College News, 1919-11-05, Vol. 06, No. 06

              The College News
Volume VI.    No. 6
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1919
Price 5 Cen
STUDENT BODY TO CONSTITUTE
LEGISLATURE OF SELF
GOVERNMENT
All Questions To Come Before
Monthly Meeting of Association
Monthly meetings of the entire stu-
dent body, to make regulations and to
hear reports of the executive board are
the outstanding features in the new plan
for the running of the Student Govern-
ment Association, according to a sense
of the meeting, passed last week.
The association will constitute the
legislative body, and the executive board
will act as the judicial court. All in-
fringements of rules will be brought to
this court, and afterward will be re-
ported, together with the punishments
inflicted, at the next monthly meeting of
the Association and in the News.
One freshman and one sophomore
member will be added to the executive
hoard. The advisory board and board
of sub-proctors will continue to meet
and discuss their own executive func-
tiens.
Two amendments were made to the
proposed plan�that a one-third quorum
will be necessary to amend a resolution,
and that proposed changes must be post-
ed forty-eight hours before the next
meeting.
R. Wood ruff, '19, was the only strong
opponent of the new plan, urging the
efficiency of the present executive board,
and its lack of red tape. W. Worcester,
'21, voicing the general opinion of the
meeting, said that the monthly meet-
ings were badly needed to stimulate
personal interest in the associatioru
OUTSIDERS CROWD CLOISTERS
FOR LANTERN NIGHT
Singing Not Up To Usual Standard
Green lanterns, shaped like Japanese
pagodas, where presented to the Fresh-
men by the Sophomores last Friday
night before an audience of pre-war size.
In spite of the threatening sky, the
ceremony, with the dimly lit library win-
dows as a background, was effectively
carried out, its impressiveness being
marred only by the long silence be-
tween the entrance of the Freshmen and
the time when the Sophomores' singing
could be heard. 1922, led by L Grim
and J. Burges, reverted to the old cus-
tom of walking the entire length of the
cloisters under the arch and approaching
the fountain by the center steps
The Sophomores' singing of "Pallas
Athene Thea" was well-modulated and
true, but lacking in volume. Expression
was sacrificed to gain a perfect rhythm.
In the 1923's singing of "Over the
Way," more strength but less round-
ness of tone was evident. Led by V.
Head (song mistress) and L. Bennett,
the Freshmen kept good time, except
at the end of the first verse. Owing to
a predominance of tenor and change in
harmony of the last lines, the parts did
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K. Gardner President of 1922J m
Katharine Gardner was elected presi-
dent of the Sophomore Class last Wed-
nesday, Marion Rawson vice president,
and Barbara Clarke secretary
Miss Gardner, who won the junior
girls' national tennis championship last
summer, prepared at Rosemary. She
is 1922's tennis captain and treasurer of
the self-government association. Miss
Rawson is on the advisory board of the
undergraduate association. Miss Raw-
son is from Wykeham Rise, and Miss
Clarke from Miss Wheeler's School
RED CROSS DRIVE  BEGINS
Mr*. Otla Skianor SpMka on Thirtl Roll
Call   la   Chapel
The College Red Cross Drive for a
100 per cent, membership began Monday
morning, when Mrs. Otis Skinner spoke
in chapel on "The Third Roll Call as a
Crusade of Health."
"A 100 per cent, membership for the
college would have a great influence in
the whole Main Line district," said Mrs.
Skinner. "This drive comes on the anni-
versary of the signing of the armistice
and we all must joint. The Red Cross is
the Cry of Humanity."
The results of the race among the four
classes for membership are being il-
lustrated on the "race track" in Taylor
and have been announced at dinner every
night. 1923 was leading when the Newi
went to press and a banner will be
awarded by the Main Line committee to
the class that gets a 100 per cent, first.
Hall canvasses are benig made and the
booth will be open in Taylor every morn-
ing.
First Thousand from President
Thomas
When the Alumnae Committee cabled
President Thomas about the proposal to
endow an Anna Howard Shaw memorial
chair, she replied with her very hearty
approval and asked to contribute the
first thousand dollars. This gift of Pres-
ident Thomas' really began the cam-
paign last summer.
A second thousand has been pledged
by Mr. Grace, the father of Janet Grace,
'17, and Virginia Grace, '22. A niece of
Miss Shaw also sent a large gift to the
fund, and several other sums varying
from $250.00 to $50.00 have been con-
tributed.
AMY  LOWELL  COMING
Will Raid  Postry  Under Auspices of  Reel-
ing   and   Writhing   Club.
Amy Lowell, exponent of free verse
and imagism will read and discuss her
own poems on Friday, November 14,
under the auspices of the Reeling and
Writhing Club. Miss Lowell, who is a
descendant of James Russell Lowell and
a sister of President Lowell of Harvard,
is the author of "A Dome of Many Col-
ored Glass," "Sword Blades and Poppy
Seeds,, and  other  books.
Miss Lowell will have dinner in Pem-
broke before the lecture with the mem-
bers of the club. The guests of honor
will be President Taft. Dean Smith, Miss
Donnelley, and Miss Crandall. After din-
ner coffee will be served, and the club
members will ask guests to meet the
speaker.
PRESIDENT WILSON IN 1912 HAD
MOCK LANTERN NIGHT
Alumnae Revived Ceremony at Den-
ver Political Dinner
A mock Lantern Night was celebrated
for President Wilson by Bryn Mawr
Alumnae at a political dinner given for
him in Denver in 1912.
President Wilson, who started his ca-
reer as instructor in history and poli-
tics at Bryn Mawr College in 1885. was
making a cross-country tour to* meet
Democratic leaders in his first presiden-
tial candidacy. He stopped at Denvei
where a political dinner was given for
important local Democrats by Mrs. Rich-
ard Crawford Campbell, '90, one of his
history students at Bryn Mawr.
At the close of the dinner, Mrs.
Campbell, as toastmistress, rose and ex-
plained that the alumnae present wished
to celebrate one of the customs of their
alma mater. The original idea in Lantern
Night, she explained, was to quiz the en-
tering Freshmen, and, if they showed
worthiness, to give them a lantern to
light them through Bryn Mawr. Mrs.
Campbell said that they wished to cross-
question the Governor of New Jersey,
and if he came off well they would give
him a lantern to light him to the White
House.
"Will you faithfully promise," said one
of the Bryn Mawr quizzers, "to stay in
the White House if we put you there,
and do no gallivanting?"
"I will," said Mr. Wilson, and so he
won' the  lantern.
IMMIGRANT SCAPEGOAT OF IN-
DUSTRIAL WORLD
President Thomas ailed to  Study
Missions in the Orient
New York Times. October 30.�Pres-
ident M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr
College, is one of thirty representative
American women to be selected by the
Federated Women's Council of Foreign
Missionary Societies to go to the Orient
to study problems of the mission field,
it was announced yesterday by the In-
ter-Church World Movement. This is
the first inter-denominational body of
women to investigate missionary prob-
lems abroad.
The delegation also includes President
Ellen F. Pendleton, of Wellesley Col-
lege, physicians, social workers and re-
ligious leaders.
To Colokrat* Peace Aaaivtrsary
A   special    srrvivf    to    celebrate   the
anniversary of Peace-Day will be held in
I lie chapel next Tuesday at S.S0 a. m.
Allen Burns Speaks on Americanization
"Trying to explain industrial unrest
by the immigrant is like a housekeeper
sweeping the dust from her room into a
closet." said Mr. Allen Burns, speaking
Wednesday evening in Taylor Hall on
Americanization, the third lecture in the
course of modern social problems. If?.
Bums is director of the methods of
studying Americanization, of the Carne-
gie Corporation.
Justice, according to Mr. Burns, is the
first thing owed to the alien. At pres-
ent the immigrant is the scapegoat in
the industrial world. The steel strike,
for example, is blamed on the immigrant;
yet the strike leaders are native-born.
Free public education should be of-
fered. The employer should give class-
rooms in his establishment, but the in-
struction should be a public function.
The greatest deficiency in instruction is
giving the classes over to amateurs.
Highly trained specialists are needed
and can be kept busy wherever three
classes meet each day.
"Open communication is, however,
more important than education," said
Mr. Burns. "If we identify Americaniza-
tion with suppression of foreign tongues,
we will antagonize foreigner! and pro-
mulgate interest in agitations." Mr.
Burns went on to speak of foreign
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General College Council Meets
A College Council has been or-
ganized to discuss matters of gen-
eral college interest and to treat
especially questions which do not
fall under any of the four associations.
President Taft is chairman of the Coun-
cil, which includes Dean Smith, the
heads of the four associations, the class
prtsMtata,   �"d   representatives   of   the
ColWgC administration.
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DELEGATES FROM CONGRESS OF
WOMEN WORKERS TO
VISIT HFRE
Represent Twelve Countries. Will Be
Guests of |W. T. U. L on Friday
and of Bryn Mawr on Saturday
Women of world-wide prominence in
industrial organization will visit Bryn
Mawr this week-end and speak on la-
bor problems at a meeting to be held in
the gymnasium Saturday night.
The delegates represent the first in-
ternational Congress of Working Wo-
men now meeting in Washington, and
include: Miss Mary McArthur, and Miss
Margaret Bon field, the former and the
present secretary of the Woman's Trade
Union League of England, Mme. Sty-
chova, a member of the Czecho-Slovakian
parliament, and  Mrs.  Raymond Robins.
An extensive program has been plan-
ned for the delegates, who will reach
Philadelphia on Friday. Excursions for
those who so desire have been arranged
by Miss Benzanson to various indus-
trial plants in Philadelphia. In the after-
noon or evening the delegates will be
the guests of the Woman's Trade Union
League of  Philadelphia.
Will  So*   Hockey   Gam*.
Saturday morning they will visit the
college grounds, witnessing the hockey
game between Varsity and the Phila-
delphia Cricket Club. At eleven a con-
ference has been arranged with the Car-
da Woerishoffer Graduate Department.
In the afternoon a tour will be made of
the Community Center and the schools
in Bryn Mawr. President Taft will en-
tertain the delegates at tea to meet the
faculty, students, and friends of the col-
lege.
At the meeting Saturday evening a
delegate from each country will speak
on labor questions of immediate signi-
ficance in her country. Members of the
college are invited, as well as all the
members of the Woman's Trade Union
League of Philadelphia, the Federation
of Women Workers, and the College
Clubs in the city.
Japan, Poland, Denmark, Sweden,
Czech-Slovakia, France, Belgium, Italy
and the British Empire will be represent-
ed at the Conference The International
Conference of Working Women, from
which the delegates are sent, assembled
in Washington on October 28. It was
composed chiefly of the women advi-
sors to the delegates of the International
Labor Conference, which met the next
day.
Leila Houghteling Vice-President of
Alumnae Association
Leila Houghteling, '11, will be vice-
president of the Alumnae Association
for the rest of the year. Miss Houghte-
ling was appointed by the Board of Di-
rectors of the Alumnae Association to
succeed Johanna Kroeber Mosenthal, '00,
who resigned.
For the last few years. Miss Houghte-
ling has been doing court and probation
work in Chicago. She was the first presi-
dent of the Christian Association in col-
lege after the Union and League were
united. She was also vice-president of
self-government. She is now ah alumnae
member of the joint committee on the
Faculty Campaign.
The Board of Directors has appointed
Myra Elliot Vauclain, '08; Recording
Secretary of the Alumnae Association to
till the term of Hilda Worthington
Smith, who resigned when, as Acting-
Dean, she became a member of the ad-
inini%traiive  staff of the College.