College News, 1917-12-13, Vol. 04, No. 10

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The College News
Volume IV.    No. 10
BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 13, 1917
Price 5 Cents
IAN HAY DUE AT BRYN MAWR
Soldier-Novelist Will Speak On "Car-
rying On".    Won Cross at Loos
MAY APPEAR   IN  KILTS
"Ian Hay", Major Ian Hay Beiih, of the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, in his
new lecture, entitled "Carrying On", will
speak in the gymnasium under the aus-
pices of the History Club next Saturday
night at 8.00, on the progress of the war
on land and sea. As in his lecture here
last year Major Beith promises to empha-
sise the human side of warfare and to
continue the characterization of the Brit-
ish Tommy made famous by "The First
Hundred Thousand" and its sequel. "All
In It". Lantern slides from photographs,
which he took at the front last summer,
will illustrate the lecture. Major Beith
has been asked by the History Club to
lecture in kilts, but has not yet answered
the request.
During his recent absence from Amer-
ica Major Beith hns been with the British
Grand Fleet and with tlie American sh'ps
now In the battle zone. His outlook on
the U-boat campaign is most encouraging.
The public would !>�� astonished, he Is re- i
ported to have said, if the figures of (Jer-
man suhmatines sunk since September
could be made public.
Equally    cheerful    is   his    account    of
Pershing's   forces,   with   whom   be   spi nt
several months in France.    Bverywhi
he says, he found tine enthusiasm amo
the American soldiers;   Prance,  he de-
clares, hi relying on them absoluti
win the war.
Major Beith has been promoted to the
rank of major since last February, when
he ipoke at Bryn Maw,- M "Captain"
Beith. He was awarded the Military
Cross in 1915 for conspicuous bravery in |
the battle of LOOS,
The History Club will entertain II
tinguished visitor at dinner in IVmbroke
before the lecture and at a reception in
Pembroke East afterwards. So great was
the rivalry for seats at the Pembroke
table that the president of the club, P.
(Continued on page 3, column 1)
S28BO FOR  FRIENDSHIP FUN*D
Desk Now Open in Taylor
With over S1000 collected after Mr.
Sayre's address at Vespers last Sunday,
the Students' Friendship War Fund has
reached a total of $2550 at the hour of
going to press. This includes the $1500
collected after Mr. Taft's address in No-
vember.
A desk Is open to-day and to-morrow
in Taylor for contributions, the drive
closing Saturday. The contents of the
mite boxes distributed in the halls will
be added to form the total.
VARSITY   TAKES   UNOFFICIAL
GAME DURING SNOWSTORM
Defeats Philadelphia Cricket Club
4-3 in Game Marred by Weather
Playing In a driving snowstorm, Var-
sity took an unofficial game from the
Philadelphia Cricket Club last Saturday
by the score of 4-3. Owing to the half-
Inch of snow which covered the field, the
hitting was poor, a hard stroke being
necessary to send the ball more than a
few feet. The teamwork on both sides
was consequently ragged and the playing
scrappy. H. Alexander ex-'18 refereed
the match.
Philadelphia scored the first goal, put
in  by  Miss Taylor,  right wing,  after a
long fight In the Varsity circle.   M. Pea-
cock '19 blocking a run by Miss Goodman,
the opposing left wing, sent the ball up
for a hard scrap in front of the visitors'
cage.   Mrs. Fraley, the Philadelphia goal-
keeper, made two good stops before M.'
Tyler '19 scored the first point for Bryn f
liawr.    E. Biddle '19, right halfback, fol-
lowed with a hard shot from the edge of
the circle, leaving the score 2-1 in favor '
of Varsity at the end of the half.
The Philadelphia team pulled itself to-
gether in the second half and gave the
Varsity  defense  a  stiff  fight.    Another
goal by M. Tyler was followed by a point
(Continued on page S. column 2)
WORK OF Y. M. C A. IN FRANCE
DESCRIBED BY FRANCIS B.SAYRE
$1000 Raised After Talk For Stu-
dent s' Friendship War Fund
"If it wasn't for the bleed!n' bloki
the bloody 'uts there'd be the 'ell of a
time". Mr. Francis B. Sayre apologetic-
ally quoted a British Tommy in his talk
on the war work of the Y. M. C. A. in
v. �pen last Sunday.
Hut coffee and good cheer are the mam
features of the work, according to Mr.
Sayre's account. Ninety gallons of coffee
are served out every night in each of the
many dugouts a few hundred yards be-
hind the front line trenches. "It's real
I OS, this service of your fellow men".
Id "The secretaries must be obiiv-
lons (f their own danger in the m
01   their fellows.
Won : work in the V. If. C. A. If
larger/ in the hut fflantoona Fine women
arc needed to Sheer and encourage the
soldiers as they OOBM in tired and hun-
gry, said Mr. Sayre.
Station huts, with their walls lined With
bunks, are maintained by the T near
railway stations, ilere tired men on their
way front the front come every night to
rest. There are also Baal linli.-ui huts.
When the British Indians may obtain
own  Indian dl ib<
I ntf B H rJ has been established at
Clmnronix in the French Alps, where it is
expected that more than a half of the
Am. tie.in BOldlei I will spend their ten-
day furloughs. The "Paris problem" is
met by taking over many Paris theatre!
and moving picture houses for the pro-
duction of American plays.
In the collection for the Students'
Friendship War Fund, taken after Mr.
Sayre's talk, over 11000 was pledged.
Speaking later to a News reporter Mi
Sayre said that at least 95 per cent of
the money given for work in the Geiinan
prison camps actually reached the Allied
prisoners. The Germans, he said, let food
be sent into the camps in return for such
privileges granted to their relief organi-
zations by the Allies.
DETAILS   OF WAR RISK ACT
Dr. Fenwick Explains to Bryn Mawr
What He Has Told to National Army
RETURNS
FROM  TEXAN
CAMPS
ARMY
One of the group of university and col-
lege professors recently summoned by
the government to explain to the men in
the National Army the details of the War
Risk Act, Dr. Fenwick returned to Bryn
Mawr last week from his lecture tour in
Texas army camps and resumed his In-
struction of Bryn Mawr politics classes.
SPECIAL  ATTRACTION  OFFEREO
Exact Nature Cloaked In Mystery
Word that a special attraction, its ex-
act nature known only to the peifo, mers,
will be offered to-morrow night by the
Seniors at oral singing in Rockefeller,
has been circulated about th.
Ten cents admission for the benefit - f
the Students' Friendship Fund will be
charged.
CLEVER LINES WELL ACTED IN
SKIT AT SENIOR RECEPTION
A statement of the policy the govern-  James's Day for Domestic Affairs Por-
TRENCH   LIFE   DESCRIBED  BY   LIEU-
TENANT MacQUARRIE
Trench Life and America's War Prob-
lems was the subject of a lecture by Lieu-
tenant Hector MacQuarrie, of the Royal
Field Artillery, yesterday afternoon in
Taylor. Lieutenant MacQuarrie, who is
In America on leave, has just written a
book for the American soldiers, How to
Live at the Front
He has the distinction of having gone
to France with B Battery. 92d Brigade,
known as the best brigade of Kitchener's
army. At the beginning of the war he
enlisted as a private in the 19th Hussars,
but after six months was given a commis
sion in the Royal Field Artillery.
Lieutenant MacQuarrie is a Cambridge
graduate and was Interested before the
war In college settlement work, especially
for the very poor of Beat and South Lon-
don, and for the hop pickers of Kent and
fruit pickers of Norfolk.
' ment   is   pursuing   towards  soldiers   and
sailors and their dependent families lias
! been very kindly furnished to the News
by Dr. Fenwick.
"When the principle of compulsory
.service was adopted". Write* Dr. I'en
wick, "it was felt that in Justice to the
men a reasonable me�UTS Of support
should be provided for their families dur-
ing their absence and an i veil more lib-
oral support provided in the event of the
death or disability of the breadwinner.
At the same time Congress felt that in
return for the tjorei am m                ine* to
the CantUlea of the men it was but fair,
p OlaUy in view of the larger pay pro
trayed to 1921 in Clever Skit
In   "the   worst   slaughter   in   years",
("statistics    �bettered''),    i                   the
philosopher, 1918, at the Senior Hi i >n
tfea la-i Saturday. Hy alienating the af-
fections of M s. Angelica Jam.
from Mi. lames, 1919, and Araminta.
1921. he turtle,! their family circle into a
rhomboid, until they were reconciled
eve. hit exhaling form
The Brat seene discovered Mrs. lanes,
L. Hodges, in her boudoir. Jns1 .
by her mail!.  Roth  Hail
work we.    squalled only by thai of the
philosopher,   Virginia   Kneeland.     Ton
rided when the new National army we*   ''""' ''                                             �'�'' '� and
ad, to require the men to contribute   n,,w ' n"'! >'ou '"
some share of their pay for the support   e rfM > '";"    "
of those legally entitled to their suppoi                          in'  ''�'"'
The War Risk Act provides that the fixed   U:"":"':'-   *   Buffum,    '�    -   the   hack
stairs,   in   spite   of   her   i.
allowances furnished by the government
for wives ami children (ranging fron
to ISO, aceording to number of children),
most he me! by an equal COmpulSOl |
tribution from the men, without,
their   heir.                  !           ive   more
half their pay. ... \ further feature
of the law dealt wit! compel) ttlon for
death or disability, and  p oij l<     Used
� >11��- for the family of the man
his life  in the   mrtrles  or for   b
(Continued on page .">, oolw
MONDAY TO DECIDE WAR WORK
War Council Disapproves Knitting
at Lectures and Chapel
Monday has been set  b>   I he War I
cil for the  mass  meeting  to decide  the
main war object of the rear.   The Council
will  indicate   its  choice  then.    Dili� i � at
After                       .,-.   jam
tarns   to   fad   tbi    phi                         ,   his
�'What right
...   .i              m i,i, al '
Think of what   |  lived thro
and   that�tl              Lmander"l
pros
"My i n    wai   like a n d, red  i    e", la
ilj  reply.
philosopher waa
I
.tin for a doctor, rtin for a minister, run
For a I
dlagn� the doc or, H
:� I, -i'el>.  D
elephai              f.   'i   <\ A."    In  the : i il
agony,   1918 on             forl            ail]
enl In the  a si lane nt, "You may
ha�� '              y    klrt, and my bloomers
and     ....��
The oommitt)
ipeakera are to describe the project! un-
der consideration.                                             applauded   as   the   cleverest   in   leveral
Social work in Philadelphia, ami liter    " " �   ua        I*  rlodtes,   chairman;   J.
ical and scientific work for the Philadel-    "                    H. llufT. M. O'Connor, and M.
phia  Khi trie  Company,  has  been  asked    "Mpert,
from   the   college,   reported   Miss   King                                           -----------
bury,   head  of  the   Registration   Depart-   u- 8- MAY  J0'N BTITISH FEDERATION
meat, at the War Council meeting
Placement from the registration made
before Thanksgiving Is now being
planned. Miss Killers' report on the
farm appears in a separate article in this
issue of the News.
Knitting at academic lectures, ve
and chapel was disapproved by the Coun-
cil in a sense of the meeting. To relieve
baggage congestion, it was voted to ask
everyone to limit themselves to band bag-
gage if possible for the shorter holidays
An anonymous gift of flOO I
ei lived for the runningi/xpenses of the
Council.
NEW 8HELF OF  WAR   BOOKS
Book  Shop Cloeed on   Saturdays
A  shelf  full  of  up-to-date  war  books
have  been  put  on  sale  in  the  College
Book Shop in Taylor.
The Book Shop has no Saturday office   cent rallied
hours this year.   On week days It Is open
from � to 8.45 A.  M. and from  1.30 to
J 30 P. M.
AFTER  WAR. SAYS DR. 8MITH
To  Correct  Mistake  of   Revolution
Th�> probable federation of the British
colonies after the war was the subject
taken by Professor William Koy Smith
for his address in Chapel Monday. Dr.
Smith   BUI                the   possibility   of   the
1'nlted States joining such a federation
of Knglish speaking peoples at some lime,
to correct the mistake of the American
Revolution. 'Some really think It was a
mistake",  he  added
The colonies wete really bound, though
not theoretically, to join Cteat Biit.un
when she declared war in 1914. and this
obligation was legally wrong in that the
colonies were not represents in the body
that declared war.
A large conference after the war. look-
ward a government  aaaahssaaBSi In
Kngland as that of the I'nited States is
In   Washington,   has   be��n
called by the Imperial Conference, which
y five years with the Minister
of Foreign Relations In the chair.
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