College News, 1920-03-24, Vol. 06, No. 20

              The College News
Volume VI.    No. 20
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1920
Price 5 Cen: s
"IMPRESSIONS OF MY ELDERS"
TO BE TOLD BY MR. ERVINE.
Irish Playwright Ctmes Here Friday
Shaw, Wells and Galsworthy and other
authors, and their effect on younger writ-
en will be described Friday evening at
light o'clock by Mr. St. John F.rvine,
Irish novelist, dramatist and critic. Mr.
Ervine, who will speak under auspices
of the English Club, is best known in
America as author of the plays, Jane
Clcgg and John Ferguson.
In boyhood, reading was Mr. Ervine's
chief pastime. 'I read everything I could
lay hands on," he has said, "from penny
dreadfuls to Paradise Lost. I cannot re-
member a time when 1 was not writing
something. I think my first story was
called 'Thou Art the Man,' and the vil-
l'in was a Russian ambassador, a dark
man with a waxed moustache who ipokc
only in monosyllables, or rather in a
monosyllable, for his chief expression
was   Bah!'"
When Mr. Ervine was seventeen he
went to London. After working a short
time in an insurance company, he began
to write plays and contribute to metro-
politan papers. He became one of the
group of playwrights to contribute to
the Irish Repertory, and that of the
Gaiety Theatre. Among his plays are
The Magnanimous Lover, Mixed Mar-
riage and The Critic. John Ferguson, his
latest play, is now running in New York
Mis books include Changing Winds,
Mrs. Martin's Man and Eight O'clock
Studies.
Mr. Ervine served in the war with
Germany in an English regiment, the
Household Battalion, was later given a
commission in the Dublin Fusiliers, and
was seriously injured in battle.
Admission for Mr. Ervine's lecture is
75 cents, members of the college, 50
cents. Reserved seats are $100, members
of the college. 75 cents.
MARIE LITZINGER WINS SENIOR EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP
Highest Median Grade Since 1915; 19 Graduate With Distinction
REDS WIN WATER POLO
First Team Fi all for 1921, 10-2
Making nine goals in ihe second half of
a hard, exciting game, the Juniors won the
deciding match of the first team water-polo
finals last night, beating dark blue 10 to 2.
First team championship counts twenty
points toward the all-round athletic cham-
pionship.
Wild playing and many fouls kepi lx>th
scores low during the first half, leaving the
teams tied 1-1. In the second half clean
shots were more frequent, and the goal-
keepers on both sides were conspicuous in
blocking many attempted goals.
E. Anderson scored 1922's only goal dur-
ing second half in a clean shot, skillfully
aimed from three-quarters the length of the
pool.
The line-up was: 1921�E Bliss. K.
Woodward.*** E. Mills.** E. Cope.**'* E.
Cecil, W. Worcester, C. Garrison, team �
1922�A. Nichol, E. Hobdy. O. Howard.*
E. Anderson.* E. Donohue. A. Dunn. R
\Y.-I
Reds Win First Game of Finals 11-3
Playing fast and strong, 1921's first team
ted   1922.   11-3.   in   the   first   match  of
the finals last Thursday night
Starting with a goal by A N'icholl in the
first mintuc of the game, the Sophomores
!u hard, but showed the loss of E.
Anderson, who had led them to rfctorj in
the preliminary games. 1921'* forward
line, with K. Cope as halfback, piled up a
score of eight points in ihe first half Wild
throwing lost the red several possible goals
in taaassi halt
Mane I'aula Litzinger, of Bedford, Pa.,
is European Fellow of the class of 1820.
"Her average is 88.9205. the highest in the
Senior class,' said Acting President Taft,
announcing the award in chapel Friday
morning. Miss Litzinger, whose group
s Latin and Mathematics, was prepared
by the Bedford High School. She was
James E. Khoads Sophomore Scholar,
1017-18, First Charles S. Hinchnian Mein-
irinl Scholar, 1918-19, and Brook Hall
Scholar.   1919*80,
Five of the Senior class, or 8.70 per
tent, received the distinction of "Magna
nun l.audc" (given for grades between
s.-> and 90). They are, Marie Paula Lit-
zinger. Isabel Hart Arnold. Margaret
Milliceut Carey. Eleanor Marquand, and
Nathalie Clotilda Goolrin. Fourteen, or
1891 per cent, received the next dis-
inctktn, "Cum Laude" (for grades be-
ween 80 and 85). The median grade of
(he class. 7888, is the highest since 1918.
A total number of 19 out of the class of
;� i :.'i..I'.) per cent > have grades above M0,
is compared with 88 ">h per cent, last
year and t; is per cent in 1919
T. Born and C. Baechle Graduate European
Fel'ows.
The two graduate European Fellows.
announced at the same time as the Seutul
I'ellow, are Therese Mathilde Born. '18,
of Indianapolis, Indiana. Fellow in Eng-
lish,    and    Cecilia    Irene    I'.aechle,   '13,    of
Philadelphia, scholar in Education Miss
Bom, who graduated from Bryn Mawr
n 1918 was awarded the Mary E. Garrett
European Fellowship for students who
have completed two years of graduate
work at   Brj n Mawr.
Miss Baechle. A. B Bryn Mawr. 1918,
received the President M. Carey Thomas
European Fellowship for students who
have completed one year of graduate
work at Bryn Mawr Miss Baechle
studied at the University of Pennsylvania
1918-14, and taught Latin and English
in the York High School. 1914-19.
No Seniors Left for Fourth French
Oral for First Time on Record
1998 is the first class on record to
have no fourth French oral. 100 per
cent, of those taking the third oral pass-
ed. The only class to approach this
record for the third examination in
French is 1914, af which H7.5 per cent,
passed. Seniors taking this oral were:
M. R. Brown. H. Ferris. A. Rose. K
Townsend, I. Whittier, E. Coleman, E.
Brace.
PRESIDENT    TAFT   TO    ROUSE   WEST
IN INTERESTS OF ENDOWMENT
Will Journey Te Pad** Ceast
\( ting-President Taft started today
on her tour to the Pacific Coast to speak
in cities of the south and west in the
interests of the Endowment.
Her subject at the New Century Club
n Pittsburgh tomorrow will be "Mod
em Tendencies in Education." and SBM
will address a dinner ot Bankers and
Credit men at the William Penn Hotel
on "The Educated Woman as a Rusi
ness  Asset."
Making her route through Cincinnati
and Louisville, she is scheduled to ar-
rive in   New  Orleans next  Monday, and
will  read  Las   sasjsssi   \i<m   i    other
California stops are Santa Barbara and San
beo, where she is to address the Com-
monwealth    Club     \pril    8,    leaving    for
the east  April �.
HONOR   ROLL   INCLUDES   NINETEEN.
The  nineteen seniors who will  receive
their degrees with distinction are:
Magna Cum Laude.
Marie    Litzinger    ............   88.9295
Isabel Arnold..............    86.518
M. Mlllleent   Carey    .........     86.347  c
Eleanor  Marquand   ........�     86.186 -o
Nathalie   Gookin    ..........    85.504 �
Cum  Laude.                         _,
Miriam  Brown   .............     84.771   a
Alice Harrison       .   .....        ..     84.438
Doris   Pltkin    ..............     84-428
Dorothy  Smith    .........     84.414
Dorothy Jenkins   ...........     83.514
Miriam   O'Brien   ..............    83.419
Arlinc    Preston    ................
Catherine Robinson  ............    83188
lella  Boynton  .................    B3 193
Frances  von   Hofsten   ..........    89 051
Kathleen   Outerbridge   .........     81.641
Lillian     Davis     .................   Si 8808
Hilda Ruttenweiser .............     81 901
Julia Cochran ..................    so B76
The other seniors in the upper half of
the class are: M. Littell (79.994), II. I.
Mall (79.971), D. Clark (79.361), M
Healca (79.089), If. Hardy (78.942), M.
K. Cary (798904), II. Canb] (781
It Zilker (78.8904), II. Frost (78.3909),
V. Park (78 898), V Sanford (77 084),
I. Sloan (77.7261, L Kellogg (77.609), M
Dent (77 :.47 >. T D James 177 598), I).
Allen (77.409), K. Stevens (78 898), \
Coolidge (76.688).
"INSPIRED  RADICAL"   INDICTS
AILIED RUSSIAN POLICY
Secretary   of   Kerensky's   Ministry
L iscusses Russia from Sane
Viewpoint
MRS. SLADE ALTERNATE NEW YORK
DELEGATE ON HOOVER TICKET
Caroline IfcCormack Slade (Mrs. p,
Looii Slade I. National Chairman of the
Bryn Mawr Endowment campaign, has
joined the New York committee fighting
to elect Hoover candidates for national
delegates in the Seventeenth Congres-
sional district. Mrs. Slade has taken tin-
place of Miss Edith Percy Morgan as
candidate for alternate delegate on the
Hoover ticket
WAR VISTAS DESCRIBED THRU
EYES OF POET-JOURNALIST
Mr.  Cecil  Roberts,  Official  British
Cone toondent for Air, Land and Sea
More raconteur than poet in his lec-
ture Thursday evening in Rockefeller
Hall. Mr. Cecil Roberts. British war
correspondent and poet, narrated am
experiences in a series of vivid word-
pictures, as a background for the read-
ings of his poems. His lecture. "Th ough
the Eyes of Youth." was under the aus-
pices of the English Club.
Mr. Roberts held the honorary rank
of captain during the war. and acted a>
official war correspondent with the Brit-
ish armies on the western front, with
the Royal Air Forces, and as special cor-
respondent with the Dover Patrol am'
the Grand Fleet in the North Sea
A    |ire-war   career   of    journalism    la
qualified him for the  positioi . which  lu
w II bold Beat year. .,i editor o( the Not
tingham   Journal   and   the   Birm ngharr
Gazette.
Object ef  Tester te Germans
H s    poem.   "The   Dovef    Patrol "   be
cam   uuote.l   by   the   Germans   as   th
"most   offensive   piece   of   literature   pro-
duced   by    an     Englishman    du bag   th�
war,"  and   Mr    Roberts'  portrait   was  re
produced   m   the   Berliner  Tageblatt.   i-
an    "example    oi   odious    inghtfulne�s "
One of the  greatest teats   .t the   British
ned  Oil   Page
(SPECIALLY   CONTRIBUTED  BY   PRO-
FESSOR  HOWARD  LEVI   GRAY)
The History Club is to be congratu-
lated upon Drinhi"K to Bryn Mawr with-
it a week two ot the best speakers re-
� eutly   heard   here.     Hetwcen   two   men
here  could   scarce!)   be   sharper  contrast
than between Mr. Whyte and Mi. Zil-
boorg. The former is a trained Pa.lia-
mentarian, reserved, polished, informed,
judicious; the latter an inspired Radical,
impassioned, humanitarian, resentful, ap-
pealing. One set forth sympathetically
the latest aspects of British politics; the
other preferred against the Russian pol-
icy of the present British government a
sharp indictment. It is possible thai
sir. Zilboorg would group Mr. Whytt
among those Englishmen with whom he
I feels international fellowship; it is
eouall) possible thai llr. Whytc would
agree that recent Allied action in East-
ern   Europe has been  short sighted  (to
use no harsher term). That the two men
would assume towards each other this
conciliate y attitude is much to be hoped,
since both represent the present temper
of their respective nations at  its best.
Not the least surprising feature of Mr.
ZMboorg's lecture was the phrasing of it.
The acquisition of a foreign tongue with-
in eight months, resulting in so perfect
a mastery of idiom, deserves pious con-
templation by past and future candidates
in "written orals." The subject an-
nounced at Bryn Mawr was "Behind the
Scenes of Russian Policy." Actually
there was little enough that had been far
hidden behind the scenes. Most intimate
perhaps was the revelation that all mem
bers of the Kerenslcy government, ex-
cept the Minister of I due at ion. left Pe-
trograd to lead the 1917 offensive at the
front, an offensive which broke down
only when English ammunition would
not   fit   Russian  guns.
Fear Threaten**- British Dominance
Mr. Zilboorg, nevertheless, stands
ready to lectii e upon some fifteen sub-
jects, always treating each spontaneous-
ly. Which again adds to the marvel of
the presentation. Whatever the theme,
however, we may be sure that three
threads run through these discourses.
One is the horror of the Russian people
for the anachronism of Tsarism in the
twentieth century, a horror which made
them reluctant to enter the war, seeing.
as they did. that every Russian victory
would be used to vindicate the old
regime A second is the despair and
thankfulness with which they rallied
around Revolutionary leaders, especially
around the Bolsheviki, when only the lat-
ter offered efficient leadership against
Allied assistance to "Counter-Revolu
tionaru-s " \ third is Mr. Zilboorg's
land possibly the Russian people's) l>e-
lief that Great Britain is at the moment
endeavoring to establish an economic
dominance in Russia, substituting for her
support of the Russia bourgeoise. sup-
poit "I the commercial ambitions of the
English  botirgeoi
Inclines AtMrtea la Ini.ctm.nt
This last belief brings Mr. Zilboorg
into touch with the L'nited States The
Lenme government prefers \me nan to
English economic exploitation It teeU
that the one would be pure business t.r
business sake." that the other would
mtmued  on   1'age  S)