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“THE GEISHA” FIRST CHOICE OF
; GLEE CLUB ji

E. Taylor Elected Stage Manager

A Japanese musical play, “The Geisha,”
with music by Sidney Jones, libretto by
Owen Hall, and lyrics by Harry Green-
ven by the Glee Club this






and although moxt of the characters are
Japanese, the cast of twenty-two includes
(Continued on 5, column 1.)





K. TOWNSEND '20 ELECTED
ATHLENC SECRETARY

Succeeding Phoebe Helmer ’20, who did
not return to college this year, Katherine
Townsend ’20 was electéd secretary of
the Athletic Association at a meeting
‘Tuesday night. Miss Townsend. received
thirty votes as against twenty-five cast
for M. L. Mall ’20 and five for D.
Rogers '20.

Both years that she has been in college
Miss Townsend has won first place in the
swimming meet. In her Freshman year
she was class water-polo captain, and last
year swimming captain. She played last
year on 1920's basketball team, and took
part in the track meet.

A note of regret to Miss Helmer on her
. resignation was voted by the Association,
and a hearty vote of thanks accorded her.

EXTRA EXAMS FOR FLU VICTIMS
IS RECENT DECREE OF FACULTY

All students who, on account of the in-
fluenza or the influenza quarantine, have
missed their language examinations are
to have extra examinations, the faculty
decided at a special meeting last week.

GERMAN “WRITTEN” SHOWS MORE
-MEDIAN GRADES THAN FRENCH



Eighteen Pass Both Examinations

In contrast to the unusual number of
extreme grades in the first French
“written,” the results of the frst German
examination, posted Tuesday morning,
show a much more even distribution of
marks. Merit was made by M. Gilman
and B. Sorchan. Twenty-nine passed,
43.28 per cent, and thirty-six, or 53.73
per cent, failed.

Eighteen Seniors passed both French
and German at the first examinations.

The grades are:

Merit, 2: M, Gilman, B. Sorchan.

Passed, 29: F. Allison, G. Bailey, F.
Clarke, F. Day, A. R. Dubach, V. Frazier
ex-'18, E. Fuller, F. Fuller, D. Hering, J.
Holmes, F. Howell, E. Howes, W. Kauf-
mann, M. Lubar, J. Mebane ex-'18, E.
Mercer, A. Moore, C. Oppenheimer, B.
Pershing ex-’18, H. Prescott, R. Ray, M.
W. Rhoads, BE. Rondinelia, M. Snavely, C.
Taussig, A. Warner, L. Wood, G. Wood-
bury, J. Wright.

Failed; 36: F. Beatty, M. Bettman, E.
Biddle, A. Blue, M. Butler, D. Chambers,
A. Collins; H.. Collins, H. Conover, V.
‘Coombs, C. Everett, E. Fauvre, M. France,
D. Hall, R. Hamilton, C. Hayman, G.
Hearne, C. Hollis, E. Hurlock, M. Jane-
way, H. Johnson, H. Karns, M. Lafferty,
A. Landon, E. Moores, M. Moseley, J. Pea-
body, M. Ramsay, R. Reinhardt, M. Rem-
ington, A. Stiles, 8. Taylor, A. Thorndike,
M. Tyler, R. Wheeler, R. Woodruff.

The Seniors who have passed both





BRYN MAWR, PA.,



Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant °03, corre-
spondent of the New Republic and first

.| member of the Bryn Mawr Service Corps,

has been wounded in France by the ex-
plosion of a hand grenade, according to
reports received by the New Republic.
Her injuries are not serious.

A party of American women accom-
panied by a French officer were being
conducted on a tour of reoccupied terri-
tory near the front, says the New York
Sun. Mile. de Vallette, head of the Amer-
ican section of the Press Department of
the Foreign Office, who was conducting
the trip, picked up a hand grenade, which
exploded and killed her instantly. Sev-
eral other women of the party were in-
jured.

Miss Sergeant is the author of French
Perspectives, a book on the French peo-
ple, and a series of essays in the New
Republic, the latest of which, “American
Women in France,” appeared in the issue
for October 19th. She has been in France
for thirteen months under the New Re-
public, and during this time has also done
investigation work for the Red Cross. On
this ground she was adopted last spring
as Bryn Mawr’s first war worker under
the Service Corps.

Miss Sergeant was the first president
of the Bryn Mawr English Club, which
was founded her Senior year. :

RED CROSS MENDS GARMENTS
Pressing Need for First Lot

Garment mending is in full swing in the
Merion Red Cross room. A good-sized ap-
portionment, to be filled immediately, has
been given the college by Mrs. Ewing, in
charge of the garment mending at the
Bryn Mawr Red Cross headquarters.
Mrs. Ewing talked last Saturday to
twenty-five of the college inspectors,
about the sewing. She has received from
the Philadelphia Arsenal 300 soldiers’
undershirts, 300 underdrawers, and the
same number of socks, all to be returned
within ten days. Mrs. Nichols described
the work done by the Red Cross Reclama-
tion Department in Boston.

Garments for Draftees

“This department is now one of the most
important branches of Red Cross work,”
says L. Kellogg, head of the War Council
Red Cross department. When soldiers go
overseas, they leave their old garments
to be cleaned, mended and used again.
The present allotment is needed for new
drafted men in the camps.

Room for Forty Workers

Forty workers can be accommodated in
the Merion work-room, and are wanted
day and night. Hours are from 2.00 until
6.00, and from 7.30 until 10.00. Inspec-
tion is strict, and each person is respon-
sible for her own garment, tagged with
her name,

JUNIOR AND SOPHOMORE CLASS
WAR COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES



M. Carey '20 and M. Foot '21 have been
elected Junior and Sophomore Class rep-
resentatives om the War Council. As
Junior represenative, M. Carey becomes
vice-chairman of the Council. The Fresh-
man representative will be elected in the

.| first fortnight of November.



Dorothy Moore ‘15 is studying medicine
at Johns Hopkins this winter.



BER 31, 1918
/ROBERT NICHOLS SECURED BY
ENGLISH CLUB



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Will Lecture November 22

The English Club has secured Mr. Rob-
ert Nichols, the British war poet, to speak
-before the college on November 22nd.
In accepting the invitation of the club,
Mi. Nichols said in part:

“I hope it will be understood that my
defective memory—lI've had shell shock—
does not permit me to make an address,
and that owing to my hate of reading
prose, and my badness at it, this
will be only a talk, to which will be at-
tached the principal point of my coming,
namely, a reading of certain poems
(chiefly of war, by Gorbey, Graves, Sas-
soon, and, if you wish it, of my own work.
The chief difficulty is that I can’t split
up my own stuff. As I know both Sas-
soon and Graves personally, perhaps I
shall be able to give you information
which you would not be able to get other-
wise.”

A copy of Mr. Nichols’ poems, Ardors
and Endurances, is in the New Book
Room.

C. A. CANVASS REAPS 100 PER CENT
MEMBERSHIP

190 per cent of the Freshmen at_col-
lege have joined the Christian Associa-
tion. A canvass was made in all the
halls this week by the Membership Com-
mittee. L. Kellogg '20, chairman of the
committee, will speak at Vespers next
Sunday and the names of the graduates
and Freshmen who have joined will be
read by B. Allard and M. Wilcox '22, the
graduate and Freshmen representatives
on the Membership Committee.

TO ESTABLISH CENTRE OF FRENCH
CULTURE AT BRYN MAWR



New French Associate Arrives

Mme. Claude Riviere, an editor of
Paris’s well-known daily, L’Oeuvre, and
formerly instructor at the Lycée de Paris,
arrived here last week from France to be
Associate in French.

Teaching in Bryn Mawr Mme. Riviere
regards as a patriotic service. Her ob-
ject is to establish a centre of French
culture here and to help convert the as
yet rather superficial relationship which
exists between France and America into
a more durable intellectual understand-
ing. This is a year ‘of victory, and peace
will be more difficult than war, said Mme.
Riviere. For that reason this bond is es-
sential.

Mme. Riviere crossed on the Rocham-
beau, which has received the Croix de
Guerre for successfully resisting four U-
boat attacks. She found New York, with
its mountains of light and with the excite-
ment of a big Liberty Loan drive, like an-
other planet after the darkened Paris
that she had left. Throughout the bom-
bardment of Paris by the German long-
range guns and the Gothas Madame was
in Paris. Twenty shells fell in the quar-
ter where she was living. As many as
three “alertes” were sometimes sounded
in one night until the cellars came to be
centres for social gatherings. Paris in
the last year, continued Mme. Claude
Riviere, has been cleared of all but the
true Parisiennes and their morale is ad-
mirable. Among those who crossed with
Madame was M. Greber, the architect,
who has been chosen to improve the
plans of the city of Philadelphia.



Mrs. Martin Lowenberg (Margaret
Friend "11) has changed her name from





Quarantine Probably Lifted Monday
Through the effective handling of Dr.
ranson and Dr. Ray the college influ-

enza epidemic has been reduced to a
minimum. Only six cases are left in the
infirmary, and the latest information
available when the News went to press
indicated that the quarantine would be -
lifted next week, probably Monday. The
epidemic has practically subsided both
in Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Vaccine Reduced Epidemic

The influenza vaccine has materially
reduced the number of cases, according
to Dr. Branson, Physician-in-chief of the
college. About 500 were inoculated.

The vaccine was used by Dr. Branson
four years ago, when it was not widely
known. From being a sceptic, Dr. Bran-
son. declares he has become a firm be-
liever in its great value. Among his
cases some persons who had suffered con-
stantly with colds became entirely free
from them for three years.

The vaccine is composed of well-known
disease germs which affect the mucous
membrane of the respiratory tract. It is
used chiefly to combat influenza, pneu-
monia and pus-producing germs. The
Same general process is involved as in
the better established typhoid vaccine. ..

The quarantine rule forbidding college
meetings where there are no outsiders
was lifted last week.

WILL PAY BILLS MONTHLY
Mass Meeting Accepts, Measures

A regular Pay Day, to be held on the
fifteenth of every month, and a monthly
contribution to the Five Counties War
Chest are among the war measures ac-
cepted by a mass meeting of the college
Tuesday night on the recommendation of
the War Council.

The Service Corps was again adopted
as the college’s specific form of war
work, with $8500 as the quota for the first
semester,

For failure to do four hours of con-

scripted war work, it was decided that
students should be brought up before a
mass meeting, the meeting to decide the
penalty to be inflicted.
The work of the Conscription Board
was reported by D. Peters '19, that of the
Red Cross by L. Kellogg '20 and A. Lan-
don "19, Liberty Loan by Miss Franklin,
Food Conservation by A. Harrison ‘20,
Food Production by Miss Alice Hawkins,
and Education by H. Johnson ‘19.

Outsiders Barred From Lantern
Night

Unusually “Muteless” Year

An audience exclusively collegiate will
see the Freshmen receive their class lan-
terns tomorrow evening. Owing to quar-
antine regulations no outsiders will be
admitted to the cloisters.

Unusual volume may be expected both
in “Pallas Athene Thea” and “Over the
Way to the Sacred Shrine” because of the
comparatively small number of mutes
among the Sophomores and Freshmen.
1921 has twenty voiceless members and
1922 about twenty-three.

The lanterns that will be given to the
Freshmen were designed by a Sophomore
committee consisting of M. Morrison,
chairman, BE. Hill, L. Beekwith, and E.







Lowenberg to Lowe.

Farnsworth.