College News, 1918-05-23, Vol. 04, No. 27

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The College News
Volume IV.    No. 27
BRYN MAWR, PA., MAY 23, 1918
Price 5 Cents
RED CROSS DRIVE ON CAMPUS
A barrel for pennies and small change
In front of the Library Is marking Bryn
Mawr's progress in the Red Cross Drive,
which is being held on the campus this
week under the auspices of the Red Cross
and Allied Relief Department of the War
Council as a part of the National Drive.
The barrel is turned over once in the
direction of Taylor Hall every time $5 is
reached.
A melting pot has been placed in front
of Taylor for old Jewelry and trinkets,
which will be sold to second-hand jewel-
lers for the benefit of the Red Cross.
A canvass of the halls for 100 per cent
Red Cross membership began Monday.
'N'   EVERYTHING ABOUT THE
MINSTREL SHOW A SUCCESS
1920 Nets $100 for the Service Corps
With an enthusiasm and spirit which
characterized the show, 1920's minstrels
strutted up the aisle of the gymnasium
last Friday night singing "We're coming,
we're coming from the land of Old Black
Joe". About $100 was made, bringing
1920's Service Corps Fund up to its quota
of $1410.
The two end-men, A. Harrison and G.
Steele, acted the self-satisfied "gentlemen
of color" with great ease and naturalness.
"Moreover", the dog, an Irish terrier pup,
was the only Caucasian on the stage.
Two sunbonneted rag dolls, H. Zlnsser
and Z. Boynton, dancing together inside
a hoop, were encored so many times that
they collapsed. The Cleopatra chorus
differed from Its model In the Freshman
entertainment In little else than color
and size.
Beginning with "I want a beau all of
my own" and "My bonnie sails over the
ocean", the Saxaphone Sextet told the
story of a war-bride in a cleverly ar-
ranged medley of popular songs. "Meenle"
and "Queenie" could not fancy their
fancying each other, but the audience
showed that it could by its enthusiastic
applause.
"So let's go to Smith, where they'll
treat as a star all of those they have
shipped from Bryn Mawr", sung by O.
Hess as Al Jolson, was perhaps the time-
liest of the hits. College dancing, from
Honeymoonland in Cheeroland to Rose
Hofman's shadow dancing in the cloisters
festival, was imitated with more or less
success. Personal hits were made by tel-
egrams read aloud by the messengers be-
fore delivery to the victim.
I,. Williamson was stage manager and
the committee was Z. Boynton, chairman.
H. Wortman, A. Rood, G. Hess, L. Wil-
liamson.
The advertising committee was C.
Keeble. chairman, D. Pitkin, E. Leutke-
meyer, E. Stevens, V. Park and W. S.
Wall.
No More Public Speaking
By a close vote at the mass meeting
last week it was decided not to continue
the try-outs for public speaking next year.
H. Johnson "19, head of the Education
Department, which has been In charge of
the try-outs, told of the failure of the
College to support this activity during
the past year, urging that it seemed un-
wise to continue It unless students ac-
tually Intended to work for It.
SENIOR BANQUET JUNE S
Virginia   Kneeland   has   been   elected
toastmlstress for 1918's Senior banquet,
which will be held Monday night of Com-
mencement week. In Radnor.
Senior bonfire will be Tuesday night.
CONSCRIPTION FOR WAR WORK
THE RULE FOR NEXT YEAR
Plan Drawn Up by Special Committee
Passes Three Large Meetings
Students at Bryn Mawr will be required
next year to register weekly periods of
war work and separate periods for phys-
ical development and physical recreation,
as a resultyf a large majority vote by a
War Council mass meeting and meetings
of the Athletic and Undergraduate Asso-
ciations.
The plan, as outlined below, was drawn
up by Dean Taft, Miss Applebee, the
chairman of the War Council, and the
presidents of the four student associa-
tions.
COLLEGE MAY ASK 26 STUDENTS TO WITHDRAW
PLAN   FOR   CONSCRIPTION
To   Place  Non-Academic  College  Activi-
ties on a  War Basis
The time of each student would be con-
scripted in three main divisions per
week:
2   hoars physical development (setting
up drills).
3  hours (I. e., periods) physical recrea-
tion.
4   hours war work.
Physical development would be man-
aged by Miss Applebee as head of the
Health Department. It would probably
Include a short period of exercise every
day, run with the purpose of putting the
students in as good physical condition as
possible.
Physical recreation would include or-
ganized sports as managed at present by
classes under the Athletic Association.
By arrangement with the Conscription
Board farm work, and work on the ath-
letic fields could be registered under this
head.
War Work would include farming, Red
Cross work, preparedness classes, and ex-
ecutive work on plays for War Relief, and
(Continued  on page  5.)
1919 WINS BASKETBALL
CHAMPIONSHIP
Seniors Give Juniors Hard Tussle
The green banner now hangs on the
gymnasium for the second time this year
as a result of 1919's defeating 1918 Mon-
day afternoon in the last game of the
basketball series.
The Seniors put up a hard fight to the
end, but the Juniors' sure passing and
swiftness gave them the advantage every
time and enabled them to roll up a score
of 16 as against the Seniors' 9. L Lanier
'19. although not scoring, was always
ready for M. Peacock's passes and took
them down the field again and again. M.
Peacock made a goal practically every
time she got free to shoot. Once or twice,
after getting away from T. Howell "18.
she was prevented from shooting by the
quickness of P. Turle.
1918
S. Beiville........   F.
M.Strauss........  F.
P. Turle........... C.
T. Howell (c.).....   O.
M. Mackensle......O.
1919
.........E. Lanier
...(c) M. Pescock
........J. Peabody
......A.Thorndlke
.........O. Hearne
Field Goals�1918: S. Beiville 2. T.
Howell 1: 1919: M. Peacock 5. J. Pea-
txHly 1
Goals on Fouls�1918: S. Beiville S out
of 5; 1919: M. Peacock 1 out of t. E.
Lanier 3 out of 3.
Substitutes�Stiles for Peabody
TEXT OF SENATE'S RESOLUTIONS
PETITION FACULTY TO DEFER
ACTION UNTIL NEXT YEAR
The   following   resolutions   of   the
Senate were announced by President
Thomas last Wednesday in Chapel
"Resolved:
That the practice of compelling
students who are in danger of losing
their degrees by the operation of the
Merit Law to remain in College five
years be discontinued and that such
students be expected to withdraw
from College not later than the end
of the Junior year, and
That in view of existing conditions
all students who have not attained
the grade of merit in half their hours
may be asked to withdraw from Col-
lege at the end of the present year."
NO   INJUSTICE  TO   ANYJ CASE
PROMISES PRESIDENT THOMAS
Many Reasons for Resolutions Beside
Lack of Room for Entering Class
President Thomas, in order to make
clear the meaning of the resolutions of
the Senate In regard to students who
have one-half their hours below merit,
makes the following statement in a letter
to the president of the Undergraduate As-
sociation :
"I am told that some of the students
misunderstand the situation brought
about by the crowded condition of the
halls of residence and think that these
resolutions mean that students who ought
to stay in the College, and would other-
wise have been allowed to do so, are to
be asked to leave in order to make room
for the incoming class, and that the stu-
dents who are to be asked to leave are
chiefly members of the present Freshman
Class.
"It is true that there will be only 74
vacant rooms for the Freshmen next year
or, adding 10 more, which is the number
of students which past experience shows
will drop out during the summer, 84
rooms in all, and that it would be very
desirable to be able to have 26 more
rooms at our disposal. Otherwise, we
shall not be able to admit even 110
Freshmen, which would be a class of the
usual pre-war size. More than 150 Fresh-
men have reserved rooms.
"This does not mean, however, that the
Senate would for this reason ask a single
student now in the College to leave un-
less It was really right for her to leave
for other reasons.   �   �   �
"The fact is that Bryn Mawr has been
much more lenient than most other col-
leges, especially than the other larger
women's colleges, in allowing students
who were not doing good academic work
to remain In the College and have chance
after chance to make good. Sometimes
they have made good, but oftener they
have not. Their record on the whole has
been discouraging, and most discouraging
of all has been the record of the five-year
probation student*. There seemed, how-
ever, to many members of the Senate no
very great harm In continuing this be-
nevolent practice until It became a patri-
otic duty for girls to go to college to be
trained for national service during and
after the wsr. Then It became evident to
the Senate and the Board of DIr.
that It was unpatriotic of Bryn Mawr to
� How students who were not making good
�ntlnued on page 3.)
Undergraduates Approve Principle,
But Protest at Lack of Warning
Protesting against the s^nat-
tions on the ground of insufficient  wain
lag, the undergraduates, in a two-hour
meet in,' Monday night, drew up a peti-
tion, asking the Facultv to postpone no-
tion on the resolutions for a year. The pe-
tition was revised from one previously
drawn up In the I 'ndeigraduate Board in
> Diifeienee with committees from the
four classes.
The petition as sent to the Faculty
reads :
Whereas, The undergraduates approve
the principle involved in the rOCanl reso-
lutions of the Senate (resolution quoted];
"Whereas. Said resolutions were made
public only one week before the final ex-
aminations;
"Whereas, Students who might not
otherwise have returned to College last
fall, did so, in the expectation of reieiv-
ing their degrees on the basis of the
statement in the catalogue for the year
1917-18, page 176. that 'If a student at the
end of her Senior year, has received a
made below seventy per cent in as many
as one-half of the hours that she has of-
| fered for examination of the one hundred
'and twenty required for the degree, she
will not be allowed to graduate at the end
of her Junior year or in February of her
. Senior year; but if she wishes to continue
her studies at Bryn Mawr College, must
plan to remain for an additional year or
for a longer period. She will be on pro-
bation during this time and her work will
be prescribed by a committee of the Fac-
ulty, the object being to enable her to im-
prove the quality of her work so that she
may not ultimately be disqualified by her
grades from obtaining a degree';
"Whereas, In older to accommodate the
requisite number of incoming Freshmen
for the year 1918 1919, (a) 26 graduate
students might live in Low Buildings, the
j College Inn. or bKa�AGW- cottage; (b) the
undergraduates'are willing to live in the
College InnjUie professors' houses, Yar-
row, Low Buildings or off the campus in
a new cottase;
"We,     therefore,     respectfully     petition
that:
1.  The resolutions of the Senate shall
not go Into effect until one year from this
spring.
2.  The Confeienn Committee of the
1'ndergraduate Association be allowed to
meet with a committee of the Faculty to
discuss the matter of clause 1 of the pe-
tition that "the resolutions of the S. nate
,11   not   go   Into  effect   until   one   >
from  this spring", if the |*>titinn  be not
granted."
NEW ASSOCIATE IN HISTORY
Dr. Charles W. David of Harvard has
been appointed Associate in History at
linn Mawr for next year. He will have
,.ne MafJaa of hat Minor History course,
a two-hour po*� major course in the
French Revolution, a five-hour course in
Ancient History In the second semester,
and s seminary  in European History.