College News, 1915-01-07, Vol. 01, No. 12

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The College News
Volume I.     No. 12
BKYX   MAWR, PA., JANUARY 7. 1915
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CALENDAR
FRIDAY, JANUARY  8
8 p. m.�Lecture, under the awpicea of the
Philosophical Club, by Dr. Cbarlea M  Bake-
well, of Yale.
SATURDAY,JANUARY  9
8 p. M.�Lecture, under the auspices of the
College Equal Suffrage league, by Madame
Rosika Srhwimmer. of Budapest
SUNpAY, JANUARY  10
6  p. u.�Vespers.   Speaker. I. Faster. '!">.
8 p. u.�Chapel        Preaeher,   Dr.   An-on
Phclps Stoke-. Of   Yale
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13
4 p.m.�Faculty  tea   to  the Graduates,
Rockefeller Hall
7 30� Bible Class.   The Rev. C. Deem
9.30�Mid-week   Meeting   of   the   C.   A.
Leader, F, Kellogg,   1(1
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15
8  p.m.�Dramatic Dancing, by K. Dough-
erty, for the benefit of the Red Croaa,
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17
8 P.M.�Chapel.    Preacher, Bishop Rhil c-
Innder.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20
Mid-year Collegiate Examinations begin.
WORK    IN    THE   GENEVA    FOYER   OF
WORLD'S STUDENT CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION
rorfnded   by   high   buildings,   so old   that    to her,  but  the girl  flew  into a passion
they seem falling to pieces.   One girl we                  It  is all  very   well   in college to
visited lived at the top of one of these   discuss what we "college-trained women"
houses.     The   stairs   we   cliiuyoed   were   ought to do to regenerate the world, but
worn  to a  slant and vo
wondered if we should e
the   bottom   alive. ^Afihe
house  we   had   to feel  our way  along a
long dark gallery until we found the door
The new tenements outside the old city
are  not   much  better,  though   they   have
a  little more air.    They are barrack-like
buildings, with narrow hallways, so dark
that   we   had   to   go   downstairs   several
UnMa   to   borrow   matches   to   find   the
doors.    The rooms are very small:  there
is   no   plumbing,   and   the   dirt    is   ter-
rible
The first need of the students is hous-
ing, feeding and clothing, though many
people have been good about letting stu
dents keep their rooms without paying.
I'he Rector of the I'niversiiy is very kind
to   the   stranded   students.     They    pay
eiy   that   I   when the world does not  want to be re-
gain  reach   generated and holds its point of view  as
top   of   the   (irmly as we hold ours, well    .    .
Extracts of  a  letter from  a  Bryn   Mawr
Graduate
"THE  IDEAL  COLLEGE"
President Thomas' Closing Address
President Thomas, in Chapel, on Wed-
nesday, December ISd, taking for ber
subject. "The Ideal College." said t hat a
college is made ideal by those who are
in the college. We think we can create
something ideal, so we like to think of
a I'topia. College represents the most
ideal period of our lives, �/� are free
and irresponsible; we have the jo\ 51
rapidly mowing ideas, and in college we
have a greater number of congenial
li lends than we will ever have �gain
President Thomas said that no greater
nothing for tuition, and they can have, yjf, ,..,� |�. ujVen to a generation than
restaurant tickets, which give them two Ille helping to share in the life of an
meals a day of soup, bread and a plate u^.Ai college
of vegetables Mis- Grant has collected what is an Ideal college?
some old shoes, and gives them out to First, it is the college beautiful Itiyn
the girls; also some lengths <>f Hansel, Mawr tries to exercise architectural
and on Thursday evenings we meet at supervision, to have the Campus and the
I the Foyer for sewing, anil the girls make huilclings ;,s harmonious as possible
1 their waists, and make winter hats of -rd,.,, (here must be order. An orderly
, any old pieces we can scrape up.              .   campus   and   orderl)   lecture   and^exaiu
Another   problem   is   the   loneliness   and   bmttoa   rooms are aeeesoarj   for ordeih
despondency   and   philosophical   doubts.   an(j eflirient work    Order includes court -
.    .    If this horrible war can do any   and    the   breaking   down   of   standards    psv iin,| ceremonies of a   beautiful  kind.
good, 1 think it is that  it  has helped to   These   questions   which    trouble    us    at    rjglji    traditions,    such    as    hazing    and
bring a   spiritual  awakening.    So   many 'Bryn   Mawr are much  more troublesome   Peering   in the dining rooms, have been
people  are  thrown   into   the  position  of, here and  the temptations  to the women   ,|onP away with, and we retain such cere-
students    to    form    Irregular    oonn.ee-   monies as Lantern Night and singing of
Lions and to try to forget Is a verj greai   Christmas    carols,     president    Thomas
one. and only the Foyer here to light it.       spoke   of   the   power   of   suggestion   by
One student, a young Serb, had scraped   which teachers bmj   recreate the senti-
the early Christians, persecuted by the
strong nations which boast of civiliza-
tion. Everything that makes life in this
world worth living is taken from them,
and they have only spiritual force to fall   together   what    money   she   could,   and   ment  of a whole people.    She said  that
back on. . . . It Is true I ought not
to judge Geneva; I nevei saw it "before
the war." It Is a very sober place now.
More people willing to help than there
is call for workers, that is more people
ready to help the Red Cross and the
Belgians. I suppose It is human nature
to wish to be a nun and care for the
wounded on the battlefield, and to over-
look the starving Swiss children in the
streets of Geneva.
I don't suppose people here have heard
of settlements: but I never saw any city
in such need of a settlement: The tene
ments in the old city are frightful, dark
passages lead out of the streets. Into a
series of courts, and  each court   is  sur
came to Geneva. She wanted to study ,,�,, ,,[ ,)�. few things we can learn from
medicine, having nursed the wounded ,\w war js the strength of this power of
soldiers in her village schoolhouse dJUf leadership bow the whole German point
�ng the battle with the Turks She was of view has been molded. Then she said
repared to enter th. Cniversity. and   5;^!jna-"a� XI,7on�Sabas,,s,n
one year went in cramming for the en-
trance examinations. She lived on bread
and tea once a day. She entered the
i'niversiiy. Her health had gone: she
could not study for long at a time.    Her
intellectual framework, which will spare
friction.
It is a Question whether this frame
work can be regulated best by the fac
ultj or the students. It would be the
ideal arrangement If the students would
money weni     She began to steal tea and   re\rU|atB   their   attendance   at   lectures.
sugar from her landlady.    Her landlady   and would go regularly to (lasses drawn
turned  her out     Her new landlady  d,s    by hunger <**%***� �"*' �tern ,p"b.
,     ,,                         ,   lie opinion.    The highest aim of an ideal
covered that she was leading an immoral   r.ol,(,,i,i.    w   �,   pro<|uce   an   Intellectual
life and came to the Foyer about it    Miss   ,.I|nj,,ment. an ability to deal with QMS-
Grant   gave   the   girl   restaurant   tickets   (Ions fairly, squarely snd honestly
and warm clothes, and later tried to talk                                                 C   DOWD, '16