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‘The College News





VoutumME IV. No. 22

BRYN MAWR, PA., APRIL 18, 1918

Price 5 Cents





VARSITY PLAY VENTURE—OLD
FAVOURITES AND NEW STARS



Costumes of the Period Secured for
Barrie’s “Admirable Crichton”



Barrie’s “Admirable Crichton”, the first
Varsity play ever given at Bryn Mawr,
will be presented tomorrow and Saturday
evenings in the gymnasium. Alice Har-
rison ’20, in the title rdle, and Lois Kel-
logg ’20, as the heroine, Lady Mary,
make their first appearance at college.
Virginia Kneeland ’18, Lord Loam, played
Beau Brummel last year when 1918 gave
Clyde Fitch’s play of that name as their
Junior-Senior Supper Play; Sarah Taylor
19, Lady Agatha, was the heroine of
1919’s Sophomore play, “The Scarecrow”.

The costuming has been managed with
strict economy. Beautiful dresses, genu-
inely of the period, 1870 to 1880, have
been borrowed for the principal women’s
parts. Only the men’s costumes are
rented, those of the women servants hav-
ing been made by the committee. Old
scenery sets have been repainted and no
new ones bought.

“Crichton”, a Comedy of Character

In “The Admirable Crichton’ the in-
terest lies not so much in situation as in
character. A. Harrison, who managed
1920’s Freshman Show, has in Crichton a
part capable of interesting interpreta-
tion in its presentation of the impene-
trable mask of a butler, and its later rev-
elation of the man of poised command.

The first scene shows Crichton, with
the other servants in the establishment
of Lord Loam, being entertained at an un-
comfortably formal tea to satisfy my
lord’s philosophy of equality. Thence, by
a whim of fortune, various of the charac-
ters are transported to a tropical desert
island, a “state of nature”, where equality
proves even less possible than in London.



NEED FOR WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT
WORK, TOLD BY OFFICIAL



Best Approach to Washington Through
Stenography, Declares Miss Lathrop

The positions open to women in various
departments of the government, were dis-
cussed by Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of
the Children’s Bureau of the Department
of Labor, in Taylor, last Friday night.

“The best approach to government
work in Washington,” said Miss Lathrop,
‘is through the examinations for stenog-
raphy and typewriting, which are held
twice a week at Washington and once a
week in the large cities. No high degree
of skill is required to pass these examina-
tions.

“According to the chief examiner of
the Civil Service Commission, with whom
I talked some time ago, college girls must
be warned that they will have to be hum-
ble, at first, if they wish to apply for
clerkships. But there is a real demand
for people who can take responsibility
and have initiative.”

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CHIMES OF NORMANDY
By the Glee Club
MAY 3 AND 4, IN THE GYMNASIUM

Tickets from M. Tyler, Denbigh Hall





PURSUED ON SLEDGES BY GERMANS

Susanne Allinson '10 in Stockholm



News of the escape from Russia of Su-
sanne Allinson ’10 (Mrs. Henry Emery),
has come to her friends by cablegram
from Stockholm. Mr. and Mrs. Emery
left Russia last month and went first to
Helsingfors, Finland. From there they
tried to escape to the islands on sledges
and were pursued and overtaken by the
Germans. The men of the party were
sent to Germany to be interned and the
women were allowed to go on to Stock-
holm.

Cablegrams from Mrs. Emery announce
that she is sailing with friends, probably
this month, and that she has had “good
news” from Germany of her husband.
Mr. Emery was in Russia as a representa-
tive of the Guaranty Trust Co. When he
was imprisoned a protest was made to
Germany by the State Department.

ALUMNAE TELL HOW TO GET A
JOB AT WEEK-END MEETING

Enthusiastic Speakers Point Way to
Success in Many Varied Fields



Round table conferences in the fields
of law, medicine, education, and other
vocations, were held last Saturday in the
hall sitting-rooms. Most of the speakers
were alumne, successful in their various
lines of work, secured by the Appoint-
ment Bureau in co-operation with the
Registration Department of the War
Council.

Psychology Applied to War Work

Margaret Free ’15 told of the use of
psychological tests in the army for rating
the men as to their proficiencies in their
various trades. This field may best be
approached through work in the psy-
chology department of some vocational
school, Miss Free said.

The testing of soldiers for suscepti-
bility to shell shock was indicated as a
war opening by Clara Pond ’14, field
worker in the Psychiatric Clinic of Sing
Sing Prison. Lorle Stecher ’12, psychol-
ogist at the Children’s Hospital, Randall’s
Island, New York City, outlined positions
in schools and children’s courts involving
testing for feeble-mindedness.

Educational Theory Important
The importance of educational theory

as a foundation for teaching, was shown |

by Miss Castro, Professor of Education
and Director of the Model School. Susan
Fowler ’95, of the Brearley School, Edith
Hamilton °94, of the Bryn Mawr School,
and Mary Breed ’94, of the Carnegie In-
stitute of Technology, also spoke on
teaching.

Outlines Editorial Qualifications
“To be really fitted for editorial work
one should specialize in everything, but

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EXTENSION OF VACATION CHECKS
EPIDEMIC OF GERMAN MEASLES

Quarantine to Prevent Recurrence



The action of the Faculty, taken at the
recommendation of the Health Depart-
ment, in extending the Easter Vacation
from seven to ten days, gave three cases
of German measles time to develop before
the students’ return to college. One case
has broken out on the campus since the
vacation.

To prevent the recurrence of the epi-
demic the college has been quarantined
against going to the village.



E. BIDDLE, PRESIDENT OF THE
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

M. M. Carey Fills New Position of |

Junior Advisory Member

By a large majority, Elizabeth Biddle
"19 was elected president of the Christian
Association last Thursday evening. Miss
Biddle was treasurer of the Association
during the past year and secretary the
year before.

The other members of the new board
are M. Tyler ’19 vice-president, M. Hardy
’20 treasurer, M. M. Carey, junior ad-
visory member, and S. Marbury ’21 secre-
tary. Nominations were made at a meet-
ing of the Association the Monday before.

M. Bacon ’18, retiring president, out-
lined, in her report, the work of the As-
sociation during the year, and _ the
changes in organization, which were: the
release of the Belgian Relief and Red
Cross Committees to act as an executive
department under the War Council, the
nomination of officers at a meeting held
previous to the meeting for election, en-
larging the board to include a junior ad-
visory member, and the sending of a dele-
gation to the June Conference at Silver
Bay.

MISS HELEN FRASER RETURNS

Will Give Individual Interviews On

War Work for Women

Tonight, at 7.30, in Taylor, Miss Helen
Fraser, of England, who spoke at Bryn
Mawr in December, will talk on “Wom-
en’s War Work’”.. She will speak on
farming, in Chapel, tomorrow morning.
Conferences with individuals, and open
meetings with the Food Conservation





Department and the Education Depart- |

ment of the War Council, will be held to-
morrow morning in Denbigh.

The Liberty Loan will be Miss Fraser’s
topic, from 7.30 to 8.30 this evening. Miss
Fraser has had experience working for
the Victory Loans in England. She will
speak on Women’s War Work, from 8.45
to 10.

The Friday morning program is: Den-
bigh, 9 to 10, open meeting with the
Food Conservation Department; 10 to
10.30, open meeting with the Education
Department; 10.30 to 12, individual con-
ferences for which an appointment list
will be posted.

COMPETENT B. M. FARMERS
INVITED TO VERMONT



Alumna Offers Board and Wages

An invitation to ‘any competent farm-
ers in the Bryn Mawr squad” to spend
part of their summer on her farm in Ver-
mont, has come from a Bryn Mawr
alumna, Mrs. William Handy (Dora
Keen ’96). The wages will include “board
and as much more as the workers are
worth’; and the work, running tractors,
gardening, poultry, and other jobs suit-
able for women. Mrs. Handy writes:

“We have a lovely old brick house for
them to live in, the foreman’s wife being
willing to board them there. Our busy
season will begin May ist, and continue
for six months. We are beautifully situ-
ated, ten miles from Woodstock, and we
have as few hot days as anywhere, with
nights nearly always cool, and a river to
bathe in.”

Mrs. Handy asks applicants to write to
her at Beulah Farm, West Hartford, Ver-
mont.



COLLEGE LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA
$20,000

First Rally in Taylor Yesterday

The Bryn Mawr Liberty Loan Ccmmit-
tee will make every effort to get the stu-
dents, Faculty and staff to subscribe the
college quota of $20,000 in Liberty Bonds
and thereby win an Honor Flag. To get
an honor flag, at least ten per cent of the
college must subscribe the quota. The
Liberty Loan Booth will be open every
day next week from 8.30 to 12.30, in the
morning, and from 2 to 3 in the afternoon.

Speeches were made at the first Liberty
Loan Rally in Taylor yesterday afternoon
by Mr. H. L. Whittemore, vice-chairman
of the Main Line Liberty Loan District,
and Captain C. N. Curran, R.N. Captain
Curran was taken prisoner when his ship
was captured by the German sea raider
Moewe and kept in a German prison for
six months. After escaping he served
eleven months in the British trenches
and then was detached for Liberty Loan
work here.

MRS. SMITH OPENS LOAN CAMPAIGN
WITH STIRRING SPEECH
IN CHAPEL



Must Make Sacrifices or Be S!ackers

“If we don’t make sacrifices now, we
shall have to know ourselves slackers all
the rest of our lives,” Dr. Marion Parris
Smith declared, appealing for the Liberty
Loan, Monday morning, in Chapel.

“IT don’t think that as a college we have
waked up as we should,” she said. “We
have not so far given up anything—it
looks mighty like ‘Business as Usual’.
I know we are doing our ‘bit’,
but that bit has got to be bitter.”

The fact of not having finished paying
for the second Liberty Loan does not af-
fect subscribing to this, Mrs. Smith urged.
The third ‘oan runs for a year. When
subscriptions-to the last loan are finally
paid off, eight months will be left to pay
for this one.

The government needs at least four
billion dollars more than it is asking for,
Mrs. Smith stated. This means that the
loan must be greatly oversubscribed.

FIRST LECTURE OF PATRIOTIC
FOOD COURSE THIS AFTERNOON



Food Production Subject of Dr. Huff
_A lecture on “Food Production”, by Dr.
Huff, this afternoon at two o’clock, will
begin the patriotic food course on the
“Physiology of Nutrition’. The course,
which will consist of weekly lectures, fol-
lowed by laboratory demonstration, is
open to the whole college.

Next Thursday, Dr. Henry S. Pratt, of
Haverford, who was on the American
Commission in Belgium under Mr.
Hoover, will speak on “Food Distribu-
tion’, Speakers secured for other weeks
are Dr. Brunel, on “The Chemistry of
Food”, and Miss Baer, of the Home Eco-
nomics Department of Drexel Institute,
on “Feeding the Growing Child’.

The laboratory demonstration will be
prepared by. the class in Major Biology,
which began a special study of nutrition
last Monday.

Election for Head Proctor, Monday

Gertrude Steele ’20 was elected secre-
tary, and Julia Peyton ’21 treasurer of the
Self-Government Association, for the year
1918-19. The elections for head proctors
begin next Monday.

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