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Entered as sceund-claes matter September 26, 1914, at
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“Early to Bed, Early to Rise . ..”

Killing the Freshmen with kindness is
an unexpected reproach to lay at the
doors of the upperclassmen and Sopho-
mores. It seems hardly fair to blame the
welcoming parties of the older classes for
the sins of 1921, itself not the first
Freshman c'!acs to burn the midnight oil.
Freedom from parental restraint or board-
ing school regulations seems every year
to go temporarily to youthful heads. But
the longer we are in college the more
sleep we manage to get. In this respect
at least we grow wiser as we grow older.
It would be a pity then to inflict « Jights-
out rule on three classes who can be
trusted to use their discretion for the an-
nual benefit of those not yet adjusted to
college life. Such a rule for Freshmen
alone would be almost as bad. It is up to
1921 to acquire quickly a little premature

wisdom and save Bryn Mawr from an in-
fringement of that personal liberty that
marks the difference between college and
boarding school.





Before It Is Too Late

What the first week of quizzes is to
bring forth in marks it is difficult to say.
What it has brought forth in attendance
at the Red Cross workroom is startlingly
evident. Thirteen, literally a baker's
dozen, was the average attendance last
week. This may show a laudable change
of heart toward study. The vision rises
of every undergraduate room bright (or
smoky) with midnight oil, and of three
or four candidates for the European Fel-
lowship, each so brilliant that the selec-
tion of one is defied. Then comes the
actual appearance of the workless work-
room. How may these two be recon-
ciled?

Parallelism gives a clue. Studying and
Red Cross may be concomitant, without
interacting to the detriment of either.
“We haven't time”, the familiar cry rises
from every side. “Take the time”, is the
answer, not from academic work, but
from tea parties; not from preparation
for quizzes, but from unnecessary trips
to town.

“Take the time now’. In Tuesday’s pa-
pers appeared the first casualty list.

Self Government Chaperon List

The official chaperon list, made out by
the Executive Board of Self Government,
is to date:

Radnor—Miss Windle,
Misses Fabin, Frisbie,
graduates,

Denbigh—-Miss Ehlers,. warden; and
Misses Bausch, Drake, Goodall, Hart, Hib-
bard, Lorenz, Patch, Powell, Ross.

Pembroke East-—-Miss Thomas, warden;
Miss Smith, assistant warden; and Miss
Butler.

Pembroke West—Misses Lester,
donald, MacMaster.

Rockefeller—Miss Nearing,
and Misses Byrnes and Flather.

Merion—-Miss Hawkins, warden.

Cartref—Miss Breidablik, graduate.

Llysyfran—-Miss Ford. .

Penygroes—Miss Nichols,
Noyes.

Mrs. Abernethy’s—Miss Rand,
Lanman, and Miss Terrien.

warden; and
and Vaughan,

Mac-

warden;

and Miss

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| To the Editor of The College News:

_ We voted down May Day two weeks | bed”, wrote Henri Larroque, a sergeant in
the 418me, who ‘was wounded last No-



ago because we wanted to give up every-

| thing and bend all our energies toward
War Relief. We have abolished class

plays on that account and we did away.
with the seats on Lantern Night in order
not to waste material in war times. Oc-
casionally, we spend an evening rolling
bandages; we are having meatless and
wheatless days and we think that we are
doing everything in our power for the
war.

But we are under a sad delusion. As
long as there are three or four parties
during the week, breakfast parties on
Sunday morning and teas Sunday after-
noon, we are not giving to War Relief
until it hurts. President Wilson said
that we must give until it hurts and when
we bought Liberty Bonds we expected to
feel “hurt”, A few of us are, but the ma-
jority still feels the hurt of indigestion
more. Which comes first, our “ry or
ourselves?

Logical.

To the Editor of The College News:

stress put on “college spirit”. This state
of affairs is brought about largely by
Sophomore rules. Why should Fresh-
men be compelled to treat a Sophomore,
sometimes younger than she, with the
same deference she would use to an older
woman; and why should a Freshman
need to fee) flattered if a fellow-student,
who chances to have been here a little
longer than she, condescéends to smile
upon her?
Monica Healea, 1920.

BARREL YOUR PENNIES, ASKS
THE WAR RELIEF COMMITTEE |

“Join Your American Red Cross”

“Barrel your pennies for War Relief”,
the War Relief Committee has asked, dis-
tributing little wooden barrel banks for
mite boxes in each hall,

acknowledgment of the wool and gauze
requisitioned this year.
Membership in. the

American . Red

| Cross is in charge of L. Kellogg ’20, Pem-

broke West. She will receéfve the mem-
bership fee of $1 and sell the Red Cross
pins at 25 cents each.

PLAY AFTERNOONS START
TO-MORROW

News from the Community Center



At the Community Center Friday after-
noons will be special play afternoons this

to-morrow with Mrs. Arlett, B. M: Asso-
ciate in Educational Psychology, will di-
rect group games.

Economics and Food Conservation will
also be given this season, and on request
of the Red Cross, there may be a class in
textile weaving to train people who have
volunteered to teach blinded or otherwise
handicapped soldiers. coal

“Jane” Smith, director of the Center, is
looking for a leader for a second patrol
of Girl Scouts. The first patrol is led by
BE. Lanier ‘19.



Since the opening of college there has
been talk that the Class of 1921 is “fresh”. |
Why should there be any consideration | dies.
as to whether they are “fresh” or not? poth—legs off.
True, they are new to the college and | blood, which has formed a little lake in a
may need training in its customs; but it hollow of the ground, sends me off again.
would be much better to help them in || see my hands, all white, shaking, and |
friendly manner than to have as much | stretch myself out in the trench, for it
class antagonism between the odd and seems to me that all is over.
even classes as now exists in college. | | when I think of it, but I had the clear

There is a great deal of stress put on | impression that I was going to die.
what we call “class spirit’, but very little

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“wphree howks ‘ago 1 found myself in

vember at the Bois Saint Pierre at the
battle of the Somme, to V. Frazier ex-’18,

his nurse last winter at the American Am-

bulance Hospital at Neuilly. Larroque,
who was a young typesetter at Bordeaux,
lost his left leg, and is now nearly well
enough to wear the artificial leg bought

for him by the Bryn Mawr Red Cross

Committee last year. His letter is dated
February 25, 1917, and describes his ex-
periences after being wounded.

“For ten minutes”, he wrote, “I
searched feebly in my memory to remem-
ber what had happened. Mechanically I
raised the bed covers and I saw one leg
anchored in a tin gutter, the other ampu-
tated below the knee. I felt neither sur-
prise nor emotion, then I remembered
quite clearly the jumbled events of the
day before. An overturned trench, scme
comrades With whom I had been sharing
a meal, then a shell which landed in the
earth behind me, and then—another sheil.

_Iam projected two or three yards through

the air, and dropped. A comrade who
gasps is lying on top of me. I push him
aside and at that moment I believe he
I understand I have one—perhaps
The sight of the

I laugh

The stretcher bearers arrive, and there
is a journey of an hour through shell
holes, through mud, through water, in a
beating rain, and finally, behind a battery
of artillery, a dressing station. The doctor
arranges the right leg with splints,
shakes his head. An auto, sent
for on a hurry call, is there, and we start
on a fearful journey over a road which |
suppose to be riddled with shell holes, for
the jolts bounce me from side to side on
my stretcher—and it is not the most
agreeable sensation in the world. I begin
to feel that I am wounded.

At the hospital, when my stretcher is
placed on the ground, I notice a doctor

' who points me out with his finger. He,

| stretcher, put it back in the motor,

$100 has already
been contributed by the committee to the |
Main Line Branch of the Red Cross in|

also, shakes his head. They take my
and—
I must have fainted, for I find myself in
another hospital.

Three months to-day, and I am well on
the road to recovery. Moreover, I have
never again had any idea of dying. But
it was hard. I suffered for quite a long

while, especially at Amiens. Now I am

'eager for recovery, and in three months

winter, when different people, beginning ,

A series of talks for women on Home |

more I shall have nothing left of all this
but one less paw. and an unpleasant
memory”’.

DR. SHAW WILL ADDRESS OPEN
MEETING OF SUFFRAGE CLUB



May Send Delegate to Washington



Through the co-operation of President
Thomas and the Suffrage Club Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw has been secured to ad-
dress the college, November 23d, on the
subject of women’s work in connection
with the present war. For the last six
months Dr. Shaw has been chairman of
the Women’s Committee of the Council
for National Defense.

The sending of a delegate to the con-
ference of the League of Equal Suffrage
in Washington, December 15th, has been
approved by President Thomas and will
be done provided an invitation is re-
ceived.

The Science Club had reserved Novem-
ber 23d for a lecture by Dr. Alexis Carrel

of the Rockefeller Institute, but gave it |
up when President Thomas found it was |

the only date on which Dr. Shaw could |
come.



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o ‘okey Gent ea tenga iis Waa
Committee of the C. A. has decided this
year. Instead of making the budget and



then collecting the money, as formerly, it —

will collect. the money and then make the
budget. No War Relief money will pass
through the C. A.; it will all go through
the War Council.

New pledge cards for the budget are
being distributed this week. Pledges may
be’ registered on them for home or for-
eign organizations not on last year’s bud-
get. The C, A. reserves the right to apply
these pledges to a fund other than that
designated if too few people pledge.

Last year’s budget is printed on the re-
verse side of the card. The total was
$1585. A Federation Secretary received
$125, Miss Tsuda, a Bryn Mawr graduate
running a school in Japan; $100, Mr. Ton-
omura $200, Dr.. Grenfell $60, Summer
School $300, Bates House $500, Commu-
nity Center $200, and Delegates to a Con-
ference $100.

A. NEWLIN HEADS PHILOSOPHY
CLUB

The Philosophy Club elected A. Newlin
18, president, and M. L. Thurman ’19,
Secretary, at a meeting in J. Ridlon’s
room last Monday. Monthly meetings for
discussion, with occasional addresses by
members of the department, will be held
throughout the year in students’ rooms.
Dues of 25 cents a semester were voted
for refreshments.

Dr. De Laguna; who has been influen-
tial in bringing about these discussion
meetings, suggests that papers be read
by different students from time to time.
Several open meetings are also possible.
Those taking Minor or Major Philosophy
are eligible to membership.

HARVARD “LAMPOON” CENSORED

The whole edition of last week’s Har-
vard Lampoon was recalled shortly after
its issue, because of a joke directed at
one of the Allied European rulers, and the
offending passage ‘deleted by censor”.
The joke was not intended to be in any
way insulting, but the editors felt that it
might be regarded as such by the sub-
scribers in the trenches,

Story by English Reader in “Atlantic”

Miss Cornelia Throop Geer, English
Reader at Bryn Mawr, had a story,
“Pearls Before Swine”, in the October
number of the Atlantic Monthly.







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