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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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IN THE NEW BOOK ROOM.

Some. Newspapers. and Newspapermen,
Oswald Garrison Villard. According to
his Preface the editor of the Nation has
selected oufstanding American journals
past and present to illustrate the prevail-
ing tendencies in the rake’s, progress of-our
press,. for which cofnmercialization is re-
sponsible. These studies are absorbing in
their spirited and flowing treatment; their
fearless.and specific accusations; and their
impartially directed praise... ° ,

Mr. Villard sets apart the Christian
Science Monitor, the Forward and _ the
Minnesola Dail) Star, basing his distinction
on their indifference to financial gains. Of
the first he writes that “it cannot ‘become
the perfect newspaper while it is so hope-
lessly enmeshed in its Christian--Science
inhibitions . . . but because it is the organ
of a society established upon an. ethical
basis;..
the profit‘motive, and beyond the lure of
dividends; and because it has conceived
its mission to be international; it is one of.

porary journalistic experiments.”

The Forward, a nion-profit-making- Yid-
dish newspaper, is described as the most
challenging of New York’s journals. De-
voting all profits to the cause it supports, it
pays its editors far less, and its lower em-
ployees far more than other dailies, and
aside from philanthropic aims prints the
best fiction and belles lettres in the Amer-
ican. press.

While the privatély owned Minnesota

is to court popularity through fear gf
financial failure, it will approach what may
be interpreted as Mr. Villard’s ideal of a
newspaper: “If it can steer between the
Scylla of violent radicalism and_ the
Charybdis of timid silence, if it can make
money but save its soul.”

Making Woodrow Wilson President, by
William F. McCoombs,. once chairman of
the Democratic National. Committee, is a
very personal narrative whose revelations
should be considered in the light of the

author.

The Cimbrians, by Johannes V. Jessen,
contains the third and fourth parts of his
historical cycle, The Long Journey. This
is an interpretation of the development of
the northern soul from primitive man to
Columbus, who in his seeking for distant
lands embodied its primeval dreams. The
trahslation has. retained all the author’s
intimate and poetic treatment of remote

of original work.

The Sardonic Arm, by Maxwell Boden-
heim. One may conclude from his preface
and the poems that follow, that Mr. Boden-
heim’s creed isa “tantalizing obscurity of
words luring the nimbleness of mental re-
gard, subtlety, and those deliberate acro-
batics that form an original style.” If this
writer’s word dexterity were not based on
nimble, elusive and incisive thought, the re-
sult might be merely startling. As it is he
achieves a strongand lasting effect. One
is conscious of a grimace of humor be-
hind all his poems, which persists even in
a subject as gentle as Expression on a
Child’s Face.

He himself is aware of it and half re-
grets it: In the Housewife, which describes
a woman and her child with a faculty for
crystallizing, the _most significant quality
with the most significant words:

“While your emotions rest inert

Like dried fruit in a paper bag.”

this feeling is expressed:

“And yet I envy both of you

And wish that I could also find

The mildness of your fancied view

Where feelings dance and thoughts
are kind.” “geen

One suspects that to him poetry is not]:

the end, but the means and in his hands
such a use is justified; even when he
leaves free verse for conventional verse as
qn Short Story in Sonnet Form, a master-
piece of terse suggestion where he builds
a. perfect scaffolding for the final impres-
sion, so strong because it is so personal,

. . because, it is entirely without]



_ that-eachreader evolves for himself: =]

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers, byD:.- Ft.
Lawrence,

A Primer of Higher Space. The°Fourth
Dimension, by Claude Bragdon, is an, in-
viting introduction to the incomprehensible.
The subject matter is attractively presented
and even the ‘diagrams are unforbidding.

Cesanne and Les Independants ; separate
volumes by, Gustave Coquiot are. written
with much enjoyment and unconyention-
ality. The treatment is that of entertaining
narrative and description. Reproductions
of the artists’ works are generously scat-
tered throughout the text.

MR. THOMAS NIGHTINGALE
‘ LEADS SUNDAY SERVICE



Dispersion of Interest is Danger
~of—Present- Day Generation.



The .development of character to its ut-
most was urged by Reverend Thomas
Nightingale, general secretary of the Free
Church Council ‘in England, speaking in
Chapel on Sunday evening.

Owing.to_the dispersion of interests the
modern generation is running the risk of
doing no one thing well, according to Mr.
Nightingale. Many faculties are left -un-
developed. Using an old Testament simile,
he explained that such unused faculties
were as the web which was never made



into cloth,g and so never fulfilled its pur-
pose in being useful as -a garment,
dustry is a

In-
form of genius, and it, is
industry -and persistence in doing one’s
allotted task to the best. of one’s. ability
that is commendable.

Mr. Nightingale explained that it was not
the man merely with the brains who was
worthy of-admiration, but rather the man
who though less brilliant, made full use
of his capacities, developing himself ° to
the utmost and accomplishirig his allotted
task. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to
do, do. it with all thy might,” ig an admoni-
tion for us to go on gtfiving to give the
very best that it'in us to whatever task the
present and future holds for. us.

MISS FALKNER EXPLAINS
COLLEGE HOUSEKEEPING



Repairs to Buildings, Servants and

Food Menus Discussed -



Repairs to the buildings, - Servants,
menus, and buying of food were explained
by Miss Falkner in her talk in Chapel tast
Friday morning.

About: three yedrs-ago the business end
of the College was reorganized, began Miss
Falkner. An accurate cost accounting sys-
tem was attained. Mr. Foley is now in



charge of the grounds and maintenance of
the buildings, while she herself runsseyvery-
thing inside’ the halls on a Budget whereby
the exact.amount of money which can be
spent is accurately calculated,

First of all Miss Balkher mentioned the

repairs to the beifdings. Thé'rooms to be
repaired aré decided on only after a care-
ful examination by the housekeeper of the
hall, President Park, and Miss Falkner, and
after recommendations are made to the
Buildings and Grounds Committee. Each
year some large piece of repairing is done,
such as the enlarging of the pantry in
Radnor Hall.
* Servants like to come to Bryn Mawr, ac-
cording to Miss Falkner, because they have
twenty-four hours off each week and ofly
work eight hours-a day. They enjoy work-
ing together and appreciate their .classes.

The College menus are made out weekly. .
They are then brought tip at a food meet-
ing in the Deans’ office and finally sent for
approval to the doctor. In. regard to the
actual buying, according to Miss Falkner,
all milk comes from a dairy near West-
town, that all eggs come from Philadelphia
and are examined, while butter comes from.

‘Minnesota. Frtit and vegetables are bought

twice a week. All the canned goods are
selected by competition. The food is
brought to Rockefeller ‘store’ roém~ where”
it is kept in ice boxes and stored until it
is sent to the different halls.







WHITMAN’S FAMOUS CANDIES Are Sold by

H. B. WALLACE

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