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Little Wars of Little Men

An interclass feud can be a source of
enjoyment only to the depraved. Yet
when there is mischief in the air the most
responsible often add fuel to fire and
quickly fan a faint —_— into a roaring
blaze. °

a; class (or a siedaditities group in
that ‘class) behaves in an unbecoming
way. Rival classes are loud in their con-
demnation, often seeking to administer
active chastisement. Sometimes the
provocation is strong. None the less,
their efforts at retribution result not in
a betterment of the situation, but only in
a thoroughgoing antagonism between
condemner and condemned.

In such squabbles, justification can
doubtless be found for both parties, but
the squabbles themselves are unjustifi-
able. In a time when the college is mak-
ing every effort to work together as never
before, interclass feeling is a disgrace.
If some of us can only practice a little
forbearance (as has already been done in
a few cases) many of the worst offenders
will correct themselves.

Time Saver

Any time-saving device is always wel-
come this year. A bulletin‘board hung in
Taylor, with the letters of the alphabet,
under which notes for students might be
slipped on racks, would save committee
chairmen, hockey captains and everyone,
in fact, an enormous amount of time or-
dinarily spent in hastening from Rocke-
feller to Radnor in order to announce a
meeting or game. Would it not be possi-
ble for the Bulletin Board Committee of
the Undergraduate Association to take
the matter up and help.in the year’s cam-
paign to save time as well as food and
coal?

The Moody Senior

(By Special Contribution.)
Our charming friend, Alfalfa Floyd,
Has failed in French, she’s so annoyed!
Her lovely visage is defait.
I saw her gazing yesterday
Upon a blooming garden-plot;
It laughed with flowers, but she did not.
I watched her dainty features harden—
She loathes a complicated garden!
Oh, dear, what language Seniors use!
I led her to our green pelouse.
It's large enough—too large, I ween—
It wastes a lot of gasoline.
We sauntered down the north allée,
It is so darkly ombragée
Our cousins (female) not a minute
After 6.30 would walk in it.
(You see I mind my mood and tense;
They often do affect the sense.)
Good gracious, how Alfalfa grumbled!
She thought the Vatican had crumbled.
I said, “Alfalf, s’ti standing still;
It always has and always will.
Since Italy produced the Pope
The world has almost ceased to hope.
(1 dodged the Capitol because
I really don't know what it was.)
Maintaining Gothas can be Zepps
I took her up the Taylor steps.
Perron, one calls them in French fiction,
' (I never did admire their diction).
Used for farewells when heroines droop,
A neat translation (mine) is “stoop.”



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LETTERS'TO THE EDITOR.
(The editors do not hold, th -
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column.)

‘|To the Editors:

Events of the past few days have led
us to believe that the Sophomores are tou

much impressed with the dignity of their

own position. While we have long since
tearned to consider our crackers and jam
as community property, we should like, if
possible, to keep our hats, desks, rugs,
and pictures for our own use. In con-
scription days, when time is no longer
our,own, may we not pursue our Sunday
meditations free from the intrusion of
cude appraisers? If this is the Sopho-
more idea of courtesy, who are they to
vote the Freshmen fresh?
Indignant Sister-Classmen.
[Seven Signatures. ]

To the Editor of the College News:

From several sources we have heard
that the action of certain members of our
class in trying to secure properties for
the Sophomore dance has offended some
of those whose rooms were entered last
Sunday. As the thoughtlessness of this
procedure was not realized at the time,
we wish to alopogize for our uninten-
tional rudeness.

The Class of 1921.
Per E. H. M., Sec’y.



To the Editor of the College News:

This year it is proposed to inaugurate
a new scheme for raising the money nec-
essary to run Bates House. The custom
has been for the Christian Association to
raise two-thirds of the required sum on
the budget and to depend on a private
canvass by the committee for the re-
mainder. Last year the Christian Asso-
ciation gave us $1000 and we raised $500
by our spring pledges. It seems logical
to include in the budget drive all the
money for Bates House, thereby connect-
ing more closely the activities of the com-
mittee with the Association.

We hope to raise $1500 on the budget
by pledges in November. To do this, it is
necessary for all to realize in pledging
that to avoid the canvass in the spring
and to insure to Bates House the success
it has enjoyed this past summer, they
must pledge at least twice .the usual
sum.

Frances C. Clarke,
Chairman of the Bates House Com.

To the Editor of the College News:

Is there something wrong with the col-
lege or something wrong with us? It is
impossible to hear, day after day, “The
most patriotic thing you can do is to stay
at college, and prepare yourself for recon-
struction work after you graduate,” and
not to think there is something in it.

Yet as we read of our friends dying at
the front, it is hard to believe that we
are doing the most we can—going to our
classes, eating when we are hungry,
sleeping when we are sleepy, having
thrills over hockey matches, and revelling
in the extreme patriotism of our “mili-
tary” drills.

There is, of course, Red Cross work to
do, and some people do it—but many do

not, because naturally they cannot neg-|.

lect their committee meetings and song-
practices—it -would be lacking in college
spirit. The Conscription Board allows
such occupations (not to mention rehears-



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excellent distribution of time thereat?
Moreover, if exercise and studying are

so regulated as to make us better, phys-

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ity of people are below par?

Why have half-way measures? To my
mind there is little use in waving your
arms around vacantly for ten minutes
twice a week, or in having a show-off drill

on the hockey field so that neighbors may

see how patriotic is our Alma Mater.
Some retort courteously, “But drill is for
physical development.” Judging by last
week’s performance, I should say they
are quite right if the purpose is the de-
velopment of the larynx.

If, instead of this, we had some vain
military discipline, and went about it se-
viously, we might consider ourselves as
doing something. College work should be
war work, and all irrelevant practices»
should be abolished. This sounds like the
Prussian system, you say? The differ-
ence is merely that should this measure
go through, it would be by vote of the
majority: the minority would be con-
trolled by public opinion.

If we are going to college at all, we
ought to give at least our time, when
others are giving their lives, to the
country. It makes no difference what
sort of war work we are planning to do—
whether reconstructing French’ villages,
or assisting in a laboratory—but we must
have some definite idea and plan our
courses accordingly. Why cannot we be
a military college, and not join the ranks
of those who seem not to be slackers,
but who an reality are: people who are
just drifting. If we find that we are
drifting we ought to get out!

In agswer to the argument that mili-
tary discipline would weaken our will
power and make us puppets, the fact re-
mains that those who have that estimable
characteristic are living up to those
standards anyway, and as for the others
—it might wake them up a little bit so
that even if they are mental wrecks they
won't be physical wrecks!

We think we’d hate it! Supposing we
did? If we are going to get out of doing
the things we hate by coming to college,
Bryn Mawr would be better without us
in war time! If war disciplines the men,
why not the women who are to try to
take their places?

M. Train ’20.

The News will be glad to print a letter
signed “Consistency” if the writer will
send in her name to the Editor. It is a
rule of the News that the name of the
writer must accompany every letter,
though only the nom-de-plume need be
printed.



To the Editors:

We at Bryn Mawr are not fettered by
prudish traditions. After going through
Minor Latin, Social Hygiene, and the en-

lightening drama featured in the English

courses, we feel we are well able to face,
without a quiver, the facts of life. But
references to the aforementioned facts,
and the detailed court records of the an-
tics of the underworld, given in a course
in “Civilian Relief,” are absolutely unnec-
essary and irrelevant and can but arouse
our indignation.

Conscious Objectors.

J. Ridlon "18 is studying at the Chicago
University this winter.



ot aa 15—War Chest, allie nea
| Service Corps pledge for Semester I. _

Feb. 15—War Chest, charge accounts.
Mar. 15—War Chest, charge accounts,
Glee Club dues. ae
April 15—War Chest, charge. accounts.
May 15—War Chest, charge accounts,
‘Service Corps pledge for Semester 5

ENGLISH CLUB BROADENS WORK

Three New Members This Year

_ Publicity work for the Red Cross, the
Food Administration, and the next Lib-
erty Loan may be undertaken by the Eng-
lish Club this winter. M. Rhoads ’19,
newly elected secretary of the club, is in-
vestigating possibilities. Last year gov-
ernment publicity work was done by the
class in Second Year — Compost-
tion.

Besides.Mr. Robert Nichols the English
Club hopes to secure this season Mr.
Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent,
who has recently returned from a trip
abroad.

F. Allison ’19, J. Mebane ex-'18, and A.
Harrison 20 are the new members of the
English Club. The requirement for mem-
bership is a grade of 85 in General Eng-
lish Composition, or 80 in Elective Com-
position.



THE BIBLE A LIVING BOOK

Dr. Wood's First Lecture Enthusiastically
Attended —

“Bible Study for Busy People,” the first
lecture by Dr. Charles Wood of Washing-
ton, was finally given last Wednesday
after being postponed from the week be-
fore on account of the epidemic.

“Some people have an interest in the
Bible as collectors,”, said Dr. Wood;
“others as a piece of good literature and
have read it through many times without
ever getting the true message.” We need
more than a bowing acquaintance with
the Bible, he continued, We need a
knowledge that comes from reading it
thoughtfully every day. The most inter-
esting thing about life is living and yet
some people are so busy that they do not
live. If they really want to live, the Bible
is the book that gives light and life.

RESPECT FOR PERSONALITY IS
STANDARD OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY



E. Biddle, President of C. A., Tells Large
Audience at Vespers

“*Love one another,’ should be the
keynote of our lives in college, in the
community and in America this year,”
said Elizabeth Biddle, president of the
Christian Association, last Sunday in
vespers. “But that doctrine has been
preached so much and practised so little
that we might do better to say, ‘Have re-
spect for personality.’ Develop your own
according to your ideals and give the
same opportunity to others. Put the good
and the personality of others above your
own selfishness. If everyone put this into
practise it would be impossible for eight
hundred schools in New York to be closed
because of a lack of teachers or for an
industrial leader to say that he used up
one batch of men and then got a new one.
If we had love for one another we should
have a world safe for democracy or, in
other words, the kingdom of God. This
is subject to criticism as being idealistic

‘and unpractical. Live by it and see if

it is. The job is bigger than we are and
therefore it is thrilling.”

FRENCH LECTURE SATURDAY

A lecture on “Americans in France”
will be given in French by Mme. Claude
Riviere Saturday afternoon in Taylor, if
the necessary arrangements can be made
by the French Club, under whose aus-
pices she is speaking.







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