College News, 1915-12-14, Vol. 02, No. 12

              The College News
Volume II.   No. 12
BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 16, 1915
Price 5 Cento
CALENDAR
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17
8.00 p. il�Sophomore Dance to the Fresli-
men.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER  It
8.00 p. M.�Senior Reception to the Gradu-
ate Students.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER tt
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker, C. M. K.
Applebee.
8.00 p. M.�Chapel. Sermon by the Right
Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, Bishop of Penn-
sylvania.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20
8.00 p. u.�President Thomas' Reception
to the Graduate Students.
TUESDAY,  DECEMBER 21
1.00 p. m.�Christmas vacation begins.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1
4.00-6.00 p. u� Philadelphia CV.II.r.- Club
Reception to Undergraduate*.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY S
9.00 a. m.�Christmas vacation sods.
9.30 p. m.�Mid-week meeting of the C. A.
Leader, H. Rhoads, '18.
SATURDAY, JANUARY �
8.00 p. M. � Piano Recital by Krncst
Schelling.
UNIVERSE    TOO    8MALL    FOR    MAN,
8AY8 DR. MOLDENHAUER
"I find It the most remarkable as well
as the most obvious thing about man",
said the Reverend J. V. Moldenhauer in
his sermon Sunday night, "that instead of
being so little that you can't find him in
the universe, there is no man for whom
the universe is big enough". Dr. Molden-
hauer attacked the modern tendency to
belittle man and his works, saying that
every man feels that he needs "all the
time there is and then some" to express
himself, and "all the space there is and
then some" as a field for his activities.
Dr. Moldenhauer preached one of the
most optimistic sermons that has been
heard here this year. He himself, he
said, refused to believe anything else but
that all was coming out right at last.
"Life is as It should be", he said, "and
the soul has peace on just two conditions.
The first is that we follow the real de-
sires of our spirits, and the second is that
wa have the inner assurance of purpose".
He pointed oat that the most important
thing in life was to have this assurance
that the soul is at one with the universe.
"All the big things of life", he said, "are
merely various expressions of the assur-
ance of the soul that we shall come to our
desired haven".
APPARATUS CUP TO BE AWARDED
The Apparatus Cup will be awarded
again this year to the Sophomore or
Freshman who does the beat work in the
exercises set by the Judges on the par-
allel bars, the horse, and the ropes. The
Judges are Miss Applebee. F. Kellogg, M.
Branson. M. Scattergood. and E. Hemen-
way. There will be fewer exercises this
year than last, for it was felt then that
there were so many exercises that by the
time the competitors reached the ropes
they were too tired to do their best. la
judging, the form of the approach and dls-
saout, ami the form as well as the skill
in doing the exercise will be taken into
consideration.
The cup for Apparatus work was pre-
sented hut year by M. Morgan, ex 1915.
aad was won for the first time by O. Bry-
ant. ex-ltlT. The date* for this year's
competition are March ltth and ZSth.
SHALL  QUIET   HOURS  BE  ABOL-
ISHED?
A meeting of the Self-Government As-
sociation will be held in the Chapel at
7.30 to-night. Thursday, to consider a re-
form In the quiet hour regulations. About
the reason for calling this meeting Miss
Russell, President of Self-Oovernment,
says, "The Executive Board would like
an expression of the attitude of the
Association In regard to the rules relat-
ing to quiet hours as they now stand.
There is a general disregard of these
rules which leads the Board to feel that
they are not satisfactory. If the majority
does not approve of the regulations it is
foolish for the Board and the proctors to
waste time in trying to enforce them; on
the other hand, if the majority still de-
sires the regulations the Board intends
to use drastic measures, if need be, to in-
sure their being observed. Will any per-
sons, therefore, who desire a change in
the regulations please present their sug-
gestions in the form of motions at the
meeting on Thursday night? As a quo-
rum is required for changing a resolution
everyone is requested to attend the meet-
ing".
WORKING  GIRLS' PROBLEMS
Hilda Smith Shows Way to Help
WAR   NEWS  IN THE QUARTERLY
Alumnae  Tell  of  Soldiers  in  London
War is the chief interest of the fall is-
sue of the "Alumna? Quarterly", and, in
fact, except for the Quarterly's regular
departments and the latter part of Presi-
dent Thomas's opening address, war is
the only topic touched on. An account
of the Women's Peace Congress, which
met at the Hague last spring, mentions,
among those prominent at the conference,
Roslka Schwlmmer. who spoke at College
last winter on "Women and War". An-
other alumna writes of war conditions in
Turkey and two more letters came from
London. Both the letters emphasize the
fineness of the British soldier and one of
them gives a graphic account of the work
of the Victoria Station Buffet. "The most
interesting part of the work", says the
writer in part, "fails in the night shift.
About two o'clock each morning two
troop trains arrive at the station, bring-
ing home, on short leave, officers and men
to the number perhaps of a thousand,
straight from the trenches in France.
Vast heaps of sandwiches, all made by
workers In the Buffet, huge urns of tea.
cake, cigarettes, chocolate, and more
white enamel cups than, remembering
the later washing up, I quite like to think
of, are put on trucks and rolled out on the
arrival platform to meet the Incoming
trains. In a moment,,in the half-light pre-
scribed for the defense of the realm, one
finds one's self stumbling over kit bags
and guns, in the midst of a mass of sol-
diers-----".
We have not space to reprint the rest
of the account, but this is perhaps enough
to suggest the personal note sounded
through all the articles In this "war num-
ber" of the Quarterly.
The necessity for reorganising the
labor market was one of the points dis-
cussed by Miss Smith before College Set-
tlement Chapter Friday night. She ex-
plained many of the problems of the "self-
respecting working girl", and told how
college girls can hope to meet them.
Special training such as is secured In
schools of philanthropy or by working
under some expert and observing her
methods, she said, is becoming more and
more necessary.
In speaking of city club work, Miss
Smith said: "The club's self-governing or-
ganization and the personal influence of
the director of the club on the Individual
girl can be Important factors In solving
the problems. The president of one club
said of a gM who shirked her part of
washing the dishes after a party, that "If
I were her boss I'd fire her" and deter-
mined to impress upon her the obligation
of doing her share. The chance remark
of one girl at a club meeting that "she
Just hated to go home because there was
a man that bothered her and hung around
the bouse", led to Uie recommittal of the
man to an asylum. It Is hard at first to
make the girls appreciate teamwork, and
sulkiness often interferes with the plan
of action, as when one girl refused to
play basket-ball because, she said, "The
lady called me a fowl".
If a girl loses her job the result is that
she loses her working efficiency and her
self-respect, and her physical strength is
exhausted by job hunting. One girl said,
"If I can't get a job around the corner I
haven't spunk enough to go for It; I have
been hunting work three months". Most
commodities' are standardized and graded,
but work is still peddled from door to
door and the employer must sift out the
best material from many applicants at
great loss of time.
Country work, according to Miss Smith,
is one of the most fertile fields of social
work, for there are few good amusements
and lectures and almost no agencies for
social betterment. The gradual consoli-
dation of a town of four hundred, where
Miss Smith lived, had been through a self-
governing civic league. The interest had
been thoroughly aroused by an historic
pageant in which the farming people for
miles around had taken part. The regu-
lar entertainments of the league were
held In a schoolhouse where sixty desks
had to be unscrewed and put back again
in time for school next day.
College girls can gradually get a hold
on such communities by starting with the
children and introducing general recrea-
tion. The people will come miles for
good amusement and can be gradually
aroused to help Improve conditions them-
selves. Everyone should Investigate the
conditions around her as there Is much
Immorality and child labor almost every-
where.
CHOIR   TO   GO   TO   KENSINGTON
Christmas carols will be suag by the
choir at the Light House Settlement in
Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon. The
choir takes la gifts to a Ladles' Bible
Class and .their children. After slaglag
they are entertained at tea.
M.    THOMPSON     VARSITY     HOCKEY
CAPTAIN
M. Thompson. 1917. has been elected
Varsity Hockey Captain for next year.
Miss Thompson has played fullback on
Varsity for two years and Is the hockey
captain of her class. She won the Col-
lege Tennis Championship In 1913 1914
and this year Is challenger to M. Wlnsor.
ex lsll. for the Champloaahlp Cup. Miss
Thompson la. Secretary of the Athletic
Association
TWO THIRDS PA88 SECOND GERMAN
ORAL
Out of the forty who took the second
German oral on Friday and Saturday, fif-
teen failed. This is a better percentage
than In the second French oral last week,
when half the number who took It failed.
Dean Madison. Dr. Fernsemer and Dr.
Holbrook were tue examiners on Friday
afternoon, while on Saturday Dr. Grace
De Laguna was the third person.
The statistics for the second German
oral of the last four classes are:
1912�18 passed. 9 failed.
1913�24 passed. 20 failed.
1914�25 passed, 17 failed.
1915�17 passed. 25 failed.
$100,000 FIRE AT WILLIAMS
The chemical laboratory at Williams
was   completely   destroyed   by   Ore   last
i week. The loss Is placed at 1100,000, only
140.000 of which is covered by the Insur-
1 ance.    Perhaps the greatest loss was the
| library, which contained several thou-
sand volumes, many of them rare old
books now out of print.   Professor Brain
j erd Mear's notes of experiments In pro-
ducing  dyes   were also destroyed.    The
! fire started on the first floor, apparently
from spontaneous combustion, and spread
i rapidly.    The only persons In the build
| Ing, Professor Mears and an assistant,
were asleep on the third floor and had
narrow  escapes.
BATES   CAMPERS SHOW CAMPING
Sue Scarcely  Sickly
"Bates camp means the brightest and
happiest part of the life of the Spring
Street people", said Miss Virginia Deems,
the head of the camp last summer, in
speaking at the Bates camp party in the
Gymnasium last Saturday. She went on
to describe the work at the camp, the
housecleanlng. where everyone fully real-
izes her "scrubbing possibilities"; the
week of Mothers' meetings, the week for
working girls, and so forth, the plan of
each week giving some special entertain-
ment and the afternoon tea every after-
noon for the older people. "Bryn Mawr".
she Bald, "brought happiness to over two
hundred people, young and old, last sum-
mer".
After Miss Deems had finished speak-
ing, a series of scenes representing the
city life of those who come to the camp,
and later their life at the camp, were
given. Yhe principal actors were A. Van
Horn, as the "Sickly Stenog"; M. Thomp-
son, as "Bernice the Butterick Beauty";
her rival for the affections of "Cutey
the Clerk". T. Smith; "Mr. Christie
the Apple Man". F. Kellogg; and
"Miss Canter, an Old Maid". E.
Stark, who pursued Mr. Christie, much
to his disgust. The audience was
aided by placards, which helped them to
connect the scenes, but, as Is the case
with a real movie, the thread of the plot
was sometimes lost. The first scenes
were In New York and the latter ones at
Bates Camp, where workers, mothers,
babies, and kindergarten children made
the scene realistic, while the romantic
touch was added by the attempted elope
ment of Mr. Christie and Sue. After the
grand finale of Everybodye Dots* It;
Doing Waat? Getting Hitched", there
wss general dancing, and Ice cream and
candy were sold
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