College News, 1918-11-21, Vol. 05, No. 08

              The College News
Volume V.   No. 8
BRYN MAWR, PA., NOVEMBER 21, 1918
Price 5 Cents
ROLLER SKATING REVIVED BY
VOTE OF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Schedule for Winter Exercise
Roller skating, after a lapse of popu-
larity dating since 1913. has been revived
as a general form of exercise. Definite
action to re-introduce it was taken at a
meeting of the Athletic Association last
Thursday. One hour of rolling skating,
under the rules of the Gymnasium De-
partment, counts as one hour of required
exercise.
Conscripted drill, like conscripted war
work, is to be abolished.
Required gymnastic classes will begin
after Thanksgiving. During the winter
four periods of some form of physical
training, which will include outdoor drills,
dancing, apparatus, folk dancing, fencing,
or organized sports, and one period of
other exercise will be required. This
fifth period may be taken in a shortened
period of quick walking. It is planned
to have a college drill on Wednesdays at
4.15 and company or squad drills on other
days at this time.
PIRATE CREW KIDNAPS 1922
FOR SOPHOMORE DANCE
Skull and Cross-bones Over Gym
At the Sign of the Scarlet Moth, where
brown ale flowed from copper casks
among a gory pirate crew, the Freshmen
founu Irt Satuiiias that .hey hud been
kidnapped and were many salt leagues
from twentieth century Bryn Mawr. The
Sophomore dance, more elaborately and
ingeniously staged than by previous
classes, proved as colourful a spectacle
to 1922 as Banner Show itself.
Pewter glittered from the lon*c bar at
one end of the gym, where apples were
piled, bright cups clinked, and many a
mariner stopped to broach a cask and
Jest with the graceful bar-maid, M. K.
Southall. At the other end logs blazed
with red paper in a huge stone chimney-
piece, lighted by red lanterns, and ringed
with settles, made from gym tables
turned end-wise. Black skins were deep
underfoot around the hearth.
The Skull and Cross-bones, quartered
with ramping lions and galleons sailing
on the Spanish Main, lined the walls.
Through the small panes of the Swedish
ladder hung against the wall could be
seen a distant castle over the blue.
Pirate Passion Wins Applause
In the midst of the revelry, four roister-
ing blades rolled up to the bar and de-
manded, "Come, wench, we want a drink;
we come ashore through a fearful gale."
With brimming cups they leaned over the
tables, intent on their cards and dice.
Rivalling to express their devotion in ap-
propriate phrases from countless college
songs, M. P. Klrkland and B. Ferguson be-
sought the bar-maid to be theirs. M.
FooL the cynic, stroked drooping mus-
tachloe, and stretching back in his chair,
commented as M. P. Pirkland, snarling in
disappointed rage, cursed, "Hlreusousai
sol deine!"
After a mad Jig by P. Ostroff, urged on
by hoarse shouts and clapping, the pi rail*
bade farewell to the Freshmen In a really
memorable song by H. Hill, ending,
"You've seen  our  canvas reflecting the
moon.
But called It  whltecapa. it vanished so
So now you'll know us, though moon-
down calls each wandering shade.
And to oblivion our black hulled galloon
then must fade."
ALUMNA SUFFER DEFEAT
BY VARSITY, 3-0
Eight of Their Eleven Former Varsity
Players
Having failed to score at all in the first
half Varsity pulled up in the escond and
beat the Alumnae 3-0 in their annual
hockey game last Wednesday. The play-
ing throughout was clean and fairly
speedy, but it was not until the second
half that Varsity showed Its true fighting
mettle.
P. Branson '16, former Varsity hockey
captain and president of the Athletic As-
sociation, captained the Alumnae team.
Other old Varsity players were M. Bacon
18, who captained the team last year
through an undefeated season, J. Katzen-
steln '06, A. Hawkins '07, M. Kirk "10, H.
Kirk '14, A. W. Vorys '16, and M. Wlllard
'17.    Miss   Katzenstein,   who   plays   on
Lanadowne's team, and Miss Hawkins, a
member of the Germantown eleven, have
played for several years on All-Philadel-
phia.
No Score in First Half
During the first half the ball was swept
continually back and forth between the
'.wo circles. Varsity's forward line, play-
ing well together and usually on the of-
fensive, made two goals, neither of which
could be counted because of technical
fouls made Just before they were shot.
Mrs. Vorys '16, A. Hawkins '07, and L.
Wlndle '07 proved a strong defense for
the Alumnae, stopping and hitting out
many shots by Varsity.
Varsity Begins to Fight
The second half started well for Var-
sity with a goal by A. Stiles '19, shot after
M. Tyler '19 had dribbled up the alley.
Again the ball traveled up toward the
Alumnae goal, carried by G. Hearne '19,
but no score was made. After an Alum-
nae spurt by M. Wlllard '17 and J. Katzen-
tein '06, stopped by E. Donohue '22. Miss
Hearne took the ball down the field again,
and her shot across the circle was shoved
Into the goal by Captain Tyler. A period
of uneven fighting followed, during which
Mrs. Vorys made one especially difficult
stop. Then, after a long dribble by Miss
Katzenstein, Varsity took possession of
the ball once more and scored another
goal, made by D. Rogers '20. Time was
called shortly after, with the ball in
Varsity's hands In the enemy territory.
Line-up:
Varsity                                   Alumnae
M. Tyler '19 (c.)�. L. W. .J. Katzenstein '06
M. Tyler "22....... L. I.   .. .H. Schwartx '18
D. Rogers "20�....  C. F........M. Kirk'10
A.  Stiles '19�.....R. I.....M. Wlllard "17
G. Hearne '19.... R. W........H. Kirk'14
E.  Biddle '19.....L. H.  .. .A. Hawkins '07
M.Carey'20.....  C. H......M. Bacon '18
B.  Weaver '20..... R. H.....P. Branson '16
K. Cauldwell'20..  L. F......L. Wlndle'07
E. Donohue '22.... R. F. .E. Corstvet, Grad
D. Clark '20....... G.....  A. M. Vorys '16
Referee�Miss Applebee.
Time of halves�20 min.
VARSITY  DRAMATICS POSTPONED
The date of Varsity dramatics has been
indefinitely postponed on account of com-
plications In the choice of plays. The
Shoes That Danced and Three Pills In a
Bottlt have been given up. and no substi-
tutes selected as yet. Rehearsals for The
Merry Death have started The cast of
the play has been chosen, but not yet
continued by the office.
FOUNDER OF "COLLEGE NEWS" GETS
OUT PEACE EXTRA IN 16 MINUTES
Had  Papers on  Street by 3.08 A. M.
Just 16 minutes after she had received
the "Flash" telegram, "Armistice signed,"
at 2.52 o'clock. Monday morning, Isabel
Foster '15, telegraph editor of the Water-
bury Republican, had an "extra" for sale
on the streets. This was at 3.08 A. M.,
twenty-three minutes after the news was
announced by the State Department at
Washington.
Miss Foster is the rounder and first
managing editor of the College News.
After graduating from Bryn Mawr she at-
tended the Columbia School of Journal-
Ism and later took a position on the Re-
porter, Berlin, N. H. She has been on
the Waterbury Republican since last
spring. Miss Foster's home Is in Ports-
mouth. N. H.
HON. P. W. WILSON SPEAKS ON
AMERICA AS LEADER IN YEARS
OF RECONSTRUCTION
Friendship Between Great Britain and
The United States Necessary
"The next few years are to decide how
long the United States and the British
Empire are to be friends," said Mr. P.
W. Wilson, correspondent of The London
Daily News and Member of Parliament,
who spoke in Taylor last Friday night,
instead of Colonel Evans, who was de-
tained in New York.
The heritage of mistress of the seas
and first world power, according to Mr.
Wilson, seems to have passed from Great
Britain to the United States, who is
richer now than before the war, while
England has spent between one-half and
one-third of her total wealth in this war,
raising forty billion dollars and paying
one out of every three dollars for taxes.
The financial center of the world has
passed from London to New York.
Added to this expenditure, England has
supplied ninety million tons of coal and
ninety-six million tons of explosives and
has felt the tremendous industrial strug-
gle accompanying such an output; she
has lost two thousand merchant vessels,
she has lost one million men and has had
two and three-quarters million casualties;
she has suffered from the pressure of the
food shortage and has still sheltered five
hundred thousand Belgian and French
refugees.
"If England takes these matters with
a cheerful countenance, she hopes to have
the reward of a spiritual friendship with
the United States, which Is needed to es-
tablish the common standard of civiliza-
tion," Mr. Wilson said.
Mr. Wilson's own home was under air
raids twenty or thirty times, during
which he and his wife put the two young-
est children under the dining-room table
while they "tried to be as funny as pos-
sible."
Charles Dickens founded the London
Daily News, on which Mr. Wilson Is cor-
respondent.
SERVICE CORPS PLEDGES LEAVE
LARGE PROPORTION OF CLASS
QUOTAS STILL TO BE RAISED
The results of the Service Corps pi-
own out  last   week   in   relation   to the
cla*B quotas are:
To Be
Quota.    Pledged.    Raised.
Graduates   ....   $500        $139.00      $361.00
1919                    1.36        10*8.00        488.O0
1920.......  1164    716 50   467.50
1921                         1871   1U9.09
1919                         1618   1039.88   608.11
MR. NICHOLS TO INTERPRET
YOUNGER BRITISH POETS
One of Oxford Elizabethans    fcj
"One of the Three Musketeers" is the
name given in a recent article In the
Literary Digest to Mr. Robert Nichols,
the young British war poet, who will
speak here tomorrow evening.
Though Mr. Nichols had been at col-
lege less than a year when the war broke
out, he was already among the "young
Oxford Elizabethans," a group of poets
of the younger generation. It is because
he comes as an interpreter of these�
many of whom have fallen In battle�that
Mr. Nichols sometimes alludes to him-
self as an "Ambassador of the Dead."
The Impression he creates, according to
the New York Evening Post, is that of "a
strangely aged boy, walking slowly and
with a cane, referring to notes lest his
memory go back on him, and with that
peculiar shell-shocked look on his face
with which most of us are not yet ac-
quainted."
Since wounds and shell-shock removed
Mr. Nichols from active service, he has
been working for the British Government
on light duty. He is at present writing a
brief history of the sappers as the result
of a visit to the Ypres salient.
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The lecture will be In Taylor at eight
o'clock. The English Club, under whose
auspices Mr. Nichols Is speakln? will
charge admission for the benefit if the
Service Corps, 50 cents and 75 cents for
members of the College, 75 cents and one
dollar for outsiders.
1909's  "SUNNY  JIM,"  JUST
RETURNED FROM FRANCE,
SPEAKS IN CHAPEL
Task Was to Get News of Missing
18 RETURNING WITH F. BROWNE '09,
NEW SERVICE CORPS MEMBER
Speaking in chapel last Thursday. Shir-
ley Putnam '09, one of the first Red
Cross searchers, told of the overseas
work of the Red Cross Casualty Bureau.
Miss Putnam came from France In Au-
gust, and returns this month with more
searchers, recruited during her stay.
Frances Browne '09, President of Self-
Government here her Senior year, will
accompany her as a member of the Serv-
ice Corps. Miss Putnam was 1909's
"Sunny Jim," President of the English
Club, and winner of the George W. Childs
Essay Prize.
At first a nurses' aide, she transferred
to the Casualty Bureau In March and was
sent to a hospital in Lorraine, while her
companion searcher, M. G. Brownell '15,
went nearer the front to Toul. Miss Put-
nam was to get news of the "missing"
from their wounded comrades and send it
home to anxious relatives. Armed with
lists of missing and the admissions list
of the hospital, she told a mystified ('. O.
her intentions, and managed to identify,
on her first round, twelve missing men.
members of a patrol seen before the at-
tack by one of the hospital patients.
It was her duty also to write details to
the parents of the men who had died In
the hospital.
Telling of one of the first reunions of
Bryn Mawr workers abroad. Miss Putnam
said that they sang so hard that they
brought down an air raid.
The canteen run  by  Cynthia  Weeeaa
'09 Is so  fine.  Miss  Putnam  aald.  that
General Pershlng sent for pictures of It
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