College News, 1917-11-22, Vol. 04, No. 08

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The College News
Volume IV.   No. 8
BRYN MAWR, PA., NOVEMBER 22, 1917
Price 5 Cents
FAVOR SERVICE CORPS RATHER
THAN RECONSTRUCTION UNIT
Ex-President Taft Met by War Council in Cap and Gown
.V Bryn Mawr service corps, rather than
a reconstruction unit or Y. M. C. A. hut,
was suggested by E. Houghton '18, head
of the Red Cross and Allied Relief De-
partment, at a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the War Council Monday
night. Sever;: 1 plans of action were
sketched by representatives of the vari-
ous departments and will be submitted
to a mass meeting next Tuesday.
Plans for the farm were reviewed. To
do sway with the expense of transporta-
tion, it was suggested that It might be
possible another year to secure land
nearer the campus and have the workers
live in Yarrow.
Advocating a Service Corps as the form
Bryn Mawr's war work should take, E.
Houghton said that in the opinion of
many a reconstruction unit in France
would be superfluous and in Russia un-
safe, and objected to a Y. M. C. A. hut on
the ground that it would benefit only the
soldiers of the United States and would
do little or nothing to serve, the Allies. A
service corps would supply Bryn Mawr
women to existing organizations needing
workers, and would consequently benefit
a number of different causes. A nucleus
for such a corps already exists in the
Bryn Mawr women now in France. A
definite sum of money could be worked
for, Just as would be done for a recon-
struction unit, in order to pay all, or part,
of the workers' expenses.
Two departments of the War Council
are complete with the exception of one
member. The Food Production Depart-
ment, appointed by Miss Ehlers, is Dr.
Huff, K. Sharpless '18, E. Marquand '19,
M. Peacock '19, and C. Coleman '20, the
Freshman member to be chosen later.
The Education Department, appointed by
P. Turle. is Mrs. Smith, M. Gardiner '18,
E. Marquand '19, a Sophomore not yet
named, and F. Moffat '21.
WAR REGISTRATION REPEATED
The renewed drive for 100 per cent reg-
istration requested in every State by the
Women's Committee of the Council of
National Defense and voted by the War
Council, begins to-morrow under the Reg-
istration Department composed of the
class presidents assisted by members oi
the Social Statistics Class and by one
student from each hall, with Miss Kings-
bury as chairman.
Registration desks will be open in the
Halls on Friday, Monday, and Tuesday
after lunch and dinner. Llysyfran stu-
dents are to register where they eat, and
non-residents in the non-resident cloak
room from 8 to 8.45 a. m.                "
Women members of the Faculty and
Staff are asked by the Registration De-
partment to register Friday, Monday, or
Tuesday in the office of the Secretary of
the college.
The registration of three weeks ago
was incomplete, and everyone is asked to
register again. The cards will be kept
by the War Council as a record of war
capabilities.
Miss Thomas Heads War Division
President Thomas has been appointed
by the Woman's Committee of the Council
of National Defense to take entire charge
of the Department of Education. This
was announced Monday at a patriotic
meeting of the National Board of the
War Service Committee of the Associa-
tion of Collegiate Alumnse, which took
place at the City Club.
In cap and gown. President Thomas.
Dean Taft, and five members of the
War Council met ex-President Taft
at the Bryn Mawr station last Thurs-
day morning. President Thomas
drove Mr. Taft, Dean Taft, and V.
Kneeland '18, chairman of the War
Council, in her Franklin.
The War Council met Mr. Taft at
luncheon at the Deanery. In the dis-
cussion as to the chief object of Bryn
Mawr war work, the ex-President
strongly discouraged the sending of
a reconstruction unit. That college
women were untrained for the spe-
cialised work which reconstruction
entails, that men had to help them
out in the manual labor, and that
their presence was an imposition on
the courtesy of France, were some of
the reasons quoted to account for the
feeling which caused a Washington
official to remark, "For heaven's
sake, no more units".
A group of trained social workers
not expecting to stay together abroad.
Mr. Taft said, would be acceptable to
the Red Cross. The work of women
in Y. M. C. A. huts, he declared, was
unquestionably valuable.
I WHIPPING ONE WAY TO CRUSH
KUL11R SAYS EX-PRLS1LENT
Rise of German MateriaEim Traced
From Bismarck to "Frighllulness"
$1,475  RAISED FOR Y. M. C. A.
FROM AUDIENCE AFTER
SPEECH
FORWARDS PENETRATE STRONG
DEFENSE, BEAT LANSDOWNE 4-1
Changes in Varsity Line.  M. Morgan
ex-15 Captains Visitors
In the last match before All-Philadel-
phia Varsity defeated Lansdowne A to 1
last Saturday. Against the strong defense
of the visitors the Bryn Mawr forwards
almost met their match, but the opposing
line was weak in spite of the fast playing
at left wing of M. Morgan ex-'15, a former
Varsity star and the Lansdowne captain.
Varsity's line-up presented some
changes. K. Bickley '21 was at right
wing and G. Hearne '19 at center, re-
versing their former positions. P. Turle
'18 played at left wing in place of M.
Tyler '19. B. Schurman '21 substituted
part of the time for M. Bacon '18 at cen-
ter half, and-played a hard, fighting game.
Forwards Schooled in  Closing-in
The fight was largely in the Lansdowne
circle during the first half. -The Varsity
line showed that it has learned since last
week's game to close-in, for two goals
were made by the team as a whole push-
ing the ball over the line. M. Peacock
'19, at right fullback, was the mainstay of
the defense with her steady hitting and
head work.
The first goal for Varsity was shoved
in by the team In the first few minutes of
play. Miss Cullen, the center forward,
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�NEWS" TO ACT AS PRE8S BOARD
FOR BRYN MAWR�WILL SUPPLY
LEADING EASTERN PAPERS
The editorial board of the College New*
has been authorized by the college au-
thorities to act as press board for Bryn
Mawr in supplying items of interest to
the leading Eastern newspapers. The
press board will be paid by^Jhe college
and has agreed not to accept payment
from the papers. President Thomas will
act as censor.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger, North
American, and Bulletin, the New York
Times, Post, Tribune, Globe, Sun, and
World, the Boston Transcript, and the
Baltimore Sun are to be approached as
prospective correspondents.
The idea of the press board came up
in a News meeting last spring, but action
was precipitated by the suggestion of the
War Council last week that the News be
responsible for giving newspaper pub-
licity to Bryn Mawr war work.
Bryn Mawr, during its early years, em-
ployed an alumna experienced in news-
paper work as a press agent and, accord-
ing to President Thomas, has never had
such good reports since the practise was
given up on account of the expense.
Vassar, We'.lesley, and Radcliffe have
student press boards, the latter two being
paid by the papers.
COLLEGES ELECT BRYN MAWR
SLCRE.AkK AT CONFERENCE
Self Government Fiobicms Discussed
Bryn Mawr Alone in Freedom
Bryn Mawr was elected secretary of the
Women's Intercollegiate Association for
Student Government at the conference
held last week at the University of Syra-
cuse, a co-educational institution of over
two thousand students. The next confer-
ence will be at Wilson College, Cham-
bersburg, Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr's in-
vitation that it should be held here was
declined on the grounds that the confer-
ence should he at a new place.
The Student Government Association of
the University of Syracuse received the
delegates at tea Thursday afternoon and
entertained them at two college plays in
the evening. Friday evening they were
Kiven a banquet, followed by a dance, and
Saturday afternoon taken to a football
::iin.- C. Dodge '18 and M. Moseley '19
were the Bryn Mawr delegates.
Self Government Fails at Wellesley
Of the thirty-seven college associations
represented, Bryn Mawr, as in former
years, found itself practically alone in its
freedom from faculty supervision. At
Wellesley, it was stated, student govern-
ment had been a failure and had given
way to an arrangement whereby a fac-
ulty member serve on each student com-
mittee.
Many colleges, as an etxension of stu-
dent government, have the honor system
In  examinations.    At  Goucher  students
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NAUTICAL  ATMOSPHERE   AT   DANCE
Patriotic Note Sounded in Costumes and
Decorations
With a gangplank leading on to the
floor, life-preservers hanging from the
balcony, tennis nets for deck rails, and
pennants fluttering from the ropes, the
gymnasium was completely disguised as
a ship's deck for the Sophomore Dance
last Saturday night.
Sophomores and upperclassmen, in na-
val uniforms, and the Freshmen, in
white dresses and red sashes, completed
the color scheme of red, white, and blue.
Z. Boynton '20, in military cape and
boots, and H. Zinsser '20, a Vanity Fair
elf In scarlet and white, danced a clever
and spirited fantasy invented by them-
selves and similar to their much ap-
plauded performance in the Cloister fes-
llval last spring. Another original fea-
ture was a prize dance, in which each
couple left the floor as their number was
called until two remained. M. Chase 10
and M. Smith '21 were chosen winners.
The outlay for decorations was fifty-
five cents.
That the German people art still loyal
to the Kaiser and that the only way to
produce the necessary psychological
change in them is "for us to whip Ahem",
were the emphatic points in ex-President
Taft's address on "Why 111�- United States
is at War", delivered lust Thundaj even
ing in the gymnasium to over h thousand
people.
In the Ruiopean history of ill, nine-
teenth century, enlivened by American
anecdotes, Mr. Taft traced the origin und
progress of German kullur. After I BOB
eluding plea for the Y. M. C. A, work ai
the front, $1475.49 was collected tor II In
money and pledges from an audience
stirred by Mr. Taft's phrase, "SoOfl II
won't be a question of whether you can
afford It. but whether you have it"
Will Whip Them Eventually
"We should be thankful thai itiis
country entered the war when it did or
else we might in the end have had to
reckon with Germany alone and unaided".
Mr. Taft declared. "But I have not a
doubt", the speaker continued, "that we
j will win, though it may take three
' years"; the country is wakint up and
even "our few Bolsheviki are sure prom
inent than important".
The democrucies of the world are on
our side, he pointed out, ami thoutth some
are nominally monarchies, "the king of
England and the kliiK of Italy bam Bl
llttle to do with shaping the DOUeh
the nation as an ex-President of ihe
United States"!
Mr. Taft criticized the I'nited riiates
j Government for not issuing formal decla-
rations of war to Austria and Turkey,
with whom, he said, we are virtually at
war "since they are only et tu la <om
many".
Bismarck  Begins  Metamorphosis
The psychological change in the Q*t
man people since Civil War days, when
German Liberal*, �OBI Of tli� exiled Lib-
erals of 1848, fought for freedom on the
side of the I'nion, Mr. Taft accounted for
in the Hrst plice by the "blood sad iron"
policy of Bismarck. With Hism.itah also,
he noted, appeared in 1870 Ihe cliai
1 istically German cause Dor war, again il-
lustrated in 1914: "the others were al-
ways the mraMOra; Rismarck didn't de-
clare war�he arranged for the other sMt
to".
"It is enough to make a horse Ian
said Mr. Taft. "for Germany to claim
that her people did not becin this war.
that they merely wanted to r-r-rectify the
Russian boundary".�and when the] roll
their 'r's' Ilk" that it BMsVM I I I metSfj
just the way yofl mean OBl off .               I
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Industrial Success Leads to Kultur
Industrial  power swelled the heads of
the German people.  Mr. Taft  continued.
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DR. CRENSHAW TURNED BACK
Dr. Crenshaw, Associate in < h.iuisti)
on leave in the national army, has re-
ceived his commission and on Monday.
November 12tU. sailed for France, but the
ship met with a slight accident and had
to put back before she was more than a
day out of port