College News, 1917-03-21, Vol. 03, No. 20

              The College News
Volume III.   No. 20
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 21, 1917
Price 5 Cents
THALIA SMITH  EUROPEAN  FELLOW
GENERAL SENIOR AVERAGE HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR
MME. HUARD GIVES GRAPHIC
PICTURE OF "THOSE WHO WAIT"
Describes   Flight   Before   Germans
ENEMY   ONLY   TWO   HOURS  BEHIND
At two in the morning on September 3,
1914, -Mme. Frances Wilson Huard left
her chateau, five peasant children In her
charge, a nag twenty-one years old draw-
ing a hay cart her only horse; two hours
later General von Kluck marched Into
the chateau and made It bis headquarters
for nine days. Mme. Huard'a description
of her flight before the German troops
kept her audience tense last Friday even-
ing, when she spoke in the gymnasium on
"Those Who Wait". About $360 was col-
lected in gate receipts, one-half of wbich
goes to Mme. Huard's hospital and half to
1919's Endowment Fund.
For the first year of the war Mme.
Huard managed a hospital for 120 men in
her chateau, but now she has converted
her Paris house into a hospital accommo-
dating 100 men. One dollar a day is
needed for each patient and it is for these
brave French soldiers that she is seeking
help in America at this time.
Hairbreadth Escapes Described
The general incredulity up to the first
of August as to the possibility of war, the
absorption of her houseparty in bridge
and the Caillot case: then the first
month of the war when one million five
hundred thousand Belgian refugees
passed her gate and she gave them soup
and stewed fruit; all this Mme. Huard
has written of in "My Home on the Field
of Honor". In the confusion of leaving
the chateau that night Mme. Huard caught
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CRIMSON BANNER ON  GYM
C.   DODGE   '1�   NEXT   YEAR'S   PRESI-
DENT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION
Running against M. O'Connor. C. Dodge
'18 was elected president of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association by a majority of 112
votes on Monday night
Miss Dodge is Junior president and is a
member of the board. She was elected
treasurer of Self-Government on the res-
ignation of R. Cheney in her Sophomore
year. She was stage manager of Fresh-
man Show and Banner Show. M. O'Con-
nor was elected vice-president.
Seniors  Win   Water-Polo   Title
In a brilliantly played game against
1919, the Seniors won the first team cham-
pionship in water-polo last Thursday and
hung their banner on the gym in place
of the blue one which has been there all
season.
The victory was hard fought, for the
Sophomores' phenomenal goal keeper
stopped shot after shot and it was only
by seizing every chance, both offensive
and defensive, that the winners piled up
their final score of 4 to 0. 1919 never lost
courage and till the last moment put up a
hard fight against a superior defense and
a stronger team.
M. Willard '17, playing a spectacular
game at right forward against a substi-
tute guard, scored the only goal of the
first half on a free throw from E. Dulles
'17. Easily ten more attempts were
stopped by A. Thorndike '19.
After another goal by M. Willard '17
early in the second half, 1919 started off
with a rush and stormed the Seniors'
goal. A. Davis '17, finally threw free and
V. Utchfield '17 capturing the ball, shot
a goal from the center of the pool. Fast
play and good passing on both sides pro-
longed the tension until with a long slant-
ing throw M. Willard shot her third goal
and closed the scoring. Time was called
a minute later and 1917 bad won the
championship.
The line-up:
1917                   �'--------------------itlt
M. Willard.........   B. F............F. Clarke
B.  Dalle*..........    L. F..........(1. Ilearne
II. ScatterKood.....   C. F...........F. Howell
VI.ltohnpld.Capt...   H. B...........D. Hall
('. Hall............   F. B...........If. Carua
C.  Steven*.........   F. B.   ..........D. Peters
A. Darts............G.........A. Tborndlks
Goals: Flrat half�1917. M Willard, 1.
1019, 0. Second half�1917, M. Willard. 2,
V. Utchfield. 1. 1919. O. Score�1917. 4;
1919. O. Time�7 minute halve*. Referee�
Ml**  Applebee.
Nineteen Seniors Get Degree Cum Laude
GYMNASIUM   SHIELD  HANGS
ON  SOPHOMORE  BANNER
1919  Victorious   In   Every   Event
APPARATUS   WORK    PRAISED
F. HOWELL '19 MAKES "NEW8"
Third  Sophomore on  Board
F. Howell '19 has been elected to the
Editorial Board of the News. Miss How-
ell has been competing since midyears.
Three other Sophomores were in the final
competition.
Miss Howell, the third Sophomore on
the Board, completes the number of mem-
bers from her class. From these three
the Managing Editor for 1919's Senior
year will be choses
With the final score In points 386.5 to
354.3, the Sophomores made s clean
sweep of every event in the gym meet
last Friday. The judges were Miss Bal-
lintine. Physical Director of Vassar Col-
lege; Miss Jones, of the German town
Friends' School, and Mr. Bishop, of Hav-
erford School.
In presenting the shield to the winners
Mr. Bishop said that be was very much
pleased with the work of both classes.
This year's meet, he said, was perhaps
the best he had ever seen at Bryn Mawr.
He mentioned the apparatus work In par-
ticular as being as good as any that had
ever been done here.
An innovation in the floor work, which
with club drill, apparatus, and "stunt"
made up the contest was the track exer-
cise arranged by M. Kranti '19. leader of
the Sophomores' floor work The mo-
tiona for a crouching start, sprinting,
�hotput. broad Jump, burl ball, hopstsp-
(
Thalia Smith is the 1917 European Fel-
low with an average of 88.37, President
Thomas announced In Chapel last Friday.
Miss  Ormsbee,   Cornell   '15, and  Carols
| Woerishoffer Scholar here for two years,
I received  the Mary E. Garrett European
j Fellowship, and  Miss Turner the Presi-
dent's   European   Fellowship.     Nineteen
Seniors have an average of 80 or over
and three beside Miss Smith receive the
degree magna  cum laude:    K.  Blodgett,
M. Milne and M. Hodge.  Only two Seniors
had an average lower than 70.
The general average of this year's
Senior class is considerably higher than
last year. In 1916 only 2.1 per cent re-
ceived thefr degree magna cum laude.
this year 5.6 per cent. This year 21.1 per
cent graduate cum laude, last year only
5.6 per cent.
In announcing the fellowships Presi-
dent Thomas said in part: "We award
to-day the highest academic honors in our
gift. For our three European fellowships
we select each year the three students�
one in her first year of graduate study at
Bryn Mawr, one In her second year of
graduate study, and one member of our
graduating class�who seem to the fac-
ulty to have the best intellectual and
scholarly equipment for future success in
academic work. We also announce to-
day the Seniors who have won the high-
est grades during their College course
and will graduate with the degrees of
magna cum laude and cum laude. Those
academic distinctions do not always mean
that the students who receive them are
the most brilliant students in the College.
You can be brilliant and yet not steady
and trustworthy. You can be able and
yet lack that kind of persistence and
faithful dayin-and-day.out diligence which
is necessary to maintain high standards
in your academic work. But I want to
say again what you have beard me say
so often�and can never hear me say too
often�that, on the whole, grades seem to
me as fair a way of judging of the quali-
ties that go to make up success as any-
thing else that has been Invented by man.
They are Incomparably the best way of
judging the intellectual ability of young
people.
"Bryn Mawr College, above all colleges
in the world, ought, in my opinion, to
stand for good, sound academic work
. . . When I look at you and think bow
few you are as compared with the women
who are gathered in other women's col-
leges I realize that unless Bryn Mawr is
educating you for quality and not for
quantity we are failing in our duty.
"Bryn Mawr then is educating you for
quality by the best methods proved and
tried by past experience. You are aplen
did    example*    of    the    strenuous,    old-
fashioned education. There is not a stu-
dent in this room that has not studied
Latin, which Is now, as you are aware, a
rare distinction. ... I venture to
prophesy that when you leave Bryn Mawr
College and begin to work side by side
with men and women educated in other
ways in other colleges, that your old-
> fashioned education, which we have given
with what we hope are new-fashioned
methods, will justify itself and that you
will find that you are able to do the work
assigned you with an ease and assurance
that is not ordinarily possessed by other
men and women less strenuously trained.
"Bryn Mawr stands or falls by the
graduates she sends out. It is very rarely
that a Bryn Mawr College graduate tells
I us after outside experience that her edu-
| cation has been wrong. As after leaving
j College you match yourselves against
other men and women I hope you will
determine for yourselves what Is the best
form of education to give your sons and
daughters and if you find that your own
education stands the test, I hope that you
will carry on the Bryn Mawr tradition
and see to it that the Bryn Mawr of the
future stands fast by her high educational
standards. As alumna; you will have an
enormous influence In maintaining and
fixing those standards. A privately en-
dowed college like Bryn Mawr must de-
pend upon the loyalty and devotion of its
graduates because it cannot depend like
State universities on State appropria-
tions. Although the new world that is
coming will be a world without great for-
tunes, this does not mean that you will
not be responsible by smaller gifts from
your smaller resources for keeping up an
institution like Bryn Mawr. if it fills the
need of that time as we like to believe
that the Bryn Mawr of today Alls the
needs of this time".
After reading the list of the graduate
fellows and the first ten Seniors, Presi-
dent Thomas went on: "The faculty has
the great satisfaction of nominating this
year for our European fellow a student
whose work has been uniformly excellent,
of a very high grade of intelligence, who
seems to us to give the greatest promise
of future distinction, Thalia Howard
Smith, average grade 88.376 per cent in
the group of Philosophy and Psychology.
"Before we separate I want to congrat-
ulate the whole Senior Class on their
work for the four years. As a class your
academic standard has been high. It
looks as if the recognition by the College
of good academic work by giving the A.B.
degree according to merit on three divi-
sions waa working well".
The first  ten Seniors are:
Thalia Smith. 88.37.
Katharine Blodgett. 87.44
Marjorle Milne. 85.73.
Mary Hodge. 85.33.
Marian Khoada. 84.88.
Janet Grace. 84.40.
Esther Johnson. 82.90.
Agnes Dorothy Shipley. 12.14.
Mary Cllne. 82 71
Henrietta Amelia Plxoa. MM.