College News, 1916-11-01, Vol. 03, No. 05

              College News
Volume III.   No. 5
BRYN MAWR, PA., NOVEMBER 1, 19L6
Price 5 Cents
LANTERN   NIGHT  IN 1915
CALENDAR
Wednesday, November 1
9.30 p. m.�Mid-week meeting of the
C. A.   Leader. N. McFaden "17.
Thursday, November 2
7.30   p.   m.�Red   Cross   meets,   non-
resident room. Rockefeller.
Friday,  November 3
8.00 p. m.�Lantern Night.
Saturday, November 4
10.00 a. m � Varsity Hockey match vs.
Merion C. C.
4.30 p. m.�Political meeting in Taylor
Hall.
8.00 p. m � Dancing in the gymnasium.
Sunday, November 5
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker, C. Dodge
�18.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel.   Sermon by the Rev.
Henry Lubeck, D.D., of New York.
Monday, November 6
8.00 p. m � Political Rally in the gym-
nasium.
Election  Day�Tuesday,  November 7
Straw vote.
7.30   p.   m.�Glee   Club   practice,  first
and second sopranos.
8.30 p. m.�Altos.
Thursday, November 9
4.20 p. m.�Inter-class Hockey matches
begin.
Saturday, November 12
10.00  a.  m.�Varsity  Hockey vs. Ger-
mantown.
9.00 p. m.�Banner Night.
Saturday, November 18
8.00 p. m.�"China Night".   Meeting in
Taylor Hall.
Saturday, November 25
8.00 p. m.�Sophomore Play.
1919  NEWS COMPETITION
A competition for another editor on the
"News" from the Class of 1919 will begin
at once. Those who wish to compete will
please hand in their names to E. Granger
17. 35 Rockefeller Hall, not later than
Friday of this week.
FIFTY-TWO PER CENT FAIL FIR8T
GERMAN  ORAL
I.  Haupt  Receives  Merit
Out of 62 taking the first German oral
52.38 per cent failed, 46.19 per cent
passed and 1.42 per cent received merit.
19 of the 30 who passed have also passed
French, but 24 still have both to take.
I. Haupt received the only merit. Presi-
dent Thomas was In the oral on Friday
and Dean Schenk on Saturday. The other
two examiners were Dr. Jessen and Dr.
T. C. Brown.
Those who passed were: Beardwood,
Bird, Blodgett, Davis, Donchlan, Glenn,
Grace, Granger, H. Harris, L. Harris,
Haupt (merit), Henderson, Hinde, Hodge,
Hollla, Jameson, Jelliffe, Joachim, A. F.
Johnson, Levy, Litchfleld, Loeb, Mac-
Donald, Mac-Master. Rhoads, Sato, Ship-
ley. Smith, Westling, Willet.
Those who failed were: Allport, Cassel-
berry, Cline, Collins, Colter, Coulter,
Curry, Dizon, Dulles, Emerson, Foster,
Greenough, Hall, Holcombe, Iddings, E.
Johnson, Jopling, Kinsey, Malone, Mc-
Faden, Milne, O'Shea, Russell, Scatter-
good, Seelye. Stevens, Tattersfleld, Tut-
tle, Wilcox. Wildman, Willard, Worley,
Zimmerman.
Tbe record In German la a little better than
that last year. Since 1904 tbe nmsllest per
rent to fail has been 32.9a In 1906. and
the largest, 60%. In 1913. Tbe per cents of
failure In the flrat German oral for tbe last
four  years are:
1914    ..................   42.8%
1915    ..................   44
1916    ..................   5.11%
1917    ..................   52.3%
The smallest per cent of failure In the first
French   oral   sines   1904   has  been   12.5%   la |
1904. and the largest. 54%  la 1915.    The per j
cents of failure In  the last four years sre:
1914    ...................24.2%
1915   ...................S4.B%
�    ...........�.......3*.S^�
l�IT   ...................48.5%
VARSITY CRUSHES LANSDOWNE
High Score Due to Forwards Team Work
Signs of Successful Season
Team play and fight were responsible
for Varsity's 8-1 victory over Lansdowne
in the second game of tbe season last
Saturday. The visiting team, holding well
on tin- defensive and hitting hard, was a
much stronger aggregation than Haddon-
fleld, whom Bryn Mawr defeated the
week before. Lansdowne, however, was
outplayed in every department of attack
by the Varsity forwards. The speed and
unity of the forward line so early in the
season promise the development of a
great offence for the big November
games.
Four Goals in First Half
The game started off with a series of
rushes by Bryn Mawr, an exchange of full
back hits, and four successive corners in
Lansdowne territory. Lansdowne took
the ball out quickly, but failed to pass be-
yond the center of the field. Captain
Thompson at left fullback and H. Harris
at left half were the strength of the Bryn
Mawr defence.
Soon after the fourth corner L. Brown
passed across the goal from right wing
and G. Hearne at left inside shot the
cleanest goal of the game. Varsity
scored three more times in the first half.
C. Stevens, G. Hearne, and M. Tyler shot
the goals.
Lansdowne first threatened Bryn Mawr
when her right wing, Miss McMahon. took
the ball by M. Thompson and H. Harris
and passed in to tbe circle. M. Peacock,
right fullback for Bryn Mawr, stopped the
l-ansdowne line, hitting to M. Bacon at
center half who passed out of danger.
For a short time at the end of the half
Lansdowne took the offensive. R. Gat-
ling, Varsity goal, stopped a nice try from
left inside and V. Litchfleld at right half
checked a team rush which carried the
ball beyond both fullbacks Into the Bryn
Mawr   circle.      Mias   Katzrnsteln.    Bryn
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SONG BY B. M. PROFESSOR
STARTS  LANTERN NIGHT TRADITION
1890 First Class to Get Lanterns
LAST    INNOVATION    IN    1914
The custom of giving lanterns to the
entering class, the lantern symbolism,
and the name of the oldest student publi-
cation, "The Lantern", can all be traced
back to a song by Dr. E. Washburn Hop-
kins, former Professor of Greek at Bryn
Mawr and now teaching at Yale. The
fateful song was written to the tune of
the "Lone Fish Ball".
One line, "the only lantern In Bryn
Mawr", suggested to a member of the first
class, '89, the idea of the luntern as a
suitable emblem for the entering class.
In the fall of 1886 the Class of 1890 re-
ceived the first class lanterns. "By the
spring of 1889". says the "Fortnightly
Philistine", "It was considered so essen-
tial that every Bryn Mawr student should
have a lantern that each member of "89�
the only class that had had none�was
given a small silver lantern for a watch
charm".
i..int<'in giving was originally only an
incident In the impromptu entertainment
which the Sophomores gave the Fresh-
men. The first Sophomores put their
Freshmen through a rather unkind oral
quiz and afterwards presented them with
lanterns to light them along the strange
paths of learning. Later the lantern be-
came the College emblem and the quiz
dwindled to words of advice and finally
to the "Good Luck" of today. The
Sophomore entertainment, since !'l-
elaborate presentation of "Alice In Won-
derland", became Sophomore Play and
the series of stunts which tbe Freshmen
gave in return became the present Fresh-
men Show.
Cap  and   Gown   Night
Cap and Gown Night, or what is now
called Lantern Night, started when 190*
presented   "As   You   Like   If        It   was
given",    writes    Mrs.     Richard    Francis
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