College News, 1914-10-08, Vol. 01, No. 02

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The College News
Volume I.     No. 2.
BRYN MAWR,  PA., OCTOBER 8,  1914
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR.
lURSI
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. v
Advanced   standing   examinations   be-1
gin.                                           �
President Thomas' reception to the
Freshmen.
7.30.� Business meeting of the Chris-
tian Association.
President Thomas' reception to the
Graduates.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10.
Senior Oral in French.
8 P. M.�Philanthropic Committee's
Party to members of the Christian As-
sociation in the Gymnasium.
'   SUNDAY,  OCTOBER   II.
�   P.   M.�Vespers.     Leader,   H.   Taft.
'15.    Address to the new members of the i
Christian  Association.
8 P. M.�Evening service.    Sermon by
the   Rev   S    Higginhotham.  of   India.
MONDAY,  OCTOBER  12.
7.80 P. M.�Undergraduate meeting in
the  Chapel.
WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER   14.
4  P.  M.�Inter-class   Tennis   Tourna-
ment begins
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1�.
x-\\ M.�Debate  Meeting.    Leader, F.
Hatton. '15.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17.
Senior    Oral    Examinations    in    Ger-
man.
'Varsity    Hockey    match    vs.    Merion
c. c.
8. P.    M.�Senior    reception     to    the
Freshmen.
SUNDAY,  OCTOBER   18.
e p. M � Vespers.    Leader, E. Dulles.
'17.
8 P. M Evening Service. Sermon by
the Rev R Johnston. Rector of St. Sa
viour's  Church.   Philadelphia.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21.
'Varsitv   Hockev   match   vs.   Philadcl
phi* C. C.
SUNDAY.  OCTOBER  2f.
ft P. M.�Leader. II. Riegel. '16.
8 P. M.� Eveninir Service.    Sermon by
t'-c   Rev.   W.   T.   Robbins.   Dean   of   the
General  The logical   Seminary.
FRIDAY,   OCTOBER   30.
Lantern   Night.
Dean Maddison, which must be counter-
signed by Miss Applebec with whom
further details should be arranged. C
M. K. Applebec
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION  RE-
CEPTION.
The annual reception of the Chris-
tian Association was held in the gymna-
sium last Saturday evening. The receiv-
ing line was as follows: President
Thomas, Mrs. Barton, Miss Applebee. R.
Tinker. '15. President of the Christian
Association; H. Taft, '15, yice-Prcsidcnt
of the Christian Association; N. Mac-
Fadden, '17, Secretary of the Christian
Association; M. G. Branson, '16, Treas-
urer of the Christian Association; E. B.
Smith. '15, President of the Students' As-
sociation for Self-Government: A. Ken-
yon. '15. President of the Undergradu-
ate Association, and I. Zeckwer, '15,
President of the Athletic Association.
TALES ROM THE WAR ZONE.
OFFICIAL NOTICES.
Course BooVs must be returned to the
office, signed, bv 0 P. M,. Wednesday.
October   14th, Dean Maddison's offiev.
All Freshmen and others who have not
already registered at the loan desk in
the Library are requested to do so be-
fore taking but books. Please be sure
to sign the hook card before taking any
book from the Library.    Mitt Re id'* office.
Graduate student* can have their
medical examination* before 5-6 daily at
the infirmarv. Students not vaccinated
should sec the doctor as soon as possi-
ble. Medical and physical examinations
for Seniors. Juniors and Sophomores be-
gan yesterday. October 7th. Please sign
as soon as possible.
For use of the gymnasium building
for other purposes than class meetings,
written order must be obtained through
Bryn Mawr Students Get Safely Home.
All around college now we hear the
refugees from the war zone telling their
experiences. Dagmar Perkins was
caught in   Interlaken  when  war  was de-
lared. For ten days they could get
very little money and practically no
news. They finally got to Geneva and
from there took the American train to
Paris. All along the wav between Gen-
�va and Paris trainload after trainload of
wounded soldier* passed close by
ihcir train. Some- were only sligiitly
wounded, and these were anxious to get
back to the front. Crowds were at each
.tation where they stopped; old men.
women   and   children,   and   also   soldiers
ho wen waiting to go to the front.
She   reached   Paris   after   being  twenty-
ight.hours on the train. The day after
she reached Paris the Germans dropped
the first bombs there. Atala Scudder
and Ann Davis were there at the same
lime. These two left the next day. with
about   two   hundred   other   people   by   a
pecial train for Havre, where they were
left in the middle of the night. Some
French and English soldiers who were
�luartcred there cam" to their rescue with
teamcr chairs and rugs, and they spent
the rest of the night in the streets with
t^e soldiers keeping guard over them.
The next day the U. S. N. armored I -mi-
ser Tennessee took them from Havre to
Weymouth. The officers gave up their
quarters to some of them and the rest
slept on  deck.
Lois G"odnow. Helen Chase. Molly
Boyd and Fredrika Kellogg were in Paris
when war was declared. They tried to
leave the next day. each one armed with
a large suit-case, while the rest of the
contents of their steamer trunks wei'e
stuffed into large flowered laundry bags,
�which were slung over their shoulders.
Thev were unsuccessful in their attempt
to leave, so they had to comply with
the regulations for staying in Paris.
PRESIDENT THOMAS*  OPENING
SPEECH.
President Thomas made some particu-
lar suggestions for the new year before
her formal speech. She then welcomed
the Freshmen and announced that the
Class of 1H18 numbers 102. She said she
hoped to be with us all the year. She
will speak in chapel three times a week
On Friday she said she intends to talk
on literature. The subject will be an-
nounced a week ahead, so that an oppor
tunity will be given for people to make
up their minds a-- to their own opinions
about an author before he is discussed.
The President of the Undergraduate-
Association, Miss Adrienne Kcnyon. mi
called to the platform to present a check
for $26"0.41, the proceeds of May Day.
to the   Bryn   Mawr   Kndowmcnt  Fund.
President   Thomas   began   her   formal
address     with     a    comparison    between
President Wilson and   President Lincoln
and by nraisim;  President  WilfoK  I �' hit
counsels of wisdom, neutrality and mo1
eration.    She   found  one gleam  of  he*�'
in  the  horror of the  European  war.    It
was that all the colonies <>   G eal   Bril
ain   are   standing   loyal   bcc-ii-se   of   he
fairness in governing them   The dc �"'�
tion of'the cathedral of Rheims, and t'�
realization that the fate of other mister
pieces  depends upon  the  retreat  or ad
vancc of armies made   her sick at heart
If  wars continue   the   future generation
will be robbed of all the beauties of the
French   Rcnnaissance.     she    said.      But
wars  will not  continue.    This  war tod*\
will no! only be called  the  most terrible
waa of MrtoQfi but      also the last great
war.    When war times are over for ever
when   armament  is  replaced  by  arbitra
tion.   vast    snt s  of money will   be   lef
for soeial benefits.    Vice, disease, intent
pcrance  and   crowded   prisons   will   pass
away.     The   complete    emancipation   ot
women will follow.    This glorious future
calls   for  every   Bryn   Mawr girl  to  use
I er  ot i ortunitics.          The   Freshmen of
this year have given serious reasons fir
choos:ng Brvn Mawr for their Alma Ma-
ter.      One   Freshman   said   she came   to
Bryn   Mawr   because  she   heard   "it   wa
impossible to get around the rules of the
facultv."    Pres:dent Thomas went on to
say that  Freshmen classes always mail
her sentimental,  for she could  not   hell-
thinking when  she  talked   with them <>
all their hopes and of the loneliness and
sacrifice which their fathers and mothers
were   often   suffering    to   send   them   t"
Bryn    Mawr.     The   Freshmen   were   ad
vised   to   start   their   college   work   with
habits  of  absolute   regularity  and   punc
tuality.      President     Jordan,   of   Lelan'l
Stanford,   once   said  that   the   way   men
students   keep   their   academic   appoint
ments  would   lose   them any position  in
the world.    The years  of intellectual en-
joyment are Fmited only  by the  tomb
President Thomas, concluded, and  ad
vised all the undergraduates to lay, now
the   foundations   for these   ioys  and   fir
the greatest joy in life, that of bring able
to do well whatever one does.