College News, 1918-11-14, Vol. 05, No. 07

              The College News
Volume V.   No. 7
NEED FOR  WOMAN'S
WORK REMAINS
"No one should give up the least hit
of work, or training for work. The
problems of reconstruction which face the
country are tremendous, involving the re-
adjustment not only of the returning sol-
diers but of industry as well." This was
Miss Kingsbury's comment on conscrip-
tion in a statement given out to the News
Tuesday night.
"The fact of the matter is that we as
women shall see a greater demand for
our services than ever before," Miss
Kingfibury declared. "The main thing
that we must remember is that the first
problem of the war in this country was
one of unemployment in 1914. This came
as the result of the shift from peace in-
dustries into war industries. Now there
is the shift from war industries to peace
industries and the preparation for this
will bring in its train a long list of diffi-
culties.
"The utilization of women in labor is
at present an unknown quantity. Of one
tiling we may be certain, that the world
has never needed so much the services of
educated and professionally trained
women."
BRYN MAWR, PA., NOVEMBER 14, 1918
Price 5 Cents
EPOCH-MAKING   CELEBRATION   OF   END   OF   WAR
SWEEPS CAMPUS FROM THURSDAY TO MONDAY
PRE8IDENT THOMAS SAYS WINNING
OF WAR MEANS A NEW WORLD
VARSITY DOWNS PHILADELPHIA,
5-3 IN SEASON'S FIRST GAME
L Cheston  Stars for Visitors;   M.
Tyler, G. Hearne and E. Donahue
for Home Team
Topping Philadelphia's three goals
with two to spare. Varsity fought its way
to victory in the first game of the season
last Saturday morning. In spite of the
visitors' nearly Impregnable defense the
home forwards managed to score five
times after L. Cheston, Philadelphia's
star center forward, had put in the first
of her three successful shots.
With M. Carey '20 moved back to cen-
ter halfback from center forward, where
she played last year, and U. Hearne '19,
M. Tyter '19, E. Biddle '19. and B. Weaver
'20 in their old places. Varsity presented
a formidable front. The chief veterans
on the Philadelphia team were the Misses
Cheston, Miss Faries, and Mrs. Farles.
Miss L. Cheston Is captain of All-Phila-
delphia.
Score 2-1 in First Half
During most of the first half Varsity's
game was lackadaisical. M. Tyler '19
"19 started the ball down the field with a
rush, but before she could shoot the op-
posing defense interfered. Several times
Miss Tyler and P. France '19, working to-
gether, and O. Hearne '19, dribbling in
(Continued on page 3. column 2.)
Our greatest reason for rejoicing today
is because of the new world that will
come out of this war, said President
Thomas in her brief speech from Taylor
steps last Thursday. "You of the younger
generation can hardly realize what it
means to us who are older to see right
and justice finally established after the
terrible wrong and Injustice of the old
world in which we have lived.
Our happiness is too great for words.
We can only think with profound grati-
tude of the gallant men�and women, too
�who have made this new world possible
�those who have given their lives for us,
and those who are coming back to us
safs.
CLASSES GIVE WAY TO PEACE
CELEBRATION
AUTHOR   OF   "CARRY   ON"
COMING
Coningsby   Dawson   Secured   by
Education Department for
December 7th
Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson. author
of Carry On: Letters in War-time, will
speak here, Saturday evening, December
7th, under the Education Department of
the War Council. Lieutenant Dawson has
been wounded and sent home, to Newark,
N. J. He has been lecturing through the
country since his return.
Lieutenant Dawson graduated from Ox-
ford In 1905 with honours in History, and
came to America, Intending to take a the-
ological course. After a year he decided
literature was his life-work, and began to
fit himself, writing from seven to ten
ntlnued on page 5, column 1 )
College Throngs to  Philadelphia as
Quarantine Is Lifted
Favored by an extra holiday on Friday
and a lifting of the quarantine on Phila-
delphia, the college's impulse to celebrate
the report of peace last Thursday found
full expression.
The "news" reached the campus nearly
an hour before the ringing of the church
bells proclaimed it to the rest of the
neighborhood.
It was first announced in Rockefeller
dining-room by M. Bilers '20, who had
heard It by telephone from New York.
From there It spread over the campus,
breaking up class meetings and labora-
tory sessions.
Many rushed to the hockey fields,
others gathered excitedly under Pem-
broke arch, both throngs finally uniting
on Taylor steps. National hymns and
popular war songs followed incoherently.
"God Save the King" was led by Miss
Applebee and the Marseillaise sung by
Mile. Lucle Mabille, French Scholar, the
college joining in the chorus. President
Thomas and M. Beck, in response to loud
appeals, spoke from the steps. The
crowd left Taylor only to gather again
around two of the Italian employees, who
sang the Italian national hymn.
The climax of the campus celebration
came when President Thomas told a
large number waiting outside the deanery
door that the faculty would follow a sug-
gestion made by Miss Donnelly and Dr.
Chew and grant a holiday the next day.
Dr. David, Dr. Fenwick, Dr. Chew and
Miss King spoke from the deanery porch.
A long parade, starting from Pembroke
arch and marching to Low Buildings and
up Gulf Road, returned to the campus to
hear Taylor bell ringing as a sign that Dr.
Branson had agreed with the rest of the
Health Department to raise the quaran-
tine immediately, instead of waiting till
the beginning of the week.
From 3.38 on parties left the campus to
celebrate  with the  throngs  in  Philadel-
phia.    Hockey  match  games,  afternoon
classes and all other activities were bus- ,
pended.    Announcements were made ex-1
cuslng   students   from    conscripted   war I
work and required exercise for the rest |
of the week.
The halls were dark until after mid-
night, and after the service the next
mornlnn the campus was again deserted
until the college was reassembled Satur-
day night by Banner Show.
SENIOR SINGING AT 4 A. M.
FOLLOW8 PEACE DECLARATION
Wrenched from their slumbers by In-
sistent Philadelphia whistles or by ex-
cited groups running through the corri-
dors, the undergraduate body, in various
stages of deshabille, assembled on Taylor
steps In the dark between 4 and 4.30 Mon-
day morning to begin the Peace Jubilee
with the singing of patriotic songs. To
the clanging of Taylor bell and the sound
of the college siren they proceeded in a
noisy column to Low Buildings, where
Mrs. Smith greeted them and presented
them with a flag. On the campus they
were met by President Thomas, who gave
them a short and impressive address and
accompanied them to a blazing bonfire
on the lower hockey Held.
Punctuated only by short talks by
President Thomas and Dr. Fenwick, the
bonfire-singing and snake-dances contin-
ued till the first sign of dawn at six
o'clock. Then, weary, but exultant, the
mob dispersed�those in Pembroke to
dress for a 6.30 breakfast; the other halls,
to sleep, to eat in their rooms, or to
watch the sun rise, according to their
various inclinations.
VOTE TO ABOLI8H CONSCRIPTION
AFTER THANKSGIVING
Undergraduates Question Efficacy of
System
Conscription will be abolished after the
Thanksgiving holidays, according to a
vote taken by the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation last Tuesday, following a hot de-
bate on the value of the plan In promot-
ing social service and relief work.
The present system will be continued
until November 26th, in order, according
to D. Peters '19, head of the Conscription
Board, to throw Community Center and
Clerical work, etc.. Into running order.
This vote to abolish conscription must
be ratified by the War Council and the
Athletic Association.
An alphabetical bulletin board for notes
will be placed in Taylor instead of the
paper file voted upon last week.
COLLEGE  THANKSGIVING   LED
BY PRESIDENT THOMAS AND
DR. BARTON
Monday Holiday Announced at Eight
o'clock Service
With Allied flags fluttering from the
pulpit, President Thomas and Dr. Barton,
at 8 o'clock on last Manday morning, con-
ducted a thanksgiving service for peace,
and announced that by a vote of the ma-
jority of the faculty the college would be
given a holiday.
"That the great German machine,
reaching out with its poisonous tentacles
to all parts of the world, should be
broken, makes this the most momentous
occasion in history," declared Dr. Barton.
The disorder in Germany, he went on, is
shown by the fact that the Kaiser fled to
Holland rather than to Switzerland,
where he is reported to have sent his lug-
gage. He evidently did not dare to travel
through Germany and hurried over the
nearest border.
Alluding to the popular conception of
the Kaiser as the Anti-Christ, Dr. Barton
quoted a parody to Tipperary:
"It's a long way to Paris.
It's a long way to go;
It's a long way through little Belgium,
It's the wrongest way to go,
So good-bye, Billy Kaiser,
Farewell, meln Herr!
It's a long, long way to Hades,
But your home's right there."
The most natural attitude toward the
German War Lords is that of the Scotch
shepherd who justified himself for beat-
ing a dead dog by declaring, "I gar e'en
ken there's punishment after death for
dogs that kill sheep." Still we should
realize that the bitterest punishment they
can suffer is the burning hate and disap-
pointment they now feel as they look
upon their wrecked ambitions.
The victory that has been won is a new
demonstration that God is directing the
affairs of men, and should move us not
onlly to effervescent joy but to consecra-
tion to right, truth, and God.
(Continued on page 5. column | )
JUNIOR TOREADORS  FETE 1922
AT SPANISH CABARET
Banner Show Characterized By Well-
Created Atmosphere
The most original variation on the
Spanish influenza theme yet seen here
was staged by 1920 last Saturday at Ban-
ner Show, the first class-entertainment to
be given this year. At the Spanish Inn,
Fluenza, Spain, floor dancing alternated
with vaudeville acts in the approved
cabaret fashion.
True to the precedent set by 1918, the
Juniors bent their main efforts toward
the creation of atmosphere. A balcony
scene, enacted by D. Rogers and L. Kel-
logg, and a flower dance by four of the
smallest senorltas, added the flavor of
romance to the truly Spanish posada.
crowded with a brilliant pueblo in red.
yellow, and black velvet.
When 1922 arrived at their tables, pi-
loted by an admirable head waiter In the
person of A. Harrison, they were toasted
by the Juniors in the welcoming cabaret
counterpart of a curtain song.
Resplendent as a toreador, G. Hess,
manager of the Inn, supplied most of the
local hits of the evening In reviewing the
prominent Freshmen, and epitomised the
tyranny of the red tarn in a song to the
tune of 1918's "Doggone Dangerous Girl."
(Continued on page 2. column 4.)
CHANGE OF VAR8ITY PLAYS
Mrs.  Patch   Is Coach  and  M.  Krantz '19
Stage Managsr
With Mrs. Patch as coach, and M.
Krantz '19 as stage manager, try outs for
Varsity Dramatics began yesterday. Mrs.
Patch coached the Varsity Play last year.
M. Krantz, who was elected at a meeting
of the Undergraduate Association on
Tuesday, took the leading woman char-
acter part In 1919V Sophomore Play, The
Scarecrow.
Two of the plays In the group chosen
last week have been changed. Three
Pills in a Bottle from Workshop 47. Har
vard. and The Shoes That Dance, by
Anna Hempstead Branch, have been sub-
stituted for A Night at an Inn and The
Six Who Pass While Lentils Boil. The
Merry Death still stands a.4 chosen.
The committees appointed  by the cen
tral Varsity Dramatics Committee are:
Costumes�R.   liirkman    19.   M.    Mac
Kenzle '18. M. Porritt '20. O. Howard '21.
Scenery�M. Butler 19. M. L Mall '20.
M   Morrison '.'1. K. Titcomb "22.
Properties    �'.   Bailey   19. t"   Keeble "�.
1   k                 1 DaafcM 'it.
Publicity    J   Holmes   19. G   Hess '**.