College News, 1917-01-24, Vol. 03, No. 14

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 14
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 24, 1917
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday, January 24
9.00 a. m.�Mid-year examinations be-
gin.
Saturday,   January  27
8.00 p. m.�Moving pictures in the gym-
nasium for the benefit of the Endowment
Fund, arranged by 1919.
Sunday, January 28
6.00 p. m� Vespers. Speaker, C. M. K.
Applebee.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
William Sullivan, D.D., of the Unitarian
Church of All Souls, New York.
Saturday, February 3
11.00 a. m.�Meeting of the Alumnae As-
sociation in Taylor Hall
Wednesday,  February 7
9.00 a. m.�Second Semester begins.
7.30 p. m.�Bible Class.    Speaker, Dr.
Mutch.     Mission   Class.     Speaker,   Ryu
Sato '17.
Friday, February 9th
8.00 p. m.�Lecture in the gymnasium
by Alfred Collins, Esq.
Saturday, February 10
8.30 p. m.�Performance of "David Oar-
rick" by the Class of 1913 for the benefit
of the Endowment Fund.
Sunday, February 11
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker, M. M.
Carey '20.
Saturday, February 24
8.00 p. m.�Freshman Show.
$50  MADE  BY  1919
Second  Movie  Show  Draws Crowd
THIRD  SHOW  SATURDAY
The second moving-picture show under
the auspices of 1919 in the gymnasium
last Saturday cleared $50 for the Endow-
ment Fund. A third show will be given
next Saturday.
Piano and drum of the Sophomore Or-
chestra supplied music for dancing before
the show began, and supplemented the
films in approved "movie" fashion.
Pathe Current Events showed scenes
from both the Eastern and Western thea-
tres of war, the preparations of the stu-
dents at Carlisle University for the
presidential inauguration, and other
scenes of present day interest.
Current Events from Simp City, Texas,
and Soupbone, Minnesota, as shown by
the "Boob Weekly", an animated cartoon,
drew enthusiastic applause. Another car-
toon, "Hard, Cold Winter", chilled the au-
dience to the bone.
"The Bugler of Algiers", a film en-
dorsed by Sir Gilbert Parker, closed the
program as the feature of the evening.
It was the tale of an Evangeline of the
war of 1871. The most interesting scenes
were those showing her Zouave brother
and lover fighting in Algiers.
PETITION TO TRU8TEES RESCINDED
Self-Gov Adopts Executive  Board's
Amendment to Social Engagement Ruling
HOT DISCUSSION  PRECEDES ACTION
The most striking aspects of last
Wednesday's Important Self-Government
meeting, called to reconsider the previous
week's vote to petition the Trustees of
Bryn Mawr to strike out of the Self-Gov-
ernment regulations Resolution I, regard-
ing social engagements with men of the
faculty, were: first, the Association's
unanimous vote to rescind the motion to
petition the Trustees; second, the Execu-
tive Board's motion that Resolution XI be
amended to read that "Students shall
have no social engagements with the fac-
ulty and staff except as determined by
a liberal interpretation of the Executive
Board subject to the approval of the As-
sociation Bitting as a legislative body";
and third, the final passage of this motion
and its adoption as a resolution. The dis-
cussion was unusually well ordered and
animated.
C. Stevens '17, president of the Asso-
ciation, opened the meeting by explaining
that the reconsideration of the petition
was the first business to be dealt with and
that if the petition were rescinded the As-
sociation could then consider the four
possible solutions of the question. These
were enumerated as (1) the Board's
amendment (given above), (2) that Reso-
lution XI stand as amended at the last
meeting (that students make no social
engagements with unmarried men of the
faculty), (3) that Resolution XI be struck
out. (4) that Resolution XI be adopted
as it stood before last week's amendment
(that students make no social engage-
ments with men of the faculty). This
order of business was followed.
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MOVIES  OF  WILD  ANIMALS
Mr.   Alfred   Collins   Will   Tell    How   He
Crossed the Andes
A  NEW  WAY TO  PAY OLD DEBTS
Rockefeller Hall has become a zoo
or a toy shop�and the Freshmen have
found a new way to raise money for the
Endowment Fund. Those returning from
Chapel Sunday evening were confronted
by a veritable jungle of "wild animals I
have known". Stretching the length of
two corridors beasts of every description
and manufacture, from wooden whales to
woolly rabbits, gated meekly at their
owners pleading to be redeemed for a
penny. The Endowment Fund was raised
fl.M by this unusual assemblage
Mr. Alfred M. Collins, who will speak
Friday evening, February 9th, In the Gym-
nasium, on "Across South America", Is a
hunter and explorer of some note. His
! reels are made from his own photographs.
His famous collection of game was exhib-
ited in the Merlon Cricket Club at Haver-
ford, and he is now building a house for it
across from the Infirmary. He goes to
Africa this spring.
Mr. Collins was sent to South America
on the Collins-Day South American Expc-
dition by the Field Museum in Chicago
and the Museum of Natural History in
1 New York. Mr. B. Garnett Day and a
naturalist from each.museum, were the
other members of the party.
The expedition started in 1914 from
Mollendo. on the west coast of Peru,
crossed the Andes and travelled down the
Amazon to the coast, reaching civilization
in the spring of 1915. This trip was made
through the Jungle, 4000 miles, in the
midst of the rainy season, when most of
the ground was inundated.
The moving pictures which Mr. Collins
. will give, were taken by himself. On ac-
count of the moisture it Is very difficult
to preserve negatives and these are al-
most the only ones which have come out
of that country.
Mr. Collins was on the original com-
| mlttee of the Community Center and is a
member of the Main Line Citizens' Asso-
ciation.
WALTER DE LA MARE LECTURES
ON  MAGIC  IN  POETRY
Rupert Brooke Described�His Work and
Personality
READS    SEVERAL   OF   OWN    POEMS
"He came, you saw, he conquered". So
Mr. Walter de la Mare, who spoke Friday
on "Magic In Poetry" under the auspices
of the English Club, said of his friend
Rupert Brooke. In spite of the title of
the lecture, the most interesting part was
Mr. de la Mare 's account of his friend.
He is in this country to raise money for
the Rupert Brooke Memorial. After the
lecture he read several of his own poems.
Mr. de la Mare confessed at the outset
that poetry and magic could not be
closely defined. "Mere words are not
poetry", he said. "All the best words are
In Webster. Poetry is the accord of
thought and feeling". The magic in poetry
has a purely personal meaning, and we
can only get the magic In poetry by living
what we read as the poet lives what he
writes. "This magic puts back into the
realm of the mysterious much that Sci-
ence has taken out of it".
Rupert Brooke a Disciple of John Donne
In Introducing Rupert Brooke as the
chief matter of his lecture, Mr. de la Mare
spoke of him as the disciple of John
Donne in his self-revelation. "His poems
are charged with the magic of personality,
he shares his secrets with the world as if
a boy had turned out the astonishing con-
tents of his pockets before going to bed.
He had an alert, serenely eager, questing
face that recalled the Golden Age". Ru-
pert Brooke's 'three best things' ", Mr. de
la Mare said, "were 'to read, to write, and
to live poetry'".
After the lecture he read some of his
poems from a volume called "Peacock
Pie: for Children of Every Age", and also
"The Listeners" and "The Keys of the
Morning".
Great Control of His Medium
Mr. de la Mare is Identified with the
Georgian movement. In the opinion of
Dr. Savage, "As a poeL Mr. de la Mare
is placed by critics in that group of mod-
ern writers whose work combines with a
deft choice of the actual in material a
significance always deeper, often mys-
tical. His verse is among the most mu-
sical of the present day. A fine ear, an
unusually true sense of the value of lan-
guage as an instrument for delicate poetic
expression, a high skill in weaving sounds
into plain or complex metrical patterns�
all well exemplified in "The Listeners"�
make up an equipment which has given
him an almost uncanny control over his
medium. He selects, moreover, in a
marked degree, material which, if one ac-
cepts his initial terms, as in the "Song of
the Mad Priest", seems not alone natural
but inevitable. Mr. de la Mare's lecture
on "Magic in Poetry" is at its best when
I it is taken as a commentary upon his own
work; and, per contra, his own work.
which might he called magically trans-
muted life, is best appreciated in the light
of '.Magic In Poetry1 "
Mr. de la Mare came to America to re-
ceive, as one of Rupert Brooke's heirs, the
Holland prize from Yale. This prize is to
be awarded every two years for literature,
sculpture, painting or some kind of art.
and was awarded for the first time to
Rupert Brooke It consists of a sum of
money and a medal which Mr. de la Mare
will carry back to Rupert Brooke's
mother.
PHENOMENAL SWIMMING-MEET
Freshmen  Smash  All  Individual  Records
CHAMPIONSHIP L08T BY SENIORS
AFTER THREE YEARS OF VICTORY
1917, after carrying off the honors in
the swimming-meet for three successive
years and winning more points than any
other class in the first series this year,
was forced to retire before the terrific
crawl of the Freshmen last Friday night.
The Seniors captured the relay and the
dives, as before, but could not better the
speed swim records established by 1920
last week. Making a splendid showing in
every event the Freshmen rapidly caught
up with and passed the Seniors, stealing
9 points from 1917's former total and 3
from that of the Sophomores. They won
57 points In all.
Individual Championship Tied
The "bright particular stars" were M.
S. Cary '20 In the first meet and K. Town-
send '20 in the second, who tied for indi-
vidual championship with 21 points
apiece. M. Brown '20 won third place
with 10 points and E. Dulles '17 came
next, having taken two second places and
one third in the speed swims�9 points.
K. Townsend won both the front swims,
beating E. Dulles and M. Scattergood "17.
each of whom broke the 68 ft. front rec-
ord last week. M. S. Cary took all the
honors in back-swimming.
Diving   Better Than   Last Week
Higher   than   the  highest   number  of
points awarded a fancy diver in the meet
last week was the 37.71 given M. Scatter-
good  '17 for her front somersault, back
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SECOND VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE
TO BE ON JOURNALI8M
Woman  Reporter Discussed by European
Correspondent
The second  vocational conference for
{women will be held Thursday, February
8tb. at the Curtis Building on Independ-
ence   Square.     The   "Woman   Reporter"
I will    be    described    by    Miss    Ernestine
; Evans,  of  the   New York   Evening   Post.
Magazine,  proof  reading and   publishing
I will be the subjects.    Mrs. Cornelius Ste-
vensen,   better   known   as   "Peggy   Shlp-
' pen", will preside.
Miss Evans, now on the Evening Pott,
i is a graduate of Chicago University. She
lias twice been sent to Europe, once to
Belgium as correspondent for the New
York Tribune. She also went West on
the Hughes special.
editorial work will be descrilie.i i
Miss Elizabeth Cutting, of the North
American Review, and the technical
Journal by Miss Agnes Laut. of the Forum.
The editor of Vogue will speak on the
woman's paper. Miss Adelaide Neall.
Bryn Mawr '06, who does manuscript and
proof reading for the Curtis Publishing
Company,  will speak.
The Curtis Publishing Company is giv-
ing the use of their auditorium for the
meeting. This building is well known for
the Maxficli! I'arrish mural paintings in
the employees' dining-room. The Curtis
Company has an extensive welfare and
vocational bureau which, instead of dU
charging unsatisfactory employees exam-
ines their capabilities and gives theai
more suitable and congenial occupation