College News, 1917-04-04, Vol. 03, No. 22

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 22
BRYN MAWR, PA., APRIL 4, 1917
Price 5 Cents
UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION VOTES AGAINST
SUBSTITUTION OF PREPAREDNESS COURSE
FACULTY STAND
BEHIND STUDENTS
"PUNCH" MIRRORS WAR SPIRIT I FIRST PREPAREDNESS MEETING
SHOWS UNANIMOUS SUPPORT
President Thomas Speaks In Chapel
President  Thomas' address  in  chapel
last Wednesday reads In part:
I have asked you all to come to chapel
this morning because there are some
things we may well consider at this time
when the greatest battle of all the world
is being fought for Justice and freedom
and all that civilization holds dear. Now
that the President of the United States
has called congress together to consider
whether we too must take our part in this
great struggle it seems to me it is espe-
cially fitting for us to talk over what we
are doing here as a college to foster the
growth of liberal ideas. First of all I
should like to assure you of our sympathy
as a faculty with the wish of the students
to try to prepare themselves to do what |
they can do to help their country in this I
time of need. . . . Women in muni-)
tion factories, women telegraphing, worn-!
en sending wireless messages, women
creating by their labor and sending for-1
ward to the front supplies of armies,
women physicians and nurses caring for
the wounded, women driving ambulances
behind the fighting lines are as important
as the soldiers in the trenches. Every
woman that does it frees a man for the
front.
B.  M.  Must Teach  Liberal Thoughts
"Now   what   are   we   doing   at   Bryn
Mawr College to teach you freedom?    I
always think of you, and of all students
properly    protected    in    their   academic j
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OR. CRAY PRAISES CARTOONS
That the English Punch reflects the
war spirit of the nation and the changes
which it has gone through in the last
three years, was the point Dr. Gray em-
phasized in speaking before the History
Club last Thursday on "Punch in War
Time" . The cartoons are noteworthy, he
said, for their own cleverness, irrespec-
tive of the captions added to them.
Dr. Gray passed around copies of Punch
during his talk to Illustrate his points and
to call attention to the high standard of
drawing. Both the cartoons and the jeuz
d'esprit which they illustrate are usually
far superior to those which appear in Life,
he said.
Some of the well-known artists who
draw for Punch are Bernard Partridge,
L. Raven Hill, and Frank Reynolds.
IAN HAY SPEAKS IN FAVOR
OF COMPULSORY SERVICE
GLEE CLUB PERFORMANCE
BETTER THAN LAST YEAR
Satire of "Patience" Holds Attention
ACTING   INTELLIGENT   AND   FINISHED
"Patience", a musical comedy, written by
Gilbert and Sullivan In 1881. a aatlre on tbe
school of the Aesthete*, which waa flourishing In
Ixmdon literary society at the time. Sir
�aginald Btinthorne. the fleshly poet, aatlrliea
the  Aesthetic  leader.   Oacar Wilde.
<N>lonel  Calverley......Helen  B,  Hunttlng '19
Major Murgatroyd.......Margaret 8. Cary '20
Lieut, the Duke of Dunatable.
Theodoala Haynea "19
Officers of  Dragoon   Guard*
ReulnnUI   Iiunthorne____Prances  H.   Puller '19
A fleshly poet
Archibald   Groarenor.....Angela T.  Moore '19
An Idyllic poet
Ohorua of Office� of Dratcoon Guards
The I�dy Angela____Margaret G. Hutchlna '20 1
The Lady Saphlr...........Rvelyn Wight '-'n
Tbe !.ady Rlla  ......Katharine L Clifford '20
The Lady Jane.....Dorothea N. Chamber* '19 I
Kapturoua Maldena
Patience, a dairy maid___Thalia H   Smith '17
Ohorua of Rapturoua Maidens
Hpr/Hally Contributed
Since the Glee Club contracted the �
pleasant habit of Gilbert and Sullivan
three years ago, it is noticeable that each
production Is an improvement on the pre-
ceding. Although the satire of "Patience"
is extremely personal and the interest
chiefly academic its deservedly enthusi-
astic reception Friday and Saturday
nights last week shows that Its humour
pricks deeper than the passing phase of'
Oscar Wilde and the esthetes with their
opposing school of platltudinlzere.
"Patience" demands more intelligence
than either "Pinafore" or the "Mikado"
and this production was distinctly intelll-
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Author-Captain Against Volunteering
Captain John Beith, of the Argyle and
Sutherland Highlanders, alias Ian Hay,
author of "The First Hundred Thousand",
who lectured at Bryn Mawr in February,
declared absolutely, in speaking last
week at the British Societies' Bazaar in
Philadelphia, against the volunteer sys-
tem of raising an army.
"It sacrifices the best men for the
worst", be said, "and will never prove
successful. You In America should not
make the same mistake that we across
the water fell into. Universal service is
the sole key to any military situation
such as confronts you now.
"And In many other ways our mistakes
should work to your profit. England sent
20,000 skilled mechanics to bleed and die
in the trenches of France when they
should have remained at home and
worked to keep the army on the continent
supplied with arms and ammunition'*.
Three things are essential for America
to do as she is about to enter the war,
Captain Beith pointed out�keeping suffi-
cient equipment on hand, taking an Indus-
trial census, and giving every man pre-
liminary military training and service.
One of the three essentials for prepar-
edness that Ian Hay named, an industrial
census, is now being taken. A census of
technical men has been begun through
the Bureau of Mines of the Department of
the Interior. The Public Ledger states
that 25,000 letters have been sent "to min-
ing engineers, chemists, metal and coal
mining companies, requesting the recipi-
ents to state their qualifications and ex-
perience and how and where in case of
emergency they could be of most service
to the country".
Committee Appointed to Investigate
The preliminary meeting of the Under-
graduate Association, held a week ago
yesterday, voted unanimously to do "all
In its power to help In the cause of pre-
paredness and to fit its members to be of
service In time of war".
Two specific motions were passed, to
take over, at her suggestion, Mrs. Smith's
card catalogue of student's possible re-
serve training and complete it. and to
authorize the chair to appoint a commit-
tee to investigate the classes that might
be given here, their probable cost, and
other allied matters. The committee ap-
pointed was E. Houghton '18, chairman;
E. Dabney '19, M. Marquand '19, and M.
L. Thurman '19. The committee was
given two days for their work.
A motion was laid on the table to the
effect that lnterclass match games be
given up to leave more time for prepared-
ness work. It was thought that this mo-
tion would have to be definitely decided
by the Athletic Association.
COLLEGES  PLEDGE TO  WILSON
Signed by Heads of Eight Colleges
ACADEMIC WORK
NOT TO BE LIGHTENED
.Students Do Not Wish Courses Abolished
ACTION INDEFINITE AS YET
The note signed by the heads of the
eight largest women's colleges in the
country speaking for their respective fac-
ulties was handed to President Wilson on
Saturday by his two daughters, Miss
Wilson and Mrs. Sayre, both graduates of
Goucher College. This note, pledging the
colleges' loyal services in the event of
war, was read in chapel on March 16th by
President Thomas. It was signed by the
heads of Barnard, Goucher. Mt. Holyoke.
Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and
Bryn Mawr.
Etching Exhibition in Town
Loaned by the Print Club
The exhibit of prints and etchings
shown two weeks ago at the Print Club
of Philadelphia for members only Is now
shown publicly at the Hale Building,
Chestnut and Juniper Streets. It contains
the work of Earl Horter, William Sim-
mons, A. A. Blum and others.
BUSINESS   COMPETITION   CLOSED
F.  Clarke  and  C.  Holds  Make  New*
Frances Clarke '19 and C. Hollls '19
have been elected to the Business Board
of the News as a result of the competition
which closed this week. They will not
regularly come on the board until the end
of April. The competition which began
the end of February consisted In getting
new subscriptions and advertisements.
A cut will be made in the freshman edi-
torial competition after the vacation.
A majority of fifty-seven students ex-
pressed themselves against the propoeed
substitution of preparedness courses for
-seven and a half hours of academic work
in secret ballot at the Undergraduate As-
sociation meeting lapt Thursday. These
motions were both In the form of a sense
of the meeting and were the result of the
understanding that the faculty would be
guided by a vote of a large majority of
the students in the question of modifying
the courses.
E. Houghton '18, who reported for the
committee appointed to Investigate what
classes could be given at Bryn Mawr, first
explained the conditions upon which the
faculty were willing to substitute prepar-
edness courses for academic work. There
were four stipulations, that the under-
graduates should be practically unani-
mous in desiring It, that they should give
up to It the time now spent In dramatics
(except junior-senior supper play which
is nearly completed) and extra athletics,
that the courses should be registered and
advised as usual, and that they should fol-
low the line of work already taken and be
along one subject only.
Substitute Courses Offered
Three courses which Miss Houghton
said the faculty would allow substituted,
were a course In farming which Dr. Gray
has offered to give, one in weights and
measures for those who have had minor
physics, and one In colloquial languages
which would fit a student to act as cen-
sor. Other courses which might be taken
in place of regular work are motor re-
pairing, banking, dietetics and home care
of the sick, a Red Cross course, and a
course In emergency aid given by Miss
Kingsbury, which would equip those who
took It to do relief work with charities,
the care of soldiers' families, and work
shops.
Mrs,  8mlth   Names   Alternatives
Dr. Marion  Parrls Smith, admitted  to
speak   by   a   vote   of   the   Association.
stressed the fact that the question of pre-
I paredness was one  for the students  to
I decide.    Whatever action they took, she
said, the faculty would endorse.
The two actions open to the students,
she said, were to give up the possible
seven and a half hours' work and substi-
tute courses bearing directly upon pre-
paredness under the conditions named,
or to change existing courses to meet as
far as possible practical. Immediate de-
mands. Besides the courses already de-
scribed, she mentioned wireless and te-
legraphy for students majoring in science
or for those who have had minor physics,
and economics with some changes.
If the regular work were given up for
these courses. Mrs. Smith computed that
between now nnd tbe close of college
there would be 62 hours to spend solely
on preparedness.
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