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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Experimental Writing

Answers Serious Need |



Course “Enables Student to
Choose Her Particular

Field in Writing



The cry of a great many ‘Bryn
Mawr students has been most happily
answered this year by the addition
to the college curriculum of a class
We have
had _ up to. this time, instruction in

in experimental writing.
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various specialized fields, criticism,
poetry, short stories,. and in “some
years plays, but. never before has the
immature but aspiring writer, who
has not yet found her particular field,
had the opportunity to experiment, to
compare, and. eventually to discover
the nature.of her especial talent.
Miss Cornelia Meigs, who is so well-
known from her delightful children’s
stories, is giving the course this year
known as Experimental Writing. The
class meets once a week, taking up at
each discussion a different type of
writing, essays formal and informal,
description, biography, historical nar-
rative, short story and novel construc-
tion. -Reading--from-—contemporary
authors in these varying types of
prose is assigned for each week, and
each student turns in a composition
of her own in prose or in poetry as
she chooses. Both the original pa-
pers and the reading are discussed in
class for the purpose of formulating



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the requirements necessary for each
type of writing.

The purpose of this course is three-
| fold,..to give the student practice, to
awaken her to thoughtful criticism,
and, above all,:to enable her to find
that.field of writing for which she is
best suited. The requirement of a
pap_r every week in an assigned form
trains the student to write facilely

'and with whatever material she may

have at hand, and. prepares. for a
journalistic career or for the day
whcn her publishér may tell the pdp-
ular author what-her next book must
be in order to satisfy the demand of
her public. Critical reading and dis-
cussion of popular contemporary au-
thors helps one more than anything
else to discover what one likes,yor dis-
likes in current literature and for
what tangible reasons. Finally, by
uncurbed experiment and by compar-
ing the results, the writer finds her
limitations and her ability, and starts
herself in the field where she is most
likely to succeed. In this experiment-
ing and first venture the student is
_ helped by the actual experience and
impartial judgment of Miss > Meigs,
who corrects the papers and discusses
with each student her progress arid
her failures in frequent interviews.

The class, although new. this_year,
is attended by twelve students. It is
encouraging to know that so many
people who have the definite inten-
tion of writing, will have gained valu-
able experience and training by the
end of the second semester, when
each student has completed a long



pieces of work in that field in which
she ‘has chosen to specialize. We can-
not voice loudly enough our appreci-
ation to the college for initiating this
course, and to Mi-.s Meigs for con-
senting to struggle with such eager
but untrained material.



Miss Park is Guest of Honor

President Park will be the guest

of. honor at a dinner to be given by
the Bryn Mawr Club in New York
on Wednesday evening, January 25th,
in the private dining rooms’ of the
Park Lane. About one hundred mem-
bers of the club and their guests are
expected: at the dinner.
’ The Bryn Mawr Club moved in Oc-
tober from the club house at 213
East 61st street, to its present lo-
cation. at the Park Lane, 299 Park
avenue, New York.

Board of. governors.of the Bryn
Mawr Club, 299 Park avenue, N. Y.:

Mrs. Bolt Lowry, president; Mrs.
Howard T. Oliver, vice-president;
Miss Katharine Van Bibber, treas-
urer; Miss: Alice Newlin, secretary;
Miss Jean Palmer; assistant secre-
tary; Mrs. Louis Ellinger, Mrs. David
Goodnow, Mrs. William S..: Hardie,
Miss Caroline F. Lerow, Mrs. Fred-
erick .:A. Dewey, Mrs. John C. Juh-
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opened in Tokyo, Japan. It is known
as the brides’ school and is trying to
counteract the widespread movement
in Japan to bring women into «the
various professions.—(NSFA.)

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