College News, 1916-10-11, Vol. 03, No. 02

              The College
Volume III.   No. 2
BRYN MAWR, PA., OCTOBER 11, 1916
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CALENDAR
Wednesday, October 11
7.30 p. m.�Meeting of the Athletic As-
sociation In the Chapel.
9.30 p. m.�Mid-week meeting of the C.
A. Leader, M. Tyler '19.
Sunday, October 15
6.00 p. m.�Vespers.   M. Gardiner '18.
8.00 p. m.�Chapel.   Sermon by the Rev.
Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D.D., of Washington,
D. C.
Monday, October 16
4.30  p.  m.�Inter-class  tennis  tourna-
ment begins.   1917 vs. 1920.
Tuesday, October 17
4.20  p.  m.�Inter-class  tennis   tourna-
ment   1918 vs. 1919.
Sunday, October 22
8.00 p. m.�Chapel.   Sermon by the Rev.
Robert Davis, of Englewood, N. J.
Friday, November 3
Lantern Night.
DANCING AT C. A.   RECEPTION
Speeches and  Sophomore Band Give
Varied Entertainment
President Thomas' opening speech,
Miss Applebee's speech and the usual
explanations of the four Associations at
the Christian Association reception
Saturday night were followed by danc-
ing to the music of the Sophomore band.
The reception was characterised by a
Freshman as a "regular pageant".
In welcoming the students President
Thomas mentioned the great advantages
of union in Christian work so often pre-
vented outside of College by church dif-
ferences. She spoke of the Christian
Association reception as in some ways
the real beginning of the College year as
it begins association In work which
keeps alive one's feeling of duty to
otben.
C. Stevens, president of Self-govern-
ment Association, told of the principle
of Individual responsibility In conduct.
D. Shipley, president of the Undergrad-
uate Association, explained the work of
Its many committees. The principle
athletic events of the year were outlined
by M. Thompson, the Athletic president
Miss Rambo, the president of the grad-
uate club, discussed the relations be-
tween the graduates and undergraduates,
who were separated she said not by a gulf
but often merely by one summer. "The
Universal Chance" to be useful and to
broaden oneself said Miss Applebee Is
In  the Christian  Association.
N. McPaden, the president of the Chris-
tian Association, introduced the speakers
and then Invited every one to dance.
The main object of the reception, she
i�aid, was to more closely associate the
new students In Interests and friendship.
NEW  COURSES  CHIEFLY   ELECTIVE.
Of the new courses this year, one Is a
free elective in Social Statistics, two are
English electlves for which permission to
register must be gained from the English
Department and one Is a graduate sem-
inary In Racine. M. Vatar, the new pro-
fessor of Modern French and Italian, will
conduct the seminary.
Social Statistics is a one-hour course
for two semesters coming Wednesday at
eleven and listed In the catalogue as In-
dustrial and Census Problems. It Is
given by Miss McBrlde. Dr. Klngsbury's
new secretary, who since 1914 has been
doing graduate work at Colombia where
she will take her Ph D
PRE8IDENT  THOMAS
8PEAK8 AT OPENING  OF
32d ACADEMIC YEAR
President Thomas said in part:
"This year as in previous years we
must together enter on the tremendous
adventure of making you as students free
cltlsens of the great republic of letters.
It Is our duty as your teachers by some
means or other to inspire you to make
the great effort necessary to cross the
gulf that yawns between educated and
uneducated men and women. We must
teach you how to trim your sails and
start on that solitary voyage that must
be made by every one of you across the
dim waters that now divide you from the
shining country of the chosen people of
light and leading.
"Ever since men began to develop what
we mean by intellectual life the older
generation has tried to show the younger
generation how to break away from ma-
terial things and enter into this other
kind of kingdom. The nations that have
succeeded best in teaching this to their
youth are the only nations that are now
remembered. In every country to-day
youth is being taught�sometimes well,
sometimes ill�but always being taught
in some fashion. So difficult is tins evo-
lution from the physical to the intellec-
tual that it seems to require not only a
wise system of Instruction for the youth
of a given country but also favourable
climatic conditions in order to develop
marked mental ability. It seems to be
only in a strictly limited temperate zone,
only on a very small part of the earth's
surface, that men tan maintain continu-
ous intellectual activity. Roughly speak-
ing this zone Includes Great Britain,
Scandinavia, Prance. Spain, Italy, prob-
ably the greater part of the United States
and Canada and certain parts of Russia
and South America, and probably parts of
certain other countries that have not yet
been studied sufficiently to be enumer-
ated. It seems probable that the climate
of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, and parts of
Asia may have changed since the time
when the wonderful prehistoric civiliza-
tions that flourished there have perished.
One thing we know beyond doubt and
that is that certain races have never yet
in the history of the world manifested
any continuous mental activity nor even
any continuous power of organized gov-
ernment. Such are the pure negroes of
Africa, the Indians, the Esquimaux, the
South Sea Islanders, the Turks, etc. Our
own seml-civlllzed American negroes
have shown In Haiti what they revert to
when left to themselves.
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"These facts must be faced by a country
like the United States, which Is fast be-
coming, If It has not already become, the
melting pot of nations into which are cast
at the rate of a million a year the back-
ward peoples of Europe like the Czechs,
the Slavs, and the south Italians. Our
first Immigration was made up of the dom-
inant races of the world, the English.
Scotch, French, Dutch, German, and the
singularly gifted even if politically un-
successful Irish and Welsh. Our New
York and Chicago slums are now as bad.
If not worse, than anything In the old
world. The conditions In some of our
mining towns In Pennsylvania where no
word of English Is heard are said to sur-
pass anything In Europe. The diseases
of European poverty and filth are brought
here by our foreign Immigrants like our
present  epidemic   of  Infantile  paralysis
FIR8T VAR8ITY  PRACTICE
8TRENUOU8
Back  Field  Strong, But  Forward  Line a
Difficulty
80PHOMORE  DETECTIVE8
DISCOVER PARADE SONG
1920  Sings With Vigor Under Arch
Twenty-seven  players  from  the  three
upper classes panted up and down the
field at the first Varsity practice last Sat-
urday  morning.    Only the Vanity  goal
had an  easy  time, for the scrub  team
played wildly and the Varsity forwards
kept the ball down at the other end.  The
team play was poor, the halfbacks failed
to connect with the forward line and the
forwards  straggled  up the  Held,  losing
their fight in the circle to miss good
chances at goals.    The play  In general
was on the left, so L. Brown at right wing
found  few opportunities  to  display  her
usual form.    The back field promises to
be adequate in spite of the  loss of A.
Werner, J. Pauling, and M. Branson.   L.
Richardson and F. Clarke were the candi-
dates for goal and F. Curtin, last year's
sub, will be tried when her sprained knee
Is well.    M. Peacock played J. Pauling's
position at left fullback part of the time
and showed up well in the few chances
she got. M. Bacon in center half, M.
| Branson's old place, shot hard, but with-
! out aim.
With good material from 1920 and more
'hard practice the team should be In good |ereu Dy the Indignant Janltress In the hot
shape  to  meet  Haddonfleld  on  October .alr flue an<l immediately removed, but it
Dictaphone, detective work, and bluff
were all used by 1919 to discover 1I20'*
carefully guarded parade song. When
the Freshmen under Pembroke Arch
started with unusual vigor and awing on
their parade song to the tune of "Tramp,
tramp, tramp the boys are marching", the
Sophomores recognized the song they
were prepared to parody.
Former Burns Man Finda Dictaphone
All week 1919 had searched for clues,
tried to catch Freshmen off their guard,
and shadowed the Junior officers. The
dictaphone installed in M. Hutchins'
room was discovered by Benjamin, the
Pembroke porter, who baa worked with
the Hums Detective Agency. Benjamin
helped 1918 search the gym Thursday
afternoon before the Freshman meeting
at 5.30.
The Siege at the Gym
An eager mob of Sophomores and
Seniors besieged the gym during 192U's
meeting. The Juniors, holding doors ami
windows from the Inside, tried to drown
out the Freshman song practice with ath-
letic songs.    M. Peacock '19 was dlscov-
21�t.
THE   CHARM
OF  1916�
A  CRITICAL   PAPER
'The Charm of 1916�A Critical Paper".
is the title of 1916's original class book.
It carries out the well-known plan of a
critical paper. Athletic teams are '16's
"pathetic fallacies": the editor, E. T.
Strauss,  is "Head  of  the Department".
and her staff is made up of "readers".
The proem, to the effect that -This In I eIectrIc lft20 blared outagaTnet thV'dark
was M. Peacock who Anally got near
enough to the meeting to verify the Soph
omores' suspicions as to the tune. On
Monday they had found clues in a Junior's
room which had led them to believe that
the tune was a common one used as an
athletic song several years ago, and by
elimination and Investigation they found
out the tune for their parody.
Weird Glow on the Hockey Field
The Freshmen, Thursday night, led by
the Juniors with torches, marched in solid
I ranks to the lower hockey field, where an
the proem! prime evil"! la the best of the
good verse. Narrative, proof, and conclu-
sion, although they contain the usual mix-
ture of amusing articles and those meant
to amuse, are enlivened by "reader's com-
ments" and by the Innovation of cuts
made from snapshots taken at College.
The "News" Is flattered by a take-off on
Its style entitled "All the 'News' That's
Fit to Print"
CUTS TO BE CATALOGUED
Undergraduate Aesoclatlon   Disc
Endowment  Fund Plans
Umaea
At the first Undergraduate Association
! meeting on Tuesday night the president,
' D. Shipley '17, snnounced the plan of the
| board to keep a systematized record of
! all cuts.
This year every student is to have a
printed card on which to register all the
classes she has mlascd, the subject date
j and reason for absence. This will be an
accurate record of excused and unexcused
bsences. The carda are to be collected by
the hall representatives every two weeks.
Although this plan was In operation last
year it was not so systematic.
President Shipley then explained the
responsibility of the Association for rais-
ing five thousand dollars this year for
the Endowment Fund. The undergrad-
uates raised the first 85000 towards the
endowment of a professor's chair last
spring and this year each class is to
secure one thousand dollars and the As-
ness, burning first white and then pale
blue. Below It Juniors and Sophomore-
were snake dancing silhouetted against a
glowing pillar of fire. Their brandished
torches filled the air with smoke and
lighted the field with an unearthly glow.
Parade songs and parodies since 1915
were sung, and after 1920's song 1919
burst forth triumphantly with their par
'Miy. "Sniff, Sniff, Sniff". The singing
under the arch, however derisive in
words, was never applauded with greater
enthusiasm, and answered with more
friendly spirit. The Freshmen sang with
distinct swing and  spirit.
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LUMN.C IN HALLS MUST COMPLY
WITH  SELF-GOVERNMENT  RULES
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M.   L.  Thurman  '19   Resigns
The length of Jurisdiction of Self-Gov-
ernment was emphasized, among other
things, at the annual meeting of the Self
Government Association on Monday night,
to read and explain the Constitution and
resolutions. The resignation of M. L.
Thurman '19, treasurer of the association,
on account of lack of merits, was ac-
cepted.
"The Jurisdiction of Self-Government",
said the president Caroline Stevens '17.
In one of her frequent interruptions of
the secretary's reading of the rules, "as
far as the student administration la con
cerned, extends over students pursuing
studies at Bryn Mawr only during the
academic year, but the authorities of the
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