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No “News” Next Week i
' On account of Thanksgiving vacation
no News will be published next week.
The next issue will appear December
13th.



Four Left in 1920 Competition
As a result of the cut made in the News
competition for editor from 1920, four
Sophomores, M. Ballou, M. R. Brown, M.
Train, and H. Wolf, are still competing

out of the seven who started. The. win-

ner will be announced before Christmas.

——

“The Brightest of the Hockey Stars . .
The college this year has had reason



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to be proud of the 1917-18 Varsity hockey

team, and to congratulate Captain Bacon
upon her successful eleven. When at the
first practice eight weeks ago only four
players from Jast year’s line-up took the
field, as the nucleus about which a team
must be formed, there were those who
feared for the fate of Varsity hockey. It
seemed almost impossible that so much
raw material could ever be whipped into
shape, But it was worry wasted. The
team which faced All-Philadetphia last
Saturday morning is proof of what can be
accomplished in two months by the untir-
ing work of coach and captain, as well as
by the efforts of the individual players.
The decided victory in the biggest game
of the year comes as a fitting climax to a
satisfactory season.



Every sensible person must greet with
delight the decree of the government
against the adoption of American ‘“‘fil-
leuls”. From marraine to mariée is evi-
dently not the slogan of the War Depart-
ment.



Dr. Leuba gave voice to a popular senti-
ment last week when he censured the
students who were whispering through
morning Chapel. Attendance at Chapel
is a voluntary act and those to whom
conversation during the last fifteen min-
utes before lectures is essential have no
reason for coming.

The apotheosis of the feminine at-
tempted by suffrage speakers has re-
ceived a blow. .The “trained mind of the
college woman”, by reference to which
Dr. Shaw flattered her audience last Fri-
day, sometimes exists less in fact than in
fancy. For there has appeared nothing
astonishingly trained about the minds of
the college women who have been regis-
tering for war work at Bryn Mawr. The
registrars guide them at every step,~but
still they underscore where they should
make circles.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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



To the Editor of The College News:
I wish to correct the statement which

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Peryreiprecsely wuldb i ths poubent ‘yest
of increased expenses is not to be con
sidered. ‘

I am very sorry that the mistake oc-
curred and I realize that it was as much
due to my own hasty correction of the
‘proof as to faulty reporting.

HELEN TAFT, :
Dean of the College.

SOPHOMORE RULES UPHELD

fo the Editor of The College News:
Sophomore rules are just what young
resumen who stalk the campus with the
aiv of “Hail, the conquering hero comes”!
need to tone them down. Why should a
custom firmly planted by years be sud-
denly uprooted because certain misguided
undergraduates feel that the youngest
class is being downtrodden? Each suc-
ceeding class kicks back the dust into the

vther’s face, and are not Sophomore rules |

iuore appreciated by Freshmen when
iney realize that the next year they too
will be promoted to the distinction of
being waited upon?

Furthermore, this limited subservience
requested by the three upper classes
should be counted as “all in the college
life’ by the Freshmen. If it is a breach
of etiquette fov a Freshman aged twenty
to rise for a Sophomore aged nineteen,
why not pass a law that a private in the
army, when meeting an officer a year or
more his junior, need not be obliged to
salute, but may wave his handkerchief in
a sweet and friendly way?

A Sophomore.

KREISLER AND INTOLERANCE
To the Editor of The College News:

The fact that Kreisler, through the in-
temperate criticism of jingoists and
would-be patriots, has been forced to can-
cel his American concert tour, is one of
the most deplorable results of too strenu-
ous Americanism. The refusal of New
York to listen to Germian opera and the
ridiculous proportions which the discus-
sion over Dr. Muck and the national an-
them assumed are only less serious in-
stances of the same intolerance.

The need of waking up to the great
emergency of war is preached by every
speaker. A word on the need of calming
down the kind of war spirit which drives
artists from the stage would not be out
of place. They cannot do better than fol-
low the advice of Secretary of War
Baker: to “exercise a curative influence
by preaching the doctrine of tolerance, by
exemplifying the fact that it is not neces-
sary for a nation like the United States,

which is fighting for the vindication of a’

great ideal, its purpose by

hatred”.

to discolor

Marian O’Connor.



WAR RELIEF FIRMS LISTED—ROCKE.-
FELLER LEADS WITH SIX

One grocery store, one T-shirt agency

and sixteen smaller firms for War Relief

have been listed and authorized by the

'Red Cross and Allied Relief Department.

Shoe-blacking, shampooing and errand-
running are the favorite industries.

| Rockefeller has six firms, more than any

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News of two weeks ago.
to the committee of Juniors with whom
I discussed the oral tutoring classes (as |
was stated in The News) that “if the
prices were lowered the classes would |

probably be no better than those last |
I have no reason to suppose that |abroad was trained at Haverford under
the oral tutoring classes last year were the Friends’ Service Committee, of which |
What I said | Dector Jones is chairman

year.”

mot perfectly satisfactory.

/ vacation.

|other hall, and the only grocery, maga: |

zine and gift shops.

Dr. Jones to Preach After Vacation
Rufus M.

| Corporation and chairman of the Board
of Directors of Bryn Mawr.

The first reconstruction unit to go



Jones, author and professor |
I did not say | of philosophy at Haverford,, will preach |
_here the Sunday after the Thanksgiving |
Doctor Jones is president of the |

wounded and is now permanently dis-
charged. He is in this country as official
lecturer of the Alliance Francaise.

To illustrate the slowness with which
war news is given out in France, M.
Boucher said that, when lying wounded
in a hospital five days after the battle of
the Marne, newspapers prophesying
heavy fighting in that sector were read
'to him. The only way the army corps
stationed about Verdun early in the war
knew of the German army’s approach
upon Paris was that the circle of burning
villages, creeping further and further to
the east, finally came between them and
the setting sun.

M. Boucher’s official lecture topic is
modern French music.





IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM

Recollections, by John, Viscount Mor-
ley. Versatile reminiscences of literary
and political England of the last fifty
years, especially interesting for the au-
thor’s appreciations of the many eminent
men with whom he was associated.

. Manual of Good English, by H. N.
MacCracken, Ph.D., President of Vassar
College, and Helen E. Sandison, Ph.D.,
Bryn Mawr '06, Instructor of English at
Vassar. A guide to good use in writing
English, suitable either as a text-book or
reference work.



, *| we tallied ant. Oo. Sk Dial of Soe
ie uc | fessor Creighton, of Cornell, and written
{ aay of tan Gent, Woe ak one to Plantae

and later to Verdun. He was twice



by his former associates and pupils, Mrs.
De Laguna’s article is entitled “The
Limit of the Physical,” and Dr. De La-
guna’s, “The Relation of Punishment to
Disapprobation.” Mrs. De Laguna also
has an essay on “Phenomena and Their
Determination” in the Philosophical Re- .
view for November. —

.M. Beck has been asked by the Ameri-
can Folk-lore Society to direct a critical
edition of Canadian folk-songs. The
Musée Victoria of Ottowa has also in-
vited him to make a study of the rem-
nants of Iroquois literature.

The current number of the Journal of
Theology contains an article by Dr. Bar-
ton on “The New Babylonian Material
Concerning the Creation and Paradise.”

A canvass for the Armenians will be-
gin after Thanksgiving. The Silver Bay
delegation contributed over $90 to Ar-
menian relief.

D. ‘Lubin and J. Peyton have been
elected the freshmen members of the
Red Cross and Allied Relief Department
of the War Council.

D. Carns has been appointed the fresh-
man member of the Food Production De-
partment of the War Council.

Wykeham Rise is making trench can-
dles. Seeing the article on trench can-
dles in the News, the school wrote for
directions to H. Hobbs, ’18, who is in
charge. Seventy have been made to
date.



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