College News, 1915-12-02, Vol. 02, No. 10

              The College News
Volume II.   No. 10
BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 2, 1915
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
8.00 p. m.�Lecture on Suffrage by. Mrs.
Antoinette Funk, of Chicago.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4
9.00 a. m.�Senior Oral Examination in
French.
� 10.00 a. m.�'Varsity   Hockey   Match  vs.
Baltimore.
fe 4.00 p. m.�Demonstration of Eurythmics
in the Gymna-ium.
8.00 p. m.�Dancing in the Gymnasium.
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 5
6.00 P. M � Vespers.    Speaker, It. Cheney,
'18m
8.00 P. at� Chapel. Sermon bv the Rev.
FrankgLatimcr Janeway, of the Brick Pres-
byterian Church.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6
8.00 p. m.�President Thorns' reception
to the Seniors.
WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER 8
8.45 a. M.�Morning Chapel. Miss Har-
riet Daniels, head of New York College Set-
tlement Hour
n 7.30 p. m.�Mission Class. Speaker, Mrs
Kate Chambers Seelye, '11. ''Mi-ion Work
in Turkey."
9.30 P. m.�Mid-week inciting of the C. A.
Leader, E. Biddle, '19.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10
8.00 p. xi. �Settlement speaker, Hilda
Smith, '10.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11
9.00 a.Jm.�Senior Oral Examinations in
German. t *
8.00 p.'xi.�B ites Camp Party in the Gym-
nasium.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12
6.00>. xi.�Vsspen.   Speaker, ltvu Sato,
�17.     �fl
8.00 p. xi.   Chapel.   Sermon by the Rer.
J. V. Moldenhauer,  D.D
THREE CUTS PER STUDENT,
AVERAGE
President Thomas 'Congratulates
Students
President Thomas congratulated the
students In Chapel on Monday, Novem-
ber 22nd, on their good record of atten-
dance during the first third of the current
year. She said: "Our statistics show
that 20(1 out of 365 undergraduate stu-
dents have not cut at all. The average
number of cuts per student, if the same
ratio continues throughout the semester,
will not amount to more than three cuts
per student. Of course the 200 students
who do not cut at all will be responsible
for this very low average".
"The result of our cut rule last year
was admirable, but if you continue to do
as well during the remainder of the sem-
ester the result this year will be still
more admirable", President Thomas said
in emphasizing the importance of attend-
ing regularly "because we want to do it
rather than   because we must do It".
President Thomas urged the students
not to be absent for any cause during
the first five days of the week and
stressed the importance of training in
"faithfulness In the performance of ob-
ligations" without which "mental ability
is of very little service".
"I wish to close, however". President
Thomas said, "not with advice, however
timely, but with my sincerest congratula-
tions on your wonderful success in regu-
lating cutting during the first few weeks
of this year. As a result I am confident
that you are more interested In your col-
lege work. I am sure that the 200 stu-
dents who have not cut at all must feel
a peculiar glow of satisfaction. Most of
all I congratulate these students"
STUDENTS BUILDING  MEMORIAL;
PROJECT OF  UNDERGRADUATES
SOCCER   SEASON   IN   FULL SWING
Rock.  Grovels to  Radnor
Alumnae Cooperation  to  be  Asked
That the long-hoped-for Students'
Building be erected as a memorial to
Miss Garrett, was the sense of the under-
graduate meeting last Monday night.
The association voted to accept the
offer of cooperation in regard to the me-
morial from the Philadelphia Branch of
the Alumna' and to communicate to them
the desire that the memorial be the Stu-
dents' Building.
To carry through the project, however,
it was decided that the help of the
alumna-  must be had.
It was urged that such a memorial
would be more fitting to Miss Garrett be-
cause of her deep Interest in the social
side of College, than would purely aca-
demic memorials such as a new wing for
the Library, an endowment for the new
book room, or a Professor's Chair.
150,000 are needed to start work upon
the Students' Building and $21,000 of this
have already been raised, but are in-
vested so as not to be available until the
whole sum Is completed. $29,000, there-
fore, must now be raised to make the
even fifty.
In speaking afterwards to "Tbfj Najwa"
reporter, President Werner said: "The
Students' Building is the thing most de-
sired by the whole undergraduate body
as a memorial and, if the alumna' co-
operate, the undergraduates will work for
it with the very greatest enthusiasm and
interest".
President Werner spoke very seriously
to the association about the cutting in
the last month. She said that by such
illegitimate cutting the students were
breaking their pledge of last year and
that, as a result of It, several of the pro-
fessors had already prophesied a perma-
nent cut rule. A. Smith, President of the
Christian Association, proposed signing
pledges not to cut. but no motion was
made. H. Harris, Junior President, urged
the necessity of not cutting before plays.
E.  GRANGER  TO   BE  ON  "NEWS"
BOARD
Plans for Other Competitions
As a result of the competition for 1917
K (Iranger has been elected to the Edi-
torial Board of "The News". A cut was
made several weeks ago among the com-
petitors and H. Allport, E. Granger, H.
Harris, and N. McFaden were left in.
Two more editors, one from 1918 and
one from 1919, will be chosen this year.
The competition for 1919 will begin next
week. An assistant business manager
from 1918 will also be elected in the
spring and one of the present assistant
business managers from 1917 will be
dropped. The one remaining will be
business manager next year.
GREAT  THINGS  TO  BE   DONE  IN
SETTLEMENT   WORK
"It Is in our power to do tremendous
things" said Miss Davies, the head worker
of the Philadelphia College Settlement
House, in morning Chapel on Wednesday.
She regretted that the students can no
longer do settlement work in Philadel-
phia, but said that the work to be or-
ganized in Bryn Mawr village bids fair
to be very important both to the village
and the College. The value of such work
she pointed out in the story of a young
man she met at Hull House, who said
that the happiest day of his life had been
a picnic on the Bryn Mawr campus, when
he was a boy from the alums r6f Phila-
delphia.
The separation of classes never more
serious than now she went on, must be
done away with by the distribution of
material things and the spreading of
knowledge. The Settlement is a present
means to this end. These houses, or
rather groups of people are of great in-
fluence. The College Settlement in
Philadelphia is vlaited each week by
from three to four thousand people of
the poorest and most ignorant classes
MODEL   SCHOOL  GIVES  LATIN  PLAY
French Play by Younger Children
The twelve-year-old students in the
highest class of the Model School gave
"Pyramus and Thisbe" in Latin on No-
vember 24th. The next class of eleven-
year-old students gave "Red Riding
Hood" in  French.
Miss Swindler coached the Latin play.
The class has studied Latin only one year
for about sixty school periods with no
outside work. The children were told
to do the actions that the story sug-
gested and they explained in Latin, in
their own words, what they were doing.
They did not learn any set lines. The
French play conducted on similar prin-
ciples was under the direction of Miss
Thayer.
A public performance of the two plays
will probably be given at Christmas time.
ALMOST  3000  NEW   VOLUMES  IN
LIBRARY
Soccer affords great amusement even
to the uninitiated, and the true Boston-
ians who respectively call it "Socket"
and "Socca". The College student seems
to be deficient in the art of kicking a
ball. In the games often kicks were de-
livered against the thin air when the
ball was the intended target. Often the
players mistook each other for the ball;
head-on collisions resulted. The goal-
keepers who had an uninterrupted view
of the field appreciated to the full the
awkard gestures and wild manceuvres
of the other participants in the game.
The scores for the games played before
"The News" went to print were:
Denbigh  vs.  Pembroke  West,  3-2.
Pembroke East vs. Merlon, 2-1.
Radnor vs. Rockefeller, 4-0.
Schedule  for next week:
Monday�Radnor vs. Pembroke East,
3.30.
Tuesday�Rockefeller vs. Merion, 3.30.
Wednesday�Radnor vs. Denbigh, 3.30;
Pembroke West vs.  Merion, 4.00.
Thursday�Denbigh vs. Rockefeller,
3.30.
Friday�Pembroke East vs. Merlon,
3.30.
The annual report of the College Li-
brary for the year ending September
30, 1915, has recently been compiled and
a brief summary of the work may be of
interest. During the year, 2,997 volumes
were added, of which 1,798 volumes were
purchased, 588 volumes were periodicals
bound, 427 volumes were gifts, and the
remainder came from various sources.
The total number of volumes belonging
to the library at the beginning of the
present academic year was 1.722.
Besides cataloguing the new books
which have been added to the library,
the staff has been working on the re-
cataloguing, and several long seta of
Cernian works have been analyzed. In
all 13,390 cards were made and added
to the main catalogue during the year.
Our circulation has been increasing
each year for the past few years until
it has reached 25,486 volumes. Of this
total the students drew out 65 per cent,
the faculty 18 per cent, and 17 per cent
were placed in the Reserve Book Room
and in Seminary rooms. Unfortunately
we have no way to keep a record of the
circulation of the reserve books in the
building, but as 4,333 were placed on re-
serve, we know a large number are used.
Besides the regular appropriation given
to the library for the purchase of books,
there were several gifts. The Bryn
Mawr Club of Washington gave $30.00
for the purchase of books for the new
book room; the class of 1911 gave $58.50
for the new book room in memory of
Isabel Buchanan, and several alumnae
gave varying sums amounting to $39.99
for the new book room. As we depend
upon gifts for the support of the blue-
st aired collection in the new book room
we appreciate all that Is sent us. Other
gifts, varying from one hundred to three
hundred dollars each, were received from
the class of 1898. the Philadelphia
branch of the Alumna' Association the
class of 1900, and the class of 1903.
Lois A.  Reed,   Librarian
COURSES   EFFICIENTLY   ELECTED
Princeton has adopted a plan of hav-
ing the new professors each year give a
public lecture, previous to the time
courses are elected and study cards made
out for a following term, to explain to
all Interested students the nature of the
courses they are to give and the amount
of work to be required in each instance.
It Is hoped at Princeton that this scheme
will remedy the evils of the old system
whereby men elected courses at the
eleventh hour largely according to the
reputation the courses had among the
students.
RED   CROSS   BOX   GOE8   TO   POLAND
HEAD  OF  NEW  YORK  SETTLEMENT
HOUSE TO 8PEAK
Miss Harriet M. Daniels, head of the
oldest settlement house in the United
States except Hull House, the College
Settlement in New York, will speak In
morning Chapel on Wedneaday, Decem-
ber 8th. She was organiser and director
of. a Social Center In Princeton like the
one which Is to be started In Bryn Mawr
The Red Cross box for Poland has been
packed and shipped. The box contains
250 dozen sponges, 48 dozen bandages,
41 dozen compresses. 29 dozen handker-
chief-dressings. 5 slings, 3 mufflers, and
2 pairs of stockings. Except for the
mufflers and stockings, everything was
made in the non-resident room on Tues-
day nights. Four nights were given to
making the articles and one night to
packing them. The work this month la
for Belgium. Notices about the Dollar
Relief Fund will be found on all the
hall   bulletin   boards