College News, 1922-10-11, Vol. 09, No. 02

              Copyright, 1922, by The College New*
Volume IX.   ^No. 2*..
BRYN MAWR/PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER u,  1922
Price 10 Cents
NINETY-EIGHT STUDENTS
ATTEND SUMMER SCHOOL
Economics, English, Hygiene Required
Literature, Music, Science Among
Elective:
Summer
series of
ring   the
former
ctor of
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BOARD
DISCUSSES YEARS' PROGRAM
The   following  article  on
School of  1922 is the first o
article!   the   News   will   run
� winter, by .Miss Hilda W. Smi
Dean of the College, and now
the Bryn Mawr Summer School for
Women Workers in Industry. The articles
will deal with "Educative* Problems, Labor
Questions, Courses, Special Features, and
School Organization.''
The   Students  and   their   Adjustment
;o '.he School              �
By H. W. Smith
For the first time this autumn there is
on the campus a group of undergraduates
who are able to give at first hand some-
thing of the^tory of the Summer School
df 1922. �Even though some of them are
more familiar with the experiences of the
first month, and others with the last part
of the summer, each one was a member of
the School community long enough to come
- to know the students, get some idea of
the educational problems which faculty and
- students had to face, and to catch the
spirit of the group as a whole. That the
experiment of including a small number
of undergraduates on the staff - of the
School is a success no one can doubt who
watched them from day to day, -going to
classes with the workers, attending faculty
meetings, supervising swimming and ath-
letics, coaching dramatics, leading singing, :
and in ways too numerous to mention fill-
ing many gaps in the dajly life of the
School. It was (luc to the committee of j
undergraduates organized last year that the
rooms in Denbigh and Merion were left in
such good order for the summer students, '
� and in many cases, so attractively fur-
nished. The knowledge that this year the
"Winter Students" had not only loaned
their curtains, cushions sfnd pictures, but
had also raised four scholarships for the
School* made the Summer School students
realize in a new way that they were a part
.of Bryn Mawr and that there was a
friendly relation between the two student
groups.
As contrasted with the previous year this
group of students was more homogeneous,
more adaptable, and on the whole younger.
Most of the important racial elements in
American society today were found repre-
sented in the student group. More than
two-thirds of the 98 students (69) were
born in this country, but half of these na-
tive born Americans (34) were/the chil-
dren of fathers who were born abroad.
The Russians were by far the largest for-
eign-born   group   and  numbered   16.     The
�remaining 13 students born abroad came
from nine different countries. The ages
of the students ranged from 18 to 40 years.
More 4han three-quarters (75) were be-
tween 20 and 30 years.
In the summer of 1922 most of the stu-
dents were employed in eight industries or
groups of industries. Thirty-one worked
in the manufacturing, of garments, includ-
ing men's and women's clothing and such
miscellaneous branches as millinery and
neckware. Another large group (13) was
drawn from the textiles. Six of the stu-
dents had left actual employment in in-
dustry to become leaders in trade and labor
organizations. Thirty, or slightly less than
a thira of the total number, were members
of labor organizations. These were found
chiefly. in   the   garment   industries,   where
the 21 union members constituted a large
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majority.                            �
Ninety-eight students�ten this year from
the   South   and   eight   from   the   Pacific
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Only  Two  Drives to  be Held  for
Charity Organizations
Yearly drives and plans for maid's
classes were discussed at the first meeting
of the Christian Association Board last
Thursday, and various new scrfe^nes re-
ceived approval.
Only two finance drives will be held
this year. The "first includes the complete
Association Budget, and the second, held
in the spring, will probably be for Bates
House. No separate drives such as those
for Red Cross, or Student Friendship will
be allowed. However, if the Association
as a whole, wishes to contribute to such
organizations, it will include them in the
budget.
During the membership drive, which will
begin on October 26, the Board decided to
have its members explain the aim of.the
Christian Association to the Freshmen of
each hal> and personally distribute the
pledge cards.
Classes for maid's will be conducted
under an entirely netv system this year.
Instead of having, students give classes
in the evening, the College will provide
a tutor for each two maids and the stu-
dents will be responsible for the maids'
attendance.                  "..   �
ENGLISH   COACH    EXPLAINS
HOCKEY STROKES
Miss ArnWeld, who played against Bryn
Mawr on the English Hockey team last
fall, and coached the players at the Hockey
Camp, gave a demonstration of how a
hockey stick should be used to first and
second teams on the gymnasium roof last
Saturday afternoon.
In spite of the rain and a wet, slippery
roof^ Miss Armfield ably illustrated the
correct method of stopping and driving a
ball. Stickwork, taught along lines used
by Miss Armfield at the Hockey Camp, will
be practiced regularly once a week by
every team in College during the coming
season.
Tea was later provided by the Athletic
Board for Miss Armfield and the under-
graduates who had been to the Hockey
Camp. Folk dances, including, "Black
Nag," "Peascod," "Picking up Sticks," all
old friends of the camp, were danced bc-
iwirii intervals of iced tea.
FIRST VESPERS OF SEMESTER LEAD
BY DOROTHY MESERVE
"College means a new freedom, an op-
portunity to stand on one's own fcet,"~said
D. Meserve, President of the Christian
Association, at the first Vesper service of
the season.
"Students ought not to consider college
as a preparatory school for a triumphal
entrance into the world," she continued,
"then four years spent at college are four
of the mo'st valuable years of life. What
the graduating students take with them is
just what they have been willing to make
their own. The best possible life, unceas-
ing effort," she concluded, "they owe, not
only to themselves, but to the college as
well."
OR. CHEW PLAN8 FIVE LECTURES
ON BOOKS OF OLD TE8TMENT
A series of five lectures on Old Testa-
ment literature will be given every Wed-
nesday evening, beginning October 25, by
Dr. Chew, under auspices of the Christian
Association.
SCHOLARS FROM SIX FOREIGN
COUNTRIES HERE THIS YEAR
Norway, China, Holland, Italy, France
and England All Represented
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More foreign countries arc represented
at Bryn/Mawr this year than usual, for
Norwa^ Holland and Italy arc added to
the customary list.     .            '
As usual, Great Britain leads with trjrec
graduates, Ellas Ashdown, Persia C.
Campbell, and Gwcnyth D. Macintosh.
Miss Ashdown is B..A. London, 1915; has
taught in Peterborough and Cambridge,
and in 1921 took her M. A. at the Univer-
sity of London. Here she is working m
Knglish, and her comment on America is
that she finds it much more liko�home than
she expected. Miss _ Macintosh, who is
of Girton College, Cambridge, compared
American and English colleges at some
length. The American undergraduate is,
she said,' freer in some ways, but not as
far as her work is concerned, or her ath-
letic activities, which latter in England are
organized by the students themselves. In
England, the distinction between the differ-
ent classes is not so great and any rules
on the subject arc "unwritten rules." Eng-
lish students, of course, arc allowed to
smoke in their own rooms and, on the
whole, Miss Macintosh said, they eat more.
A favorite pastime is "Jag," an enormous
meal of cocoa and doughnuts, which takes
plaee.at quarter past nine.
France comes next in numbers with two
scholars, Henrietta Pierrot and Madeleine
Felix. Miss Pierrot studied in Paris and
has her M. A. degree from the Sorbonne.
She istaking up social economy in Bryn
Mawr. Miss Felix is from Toulouse, but
has already spent one year at college in
the United States. In comparing the
French and American student she finds
the former more analytical, the latter more
intimate.
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MANY BRYN MAWR STUDENTS
WORK AT BATES HOUSE
New  Vegetable  Garden  Supplies  Fresh
Vegetables for Children
Bates House, open from June 9 to Aug
ust 2, had a more successful season thb
summer than last.
There were on an average five to si>
Bryn Mawr workers every week at tong-
branch, and many of them stayed two_ oi
three weeks, which helped make the'rou
tine run more smoothly than if they had
been there but a short time. M. Paries
'24, and E. Howe, '24, were at Bates all
summer in the capacity of permanent Bryr.
Mawr workers. Miss Elsa Lotz, as last
summer, was the children's director, and
Mrs. Romano acted as housekeeper. Tht
vegetable garden, started for the first time
proved a great success, furnishing plent)
of fresh vegetables for the children.
The opening .week thSfmissionary ladies,"
ladies who attend the missionary socict>
of Spring Street Church, were at Bates
House. The children who came imme-
diately after them were in three groups
those of the nursery and kindergarten age
and two groups of children from seven tc
twelve.
Bryn Mawr students who worked at
Bates House were: M. Buchanan, '24; S
Wood, '24; J. Dodge, '25; M. Steers, '25*;
M. Pierce, '25; J. Coombs, '25; M. Bonnell
'15; R, Tuhby, '24; O. Howard, '22; M.
Voorhees, '22; V. Grace, '22; H. D. Potts.
*25; D. Shipley, '25; E. Mathews, '23; C
Miller. '25; E. Hinkley. '25'; E. Hale, '24;
E. Dean, '25; E. Howe, '24; and M
Faries, '24.     �                 ,
C. A. RECEPTION HELD IN
*   TRADITIONAL MANNER
Poetic  Introduction of  Speakers  by
President Association (Enlivens
#            Evening "
As usual the Christian Association re-
ception, on Saturday night, began with a,n
endless line of people waiting to go do*vif
the receiving line. 'I his accomplished,
everyone sal on the floos in traditional
manner mid Dorothy Meserve, the Presi-
dent of the Association, welcomed the new-
comers and introduced President Pa(k U
the  chief   speaker  of  tlje evening.
Beginning on the humorous note Presi-
dent Park soon passed to a more serious
consideration of the Christian Association
and what she hoped it meant in the -col-
lege lite. As a practical organization she
felt it should give opportunities for coping
with the business details of life,�how to
hire caterers and pay bills�but it should
also he a means for giving to its members
the time, the opportunity, and tKe inspira-
tion of getting to know the great minds"
of the world through their writings and
teaching.
Dean UontecoiiJollowed President Park
and described the�beginning of the Chris-
tian Association which took place when'
she was a Freshman at liryn Mawr by the
combination of the two rival organizations
for practically the sajna purpose .which
llourished   then.
The rest of the speakers were introduced
in poetry, Florence Martin, first, who was
chosen�
"To bead the Undcrgrad., and do
All of the work we ask her to.
But she is wonderfully fit
To be president of it."
Miss Martin described the work of the
Undergraduate Association, that it whistled
people off the grass, regulated their cuts
and, in a word, took care of all the things
that none ;>f the other associations at-
tended to.
The Self-Government Association was
ushered in by a long poem on the fate of
one Anna I.ehr, who, disobeying rules, went
to sleep on the upper campus and was
killed by a falling limb,                    �
"The moral  of"  which  was "beware
Of all the infirm trees that grow
Upon the upper campus.    Woe
To anyone who will not do
As Self Government tells her to
For every rule is for her good
And would protect her if u could."
Julia ^Vard, President of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association, spoke urging the sup-
port of the Freshmen and entering grad-
uates, all of whom are if so facto members
of the Association.
II. Kice, who spoke next for the Athletic
Association, was introduced greatly to the
surprise -of  the  Freshmen as one who
"Although she is no acrobat           -
And though her strength test is below,
The average as the strength tests go,
And though she could not possibly,
Play on a college varsity,
Yet she has what is known to be
Executive ability;
With lots of pep she carries through.
Whatever she sets out to do,
So when she rises now to say,            ,
Her little speech, just this I pray,
Be gentle in your epithet
She was the best that we could get."
Miss Litzinger, '20, then spoke, as presi-
dent of the Graduate Club; she welcomed
the   new   graduates   and   explained. briefly
the activities of the Club.
The last speaker was Miss Applebee,
"This   college   would   disintegrate
Without her as a running mate."
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