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“The best war work you can do is to
‘stay in college and train yourselves to
meet the problems that will arise after
_ the war,” was the advice given to Bryn

Mawr. by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who
spoke in Taylor last Friday evening on
“Woman Suffrage and the World War.”

“It is impossible to talk of women’s pa-
triotic service,” said the famous suffrage
leader, “without speaking of woman suf-
frage. Our soldiers abroad are struggling
for the same principle that we ure. They
are going to Berlin to fight for democracy.
We are going to Washington for it. We
will get it together.”

Need for “Four-Minute” Women

“Not a woman capable of rendering any
line of service has a right to occupy space
in this country if she is not giving back
value for the space occupied. College
women with trained minds and well-
poised characters will be needed to help
in the reconstruction that is bound to
come in this country after the war. One
of the immediate needs, to fill which we
expect to draw on the colleges, is for
‘four-minute women’ to give short public
talks on patriotic subjects.”

Touching on the recent successful cam-
paign in New York, Doctor Shaw con-
tinued:

“If we had given up our efforts at the
beginning of the war, we would have had
no such victory. But although the suf-
fragists in New York have won now after
eight years of steady work, they are not
going to give up. They are going to work
for the Federal Amendment. I have no
doubt that it will go through this winter,
and if*that is the case, the women of
Pennsylvania will vote for the next Presi-
dent of the United States.

“It is not true that all women are nat-
urally pacifists. Women voters have no-
where weakened the Government. In Can-
ada the only province to oppose conscrip-
tion was the one where the women did
not vote on the question. Women are
ready to do their part and do it loyally.”

URGES INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM

Dr. Leuba Speaks in Chapel

Taking Patrick Henry’s famous phrase,
“Give me liberty or give me death,” as a
point of departure, Dr. Leuba, Professor
of Psychology, spoke in chapel last
Wednesday morning on the value and
meaning of intellectual freedom.

People are so bound by convention
they cannot even dress in the most beau-
tiful or the most economical way, he
maintained. To break away from hard
and fast tradition and really think for
themselves was the goal he set for hon
est and intelligent college students.

FREEDOM NOT ALWAYS VALUABLE



Work for Big Issues, Says Dean Taft

“In many things it is not worth while
to have freedom,” said Dean Taft in
chapel Thursday morning, qualifying the
statements of Doctor Leuba the day be-
fore.

“If you dressed as you liked, you would
probably have to fight about it all your
life,” she continued. “Even if you were
allowed to have your way, it would cost
you too much time.
should think about the things most worth
while and not try to develop individual-
ity along every line.

“The early suffragists insisted on wear-
ing bloomers, and consequently did a great
deal of harm to their cause. If women
of this generation are to be leaders of
thought, as women have not been in the
past, they must give up contention for
small points and bring forward points in-
teresting both to men and women.”

HOW “SAMMEE” ORIGINATED

A French officer's version of how “Sam-
mee” originated says that when the
Yankees arrived in France the French
soldiers cried out, “Voici nos amis”, but
the Americans took it for “Voici nos Sam-

mees!"

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PROBLEM OF COLLEGE STUDENTS



By Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War

. (From the Patriotic News Service of
the National Committee of Patriotic So-
cieties, Washington, D.

When the call to national service arose,
spirited young men everywhere of course
wanted to be employed in a patriotic way,
and I suppose there is scarcely a young
man in any college in the country who
has not very anxiously addressed to him-
self the question, “What can I do”?

I think that there is no general answer
to this question. * * *

To the extent that the men in college
are physically disqualified, or to the ex-
tent that they are too young to meet the
requirements of the department, it seems
quite clear that in the present state of
the emergency their major usefulness lies
in remaining in the college, going for-
ward with their academic work. The
knowledge that the students will acquire
at college will equip them for subsequent
usefulness if the emergency lasts until
their call comes.

But we do not want to kill enthusiasm.
We want to preserve enthusiasm and cul-
tivate it and use it; but we do want to
be discriminating in our enthusiasm, and
prevent people getting the notion that
they are not helping the country unless
they do something different. * * * The
largest usefulness may come from doing
the same thing. * * * Our colleges
can exercise a steadying influence in this
regard.

We are going to have losses on the sea;
we are going to have losses in battle; our
communities are going to be subjected
to the rigid discipline of multiplied per-
sonal griefs, bg s ° and we
are going to search the cause of
those back to their foundation, and
our feelings are going to be_ torn
and our nerves made raw. There is
a place for physicians of public opinion
to exercise a curative impulse. The
young men who are in our colleges, who
go to their homes from our colleges and
make up a very large part of the direction
of public opinion, can exercise a curative
influence by preaching the doctrine of
tolerance, by exemplifying the fact that
it is not necessary for a nation like the
United States, which is fighting for the
vindication of a great ideal, to discolor its
purpose by hatreds or by the entertain-
ment of any unworthy emotion.

PARIS MAY HAVE BRYN MAWR CLUB



Herbert Adams Gibbons Gives
Lunch for Workers in France
Fourteen relief workers, representing
classes from 1899 to 1917, met at an in-
formal Bryn Mawr lunch given by Mrs.
Herbert Adams Gibbons (Helen Daven-
port Brown ex-06) in her Paris studio on

October 2ist. Each person described

Mrs.



Women especially |

what she had done since leaving college
and what she is doing now.

It is probable that some restaurant will
be chosen as a Bryn Mawr rendezvous, to

which the workers may come whenever

possible without adding a definite engage-
ment to their overcrowded time.



Dr. Ferree and Dr. Rand have an article |
on “The Power of the Eye to Sustain
Clear Seeing under Different Conditions |
of Lighting” in the October number of the |
Journal of Educational Psychology, and
another on “Radiometric Apparatus for
Use in Psychological and Physiological
Optics” in Series No. 103 of the Psycho-
logical Monographs.

Seniors! Notice! Help for Orals

Mile Pourésy and Mile. Fabin (35
and 51 Radnor), French scholars,
would like to spend the Christmas va-
cation in the same or different fam-
ilies. They offer French conversation
or reading in return for board, resi-
dence and traveling expenses.

Tae. COLLEGE NEWS



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NO AMERICAN FILLEULS,
SAYS WAR DEPARTMENT



“Gansta ‘Siebert tlaapeieres oan

No personal godmothering of American
soldiers with whom one is not acquainted,
the War Department and the Woman’s
Committee of the Council of National
Defense has decreed. The Department
will not furnish names, as is often re-
quested, says the Public Ledger.

“While the War Department appreci-





—

ately deeply”, explains Mrs. Philip Moore,
chairman of the Health and Recreation



Department of the Woman’s Committee, —

“the fine spirit in which the women are —

offering to write to the soldiers at thé
front, the experiences of France and Eng-
land have proved that the plan ultimately
works more harm than good. General
Siebert, an American officer under Persh-
ing, has recently issued a statement from
France to this effect, showing his marked
disapproval of the idea”.



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