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College news, December 19, 1918
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1918-12-19
serial
Weekly
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 05, No. 11
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BMC-News-vol5-no11
“hetiee 13 (Mrs. see
‘ed hes a son, Henry Reed Hayes,
born November 17th.
Alice Eichberg ak (Mrs, Shohl) has a
daughter, Jane, born last July.
_ Elsie Deems '10 (Mrs. Neilson) has a
daughter, Annie Virginia, born October
3d. Mrs, Neilson is a sister of Miss Vir-
ginia Deems, the head of Bates House.
Louisa Haydock '13 was married re-
cently to Lieut. William Hackett, U. s.
Air Service. Mrs, Hackett was President
of the Athletic Association in College.
She has been in France for some time as
a nurses’ aid.
Margaret Loudon ’16 is married to Mr.
John Davis Burton. Miss Loudon won
_ the prize offered by Masefield, in 1916,
for the best poem written by a Bryn
Mawr undergraduate.
Deaths
Dorothea Cole ’10 died on October 8th
of pneumonia following influenza.
Harriet Robbins '93 died on October
21st.
Ruth Marshall, A.B. Univ, of Minne-
sota 1913, graduate student here 1914-15,
died on November 15th of pneumonia.
Laura Wilder ex-’10 (Mrs. Laurance
Simpson) died recently.
MISS SMITH STRESSES COMMUNITY
WORK, AT SOCIAL SERVICE TEA
“To express not only herself but her
community, is the duty of the college
girl,” said Miss Mary Gove Smith, telling
of the value of the Intercollegiate Com-
munity Service Association, at a tea
given by the Social Service Committee
last Saturday. College girls’ brains are
needed, first in work like that’ at the
Community Center, and later, in recon-
struction, to save the country from revo-
lution.
Smith College, Miss Smith told, will
open a Community House after Christ-
mas. It is hoped that when it is running
on a sufficiently organized basis, the work
will count for academic credit.
Miss Smith, organizing secretary of the
I. C. S. A., was an I. C. S. A. Fellow. She
worked for eight years at Dennison
House, Boston, and, according to Miss
Kingsbury, has done “phenomenal work”
among the Italians.
Miss Kingsbury told briefly of the I. C.
S. A. Committee for Reconstruction work
abroad. The committee has been respon-
sible for obtaining directly for the Red
Cross and Y. M. C. A. 235 women for
overseas service.
Miss Kingsbury gave a reception for
Miss Smith Sunday afternoon.
IAN HAY TO SPEAK JANUARY 11
Major Ian Hay Beith has been defi-
nitely secured by 1920 to speak here on
January 11th, for the benefit of the Serv-
ice Corps. He will be entertained at tea
by the Seniors, and at dinner by the
Juniors.
Major Beith arrived on the Mauretania
two weeks ago. Since his lecture here last
December, he has been at the front with
the British Staff.
FRENCH TRYOUTS BEGIN
AFTER CHRISTMAS
E. Harris '21 Elected Secretary
Tryouts for French Club will begin im-
mediately after Christmas. All those
who speak any French are urged to sign
up on the papers posted in each hall.
E. Harris '21 has been elected secretary
in place of F. Moffat.
H div lieus Me uk cama Geass
ceed tee 6 tones Danaea
course on “Philosophical Issues of the
War.” - - The course has been given up.
THE SMITH ‘SUMMER SCHOOL FOR
PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORK
(Contributed by A. Humphrey '15)
Last summer at Smith College there
was held a War Emergency Course for
the preparation of psychiatric social
workers to assist in the rehabilitation of
soldiers suffering from the war neuroses
—or so-called “shell-shock.” The course
was given under the auspices of the Na-
tional Committee for Mental Hygiene
through the following special committee:
Dr. E. E. Southard (chairman), of Bos-
ton; Dr. William L. Russell, of New
York; Dr. L. Pierce L. Clark, of New
Cork; Dr. Walter E. Fernald, of Waverly,
Mass.; President William A. Neilson, of
Smith College.
Miss Mary C. Jarrett, of the Boston
Psychopathic Hospital, was the director.
The school aimed to meet what was felt
to be a growing need of such workers in
the reconstruction work during and after
che war. The completed course will con-
sist of the eight weeks’ academic work at
Northampton, followed by six months’
practical experience in social work with
psychopathic individuals. This practice
work is being done in various centers,
notably Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore. During the eight weeks’
academic work the school was given: a
special course in sociology, including
methods of social case work, by Dr.
Chapin, of Smith College; a course in psy-
chology by Dr. Rogers, of Smith, and in
mental tests by Dr. Clark, of Smith; and
& course in psychiatry under the direction
of Dr. Spaulding, of Bedford Hills, given
in the form of lectures by eminent psychi-
atists from various parts of this country
and from Canada. These lectures in-
sluded descriptions of methods now being
ised in the army at home and abroad and
plans for the future. The Northampton
school, of whom 35 were rejected; 68
3tate Hospital put its facilities at the dis-
2osal of the school for clinics throughout
‘he summer.
The course was open to college grad-
1ates or women having equivalent tech-
ical training. One hundred and thirty-
xix persons applied for admission to the
was the number with which the school
ypened. Five of this number dropped out
vefore the completion of the course, two
were advised not to take the practical
work and three failed to come up to the
passing grade. Ten who had, before com-
‘ng to the school, done the necessary
practical work, received the certificate of
sraduation; one who is already em-
ployed was granted the privilege of post-
poning her practical work. The remain-
ing 47 were placed in hospitals at the
above-mentioned centers for their six
months’ practical training.
Six Attend from Bryn Mawr
The ages of those who took the course
ranged from 19 to 46. Forty-three were
college graduates, of whom two had taken
an A.M. and one a Ph.D. in psychology.
Many of them had had experience in so-
cial work or in hospital; three were grad-
uate nurses; two librarians and 12 teach-
ers. Twenty colleges were represented
by the group: Barnard, Brown, six from
Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Cornell, Goucher,
Leland Stanford, Oberlin, Smith, Sim-
mons, Vassar, Wellesley and the Univer-
sities of California, Ilinois, Iowa, Ken-
tucky, Michigan, Ottawa, St. Lawrence,
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
At the end of the summer the school
was incorporated into an alumne a580-
ciation.
Alice Humphrey "15.
il ace Dor-
othy Child ’10, and Frances Ferris ex-’09, |
were the speakers at the annual meeting
of the Philadelphia Branch of the: Alum-|
ne Association on Saturday.
Dr. Child described some of her expe-| large.
riences in the children’s dispensary of a
Red Cross hospital at Evian-les-Bains,
where she has been examining child refu-
gees returning through Switzerland. The
French are being trained to go on with
the work when the Americans withdraw,
Dr. Child stated. Frances Ferris told of
evacuating towns near the firing line,
which was one of the tasks of the
Friends’ Reconstruction Unit.
The outlook of the Service Corps was
portrayed by Miss Marion Reilly, chair-
man of the Administrative Committee,
who reported $8000 in the treasury and
the prospect of a number of reconstruc-
tion workers to be added, some time be-
fore Easter, to the 14 Service Corps mem-
bers already in the field.
President Thomas told of reports that
had come back to her of the Service
Corps workers and spoke of the organi-
zation of the Alumnew Association and of
Mrs. Sage’s legacy to the college. Mme.
Riviére spoke in French on the work of
French women in the war.
Miss Hawkins told of the second Bryn
Mawr farm—“less spectacular than the
first, but in many ways more successful.”
XMAS TREE AND PARTIES AT
THE COMMUNITY CENTER
Reading Contest Among the Children
Christmas will be celebrated at the
Community Center with three parties
during New Year’s week, and the Com-
munity Tree, to be lighted in the Park on
December 26th. Help is needed in the
parties and in trimming the tree at the
Center from anyone spending the holi-
days in Bryn Mawr.
A children’s book contest has begun at
the Milestone Library, offering a colored
star for each standard book read, and a
prize for the completion of a required
list. H. Riggs ’21 has made out the lists,
and started the contest by reading bits
aloud.
Books are wanted for the library, espe-
cially Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn, George Eliot’s Mill on
the Floss, Kipling’s Captains Courage-
ous, Kim, or other stories, Louisa Alcott’s
Stories, and Longfellow’s Poems.
Dramatics classes, dressmaking, and
Red Cross work have started for older
girls at the Milestone on Wednesday
evenings. Basketball, folk-dancing, and
gymnastic classes are held at the Center.
Mme. Claude Riviere spoke at a meet-
ing of the Community French Club on
Tuesday.
The first Community Center Confer-
ence was held a week ago. Books rec-
ommended for workers have been placed
on the reserve shelves. A list of other
‘equired conferences will be posted on
the C. A. bulletin board.
LIBRARY REGISTERS GREAT Loss
OF BOOKS DURING THE
PAST YEAR
Contains Now Over 80,000 Volumes
The answer to the tourist’s stock ques-
tion, “How many books are there in the
Bryn Mawr Library?” is 86,709, according
to the annual report of Miss Reed, the
Librarian. Over $5000 has been spent in
books in the past year, and 267 books
have been lost, a greater number than
in any preceding year.
Books on Literature, Social Economy
and Education, and Philosophy and Psy-
chology have been in the most demand.
The circulation has been 24,000. Of these
books 54 per cent were borrowed by stu-
dents, 23 per cent by faculty and staff,
and 23 per cent in the Reserve Room.
IN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION “THE COLLEGE NEWS”
*
“tender glowing kindliness”
“Religious” says Dr. Johnston
Tracing the ostges udaism
survive in of dom whi
Contrary to current opinion, Dr. John-
ston said, war has never: made man re-
“We are not living in a new
world because it has been bathed in
blood.” Human beings are fundamentally
religious. War merely accelerates the
pace of the religious mind.
The choir Sang the “Sanctus,” accord-
ing to custom, also “Voici le Redemp-
teur” in French, and “Sleep, Holy Babe.”
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