in the college are
gathered there this evening,” replied her
aunt.

A burst of sound sii their ears.

“Ah,” little Rachel drew in her breath.
“What is that?”

“That is the Glee Club rehearsing.”

“Oh.” Little Rachel passed her hand
over her brow. A look of pain flitted
over her face. “Glee Club,” she mur-
mured, “Why do they call it that, Aunt
Desdemona?”

“Come away, Rachel.”
evaded the question.
“Oh, Aunt Desdemona, listen. People
must be fighting behind this door. Do
you suppose it is the philosophy club?”

“No, child. That’s the members of the
News board, talking in their native lan-
guage. Talking, scolding at each other.”
Aunt Desdemona was very fond of Long-
fellow. ‘Come away,” she added.

Little Rachel looked disappointed until
a third sound became distinguishable.
“There must be a zoo downstairs,” she

Her aunt

cried. “Hear the sea lions roaring!”
“Sh. That is not a zoo. It is water-
polo.” ae ees
The child looked blank. - ep olo,” she

gaid, “Polo Pasha?”

Aunt Desdemona sighed. “Really,”
she began, Then “Let us go down,” she
said.

They walked to the edge of the pool.

“That must be the captain on the bank.
J have always heard they wore oilskins.”

“No, that is the coach,” said her aunt.
‘Don’t stand so near; they'll splatter
your spectacles.”

Little Rachel wanted to ask what a
_ @oach was, but decided. it was ill-bred.

“See the girls over there whistling,”
she said. “They do it all the time, but
they don’t look happy at all.”

“They are whistling for fouls,
child.”

“But I don’t see any,” she cried. “Mine
always came when I whistled to them
anyway.”

Suddenly the lights went out. “That
is the signal to stop water-polo,” said her
aunt. “It is the only way of hinting to
all these people to go home.”

Little Rachel sighed. “I have always
heard one had to be very firm with those
who have obsessions,” she said.

my



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 will make you love us all before
the year is done.” Thus 1921 confidently
sang at the beginning of the year, and
we had Nopes. If such was their inten-
tion, some of its members have adopted
very strange methods to accomplish this
end. We do not quarrel with them for
being “fresh”, because unlike most







NEW FRENCH MOVIES
ILLUSTRATE WAR LECTURE

Films Are inlieniiii Fes.

A private showing of moving pictures
of reconstruction work in France, taken
by French army photographers, will ac-

‘company Dr. Florence Wright’s lecture in

the gymnasium the Friday night after va-
cation. As the moving pictures are to be
released later to the public by a film com-
pany, no admission will be charged. A
collection for the Service Corps will fol-
low the lecture.

Miss Wright has neon working with
Miss Arnine Morgan at Blérancourt under

e American Fund for French Wounded,
and has returned to fill Miss Morgan’s
speaking engagements. She is interested
in raising an army of American farmers
to work in the reconquered areas of
France,

DR. ROSS EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE
OF INTERNATIONAL THINKING



“Personal adjustment to God, repre-
sentation of the strongest intellectual life
in the college, and an international out-
look, should be the ideals of the Christian
Association”, said Dr. Ross in tracing the

ciation at a meeting of the cabinet last
Wednesday evening.

Dr. Ross went on to emphasize the im-
portance of the Federation Committee,
which is connected through the Y. W. C.
A. with the World’s Student Federation,
and said that this committee should exert
a stronger influence in developing inter-
national thought in the college.

BISHOP OF PENNSYLVANIA TO
PREACH HERE APRIL 6TH



The Rt. Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander,
Bishop of Pennsylvania, will preach here
the Sunday evening after vacation.
Bishop Rhinelander was Professor of the
History of Religion and Missions at the
Episcopal Theological School in Cam-
bridge, Mass., from 1903 until he was
made Coadjutor Bishop of Pennsylvania
in 1907. He was consecrated Bishop of
the Diocese in 1911 and the year after-
ward the degree of LL.D. was conferred
on him by the University of Pennsyl-
vania.

GOVERNMENT “KITCHEN” TO BE
OPENED



War-time recipes are to be tested and
standardized in the new official kitchen
in Washington by representatives of the
Food Administration and the Department
of Agriculture, according to the Commit-
tee on Public Information.

A small building near the Department
of Agriculture will house the laboratory.
“Recipes from all over the country will
be tried and their nutritive value thor-
oughly tested.”

Suffrage Club to Hear Mrs. Slade
At an open meeting of the Suffrage
Club, Friday afternoon, April 5th, Mrs.
Francis Louis Slade (Caroline McCor-
mick ex-96) will speak on War Saving
Stamps. Mrs. Slade is head of the War



Savings Campaign in New York.



development and the ideals of the Asso-|-

very easy if I had the time, if I took the

‘| time from the ‘liaison work’ (so called!),

in which my knowledge of France imme-

diately involved me, and -from my re-

searches for the New Republic. As to the

| former, I have nothing whatever to’ show

for it, but it has taken much energy and
many hours: finding this French person
for that American and vice versa, trying
to bring certain American authorities and
certain French together and help in get-
ting their ideas ‘across’ to each other;
listening to French criticism and Ameri-
can criticism and passing it along tact-
fully, etc. I have seen quite a little of
the Publicity Department of the Civil
Affairs Department of the American Red
Cross, but had to refuse an offer to give
them half-time. Yet they have taken a
certain amount of solid time! Through
Gertrude Ely and Martha McCook, who
are at the head of the woman’s side of
the Y¥. M. C. A; and very powerful in the
inner councils, I have followed their prob-

lems, more or less. They have asked me

to lecture or talk to the ‘boys’ on French
subjects, and Arthur Gleason is also
anxious to have me write an article of
‘constructive criticism’. All this I surely
mean to do, want much to do, but have

hot yet had time for. The speaking trips

are fearfully tiring and can’t be combined
with anything else. I should like im-
mensely to give a solid month or two to
them, and that is what they would like.

“The army meanwhile has got me in its
toils. I had some letters from Washing-
ton, which, combined with the name of

le plains his work to-me; and I, of course,

dinad.st the vaheus teebek ‘Then I also

‘saw the training camps and lunched with —



officers of the line along the way. Then
they (i. e. the top of the General Staff)
decided they wanted me to see the whole
thing and would send me down the ‘line
of communication’ to the base port, in
order to be able to describe for America
the problem of the army from the sea to
G. H. Q. But at that point I picked up a
purely American grippe germ, which gave
me a long siege, partly in an army hos-
pital. I am only just all right again. It
has lost me six or seven weeks’ work, at
least effective work. I am now on the
point of starting on the delayed trip,
which I shall make partly through the
good offices of the American Red Cross,
thereby getting material for a Red Cross
article. Dr. (Major) Lambert (‘medicin
chef’) is taking Mrs. Borden Harriman
(sent over by the Council of National De-
fense) and Miss Ruth Morgan—and me.
I am very incidental, but a seat in a
limousine n’est pas & refuser here and
now! The army cars are very, very cold,
and the trains are hours late and un-
heated. Between the Y. M. C, A.‘and this

very thorough official view I’m getting I

ought to know a great deal about the
army, and it is absorbingly interesting. —
Then again, of course, half the problems
are Franco-American and need very nice
interpretation if they are not to offend.”

In connection with the liaison work
which Miss Sergeant describes, she has
published an article in the New Republic
of December 29th, entitled “America
Meets France”.



SILVER BAY VESPERS COMBINE
HUMOR AND SERIOUSNESS



Athletics Described and an Objection to
Silver Bay Refuted



The humorous and serious sides of ten
days at Silver Bay were described at Ves-
pers last Sunday evening by E. Biddle
19, M. L. Thurman '19, and M. Ballou ’20.
M. M. Carey, as head of next summer’s
delegation, led the meeting.

“What you get out of Silver Bay,” de-
clared M. L. Thurman, “is not the emo-
tional appeal that makes you want to sing
hymns, but the opportunity of ten days’
plain, unadulterated thinking about fun-
damentals. The sort of person who will
get something out of the Conference is
the person who wants to have some be-
lief, who thinks of religion from some

other angle than the ‘it isn’t so’ point of

view.

“One must be ready to put up with any
inconveniences at Silver Bay, As one
girl said, the place where we lived was
built in seven days and we arrived on the
sixth.”

M. Ballou told of the sports that take
the place of classes in the afternoons.
The various colleges compete in tennis,
basketball, rowing, swimming, etc., for
the athletic championship of the confer-
ence. “Right after dinner,” said M. Bal-
lou, “there is a sort of magnified Senior
singing, when each delegation tries to
show off its best college songs.”

An objection sometimes raised against
Silver Bay was met by B, Biddle, leader
of last year’s delegation.

“Some people say,” she declared, “that
in this year of war we have no right to
spend time and money on a luxury like
Silver Bay. But Silver Bay is not a lux-



ury. As Mr. Ross said, three things are



more important than food and ammuni-
tion and these three are faith, hope and
love. I cannot guarantee that you will
come away from Silver Bay enriched with
these, but I am confident that you will.”
Facts About Silver Bay

The Silver Bay Conference begins June
2ist and lasts ten days. Expenses, in-
cluding carfare from Philadelphia, can be
covered by $35. A paper has been posted
in Taylor for the signatures of those who
are fairly certain they would be able to
go. The delegation of twenty-six will be
chosen after Easter.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ruth Cheney ex-’18 (Mrs. Thomas
Streeter), has a son, born March 25th.

R. Hickman-’19 and M. Morrison ‘21
won the Glee Club poster competition and
will each receive two complimentary tick-
ets to the performance. R. Hickman will
make six posters for the halls, and M.
Morrison, the program cover.

Dr. Fenwick spoke to the History Club
last Thursday on international recon-
struction, and the establishment of &
court of arbitration after the war.

V. Kneeland ’18 has taken the place of
J. Brown '21 as Lord Loam in the Varsity
play, “The Admirable Crichton”, J.
Brown is the naval officer instead of J.
Peabody 19.

To reduce the expenses of Commence-
ment the following changes have been
made: The Class of 1920 will give up the
college breakfast usually given in Com-
mencement Week to the Senior Class and
returning Alumn@w; the Seniors will ex-
change to one hall for their class banquet
instead of having a caterer; and R. Hart
18 will supply the class tree from her
farm.

The Freshman Entertainment netted
$235 for the Service Corps.