College News, 1919-10-21, Vol. 06, No. 04

              The College News
Volume VI.   No. 4
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919
Price 5 Cent
Dunsany at Bryn Mawr Saturday
"My Own Lands," one of the first lec-
tures to be given by Lord Dunsany in this
country, will be held in the Bryn Mawr
gymnasium Saturday evening at 8.15, under
the auspices of the English Club. Lady
Dunsany will accompany Lord Dunsany,
and a reception will be given for them in
Rockefeller hall after the lecture.
Tickets may be bought from A. Harrison,
Denbigh, one dollar and twenty-five cents,
a dollar and fifty cents for reserved seats,
and a dollar admittance for undergraduates.
"We hope to get Siegfried Sassoon next
semester if this lecture is well attended,"
said A. Harrison, president of the English
Club, to a News reporter.
FfltST I. C. S. A. CONFERENCE
TO BEHELD HERE
Wul Represent Fifteen Colleges
ble here on November 15 and 16 for the
Forty delegates from the Intercollegiate
'Community Service Association wiH assem-
first conference of its kind ever held at
Bryn Mawr.
Fifteen colleges will be represented. The
conference met at Smith last spring, where
H. Kingsbury, 20, and H. Hill, "21, repre-
sented Bryn Mawr.
Acting-President Taft, Dean Smith and
Professor Kingsbury, President of the I.
'C. S. A., will preside at three of the ses-
sions. Mrs. Eva Whiting White, Head of
the College Settlement in New York, will
be one of the speakers.
VARSITY DOWNS MER10N 11-3
A. Nicholl and D. Clark Star
Playing a faster and all-round better game
than the week before, Varsity wiped Mer-
ion off the field Saturday by a score of
11-3. A. Nicoll, by her sure passing and
shooting, steadied the forward line and
shone as individual star for Bryn Mawr.
"Kicking" Clark, goal keeper, lived up
to her name by making several spectacular
stops.
The opposing team was weak with the
exception of A. Townsend, center forward,
who played the whole game for Merion
and made two of their goals. Miss Town-
send is All-Philadelphia Captain this year.
M. Willard, '17, the Merion right inside,
is a former Varsity player.
Poor team work on the right side of the
field was the most apparent fault of the
Varsity team.
Line-up:�
Merion.                              Bryn Mawr.
B. Boyd* .......R. W....E. Anderson, '22
M. Willard......R. I......D. Rogers, 'ad**
A Townsend'*.... C.......C Bickley, '21*
M. Toulmin......LI.....A Nicoll, 'aa*�*
M. Griscomb.....L W.......M. Tyler, '22
Spencer .........R. H.....B. Weaver, '20
Clark ............C H....M. Carey, 'ao*
J. Thompson......L H----H. Guthrie, '22
K. Tenney.........R. F......V. Corse, '23
M. Gest............L F...M. Warren, '21
Mrs. Hollbuch.......G.......D. Clark, '20
��Team
Substitutes� E. Bright* for D. Rogers,
L Sloan* for M. Tyler, E. Cope for H.
Guthrie, C. Garrison for V. Corse and Miss
Price for M. Warren.
RECORD NUMBER OF 1920 PASS
Three High Credits Go to Seniors in
First French "Written"
With a percentage of only 23.31 failed,
the'lowest since 1914, 1920 emerged from
the first Senior French "written" under
flying colors.
Statistics which have been kept since 1904
show 1920's record of 73.67% passed and
26.31% failed to be the second best since
1909's unparalleled achievement of 13.37%
failed. Three high credits were posted, five
credits and eight merits, a record of high
grades surpassing 1919"s.
The grades are:
High credit: M. Frost, M. O'Brien, A.
Preston.
Credit: M. Lindsay, D. Pitkin, I. Ar-
nold, D. Clark, M. Gregg.
Merit: M. Butler, '19; A. Coolidge, N.
Gookin, H. Kingsbury, D. Rogers, E.
Stevens, A. Rood, B. Zilker.
Passed: D. Allen, M. B. Brown, M. K.
Cary, J. Cochran, J. Conklin, M. Ehlers,
L. Hales, H. G. Humphrey, D. Jenkins, A.
Moebius, M. Platt, '21; A. Sanford, M.
Scott, '19; D. Smith, K. Thomas, F. Uchida,
F. von Hofsten, B. Weaver, M. Ballou, L.
Davis, M. Healea, T. James, J. Justice, M.
Litzinger, M. L. Mall, V. Park.
Failed: Z. Boynton, M. R. Brown, H.
Ferris, H. Humphreys, H. Hunrting, '19;
M. Kinard, M. Porrit, A. Rose, K Town-
send, I. Whittier, '19; K. D. Tyler, '19; M.
Janeway, '19; C. Keeble, D. Peters, '19; H.
Zinsser.
The faculty committees for the French
and German "orals" are: French, M. Beck,
Miss Crandall and Dr. Sanders: German,
Dr. Huff and Dr. Bascom.
SOPHOMORE  PLAY  FORMERLY
ACTED BY OTI8 8KINNER
Sophomore Play to be given in Novem-
ber is one in which Otis Skinner has
played with Maude Adams and Ethel
Barrymore.
The cast met at the home of G Skinner
Sunday afternoon for tea, and Mr. Otis
Skinner read them the play. Dr. Savage,
who coached 1017's Senior Play and lgig's
Sophomore Play, will be the coach. Pro-
ducer, C. Skinner; stage manager, V. Lid-
dell, and business manager, M. Rawson.
Trustees Meet With C. A. Beard
The Religious Life Committee of the
board of trustees met with the C. A. board
last night, to discuss the work of the Chris-
tian Association. Mr. Rufus Jones, Mr.
Asa Wing and Mr. Charles Rhoads are on
the committee. This is the first time that
such a conference has been held between
students  and trustees.
The question of sending delegates to the
International Student Volunteer Confer-
ence in Des Moines was brought up. The
News went to print before the results of
the meeting were announced.
BANNER TO HANG FOR TENNIS
JUNIORS REVIVE HIAWATHA
C. A. President to Lead 1920
Elect M. Llndasy and O. Rogers
Millicent Carey, president of the Chris-
tian Association and Varsity hockey cap-
tain, was elected president of the Senior
class last Wednesday afternoon. Martha
Lindsey was re-elected to the office of vice-
president, and Dorothy Rogers was made
secretary. Miss Carey was vice-president
of 1920 Freshman year, and president
Sophomore year.
OR. FERREE'8 ACUITY LANTERN IN
USE IN NAVAL SCHOOLS
Dr. Clarence Errol Ferree demon-
strated his apparatus for testing visual
acuity at low illuminations before the
fifteenth annual meeting of the American
Ophthalmological Society held last June
in Atlantic City. The lantern if now
being used in naval schools, hospitals,
and on battleships to test the fitness of
men for all kinds of look-out work, for
signaling, and for all work requiring
acute vision at low illuminations. Clinics
also are using the apparatus to test for
astigmatism.
Vote to Form Class Swimming Squads
to Work for Championship
Tennis was made a major sport at a
meeting of the Athletic Association last
Tuesday night. There was some opposi-
tion, led by E. Cope, '21, who argued that
a game depending on individual ability
alone should not equal in importance a
game depending on team work; but the
motion was finally passed by a large ma-
jority. The banner of the class winning
tennis will hang on the gymnasium before
the basketball season.
Swimming it to be organized by squads
which will practice to make one of the five
swimming classes. Each person making
the first class wins 3 points towards the
All-Round Athletic Championship; second
class, 2 points; third class, 1 point; fourth
class, % point; and fifth class, *A point
Insignia, designating the number of the
class, is to be worn on the bathing suits.
TWENTY-EIGHT TRY FOR "NEW8"
Twenty-eight Juniors and Sophomores
have registered as News reporters to try
out for the" editorial board. From 1921
are: K Johnston, K Ward, J. Laftimer,
E. Newell, I. Lauer and C. Dimeling;
from 1922: M. Rawson, M. Crosby, E.
Hall. J. Wright, M. Wilcox, B. Clarke,
I. Coleman, P. Smith, E. Wells, O.
Floyd, A. Batchelder, C Cameron, M.
Vorhees, A. Gabel. E. Finch. K. Peek,
E. Brown, C. Skinner. A. Woodruff, J.
Palache, F. Bliss and V. Liddell.
ALUMN-* FLY CHANNEL
Angela Moore. '19. and Helen Reid, 'io,
who sailed last month for Europe found a
�tries of dock hand* on in London. They
were unable to cross the Channel by boat,
and lew from London to Paris.
Volunteer Organization Must Go
Alumnae Association Needs Business
Baals
Alumna; affairs on a business basis and
provision for the expense of an alumnx
office and an Executive Secretaryship, was
the decision of the Board of Directors.
The standing committees of the Associa-
tion met by invitation with the board at
the regular meeting on October 15th to
confer on the budget required by an alumnx
office, and the personnel of the Board of
Directors to be elected in January.
The Quarts. ,'v must be placed on a pay-
ing basis, the conference decided. It is now
the largest drain on the treasury.
The chairman reported the expenses of
the finance committee during the first six
months of this year had been limited to
$457.56. This amount, which docs not indi-
cate small contributions, in the way of ex-
penses made by class collectors, includes the
approximate cost of the drive for the Vic-
tory Chair. The conference considered this
very small for the $56,000.00 raised for the
endowment Since much of the work for
the endowment and collections will in
future be done by the alumna: office, it was
voted that a proportionate amount of the
running expenses should be charged against
endowment fund collections and paid, as
in all money-raising compaigns, from the
funds collected, such a charge in no one
year to exceed ten per cent of the collec-
tions of the year.
The Victory Chair campaign last spring
proved to the Board the absolute necessity
of an alumnae office with an eight-hour day.
Since June 15th an alumna- office and an
Executive Secretary have taken over much
of the routine work of the Treasurer and
the Corresponding Secretary. This organi-
zation, it is thought, will mean greater effi-
ciency and closer co-operation between the
various districts. It is hoped to expand
materially the scope of the Association.
The business long ago outgrew the orig-
inal volunteer organization.    For a number
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1921 Finds New Use for War Whoop
Baldwin Lucke, Jr., Appears in Spot-
light
"Something new under the son" in the
way of Banner Shows was discovered last
Saturday night when 1921 presented the
Freshmen with an ingeniously parodied
version of  "Hiawatha."
Following the plot of the original poem,
the Juniors told their own life-story
through the career of Hiawatha, from his
introduction   to   Gitchie   Gumee,   or   Bryn
Mawr, under the care of the old Nakomis,
and his adventures on the warpath against
the blue Keewees, to his highly sentimental
love story with Minnehaha, or 1933.
By twisting the lines in a way that must
have struck horror into the shade of Long-
fellow, the revisers managed to put a good
deal of local color into the familiar poem.
Low-brow members of the audience, how-
ever, missed the catchy music and choruses
of former Banner Shows. Unfortunately,
such rare lines as "down the Main Line to
Paoh" and "lift up your great legs in run-
ning," were buried only too assa in well-
worn pacns to the forest primaeval.
If the action dragged at times through
the over-wordiness of the dialogue, the
scenery amid which the young Hiawatha
grew so rapidly to manhood left nothing to
be desired. The totem poles with the class
animals, the background of "sky-blue
waters" and particularly the glowing camp-
tire around which the braves gathered were
well executed, and the lighting effect* ex-
tremely successful.
High lights in the show were Baldwin
Lucke, Jr.'s appealing interpretation of the
infant Hiawatha, M. P. Kirkland's Medi-
cine Man, and E. Cecil's realistic imperson-
ation of the sleuthing Pau-puk-keewis, or
192a, who begs Minnehaha to "break tra-
dition and fly with him." Not even his
gift of the peace pipe, however, could pre-
vail upon her when compared with the red
tarn offered by Hiawatha.
The cast included:
Nakomis, or 1919................M. Foote
Hiawatha,  or  1921----Baldwin Lucke, Jr.
E. Kellogg and C Garrison
Minnehaha, or 1923...........B. Warburg
Pau-puk-keewis, or 192a..........E. Cecil
Mudgekeewis,  or   1920.........M. Goggin
1921 Brave......................E. Taylor
The Comet, Parade Night.. E Kimbrough
The  Firefly, Lantern Night.. E Sheppard
Show Committee�E. Kimbrough, chair-
man; E Taylor, E. Cecil, H. Hill, M.
Goggin, C. Garrison, L Beckwith, M. Mor-
rison. K. Walker.
Organized For Two-MilBon
Local chairmen and district committees
are being rapidly organized for the Endow-
ment drive. Alumna: present at a confer-
ence held at Bryn Mawr, September 25th
and 27th, are now carrying out the general
plans.
Personal interviews are substituted for
advice by mail wherever possible. October
10th, Acting-President Taft and Louise
Congdon Francis, president of the Alumna;
Association, met a number of Alumnx at
a luncheon in Boston at the College Club.
Local organization was considered.
Among those present were- Mary Rich-
ardson Wakott, '06; Katharine Page Lor-
ing. '13; Sylvia Scndder Bowditch. 01;
Elizabeth Winsor Pearson. "92; Catherine
Delano Grant. '11; Susan Walker Fitz-
gerald. -93. and Eleanor Little Aldnch, 'OS.
A general meeting of the Bryn Mawr Club
of Boston followed the meeting and the
work of organization was coattsused.