College News, 1917-10-31, Vol. 04, No. 05

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The College News
Volume IV.    No. 5
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 31, 1917
Price 5 Cente
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LANTERN   NIGHT.     FRESHMEN   HOLDING THEIR  LANTERNS
BIG WAR COUNCIL RATIFIED
Mass Meeting Votes Six New
Departments to Run War Work
Asks for Faculty and Alumnae Members
A war council, modelled after the or-
gmization of the Woman's Committee or
the National Council of Defense, |
plained by its executive secretary, Mrs.
Ira C. Wood, was confirmed as the instru-
ment cf all Bryn Mawr war work at a
joint meeting of the Graduate Club and
the Undergraduate Association last Mon-
day evening. The membership of Fac-
ulty, Staff, and Alumnaa representatives
and of the heads of every department
which does or may exist in connection
with college war work, is an important
feature of the council.
The plan submit ted to the mM meet
ing was drawn up last week by an ad-
visory meeting of the presidents of the
four associations and the clubs, the editor
of the College Newt, and the president of
the Graduate Club with President
Thomas, Dean Taft. Mrs. Smith. Dr. Gray,
Dr. Barton, Dr. Sanders, and Miss Orlady.
representing the Faculty and Staff, and
Miss MarttTa Thomas, representing the
Alumnae Mrs. Wood spoke briefly on
the tested advantages of this plan of or-
ganization at the opening of the mass
meeting.
The new war council, as ratified by the
(�indents Monday, will be composed of
two representatives from the Faculty,
one from the Staff, and two from the
Alumnae, provided these three bodies vote
for representation, the presidents of the
Graduate Club, the Self Government, Un-
dergraduate, Christian, and Athletic As-
sociations, and of the four classes, and
the managing editor of the New*. It will
organixe all war work, and apportion it
� o separate departments, whose heads,
appointed by the council, will be ex oftlcio
members of the council. The council will
elect its own chairman as soon as Its
membership is completed. She will pre-
f-de over the executive staff of the de-
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$197,200 SUBSCRIBED TO
LIBERTY LOAN BY COLLEGE
COMMUNITY IN VIGOROUS
NINE DAY CAMPAIGN
BOND HOLDERS PARADE CAMPUS MINIMUM MORE THAN  TRIPLED
UNCLE SAM AND JOHN BULL LEAD MARCH
Led by Uncle Sam and each of his four-
U BO allies in full costume. Liberty Bond
holders, from Faculty, staff, employees,
and students, marched down the campus
last Thursday to the stirring accompani-
ment of the Bryn Mawr Band. Speeches
from Taylor steps, interspersed with pa-
triotic songs, followed the parade and
marked the high-water mark of the dem-
onstration.
"The college is to be congratulated on
the teamwork that has brought this great
subscription to the Liberty Loan", said
President Thomas .... "We shall
probably never in our lives have a chance
to help anything that is so worth while
as this war''.
Dr. Scott extended greetings to the
American democracy in behalf of "an
older democracy with an hereditary
head". England, she said, rejoices that
the two nations now stand shoulder to
shoulder. When they have fought to
gether. and the 1'nited States has suf-
fered as Europe has, she will see more
clearly Europe's ideals.
Dr. Gray brought out the individual sol-
dier's appreciation of the warm blanket
or the good rifle which money from the
Loan is calculated to furnish. A rifle, he
said, is so dear to the soldier's heart that
he will keep it clean and shining when In
the greatest bodily privation.
A climax was reached when Mrs.
Smith was introduced to announce the
sale of bonds to date. $94,200 worth had
already been taken, she said, which the
committee proposed to make 1200.000,
four times the modest goal of $50,000 set
in the beginning of the campaign.
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LATE SALES SWELL TOTAL SATURDAY
The big Liberty Loan drive at college
ended last Saturday night in the amount
of $197,200, an oversubscription almost
tripling the $50,000 which had been the
aim of the Liberty l.oan Team at the be
ginning of the campaign.
Reaching its climax last Thursday at
the rally of bondholders, when Mrs. Wil-
liam Roy Smith, captain of the team, an
nounced that already $151,000 had been
subscribed, the campaign showed no signs
of slackening, and the amount subscribed
on the last day of the drive exceeded that
of the first day.
$7800 of the total of $197,200 was paid
in cash, and the bonds represented by
these figures have been or are ready to
he delivered to subscribers. 485 bonds
were subscribed through the Bryn Mawr
National Bank, the Bryn Mawr Trust Co.
and Bryn Mawr College, as follow
Mil on III		Number	Total
$50		?,80	$19,000
$100		71	$7,100
$150		3	$450
$200		9	$1,800
$250		3	$750
$300		2	$600
$500		13	$6,500
$750		1	$750
* 1,000		2    �	*L O00
$3,200		1	$3,200
		Grand	Tot-il. $42,150
There	were	seventeen	subscriptions
through	banks	located  outside  of  Bryn	
Mawr.   to   the		amount  of	$35,250.   and
$35,900 worth of bonds were transferred			
from   other   districts.     The			amount   re-
celved from students. In payment of tul-			
laa, etc	, and by special arrangement In-		
verted In Liberty Bonds was			$83,900.
THIRTY-FIRST  LANTERN   YEAR
Origin of Ceremony and Songs Lies
Far Back in Bryn Mawr's History
IS. " was I he Hi si elan In college to re-
ceive lanterns, says an article in the
Alumnae Quarterly by Louise Congdon
'00, the idea of giving them to the enter-
ing class having originated from a
Varsity RODJ written by Dr. F.. Washburn
Hopkins, then Prof�01 of Creek at
B  fll  H�wT,    This sotig. which was set to
the nine of the "Lone Fisiiball". spoke of
a Freshman as the "one Bryn Mawr lan-
tern".
They Twinkled Feebly
In.ieail   of  presenting  the lanterns on
the night  when the Freshmen first wore
their caps and gown-,  as  is  now the CU8-
lom. the earlier classes held ike
iiiony in broad daylight after an outdoor
play. The ceremony was preceded by a
severe oral quiz, afterwards shortened
into a few words of good advice and
thence to the present "good luck". This
year, in order not to mar the solemnity
of the occasion, it has been voted to have
no Udfctai when the lanterns are pre-
sented.
History  of  "Pallas"
The     (ireek    hymn,    "Pallas    Athene
Thea", was written as 1893's class song
by Bertha Haven Putnam and Madeline
Vaughan  Abbott, and   was  first  sung at
Lantern   Night   by   1901.    M.   O'Sullivan
07. classmate of Dr. Eunice Schenck and
graduate student at college this year, Is
the author of this  translation in prose
made for the News last year:
Pallas Athene, goddess of learning and
power, we come to thee to make sacri-
fice in thy honour,
O dread goddess!    Hear, O hear!
Ixx>k favourably on us, we beg: grant us
wisdom:   go   along   with   us   always!
iiles*ed goddess!
Hear. O hear!
Make holy now our lanterns!    May tbey
always shine clear,  showing the  way
and changing darkness to Ught'
Hear. () heariN
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