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‘D. Clark '20 is assistant managing ed-
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Thanksgiving Day will mean more to
us tomorrow than turkey and cranberry
Sauce; it will have in it the true spirit
of thankfulness which the Pilgrims first
felt when they met to give thanks to God.
The nation’s thanksgiving will rise to
God for France and the spirit of France,
for England and her grit, Italy and her
fire, Belgium and her courage—for Amer-
ica that she has won the right to share in
their rejoicing.



Immediately after conscription was
abolished 50 of the 110 who had signed
up for work at the Community Center
withdrew their names. This fact does
not seem to bear out the argument of
those who objected to conscription on the
ground that public opinion could accom-
plish the work just as well.

Doubtless the majority have found that
four hours of war work a week is too
much. On the other hand, there is not a
person in college who could not give at
least one hour.

We suggest that each individual desig-
nate on her conscription card the amount
of time she is willing to volunteer and
then register her work each week as
before so that accurate tally can be kept
of the work done. By this means the war
service output of the college, which has
never been so great as this fall, might be
maintained and an even distribution of
work effected.



COLLEGE HEARS CHAPLAIN



“On the roulette wheel of nations Ger-
many picked her own color, spun and
last,” Chaplain Laurens Seelye, of the U.
S. Army, declared in his sermon Sunday
night in chapel. Germany reckoning that
America was too interested in self-seeking
commerce to fight, failed to realize her
latent power of self-giving. This unsel-
fishness, formed into personal spiritual
convictions, is the one essential.

“Nothing is inconsistent, with religion
except what is vile,” Chaplain Seelye
stressed. Nowadays it is not incongruous
at a camp sing to follow “Rock of Ages”
with “Good Night, Ladies”—an illustra-
tion of the practical faith that God is all
and in all. What matters is what we
think of God, what, too, the blaspheming
Gott-mitt-uns Junkers thought of God
when they persecuted the Armenians.
Our conception of Christianity is impor-
tant.

“Into our Christianity,” concluded Chap-
lain Seelye, “must be builded a faith in
broad internationalism.” The question is
not whether America has been profoundly
stirred. It asks, “Is anything being se-
curely rebuilt in America? Have we
merely passed through a spasm of altru-
ism, or will a new world be formed in the
spirit of God?”



FIVE PASS DEFERRED GERMAN
WRITTEN WHILE FOUR FAIL

In contrast to the results of the French

written taken by students who had had

the influenza, the emergency German

14, at

and Stamps will be placed on sale early

Treasury.
of January 1, 1924, and in practically all
respects will be issued on the same terms
and in the same manner as the present
series.

color, bearing the head of Benjamin
Frankliy the apostle of saving, and a
former Postmaster General, is in prepa-
ration.

Cards now in use will be continued in
1919 and will be exchangeable into the
new Series of 1919 War-Savings Stamps.

night’s chapel, which he himself had con-
ducted. Holding his audience from the

the big gym table with a shouted “Now
all
Chaplain Seelye led them with an un-
bounded vim which won him immediate
popularity with all present.

and other similar gems, old and new, to

of weakness. The enthusiasm and well-





Smuaneeeemmneen’

after Christmas. The committee is: Pro-
fessor Donnelly, chairman, Professor
Fenwick, and Professor Frank.

Literature examination of one hour, on
the same principle as the general infor-
mation test, are also to be given this
year, probably directly after the Easter
vacation. Prizes are offered by President
Thomas.

The examination is to be a test of gen-
eral knowledge of the literature of the
world, and no particular preparation for
it is specified. A test of the kind was
given here several years ago, modelled on
an examination given at Oxford.
The committee is: Prof. G. G. ‘King,
chairman, Professor Wright, and Pro-
fessor Chew.



HONOR IS THEME OF STRONG
VESPER TALK BY M. THURMAN



In one of the most forceful vesper talks
heard here for many months, M. L. Thur-
man ‘19, Senior president, attacked the
low standards of personal honor preva-
lent at college in petty matters.
Although half-way measures in doing
exercise or required reading, afterward
signed for, might not be unanimously con-
demned in the world at large, she said,
technical justification of them here to
ourselves is impossible. The out-and-out
liar she placed on a higher plane than tie
petty offender in matters of honor, in
that he acknowledged his offense to him-
self.

A higher ethical standard throughout
the community she demanded as a neces-
sity for the higher development of indi-
vidual character, and for the justification
of confidence in the college as a whole.



WAR-SAVING STAMPS FOR 1919
TO BE BLUE



A new series of War-Saving Certificates

in 1919, according to the Secretary of the
It will have a maturity date

A new $5.00 War-Saving Siamp, blue in

The same Thrift Stamps and Thrift





Chaplain Follows Service with “Sing”
(Continued from page 1.)

very first minute, when he jumped up on

together, boys—what’ll we sing?”

Beginning with “America” and “The
Long, Long Trail,” and continuing
through “Old Black Joe,” “Over There,”

the “Marseillaise,” “Battle Hymn of the
Republic,” and “The Star Spangled Ban-
ner,” the singing showed never a trace

tried methods of the ledder
everyone present with a new

inspired
sort of



written marks show that a higher number

spontaneity.

[VOLUNTARY TESTS To BE SET FoR
INFORMATION AND LITERATURE |

A voluntary general information test
with the same prides as those awarded by
President Thomas last year, will be given

graduate record, 3509 were due to Infirm-
ary illness, 65 to half-iliness, and 123
were unexcused. Nine of the latter were
starred as legitimate cuts.

not registered by the Undergraduates,
while the Undergraduate statistics show
39 not on the office lists.

MISS DONNELLY ELECTED To MARY

rett Memorial fund of $100,000, raised by
alumnez and students becomes available
this year and the principal will be handed
over later to found the Chair of English.
The directors have elected Lucy Martin
Donnelly "93, the head of the department
of English, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Pro-
fessor of English.



Archeology, in a brief talk last Wednes-
day morning in chapel, _ |
expedient,” declared Dr. Hoppin, “to erad-

ality cannot be killed. It would be equally
Impossible to receive her again into the
family of nations as if nothing had hap-
pened. We must build Germany up to
the point where she can begin to pay for
her sins, and then force her to spend the
next fifty years making amends.”



ALUMN® NOTES
Cynthia Wesson '09 has been sent by
the Government as a Reconstruction Aid
to the U. S. General Hospital for Wound-
ed in Lakewood, N. J. Miss Wesson was
trained in Dr. Sargents’ School in Boston
and this summer took a special course for
Reconstruction Aids in Boston and
passed the government examination in
September.
Ruth Newman ’15 has left Spring Street
this year and is the Suffolk County Agent
for Dependent Children of the New York
State Charities Association.
Ai Hoshino ’12 is studying at Columbia
this winter.
Julia Tappan ‘14 is in Washington do-
ing secretarial work for the Health De-
partment.
Maisie Morgan Haupt "12, M. Murray



unusually high number was due to the in-
fluenza epidemic, 104 of the 209 students
cutting registering under the excused
heading.

The office records and those drawn up
from cut cards by the Cut Committee of
the Undergraduate Association follow:

Ce
Ss
& ®
= 8 4
&.§ g
- § Ss
Office Record i
No. of students cutting. 104 135 209
moO. OO... .. 222 2530
No. of cuts per student
MUN ci sis cc... 25.1 16 131
No. of cuts per total No.
Or WS... .:,. 5.6
Undergraduate Record
No. of students cutting. 109 107 216
me, Of OU... 3... 3697
No. of cuts per student
UI oc ccc es inns Se5 : 17.1
Of the total of 3697 cuts on the Under-

The office recorded 45 unexcused cuts



E. GARRETT PROFESSORSHIP
The income of the Mary Elizabeth Gar-





“It would be impossible, as well as in-|
ieate Germany from the map, for nation-

“I think the undergraduates have been.
Wise in giving up conscription bécause it
will be impossible to have the enthusiasm
necessary to carry it through without the
necessity of winning the war,” Dean Taft
said. “Undoubtedly there were mistakes
in the conscription measures—too much
work was required every week, making
too many activities every day in the
week. Still, conscription was necessary
in view of conditions at the time it was

adopted, because many students were not

doing their part and the work was falling

on a few. A great many had signed up

for work and were not doing the work

they had pledged.

“The work is still to be done. It has

proved that the average person ought not

to undertake as much as four hours a

week. Still, everyone should take some

part and should do the work regularly

and conscientiously. I hope the college

will undertake to meet this need.”



WAR CHEST PLEDGES TOTAL
$1,906.80
$1906.80 is the sum pledged by the col-
lege to the War Chest for the coming
eight months. The amounts promised
per month by the different halls are:





13 and V. Kneeland ’18 are studying at | Pembroke Hast ................. $63.00
the New York College of Physicians and Rockefeller OUR R 6 ee Case eet insane 43.30
Surgeons. Merion POS CSN be bres Cees cis cs. 39.00
H. Huff °18, who has been running a|Pembroke West ............._.. 32.70
comptometer in a munitions factory at ove ceis ccc, 21.00
Williamsport, Pa. has enlisted in the|Denbigh ........................ 21.00
Student Nurses’ Reserve and expects to|Llysyfran ...............,...... 14.00
be called in December.
Total for one month.......... $234.00
CUT STATISTICS FOR OCTOBER Total for eight months........ $1872.00
232 Students Register No Cuts Given outright by Pembroke
2530 cuts were registered by the Under- WOE felealeciieiiecc ce 34.80
graduates during October, according to
the statistics drawn up by the office. This} Grand total ................... $1906.80

ne

Future Doctors Attend Operation
Eleven members of the Medical Society

went to the clinic of the Lankenau Hos-
pital last Saturday afternoon to see Dr.
Deaver operate.
removal of a sensory nerve ganglion from
the left side of the brain. This was a
very serious case and the operation lasted
about an hour and a half.

The operation was the

All the other operations were abdom-
nal and not so serious, although in one

case the patient resisted the anesthetic

and was so unrelaxed that complications
set in.



SOLDIERS FACING COLD WINTER

NEED KNITTED GARMENTS



The soldiers advancing upon the Rhine

will need warmer garments than they
have because of the increased altitude,
SayS an appeal for more knitted gar-
ments, printed last week in the New York
Times. The author of the appeal is Mrs.
Herbert Satterlee, chairman of the Com.
forts Committee of the Navy League.

“Just because the actual fighting in this

war is over most women seem to think
all troubles are ended for our boys,” she
says. “The wind and sleet will be just
as bitter and hard on all our naval vessels
on the seas this winter and there are
more of them than last year. Today we
had to refuse a request for 1000 sets of
knitted comforts because we had none in
stock.
us to be knitters and not quitters.”

Now is the time for all of

The college’s output of woolen socks

can be increased many times if more vol-
unteers can be found to learn the use of
the knitting machines in the Pem East
music room, according to D. Walton, who
is in charge.