College News, 1916-12-13, Vol. 03, No. 10

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 10
BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 13, 1916
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday,  December 13
9.30  p.  m.�Mid-week meeting of the
C. A.; leader, M. Andrews '17.
Friday, December 15
4.15 p. m.�Lecture in Taylor Hall by
M. Jean Alcide Plcard under the auspices
of the French Club.
8.00 p. m.�Sophomore Dance.
Saturday, December 16
8.00 p. m.�Lecture in Taylor Hall
by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw under the aus-
pices of the Equal Suffrage Club.
9.00 a. m.�Senior Oral examination in
German.
Sunday, December 17
6.00 p. m� Vespers. Leader, G. Steele
'20, assistant treasurer of the C. A.
8.00 p. m.�Special Christmas Service
with carols. Sermon by Father F. C.
Powell.
Monday, December 18
7.30 p. m.�Red Cross meets in Rocke-
feller Hall.
9.00 p. m.�Maids' party in the gymna-
sium.
Tuesday, December 19
8.00 p. m.�Campus carol singing by
the Choir.
Wednesday,  December 20
1.00 p. m.�Christmas Vacation begins.
Thursday, January 4
9.00 a. m.�Christmas Vacation ends.
Sunday, January 7
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker. D. Cham-
bers '19.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the
Rev. Frank L. Janeway, of New York.
Friday, January 12
8.30 p. m� First Swimming Meet.
GARY   8CHOOL   SYSTEM   DESCRIBED
BY MISS UELAND
Four    Hundred    at    Community    Center
House Warming
Miss Upland's description of the Gary
school system was the important event of
the Community Center house-warming
last Saturday evening, held in the large
room at the back of the primary school
building on Lancaster Avenue at which
about four hundred people were present.
Miss Ueland is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota and took a master's de-
gree at Columbia in 1911. She is now
president of Carson College, a college in
the country north of Philadelphia for the
benefit of orphan girls. Dr. Horn, presi-
dent of the Community Center, introduced
her.
"Bryn Mawr is to be congratulated",
Miss Ueland said, "on the Community
Center, which is a good start in working
out the problem of lessening school ex-
penditures and increasing opportunities.
By the use of the schools by the com-
munity In general it should become a
place", she said, "for clubs to meet, for
discussion of civic problems, for library
facilities and for recreation.
Maximum   Efficiency   with   Minimum
Expense
"In Gary", she said, "more grown peo-
ple go to school than children. One-third
of the population uses the school plant.
This ten-year-old town, planned and built
by men from its steel mills, on the
swamps of eastern Indiana, has given its
population, through Its schools, shops .to
train the children in trade*, domestic sci-
ence kitchens, well-equipped playgrounds,
auditorium, swimming pool and other slg-
ifMNuM   on   Pf *)
MRS.   POOLEY   '99   PLEAD8   FOR   AID
FOR BELGIUM  RELIEF
Telia of Conditions In Belgium
Mrs. Thomas E. Pooley (Jane Rosalie
Morice '99) spoke in Chapel last Thurs-
day on relief work and the necessity for
it in Belgium. This appeal is to the rank
and file, to everybody, she said, as the
very rich have given liberally.
Mrs. Pooley had Just come from Canada,
from saying good-bye to her husband's
regiment, and she told of a conversation
with a British officer, one of the three re-
maining from the Princess Pat's regiment
after the attack at Ypres, where the Ger-
mans first used gas, and where his regi-
ment, which had gone out 10,000 strong,
came back 160. She had said to him that
she tried to be lenient and he said to her,
"Mrs. Pooley, how can you be lenient"?
. . . "And he told me things I cannot
repeat", she said.
Mrs. Pooley's work is primarily for the
feeding of the children of Belgium. Tues-
day was set aside as Belgium Self-Sacri-
flce Day throughout the city and at the
Allied Bazaar at Horticultural Hall, and
everybody was asked to give ten cents.
This will feed a Belgian baby for one day.
She concluded by asking each Rtudent to
give that much each month.
MODERN ART A 8EARCH FOR LIGHT
Lecture and Slides on Impressionism
DR. MUTCH  TO  LEAD CLASS
Prominent Social Workers Listed
A class led by Dr. Andrew Mutch of
the Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr,
talks by other prominent ministers and
classes addressed by eminent social
workers are among the plans finally com-
pleted by the Bible and Mission Study
Committee of the Christian Association
with D. Chambers '19 as chairman.
This evening Dr. J. V. Moldenhauer,
of Albany, New York, will speak on
"How to Appreciate the Old Testament",
and in January, Bishop Rbinelander will
speak. Dr. Mutch's class on the life of
Christ in the second semester will begin
on February 7th, and will meet once a
week, and Ryu Sato '17 will lead a class
at the same time on missions in Japan.
Starting March 7th, Miss Agnes Tlerney
will lead a series of four classes on "The
Philosophy of Religions" and from March
7th to April 25th, Miss Kingsbury's class
In social study will meet every Wednes-
day evening. Among the prominent
speakers which Miss Kingsbury hopes to
secure are Miss Katharine B. Davis, for-
mer Commissioner of Correction in N. Y.,
and now head of the N. Y. State Parole
Commission; Mrs. Raymond Robbins,
President of the National Women's Trade
In ion League; Dr. Jane Robins, formerly
head worker in the Jacob Riis Settle-
ment; and Miss Mary Richmond, head of
the Charity Organization Department of
the Russell Sage Foundation.
"Art is a social expression", "modern
painting is the outcome of modern so-
ciety", "the story of impressionism Is the
story of a search for light",�these were
the points emphasized by Mr. Christian
Brlnton, art critic and assistant editor of
"Art in America", in his lecture Friday
night in Taylor on "Manet and Impres-
sionism". The lecture was followed by
slides showing the work of impressionists
in France, Italy. Spain, Germany, Norway,
Sweden. Russia, Hungary. England and
America. Photographs of all the Degas
pictures shown may be found on the walls
of the Library corridor, south wing, sec-
ond floor.
Art, said Mr. Brinton, is the essential
characteristic of human effort and inspi-
ration. In the tiist stage creation of
beauty is unconscious, it is the "hand-
maid to life". In the second stage it is
conscious, "an end In Itself", and in the
last and present stage the artist works
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BARNARD  STARTS   PLAN   FOR   FARM
Barnard College has started a fund for
the establishment of a farm In connec-
tion with the college. This plan is ap-
proved by both graduates and undergrad-
uates and especially indorsed by Dean
Virginia D. Gildersleeve. who sets the
cost at $50,000 at least.
"The Idea of having a Barnard farm is
the result of house and camping parties
given by sororities which I have attended
during the last fifteen years", said Dean
Gildersleeve. "By a farm 1 mean some
place about an hour away from New
York, where alumnse and undergraduates
may spend their week-ends together. It
would have to be in some place where
there are woods and fields for tramping.
It would likewise have to have tennis
courts and a hockey field and be near
some body of water suitable for swim-
ming and skating".
KATE  OF  OKLAHOMA
THRILLS  AUDIENCE
Telia  History of  Liberal  Constitution  of
Oklahoma�Victory Brings Child-
Labour   Law*
FATHER   POWELL  TO  GIVE   CHRIST
MAS SERVICE
TRADITIONAL  CAROLS  SUNG   AGAIN
THIS YEAR
With their class lanterns shining red,
blue, and green against their black gowns,
the choir will make the rounds of the
campus the night before vacation to sing
in the Christmas season with old English
carols. Starting from the Deanery at
eight o'clock they will go to Rockefeller.
Penygroes. Yarrow. Low Buildings. Aber-
nethy's. Radnor. Merion. Denbigh and
the Infirmary, reaching Pembroke about
half past ten.
Father F. C. Powell, Superior of the
Order of St. John the Evangelist of Bos-
ton, will preach the sermon next Sunday
at the annual Christmas service. Three
special anthems will be sung by the choir,
"Sleep, Holy Sleep", with a violin obli-
gato played, by Ruth Levy '17; "Holy
Night", and "Parvum Quando Cerno
Deum". which has not been sung since
1913. The author of the Latin words of
this last anthem Is not known; the music
is by G. W. Chad wick.
The Order of St. John the Evangelist is
a branch of the (owley Fathers in Eng-
land.
Miss Kate Barnard, otherwise "Kate of
Oklahoma", for many years Commis-
sioner of charities and Corrections of Ok-
lahoma, in her address last Wednesday
afternoon, told with contagious enthusi-
asm of her struggles to write model com-
pulsory education and child-labour laws
into the constitution  or Oklahoma.
When the Territory of Oklahoma be-
came a State in 1900, Miss Barnard saw
in the new constitution necessary her
chance for legislation for compulsory ed-
ucation and the abolition of child-labour
in the coal mines. Her ignorance as to
conditions in other States and her lack
of money she overcame by persuading the
editor of a local newspaper to present her
with the transportation in which the rail-
way companies paid for their advertising.
In return. Miss Barnard promised to ob-
tain for the paper contributions from
notable writers.
Armed with letters of introduction from
Oklahoma officials to officials of Eastern
cities. Miss Barnard visited the factories
of the Eastern States. In a SL Louis fac-
tory, astounded to see a roomful of un-
tended machines, she slyly dropped her
handkerchief, and on returning for it
found the machines tended by children
who had been parked out of the way at
news of her visit.
The opening wedge in Oklahoma was
the articles that Miss Barnard had ob-
tained for the local paper from Jane Ad-
dams. Kdwin Markhnm. and others, coun-
seling compulsory education laws as so-
lutions for the child-labour problem.
One   Hundred   and   Twenty-seven   Stump
Speeches
Threatening Democrats and Republi-
cans with the support of the rival party,
she obtained the support of both for her
child-labour planks, and made a hundred
and twenty seven stump speeches for the
introduction of provisions Into the con-
stitution. The provisions once in the con-
stitution, Miss Barnard took the stump
again to get the constitution accepted.
President Roosevelt, as he was about to
veto the constitution, received seventeen
hundred letters of appeal for it written at
Miss Barnard's request by members of
the Conference of charities and Correc-
tions then at Minneapolis. He signed the
constitution.
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ELEVEN   LEFT   FOR  THIRD  ORAL
Seniors'  Record  Good   in  French
DAISY   CHAIN   REVIVED   AT   VASSAR
By a majority of twenty votes, the
Senior Class at Vassar voted to revive
the custom of carrying the daisy chain at
Commencement.
It has always been the custom at Vas-
sar to have the daisy chain carried by the
twenty-six most beautiful members of the
Sophomore Class, but last year, owing to
jealousy among the Sophomores, the
whole class carried the chain. This
spring the former custom will be reverted
to. although the whole class will be gives
� more prominent part In the Commence-
ment exercises.
The Seniors showed up well in tii.
ond French oral last Saturday, twenty
three passing and only eleven falling
The orals went so fast that two Seniors
were absent. The examiners last week
were Dean Si hen< k. Dean Maddison, and
Dr. crandall. President Thomas. Dr.
Sehrt. and Dr. < renshaw will hold the
German oral Saturday
The results or the second French oral
were: Pass. |. � : IS Beardwood. Bird.
Curry. Curtin. Diamond. Dlxon. Dulles.
Emerson. Creenouuh. Hall. Harris I. w .
Haupt. Henderson, Boteosaks), Iddings.
Jameson. Ixteb. O'Shea. Rhoads. Scatter
good. Tutterstield WOMB, Wildman.
Failed. 3.\3.V,. Casselbury. < line. < olllns.
Halle. Johnson. K. Jophng. Utchneld.
Thompson. WsstllV, Worley. Zimmer-
man     Absent. Granger,  lion"