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ALUMNA NUMBER
Managing Editor
Alice Martin Hawkins ‘07.

Assistant Editors
Louise Congdon Francis '00.
Isabel Foster ’15. —

Clara Vail Brooks ’97.



For the first time in the history of The
News and the college the alumne are
writing and editing an issue of an under-
graduate periodical.

.The spirit of generosity and co-opera-
tion with which The News offered the
president of the Alumne Association thts
opportunity has warmed the hearts of
those who were called in to form tne
scrub board of editors and encouraged
them in their work. Hastily organized;
and working at the disadvantage of being
widely separated, they have used tele-
graph, telephone and post. They apolo
gize for the deficiencies in the result, but

hope that it will arouse the interest of
other alumne in The News, for many of
them fail to realize that the news of their
friends and of the college, which they are
always longing to hear, may be found
every week in this paper. If they realized
it as some alumne do, the subscription
list of The News would be quadrupled.

There are people who say that publicity
won the war. It is certain that the high
morale of America, of every city, town,
village and hamlet, could not have been
.inspired without the people knowing the
purposes of the war and what the rest of
the country was doing to win it.

Bryn Mawr has not sought the advan-
tages of publicity to any considerable ex-
tent. What it could do has never been
tested. But in a large way it is the
problem before the annual meeting of the
Alumne Association this year. Now that
the war is over, the directors and many
other alumne feel that the time has come
for spreading the gospel of Bryn Mawr.
The question of increasing the number of
branches of the association will be
brought forward in a motion for raising
the dues. This is a publicity move pure
and simple. The question of reorganizing
The Quarterly is one, as is also that of
having a secretary to travel through the

country speaking on Bryn Mawr.

The quest of this publicity is not in any
sense to sell goods, that is, to get more
students, but rather to make the college
better, to increase the endowment fund,
to raise the professors’ salaries, to make
possible a students’ building and, best of
all, to make the name and fame of the
college ever more glorious by the high
academic and intellectual standing of its
chosen few.

| naval ‘authorities to devise an apparatus
| for testing acuity at low illuminations to





Tor the selection of men for this
type of service. We have devised and
had built in the College shop an appara-
tus for this purpose, which has been ap-
proved and accepted. Duplicates of this
apparatus, we are told, will be placed
first in the naval schools and hospitals
and later on the battleships when suffi-
cient data have been accumulated to
serve as a basis for the ranking or grad-
ing of the men.

The apparatus for testing the speed of
adjustment of the eye for clear seeing at
different distances was used in France
for studying the daily variations in the
combat aviator’s fitness for his work, or
for what has been called in aviation cir-
cles the “checking up of the tardy ace.”
It is still being used at the Medical Re-
search Laboratory at Mineola. Three
problems are in prospect there: (1) the
standardization of the test for the selec-
tion of aviators; (2) the study of the
diurnal variations in the aviator’s ocular
fitness for his work; and (3) the study
of the effects of oxygen poverty.

In the matter of care in the selection
of men and the supervision of their daily
fitness for their work our army has bene-
fited by the experiece of its allies.
Colonel Wilmer, former Commander of
the Medical Research Laboratory at Min-
eola, writing me recently from France,
states that during the first year of the
war 60 per cent of England’s aviation ac-
cidents were due to the poor selection and
to the poor supervision of the condition
of the aviator; during the second year
this had been reduced to 30 per cent;
and during the third year to 12 per cent.

In our preliminary tests of a large
number of eyes rated as grade A by the
clinic tests we found variations of as much
as 100 per cent in the speed of making
accurately the adjustments needed for
clear seeing at different distances. We
have also found that in the process of
“growing stale” no function more quickly
than this suffers depression or is subject
to greater variations from day to day.
That any lapse, lag or slowness in this
function is a serious menace to the avia-
tor in making a landing, in combat work,
etc., is now pretty generally recognized.

I trust that I am not intruding this
information upon you unduly. When I
began I had no intention of writing so
much. The extra information may per-
haps be of some personal interest to you.

Sincerely yours,
C. E. Ferree.

To the Editor:

The officers of the Trophy Club are
taking this opportunity to ask the
alumnez how much they wish to have the
Trophy Club kept up to date. When once
it is up to date, then, of course, the ques-
tion only concerns each Senior class, but
at present the club is very much behind
along every line. Its big meetings and
parties have long since discontinued, its
revenue has ceased, it has great need of
a good book case, a good glass case, and
innumerable pictures. It will have to
have pictures framed, old publications
bound and catalogued, and hundreds of
nameplates, which were discontinued in



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ty |up year by year, starting again with the | ™™
jeurrent year. We should very much ap-|
preciate some expression of alumne
Jopinion on the subject. Please address

communications to Katherine Townsend,
secretary, Denbigh Hall.

(Signed) Mary E. Tyler ’19,
President of Trophy. Club.

Class. Trophies Missing.
DONO i cies class book, class picture.
OOO. os cas class book, class picture.

WA. ke. class book, class picture.
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TOGO e. 350s class book, class picture.
BOG0. cc ess class book, seal.

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TORS soos lantern, ring, class book.
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1900.:..... ring, song book.

BOR ccc: ring, song book.

BOUEs cess ring, song book.
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2, ae lantern damaged, song book.
1905..... - lantern.

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