College News, 1914-10-15, Vol. 01, No. 03

              The College News
Volume I.     No. 3.
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBKR 15,  1914
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CALENDAR
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
4.20�Inter-clH88 Tennis Tournament.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16
8 P. M.�Debate  Meeting.      Leader,   F.
Hatton, '15.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
Senior Orals in German.
10.�'Varsity   Hockey   Match  vs. Merion
CO.
8 P. M.�Senior Reception to 1918.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
6 P. M.�Vespers.    Leader, E. Dulles.
8 P. M.�Chapel.     Sermon  by the  Rev.
R. Johnston.               '                   W$ *
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
Faculty Reception to the graduate students.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24
'Varsity Hockey vs. Philadelphia C. C.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
6 P. M.�Vespers.    Leader, H. Riegel.
8 P. M.�Chapel.      Sermon by the Rev.
W. T. Robbins.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
8 P. M� Lantern Night.
BRYN   MAWR   IN  THE  WAR ZONE.
-v     OFFICIAL N0TICE8.
Unezcused cuts of undergraduates up
to the number of eight in a semester shall
be punished by the deduction of one point
per cut from the grades of the courses in
which the cuts are taken. Of these�cuts.
not more than one may be taken in a one-
hour course, two in a two-hour or three-
hour course, and three in a five-hour
course. Cuts which exceed this number,
or which are not distributed as specified
in this rule, shall reduce the grade for the
course in which they are taken by two
points* for each cut, with the proviso
that, when the cuts in any course amount
to one-fifth of the (scheduled) semester's
lectures of that course or major fraction
thereof (the fraetion one-half being
counted as an additional cut), the num-
ber of points per cut shall be doubled.
The computation of the penalties to be
inflicted under this rule, and the conse-
quent reduction of the grades, shall be
done by the college office. This rule shall
go into operation immediately upon the
completion of the present semester's reg-
istration.
�Dean Madison's office.
Registration of exercise begins next
week, October 19th. This year long
tramps taken by three or more students
together can be registered for exercise if
the distance walked Is noted.�C. M. K. A.
Miss  Park, Miss Lord and  Miss Lang-
don, in their flight to the seacoast, were
driving through Belgium about five miles
from   the  German   frontier,   in   a   dilapi-
dated coupe, hitched to an old plow horse
with ropes, when an excited peasant ran
up to tell them that the Germans  were
invading.    They came,  soon  afterwards,
to a poplar-lined high road.    Over It they :
saw   the   German   Army   marching,   six |
abreast,   in   splendid   order.     They   were
coming as far as the eye could see on the"
rises of the road.    They were cooking as
they marched and  marching fast.    Plac-
ards were being distributed to the peas-
ants, who had gathered at the crossroads.
These placards were assurances from the;
German Emperor of his regret for having \
to march across Belgium and his promise
to make no trouble, if he was allowed to
go unhindered.    A peasant  woman took '
Miss Park, Miss Lord and Miss Langdon
into her cottage and gave them cabbage:
soup, the first   food they  had  tasted  for
over twenty-four hours.    That  night an '
aeroplane sailed over the house and the
Germans fired on .it.    The aeroplane rose
and escaped.    For the next  three^ days j
they-heard the cannonading of Liege with j
only one intermission of four hours.   The I
refugees   and   wagon   loads   of   wounded
passed before their door.   Almost all day.
long they stood at the door of the cottage
to get news from the refugees, hoping to
hear of some way to get to the seacoast.
They  escaped   finally   by   walking  back
four or five miles over the frontier, where
a captain, who hoped there was going to
be a  German-American  alliance,  helped
them to get to Aix la Chappelle.
There are to be class teams, each with a
captain and manager; there are to be
frequent informal debates in the lecture
rooms or the hall sitting rooms to deter-
mine on the- class teams and monthly
inter-class debates in the chapel. Finally,
our hopes reaching so far, there will be a
Varsity team ready to accept the chal-
lenges, which Vassar and the other col-
leges have long ceased to send, but which
Vassar certainly will be quick to take a
suggestion to send again. Perhaps we
shall win again, this time to retain the
high but brief distinction of an old Bryn
Mawr Debating Society, which flourished
here in the year 1904-1905. and as the cul-
mination of its very short existence, be-
fore a crowded chapel, by the unanimous
vote of three formidable judges, won a
debate with older and trieil debaters from
the New York Law School.
E. A. SHEARER
SUNDAY   EVENING SERVICES.
Dr. George Barton preached the first
sermon of the college year. He read the
parable of the Good Shepherd from the
third chapter of St. John. In response
to President Wilson's request, he prayed
for the warring nations and for all those
suffering from the conditions there. He
spoke from the text, "I am. come that they
may have life, and that they may have it
abundantly." He enumerated some of the
things that go to make up abundant life,
and then spoke of the tflace of religion in
such a life. He closed with a few words
of special appeal to the entering students.
DEBATING SOCIETY.
The Debating Society last spring Anally
made the change in its organization
which was necessary if it was not to be
at the mercy of an enthusiasm that would
fluctuate whimsically from year to year.
As a solid organization, or even as one
divided arbitrarily into two parts, it could
give i ist* to no natural rivalry, no genuine
spirit of competition; instead of encour-
aging mere pretense or concern for which
side won, the artificiality of which was
often only too apparent. By the new j
plan, which Miss Dodd and the present
president. Miss Hatton, arranged last
spring, the society is to be divided on a
class basis,, on the same basis as all our
other     competitive     college    activities.
A very interesting and moving sermon
was preached last Sunday night by the
Rev. Samuel Higginbottom, of the Leper
Settlement in Allahabad, India. He told
us how, in spite of the repulsiveness and
danger of such a work, he had been led to
undertake It; he described how, in the
eleven years that he had been at the head
of it, the settlement had changed from
a group of mud huts, where no lepers
would stay except those who could walk
no farther, to a well-organized institution
with several good buildings, where each
leper had his own work and his own al-
lowance. Finally, he told of the life of a
leper girl who had devoted hersel to
bettering the condition of the women and
children in the settlement, and who so
realized the need of the work that she
"thanked God every day that she was a
leper."