College News, 1920-01-21, Vol. 06, No. 13

              The College News
Volume VI.   No. 13
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1920
Price 5 C ents
SASSOON TO READ OWN POEMS
Was Most Popular With Soldier,
"He likes to speak of hunting (he will
shout of it), of open air mornings when
the gorse alone flames brighter than the
sky, of the country quiet, of bis mother,
of poetry.....and  last,  but chiefly.....
of soldiers." So Robert Nichols, in the
introduction to Counter-Attack, epitom-
izes his friend and fellow-poet Seigfried
Sasson M. C, who will speak here under
the English Club, on Friday evening,
February 6.
Sassoon, who will give a commentative
reading of his own poems, is best known
in this country through The Old Hunts-
man and Counter-Attack, two volumes
of poems dealing chiefly with the war.
Before the war, according to Mr. Nichols,
he hardly published a line, printing sev-
eral volumes of poems, however, for
private circulation. "He was occupied
with natural beauty and with music" and
there was nothing in his poetry to fore-
shadow the bitter feeling characteristic
of his war poems until the appearance of
The Old Huntsman in 1917. "This book
(in consequence almost wholly of these
bitter poems) enjoyed a remarkable suc-
cess with the soldiers fighting in France
.....In 1018 appeared the English Edi-
tion of  Counter-Attack  in  which  there
is hardly a trace of his old manner.....
Indignation chokes and strangles him,"
interfering often with his technical pro-
ficiency.
Since the war, accordingly, to a cri-
tic in the London Mercury, who reviews
Mr. Sassoon's latest volume, The War
Poems of Seigfried Sassoon, he is re-
turning more and more to the poetry of
nature. The same critic attributes the
war poems, rather to "a cheated passion
for beauty" than "an intimate predelic-
tion for violence, interpretation, or cari-
cature."
Mr. Sassoon is twenty-nine years old,
and was educated at Marlborough and
Christchurch, Oxford. He fought in
France and Palestine as Captain in the
Royal  Welsh  Fusiliers.
Tickets for the lecture may be secured
from Alice Harrison, Denbigh. Reserv-
ed seats, outsiders, one dollar: members
of the college, 75cents, admission 75cents
and 50 cents.
1921 WINS SWIMMING MEET BY
LARGEST SCORE EVER MADE
K. Woodward Individual Champion
Breaking four records and piling up
the largest score that has ever been
made here in a swimming meet, 1921
won the second meet last Friday night
with a total score of 76 points. K. Wood-
ward, Junior captain, won the individual
championship with 23 points, breaking
the college records in both front swims
and placing in both back swims. E.
Mills, '21, was second, with 21 points,
breaking the plunge record by almost
two feet; E. Anderson, '22, came third,
with 10 points, and K. Townsend, '20,
fourth,   with   9   points.
According to Mr. Bishop, the meets
this year were good ones. Interest cen-
tered in the single length between K.
Townsend, '20, title holder, and K.
Woodward, '21, challenger. Miss Wood-
ward broke the record of 13 1-5 seconds
by 1-5 second, and brought the record
of 32 1-5 sec. for the double length swim
down to 31 2-5 sec.
The plunge record of 55 ft. 7 in., held
by A. Thorndike, '19, was brought up to
57 ft, 1 in., by E. Mills, '21. The Junior
relay team also lowered the record for
the four length swim by 4 4-5 sec, mak-
ing the distance in 6z 1-5 sec.
Placing in the meet was: 1921, first
place, with 76 points: 1922, second, with
14 points; 1920, third, with 10 points:
1923, fourth with 2 points.
(Continued on page 5)
E. VINCENT 18 MAY QUEEN
Elect* Upon Rtwlfnation of L. Kellogg
Elizabeth Vincent, '23, has been elect-
ed May Queen, in place of Lois Kel-
logg, '20, who tendered her resignation
at a mass meeting of graduates and un-
dergraduates   last   Monday.
Miss Vincent is from Greenwich, Con-
necticut, and was prepared at Rosemary.
She is the daughter of Mr. George E.
Vincent, President of the Rockefeller
Foundation.
ALUMNAE ANNUAL MEETING
A WEEK FROM SATURDAY
FACULTY GIVE CONCERT FOR
ENDOWMENT FUND
ENTER COLLEGE TREATY VOTE
IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Final Count of Referendum Puts 82%
of 410 Colleges for League
In the "most comprehensive canvass
on the League of Nations and the Treaty
since President Wilson brought the doc-
MEDICAL   SOCIAL SERVICE  IS AN   ES-
SENTIAL BRANCH OF MEDECINE
Or.   Welch   Gives   Last   Lecture   la   Social
Service   Course
"Nearly every social problem you take
up will bring you into the field of health
and medicine," said Dr. William Welch,
head >of the Hygiene Department at
Johns Hopkins. Dr. Welch, speaking on
medical social service last Thursday, de-
clared that he was strongly in favor of
woman's taking up of this work. "It
brings you into contact with some of the
most interesting and .fundamental prob-
lems of society," he  said.
"One of the disputed questions in con-
nection with medical social service is
the amount of nurse's training a work-
er should have." Dr. Welch declares
that technical training is not necessary,
though a certain amount of it will help
the social worker in her duties. She
is more concerned with the environment
than with the physical condition of the
patient
Social  Worker   Chaeaeo   Llfo  ot   Patloat
"Medical   Social   Service   is   essential
in   the   treatment   of   disease."   he   con-
tinued. "A patient coming to a hospital
(Continued oa paga 0)
ument to the United States." according
to the New York Tfanea, a majority of  ham.s    ,�"   speech' "from"   Henry  "the
Dancers and Dr. Brunei, Violinist Win
Great Applause
Offering a varied and entertaining
program, the faculty concert Saturday
evening   realized   about                  for   the
Endowment Fund for Professors' Sala-
ries. Dr. Brunei's violin playing and
the eurhythmic dancing by Mrs. de Mon-
toliu and Gladys Leuba were received
enthusiastically. Dr. Brunei interpreted
his selections sympathetically, display-
ing his fine technique in the "Jocelyn
Lullaby."
A dance by Mrs. de Montoliu and
Gladys Leuba, repeated twice as an en-
core, brought out the skill characteris-
tic of each performer. Mrs. de Mon-
toliu's dancing was graceiul and finished.
Dramatic power was shown by Miss
Leuba, whose interpretation of Ase's
Death was convincing.
Songs of widely differing character,
from one by Mozart to ballads from
Newboldt's Admirals All, were render-
ed by Mr. Koah Swayne, a soloist of the
Orpheus Club, who has a baritone voice
of wide range and purity. His Negro
Spirituals, including the old favorite,
'Tit Me, Oh Lord, were most popular
Kreisler's Cradle Song and The Bird,
by Fiske, gave opportunity for Mrs. Da-
vid Tennent's well-trained and flexible
voice.
Mr. King was impressive in Bucking-
the colleges voted .for a compromise and
immediate ratification. The final count
was made last Friday by the Intercol-
legiate Treaty Referendum, and released
to the papers at once.
Copies of the final results were for-
warded to Senators Lodge and Hitch-
cock in the Senate, where a synopsis of
the vote was incorporated into the Con-
gressional Record. Mr. Hitchcock,
Democrat, was reported to have "found
much in the statistics to stiffen his op-
position to the Lodge reservations." A
Republican Senator oi prominence, on
the other hand, commenting on the
Hitchcock gratification over the college
vote, remarked that it was "of course
well understood by the framers of the
Constitution that all grave situations
coming before the Senate should be de-
cided only with the advice of Freshmen
and Sophomores of the Nation."
Rtflistor 158.078 Votes at PolU
Four hundred and ten colleges were
included in the final referendum, which
registered the opinions of 158,078 stu-
dents and faculty members, as follows:
Compromise between the Lodge and
Democratic   reservations,   49,653  votes.
Ratification   without   reservations,   48.-
232 votes.
Ratification   with   the   Lodge   reserva-
tions, ^7,970 votes.
Opposition to the Treaty ia aay form.
1S.W3 votaa.
Eighth, and amused his audience with a
recitation of the Jackdaw of Rheims
Posters for the concert, done by Miss
Fernald. instructor in History of Art,
will be auctioned later, for the benefit
of  the   Endowment   Fund.
WOMEN  OF  ALL  COLLEGES  ATTEND
ENDOWMENT DRIVE LUNCHEON
In the interest of the nation-wide
drives for the increase in professors'
salaries, college women from all parts of
the country will attend a luncheon at the
Colony Club, in New York, on January
20. Mrs. F. Louis Slade will represent
Bryn Mawr.
The guests are to meet Professor Car-
oline F. E, Spurgeon and Mrs. Ida
Smedley McLean, representatives of the
British Federation of University Wom-
en, and Mrs. Elon H. Hooker, from Vas-
sar; Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, from Smith;
Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey, from Barnard,
and Mrs. F. Louis Slade. Professor
Spurgeon, Mrs. McLean and President
Neilson, of Smith, will speak with Dean
Gildersleeve.  oi   Barnard, presiding.
Senrke-School for Endowment Lec-
ture by Mi�i Spurgeon included
The Annual Alumnae Meeting, sched-
uled for January 31 and February 1 and
2, has been transformed this year into
a week-end of activity for the Two Mil-
lion Dollar Endowment Drive. Caro
line McCormick Slade,, '96, National
chairman, has issued a pressing appeal
to every alumna to attend the Endow-
ment Service School on February 2
which  will top off the  week-end.
Instead of the President's luncheon
on Saturday, informal class luncheons
will he held for the classes of 1900, 190rt,
1909, 1910 and 1911. 1912 will have 3
reunion in Louise Watson's apartment,
Yarrow   West.
Saturday's program will include the
annual business meeting, a complete re-
port on the Endowment Drive by the
National Chairman, the Zone Chairmen,
and the Shaw Memorial chairman. Act-
in-President Taft, Dean Smith, and Ger-
trude Ely, ex-'99, will be the speakers
at  the Alumnae Supper in   Pembroke.
Dr. C. E. Spurgeon, Professor of Eng-
lish, at the University of London, will
address the meeting at 8.30 in Taylor
Hall. As a member of the British Edu-
cational Commission which was sent
to the United States last year, Miss
Spurgeon spoke at Bryn Mawr last win-
ter on "British War Poetry." Ska shared
with Miss Rose Sedgewick the honor of
being the first women ever to be appoint-
ed to a government mission by the Brit
ish Government.
CoMMMaity   Singing    Before    Rock    Fire
The   Endowment   Bureau  of   Informa
tion  will   keep  Open House  Sunday af-
ternoon, under the hostesship of Louise
Congdon   Francis,   '00,   Bertha   Ehlers,
'09, and  Isabel  Foster.  '15.    Other fea-
tures of that day will be a Musical Tea
given   by   the   Faculty   in      Pen-y-groes,
and a Bryn Mawr Community Sing be
fore   the   Rockefeller   Hall   Open   fire,
with   Katherine McCoIlin, '15, as feader.
An   Endowment   Service   School,   un-
der the direction of Mrs. Slade, the Na-
tional   Chairman,   will  be in   session   on
Monday  from 9.00 to 5.00,  where  plans
will be outlined for the projected strat
egy for the Association as a whole dur-
ing the  culminating  work of the   Drive
which will begin February 15.
WEEK-END CONFERENCE LEADER IS
DR. GILKIE
1921 Ahead la All-roaoo" ChaMpieoehlp
At a result of their victory in the
swimming-meet, the Juniors are leading
in the race for the all-round champion-
ship with a total of 89 points to their
cradit. 1920 cuumo aaceod with 39 ohm�u.
while 1911! is third with 21 points, and
19W.  fourtti   with  T points.
Popular Silver Bay Lecturer  Hero
February   8th.
Dr. Charles W. Gilkie, pastor of tho
Congregational Church in Springfield.
Mass., will hold the annual week-end
conference of the Christian Association,
on Saturday and Sunday, February S
and 9.
Reputed to be one of the most popu-
lar of the Silver Bay Lecturers. Dr.
Gilkie, led the final meeting of the Re-
construction course here last winter
He was formerly assistant pastor of the
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and
held Bible Classes at the Baldwin ami
Shiplev   schools.
The first meeting will be held in Tay-
lor Hall, on Saturday evening, another
on Sunday morning, and the last. Sun-
day evening. Sunday afternoon will be
Kiven up to personal conferences with
Dr. Gilkie and to an hour of discussion.
The date of Blaoeo lbanez's lecture
has been changed, from March 5 to
February   ST.