College News, 1920-02-11, Vol. 06, No. 15

              The College News
Volume VI.    No. 15
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 11, 1920
Price 5 Cents
No Limit Set Yet For Quarantine
Dean Smith and Dr. Branson cannot
yet give definite information as to the
end of the quarantine. "At least it won't
he lifted this week-end." said Dean
Smith, "because the epidemic is still on
the  increase  in   Philadelphia."
According to Dr. Rea, in the two
weeks since the quarantine was put on
nine cases of influenza and four of
bronchial pneumonia have developed in
the college. "The influenza is lighter
this year than last year," said Dr. Rea,
"and with less serious after-effects. The
epidemic seems to have been harder on
the graduates than on the undergradu-
ates." she concluded.
MRS.SLADE PUTS ENDOWMENT
\ BEFORE MASS MEETING
National Chairman Outline Plan of
Campaign to^Student Body
Caroline McCormick Slade. '06, nation-
al chairman of the Endowment Drive,
made the first formal appeal to the stu-
dent body in behalf of the Endowment
at a mass-meeting of graduates and un-
dergraduates  last  night  in  Taylor  Hall.
"No college in the world has ever at-
tempted so gigantic a feat, as to get
$2,000,000 from 2,000 alumnae, said a
New York business man to me the
other day." began Mrs. Slade. "That
is the very reason why we are not go-
ing to fail....Oar task is tremendous,
but we are going to put it through.
Emphasizing the gravity of the pre-
sent crisis. Mrs. Slade declared that of
all the people who enlisted in the war,
no group made the supreme sacrifice
that the teaching profession made. "We
know all too well that if tomorrow our
faculty had to leave us, we could not
get another to take its place."
Faith In Publicity.
"Mow are we to get this money? There
steps in the Queen of Belgium,'"
Mrs. Slade continued. "The one thing
I learned in my Bryn Mawr student days
was to avoid publicity, but experience in
war drives has shown the need for it.
Newspaper men tell me that even if we
put our message in the blackest type
on the front page of every paper. we
could not get it across. \\ e must first
of all rouse  interest and attention."
TO   DISCUSS   CHAPERONE   RULES
FOR   GRADUATES
Three important matters have been
registered by a number' of graduates for
discussion at the monthly Self Govern-
ment meeting to be held next Tuesday
evening in Taylor Hall.
Abolishment of tin- ruling that gradu-
ate students without academic appoint-
ments be forbidden to have social en-
gagements with members of the faculty
is the first question. Secondly, that grad-
uates be freed from all chaperone rules.
The final business would make all grad-
uates, regardless of age, authorized
chaperones.
GRADUATE      CLUB      EMPHATICALLY
OPPOSES   CHANGE   IN   RULES
The Graduate Club passed a sense of
the meeting Monday night, (to be pre-
sented to the Self Government meeting
next Tuesday.) which sets the Graduate
C'ul> as definitely   opposed to:
111 Abolishing rule about social en-
gagements with   men of the facultv.
Freeing graduates  under  -'5  years
of age from chaperone rules
(3^ MIoMing all graduates, regard-
less of age. to be authorised chaperones.
SIEGFRIED   SASS00N   STRIPS
WAR OF ILLUSIONS
Soldier   Poet   Reads   Poems   Under
Auspices of English Club
The second of the British war poets
to lecture at Bryn Mawr, Siegfried Sas-
soon, proved to be a man whom war
had changed from the idyllist to the
satirist, a man whose power of portray-
ing natural beauty has been stifled by in-
dignation, and yet a man who is still
an idealist at heart. Mr. Sassoon gave
a commentative reading of his poetry
last Friday evening in Taylor Hall, un-
der  the  auspices  of   the   English  Club.
When Robert Nichols, the first repre-
sentative of "The Young Elizabethans,"
came to Bryn Mawr last year, although
ihe  armistice   hail  been   signed,   war  was
still uppermost in everyone*! mind. In-
fluenced by it, Mi*. Nichols' audience re-
sponded to him witli their emotions. The
poet was too close to the war to cull
from his own horrible experiences a gen-
eral  theory.
Coming a year later. Siegfried Sassoon
rekindled in his audience, by appealing
to the intellect, a truer and deeper hat-
roil of war and of all that it represents.
Reads Serits of  Ironic War Poems
"Blinded by no illusions concerning
the glory of war, the soldiers placed
truth above all." said Mr. Sassoon.
"They realized that it was neither he-
roic nor necessary. It was for them
that I wrote my series of war poems�
records of the effects of war upon the
individual."
Mr. Sassoon hrst read "Absolution,"
a poem written before he knew what war
really meant and when he too was influ-
enced by the glamour of August, l'.ni.
"In the Pink" showed a step towards a
fuller realization of the horror involved
in lighting. It tells of a Tommy who
from his mud writes home that he is "in
the pink."
"Tonight he's in the pink; but soon he'll
die,
And   still   the   war   goes   on;   he   don't
know why."
�The   Redeemer"   and   "Base   Details"
�how   further  the growth of indignation
that  finally culminates in a poem." The
General."   the   epitome of  Sassoon's   is
tiric poems.
(iood morning: good morning!'' the
I uneral said
\\ hen we met him last week on our way
to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most
of 'em dead
And we're cursing his staff tor incompe-
tent swine.
"He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry
to Jack
As they slugged up to Arras with rifle
and pack.
But he did for them both with his plan
of   attack."
Quotes from New  Book.    Picture Show."
Below all the irony and choking fury
�gainst the established order of politi-
cal   events,   there   are   hints  of   SaSSOOW
the  idealist.
"So from these words you'd never |BtM
The stars and lilies  I  coatd see"
This >|>ir it bcCOCBei more apparent
when Mr. Sas-omi read from "The Old
Huntsman" and from "Picture Show." his
new book containing forty poems, only
se\cn of which are �ii poems. 01 all
he rted, "The South Wind" best shows
(Continued on page Q
DR. J. GORDON GILKEY LEADS
ANNUAL WEEK-END CON-
FERENCE
Urges Rational Basis for Faith
Three talks and an open forum led
by Dr. James Gordon Gilkey, of Spring-
field, constituted the thirteenth annual
conference of the Christian Association,
held here last Saturday and Sunday.
Dean Smith, introducing Dr. Gilkey,
called him the man "under whose wing
a church in Springfield, other than his
own. voluntarily put itself for commu-
nity service work."
Questions ranging from "Is God Om-
nipotent ?" "Are the Miracles necessary
to a living faith?" to such as "What is
llure in life to prove a purpose behind
it?" were answered by Dr. Gilkey in a
crowded Forum on Sunday afternoon.
The time allotted was SO short anil the
questions so many that the discussion
was continued in the evening after the
chapel service.
Personal interviews were held early
Sunday afternoon. Speaking of them,
Dr. (iilkey said that they were the most
satisfactory he had ever held at a col-
lege. Committees wishing interviews
had to be refused because of the num-
ber of individual applications. The at-
tendance at the talks was good�186 on
Saturday night, 136 on Sunday morning,
and  IM on  Sunday evening.
Modern   Man's  Convictions  About  God
lite acid test of reason does not de-
stroy religion. Intelligence would have
us believe at least three great things
of God," Mr. (iilkey insisted in his first
lecture on Saturday evening, though he
admitted that there are many things
about God that the modern man realizes
he  does not know.
"We can believe that there is a living
(iocl behind life, a being of intelligence,
purpose and power," he asserted. "God
is our best explanation of the physical
universe and its evolution, and of the
moral universe with its capacities for
love and sacrifice.
We can believe that God cares about
us." declared Mr. Gilkey. "Granted that
there is a God, He must care about
something, and that something is human
beings, the most important thing! in
life."
"God cannot alter the laws that He
Himself has made," according to Mr.
Gilkey's creed. God is fighting against
obstacles just as human beings are.
"This does not mean that some day God
will be conquered. As humanity grows
Stronger and God gains co-operation of
more generations, He will become more
and more successful in working out his
purpose."
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MOVIES  OF  QUEEN  TO  BE  SHOWN
HERE   FRIDAY   IN   GYMNASIUM
Hockey   Games.   Five-Reel   Drama   and
Comedy  Included
The (Jueen of Belgium at Bryn
Mawr," and Bryn Mawr hockey games
will be featured in the movies to be
given under the Social Service Commit-
tee in the gymnasium Friday evening al
eight o'clock The Misfit Karl." a five-
red thriller, with Lotus r.cinsou star
ring, is on the program, and a comedy
or   animated   cartoon   will   conclude   the
performance.
Admission   <-     .'.   .nil-,   and   the   pro-
ceeds   will   be   given   to   the   Intei.
giatr    CoSBSBMSSthtJ    srn > t     \.s,.,iation
Alumnae Re-elect Mrs. Francis
Louise Congdon Francis 'IM) was re-
elected president of the Alumnae As
sociation in the biennial elections, the
results of which were made public at the
annual meeting last week. Mrs. Francis
who lives at Ilaverford has been Presi-
dent <ii tin Association for the last two
yetTS.      I In- other officers are:
Vice-President: Leila HoughtelinK' 'n.
of Chicago.
Recording Secretary: Myra Elliot
\ auclain. '08 (Mrs. Jacques Vauclain). ..,
Rosemont.
Treasurer:    Bertha   S.    Ehlers   "OS
Philadelphia.
LARGEST    ANNUAL    ALIMNAE
MEETING EVER HELD
Hold   Round-Table Session  Curing
Midyears to Launch Endowment
Two hundred and fifty alumnae
� r.nvded the chapel on January 31 at the
opening of tlu- largest annual meeting
ever held by the Alumnae Association.
The three day meeting was turned int..
a round table session in connection with
the branching of the Su'.ooo.ooo drive.
The opening of the drive was announ-
ced for March 1. when the first applica
tions   to the  public will  be made.    It  is
expected  that all the Alumnae will  have
been canvassed by  that date.
A proposal to increase the goal of the
drive to a minimum of $4,000,000 was re
jected on the grounds that it was better
to ask only for the $2,000,000 absolutely
necessary to meet immediate needs. As
the figures stand, an average of $|immi
mail b� raised by each member of the
Alumnae   Association.
It was voted to call the campaign
officially �The Bryn Mawr Endowment.''
The suggestion of "Bryn Mawr Pilgrim
age, Crusade, and Quest," was rejected,
as was a suggestion to increase the en-
dowment by $1,000,000, the extra sum la
be use<! to found a department of music.
FOUR   MAY-OAY   PLAYS   CAST.
Mrs. Skinner to Coach "Nice Wanton."
With the casting of four plays practi-
cally completed, rehearsals tor May Day
began Monday evening, under Mr. King
During this Wei k In- will give each of
the plays under his direction one rehear
sal. ami during his absence from the Col-
lege, which will last imin the end of
this week to March -'2, rehearsing will
go "ii under student managers cl
from ilie � ,i-i.
The graduate play, "The Nice Wanton."
lo   be  coached   by    Mrs.  Skinner,   will   he
cast tomorrow afternoon.    The masques
will lie   cast next  week.
Tlie four caa>tl already chosen (sn
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