College News, 1917-02-21, Vol. 03, No. 16

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 16
BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 21, 1917
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday, February 21
7.30 p. m� Bible Class.    Speaker, the
Rev. A. Mutch.   Mission Class.   Ryu Sato
�17.
Friday, February 23
3.00    p.    m.�Vocational    Conference.
Speaker, Miss Jackson, of Boston.
8.00 p. in.�Lecture by Mr. George Barr
Baker on Relief Work in Belgium.
Saturday, February 24
8.00 p. m.�Freshman Show.
Sunday, February 25
6.00 p. m.�Vespers.   Speaker. H. Har-
ris "17.
8.00   p.   m.�Chapel.     Sermon   by   the
Rev. John T. Dallas, of Watertown, Conn.
Monday,  February 26
8.00 p. m.�President Thomas at home
to the graduates.
8.30 p. m.�Interchips Water-polo match
games begin.
Friday, March 2
8.00 p. m.�Concert by the faculty for
the benefit of the Red (Toss.
Saturday, March 3
4.00-6.00 p. m.�Th6 dansant given by
the Bates House Committee in the Gym-
nasium.
8.00 p. m.�Lecture by Cecil Sharp on
English Folk Dancing.
Sunday, March 4
6.00   p.   m.�Vespers.     Speaker,   Anne
Wiggln, of Spring Street. N. Y.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel Sermon  by Dr. Ed-
ward Steiner. of Grinnell College, Iowa.
Friday, March 16
4.30 p. m.�Gymnasium Contest.
N.  McFADEN   EXPLAINS  COLLEGE
SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION
RELATION  TO  C.  A.
FRA   ANGELICO   MORE
ARTIST   THAN   SAINT
PRIME MINISTERS AT CLOSE  RANGE
Mr. Carruth Traces Development of Early
Artist
SHOWS    HAND    PAINTED    COLORED
SLIDES
Advocates Separation of Two Associations
At the Christian Association meeting
last Thursday, the question of continuing
the Chapter of the College Settlement As-
sociation was brought up by N. McFaden,
the President of the Christian Association,
without asking for any action as yet.
�This matter Is so complicated", Miss
McFaden said, "that I ask the Association
to think It over very carefully before the
next meeting". In an Interview after the
meeting Miss McFaden explained the
matter more fully, advocating the separa-
tion of the two associations.
"The relations of the College Christian
Association and the College Settlement
Association have always been a knotty
problem", she said. "The College is not
large enough to support both associations
separately.
"In 1914. I think it was". Miss McFaden
went on to say. "the Board of the Chris-
tian Association advocated taking over
the College Settlement Chapter, and the
Christian Association voted $60 on Its
budget to the College Settlement to main-
tain the relation. But the arrangement
proved of little value and in 1916 an effort
was made to break the connection. This
was not done because one or two persons
on the College Staff paid the $100 asked
by the College Settlement Association and
asked another trial by the Christian As-
sociation".
Community Center Under C. A. Committee
This year, under leadership of E.
Dulles '17. a definite chapter of the Col
lege Settlement Association was formed
to work together with the Social Service
Committee of the Christian Association,
of which Miss Dulles la also Chairman.
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"An artist who happened to be a saint.
{not a saint who was an artist", was Mr.
Charles Theodore Carruth's characteriza-
tion of Fra Angellco in his lecture on "II
Beato Angellco" last Friday evening in
Taylor. He traced the development of
the painter's genius from the early work
at cortona under the influence of the
Giottesques and the Miniaturists up to its
apotheosis in the Vatican frescos, where
the new movement which was coming
over   Italian   art  found   full   expression.
; The slides shown were colored by hand.
Mr. Carruth said.
Fra Angelico's earliest known work is
the "Annunciation" at Cortona, which
Mr. Carruth showed. Here the influence
of Lorenzo Monico. the best of the Glot-
tesque painters, is apparent, though the
movement of the angel's hastening figure
is an advance over the older painter and
the bit of landscape in the background
gives a hint of the friar's future fame as a
landscape painter. Landscape is first really-
attempted and problems of aerial per-
spective dealt with in the "Visitation",
part of the predella to this same "An-
nunciation". And as the very summit of
landscape beauty attained by early Italian
art Mr. Carruth cited the "Martyrdom of
Saint Stephen" in the chapel of Pope
Nicholas V at Rome.
Breaking  Away  from  Tradition
The next phase. Mr. Carruth continued,
was that of the small painting when Fra
Angellco was following the Miniaturists;
he designed   four reliquary   pictures, ap-
proximately twelve Inches square, for Ste.
Maria  Novella representing  the  "Adora-
jtion   of  the   Magi",   the   "Madonna   della
! Stella",  the  "Coronation  of the Virgin",
and a fourth owned by Mrs. Gardiner of
; Boston, of which no reproduction is avail-
able.    Throughout  this  series,  Mr.  car-
ruth pointed out, Fra Angellco was grad-
ually freeing himself from tradition, the
Virgin was becoming less a sedate queen
and more a loving mother, the Christ less
a wax figure and more a real baby.
"But suddenly the painter cuts loose
and gives a new conception as if he were
interpreting a vision with his brush". Mr.
ir.iHlinurd on  1'aye 6)
Marquis  of  Aberdeen   Describes   Canada
and  Her  Statesmen
"Canada and Her Leading Statesmen"
were seen at close range In a lecture last
Friday afternoon by the Marquis of Aber-
deen and Temalr. formerly Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland and Governor-General of
Canada. The Marquis of Aberdeen has
lived for seventeen years in Canada, and
so based his descriptions and amusing
anecdotes of Sir John A. MacDonald. Sir
Wilfred Laurier and others upon personal
experience.
Sir John A. MacDonald, "Old Tomor-
row", as his opponents called him from
his habit of procrastinating, and Sir John
Thompson, both men of strength and wit.
Lord Aberdeen described, with an amus-
ing account of his own difficulties in
choosing a Prime Minister from six men.
"each of whom thought himself eminently
fitted for the position.
"Sir Wilfred Laurier". he went on. "rep-
resented the dual race of Canada. He
was a man of great tact, and was received
at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
with more ovations than any other colo-
nial representative".
Ireland   Could   Be   an   Island   in   One  of
Canada's  Lakes----------------------
IAN HAY DESCRIBES WARFARE
FROM  RETAIL  POINT OF  VIEW
How  K1  Was   Formed   and   What  Hap-
pened to It
As a background for the Canadian
slatesnicii whom he mentioned, the Mar-
quis gave a short description of Canada's
immense size and romantic history.  "Can-
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MISS VAN   DRESSER'S PROGRAM
REPRESENTS  FIVE   NATIONS
Large  Audience  Welcomes  Alumnae  Gift
TWICE AS MANY FRESHMEN GET
MERITS THIS YEAR
New Interpretation of Merit Rule
This year almost twice as many Fresh-
men got their merits as last year. In \
1916 the percentage without merits was
41.1. this year 27.1. This year also a new
interpretation of the Merit Law has been
made for the Freshmen Show.
In view of the difficulties in the way of
Freshmen getting one-half their hours
over Merit in the examinations of their
first semester in College it has been de-
cided that Freshmen who have received
at least five hours of Merit and in the
case of Freshmen taking English Diction,
which is not graded until the end of the
year, four and a half hours, are permitted
to take part In the Freshman Show.
Freshmen not having received five hours
of Merit will be permitted only to take ,
part In the final procession snd In the '
final chorus.
The gift of the Philadelphia branch of
the Alumna? Association, a concert by
Miss Marcia Van Dresser, of the Chicago
Grand Opera Company, was appreciated
last Saturday evening not only by many
undergraduates but also by a large num-
ber of people from outside the College.
The cosmopolitan program, representa-
tive of China, Germany, France, Ireland,
and England, was refreshing in its light-
ness of tone.
"Water Colours", four Chinese tone
poems set to music from Chinese poems
in "The Lute of Jade", by John Alden
Carpenter, a Chicago composer, had the
charm of the unusual, and Miss Van
Dresser's voice was better fitted to these
than to the lighter Old Irish songs which
she sang later. "Ldsch Das Licht" and
"Les Papillons", which were on the pro-
gram, had to be omitted as the music for
them had been forgotten. For encores
Miss Van Dresser gave "Milrchen". by
Erich Wolf, and "The Star", by Rogers,
and repeated three numbers.
The program of the concert was:
��Watkh COUMS"    Pour CMMM Tone PoMM   hi
John   Alden   Cirptnlrr.
On a  Scrwn
The  Oda Hague
Highwaymen
To a Toonf Gentleman
Light. My Light
In  BtXBM GABTBX, by Krl< h Wolf.
Mir IHnge Hahen Sprarhe
r'rau   Narhtlk-all
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CUAia ua UTSbV, by Joseph Stub-
near Jete>
IHina lea Rulnea d'unr Abbaye.
Gabriel Pa lire
I* Malta  .....................George* Bliet
l.e�  Paplllona   ..............Felix  Konroeraln
Tin   ......   Pi >ii> Miiawi.
The   Voice of the Rea
Believe Me  If   All   Thoae Endearing
Young Charm a
Old    Iriah.    arranged    by    William    Arm�
Flaker
We Twa Together  .......Marshall Kernoehan
Cyril Reoit
AUDIENCE   OF   ONE   THOUSAND
��Scotchmen think that a Joke ceases to
be a Joke when it is communicated to a
fellow human being"; Captain John Hay
Beith belied his own statement in his lec-
ture last Monday evening. "The Human
Side of Trench Warfare" was as amus-
ingly portrayed as in his "First Hundred
Thousand". Captain Beith's fee goes to
the British Red Cross and the profits of
the lecture to 1918's Endowment Fund.
The Gymnasium was filled to capacity,
about one thousand, and over |600 was
clea red.
"My purpose to-night is to describe
warfare from the retail point of view",
said captain Mth; "I will speak particu-
larly of the First Hundred Thousand,
known in shorthand as Kl". Captain
Beith then went on to explain the diffi-
culties of training the Scotch regiment to
which he belongs; the regular lack of
necessary recruiting papers, the Scotch
economy in names resulting In twelve
William Robertsons answering the roll
at once, and the Scotch reticence in re-
gard to previous occupation which Cap
tain Beith confronted when he carefully
explained the points of the compass to a
private whom he afterwards found to be
an expert surveyor.
Behind the  Linea  in   France
The second stage of training for the
New Armies began May 10. 1915. when
they landed in France. There behind the
lines the training continued within sound
of the guns, and the recruits came to
know the wonderful organization that sup-
plied them with daily rations from across
the Channel. I'nder cover of night, mail
and food are brought by companies of
motor-wagons over a road open to shell
lire to the communication trenches and
not a single night in four consecutive
months when Captain Beith was In a
front line trench did the supplies fall to
I arrive, he said.
Although the British Tommie grumbles
at apple Jam instead of strawberry, Cap-
tain Beith went on, be regards twenty-
four hours under fire as all in the day's
work. The Germans, who regard war as
a sacred profession, maintain that the
Allies make war like amateurs. The
Scotchmen advance to the attack with
bagpipes playing, and a Cockney regiment
Captain Beith knew of went into action
singing:
"We beat you on the Marne,
We beat you on the Alsne,
We gave you hell at Neuve Chapelle,
And here  we are again".
Our Friend the Enemy
The nearer you are to a man. the more
you like him, said captain Beith. The
German infantryman is a sociable fellow.
He is usually about 100 to 150 yards away.
and loves to call across predictions of the
end of the war. "Hello. Jock, we'll be
shaking hands on the 19th of November"!
At an interesting example of the German
methods of warfare, he cited the fact that
the Germans attack in very close forma-
tion, practically arm in arm with their
rifles slung behind their backs, relying
on weight of numbers for victory The
British and French, on the other hand, at-
tack in open rank.
The scene with which Captain Beith
closed the lecture was that of the soldier
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