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Date of “News” Changed

Beginning with this issue the News will
be dated Wednesday, rather than Thurs-
day, and will be given out on campus
Wednesday night. Mailed copies are
sent out early Thursday morning. Sub-
scribers who do not receive their copies
promptly are asked to notify the Post
Office.



Other Colleges

The cabinet conference with represent-
atives from Mt. Holyoke and Vassar ful-
filled the double mission of bringing the
Bryn Mawr C. A. in contact with the or-
ganization and problems of the other col-
leges and of making the cabinet feel it-
self as a body united with the executive
board. Meeting with other colleges, as
in the War Service and Self-Government
Conferences and exchanging college
papers, is bound to bring in new blood
and new ideas and to have a generally
broadening influence on the colleges con-
cerned,

Bryn Mawr’s prevailing fault, it is
usually agreed, is self-satisfaction and
aloofness from the other colleges, but this
is usually from ignorance. Bryn Mawr’s
size may prevent it from adopting many
of the methods of larger colleges, but this
is all the more reason for its trying to
find good ideas which can be applied here,
getting outside the four walls of the cam-
pus and making every effort to keep alive
to what other colleges are doing.

Still to be Neat—Still to Drest!

Were our childhood friend, Slovenly
Peter, to wander about the campus these
days he would undoubtedly meet many
relatives. At classes, in the village, and
above all at dinner he could not fail to
recognize his little sister, telling her even
from afar off by her fuzzy wig and glori-
ous emancipation from the conventional
hook and eye.

Whether by temperament or by phy-
sique she is an athlete par excellence, and
loves to dress in character, refusing to
abandon even at dinner the costume of
her kind. Especially does she cling to
the kindly gym shoe, delighting in the
soft scuffing sound it makes in Taylor and
along the village asphalt. Of all articles
of dress, however, a battle-scarred middy-
blouse is her favorite, though now seri-
ously rivalled by the T-shirt for evening
wear.

It may be that Slovenly Peter, during
his recent. years in the army has been
forced to depart somewhat from the ways
of his youth. If so he will probably be
grateful to his little sister for keeping
up the family traditions.



MRS. GIBSON EX-'18 DIES IN FRANCE
Mrs. Adeline Pepper Gibson ex-’18 died



|in the v 8. Medical Corps.

LETTERS To THE EDITOR
To the Editors of the College News:

The general opinion at Bryn Mawr is |

that Pay Day is a success. The bills are
collected apparently without any trouble,
and no one is bothered by being con-
stantly dunned for ten cents for this and
fifteen cents for that. But all the work
falls on one or two girls in each hall and
each pay day means for some of them
as much as eight houfs’ work or even
more.

It seems to me that the position of hall
collector ought to be paid positions. The
collectors certainly do as much work per
hour as is required by any of the paid
positions in college. They might receive
a certain percentage of the bills they col-
lect, or be paid by the hour or by the

‘semester.

And is it generally understood that
bills for small picnics and parties are to
be collected by the hall collector? This
has been done, but it does seem to be
abusing the privilege of pay day.

Clara E. Hollis '19.

To the Editor of the College News:

One thing gleaned from the Cabinet
Conference of the C. A. with other col-
leges was, I think, the fact that other col-
leges seemed to possess more Christian
intelligence than we have at Bryn Mawr.
Their classes and meetings seem to be
planned and worked out with a definite
purpose in view and an intellectual grasp
of modern religious thought. This may
be partly due to the Faculty interest in
other colleges which would bring another
point of view into their associations. But
whatever the reason, couldn’t we develop
to some extent this more educational side
of the C. A. instead of the somewhat hit-
or-miss classes and meetings under the
present system?

Chanticleer.

SCORN NOT THE SONNET

Since the very souls of the members of
the Second Year English Class have been
laid bare by the compulsory composition
of sonnets, we have entered upon a new
realization of the almost universal mor-
bid-mindedness of our friends. Girls who
before seemed gay even to a point of friv-
olity are now seen in their true colors:
“clothed in the sabler tints of woe.”

The company commander and orchestra
leader, who poured forth her feelings on
Revenge, will never more be misunder-
stood; though she assume a mask of
mirth, even approaching raucous jollity,
it will never be forgotten that beneath
this smiling exterior is concealed an in-
ner being of Byronic bitterness. “Die,
thou beast!” says she magnificently (re-
ferring to the Kaiser, of course—and em-
boldened by the “clarion blast” of Peace,
referred to in a previous line). What a
relief it must have been for her thus to
vent her splendid inclination.

One of less sanguine temperament
chooses Friendship as best expressing
her personality. Even she, however, is
not untainted by the cynicism of the day:

“Although the fangs of jealousy extend
And like a rodent when his prey he
brings
Into his lair and soon aside it flings,
Then gnaws again—they gnaw our faith,
my friends.”

One feels that this writer may have
been a bit unfortunate in the selection of
her comrades.

‘Even our veteran campus insurance
broker has assumed a new aspect. Who
would have guessed that under her blue
gym suit there throbbed a sorrowing
heart; that above her apparently prac-



See ee

| But freedom for this mortal ne’er can be ;

Till to my resting place at last I go.

But yet this world is not so hellish bad,

And that I’m here I asservate* I'm glad.

And while this great round ball is clad
in green

It has an antic grace, a lovely sheen.

So while I can before it is too late

I'll live my life and leave the rest to
fate.”

Ah, yes! Even sonnets enrich our un-



*This is not a misprint.



STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITIES OF
FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND
HELPED BY BRYN MAWR
CONTRIBUTIONS

An account of work among the students
of foreign universities, to which Bryn
Mawr has been contributing, has been
sent to the college by Miss Ruth Rouse,
travelling secretary of the World’s Stu-
dent Christian Federation. She writes:

“I know that at Bryn Mawr, as in all
the American colleges, the girls are
deeply interested in war work. You will
easily see, I think, that what the World’s
Student Christian Federation is doing in
various countries in Europe has a vital
bearing on war problems, and especially
in preparing for the work of reconstruc-
tion in some of the countries which have
been devastated, notably in the Balkans
and in Belgium. I am sending
you two special reports, one on the work
in Geneva and the other about. the
women’s student conference at MAlons,
in France.

Many Foyers for French Students

“FRANCE. The French Student Move-;
ment has passed through deep waters
this year. Their travelling secretary,
Monsieur Charies Grauss, was killed at
the front in August, and the Serbian sec-
retary, Monsieur Jovitchitch, appointed
for special work amongst the Serbian stu-
dents, died in June.

“The women’s work, however; has
made marked progress. Next year they
hope to have two or three conferences,
such as the one at MAlons, in different
parts of the country. Foyers are in full
working order in Paris, Lyons, Montpel-
lier and Toulouse. In each of these there
is a secretary, giving her time to the
work of the foyer and the Student Chris-
tian Association. In Paris there are two
secretaries. The Toulouse foyer is the
latest addition. In Paris, thanks to gen-
erous help from America, we have been
able to open the longed-for hostel for
women students in the Latin quarter. It
is to hold fifty students.

“In contrast to the work in the past,
the large majority of the. students
touched by our work are French. But
this is because we have gained ground
amongst the French, not because we
have lost it amongst the foreign stu-
dents. I think it is not too much to say
that practically every Serbian woman stu-
dent studying in the French universities
today is in close touch with the French
Student Christian Movement. We had
hoped to have the same close tie with
the men, but the death of M. Jovitchitch
has hindered the fulfilment of our dream.

Open Hostel in Geneva

“SWITZERLAND. As you will see
from the report from Geneva, this year
has been a year of progress. The Hostel
has been started, and already enlarged,
the Foyer has moved into new and larger
quarters, a Bureau de Traveil has been
begun, and has proved a great success,
doing away largely with the need for
monetary help for students. A summer
house for students has also been run
throughout the summer vacation.



EYEWITNESS. OF. BOXER UPRISING, :
_ SUNDAY NIGHT SPEAKER ;
A refugee’ of the Boxer rebellion, Dr. 7
John BE. Williams, professor at Nanking
University, China, will preach the ser-
mon Sunday night in chapel. Dr. Wil-
liams has been on leave of absence in
When in China at the time of the Boxer
trouble, he and his family were forced to
escape to Japan. Dr. Williams is work-
ing. under the Presbyterian Board of For-
“- Missions.



OUTSIDE WORKERS TELL OF RED
CROSS AT HOME AND ABROAD

The work of the Red Cross at home and
abroad was pictured in the Red Cross
workroom in Merion last Thursday by
Mrs. Ewing, head of the Reclamation De-
partment of the Main Line branch of the
Red Cross, and her sister, Miss Dewey, a
navy nurse just returned from foreign
service, .

Mrs. Ewing described the shortage in
new uniform underwear which makes the
Red Cross mending so important just
now. Workers are falling off, she said,
but the present allotment of garments to
the Main Line must be finished very soon,
If more garments than are needed by our
soldiers are mended, they will be sent to
refugees abroad.

A Carmelite nunnery at Brest, to which
men from torpedoed boats were brought,
was the scene of much of Miss Dewey’s
work abroad. Sick men often had to
leave their beds to make room for more
desperate cases, the congestion was so
great. Miss Dewey had been near Sois-
sons and Chateau-Thierry last’ summer,
and said that in every emergency the Red
Cross had provided for all wants of both
patients and nurses with more prompt-
ness than could have been hoped for.

IAN HAY’S LECTURE
(Continued from page 1.)

While in England last summer, Major
Beith directed the sending of British
speakers to this country, and headed the
committee for the reception of American
delegations to England. He is now at
work on a book called The Last. Million,
describing the American soldiers’ point of
view regarding the “oddities“ of Great
Britain.

A dramatization by Major Beith of his
novel, Happy-Go-Lucky, will be presented
in London this spring.



Major Beith’s Forecast Fulfilled—
A. E. F. Can Spend Leave in England

The hope expressed last Saturday by
Major Beith that American soldiers would
soon be allowed to spend their leaves in
England, is to be realized this week, ac-
cording to an article in The New York
Times. The United States Government
has granted the request of Great Britain
that England and Scotland be included
in the leave area, and soldiers are ex-
pected to arrive at the rate of one hun-
dred and fifty a day.

Many English homes, according to.
Major Beith, will be opened to the Ameri-
cans. Rest stations have been estab-
lished at Stratford-on-Avon and Edin-
burgh.



ALUMNA NOTES

Gladys Byrant ex-'17 is an assistant in
the New York branch of the State Health
Department; her special work is on Was-
serman tests.
Adelaide Shaffer "18 is a reconstruction
aide at the U. S. General Hospital No. 11,
Cape May, New Jersey. Miss Shaffer
took a course in Physiotherapy last sum-
mer at Columbia.