College News, 1915-03-18, Vol. 01, No. 21

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The College News
Volume I.    No. 21
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 18, 1915
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MARCH It
Announcement of European Fellows.
Fellowship Dinners.
8.30 p. u.�Lecture by Mrs. Arthur Man-
niere on "The Painted Desert Country."
SATURDAY,  MARCH 20
Senior Orals in German.
8 P. u.�Dance  in the Gymnasium under
the auspices of "The Committee of Mercy."
SUNDAY, MARCH 21
6 p. u.�Vespers. Speaker, L. T. Smith,
'18.
8 p. u.�Chapel. Preacher, the Rev. Rob-
ert Speer.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
7.30.�Bible and Mission Classes.
9.30�Mid-week meeting of the C. A.
Leader, N. McFaden, '17.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26
4 p. M.�Gymnastic Contest   between 1917
and 1918.
SUNDAY, MARCH  28
6 p. u.�Vespers. Speaker, Miss Marie
Spahr, College Settlement, N. Y. C.
8 p. u.�Chapel. Preacher, the Rev. Joseph
Ross Stevenson, D.D., Director of the Prince-
ton Theological Seminary.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
Easter Vacat ion begins at one o'clock.
NEW PROFESSORSHIP IN 80CIAL
RESEARCH
President  Thomas  Speaks  in  Chapel  on
March 12, 1915
It gives me great pleasure to announce
to you that a new professorship has been
founded by the directors of the College
in memory of C'arola Woerlshoffer who
graduated from Bryn Mawr College In
1907 In the group of economics and phil-
osophy, and during the remainder of her
short life, from 1908 to 1911, became one
of the most original and -most truly help-
ful workers for social betterment Car-
ola Woerlshoffer set herself to investi-
gate the social conditions of women in
New York City In a way in which, I
think, it had scarcely ever been investi-
gated before. For example, she took a
position as a working laundress In one
of the steam laundries of the city, run-
ning the risk of having her fingers and
hands cut off that all laundresses have
to run, because the launderers will not
put in properly protected machinery; and
she effected many reforms in this trade
and in many other trades, as, disguised
as a working woman, she went through
one after another different dangers and
hardships to which New York working
women are exposed. Her devoted per-
sonal work and her large fortune were
always at the disposal of labouring wo-
men. At the time of the great shirt
waist strike in New York, she protected
on the streets and balled out of prison,
poor girls who would otherwise have
been unjustly Imprisoned. Indeed, she
lost her life in the service of working
men and women, for she was on her way,
as special inspector of labor, to investi-
gate the abuses of alien camps in New
York State, when the automobile In which
she was driving overturned and killed
her.
Carols Woerlshoffer was a student In
Bryn Mawr College at the time when the
College, which was running behind about
$30,000 a year, was face to face with the
alternative of closing department after
department of teaching or of getting
more endowment. She made her will
when she waa a Senior and left the Col
lege three-quarters of a million. Ttala
splendid gift added to the endowment
received through the gifts of its Alumna*
and friends In 1910. has made It possible
for Bryn Mawr College to continue and
broaden its academic work. Ever since
Carols Woerishoffer's death the directors
and every one that knew and loved her,
have felt that her name and life-work
ought to be commemorated in some fit-
ting way in the College which she loved
and endowed. The directors feel that the
time has now come to create a Carola
Woerlshoffer professorship and a Carola
Woerlshoffer department of graduate
work which shall give graduates of Bryn
Mawr and other colleges, who wish, like
Carola Woerlshoffer, to devote them-
selves to social service, scientific train-
ing in investigating social conditions
such as only a college like Bryn Mawr
can give to the best advantage. We
hope that as year after year the fellows
and graduate scholars of Bryn Mawr
with the Carola Woerlshoffer Professor
of Social Economy and Research in the
investigating of social conditions with all
the help that our admirable departments
of economics and politics, psychology
and education can give them they may
he able to make genuine contributions
to their study and Improvement. Such
scientific studies are far more needed,
In my opinion, than active workers. Ac-
tive workers are everywhere in plenty,
but very little preventive work is being
done in a scientific way. The two lines
of human endeavor and research that
seem to me to be attracting the greatest
ability of the younger generation are
medical research�the cause and the cure
of disease, the study of the effect of dis-
ease and heredity on the human race�
and social service and the study of the
conditions of our present civilization.
Many of the most intellectual eager and
self-sacrificing members of your genera-
tion will devote yourselves to this latter
work. Already one-fourth of all Bryn
Mawr graduates are doing some kind of
social work. It is a great satisfaction
that Bryn Mawr College is able to offer
its own graduates and graduates of other
colleges this great opportunity for prepa-
ration.
I think that you may be interested to
know that the last time I saw Carola
Woerlshoffer I asked her, with the knowl-
edge she had then of practical philan-
thropic work, what course or group she
would have taken in Bryn Mawr College.
She said that it seemed to her that her
group of economics and philosophy had
given her the best possible preparation.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors,
held on February 19. 1915. the following
minute was passed: That in the judg-
ment of the Board, the time has now
come to take the first steps toward as-
sociating' the name of Carola Woerls-
hoffer in a fitting and lasting way with
Bryn Mawr College by opening a gradu-
ate Department of Social Economy and
Social Research to be called by her
name, which will give advanced scientific
training to women in the field of philan-
thropic and social work to which Carola
Woerlshoffer devoted her best energies
a'ter her graduation from Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, and in which service she gave her
life. It is hoped that this department
may be developed by endowments and
gifts and may ultimately become one of
the most Important and helpful graduate
schools of Bryn Mawr College. It was
further voted to create the position of
Carola Woerlshoffer Professor of Social
Economy and Director of the Carola
Woerlshoffer Department of Social Re-
search. It was further voted to found
a Carola Woerlshoffer Fellowship In So-
cial Research of the value of $525. and In
the year 1917-18 to create another such
fellowship so that there shall always be
two in this department, and to author-
ize the appointment of a Statistical Sec-
retary of Social Research to be followed
as soon as necessary by the appointment
of a Reader In Social Economy.
The directors then elected to the posi-
tion of Carola Woerlshoffer Professor of
Social Economy and Social Research,
Professor Susan M. Kingsbury, now Pro-
fessor of Economics at Simmons College
and Director of Social Economic Re-
search of the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union of Boston, where she
had been working under her for the last
five or six years, four fellows and a
number of graduate scholars whose in-
vestigations have already contributed
to our knowledge of social conditions.
She comes here as an experienced inves-
tigator and director of this kind of re-
search. Dr. Kingsbury is a Bachelor of
Arts of the College of the Pacific, a Mas-
ter of Arts of Leland Stanford Junior
University and a Ph.D. of Columbia Uni-
versity.
Our hope is that in each year those
members of our graduating classes who
wish to go Into social work will be will-
ing to give at least a half year or a year
preparing themselves for such work by
modern scientific methods. I believe the
directors will be very liberal In creating
Carola Woerlshoffer scholarships to as-
sist such preparation. We believe that
the new department of Social Economics
and Research will become a very Impor-
tant and useful addition to the Bryn
Mawr College graduate school.
CUT  RULE  COMES  UP  FOR   DISCUS-
8ION AGAIN
New System to Authorize All Collections
of Money
VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE
The following subjects will be pre-
sented at the Students' Vocational Con-
ference on Saturday. March 27th, in Tay-
lor Hall, between the hours of ten and
one o'clock:
1.  "Scientific Agriculture." Mr. A. B.
Ross, Agriculturist of the Extension De-
partment of the State of Pennsylvania.
2.  "Landscape Gardening and Archi-
tecture," Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee,
Landscape Gardener, Philadelphia.
3.  "Social Work," Mrs. Martha P. Fal-
coner, Superintendent of Slelghton Farm,
Darlington, Pennsylvania.
4.  "Medical Work for Women," Dr.
Gertrude Walker, of the Woman's Med-
ical College of Pennsylvania.
5.  "Law," Miss Bertha Rembaugh,
A.M., Bryn Mawr College. Lawyer In
New York City.
6.  "Journalism." Miss Rose Wiston. of
the Philadelphia'"North American."
7.  "Advertising," Mrs. H. H. Moore,
A.B., Wellesley College, of Wanamaker's
Advertising Department.
8.  "The Commercial Secretary," Mrs
Edwin S. Kelly, late with Brown Broth-
ers & Company, New York City.
9.  "The Bureau of Occupations," Miss
Theodora Batches, Manager of the Bu-
reau of Occupations in Philadelphia.
The speaker on "Tea-room and Lunch-
room Management" will be announced
later. The speeches will be limited to
fifteen minutes each. The order of
speeches and the time of each speech will
be posted in Taylor Hall before the Con-
ference
The Undergraduate Association meet-
ing of March 2d recalled October days,
for the cut rule was again the chief busi-
ness. In reply to a suggestion of Presi-
dent Thomas that the undergraduates
submit to the faculty a plan to regulate
cutting, the following motions were
passed:
1.  That the Undergraduate Association
inform President Thomas that, although
the undergraduates still think that a rule
regarding attendance at lectures should
be avoided, nevertheless, in accordance
with the President's request they would
suggest that cases of excessive cutting
be regulated by the office at the recom-
mendation of the individual professor.
2.  That the Undergraduate Association
will do all It can by announcements each
year to keep up public opinion regarding
cutting.
3.  But that it be stated in the note to
the President that whatever the Under-
graduate Association may do by way of
announcements to keep up public opinion
is, in the judgment of the undergradu-
ates, of little Importance in comparison
with a frequent definite expression by
the faculty of Its standard regarding
cutting.
4.  That, in the note sent to the Presi-
dent, it be pointed out that if the method
of regulation of attendance is effective,
and if public opinion Is maintained, there
will be no necessity for special regulation
of absences from Bryn Mawr during the
week.
The Association decided that because
of the excessive canvassing for money,
particularly in evidence this year, all
future collections must be authorized by
the Christian Association or by the Un-
dergraduate Association Boards or by a
majority vote at a meeting held for this
purpose. The regulation does not Include
the selling of tickets for charitable en-
tertainments.
G. BRYANT, "17, FIR8T HOLDER OF
THE APPARATU8 CUP
AN INNOVATION IN HYMNS
In response to a request, the choir
[ mistress has consented to let every one
have a hand In choosing hymns. If any-
one wishes a particular hymn sung, she
is to hand in the number to Isabel Smith.
43 Rockefeller Hall If it Is within the
range of musical possibilities. It will
surely be sung at some morning chapel
The new and very handsome cup for
the best individual work in apparatus,
presented by M. Morgan, 1915, was won
Saturday by G. Bryant, 1917, who won 327
points out of a possible 340. E. Dulles
was a close second with 323 points, while
M MacKenzle. 1918. got 309 points.
There were not so many people in this
second competition as there were in the
first, but the work was, on the whole,
better. G Bryant, E. Dulles, E. Faulk-
ner and A. Davis entered from 1917;
from 1918. M. MacKenzle, L. T. Smith
and R. Cheney entered. The Freshmen
again lacked form. It must be remem-
bered, however, that the Sophomores
have had a year more drilling. There
were five set exercises on the horse and1
on the parallel bars, which had be< ��>
practised by the competitors beforehan f.
Then there was an exercise set by one
of the judges which was entirely new to
those In the competition, and. finally,
there was an exercise which each one of
the competitors decided on for herself.
There were only two set exercises on the
rope* and then one set by one of the
judges This competition has proven
highly successful, and promises to be
even more successful in the future
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