College News, 1916-04-06, Vol. 02, No. 24

              College News
Volume II.   No. 24
BRYN MAWR, PA., APRIL 6, 1916
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
THURSDAY. APRIL 6
4.30 p.m.�Address by Dr. John Willis
Slaughter on "Carranza and the Revolution
in Mexico."
FRIDAY. APRIL 7
8.00 p.m.�Lecture by Mr. Ralph Adams
Cram on "Gothic Architecture."
SATURDAY. APRIL 8
10.00 a.m.�Track meet.   Preliminaries.
2.30 p.m. � Matinee performance of  the
Mikado.
8.00 p.m. � Second performance of the
Mikado.
SUNDAY. APRIL 9
6.00 p m.�Vespers.   Speaker,  Miss Anne
Wiggin, of Spring Street.
8.00 p.m.�Chapel.   Sermon by the Rev.
Hugh Burleson, D.D.
.-                      MONDAY. APRIL 10
4.00-6.00 p.m.�Faculty tea to the gradu-
ates in Merion.
)- 7.30 p.m.�Joint meeting of the Self-Gov-
ernment and Undergraduate Associations.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12
4.30 p.m.�Address by Dr. Heinz Ewers, of
Duaseldorf.
7.30 p.m.�Bible and Mission Classes.
9.00 p.m.   Mid-week meeting of the C. A.
Leader, A. Grabau, '16.
FRIDAY. APRIL 14
6.00 p.m.�Junior Senior Supper.
SATURDAY. APRIL IS
10.00-A.M.�Track meet.   Finals.
6.00JP.M.�Junior-Senior Supper Play re-
peated.
MONDAY. APRIL 17
8.00 p.m.�Shakespearean Recital by Mr.
Samuel Arthur King.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19
1.00 p.m.�Easter vacation begins.
M.   HOLD8   FIVE  AMERICAN
RECORD8
Track Athletics Upheld
DR. BROWN PRAI8ES MISS DUROR
Graduates   Pass   Resolution
The funeral services for Caroline Aus-
tin Duror took place at the home of Jacob
Hubbard. 29 North Twenty-fourth Street,
("amden, N. J., at 2 p. m., Sunday, April
2d. The Graduate Club has passed reso-
lutions on Miss Duror's death.
Miss Duror and a companion, Miss Lola
B. Whltmore, a graduate of Radcliffe,
were instantly killed by a fast passenger
train on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad at Devil's Lake, about three
miles from Baraboo, Wisconsin. late Sun-
day afternoon. March 26th. They were
both graduate students in the Department
of Geology in the University of Chicago.
They concluded their quarterly examina-
tions on Friday and planned to spend the
week of their spring vacation in the coun-
try doing field work in Geology. The ac-
cident 1b said to have occurred on a sharp
curve with a steep rock cut on one side
of the tracks and the lake on the other.
The bodies were hurled fifteen feet into
the lake.
The exact cause of the accident is un-
known. A high wind was blowing at the
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POSTER SHOW IN PHILADELPHIA.
An exhibition of Posters is being held
this week at the Pennsylvania School of
Industrial Arts, at Broad and Pine
Streets. Among the posters which are
being shown are Belgian scenes, by
Brangwyn and Pryse, and sporting pic-
tures by Edward Penfleld. One group,
which is attracting much attention, illus-
trates the "city beautiful", showing
icmii of city streets without artistic ad-
vertising, and streets with artistic adver-
tising, when posters are used to hide ash
hoar* and untidy vacant lots. There, are
three hundred posters in all
Bryn Mawr holds five of the American
track records for women out of the four-
teen events which are included in the
track meets here, according to sta-
tistics of forty-two track events com-
piled by Dr. Harry E. Stewart, physical
director at Wykeham Rise School for
Girls. In this list Lake Erie College
holds first place with six records and
Wykeham Rise ties with Bryn Mawr. The
events, however, which are held in the
various schools and colleges are so differ-
ent that it is difficult to draw compari-
sons.
The records which Bryn Mawr holds
are the 75-yard dash, held by L. Haydock,
1913; hurl ball, held by M. Scattergood,
1917; 60-yard hurdle, with four 2^4-foot
hurdles, held by F. Crenshaw and E.
Faries, 1912; 100-yard dash, held by M.
Morgan, ex-1915. M. Morgan also holds
the record for the 100-yard hurdle, with
eight 2Mi-foot hurdles. This last record
is 4/5 of a second better than the record
for the same distance, using 2V4-foot hur-
dles, held by Vassar College.
Dr. Stewart, in the pamphlet which he
issued on track athletics for women, rec-
ommends that spiked shoes be worn in
many of the events, particularly the
dashes. He maintains that track athlet-
ics are not Injurious if there is proper
medical examination, training, and in-
struction in proper form.
E. GRANGER TO MANAGE "NEWS"
V. Litchfield, Business Manager
As a result of the elections held on
Monday. April 3rd, Elizabeth Granger,
'17, is to be Managing Editor next year
and Virginia Litchfield is to be Business
Manager. They will go into office at
once. A new member of the Editorial
Board from the1 Class of 1917 will be ap-
pointed within the next week to take the
place of S. Hinde, who will be on the Edi-
torial Board of "Tipyn o' Bob" for the
remainder of this year and for next year.
FAMOUS ARCHITECT TO   SPEAK
Cram Also Author and Professor
CAN   YOU   RUN   A   FORD?
Dr.    Smith     Investigates    Bryn    Mawr"s
Ability
BOOTH   TARKINQTON   FAVORITE  AT
PRINCETON
Seniors  Take   Class   Statistics
Tennyson's �'Crossing the Bar" was
voted the favorite poem of the Senior
Class at Princeton in taking the Senior
statistics, Macbeth the favorite play, and
Booth Tarkington the most popular fic-
tion writer. 19 out of 230 men have sup-
ported themselves entirely during college
and 38 partially. Most of the men gave
football as their favorite game to watch
and tennis, to play. The average age In
the class Is 21.7 years, and the youngest
man is only eighteen. Seven of the class
have been suspended from college.
As a result of the questions put by Mrs.
Pankhurst and others as to Just which
positions occupied by trained men Ameri-
can women could All In war-time, an in-
vestigation, heralded by the different col-
ored cards which have peen distributed
through the College, has been started by
Dr. Marion Parris Smith.
Dr. Smith compiled the positions indi-
cated on the cards in conjunction with
her Major Economics ClasB. All the posi-
tions require skilled labor, since the in-
quiries refer only to College women and
positions of unskilled labor could prob-
ably be filled by non-collegiates. The five
cards cover: Hospital, Business, Agricul-
tural, Mechanical, and Scientific Reserve.
Some of the items are typewriting, driv-
ing an automobile, first aid, and acting as
interpreter.
The cards have been sent to resident
and non-resident undergraduates and to
graduates. There is a space for signing
choice of work and also any experience
which the Individual may have.
The tabulation of the cards and the
statistics will be announced later, prob-
ably in the Issue of "The News" for
April 19th.
SANDBY BEST 'CELLIST IN AMERICA
' Soloist at Philadelphia Orchestra Concert
THE   IDOLATRY   OF TRADITION
Dr. Black Speaks Here Again
In his sermon on Sunday night Dr.
Hugh Black spoke on the idolatry of tra-
dition. He took his text from Jeremiah:
"Come and let us devise devices against
Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish
from the priest, nor counsel from the
wise, nor the word from the prophet".
Now as in the time of Jeremiah, said Dr.
Black, new Ideas are kept back and
people are tied down by tradition. "With
all our insatiable lust for novelty we are
really in love with the old and we dread
the new. We close our eyes to the light
that would lead us to new ethical respon-
sibilities in our national and our interna-
tional life". And. went on Mr. Black, the
men who see the visions and come to
teach the responsibilities are looked upon
as disturbers of the peace.
True Followers Better Than Leaders
The world,  he  said,   has   always   been
kept back by outworn traditions.   Tradi-
tion is Idolized, and yet it is most often
the    opposition    to    advancement     the
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The Philadelphia Orchestra gave a con-
cert in the Gymnasium on Saturday even-
ing at which Herman Sandby was the
soloist. In speaking of the concert to
"The News" reporter. Mr. Hans Kindler.
who will take Sandby's place next year,
said. "Sandby is the most gorgeous 'cell-
ist in America".    Mr. Sandby had ample
; opportunity to show his power in  lnter-
' preting the difficult and brilliant "Varia-
: tions on a Rococo Theme", by Tschaikow-
I sky. The orchestral accompaniment
throughout is very light, leaving the en-
, tire burden to the solo.   As an encore Mr.
| Sandby played "The Swan", by Saint-
Saens, a duet for harp and 'cello.
Mr. Sandby is a Dsne by birth, but re-
ceived his musical education in this
country. For several years be has been
the first violoncellist for the Philadelphia
' Orchestra.   He has resigned this position.
; however, and next year will be in New
; York giving concerts.
Cesar Franck's "Symphony in D Minor"
was a big number for so small a hall as
I the Gymnasium. Only In the "Voraplel",
from  "Die Meistersinger". however, was
I the volume of sound so great that the va-
rious theme* were confused. Mendels-
sohn's ' Hebriden". the first number on
the program, was written as a description
of a trip to Scotland
Ralph Adams Cram, who will speak
next Friday, April 7th, in Taylor, on
"Gothic Art", is a member of the well-
known firm of Cram & Ferguson, archi-
tects, and is president this year of the
Itoston Society of Architects. He is also
a member of the faculty of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, to
which he was appointed last fall.
In speaking of Mr. Cram as Professor
of Architecture at Technology, the "Bos-
ton Transcript" said: "Mr. Cram's ap-
pointment will enable the students to see
their problems from a somewhat different
point of view. Many years ago he was
credited with a critical attitude towards
the methods of the French School. Dur-
ing the last ten years he has devoted a
great deal of attention to the problem of
the education of the architect, and his
Investigations have brought him more
and more into harmony with the educa-
tional system of the Beaux Arts, leaving
him, however, sufficiently alive to its pos-
sible defects to safeguard him from fol-
lowing its traditions blindly".
Designer of  West  Point  Buildings
The firm of Cram & Ferguson has spe-
cialized in school and ecclesiastical archi-
tecture and all the rebuilding of West
Point was done by them. Mr. Cram ia
supervising architect at Princeton, where
he received the degree of Litt. D. in 1910,
and consulting architect at the Cathedral
of SL John the Divine in New York.
His published works Include "Church
Buildings", "The Ruined Abbeys of Great
Britain", "Impressions of Japanese Archi-
tecture and the Allied Arts". "The Gothic
Quest", and "Excallbur". He has also
been a frequent contributor to magazines
and professional publications and has lec-
tured on architectural subjects both here
and in Europe.
Like many architects Mr. Cram did not
go to an architectural school, but learned
his profession by working as a draftsman
in offices.
THE  MAN  WHO  LECTURED A  DUMI
CLASS
Graduates  Give  Satire  on  Technicalities
At the graduates' annual reception to
I the Seniors, held in the Gymnasium on
Friday night, several of the beet stunts
I of the year were given.   "The Man Who
I Lectured  a  Dumb Class"  was a clever
satire of "technical offenses" and the red
tape of College.
One of the hits of the evening was a
performance by the Denbigh graduates of
"Lord ruin's Daughter", with skillful rep-
resentations of water, waves, and gallop-
ing horses. Shadow pictures of "Shapes
that pass in the night in Pembroke East"
recalled to the Pembroke Seniors familiar
figures. An operation on a grad's brain
was performed by Pembroke West, who
removed a Jumble of tennis rackets,
alarm clocks, and Phi Beta Kappa keys
from the unfortunate subject.
A song by Miss Bringardner and a
dance after the Irish fashion, very well
executed by Miss Maunders, completed
the program After the stunts were over.
Miss Kessel played the piano and the
evening ended with general dancing