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College news, May 7, 1919
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College
1919-05-07
serial
Weekly
6 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 05, No. 27
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BMC-News-vol5-no27
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San gat
Helen Barber “Watieson, 12, has al ae
Offer Training in
daughter, born May 4. Mrs. Matteson
was the President of Self-Government
_ Association when in college, and is the
sister-in-law of E. Matteson, ‘21.
Miss Cornelia ace Geer, Barnard
’17, instructor in English Composition at
Bryn Mawr, 1917-1918, has announced
her e ment to Lieutenant Martin
each, affording opportunity for nin
in both the theory’ and aren a on
re
Three fellowships of the value of $450
work, are o by the Intercollegiate
Community Service Association. |
Open to duates of Bryn Mawr,
Smith and Wellesley, the fellowships in-
volve residence at one of the College
Settlements, Boston, New York or
Philadelphia, from October 1 to July 1.
LeBoutillier, 15lst U. S. Field Artillery,|Th
- Rainbow Division, of New York.
Geer is the daughter of the Rev. Dr.
William Mon eu Geer, vicar emeritus
ot St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity Parish.
Fanny Taliaferro Ford, ex-’21, has an-
nounced her engagement to Thomas
Shipley Thomas, of Philadelphia.
Marriage
Louise Fleischmann, '06, was married
to Mr. Alfred Maclay today in New
York.
ALUMNAE NOTES
Classes that will have reunions this
year are 1889, 1893, 1894, 1899, 1904,
1908, 1909, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917,
1918. 1912’s reunion will be informal.
They are planning a picnic for May 31,
1915’s reunion will also be informal.
Elizabeth Kirkbride, 96, was elected
president of the Philadelphia College
Club at the annual elections held last
week. The other officers all represent
other colleges.
Katherine Bartlett, ex-'17, is doing
confidential work in the military intelli-
gence department at Washington.
Helen Wilson, '18, is teaching French
at Miss Eastman’s School, Grand Rapids.
Ruth Hopkinson, ’15, is a service clerk
in the Joseph & Feiss Co., in Cleveland.
Herbert Adam Gibbons, the husband
of Helen Brown, ’06, has published a
pamphlet on “Zionism and the World
Peace.” A copy has been placed in the
New Book Room.
Edna Fischel Gellhorn, ’00, has been
elected a director of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association.
Maria Georgina Biddle, ‘10, will be
teastmistress of the Alumnae Supper on
June 3.
Ethelinda Schaefer Castle, ’08, is plan-
ning to come on from Honolulu for her
class reunion.
C. Hall, °17, is a reconstruction aide in
Base Hospital, No. 2, at Fort McHenry.
She is working with neuropathic pa-
tients.
WELL-KNOWN UNITARIAN WILL
SPEAK SUNDAY
Rev. William Sullivan, D. D., of All
Souls’ Unitarian Church, New York,
who will speak in chapel Sunday, is a
convert from the Roman _ Catholic
Church. He could not accept the
changes the Modernist theory made in
the church, and became interested in the
ethical culture movement. Just before
he became a Unitarian, he taught for
about a year in the Ethical Culture
School in New York. Dr. Sullivan is
one of the most prominent Unitarian
ministers in the country.
COMMUNITY CENTER NOTES
After their hike last Saturday the
Girls’ Patriotic League, accompanied by
Jane Smith, '10, and Mary Peirce, ’12,
made a tour of the campus and attended
Senior singing. :
Silhouettes of the Community Center
and the Milestone, drawn by F. Bill-
stein, 21, are being reduced and made
into plates for notepaper headings and
placards.
Seniors are asked to remember the
Community Center in disposing of small
rugs, furniture, ornaments, books, etc.
The house at Preston is especially in
need of china and kitchen utensils.
SILVER BAY DELEGAIION CHOSEN
H. James ’21 Leader
H. James, '21, is leader, and L. Davis,
20, business manager, of the Silver Bay
delegation which was chosen Monday
night. The twenty-five delegates who will
go with Miss Applebee are: from 1919—
H. Huntting; from 1920—I. Arnold, Z.
Boynton, M. Canby, M. Carey, D. Clark,
L. Davis, M. Hardy, H. Zinsser, D. Rogers;
from 1921—E. Cope, M. Goggin, H. James,
E. Kimbrough, S. Marbury, H. Rubel, M.
Smith, J. Spurney, E. Taylor; from 1922
—C. Baird, C. Skinner, G. Rhoads, M.
Speer, E. Titcomb.
First substitutes: J. Conklin, ‘20; L.
Reinhardt, ‘21, and P. Smith, ‘22.
The time of study will be divided be-
tween practice work in connection with
the Settlement and class instruction in
a neighboring college, university or pro-
fessional school. - :
The requirements for candidates in-
clude mcoragrants undergraduate courses,
evidences of good scholarship and satis-
factory references in regard to health,
character and special fitness for social
work. Application should be made to
Hilda Smith, ’10, chairman of the Fel-
lowship Committee of the I. C. S. A.
MRS. LATHROP TELLS OF NEW
USE FOR COMFORT KITS
The final destination of some of the
comfort-kits which Bryn Mawr sent to
Benjamin Lathrop, head of the American
Fund for French Wounded, at an enter-
tainment in Devon last Sunday, which
some Bryn Mawr students attended. Mrs.
Lathrop is making a tour of America to
raise an endowment for a_ hospital in
Rheims. She described a scene in a French
village where she found the peasants eat-
ing toothpaste from American comfort-
kits on cake and bread, and relishing it as
a form of butter.
DANCE GIVEN BY 1922 NETS $15.
A dance was given by 1922 Saturday
evening in the gymnasium for the bene-
fit of the Service Corps. Fifteen dollars
was made. Admission was charged and
ice cream cones were sold. The pro-
ceeds will go to the ‘Varsity Service
Corps as the freshman quota has been
completed. Music was furnished by the
freshman orchestra, assisted by members
of the ’Varsity orchestra. The Service
Corps Committee was in charge of the
dance.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Juniors have voted to wear their
rings with the stones turned in until Com-
mencement day. 1920 is returning to the
tradition broken by 1917 of wearing class
rings turned in before senior year.
he Senior Class gave a class picnic
Saturday evening in honor of Annette
Stiles, the winner of the Sunny Jim
prize.
The Bryn Clovis model dairy farm,
and Mrs. Bodine’s farm and gardens at
Villa Nova, were visited last Saturday
by five students, chaperoned by Miss
Martha Thomas.
Miss Crandall will speak on modern
poetry to the Reeling and Writhing
Club tomorrow night in Denbigh sitting-
room. Everyone who is interested is
invited to attend.
H. Kingsbury, ’20, and another mem-
ber of the commitee, will go as dele-
gates to a conference of the Intercol-
legiate Community Service Association,
week-end of May 17. Miss Susan
at the Conference.
May 9 will be the last day for physical
examinations.
AUTHOR OF RADICAL BOOKS ON
CHURCH, WILL SPEAK HERE
NEXT WEEK.
Dr. Harry F. Ward, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, who has been called
the ablest modern exponent of social
Christianity, will speak in Taylor next
Wednesday evening under the Social
Service Commitee of the C. A. :
Largely through the influence of his
books, Dr. Ward has been able to tri-
umph over reactionary conservatism in
the church. Because of his alleged de-
fense of Bolshevism, the sale of his
books was discontinued by the graded
Sunday School Syndicate, but after a
controversy, in which he uncompromis-
ingly stated his opinions, the books were
reinstated. a
When the Soviets were driving out all
preachers and missionaries in Russia,
one missionary drew out a cop of Dr.
Ward's “Social Program or the
Church.” After reading it the Soviet
leaders declared, “If these are the thin s
that you have come to do, welcome
Dr. Ward was considered one of the
best speakers at the National Student
Conference of the Y. W. C. A., which
M. L. Thurman, "19, attended as Bryn
Mawr's representative.
France last year was described by Mrs.|F
which will be held at Smith College the].
Kingsbury will be one of the speakers] ;
_A seven-day campaign to
year’s budget of $15,000 will
the Community Center the first week in
June. The drive will take the form of
a Community Week, to be advertised
widely in advance by store-window dis-
ewe — placards and spe-
icy r
"Basis
raise next
slides at the Bryn Mawr movies.
mass-meeting on community work,
probably at the Bryn Mawr Theatre,
with slides, a speaker and music will be
the climax of the drive. During the first
half of the week open house will be kept
at the Milestone, the School Building,
and Preston, and demonstrations will be
ven of all the kinds of work done.
he week will close with a canvass for
matte een which may be taken
out at $2, or more.
IN PHILADELPHIA.
Adelphia—“Seventeen,” with Gregory
Kelly and the original company.
_ Broad—“Tiger Rose,” with Lenore Ul-
ric and the original cast.
Chestnut Street Opera House—“Par-
lor, Bedroom and Bath.”
; Forrest—Fred Stone in “Jack o’ Lan-
ern.
Garrick—“The Cave Girl,” with Lola
isher.
— Carrillo in “Lombardi,
Schubert—“ Little Simplicity.”
Walnut—“Twin Beds.”
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and
Bailey Circus—Nineteenth and Hunting
Park Avenue.
Metropolitan Opera House — Galli-
Curci in concert. Friday evening.
Palace—“The Road Called Straight.”
Stanley—‘“For Better, for Worse.”
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