College News, 1919-04-02, Vol. 05, No. 23

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The College News
Volume V.   No. 23
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1919
Price 5 Cent*
T. M. C. A. LEADER AROUSES BRYN MAWR
COMMUNITY SINGING
TO INTEREST   IN
Eager  Classes  Learn   Rhythmic
Movements for Leading
NEW TALENT COME8 TO LIGHT
Spirited Jailing to "Li'l Lita Jane"
and bouncing across the room proved a
novel means of self-expression in the
community singing classes led by Mr.
Robert Lawrence in the gymnasium
Thursday and Friday afternoons.
Movements of the hands and body In
3-4, 4-4, and 6-8 times were taught Thurs-
day afternoon and the class put through
special limbering up exercises.
Friday afternoon after a review of the
different times in which Mr. Lawrence
emphasized the importance of making
every movement rhythmical, even the
smile, the class took chairs and made an
audience. Six at a time, they were called
on the platform to lead "America" and
"The Battle Hymn of the -Republic" while
Mr. Lawrence and R. Relnhardt "19 picked
the best ones.   These were:
New Variations to Old Songs
Using a regular army slide, Mr. Law-
rence led a college sing Thursday night.
The program consisted of national an-
thems, folk songs, and popular army
songs. He added to the old favorites
several new ones. One parody to "K-k
katle," written by naval men in a training
station with no chance of getting near the
sea, was:
"N-N-navy, beautiful Navy,
You're your mother's pride and little
slater's joy.
When you go sailing inside your bath-
tub
Then they'll think you are a regular
sailor boy."
Another one, to "Smiles," was written
for sailors' sweetheart*:
"I've been out with  boys in khaki, out
with boys In olive drab,
I've been out with several aviators and
I found them the best I ever had,
I was once engaged to a lieutenant, and
I thought to him I could be true,
But 1 found the only one I cared for was
the boy In navy blue."
Variations in familiar songs were ob-
tained by shouting the "so" In "Pack up
your troubles," like a pistol shot, and
giving different inflections to the first two
"Ohs" In "Oh, how I hate to get up In the
morning."
Billy Sunday's famous "Brighten the
Corner" was revived as:
"Back to your corner. Kaiser Bill,
Back to your corner, Bill, you're ill!
The Yankee boys came over, and drove
your armies out,
' Back to your corner. Bill, you're out!"
The same program, cut In half by a
speech by Mr. Lawrence on Community
Singing, was used Friday night, after
which any song asked for was sung.
Forty of the students exhibited the
method of starting a song on the march,
and B. Taylor '11 was called out to lead
"America."
Sinking a Means of Self-Expression,
. Says Mr. Lawrence
VALUE 3HOWN  IN  STREET  SINGING
"Community singing makes people feel
alive by giving them a way In which to
express themselves," said Mr. Lawrence,
trainer of Y. M. C. A. army song leaders,
in a talk In the gymnasium Friday night,
following his classes In Community Sing-
ing.
Mr. Lawrence showed the usefulness of
singing as a means of approach in social
settlement work by telling of his own ex-
periences in New York. Street singing,
which he began by dropping a sheet con-
taining printed words of songs from a
tenement house window, was a great suc-
cess, and crowds thronged there, regard-
less of December weather.
The welfare workers took it up and
sent out singers under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. 0. A. These
worked especially with children, taking
people along to dramatize the songs and
to play games with them afterward.
The Neighborhood Music Clubs grew
out of the street singing. These aim to
combine folk Bongs with popular tunes
with educational music, ;in<l to train the
taste of the people.
Community Singing in Factories
Mr. Lawrence showed that the useful-
ness of community singing extended to
work in factories. He tried singing at the
noon hour in Wrigley's candy factory
with 200 girls between 16 and 90. They
began indifferently, but In ten minutes
they had become so enthusiastic that they
could yell "Hello, France," with the spirit
of the troops themselves.
During the war Mr. Ijiwrence trained
in New York 300 song leaders, 20 of them
women, to send to France. Twenty thou
sand song leaders in the army camps, and
probably more in France, were trained
under the standardized system.
Bryn Mawr Is the only woman's college
Mr. Lawrence has visited, and the first
one to have community singing classes.
"You have wonderful material," he said,
"and I wish I could help you work it up"
LITTLE     CHRISTIANS     CONDEMNED
BY  BISHOP  WOODCOCK
"The littleness of little Christians is
BOM damnable than all the wickedness
of the evil," said Bishop Woodcock of
Kentucky last Sunday as he attacked
those who cannot meet Christ's challenge.
"Follow me." and who yet call themselves
Christians.
"Whatever we lack," he said, "we need
not be degraded. We have knowledge,
but have we desire?" Here Bishop Wood-
cock exploded the fallacy that "knov.1-
edge is power." Colleges may graduate
without educating, he declared, for some
alumni always go out purposeless, con
tent to hear the call, yet not respond.
There are two kinds of education, that
which others give you. and that which
you give yourself, and the conscientious
cannot turn from the second kind
"You are the great modern problem."
declared Bishop Woodcock to his congre-
gation. "How shall you transmute Chris-
tianity Into personal belief and Influ-
ence*"
AUDITORIUM   MAY  C08T  $90,000
ARCHITECT'S ROUGH  E8TIMATE
Ninety thousand dollars Is the estimate
for the auditorium of the Students' Build-
ing made by the architect of the Wash-
ington State Capitol at Olympia, who was
consulted unofficially by an alumna. He
set (150,000 as the probable cost for the
whole building In the Cope and Stewart-
son plans, under present labor conditions.
Alumnae Promise Gifts
An alumna has promised a gift of black
velvet curtains for the stage,�Instead of
the time-honored red flannel now in use,
�If the building is erected this year. The
Class of 1900 is giving the fireplace.
LANTERN  SLIDE8 TO BE
SHOWN AT SILVER BAY  VESPERS
Miss LeSoeur, Grace Tyler and Helen
James Will Speak
Silver Bay will be shown In lantern
slides and described in speeches al a spe-
cial Vespers service Sunday at 5.45. The
lantern slides will represent a number of
typical scenes from the ministers' foot-
ball game to the swimming meet. The
speakers secured are Miss Margaret Le-
Soeur, Grace Tyler, and Helen James '21.
Miss LeSoeur has been working under
the Y. W. C. A. for a number of years
and has been at Silves Bay both years
that Bryn Mawr has had a delegation
there.
Grace Tyler, Vassar. '17, a sister of
K. Tyler, '19, has been at Silver Bay
three years. She spoke here two years
ago, when Bryn Mawr sent a delegation
to Silver Bay for the first time in six
years. She graduated in Social Service
work, and since then has had much ex-
perience In industrial workers' camps
Bryn Mawr Is allowed a delegation of
25 people. These will be chosen from
students who sign a paper which will be
put up on the C. A. bulletin board In
Taylor.
LIEUT.-COLONEL BINGHAM TO
SPEAK ON PERSONNEL WORK
�The Search for Talent among Three
Million Soldiers," will be the subjeci .if
a lecture \by Lieutenant-Colonel M. V.
Bingham. in Taylor Hall tomorrow after-
noon at 4.15. under the auspices of the
I'sychological Club. Colonel Bingham, as
executive secretary of the committee on
the classification of personnel, directed
the trade tests given to soldiers to pick
out their special abilities. Two Bryn
Mawr graduates, Sophie Ruhl '11 and M.
Free '15, have been working under Colo
nel Bingham.
Colonel Bingham is head of the depart-
ment for training teachers at the Car-
negie Institute of Technology.
90 PER CENT PASS THIRD GERMAN
Twenty of the twenty-two Seniors who
took the third German examination
passed Two will take the fourth German
examination In May. as compared with
eight who are left for French. One
Senior has both German and French. The
results of the third German examination
are:
Passed: M. Bettman. C. Everett. M.
France. R. Hamilton. H. Huntting. M.
Janeway, H. Karns. M. Lafferty. E Ma
crum. E. Macdonald, M. Mackensie. E.
Marquand. E Mats, D. Peters, M. Rem
Ington. A. Stiles. H. Tappan, 8. Taylor. D.
Walton. R Wheeler.
Palled    H   Collins. M. 8. Munford
Trustees Offer Prise For Essay
Hundred Dollars for Best Paper on China
and   World   Peace  Conference
Mr. William C. Dennis, trustee and di-
rector of Bryn Mawr College and at pres-
ent legal adviser to the Chinese Govern-
ment, has offered a prize of $100 for the
best essay on the subject of China and
the World Peace Conference. The fac-
ulty has decided that the essay shall be
from 5000 to 7000 words In length, and
that each competitor shall submit the
general plan of her essay as soon as pos-
sible to the committee of the faculty
which has been appointed to read the es-
says and award the prize.
The committee, of which the members
are Professor Fenwick, Professor Marion
Parris Smith, and Professor Crandall,
will announce next week the date for the
completion of the essays.
BEAUX' STRATAGEM TOBEGIVEN
BY SENIORS SATURDAY NIGHT
Farquhar's Comedy Has Had Long
Stage History
Queen Anne's England, when a village
Inn was more often than not the head
quarters for highwaymen and gentlemen
adventurers, is reproduced In "The Beaux'
Stratagem," to be given by the Seniors
on Saturday to 1920. First produced at
the Theatre Royal In London In 1707, It is
the last and best of a series of lively
comedies by Captain George Farquhar.
The play was written and acted within
six weeks, under pressure of poverty and
illness, while Captain Farqubar was
lodged in a wretched London garret.
Before he had completed the second act,
Farquhar felt the approach of death, but
lived to hear of the great success of the
first performance.
Since Its opening night, when such
names as Robert Wilks, Colly Clbber, and
Mrs. Oldfleld figure in tho cast, many
great actors and actresses have from time
to time appeared In "The Beaux' Strata-
gem." The role of Archer Is said to have
he. n one of David Garrlck's best parts,
while Peg Wofflngton Is among those who
have played Mrs. Sullen, the discon-
tented wife.
The most recent revival was at the
l�ndon Art Theatre in February. The
Seniors have made their own acting edi-
tion of the play since none could be
found.
D. Chambers and F. Allison Gentlemen
Adventurers
Frances Allison and Marguerite Krantz.
both of whom appeared In 1919't 8opho
more play, will take leading parts Satin
dag night. Miss Allison will play Archer,
the gentleman adventurer who, disguised
as the footman of his friend Almwell
(played by Dorothea Chambers '19), sets
out with him to marry a fortune. Miss
Krantz will take the part of Boniface, the
sly landlord of the Inn at which Archer
and Almwell put up. Boniface is said to
have been drawn from real life and has
set the type for a number of landlords in
English comedy. The fascinating, unhap-
pily married Mrs. Sullen will be played
by Helene Johnson. Marlon Moseley will
be Mrs. Sullen'* sister Dorinda; and Au-
gusta Blue, the landlord's daughter.
Cherry.
No admission will be charged. The
hour of the performance has been
changed from $ o'clock to 7.30 oa account
of the play'* length
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