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Copyright, 1922, by THE CoLLEGE News







VoLUME IX. No. 2:

BRYN MAWR,’PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11,

1922

Price 10 Cents ‘





ATTEND SUMMER SCHOOL

Literature, Music, Science Artiong






The following article on
School of 1922 is the first of\a series of
articles the News will run ring the
winter, by. Miss Hilda W. Smith, former
Dean._of. the -College,-and now: Director’ of
Bryn Mawr Summer School for
Women Workers in Industry. The articles

Questions, Courses, Special Features, and
School Organization.”
The Students and their Adjustment
40 the School
By H. W. SmirxH
~ For the first time this autumn there is
on the campus a group of undergraduates
who are able to give at first hand some-
thing of thARtory of the Summer School
df 1922. YEven though some of them are
more familiar with the experiences of the
first month, and others with the last part
of the summer, each one was a member of
the School community long enough to come
get some idea of
the educational problems which faculty and

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spirit of the group as a whole. That 'the |
experiment of including a small number |
of undergraduates on the staff» ofthe,
School is a success no one can doubt who

‘watched them from day to day, -going to |

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a eign-born group and nuthbered -16. The
-remaining 13 students born abroad came

‘in the manufacturing,of garments, includ-

-a thi
-of labor organizations.

classes -with the workers, attending faculty |

“meetings, supervising swimming and ath- |

letics, coaching dramatics, leading singing, |
and in ways too nuterous to mention fill- |
ing many gaps in the dajly life of the}
School. It was dye to the committee of |
undergraduates organized last year that the |
rooms in Denbigh and Merion were left in |
such good order for the summer students, |
in many cases. so attractively fur-
nished. The knowledge that this year the |
“Winter Students” had not only loaned
their curtains, cushions “dnd« pictures, but
had also raised four scholarships for the
School, made the Summer School students

realize in a new way that they were a part |”
.of Bryn

Mawr and that there was a
friendly relation between the two student
groups.

As contrasted with the previous year this
group of students was more homogeneous,
more adaptable, and on the whole younger.
Most of the important racial elements in
American society today were found repre-
serited in the student group. More ‘than
two-thirds of the 98 students. (69) were
born in this country, but half of these na-
tive born Americans (34) were,the chil-
dren of fathers who were born abroad.
The Russians were by far the largest for-

from nine different countries. The ages
of the students ranged from 18 to 40 years.
More @han three-quarters (7) were be-
tween 20 and 30 years.

" In the summer of 1922 most of the stu-
dents were employed in eight industries or
groups of industries. ~Thirty-ofie worked

ing men’s and “Women’s clothing and such
miscellaneous branches as millinery and
neckware. Another large group (13) was
drawn from the textiles. Six of the stu-
dents had left actual employment in in-
dustry to become leaders in trade and labor |
org izations. Thirty, or slightly less than
of the total number, were members
These were found}
chiefly in .the .garment industries, where
the 21 union. members constituted a | large}
oe

Ninety-eight students—ten this year from
the South and eight from the Pacific



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CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BOARD
DISCUSSES YEARS’. PROGRAM

Only Two Drives to be Held rm
Charity Organizations





Yéarly. drives arid plans for maid’s
classes were discussed, at the first meeting
of the Christian Association Board last
Thursday, and various new sclfemes” re-
ceived ‘approval.

Only two finance drives will be held
this year. “The ‘first. includes: the- complete
Association Budget, and the second, held
in’ the spring, will probably be for Bates
House. No separate drives such as those
for Red Cross, or Student Friendship will
be allowed. However, if the Association
as a whole, wishes to contribute to’ such
organizations, it will include them in the
budget.

During the membership drive, which will
begin on October 26, the Board decided to
have its members explain the aim of, the
Christian Association to the Freshmen. of
halk and personally. distribute — the
pledge cards.

Classes ‘for maid’s will be conducted
under an entirely new system this’ year.

Instead of haying, students give classes
in the evening, the College will provide

each

a tutor fot. each two maids and the stu-,

dents will: be responsible for the maids’

attendance.



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ENGLISH COACH EXPLAINS
CKEY STROKES

Miss Arn#held, who played against Bryn
Mawr on the English Hockey team last
; fall, and coached the players at the Hockey
Camp, gave a demonstration of how a
| hockey stick should be used to first and
second teams on the gymnasium roof last
Saturday afternoon.

In spite of the rain and a wet, slippery
roof! Miss Armfield ably. illustrated the
correct method of stepping and driving a
ball. Stickwork, taught along lines used
by Miss Armfield at the Hockey Camp, will
be practiced regularly once a week by
evety team in College during the coming
season.

Tea was later provided by the Athletic
Board for Miss Armfield and the under-
graduates who had been to the’ Hockey
Camp. Folk dances, including, “Black
Nag,” “Peascod,” “Picking up Sticks,” all
old friends of the camp, were danced be-
tween intervals of iced tea. :

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FIRST VESPERS OF SEMESTER LEAD
BY DOROTHY. MESERVE

“College means a new freedom, an op-
portunity to stand on one’s own feet,”.said
D. Meserve, President of the Christian
Association, at the first Vesper service of
the season. : :

“Students ought not to consider college
as a preparatory school for a triumphal
entrance into the world,” she continued,
“then four years spent at college are four
of the mést valuable years of life. What
the graduating students take with them is
just what they have been willing to make
their own. The best possible life, -unceas-
ing effort,” she concluded, “they owe, not
only to themselves, but to the college as

well.”



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DR. ‘CHEW PLANS FIVE LECTURES
“ON BOOKS OF OLD TESTMENT
“Avseries of five lectures on Old Testa-

ment literature will be given every Wed-



nesday evening, beginning October 25, by
Dr. Chew, under sain 3 of the Christian
Associaton : ¥

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Bt. Sar” Se .

SGHOLARS FROM SIX FOREIGN
COUNTRIES HERE THIS YEAR



Norway, China, Holland, Italy, F rance
and England All Represented -T



More foreign countries are represented
at Bryn/Mawr this yeat than usual, for
Norway, Holland and Italy are added. td
the customary list... '

As ustial, Great Britajn leads with three
gradyates, ‘Ellas Ashdown, Persia CC.
Campbell; and’ Gwenyth © D: ~ MacIntosh.

Miss Ashdown is B..A. London,. 1915; has
taught in Peterborough and Canbridee,
and in 1921 took her M.A. at the Univer-
sity of London. Here she is working in
English, and her comment on America is
that-she finds it much more likeshome than
she expected; Miss MacIntosh, who _ is
of Girton College, ‘Cambridge, compared
American and English colleges at some
The American “undergraduate is,
she said,’ freer in some ways, but not as
far as her work is concerned, or her ath-
letic activities, which latter in England are
organized bythe students .themselves. In
England, the distinction between the differ-
ent classes is not so great. and any rules
on the subject. are “unwritten rules.” Eng-
lish students, of course, are allowed to
smoke in theit own rooms and,‘ on_ the
whole, Miss MacIntosh said, they eat more.
A. favorite pastime is’ “Jag,” %n enormous
meal of ¢ocoa and doughnuts, which takes
place.at quarter past nine.

France comes next in numbers with two
scholars, Henrietta Pierrot and Madeleine
Felix. Miss Pierrot studied in Paris and
has her M.A. degree from the Sorbonne.
She is*taking up social economy in Bryn
Mawr. Miss Felix is from Toulouse, but
has already spent one ‘year at college in
the United States. In eomparing . the
French and American student she finds
the former more analytical, the latter more
intimate.

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MANY BRYN MAWR STUDENTS
_ WORK AT BATES HOUSE



New Vegetable Garden Supplies Fresh
Vegetables for Children

Bates House, open from Junie 9 to Aug
ust 2, had a more successful season. this
summer than last.

There were on an average five to six
Bryn Mawr workers every week at [ong:
branch, and many of them stayed two_o1
three weeks, which helped make the ‘rou:
tine run more smoothly than if they had
been there. but a short time. M. Faries
24, and E. Howe, ’24, were at Bates alli
summer in the capacity of permanent Bryr
Mawr workers. Miss Elsa Lotz, as last
summer, was the children’s director, and
Mrs. Romano acted as housekeeper. The
vegetable garden, started for the first time
proved a great success, furnishing plenty
of fresh vegetables for the children.

The opening week thepmnissionary ladies,”
ladies who attend the missionary society
of Spring Street Church, were at Bates
House... The.-children-- who came imme-
diatély' after them. were in three groups
those of the nursery and kindergarten age
and two groups of children from seven tc
twelve.

Bryn -Mawr students who worked at
Bates House were: M. Buchanan, .'24; S
Wood, '24; J. Dodge, ‘25; M. Steers, '25;
M. Pierce, "25; J. Coombs, 725; M. Bonnell
‘$5: -R. ‘Tubby, '243 O: Howard, ’22; M.
Voorhees, ’22; V. Grace, ’22; H. D. Potts.
25; D.-Shipley,..’25;..E. Mathews, '23; C

Miller, °25; FE. Hinkley, 725; E. Hale, ’24;

E. Dean, ’25; E. Howe, ’24; and M

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C. A. RECEPTION HELD IN

* ‘TRADITIONAL MANNER



Poetic Intréduction of Speakers by
President Association iEnlivens

. Evening



As usual the Christian Association re-
ception, on Saturday night, began with gn
endless line of people waiting to go dowit
the line. ‘This accomplished,
everyone sat. the floor’ in
manner and Dorothy Meserve, the Presi-
dent of the Association, welcomed the new-
comers and introduced President Pag as
the chief speaker of the evening.

recei Vv ing
on

Beginning on the humorous note Presi-
dent Park soon passed to a more serious
consideration of the Christian -Association
and what she hoped it meant in the -col-
lege life. As a practical organizatién she
felt it should give opportunities for coping
with the business details of life—how to
hire caterers ‘and pay bills—but it should
also be a means for giving to. its members
the time, the opportunity, and the inspira-

tion of getting to know the great minds

of the world through their writings ‘and
teaching. ;

followed President ‘Park
veginning of the Chris-

Dean Bontecou
and. described the
tian
she was a Freshman at Bryn Mawr by the
combination of -the two rival organizations
for_-practically.. the same purpose. .which
flourished then. :

The rest of the speakers were introduced
in poetry, Florence Martin, first, who was
chosen—

“To head the Undergrad., and do
All of the work we ask her to.
But she is wonderfully fit

To be pr esident of it.’

Miss Martin described*the work of the
Undergraduate Association, that it whistled
people off the grass, regulated their cuts
and, ina word, took. care of -all-the things
other ‘associations at-
tended to.

The Self-Government Association was

| ushered in by a long poem on the fate of

one.Anna Lehr, who, disobeying rules, went
to sleep on the upper campus. and was
killed by a falling limb,
“The moral of” which was “beware

Of all the infirm trees that grow

Upon the upper campus. Woe

To anyone who will not do

As Self Government tells her to

For every rule is for her good

And would protect her if it could.”

Julia Ward, President. of the -Self-Gov-
ernment. Association, spoke urging the sup-
port of the Freshmen and entering grad-
yates, all of whom are ipso facto members
of the Association,

H. Rice, who spoke next for the Athletic
Association, was introduced greatly to -the
surprise ‘of the Freshmen as one who
“Although she is no acrobat’ = =
And though her strength test is below,
The average as. the strength tests go,
And though she could not possibly,
Play.on'a-college yarsity,

Yet she has what is known to be
Executive ability;

With lots of pep she carries through,
Whatever she sets ‘out to do,

So when she rises now to say,
Her little speech, just this I. pray,
Be gentle in your epithet

She was the best that we could get.”

Miss Liteinger, ’20, then spoke, as presi-
dent of the Graduate Clib; she welcomed
the new graduates and explained . briefly
the activities of the Club.

The last speaker was Miss Applebee,

“This college would arias

Without her asa pining mate.”

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