College News, 1919-10-07, Vol. 06, No. 02

              The College News
Volume VI.   No. 2
HONOR MEMORY OF DR. SHAW
Suffrage Workers Speak at Service
Alumnae and Undergraduates of Bryn
Mawr joined in honoring the memory of
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw at a service held
in the chapel last Thursday afternoon.
Acting-President Taft presided, and the
speakers were Mrs. John Miller, Presidenf
of the Pennsylvania Woman's Suffrage
League, and Mrs. George Gellhorn, Presi-
dent of the Missouri League of Woman
Voters. Mrs. Gellhorn was Edna Fischel,
'00.
"No class of people were fonder of Dr.
Shaw than the Undergraduates of Bryn
Mawr," declared Miss Taft "Dr. Shaw
had the enthusiasm, the spontaneity and
even the humor of youth. She really loved
Bryn Mawr, and I think she felt closer to
it than to any other woman's college. So
it is particularly appropriate that we should
have some memorial to her."
Mrs. Miller told of her experiences in
working side by side with the great suf-
frage leader. "Dr. Shaw was a pioneer,"
she said, "in that she went to college, was
a doctor, a minister and one of the greatest
propagandists and orators we have had in
this country." Describing her experiences
while traveling with Dr. Shaw on a speak-
ing tour in Northern Pennsylvania, suffer-
ing from jerkwater trains and one-night
stands, Mrs. Miller declared that from Dr.
Shaw she learned what it was to be a "good
salt" under trying circumstances. She was
present in Washington when the Secretary
of War conferred the Distinguished Serv-
ice Cross upon Dr. Shaw, who at that time
was debating whether to go abroad with
President Thomas or tour twenty-five
states for the League to Enforce Peace.
She chose the latter course because she felt
it her duty, and it was on this trip that
she was seized with her last illness. Dr.
Shaw's work was finished," concluded Mrs.
Miller, "and she died at the zenith of her
powers, knowing that the women of the
world were going to have the fullest oppor-
tunity to show their capabilities."
Mrs. Gellhorn, who is the chairman of
the Committee for the Anna Howard Shaw
Memorial Fund, spoke of the particular
appropriateness of honoring Dr. Shaw's
memory by the endowment of a chair of
politics. "Dr. Shaw," she said, "has given
us opportunity, and it is our responsibility
now to see that we push open all the doors
which she has opened just a crack. She
has friends and admirers all over the world
who will be only too glad to contribute to
such a chair. It is our golden opportunity
to pay back in some tiny measure what
she has done for us."
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919
Price 5 Cents
BOOKLET  PUBLISHED   BY   REELERB
AND WRITHER8 TO BE  ON 8ALE
"Humble Voyagers" is the unassum-
ing title of a small booklet of verse by
the Reeling and Writhing Club, to be
offered for sale later this week.
"Please look upon these verses," the
Foreword begs, "as the amiable pas-
times of people whose serious business
in life .... lies as much on the
hockey-field as in the library." Its con-
clusion, quoted by the Public Ledger in a
brief review, is an invitation to join the
"day nursery"�"because it really is lots
of fun."
Among the contributors are G. Wood-
bury, '19; D. Pitkin. '20; A. Rood, *20;
H. Hill, '21, and P. Smith, '22.
ACTING PRESIDENT TAFT ADDRESSES STUDENTS ON OPEN-
ING OF THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Educated People Must Help to Solve Problems of Class Antagonism and
Reconstruction
1923'S PARADE SONG PARODIED
Sophomore Gets Into Freshman Song
Practice
After four days of apparent indifference,
1922, by suddenly switching off the lights
in the gymnasium, at a Freshman song
practice on Thursday nighL learned the
words of '23's parade song, ten minutes
before the band arrived.
Since the regulations required that they
should not enter a class meeting, the
Sophomores waited at the door of the gym-
nasium until the song-practice started, and
then turned off the lights from the roof
just at the moment when the Freshmen
had been given copies of the song, which
they were instructed to follow. In the
darkness, S. Baron slipped in the door,
memorized the words and then left the
building with the Freshmen. She repeated
the words to C. Skinner, who wrote off a
parody, word by word, without knowing
the tune, which proved to be "Columbia,
the Gem of the Ocean."
The Freshmen, led by the band and es-
corted by 1921 with torches, paraded to the
hockey field where the Sophomores, also
with torches, were dancing around the bon-
fire. After a song by the Juniors to 1923,
the procession went back to Pembroke
Arch for singing.
FORMER PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL
TENNIS ASSOCIATION TO
Mr. Albert T. Hoskins, secretary and
former president of the National Lawn
Tennis Association, will give an illustrated
talk on "Elementary Tennis Strokes and
Shots" Wednesday afternoon on one of
the courts. He will demonstrate correct
form as well as the mistakes made by the
average player. Mr. Hoskins has offered
to coach 'Varsity as well as demonstrate to
those who are interested. In his talk he
will give particular pointers on serving,
the weak point in every woman's game.
UNOERGRAD. MEETING THI8 WEEK
The question as to whether the Stu-
dents' Building Campaign should be
dropped temporarily during the progress
of the Alumnae Drive will be among the
business taken up at the first meeting
of the Undergraduate Association next
Thursday evening. Plans for making
the position of pay day a paid one will
be discussed and the constitution read.
Graduate Club Plans Big Athletic Year
Athletic plans for the coming year were
discussed at an enthusiastic meeting of the
Graduate Club last Friday evening in Den-
bigh. The spirit of the meeting was that
of determination to get more in touch with
the undergraduates' activities.
The graduate Athletic Board is made up
of Eleanor Dulles, '17, the temporary ath-
letic representative, and six members, elect-
ed by the halls, to have charge of different
sports. The hall representatives are Miss
Barker. Cambridge; Miss Earl);, Vander-
bilL '18; Miss Goldstein, Barnard, '18; Miss
Woods, Dickinson; Miss Price, Cambridge,
and M. Gilman, '19.
"It seems very strange to me to be mak-
ing the address at the opening of Bryn
Mawr College this year when I have for
so many years sat where you are sitting
today and listened to President Thomas
open college," said Acting-President Taft
last Wednesday morning. "I suppose it is
the first time since the time when President
Thomas became president of the college
when she has not given the opening ad-
dress.
"This year we are happy in having the
catastrophe of the war behind us and in
knowing that the outcome is what we have
hoped and prayed for during the last five
years. Though we are not called on for
any such effort of strenuousness as during
the war, we still have to face the problems
which come with reconstruction, and we
still have to face the problem of whether
or not we are going to be dominated by
any one class or whether we are going to
fight to have true democracy.
"I think that anyone who has been in
Europe in the last year realizes that con-
ditions are no more in a state of equilibrium
than while Europe was in the throes of
war. The economic condition, about which
we heard on every side while travelling
through Europe, is as critical, if not more
so than during the war. The reconstruc-
tion of Europe can scarcely be said in a
material sense to have begun and the prob-
lem of how that is to be brought about
the world is now facing.
"The United States is certainly more for-
tunate in a material sense, but we are fac-
ing the same problems of the classes, of
class antagonism and class sturggle.
Necessity  of  Education   in   World  Crisis
CHEYNEY   8TUOENT8   TO    SING   AT
SOCIAL SERVICE PARTY
Singers from the Cheyney Training
School for Colored Teachers will be a
feature of the party to be given by the
Social Service Committee in the gymna-
sium Saturday evening, when students
can volunteer for the different branches
of Social Service work. Dean Smith,
Dr. Kingsbury, Miss Barrett, director of
the community center, and H. Kingsbury,
'20. chairman of the Social Service Com-
mittee, will speak. The college orches-
11 play for dancing before and after
the speeches.
Helen Keller was expected to speak
in connection with the work at the blind
school, but she .is too busy with work
on  the   movie of her life.
"It is for the educated people of the
country to bring about some conception of
the possibility of the reconciliation of the
interests of the different classes and it is
going to be a very complicated matter and
is going to take careful reasoning. The
greatest contribution that educated people
can make at present is to preach class co-
operation�not class antagonism�and the
possibility that the interests of all may be
reconciled.
"Here at Bryn Mawr we will try to give
you the best and broadest training we can
in four years of undergraduate work so
that you will be grounded and prepared to
meet the struggle.
Bryn Maw's Problem
"Bryn Mawr has its own peculiar prob-
lem of reconstruction. The rise in the cost
of everything, from the wages of the
Italians who work on our grounds to the
food which the students eat, has made it
impossible to support the college on the old
financial basis. Last spring the Directors
were compelled to raise not only the price
of board, but the price of a large number
of the rooms in the college. It seems as
if we are getting away from the times when
girls and boys can get an education for
themselves with only slight help from their
families unless they go to the State Uni-
versities or colleges near their own homes.
All the other women's colleges have had
to raise their rates. This means that there
will be one class of girls who will not be
able to be a part of our college community
and who will be a distinct loss to our
colleges.
"At the same time that the Directors have
had to realize the necessity for raising the
rates for the material things at Bryn Mawr
the Faculty of Bryn Mawr have found
themselves unable to live on their salaries
Up to the end of the war, when we all felt
that we were suffering together, when we
were all of us making every possible effort
to give all we had to the cause and were
ready to bear any discomfort in silence,
the difficulties of the professors were not
stressed, but the situation last year could
no longer be overlooked. I wonder how
many of the undergraduates realize what
it is to have as a maximum possible salary
$3000 on which a whole family must in
many cases live and on which the children
must be educated. It means that it is abso-
lutely impossible to continue to live in an
adequate manner at all and educate one's
children.
"I am not going to stress upon the diffi-
culties of the members of the Faculty�
they would be the last to wish to be an
object of pity�but you must recognize that
no intelligent, in fact, no sane man or
woman is going to choose a profession
which gives no opportunity or hope of
earning a decent livelihood. And if the
intellectual life of Bryn Mawr is to con-
tinue, if the intellectual life of any of the
colleges of the country is to continue, either
their annual rates must be raised many
hundreds of dollars or their endowment
must be greatly increased.
Student Building Less Pressing Need
"This i< the paramount financial question
which  is   facing  Bryn  Mawr today, and I
think  the undergraduates will  feel, as the
Alumnae have felt, that every other object
must give way to it.   We have hoped again
and again that we are going to be able to
build  our   Students"   Building.     It   is cer-
tainly a necessity in the lives of the under-
graduates if they are to continue to have
any   kind   of   adequate   dramatics.     But   I
think   that  you will all of you  appreciate
and that you are all of you generous enough
to realize that it is possible for you to go on
with makeshifts a little longer and it is not
possible for the Bryn Mawr Faculty to go
on any longer with their  present salaries.
"In   view   of   the   fact  that  the  cost  of
living has increased nearly 100% since the
last time that the salaries of full professors
were raised, a 25% increase would be quite
inadequate.    The Alumnae who met in con-
ference here last week recognized this fact
and voted that the drive should be made
for $2,000,000 so that Bryn Mawr need not
start a   second  drive as  soon as  the  first
million was completed and so that an in-
crease could   be  made   so   substantial  that
the professors would be able to live more
or   less   on   the   scale�modest   enough,   in
truth�in which they lived before the war.
"The   undergraduates   cannot   make   any-
considerable contributions of their own to
this campaign.     President   Thomas  and   I
have both felt during the war that under-
graduates  were asked  too   often   to  make
contributions to every kind of fund.    We
don't wish Bryn Mawr to have the reputa-
tion of making continual financial demands
on the undergraduate body.    But we hope
that   the   undergraduates   will   help   us by
giving their own evidence as to the need
of Bryn Mawr at this time and by giving
jus the  names  of any of their   friends or
acquaintances  who  they think might  con-
tribute if they were approached."
In her welcome to the Freshman class,
: Miss Taft said in part: "Some of you may
have felt .hat Bryn Mawr * entrancr re-
quirements, which had to be met before you
could assemble here, were unnecessarily
crotchety and unreasonable; but I am glad,
as I think President Thomas is glad every
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