College News, 1916-10-04, Vol. 03, No. 01

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 1
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 4, 1916
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C. A. TO WELCOME FRESHMEN
ON   SATURDAY
President    Thomai    to    Head    Receiving
Line�Refreshments   After   Speeches
CYNTHIA WESSON HOLD3 NATIONAL
ARCHERY CHAMPIONSHIP
Cynthia Wesson '09 won the National
Archery Tournament at Jersey City In
August, keeping her title of last year.
She won all she did last year and the
flight shoot for distance as well. Maud
Dessau '13 took part in the tournament
and won the Columbia Round for Novices.
PRESIDENT'S   NIECE   IN   1920.
LIST   OF   RESIDENT   FRESHMEN
The annual reception given by the
Membership Committee of the Christian
Association in honor of the Freshmen
and entering Graduate students will be
held Saturday evening at 8.00 o'clock in
the Gymnasium. Those receiving will be,
President Thomas, Dean Schenrk, N. Mc-
Faden  '17,   President of the  C. A.;   M.
K. Stair, Chairman of Membership Com-! The ClaBs of 1920 numbers 107 and con-
mittee; Miss Applebee, Head of the Phys-   tains two daughters of alumna?, one class
leal Department; Dr. G. A. Barton, Chap-  baby,�Mary S. Hoag, daughter of Anna
lain of the College; M. G. Barnick, Presi-  Scattergood Hoag '96,�a niece of Presl-
lain of the College; M. G. Barnlche, Presl-  dent Thomas's and a niece of Dr. Kings-
dent of the Graduate Club; C. Stevens   bury's. The Freshmen list, complete on
"17, President of Self-Government; D. j going to press, follows:
Shipley '17, President of the Undergrad-      Rockefeller.- Holies, H. M.'; Canby, If.
uate Association; M. Thompson '17, Pres-   M.; Chase, M. F.; Clifford, K. L.; Colman.
Ident of the Athletic Association. jc. K.; Coolidge. A.; Filers. M.; (iookln.
Refreshments and Dancing on Program   N. C; Hales, I, ; Hoag, M. S.; Leuke-
Flve minute talks will be made by   meyer, E. H.; Ormsby, M.; Pitkin, D. E.;
President Thomas. Miss Applebee. the   Porritt, M. O.j Rood, A. Q.; Sanford. A
Presidents of the four Associations, and   M.i Williamson. I,.; Wolf. II. L.
the President of the (iraduate Club. After      Pembroke West.�Allen, D B; lloyn-
thia refreshments will be served, followed   ton. Z D.: Carey. M M; Davis, L. O.J
by dancing.                                                   Frost,    M     l, ;    (iregg,   D.;    Hardy.    \1 ;
--------------------                        Holmes. P. A.,  Johnston, a. R. O.; Kee-
DR. BARTON'S  NEW BOOK                           �>Ie. C :   Kellogg.  I,.  W : .Lynch. C.;   Moe-
PRAISED BY REVIEWER8   bius. A. J ;  Train. M. A
Pembroke  East�Arnold.  I. H.;   Halloa.
G. WOODBERRY '19 MAKES.
�NEWS'' BOARD
MISS   DONNELLY   FA.VOR.S
.;�;..,    .     CHINESE1 .SCHOLARSHIP
Second   Competition  for   1919   Begins  at    Chinese 'WoirJeh  ;Shut   In-^Pdot Binding
Once�Freshmen  Competition  After                                   Still  Continues-
Mid-year�                                                                     ----------
'                                   A  scheme to aid the emancipation of
G. Woodberry '19 made the "News" the women of China Is the cause of MIb*
Board as a result of the competition held Donnelly's plau for a Chinese Scholar
during the summer. Each competitor ship. Miss Donnelly spent part of Jter
was required to submit two complete leave of absence last year in Japan nm\
copies of the "News" in which she had  part in China.
written all the news and editorials. There      "The feeling everywhere In China", saidj
were fourteen competitors.                           Miss Donnelly, "is of women shut in he-
A second competition for the Class of hind the wall". Shanghai, she said, is
1919 will begin at once to fill the place of the only place where they are allowed*
E. Andrews, who left College this year, to go about. As there is still much foot-
A competition for the Freshman member binding, the temper of the women 1s very,
of the Hoard will begin alter mid years,  shrewish, but aside from that they are
"handsome, able and executive, and vej^
Intellectual". The Japanese women are*
fnr more advanced than the Chinese.
SWIMMING AND  TENNIS
Costumes Like Chorus Girts
"The   Chinese   costumes",   said   Mis*
Swimming authorization;   will  be   held   .. __  ....    ,. ._.                     ..        ,   ,
Donnelly,     show   a   curious   idea   of   qs>
on   Friday,   Monday   and   Tuesday   even
in^s at 8.:!".   Freshmen should be author
corum". They wear very high collars arif
long sleeves, but short jackets and tight
Ized as soon as possible as they are not   trou8ers    r�mln,�nK   her   HtronK,Vi   Ml8�
allowed in the pool until they have tried   n,innp�v ��,,. ,�    Xm,.rlran chonn ^ J
out.
B.  M. Alumnae at Woo-chanjj
\t   St.   Hilda's  School  at AVoo-chnn�,
GUM   tournaments   have   Started    Ail   UM   Donnplly   ,,,��,,   �,,.�,.   Uryt   X| , , ,
alumna    working.   Once    Hiitchtns    'i�,
Tennis
week
1920   has   a   large   number   of   entries.   who   ���  ju8t   �.,����,   to t,,,B  ,.ollnlrVi
Contains   Many First Translations        M. H.; Brown. M. B.. Cary. M. K.; Cauld-   ',,t'   tMaM   n,UBr   be  Picke<l   ">   ,),',<,l>,'r   Kate Scott '04. who is to take her ph.ee.
well. K ;  Grisgs, D.  M.;   Helmer.   P.  A.:   l4Hl
[Continued on Page i)
Dr. Barton's Just published  book "Ar-
chaeology and the Bible" Is a book that   ------------'-------------------------------------------
the reviewer "Instantly feels will fulfill   SELF-GOVERNMENT BOOKS REVISED
that long felt want of which we so fre-
NO PARALYSIS  SCARE   IN  JUNE
as head, and  M. L, .lames '04 as doctor
They are desperately   in  need of money
and   It is to aid  in this work that   Miss
Donnelly   proposes   to   found   iv  Chinese
scholarship, the money  to be  raised   by
quently  hear   but   which   is   so  seldom      The new  Self -Government blue books.      For two weeks in June Miss Wiggins  alumna;.   Miss Donnelley also hopes that
satisfied."                                                     j revised and brought up to date during the sent down from Spring Street twenty-five  the    Bryn    Mawr    students    can    raise
For some time Dr. Barton was Direc-  summer by the present Executive Board,  kindergarten   children   and   ten   babies,  enough money to send a Chinese girl to
tor of the School of Oriental  Research 'came out last Friday    The new manual*, ami even in the first week in July mothers  school at Woo-chang.  It taken only about
in Jerusalem, where he discovered the
tomb of the Judges, and as the "Book
News Monthly" saya, "his studies and in-
vestigations have given him a fund of
knowledge that Is unique even among
scholars of this subject and the range of
his findings is so wide as to be almost if
not quite complete".
Picture* Exploration of Palestine
The book is In two parts, the first deal-
ing with the exploration of the Bible
lands. He gives detailed accounts of the
work done In excavation, accompanied by
over three hundred illustrations and a
map of Palestine and Jerusalem.
__________(Continued on Pmge I)
ELECTION  PARTY ON  WHEELS
M. HUTCHINS,
FRESHMAN CHAIRMAN
BIG HOLIDAY PARTIES
containing the  most important  rules  of and babies came down.   Only those over  'fi0 there anil at  some schools as little
the Association, came out Monday.              sixteen    came    after    that,    and    Long  H!* *2ft
The books have not been revised since  Branch   was   not  infected   by   infantile
1913 and  contain  a  new  article of the paralysis, so that except for a few weeks
Constitution, three new resolutions, and  in July the House was full all summer.
the  decisions  of  the   Executive   Boards      Those who helped last summer for one      Week-end  nartlen a
since 1913.   The large book .is a complete  week or more were:   Miss Applebee, H.   ....      _.  ,   .      _,
copy of the Constitution. Resolutions of ' Tyson 16. A. MacMaster '17. I. Foster '15.  ^L "*L^?1  / �      ,' M ,�rche8tm'
the   Association,   and   decisions   of   the |p. Curry'17, O. Tattersfleld'17. M. Bacon 1^ ,1    L   L    *pr,n* 8tr"* a  "�
'18.  H.   Hammer '18.  E.  Lan.er '19.  H.\q�?^  T* �**   parMw   ��"�  �"2
'amusement.    There  was an  average of
twenty-five people a week all summer
Board. The small book is a manual of the
most Important rules, arranged In clear
groupings and carefully indexed.
The books may be procured from Caro-
line Stevens '17, President of Self-Gov-
ernment, In Pembroke East.
Ramsay '19, F. Howell '19, C. Hayman
'19. A. Beardwood '17, M. Jacobs '15. M.
Justice '15, C. Sutch '15. F. Iddings "17,
stayed all summer; R. Hopklnson '15 and
A. Davis '17 helped for a month.
THIRTY-FOUR       STUDENTS       WITH-
DRAW   FROM   COLLEGE   THIS
YEAR
CALENDAR
Wednesday, October 4
i George A. Barton. Ph.D., LL.D., Professor
Athletic   Stars   Leave
Speeding through the campus in a tour-  by PreBident Thomas
8.45   a.   m.�Chapel.     Opening  address   ot   Biblical   Literature and   Semitic   Lan-      This year the Class of 1917  looses M.
Ing car about 3.30 yesterday afternoon,
Margaret Hutchins, of Columbus, Ohio,
was elected Chairman of the Freshman
Class.
The Chairman spent Monday night at
the Bellevue Stratford, taking the train
yesterday afternoon to Haverford, where
she was met by L. Richardson '18's
cheerleader. They drove by back ways
to the graveyard oppostie Low Buildings,
where they picked up the election party
concealed In an old shed. With the
Freshmen Inside and the Juniors on the
running boards to repel the Sophomore
onslaughts, the car ran through the cam
pus in full sight of every one from the ,
Denbigh entrance to Pembroke Arch,
where the Freshmen cheered their chair-
man for the first time.
Miss  Hutchins  was  president   of her

9   a.   m.�Work   of   the   thirty-second
academic year begins.
4.20 p. m.�First hockey practice
Thursday, October 5
7.30 p. ra.�Parade night.
Friday, October 6
8.30 p. m. to 9.30 p. m.�Swimming au-
thorizing 1920.
Saturday, October 7
9.30 a. m.�Varsity hockey practice
10.15 a. m.�Class hockey practice.
8.00  p    m�Christian   Association   re-
guages, Bryn Mawr.
Monday, October 9
9.00 a. m.�Alumna- sale at the College
Inn.
9.30 a. m.�Physical appointments for
undergraduates begin.
Carroll, K. Faulkner, D. Fishbcln and J,
Pauling, Varsity captain and class captain
of basket-ball, fullback on Varsity hockey
and played on the class tennis tea tun
1918 looses R. Cheney, Sophomore Class-
President, head of the Employment Bu-
reau of the C. A., on the C. A. Board an*
8.30 p. ra�Swimming authorising 1920.  very actlTe ,n lai)t year,B reorganization.
jShe  was   Treasurer of  Self Government
,C. H. Flske, fullback  in hockey on the'
8.30 p. m.�Swimming authorizing 1920. cU� team �,,, varsity sub; II. Hammer.
Tuesday, October 10
Saturday, October 14
9.00 a. m.�Senior oral examinations in
French.
Monday, October 16
winner of first-class swimming medal; A.-
Kerr.   L Helaler. M. Cordlngly, Ik   land
ley who has gone to Smith, J. Mebane, H.
Richards, F. Richmond and D. Kuhn who
have gone to Radcliffe, M. BcotL O. Bast
4.15 p. m.�lnterclaas tennis tournament   wlck' and M  V. Smith.
Sunday, October 8
COO   p.   m- Vespers   Leader.   N.   Mc
Fades '17. President ot the Christian As-
beglns.
Saturday, October 21
9.00 a. m.�Senior Orals In German
class last year at  the Brearley  School. ; social ion
New York                                                        t.00 p. m�Chapel    Sermon by the Rev.
1919 looses V. Morgan, class basket bait
captain, D. Blakeley. G. Brodheud, U Dri-
ver. A. Ely. J. H. Everett, M. V. Fay, �J.
Flske. H. Maxwell. C  C   MendlahaJJ* W.
8.00   p.   m�Settlor-  reception   to   the   Robb, F. St  John. M. Stambangh, A. Van'
Freshmen                                                    , Hlse. and F  1.   Wilson, and H Ai
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