College news, February 19, 1919

In celebration of ‘the opening of
gymnasium, on Washington’s Birthday
ten years ago, the Athletic Association
will give a dance for its members Satur-
day evening. Marjorie Young ‘08 and
Cynthia Wesson ’09, presidents of the as-
sociation during the planning and build-
ing of the gymnasium, have been invited
for the occasion. The orchestra will play
and refreshments will be served.

Bryn Mawr’s first gymnasium was a
red brick building built just over the
swimming pool and about the same size.
In February, 1908, the Athletic Associa-
tion undertook to raise money to enlarge
this. They soon found that mere enlarg-
ing would not be satisfactory, and in
three months collected $20,000 toward a
new gymnasium, President Thomas rais-
ing the extra $13,000 necessary to com-
plete the fund.

The corner-stone was laid the following
autumn, and the gymnasium opened on
February 22, 1909. As members of the
first class that had drilled in the old gym-
nasium, Miss Martha Thomas ’90, Miss
Harriet Randolph ’89, Mrs. J. M. Harris
(3. Weygandt ’89), and Mrs. W. C. Ladd
(A, Rhoads '89), were given seats on the
platform at the formal opening.

The leaded windows in the gymnasium
were given by the Class of 1912 in its
freshman year.

H. JAMES ‘21 SILVER BAY LEADER

Helen James ’21 has been chosen leader
ot the Bryn Mawr delegation to the Y. W.
CG. A. cofference at Silver Bay in June.
Miss James was in the Bryn Mawr dele-
gation to the conference last year and
was Bryn Mawr’s tennis representative.

The rest of the delegation will be
chosen later in the spring, after an op-
portunity has been given to all who are
interested to sign. Bryn Mawr is limited
to 25 delegates.

———————
ADVERTISING COMMITTEE
NEW ORGAN OF ¢. A.



Committees of Publicity

Work

An advertising committee to be a clear-
ing house for all Christian Association
publicity has been appointed by the C.. A.
board as follows: J. Holmes ‘19, D.
Smith '20, E. Cope ’21, and J. Fisher '22.

Bates House and Silver Bay are among
the immediate activities to be adver-
tised. The new committee will direct the
publicity work of all the executive com-
mittees.

A suggestion has been made that each
committee be responsible for a week for
the C. A. bulletin board in Taylor as 4
means of keeping its work before the
public.

The new advertising committee will
serve until this year’s administration
goes out of office. If it is then made a
permanent department, the new members
will be elected by classes.

CLASS PLAYS TO BE DISCUSSED IN
UNDERGRAD TOMORROW

Whether or not a Senior play will be
given this year depends upon the vote
of an Undergraduate meeting to be held
tomorrow. The whole question of class
plays will be discussed.

A new secretary will be elected and a
new Junior member of the Conference
Committee. Both of these position were
filled by Elizabeth Williams ‘20, who has
resigned for lack of merits.

1920's straw vote for secretary is D.

Will Relieve



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|To Benefit Graduate Service Corps Fund

Autographed photographs of President
Thomas are now on sale by the Graduate
Club for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps. The pictures were taken
by Charlotte Fairchild, of New York City.
There are two poses, one a profile view
of head and shoulders, the other a profile
view taken standing, with academic
gown. Each pose may be had in three
sizes, 4 by 6 inches at $1.50, 7 by 9 inches
at $2.50, and 10 by 13 inches at $4.50.

Pictures may be ordered by mail from
Margaret Monroe, Pembroke Hast, to
whom cheques should be made payable.
Ten cents extra will be charged for post-
age. ;

Students on campus may order from L.
Feder, Radnor; J. Hemenway, Merion;
M. Guthrie, Denbigh; E. M. Smith, Pem-
broke East; H. Adair, Pembroke West;
M. Halle, Rockefeller.

1920 Has Long Lead in Race For
Athleti rae

Largely because of the three records
broken by them, 1920 gained more points
from the swimming meet toward the all-
around athletic championship than did
the victors, 1921. The 38 counts which
fall to 1920 give them a total of 94 points
in the championship race. 1919, the near-
est competitors, have 44 points, none of
which were gained in the late meet.

Next to 1920, the Freshmen secured
most points from the meet, coming out
25 to the good, with a present total of
38. 1921, who made 21 points, stands
fourth with a total of 22.



THREE CHANGES IN CASTS OF
VARSITY PLAYS



Boxes an Innovation

Three changes have been made in the
casts for Varsity dramatics. In “The
Maid of France” V. Park '20 will play
“Blanche” instead of P. Norcross '22, and
M. Goggin ‘21, “Gerald” instead of D.
Chambers '19. In “Rosalind” E. Hobdy
will not take the part of “Charles,” but
her place has yet been definitely filled.

‘The lighting effects for “The Merry
Death” will be interpretive of the mood
of the play. Scenes and coloring are to
be fantastic. The color schemes have
been tried out with lights in the psycho-
logical laboratory by Dr. Rand.

Boxes, for members of the college only,
will be an innovation at both perform-
of the play. Scenes and coloring are to
of the gymnasium and raised from the
floor.

For costumes, the committee is R.
Hickman '19, M. L. Mall ’20, M. Morrison
21, B. Titcomb '22, and B. Hall *22.

Rehearsals, in the evening, will be held
in the non-resident clubroom in Rocke-
feller.



PHI BETA KAPPA WILL
COME BEFORE FACULTY



Three Years Minimum Time for Estab-
° lishing Chapter

The question of Bryn Mawr’s sending
an application for membership in Phi
Beta Kappa is to come before the Fac-
ulty. If they pass favorably it will then
be considered in an Undergraduate meet-
ing.

Members of the Faculty wlio belong to
Phi Beta Kappa will then decide upon the
college’s application. A chapter cannot
be established in less than three years,
according to M. L. Thurman, Senior pres-
ident, who has been investigating the



Clarke, 30: D. Pitkin, 9; M. Gregg, 5.

matter on behalf of the Senior Class.



Y, FEBRUARY 19, 1919

“BRYN MAWR REVIEW” TO
APPEAR IN MARCH

The new college magazine has been
christened The Bryn Mawr Review.
Contributions to the first number,
which went to press last week, in-
clude a cartoon, several poems, and
Tales of India and Hawaii by A. Or-
bison '22 and E. Hobdy '22.

The Review will make its appear-
ance the first week in March.



Miss Orbison is from Ludhiana, Punjah.
She came to this country five years ago
to prepare for college.

Miss Hobdy is from Honolulu, where
her father formerly had a government
position. She and D. Cook '22, whose an-
cestors were among the earliest mission-
aries, were prepared in Hawaii, coming
to this country just this fall.

M. Thurman C. A.’s Delegate

Informal Relation with Consumers’
League Voted
Mary Lee Thurman '19 will be the del-
egate of the Bryn Mawr Christian Asso-
ciation to the Y. W. C. A. conference at
Evanston, Illinois, which begins tomor-
row night and lasts till Saturday. Miss



Thurman was elected at a meeting of the |

Christian Association last Wednesday.

The amounts to be given to the various
items on the C, A. budget were fixed at
the same meeting. They are: Federa-
tion Secretary, $225; Miss Tsuda, $200;
Mr. Tonomura, $380; Dr. Grenfell, $200;
Summer School, §200; Bates House,
$1500; Community Center in Bryn Mawr,
$300; Dr. James, Wuchong, China, $100;
Armenians, $135.

The drafting of a set of election rules,
the remodeling of the C. A. library and
the possibility of an informal connection
with the Consumers’ League were other
questions considered.

A committee to draw up election rules
was voted and has been appointed by the
president as follows: D. Clark '20, C.
Taussig "19, and M. Lindsay ’20.

The estimate of the college Business
Office placing the remodeling of the C. A.
library at $137.50 was read by E. Tit-
comb, chairman of the committee. This
would cover tinting the walls and putting
in window seats. The matter of expense
will be investigated further. F. Day ‘19
reported that the books used in the recon-
struction class have been bought for the
Cc. A. library and that the college library
has offered to buy other books.

In the absence of a Consumers’ League
Chapter, which has proved impossible, the
Association voted that the Social Service
Committee embody it in its policy to se-
cure each year a Consumers’ League
speaker.



ENGLISH CLUB BROADENS SPHERE

Those with high grades in English lit-
erature as well as in composition courses
are now eligible for admission to English
Club, according to a decision reached this
week. The new conditions of member-
ship require a high credit in General Eng-
lish Literature and an 85 in minor or
major. As before, no student is admitted
before her junior year.

The new members admitted this semes-
ter under the old requirements are: H.
Conover "19, F. Fuller "19, R. Hickman
19, J. Wright "19, I. Arnold '20, D. Pitkin
"20.

Students entering English Club under
the new admission requirements are: F.
Day ‘19, A. Dubach ‘19, C. Hayman "23. C.
Oppenheimer ‘19, R. Ramsey : eS
Gookin '20, D. Smith ‘20, F. Von Hofsten
‘20






JUNIOR CAPTAIN WINS HONORS

Evens Shatter Five Records

Holding by one point their lead secured
in the first meet, the Sophomores carried
off the palm in the final swimming con-
test last Friday night. Winners of one
or more places in every event except the
relay, the red swimmers scored 37 points,
1920 coming in a close second with 36.
Third place went to 1922 with 24 points,
the Seniors securing 10 points in fourth.

Individual laurels went to the evens,
who broke five records and secured the
first two individual places. K. Townsend
‘20, who captured the championship with
24 points, clipped last year’s record of
33 4-5 seconds in the 136 ft. front swim
to 32 1-5 seconds. Her record made in the
first meet of 13 1-5 seconds for the 68 ft.
front remained untouched. .

Good Freshman material was disclosed
in B. Anderson ’22, who took all the hon-
ors in back swimming and came in second
in the individual championship with 20
points to her credit. Miss Anderson cut
down the former records of 17 3-5 seconds
and 41 seconds for single and double back
swim to 161-5 and 37 respectively. A
score of 12 points gave EB. Cope ’21 third
individual place.

The quality of the diving, according to
Miss Applebee, was the best ever shown
at Bryn Mawr. With the remarkably
high total of 42 points, E. Cope '21 tri-
umphed in the fancy diving, while H.
Spalding 19 carried off the form dive with
27.5 points. The plunge for distance went
to E. H. Mills '21 for her 53 ft. 9 im. of
the first meet.

In the interclass relay the Juniors out-
swam the Freshmen with a speed of
67 1-5 seconds, but failed to equal their 67
second record established the week
before.

Final results of the meet:



68 Ft. Front
M.. TOWMOON He oi ev eecccces 13 1-5 see,
K. Woo@ware Sl. ...5..0css0, 13 4-5 sec.
Dy EY TE bos Nc Gened steeds 16 sec.
Me OC 6 iss sce wee en ceee 15 4-5 sec.
68 Ft. Back
B. Anm@eraot "SR i. occ ices 161-5 see.
Bes WE Rn dis cde wccnvsuse 191-5 see.
Oe EE hs ccdobccccoceees 19 4-5 sec.
Be, DOWMRORG “DD occ cciccvaseses 20 sec.
136 Ft. Front
Mi, PE OE io caes ce cesee 321-5 sec.
a, WIE EE. sv .v 0 ccs ciees 33 sec.
= ere re 35 45 sec.
Oe MME cok cwsddcnesccueees 36 sec.
186 Ft. Back
De, NN “ER cc cscs ce veccee 37 sec.
DD OE is chabesececdeceea 43 sec.
Oe NR ied csecaceve ced 451-5 sec.
De RUN OO cb cca ndccddeveus 48 2-5 sec.
Plunge for Distance
Oi Oe, Be OE beh aeccecscays 53 ft. 9§ in.
Bi, TOTES ORD no's osc s0 ees ok. & &.
| 61 ft. 10 in.
Oe, We, PE SO ec ch ccctnn 48 ft. 6 in.

(Continued on page 3, column 1.)



ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON ITALY

An illustrated lecture by Harold Eber-
lein on “Italy in the War,” will be given
Friday afternoon at 4.15 in Room G, Tay-
lor, under the auspices of the History
Club. Mr. Eberlein has been working
with the American Educational Mission
under an embassy sent by Ambassador



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Varsity Dramatics ve. Class Plays
“The play’s the thing!” But shall the
play of the future be of the genus Varsity
or class? “Class spirit” and “opportunity
to draw out more material” are the war-
cries of the class play partisans. A
chance to know members of other classes
and better selection of material are of-
fered by the Varsity play. Then why not
? *
Three weeks of rehearsing a Varsity
, using the permitted eight hours a
could not so exhaust the perform-
they would be unable to take
in a class play. With judicious
planning, a Varsity play might be given
between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
with the Glee Club performance between
midyears and Haster vacation, still leav-
ing for class plays the early fall term and
the months after Christmas.

E

iE

Things as They Are

Affairs of “intersphere importance”
are often worthy subjects for discussion,
but occasionally it is well to get down to
earth and consider the problems and con-
ditions of the present. College people
delve into the past and think in theories,
but too rarely consider the living present
and the theories in practice.

A daily glance at the headlines of the
New York Times, although helpful, is
hardly sufficient. The reconstruction
course of the C. A. is showing things as
they are, pointing out how they should
be, and acting as a connecting link
between our strictly theoretical education
and practical life. It is bringing to light
Socialists and Bolshevists in our midst
and winning champions for almost any
party. The individuals of a “conserva-
tive Eastern college” are waking up and,
what is more, are daring to confess
their opinions, which is, moreover, the
first requisite of the art of conversation.





Noise Supreme

Excessive noise in the college halls at
Vassar has driven the students to reac-
tion. The Students’ Association has
passed a resolution “abolishing all ma-
chinery of hall management for a period
of six weeks.”

In an editorial, “Bolshevism at Vassar,”
the “Miscellany News” comments: “Since
no system—proctorless or otherwise—
has worked so far, the student body in
desperation has sensibly decided to give
anarchy a fair chance.”

Noise in the halls the editors pronounce
an evidence of “general lack of restraint
in the college.” “It may be narrowly con-
servative,” they admit, “to prefer a
dining-room wherein one doesn’t have to
yell to be heard, or where the napkin
rings in the water pitchers and the bang
of teaspoons flipped into glasses resem-
bles nothing except a collapsing tin-
shop.” Still, “in common decency,” they
conclude, “we should show some consid-
eration for the few*poor mortals who long
for quiet.”





member of the C. A. finds it difficult to
speak of exercise without bitterness. Yet
in all seriousness, why should not the

problem be sanely analysed in hopes of
a solution? The frailest undergraduate
will admit that she has no objection to
taking exercise five times a week—in-
deed, that she would willingly give her-
self that much refreshment, even were it
not required. But she does object to be-
ing compelled to take four of those
periods of exercise at fixed hours, which

‘makes. it next to impossible for her to

go to town during the week, or away over
the week-end. Nevertheless, she could
adjust herself to these hours, did they
not change so frequently as to keep her
calculating how to perform on Monday a
drill announced on the following Tuesday,
or get in four “organized” periods, the
first of which is available on Wednesday,
and use her ticket to the Orchestra be-
sides.

We know that the gymnasium authori-
ties are hard-worked and would probably
find it impossible to give us a greater
choice of hours for classes. Could they
not then reduce the number of organ-
ized periods required to two or three, al-
lowing a two-hour tramp or canter on a
cold day, or a vigorous hour of skating;
to equal the gentle half-hour trotting
around Radnor administered by the drill
captain, or even half an hour’s strenuous
folk-dancing?

Bxercised.

To the Editors of the College News:

Is there anything we can do to per-
suade Required Physical Exercise to get
on a basis that seems sensible and agree-
able? Every healthy, able-bodied person
wants exercise; but most of us resent
being forced to do certain, definite, set
things without seeing any rational pur-
pose. It is not less strenuous recreation
that we desire; but less red tape, less
formality, more real, vital, energetic ac-
tivity.

The present system of signing up four
periods of “organized exercise,” and of
always taking these in an exact, specified
costume, seems a great waste of time and
energy. Why is it of more physical value
to be forever putting on gym-suit, gym-
shoes, hockey-skirt, middy, what-not, ar-
riving at certain place on campus at
whatever hour is convenient to hall-
captain (once a Monday drill was not an-
nounced until Tuesday, and yet we were
held responsible), flinging arms about,
walking around in squads, spasmodically
bowing to the earth, being bored to death
for thirty minutes, and finally going back
and getting rid of hockey-skirt, middy,
etc.,—why is this, we say, of greater ad-
vantage than forty-five minutes or an
hour of vigorous outdoor skating?

But why not skate if you want to? No-
body is keeping you from skating. If you
are so fond of vigorous exercise, skate as
much as you like in addition!! This
sounds quite beautiful from one point of
view; but unfortunately Bryn Mawr is
not yet primarily a physical culture insti-
tution. Once in a while we have to go to
the lib., once in a while we must turn up
at a class, once in a while we have to dis-
sect a frog or find our color sensitivity.
If we register four “organized” periods a
week—when can we do real exercise?

Frightfully Furious.



Lois Kellogg,
Chairman of the Red Cross and Allied
Relief Department.



JUNIOR PROMENADE AT é
BRYN MAWR GREAT SUCCESS

Pembroke Decorated in Novel Way

Twenty years ago this month Bryn
Mawr’s first and last Junior Promenade
was solemnized in Pembroke. The form
of entertainment was restricted to con-
versation to slow music; there was no
dancing.

The guests, snowbound for nearly a
week, were entertained by concerts and
teas.

“Chronologically the concert of the Glee
and Banjo Clubs was the first of all the
events, coming on Friday evening, Feb.
10,” says the Fortnightly Philistine for
Feb. 24, 1899. “Great praise is due to the
members, and more especially even to the
leaders of both clubs, for the entertain-
ment on account of its success musically
and also because enjoyment was shared
by mankind in general and not limited to
the students of the college.

Basketball Game a Feature

“The basketball game on Saturday
morning, between the classes of odd and
even numbers, though rather amusing to
Bryn Mawrters whose sense of propriety
is outraged at seeing centres throw goals,
was, considering circumstances, well
played. The Sophomore breakfast and
Junior and Senior teas followed close
upon one another and rather seemed
parts of one continuous performance than
distinct social events.

“The Promenade was conducted with-
out a flaw, and if only it was as enjoyable
from the point of view of outsiders as
from that of ‘insiders,’ the Junior Class
can pat itself upon the head and whisper
in its own ear, ‘Well done.’ The experi-
ence which the Pembroke dining-room
must have experienced on Saturday night
was certainly most becoming to it. .
To remove the necessity of gazing the
entire evening upon the same laurel fes-
toons, however pretty they might be, a
Japanese room and a Dutch room had
been fitted up where wearied pedestrians
could rest for a small fraction of an hour.
It was much whispered about that some
people present would have been very
glad to vary the form of exercise, but for-
tunately the music was solemn and slow
enough to remove all temptations.”



SUNDAY WILL BE FEDERATION DAY
OF PRAYER

Sunday (Feb. 23) is to be a day of
prayer for the World Students’ Christian
Federation, one of the great world move-
ments for internationalism. No student
movement connected with the Federation
has collapsed during the war, but many
have deepened and extended, and work
among non-Christian students in Latin-
America and the Balkans has greatly in-
creased since the war. A. Landon ‘19,
chairman of the Federation Committee in
College, will speak at Vespers.





“We learn virtue,” Dr. Leuba emphasized,
“from the relation of man with man. To
suppose that we get morality from tran-

‘scendental beliefs is to put the cart be-

fore the oxen.” _

The exaltation of the dignity of the in-
dividual as one of the great values of
immortality was brought out in the dis-
cussion afterwards. Thousands of work-
ers have undoubtedly been buoyed by the
feeling that this little mélé is not every-
thing, said Dr. Barton. Dangers of belief
in immortality emphasized were a per-
version of values and despising of the
things of this world, and a toleration of
evils to which the hope of a future life
may lead.

Sunday’s Preacher Dr. Stewart

Dr. George Black Stewart, president of
the Auburn Theological Seminary, Au-
burn, New York, will speak in chapel Sun-
day night. Dr. Stewart is professor of
practical theology, and besides editing
the Auburn Seminary Review has written
two books, “The Life of Jesus for
Juniors” and “A Study of the Life of
Jesus.”



FOUR MEMORIAL TABLETS IN THE
INFIRMARY

Commemorating the gift. of the Infir-
mary to the college by the Class of 1905
and Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett, a
bronze tablet has been placed in the
waiting-room. Three other tablets com-
memorating gifts to the Infirmary have
also been put up. A second tablet in the
waiting-room has been put there by the
Class of 1905, which gave the furnishings
for the sun-parlor in memory of Margu-
erite Armstrong, Anna Clarke, Dorothy
Arnold, Anna Muller Prince, Lydia Moore
Bush, Jane Schoemaker, and Margaret
Whiteall.

The donor of the Infirmary sun-parlor
and terrace, John G. Waterbury, has re-
cently given a bust of his friend, Francis
D. Millet, and some prints of his pic-

. .|tures. A tablet noting these gifts has

been placed over the mantel in the sun-
parlor. To the memory of Elsie Sinclair
Hodge, who was a martyr at Pating Fu,
China, the Class of 1897 has erected a
tablet in the Infirmary hall.

Dr. Ferree and Dr. Rand Read Paper on
Ocular Functions in Aviation

Drs. Ferree and Rand read a paper en-
titled “A Study of Ocular Functions with
Special Reference to Aviation,” at the
twenty-seventh annual meeting of the
American Psychological Association, held
at Baltimore Decémber 27-28. The meet-
ing was devoted exclusively to papers on
war.
Recent articles by Drs. Ferree and
Rand have appeared in the Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society of
Philadelphia for 1918; the Transactions
of the American Ophthalmological So-
clety for 1918; the November number of
the American Journal of Ophthalmology ;
and the January numbers of the Psycho-
logical Review and of the American Jour-
nal of Psychology.








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1920 defeated 1921: 67 sec. |
1922 defeated 1919: 75 2-5 sec.
1920 defeated 1922: 671-5 sec.
SUMMARY OF POINTS
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Class relay . 10 ‘< <4
10 36 37 24

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MUSICAL NUMBERS WILL
MARK SENIOR-GRADUATE PARTY

An informal musicale will be the
Seniors’ reception to the graduates, to be
held in Rockefeller at 8.30 on Friday eve-
ning. Theodosia Haynes ’19 and Judith
Hemenway '18 will sing the duet from
The Chimes of Normandy, last year’s
Glee Club performance. Helen Huntting
‘19 and Katharine Tyler 19 will play the
piano, and Scotch and French songs will
be sung by graduate students.

ALUMNA NOTES
Olive Van Horn ex-’'11 is training in-
dustrial secretaries for the Y. W. C. A.
She spent ten months last year at the
Dupont plant at Hopewell, Va., in work
among the mountain girls employed in
the plant.

Helen Parkhurst ’11, Instructor in Phil-
osophy and Austhetics at Barnard, is also
lecturing at Smith College this winter.

Louise Fleischman '06 is studying oc-
cupational therapy at Columbia.

Janet Howell Clark ’10 is Instructor in
Physiological Hygiene at Johns Hopkins.

Zena Blanc '15 is sailing this month for
France, where she will do welfare work
under the Red Cross.

Doris Bird 717 is Instructor in English
at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.

Ryo Sato °17 is teaching chemistry,
physics and mathematics at thé Friends
School in Tokyo, where she was educated.
She is also chairman of the W. C. T. U.
and an active member of the Japanese
committee for relief work in Siberia.

Bleanor Bliss 04 delivered a paper on
“War Minerals as Effecting Peace Rela-
tions,” before the Geographical Society
of America at their recent meeting in
Baltimore. During the fall she made a
survey of Rittenhouse Gap Mines, report-
ing on the iron ores found there.

Lorla Stecher ’12 is Instructor in Psy-
chology at Barnard.

Blizabeth Lord ’14 is a reconstruction
aide at the U. S. Hospital, Plattsburg,
N. Y¥.

Gladys Spry '12 is working in France

in one of the Red Cross Hospital huts.

UNIQUE THEATRE AT VASSAR

Vassar is the first college to build a
theatre espressly for the study of the
drama. President MacCracken, quoted in
the Smith Weekly, says that, contrary to
the belief of some colleges, Vassar be-
lieves a study may be entertaining and
at the same time educational. The thea-
tre was built from the old museum for-
merly used as a riding school. Special
sounding boards have been installed

under the direction of the Physics De-
partment. :

gleaned from the asbhives
letic Association.
The records established in 1899 of 45

|seconds for the double Jength front swim

and 60 seconds for the double length back
swim, as compared with the 321-5 sec-
onds and 37 seconds in which K. Town-
send ’20 and E: Anderson '22 last week
overtook previous speeds, give some idea
of the distance college swimming stand-
ards have climbed in the past two
decades.

In 1904 there were only forty-one au-
thorized swimmers in college. The fol-
lowing year swimming lessons were es-
tablished and the first meet on the pres-
ent scale was held. That year the record
for the single front swim was 21 seconds
and the single back 25 seconds. Fancy
diving was not introduced in the meets
until Mr. Bishop began to give lessons
here in 1908.

In 1907, the record plunge for distance
was 30 ft. 5 in., over, 25 ft. less than A.
Thorndike’s record made last year.



SEEKS WAR SERVICE ABROAD IN
RED CROSS
Candidate from Camp Devens Tells

Qualifications for Work

Among the applications for positions in
overseas service with the Red Cross, the
following letter came into the headquar-
ters at Washington last summer. The
News vouches for the authenticity of the
letter, but regrets that it is unable to
print the reply made by the Red Cross
Bureau of Personnel.

To Whom It May Concern:
At the Red Cross,

Washington, D. C.

I want to go to Hurope. I have always
wanted to go, even before the war. I am
only eighteen, but I am old for my years,
and have had a good deal of experience
with men. I weigh 196 pounds, but am
light on my feet. I have a good appetite,
but think I would be willing to starve for
the sake of “our boys” over there if they
are short of food.

I understand the Red Cross sends
women over who want to do their bit. I
don’t speak French, but that don’t make
no difference, as I mostly want 'to help
our boys. I have a lot of friends in the
service and just love them all. Now keep
a moving picture house at Camp Devens
and I see a lot of the men that way and
know them all. They all want me to
come over. I have been a few times to
the First Aid class at our church so I
wouldn’t mind nursing the wounded, if
you wanted me to, or I would be fine in
one of those huts I hear about. I can
cook, sing, build a pie and make it real
homelike. Ma don’t want me to go, 80
write to me, not to her. I have my trunk
almost ready, and just let me know when
the next boat sails and I'll be there.
Shall I come to your office, or meet you at
the boat? I am very serious about this,
so please answer by return mail as I
want to get started.

Yours for Service.

P. 8.—Where shall I tell Ma to write
me and shall I bring my summer sport
clothes and my ukalele? I have $15
saved for spending money and suppose
the Red Cross will take care of me.



French Club Tea for New Members

Miss Schenck and Monsieur Beck at-
tended the French Club tea held in Den-
bigh last Thursday in honor of the new
members.

Mme. Arnaud may be secured by the
club to give a recital here of old French



songs.



E. Lanier '19,.
dike ’19, B. Weaver '20 and B. Cope '21.
Class captains and managers are: 1919
—E. Lanier, A. Thorndike; 1920—B.
Weaver, H. Holmes; 1921—E. Cope, W.
Worcester. |

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1922 1922 1921
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1921 1922 1920
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Fishermen Enjoy B. M. Clothing

Mrs. Wilfred Grenfell (Anna MacClan-
ahan '06) writes from Labrador of the
comfort which clothing collected by the
Bryn Mawr Junk Committee has brought
to her husband’s people. “More than ever
these things are welcome to the people,”
she writes. “The war sent prices in this
country simply soaring and, unfortu-
nately, their income is all too variable a
quantity.”



A comgaliina for a new college
will be held later in the semester.



IN PHILADELPHIA
Broad.—“The Better ’Ole.”

Chestnut Street Opera House.—‘Pass-
ing Show of 1918.” (Beginning February
24th, “The Kiss Burglar.”)

Forrest.—“Going Up.”

Garrick.— Grant Mitchell
Tailor-made Man.”

Lyric.—“Friendly Enemies” (moves on
February 24th to Adelphi). ‘Tumble
In” (begins February 24th).

. Orpheum.—“It Pays to Advertise.”

Shubert.—Harry Fox and the Dolly
Sisters in “Oh, Look!”

in “The

Walnut.—“The Brat.”

* Arcadia.—John Barrymore in “Here
Comes the Bride.”

Keith’s—Feature songs by Phyllis

Neilson-Terry.

Stanley.—Anita Stewart in “Virtuous
Wives.”

Academy of Fine Arts.—Annual Exhibi-
tion.

Metropolitan Opera House.—February
22.—Cinderella and the Little Glass Slip-
per.” February 27, Giovanni Martinelli,
tenor, in joint concert with Toscha Seidel,
violinist. Week of March 3.—Chicago
Grand Opera Company.

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Toys

A box and a barrel of clothing sent by
“Junk” to the colored schools at Hickory,
Virginia, has been acknowledged by one
of the teachers, who tells of the families
whom she was able to supply. She
writes:

“T had looked my district over just be-
fore your letter came, wishing I were able
to supply all the real poor needy ones.
The thought had not quieted in my mind
before right before me was your letter
stating the different things that had been
sent.

“The shoes were needed everywhere—
the influenza has been so bad and so
many people died from taking cold. The
toys went to a school of children who did
not have anything at all for Christmas,
and the hats I gave to girls who did not
have any and so were not able to go to
Sunday-school. All the things were
thankfully received.” -



$1000 PRIZE FOR ESSAY ON
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS

A prize of one thousand dollars for an
essay on one of eight specified subjects is
offered by the National Industrial Confer-
ence Board of Boston. The contest is
open to everyone, each competitor being
required to write under an assumed
name, enclosing his true name in a sealed
envelope. Manuscripts must be in July
ist.

The subjects are:

1. A practicable plan for representation
of workers in determining conditions of
work and for prevention of industrial dis-
putes.

2. The major causes of unemployment
and how to minimize them.

3. How can efficiency of workers be so
increased as to make high wage rates
economically practicable?

4. Should the State interfere in the de-
termination of wage rates?

5. Should rates of wages be definitely
based on the cost of living?

6. How can present systems of wage
payments be so perfected and supple
mented as to be most conducive to indi-
vidual efficiency and to the contentment
of workers.

7. The closed union shop versus the
open shop: their social and economic
value compared.

8. Should trade unions and employers’
associations be made legally responsible?

A pamphlet explaining the contest is
posted on the bulletin board in Taylor.

Helen Lautz "12 has resigned as Assist-
ant Business Manager, as she is going to
spend the winter in California. Her sis-
ter, Ruth Lautz "16, who has been work-
ing at the Emergency Fleet Corporation
in Philadelphia, is taking her place.



awarded to the applicants who have ac-
quitted themselves with most credit or
shown most promise of success in their
college work.

Junior Scholarships

“The Mary E. Stevens Memorial Schol-
arship” of the value of $160.00 will be
awarded to a member of the Sophomore
Class who needs financial assistance, to
be held during the Junior year. It is open
to those students only who have regis-
tered for college work amounting to not
less than forty and not more than sixty-
five hours for a semester and have been
in attendance upon lectures at Bryn
Mawr College not less than three se-
mesters,

“The Anna Hallowell Memorial Schol-
arship” of the value of $100.00 will be
awarded to a member of the Sophomore
Class intending to take the Bachelor’s
degree at Bryn Mawr College, who needs
financial assistance to enable her to con-
tinue her studies for her Junior year.
The scholarship will be awarded by the
Faculty to the student satisfying the
above requirements, whose academic
record is the highest, provided she does
not hold any other scholarship during
the Junior year. If the student with the
highest record among those needing finan-
cial aid holds another scholarship, this
scholarship will in general be given to
the student of next highest standing, but

|this rule may be disregarded in the case

of great financial need.

“The James E. Rhoads Memorial Soph-
omore and Junior Scholarship:” For par-
ticulars see the Bryn Mawr College Cal-
endar. The value of these scholarships
will be $250.00 (or $125.00 for non-resi-
dent students) for the year 1919-20.

Senior Scholarships

“The Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship” of the value of
$100.00 will be awarded to a member of
the present Junior Class on the ground
of scholarship, irrespective of the need of
financial aid, to be held during the year
1919-20.

No application for this scholarship is

necessary.

“The Anna M. Powers Memorial Schol-
arship” of the value of $200.00 is open to
members of the Junior Class who need
financial aid in order to complete the
work for their degree.

Scholarship in American History, Junior
or Senior

“The Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Schol-
arship in American History,” of the value
of $60.00, is awarded annually to a mem-
ber of the Sophomore or Junior Class on
condition that the holder of the scholar-
ship devote to the study of American His-
tory at least four hours a week for one
year during the last two years of her col-
lege course.

The candidate is to be selected by the
Faculty of Bryn Mawr College on the
ground of excellence in scholarship.

Application should be made by letter to
the President.

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| brought out. For the individual who is

to play a part in governmental reform,
three things, she said, are essential:
Faith that it can be done; intelligence to
see what is wrong; determination to fol-
low great leaders.

One hundred and five were present at
the meeting.

PRINCETON INDIGNANT AT
PROPOSED DEBATE WITH VASSAR
Princeton has been roused to a storm

of protest by a challenge sent by its de-

bating committee to Vassar. The Daily

Princetonian declares, “This proposal to

cross swords with the petticoated repre-

sentatives of this bitter rival is too much.

We throw up our hands in silent surren-

der; our vocabulary of invectives is ut-

terly inadequate.
“Why not debate Vassar?’ ask the
sages of Whig and Clio. Yes, why not?

Why not a knitting or sewing tilt with

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“splendid. tsoiation.” as diew ear ta

- the nobler ideal of a nation ambitious to

help, to be the greatest servant.

_ The earlier ideal of an independent na-
tional destiny is in God’s eyes “too light a
thing,” said Dr. Merrill, quoting Isaiah.
Christ’s example of service is national as
well as personal. A patriotism which is
locally limited is beneath the true Chris-
tian ideal: it is the selfish patriotism re-
cently voiced in the United States Senate
protesting against “international entan-
glements.”

Persia, Syria and other backward na-
tions are looking to America for help. It
is for America to put her resources at
their disposal as an investment from
which she expects no selfish return. This
can be done only if individual Christians
work to organize the processes of the
nation in her dealing with other peoples
on a Christian basis.

The church has its part in this inter-
national service, Dr. Merrill declared.
State and church are groups of individ-
uals whose privilege it is to use their
influence for the service of the world.
Nation and church must forget all ideals
but the wholly unselfish one—not to be
ministered unto but to minister.

Telling of the activities of the Brick
Church, after the sermon, Dr. Merrill de-
scribed the two affiliated churches on the
east and west side which the Brick
Church supports. At one of these a free
dental clinic is maintained. Brick Church
also supports Barbour House, a dormi-
tory and lunch room for working girls.

CALENDAR
Friday, February 21
4.15 p. m.—Illustrated lecture by Harold
Eberlein on “Italy and the
War,” under the History
Club in Room G, Taylor.
Saturday, February 22
Washington's Birthday.
8.30 pam—"“Beeith Anniversary” party
jn Che Gymnasium to the
¢ ‘embers of the Athletic As-
“sociation.
Sunday, February 23
6.00 p.m.—Vespers. Speaker, A. Lan-
don ’19, Chairman of the
Federation Committee.
840 p.m—Chapel. Sermon by the
Rev. George Stuart Black,
D.D., president of Auburn
Theological Seminary.
Monday, February 24
7.30 p.m—Lecture on Current
by Dr. Fenwick.
Wednesday, February 26
7.30 p.m.—Bible Class, conducted by
Dr. Chew, under the auspices
of the Christian Association.
9.30 p.m.—Reconstruction Class. Lead-
er, Miss Leville ‘19, of Vas-
sar College.
Friday, February 28
8.00 p.m.—Lecture by Vachel Lindsay
for the benefit of the Gradu-
ate Service Corps Fund.
Saturday, March 1
8.00 p.m.—Freshman Show.
Sunday, March 2
8.00 p.m.—Chapel. Sermon by the Ven-
erable John Harold Grieg,
Archdeacon of Worcester.
Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8
8.00 p. m.—'Varsity Dramatics.
Sunday, March 8
6.00 p.m.—-Vespers. Speaker, O. How-
ard ‘21.
8.00 p.m.—Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Anson Phelps Stokes, of Yale
University.

Events



writing meeting last. Thursday. The con-
and discussed.

interest. The owners of these books
should write their names in them. Mem-
bers may take books from the New Book
Room to club meetings on Thursday eve-
nings by signing for them at the loan
desk.



NEWS IN BRIEF
President Thomas will be away from
college for the next three weeks. Mem-
bers of the Faculty will speak in chapel
on President Thomas’s days.

The Red Cross Committee asks all stu-
dents who can to work at the Red Cross
rooms in the village.

The Graduates will give a reception for
Mr. Vachel Lindsay after his lecture next
Friday, in Rockefeller. In the afternoon
he is being entertained at tea by Jane
Brown '21, to whom he has written one
of his poems.

Christine Hammer '12 spoke to the
World Citizenship Club last Sunday about
her work at True Light Seminary, Can-
ton, China.

Bleanor Cooper ’19 is editor-in-chief of
the Lantern. The rest of the board, with
the exception of the alumne editor who
has not been chosen, will be the same as
the old Tip board.

The Juniors have elected a committee
to investigate the question of giving
Junior-Senior supper play: D. Pitkin, A.
Harrison, Z. Boynton, H. Holmes, and L.
Kellogg.

Seventy-three Freshmen, out of the
class of 100, have the eight hours or
more of merit necessary for taking part
in class entertainments, serving on com-
mittees, etc.

1920 has voted for H. Holmes and Z.
Boynton for speakers in Vespers this se-
mester.

M. Speer has been elected Freshman
member of the Self-Government Advisory
Board.

H. Kingsbury has been elected Junior
member of the Social Service Commit-
tee of the C. A., instead of E. Williams,
who resigned on account of her work.

Freshman Show will be given on March
1 instead of Feb. 22. The cast is: E.
Anderson, L. Grimm, J. Burgess, O. Pell
and A. Orbison. P. Norcross’s part is
being recast.
The Varsity Orchestra played for an
impromptu dance in the gymnasium last
Saturday.

M. Tyler 19 will have charge of Ves-
pers this semester.

A fourth Senior, Georgia Bailey, has re-
ceived 15 hours of high credit.

At the Sophomore Party, held in the
gymnasium in December, $210 was netted
—not $61, as was announced at the time.

Senor Dorado Speaks at Spanish Club Tea

Senor Dorado, brother of Senorita Car-
olina Dorado, spoke at a Spanish club tea
Monday afternoon on the growing inter-
est in Spanish on account of the South
American countries.

The Spanish Club has more than dou-
bled this semester. The requirements
are one semester of 85 or two semesters

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