College News, 1917-01-17, Vol. 03, No. 13

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The College News
Volume III.   No. 13
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 17, 1917
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday, January 17
4.00-6.00   p.   m.�Faculty   tea   to   the
Graduates in Rockefeller Hall.
9.30  p.  m.�Mid-week  meeting of  the
C. A. Leader.
Thursday, January 18
4.30 p. m.�Lecture in Taylor Hall by
Mr. Walter John de la Mare, of England,
on the "Magic in Poetry".
Friday, January 19
8.30 p. in.�Swimming Meet finals.
Saturday, January 20
8.00 p. m.�Moving Pictures in the gym-
nasium for the benefit of the Endowment
Fund.    Arranged by 1919.
Sunday, January 21
6.00 p. m� Vespers. Speaker F. Clarke
'19.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the
Right Rev. A. S. Lloyd. President of the
Episcopal   Board  of  Missions.
Wednesday, January 24
9.00    a.    m. � Mid-year    examinations
begin.
Sunday, January 28
8.00 p. m.�Vespers.   Speaker, ('. Apple-
bee.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev.
William Sullivan, D.D.
Saturday, February 3
11.00  p.  m.�Meeting  of  the  Alumnae
Association.
Wednesday, February 5
9.00 a. m.�Second Semester begins.
7.30 p. m.�Bible Class.
Saturday, February 10
8.30.�Performance of "David Garrick"
by the class of 1913, for the benefit of the
Endowment Fund.
Saturday, February 24
8.00 p. m.�Freshman Show.
MOVIES   BRING   ENTHUSIASTIC
SUPPORT
FIVE  RECORDS BROKEN  IN
FIRST   SWIMMING-MEET
Make $40 for  19's  Endowment  Fund
SECOND   SHOW   PLANNED
New Scoring System Counts Fourth Place
THREE POINTS SEPARATE LEADERS,
1917 AND 1920
SELF-GOV ATTEMPTS STRIKING OUT
RULE  AGAINST  SOCIAL
ENGAGEMENTS
Vote    to    Petition    Trustees    Will     Be
Reconsidered
BUSINESS CONFERENCE
WORTH   GOING  TO
The moving pictures given in the gym-
nasium last Saturday evening under the
auspices of 1919 cleared $40 for the En-
dowment Fund. The pictures were re-
ceived with such enthusiasm that a sec-
ond show is planned for next Saturday
evening, to consist of a feature play,
more current events and a cartoon.
Dancing to the piano and drum pre-
ceded the first picture, "God's Crucible",
a five-reel play, staged and photographed
in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The
film told the story of how the Canyon
i made men of a crabbed old millionaire
and his prodigal son. Thunder, lightning,
sleigh bells, and "The Last Rose of
Summer" were all imitated by the ver-
satile piano and drum. The audience re-
sponded to the dramatic situations by
clapplng and hissing at the right moment.
Current Events Show  Border Troops
A Current Events film showed National
Guardsmen drilling on the border, and
the Seventh Regiment being reviewed on
Fifth Avenue on its return. Scenes from
Boston. Philadelphia and New York were
shown, and the film ended with a fashion
display of furs.
A comedy, "Two Hundred Miles An
Hour" followed, revealing the results of
the discovery of a marvelous fluid, one
drop of which in a gallon of gasoline
makes it possible for an automobile to
i travel two hundred miles an hour.
The show was slightly delayed at first
by the arrival of a Current Events film
for last .summer, showing man-eating
sharks, which necessitated a trip for the
picture that was finally shown. Candy
was sold for the benefit of the Endowment
i Fund, and the evening ended with danc-
ing.
High   Standard  of  Fancy  Diving
New records were set for five events
at the first swimming-meet last Friday
night, three speed swims, the plunge and
the relay. Of these five 1917 won two and
1920 three, putting them at the top of the
list with 46 and 43 points respectively.
1918 has 3 points and 1919 17. but all
these scores will be entirely altered by
the second meet. Several Innovations
marked this contest; counting fourth
place, a new and higher standard for div-
ing, starting tin NU M mi the back in the
water, and in the relay requiring the con-
testants to touch the wall instead of the
next person.
Miss Ewart's Three Records Smashed
Four years ago .lean Ewart. a graduate
student, set three records which had not
been equalled or broken until last Friday
night when all three were surpassed. The
68-ft. swim front, for which Miss Ewart's
time was 15 3-5 sec. was broken twice
last week by E. Dulles 17. 1". sec. and
bj If. Scattergnod '17, 1"> l-"> sec. The
68ft. swim back  M. B. � ary '20 made in
17  3-5 sec, while  Miss Ewart's time was
18   2-5 sec.    If,  S.  Cary also passed   her
mark for the 136 swim back, 41  4
by doing it in 41 2-.". sec. Last year A.
Cest 18 plunged 51 ft. 11 \ in.: last week
55 ft. was the record set by M. Hrowne
"2". Last year 1917 made a relay record
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"WAR  BRIDES" READ BY AUTHOR
Successful   Women   Describe   Their  Job.   IAN   HAY  DUE  AT  BRYN   MAWR
BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE FRONT
"It was well worth going to", was the
general verdict on the business confer-
ence for women held in town last Thurs-
day at the New Century Club. The
branches of opportunities treated were
hotel management, finance, and real es-
tate, by women who have made a success
in that business.
Opportunities for Women in Finance,
was the subject of Miss Cook's talk, of
Hemphill, White and Chamberlain, Wall
Street. "Judgment is the priceless qual-
ity", she said, and positions are open
alike to men or women, to the one who
can fill the job the best, in selling life
Insurance, expert book-keeping, the buy-
ing and selling of bonds, etc. There are
especial openings for women in finance
now because so few young men are will-
ing to start at the bottom and work up.
Ambition is always noticed and appre-
ciated and "if you keep your will and am-
bition you are sure to succeed", she said.
Her last advice was, "Don't be a stenog-
rapher".
Interior   Decorating   an   Important   Field
Mrs. A. K. Evans, the manager of the
Hotel McAlpin in New York, was ill and
could not speak on hotel management, but
her assistant. Miss Hall, read her report.
The special opportunities for women in
this field are In the management of the
laundry,   the  food   department   and   the
Author of "The First Hundred Thousand"
Secured  for  Endowment  Fund
HAS WON   MILITARY  CROSS
Ian Hay (Captain Belth. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders), author of "The
1 First Hundred Thousand", has at last
been secured by the combined efforts of
the History Club and the 1918 Endow-
ment Fund Committee to speak at Bryn
Mawr on the night of February 19th, five
days before leaving for the front.
Captain Beith. who writes under the
name of Ian Hay, is now serving on the
staff, but it was as a regimental officer
that he enlisted in the Argyll and Suther-
land Highlanders and became one of the
first hundred thousand of Kitchener's
Army. "His book", writes a critic, "is
the intimate Inside story of a Scottish
regiment from Its training days down
through the first year of the war".
Captain Beith was in action at the great
battle of Loos and subsequent operations
and won the Military Cross for bravery
in the field.
Captain Beith will describe his experi-
ences with Kitchener's Army In a lecture
on "The Human Side of Trench Warfare".
The lecture Is to begin at 8.30. Trains
for Bryn Mawr leave Broad Street Sta
lion at 7.15 and 7.45 p. ra.
Mrs.   Wentworth   Holds   Audience   Tense
"War Brides", a one-act play, read by
its author, Mrs. Marion Craig Wentworth.
in Taylor last Friday afternoon, held �
large audience spellbound for an hour.
The play is laid in the first days of the
Great War. and voices a protest against
the part which women are forced to play
in war. Mrs. Wentworth kept the audi-
ence so tense, that, when she read the
scene where the peasant mother hears of
the death of her three sons, and cries
out "AH"? a strained voice from the audi-
ence echoed her, "All"?
"War Brides" was first published in the
"Century" Magazine for February. 1915.
appearing the next month in book form
It has been acted on the legitimate state,
and also for the moving pictures. The
principal part is taken by Mme. Nazi-
mova.
Has Interpreted Plays Here Before
Maeterlinck's Adriane et Barbe-Bleu".
and also one act of "Votes for Women' .
by Elisabeth Robbins. Mrs. Wentworth
read here several years ago. Beside "War
Brides" she has published "The Flower
Shop", a play dealing with a different
phase of the life of women Mr< Went
worth is a graduate of the I'nlversity of
Minnesota.
In reading the play. Mrs. Wentworth ex
plained that she used the names that she
had originally given the characters.   The
names had been changed  when the play-
was published and staged
As a result of the long Self-Government
meeting last Wednesday night, called by
the Executive Board to consider a revi-
sion of some of the rules, the Association
voted to petition the Trustees of Bryn
Mawr to strike out of the Self-Govern-
ment regulations the resolution regarding
social engagements with men of the fac-
ulty. Another meeting, called at the re-
quest of ten members, will be held to-
night to reconsider  this motion.
It is felt by many of the students that
last week's attempt to strike out the reso-
lution regarding social engagements was
made in the irregular form of a petition
to the Trustees only because of the con-
fusion at the meeting. The resolution,
it was understood at the meeting, is one
of the original points which Self Govern-
ment agreed with the Trustees to cover
upon receiving its charter. If this is true,
though the records of the Association M
lar give no evidence of It. the Trustees
and the Association are joint parties to a
contract and a petition. It Is contended,
implies either a surrender of our inter
ests in the contract or ignorance of them
Id night's meeting has therefore been
called to clear up the confusion about the
original agreement or contract and to
allow the Association, if it wishes, to re-
scind the motion to petition. If such a
motion goes through, the Association can
then express its desire to cancel Its side
of the contract by some more regular
method, An> rotO affecting social en-
gagements, however, would probably go
before the. Trustees and if condemned by
by than as | violation of the conditions
upon which the Self -Government Asso-
ciation icci'ived its charter, could he re-
considered  by the Association.
Giving Up Charter Not Necessary
A giving up of the charter, upon which
such action by the Trustees, though pos-
i sible, would not be necessary. The idea
that it would be was probably what led to
the motion to petition which was made by
A Stiles "19 and carried by a small ma-
jority.
Skating at Havarford Allowed
The Board announced at the meeting
that it had repealed the Executive Board
decision forbidding skating on Haverford
Pond and had substituted the words
"after six-thirty" for the words "after
dark" in the decision regarding riding,
driving, and motoring after dark. It was
voted that in seasons when it is light after
six-thirty the rule be interpreted as be-
fore, namely, after dark.
BISHOP LLOYD SPEAKS NEXT
SUNDAY
Bishop Lloyd, who will speak next Sun
day in Chapel, has spoken here in 1911
and 1912 and has always been enthusi-
astically received. According to those
who have heard him. he is a "really great
s|�eaker".
In 1910 Bishop Lloyd was elected pre-i
� I.-ii' of the Board of Missions of the
tant Episcopal church. The year
before he was made Bislmp i oadjutor of
Virginia, the state in which he was born.
and Bishop at Large. He was general sec
i-t.il> for the Domestic and Foreign Mi*
* <>f the Episcopal Church from
IJort to 1WJ