College News, 1918-02-14, Vol. 04, No. 15

              The College News
Volume IV.   No. 15
WAR CORRESPONDENTS DESCRIBE
FRONT WITH  MOVING PICTURES
Ha� Been With  American Engineers
"The Front", a lecture illustrated by
British official moving pictures and by
slides, will be given Saturday evening
at eight o'clock in the gymnasium by Ful-
lerton Waldo, F.R.G.S., American corre-
spondent of the London Observer and as-
sociate editor of the Public Ledger.
Mr. Waldo visited the British front
last fall, by invitation of the Foreign Of-
fice, and was with the Am riean engi-
neers under General Byng in the Cambrai
sector. In 1915 he was in Belgium,
France, t!ie Balkan t and Turkey. Wom-
en's wra work will be included in Mr.
Waldo's lecture.
Admission, twenty-five cents for mem-
bers of the college and fifty cents for
others, for the benefit of the Service
Corps.
GHOSTS A FAILURE
Obscure Company Travesties 'Ibsen's
Famous Problem Play
Staging Expenses Lost
Ibsen's Ghosts, the epoch-making drama
of heredity, was played by the Clifford
Devereux Company in the gymnasium
last Saturday evening for the benefit of
the 1918 Service Corps Fund. The play-
was a financial as well as an artistic fail-
ure. Enough money was taken in to pay
the company's fee of $150, but practically
no other expenses were cleared.
Opinions of the play itself may differ,
but there can be but one judgment of the
presentation. Meager stage settings, con-
sisting of patched gray drops, some mis-
sion furniture, and a bunch of glaringly
artificial roses, were only less inadequate
than the actors. Audible prompting, as-
pecially of Oswald, did not help matters
The haphazard cutting of the text and
startling interpretation of the parts must
have made the ghosts of more Illustrious
actors of Ibsen rise.
The subtlety of Ibsen's heroine was en-
tirely missed by Miss Zinlta Graf as Mrs.
Alving. Instead of the strength of the
rebel against convention she exhibited
the purposeless emotion of the mld-
Vivtorian "female".
To Oswald's repeated question about
Regina, "Isn't she splendid, mother"T one
must emphatically answer, "No". The
brutality of Regina's final lines, where
she asserts her right to the "Joy of life",
came as a complete shock after Miss Cop-
ley's distorted conception of the part as
that of a pert parlor maid.
Regina's pseudo-father, the hypocritical
Engstrand, departed less widely from the
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M. O'SHEA'S PLAY PRODUCED IN
NEW YORK TOMORROW
"The     Rushlight"    Curtain     Raiser    for
Henry Arthur Jones
"The Rushlight", a one-act play by
Monica O'Shea IT, given lure last May-
as one of the Senior plays, will be pre-
sented tomorrow afternoon at the Ly-
ceum Theatre, New York, by the Ameri
can Academy of Dramatic Arts. It is to
be a curtain raiser to "The Triumph i f
the  Philistines",  by   11. tn \   AMtiiu   .1. �
"The  Rushlight" was first  written la<t
winter foi   IV  Savage's                mi Tech-
nique of the Drama.   Late   M *.i- choaea
la fo- in        tsastoi   Ptaj   p       i
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BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 14, 1918
SERVICE CORPS WINS SUPPORT
OF ALL COLLEGE
COLLEGE BACKS WAR COUNCIL; ALUMNAE VOTE UNANIMOUSLY
FOR BRYN MAWR SERVICE
Price 5 Cents
When
Action  to  Reconsider   Fails
Project is Explained
Mass Meeting Supports Service Corps
After Long Discussion
A mass meeting of nearly two hundred
persons, including Faculty. Staff, alumna),
and students, has again put itself on r< ��
Old as supporting the Bryn Mawr Service
Corps. The meeting, called Tuesday
nlghl bj petition of thirty-one students to
reoonaider the Benrlce Corps, took ao ac-
tion to reconsider, but seemed satisfied
with the explanation given by the Chair.
Final knotty points were cleared up by
discussion.
Virginia Kneeland 'is. Chairman of the
War Council, outlined the aim and func-
tion of the Service Corps as follows:
1.   The Service Corps is an organisation
of war workers supported by s joint fund
raised  by the alumna) and the college
community.
2.  By support of worker.-. Is meant the
payment of their travelling expenses to
the place of work, their living expenses,
and, if possible, the tarnishing of equip-
ment to be used or dispensed In the work.
(.Miss Kneeland characterized the living
expenses as modest, saying that the work-
ers would live as nearly as possible on
the scale of those among whom they
worked. About S300U a year, if equip
ment is included, will support one
worker.)
3.   The type of worke. is always open
to revision, hut is now taken to InchldS
trained workers, such as doctors, nurses,
canteen workers, and so Earth, and un-
trained workers of intelligence and exec-
utive ability when these qualification-,
alone are asked for. Excellent health Is
always a question.    Extreme youth, un-
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OUTLOOK HAS ARTICLE BY
OR. BARTON ON  PACIFISM
Says Killing is Sometimes Justifiable
"The Confession of a Quaker" is the
title of a war article by Dr. Darton In the
Outlook for February 6th. The article
says:
"It is cause for gratitude that there Is
growing among men a new sense of the
sacredness of human life. The Friend*
have long tried to live so as to express to
the world their sense of its sacred value.
. . . To hold, however, that life is so
sacred that man may never take it Is to
distort the truth. It makes the posses-
sion of physical life of more value than
liberty, justice, and right.
"To interpret Jesus' words so as to
make them command us to stand by and
see a murderer kill a woman or a child
and lift no hand, or to command us to
make no effort to testrain robber nations
from working murderous wills on Barkis
and Belgium, is to do Jesus a gross in-
justice".
Dr.   Barton -   new   book,  Miscellaneous
Sumarian   Religious  Texts,   published  by
ile I'niversity Press, will appear In
about two weeks.
Help the Government Propaganda
\u official government appeal
through    the   Education   Department   to
ananas for help in the week el
the   K               Naai   Uureau.    Appli<
n le. Pembroke K
CORPS AND PLEDGE
SUPPORT TO FARM
ALUMNA OFFICERS FOR   1918-1920
The result of the election of officers of
ii" Alumna Association for the term
1918 I:*-'" are: President, Louise i ongdi n
Francis '00; rice-presidi nt, Catherini
ano Grant 11; recording secretary, Hilda
\V. Smith 'in; corresponding secretary,
Margaret Bontecou '09; treasurer, Bertha
B. Bhleri '09.
Miss m. Bontecou has naigned becau a
She   la   to   sail   for   Franc   next   month.
Katharine   McCoiiin   'if.   has   been   ap-
pointed in bar place.
her   Lowenthal   '08   was   elected   �
member of the academic*! lommltfc��
Will Co-operate with War Council in
Main War Work for the Year
The support of a Bryn Mawr Service
Corps BS the main object of their war
work for the year was \otcd unanimously
by   the  Alumna'   Association  at   their  an
anal   meeting  February   2d  in  Taylor.
The action was taken in accordance with
ommendatlon from the Committee on
War Relief  Work.
"I think the Service corps the fines!
thing-   thai   has   been   though)   Of  bjf   any
college",   declared   Mrs.   Francis   Louis
siade .Caroline kfcCormlck ex-'M) In .1.        Addresses on i wide range of subjects
lively discussion of other possible enter   "] ""."''.',.""',,":'K" w",""n ".'".
prl es   winch   preceded   the   final   vote.
VASSAR NURSES CAMP THEME
OF ADDRESS AT ALUMNAE
MEETING
President Thomas, Alumnae, and
Undergraduate Among Speakers
d speakers pointed out thai the
plan for a Service Corps was especially
feasible stnee it did not prwludt) other
things, such as supplying nurses and
physicians for field hospital service or
supporting canteen workers m Y. K, C v
huts.
The    idea    of    the    Corps,    Dean    Taft
pointed out. was for the workers to be
Willing to go  where  they   were  sent�not
to star) out as s group of women who
knew aaeb other and wanted to stay to-
�� thl r.
An executive committee of sis�three
from the Alumna> and three from the
War Council�will make final decisions In
arranging  for  members  of  the  BsMluu
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PLANS FOR COMING SPEAKERS ON
WAR TOPICS UNSETTLED AS YET
Head of Red Cross Ambulance and Edito-
of Harper's Weekly May Come
Negotiations are under way for several
authorities on different phases of the war
to come to Bryn Mawr under the auspices
of the Education Department.
Charles Norton, head of the American
Red Cross Ambulance and a member of
the American Red Cross Commission to
the Allies, may be secured. Other pro-
spective speakers are Norman Hapgood.
former editor of Harper's Weekly, who
has recently returned from abroad; Isaac
Markeson, author of the articles on the
"business management" of the war Which
appear in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr.
Markeson's subject would probably be
"Allied Leaders", taking up Asquith,'
Lloyd George, and Sir Douglas Halg; ami
Hugh Gibson, of the National Red Cross
Committee, who would speak on the Ger-
man Occupation of Belgium.
at at) open meeting arranged by the
Alumna' Association, Friday evening,
February Id, In Taylor. The speakers
Kara Prastdanl Thomas, Professor Unfits
U.   Jones,   Miss   (Catherine   Tucker.   Mrs.
Francis   L   Blade  11.....,   Professor   id i
OgllVle  '96,  and   Louise   Hodge-    Is.   who
-poke instead of Virginia  Kneeland 18,
OD the college War Council.    .
As a graduate of Vasnaf sad head of
the Philadelphia Visiting Nurses' Associa-
tion. Hiss Tucker described Vassar'a plan
for an Intensive nurses' training camp to
he In Id on the campus during the sum-
mer.     The   Idea,   She   said,   is   tO   recruit
women tram the Class of 1918, and older
Classes for tan year- hack, from all the
colleges, hut  to take only those that tire
titled temperamentally for the training.
The faculty will be chosen from univer-
sities  all  over  the  country.    Chemistry.
bacteriology, and other theoretical sub-
jects  will   be taught, and  such practical
exercises as  making  hospital beds,    i  .in-
ns will be held In shell-shock, and tuber-
culosis, and the training designed for pub-
lic    health    service    and    reconstruction
work after the war as well as for military
nursing.    Those  taking  the course  must
sign up for two years of hospital training,
to he followed by three months either In
cantonments or in civilian health work.
Farm  Unit  Successful   Experiment
An   account   of a   wouian's   farm   unit,
which she supervised last summer, was
I n   by   I'rofessor   Ida   H.   Ogilvie   "96.
! Dean of the Women's Agricultural Camp
| at   Bedford. New York.    The Idea of the
unit   system,   she   explained,   is   for   Ike
women to live in <-amp and the farmers
in   the   neighborhood   to   telephone   each
day for as many workers as they need.
one of the  tasks of  the sui�rintendent
I was to Otmvinos the farm.               Mlh new
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MASEFIELD   HERE   IN   MAY
John Masefield. the English poet, will
speak at Bryn Mawr, May 3d, under the
auspices of the English Club. Masefield
is in this country on a lecture tour. Pro-
ceeds will go to the Set             .rpa.
Spanish  Club  Formed
The   seven,   students   who  are   taking
mi-h   have   formed   a   Spanish
i lub and have elected  Annette C,e�t  'IS
and     Katheiltle                   j       In
SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING RULE TO
REMAIN IN EFFECT INDEFINITELY
The fuel-saving measure of closing thd
academic building at night and on Sat-
urday and Sunday will be lifted as soon
as possible, but for the present must con-
tinue Indefinitely, i- the statement of
Miss Louise Watson, Business Manager
of the college.
Hy the emci*. n.y schedule, which has
n effect since mid years, the Library.
Taylor, and   Dalton  are closed  after   -u
o'clock on                                t o'clock Mon-
day morning
I       tioa� are saade in the ca-e
of Tsjrlor. which is kept open for \ capers.
All minor students  who re
oetved a grade of IS per eeat at  mid    i                         real Event* class, aad spe-
<l BftwvMaga.