College News, 1918-03-07, Vol. 04, No. 18

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The College News
Volume IV.    No. 18
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 7, 1918
Price 5 Cents
THREE B. M. ALUMNA NOW DOING
WORK  IN ORDANCE  DEPARTMENT
New Requirements for Positions To Be
Explained  by Mrs.  Smith
Temporary positions in the Ordnance
Department hare been given to three
Bryn Mawr alumna, C. Dowd '16, E. Hill
'16, R. Alden '16, who went on to Wash-
ington In answer to the appeal for 60 col-
lege graduates sent out a month ago.
Over eight hundred applied.
Owing to the introduction of Civil Serv-
ice examinations, the conditions on
which permanent positions In the Ord-
nance Department will be assigned have
not been finally settled. They will be
made public as soon as possible by Dr.
Marlon Parris Smith, of the Advisory
Committee of the Registration Depart-
ment.
Circulars of the original appeal�for 50
college graduates Immediately (January
22d), and 40 in June�have been sent to
the members of the Senior Class by Dean
Taft.
COCOANUT GROVE SAVES FOOD
CLEARS $33 FOR CORPS
Vaudeville   Skits   Between   Dances
Bring Down House With
Parodies
A "Honolulu Heaven" of skits and par-
odies in "The Cocoanut Grove" cleared
|33 last Saturday afternoon in the gymna-
sium for the Varsity Service Fund. The
admission fee of twenty cents was the
only charge made. No refreshments were
sold.   F. Howell '19 was manager.
No expense was spared in filming "Bars
of Iron," the mammoth production of
1918's movie corporation. It was the end
of a perfect day that saw Piers Evesham
(J. Ridlon) wounded on the battlefield
after he had wrecked the "home in the
bush". S. Belville as the wistful widow,
and J. Ridlon as Piers, showed the finest
technique. P. Turle deserves as much
credit for her convincing characterization
of the Evesham dog as for her creation of
the scenario. H. Hunttlng '19 at the
piano contributed many telling strokes.
The large number of reels was the only
criticism to be made.
H. Zinsser '20 and Z. Boynton '20
opened the program with a Hawaiian
dance. The production of Ibsen's
"Ghosts" by the "On the Square" players
included a necessary element lacking at
the original performance, an audience
trained to scream at the right moment.
"The Ballet Loose", featuring K. Town-
send '20 as the six-foot heroine Coyella,
recalled last year's Freshman Show in the
cavemen costumes of the hero and vil-
lain as much as it did the true model, the
"Ballet Russe". E. Luetkemyer '20 inter-
preted part of the wood nymph as a com-
bination of the woodbird in "Siegfried"
and the robin in the "Babes in the Wood".
Mme. Human Schank (L. Kellogg '20)
and M. Rlci Carousal (M. Lit tell '20).
Beerytone, of the Grand Uproar Com-
pany, declared their Bryn Mawr audience
the most appreciative they had ever sung
before. Mme. Human Schank's voice was
unusually penetrating In timbre.
11 WELLE8LEY FARMERS DRAFTED
The first draft of workers for the pro-
posed college farm at Wellesley Includes
eighteen undergraduates, says the New
York Times. Each will serve one month,
beginning June 17th Fifteen of the num-
ber will be regular farm hands and the
other three will be housekeepers for the
farmers.
FACULTY  SPEECHES  RALLY
WORKERS FOR PATRIOTIC
FARM
Announce Details as to Land and
Management at Meeting in
Taylor
A farm rally at which Dean Taft and
Dr. Ferguson sounded a call to food pro-
duction and Miss Bhlers explained the ar-
rangements for this summer's Patriotic
Farm, was held in Taylor Wednesday
evening of last week. An exhibition of
farm trousers, especially designed for
women workers by Miss Marjorie Gregg
of Cambridge, followed the speeches.
To bring out the alarming need for food
production Dr. Ferguson quoted from an
article in the Nation for February 14th�
"The Only Advancing-General�Famine".
The United States has exhausted not
only its reserve supply of wheat for con-
sumption, but its reserve supply for seed,
he stated. Since food must be produced,
and since the farmers are being drafted
and no one Is going out from town to take
their places, college women must supply
the labor, he said.
Dean Taft showed that college women
had the task of convincing not only the
farmers but other women, that women
can do farm work. The girl who never
went to boarding school or took part in
any athletics, she explained, needs to be
shown that working till she is hot and
out of breath or gets a pain In her side
is not going to hurt her. One of the ad-
vantages of farming over other war work
is that it can be begun at once without
waiting for the word from Washington.
Part of Bryn Mawr Farm on Campus
Admitting that she had questioned at
first the wisdom of repeating the experi-
ment of the farm. Miss Ehlers said she
had come to believe that since, econom-
ically or expensively, food must be pro-
duced, Bryn Mawr College must do its
share In this production.
The land this summer, she announced,
will Include the twenty-odd acres fur-
nished by Mr. Hlnckle Smith, south of
Morris Avenue and about a mile and a
half north of Bryn Mawr station; five
acres behind the Baldwin School; three
acres on the campus, which Dr. HuS has
pronounced well worth cultivating; and,
in the event of a large registration of
workers, seven acres opposite the Infirm-
ary which Mr. Collins may let the college
have for field corn.
Mr. Rufus Jones has promised to get
the land ploughed. Miss Ehlers said, but
students will do the planting. Volunteer
workers will go out during the spring for
periods of two hours, which they will be
allowed to count as exercise.
(Continued on page 5.)
DR. R088 TO LEAD CONFERENCE
Helped Launch Christian Association
Dr. Ross, former pastor of the Bryn
Mawr Presbyterian Church, will be the
principal speaker at the week-end confer-
ence of the Christian Association, which
will be held from March 21st to March
23d. Christian Fundamentals will be the
topic of discussion.
Dr. Ross, who helped organize the
Christian Association, lectures half the
year at the Union Theological Seminary
In New York, and devotes the other half
to speaking at colleges and conducting
conferences. During his stay here he will
be entertained by President Thomas at
the Deanery, where Interviews may be
arranged. A tea will be given for him
in the gymnasium the afternoon of Fri-
day.  March ttd.
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN IN APRIL
The next Liberty Loan Drive be-
gins on April 6th, the anniversary of
the entrance of the United States
into the war.
COLLEGE GOES ON RATIONS AS
VOLUNTARY WAR MEASURE
Will Weigh Individual Portions
Voluntary food rations, under which
every portion of food for each individual
will be weighed, have been adopted by
the college at the request of Mr. Morris
L. Cook, Food Administrator for Pennsyl-
vania. Aside from the actual saving of
food the example of the college, Mr. Cook
said, will help the work of the Adminis-
tration.
A careful weighing of meat and bread
and the serving of individual portions of
sugar will begin as soon as possible In
the balls and other college buildings.
(Continued on page 5.)
TACTICAL STRATEGY OF EARLY
DAYS OF WAR MAPPED OUT
Captain Paul Cande Explains
Manoeuvers of Victory of Marne
SERVICE CORPS CLEARS $90
The first three months of the war,
from the viewpoint of military tactics,
were described by Captain Paul Cande, of
the First French Engineers, in Taylor
last Friday night for the benefit of the
Graduate Service Corps and the Nouvllle
Etoile. About $90 were netted for the
Service Corps. Captain Cande wore the
Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor
with three palms.
Marshal Joffre's manoeuvres leading to
the victory of the Marne, in which Cap-
tain Cande fought, were mapped out In
some detail. The evening ended with
Captain Cande's wish that French and
Americans together might send to our
troops in France our hope for "the great
victory"! and with the singing of the
Marseillaise by the audience.
Inadvisable  to  Attack   Paris
On September 3, 1914, the German Ad-
vance Guard was within thirteen miles
of Paris, Captain Cande said, but, true to
the principles of modern strategy, the
General Staff did not allow itself to be
tempted by the nearness of Paris to give
up its real object, the destruction of the
Allied armies; realizing, also, that the
capture of Paris would involve heavy
losses in the street fighting and that a
siege would require too many of their
troops, the Germans  turned  south.
The battle of the Marne. fought from
September 6th to 11th, over a front of
150 miles, was such a victory as In the
Napoleonic wars would have meant the
entire destruction of the conquered army
and government, Captain Cande pointed
out. But in 1914 the result was that the
Germans simply retreated for two days
until they reached their formidable line
prepared -through Solssons and north of
Rhelmsand Verdun. The conduct in re-
treat of the third Oerman army corps
was disgraceful, he said, for its drunken-
ness and pillaging, and "the French took
many prisoners of the Prussian Guard
drunk with good champagne".
Captain Cande began his lecture with a
-miumary of event* leading up to the dec-
laratlons of war and an explanation of the
relative positions of the enemy forces on
August 1st.
THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON
CHOSEN AS VARSITY PLAY
Barrie's Fantastic Comedy Will be
Given for Service Corps
"The Admirable Crichton", by J. M.
Barrie, will be presented at college by a
Varsity cast on April 19th and 20th. It
was chosen last week by the Undergrad-
uate Association In place of "If I Were
King', by a vote of 55 to 23.
"If I Were King', though the original
choice of the four classes, was found to
exist only in manuscript and was, there-
fore, voted down to prevent the long de-
lay which getting copies of It would have
entailed. "The Admirable Crichton" was
written, and first produced, in England In
1903.
Tryouts began Monday night in the
gymnasium. The large cast includes six
men and six women In the major parts
and twelve minor servant riles. The
hero Is a butler, the admirable Crichton
of the title. The play is conce-ned with
the adventures of a family of the British
nobility who entertain their servants at
monthly receptions much to the discom-
fort of both hosts and guests and who
are later marooned with several of the
servants on a desert island In the Pacific.
The Varsity Dramatics Committee, of
which M. Martin '19 is chairman, is in
charge of the casting and production and
will make recommendations for stage
manager. The stage manager will be
elected at a meeting of the Undergradu-
ate Association today at 1.30. Mrs. Patch
is coach.
WASHINGTON CLUB HOU8E FOR
COLLEGE WOMEN  IN  WAR  WORK
[From the Committee on Public Infor-
mation.]
A new Club House for College Women
engaged In War Work In Washington will
be opened March 1st under the auspices
of the Washington Branch of the Asso-
ciate College Alumnae, of which Mrs.
Raymond B. Morgan Is president. The
property, which was once the home of
the British Embassy, consists of two
buildings. 2506 and 2508 K Street, sur-
rounded by a fine old garden, which will
be used as a War Garden by the women.
Twelve active workers in the Associate
College Alumnse have taken a lease of
four years on the place and have put it In
excellent condition.
NO SUIT AGAINST BRYN MAWR
Right to Cocoanut Grove Disputed
The establishment of a second "Cocoa-
nut Grove" at the Ziegfleld MidniKht
Frolic in New York raised a controversy
last week with the owners of the first at
the Century Theatre, according to the
New York Times. The Century Theatre
concern refused to give up their right to
ihe name. While the dispute was still hot
a third Grove was planted In the Bryn
Mawr gymnasium. No suit has yet been
brought against the manager.
TEA ROOM OPEN ON SUNDAY
Beginning March 10th the College Tea
Room will be open on Sundays from 4 to
7 o'clock. Tea and supper will be served
every day except Monday, from 4 to 7;
and luncheon every day. Including Mon-
day, from 1.15 to 2.
Sandwiches and cakes will be made to
order, and special suppers served when
ordered in advance. The tea room may
also be engaged for evening parties.
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