College News, 1918-01-10, Vol. 04, No. 12

              The College News
Volume IV.   No. 12
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 10, 1918
Price 5 Cents
8ECOND SENIOR GERMAN 8HOW8
BETTER RECORD THAN FRENCH
Eight     Students    Left    to    Take    Both
Languages at Next Trial  in  March
A better record for the second Senior
German examination than has been made
by any class since 1912 was posted for
1918 outside Miss Dimon's door the morn-
ing after the Christmas vacation. The
French marks, posted the day before the
vacation, were slightly worse than any
wince 1914, when 50 per cent failed.
Eight Seniors have still both examina-
tions to take. Thirty-six have passed
both, and sixteen have one examination
�either French or German.
The third Senior examination in French
comes March 16th; that in German,
March 23d.
The. results of the second examinations
are:
French
Passed, 19 (51.35 per cent). Failed, 18
(48.64 per cent).
Passed�Andrews, Bacon, Bailey, Born,
Curtin, Dufourcq, Fraser, Gardiner,
Houghton, Jefferies, Kendig, Lynch, Rey-
mershoffer, Rhoads, Richardson, Schwarz,
Shaffer, Strauss, Worch.
Failed�Atherton, Babbitt, Booth. Boyd,
Butterfleld. Hart, Howell, Huff, Israel,
Jones, Lubar, Mall, Quimby, Richards,
Ridlon. Showell, E. M. Smith, Stair.
German
Passed, 24 (63.15 per cent). Failed, 14
(36.84 per cent).
Passed � Andrews, Atherton, Bacon,
Born, Boyd, Buffum, Evans, Houghton,
Howell, Israel, Jefferies, Jones, O'Connor,
Rupert, Shaffer, Sharpless, E. M. Smith,
L. T. Smith, Strauss, Teller, Turle, Whit-
comb, Williams, Worch.
Failed�Babbitt, Dufourcq, Gardiner,
Gest, Hart, Hemenway, Huff, Mall, Quim-
by, Richards, Richardson, Ridlon, Show-
ell, Wilson.
The record of the per cent passing the
second French and German Orals for the
last five years is:
French	Class	German
Per Cent		Per Cent
50.00	1914	59.52
62.50	1915	40.47
51.85	1916	62.50
67.65	1917	47.50
51.35	1918	63.15
The best record for the second French
oral was made by 1912, when five Seniors,
sixteen per cent of the class, failed; and
the worst record by 1908, when seventeen
Seniors, fifty-four per cent, failed. The
worst record in the first French is held
by 1918; fifty-eight per cent failed.
FIRST
APPLICATION
CORPS
TO     SERVICE
A prominent alumna from Virginia, ex-
perienced in organization work, whose
name is withheld from print for the pres-
ent, has notified the War Council of her
readiness to go into Red Cross or Y. M.
C. A. work abroad under the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps. She asks for half of her
expenses.
"CANDIDA" NEXT SATURDAY IN GYM
Clifford Devereux Company Actors
A performance of Bernard Shaw's
"Candida" will be given in the gymnasium
Saturday evening. January 19th. by the
Clifford Devereux Company of New York,
provided they are able to get their prop-
ertles transported In the present railroad
crisis. The play, if gi�en. will be for the
benefit of War Relief
SUMMER   READING   NOT   RE-
QUIRED NEXT YEAR OWING
TO NEW PLAN
1920 and 1921  to Decide Whether
They Take Senior Examinations
For members of the Classes of 1920 and
1921, "writtens" on Junior and Sophomore
summer reading will be optional. This is
the purport of a recent decision of the
Faculty, which has been given out offi-
cially to the News.
The new plan, announced last spring,
whereby one foreign language (in addi-
tion to Latin) is offered at entrance, and
a second at the beginning of the Junior
year, becomes compulsory In 1923. In the
meantime, the two lower classes now In
college, and the classes which enter be-
tween 1918 and 1922, will be allowed to
choose between the old and new systems.
1919, since it cannot comply with the new
requirements demanding an examination
at the beginning of the Junior year, must
graduate, as will 1918, under the old sys-
tem of four Senior examinations. The
official statement follows:
"At the last stated meeting of the Fac-
ulty on December 13th the regulation
was passed affecting Freshmen and
Sophomores now in the college and stu-
dents entering under the old plan of ex-
aminations in the autumn of 1918. In
view of the fact that beginning with the
autumn of 1918 candidates may enter
Bryn Mawr College under the new plan
of entrance examinations and may also
take their degrees under the new plan,
which becomes obligatory for all students
entering college in and after 1923, the
Faculty voted that next year's Juniors,
Sophomores, and next year's Freshmen
entering under the old plan of examina-
tions should be permitted to choose
whether they prefer to take their degrees
under the new plan or under the old plan,
which is optional for students entering
college from 1918 to 1922. Under the new
plan students are required to offer at en-
trance only one foreign language in addi-
tion to Latin, i. e., Greek, or French, or
German, and to take at the beginning of
each year, including the Senior year, a
written examination In the language se-
lected, the only exception being in the
case of students who have selected
Greek at entrance and have taken a
course of two or three hours a week in
Greek in any given year, such students
being excused from taking the examina-
tion in Greek at the beginning of the fol-
lowing year. The penalty for not passing
this examination at the beginning of the
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior
years is that students who receive "B"
must take and pay for one tutoring class
a week throughout the year and students
who receive "C" must take and pay for
two tutoring classes throughout the year.
In addition to this examination in the
chief foreign language selected all stu-
dents must take at the beginning of their
Junior year an hour's examination in an-
other foreign language- French, if French
was not offered at entrance, or German,
if German was not offered at entrance, or
Greek or Spanish, with the understand-
ing, however, that students who offer
Greek for entrance are required to select
either French or German for their Junior
examination, and if they rail to pass this
examination must take throughout the
Junior year the beginning class in the
language in which they have failed unless
they have already taken It in college, in
which case they must take a tutoring
class two hours a week throughout the
ntinued on page �. column I.)
SERVICE CORPS UNDER WAY
Methods of $10,000 College Campaign
To be Decided Next Week
the   War
o
Plans tor the administration of the
Service Corps and the S10.000 campaign
at college are now under way. An execu-
tive committee for the Service Corps,
composed of three alumna; and three War
Council members, will be sucgested by
the Alumna? War Committee at the Feb-
tuary Alumnce Association meeting. They
also advise a Trust Fund, held by the
treasurer of the Alumna; Association.
Meetings of the Department of Red
Cross and Allied Relief and of the Execu-
tive Staff take place to-night. They must
pass the Alumna; War Committee's plans
before final ratification by
Council next Monday.
Assessment or Pledging Considered
Assessment by classes or individual
pledging, both methods used for the En-
dowment Fund, are probable campaign
features. Varsity Dramatics, if they are
decided on, will be given for the benefit
of the Service Corps.
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The plan of the Alumnae War Commit-
tee Is in detail:
1.   Funds for the Service Corps shall be
railed by the Department of Red Cross
and Allied Relief and by the Alumnee As-
sociation.
It is recommended that money received
by the War Council be handed at once to
the treasurer of the Alumna; Association
to be kept in a Trust Fund until ex-
pended. Money collected by any alumna;
committee would normally be handed to
the treasurer as above.
2.  A committee of six shall be ap-
appointed as an executive committee for
the Bryn Mawr Service Corps. This com-
mittee to be made up of three alumna;
appointed by the Alumna; Association
and three members from the War Coun-
cil. The Alumna; War Committee sug-
gests that the members from the War
Council be the chairman of the Council,
the director of the Department of Red
Cross and Allied Relief, and a Faculty
member.
3.  The function of the Executive Com-
mittee shall be to make final decisions
and arrangements for all members of the
Service Corps, and to expend the funds.
LIGHTLESS   NIGHTS   NOT   A   SAVING
WITH   COLLEGE   LIGHTING
SYSTEM
College Coal Outlook Promising
Not an extra piece of coal is used by
the college for lighting under the pnsent
system of heating, President Thomas ex-
plained Monday morning in Chapel. In
cold weather a certain number of boilers
in tiie college power bouse must be kept
under fire and the exhaust �team from
these boilers that would Otherwise b
{wasted is utilized to run the *y��.
As long as only the exhaust steam is used
for lighting no economy is effected by
cutting down  the number of lights.
Students can conserve heat by turning
off the thermostats when the windows are
open. The authorities at present hope
that the college will be able to get
through the winter without having to
shut down on account of lack of coal.
CHINESE SCHOLAR AT SHIPLEY
$30,000 Needed For Scholarship
The Bryn Mawr Chinese scholar. Fung
Kel Liu, is at the Shipley School this year
preparing for Bryn Mawr She expects
to enter in the fall of 1920. She comes
from Canton and has studied for a num-
ber of years at the Canton Christian Col-
lege with which Fannie Sinclair Woods
'01 and her husband, Dr. Andrew Woods,
are connected.
Fung Kel's sister, Fung Hui Liu, gradu-
ated in 1914 from Wellesley. where she
made a brilliant record, took her master's
degree at Columbia, and is now head of
an Important girls' school at Canton. In
the spring of 1915 she visited Bryn Mawr.
In 1920 another Chinese girl will enter
Bryn Mawr. Helen Wong, who is now at
Miss Madeira's school in Washington.
Her father is superintendent of Chinese
students in this country.
CLASS    IN    RUSSIAN    UNDER
MAY   BE   PUT  ON   THE
CURRICULUM
WAY
Whether or not Russian is put in the
curriculum may depend on the progress
of the students, and on the opinion of the
Russian Class, composed of the Faculty
and Staff. The Curriculum Committee of
the Faculty is said to think that a course
of sixteen lectures is insufficient.to give
even a slight grasp of the language. If
marked progress is shown by the students
it is hoped that the Faculty may recon-
sider this decision.
The expense of the class, if taken as an
extra course, will be six dollars an
hour, to be shared by the students in the
class. The first class was held last night
in Taylor by Professor Edgerton, of the
I'niverslty of Pennsylvania.
More Money Needed
At "China Night", the entertainment
held last year to rouse interest in a Bryn
Mawr Chinese scholar, Professor Don-
nelly, who s|>ent the summer of 1916 in
China, outlined the plans for getting the
130,000 necessary for Fung Kel Liu's four
years at college. $10,(100 has been raised
by a committee of which Miss Donnelly is
chairman. Mrs. Simon Flexner vice-
chairman, Mrs. Robert Sp>                tary.
and Mrs. William Roy Smith treasurer.
The alumna; will be approached at the
February meeting and asked to pledge
small sums from one to one hundred dol-
lars, payable within five years. On ac-
count of the war. no actual campaign will
be undertaken.
A committee of the Cndergraduate As-
sociation on a Chinese Scholarship was
considered last year, but was never
formed owing to the studeats' preocenpev
lion with the Endowment Fund
POEMS    WANTED    FOR    ANTHOLOGY
STUDENT  MESSENGERS  NEEDED
Cndergradustes and Graduates are
wanted by the office to set as messengers
during the Mid-year Examinations. They
will be paid twenty-five cents per exami-
nation hour and will be able to do their
own work during a large part of the time.
Bryn Mawr Asked to Contribute
I'o.ms for a College Anthology, pub-
lished by the Stratford I 'oiiip.my. Iiinton.
have been asked Of the college tlnough
notices sent to the office M Itupert '18.
editor in chief of Tipyn o' Bob, will
a contribution to be sent In some time in
March. Possibly she will use only gradu-
ate work, >he �>.�>'
The Anthology 1**1 year was composed
of short stories Instead of verse. One
Bt�n WM **"nI ln b}r * member of 19111.