College News, 1916-02-24, Vol. 02, No. 18

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The College News
Volume II.   No. 18
BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 24, 1916
Price 5 Cento
CALENDAR
THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY 24
8.45 p. si.�Water Polo Match Games.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26
4.30 p.m.�Lecture by Mrs. Kmmehne
Pankhuret in Taylor Hall.
8.00 p.m.�Lecture by Dr. George Grant
MacCurdy of Yale.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26
8.00 P. M.�Dramatic Recital of Euripides'
"Hippolytus" by Mrs. Penelope Wheeler of
England.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27
0.00 P. M.�Vespers. Speaker, L Garfield,
'10.
8.00 p.m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
John Haines Holmes, New York.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2*
7.30 p.m.�Work for the Red < 'ross in Rocke-
feller Basement.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1
4 15 p. m.�Miss Rand will speak before the
Science Club in Dalton.
7.30 p.m.�Bible and Mission Classes.
8.00 p. m.�Faculty Red Cross Meeting at
Cartref.
9.30 p. m.�Mid-week Meeting of the C. A
Leader, F. Kellogg.
SATURDAY, MARCH 4
8.00 P. M.�Freshman Show.
SUNDAY, MARCH 6
8.00 p.m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
Edward Stciner, Ph.D., President of Gunnel
College, Iowa.
DEAN   REILLY   RE8IGNS
Dr.  Schenck, '07, to Take  Her  Place
FRIDAY. MARCH 10
8.00 p.m.�First Meeting of the Christian
Association Week-end Conference. Address
by Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin of New York.
TILTING AND DIVE FOR SPLASH
WIN FAVOR AT THE BOOBY MEET
The competition at the Booby Swim-
ming Meet, held on Friday evening, was
so close that the winners of the various
events were not announced, except in one
or two instances, when gold and silver
swimming medals or Iron crosses were
given. Parisian models were sacrificed to
the ideal of "Safety First" by the many
contestants who entered the clothes race.
C. Kellen and M. Scattergood challenged
all comers to tilting combats, mounted on
fiery steeds, the water polo goals. Other
events were the Egg Race, the Three-
legged and the Obstacle Race.
First place in the dive for splash was
won by the youngest contestants. L. Rich-
ardson and A. Thorndike. Nadiva. half-
fish, half-woman (H. Wilson), astonished
all spectators by swallowing a banana
under water, but her attempt to swallow
a bottle of grape juice failed on account
of her miscalculation of the laws of at-
mospheric pressure.
"The Passing Show of 1917". in which
1916 drowned Dan Maginty. the red mas-
cot, took the Juniors so much by surprise
that they did not at first realize the
tragedy. The meet closed with a tug-of-
war, in which the award was to 1916 and
1918, but E. Houghton, as "judge of the
tug for distance", was thought by some to
be not an impartial judge.
President Thomas spoke in Chapel on
February 22nd on Dean Reilly's resigna-
tion, which is to go into effect this spring,
and the appointment of Dr. Schenck in
her place.   She said in part:
"I asked you to come together to-day
because of an announcement, which I
make with the very greatest regret, a re-
gret which, I am sure, will be shared by
every student in the College. Dean Rellly
has decided that she does not care enough
for executive work to wish to continue
permanently to* perform the duties of
Dean of Bryn Mawr College and has
asked that her resignation be accepted, to
take effect at the end of this College year.
The Directors have acted on Miss Reilly's
request with sincere reluctance. In 1913
Dean Rellly told me that she had reached
this decision, but as I was in great per-
sonal trouble at that time she generously
consented to delay her resignation.
Throughout these three years I have been
hoping that she would change her mind.
I am sure it is unnecessary for me to tell
you how faithfully and how successfully
Dean Rellly has carried on the work of
her office. During her eiRht years as
Dean she has also Interested herself in
various great causes outside the College,
such as secondary education, woman suf-
frage, the effective organization of the
College women of the 1'nited States, etc..
and has worked on many important com-
mittees. She has spoken at many pre-
paratory schools and has represented the
College on many educational occasions.
She has made the position of Dean of
Bryn Mawr College a very important edu-
cational position, recognized as such
everywhere. We owe her a great debt of
gratitude for this as well as for her ad-
mirable work in the College.
"It seem..,] to the Directors that a Bryn
Mawr graduate could best succeed Dean
Keilly and best advise Bryn Mawr under-
graduates as to their courses of study;
but nevertheless a very careful study has
been made of all the women now holding
prominent educational positions and, I
am happy to say, there are a great many
It'tiithrnttil m,  I'ui/i   J
PERFECTION IS GOAL, SAYS MR. VAN
ALLEN
NEW COMMITTEES FOR UNDERGRAD.
The Reverend William van Allen, of
the Church of the Advent, Boston, con-
ducted the service In the Chapel Sunday
night. In his sermon he dealt with the
question of the connection between this
life and immortality. "I think", he said,
"there comes to us all, early or late, a
definite day when the question rises be-
fore us. What is the end of our life?
.   .          We   must   know   something   of
what- is beyond if we are to have a hope
which is a real help. But", asks Mr. van
Allen, "is" there something beyond? And
how is it possible to know what It Is?
Can we see what Is the order by which
we direct our activities towards that
end?"
He turns for his answer to the Epistle
of Saint John. " "Now are we sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be. But we know that when He shall ap-
pear, we shall be like Him. for we shall
see Him as He Is'. With this clue",
goes on Dr. van Allen, "we see the earth
as a training school of men who are to
be made the archtype of God.....
And there opens up a long vision of in-
finite service to God, over God's universe
at God's bidding, by those who have been
fitted for that service".
"By perfecting ourselves in habits of
thoughts and words, through the disen-
chantments and trials, with our faces to-
wards Him. we can gradually make our-
selves more like Him, and, in consumma-
tion, we shall be altogether like Him
when we see Him face to face".
June,   1917,   Tentative   Date   for   Garrett
Memorial
At a meeting of the Undergraduate As-
sociation on Thursday evening, February
17th, two new committees were voted, one
to collect the money for the Garrett Me-
morial, and one to investigate the price
of food, of wages, and of the general cost
of upkeep of the Ten House.
No definite date has yet been set for the
completion of the memorial, but the
\iumine have set as a tentative date.
June, 1917'. They therefore wish to have
an undergraduate committee to co-operate
with them in raising the funds necessary.
The Undergraduate Board was empow-
ered to appoint a committee of five mem-
bers, two Senior members and one mem-
ber from each of the other classes.
A motion was put and passed that the
(lass giving a play need not pay admis-
sion for the class for whom the play Is
given, as long as the present system of
Red Cross continues.
NOTED  HISTORIAN,  DR. HAZEN,
WILL  ADDRESS  HISTORY  CLUB
Change  Made in Entrance Requirements
PHILOSOPHY   CLUB   MEETS
TO MAKE NEW  PLANS
Important Decisions, but Slender Attend
EXHIBITION   OF  FOSSILS IN   DALTON
Geology Department Gets New
Specimens
A.    MacMASTER     WINS    PRIZE     FOR
BOOK  REVIEW
Amy MacMaster. 1917. has won the
second prize, books to the value of fifteen
dollars, in the contest held by the Hough-
ton. Miffiln Company, for an essay on
Wllla Slbert father's "The Song of the
l.ark" The competition was open to the
women undergraduates in all colleges in
the United States The eaaay which won
first prise will be published In the March
number of the "Atlantic Monthly"
The Department of Geology has re-
cently acquired a collection of vertebrate
fossils which makes an important ad-
dition to the collections In paleontology.
The majority of these specimens are on
exhibition In the glass cases in the Pale
ontological Laboratory on the fifth floor
of Dalton.
This collection includes among others
several Devonian fishes and ostraco-
derms from the Old Red Sandstone of
Scotland; two skulls of Mesohlppus, an
ancestral horse, a skull of Elotherium, a
giant pig-like animal, the lower jaw of
Titanotherium, a skull and a lower jaw
of Rhinoceros, and an Oreodon skull, all
from the bad lands of South Dakota and
western Nebraska; a skull and a lower
jaw of Ursus speleus. the giant care bear
which was contemporaneous with the
men of the early stone age In southern
Europe; a skull and a paddle of Ichthyo-
saurus, the great fish-like lizard of the
Mesozolc; also several molar teeth of
Mastodons and mammoths from the late
oiolc deposits of North America.
On Monday evening, February 21st. the
Philosophy Club held a business meeting
! in   Pembroke  West   sitting-room,   to  dis-
j cuss plans for conducting the club.    Last
j year it was found that having monthly or
I bi-monthly meetings to discuss some new
book or current problem  was  not  prac-
tical when so much else was going on.   It
! was decided  to carry on  the club as  It
[ was started  this year, to have meetings
only   when   some   professor,  either  from
the  Bryn Mawr faculty or from outside,
was to read a paper.
The meeting was badly attended, al-
though It was posted four days in ad-
vance, only twelve out of a possible forty
being present.
Dr. i harles Downer Hazen, the author
, of "Europe Since 1815", will speak to the
History Club on March 17th. The meet-
ing will be an open one. but the reception
afterwards will be by invitation. The
History Club is also having informal
meetings this year at which only ill"
members of the Club and the members of
the faculty teaching History or Polities
and Economics are present.
A recent change in the Club's consti-
i lion has limited the entrance require-
ment to those majoring in Modern His-
tory, combined with either Politics ami
Ki onomlcs or History of Art or a modern
language or Philosophy, and getting two
semesters of Credit or one semester of
High Credit in their History. Formerly it
was possible to be eligible to the Club by
getting the Credits or the High Credit In
the second major, a language, for In-
stance, instead of In History.
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HELPS  TO 24  PAGE   ESSAY
MRS.   PENELOPE   WHEELER  TO
GIVE  DRAMATIC RECITAL
Will  Read  Euripides' Hippolytus
Mrs. Penelope Wheeler is to give a dra-
matic recital of Professor Gilbert Mur-
rays translation of Euripides' "Hippoly-
tus" in Taylor Hall on Saturday, Febru-
ary 26th. at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Wheeler re-
cites with dramatic movement and ges-
ture, linking the successive scenes with
a commentary which enables the audi-
ence to follow the action of the play in
the fullest degree.
Throughout. In studying the plays and
preparing these recitals. Mrs. Wheeler
has had the personal help, advice and
criticism of Professor Murray, who has
said of her that he knows of no one who
has a more complete understanding of,
the plays and the mind of the Greek
author.
Fiction   Library  Will   Lend  Full   Sets  of
Works
The fiction library will allow those who
are writing their twenty-four page essays
to take out the entire works of the
author on whom they are writing, and to
keep them till the paper is due. The
library has full sets of most of the stand-
ard authors and will purchase any others
within reason. It is advisable to come
early and make arrangements with the
librarian as only in a very few cases is
there more than one set of an author.
Last year many students found this priv-
ilege of great advantage.
MORE  WOMEN   IN  GERMAN
UNIVERSITIES
The number of women students In the
German universities since this summer
shows a marked increase Many of these
women are on leave serving In the sani-
tary department of the Army