College News, 1917-02-28, Vol. 03, No. 17

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 17
BRYN MAWR, PA., FEBRUARY 28, 1917
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday, February 28
7.30 p. m.�Bible Class.    Speaker, the
Rev.   A.   Mutch.      Mission   Class,   Ryu
Sato '17.
Friday,   March  2
8.00 p. m.�Faculty Concert for the ben-
efit of the Red Cross.
Saturday,  March 3
4.00-6.00 p. m.�Bates House Party In
the Gymnasium. Speakers, Miss V.
Deems, Miss Anne Wiggln.
8.00 p. m.�Lecture on Old English
Dancing by Cecil Sharp of England.
Sunday, March 4
6.00 p. m.�Vespers. Speaker, Miss
Anne Wiggln. of Spring Street Neighbor-
hood House.
8.00 p. ra.�Chapel. Sermon by the
Rev. Edward Steiner, Professor of Ap-
plied Christianity at Grinnell College,
Iowa.
Wednesday,  March 7
7.30 p. m.�Bible Class on "Significance
of Social Work", speaker. Miss Kings-
bury. Miss Agnes Tierney on "Phil-
osophy and Religion".
Friday,  March 9
4.00 p. m.�Lecture by Mrs. Joseph Lin-
don Smith ex-'97 on "The Children of the
Frontier in France".
8.00 p. m.�Lecture by Frances Hackett
of the New Republic under the auspices
of the English Club.
Saturday,   March   10
8.00 p. m.�Song recital by Mr. Rhein-
hold Warlich, for the benefit of the En-
dowment Fund.    Arranged   by  the Class
of 1920.
Sunday,  March 12
6.00 p. m.�Chapel.    Sermon by Father
Huntington,   of  the   Order  of  the  Holy
Cross.
FACULTY CONCERT FOR
BRYN   MAWR   RED  CROSS
OLIVER   LODGE   PROVES
COMMUNICATIONS WITH  THE   DEAD
An    Experiment   in   Vers   Libre   in   New
Book Room
Four   Soloists  to  Take  Part
At the Faculty Concert to be given Sat-
urday evening in Taylor for the benefit of
the Bryn Mawr College Red Cross. Mrs.
Gibson and Dr. Ruth are to sing. Dr.
Ruth was formerly bass soloist at the
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in
New York and now goes every Sunday to
Baltimore to sing in Saint Paul's Episco-
pal Church. Dr. Carpenter will play the
piano and also accompany the singers.
Dr. Brunei is to play the violin.
Tickets are on sale In each hall and
reserve seats may be gotten from J.
Jameson '17, Pembroke West. Admis-
sion is 50 cents for people connected with
the College and $1.00 for outsiders. Re-
served seats are 75 cents. The pro-
gram is:
1.      Kit   bint   die   Huh    .............   Srhuhri I
K�  bat  die  Roue  ulrb beklnirt   ......Frnn:
Dip   tielden   'Irenadlere    ........Schumann
Mr.   Kuth
1      Der   Si-Iimlwl   ...................Hrahrnn
Narht   nnd   Tr�ume    ............Schubert
Krilhllnicnarlit    ...............Schumann
Mrs. Glbaon
3.      ftonate pour llano et Vlolon. Ceiar Franck
IV.    Allegretto |x>co moaao.
Mr.   Brunei   nnd Mr.  Carpenter
4.      The   Sea   .....................MeDotcell
I   know  a   Hill   ................Whrlplrn
The   Dania   ...................Chad trick
Mr.   Ruth
i  hannon  Indoue.....Himtkv Knrtakntr
Pourquol     .................Tihntk'iir'kv
Mr.. C.lbaon
�       \ lennme   Popular   Hong   .........Jtrrtoler
Humoreaque   So.   3   ............JTator
.....I ll�IUmlarhe   Boerealledjei         Kantgcn
XXY1                  Rellnde
WVII1       IV   Kelaer
Mr    Brunei
T.     Aria  tram   'Madam   RutterftV          rnccini
Mr.   ttlbaon
Psychical research has produced the
most Interesting of the new books In the
New Book Room. Amy Lowell's "Men,
Women and Ghosts" is a new experiment
In verse construction.
"Raymond, or Life and Death", by Sir
Oliver Lodge, of the Society for Psychical
Research, presents a stirring case of
actual and Indisputable communication
with the dead. It is the story of the au-
thor's son Raymond, who wsb killed In
the war, returning in spirit and living in
his home again, "examples of the evi-
dence for the survival of memory and af-
fection after death".
An experiment in vers llbre has been
made In "Men, Women and Ghosts", by
Amy Lowell, who says in the introduc-
tion, "I think it was the piano pieces of
Debussy, with their strange likeness to
short vers llbre poems, which first
showed me the close kinship of music
and poetry, and there flashed Into my
mind the Idea of using the movement
of poetry in much the same way that the
musician uses the movement of music".
Narrative poems with vivid and connota-
tive phrasing make up the volume and
their subjects range from Napoleon and
Josephine to Thomson's Lunch Room in
the Grand Central.
Kenneth Grahame. of "Dream Days"
fame, has selected and edited "The Cam-
bridge Book of Poetry for Children", with
fascinating decorations by Maud Fuller.
Mr. Grahame in the introduction explains
that the poems are necessarily strictly
limited in selection: blank verse, dialect,
and verse about children, are all ex-
cluded. Poems by Macaulay. Tennyson.
Browning. Eugene Field and many others
have been chosen. "My Home on the
Field of Honour", by Frances Wilson
II' anl. an American woman, described
the conversion of her chateau on the
Marne. wrecked by German invaders,
into a hospital.
Acting as an Art
The theatre is represented by a series
of small books of the Dramatic Museum
of Columbia University containing papers
or introductions by George Arliss, Wil-
liam Gillette. Coquelin, Henry James
and others. "To prove that the actor is
an artist and has the same title to a place
In the State as any other citizen" is the
aim of Constant Coquelin In "Art and the
Actor" which follows a charming Intro-
duction by Henry James telling of the
days In Paris when he used to go to see
the great actor. William Gillette's "The
Illusion of the First Time in Acting",
amusingly prefaced by George Arliss.
centers about the necessity of the actor's
conveying the illusion that what he is
doing then is done for the first time. Sir
Henry Irving in a brief foreword to
Talma's "Reflections on the Actor's Art".
declares the essay "a permanent embodi-
ment of the principles of our art�subtle
yet simple". Brander Matthews writes
an Interesting preface to "Mrs. Siddons
as Lady Macbeth and as Queen Katha-
rine", by H. C. Fleeming Jenkin.
Library  Growing  Larger
On October 1. 1915. the library con-
tained 77.221 volumes: on September 30,
1�1�. 80.778. a gain of 3557. of which 819
were gifts. The average circulation of
the library books for one year is 24.811.
A  DOLLAR  A  MONTH
8UPPORTS ONE CHILD
Mr. Baker Speaks on Belgium Relief
U. S. NOT BACK OF COMMISSION
"If you want to buy the right to smile",
said Mr. George Barr Baker, chairman of
the Appeal Committee of the Belgian
Relief Commission, speaking In Taylor
Hall last Friday evening, "help the chil-
dren of Belgium". One dollar a month
supports one child. The commission has
fought alone, Mr. Baker declared with
simple force and restraint. The United
States, since its response to the first ap-
peal, has not as a whole stood behind the
work, as has been popularly supposed.
Mr. Baker, having time to speak at only
one college in the country, chose Bryn
Mawr.
A great delusion prevails in Belgium,
said Mr. Baker, concerning the charity
and generosity of the United States.
Since the food comes in American pack-
ages and is distributed by Americans the
Belgians think It Is to America that they
owe their lives and not merely to an iso-
lated group of men. Every Belgian child
has learned to make the American flag
from yarn and to sing the "Star Spangled
Banner", and every child crosses himself
when the "eat-boats" of the Commission
pass on the canals.
The Country's Shame
When the first appeal was made io
America by the commission in 1915 the
country responded, Mr. Baker went on.
Twice since then appeals have failed, and
the United States has given at the high-
est computation only 9c. a head. Beyond
the Immense monthly subscriptions from
England and France one million and a
quarter dollars are needed monthly for
the work of the commission. In the
meantime the money given to relief work
by the foreign powers has been borrowed
in this country and pays us interest at the
rate of t%. From this source and from
food bought here for relief work America
has cleared in the last two and a half
years $30,000,000. "Thirty million dollars
from a pool of blood", Mr. Baker called
it And even our 9c. a head credits us
with greater generosity than Is really
ours, for subtracting ten large gifts (John
D. Rockefeller has given $1,500,000). the
American rate is reduced to 5c. per
capita.
Supplementary Meal to Prevent Tubercu-
losis
It was suddenly discovered last spring.
Mr. Baker said, that the growth of the
Belgian children had stopped because the
regular rations, scientifically determined,
and enough to keep an adult alive, did not
contain enough fat for growing children.
The regular ration is one pint of soup
made of rice, beans or peas, with occa-
sionally a slice of bacon and a loaf of
bread half the size of our small loaves.
Mr. Baker was instrumental in arranging
for the children a supplementary meal of
a fat biscuit containing white flour, lard
and sugar. 4 inches square, and a cup of
cocoa, or soup if that proved too rich.
Tuberculosis and rickets, which Is espe-
cially feared by the mothers, have been
checked by this additional ration.
The Irony of the situation was further
emphasized by the lantern slides, which
showed the Belgian children's pathetic
love for the United States. Most enthu-
siastically received was the picture of
Herbert Hoover, "the braveat man In the
world". Mr   Baker said.
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FRESHMAN  8HOW  A  FANTASY
Puck and Pete Happily United
PICTORIAL   ELEMENT
STRIKES POSTER  NOTE
CAST
Poe*    ........................Helen   Zlna
ToHKtiiiiisiiT   ..............Margaret  Hutchlna
Nymph   .....................Esther  Jenkins
Pete   .........................Betty Weaver
A strong sense of the decorative and
artistic In planning the stage picture dis-
tinguished the production of Freshman
Show last Saturday night. The fantasy,
revealing the blue fox as '20's mascot,
struck a happy medium between an at-
tempt at the white lights of Broadway or
the "Follies" and a Jumble of College
take-offs.
The dancing of H. Zlnsser, first as Mr.
Blue, then In the character of a light blue
Puck,   was   perhaps    the   most   striking
feature of the show.    She danced  with
the abandon and skill of the professional.
M. Hntchins was a perfect toastmaster In
the poise and  ease  of her acting;   her
voice was exquisite and well handled in
the part.   G. Hess, the orchestra leader,
as  in   grand   opera,  conducted  from   in
front   of the   stage  with  delightful calis-
thenics of a kind not taught at drill.    B.
! Weaver   and    H.    Ferris.    Ihe   tumbling
gnomes   of   the   second   act.   deserved   a
:scene to themselves.
The bold black and white of the Hunt
Club, In the first act. carried out in actors
as well as in scenery, received from the
I first chorus of guests in hunting costume
the dash of scarlet needed for its vivid ef-
fect, that of a brilliant poster. The whis-
tling trio in black and white, Pierrette
and her swains, was one of the most
charming acts in this setting. Of the
songs, the biggest hits were made by
"Canned Cow", and the "Shower Song",
where the showering admonishes,
"You can't be good, so please be clean",
and the showered retorts,
"I'm foiled.
1 won't pay to have myself parboiled".
On   the  whole,   the acting   was   rather
better than the singing, which lacked the
ease and certainty of long practice.
Cavemen Realistic
The dim woodland of Act II and its mys-
terious cave, in dull greens, browns and
blues, seemed personified as the airy
nymphs rose for a scarf dance. The gen-
eral effect of setting and costuming is
more to be praised than the dance Itself,
which strongly suggested 5.30 dancing.
The poetic element was rudely dispelled
by six savage pirates, knives In teeth, who
danced extremely well. The shattered
nerves of the audience were not restored
by the bloodcurdling cavemen, who bran-
'   �nlinucil on   l'agt 6)
FIRST   AID   COURSE   IS   10   LESSONS
Classes to Begin March 5th
First Aid classes are being organized
under the direction of the American lied
Cross. The course consists of ten les-
sons, attendance at eight of which is com-
pulsory to be able to take the examina-
tion. Those who receive over 75T- In the
examination will be eligible to volunteer
as nurses' aids under the Red Cross In
time of war.
The schedule Is: Two classes Monday
evening at 8.00. two Tuesday evening at
7.30. two Wednesday evening at 8.30. and
two Thursday evening at 7 30. The fee
for the course will be about three dollars
The Red Cross has not yet assigned the
doctors who will give the courses