College News, 1918-02-28, Vol. 04, No. 17

              The College News
Volume IV.   No. 17
BRYN MAWR, PA.. FEBRUARY 28, 1918
ENTHUSIASTIC  CROWD POURS
NICKELS INTO GRADUATE
FUND
Carnival of Dances and Stunts Nets
$50 for Service Corps
Clairvoyants, barkers for races, Ice
cream vendors and the Junior Band plied
their trades briskly in the gymnasium
Friday night to swell the Graduates'
Fund (or the Service Corps. Side shows
besieged by the curious, and obstacle
races, nocked to by spectators as well as
participants, furnished a full evening of
entertainment. Fifty dollars were cleared.
Ingenious obstacle races, such as walk
ing a "railroad track" while looking
through the large end of a pair of opera
glasses, were introduced in intervals be-
tween the dancing. Many of the guests
as well as the managers were in costume.
A competition dance, amid intense ex-
citement, was won by J. Peabody and G.
Hearne.
A black-curtained oracle at the foot of
the dressing room stairs early became a
place of pilgrimage. After a persistent
rumor had Identified the invisible sage
with Miss Dimon, she was found to be
Miss Lucy Powell, Fellow in Greek. The
"Chamber of Horrors" offered a ghastly
spectacle of Blue Beard (Miss Frisbie)
and his freshly murdered wives, with a
violin accompaniment, "The End of a
Perfect Day."
"Kanning the Kaiser," by bombarding
his portrait with tennis balls, and con-
sulting the palmist (Mile. Schoell) consti-
tuted popular recreations at opposite
corners of the room. "Aviation" balance
tests were given by Miss Macdonald,
Miss Hawk and Miss Sewell, and a spirit-
ed exhibition of rope walking by Miss
Mary Almack. A phrenologist. Miss
Mabel Kitson, read "bumps" for charac-
ter. Miss Adams told fortunes from
cards.
The carnival was planned and directed
by M. Wlllard '17.
WAR  COURSES IN SOCIAL WORK
GIVEN AT 8MITH  FOR 3ENIORS
" IF I WERE KING " IMPOSSIBLE
�FURTHER PLAYS CONSIDERED
Casting Committee Elected   and
Mrs. Patch Secured as Coach
Owing to the impossibility of getting
"If I Were King", the Varsity Play is
still in the balance. The vote of the Un-
dergraduate Association, taken in the
meetings of the four classes, was 139 for
"If I Were King", by Justin McCarthy,
as opposed to 59 for the sum of the other
four plays submitted by the investigating
committee. The difficulty in getting "If I
Were King" arises from the fact that as a
play It exists only in manuscript, and the
manuscript cannot be had for nearly
three weeks.
The Admirable Crichton, by Barrle,
Pantaloon and Rosalind by Barrie, and
Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac are being
considered by the Varsity Dramatics
Committee and will probably be recom-
mended to the Undergraduate Association
at an early meeting. The dates reserved
are April 19th and 20th.
Mrs. Patch has been secured as coach
for the play, and M. Martin '19 is chair-
man of the Varsity Dramatics Committee,
which has charge of the casting and pro-
duction and will make nominations to the
Undergraduate Association for stage
manager. Other members of this com-
mittee, which Is made up of representa-
tives elected by classes, are L. Hodges
"18, L. Williamson '20, and E. Hill '21.
The play will be given for the benefit of
the Service Corps.
FACULTY   REPRESENTS  BRYN
MAWR AT CHICAGO CONFER-
ENCE
COMMENCEMENT  FESTIVITIES  KEPT
ALM08T UNCHANGED BY 8ENIOR8
Big   Majority  Votes for.Garden   Party.
A big majority of the senior class
voted last Monday to give a garden party
this year "on as simple a scale aa poa
sible." The other commencement activi
ties  were kept practically unchanged.
Senior Bonfire and the senior picnic to
the sophomores were definitely voted and
the motion to have a class supper, though
laid on the table for investigation ol
catering expenses, was upheld warml>
against a small opposition. The custom
ary celebration of May day and the Fel
lowship dinner in Rockefeller on March
15th, were also voted.
College Breakfast, the class agreed
should be given up if the hostesses 1920
wished to do so.
AMATEUR   CHAMPION    8WIMMERS
AND DIVER8  EXHIBIT IN  POOL
College Records Laid  Low by Attack of
Miss   Dorfner
An   exhibition   by   amateur  champion
swimmers and   divers, headed   by  Miss
Olga Dorfner, holder of world's records
Price 5 Cent*
HEROIC FRENCHMAN, WOUND-
ED THREE TIMES, HERE
TOMORROW,,
Captain Cande of First Engineers j
Captain Paul Cande, of the- First
French Engineers, who has been deco-
rated with the cross of the Legion of
Honour and the Croix de Guerre, now in-
structor at Camp Dlx, Wrightstown, N.
J., will speak on "France Under Fire" to-
morrow evening at 8 o'clock in Taylor
Hall. His lecture has been arranged by
the Graduate Service Corps Committee
through the French graduate students.
From the beginning of the war until
his coming to this country last Septem-
ber, Captain Cand� was at the front, and
was wounded three times. He took part
in the battle of the Marne and fought at
Verdun.
Captain Cande is a graduate of
the famous French engineering college,
l'ftcole de Poly technique-, and was In the
army at the outbreak of the war.
Admission is twenty-five cents; re-
served seats, fifty cents. Tickets may be
bought from Mildred Wlllard. Pembroke
East.
for women In the 500-yard swim and 1he\�. A.  MEETING  PLANSjBlDGET
AND WEEK-END CONFERENCE
Two emergency courses in social work
in war time are being given at Smith
College this year to a group of Seniors,
through the department of Economics
and Sociology.
The twelve weeks' course this seme-
ster is "Civilian War Relief and Home
Service," consisting of two hours of lec-
ture and four hours of field work a week.
After commencement the course will be
completed by three or four weeks of full-
time field work to clinch the training
and bring things to a bead, so that the
students may enter Home Service work
without delay.
"The Organization and Management
of War Relief in Small Communities,"
the first semester subject, dealt with the
organisation and work of local units of
the Red Cross.
Yale  Football Coach   Demonstrates
How to Keep in Fighting Trim
President Thomas, Dean Taft, Dr.
Frank, and Dr. Kingsbury represented
Btyn Mawr at the Congress of National
Service called by the National Security
League last week in Chicago. Delegates
from schools and colleges all over the
country attended. Patriotism through
education was the trend of the most im-
portant discussion.
Ex-President Taft, Bainbridge Colby of
the Shipping Board, who was one of the
American Commission under Colonel
House at the Allied War Council at Ver-
sailles, Charles E. Russell, the Socialist
editor, who went with Mr. Root to Russia,
and two British Labor delegates, were
among the distinguished men present.
Walter Camp, Yale football coach and
author of articles on athletics, demon-
strated exercises Intended to maintain
fighting trim among civilians. He was
anxious to introduce them to Bryn Mawr.
The "Meaning of the Breakdown of In-
ternational Law", given by Judge Win-
slow, Chief Justice of Wisconsin, and the
"German Conspiracy", by Professor Soi-
ree, of the University of Chicago, were
two of the most spirited addresses.
plunge for distance, was given in the pool
last Wednesday evening. Eight women
swimmers, most of them less than 20
years old, and two girls of 9, took part.
Form swims, showing different strokes,
life-saving demonstrations, races, plain
and fancy diving, and plunge for distance
were the events of the exhibition. Col-
lege speed records were easily broken,
and the audience stood astounded at the
beautiful diving. The 33% sec. record
for the 136-foot swim, made by K. Town-
send '20, became 21% sec, and her 68-
foot record of 13% sec. was reduced to
12%.
Unbeaten Relay Team
The swimmers were all Philadelphia
girls, none of whom devote their entire
time to the sport. Most of them are
still in High School, and practice only in
the afternoons. Four of them, the Misses
Dorfner, Artlett, Arklie and Becker, form
a relay team which has never been
beaten.
Miss Klump (age 9), who gave an ex-
hibition for form of the under-arm  side1
stroke,  has swam   the   Schuylkill  with
hands and feet tied.
Frequent diving, according to Miss
Dorfner, ruins a woman for speed swim-
ming, and as one or the other has to be
sacrificed she has given up diving in com-
petitions.
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DI8C0VERER  OF  POLE  MAY  COME
TO BRYN  MAWR
Sir Ernest Shackleton. the discoverer
of the South Pole, may be secured by
the Education Department of the War
Council to speak on his antarctic ex-
plorations, the probable data being in
April.
Five years ago, before he was knight
ed, the great explorer spoke at Bryn
Mawr
SENIORS COMPLETE 8ERVICE CORP8
APPORTIONMENT WITH $1022
1918 Is the first class to raise its Serv-
|M corps apportionment $1022.   Any sur-
plus will go In to the Varsity Fund.
M.
HUTCHIN8   EX-'20  A   PRIVATE
U. 8.  ARMY  8IGNAL CORPS
IN
Handicraft classes and children's work
at community centres were discussed
by Miss Abigail Davlea, of the Phlladel
phia College Settlement, at an open meet-
ing on the evening of February 10th in
the C. A   library.
Margaret Hutchins ex-'20, last year's
Freshman president, has enlisted In the
Signal Corps for work as a telephone
operator In France, and has taken the
regular oath of allegiance.
Sixty dollars a month Is Miss Hutchins'
army pay. She is required to wear a uni-
form. She expects to sail in about six
weeks, and at present she Is going to a
school of telephone operating in New
York. Her enlistment Is for the duration
of the war.
Mlaa Hutchins was given a severe test
in conversational French and a strict
physical examination.
Sophomore President to lead
Silver Bay Delegation
The approval, with a few changes, of
the C. A. budget, the formation of a
tentative plan for the week-end confer-
ence and the announcement of M. M.
Carey, 1920's president, as leader of this
year's Silver Bay delegation were the
main features of the Christian Associa-
tion meeting last Thursday night.
Under the new budget $2482.15 has al-
ready been pledged, plus $28.16 handed
over by last year's Belgian Relief Com-
mittee. The Association's running ex-
penses come out of the $695 collected in
dues.    The budget:
Bates  House   .....................$1,000
Germantown Summer School  ......   200
Federation Secretary  ..............   225
Miss Tsuda  .......................   175
Community Centre  ................   300
Dr.  Grenfell   ......................   200
Mr.   Tonomura   ....................   300
Armenians    .......................     SO
As $300 was designated to go to Dr.
Grenfell on the pledge cards, the Treas-
urer, E. Middle. '19. will have to obtain
the permission of the individual pledgers
In order to share $100 of this between
Mr. Tonomura and the Summer School,
to whom were pledged $2.">0 and $160,
respectively. The Armenian donation,
which will go through the Service Corps,
was voted to be taken from the surplus
of the pledges, and to include the $28.16
from the Belgian Committee.
The C. A. conference, scheduled for
the week-end before Easter, was pro-
visionally transferred to the week-end
after the vacation. After some discus-
sion as to whether its subject should be
the World Situation or Christian Funda-
mentals, the latter was given first choice.
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PENN ADOPTS MILITARY TRAINING
Military training, purely voluntary In
character, has been started at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Hereafter the hour
between 3.30 and 4 30 will be devoted ex
cluslvely to this training, and neither ac-
ademic nor athletic work wtll be allowed
to Interfere.