College News, 1918-10-24, Vol. 05, No. 04

              The College News
Volume V.   No. 4
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 24, 1918
Price 5 Cents
THREE HIGH CREDITS GO TO
SENIORS IN FIRST FRENCH
"WRITTEN"
HIGH PERCENTAGE OF FAILURES
An unprecedented number of high cred-
its, credits, and merits, and a percentage
of failures coming close to that of last
rear's Seniors, who shattered all previous
records, is 1919's showing for the first
8enior "written" In French. Three high
credits, six credits, and six merits were
posted. Forty, or 57.7 per cent, as com-
pared with 58.06 per cent last year, failed.
The grades are:
High Credit: H. Conover, A. R. Du-
bach, B. Sorchan.
Credit: F. Allison, D. Chambers, F.
Day, V. Frailer ex-'18. M. W. Rhoads, and
F. Howell.
Merit: F. Beatty. C. Everett. E. Fuller,
E. Mercer, A. Moore, and J. Peabody.
Passed: O. Bailey, M. Butler. V.
Coombs, E. Fauvre, /. Holmes, M. Lubar,
E.  Mac rum, J. Mebane ex-'18, E. Moores,
C. Oppenheimer, M. Htemington, E. Ron-
dlnella, G. Woodbury. J>"Wright.
Failed: V. Anderton ex-'18, M. Bett-
man, M. Broomfleld, R. Cbadbourne, F.
Clarke. A. Collins, H. Collins, E. Cooper,
F.   Fuller, R. Hamilton, C. Hayman, O.
Hearne, D. Hering, C. Hollis, E. Hurlock,
M. Janeway, H. Johnson, H. fCarns, W.
Kaufmann, M. Lafferty, A. Landon, M.
Macklnzle ex-'18, M. Moseley, M. S. Mun-
ford ex-'18, D. Peters, H. Prescott, M.
Ramsay, R. Ray, R. Reinhardt, M.
Snavely, A. Stiles, C. Taussig, H. Tappen,
S. Taylor, A. Thorndike, M. Thurman, M.
Tyler, D. Walton, R. Wheeler, L. Wood.
FACULTY HIT BY EPIDEMIC
Among those who have fallen victims
of the common enemy, influenza, have
been Dean Taft, Dr. William Roy Smith,
Miss Kingsbury, Dr. Patch, and Miss
Dunn.
Dr. Smith's history classes hare been
conducted In his absence by Mrs. Smith,
and Miss Angle Kellogg has taken over
most of Miss Kingsbury's academic work.
Dr. Patch's English classes have been
meeting with Dr. Chew's, and Miss
Dunn's first year composition class has
had to be content with only their division
meetings.
COLLEGE WELL ISOLATED
Records for the  Last  Six
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i. PEYTON SOPHOMORE PRESIDENT
Julia  Peyton  has  been  elected  presi-
dent.   Katharine   Walker   vice-president,
and  Elisabeth   Mills,   secretary,   of  the
Sophomore Class.
Miss Peyton served on the Self-Govern
ment Advisory Board last year, and is a
member of the Red Cross Department of
the War Council. Her home is in Charles-
town. West Virginia.
Cheers from the open-air meeting on
the gym roof told the new president of
her office. She was watching from the
fire-escape off the Merlon ward, where
she was convalescing from influents
Three Outside Speakers Fail to Come
CONSCRIPTION HELD UP
Quarantine Supreme
The college has been violently cut off
from all infusions of outside life by the
influenza epidemic. Quarantine regula-
tions exclude outsiders from the halls
and forbid meetings except Sunday night
chapel. All college activities are prac-
tically at a standstill.
Three speakers have been prevented
from coming because of the epidemic.
Dr. Wise, who was to have preached last
Sunday, was detained In New York on
account of his wife's illness. Dr. Wood's
Bible classes have had to be postponed
because Dr. Wood Is helping to fight
the Influenza in Washington. Professor
Baldensperger will not be able to speak
next Saturday evening on account of the
quarantine. Even vespers, which was to
have been in the cloisters, had to be given
up last Sunday on account of rain. All
Varsity hockey games with the cricket
clubs have been indefinitely postponed.
Lack of Work Prevents Conscription
Conscription is held up because there
is- no sort of work available. The Com-
munity Centre Is closed. No garments
can be procured for sewing and mending.
Students are not allowed to enter any
building off campus, hence no Red Cross
work can be done. Volunteers are needed
by Bliss Kingsbury for clerical work, but
owing to her illness work cannot yet be
assigned.
GLIMPSES  OF  THE VERSE  OF,
ENGLAND'S YOUNG WAR POETS
OR. SPUR6E0N OF LONDON LECTURES TO
CROWDED  CHAPEL
British War Poetry was the subject of
a mid-morning lecture in Taylor last Mon-
day by Dr. Caroline Spurgeon, Professor
of English at the University of London.
"When I go into a bookshop and see the
numberless liCtle slim volumes of verse
by soldiers and sailors I feel very proud,"
Miss Spurgeon declared. The intensity
of feeling which the war has wrought
finds its natural expression in verse,
hence it is not surprising that those that
have the latent capacity burst into song.
Bits of the more representative verse
which the war has called forth were read
by Miss Spurgeon from a number of au-
thors, some of whom have not yet found
their way to America.
As typical of the Intense pride in Eng-
land's past, she cited the War Poems of
R. C. Vernede, one of the few of Eng-
land's soldier poets who is not young.
Over forty when the war broke out, Ver-
nede enlisted as a private and fought in
Flanders until he was killed in April.
1917. . Vernede expresses a conception al-
most universal In England in the first
years  of   the   war.   Miss  Spurgeon   said.
EFFORTS OF LAST THREE DAYS
PUSH LOAN TO $58,700
For Third Tune Bryn Mawr Doubles
Quota
363 CAMPUS SURSCRIBERS
Reaching its quota of $25,000 by
Wednesday, and doubling the figure by
Friday, the College Liberty Loan Drive
wound up at noon Saturday with a total
of $68,700 in subscriptions toward the
Fourth Loan. This subscription compares
favorably with the $56,000 which was
raised for the Third Loan last year.
An honor flag with one star was hung
from Taylor during Senior Oral singing,
Friday afternoon. A second star will be
added to the flag for doubling the quota.
363 people, or about 65 per cent of the
college community, bought bonds.
The percentages of the classes are:
1919
1920
11)21
1922
Per Cent.
..    70
... 68
.. 60
..     53
Graduates   .............    15
Faculty and Staff.......    65
The  Liberty   Loan  Committee,   which
planned and carried out the drive, is Miss
His attitude Is that all sacrifices on the 'Franklin, chairman, F  Day '19  A  Moore
t of the soldiers are made gladlj   in  -19. D. Smith '20, K. Townsend '20.' E. Jay
'21, H. James '21, C. Cameron '22. M.
Speer '22, and H. Goldstein and L. Bab-
cock, graduates. G. Woodbury '19, chair-
man of the War Council, is a member ex-
offlclo.
Thrift Stamps for Sale
Beginning next Monday Thrift Stamps
will be for sale In all the halls. The stu-
dents appointed by the Liberty Loan Com-
mittee to take charge of the sales are:
E, Kellogg '21. Merlon; A. Moore '1�, Den-
bigh; D. Smith '20, Pembroke Bast; H.
James '21. Pembroke West.
order to save their children from ever
having to face anything so appalling as
they have had to face: �
-
"Then to our children there shall be no
handing
Of fates so vain, of passions so ab-
horred.   .   .   .
But  Peace                   the  Peace  which
passeth understanding�
Not in our time . . . but In their
time. O Lord."
EVEN
CLASSESfWIN  TENNIS
SINGLES FINALS
Juniors and Freshmen drew first blood
in the annual struggle for the all-around
athletic championship last week when
they took the first and second tennis
team finals from 1921. Steady, rather
than brilliant playing, characterised all
the matches, which netted 1920 fifteen
and 1922 ten points.
The scores were:
Z. Boynton '20 vs. H. James '21. 8 6. 64.
M. Carey '10 vs. K. Walker '11. 4-6. 7-6.6-2.
M. Dent '20 vs. W. Walter 11. 2-6, 44.
Second team:
V. Evans '21 vs. J. Palache XI. 24. 64.
D. MeBrtde '11 vs. O  Howard  2J. 3 4.14
J Spnrney '21 vs A Fountain $2. 64. 04.
TENNIS DOUBLES BETWEEN '20
AND '21
1920 and 1921 emerged triumphant
from the tennis doubles preliminaries
played Monday and Tuesday of this
week. The Seniors went down before the
Sophomores and the Juniors outplayed
the Freshmen.
The o-orts were:
A. Thorndike  '19 and  M. Tyler   19  vs.
H. James '21 and K. Walker '21.44. 34.
R. Cbadbourne '19 and A. Stiles '19 vs. D.
Walter '21  and  B.  Schurman  '21,  6-2.
14. 6-3.
G. Hearne '19 and D. Hurlock '19 vs. C.
Bolton '21 and D. McBride '21, 2-6, 24.
D. Sml.h "20 and M. R. Brown '20 vs. D.
Dessau '22 and A. Fountain '22. 6-2. 6-3.
Z.   Boynton '20 and   M.   Dent '20 vs.  K.
Gardner '22 and J. Palache '22. 3 6. 16
M  Crrey '20 and K. Cauldwell '20 vs. P.
Smltn "22 and M. Tyler '22. 6-1. 6-1.
Love of English country is another
characteristic of a great deal of war
poetry. Miss Spurgeon noted. Robert
Nichols, in his Ardours and Endurances,
has a remarkable series portraying the
experiences of the young soldier from the
moment he decides to leave home,
through his first battle, and up to his
gradual recovery of nerve power after It.
There is an intense visualising of the
sights, the sounds, and the smells of Eng-
lish country, Miss Spurgeon said, and at
the same time the realisation that none
of its beauties can be enjoyed by those
who are not worthy of them.
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VOLUNTARY INFORMATION TESTS
WILL AGAIN BE GIVEN fV
Who Wants a Fllleulf
Anyone who wants to write to a French
or a Belgian soldier can procure a name
by applying to J  Peabody '19. Pembroke
West
PtESIDENT THOMAS OFFERS PRIZES OF  $100,
$60 AN0 $26                          �
Voluntary General Information Tests,
with prizes of $100. $50, and $25, offered
by President Thomas, are to be given
again this year. The faculty committee
will be appointed shortly and It is hoped
that the tests may be given early enough
In this semester to avoid conflict with ex-
aminations. Last year's committee was
Dr. Gray, chairman, now abroad on gov-
ernment work, Miss Donnelly, and Miss
Kingsbury.
M. Timpson '18, last year's European
Fellow, won the prise for the best
paper. The second prise went to F. Day
'19. winner of the Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship for the highest average of
her class, and the third to V. Frailer ex-
'1$. Eight out of forty candidates an-
swered fifty per cent of the questions cor-
rectly
INFLUENZA HOSPITAL GETS OUT-
DOOR WARD AND D.ET PANTRY
Manned by Large and Efficient Staff
1$ CARINA FOR SEVENTY. PATIENT!
An outdoor ward with twenty beds was
opened last week at the Emergency Hos-
pital, for serious pneumonia cases. Heavy
wiring over the pipes, and fly-netting have
been put up as a protection to delirious
patients.
A second diet kitchen has been added
on the second floor.
The medical office Is under the super-
vision of an administration committee of
the Main Line Medical Society, of which
Dr. Branson is president. Mrs. Tenney
Frank Is the medical secretary.
The Volunteer Department Is run by
the Bryn Mawr Community Center. Hilda
Smith '10 and Mary Pelrce '12 are secre-
taries in the office.
The spare rooms in the garage across
the street from the hospital, away from
the noise and cries of the patients, are
the sleeping quarters for the night nurses.
Mrs. W. H. Welmer (O. R. Ford ex-'97).
Mary Converse '98. Helen Hansell ex-'20,
are nursing In the hospital.
Grace Albert '97, Mrs. Samuel Chew
and her sister, Miss Lucy Marshal, Ger-
trude Mason. Fellow in English 1887 1888.
Miss Rhoads. daughter of the former pres-
ident of the college, and H. J. Robins '04
are dishwashers. Mrs. Dubach. mother
of A. Dubach '19. is assistant In the diet
kitchen. Laura Branson '15 is a kitchen
cleaner.
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