College News, 1918-02-21, Vol. 04, No. 16

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The College News
Volume IV.   No. 16
BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 21, 1918
Price 5 Cents
WHITE ELEPHANT8 UNDER HAMMER
Clear |106 for 1919 Service Corpa
Dr. Theodore de Laguna, Professor of
Philosophy, cleared $68 as auctioneer of
"white elephants" at 1919's sale for the
benefit of the Serrlce Corps held In the
Gymnasium last Saturday.
Net profits were 9105. The ice cream
was the only overhead expense, as the
"white elephants" were collected from all
orer the College.
The highest price paid was $6 for a
wooden duck, now owned in partnership.
A guitar was knocked down for $4. a
false front for a bookcase for $4.90, and
a wrapped package afterward found to
contain Spanish moss for $2.35. A water
pistol, "not guaranteed to work" by the
auctioneer, brought over a dollar.
The Junior Orchestra supplied the
music for dancing.
OLD SONGS SUNG TO THE
LUTE WIN APPLAUSE AT
CONCERT
Quaint French and Norse Songs in
Lutist's Repertoire
Old English, French and Scandinavian
songs sung to the lute brought prolonged
applause to Mr. Thomas Wilfred at his
concert last Friday evening. In Taylor.
Expenses were cleared by the Music
Committee under the direction of R.
Hart, '18. The program:
I
"Come lasses and lads"......
"Sumer is lcumen In".......
"Ve Golden Vanltye"........
"I'm seventeen come Sunday'
II
Menuet in E.....................Mozart
Gavotte ancienne...............Wilfred
The three rascals..
Gypsy song ..
Old
English
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Old Scandinavian
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Bretagne
Old French
Aupres de ma blonde
Brave, marln
Le Joll tambour
"O no, John!"...*...........'.Old English
Mr. Wilfred's spirited portrayal of the
characters in the songs made their dia-
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REGISTRATION FOR FARM BEGIN8
No  Pay  for Two  Weeks
Registration of student workers for the
Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm begins this
week and will continue till March 4th.
The pay for terms of four weeks or
over is 17 cents per hour for the first two
weeks and 20 cents per hour after the
first two weeks. No pay will be given
for terms of two weeks or less. The
expenses are $6.50 weekly for board and
lodging.
Students registering before March 4th
can sign for three alternative dates. Ap-
plications after March 4th will be consid-
ered only in case additional workers are
needed.
M. Peacock '19, of the Food Production
Committee, states that there will be no
Self-Government rules for the workers.
FACULTY REPRE8ENT WAR COUN-
CIL AT CHICAGO CONGRES8
President Thomas, Dean Taft. Dr. Frank
and Dr. Klngsbury are in Chicago this
week attending a Congress of National
Service called by the National Security
League, for February 21st. 22nd and 23rd.
With the exception of President Thomas,
who is there as chairman of the War
Service Committee of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae, they were asked as
representatives of the Bryn Mawr College
War CounclL
PRESIDENT THOMAS ADVISES
STUDENTS AS TO WAR
WORK
Urges Farming for Under Classmen.
Suggests Vassar Course to Seniors
Advice as to the form of work students
of the different classes should undertake
for the summer was the content of Presl-
den Thomas's address last Friday morn-
ing, in Chapel.
To the Freshmen and Sophomores her
unqualified recommendation was farm-
ing. The raising of food, she urged, is
the most direct form of war service wom-
en can give and should be considered be-
fore any kind of office work. A women's
land army, such as has been successful
in Great Britain, has been organized
under the direction of the Advisory Com-
mittee, to give women opportunities to
work on farms all over the country, she
�aid.
The Juniors and Seniors, on the other
hand, she advised to try for positions In
the field In which they plan to work per-
manently. The Juniors, In their last sum-
mer before graduation, should be able to
get valuable preparation for specialized
work next year, she thought.
To members of the graduating class
who consider going into nursing Presi-
dent Thomas suggested the Vassar sum-
mer course. She said that under ordinary
circumstances she did not believe a col-
lege graduate should enter the profession
of nursing; but predicted that those tak-
ing the Vassar course would not be re-
quired to take a regular two-year hospital
course from stress of circumstances, like
the V. A. D. of Great Britain, but would
be allowed to go immediately into mili-
tary hospitals.
VARSITY DRAMATICS A FACT-
CLASSES WILL CHOOSE PLAY
D. Chambers '19 Undergraduate on
Service Corps Committee
Varsity dramatics for the benefit of the
Service Corps, to take place in the gym-
nasium as soon as possible in order not
to interfere with the Glee Club perform-
ance, was the decision of the Undergrad-
uate Association at its meeting in Taylor,
Monday evening. D. Chambers '19 was
elected to the Service Corps Executive
Committee as the special undergraduate
representative asked for by the mass
meeting last week. M. L. Thunnan '19
and G. Woodbury '19 ran against Miss
Chambers.
M. Martin '19, chairman of the commit-
tee to investigate 'Varsity dramatics, out-
lined possible plays: If I Were King,
Pomander Walk, by Louis N. Parker, or a
combination of Shaw's Androcles and the
Lion, with Barries Twelve Pound Look
or 81 Ice of Life or Philip Moeller's
Helena's Husband. She estimated the
costs of production at $500 and the net
profits at $350 for three performances.
The play will be chosen In class meet-
ings by a majority vote of all the ballots
cast. A Varsity Dramatic Committee,
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Superior of Order of Holy Cross
Sunday  Night Speaker
The Rev. Mr. James 0. 8. Huntlngton.
Superior of the Order of the Holy Cross,
will speak in Chapel next Sunday evening.
The Holy Cross, an Episcopal Religious
Order at West Park. New York. Is send-
ing seevral priests to serve under the
Red Cross as chaplains at the front.
NORTH SEA FLEET PICTURED
ON GYMNASIUM SCREEN
Fullerton Waldo Shows Milk  Bomb
and Gas Mask Among War
Relict
Official slides and films of Americans
and British at the Western front appeared
on the screen in the gymnasium last Sat-
urday evening at Fullerton Waldo's lec-
ture on "The Front" Mr. Waldo has
made two trips to Europe since 1914 as a
war correspondent, and writes, under the
name of Girard, "Topics of the Town,"
in the Public Ledger.
$70 was cleared for the 'Varsity Service
Corps Fund. The lecture and all expenses
for slides and films were donated by Mr.
Waldo.
How "Britannia rules the waves" was
strikingly shown in the pictures of the
British Grand Fleet in the North Sea. The
reels of the German retreat from Arras, a
long picture recently released to public
theatres by the British Government, and
slides of the American engineers in
France completed the pictures.
A Mills bomb, a German bayonet, and
a German gas mask which Mr. Waldo
refused to risk putting on for a demon-
stration, were among the relics that il-
lustrated the lecture.
The Anglo-American friendship formed
the theme of a shipboard meeting at-
tended by Mr. Waldo on his return voy-
age, he said in his preliminary talk.
Harry Lauder presided at this meeting
and Major Ian Hay Belth was present.
"The greatest achievements of the
Government are not made public," said
Mr. Waldo, In condemning uninformed
"knockers."
EPIDEMIC UNDER CONTROL
Women Telephone Operators Wanted
for U. S. Signal Corps in France
From the Committee on Public Informa-
tion, Division on Woman's War Work
February 5, 1918 (Delayed)
Women  with   a   fluent  knowledge  of
French are being trained in  San  Fran-
cisco,   New   York,   Chicago   and   other
cities to go to France as telephone opera-
tors, is the statement of the Chief Signal
Officer of the Signal Corps to-day.   They
will not be sent over in one  unit, but
ordered  to go  in  groups  from  time to
time.
The members of this unit will wear a
standard uniform which they will be re-
quired to furnish. The Signal Corps finds
It necessary to lay stress again upon the
fact that no wives of officers or enlisted
men will be accepted and that applicants
must be able to speak both French and
English perfectly.
Applications from women, preferably
between 23 and 35 years of age, who are
physically fit and who answer the lan-
guage requirements, should be sent to
the Chief Signal Officer of the Signal
Corps, Room 826, Mills Building, Annex.
Washington, D. C. No information can
be given as to the locality In which the
telephone girls will be stationed.
Fund to Meet Infirmary  Expenses
The epidemic of German measles whin
has ravaged the college for the last foi.r
weeks is beginning to die down.    Pre :
dent  Thomas  asked  in  Chapel  Mond
morning that students assist the hea!   i
department In stamping out the disea
by reporting themselves to Dr. Carrico < .
the thirteenth day after they have be   i
in contact with anyone  who  has  co
down with it, and by returning for Inspc
tion every day for a week.
In all, there have been twenty-sevr i
cases, only four of which can be trac :
directly to close personal contact w.
students before they were taken sick. Tl. i
others are supposed to have been co.i
traded In classes, student meeting* or
outside of the college. Three are known
to have come from outside.
A loan fund will be collected to help
very poor students to meet the export ��
Involved. President Thomas said.
CHANGES   IN  C. A. PROPOSED
AT OPEN CABINET MEETING
Budget and Week-end Conference:
to be Discussed at Meeting
Tonight
The budget, the plan for the week-e:
conference, and a change in the personn
of the board, which were the chief sr.
jects discussed at the open Cabinet me
ing   of   the   Christian   Association   li
week, will come up for decision at a m-
Ing of the whole Association tonight.
In order to have greater choice f
president It was suggested at last wee
meeting that there be two junior me
bers on the Board and that apart fr
the usual straw vote by classes there
an Association meeting for nomlnat
and another for the final vote.
A consideration of world problems v
proposed for the C. A. Conference, to i
held over the week-end of March 22d.
a substitute for Dr. Fosdlck's course �
the fundamentals of religion. Dr. Fosd
has gone abroad.

8ERVICE CORP8 HA8 TWO MEMBERS
The first two members of the Bryn
Mawr Serrlce Corps were chosen at the
Initial meeting of the Service Corps
Committee, Tuesday evening. They are
Elisabeth Shepley Sergeant '03. who is
already In France Investigating condi-
tions and writing for the New Republic,
and Margaret Bontecou '09, who Is sailing
for France In March to do canteen work
under the T. M. C. A.
The Service Corps Committee elected
Ex-Dean Marlon Rellly '01 chairman.
LIBRARY   NOW   OPEN   REGULAR!
The Library has returned to its nori
hours for opening and closing, and beg  ��
ning this week will be open on Sunda>
well as In the evenings.    This remo.   '
of  the   6   o'clock  coal-saving   rule  d    k
not apply to Taylor and Dalton.
5000  NURSE8   WANTED  FOR   VA88    I
TRAINING   CAMP�SHORTAGE
8ERIOU8
A drive to enlist 5000 women for i
Vassar training camp for nurses be
last Saturday, the New York Times
ports,   through   the   Vassar  College   I  �
cruitlng  Committee,  together   with   t
Red Cross and the Council of Natlo
Defense.
"The     government,"     continues     t   t
Times, "has announced that it Is faci:
a serious shortage of trained nurses, r
that as the war progresses there Is I
son to believe the shortage will bee
more acute unless provision is now mn hi
to create an adequate nursing reserve
The training camp opens at Pougbk<
sie. June 24th, and lasts three mon
Seventy-five dollars  Is  the  student  f
which Includes board, room, tuitioa �   k
laundry for the entire time.