College News, 1920-02-26, Vol. 06, No. 16

              The College News
Volume VI.    No. 16
BRYN MAWR, PA., THURSDAY, FEBUARY 26, 1920
Price 5 C ents
M. LOUIS CONS OF PRINCETON
TO SPEAK FOR FRENCH CLUB
BLASCO IBANEZ, SPAIN'S LEADING NOVELIST, HERE FRIDAY
Won Croix de Guerre at Verdun
".'Souvenirs d'un Ecouteur" (At the
Listening Post) will be the subject of
the lecture to be given in the chapel
next Saturday evening under the au-
spices of the French Club, by M. Louis
Cons, of Princeton University. Profes-
sor Cons was Associate in French V.
Bryii Mawr from 1911 to 1914.
In August, 1914. he was teaching at
the summer school of Columbia Univer-
sity, and upon the news of the mobiliza-
tion, he and Madame Cons, who is an
American, took the first boat for France,
so that M. Cons might join his regiment,
the 112th Infantry (Corps Alpini. He
was in active service during the entire
war, being for ten months an "ecouteur
interprete" engaged in the very dan-
gerous and important task of tapping
German telephone wires, "un joli me-
tier," to quote his own words. In No-
vember, 1915, at Verdun, he received the
Croix de Guerre.
Madame Cons, who may conic to Itryn
Mawr with her husband, organized ac-
tive and valuable relief work among the
soldiers whose families were in the in-
vaded districts, and established a con-
valescent home near Paris for those of
her men who had been wounded.
TO RAISE MAY DAY EXPENSE
FUND BY STUDENT GIFTS
Graduate Play Cast
Funds to start May Day preparation
will be raised by voluntary student sub-
scription, according to a vote taken at
the Undergraduate Association meeting
last week. Members of the May Day
Committee will be in the halls next
Monday after luncheon dinner to receive
contributions.
This fund will cover damages to cos-
tumes, etc. Last May Day each student
was assessed two dollars for the same
purpose.
The graduate play. The Nice Wanton,
was cast last week as follows:
Delilagh�J.  Davies
Ishmail�M.   Barker
Barnabas�M. Price
Iniquity�M.  Knapp
Zantippe�M. Flannery
Eulalia�F.  Penrose
Worldly Shame�H. Spalding
Judge�R. Woodruff
Messenger�E. Copenhaver
Bayley�A.   Newlin
Bayley�I.   Haupt
Prompter�A. Martin
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION VOTES
CHAIR TO BRYN MAWR
To Study Collage Life for New Novel
"Many American girls and a great col-
lege will appear in my new novel. El
Paraiso de las Mujeres (The Paradise
of Women)," wrote Blasco [bane* to
the president of the Spanish Club, when
he was accepting her invitation to come
to Bryn  Mawr.
Since Ibanez refused an offer to go
to the University of Pennsylvania to
eomC to Bryn Mawr because he is anx-
ious to study the life of an American
woman's college, he will be given an
opportunity to see as many of the col-
lege activities as possible. A water polo
game will be staged for him. so that his
desire to "see women run after a ball"
will be gratified, and be will have dinner
with the Spanish Club in one of the
halls.
Theme is Spirit of Four Horsemen
"(>nc of the greatest of living novel-
ists," the New York Times rates Vi-
cente Blasco Ibanez. who will speak here
Friday evening in Taylor Hall, under the
auspices of the Spanish Club. Taking M
his subject. "The Spirit of the Four
Horsemen," Blasco Ibanez will show the
author's view of the sensationally suc-
cessful novel of the war. "The Four
Horsemen of the \pocalypse." which
established his popularity  in America.
Mr. J. P. Wickersham Crawford. Pro-
fessor of Romantic Languages at the
University of Pennsylvania, will act as
interpreter for the lecturer. Tickets are
%IM and $i.ih> for oat eiders; ?.;�"> and
$..10 for members of the college.
Prison a Second Home for  Ibanez
\   self-made man  and a "fighter from
tin- first," according to Senorita Dorado,
Ibanez. now in his fifty-fourth year, can
look back at a life of active struggle. At
the age of \h he was imprisoned for an
anti-government sonnet, and has been
sent to jail more than thirty times dur-
ing his life for political offenses. Kxiled,
pardoned, pleading the radical cause in
person and in bis writing*, he was ac-
claimed leader of the Republican party.
Later, disheartened by the lack of or-
ganization among the anti-monarchists,
he set out to colonize South America,
and built a town around the bust of Cer-
vantes. When the war broke out, he
had special permission from the French
government to go to the Marnc battle
front for a realistic picture for his novel)
"The   Four Horsemen."
Celebrate Ibanez Feastday
In intervals of exile and imprisonment
he founded a Republican newspaper, di-
rected his own publishing-house, and is
at present writing a monumental "His-
tory of the War of 1914." He was hon-
ored as a literary and political leader
when bis native province. Valencia re-
cently celebrated a Blasco Ibanez Penal
Day, the event of the occasion being the
launching of a vessel with the names
of his novels upon the sails.
lbanez's international reputation is
based on a steady succession of novels
numbering IT. with two in preparation.
Divided into three classes�war. propa-
gandist,  and  regional   novels�they   give
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Memorial to Anna Howard Shaw
Joint   foundation   of  a  Chair   in   Poli
tics at   Bryn   Mawr and a Chair in   Pre
ventive Medicine at the  Women's Medi
cal  College in   Philadelphia is  to be the
Official   National   Suffrage   Memorial   to
Dr. Anna  Howard  Shaw.     The vote   for
the   Memorial   was  taken  at  the  Conven-
tion of the National American Women's
Suffrage    Association,    held    in   Chicago,
February   IS.
"Pennsylvania women certainly die
s""1! team work in procuring for their
state the two memorial chairs."
the PubKc Ledger. The first decision of
the convention by a vote of IN to i.">i
was to raise the memorial solely tin
Itryn Mawr. Hut the Bryn Mawr dele-
gates protested that since the vote w.i-
so close, the Women's Medical College
should hf given another chance Alter
reconsideration, the final vote was to
raise a joint memorial for both colleges,
all money subscribed to he divided even
ly between the two institutions, except
�hen otherwise designated.
Aim   Bsyond  $100,000  for  Bryn  Mawr
Mrs. John < >. Miller, president of the
League   of   Women   Citizens   of    Penn-
sylvania,   was   >elected   chairman   of   tile
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MAJOR BLES DES1R0YS MYTH
OF GERMAN SUPERIORITY
VOCATIONAL   CONFERENCE   TO   AID
PUBLICITY  FOR  ENDOWMENT DRIVE
WANT    PIANOS   AND    VICTROLAS
HALLS  OF  RESIDENCE
IN
Undergraduates Ask te Confer With Trus-
toes
That the majority of the undergraduates
wish to have removed the restriction for-
bidding pianos and victrolas in the halls,
is shown by an almost unanimous sense
of the meeting taken at a meeting of
the Undergraduate Association last
Thursday. An amendment to the effect
that the students would like to be al-
lowed private victrolas in their rooms
was voted down in favor of a single
hall victrola.
It was voted that the Board appoint
a committee to ask a conference with
the Trustees in  the matter.
Postponed Until April 9
I'.y a special vote of the faculty com-
mittee, the Vocational Conference has
been linked with the Endowment Fund
Drive and has been postponed until the
week-end of April 9. A rally will be le 1
that Friday evening by a noted educa-
tionalist, possibly President Lowell, of
Harvard.
Dean Smith, speaking in Chapel on the
results of the class votes, showed that
scientific work is the most popular, hav-
ing 291 votes. "One Freshman when ask-
ed why she had voted for astronomy re-
plied 'Because it is the only subject of
which I know absolutely nothing." "
Social work is second, having 246
votes. Votes for business, art, journal-
ism, home economics, teaching, law, mis-
sions, agriculture and library work fol-
low. This vote is not conclusive, since
classes  conducted their voting different-
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FORMER    EDITOR     OF     NEW    YORK
TRIBUNE   TO   TALK   ON   JOURNALISM
Mr.   Robert   MacAlarney   Coming   March   5
Under   Auspices   of   "News"
"The Adventure of Journalism" is the
Rates Psychology of French Strategy
High
"Every time the Germans had a chance
to get the better of us they made a mis-
take," said Major Arthur Bles, speaking
man Intellectual Superiority." Major Bles
late British administrator of Cologne
lectured under the auspices of the His-
tory Club, illustrating his talk with
strategical maps.
Major Bles demonstrated the uncanny
pyschological sense of the great Fren� li-
me ii. which pierced every German plan as
Eatf ai it was made and turned it against
itself. "Strategy," he declared, "is the
psychological art of reading the other
nun's brain and  forestalling his move."
French Strategy Outwits German*
The situation at the battle of the
Marue illustrated the difference between
German and French psychology. The-
Germans, with all their reserves in K4H-
sia, had to move up men from some
other part of their line opposite the
French strongholds. When Foch left a.
gap in his line, instead of taking adv.in
subject of a talk which Mr. Robert Mac-
Alarney. former City Editor of the New tagc Oi breaking through there, as they
York Evening Post, Evening Mail, and ����WJ easily have done, the Germans re-
Tribune, and Assistant Professor of moved men from opposite the weak place
Journalism at Columbia University, will
give at Bryn Mawr a week from Friday
in Taylor  Hall.
Mr. MacAlarney is coming to Bryn
Mawr at the invitation of the College
News Board, and will direct his appeal
particularly to all students interested in
making writing commercially successful.
'What I shall say to you at Bryn Mawr
is not going to be all in the nature of an
address." Mr. MacAlarney wrote u. the
editor of the News. "I am coming down
to talk practically. I hope, about certain
phases of work on newspapers, and I
should fall short of what I desire to do
if I were to prepare in rounded out form
a perfectly well sounding, but more or
less unsatisfactory, presentation of cer-
tain fundamentals "
to strengthen; their, threatened rlank.
Foch was so sure of this move that,
twenty hours before the Germans left. In-
brought up his reinforcements opposite
the gap thus formed, and later broke
through the German line. Foch's only
mistake," concluded Major Bles. "�^
that he thought no nation on the earth
was yellow enough to accept his arnn--
tice  terms."
Declaring that "tfci l*>t means of n-
suriug peace is to remember the war.
and those who made the supreme sacri-
fice." Major Bles urged everyone to en-
list as a member of the "Remember the
War League." of which he is acting
president. A paper was passed through
the audience for signatures.
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