College News, 1918-03-27, Vol. 04, No. 21

              The College News
Volume IV.   No. 21
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 27, 1918
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Third French Examination Passes 78
Per Csnt
With the passing of fifteen out of the
twenty ^vho took the third French written
examination, five Seniors are left for the
fourth trial. May 11th. Each of the five
had previously passed off her German.
The fourth examination in German will
be the same day as the French.
Passed: Atherton, Babbitt. Booth, But-
terfleld, Hart, Huff, Israel, Mall, Persh-
ing. Quimby. Richards, Rldlon, M. O.
Schwartz, Showell, Stair.
Failed: Boyd, Howell, Jones, Lubar,
E. M. Smith.
Fourteen took the third German exam-
ination last Saturday.
GORDON WOODBURY ELECTED!
CHAIRMAN OF WAR
COUNCIL
Receives 66 Votes as Opposed to 44
Cast for Other Five Nominees
SERGEANT FARNAM FIRED FIRST
SHOT FOR AMERICA
Suffering of Serb Refugees Described.
"It was not the red-headed soldier who
fired the first shot for America, but I."
declared Sergeant Ruth Farnam, of the
First Serbian Cavalry, speaking on "A
Nation at Bay", last Saturday evening in
Taylor; "in the name of American wom-
anhood I gave the signal for the Serbian
artillery fire In the battle of Brod, on
October  11th."
Sergeant Farnam, In the uniform of the
Serbian army, the cloth for which the
commander-in-chief had sent her with
her commission, described her hospital
work in Serbia and her expedition to the
front, and pictured the frightful suffer-
ings of the Serbian refugees. "We have
words to describe what the Belgians suf-
fered, but we have no words to describe
what the Serbians suffered," she said.
"No people ever more deserved our help
and sympathy."
"Make  Me a Soldier"
Last year Mrs. Farnam went to Salon-
ika, she said, to superintend the distri-
bution of relief funds and from there was
allowed 1o go on to the front with the
Serbian military medical commander-in-
chief. From the side of a mountain she
looked down Into the Serbian and Bul-
garian trenches while shells whizzed over
her head; it was then, she explained, that
the commander-in-chief of the Serbian
army offered to let her give the signal for
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Gordon Woodbury '19 was elected
chairman of the War Council by a ma-
jority vote of 66 to 44 at a mass meeting
in the Chapel last Thursday. The elec-
tion was from five nominations made at a
previous meeting.
The new chairman took office Monday
night at the first meeting of the War
Council after her election. She is the
president of the Junior Class, and has
been an editor of the News since the be-
ginning of her Sophomore year.
Other offices in the War Council for
the year 1918-19 will be filled gradually
as the presidents of the associations and
of the classes are elected.
JUNIORS  COME  BACK  WITH
VENGEANCE AND WHIP 1918
Seniors Offense Powerless   Before
1919s Fight.    Score of 5-2
1919, roused by their first defeat,
whipped the Seniors 5-2 in the second
game of the first team water-polo finals,
Monday night. The game deciding the
championship was played last night.
Grim, unyielding determination on the
part of 1919, and the hope of a speedy
victory on the part of 1918, made the
game the most tense and hard-fought of
the year. T. Howell '18 was rendered in-
effectual by the repeated joint attack of
E. Lanler '19 and E. Carus '19. and the
whole Senior offense weakened before the
strong opposing guard. The dark blue
defense played up well. H. Wilson at goal
keeping down the score against Incessant
attacks.
G. Hearne '19 put in the first goal with-
in the first two minutes of play, but a
neat throw by M. Stair '18 from the right
of the goal soon evened the score. Hard
ontinued on page 3)
MISS DIMON  MANAGER OF FARM
Land   Ready   for   Planting   after   Easter
Miss Abigail Dimon '96, Recording Sec-
retary of the College, will act as manager
for the Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm this
summer. During the spring the manager
will be Miss Marian Macintosh '90.
Ploughing on the farm begins this
week, and work will be ready for the
students immediately after Easter.
Squads will be needed every day in shifts
of two hours or more on the land fur-
nished by Mr. Hinckle Smith, which can
br reached in a twenty-five minutes'
walk. The work will be chiefly planting
potatoes and will count as exercise.
To avoid the expense of buying tomato
and cabbage plants, hotbeds for growing
these have been set out on the campus.
The campus land will probably not be
ploughed as the farm will include about
thirty acres without it. The five acres
behind the Baldwin School will be used
as a kitchen garden for supplying the
food used during the summer.
The head farmer, Mr. Joseph" Wood-
ward, began work two weeks ago.
ALL  DAY  EXPEDITION  BRINGS
BACK 21,000 CANS  FROM  FARM
Group of Eight Stacks Three Truckloads
A party of eight went out to the last
summer's farm at West Chester, Satur-
day, and brought back twenty-one thou-
sand cans stored there for use this sum-
mer. The expedition, of which Miss
Dimon and Miss Nearing were members,
left the halls at seven in the morning and
returned at half past six at night.
The cans were brought back in three
truckloads and stored in the loft of Ken-
nedy's stables, on account of its nearness
| to the Baldwin School, where the canning
' will be done this year. About a dozen
students spent the afternoon unloading
the cans and stacking them in the barn.
WOMEN   IN  GOVERNMENT  WORK,
THEME OF MISS JULIA LATHROP
Eminent Social Worker Here
Miss Julia Lathrop. head of the Chil-
dren's Bureau of the Department of
Labor at Washington, will speak here,
April 12th. on Women in Government
Work.
The chairmanship of the Children's
Bureau Is the highest position in the
Federal Government held by a woman.
Before taking the position In 1910 Miss
Lathrop worked at Hull House, Chicago,
with Miss Jane Addams. Miss Lathrop is
a graduate of Vassar. 1880.
DR.   R088   LEAD8  C.  A.
CONFERENCE
Dr. G. A. Johnston Ross, of the
Union Theological Seminary in New
York, led the Christian Association
Conference held here last week.
Dr. Ross met with the members of
the Cabinet, Wednesday, and spoke
to a crowded Chapel Thursday and
Friday evenings. President Thomas
gave a tea for Dr. Robs at the Dean-
ery, Friday afternoon, to meet the
Cabinet and students. Individual
conferences were held by students
earlier in the afternoon.
B0LSHEV1KI ARE NOT REALLY
REPRESENTATIVE OF RUSSIA
Background of Revolution Traced  by
Mrs. Marie Rohling, of Odessa
Russia is now in the hands of a small
party not representative of it, according
to Mrs. Marie Lazroz Rohling, of Odessa,
who spoke in Taylor on "The Bolshcviki
and the Russian Revolution", Monday
afternoon. Mrs. Rohling, who has Just
come from Russia, sketched the back-
mound of the Russian revolution and de-
scribed the Russian peasant.
The Bolsheviki, she suggested, do not
realize that Russia cannot be hurried po-
litically; that it "lakes three hundred
years to get an idea into a Russian, and
three hundred more to get it out". They
represent only the city people. Ninety
per cent of the population are hclple-s
Many of them did not even realize there
i revolution until long after it had
happened.
Russia is the country of individualism,
Mrs. Rohling said, and consequently the
Russians cannot work together. Social,
though not political freedom, is charac-
teristic of Russia, contrary to popular
opinion. Equality at school, where rich
and poor wear uniforms and sit side by
side, is emphasized early.
Since the reign of Peter the Great,
German customs have been forced on
Russia. Petrograd is practically a Ger-
man city, Odessa French; the real "holy
Russia" centers at Moscow, Kief, and
Cracow, and when the German enters
them the Russians will be really aroused.
Alexander II, who liberated the serfs in
j 1861, Mrs. Rohling declared to be the
only "decent ruler" Russia has had. His
son, Alexander III, kept education from
the people, who, she declared, are not
naturally stupid, and are now trying to
study without schools.
The  university  students  are the ones
to whom Russia now looks for aid.  They
' study out of a sense of duty to pass on
' its  benefits  to  the illiterate.    Only  five
| per cent of the Russians can read and
write.
Hate   of   Germany   after  German   In-
, trlgues in the Imperial court were discov-
ered, and the abolition of alcohol, which
| was  controlled   by   the   government   and
! was   the   only  escape  of the  poor  from
their misery, precipitated the present rev-
olution. Mrs. Rohling declared.
AUCTION CL03ES ON POSTERS
The silent auction of the Freshman
Entertainment posters, conducted by the
signing of name and bid on the Taylor
bulletin board below the pictures, closed
yesterday. The total bid on the seven
posters up to Monday night was HI l
the highest individual bid being $3.7.'.. M
Morrison "21 made six of the seven The
proceeds go to the Service Corps.
PRESENT WAR RECONCILED BY
MR. ROSS WITH  IDEALS
OF CHRISTIANITY
Interprets  World   Debacle,  Dcfin s
Necessary Individual Adjustment
To God.   States Mission
of America
Individual adjustment to the living Gcd
and the resulting Interpretation of the
present world situation In the light of re-
ligion, were the subjects treated by Mr.
George A. Johnston Ross in his two ad-
dresses, last Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, at the Christian Association
Conference.
"Any woman," said Mr. Ross in the
first of his two sermons, "is hopelessly
frivolous and flippant, and therefore a
negligible quantity, If she does not lay
hold of something that cannot be
smashed by German artillery and that
something is God.
"The Bible identities energy with God.
It represents God as a holy spirit, radi-
ating upward, Inherent in every activity
of man that makes for order) and more
especially in man's moral adjustments
God is shown as a reasonable, conscious-
ly benevolent eBergy, regardful of the
worth of human personality.   �   �   �   �
"It Is the woman who has laid hold on
God who is going to I) ' 1)ram tit this war.
who Is going to come through without be-
coming embittered and hardened and elf"
ish."
Definition  of Christian   Nation
A definition of a nation, drawn from
different parts of the Bible, opened Mr.
Ross's second address. "A nation," he
said, "is any large group of dissimilar
persons subjected to the same providen-
tial discipline, with the result that they
become possessed of some special gift,
which It is their duly to hold in trust for
the world.
"But Just as God Is a God both of
mercy and of Judgment, so a nation, on
occasion, may mediate the justice of God
to another nation which, like Germany,
has used the sword to cut away the
foundations of human trust.
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TWO WAR COUR8ES ON  FOOD
TO   BE   GIVEN   AFTER   EASTER
Weekly Lectures with Laboratory Demon-
stration Open to Everyone
Two war courses on the relative values
! of foods, one in connection with the work
in  Major Biology, given by Dr. Peebles,
1 Associate Professor of Physiology, and
the other as an extra course open to all,
will begin the middle of April.
Three hours a week of lectures and six
of laboratory will be given on "The Fun-
damentals   of   .Vlitrition"   as   the  second
1 part of the course in Major Biology. This
course will be o|>en la members of the
faculty and Staff and may be taken as a
[two-hour elective by students not major-
lag In biology who can give up two hours
of their present work, and by graduates
who have less than three seminaries.    It
1 will begin Monday. April 16th.
F    Hiker    L'l   and   I    Kales    _M   made
D for the American Fund for French
Wounded  from the sale of medals com-
�Menorating the  entrance of  the  I'nlted
States into the War