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F. Howell was assistant managing edi-
tor of the News for this issue.

TIME WAS WHEN——.

“Yon balmy days,” how far away they
seem—when we of the older generation
were Freshmen. We spent hours listen-
ing to the constitutions and 57 varieties
of by-laws of all four associations. When
we were not at meetings we were eating,
feeding “our C. A. girls” at the tea house,
being fed by our fond Juniors and if not
fond, certainly dutiful, Sophomores. We
lived on the fat of the land at eleven
o'clock at night. We feasted on mocking-
bird’s eyebrows and marrons at Presi-
dent Thomas’s reception, spent hours
waiting for our turn at the flower shop
in order to send a bouquet to our favorite
Junior in Banner,Show—and in between
times we studied.

Times have changed. A Bryn Mawr
princess now leads a protected, healthful
and academic life. She rises early for
physical development, she attends-_lec-
tures regularly. Immediately after lunch
she hastens either to the library to bury
herself in Cicero’s correspondence or to
the laboratory to trace the life history of
the amoeba protozoa. Later, she plays
hockey, dines on healthful war food, and
after a long evening of concentrated
study she retires when Taylor tolls the
knell of parting day.







In passing we wish to say that the
News board approves of the suggestion
of one of the Seniors—that those not
passing their German writtens wear an
iron cross.



it’s the Little Things

It is fruitless to battle against organi-
zation. For it is through the means of
this powerful machine that we attain the
wholly desirable end—efficiency—in the
best sense of the word. There are, how-
ever, many small details of life that
it seems totally impossible to govern
through any organization. It is to aid in
overcoming these hazards in the course
of complete efficiency that we have drawn
up several resourceful suggestions for
saving time and effort.

First, there is the daily business of tak-
ing notes. Never take time to remove a
large welling blot. It has lately been dis-
covered to be one of the most profitable
by-products of the fountain pen. Use it
to refill your pen; it does away with un-
necessary movements of the right hand.

Next, the popular plan of carrying soap,
toothbrushes and paste in a wire sieve is
worthy of imitation.

Another wise saw advanced among food
conserving experts is, “Eat more” corn-
meal, oatmeal, and barley meal, and eat
fewer real meals, breakfast, luncheon and
dinner.

As a final word: Do not bother to read
the daily news, for, as an observing
Sophomore said, “What's the use, the
news changes every day anyway.”



Hal! Libraries in Hands of Strategists
Napoleonic strategy has had a wide-
spread influence in history. The princi-
pal manoeuvre is to send an insignificant
part of the fighters against the enemy at
the most obvious point, while the
strength of the army is being rushed
around by a secret passage for a surprise

the quarantine,



“The Spirit of the Revolution,” “Paris in f
| the Highteenth Century” and other hints:
| of “The Child of the Revolution,” while the.
mighty soldier himself has rushed around
ON Ladhuttsasp passage for a surprise attack

between “Theories of Value” and Lyly’s
“Campaspe.”

If anyone have mighty ambitions of be-
coming a crafty general, we beseech her
: refrain from training in the hall libra-

es,



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
(The editors do not hold themselves
responsible for opinions expressed in this
column.)

To the Editor of the College News:

One of our biggest problems this year
is how to pass the traditions of Self-Gov-
ernment on to the Freshman Class. Since
the quarantine has prevented our having
the annual meeting in the “first fort-
night,” the responsibility of instilling into
the incoming class our spirit toward Self-
Government is left entirely with the Up-
perclassmen and Sophomores. Unless
every one of us realizes our personal re-
sponsibility it will be impossible to main-
tain the high ideals for which our organi-
zation has always stood. After all it is
our own organiaztion and its future rests
with us.

Sarah C. Taylor ’19,

President of Self-Government.

To the Editor of the College News:

In the cheerful hope of relaxation in
the War Council last
Monday made further recommendations
to a mass-meeting-to-be. Owing to the
form of the motion made last winter, in
which the Service Corps project was ac-
cepted for the year only, it is necessary
this year to vote again on the main war
object of the college. Our obligations to
the organizations under whom our work-
ers are serving overseas, and to the work-
ers themselves, need no discussion.

The War Council has decided to recom-
mend, as the method of raising Service
Corps funds in college, a quota system of
$8500 for the first semester, described in
detail on the same page of this issue of
the News. The system of assigning a
given sum to be raised by a given class
in a given time was felt to have stood
the test of previous usage, and to place
the project on a thoroughly business-like
basis.

In dividing the sum to be raised into
class allotments, the question of the
amount of the per capita pledge arose.
While the quota may, by a good mathe-
matician, be resolved into an individual
allotment of $16 for the first semester,
the feeling of the War Council is directly
opposed to pressure on the individual for
a given sum. Those who are able will
probably give more than $16, those who
are not are perfectly justified in giving
less. If it is proved that the balance can-
not be maintained in this way, it is up to
us all as a body to work our hardest to
make up the deficit. We can do no more.

The importance of- our financial cam-
paign for this year, and of the intelligent
vote on it demands the attention of all.
It is not too much to say that the purpose
of every individual in college in regard
to campaigns for war relief is the same.
If there are differences in opinion as to
the means to attain the end, it is the re-
sponsibility of everyone in college to find
out the actual facts of the case, through
News statements, or by talking to War
Counell members, cast a vote about which
they have really thought, and then abide
by the decision of the majority.

Gordon Woodbury ‘19,
Charman of the War Council.



ey cauucsitia, Woiks eae te be tained

jin. Anyone who has ever struggled with

a difficult German sentence will realize
that it is, to say the least, disconcerting

to be forced in the midst of it to listen to

the technical explanation of a new quiz
book system. And that is precisely what

happened to the Seniors last week.

There has been a good deal of indigna-
tion over the ill-chosen way in which the
explanation was made, and many stu-
dents feel that their chances of passing
were materially lessened by the persistent
interruptions. Aside from the ordinary
strain and discomfort of a Senior Written
a distinct and irritating disturbance was
unnecessarily created.

May the remaining three examinations
be conducted in all possible peace and
tranquillity!

; A Sorry Senior.

SECOND BRITISH SCHOLAR ARRIVES
IN BRYN MAWR —



Crossed on Boat with Ex-Ambassador
Page

A second British scholar has arrived in
Bryn Mawr from Scotland, Miss Grace
Dedman, M.A. Edinburgh University, with
Honours in English.

Miss Dedman was delayed in securing
passage and it was feared she might not
be able to get here. For the present she
is living in Denbigh. The other British
scholar, Miss Helen Wilkie, arrived at
the first of the year. She and Miss Ded-
man were classmates at the University
of Edinburgh.

Tells of Ocean Passage
Miss Dedman crossed on the boat with
Dr. Page, recent American Ambassador to
England. The passage as it is now made,

-according to both Miss Dedman and Miss

Wilkie, is about one thousand miles
longer, because the vessels tack, turning
at unexpected intervals in order to run
out of the range of any U-boat aim. The
boats are camouflaged, as are all ocean
liners.

The régime on shipboard is strictly
military, with bugles for rising, bugles
for dressing and eating and special bugle
calls for life-drill. Four soldiers assigned
to every boat assisted first women with
children, then all other women, and last
the men, to enter the lifeboats as quickly
as possible. One boat, Miss Dedman said,
carried twenty children, American or Ca-
nadian, born in England after 1914, whose
fathers had been killed or else were in
action.

Machine Guns Train on Iceberg

The passengers were always under the
command of the officers, who ordered
them to wear their life-belts at all times,
except during meals. The boat passed
two transports—one bringing English
soldiers from France and another carry-
ing American soldiers overseas.

“Our machine guns took aim and prac-
ticed fire on a large iceberg some three
miles distant. We could see the chips
sliding off,” said Miss Wilkie. The pas-
sage was particularly safe because of the
high sea, in which no U-boat can live.



Seeing America First

Shut off from the outside world, two
members of 1920 are determined to have
“every experience a woman can have” on
the campus. L. Sloane and M. Porritt are
making a tour of the campus, dining at a
different table in one of the five halls
every evening.

mass: meeting. . :
Last year $10,000 was raised between



rt wale aclinied the War teanall GIGI

Monday night. After a careful discussion
the lower sum was accepted, and will be
submitted to the vote of the college at a

February and May. The feeling of the
War Council seemed to be that the cok
lege should on no account relax its
money-raising efforts, but that, since the
semester is already well advanced and no
rallies or metings can be held for some
time ahead, it is better to set the college’s
quota at the lower figure. |

The Alumnez are becoming more and
more enthusiastic about the Service
Corps, .Miss Martha Thomas reported.
The Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., and other
organizations have shown that they will
accept any woman the Service Corps
Committee recommends. Miss Marion
Reilly, chairman of the Service Corps
Committee, has recently been made chair-
man of the personnel department of the
Y. M. C. A. for this district, and has
charge of the selection of Y. M. C. A.
canteen workers.

Extra Members of War Council
Committee

Various committee members besides
those elected by the four classes were
approved. Members on the Liberty Loan
Department are Mr. Hurst, Comptroller
of the College, Mrs. Chandler, and Miss
Goldstein and Miss Babcock, graduate
students.

Dean Maddison is an honorary member
of the Educational Department and the
presidents of the clubs and chairmen of
the Religious Meetings and Social Serv-
ice Committees will constitute an ad-
visory committee.

The regular members of the depart-
ment have not yet been elected by the
classes. By a new scheme each class will
be asked to send a representative to fill a
specific office on the committee in ques-
tion. The plan for the offices the differ-
ent classes will fill is:

Liberty Loan Department
1919—Official data.
1920—Publicity.
1921—Thrift campaigns.
1922—-Secretary.

‘Red Cross Department
1919—Work Shop.
1920—Entertainments.
1921—Wool Department.
1922—Publicity.

Education Department
1919—Publicity.
1920—Tickets.
1921—-Secretary.
1922—Posters.

Food Conservation Department
1919—Thrift Clubs.
1920—Publicity.
1921—-Officials.

Food Production Department
1919—Secretary.
1920—Manager.
1921—Publicity.
1922—-Posters.



UNDERGRADUATES FILL PLACES
OF LABORATORY GIRLS



Undergraduates have undertaken the
work of laboratory girls in Dalton this,
year and are registering the time spent
in that way as war work. No regular
laboratory girls could be found.

The biology laboratory assistants are
V. Frazier ex-’18, P. France "19, M. Mack-
enzie ex-18, M. S. Munford ex-’18, 8.
Belleville ex-’18, and M. R. Bettman "19.

E. Macrum "19 and EB. Macdonald ‘19
are helping in the Physics Laboratory, H.
Collins "19, M. K. Cary ‘20, C. Coleman
"20, K. Bickley "21, and I. Coleman ‘22 in
Chemistry.