College News, 1918-01-25, Vol. 04, No. 14

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The College News
Volume IV.   No. 14
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 25, 1918
Price 5 Cents
PERFORMANCE OF "CANDIDA" TO BE
8ATURDAY  AFTER  MID-YEARS
Postponed from Last Week
The performance of Bernard Shaw's
"Candida", which was to hare been given
in the gymnasium January 19th, is now
scheduled for February 9th, the Saturday
after Mid-Yean.
"Candida" will be played by the Clifford
Devereux Company of New York, the pro-
ceeds to go through the college to war re-
lief. The performance was postponed on
account of the congestion of freight,
which made it impossible for the com-
pany to get their properties transported.
BALDWIN SCHOOL OFFERED TO
HOUSE WORKERS ON
B. M. FARM
School Alumna Will Be Allowed to
Work under College Management
The Baldwin School has offered Its
building to the college to house the work-
ers next summer on the Bryn Mawr pa-
triotic farm. Five acres of garden land
directly back of the school, the kitchens,
cold storage rooms, and whole equipment
for canning will be at the college's dis-
posal.
The only condition of the offer, stipu-
lated by Miss Johnson, headmistress of
the school, was that Baldwin alumna; or
teachers wishing to work on the farm be
taken on the same terms as members of
the college. In this way, by allowing its
land and plant to be used under the col-
lege's highly organized management, the
school hopes to accomplish more than if
it undertook to launch an independent
farm project.
The Food Production Committee will
accept the offer provided land for the
farnf, which they are now investigating,
can be secured in or near Bryn Mawr.
The use of the school, the committee
feels, will mean efficiency In the work as
well as cool, comfortable quarters for the
workers.
MARINE BASE HOSPITAL NO. 3
VISITED  BRYN  MAWR  SUNDAY
Philadelphia Rude, Say California Nurses
The nurses of Marine Base Hospital
No. 3, in dark blue service uniforms, with
brass insignia, who are in Philadelphia
awaiting sailing orders, visited college
last Sunday. The unit is one of five gov-
ernment base hospitals, some of which
are now in active service at the front.
The unit is composed of Californians,
and comes from Lane Hospital, the med-
ical department of Leland Stanford Uni-
versity. Miss Hogue, who spoke at Miss
Kingsbury's tea for them on Sunday, was
head nurse at Lane Hospital.
"I had always supposed Philadelphia
to be a polite city", said one of the nurses,
"until a clerk in a store looked at my uni-
form and said, 'Say, what store do you
work in? I never saw that uniform
before'."
R08EMARY  HALL  MOVE8 TO
FLORIDA BECAUSE OF THE
COAL  SHORTAGE
Rosemary Hall Is moving to Miami,
Florida, to-day, to stay until April on ac-
count of an order issued by the Fuel Com-
mission of Greenwich closing all the
schools indefinitely.
The whole school is going except the
primary grades, and will live In two
apartment houses In sight of the ocean.
GYM CLOSED TO SAVE  COAL.
ALL THERMOSTATS SET AT 65
Management Reduces Light on Recon-
consideration of Fuel Problem
In order to save coat the college, inde-
pendently of any directions from the
Government, has adopted the following
measures:
The gymnasium and the pool will re-
main closed during mid-years; on Satur-
days and Sundays Dalton will be only
partially heated; all college thermostats
will be set at 65, so that this will be the
maximum temperature attainable.
The problem of cutting down light in
order to save fuel has been reconsidered
and the Business Management has de-
cided that even if the economy effected
should have to be only slight, it is right
to use as little light as possible. An ex-
periment will be made to see whether a
possible saving of coal cannot be accom-
plished in spite of the college lighting
system under which the steam from the
boilers used in heating is utilized as
power to run the engines for the electric
light dynamos.
The relation between the heating and
lighting systems is fully explained in a
letter from President Thomas on page
two of this Issue.
The hulls of residence will be lighted
just enough to walk through, and the
drawing rooms left dark except when stu-
dents are using them to entertain guests.
Light rules in the case of students leav-
ing their rooms will be rigidly enforced.
Very little if any reduction can be
made in the lights on the grounds.
GERMAN MEASLES NOT GRAVE
ENOUGH  TO  CL08E  COLLEGE
Six Cases in  Infirmary
Rumors that It might be necessary
to close the college on account of the
increasing number of cases of Ger-
man measles have been officially de-
nied by Dean Taft. There are six
cases at present in the Infirmary, but
even should the number rise as high
as ten, there is nothing In the State
laws to constitute German measles
an epidemic, Dean Taft explained.
The period of quarantine in Penn-
sylvania is sixteen days.
NEW   PLAN  OF   RAISING   MONEY  TO
BE  BROUGHT BEFORE  ALUMN/E
Greater Publicity Advocated
The next Endowment Fund campaign
may be conducted like a commercial drive
with extensive advertising, according to a
plan to be brought before the Alumnae
Association by the Finance Committee at
the meeting next week.
The class collectors met with the Fi-
nance Committee, of which Miss Marthe
Thomas is chairman, last Saturday at the
College Club, to hear Endowment Fund
reports and to discuss future plans.
Mrs. A. H. Brooks (C. Harrington '06)
described the recent tremendous success
in raising money of the Yale Alumni As-
sociation of which her husband is presi-
dent, was due mainly to Increased pub-
licity. A plan somewhat similar to
Yale's will be presented for the considera-
tion of the Alumnsa next Saturday.
That contributions to the next Endow-
ment Fund take the form of Liberty
Bonds or Thrift Bonds was approved by
the Finance Committee, and will be sug-
gested at the coming Alumna; meeting.
SERVICE  C0RP8  COMMITTEE8
ELECTED BY EACH CLAS8
Service Corps committees have been
elected by each class to superintend the
class contributions to the Service Corps
Fund. 16000 is expected from the under-
graduates and is divided among the
classes In proportion to their membership,
the Seniors having the lowest sum to
raise and the Freshmen the largest.
The committees, with the sums as-
signed, are: 1918. L. Hodges, M. Timpson.
M. Strauss, $1020; 1919, H. Johnson, and
one representative to be elected from
each hall. 11500; 1920, M. M. Carey. M.
Littel. H. Wortman. D. Grlggs, A. Harri-
son. 11410; 1921. M. Foots. W. Worcester.
E. Jay. I30S6.
CHILD ACTRESSES SCORE SUC-
CESS IN FRERES D'ARMES
War Theme Convincingly Presented
in French Play for War Relief
"Freres d'Armes", a French war play
written by Mile. Marie Antoinette Delplt
and coached by her sister. Mile, Cecile
Delplt, formerly teacher of French at
Miss Baldwin's school, was given in the
gymnasium last Saturday night for the
benefit of a Franco-American hospital and
the Bryn Mawr Service Corps. The cast,
composed entirely of girls, was drawn
mainly from schools in Bryn Mawr.
About $50 was cleared.
The charm of the child actresses and
the achievement of a really dramatic cli-
max raised the performance above the
level of the average amateur French play.
The acting was unusually finished for a
cast composed chiefly of children, Miss
Gladys Leuba, daughter of Professor
Leuba, and Miss Alix Dolan carrying off
the two title parts with great success.
Miss Leuba last spring played loan of
Arc in the French play of that name
given by the Model School.
The plot, though somewhat shak>, bor-
rows interest from the scene, which is
laid in a French village. Itemicourt. at tin
beginning of the war. Act I shows the
village in June, 1914; Act II. after war has
been declared; and Act III as the
actual center of a battle. The central
figure of the story is Paul, a patrioiic
French boy, who saves an entire army
corps from destruction by carrying a mes-
sage to its general. When his village
falls into the hands of the Germans he
boasts of what he has done and as a pun-
ishment is ordered by the German com-
mander to kill a wounded French soldier
whom he had befriended. In desperation
Paul raises his gun at the Frenchman,
but swings suddenly about and shoots, in-
stead, the Prussian officer. This incident,
which is the climax of the play, actually
occurred in France at the beginning of
the war.
1920 ROMPS OFF WITH HIGHEST
SWIMMING SCORE
Five Records Broken in Exciting Meet
M. S. Cary Individual Champion
The Sophomores, winning first and sec-
ond individual championships, and break-
ing three of their own records, easily
took first place in the final swimming
meet last Friday night with 58*4 points.
1921 came second with 28 points and 1919
third with 20H. 1918 did not enter.
Forty-seven points toward the all-around
athletic championship were piled up to
1920's credit.
Repeating their performance of last
year M. S. Cary "20 and K. Townsen.l :'<>
were the brightest Individual stars, with
23 and 22 points respectively. A. Thorn-
dike "19, breaking the record for the
plunge, with a distance of 55 ft. 7 In.,
came third with 10 points.
1921 broke the class relay record, .s
tablished last year by 1917. changing the
time from 70 2-5 sec. to 70 sec. K. Town
send '20 broke her own records in the
68 ft. and 136 ft. front swims, doing the
shorter distance in the phenomenal time
of 13 3-5 sec. as against her 14 1-6 sec.
of last year. M. S. Cary changed her
record of 41 2-5 sec in the 13ti ft back
swim to 41 sec.
In   marked  contrast   to the A si   B
the atmosphere last Friday was charged
with excitement.    The highest pitch
reached   when   it   was   realized   that   the
outcome of the relay  between  1919 .mil
(Continued   on   pa*e  S,   rolim   |   l.)
NORTHFIELD     DELEGATION     LEADS
SPECIAL VESPER SERVICE
The l!ryn Mawr delegation to the Con-
forenCfl Of the World  Student  Volun'-.M-
I Movement at Northfield three weeks ago,
1 M. Bacon '18. L. T. Smith -18, E   Middle
� '19.   D.  Chambers    lit,  and   M.   If.
'20, led Vespers last Sundav.
"Shirkers, workers and Jerkara" are
the classes into which most people fall,
according to M. Carey '20. "The best
way to be a worker is to keep < heist's
ideals in sight always, instead of Juat h"
ing jerked up temporarily by good
mons. We must see these ideals h.
the war or, no matter what the outcome.
the war will have been in vain".
"A great challenge confronts each one
of us", said E. Biddle '19 in closing. The
only possible answer must be Master, I
will follow Thee whithersoever Thou
goest'."
FUEL ORDER CLOSES PRESS
EXAMS OUT  JUST   IN   TIME
No  "Newt-   During   Mid Ytars
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Gladys Leuba is Brother-in-Arms              Although not technically under the fuel
Miss Dolan gave a very convincing In-order   the  John   C.   Winston   Co,   which
terpretation of the French boy Paul and   does   the   college   printing   such   as   the
was well supported by Miss Leuba as Joe,
the sturdy young American, Paul's sworn
"brother-inarms". Perhaps the greatest
hold upon the audience was secured by
Calendar, Finding List. Examinations and
so on, and which prints the Tip and the
Newi, observed the five-day rule for pa-
triotic reasons and will close its pressei
little Miss Caroline Norton as the appeal- Mondays. It is said that the Bryn Mawr
ingly childish Francois, younger brother examination papers came off the press
of Paul.                                                             ' just before Garfleld's order to close went
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COOLING DOWN IN GERMANY TOO          Aa a result of the five-day shut down
The Royal Theatre in Stuttgart, accord-^-thls issue of the News is a day late     In
ing  to  a dispatch  to the  Ledger  from ; all  probability,  however,  the  News can
Basel.  Switxerland.   has   been  closed   by ; continue to come out on Thursday In spite
order of the Governor of W'urtemberg
on account of a coal shortage. All the
other theatres in Germany, says the
dispatch,   will  be  closed   for  the  same
of the Monday holiday.
There will be no Newa during Mid-
years, the next Issue coming out on Feb-
ruary 14th.