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Why Wait Till Easter?

A stretch of ten weeks between mid-
year and Easter vacation is bound to
have a deadening effect upon everyene’s
effort and enthusiasm, an effect which the
short crowded weeks after Easter by no
means serve to remedy. Yet such is the
schedule to which we are bound when-
ever there happens to be a late Waster.

Many other colleges avoid this unequal
distribution of work by having a fixed
spring vacation, for instance, the last
week in March and the first week in
April. Certainly the advantages of hav-
ing a vacation midway in the semester
are unquestionable, such a vacation af-
fording just the relaxation necessary to
save a certain per cent of our number
from “breakdowns.” For this second se-
mester vacation to be dependent upon a
“movable feast” (which always seems to
fall, perversely, at just the wrong time),
defeats one of the chief ends which the
vacation should serve.

Hunting the Snark

Hunting the snark is nothing to hunt-
ing books in the reserve room, for the
simple reason that there are no books—
it’s alla myth. Two minor French classes
of thirty students each have been trying
to survive on one copy of each required
reading book. There are said to be copies
in the hall libraries, but they are rare and
transient. A class of sixty in Poets are
reduced to the same situation—and what
books there are belong to the professor.
Is not there some way by which the col-
lege can save enough money to buy—say
one book for every fifty people. Much
as the Bryn Mawr student loves her food
there are times before quizzes when she
would willingly sacrifice mushrooms and
other expensive accessories for a chance
at some illusive book.

Sophomore Rules

The term class spirit has been anath-
ema ever since an incident effectively
staged in Bryn Mawr village a year ago
last fall. That incident sounded the
death-knell of the Radical faction then in
control, and the Conservatives, with their
doctrine of sisterly, but not necessarily
Class-sisterly love, have been in the as-
cendant ever since.

They are now beginning to assert their
power in a positive way. They propose
that Sophomore rules be applied with
more gentle ministrations. No more
gowned figures and dark cellars may be
the attributes of the “Reading of the
Rules.” Maybe, instead, the rules will
come to be posted in Taylor or announced

: " Aligone who in taterested please soo me}

ly after chapel any morning in
Taylor.
Helen Emily Kingsbury,
Chairman of the Social Service
Committee.



: IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM

Some of the war poetry suggested by
Miss Spurgeon in her lecture here last
fall, has just been received by the New
Book Room from Bngland. Included are
Mariborough and Other Poems, by C. H.
Sorley (third edition with illustrations in
prose), who, according to Masefield,
would have been the greatest English
dramatic poet since Shakespeare, if he
had lived.

The Old Way and Other Poems, by
Captain Ronald Hopwood, R. N., of which
Miss Spurgeon read. The Old Way, as
“embodying the spirit of the British
Navy.”
Songs of Youth and War, P. H. B. Lyon,
M.C. London: Erskine MacDonald.
Soldier Poets—Songs of the Fighting
Men, compiled by Galloway Kyle, in two
series. A collection of new poems, not
previously published in volume form, by
Captain Julian Grenfell, Edward Mel-
bourne, Sergeant J. W. Street, Sorley,
and others, which “record the aspirations,
emotions, and experiences of men of all
ranks and branches of the army.”
Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg, ‘‘dis-
tinguished by the trenchant note of social
criticism and by its vision of a better
social order.”
While Paris Laughed, by Leonard Mer-
rick, “being the Pranks and Passions of
the Poet Tricotin.”
Walking Shadows—Sea Tales and
Others, by Alfred Noyes. Bleven short
stories with wartime plots. 1918: Stokes
and Co,
Colour Studies in Paris, by Arthur Sy-
mons. Collection of essays on French
writers and life in the French capital in
the nineties. Freely illustrated with car-
toons, photographs, etc. Contains 4
chap‘er on Yvette Guilbert. 1918: Dutton
and Co.
The Book of Lincoln, compiled by Mary
Wright Davis. An anthology of poems
and prose extracts dealing with Abraham
Lincoln, supplemented by quotations from
his speeches. Illustrated with photo-
graphs of Lincoln statues and of places
connected with his life. 1919: Doran Co.
Art from Japan
Japanese art work in two valuable col-
lections has been purchased by the
Library for the Art Seminary. They were
both edited in Tokyo by the Shimbi Shoin
Society, and imported from Japan. One
yolume contains reproductions of the
work of Kano Motonabu, a great Japanese
painter. The printing is in Japanese, and
the book opens at the back, tied by thongs
within its box cover.

The second book, “Japanese Temples
and Their Treasures,” contains five hun-
dred plates and colored wood-cuts, with
critical studies in English. This edition,
limited to two hundred copies, was pre-
pared by His Imperial Majesty’s Commis-
sion to the Panama-Pacific Exposition,
“for the purpose of presenting an ade-
quate idea of our art to the American



at Vespers.

people.”



Service—Dr. Elizabeth Kemper Adatns,
Head of Professional Women’s Section,
U. 8S. Employment Service, Washington,
DC.
Employment under Private Firm or
Corporation — Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
C. Clothier, formerly member of the Com-
mittee on Classification of Personnel in
the Army, and Employment Manager of
the Curtis Publishing Company.
The Community in Relation to Industry
—Mrs. Eva Whiting White, Member of
the Federal Commission on Living Condi-
tions, United States Department of La-
bor, formerly head Blizabeth Peabody
House, Boston, and Director of the Bos-
ton School Centers; Elect Head Worker
of the New York College Settlement.
Discussion by Miss Ernestine Fried-
mann, Field Work Executive Secretary,
Industrial Section, National Board of
the Y. W. C. A.
SATURDAY, 2. P. M.

Medicine and Public Health
The Physician and Public Health—Dr.
Martha G. Tracy, Women’s Medical Col-
lege, Philadelphia.
The Physician Abroad—-Dr. Dorothy
Child, lately returned from work with a
Pedriatic Unit in France.
Medical Social Service—Miss Katherine
Tucker, Director Visiting Nurse Associa-
tion, Philadelphia.
Discussion by Miss Antoinette Canon
07, head of Social Service Department of
University Hospital, Philadelphia.

Madame Breshkovskaya Wil!
Russian Revolution
(Continued from page 1.)
a young nobleman, a liberal, she realized
no improvement could be brought about
until the autocratic government was over-

thrown.

Leaving her home, she lived among the
peasants, suffering with them, teaching
them, until for her revolutionary ideas
she was imprisoned, and sent to Siberia
for more than twenty years. After her
release, she continued to rouse the peas-
ants, avoiding the police by tricks. Cap
tured again, she was exiled until the revo-
lutionary outbreak.

Fights Red Guards at 73

“With the end of Russian autocracy
Madame Breshkovskaya was hailed as the
foremost of Russia’s deliverers,” says the
“Literary Digest.” “Then, under the
bloodier autocracy, although she was 73
years old, she took up the fight against
Leniné, Trotzky, and the Red Guards. ‘To
get to this country to enlist help, she rode
horseback scores of miles, lay in hiding
from them, ran risks, and endured priva-
tions most women 50 years younger
would have hesitated before attempt-
ing.’”

Tickets for Madame Breshkovskaya’s
lecture may be obtained from D. Smith,
Pembroke West, for $1.00; members of
the college, 75 and 50 cents.

Tell of



Foundation (an Association for Social /dith”; and “Mr. Berenson Paints Giensee

United States Federal Employment}

Guidance), Philadelphia. Painting.” In the same nuniber Sefiorita
SATURDAY, 9.80 A. M. Dorado has an article on “The Charm of

Industrial Supervision and Employment |Spanish Fairy Lore.” -
Management Pr. Wright will speak in chapel Friday

Thomas’s absence the Department of His-
tory and Economics has taken over Mon-
day morning talks in chapel, and the De-
partment of Social Economy the talks on
Wednesday mornings.
At the faculty tea for the graduate stu-
dents, to be given in Denbigh tomorrow
afternoon, those receiving will be: Dr.
and Mrs. William Roy Smith, Dr. and
Mrs. Frank, Dr. and Mrs. Tennant, Dr.
and Mrs. David, Miss E. Noyes, Miss
Franklin and Dr, Fenwick.

C. La Boiteaux is Freshman song leader
for M. Krech, who has resigned on -ac-
count of merits.

R. Neel has been elected permanent
water-polo captain for 1922.

An anonymous gift of $151 has been re-

ceived by the Christian Association. $100
will go to the Armenians as designated by
the donor and $51 will go towartis the tm-
stallment of a new heating plant in the
College Settlement House in Philadel-
phia by the decision of the board.
B. Clarke '22 has been elected to the
Bates House Committee in the place of B.
Donohue '22, who resigned on account of
merits.

The part of “An Old Woman” in Senior
Play will be taken by Elizabeth Biddle.
J. Palache '22 will serve on the Food
Conservation Committee for C. Baird ’22,
who has resigned on account of merits.

M. Kennard ‘22 will fill Miss Baird's
place on the Employment Bureau Com-
mittee.

L. Kellogg has been elected 1920's song
leader in place of M. Carey, who resigned.

H. Huntting 19 will be Major-Géneral
Stahley in the Glee Club operetta, in
place of G. Hess 20. ®Wdward, sergeant
of police, is J. Peabody ’19.

Dancing is to be allowed by the Bryn
Mawr School Board in the part of the
school building used by the Community
Center. Miss Hilda Smith "10 has been
trying to get this permission for many
months. Until now all dances have been
given in the Fire House.

Mr. Edward C. Newton, author of “The
Amenities of Book-Collecting,” may speak
to the Englich Club on “Old Books.”

Blizabeth Fuller has been elected toast-
mistress for the Senior Fellowship Din-
ner to be held next Friday, March 21, in
Rockefeller.

1922 May-Drop Sophomore Rules

The Freshman Class is considering the
question of abolishing Sophomore rules
hext year. At a meeting held today, after
the News went to press, a plan was
brought up, accorditig to which the tradi-
tiots of college etiquette should be ex-
plained to the entering Freshmen by the
Sophomores at a joint meeting of the two
classes.



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