College News, 1917-01-10, Vol. 03, No. 12

              The College News
Volume III.    No. 12
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 10, 1917
Price 5 Cents
CALENDAR
Wednesday, January 10
9.30  p. m.�Mid-Week  meeting of the
C. A.    Leader, Ryu Sato '17.
Friday, January   11
8.30 p. m.�First Swimming Meet.
Saturday, January 12
8.00 p. m.�Moving Pictures in the Gym-
nasium.    For the benefit of the Endow-
ment Fund.   Arranged by 1919.
Sunday, January  13
6.00 p. m.�Vespers.   C. Stevens '17.
8.00   p.   m.�Chapel.     Sermon   by  the
Rev.  Robert Speer, of the  Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions.
Monday,  January   15-17
Child Labor Exhibit at the Community
Center.
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, D. Chambers '19. Silver
Bay meeting.
Friday,  January   19
8.30 p. m.�Second Swimming Meet.
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
8.00   p.   m.�Chapel.     Sermon   by  the
Right Rev. Arthur Lloyd, President of the
Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions.
Wednesday, January 24
9.00 a. m.�Mid-Year Examinations be-
gin.
FACULTY   COMMITTEES   APPOINTED
BY  PRESIDENT  TO  AWARD  PRIZES
"BRYN   MAWR  AUDIENCE  M08T
APPRECIATIVE",   SAYS   SANDBY
Danish   'Cellist   and  Composer  Performs
Own   Compositions
ENDOWMENT FUND LOST $25
President Thomas's six prizes, three for
general information and three for a
knowledge of the great writers discussed
In Morning Chapel, will be awarded by
committees of the faculty which have
been appointed by the President.
The committee for general Information
la: Dr. Gray, chairman, Miss Donnelly
and Dr. Crenshaw. The committee for
the great writers is: Miss King, chair-
man, Mrs. Wright, and Dr. Savage. The
conditions deciding the winners will be
announced later.
FIVE-REEL  DRAMA TO  BE
SHOWN   IN  GYM
1919  Arranges   Moving   Picture   Program
"God's Crucible", a five-reel movie, will
be given in the gymnasium at eight o'clock
next Saturday under the auspices of 1919
for the benefit of the Endowment Fund.
It was staged and photographed in the
Grand Canyon of Arizona by the Bluebird
Moving Picture Company and will be the
main feature of the evening. This play
has not yet been released, and so cannot
be seen at a theatre for several weeks.
Cartoons and Current Events will com-
plete the evening's entertainment. Ad-
mission will be twenty-five cents.
If this moving picture show Is a success,
a second will be shown on January 20th,
with a new program, and others will fol-
low later in the year.
Choir Sang at the Light House
Thursday before Christmas vacation
the choir went in to the Light House Set-
tlement to sing to the Ladies' Bible Class.
As the ladles were not expecting them
there were not the usual numbers to hear
them, but the choir sang carols to about
thirty people.
1.  Concerto    .................Golterman
Allegro.     Cantilena.     Allegro.
2.  Gypsy Song  ..........Dvorak-Sandby
Indian Lament ........Dvorak-Sandby
Abendlled  .................Schumann
Waltz     .......................Weber
3.  Romance ....................Debussy
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt,
Tschaikowsky-Sandby
Solitude  .....................Sibelius
Valse Triste .................Sibelius
4.   Scandinavian   Folk  Songs.....Sandby
Song of Vermeland  (Swedish).
Elverhoj (Danish).
Bridal March (Norwegian).
( appricclo   ..............Saint  Saens
Mr. Herman Sandby's 'cello recital last
Friday evening in Taylor was unique in
that several numbers on the program
were composed by Mr. Sandby himself.
Mr. Sandby was delighted with the ap-
preciation and enthusiasm of the audi-
ence. "I have never met with such en-
thusiasm", he said, "except, perhaps, in
the men's colleges". From a financial
point of view only, the concert was un-
successful, as the Endowment Fund lost
$25 by it.
Born in Denmark. Mr. Sandby. who is
well known as a 'cellist and composer here
and in Europe, has shown his great in-
terest in Scandinavian folk songs by com-
posing settings for them. Three of these
settings. Swedish. Danish and Norwegian,
he played on Friday night. Mr. Sandby
also played selections from Tschaikowsky
and Dvorak that he had himself re-
arranged. His own re-arrangement of
Dvorak's "Humoresque" and of Palgren's
"Swan" he played as encores. The en-
cores given at the end of the concert
were a "Spring Song" by Popper, and
"Solitude on the Mountains" by Ole Bull.
Mr. Sandby was particularly Interested
in the "Valse Triste" of Sibelius, which
he played. It comes from an opera, he
said, in which an old woman whose only
son has just died, imagines that he and
all her long-dead friends come into the
room in which she is sitting and join in
a ��valse triste". In vain she tries to
-Masp them, and the dance ends In a mad
whirl, In which she dies and the dancers
vanish. Mrs. Sandby accompanied him
on the piano.
Mr. Sandby's 'Cello Dates from 1732
Mr. Sandby expressed great hopes for
the future of the 'cello, and gave an in-
teresting history of It, describing its use
by monks for sacred music. To enable
the monks to play their 'cellos In proces-
sions, holes were bored in the necks of
the instruments by which they could be
fastened to the monks' clothing. Mr.
Sandby's own 'cello dates from 1732. and
was used by the monks at St. Mark's In
Venice. Even with this device, 'cellos
were too cumbersome to be played while
walking in processions, and so were cut
down. Mr. Sandby's 'cello Is one of the
few that escaped mutilation.
'Cello Coming to Its Own
The practice of treating the 'cello like
the violin, which has considerably lim-
ited its literature, originated, Mr. Sandby
explained, in the custom of cutting down
the size of the 'cello. "Besides", he said,
"not many men are physically able to
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$35,000     WILL     COMPLETE
MENT  FUND
ENDOW-
Alumnas Report at Luncheon
The annual business meeting of the
Finance Committee and the class collec-
tors of the Alumnae Association was held
WORK OF EXECUTIVE BOARD COMES
TO   HEAD  IN  OPEN  MEETING
Self-Gov Plans Revision of Rules
The meeting of the Self-Government
Association to be held to-night in Taylor
for a reconsideration of the rules comes
at a luncheon at the College Club in Phil- \ as a climax to the work begun by the Ex-
adelphla last Saturday. Reports made by ; ecutlve Board early in November,
the class collectors, or their representa- At a meeting on November 6th the Ex-
tives, as to the growth of the Endowment ecutlve Board decided (as is recorded in
Fund showed that $35,000 will complete the official minutes) that "many resolu-
it. Miss Martha Thomas, warden of Pem- | tlons and decisions have been handed
broke, presided.                                                 down which the Association has now out-
In round figures $65,000 is pledged and [grown and that, as a result of these, we
due in 1917, and $35,000 more must be have become so engrossed In detail as to
raised to complete the Endowment Fund ; lose sight of the broad views of Self-Oov-
of $100,000. $900 raised by the Boston ernment. The Hoard felt that all rules
Bryn Mawr Club at a concert by Gluck should be carefully reviewed and the use-
and Ziraballst in Symphony Hall, is In- less ones abolished or renovated",
eluded in the $65,000. The $600 raised : Since this meeting the Board has been
by 1915 in New York by their entertain- working on the rules and has come to a
ment at the Plaza during the Christmas conclusion as to what changes are needed,
holidays has not been reckoned Into this These changes will be proposed to the
sum.                                                                     Association tonight for discussion.    Mo-
H.   Harris '17  and   M.   Wlllett  '17   re-; tlons to accept,  refuse, or  modify  them
ported the growth of the undergraduate   will be in order.
i pledge of $10,000.    Approximately $4,900       In   speaking   to   the     News"   reporter
has been raised by the undergraduates to
date, and $5,100 more must be raised be
fore June. 1917. to complete the pledge.
Miss Stevens, imvsnlent of Self-Govern-
ment. said that she had hoped that action
would   come   from   the   Association   and
C. A.  DELEGATION  ADMITTED
TO  SILVER   BAY
Miss Donnelly. Miss Dimon. Mrs. Smith, that students would cull a meeting to
MIrs Bontecou. Miss Hawkins. Miss Kirk change the rules of which they com-
and Miss Hilda Smith, now at the head of plained. But ns long as no one has taken
the Community Center in Bryn Mawr, the initiative, said Miss Stevens, and in
were present. Miss Swindler was also asmuch as the Hoard Itself realizes the in
present as collector from the Ph.D. mem adequacy of certain of the rules, the
bers of the Alumnae Association.                   Hoard has undertaken to suggest revision
I In accordance with what it considers the
wishes of the Association.
Change  in  Time of  Election
Other business will he the report of the
Intercollegiate Conference and a  motion
I to change the time of the annual election
The  Bryn  Mawr Christian  Association   of officers to an earlier date In order that
Delegation   which   has   for the   past   five   the   new   Hoard   may   work   for a  longer
years attended the summer conference at   time while the old  Board Is still in  Col-
Eagles Mere. Pa., will in the future go to   |�
the   Silver   Bay    Conference   on    Lake---------------------
George.    The   change  was   submitted   to   BUSINESS OPENINGS
the Department of Conventions and (on-                        PROFITABLE  FOR  WOMEN
ferences of the Y. W. C. A., which met on '                                ---------
December   19th.   and   was   approved   by .Conference for Women's Occupations In
Change Approved by Y. W. C. A.
Philadelphia
them.
This change was first agitated by M.
Bacon '18. H. Hammer ex-'18, and R. j Advertising, bond selling, hotel man-
Cheney ex-'18, who consulted Mrs. Robert agement. and real estate, now offering
Speer (Emma Bailey "01), president of new and Important opportunities for
the Y. W. C. A. It was taken up by the women will be some of the subjects of the
Christian Association Board this year and i first of a series of vocational conferences
approved by President Thomas. Origi-. to be held in Philadelphia beginning on
nally Bryn Mawr went to Sliver Bay. but January 11th at 4 p. m. at the New Century
in 1912 a geographical division of colleges   Club,   124  South  12th  Street.    Last year
was made and  Bryn   Mawr was sent  to
Eaglesmere.
Change Badly Needed
The location of Eagles Mere is Incon-
venient. The colleges attending are
chiefly co-educational and normal; their
problems are not at all those of the Bryn
Mawr Association, and although some in-
dividuals   have   been   helped   the  benefit
similar   conferences   were   held   in   New
York,   Boston  and Chicago.    Dr.   Marion
Paris Smith is chairman of the committee
for organizing this conference.
Mrs     Elizabeth   C.    Moore.    Wellesley
1902.   of   the   advertising   department   of
Wanamaker's.    will    give    one    of    the
speeches.    Bond Selling and Investments
will   be  the  subject   for   Miss   Elizabeth
.   Cook  of   Hemphill Chamberlain. 34   Wall
has   not   been   general   nor   the   appeal   0,.� .      ,,.,.,                         �.   �_
Street.     Hotel   Management   will   be   de-
popular. Last year a great effort was
made to give the conference a last fair
trial and only ten students attended.
whereas twenty-two went to the North
field Conference in Massachusetts, when
no effort was made showing that some
conference is greatly needed.
Silver Bay Conference
scribed by Mrs. A. K. Kvans. manager of
the   Hotel   McAlpIn   and  of   the   Savarln
restaurant.   Real Estate will be
by Mrs. Hugh Ward of Kansas City. Mis-
souri,   Vassar  1902.     The speakers,   who
have all  achieved notable  financial  suc-
cess and  have carried on work of great
!��    are   splendid   according   to   Mra.
The Silver Bay Conference la held on   Smith,
the west shore of Lake George, ten miles   Beginning   of   Vocational   Directory   for
from   the   northern  end.   this   year  from
June 22d to July 2d.    E. Biddle   19 has
been  appointed  delegation  leader.
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Women
At a meeting of the Association of Qaj
The  leglate Alumnae In 1909 the committee for
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