College News, 1915-02-18, Vol. 01, No. 17

              The College News
Volume I.     No. 17
BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 18,  1915
Price 5 (Nuts
CALENDAR
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 19
8 p. m.�Lactureon'Tbe Dawn of An" by
Dr. George Gns( MaeCurdy, of Vale.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
8 p.m.�I^-itiu<> mi "Women and Eco-
nomic-;" by Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Oilman.
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 21
Flrat Sunday In  Lent
0 p. m.�Vespers. S|x\ikcr, C. S irgent, '15.
8 p. m.�Chupel. Preacher, Dr. Francis
Brown, President of tlic Union Theological
Seminary.
MONDAY,  FEBRUARY 22
Intcr-class Water Polo match g lines begin.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
7.30�Mission and Bible rlas.-e-;.
8.30�Dcacone-s Goodwin's cl iss on Church
Work.                                                         ___H
9.30�Mid-week   meeting   of   tl.c  C.   A.'
Leader, C. Dowd, 1&
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 25
Faculty Tea to tie Graduate Students
Denbigh.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
8 P. M.�Dramatic Hccilnl by Mr. Samuel
Arthur King, for llie l>ciictit of the Belgian
relief fund.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
8.30�Address to the (iraduate Club by
l*rofcs>or li. A. Overstraet,
OFFICIAL  NOTICE
PRESIDENT     THOMAS     SPEAKS     ON
WOMEN   AND   WAGNER
DR.   M.   P.   SMITH   OUTLINES   VOCA-
TIONAL   CONFERENCE
Students In the French and German
oral tutoring; classes will be examined
at Easter, and those who succeed in
passing; will be excused from the classes
for the remainder of the semester.
MRS.   GILMAN   WILL   SPEAK  TO
LIBERAL  CLUB
On Saturday evening, at eight o'clock.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman will lec-
ture in Taylor Hall on "Woman and Eco-
nomics." For a number of years Mrs.
Gilman has been the leader and inspira-
tion of the woman's movement in Amer-
ica. She is the Ellen Key of American
feminism. In her books, "Woman and
Economics." "A Man-Made World," "The
Home," and other works, she has set
forth her doctrines, which are now grad-
ually coming to be accepted by thinking
men and women, but which, at the out-
set, seemed startling, revolutionary and
dangerous. She has been devoting her
energies to the cause so consistently that
her word is generally regarded as Im-
portant, if not authoritative.
There will be general discussion after
the lecture, and Mrs. Oilman will be glad
to try to answer all questions which the
audience cares to ask.
I have concluded to close the modern
world poets with Wagner. Wagner is
the one great genius of modern times
that has given us some idea of the mu-
sical dramas of Greece anil Rome, for
he believed, like the Greeks, that popu-
lar legends treated with all the resources
of poetry, music and acting, become the
possession of a whole people. Wagner
has done this work for our generation.
He was born in 1813. in That wonderful
period in which so many geniuses were
born or were alive. He died in 1883. at
seventy, having recreated for us many
of the old meiihrval legends. In speak-
ing of Shelley I said that "Epipsychld-
ion" was the most wonderful of love
poems. As a poem it is the most won-
derful, but it cannot compare in emo-
tional effect to the opera of "Tristan and
Isolde." Wagner took the wonderful
mediaeval love legend and made it into
the most overwhelming love tragedy that
can be imagined. The greatest of medi-
leval and modern poets have tried their
hand on this legend. You will And in
"Tristan and Isolde" Wagner's philos-
ophy in its fullest development. Wagner
was very much influenced by the phil-
osophy of Feuerbach and Schopenhauer.
"Tristan and Isolde" is permeated by
the view that love is the complete real-
ization of life and the complete negation
of the wish to live. As we know from
Wagner's letters, "Tristan and Isolde"
represented the most intense love of his
life. He regarded the woman he was
in love with at that time as his inspira-
tion. In the "Ring" he has embodied
the greatest of mediaeval legends, the
legend of Sigurd, the Volsnng, in its
Norse form. In "Lohengrin" he has
given us the Cupid and Psyche story of
the working of human curiosity against
the prohibition of a higher being and
the ruin wrought. "Tannhauser" gives
the legend of the mediaeval godde-- of
love. The "Flying Dutchman" treats the
famous legend of the flying Dutchman
He has taken the greatest religious
legend of the mediaeval world and em-
bodied it in his "Parsifal." "Parsifal"
contains some of the most glorious re
ligious music that our generation can
imagine. Wagner has made the IkfMdl
of our race live for us. We owe him.
as poet and as musician, an overwhelm-
'< unlimited cm Pat* -')
The fourth annual Vocational Confer-
ence will be held in Taylor Hall on Satur-
day morning. March 27th, between the
hours of ten and one o'clock. There will
be short addresses, not exceeding fifteen
minutes each, by women who are actively
engaged in the business or vocation they
represent. A schedule of the order of.
the speeches and the time when each will
be delivered will he posted in Taylor
Hall before the Conference, so that stu-
dents who do not wish to remain through-
out the morning may hear any speech in
which they are especially interested. The
names of the speakers will he announced
later; the subjects are as follows; Land-
scape hardening, Scientific Farming, Ad-
vertising, Journalism, Law, Medicine,
Secretarial Work, Social Work, Tea-Room
and   Lunch-Room   Management.
The College lias invited the speakers
to. lunch in Pembroke. The members of
the senior class and the graduate stud-
ents who are interested in meeting any
of the speakers are invited to coffee in
Pembroke at half-past one o'clock. Stu-
dents who wish for more detailed infor-
mation about any of the subjects of the
Conference may arrange for short inter-
view's with the speakers in the afternoon
by notifying the chairman of the Stu-
dents' Employment Committee, Miss A.
Werner. Denbigh Hall, before March 27th.
The first Students' Conference ou "Vo-
cations for Women," was suggested *y
the committee of the Association of Col-
legiate Alumnae on Vocational Appoint-
ments for College Women, and was held
at Snjith College In the spring of 1911.
Bryn Mawr sent' a delegate, and repre-
sentatives met from most of the Women's
Colleges in the East. The speeches, dis-
cussions and personal interviews proved
so helpful to students who were planning
to earn their living, or who intended to
devote some of their time to volunteer so-
cial work, that similar conferences have
been held regularly in most of the wo-
men s colleges since that year. Smith,
\\ ellesley and Mt. Holyoke have voca-
tional meetings once a month, conducted
hy Miss Florence Jackson, manager of
the Bureau of Occupations in Boston.
The committee on Vocational Oppor-
tunities or the A. C. A. of which Mrs.
Martin. Dean of Women at Cornell is
chairman, has also been instrumental in
organizing Bureaus of Occupation for Wo