College News, 1919-03-19, Vol. 05, No. 21

              The College News
Volume V.    No. 21
BRYN MAWR, PA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1919
Price 5 Centa
EUROPEAN FELLOWS WILL BE
ANNOUNCED FRIDAY
Highest Senior Averages Also Read
Announcement of Senior and Graduate
European Fellows and of the Senior
"upper ten" will be made Friday morning
in chapel by Dean Taft. The Seniors who
will receive their degrees with distinction
or who will be graduated in the upper
half of the class will also be announced.
Resident Fellowships, including the
Brooke Hall Scholarship received by the
Junior with the highest average, and won
last year by F. Day "19, will not be
awarded until May 1st.
The "Senior" or Bryn Mawr European
Fellowship was founded in 1889, and is
intended to provide for one year's study
and residence at a foreign university,
English or Continental. It was won last
year by Margaret Timpson, of New York,
who was graduated with a grade of
89.345. The highest average made by a
Senior European Fellow under the pres-
ent system of marking is 92.444, the rec-
ord established by Marguerite Darkow,
of Philadelphia, in 1915. Records for the
past six years are:
1918 Margaret   Timpson.......89.345
1917 Thalia Smith ............88.376
1916 Marian Kleps  ...........87.328
1915 Marguerite Darkow......92.444
1914 Katharine Dodd  .........89.7
1913 Yvonne Stoddard ........86.877
The three distinctions given with de-
grees are "summa cum laude," awarded
for an average of 90 or over; "raagna
cum laude," for 85 to 90, and "cum
laude" for 80 to 85. Last year five
Seniors, or 7.8 per cent of the class, a
larger number than any other year on
record, were graduated "magna rum
laude."
The three graduate European Fellow-
ships to be announced are the President
M. Carey Thomas European Fellowship,
for graduate students who have com-
pleted one year of work at Bryn Mawr
College, the Mary E. Garrett European
Fellowship for graduates who have com-
pleted two years of work at Bryn Mawi,
and the Anna Ottendorfer Memorial Re-
search Fellowship. The holders for the
last year are Isabel Smith '15, Eva Alice
Worrall '16, A.M. *17, and Olga Marx,
A.M.
With the exception of the Anna Otten-
dorfer Memorial Fellowship, which is of
the value of $700, each of these fellow-
ships, like the "Senior" Fellowship, is of
the value of $500.
FREE   MOVEMENT   DRILL   BY   ARMY
INSTRUCTOR   IN  FRIDAY
GYM  MEET
Agility and quickness tests similar to
those used at the army training camps
will be part of the free movement drill to
be given by Mr. William Cromle at the
Gymnastic Contest tomorrow afternoon.
During the war Mr. Cromie was released
from his position as Physical Director at
the University of Pennsylvania, and be-
came an instructor at Camp Houston.
The other Judges will be Miss Cynthia
Wesson '09, Head Reconstruction Aide at
the government General Hospital, Lake-
wood, and Mr. Philip Bishop, of Haver-
ford School. During the drill given by
Mr. Cromle, Dr. David will fake his place
as a Judge.
Student Judges to award the apparatus
cup for Individual work have been ap-
pointed by the Athletic Board. They
are A. Stiles "19. A. Blue 19. J. Herrick
'M and H. Ferris 'SO.
POSITIONS OPEN TO WOMEN IN
MANY  FIELDS
Conference Speakers Give Practical
Hints in Round Table Meetings
A "warm welcome" In the fields of med-
icine, writing, business, social service and
farming was extended to students last
week-end In a Vocational Conference,
held under Die college Appointment
Bureau.
WIDE OPENINGS  IN  MEDICINE
The tremendous need and opportunity
for women In the field of medicine and
medical social work were emphasized by
all three speakers at the conference on
Medicine and Public Health.
"Any of the high administrative posi-
tions can be the expected goal of the
woman physician who shows ability in
any particular line of work," declared Dr.
Martha Tracy '97, Dean of the Woman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania. Among
specific openings she mentioned family
physicians, diagnosticians, State health
officers, and industrial medical workers.
Personal requirements she summed up in
good health, sound training, optimism,
and a social sense.
Tells of   Work  Among  Babies  at   Havre
The work of a lied CDMA linll among
the babies In a slum district of Havre
was described by Dr. Dorothy Child '10,
head of the Child Welfare Bureau of the
State Health Department, and late of the
pediatric service In Fiance. Living con-
ditions near the docks were so poor that
it was necessary to call out the city lire
department, who turned their hose all
through the district, after which a team
of scrub women was sent through.
Miss Katherine Tucker, Director of the
Visiting Nurses' Association of Philadel-
phia, defined medical social service as "a
projection of the work of the doctor into
the social field." Where the clinical doc-
tor drops a case, the medical social
worker takes it up. looking into the home
and the living conditions of the patient.
The speakers were introduced by An-
toinette Canon '07. head of the Social
Service Work at the University of Penn-
sylvania Hospital.
DISCUSS DRIVE FOR $150,000
The possibility of beginning a drive
for $150,000 for the Students' Build-
ing was discussed at a Senior Class
meeting on Tuesday. To start the
fund, it was suggested that Liberty
Bonds might be donated. A canvass
of the class will be taken to see how-
much would be given in Liberty
Bonds or in other forms, provided the
building should be begun immedi-
ately.
WRITERS  GIVE    PRACTICAL   ADVICE
Reassuring her listeners by the com-
forting statement that the magazine mar-
ket had never before been as good as it
now Is, Mrs. Martha Plalsted Saxton
(B. M. '08, now reader for the Doran Co.)
opened the conference on Writing and
Journalism with a talk on the Journalistic
opportunities for college graduates.
"The two main lessons to be learned
before starting a literary career," said
Mrs. Saxton. "are. first, to hoard your en-
ergy, and second, to practice perseve-
rance. Inspiration, of course, has its
place, but it is apt to He down on the Job."
Practical Jobs for Beginners
Mrs. Saxton described the probable
lines of literary work for newly graduated
college women as follows: the newspaper
Job, which may mean dramatic or literary
criticism, special articles, or editorial
work, as well as hack reporting; the pub-
lishing house Job, which is apt to begin
with reading manuscripts and to continue
with writing commercial advertising or
estimates of books to be sold; and occa-
sional Jobs such as translation (which Is
very poorly paid), moving picture sce-
nario reading or writing, or office work
for encyclopaedia compilers.
"Study the magatlne market as seen
through the 'Authors' League Bulletin' to
(Continued on page S, column 1.)
MASS MEETING STARTED
PROJECT OF STUDENTS
BUILDING IN 1915
May Day Suggested to Raise Fund
The project of putting up a Students'
Building was first discussed at a mass
meeting in the old gymnasium, March 12,
1930, five years before the building of
Rockefeller and the Library.
"The convenience such a building would
be need hardly be explained," says the
Fortnightly Philistine for that year. "No
more forlorn alumnte sitting in Merion
parlors and trying to feel at home; no
more struggles witli the difficulties that
have hitherto made the giving of a play
such an enormous undertaking; no more
trying to �tag in a cell fourteen by eight
feet  "
As then planned the building would in-
clude "an auditorium, music rooms, offices
for the various clubs and papers, a
library, a dining-hall, kitchens, and rooms
for visiting alumna?, with the possibility
of a bowling alley.    .    .    .
'Everybody   agreed   that   they   wanted
such a   building.    $30,000 was named  as
the lowest sum for its cost.''
Origin of May Day
A "plan of renewing Elizabethan Mor-
ris dances and May games in as artistic
and historically accurate a manner as
possible." suggested as a means of rais-
ing the fund by Mrs. Andrews (E. H.
Walker "93) gave rise to the Bryn Mawr
May Day. The meeting voted to give
such an entertainment in the coming May
(less than two months off). The $5249
made at this first May Day was the be-
ginning of the Students' Building fund.
Plans for the Students' Building were
first presented at a mass meeting held
the following fall (November, 1900).
These plans, drawn by ( ope and Steward-
son, provided for a building of gray stone
of the same style of architecture as the
other buildings, with a main body and
two wings, one containing an auditorium
and the other a dining hall with galleries
to accommodate spectators at class ban-
quets. "The auditorium." the Philistine
points out "would be useful for the con-
ferring of Degrees until the erection of
the Library."
A second set of plans has been drawn
by Lockwood deForest and Winsor Soule.
Will Co-operate With Dean Maddison
A Schedule Committee to meet with
Dean Maddison to fix the dates for out-
side speakers has been organized under
the Undergraduate Association from the
old Education Committee of the War
Council. The members are: H. Johnson
"19. chairman; J. Holmes '19. M. Healea
'20, H. Rubel '21. C. Skinner '22. Anyone
who wishes to reserve a date for a
speaker or entertainment will apply to
this committee.
Dr. Jonathan Day. of the Labor Tem-
ple, who was to have spoken here this
evening, will give his lecture on Wednes-
day. April I.
PLAN TEMPORARY THEATRE OR
WING OF STUDENTS BUILDING
No More Plays in Gymnasium
Season
Either a temporary theatre or a theatre-
wing of the long-planned Students' Build-
ing must be built at once if there are to
be any more plays at college in the win-
ter, Marjorie Martin '19, president of the
Undergraduate Association, explained at
a meeting last Thursday. Owing to the
gymnasium work It will be Impossible to
give any plays, except Freshman Show, In
the gymnasium except during the out-
door seasons of spring and fall.
Two feasible plans for building a thea-
tre were presented. The first Is to form a
corporation and build a cheap, temporary
theatre behind the sheds back of the gym-
nasium. The building would be made of
ash and cinder concrete and would con-
tain the present stage. The cost would
be about $6000 or possibly $2000 if the
students worked on the building them-
selvi-
The second plan is to start the Stm
dents' Building, for which two sets of
plans have been drawn, by putting up a
wing containing the stage The main
building could then be built later accord-
ing to the original plan. About $50,000
would be necessary to begin this. The
students' Building fund to date is $25,000.
The Association voted that a temporary
eoniinittee be appointed to Investigate the
price of a temporary theatre; and that
the Students' Building Committee start
an Immediate investigation into the
prices and advisability of building a wing.
The Students' Building would probably
I.....reeled either below Radnor or behind
the library. The main floor would com-
prise an auditorium with tier seats and
a stage with switchboard, prompter's box
and dressing rooms; three banquet halls,
which could be made into one large hall;
and offices for the associations, classes,
and college publications. Upstairs there
would be alumna' rooms.
A fireplace In the center hall has been
promised by the Class of 1900. One of
the college directors is reported to .have
said that she will give a dance in the
new building the night it is opened.'
THREE   NEW  C.  A.  COMMITTEES
Federation Committee Abolished
Abolishment of the Federation Commit-
tee and establishment of World Citizen-
ship. C. A. Library and Publicity Commit-
tees were decisions of a Christian Asso-
ciation meeting Tuesday evening.
The duties of the Federation Commit-
tee will be taken over by the Membership
Committee, which will take Freshmen to
church, and the World Citizenship Com-
mittee, which will keep up a connection
with the World Student Christian Federa-
tion.
The work of the Bible and Mission Com-
mittee will be divided: part will be kept
by the present committee, which will be
called the Bible Committee, and part
given to the new World Citizenship Com-
mittee.
COMPETITION FOR 1922
A Freshman Competition for the first
News editor from 1922 begins tomorrow
(Thursday) with a meeting at 1.S0 In the
gymnasium. Those who wish to try out
and for any reason cannot be present are
asked to give their names to A. R. Du-
bach. 72 Pern West, not later than Friday
night