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OUR FINANCIAL, °
| SITUATION —
The presidents of Bryn Mawr,
_Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Mt.

_Holygke and: Barnard—Are—the

joint authors of an article on the

_problems.of women’s’ colleges.-in-
“this Sttiday’s” isstie- of The“ Néw

York Times magazine section.
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The article seems to demonstrate

beyond doubt that the only solu-

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ments.

tion of the financial difficulties
new facing the leading colleges
for women is in increased’ endow-
Everyone realizes the im-
possibility of keeping up a high
educational, standard when_ the
best teachers-are continually being
drawn off to large universities and
better endowed men’s colleges;
and on the other hand every stu-
dent will be grateful for the stand
by the seven presidents
against raising tuition fees to meet
actual costs.. Far more important
than the increased expense would.
be the-change.in type of student
and ‘social atmosphere which, -as

“the article points’ out, would al-

most inevitably result. The. at-
tempt to.regard education as a
industry . would
change its whole meaning and
purport.. Bettér to look upon it

‘as a charity—thee highest and

finest ‘of charities, hecause it helps
not those who are weak to ketp
on a bare level with the rest of the
world,--but: those who are poten--
tially strong to develop that
strength and to raise the level in
By -his increased capa-
bilities the sfudent later repays to
the public What it has contributed
to his education through endow-
ment funds. :
Yet th® ystudents themselves
should lead in contributing to the

ri since they benefit di-|

rectly trom it...At Bryn Mawr we




step in that an coco by vot eet
give the money raised by May
Day for one of,the purposes out-
lined in The Times article:

To improve salaries So that they |

may more nearly equal those in
the foremost colleges for men.

To increase the staff, especially

with a view to further provision |

for individual instruction. —

‘To provide for.experiment and
research; and ‘to improve equip-
ment’ of these. The first two

probably represgnt the most cry- |

ing needs.



AN EXPRESSION OF. -_
GRATITUDE

Now that May Day is over and
everyone is beginning to secover
from her exhaustion and .excite-
ment, we are able to consider the
whole affair more calmly, to see
with greater clarity. As we look
back we see: that we, the under-
graduates, owe a debt of gratitude
to the many outside of our own
number who have contributed
time and skill and thought that
May Day might be a success. To
many of these we have expressed
our-gratitude—in so far as grati-
tude. may be.expressed—and for
still others there has been recom-
pense in the admiration and ap-
preciation of the visitors. But
there.are workers whose work has

not been generally appreciated be-





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the manual labor that apc be-
hind and ,supported our less: ma-
terial labor. Their work has been

"8 \,not only faithful and: willing, but.

also cheerful, in the spirit which
we have.tried to preserye in all
our May’ Day activities. -We feel
that’ there:,must “be many who
would join us in this expression of
appreciation. _
OYEZ! -
A plea, a plea! Why must peo-
ple who ‘use the. Common Room
leave cards scattered on the floor,
odds-and-enids-of—paper littering
the chairs, ‘cigarette butts and
ashes strewn :'on the couches?
Must they be so careless? Al-
ready the upholstery is scarred
with seyeral burns. «Probably it
iS not that they feel they must;
they merely do not bother to do
anything else. At first the new-
‘ness of the place rather awed the
eollege. People were as tidy and
polite -as though they were visit-
ing. Now, unfortunately, this de-
cent awe and respect.has worf
off. “There is that.comfortable be-
ing at home feeling. ~ But must
familiarity always. hreed con-
tempt? Let us try eugenics, apply
the pringjples of scientific breed-
ing, for Surely familiarity is cap-
able of producing a more worthy
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THE HOUNDS OF SPRING
Now that ‘the. pageantry _ of
Elizabeth’s court has passed by in
its never-to-be-forgotten proces-
sion, there remains for. our, poor
drab lives only the hazy anticipa-:
tion of exams. Unfortunately the
day will “soon come when that
aAticipation is a horrible reality,
all the more alarming because We
have paid so little attention to it.
There is always a danger in living
in the past, and just now, unless
we bestir our: brains, we shall
suddenly find ourselves still revel-{
ling upon ‘the’ green, instead of
groping among the complicated
treatises wherein are stored the
secrets of knowledge.
How pleasant it would be to
while away the remaining days in
sweet contemplation of our past‘
glory ;. how...utterlycheerful..to
‘spend the next two weeks care-
lessly musing -upon the frivolities
of summer vacation!
Alas! for.the false blue sky of
spring! It is entrancing, but it.
conceals a warning. |

SALES” 3

If we had birthrights we would
be selling them! We are salisti-
cally inclined. \Ve have heard of
sales~ of ‘antique ftirniture, no
| doubt we have often been dragged
'to”them, and otr most cherished
/and* worn. garments have been
'sent down to the yearly rummage
sales at home. We have attended |
-auctions of paintings or books, we |
ihave torn to Wanamaker’s special
sales of silk goods, and have heard
“Lord Dunsany read a play avoxt
‘the bartering/of a soul. But we
‘have outdone them all. |. ;
| One-week it isa sale of unusu-
‘ally-priced French underwear. An-
/other week hats will be made on
\the head for a paltry sum. Still
‘another, and one Will have the op-
‘portunity of purchasing an indi-
| vidual summer evening wrap. For
two days old clothes will be sold
'—come get your spring outfit—
and for two days-more there will
be~aesale of second-hand jewelry.

| What next?

We're In the Army Now

The Cot.ece News has become a char-
/ter member of the Interscholastic Press
Association. Its insignia is now flying
at our masthead. This organization has
existed for some years, but is now being
re-formed. Its. membership is open to
_all magazines and’ newspapers published
‘by colleges, universities and Senior high
‘schools throughout the country. It has
| an. official organ, the Scholastic Editor,
| published in Chicago. The monthly
issues of this magazine will include news









The Association, which is being spon-
sored by the Department. of -Journalism
of the University of Minnesota, is con-
ducting a contest for student publica-
tions. The Corteck News has entered
the newspaper class for colleges of .less
than five hundred students, in the hope

- cause it was not géfierally realized. | of winning a silyer “cup; -or-at-least—q

_ We speak of the workmen,



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pogengnrets

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_« The Pillar. |
a of Salt







Just, when we, were making desperate
plans to secrete pencil and paper 4n our
Elizabethan bagice. and. construct
column between dances on the green we

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received this contribution from “Lot's
father-in-law by his second wife. It is
a hard thing to be father to a pillar.. But

Humor, and not parental cares, that
mixes that tang: of bitterness with the
salt. “ ?

“We young people,” writes the editor
of College Humor, “cannot understand
the gospel of despair. The glitter and
gleam of life have take us. There is
the émart of beauty. We have
found love—that old bewilderment.”
There is more to the-editorial; And that
is why it is, called College Humor, no
doubt. ‘We believe the secret of life is
Lto be able to laugh a great deal; and
we do. Somehow we are all terribly alive,
i body 4nd mind.” Oh, terribly!
Heaven is here, and hell is, where?

Life is glitter, life is gleam.

f it rains ’twill soon be fair;

‘Tf it’s chill, turn on the steam,

Down-with Gospels of Despair!

Lovers, come and be caresseds-—-
If ’tis Youth that knows no care,

Pray; how old is Edgar Guest?
_ What is really. the matter with. the
Young people of today? . They flaunt
their misery on their banners. It is that
they refuse-to be young. Maybe.this is
not their fault. The fact is that they
have Jost the sense of sin, Whether,.the
philosophers have stolen it from them, or
they have thrown it away, who knows?
Not I. At all events they have it no
longer... And who can find delight in life
without a sense of sin? Not they. Not
I. . But then, thank God. I still have mine.
May I kiss. you?. If you choose.

Pass me, please, the Camembert.
Cheese and kisses are not news;

We have known them here and there.
Camembert we still enjoy.

If we eat it, we répent; \
But romanee and kisses ‘cloy,

For. they. bring no.-panishment. ee
Take, for instance, marriage. The

tlLought of it was once exciting. Suppose
one made a mistake? What followed?
Divorce, and tlte sense of sin gratified by
the endurance of 4: penalty. But. now
divorce is no penalty; and therefore mar-
‘riage is no excitement. Or suppose one
offends against a Canon of student gov-
ernment. ‘What is such: an offense at
B. M.—chewing gum while sitting at tea
with President “Park? How should I
know? But when we who aré tiow old
were ,young, had we offended we
should have been filled with exhilaration.
It was WRONG. Evading the penalty
if we could, enduring it if we must, in
either. event. we should havehad.acon-
sciousness of the heroic> In our day the
devil was always taking us up on high
mountains and showing us, all the king-

ee fe Gasess ¢jiem we

. Shae ste e a7 See
needed only: (so. he whispered) to serve

so



| some wood-cuts and figure sketches by

we hope it is a recent reading of CoHege|

| students.

* The Art Club exhibition will continue |
all this week. T, & exhibit includes a
group of. Miss ~Tut#e’s water colors,

Miss Perera, Miss Fain and Miss Hop-
kinson, decorative panels by Miss
Benoist, 'a portrait head by Miss. Fore-
man, and some designs for stained glass
windgws. A .review of the exhibition
wil] appear in next week’s News.



News From Other Colleges

A Solution for Those

_ Conditioned in Oral
A nevel and apparently successful
method fer German instruction is be-
ing’ undertaken’ at the Mount. Holyoke
College Summer School tnder _ the
supervision of Miss Lilian L..Stroebe,
professor in ,our German: department.
From 1912-1927, Professor Stroebe con-|
ducted a German Summer School, the
last three years under the auspices of
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Ver-
mont, The instruction was discontinued
during the world war, and the unfortu-
nate results of that revolt against all
study of German-are now manifesting |
themselves. Because of this.need. for the |
language, Mount Holyoke opened its |
doors to the German Summer School last
summer, and seventeen students, includ-
ing teachers and students at college and
high school, benefited by fffose methods
of instruction employed. by Miss Stroebe
before—the--war. seers

The principle of the school is to secure
by isolation, concentration, anid-e6-ordina-
tion, the same results as those derived
from study in Germany. The students are
housed in Porter Hall apart from those
speaking any other language and they are
“pledged to speak German constantly. The
mornings are . devoted -to. classes, the
afternoons to individual study and_recrea-
tion, and the evenings to such entertain-
ment as German lectures, . There are’ also
opportunities to gain a knowledge. of
German .life through periodicals and
newspapers. Professor Stroebe conducts
the courses with the assistance of a staff
of native teachers. Individual instrtiction
is made- possible -by the fact that a
teacher is provided for every six or seven
College credits are obtainable
by the satisfactory completion of ,courses.
The courses RS ete * range
from instruction in oral composition toa
study. of Goethe’s Faust,..cover..a. wide
‘enough: scope to. prove a service to Stu-
(ents with varied needs, These courses.
are intended for teachers of German, and
for those who desire to increase, their
practical knowledge of the language as a|
requisite for advanced work in science, |
history, and allied departments, %r for |
purposes of foreign study-or- travel: The!
requirements demanded of every entrant,
aside from the promise to use nothing |
except German in their daily speech, are
that-they--should—possess~ 8ame—previous
language, and should}





knowledge of the |
evince an interest in the subject and a|
willingness to study it—Connecticut Col-|
lege News. * |



Two More Editors Gone
Two editors of The Tower, literary
magazine of Dartmouth College, have re-
signed because New Hampshire laws by |



him. That was’our temptation: not the

kingdoms, but the dream of serving the |

devil.
Mephistopheles, my lad,

Yours is but a weary round!
Bad is good and good is bad

When they’re separately found!
Yours is but a%dreary part.

Out of happiness you're choused.

All the ‘fun of life and*art

Lies, my dears, in being Faust!

Has the mechanistic philosophy stolen
from you- your sense of sin? In that-case
I could be honestly sorry for you, But
I fear you have traded it for that sorry
mess of pottage, the Feeling of Responsi-
bility. It is not so long since I read the
horrible words, ina letter froma B. M.
graduate, .a girl capable, I suspect, of
charm, though as I. have never seen her
I cannot be certain, “What one useful
thing have I ever done in my life?” I
shuddered. At her age, I. never con-
sidered, thank God again, the process
of breaking stones on the road of ac-
complishment. I speculated rather, “Is
this which I am longing to do a sin?”

a

dice rolled seven. For if I did it, I felt
wicked. And if I didn’t do it, I felt
noble. Pity you, pity yeu, who believe
with. that Victorian Rotarian Robert
Browning, and his heroine the ~ Bryn
Mawrish Pippa, “All service ranks the
same with’God.” Which is true only if
| there is no_God—or_no devil, which—is-of
coufse -the same thing.





lierature and what is not. After haVitiy
three of their stories rejected, the @ditors
decided that the law wins every time. The
Dartmouth commented that the decency
of New England, “which throws into bold
‘relief the incidental elements of smut, is
a parasitic fungus of hypocrisy.”—New
Student.





Little ones, be up and sinning!
If you'd rather sin than not.
Or with virtue try beginning,
As you choose or have been taught.
But remember that temptation
Is the only lasting truth.
Doing is but slow. damnation;
Dreaming..is.the..strength_of- Youth.
Lot’s Father-in-Law © |
The following confession was found
‘pinned to an unrecognizable. corpse on
Sunday morning after. May Day: Just
another of those gas balloon tragedies.
Melanchply Suicide.
I had a balloon
And a five-dollar bill ieee
The balloon had a long red string
I tied it around —
The five-dollar bill
As neat as anything
I let the balloon
Go up in the air. ~ “ 7
The five-dollar bill went too.
I saw it sail ee
Right over the green



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ras to that. of the college that they should.
do full justice fo such problenis and’

justify, the responsibility which is placed
upon them in the management of this.
great addition to. Bryn ‘Mawr. With the

stage and the possibility of continual: ad-—
ditions of modern equipment, the scope:

of ‘dramatics will be greatly increased,
and Varsity Dfamatics and Glee Club
should have a brilliant future of greater
perfecton and experiment. There will.
be more opportunity too for more drama-
tics of an informal kind such as the very

successffil" foreign students’ entertainment _

and it is to be hoped that Goodhart Hall
wilkebeseontintially in use for this purpose:

as well as for entertainment of other

kinds, &

Committecs. Discussed.
The Curriculum Committee has. had a

very important activity in conferring with
the departinents of English and #listory,
about the honor’s work to be offered next

year. \Its work has been both valuable~

and efficient. ee

The ‘Liberal Club is still alive, having
passed through m4ny vicissitudes, though.
it hopes to ‘grow in activity -and “inter-
ested members, developing from the
nucleus that now. keeps it alive with real
enthusiasm. The Speakers’ Committee has
had another successful year though its
activity has been a good deal circum:
scribed by’ May Day... ®: ,

New Cut. System.

Phe Cut-Committee_has..set..in motion.
a small revolution, spurred on by -the |

dissatisfaction of the faculty with the
present system. It was felt that the sys-
tem was too inaccurate and should be
thoroughly reorganized. “A new plan has
been proposed «by. the Cut Committee and
the Student Council for consideration of

the faculty. The plan is; briefly, to have

attendance taken by~ students appointed
by the Employment Byreau who will be
paid by the Undergraduates Association
or ‘the college in proportion to the num-
ber of classes of which they take the
attendance. The details will be worked
out by next year’s committee if the plan
is approved, In connection with this the
question of Friday cutting, which has
been generally complained of by the
faculty as disorganizing the work, ca

up and the advisability of limiting week-
ends. It is the opinion of the Student
Council and, I am ‘sure, of the Whole

| Undergraduate Association that limita-

tion of week-ends is against all that
Bryn Mawr stands for, and that a special
penalty. for Friday cutting would alleviate
the situation. However, no step will be
taken without a full discussion of it by
the Undergraduate Association and all
plans are only suggestions. , Lhis 16a

Geceertsignt : pre . . + “
perennial problem, and will continue to

sd until a real understanding: is*
reached between the undergraduates and
the faculty, and this time of abolition

and evolution seems the moment to reach

' such an intelligent understanding.

A question of general interest came
up in connection with the raising of
funds outside of the college social work,
such*as a Red Cross drive. The college
has been An general against the. official
raising of such funds as being an un-
necessary drain on the already overbur-
dened: purse of the undergraduates. It

izevhowever, a question open to further

retecck
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discussion fOr Nexi-ye EES
The activities outside-the college have
‘been’ small this year, due partly to the
crowding of May Day. Cornelia Rose,
however, made a very successful trip
as delegate to the -National Students’.
Federation of America Conference, of
which she is the secretary.

The dramatics outside of May Day
resolved themselves this year into the
performance of “The Cradle Song” by
Varsity Dramatics and a most success-
ful concert with an unusually ambitious
program by the Glee Club, which is the
usual procedure every four years.

. May Day Climax.
May Day seems at this moment to be

‘ the climax of the year, for as Dr. Chew

said, “it is over with. inconceivable suc-
cess,” due partly to the weather, partly
to the untiring effort and skill* of Mr.
King, ‘Miss Applebee and Mrs. Collins,
and in large part to the co-operation and
enthusiasm of every Single person who
The financial side is still to
be- determined and the use of what: pro-
ceeds were made is still to be assigned
by the Undergraduate Association. .
It is well to conclude at the climax,
and to pass on the conduct of the associa-
tion tothe. new, board’ with every con-
fidence in its ability and willingness to
carry out the wishes of the undergrad-
uate body.. ces :
Respectfully submitted, =

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— ARICE H. PALACHE, 26,

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