College News, 1919-01-09, Vol. 05, No. 12

              The College News
Volume V.    No. 12
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 9, 1919
Price 5 Cents
ALUMN/C  INVITE  3ENIOR8 TO
ANNUAL MEETING
Wilt Discuss Service Corps and Farm
The annual meeting of the Alumna? As-
sociation, to which Seniors are Invited,
will be in the chapel on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 1st, at 10.30 a. m. The business to
be brought up at this meeting is as fol-
lows:
The question of raising the dues of the
Association to $2.00 to cover the in-
creased cost of the Quarterly.
The continuation of the Service Corps,
or possible changes In the character of
the work.
The question of continuing the farm an-
other year.
The Deed of Gift, by which the Mary E.
Garrett Memorial Endowment Fund, com-
pleted last year, will be turned over to
the College.
Friday Meeting Open to All
An open meeting of the Association
will be held on Friday evening, January
3l8t, for discussion of the Service Corps.
Speakers representing various phases of
war and reconstruction work will tell of
the needs of their organizations. Any
students who are interested are Invited to
attend.
Miss Thomas will entertain the mem-
bers of the Alumna? Association at
luncheon at the Deanery on Saturday,
February 1st.
DECLARES AMERICA MAY MAKE
SOLDIERS' SACRIFICE VAIN
TELL8 OF  DEATH   OF  RASPUTIN  AS
RELATED TO HIM BY MURDERER
Mr. Whittemore to Speak  Next Week on
Russia
"The Mystery of the Russian Charac-
ter" is the subject of an address which
will probably be given on January 17th
by Mr. Thomas Whittemore, of the Com-
mittee of Relief for War Orphans in Pe-
trograd. The lecture will be under the
Red (ross^and Allied Relief Committee
of the War Council.
One of the stories which Mr. Whit to
more tells is of the murder of Rasputin,
which was described to him at first hand
by the man who accomplished it. The
black priest, who was reported to have
a charmed life, failed to succumb to a
deadly poison, given him in a glass of
wine, and did not fall Immediately even
when he was shot. The murderer was
at first imprisoned, but later released, at
the time of the revolution.
Mr. Whittemore, before the war, was
Associate Professor of English at Har-
vard. His interest in archaeology took
him, In 1914, to Egypt, where he was ex-
cavating when war was declared. He
went immediately into Russia and there
organized his committee to relieve the
suffering of the children in the capital.
Mrs. Ralph Adams Cram Is at the head
of the committee In Boston.
There Is a translation by Mr. Whitte-
more from the Russian in the January
Atlantic Monthly. He will speak several
times during the month in and about
Philadelphia.
GAIETY AT COMMUNITY CENTER
Besides the children's Christmas fes-
tivities, a party with singing and games
was given a week ago Monday at the
Community Center by the men's Italian
class for their teachers. The small boys'
gym dab celebrated neit day with a
nserebjnallow roast.
The Mothers' Club met last  Thursday
to hear a Chtaeee speaker.
Major Davis Tells After Chapel of
His Two Years With the
American Troops
Is America on the verge of committing
the unpardonable sin? Major Robert
Davis, of the Red Cross, just returned
after two years with the American
troops in France, raised this issue in a
forceful sermon last Sunday in chapel.
The New Testament mentions a sin
which is unforgivable. Major Davis said.
"The evidence is that this is the sin of
turning back to the old^knall life after
catching a glimpse of ttcmething bigger.
This was the sin of Lot's wife, who pre-
ferred shrivelling to expansion, and of
the Scribes, who came down and looked
Jesus over and then went back to Jeru-
salem.
"America for two years has been
growing bigger and better. But the war
ended too soon for us. . . . We were
just about to learn some of the things
only learned by suffering. We had begun
to learn what little is needed to be really
blessed. It looks as if in about eight
months we shall be right back when
we were in 1916.
"Our men have gone over to France.
We sent them there. Two hundred thou-
sand will never return. They died hoping
for a better America. If we slip back, as
we are fast doing, into the old easy, pre-
war days,�like Christ they will have
died in vain."
Tells  Anecdotes  of  Americans
"If it hadn't been for the American
spirit of clean it up!' the war would be
going on yet," Major Davis remarked to
the large audience, which remained after
chapel to bear him tell Informally of his
experience with the American troops.
"The men's eagerness and sense of humor
never failed.
"I came home the other day on a ship
with 3000 wounded. As we entered New
York Harbor and passed the Statue of
Liberty, one of the men shouted, "Bye,
bye, old girl. If you want to see me again
you gotta turn round.' "
Another of Major Davis's stories was
of a negro who, when sent out to get a
German prisoner, returned without his
man. "I had one," he explained to his
captain, "but he began tellin' me of his
wife and his little girl and his old father
�doggone. Captain, I had to kill that man
to keep him from breaking my heart "
Speaking of the great number of
Franco-American marriages, Major Davis
stated that since the 22d of July he had
been sitting on a constant court martial
for them. As assistant provost martial in
Paris he had charge of 200.000 militarized
civilians.
Major Davis's commission is in the
French Red Cross. He has also been as-
sociated with the British Army and with
the American Red Cross. Last March he
had charge of a Red Cross zone from
Montdidler to Chateau-Thierry, with head-
quarters at Compiegne. He expects to re-
turn soon to France to stay indefinitely.
FIVE COLLEGES REPRESENTED
AT BRYN MAWR CABINET
CONFERENCE
Tea Held for Guests in Afternoon
The Conference of the Christian As-
sociation cabinet with representatives
from four other colleges was held last
night in the graduate club room in Den-
bigh, (iuests at the conference were
presidents of the different Christian
Associations, Miss Emily Frank from
Vassar, with another member of the
board; Miss Eleanor Linton from Welles-
ley, with another member of the Welles-
ley board; Miss Helen Jones from Mt.
Holyoke, and two representatives from
the Smith Christian Association.
Among other matters the conference
discussed to what extent they, as cabinet
members, were responsible for the eth-
ical standards of the college, whether ad-
vert ising is as necessary for the C. A. as
for war work, how many and what kind
of meetings should be held, and what
should be the qualifications for election to
the cabinet.
A lea was held for the quests from 4.30
until 6.00. in K. Stiles' room. Merion.
Members of the cabinet were invited, the
Silver Bay delegation, graduates from the
colleges represented, and anyone who
knew the representatives.
PRESIDENT THOMAS PAYS TRIB-
UTE TO COLLEGE TRUSTEE
Bryn Mawr Unusually Fortunate in
The Great Men That Hare
Served It
Cyril Maude to Speak at College
Cyril Maude, who is playing this win-
ter in The Saving Grace, will speak here
later under the auspices of the Red Cross
Committee. He wss prevented from com-
ing this week because hia company was
sent to Boston.
General Maude, who lost his life In the
Meaeeotasaiaa campaign, was Cyril
Maude's brother
RUSSIAN STAR GIVES SONG RECITAL
AS FIRST CONCERT OF YEAR
Mme. Niessen-Stone Plans Opening of
Vocal Classes
The Ural concert of the year was given
by Mme. Niessen-Stone. formerly of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, last Satur-
day evening, in Taylor under the auspices
of the Music committee. Mme. Niessen-
Stone. who has studied abroad and sung
in Kuropean opera, was for nine years
leadinir teacher at the Institute of Mu-
sical Art in New York. She annoumm
the opening of vocal classes, and will
come here or to Philadelphia to give
>ns.
Mme. NiesMii Stone, a Russian born,
sang the Russian numbers on the pro
gram in the original, previously translat-
ing them into English. The words of
"My Native Land" are by Tolstoi, and de-
scribe Russia in a series of noun-phrases
without using verbs.
Anyone who wishes to enter Mme.
Niessen-Stone's classes may secure infor-
mation and register through I. Arnold '20.
Pembroke East Marcella Sembrich and
Dr. Frank Damrosch endoise her as a
teacher.
The program was:
I
(a)   Del mlo core ................Haydn
(b)   Se tu m'ami  ..............Pergolesl
(c)   Fortunio   ..................Messager
(d)   Paplllons   .................Chausson
(e)   Hymn au Solell   ............Georges
II
(a; The Soldier's Bride ...Rachmaninoff
(b)   My Native Land   .....Gretsrhaninotf
(c)   Nursery Song..........Moussorcskl
(d)   Parasha's Reverie and Dance.
sung In Russian......Moussorg.-ki
Bon jour Ma Belle, sung as encore.
Ill
(a)   Highland Joy   ..............Stickles
(b)   Auld Daddy Darkness               Homer
(c)   Don't Come in. Sir. Plea-.-          Scott
Id)  Fairy Tale                                   Silberta
(e)   My Sea ....                                    Bond
The Captain, sung as encore
"I wish today to commemorate the
splendid service given to the College by
a former Trustee and Director, Alexander
C. Wood, of New Jersey, who died last
Saturday night." said President Thomas,
speaking Monday morning In chapel.
"Mr. Wood resigned from the Board two
years ago when he reached the age of
seventy-five, after twenty years in the
service of the College, during fourteen of
which he was a member of the Committee
on Buildings and Grounds and for eight
years the chairman of the committee.
The College owes much to his fairness,
good judgment and expert knowledge of
building."
To the devotion, open-mindedness nnd
vision of Mr. Worn! and Mr. David Scull,
the first Chairman of the Building Com-
mittee. President Thomas attributed a
large part of Bryn Mawr's success In
architecture and in the placing of its
buildings.
Of all devoted and unselfish services
tin service rendered by the trustees of
colleges like Bryn Mawr is the most self-
sacrificing." President Thomas said. "At
Bryn Mawr we have been blessed from
the very beginning I can speak because
I hive known all of the trustees as well
as the founder of the college�I believe
that no college has had men of wider
vision connected with It. men with no
other ends to serve except the good of the
college."
' Interest in education�in the develop-
ment of one's own college first of all and
then of Other colleges, is one of the high-
est outside interests a business or a pro-
fessional man can have in the I'nlted
States. 'President Thomas said. "It Is
an inieT-Wrfyll of idealism. For many
mm .indVrelmeii n means the hope and
faith that the next generation will solve
the problems their generation has failed
to Bolve. It is an interest full of romance.
In our colleges today the knights of the
modern  world are  forging  their armor."
IAN HAY WILL SPEAK ON "VIC-
TORY AND BEYOND"
Lecture Saturday in Gymnasium
Major Ian Hay Beith, now on tour In
this country for the third time, will speak
in the gymnasium Saturday night at
eight  o'clock on "Victory and   Beyond?"
Travelling under his own management.
Major Beith. after covering expenses is
giving to war charities all the profits of
his lectures. From (his source he has
distributed in the last two years over
" among a dozen American and
British war relief organizations.
Major Beith was asked by the Y. M.
\ to write for American soldiers and
sailors visiting England a brief explana-
tion of some of the elements In English
life which they might not understand.
This article, which is given to each man
sent lo England, is reprinted In the
Ladies' Home Journal for January under
�le What You May Not Know
About I's."
The lecture is under the auspices ol
the class of 1920 for their Service Corps
Fund Tickets. SI and ITS for outsiders,
and f n and i.&u for members of the
college, may be had from Marian Or
f. Pembroke |