College News, 1919-11-12, Vol. 06, No. 07

              The College News
Volume VI.   No. 7
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1919
RED CROSS DRIVE WINDS UP
WITH 96 PER CENT UNDER-
GRADUATE MEMBERSHIP
Seniors Win Interests Race
The Seniors with a one hundred per
cent, membership won the race among
the classes in the College Red Cross
Drive which closed Saturday morning.
The Juniors ran a close second and the
percentage of all the classes was well
above ninety per cent 487 joined out
of the college community.
The workmen on the grounds lived up
tc last year's record and joined one hun-
dred per cent strong. They were the
only group beside the Seniors to get a
one hundred per cent.
Members of the faculty, Dr. Fen-
wick, Dr. Gray, Dr. Savage and Dr. Rea
spoke on the Red Cross in the halls
Wednesday and Thursday evenings at
dinner and announced the latest results
of the race.
Bryn Mawr was ahead of Wellesly
on the first day of the Drive, but Wel-
lesly won the race with a one hundred
per cent membership on the fourth day
of the Drive.
DELEGATES FROM THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
WORKING WOMEN SPEND WEEK-END AT BRYN MAWR
Discuss Lab or Problems Saturday Etc.
Speaking in four languages and rep-
resenting seven nationalities, the dele-
gates from the International Congress
discussed labor probJems at the open
meeting Saturday night. Acting Presi-
dent Taft presided at the meeting.
England was represented by Miss
Margaret Bonfield, secretary of the
Woman's Trade Union League of Eng-
land, who said that labor is not over
organized, but under organized, and is
not strong enough to mould public opin-
ion.
The English Railroad strike was not
a revolutionary or Bolshevik move, ac-
cording to Miss Bonfield, but an open
fight for a higher wage. The govern-
ment was responsible for the trouble,
manoeuvering that the strike should be
called, in order that it might be broken
by government machinery built up by
the war.
VARSITY DEFEATED 2 TO 0
Fail (toJScore Against Super-defence
of Philadelphia Cricket Club
Powerless against an impassable de-
fence. Varsity failed to score against
the Philadelphia Cricket Club last Sat-
urday, going down to defeat for the
first time in four years. The game was
open for the most part, and not with-
out thrills for the side-lines every foot
of the ground being hotly contested.
Mass formation was the basis of the
stonewall defence put up by the Phila-
delphia team. The Varsity forwards
carried the ball again down the wing,
but failed to put conviction into their
shots in the circle, losing the ball every-
time in a maze of Philadelphia sticks.
Bryn Mawr was driven to defensive
play in the first few minutes of the
game, with a smashing ball shot by
Mrs. Madeira from the edge of the cir-
cle. In spite of clever passing across
the forward line further attacks from
the visiting forwards were checked by
good work from the Varsity fullbacks,
the ball never remaining long in the
home field. The Varsity halves put up
a consistently good defence, but were
weak on passing, shooting straight a-
head into the opposing team.
The second half opened well for Bryn
Mawr with a long run by E. Bright,
who lost the ball to the opposing half.
Repeated scrapping on the Philadelphia j
goal line follows, in which the Varsity
forwards are unable to push the ball
across, largely due to the strong work
of Miss Dixon at goal. Philadelphia
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Italian Delegate Wins Applause
Mme. Casartelli, from Italy, aroused
an enthusiastic response by her witty
allusions to the peaceless peace and her
breezy discussion of the Fiume ques-
tion.
"All Americans ask me three ques-
tions," she said. "What do you think of
'Faiume?' what do you think of the
League of Nations, and what are the
women  of  Italy doing?"
When the fourteen points were lost
somewhere and the Allies could not de-
cide anything, d'Annunzio wanted to
have some decision, so he went on his
expedition. He was a real fighter in
the war, she said, symbolic of Italy's
army.
"As for the League of Nations," she
continued, "like Thomas Edison, many
of us think we are not civilized enough
to  deserve  it yet."
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Delegates Hare a Busy Day
Delegates from the Woman Workers'
Conference in Washington reached
Bryn Mawr Saturday morning. Great
Britain. Belgium, Czecho - Slovakia,
France. Italy and Poland were rep-
resented.
The visitors were taken directly to the
hockey field, where the match between
Philadelphia and Varsity was being
played. A conference with the Carola
Woerishofer Department was held in
Taylor afterwards.
Following a visit to the Model School
and an automobile ride, the delegates
were entertained at tea by President
Taft at Rockefeller Hall.
Reception Pleases Visitors
"You Americans have been very kind
to us," was the remark of many of the
delegates at Bryn Mawr on Saturday.
"We want to take many of your insti-
tutions back with us; we have seen
many fine things."
Hockey impressed them greatly. "Do
the girls ever get hit and injured?" sev-
eral asked. There is little outdoor sport
for girls in the countries represented.
There was great amusement over the
taking of their pictures. "I shall tell my
friends in Belgium, that is the one thing
we did all the time. Photographs al-
ways," said Mile. Delalieux.
Interested In Employment Management
"We have no such thing as Employ-
ment Management in Poland," said one
of the Polish delegates, "we must learn
what it is and introduce it." The de-
scription of the courses in preparation
at Bryn Mawr interested them and they
asked many questions.
French employment is very poorly co-
ordinated, according to the French del-
egate, there being little system in the
taking on and placing of new helpers.
Price 5 Cento
MRS. SLADE ACCEPTS NATIONAL
CHAIRMANSHIP OF TWO MIL-
LION DOLLAR  ENDOW-
MENT CAMPAIGN
National Headquarters in New York
John Price Jonea May Be Manager
Caroline McCormick Slade (Mrs.
Francis Louis Slade), ex-'9�, will be the
national chairman of the Two Million
Dollar Endowment Campaign. Mrs,
Slade accepted the office at a conference
with Mr. Charles Rhoads, Mrs. Richard
S. Francis, Miss Marion Reilly and Mrs.
Learned Hand in New York City on
Friday.
National headquarters will be estab-
lished in New York, but there will be
offices in Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr
as well. It is probable that the manage-
ment of the campaign will be placed in
the hands of John Price Jones, who has
been managing the Harvard and the
Smith  campaigns.
Mrs. Slade is first vice chairman of
the League of Women Voters of New
York City. Throughout the war she
was chairman of the women's bureau
of the war personnel board of the Young
Men's Christian Association. She se-
lected all the canteen workers who were
sent abroad.
I. C. S. A. CONFERENCE HERE
THIS WEEK-END
Hugh Walpole Coming Here Novem-
ber 20th
Hugh Walpole, the British novelist,
will speak on "The Making of a Novel"
under the auspicices of the English Club
Thursday,  Novmber 20, at 5 o'clock.
Mr. Walpole published his first novel,
"The Wooden Horse" in 1909, and has
produced a book every year since. A-
mong his best known works are, "Forti-
tude," "The Duchess of Wrex," "The
Prelude to Adventure," and "The Dark
Forest.' The scene of the "Secret City.'
his latest book, is laid in Petrograd dur-
ing the Russian  Revolution.
NEW   GERMAN    PROFESSOR
APPOINTED
Dr. Eduard Prokosch has been ap-
pointed Lecturer in German and Anglo-
Saxon for the year 1919-20 to fill the
vacancy left by Dr. Jessen's death,
Dt. Prokosch was born in Bohemia, and
came to America in 1901. He took an
M. A. degree at the University of Chi-
cago, PHD. at Leipsic, and has taught
in the Universities of Chicago, Wis-
consin  and  Texas
The Minor English course in Anglo-
Saxon will be given by Dr. Prokosch in
the   second   semester.
Florence Martin President of 1923
Florence Martin was elected president
of the Freshman Class last Wednesday;
Elizabeth Bright, vice-president, and
[�Catherine Strauss, secretary.
Miss Martin is from Miss Ransom's
School, California, where she was presi-
dent of Student Government her Senior
year and Hockey Captain her Junior
year. Miss Bright graduated from Miss
Windsor's School, Boston, Mass.. in
1917-18, and made her debut in Boston
last winter. Miss Strauss, sister of M.
Strauss, '18. who has been the tempo-
rary secretary of the class, was presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Association
at  Brearley last year.
None of the officers elected were on
the Freshman committee that �n chos-
en by 1981 to run the class for the first
few weeks of college.
William Howard Taft on Nationn
Committee for Endowment Drive
Fifteen men and women of high po-
sition and reputation have accepted
Membership on the National committee
of the Two Million Dollar Endowment
Drive. The list is headed by William
Howard Taft, the former president oi
the United States, and President John
G. Hibben of Princeton. Others are:
Miss Mary B. Breed of Pittsburg, Henry
Biuere of New York, Rev. Henry Sloan
Coffin of New York. Frederick Delano
of Chicago, Dr. Simon Flexner of New
York, Cecil D. Gregg of St Louis.
Bishop Harding of Washington, Bi-
shop Rhinelander of Philadelphia, Pro-
fessor Paul Shorey of Chicago, Rev
Anson Phelps Stokes of Ne
Rear Admiral W. K. Van
Washington, Paul M. War
York and Dr. Hugh Young
AMY LOWELL TO READ PO*TRY
Amy Lowell., imagist poet, will read
her poems in Taylor Hall, Friday even
ing, at 8.30 o'clock. Her hut lecture
at Bryn Mawr in 1917, began, "If you
don't like it, hiss; if you do, applaud;
but for God's sake, do something!"
Miss Lowell will lecture to the Con-
temporary Club in Philadelphia tomor-
row evening on "Whitman and the New
Poetry." She has recently published a
r.ew book of verse, called "Floating Is-
lands."
W hen Miss Lowell lectured at Prince
ton in 1917. she was given the title a*
the "Prune oi Women"   by the students
Open Meeting Saturday Night
Meeting at Bryn Mawr for the first
time, the Intercollegiate Community
Service Association, of which Misa
Kingsbury is president, holds its annual
conference here this week-end. The
forty delegates have received a special
invitation from the trustees to stay in
the halls of residence.
Excursions to the Community Center
and Philadelphia institutions and con-
ferences of undergraduates and alumnae
electors are included on the I. C. S. A.
schedule.
President Taft will preside at an open
meeting on "Community Development"
Saturday evening. Mr. Wilbur C. Phil-
lips, secretary of the National Social
Unit, will speak on the work of the
unit. "Community Work oi the Red
Cross" will be the subject of Mr. J. By-
ron Deacon. Director General of Civil-
ian Relief, American Red Cross, and
"The Work of the Community Service,
Inc.," that of Mr. Fred A. Moore, Di-
rector of Community Service in Phila-
delphia.
At a tea and conference to be held
Saturday afternoon in Rockefeller. Dean
Smith will speak on "The Relation of
the I. C. S. A. to Training," and discus-
sion will be led by Mrs. Eva Whiting
White, Supervisor of Training of the I.
C. S. A. and head worker of the New
York College Settlement.
Dr. Mutch will hold a special confer-
ence service Sunday morning* at the
Presbyterian   Church.
ALUMNA RUNNING  FOR JUDGE
DEFEATED IN NEW YORK POLLS
Bertha Rcmbaugh '97 was defeated at
the polls on November 4th when she was
a candidate for justice of the municipal
court from the first district in New York
dry. Miss Rrmbauch was running in a
Tammany stronghold. The two men on
the Republican ticket for this district
were also defeated. The returns fol-
low: Caffey (D.) 10.988, Moore (ft)
11.232. Hoyer (D.) 10,988. Turley (K )
8730, Rcmbaugh (R.) 8231. Murray (K |
8324