College News, 1915-10-07, Vol. 02, No. 02

              The College News
Volume II.    No. 2
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 7, 1915
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, OCTOBER T
3.30 p. if.�President Thomas' reception to
the Freshmen at the Deanery.
8.00 P. m.�Reception to the Graduate
Students at the Deanery.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8
2.00 p. m.�Senior oral examination in
French.
SATURDAY,OCTOBER�
9.00 a. u.�Senior oral examination in
French.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10
6.00 p. m.�Vespers.   Speaker,  M. Gardi-
ner, '18.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by Dr. Wm.
Sautelle, of the Second Presbyterian Church
of Troy, N. Y.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13
9.30 p. u.�Mid-week meeting of the C. A.
Leader, R. Cheney, '18.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
4.30 p. m.�Opening of the new Athletic
Field.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15
2.00  p. u.�Senior  oral  examination   in
German.
8.00 p. u� Meeting of the Debating Club.
BRYN    MAWR   OPEN8   FOR   THIRTY-
FIRST YEAR
President Thomas Addresses Students
PROSPECTS FOR VARSITY HOCKEY
GOOD
The Varsity hockey-team is scheduled
to play six games this "season, four
against club teams, one against the
alumnae, and the final game against All-
Philadelphia. Last year the season closed
successfully with a tie between All-
Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr. Only once
before, In the fall of 1912, has Bryn Mawr
been able to tie the score against this
team, which is composed of the best play-
ers of all the clubs.
Fortunately, the whole back-field which
played last fall has returned to College.
The forward line has several vacancies,
although L. Brown, right wing, and F.
Kellogg, left inside, are expected to keep
their places. M. Willard, who was the
only forward substitute receiving a B.M.,
is also ready to try for a position, and
F. Bradley will again be playing. A left
wing is badly needed, but there Is every
reason to believe that 1918 or 1919 can
furnish one. Beside the regular team,
good substitutes are needed for every po-
sition.
The schedule of the Varsity games is
as follows:
Saturday, Oct. 16�Lansdowne Club.
Saturday, Oct. 23�Oermantown Club.
Saturday, Oct 30�Philadelphia Cricket
Club.
Saturday, Nov. 6�Merlon Cricket Club.
Saturday, Nov. 13�Bryn Mawr Alum-
na.
Saturday. Nov. 20�All-Philadelphia
The Varsity committee has been ap-
pointed by the Athletic Board and con-
sists of M. Branson, captain, C. M. K.
Applebee, coacb, F. O. Kellogg, M.
Thompson and M. Bacon.
PARADE NIGHT A SUCCESS
On Thursday night the Freshman Class,
with the Bryn Mawr Band at their head
and the valiant Juniors at their side,
marched down to the lower hockey field
singing their first song. There they met
Sophomores who, with torches in their
hands, were dancing around a large bon-
fire. 1919 lined up on one side of the Ore
while 1918 formed in back and sang. As
the Freshmen started to march back
from the field Sophomores broke In upon
the line, and. blocking the stairway,
forced them to come np around Rocke-
feller and through Pembroke arch, where
1918 sang their parody on the Freshman
song.
We meet this year at the opening of the
31st year of the College for another year
of peaceful study and, as at this time last
year, we meet In the midst of the greatest
war the world has ever known. Except
in our "Western Hemisphere there is
hardly any part of the world which is at
peace. Even though all Asia is not fight-
ing, there is widespread unrest through-
out the whole East and, as you know, the
hideous massacres of the Armenians by
the Turks are going forward as I speak
without any possibility of their being
checked. The largest battle lines of his-
tory are facing each other, running from
the North Sea to Switzerland on the east,
on the west from the Gulf of Riga to the
Carpathian Mountains, and along these
hundreds of miles millions of men are
fighting each other. In the beautiful
Austrian Tyrol the Italians are storming
Austrian fortresses thousands of feet up
in the clouds. In the Carpathian Moun-
tains Russians and Hungarians are fight-
ing for the possession of savage mountain
passes. In the classic plains of Troy and
the Hellespont, through the classic seas
fought over by Greeks, Romans, Mace-
donians and all the races of antiquity,
English, Scotch, IriBh, Australians, Ca-
nadians, Indians and French are strug-
gling with Germans for the ancient capi-
tal of the Byzantine Empire. Greece and
all the Balkan States, whose peoples are
the descendants of the inhabitants of the
outlying provinces of Greece and Rome,
are only waiting to spring to arms. In
the deserts and trackless forests of Africa
the British South African forces are tak-
ing jungles away from the few German
settlers. In a few months or weeks Great
Britain will own an African Empire that
stretches from the Cape to Cairo. Every-
where in the air aircraft, and under the
sea submarines and submarine traps,
wage incessant warfare.
Men of all the races at war between
twenty and fifty years of age are being
killed or Invalided home, shattered in
mind and body. The women of all the
countries at war are doing men's work at
home and must continue to do It for a
generation- As in previous wars, 40 per
cent of the men killed in battle will leave
no descendants, and among the men
killed first of all in battle will be as in all
other wars the most distinguished men
of their generation. Only a few of the
widows and sweethearts of the men
killed in battle will marry, and the weak-
ened descendants of the unfit will stagger
for generations under war debts such as
the world has never imagined. The torch
of civilisation must be kept alight by the
youth of the neutral countries, of which
the United States is by far the greatest.
Your generation of Americans must see
to It that after the war is over there shall
never be another to destroy all that re-
mains to us of civilisation. Until the war
is fought out nothing can be done. The
Issues involved are so vast and the sacri-
fices already made so colossal that an
enforced peace now would mean an
armed camp of European nations gather-
ing fresh strength to spring at each
other's throats. Moreover, an enforced
peace now would mean only an enforced
Germanic peace without Indemnity for
ravished Belgium. Northern Franca and
Northeastern Russia�a peace unthink-
able for the Allies, who since the begin-
ning of the war for which they were
wholly  unprepared,  have  been   steadily
NEW  CHOIR  CH08EN.
Processional to be a Part of Sunday
Evening Service.
Those who have been appointed to sing
in the choir are as follows: First So-
pranos: J. Doming, S. Jelliffe, N. Mc-
.Faden, L. Chase, A. Moore, D. Robb.
Second Sopranos: K. McCollln, D. De-
neen, T. Smith, M. Halle, T. Haines, H.
Johnson. Altos: J. Ross, H. Harris, E.
Seelye, M. Andrews, M. Allen. Substi-
tutes:    E. Emerson. M. Woodbury.
Miss Wynne, a graduate student, has
been appointed organist for this year.
Miss Wynne studied the pipe-organ at
Mt. Holyoke, and led the choir there for
a year. She has also held positions as
church organist In Longport, New Jersey,
��d elsewhere.
The choir will try an innovation on
next Sunday night. The first hymn will
be sung as a processional, the choir
marching in from the rear of the chapel,
followed by the minister of the evening.
It is hoped that in this way the dignity
of the Sunday evening service will be
increased and that the chapel will be
quiet before the service begins.
gaining from week to week in soldiers,
ammunition and offensive power.
I believe that Jane Addams and other
women who called and attended the
Women's Peace Congress at the Hague
this summer were 111 Judged in their
action and wholly misinformed of the
actual situation. As was foreseen, they
accomplished nothing. The great suf-
frage leaders, Miss Shaw and Mrs.' Pank-
liurst, and the Frenchwomen, who unan-
imously refused to take part in the,
Congress and sent a ringing protest,
seem to me much clearer sighted in wait-
ing until the war is over, when women
and men of all civilised countries can
unite together In plans for preventing
another war.
It becomes our highest duty, however,
as citizens of a nation at peace now while
the war Is being fought out to a finish
which Is Inevitable, in my opinion, to pre-
pare ourselves to come forward instantly
on Its conclusion with a practical plan to
make war less probable, and permanent
peace more possible in the future. Such
a practical plan, and the only prac-
tical plan that I know of, is "The
League to Enforce Peace," outlined
by Ex-President Taft for the first time
publicly at the last Bryn Mawr Com-
mencement and since then at many public
conferences and meetings. This League
to Enforce Peace has been recently or-
ganized with Mr. Taft as President, Pres-
ident Lowell, of Harvard, as Chairman of
the Executive Committee, and a long list
of Vlce-Presidents of which I am happy [
to be one. It should, in my opinion, be
Joined by every Bryn Mawr professor and
student and by every other true Ameri-
can. The originally outlined plan was
fully explained and admirably argued by
Mr. Lowes Dickinson, of Oxford, In a
little book called "The War and the Way
Out," which will be put in our College
Library. Also in the October "Atlantic."
President Lowell brings forward excel-,
lent reasons for organizing the League
to Enforce Peace and answers all objec-
tions to them. I hope that every student,
will read both Mr. Dickinson's book and
President Lowell's article and if con-
vinced will become a member of the
League. On successive Fridays for the
next three weeks In chapel I will take up
the reasons for Joining the League. Next
to woman's suffrage, it seems to me the
most urgent outside public question for,
THIRTY-FIVE   ENTER   "NEWS"   COM-
PETITION
Thirty-live have entered the competi-
tions for the Editorial Board ef "The
News." The competitors from the ('lass
of 1917 are as follows: E. Granger, A.
MacMaster, M. Hoff, H. Allport, T. Smith,
D.   Shipley, S. Jelliffe, E. Holcombe, M.
Milne. The competitors from 1918 are M.
Worch, M. O'Connor, K. Hoi 11 day,
M. Scott, D. Kuhn, T. Born. The great
majority of the competitors are mem-
bers of the Class  of  1919.    They are:
E.  Marquand, E. Moores, H. Johnson, E.
Lanier, M. Tyler, A. Moore, A. Stiles, M.
Martin. J. Peabody, W. Kaufmann, M.
Janeway, M. Bettman, ('. Hayman, H.
Karns, L. Wood, E. Matz, F. Allison.
Work has already been assigned to 1918's
competitors. The other competitors will
be set to work as soon as possible.
MANY  ENJOY  VACATIONS AT  BATES
HOUSE
Three hundred and ninety-five people
from the congested districts of New York
City were given a week's outing at Hryn
Mawr's vacation camp, Bates House at
Long Branch, New Jersey. The house
was under the management of Miss Vir-
ginia Deems and Miss Strowger acted as
housekeeper . The camp was supported
by the twelve hundred and thirty dollars
given by the Bryn Mawr students and
alumnre. Two or three Bryn Mawr girls
helped entertain and eare for the chil-
dren each week.
Miss Deems' efficient management and
sympathetic understanding of people
made the vacation of real value to those
at camp. The Bryn Mawr helpers re-
turned to College enthusiastic over every-
thing at camp. Their work consisted of
washing, dressing and feeding dozens of
children, chaperoning girls to the
movies, teaching swimming, and walking
and playing games with people of all
ages. Those who were at camp were:
I. Bering, '14; I. Foster, '15; E. Dulles,
'17; C. Sutch, 'IS; M. Jacobs, '15; R. Hop-
kinson, '15; F. Iddlngs, '17; M. Dodd, '16;
F. Kellogg, '16; K. Trowbridge, '16; L.
Smith, '18; V. Frazler, 18; M. Murray,
13; M. Hoff, '17; M. Tuttle, '17; A. Davis,
'17; M. Hodge, '17; E. Emerson, '17; N.
Gall, '16; J. Niles, '14; F. Buffum. '18
C. Duror, '13; F. Lord, '10; A. Mao-
Master. "17.
DENBIGH   FICTION   LIBRARY   TO   BE
MANAGEO  BY  A  COMMITTEE
After a period of Inactivity of five or
six years, the Denbigh Fiction Library
has been revived. The Fiction Library
was founded by Miss Donnelly with the
object of providing the students with
light fiction not contained In the main
library, books which the students would
wish to read, but might not care to buy.
The Library now contains five hundred
volumes of the standard novels and of
old and new fiction. A committee com-
posed of G. Moses, librarian; L. Davidson,
D. Packard, M. O'Shea and T. Born, has
been appointed to suggest and select new
books. The committee expects to buy
new books at once and Is ready to receive
suggestions from the members.
The dues for membership are fifty
cents a year, or twenty-five cents a sem-
ester. Those who belong to the Library
have the privilege of taking books for two
weeks, and of naming one new book for
the Library.