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THE. COLLEGE NEWS





Enthusiasm of Russian “People Is
Marked, Says Miss Gertrude Ely



Bryn | Mawr Woman Made Trip i in Colbie with Bernard
Shaw and Lady Astor; Found People Better
Dressed Than a Year Ago.



“he training of the Russian people
under the Five-year Plan was com-
pared to a terrific religious fervor by
Miss Gertrude Ely, chairman of the
Pennsylvania League of Women Vot-
ers, who returned last week from a
trip to Russia in company with Ber-
nard Shaw, Lord and Lady Astor and
other prominent Britons to her home

on Merion AVenue, Bryn Mawr.
Miss Ely’s visit to Russia, the sec-
ond in two years, was prolonged after
the return of the Shaw party. Most
of the time was spent in Moscow.and
Leningrad, visits also being paid to the
‘Lenin Commune, to a prison farm near
Moscow and an animal raising farm.
“It is most difficult to give an ade-
quate or complete picture of Russia,”
Miss Ely said, “since the -field in which
they are working covers so many lines.
Everything, of course, is directed to
the advancement of the Fi; 2-Year Plan.
- The theatres, movies, newspapers and
books are all propaganda agencies for
it. And the enthusiasm and co-op-
eration of the people is: most striking.

“People there often have two or.

three jobs and much work is done at
night. Public projects are looked upon.
as everyone’s duty and mitch volun-
teer work is done. In Moscow, for in-
‘stance, they were repairing streets by
night.”

Miss Ely told of an incident which
occurred there one evening about 5:30:
‘Workmen were prying: up cobblestones
in the street, preparatory to relaying
the. trolley tracks, and girls’ were
throwing the stones oneside. One of
the girls she discovered spoke German
—so-she asked if she might help fora
bit. * Assent- was readily given so.,Miss
Eiy went to work. “It’s good fui

~~ throwing cobblestones,” she said.

“Did you see what you wished to
see_or-what_the-Soviet—officials wanted-



Quarantine and Course .
Changes Are Explained

In chapel on October 1 Dean Man-
ning made the -following announce-
ments:

On account of the epidemic of in-
fantile paralysis, visitors to the college
may not sleep in the halls and anyone
wishing to go home, or to visit any-
where besides PHadelphia and_ its
suburbs must apply to Miss Ward for
permission. The object of this two-
weeks quarantine is to keep people
from the infected areas off the campus.
Miss Ward is working in accordance
with Dr. Wagoner and it is hoped that
the quarantine will be lifted with the
first cold weather.

Mrs. Forest will not give her course
in child ‘psychology this year unless
more people. are very anxious to take
it. It will be given next year in any
case.

Shakespeare reading will be given
this year although the plans for sec-
ond semester are uncertain as yet on
account of May. Day.



Surgeon to Speak

The first of the serics of meetings to
familiarize students with the various
vo¢ations will be held in the Common
Room on Thursday night at 8 o'clock.
The speaker will be Dr. Virginia Knee-
land Frantz, of the College of Sur-
geons. Her“ subject is “Opportunities
for Women in Medicine.”



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you to see?” Miss Ely was asked.
“Those may have coincided, but I saw
what I wanted to see,” was the reply.
In a village she revisited she found

that an athletie tield had been laid out
since last year and that athletics. were
being encouraged. The people, she
found, were better dressed than a year
ago and were demanding more, “even
lipsticks,” she added.

The Communist party, according to
Miss Ely, is small in numbers and is
constantly being purged when hun-
dreds who are found lacking are
thrown out at one time. “It is very
arduous belonging to the party,’ she
said. “I asked many people, particu-

munists. In some cases the answer
was yes, but more often the reply, was,
‘No, I’m not a Communist. It’s too
difficult’.”

The reactions of the Russian people
to Shaw were most interesting, Miss
Ely said. Everywhere he went the
people crowded around him. Even in
the factories they surrounded him, ask-
ing for his autograph and telling him

larly young people, if they were. Com>



—Photo by Bachrach,
MISS GERTRUDE ELY

“It’s good fun throwing cobblestones.”





they had read his books. “By remain-

ing there after he had gone I got the
attitude of the people towards him in
another way. They were all very kéen
about-him.” Miss. Ely characterized
Shaw as “‘a highly dramatic person and
one of the most: extraordinarily alert
persons, mentally and physically, t that
I_ have ever-met.”’

----spirited Freshman-‘stunt were the fea-

Fifteen Years Ago
Seniors Take-Off Quarantine
Nineteen seventeen’s amusing skit
on quarantine regulations and a
tures of the Senior reception on Sat-

urday.- night.

Nineteen seventeen’s performance
opened with a screen-song addressed
to the “pretty babies” of the audience.
The first act, a take-off on registration
under quarantine, showed Freshmen
going through “hot air,’ “hot oil;’
“microscope” and “cold showers” and
reappearing with the yellow ticket
“purged.” The Freshmen, especially
those impersonated by C. Hall in bril-
liant orange, and E. Seely in yellow
and purple, were recognized at once.
Their methods of ‘smuggling mer-
chandise from the pike with the aid of
’20’s numerous M. Carey’s, were the
features of the second act.

THE POINT OF A JEST

In attaining the much-desired senior-
ity, 1917 has also attained the much-
dreaded orals. No amount of dread-
ing, fearing, hating can save you.
Orals must be taken and ‘passed or
taken and failed, but they must be
taken. Since this is true, why not
take them in the best spirit possible?



Thirty-one classes have met the test
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and very, few students have failed in
the end, but no class has ever shown
a healthy sense of humor in regard to -
them.. They have all moaned over the
campus, trailing lengthy word-lists be-
hind them,

their disheartened look and pessimistic

depressing everyone. by

talk. Of course you must study, study
hard, but being gloomy and afraid will

not help you. Why not display a lit-
tle originality, 1917, and start a new
fashion in oral taking?) Be gay—at
least now and then! If, like Cyrano;
you must die with the point of a
sword in your hearts, die also like him,
with the point of a jest om your lips,

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Disarmament
The League for Industrial Democ-
racy has just published an emergency
magazine, called ‘Disarm; Disarm!”
This aims to be a sweeping, graphic
assault on war, on war psychology, on
the causes of .war. Not merely nega-
tive, Disarm! indicates various ways
for affirmative action. As was true
of ‘The Unemployed” (which had a
circulation of 315,000 for three issues)
“Disarm!” is an example of eollabora-
tion of writers and artists who now
contribute their work as a united effort

against the secial- horror of war,









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