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ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
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Entered at the Post Office, Baltimore, Md., as second class mail matter under the Act of July 16, 1899,
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
Elva Lee, '93
Randolph, New York
Campus Editor
Helen H. Parkhurst, '11
Bryn Mdwr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakeley, '16
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Alumnae Association of
Bryn Mawr College . 1
With the Alumnae 40
News from the Campus ;, 44
In Memoriam .......: 49
News from the Clubs, ,.'..•>. 51
News from the Classes 52
Literary Notes 60
Contributions to the Quarterly, books for review, and subscriptions should be sent to
the Editor-in-Chief* Elva Lee, Randolph, New York. Cheques should be drawn payable
to Jane B. Haines, Cheltenham, Pa. The Quarterly is published in January, April, July,
and November of each year. The price of subscription is one dollar a year, and single
copies are sold for twenty-five cents each. Any failure to receive numbers of the Quar-
terly should be reported promptly to the Editor. Changes of address should be reported
to the Editor not later than the first day of each month of issue. News items may be
sent to the Editors.
Copyright. 1917, by the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College.
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XI
APRIL, 1917
No. 1
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1916-1917
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
Officers, 1916-1918
President, Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs.
Frederic Rogers Kellogg), '00, Morristown,
N.J.
Vice-President, Mary Richardson Walcott
(Mrs Robert Walcott), '06, 152 Brattle
Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Recording Secretary, Hilda Worthington
Smith, '10, West Park, N. Y.
Corresponding Secretary, Abigail Camp
Dimon, '96, 367 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y.
Treasurer, Jane Bowne Haines, '91, Chelten-
ham, Pa.
OFFICERS OF THE LOCAL BRANCHES
Philadelphia
November, 1916 to November, 1917
Chairman, Elizabeth Bent Clark (Mrs.
Herbert L. Clark), '95, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
V ice-Chairman, Julia Cope Collins (Mrs.
William H. Collins), '89, Haverford, Pa.
Secretary-Treasurer, Agnes M. Irwin, '10,
830 South 48th Street, Philadelphia.
Directors, Jacqueline Morris Evans (Mrs.
Edward W. Evans), '08, 151 East Coulter
Street, Germantown, Philadelphia. Katha-
rine W. McCollin, '16, 2049 Upland Way,
Philadelphia.
New York
Chairman, Kathertne Ecob, '09, Flushing,
Long Island, New York.
Boston
The officers of the Boston Bryn Mawr Club
act also as Branch officers.
Baltimore
The officers of the Baltimore Bryn Mawr
Club act also as Branch officers,
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR CLUBS
New York
137 East 40th Street
February, 1917 to February, 1918
President, Edith Pettit Borie (Mrs. Adol-
phe Borie, 3rd), '95, 59 East 65th Street, New
York City.
Vice-President, Florence Waterbury, 05,
Secretary, Isabel M. Peters, '04, 33 West
49th Street, New York City.
Treasurer, Edith Child, '90.
Assistant Treasurer, Sophie Boucher, '03.
Boston
144 Bowdoin Street
April, 1916 to April, 1917
President, Sylvia Knowlton Lee, '01, 42
Avon Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Vice-President and Treasurer, Sylvia Scud-
DER BOWDITCH (MRS. InGERSOLL BOWDITCH),
'01.
Recording Secretary, Marion C. Balch, '02.
Corresponding Secretary, Frances Lord, ex-
'10, North Street, Plymouth, Mass.
Director, Susan Walker Fitzgerald (Mrs.
Richard Y. Fitzgerald), '93.
Chicago
February, 1916 to February, 1917.
President, Margaret Ayer Barnes (Mrs.
Cecil Farnes), '07, 1153 N. Dearborn Street.
Secretary, Evelyn Shaw, '14, 1130 Lake
Shore Drive, Chicago.
2 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [April
Baltimore COMMITTEES
January, 1917 to January, 1918 academic committee
President, Johanna Kroeber Mosenthal terh °* amcs
(Mrs. Herman Mosenthal), '00, 1501 Mt. Pauline Goldmark, '96, Chairman,
Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 270 West 94th Street, New York
Vice-President and Treasurer, Helen Evans, City 1916-1920
13. Esther Lowenthal, '05 1917-1918
Secretary, Mildred McCay, '16, Roland Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,
Park, Md. '03 1915-1919
Helen Emerson, '11, 1917-1919
Pittsburgh Ellen d EllKj ,q1> 1916-1920
May, 1916 to May, 1917 Frances Fincke Hand, '98 1917-1921
Frances Browne, '09 1917-1921
President, Sara F. Ellis, '04, 5716 Rippey Cornelia Halsey Kellogg, '00. .. {ex officio)
Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Vice-President, Rose G. Marsh, '09. «««™,««»™^, ™ ~
' ' CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Secretary, Frances Rush Crawford (Mrs.
R. L. Crawford), '01, 517 Emerson Street, Leah Tapper Cadbury, '14, Chair-
Pittsburgh. man, Haverford, Pa 1916-1917
Treasurer, Elizabeth Baggaley Carroll Anna Scattergood Hoag, '96, 1916-1917
(Mrs. A. R. Carroll), ex-'03. Marion Edwards Park, '98 1916-1917
Katharine Williams McCol-
Washington ltn, '15 1916-1917
October, 1916 to October, 1917
, loan fund committee
President, Aurie Thayer Yoakam (Mrs. M.
K. Yoakam), '00, 2023 O Street N.W., Wash- Martha G. Thomas, '89, Chairman,
ington, D. C. Whitford, Pa 1916-1921
Secretary, Henrietta S. Riggs, '10, 131 Ethel Pew, '06, 1913-191&
Maryland Avenue N.E., Washington, D. C. Katherine L. Howell, '06 1914-1919
Maud Lowrey Jenks, '00 1915-1920
St. Louis Doris Earle, '03 1917-1922
President, Erma Kingsbacher Stlx (Mrs.
„ „r c, N ,a, ri1« w . . tames e. rhoads scholarships committee
E. W. Stix), ex- 06, 5112 Waterman Avenue. J
Lucy Martin Donnelly, '93, Chair-
China man, Low Buildings, Bryn Mawr,
Pa 1915-1918
President, Fanny Sinclair Woods (Mrs. A. _ " ' ' ','' ' ' in1 , <mn
tt ttt n ,ai ^ n,.t. V, 1, Julia Cope Collins, '89 1916-1919
H. Woods), '01, Canton Christian College, \ _ „, ,M ir.1(_ .Mr.
~ '.' Anne Hampton Todd, '02 1917-1920
Canton, China.
Los Angeles health statistics committee
President, Mrs. J. H. Douglas, Jr., 523 Dr. Katharine Porter, '94; Isabel Maddi-
South Painter Street, Whittier, Cal. SOn, Ph.D; Eleanor L. Lord, Ph.D.
Secretary, Ethel Richardson, 277 East
Bellevue Drive, Pasadena. nominating committee
Columbus Elizabeth Tappan, '10, Chairman,
1419 Bolton Street, Baltimore,
January, 1917 to January, 1918 Md 1915-1919
President, Grace Latimer Jones, '00, 1175 Marion Edwards Park, '98 1917-1921
East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. Elizabeth Lewis Otey, '01 1917-1921
Secretary, Adeline Werner, '16, 1640 East Alice Hearne, '13 1917-1921
Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. Josephine Niles, '14 1917-1921
1917]
Annual Report of Alumnae Association
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Martha G. Thomas, '89, Chairman,
Whitford, Pa 1916-1921
Jane Bowne Haines, '91 (ex officio)
Mary Crawford Dudley, '96 1916-1921
Elizabeth B. Kirkbride, '96 1916-1921
Clara Vail Brooks, '97 1916-1921
Elizabeth Caldwell Fountain,
'97 1916-1921
Mary Peirce, '12 1916-1921
Sibyl Hubbard Darlington, '99. . 1916-1921
Marion Parris Smith, '01 1916-1921
Elizabeth Bent Clark, '95 1916-1921
Caroline McCormick Slade, '96. 1916-1921
Hilda Worthlngton Smith, '10.. 1916-1921
Margaret Bontecou, '09 1916-1921
COMMITTEE on athletics
Maud Dessau, '13, Chairman 1915-1920
Esther White, '06 1914-1919
Eugenia Baker Jessup, '14 1916-1921
Bertha S. Ehlers, '09 1917-1922
ALUMNAE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE
Elizabeth B. Ktrkbrtde,
'96, 1406 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
December, 1915 to December, 1921
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft), '98
Slatersville, R. I.
December, 1915 to December, 1918
CLASS COLLECTORS
Mary Hamilton Swindler, Ph.D.
Anne Taylor Simpson, '89
Katharine M. Shtpley, '90
Anna Swift Rupert, '91
Helen J. Robins, '92
Margaret Hilles Johnson, '93
Abby Brayton Durfee, '94
Elizabeth Bent Clark, '95
Ruth Furness Porter, '96
Clara Vail Brooks, '97
Bertha G. Wood, '98
Laura Peckham Waring, '99
Kate Williams, '00
Marion Parris Smith, '01
H. Jean Crawford, '02
Doris Earle, '03
Margaret Scott, '04
Margaret Nichols Hardenbergh, '05
Elizabeth Harrington Brooks, '06
Alice M. Hawkins, '07
Jacqueline Morris Evans, '08
Alta C. Stevens, '09
Hilda W. Smith, '10
Helen Tredway Graham, '11
Jean W. Stirling, '12
Jessie C. Buchanan, '13
Mary C. Smith, '14
Katharine W. Mc Collin, '15
Mary Garrett Branson, '16
Agnes Dorothy Shipley, '17
THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of the Alumnae Associa-
tion of Bryn Mawr College was held in Taylor
Hall, on Saturday, February 3, 1917, the Presi-
dent, Cornelia Halsey Kellogg, presiding.
As there was no objection, the reading of the
minutes of the previous annual meeting was
omitted.
The President then read the report of the
Board of Directors. At the end of her report
she read the names of the following members
of the Association who had died during the year.
Helena Chapin McLean (Mrs. A. E. Mc-
Lean) '96.
Anna Bedinger, '99.
Elizabeth Mingus Griffith, '00.
Constance Lewis, '14.
Mary Holland Burchenal (Mrs. C. E. Bur-
chenal) ex- '05.
Minerva Lepper Greene (Mrs. G. S. Greene),
'05.
The following resolutions were adopted by a
silent, rising vote:
Whereas, in the deaths of these members
the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College
has suffered great loss, be it resolved, That we
desire formally to express our deep grief and to
record our sense of bereavement and to express
our sympathy with their families and be it fur-
ther resolved, That copies of this resolution be
sent to their families and inserted in the rec-
ords of the Alumnae Association.
The report of the Treasurer was not read,
but the various balances were given by the
Treasurer.
Next came the reports of standing committees.
It was voted to omit the reading of the follow-
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ing reports — The Quarterly, the A. C. A.
Councillor, the Committee on Athletics and the
Alumnae Supper Committee.
The report of the Academic Committee was
read by the Chairman, Elizabeth Sergeant, ex-
cept the report on the Carola Woerishoffer De-
partment, which was read by Pauline Goldmark,
Chairman of the subcommittee.
The report of the Conference Committee was
read by the Chairman, Leah Cadbury.
Next the report of the Loan Fund was given
by Martha G. Thomas.
The report of the James E. Rhoads Scholar-
ships Committee was read by the Recording
Secretary.
The report of the Finance Committee was
given by Caroline McCormick Slade. After
this report, pledge cards were distributed and
$8839 in addition to previous pledges was raised.
At this point the meeting adjourned to
luncheon.
The meeting was called together again at
3 o'clock.
The report of the Alumnae Directors was
given by Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, except the
report on the new plan of government, which
was given by Elizabeth Kirkbride.
The only report read from a Local Branch
was the report of the Philadelphia Branch,
which was read by the Chairman, Elizabeth
Bent Clark.
The report of the Carola Woerishoffer Memo-
rial Committee was read by Pauline Goldmark.
The following appointments to committees
were ratified by the meeting:
Conference Committee: Leah Cadbury, '14,
Chairman] Anna Scattergood Hoag, '96, Marion
Edwards Park, '98; Katharine McCollin, '15.
Loan Fund Committee: Doris Earle, '03.
James E. Rhoads Scholarships Committee:
Anne Hampton Todd, '02.
Nominating Committee: Elizabeth Tappan,
'10, Chairman; Marion Edwards Park, '98;
Elizabeth Lewis Otey, '01; Alice Hearne, '13;
Josephine Niles, '14;
Committee on Athletics: Bertha S. Ehlers, '09.
The next business before the meeting was the
proposed Amendment to the By-laws to enlarge
the Academic Committee. Pauline Goldmark
said that the Committee thought this plan
advisable eventually, but as they were not
quite ready, she made a motion that the pro-
posed Amendment be laid on the table for
another year. The motion was carried.
The first new business considered was a mo-
tion made by Margaret Bontecou and carried;
that the Board of Directors of the Alumnae
Association be authorized to appoint, or where
Branches are organized, request the Branches
to appoint Alumnae Committees to act as ad-
visors to the Appointment Bureau.
Leah Cadbury then offered the following
resolutions, which were seconded:
1. That a committee shall be appointed im-
mediately to organize a unit of Bryn Mawr
Alumnae to work in one of the belligerent
countries.
2. That this committee, after an investiga-
tion of the various fields of war-relief work,
which can be opened up to college women, shall
select the most suitable destination for the unit.
3. That the committee shall be authorized to
call for volunteers among the members of the
Alumnae Association, including all who will be
members after Commencement, 1917, and to
organize them into a working unit.
4. That the unit is to be known as a group
sent out under the auspices of the Alumnae
Association.
5. That each member of the unit shall be
responsible for her own expenses.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft suggested that the
whole matter should be submitted to the Board
of Directors of the Alumnae Association, for
consideration. Anna Rhoads Ladd also ex-
pressed the feeling that the Board of Directors
should take up the matter.
A suggestion was then made that the com-
mittee mentioned in the original motion be a
committee for the consideration of the whole
matter. Eunice Schenck made a motion, which
was seconded, that a committee be appointed
to investigate the need for such a unit as that
described and to make a plan for the possible
activity of such a unit, this plan to be submitted
to the Board of Directors of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation for approval.
Marion Park offered an alternative amend-
ment, that Leah Cadbury's original resolutions
be referred to the Board of Directors of the
Alumnae Association, with power to act on the
original motion without reference to the general
body of the Alumnae Association. This was
seconded. The first amendment was then put
to a vote and lost.
The question was raised as to whether the
name Bryn Mawr would have more than a
sentimental value. Leah Cadbury thought
that it would open the way for workers.
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Annual Report of Alumnae Association
Ruth Welles wished to know if a unit not
under doctors would have much value.
The second amendment was then put to a
vote and carried. Then the original motion
as amended was carried.
Lotta Emery Dudley made the suggestion
that honorary degrees might fittingly be given
to distinguished Bryn Mawr women. She felt
that it would strengthen the interest of the
alumnae in Bryn Mawr. She then made a
motion, which was seconded and carried, "That
the Academic Committee consider the advisa-
bility and possibility of Bryn Mawr conferring
honorary degrees on distinguished women."
Dean Schenck then asked for the sense of the
meeting as to an alumnae vocational rally as an
inspiration to the students. The motion was
then made, seconded and carried, "That it be
recorded as the sense of the meeting that the
alumnae hold a rally in the spring at the
College."
The announcement of elections to the Acad-
demic Committee was then made by the Secre-
tary, as follows:
Frances Fincke Hand, '98, and Frances
Browne, '09, to serve four years and Helen
Emerson, '14, to serve two years.
The meeting then adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Louise Congdon Francis,
Recording Secretary.
SPECIAL MEETING OF DELEGATES AND DIRECTORS
February 2, 1917
A special meeting was called by the Board
of Directors, February 2, 1917, to confer with
delegates from the Clubs and Branches and
other interested alumnae, to consider plans
for local organization. There were thirty-one
alumnae present.
The President announced that as Branches
require twenty-five members, they do not ade-
quately satisfy our need for organization. She
said that twenty-three invitations to Clubs and
individuals had been sent out urging them to
come to this conference. She said that what
we need is a chance to unite in small groups.
Some of the plans of other colleges for lo-
cal organization were explained. The various
things that such organizations might do were
spoken of. They could raise money for the
college, they could get in touch with schools
and they could do local concerted work. These
groups should be very elastic. The Board of
Directors hopes every year to send some one
to each of these groups.
Adeline Werner described the organization
in Ohio. That is a state organization, with
sub-committees in various cities throughout
Ohio. This they felt best suited their local
conditions.
Dean Schenck told of her need for informa-
tion about positions in schools and other posi-
tions open to Bryn Mawr graduates.
There was a general feeling expressed that
people closely in touch with the College should
go often to the outlying districts.
Mary Crawford Dudley spoke briefly for the
Philadelphia Branch.
It was stated that local organizations ought
to raise scholarships. Especially do we need
Freshmen Scholarships, on the basis of need.
Elizabeth Sergeant spoke very emphatically on
this point.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft made a plea for the
Trustees. She said that they lived in many
cities outside of Philadelphia, that they were
not all old men by any means and that they
would like to be invited to meet local organiza-
tions.
It was thought that the headquarters of every
organization should be listed in the Quar-
terly.
The seniors every year should be instructed
about the alumnae activities. The Board of
Directors now circulates among the seniors a
leaflet, when they are asked to join the Associa-
tion. It was thought that the seniors should
be asked to a party and information imparted.
Representatives of the Branches might be in-
vited to this meeting and Branches should be
informed every year of those graduating.
Suggestions of names of alumnae who would
undertake this organization were asked for.
It was reported for the Academic Committee
that they have discussed the question of pub-
licity. It was thought that an exhibit of books,
photographs, films, etc. might be made up and
loaned to various organizations.
The circulation of the College News was dis-
cusseq^and it was decided that it was desirable
for alumnae to take it, but not preparatory
schools. It was the sense of the meeting that
the Academic Committee take up with the
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college authorities the system of reporting.
Vassar has a Student Press Board. A professor
is the recognized publicity agent. Lucy M.
Donnelly said that the English Department
would be very glad to cooperate in forming a
press bureau. It was felt that Bryn Mawr is
not sufficiently reported in a dignified way and
that for this reason very undesirable articles
are occasionally printed.
Mary Crawford Dudley for the Finance Com-
mittee asked for suggestions for raising money.
Respectfully submitted,
Louise Congdon Francis,
Recording Secretary.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
So much has happened of deep interest to all
Bryn Mawr alumnae since we assembled here
last January that it seems as though more than
a year had passed since then.
The Quarterly, if never before, has proved
its value to the alumnae by accurately inform-
ing us of the new organization under which the
College is now governed.
During the stress of great excitement last
spring many things occurred which we all must
deprecate. Nevertheless it was proved once
and for all that Bryn Mawr alumnae do love
their college and have a really earnest desire to
serve her.
Sincere gratitude is due to the Alumnae
Directors and to the Academic Committee for
their clear grasp of the situation and their
steady and successful effort to represent a fair
and broad-minded attitude to all sides of the
question.
The Finance Committee has been no less
untiring and their unflagging and unwearying
enthusiasm should be an inspiration to the
whole Association. We must try as individuals
to respond to their inspiring leadership.
Although we cannot mention here by name
each of the other committees, we are very grate-
ful to them all for their services so freely and
ungrudgingly given.
The Directors of the Alumnae Association
have felt for some time dissatisfied with the
workings of the present methods of local organ-
ization. There is undoubtedly a very large
amount of genuine and deep loyalty and affec-
tion for Bryn Mawr which is finding little or no
expression. The present system of Branches
does not adequately meet this need — for a
Branch requires 25 members and has to fulfill
rather rigid requirements. It is proposed to
institute a system of small groups leaving their
organization and activities entirely elastic as
the Board feels that each locality is the best
judge of its own needs and possibilities.
The Board will make every effort to see that
these groups are visited at least once a year by
an alumna who is in close touch with the College.
An informal conference was held last night
with representatives of such groups and other
interested alumnae. There were many valu-
able suggestions made. For instance, Dean
Schenck proposed a scheme for vocational ad-
visers in various localities in connection with
the Bureau of Appointments. She stressed the
fact that this would be of great value to the
College but even more to the alumnae who wish
to obtain positions or improve those they al-
ready have.
It was the sense of the meeting that the Aca-
demic Committee should take up with the col-
lege authorities the question of publicity. The
members present felt that if Bryn Mawr activi-
ties were properly reported, undignified and
undesirable articles would be fewer.
The Board of Directors wish to emphasize
the fact that they will be extremely glad to
receive suggestions from any alumnae in con-
nection with this new group system.
At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees
the minute given in the following letter was
passed:
January 23, 1917.
Mrs. Richard S. Francis,
Secretary of the Alumnae Association of Bryn
Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
My dear Mrs. Francis,
At a meeting of the Trustees of Bryn Mawr
College, held December 15, 1916, your letter
containing a minute passed by the Alumnae
Association January 29, 1916, suggesting the
appointment of an alumna as Director-at-large
was read.
After discussion the following minute was
adopted by the Trustees:
"It is the sense of this meeting that the filling
of the position of Director-at-large be con-
sidered an opportunity to strengthen the Board
of Directors by the appointment of a man or
woman not otherwise eligible as a member of
the Society of Friends or an alumna of the
college, and that in now appointing Miss Marion
Reilly Director-at-large for the year 1916-17
1917] Annual Report of Alumnae Association 7
the Directors have not changed their attitude in During the year the following associates of
this regard, but as the presence of Miss Reilly the Alumnae Association have been elected:
on the Board seems to them, as well as to many Grace Shafer Able (Mrs. S. T. Able), ex-' 16;
members of the Alumnae Association, most Anne Wright Jaggard, ex-'16; Julia Kessel,
desirable, they have taken this method of secur- Graduate, 1915-16; Lois Goodnow MacMurray
ing her immediate membership in the Board of (Mrs. J. V. A. MacMurray), ex-'16; Edith
Directors." Peters, ex-'96; Helen R. Steward, Graduate,
Very sincerely yours, 1912-14; Clara Colton Worthington (Mrs.
Anna Rhoads Ladd, Secretary. Union Worthington), ex-'96.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
I. Alumnae Academic Endowment Fund or January 15, 1909
Principal:
Cash and securities received January IS, 1909 ._ $100,000 . 00
Net additions because of differences between par value and value at which securities were taken and
sold 1,721.14
Transferred from income account 2,235.08
$103,956.22
Investments:
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rwy. Co., General Mortgage. 4% $3,000.00
New York Central and Hudson River R. R. Co. Z\% 5,000.00
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. Co., Illinois Division Mtge. 4% 5,000.00
Standard Steel Works Co., 1st Mtge. 5% 5,000.00
Cost of certain improvements on the College Grounds assumed as an investment for this Fund as
agreed upon with the Alumnae Association. 4j% 25,000 .00
Northern Pacific Railway, General Lien. 3% 3,000.00
Mortgage No. 7, Lombaert Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 4£% 35,000.00
Southern Pacific Co. Equipment. 4§% 13,000.00
Pennsylvania General Freight Equipment. 4§% 3,000.00
Share in Mortgage No. 8, 1415 South Twenty-first St., Philadelphia. 5^% 750.00
Pennsylvainia R. R. Co., General Mortgage. 4-J% 5,000.00
Bryn Mawr College Inn Association, Second Mortgage. 5% 1,000.00
Uninvested and due from the Trustees '. 206 . 22
Total Par Value, $103,956.22
Income:
Receipts:
Balance Sept. 30, 1915 $1,761 .38
Interest on investments Oct. 1, 1915 to Sept. 30, 1916 4,553.67 $6.315.05
Expenditures:
Salary of holder of endowed chair ( 3,000 . 00
Increase in salaries of three full professors who are heads of departments 1,500.00
Balance 1,815.05 $6.315.05
Note. — The amount ($3000) which but for this endowment would have been expended for the salary of the holder of
the endowed chair was used to increase the salaries of six full professors who are heads of departments.
II. Alumnae Academic Endowment Fund of June 2, 1910
Principal:
Received from Alumnae Association $150,000 . 00
Net additions because of differences between par value and value at which securities were taken
and sold 6,830.02
Total par value of Fund $156,830.02
Investments:
Chesapeake and Ohio Rwy. Co., General Mortgage. 4$% $25,000.00
Mortgage No. 1, 12 acres Camden County, N. J. 6% 12,000.00
Canadian Northern Rwy. Equipment. \\% 5,000.00
New York Central Lines Equipment. 4|% 10,000.00
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rwy. Equipment. 4£% 1,000.00
Norfolk and Western Railway Divisional First Lien and General Mortgage. 4% 22,000.00
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rwy. Co., First Refunding Mortgage. 4% 25,000.00
Reading Company and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co., General Mortgage. 4% 15,000 . 00
Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., General Lien. 3% 2,000.00
Baltimore & Ohio Equipment Trust. \\% 2,000 . 00
The Virginian Railway Co., 1st Mortgage. 5% 3,000.00
New York & Erie R. R. Co. 4% 5,000.00
Lehigh Valley R. R. Co., General Consol. Mortgage. 4*% 13,000.00
Pennsylvania General Freight Equipment. 4|% 3,000 . 00
Mortgage No. 3 (share), 641/653 Buena Ave., Chicago, 111. 5% 1,100.00
Chicago Union Station Co., First Mortgage. 4£% 2,000.00
Wabash R. R. Co., Second Mortgage. 5% 6,000.00
Union Pacific R. R. Co., First Lien Refunding Mortgage. 4% 4,000.00
Uninvested and due from the Trustees 730.02
Total par value, T $156.830.02
Income:
Receipts:
Interest October 1, 1915 to September 30, 1916 $6,808.15
Expenditures:
Academic salaries $6,808 . 15
8 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [April
SUMMARY OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
For the Year October 1, 1915, to September 30, 1916
INCOME
Securities
Founder's Endowment $20,441 .35
Alumnae Endowment for Professorships of
1909 4,500.00
Alumnae Academic Endowment Fund of
1910 6,808.15
General Endowment Fund 10,492 .66
Justus C. Strawbridge Fund 421.58
Carola Woerishoffer Endowment Fund. . . . 31,115.36
Undergraduate May Day, 1914, Endow-
ment Fund 216.56
Elizabeth S. Shippen Endowment Fund... 3,950.28
Interest $1,419.43
Less net interest received at
College 117.45 1,301.98
— $79,247.92
Productive Real Estate
Income from Founder's En-
dowment invested in Mer-
ion, Radnor, Denbigh,
Pembroke East and West. . . $52,449.47
Income from Founder's En-
dowment invested in Pro-
fessors' houses 2,718.26
$55,167.73
Income from General Endowment Fund In-
vested in Rockefeller Hall 13,289.06
68,456.79
Income from Special Funds: $147,704.71
Unexpended balances of In-
come, October 1, 1915:
A. Scholarship Funds $796.49
B. Memorial Funds 1,228.97
C. Other Funds 1,800.39
3,825.85
Received during the year:
a. For undergraduate Me-
morial Scholarships
(Hopper, Rhoads, Brooke
Hall, Powers, Gillespie,
Stevens, Anthony, Simp-
son, Hallowell, Long-
streth) $3,279.33
b. Other Memorial Funds
(Ottendorfer Fellowship;
Ritchie Prize; Rhoads,
Chamberlain, Wright and
Stevens Book Funds;
Swift Planting Fund;
Woerishoffer Memorial) . 874 .04
1917] Annual Report of Alumnae Association
c. Other Funds (1902 Book
Fund; Alumnae Endow-
ment Fund, Shippen
Fund, Fletcher Bequest) $578.88
$4,732.25
Unexpended balances October 1, 1916:
A. Scholarship Funds 1,903.26
B. Memorial Funds 1,976.97
C. Other Funds 1,843.89
$8,558.10
5,724.12
Students' Fees: $2,833.98
A. Added to College Income:
Tuition $81,236.66
Laboratory Fees $4,230.57
Laboratory Supplies 235.15
Geological Excursions 153.09
Graduation Fees 813.94
Changing Rooms Fees. . . . 190.00
Music Rooms Fees, net. . . 42.50
Entrance Examination
Fees, net 1,642.36
7,307.61
B. Given to Library for Books: $88,544.27
Deferred and Condition Examination
Fees $1,513.00
Late Registration and Course Book
Fines 164.00
1,677.00
C. Given to Gymnasium for Apparatus:
Gymnasium Fines 245.50
90,466.77
Net receipt from sale of books 26.20
Interest on College Income invested in 1905 Infirmary, Trefa Aelwyd
and prepaid insurance, Comptroller's bank balance, etc 802.19
Net receipts from all other sources 3,336.58
Donations to Current Income:
Received during 1915-16 $7,700.52
Unexpended balance of Donations received
during previous years 4,045 .90
$11,746.42
Less balance unexpended September 30,
1916 3,273.63
Ruth Emerson Fletcher Bequest:
Expended 1915-16 $18. 15
Less income from investment 11 .31
8,472.79
Added to receipts from principal for expenditure 6.84
Total net receipts from all sources, expended for College running
expenses, from October 1, 1915, to September 30, 1916 $253,650.06
10 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [April
EXPENDITURES
A. ACADEMIC
Teaching Salaries
17 Full Professors $50,500.00
15 Associate Professors $31,760.00
Donations given for Associate Professors'
Salaries 1,616.00
33,376.00
8 Associates 11,360.00
2 Lecturers 4,014.00
11 Readers 10,457 .50
5 Demonstrators 3,100.00
Student Laboratory Assistants 191 .67
Academic Administration Salaries
(Only the portion of time given to Aca-
demic work is charged)
President, Deans, Secretaries and Stenog-
raphers (part) $14,719 .08
Comptroller's Office (60%) 2,509.34
Business Office (60%) 2,603.07
Proctors and Student Messengers 75.84
Fellowships and Scholarships
A. From College Income:
Fellowships and Gradu-
ate Scholarships $10,915 . 12
Foreign Graduate Schol-
arships 2,025.00
Undergraduate Scholar-
ships 4,823.30
B. From Income of Special Funds:
Undergraduate Scholar-
ships $2,622.32
C. From Donations:
Fellowships and Gradu-
ate Scholarships $750.00
Undergraduate Scholar-
ships 2,750.00
$17,763.42
2,622.32
3,500.00
Laboratories
From College Income:
Physical
Chemical
Physical Chemistry
Geological
Biological
Psychological
Educational Psychology.
Social Economy
$1,421.18
1,667.64
260.00
584.40
1,194.86
1,045.12
363.49
1,002.29
$112,999.17
19,907.33
23,885.74
7,538.98
1917]
Annual Report of Alumnae Association
11
Library
A. From College Income:
Maintenance (one-half entire cost),
Salaries
New Books Purchased
$3,572.45
6,670.56
5,831.38
B. From Income of Special Funds:
New Books Purchased
C. From Donations:
New Books Purchased
Gymnasium
From College Income:
Maintenance of Building.
Salaries
Apparatus
Religious Services
Public Lectures
From College Income,
From Donations
College Entertaining
Subscriptions to Foreign Schools
A. Athens
B. Jerusalem
Subscription to Wood's Hole Biological Laboratory
Subscription to College Entrance Examination Board..
Subscription to Educational Societies
$16,074.39
154.82
755.55
$2,935.89
3,400.00
440.19
$680.29
50.00
$250.00
100.00
$100.00
100.00
12.00
Class Room Supplies
Modern Art Equipment, from Donations
Modern Art and Prize from Special Funds
Publishing Research Monographs
Bureau of Appointments
Academic Committee of Alumnae, Travelling Expenses and Entertain-
ment
Academic Incidentals
Travelling Expenses of Candidates for Appointment
Academic Administration Expenses
Office Expenses (60%)
Telephone (60%)
Publicity
Printing
Maintenance of Academic Buildings
(Taylor Hall, $5,225.35; Dalton Hall, $5,674.32; one-
half of Library, $3,572.44; Rent of one-half of Cart-
ref, $1,000.00; Advanced Psychological Laboratory,
$157.81).
Maintenance of Grounds and Fire Protection
Legal Advice
Other Teaching and Academic Expenses :"!
$1,911.61
596.88
179.59
5,171.28
$16,984.76
6,776.08
1,620.38
730.29
386.56
350.<
212.00
345.07
247.97
63.68
106.71
200.00
170.76
63.07
516.24
7,859.36
15,629.92
»3,955.17
50.00
278.84
*Note — 60% of the cost of Maintenance of Grounds and 40% of Fire Protection is considered as academic, the balance
•S non-academic,
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Expenses paid by Treasurer
Interest
Printing
Auditing
Comptroller's Bond
Expenses in re Lands in West
Sundries
Permanent Improvements
Dalton plumbing (completed) $2,688.05; Power Plant,
(part) $317.48; grounds, $338.59; other items, $74.07). .
Total Academic Expenditures
B. NON-ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Salaries
President's, Dean's, Secretaries' and Ste-
nographers' (part) $6,198 .66
Comptroller's Office (40%) 1,672.89
Business Office (40%) 1,735.39
Minutes of Directors (full) 300.00
$9,906.94
$2,541.58
46.71
250.00
50.00
67.41
59.39
$3,015.09
3,418.19
$227,311.36
Expenses
Office Expenses (40%) $1,274.40
Telephone (40%) 397.92
1,672.32
Grounds and Fire Protection x3,054.30
1905 Infirmary
Salaries $3,720.00
Expenses 3,198.26
Interest on amount loaned to complete
building 875.56
Receipts:
Undergraduate Fees $3,420.00
Graduate Fees 224.05
Refunds for extra service 483.75
All other income 10.00
$7,793.82
4,137.30
3.656.02
Loss on Non-Productive Real Estate
Yarrow West $206.35
Dolgelly 711 .73
918.08
Sundry Items of Non-academic Incidentals 216.73
Christmas Donations 174.76
Permanent Improvements
A. From College Income $505.77
B. From Donations 2,303.27
2,809.04
Power plant part of $211.66; Alterations to Buildings,
$19.00; Grounds, $225.73; other items, $49.38; Ath-
letic Field, $1,133.80; Infirmary, $269.19; Cartref Al-
terations, $272.72; Pembroke new rooms, $94.56; Dean-
ery garage, $427.00; Mary E. Garrett Memorial, $106.00.
Total Non-Academic Expenditures 22,408.19
I Note— 60% of the cost of Maintenance of Grounds and 40% of Fire Protection is considered as academic, the balance
as non-academic.
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Total Expenditures for the year $249,719.55
Total Net Receipts 253,650.06
Surplus for Year J$3,930.51
APPENDIX A
Donations
donations for scholarships
Unexpended balances of donations given in previous years and brought forward from 1914-15.
Composed of:
Unexpended
Expended Balance
Donation from Mrs. Frank L. Wesson, received 1909-10 $500.00 $500.00
Donation from Mrs. J. Campbell Harris, Thos. H. Powers Memorial
Scholarship, 1915-1916 200.00 $200.00
Anonymous Donation, Helen Schaeffer Huff Memorial Research Fellow-
ship 750.00 750.00
Donation from Chicago Bryn Mawr Club for scholarship 100.00 100.00
Donation from Mary R. Norris for the Austin Hull Norris Memorial
scholarship 200.00 200.00
Anonymous donations for scholarships 700.00 300.00 400.00
Total $2,450.00 $1,550.00 $900.00
Received during 1915-16:
Scholarships.
From Alumnae Association of Girls' High and Normal Schools, one scholar-
ship 100.00 100.00
From the Board of Education of the City of Philadelphia, nine scholar-
ships . 900.00 900.00
From Geo. W. Kendrick, Jr., for the Minnie Murdock Kendrick Memorial
Scholarship 200.00 200.00
From Estate of Charles E. Ellis, two scholarships of $200.00 each 400.00 400.00
From Alexander Simpson, Jr., Special scholarship 200.00 200.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, Special scholarship 300.00 300.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, Special scholarship 200.00 200.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, Special scholarship 500.00 500.00
From Class 1912 for scholarships. 200.00 200.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, Special scholarship 150.00 150.00
Total $3,150.00 $1,950.00 $1,200.00
$5,600.00 $3,500.00 $2,100.00
Unexpended donations for scholarships 1914-15 $2,450.00
Donations received for scholarships 1915-16 3,150.00
Total $5,600.00
Expended during 1915-16 3,500.00
Unexpended balance $2,100.00
OTHER DONATIONS
[These donations represent only cash donations received at tbe college office. All other gifts may be found enumerated
under "gifts" in the President's Report for 1915-16.]
Unexpended balances of donations given in previous years and amounts expended of same during 1915-1916.
Unexpended
Balance Expended Balance
From Justus C. Strawbridge for lantern for service door of Rockefeller
Hall $25.00 $25.00
From Elma Loines, Class of 1905, for Physical Laboratory Apparatus 18. 75 18. 75
From Ruth Putnam for binding Kirk Collection 5 . 00 $5 . 00
Balance of Donation from Dean Reilly for equipment Mathematical Depart-
ment 74.20 74.20
Balance of Donation from Class of 1903 for clock for Library Reading
Room 23.65 23.65
Balance of donation from Undergraduate Association for books, in mem-
ory of Professor J. Edmund Wright 5 . 60 5 . 60
From Professor De Haan for Spanish Books 100.00 100.00
From Class 1897, for books in Biology, per Professor J. W. Warren 15.70 15.70
From Alumnae Association (Boston Branch) for books 101 .56 101 .56
From Cynthia M. Wesson, for gymnastic apparatus 365 .00 365 .00
From Dean Marion Reilly for Art Department 15 .95 15 .95
From Ella Riegel, Class 1889, for Art Department 138.46 138.46
From Ella Riegel, Class 1889, amount reported as expended but returned
to Treasurer in 1915-16 46.22 46.22
Balance of Mary Elizabeth Garrett donation — books for the President's
office 10.55 7.34 3.21
Amount returned by Undergraduate Association for amount advanced to
Music Committee in June 1913, from Mary Elizabeth Garrett gift .... 10. 12 10.12
From Philadelphia Branch of the Alumnae Association — for Art Depart-
ment 78.56 78.56
From Class 1898, for books English Department 100.42 50.48 49.94
Class 1903, books for Library 317.20 294.59 22.61
Class 1900, for books in Historv 100.00 85.73 14.27
From Class 1911, for New Book Room 43.96 43.96
Total f. $1,595.90 $942.93 $652.97
2 Note-y-This figure differs from the Treasurer's Summary owing to the fact that the Treasurer has not separated
the operating expenses of the College proper from the operating expenses of the Phebe Anna Thome Model
School (see pages 14 and 15). The deficit of the Phebe Anna Thorne Model School is $5,335.96 and the College Surplus
is $3,930.51. This explains why a deficit for the year of $1,405.45. is shown in the account of the Summary of the
Treasurer.
14
The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[April
Donations received 1915-16
Unexpended
Amount Expended Balance
For Library
From Philadelphia Alumnae Branch $25.00 $25.00
From Bryn Mawr Alumnae Club of Baltimore 10.00 3.23 $6.77
From Class 1904 419.77 17.36 402.41
For Art Department
From Several Alumnae 15 .00 15 .00
From Ella Riegel for Spanish Art 50.00 50.00
For Improvements
From Athletic Association— New Field 1,133 .80 1,133 .80
From Class 1905 for Furniture, Sun Parlor-Infirmary 192 . 22 192 . 22
From Several Students for Screens for Infirmary Ill .35 76.97 34.38
From S. A. King for Cartref Alteration 297.82 272.72 25.10
From Pembroke Alumnae for Pembroke Hall 94 . 56 94 . 56
From President Thomas for Deanery Garage 427 .00 427 .00
For Sundry Items
From President Thomas for Lecture by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw 50.00 50.00
From President Thomas on account of Mary E. Garrett Memorial Tab-
let 106.00 106.00
From Undergraduate Association for expenses of next May Day 2 .00 2 .00
$2,934.52 $2,413.86 $520.66
Donations Added to Special Funds by Treasurer
Student's Building Fund • $140.45
Student's Building Fund, No. 2 66.39
Bequest under Will of Elizabeth Swift Shippen, deceased 176,844 .86
From Albert K. Smiley, deceased 1,000.00
From Anonymous Donor to found the Helen Schaeffer Huff Memorial Fellowship
Fund 15,000.00
Bequest of Geo. W. Kendrick, Jr., to Found the Minnie Murdock Kendrick
Scholarship. 5,000.00
From Marion Reilly to reduce the alumnae loan on Penygroes 1,000.00
$199,051.70
SPECIAL DONATIONS FOR TEACHING SALARIES
1915-1916
Received Expended
Albert Strauss, Father of student $200.00 $200.00
Frederick S. Chase, Father of student 50.00 50.00
E. C. Henderson, Father of student 211.00 211.00
C. H. Sorchan, Father of student 211.00 211 .00
James Timpson, Father of student 211 .00 211.00
George Merck, Father of student 422.00 422.00
Carleton Mosely, Father of student 211.00 211.00
Winifred Gatling, Mother of student 100.00 100.00
$1,616.00 $1,616.00
SUMMARY OF DONATION ACCOUNT
Unexpended balance scholarships $2,100 . 00
Unexpended balance of other Donations previous to 1915-16 652 .97
Unexpended balance Donations 1915-16 520.66
From Undergraduates for expenses of next May Day 13 .25
$3,286.88
APPENDIX B
Phebe Anna Thorne Model School
Operating Expenses
1915-1916
Accumulated deficit to October 1, 1915
Income from Phebe Anna Thorne Fund received
by Treasurer $5,965.24
Tuition $7,325.00
Interest on notes 5 . 36
$672.71
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Annual Report of Alumnae Association
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Books and supplies $250.90
Pupils' Dress 142 . 75
Refunds:
Class Room Supplies 1 .43
Furniture 1 .92
Equipment 1 .75
Incidentals 7.80 $12.90 $7,736.91
Total income available for operating ex-
penses $13,702 . 15
Expenditures:
Salaries paid by Treasurer $10,082 .34
Director's living expenses 881 .29
Appointments — Travelling 106.03
Books for Library 240.82
Class Room Books 108.70
Class Room Supplies 73.23
Rental of Piano 40.00
Health Examinations 52 .00
Office Supplies and Printing 104.48
Telephone 59.36
Incidentals 149.03
Summer Administration and Preparation
(1915) 121.20
Entertaining 33 .47
Pupils' Dress 176.40
Luncheons '. 2,377.50
Wages and Board of Maid 449 . 12
Teacher's Dress 20.00
Laundry 14.91
Water Rent 12.57
Fuel (Gas) 5 . 89
Rent of Dolgelly 800.00
Repairs 37.39
Insurance 38.01
Heating and Lighting 219.32
Furnishings 239.28
Grounds 70.63
Total Operating Expense $16,512.97
Excess of Expense over Income for 1915-16 2,810.82
Deficit on operation of School to September 30, 1916. $3,483.53
Construction Account
1915-1916
Accumulated deficit to October 1, 1915 $5,822.41
Out-of-Door Class Room No. 3 (completed)
Construction $2,102.63
Less refund by F. N. Goble $3 00 $2,099.63
Alterations to Dolgelley
Basement Plumbing $31 .26
Third Floor Alterations ^255.15 286.41
Equipment $139.10
16 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
Cost of Construction during 1915-16
Deficit on Construction to September 30th,
1916
[April
$2,525.14
$8,347.55
Summary of Accumulated Deficit
September 30th, 1916
Deficit to Construction Account $8,347 .55
Deficit to Operating Account 3,483 . 53
Total Deficit to September 30th, 1916 $11,831 .08
AUDITORS' REPORT
January 8, 1917
We have audited the accounts of both the Treasurer and Comptroller of Bryn Mawr
College for the fiscal year ended 30th September, 1916, and found them to be correct, and
we hereby certify that the receipts and expenditures of the College for the year contained
in the foregoing Alumnae Financial Report are properly stated from the books of the
Treasurer and Comptroller.
Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery
Certified Public Accountants.
REPORT OF THE ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
The most important and the most interesting
work of the year that has been done by the
Board of Directors of course has been the for-
mulating of the new plan of government for the
College in cooperation with the faculty of the
College. Elizabeth Kirkbride, who was a mem-
ber of the special committee of the Directors
appointed to confer with the committee of the
faculty will tell of the work that was accom-
plished. It is for me to tell of the few other
matters of special interest to the alumnae that
came before the Board.
Early in the year Marion Reilly's resignation
from the deanship of the College was received
and accepted with great regret. The following
minute was unanimously adopted:
"The Directors of Bryn Mawr College wish
to place on record the sincere regret with which
they have accepted the resignation of Marion
Reilly, as Dean of Bryn Mawr College, a posi-
tion which she has filled to the entire satisfac-
tion of this Board for the past nine years, and
at the same time to express their deep apprecia-
tion of the devotion and loyalty with which
Dean Reilly has so successfully performed the
duties of her office. In the opinion of the
Directors it is no small service to the College
to have made the deanship of the College, after
the office had been permitted to lapse for ten
years, so important and distinguished a position
as it has become during her tenure of office.
As Dean of the College she has steadfastly
maintained both in the faculty and in the stu-
dent body those high standards of scholarship
and learning for which the College has become
justly known; and the strong influence that she
has exerted in this and other directions will be
greatly missed.
"The Directors also desire to thank Dean
Reilly for the eminently satisfactory way in
which she has represented the College on pub-
lic occasions when the President of the College
could not be present, and for the many excellent
and inspiring addresses that she has given.
"The Directors and the President of the Col-
lege wish to express to Dean Reilly their grati-
tude for her services to the College and their
best wishes for her future success in whatever
educational or other work she may enter upon
together with their regrets that she feels that
she must sever her official connection with the
College at the end of the current year."
The personnel of the Board of Directors of
the College has changed somewhat this year.
In the autumn the resignation of Mr. James
Wood, who had been a member of the Board
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for twenty-one years and President of the
Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Board
of Directors for five years, was received and
accepted with much regret. Mr. Rufus M.
Jones has succeeded him and is also Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Board. Mr.
Alexander Wood resigned because of ill-health.
The two new members of the Board of Trustees
are Mr. Arthur Perry of Boston, a graduate of
Harvard University of the Class of '81, and Dr.
Arthur Chace of New York City. Dr. Chace
was graduated from Earlham College, B.S.,
1897, Harvard, A.B. 1899, Columbia University,
M.D. and A.M., 1903. He is Professor of
Medicine at the New York Post Graduate
Medical School, Secretary of the Corporation
and a Life Trustee of the New York Post Gradu-
ate Medical School and Hospital, and for the
past fourteen years a Trustee of the Moses
Brown School in Providence, R. I.
Marion Reilly was elected Director-at-large
in December and was immediately appointed a
member of the Executive Committee. Anna
Rhoads Ladd and Elizabeth Kirkbride are also
members of this important committee, so the
alumnae are well represented there.
Gifts to the College through alumnae are as
follows:
Frances Marion Simpson scholarships. Un-
used balance of $614.46 given to the Loan Fund.
Lucy M. Donnelly. $25 for books for the
New Book Room.
Pittsburgh Bryn Mawr Club. $200 to be
awarded to an entering student who has had
her last two years of college preparation in a
school in Allegheny County. Through Dean
Breed, Margaret Morrison School, Pittsburgh.
Class of 1912. Gift of $420 to be used in re-
union grants for five students who need finan-
cial assistance.
Several Alumnae, through Georgiana G. King,
gift of $15 to be used in Art Department.
Mary H. Ingham, '03. Thirty volumes to the
Library.
Marion Reilly. $1000 bond of the College
Inn Association to be applied to reducing the
investment of the Alumnae Endowment Fund
on Penygroes from $10,000 to $9,000 and there-
by decreasing the deduction in the salary of the
new Dean from $700 to $650 per annum for the
use of Penygroes.
Besides the alumnae gifts the College has
now the use of the money left it by Miss Eliza-
beth Swift Shippen of Philadelphia. She gave
$5000 "the income to be applied in assisting
some worthy student to perfect herself in either
the study of modern languages or any other
study the College may approve of where a trip
to Europe would benefit her in the profession
in which she contemplates earning her living."
$5000 for "endowment of a scholarship or to
help those needing assistance;" Bryn Mawr's
share of the residue of her estate as "endow-
ment fund, it being my desire that the income
thereof be used in assisting needy, deserving
students to continue their studies, and in and
about the needs of the Library and Sanitarium."
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft.
SPECIAL REPORT OF THE ALUMNAE DIRECTORS
By far the most important action of the
year was the adoption of the new "Plan of
Government" by the Directors of Bryn Mawr
College. This may have seemed to some
alumnae a sudden revolution. In reality it
was part of the general reaction against the tra-
ditional form of American college government
that has been going on at Bryn Mawr and
elsewhere for a number of years. With the
amazing growth of American colleges, both in
numbers and resources, had come a complete
separation of functions between the trustees
and the faculty. The president remained the
one link between the two bodies, with the su-
perhuman task of representing the trustees to
the faculty, and the faculty to the trustees.
This tendency had almost reached its culmina-
tion when Bryn Mawr was founded. Bryn
Mawr, moreover, tried to free its faculty from
the mass of administrative detail with which
faculties were burdened in many other col-
leges. The tendency to separate administra-
tion from teaching, so far as it resulted in
better opportunities for research, was good —
the weakening in college faculties of a sense of
responsibility for academic policy was bad.
The reaction can be traced through a series
of articles which began to appear in Science and
other magazines some ten years ago, but the
movement took more definite form in the
spring of 1913, when a group of Johns Hopkins
professors projected the American Association
of University Professors, which was finally
organized in January, 1915. The call for the
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The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[April
first meeting mentioned among the general
purposes of the Association "to facilitate a
more effective cooperation among the members
of the profession in the discharge of their
special responsibilities as custodians of the
interests of higher education and research in
America; to promote a more general and meth-
odical discussion of problems relating to ed-
ucation in higher institutions of learning; to
create means for the authoritative expression
of the public opinion of college and university
teachers; to make collective action possible; and
to maintain and advance the standards and
ideals of the profession." Questions of academic
tenure absorbed the attention of the new asso-
ciation during its first year, and in January,
1916, the Committee on Academic Freedom and
Academic Tenure issued its valuable report.
At Bryn Mawr meantime there had been
concerted action on the part of the professors —
when in the autumn of 1915 it had become
necessary to revise the form of contracts.
This called out a request from the full pro-
fessors that the old form of contract be done
away with altogether and "letters of appoint-
ment" be substituted. They collected informa-
tion as to the forms in use at other colleges,
and after a number of conferences a satisfactory
form was adopted in January, 1916.
At a special meeting of the Directors held
in March a letter signed by thirteen full pro-
fessors was presented by the President. Its
chief points were: (1) that the present method
of making and terminating appointments was
unsatisfactory; (2) that the "Practical Propos-
als" of the Report on Academic Freedom and
Tenure might be adopted; (3) in particular
that a standing committee of professors should
pass on appointments and reappointments; (4)
that representatives of the faculty be given
a seat and vote on the Board of Directors.
The special committee of the Board appointed
to consider the letter called a conference of pro-
professors, at which they gave their reasons for
sending it. They were then asked to draw up
what they thought would be a satisfactory
"Constitution" for the faculty. Their original
draft was published and therefore received wide
criticism
It was carefully studied by the committee
in ;i series of conferences with President
Thomas, with the full professors, the associate
professors and associates, and with other mem-
bers of the staff. Information was secured
from other colleges and universities by the
help of President Thomas and of ! he Academic
Committee. A modification of the first "plan"
was then drawn up by the Directors' Commit-
tee, and was further revised in conference with
the professors. It was finally adopted by the
Directors on May 19, 1916. There was gen-
eral agreement that it was best to adopt the
new plan without more revision and to let
time and experience show its weak points.
The plan was pr'nted in full in the Alumnae
Quarterly of July, 1916, and we trust that
every alumna has read it carefully.
Two amendments have already been made
by joint consent of the Directors and Faculty.
The first provides that only resident officers of
instruction shall have a seat on the faculty.
The second grew out of an ambigous state-
ment of the functions of the Senate. Article
IV, Section 6, now reads: "For academic of-
fenses the Senate shall have sole power to
impose the more serious penalties, including
suspension and expulsion from college. In
all other cases of suspension and expulsion the
President shall report to the Senate the action
taken, and in so far as practicable the reasons
therefor. The Senate by a two-thirds vote
may ask for a conference with the Board of
Directors to discuss the principles involved in
action taken." In order to complete the
amendment the following was added to the
second paragraph of Article I: "The President
shall have power to impose the more serious
penalties for all non-academic offenses, includ-
ing suspension and expulsion o{ students."
The plan begins by emphasizing "the pri-
mary responsibility of the faculty in academic
matters, and in the maintenance of high pro-
fessional standards."
The President's duties as executive are very
briefly outlined.
The faculty's powers are given in greater
detail. The chief innovations are "Faculty
representation," giving three members of the
faculty a seat, though not a vote, on the Board
of Directors, and the "Committee on Appoint-
ments," which shall be consulted on all re-
appointments or refusals to reappoint. The
faculty shall also be consulted before an aca-
demic department is established or discontinued
and it has power to appo'nt committees on
Library and Laboratories, which shall confer
with the proper committees of the Directors.
The informal conferences between committees
have already proven fruitful of better under-
standing. The faculty, under its own by-laws,
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appoints or elects the committee on Curriculum,
the committee on Petitions, the committee
on Entrance Examinations, and any other com-
mittees which "may be desirable for the conduct
of its business."
The Academic Council is practically a large
committee on graduate work.
The Senate, which consists of the President,
Deans and full professors, has divided itself into
an executive and a judicial committee, and deals
:argely with the academic conduct of students.
It has been suggested that the plan might have
been simplified by treating both council and
senate as faculty committees.
In the classification of teaching grades, the
title of reader is changed to instructor.
The section on tenure is most important —
and by establishing a proper procedure for ter-
minating appointments will be as great a pro-
tection to the Directors and President as to the
faculty. It was a satisfaction to hear a member
of the committee on Academic Freedom and
Tenure call this section "very broad and fine."
The alumnae ought to follow with interest the
practical working, and the future development
of the plan at Bryn Mawr, and corresponding
movements in other colleges as well. At Col-
umbia, for instance, there is joint discussion of
the budget by the faculty committee on In-
struction and the Education committee of the
trustees. There are also informal conferences
for preliminary discussions of policy. At
Princeton there is a conference committee of
faculty and trustees. The constitution of Reed
College, adopted in 1915, provides for a faculty
council which passes on the President's recom-
mendations before they are submitted to the
Directors, and also for a joint Welfare Com-
mittee of Directors and faculty.
The Wellesley and Vassar graduate councils
are both making special studies of methods of
"university control," from which we may expect
valuable information.
Meanwhile, for our encouragement, let me end
by quoting another prominent member of the
Association of University Professors:
"Though, as you may have gathered, I do
not feel that the new statutes of the Bryn
Mawr Trustees should be regarded as quite
the last word in the matter, they seem to me
to constitute a decidedly substantial im-
provement upon what I understand to have
been the regulations previously in force; and
I gather that they afford satisfaction to the
members of the college faculty and are re-
garded by them as likely to lead to a much
smoother working of the administrative machin-
ery in the future. These are results upon which
your Board of Directors may well congratulate
itself." Elizabeth Butler Klrkbride.
REPORT OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
The Academic Committee, like all Bryn
Mawr, has just been through the most stirring
and the most laborious year in its history. The
work of the Academic Committee in the last
two years has, in fact, shown a progressive
increase in organization, in number of meet-
ings, in contact with the College (President and
faculty), and the alumnae Pauline Goldmark
stated in her report as Chairman for 1915-16
that we had added an extra regular meeting in
the spring, which helped the continuity and
thoroughness of the work. This past year we
were obliged to add still another regular meet-
ng the middle of January, preparatory to the
annual mid-year conferences with President
Thomas and the faculty. On these three oc-
casions— spring, fall and January — the Com-
mittee has met not only all day Saturday but
half of Sunday. Besides this, we had, last
spring, two additional formal conferences with
President Thomas, one called by her, and one
by us in accordance with our new agreement.
The alumnae will remember that at the an-
nual meeting in 1916 the Chairman presented
a letter from President Thomas urging that the
Academic Committee act as the agent of the
alumnae in negotiations with the college author-
ities on questions relating to the academic
management of the Colege, it being understood
that the Academic Committee should be given
an opportunity to confer with such authorities
before any individual or group of alumnae
began public agitation on such questions. The
President offered, in return, to bring all impor-
tant academic matters to the attention of the
Committee before making recommendations to
the Board of Directors. Now the Academic
Committee under its agreement made with the
Trustees in 1893 has always been recognized as
"the official means of communication between
the authorities and the Alumnae Association of
Bryn Mawr College." But its duties in the
early days were more or less informally exer-
cised; and even of late years, neither the alum-
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nae, on their side, nor the President on hers,
have felt obliged to bring all important matters
to the attention of the Committee.
The Association recognized, however, both
the danger of irresponsible alumnae action, and
the advantage of having their Committee more
fully informed on academic policies while such
policies were still in process of development.
The agreement proposed by President Thomas
was accordingly accepted, and the Academic
Committeee wishes to state that the opportun-
ities for coooperation and understanding of
college problems which it has given us during
the past year have been of very great value to
our work. President Thomas has generously
lived up to her side of the contract; and the
alumnae have come to us with criticisms and
queries and problems which they have asked
us to settle, if we could, before they were pub-
licly discussed. It is in fact significant to find
that most of the subjects we have studied
during the past year have been brought to our
attention by individual alumnae or groups of
alumnae.
To continue the list of meetings, we wish to
mention a very important formal meeting called
in Philadelphia on April 29, 1916, by the special
Committee on Reorganization of the Board of
Directors of the College, to discuss the constitu-
tional changes which have since gone into effect.
Add to this a number of informal meetings with
our Alumnae Trustee and our Alumnae Direc-
tors, (who have also attended our regular meet-
ings), a great many small alumnae conferences
with special groups, many personal interviews
with the President and members of the faculty
of the College, and a most voluminous corre-
spondence, and it will be realized that the Aca-
demic Committee has been in almost constant
touch with college affairs. The fact that we
had fewer formal reports than usual to offer
to President Thomas and the Alumnae Associa-
tion is largely due to the fact that our advisory
work has been so exacting and so continuous
that there has been little time for special pieces
of investigation.
Our mid-year conferences with the President
and faculty were, as a natural consequence of
our greater intercourse during the year, of a
rather more general and informal nature than
usual. We met all day on January 26, and on
the afternoon of the 27, with President Thomas
and Dean Schenck. We met on the morning
of the 27, from nine until eleven, with the Presi-
dent, the Dean and a special Faculty commit-
tee consisting of Profs. Scott, Bascom, Sanders,
W. R. Smith and Beck. The subjects of this
conference were: the tentative report on the
degree with special honors, which is now under
consideration by the Faculty Curriculum Com-
mittee; the need of strengthening the organic
courses and departments of the College; the
workings of the cut rule; and the possibility
and need of a more informal and cooperative
relation between the faculty and the Academic
Committee. From eleven till one, on the same
day, according to the custom of the Academic
Committee to meet with new departments, we
heard a very interesting report from Professor
Kingsbury and the other members of the Carola
Woerishoeffer department.
The work of the Academic Committee in the
past year seems to fall naturally under the three
heads of academic affairs; student affairs; alum-
nae affairs. Much of the work has been done
as a committee of the whole, or by correspond-
ence but we have had five regular sub-com-
mittees:
1. Entrance examinations and Tutoring School, con-
tinued from last year; Susan Franklin, Chairman; Susaa
Fowler, Gertrude Hartman.
2. Honors and Methods of teaching, continued from last
year; Pauline Goldmark, Chairman; Susan Fowler, Eliza-
beth S. Sergeant.
This committee did not report except briefly about
honors.
3. Cost of living at college; Anna B. Lawther, Chairman;
Pauline Goldmark, Ellen D. Ellis.
This Committee made no formal report, but has been
following student expenditures.
4. College Re-organization; Ellen D. Ellis, Chairman;
Elizabeth S. Sergeant.
This Committee, originally called " Committee on Reap-
pointments and Dismissals," was formed immediately
after the alumnae meeting last year (as a result of the
agitation of certain "cases" at Bryn Mawr), to study
systems of appointments and dismissals in other colleges.
In consequence of the re-organization at Bryn Mawr,
which was shortly thereafter undertaken by the authori-
ties, it was unnecessary to continue this work; but the
members of the committee did some investigation at tht
request of Miss Kirkbride, Alumnae Member of the Direc-
tor's Committee on Re-organization.
5. Vocational Placement; Gertrude Hartman, Chairman;
Susan Fowler, Ellen D. Ellis, Esther Lowenthal.
It may be noted here that Susan Fowler was unfortu-
nately obliged to resign from the Committee during the
summer, her place being filled by Esther Lowenthal, '04;
and that Anna B. Lawther was unable to attend the Janu-
ary meetings, her place (a; the Bryn Mawr meetings)
being filled by Frances S. Browne, '09.
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
President Thomas asked us last year to drop,
until the new Tripartite Examination had been
tried out. the general question of a reform in
the Bryn Mawr entrance examinations which
some of us believed to be desirable. The new
examination system which permits a student to
take her examinations in three parts, beginning
two years before entering college, goes into
effect for the first time this spring. Moreover,
a new History examination is being offered as
an alternate for the first time and will be
finally effective in 1919. After that date,
Physics will be the only science allowed for
entrance, and there will be but one examina-
tion in History — Ancient History, with a stress
on narrative, rather than constitutional history.
It was, however, President Thomas who re-
quested us to study the Bryn Mawr English
examinations and to form some opinion as to
the justice of the criticism of that paper
in a report by the Head-Mistresses' Association;
which argued that the paper set in grammar and
punctuation did not furnish a sound test of the
principles of syntax and analysis, and that there
was no choice of subjects in the examination
in English composition. Our sub-committee
found itself in substantial agreement with this
criticism, and we are glad to learn that the
English Department is at work upon the prob-
lems not only of the examinations., but also of
the requirements in English for entrance. Be-
cause of the importance of the changes to be
made the process is necessarily a slow one;
but the Department is able to report prog-
ress even if at this time it is unable defi-
nitely to forcast the alterations which will in
all probability be ultimately made.
To the Department it has been apparent for
some years that a change was becoming more
and more desirable, but the alterations in the
courses in composition, inaugurated last au-
tumn, have made it seemingly imperative that
the preparation for college should more closely
conform to the newer methods and approach
to composition. The courses in English com-
position given in 1916-17 are, as a study of the
Calendar will show the alumnae, far removed
from the formal work in literary criticism which
previously had been offered. Preparation in
English must evidently be so altered as ade-
quately to meet the newer needs of the college.
Upon this assumption the Department is pro-
ceeding.
TUTORING SCHOOL
A request was made by our Alumnae Direc-
tors that we report on the Tutoring School at
Bryn Mawr. The criticisms of the school that
have reached us had to do with local difficul-
ties as to the place for holding the school and
the living conditions; and with the educational
disadvantages.
The school at Cartref in 1914 and 1915, and
at the Harcum School on Montgomery Avenue
in 1916, furnished the students with suitable
chaperonage under one roof and thus avoided
the inconveniences arising from young girls
boarding in Bryn Mawr alone. The girls lived
and worked, however, under crowded conditions,
in an atmosphere of hurry and excitement, and
in general discomfort. Long hours of work for
both students and instructors added to the
nervous tension. While we see the advantage
of having girls suitably housed on the college
grounds, the official sanction given by the
College to a tutoring school of this character
seems for other reasons undesirable.
In the women's colleges from which we heard
no such school under college authority was advo-
cated or allowed. Where regularly organized
tutoring schools do exist in the college towns
their influence appears to be more detrimental
than helpful. The travesty on education that
has resulted from such schools and from the
tutors associated with them has almost under-
mined the work of some of the departments of
the large universities. This is certainly the case
at Princeton. Susan Franklin who made the
report to President Thomas pointed out that
our Committee deplored even insidious begin-
nings of such methods of preparation at Bryn
Mawr.
Reports from other institutions called to our
attention, further, the undesirability of having
college instructors tutor in such schools, whether
or not on college property. Even though the
honor of the tutor was in no wise questioned,
the fact that some girls entirely unprepared in
the subject take a few week's work under col-
lege instructors and then try the examinations,
brings criticism even upon perfectly legitimate
tutoring done in the school, and puts the whole
system in disrepute
But what the Academic Committee chiefly
deplores is the detrimental effect on the college
work of students entering Bryn Mawr after
this kind of preparation. The college records
bear out our objection. Of 16 students enter-
ing in September 1915 from the tutoring school,
ten failed to make their merits in February 1916.
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While it is true that only the weaker students
are in the tutoring school, experience seems to
show that it would have been better for the
College, and kinder to the girls, not to have
helped them in. This year all but six, we
believe, of the school candidates failed to enter
— a fact that not only shows the testing power
of the examinations, but the very poor type of
student that patronizes the school.
This year seemed to us an especially favor-
able time to urge consideration of the school.
The three part arrangement for entrance exami-
nations makes it less necessary than formerly
for subjects to be "crammed" at the last mo-
ment. The College moreover is urging atten-
dance on lectures and trying to discourage cram
in college work, and to force upon the minds of
the students higher ideals of intellectual interest
and effort. Moreover the College has a " model
school" at its gates and cannot legitimately
stand for two such contradictory types of
education.
In order that the College may not, therefore,
give its official approval to any tutoring school,
Susan Franklin recommended for the Commit-
tee: That college property should not be used
for a tutoring school; that college instructors
should not engage in tutoring in connection
with such a school; and that the college office
should discourage as far as possible hurried
tutoring at Bryn Mawr in the weeks immedi-
ately before ,the autumn examinations. This
suggestion would in no wise limit the very
desirable service of the college office in recom-
mending tutors to work with students during
the summer as private tutors in their homes;
it being, of course, understood that no college
instructor should tutor for an examination in
the making or correcting of which she had any
part.
President Thomas agreed heartily with these
recommendations and assured the Academic
Committee not only that college property
would never again be used for such a school,
but that we could confidently expect that the
school would be discouraged in the future. The
President and the Committee agreed, however,
that the objections to a tutoring school would
not apply to a summer camp of six or eight
weeks duration.
DATE FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP
APPOINTMENTS
The Committee received a letter last spring
from Professor Ida Ogilvie of Barnard College,
asking us to take up the question of the date
on which graduate scholarships and fellowships
are awarded. In the past, April 15 has been
the date for application, and May 1 for notifi-
cation. Professor Ogilvie stated that her own
students who applied for fellowships often lost
salaried positions for the next year because of
the lateness of the date. The Committee has,
accordingly, taken up the question with Dean
Maddison, who has it in charge, and the faculty
has moved to make the date two weeks earlier —
that is, April 1, for application: April 15, for
notification. It is understood that these are
trial dates, and will be set another fortnight
earlier in the future if the change seems desir-
able. As a matter of fact, both students and
their instructors seem to have difficulty in
making up their minds about applications very
early in the year and there is a great difference
of procedure in other colleges: dates vary from
January 1 to June 1.
DEGREE WITH SPECIAL HONORS
This subject was fully discussed at the Aca-
demic Committee's conference with the faculty
last year, and fully reported by the chairman.
The Academic Committe went on record as
favoring a second basis of honors (in addition
to the degree with distinction based on general
averages alone), combining a high average in
the general course with distinction in special
work. A Faculty Committee of which Professor
Carleton Brown was chairman, handed in a
tentative report to the faculty last spring,
making certain recommendations: and this re-
port is now in the hands of the appropriate
standing committee of the faculty — the Curricu-
lum Committee. We understand that no final
action has been taken. The members of the
Faculty Committee are engaged in working out
the practical details of the plan as they affect
different departments and types of work.
We found very general sympathy with the
plan among the members of the faculty with
whom we discussed it at our mid-year confer-
ence, and hope earnestly to see it carried out
in some form.
FUNDAMENTAL COURSES
Another point of academic interest which we
have discussed at some length in our meetings
is the necessity for strengthening the funda-
mental courses of the college. Further, we
voted, in November "That the Academic Com-
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mittee express its opinion strongly that no new
departments be added to the college without
the provision of new and adequate funds, and
then only after full consideration of the needs
and purposes of the College as a whole."
This motion was not intended as a criticism
of existing departments, but is to be taken as
an indication that the Academic Committee
feels that the American tendency to multiply
superficial courses and scatter academic interest
is a distinct menace to the cause of liberal edu-
cation. The chief reason we approve the degree
with special honors is because we believe it
will lead to concentration and specialization, to
work with quality and substance. It is fa-
tally easy for the American college, as it is
for the American student, to build a fine super-
structure on insufficient foundation; it is fatally
easy to found a department with funds that
are insufficient for its development. It has
been suggested, for instance, that a course in
music might be given to Bryn Mawr by some
class that feels the lack of music there. Are
the sponsors of this plan prepared to finance
and support the practical developments and
extensions of such a course that are bound to
come in a few years? And what place would
such course take in the curriculum? Would
it become a major, or remain a free elective?
These are questions to which we draw alumnae
attention. Under the new plan of government
all new courses and departments must of course
be discussed by the Curriculum Committee of
the faculty. Final action is taken by the
faculty as a whole, subject to possible review
by the Board of Directors.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Professor Kingsbury, in her report to the Aca-
demic Committee, explained that the object of
the school was to make social work a profession.
This means that it must give scientific training
in the principles as well as the methods and prac-
tice of social work. Moreover, the students
must receive mental discipline comparable to
that supplied in other graduate schools.
The course consists, as is usual in the gradua-
ate departments, of lectures and seminaries.
The general scheme of studies for the year in-
cludes four groups: (1) Social maladjustments
treating of dependents, delinquents and defec-
tives; (2) Social and Civic education includ-
ing neighborhood developments, such as civic
and social centers, etc.; (3) Industrial welfare
and betterment, and (4) Research and Investi-
gation.
Many of these topics of necessity concern
abnormal phenomena — what might be called
the pathology of the subject. Yet it should be
clearly understood that the standpoint from
which they are viewed is not that of allevia-
tion but rather of prevention and cure.
The work of the department differs from a
purely academic course in that the students
carry on their field work or praclicwn under
the social agencies in Philadelphia. This is
comparable to laboratory work in science: it
gives an opportunity to study methods of treat-
ment at first hand. The seminary which the
student attends gives the educational theory
underlying the work she is doing in the field.
This part of the training is done under the
joint direction of the institution in question and
the department. One of the students this
winter, for instance, is working in the Juvenile
Court, others under the Organized Charities,
Placement Bureau, Settlements, etc.
The praclicwn is to be distinguished from the
advanced social research and the investigations
done independently but under the careful super-
vision of the department by the candidates for
the higher degrees. Thus, for example, one
such student is acting as an investigator during
the current half year for the Massachusetts
Minimum Wage Commission and will be given
credit for her work.
There are at present ten graduate students
in the department and seven undergraduates
are taking postmajor courses. Three of the
students are studying for their doctorates.
Professor Kingsbury's great success in secur-
ing the cooperation of the various agencies is
proof that they appreciate the value of the
school. Arrangements have lately been made
with Miss Julia Lathrop, Chief of the Chil-
dren's Bureau, to have one of the students
carry on a special inquiry in cooperation with
her Bureau. It is evident that public interest
in the new undertaking has been aroused to a
marked degree. For Bryn Mawr, of course,
the establishment of a graduate school of this
character is a departure with which some of the
alumnae believing strongly in a cultural college
may not be in entire sympathy. If the work
is exclusively graduate, however, and if the
technical character of the work in the school
is not allowed to influence the nature of the
undergraduate courses, there should be no dan-
ger of encroaching on Bryn Mawr's standards.
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The College has undertaken to give training
in a field more and more chosen by women
as their profession. The Academic Committee
believes that the alumnae should actively in-
terest themselves in the development of the
new school and that it should be given every
opportunity to prove its value.
STUDENTS' AFFAIRS
SELF-GOVERNMENT
The Academic Committee has to report a
considerable disturbance this year over the
question of the interpretation of Resolution XI,
about social engagements with men of the
faculty. The present Self-Government Board
had interpreted the rule as meaning not only
that calling in the halls was not allowed, but
in one instance that married professors might
not come to dinner in the halls or be invited
with their wives to teas in students' studies.
All sorts of difficulties arose, and there was
much dissatisfaction in the Association.
A meeting was finally called by the Executive
Board of the Self-Government to consider a
revision of these and other interpretations.
Whereupon the Association voted to petition
the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College to strike
out of the Self-Government Regulations this
Resolution. Another meeting was, however,
promptly held, and the motion was rescinded.
The Board then offered a motion passed by 38
votes, that Resolution XI be amended to read:
That students may have no social engage-
ments with the faculty and staff, except as
determined by a liberal interpretation of the
Executive Board, subject to the approval of the
Association sitting as a legislative body.
If this is ratified, the interpretation as re-
gards exceptions to the Resolution will be laid
before the Self-Government Association after
mid-year's.
The Academic Committee wants to go on
record as approving the most liberal interpreta-
tion. We hesitate, from a height of years, to
utter a word of criticism of our dearest Bryn
Mawr institution — all the more because we
understand that the President and Dean ap-
prove of keeping the Resolution in some form
— but we must in honesty state that to us
and to many of our alumnae contemporaries
who have urged us to take up the matter, this
rule has seemed unwisely stringent. We can-
not help feeling that a more normal considera-
tion of the faculty as men, and not as a class
apart, would do away with the very real evils
that the Board is so valiantly trying to combat.
We even dare to hope that before many years
the Resolution may be rescinded, after all, and
the chaperon rules altered if necessary to meet
the situation. But meanwhile, we stand and
urge the Association to stand for the "most
liberal" interpretation.
We wish to add that one step towards libera-
tion has just been taken by President Thomas
with the full approval of the Undergraduate
Association and the Executive Board of the
Self-Government Association. In the future
men will be allowed to come to college plays
and other entertainments if accompanied by
a lady.
CUTTING
We understand that all regulation is now in
the hands of the students. They have a rather
elaborate system of reporting, organized by the
Undergraduate Association, with the results of
which the President, the Dean and the members
of the faculty at our conference declared them-
selves fully satisfied.
ALUMNAE AFFAIRS
FRESHMAN SCHOLARSHIPS
This need, which has been persistently
brought to the attention of the Academic Com-
mittee, seems to us a matter which the alumnae
ought to take up as soon as possible. It will
be remembered that the Report for 1916 dealt
with the subject. Bringing it forward again in
the conference with the President and Dean
this year, Pauline Goldmark asked whether the
College could, as suggested last year, contribute
part of the money if part were raised by the
alumnae Clubs. The President replied, that
this was opposed to the policy of the Directors,
who had refused frequently to supplement
scholarships, as the money of the College must
be used for professors' salaries; and that the
Shippen legacy, which she had thought might
be used in this manner, was, owing to the word-
ing of the legacy, not available. It was agreed
that scholarships, to be awarded to freshmen
to meet the expenses of their second semester
on the basis of their first semester's work, would
be very desirable. It was agreed further that
scholarships, whenever possible, should cover
more than tuition and, further, that $200
should be considered the minimum scholarship.
The Academic Committee took occasion to point
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out again at the January meeting that the
Branches of the Alumnae Association might be
urged to provide local scholarships as Harvard
and Yale do, thereby helping to keep up the
supply of able students, who are not able to
meet the expenses of the freshmen year. It
was noted that the Chicago Club had twice
contributed $100 towards a scholarship, and
that Pittsburgh had once given a scholarship.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND APPOINTMENT
BUREAU
The Academic Committee was, last spring,
asked to consider the matter of Vocational
Placement in the colleges, since it was felt that
this work at Bryn Mawr was not as effective
as it might be. Soon after this Miss Schenck
became interested in the question as a part of
her future work as Dean, and the Committee
has since that time worked in cooperation with
her. The chairman, Gertrude Hartman, has
had conferences with Dean Schenck in which
her plans for the reorganization of the Appoint-
ment Bureau and of Vocational Guidance at
Bryn Mawr have been discussed: with Prof.
Marion Smith, on the work done at Bryn Mawr
in the past along the lines of vocational guid-
ance; and with Miss Florence Jackson on her
vocational guidance work in the various col-
leges. As Gertrude Hartman was unable to
attend the final meetings at Bryn Mawr, Ellen
Ellis wrote and delivered the Report.
One especial weakness in the system as it
had existed at Bryn Mawr in the past seemed
to have been in the fact that there had been no
follow-up system there — that the professional
records of the alumnae had not been kept and
that alumnae already in positions had not in
general been approached for other positions.
Dean Schenck has told us that she began her
active work during the summer, by visiting
and investigating the various college bureaus,
and that in the early autumn the reports from
them were classified by a student in the Carola
Woerishoffer School of Social Research. These
reports covered the main points that the Com-
mittee had intended to investigate; but at the
suggestion of Dean Schenck and as supplemen-
tary to her work, it procured information from
the colleges on the two following subjects:
The methods of vocational guidance for
undergraduates; alumnae participation in the
work of the Appointment Bureaus, and of
Vocational Guidance.
Reports were received from Barnard, Mount
Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.
With regard to vocational guidance for under-
graduates, the investigation showed that voca-
tional guidance has become a very definite part
of the work of the Appointment Bureaus in the
colleges. In three out of the six colleges inves-
tigated (Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley,
as well as in a number of other colleges not
here mentioned) Miss Florence Jackson, Direc-
tor of the Woman's Educational and Industrial
Union Appointment Bureau, gives lectures on
vocational opportunities several times each
year, and holds conferences with individual
students At these colleges the conferences are
eagerly sought by the students. At RadclifTe
this was tried also, but it was felt to be too
expensive and not sufficiently in demand and
was therefore discontinued.
In some colleges there are also other lecturers
from outside, usually either representatives of
the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations, or
women who have been successful along particu-
lar lines of work and are therefore especially
qualified to give information and advice.
In two of the colleges (Barnard and Mount
Holyoke) the Dean gives special talks to the
various classes, urging them to plan their
courses with some reference to the line of work
that they intend to follow, and giving them
information about the work of the Appoint-
ment Bureau and the securing of positions in
general.
There is also within the colleges, an increas-
ing amount of conference between the students
and the various individuals, and bureaus that
have the appointment work in charge, as well
as with the departments of the college that are
in touch with openings in occupations other
than teaching. This has been an important
phase of the work in recent years at Bryn
Mawr.
Closely connected with the matter of Voca-
tional Guidance for Undergraduates, is that of
alumnae participation in the work of the Ap-
pointment Bureaus. The alumnae have in
most of the colleges been interested in the vo-
cational guidance of the undergraduates. At
Smith there is every year the Alumnae Rally,
one feature of which is the addresses by five
or six alumnae recognized in their respective
fields, on special points of interest connected
with their particular work. Such a Rally was
held also at Mount Holyoke in February of
this year. At Barnard the movement for an
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Appointment Bureau started among the alum-
nae, and the alumnae still give assistance in
arranging for lectures on vocational subjects
and in bringing such information to the stu-
dent body in other ways. It is felt, however,
at Barnard that the situation of the college,
in close touch with the many opportunities
afforded in New York City, makes vocational
guidance in this college a less imperative need
than it is in other places. At Radcliffe appar-
ently all the appointment work, and the voca-
tional guidance for positions other than teach-
ing have so far been very largely, if not entirely,
under the auspices of the Radcliffe Union
(consisting of former special students, and alum-
nae) and of the Alumnae Association.
With other phases of the work of the Appoint-
ment Bureaus the alumnae have a varying con-
nection. This can perhaps best be considered
from the point of view of what the Appointment
Bureaus do for the alumnae; and from the
point of view of what the alumnae do for
the Appointment Bureaus.
The first touches upon the matter of follow-up
work. Most of the colleges keep in as close
touch as possible with their alumnae who hold
positions, with a view to finding better openings
for them whenever possible. At Barnard last
year (1916) out of two hundred and forty-seven
positions filled, one hundred and thirty-six were
filled with alumnae, and one hundred and
eleven with undergraduates. Mount Holyoke,
Radcliffe, Vassar and Wellesley try to keep
track of their alumnae and their desires, and
to recommend them for positions where it seems
advantageous. For the sake of the college as
well as of the alumnae this would seem to be
a most important part of the work of the
Appointment Bureau, since in this way the
alumnae are enabled to secure, and the college
in a sense to control the better positions along
all lines educational and other.
The second question, that of what the alum-
nae do for the Appointment Bureaus, includes
the matter of general interest and assistance,
and that of financial support. In connection
with the placement work, the alumnae of Mount
Holyoke and Radcliffe are asked to notify the
Bureau at the college with regard to vacant
positions of which they know, and at Barnard
the alumnae committee appointed for that
purpose, assists in sending out circulars to em-
ployers, etc.
With regard to financial support, it has been
found that in general the work of the Appoint-
ment Bureaus is supported very largely if not
entirely by the colleges, and by small fees
asked of those who register. At Wellesley
although the Alumnae Association at first sup-
ported the vocational guidance work, the en-
tire work of the Appointment Bureau, including
vocational guidance, is this year being carried
on by the college. At Radcliffe the Radcliffe
Union and the Alumnae Association apparently
support that part of the work that has to do
with occupations other than teaching — (teach-
ing positions are here filled by the Dean's
office) — but this is considered only a temporary
measure until the college shall assume charge.
At Barnard also, where the work started among
the alumnae, the college has taken it over and
the alumnae now pay only for printing the
circulars sent to employers and for the postage
on these circulars.
The following colleges charge no fees or
registration, or for the placing of candidates:
Barnard, Radcliffe and Vassar. Mount Hol-
yoke charges one dollar at registration, a pay-
ment never renewed, and one which the col-
lege would be glad to abolish. Smith College
charges one dollar at registration, and so far
this payment has been renewed annually as
long as the registration stood, but a change is
now contemplated whereby it shall be made
only at registration. Beyond this no financial
support is received from the alumnae of the
various colleges — and the colleges seem increas-
ingly to consider the guidance of undergradu-
ates and the placing of seniors and alumnae as
a necessary and natural part of the work of the
college.
Two further points came out with especial
clearness in the course of this investigation:
that in all the colleges this work is only in proc-
ess of organization and has in no way been
brought to any sort of final form; that the
various colleges wish to work in close associa-
tion with the Intercollegiate Bureau and with
accredited agencies, and encourage their can-
didates not to register only with the college
Bureau.
After presenting its report the Academic
Committee heard a very interesting report from
Dean Schenck as to her plans for the Bureau.
She first presented a plan for coSperation be-
tween the Appointment Bureau and the Inter-
collegiate Bureaus in the various cities, and
submitted a notice, which she had drawn up
with the Advisory Committee of the Bryn Mawr
faculty, to be sent out to members of the Alum-
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nae Association who are in paid positions, to a
prepared list of schools, and to various institu-
tions doing social service. She also submitted
new registration blanks and a follow-up letter
that she proposed to send out. Dean Schenck
reported to the Committee that the faculty had
voted to cooperate with the Appointment Bu-
reau and that the professors had expressed
themselves as willing to see employers whenever
it was thought necessary by the Appointment
Bureau. Dean Schenck recommended that the
alumnae authorize the appointment of an ad-
visory committee in each geographical district,
those districts to be determined later, to coop-
erate with the Appointment Bureau in getting
information in regard to positions open to Bryn
Mawr women in that district, and to advise
alumnae who wish positions in that district.
She further mentioned that the information
that could be obtained through such alumnae
in regard to schools in certain districts would
be valuable to the Bureau and to the work of
the College.
The Academic Committee recommended to
the Alumnae Association that a vocational rally
be held at Easter where groups of alumnae
should be invited to come and tell their voca-
tional experiences, conferring with the students
afterward. The Academic Committee further
recommended that the Bureau, as outlined by
Dean Schenck, be supported by the College
rather than by fees. It appeared that $1000
would be necessary to run the Bureau satis-
factorily. The Academic Committee preferred
to express no opinion as to the relative impor-
tance of an Appointment Bureau versus other
college needs but it was of the opinion that if
the College undertook to maintain such a
Bureau it should be done so as to be a credit to
Bryn Mawr.
Nothing has been said in this report of the
reorganization of the College under the new
plan of government though that has been the
great hope and interest of the Academic Com-
mittee during this last stormy year. The new
constitution was printed in the Quarterly for
July, 1916 and it has been further discussed
and explained in the present Quarterly in the
report of the Alumnae Directors. The position
of the Academic Committee was intended
throughout to be one of "benevolent neutral-
ity" and stable equilibrium, but the tides of
opposing opinion ran high and sometimes
threatened to swamp us. We had several
times occasion to point out to groups of special
pleaders that we had neither authority nor
competence to pass on special cases. We were,
and are, in no sense a judicial body. All we
could do during the re-organization of the Col-
lege was to welcome information and confidence,
to keep as closely as possible in touch with all
groups, and to urge the democratic changes in
which we heartily believed. We want to thank
the alumnae officially, for their fine response to
the difficulties of the situation, for realising that
however mistaken our action or our attitude
appeared to them, these were taken in a sincere
concern for what we felt to be the best interests
of the College.
What we wish in the future is to make it
our function to help all alumnae criticism to be
constructive, for this is an age of construction
and high opportunity at Bryn Mawr. The
responsibility of the Bryn Mawr alumnae to
their College, in the next few years can scarcely
be exaggerated. It is they who must chiefly
interpret the aims and achievements of the
College to the outside world; and they have,
therefore, we believe, an inherent interest in
the academic policies of the College. So in con-
clusion we beg the alumnae to make the Aca-
demic Committee a real clearing-house of opin-
ion; to give us their advice and cooperation
that we may not be spokes in the wheels of
progress.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE COUNCILLOR TO THE A. C. A.
The Council of the A. C. A. met in Chicago
last Easter. I was unfortunately not able to
be there. From the reports however the meet-
ing was very interesting. The most important
action taken was the definite adoption of a
list of institutions eligible under certain condi-
tions to recognition in the Association. Four
years ago the Association adopted the govern-
ment list of colleges and universities in Class I.
Owing to the change in administration this list
was never officially published, so it became im-
possible to use it. Dr. Babcock, who was re-
sponsible for drawing up the government list
has left <£e service and is now Chairman of the
Committee of the Association of American
Universities which has in charge the drawing
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up of a list of colleges and universities whose
graduates may be recommended to foreign
universities for graduate study. The Associa-
tion of Collegiate Alumnae has now accepted
this list as its standard in academic work and
equipment and will admit to membership the
graduates in Arts and Sciences of any college or
university in the list provided the institution
meets the requirements of the Association in
regard to the recognition of women and proper
provision for students. Under this new require-
ment between ten and fifteen institutions will
probably be added to the list of the Association
this year.
A number of new Branches have been organ-
ized and a great deal of local work is being done.
The local committees on Volunteer Service have
been organized in the different Branches and
are cooperating with the Bureaus of Occupation
in different centres. The Journal of the Asso-
ciation, which is sent to every regular member,
is this year printing the monthly news bulletin
of the Bureaus. In this way we hope to keep
a large body of college women constantly in
touch with the opportunities in both paid and
volunteer service throughout the country.
For the regular triennial meeting which will
be held in Washington this year a number of
interesting conferences have been organized — a
conference of women trustees, of deans, of
women college professors, of heads of prepara-
tory schools, and of representatives of alumnae
associations. When the new constitution was
adopted the provision for the representation of
alumnae associations was adopted for five years.
The question of including this form of member-
ship in the Association permanently will be
discussed at the meeting this spring. I think
undoubtedly that the Association will continue
the membership. It will then be a matter for
the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association to discuss
next year whether it wishes to continue this
membership. It seems to me a very desirable
form of membership because it puts behind the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae a large body
of college women. It also keeps the allied
associations informed of the work of a body of
college women actively engaged in the interests
of college graduates. We hope also that it
will have an effect in bringing together the
numerous and largely unorganized women
graduates of the big co-educational colleges and
universities. And through them we hope to
obtain a greater recognition of women on the
boards and faculties of these institutions and an
improvement in the salaried opportunities for
women who have shown marked ability for
research and advanced work.
Respectfully submitted,
Marion Rellly.
REPORT OF THE JAMES E. RHOADS SCHOLARSHIPS COMMITTEE
The twentieth annual meeting of the James
E. Rhoads Scholarships Committee was held
in the President's office on Wednesday, April
12, 1916. There were present on behalf of the
faculty, Professor Theodore de Laguna, Pro-
fessor Fenwick and President Thomas, ex-
officio. On behalf of the Alumnae Association,
Julia Cope Collins and Marion Parris Smith,
Chairman.
The chairman reported that seven sopho-
mores had applied for the Junior Scholarship
and ten freshmen for the Sophomore Scholar-
ship. After careful consideration of the merits
and needs of the applicants, Jessie Mebane of
Wilkes Barre, Pa., grade 82.876, was nominated
for the Junior Scholarship and Helen Prescott
of Jamaica Plains, Mass., grade 79.600, was
nominated for the Sophomore Scholarship.
The chairman then announced that she had
been given $420 by the Class of 1912, as a
special Reunion gift, to be dispensed during
the year 1916-1917, by the Committee in any
sums it saw fit, to help students meet their
college expenses. After discussion, it was de-
cided to make special "1912 Reunion Grants"
to A. E. Lubar of the Class of 1918 and to E.
M. Howes, M. A. Lubar and A. A. Reilly of
the Class of 1919.
A special meeting of the alumnae members
of the Committee was called at the request of
President Thomas on October 2, 1916, to con-
sider a request from Miss Jessie Mebane,
James E. Rhoads Junior Scholar, 1916-17.
Miss Mebane had been ill all summer and had
undergone in September a serious operation.
She was forbidden by her doctor to return to
college for a year, but had every reason to
believe that after a year's rest, her health would
be completely restored. After considering the
details of the case, the Committee voted to
postpone Miss Mebane's scholarship, until the
year 1917-18, but it was resolved that the
action should not be taken as a precedent.
Respectfully submitted,
Marion Parris Smith,
Chairman.
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REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Conference Committee was
held the afternoon of November 27, 1916, just
before Thanksgiving vacation, in the room of
A. Dorothy Shipley, president of the Under-
graduate Association.
There were present, for the alumnae: Anna
Scattergood Hoag, '96, Marion E. Park, '98,
Katharine W. McCollin, '15, Leah T. Cadbury,
'14, Chairman; for the graduates: Miss Jones;
for the undergraduates: Constance Hall, '17,
Katherine Holliday, '18, M. Ewen, '19, M.
Hutchinson, '20, A. Dorothy Shipley, president
of the Undergraduate Association.
The Committee first discussed subjects of
interest to all the associations, and then re-
ceived informal reports of the activities of the
different college organizations.
One member of the Committee reported that
the undergraduates were criticized by Main
Line citizens because they monopolized the
sidewalks and loudly discussed intimate college
matters on the train. Nor were the alumnae
exempt from the same criticism. The Commit-
tee suggest that the members of each associa-
tion be encouraged to practice self-restraint in
public places. Furthermore, the alumnae espe-
cially should exercise judicious care in criticiz-
ing the College before outsiders.
There was much interesting debate on ques-
tions concerning Self -Government. The alum-
nae asked if there was a strong feeling for Self-
Government among the students, and if the
Association was fulfilling its proper function.
The Committee realized that there is difficulty
in judging the spirit of Self-Government at any
one time for usually "there is no special atti-
tude toward Self-Government until some defi-
nite crisis demands a definite point of view."
Whenever this situation does arise, however, the
students give staunch support to the spirit of
the Self-Government constitution.
Question was raised regarding an announce-
ment in the College News that alumnae visiting
in the halls are under Self-Government rules.
Constance Hall, a member of the Board, ex-
plained that the Association had no jurisdiction
over the alumnae. The College Administration
had adopted the same rules of conduct for
visiting alumnae.
Dorothy Shipley gave an interesting report
in regard to cutting. The average, at the time
of the meeting, was two cuts per student, a
better average than that of last year. Each
student has a card which she gives to the hall
representative of her class every wo weeks,
with all cuts registered. The representatives
thus have a report to make to the Undergradu-
ate Board every fortnight.
The undergraduates expressed a wish that
cuts necessitated by death, illness in the family,
and other inevitable interruptions to academic
work, should be excused.
The Music Committee of the Undergraduate
Association is working this year for the endow-
ment fund. Unfortunately it suffered rather a
large loss at the first concert.
There was nothing of special significance to
report from the Christian Association.
The Alumnae-Varsity hockey match was a
very good game. The alumnae were very much
impressed with the improved quality of hockey
which Varsity showed. After the game the
alumnae were lavishly feasted and cheered at
the Tea-House. One veteran remarked, "It's
fine to be treated like a human being."
After a very pleasant meeting the Committee
adjourned. To calm the fears of any pessi-
mists among the alumnae, their representatives
on the Committee wish to report that in their
judgment the interests of Bryn Mawr are still safe
in the hands of the undergraduates. It is the
sincere desire of the whole Committee that
alumnae, graduates, and undergraduates may
continue to cooperate ever more disinterestedly
for the best welfare of Bryn Mawr.
Leah T. Cadbury,
Chairman.
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REPORT OF THE LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
The Loan Fund Committee reports loans Receipts
made to eighteen students, amounting to $2685.
Fourteen alumnae holding loans have made Balance January 1, 1916.' $511.10
payments amounting to $1375. The unusually Donations:
large number of loans asked for taxed the Fund Class of 1913. ... $6.00
to its utmost capacity. At the time payment Class of 1915. ... 30.00
of loans was required, the treasurer reported Miss Doris Earle . 100.00
$300 less on hand than the amount authorized Simpson Fund. . . 614.46
by the Committee; to meet this demand three $750.46
members of the Committee advanced each Repayments of loans by
$100. These temporary loans have, during students 1675.00
the year, been returned from payments made, Interest on loans 82.15
but the balance left on hand is only $40.62. Interest on deposits 6.91
The total Loan Fund now stands at $10,583.-
62. Much of this money has been loaned and __ '.
repaid many times over. The Loan Fund prof- $3025 . 62
ited during 1916 by having $614.46, unused or
unappropriated funds from the Simpson Scholar- Disbursements
ship, turned into its treasury.
The Loan Fund continues to be increasingly Lofns to students (18> • • • ■ $2985 .00
needed, enabling desirable undergraduates to Balance December 31, 1916 40^62
continue their work, and must be added to each $3025.62
year by gifts from interested alumnae if it is
to fill an adequate place in the College. The Martha G. Thomas,
financial statement for the year follows: Secretary.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
The work of the Finance Committee for the
past year has been to carry out the directions
of the meeting in February, 1916, in promoting
the efforts of the alumnae to complete the
Mary E. Garrett Memorial Endowment by
June, 1917.
The results so far are most encouraging, and
the Committee believes that if the alumnae all
work together for the next four months success
is in sight.
The Committee sent out the usual class re-
ports, and with them a special circular for dis-
tribution by class collectors. This circular
mentioned $3000 as the amount which should
if possible be raised by each class, and we are
glad to find that many classes are aiming to
get this amount, while some have already ex-
ceeded it.
The total of regular class collections for the
year 1916 was $14,812.38. The largest amount
from one class was the re-union gift of 1906 —
of $5945. The Class of '91 divided its twenty-
fifth re-union gifts between the Endowment
Fund and the Fire Protection Study of the first
four classes. It counts as one of its greatest
contributions the twenty-five years of service
given to the Alumnae Association by Jane B.
Haines as Treasurer.
1901's re-union gift is to be a portrait of
Marion Reilly painted by Miss Beaux. 1912's
re-union gift was a grant of $420 to be spent by
the James E. Rhoads Scholarships Committee.
Many classes are making special efforts of
various kinds. Several of the large classes have
divided themselves into local groups which are
working either in making direct collections or
in getting up plays, concerts, sales, and other
entertainments.
The Boston Club is the only Club which, so
far, has done anything definite for the fund.
It gave a concert in December, most successful
in both its artistic and advertising aspects, and
realized $1200.
The undergraduates are continuing their
work for their $10,000 with unabated energy.
Details of their efforts as well as of the methods
of various classes will be found in the January
Quarterly, . which the Finance Committee has
tried to make an "Endowment Fund number."
In it also appear the article on Miss Garrett's
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gifts to the College, which the collectors have
been asking for all year, a short summary of
the alumnae's gifts to the Endowment in the
past, and a computation of the cost to the
Co.' lege of educating each student. The Fi-
nance Committee has called the class collectors
together four times in the past year — in April,
on Commencement day, in November, and at
the usual luncheon in January. It expects to
meet on the first Friday of every month until
June and will ask for frequent reports during
that time. Its members will be glad to go to
meetings of any Branch, Club, or local group
to talk about the fund.
[Signed] For the Committee
Martha G. Thomas, Chairman,
Elizabeth B. Kirkbride, Secretary.
REPORT OF THF: COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS
The first event of 1916 for the alumnae re-
sulted in a disappointment. The water polo
team arrived to find that the pool had been
emptied so that the game had to be canceled.
Instead there was an informal basket-ball game
with a score of 29-27 in favor of the Varsity.
Fencing also did not materialize as the under-
graduates could not get a team.
Commencement week athletics were very
good and well supported — especial praise being
due to 1913 who played with a spirit that won
the ' hearts of the Committee. The Alumnae-
Varsity tennis match was won by the alumnae
for the first time in several years — and will have
first place on the cup presented to the Athletic
Association for this match. The team was:
K. Page Loring, '13; Alice Miller, '14; and M.
Dessau, '13 — the score, 2-1.
The basket ball match resulted in a victory
for the Varsity, but the score of 13-10 shows
the closeness of the contest — for a good part
of the game the alumnae were ahead. The
team was as follows: A. Miller, '14, E. White,
'06, H. Carey, '14, K. Page Loring, '13, M.
Dessau, '13, M. Nearing, '09, C. Wesson, '09.
The alumnae tennis tournament was finished
also for the first time in years. The winner
was A. Miller, '14.
On Wednesday, November 8, the alumnae —
managed by E. White, '06 — played the Varsity
in hockey. The game was more evenly played
than the score of 4-0 seems to indicate. But
considering the championship nature of the
Varsity this year, even the score was nothing
to be ashamed of.
The team consisted of: H. Kirk, '14, M.
Nearing, '09, L. Cox Harmon, '14, B. Ehlers,
'09, E. White, '06, E. Bontecou, '13, M. Kirk,
'10, E. Brakeley, '16, R. Bixler, '14, A. Hawkins,
'07, L. Cadbury, '14.
Respectfully submitted,
Cynthia Wesson,
Chairman.
TREASURER'S REPORT
December 31, 1916
BALANCE SHEET
assets
Endowment fund assets:
Investments at Cost:
1000 Balto. & Ohio 4£% Eq. Tr. 1919 $976.71
2500 Balto. & Ohio R. R. prior Lien Z\% 1925 2,317 . 50
5000 Bryn Mawr College Inn Ass'n. 5's 1946 5,000.00
1000 Central Dist. Tel. Co. 5's 1943 920.00
2000 Chic, Mil. & St. Paul 4's 1925 1,880.00
5000 Chicago Railways Co. 1st 5's 1927 5,018.75
5000 Colorado Springs El. Co. 1st 5's 1920 4,950.00
1000 Erie R. R. Eq. 5's Series "U" 1920 984.50
4000 Lansing Fuel & Gas Co. Cons. 5's 1921 3,910.00
2000 Lake Shore & Mich. So. Ry. 4's 1931 ,, 1,900.00
2000 New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Deb. 4's
1934 1,802.50
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1000 Phila. R. T. Co. Eq. Tr. 5's 1923 $992.40
1000 Phila. Suburban Gas & Elec. Co. 1st Mtge. & Ref. 5's
1960 1,000.00
5000 Portland Ry. Co. 1st Ref. 5's 1930 5,000.00
2000 Schuylkill River East Side R. R. Co. 1st Mtge. 4's
1925 1,975.00
1000 Southern Pacific Equipment 4£'s 1920 973.32
$39,600.68
Subscriptions 2,333 . 50
Cash Uninvested 9,770.94
$51,705.12
Loan Fund Assets:
Loans to Students $10,543 . 00
Cash 40.62
10,583.62
Alumnae Fund Assets:
Investments at Cost:
37 Shares Lehigh Coal & Navi. Co. Stock $3,113.48
Cash 2,044.62
5,158.10
Dr. J. E. Rhoads Scholarships Fund— Cash 221 .50
General Fund Assets:
Cash 21.39
Total $67,689.73
LIABILITIES
Endowment Fund:
Balance January 1, 1916 $35,203.44
Contributions and Subscriptions during year 16,501 .68
$51,705.12
Loan Fund:
Balance January 1, 1916 $9,744. 10
Donations and Interest received during year 839 . 52
10,583.62
Alumnae Fund:
Principal Balance January 1, 1916 $3,374.86
Life memberships received during year 150.00
$3,524.86
Interest Balance January 1, 1916 $1,418.57
Accretions during year 214 . 67
1,633.24
5,158.10
Dr. J. E. Rhoads Scholarships Fund 221 . 50
Accumulated Fund for general purposes 21 .39
Total $67,689.73
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FROM JANUARY 1, 1916, to DECEMBER 31, 1916.
GENERAL TREASURY
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1916 $207 . 76
Dues $1,955.37
Interest on deposits 13 . 72
Alumnae Supper 25 . 75
Total receipts 1,994.84
Total $2,202.60
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Disbursements
Dues Associated Collegiate Alumnae $130. 00
Miscellaneous Expenses 52 .80
Typewriting and Clerical Services 164. 12
Printing 95.30
Postage and Stationery 149 . 53
Traveling Expenses 70 . 09
Expenses of Academic Committee 383 . 88
Quarterly Account 1,043 . 47
Endowment Fund Expenses 92.02
Total Disbursements , . $2,181 .21
Balance December 31, 1916: 21.39
Total $2,202.60
LOAN FUND
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1916 $511 . 10
Donations $750.46
Repayment of loans by students 1,675 .00
Interest on loans 82 . 15
Interest on deposits 6.91
Total Receipts 2,514.52
Total $3,025.62
Disbursements
Loans to Students $2,985.00
Balance December 31, 1916 40.62
Total $3,025.62
ALUMNAE FUND
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1916 $1,679.95
Life Memberships $150 . 00
Interest on Deposits 66 . 67
Income from Investments 148 .00
Total Receipts 364.67
Total. $2,044.62
Balance December 31, 1916 $2,044.62
ENDOWMENT FUND
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1916 $7,222.76
Donations $9,861 .30
Subscriptions Paid 1 . 50
Interest on Deposits 145.35
Interest on Investments 1,572 . 50
Investment sold: and profit on same 950.00
Total Receipts \, 12,530.65
Total $19,753.41
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Disbursements
Accrued interest and commission on bonds purchased 107.47
Investments:
2000 Lake Shore & Mich. So. Ry. 25 yr. Gold Bonds,
due 1931 $1,900.00
2000 Schuylkill River East Side R. R. Co. 4% 1st
Mtge. 1925 1,975 .00
1000 B. & O. R. R. prior lien l\% Gold Bond, due
1925 930.00
1500 B. & O. R. R. prior lien 3|% Gold Bonds, due
1925 1,387.50
2000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 4%, due 1925 . . . 1,880.00
2000 New York Central & Hudson River Deb. 4's,
due 1934 1,802.50 9,875.00
Total disbursements 9,982 .47
Balance December 31, 1916 9,770.94
Total $19,753.41
"QUARTERLY" ACCOUNT FOR YEAR 1916
Receipts
Subscriptions and Sales $50.50
Assessments 1 . 00
Advertising 105 .00
Refund for alteration in article 10.00
Total Receipts 166.50
Balance transferred to General Treasury Acct 1,043.47
Total $1,209.97
Disbursements
Printing (5 numbers) $824.07
Salaries 322 .50
Sundries, postage, stationery, etc 63.40
Total disbursements, $1,209.97
We have audited the accounts of
TEE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
for the year ending December 31, 1916, and have inspected the Endowment Fund securities and
verified the cash on hand at the close of the year, and we certify that the annexed Balance Sheet
and relative accounts are properly drawn up so as to exhibit a correct view of the financial position
of the Association at December 31, 1916, and of the operations for the year ending on that date.
Price, Waterhouse & Company,
Certified Public Accountants
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REPORT OF THE CAROLA WOERISHOFFER MEMORIAL
FUND COMMITTEE
Two years ago your Association voted that
the income accruing from the Carola Woeris-
hoffer Memorial Fund was to be expended, in
accordance with the original purpose of the
fund, in some work of social welfare or reform
connected with New York City, and that plans
for this expenditure were to be devised by your
Committee.
The first $50 of the income was used, as you
know, as a scholarship for Miss Dorothy Wes-
ton who was working at the New York College
Settlement. The sum now in our hands (the
income of the last two years) is $200, and this
also we intend to use as a contribution towards
a scholarship, but the scholarship is one of a
peculiar kind. It is not for a college graduate,
or even for a college student. It is a scholar-
ship to enable a New York working girl who
has already shown ability and promise as a
leader among her fellows, to obtain a year's
special training at the school recently estab-
lished in Chicago by the National Women's
Trade Union League. The school is called the
Training School for Active Workers in the
Labor Movement, and its object is to secure
for the coming generation of American working
women more effective, better educated, more
sane and intelligent leaders than they would
otherwise have. The real guides of the labor
movement, both as regards general purposes
and as regards immediate conduct, will always
come from the ranks of labor itself; and to in-
crease, even by a little, the probability of their
guidance being a wise guidance seems to us an
object of great importance. The Training
School is still in an experimental stage, but it
gives promise of very satisfactory results iri
this direction, and seems to us most worthy of
support.
Each student at the school is given individual
training and instruction according to her needs,
generally in such subjects as English, economics,
public speaking, the history of trade unionism,
methods of arbitration, laws affecting working
women, etc. Four months of the year are
spent in such study, and eight months in active
field work under the direction of the leading
trade union women organizers in New York,
Chicago, and Boston. The year's scholarship
is of the value of $735, and since we have so
far only $200, we are simply holding that
amount for the present, with the intention of
contributing it towards a scholarship when the
rest of the money shall be raised by other
means. It is possible that we shall add the
coming year's income of $100.
I might mention that besides $2000 invested
at 5 per cent, we have $373.57 deposited in a
national bank. We hope very much that by the
end of the year this deposit will have been so
enlarged by further contributions that we shall
have a third thousand dollars for investment.
The younger alumnae, who have not been ap-
pealed to by letter, are particularly requested
to subscribe. Checks should be drawn payable
to Bertha Rembaugh, Trustee, and sent to
Miss Rembaugh at No. 165 Broadway, New
York City.
Respectfully submitted,
Margaret Franklin,
Chairman.
QUARTERLY REPORT
•The April, July, and November numbers of
the 1916 Quarterly appeared in their due
order and the January, 1917, number will prob-
ably be out by the time of the annual meeting.
It is gratifying to be able to report a steadily,
even though slowly, increasing interest on the
part of the alumnae in sending information to
the Quarterly. The younger alumnae, how-
ever, are much better in this respect than the
members of the earlier classes. If each member
of the Association would send directly to the
Quarterly a report of her engagement, mar-
riage, the birth of a child, book published, maga-
zine article or poem appearing, of social, civic,
or other activities, it would be possible for each
number of the Quarterly to give a timely,
classified list of all such happenings. Too
many items of interest still come in by chance
or do not come at all, and our news columns
often look rather empty beside those of other
alumnae publications.
So, tocv in the matter of class secretaries.
The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly is the
only one among the quarterlies of the women's
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colleges that cannot present an unbroken list
of class secretaries. Does that indicate that
Bryn Mawr's alumnae are lacking in interest
in one another and in their alma mater?
The present number of paid-up subscriptions,
outside of the Association, is 32.
Respectfully submitted,
Elva Lee,
Editor.
REPORT OF THE ALUMNAE SUPPER COMMITTEE
The Alumnae Supper was held in Pembroke
dining room on the evening of Commencement
Day, June 1, 1916.
A large number of alumnae were present, and
were grouped as usual informally by classes,
only the speakers and the guests of honor being
seated at the table.
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg, '00, as President of
the Alumnae Association, introduced the toast-
mistress, Marion Reilly, '01.
The speakers were President Woolley of Mt.
Holyoke College, Dr. Rufus Jones of the Board
of Directors, Dr. James Leuba and Dr. Charles
G. Fen wick of the faculty and Dr. Ida Ogilvie
'96, Dr. Helen Sandison, '06 and Kate Cham-
bers Seelye, '11 representing the reunion classes.
Last, President Thomas spoke to the alumnae.
The speeches are given in full in the Quar-
terly for July, 1916.
Respectfully submitted,
Anna Scattergood Hoag,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH
The Philadelphia Branch of the Alumnae
Association of Bryn Mawr College held its
annual meeting December 9, 1916, at the Col-
lege Club.
The two subjects at present of greatest in-
terest to all alumnae — the new plan of govern-
ment at Bryn Mawr College and the Mary
E. Garrett Memorial Fund, were freely dis-
cussed. Dr. Wheeler gave a very interesting
account of the work of the American Associa-
tion of University Professors.
The annual election of officers of this Branch
was held with the following result: Chairman,
Elizabeth C. Bent Clark, '95; Vice-Chairman,
Julia Cope Collins, '89; Secretary-Treasurer,
Agnes M. Irwin, '10; Members of the Executive
Committee, Jacqueline Morris Evans, '08,
Katharine W. McCollin, '15.
The Philadelphia Branch sent its representa-
tive to the conference held by the New York
members of the Finance Committee in the first
week in December.
On February 17, 1917, the Philadelphia
Branch gave a concert in Taylor Hall to the
College and to friends of the College, at which
Miss Marcia Van Dresser was the soloist.
Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth Bent Clark,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE BOSTON BRANCH
There is no formal report to be made of the
Boston Branch, which has not met, as such,
this year. It has no organization or officers
separate from the Bryn Mawr Club of Boston;
the latter sends notices to all members of the
Branch within reach whenever anything occurs
of general interest. So, last year, when we
gave our luncheon, to which we invited Miss
Thomas, we admitted all alumnae within range
and this year, when we held our concert for
the benefit of the Endowment Fund, we sent
notices to all and appealed to them for assist-
ance and support. That concert occurred
December 14, and made about $900 for the
fund.
We are trying to have a general Branch meet-
ing a little later and, with Miss Sergeant's
help, to learn something about the new con-
stitution of Bryn Mawr.
Respectfully submitted,
Sylvia Lee,
President.
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BY-LAWS
Article I
Article IV
MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. Any person who has received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts or of Doctor of Philosophy from Bryn
Mawr College is entitled to full membership in the Alum-
nae Association of Bryn Mawr College, and to all privi-
leges pertaining to such membership.
Sec. 2. Former students of the College who have not
received degrees may become Associate Members of the
Alumnae Association upon unanimous election by the
Board of Directors. Applications for associate member-
ship must be made to the Board of Directors at least two
months before the annual meeting, and the names of the
applicants elected by the Board of Directors must be pre-
sented at this meeting.
To be eligible for associate membership a former stu-
dent must have pursued courses in the College for at least
two consecutive semesters, and if a matriculated student,
at least four academic years must have elapsed since the
date of her entering the College. A return to the College
for undergraduate work shall terminate an associate mem-
bership, and render the student ineligible for re-election
during the period of this new attendance at the College.
Associate members are entitled to all the rights and
privileges of full membership, except the power of voting
and the right to hold office in the Board of Directors, or
to serve on standing committees.
Article II
MEETINGS
Section 1. There shall be each year one regular meet-
ing of the Association. This meeting shall be held at
Bryn Mawr College, on a date to be fixed annually by
the Board of Directors, preferably the Saturday of the
mid-year recess.
Sec. 2. Two weeks before the annual meeting notices
of the date and of the business to be brought before the
meeting shall be sent to each member of the Alumnae
Association. It it should be necessary to bring before the
meeting business of which no previous notice could be
given, action may be taken upon such business only by a
two-thirds vote of the members present at the meeting.
Sec. 3. Special meetings of the Association may be
called at any time by the Corresponding Secretary at the
request of the President, or of five members of the Associa-
tion, provided that notice of the meeting and of all busi-
ness to be brought before it be sent to each member of the
Association two weeks in advance.
Sec. 4. In cases demanding immediate action on mat-
ters clearly not affecting the financial or general policy of
the Association, special meetings may be called by the
Corresponding Secretary with less than two weeks' notice
at the request of the Board of Directors or of ten members
of the Association. At special meetings called on less than
two weeks' notice action may be taken only by a two-
thirds vote of the members present.
Sec. 5. Fifteen members of the Association shall consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Article III
MANAGEMENT
Section 1. The Officers of the Association shall consti-
tute a Board of Directors, to which shall be entrusted the
management of the affairs of the Association in the interim
of its meetings.
DUES
Section 1. The annual dues for each member of the
Association shall be one dollar and fifty cents, payable to
the Treasurer at the annual meeting. Associate members
shall pay the same dues as full members of the Association,
but shall be exempt from all assessments.
Sec. 2. The dues for each member that enters the
Association in June shall be seventy-five cents for the part
year from June to the following February, payable to the
Treasurer on graduation from the College.
Sec. 3. Any member of the Association may become
a life member of the Association upon payment at any
time of thirty dollars; and upon such payment she shall
become exempt from all annual dues and assessments.
Sec. 4. The names of members who fail to pay the
annual dues for four successive years shall be stricken from
the membership list. The Board of Directors may at its
discretion remit the dues of any member sub silcntio.
Article V
BRANCH ORGANIZATIONS
Section 1. Any 25 or more members of the Bryn
Mawr College Alumnae Association may form a local
branch, the geographical limits to be submitted to the
Board of Directors of the Alumnae Association and to be
approved by the Board of Directors.
Sec. 2. Any alumna or former student of Bryn Mawr
College who is eligible to membership in the Bryn Mawr
College Alumnae Association may be a member of a
Branch Organization.
Sec. 3. Every Branch Organization shall report to the
Alumnae Association at the annual meeting.
Article VI
COMMITTEES
Section 1. There shall be two Alumnae members of
the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College in accord-
ance with the by-laws of the Trustees of Bryn Mawr
College.
Sec. 2. The Standing Committees of the Association
shall be: an Academic Committee, consisting of seven
members; a Conference Committee, consisting of four
members; a Students' Loan Fund Committee, consisting
of five members; a James E. Rhoads Scholarships Com-
mittee, consisting of three members; a Nominating Com-
mittee, consisting of five members; a Finance Committee,
consisting of three members and the Treasurer ex officio;
and a Committee on Athletics, consisting of five members.
Article VII
ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Section 1 Elections for Officers shall be held bien-
nially and elections for members of the Academic Com-
mittee annually, before the regular meeting, and the results
of the elections shall be announced at that meeting; in
every case the candidate receiving the greatest number of
votes shall be declared elected. No ballot shall be valid
that is not returned in a sealed envelope marked "Ballot."
Sec. 2. The elections for the nomination of an Alum-
nae Director shall be held every three years on the last
Thursday in May. No ballot shall be valid that is not
signed and returned in a sealed envelope marked "Ballot."
The alumna receiving the highest number of votes shall
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be nominated to the Trustees for the office of Alumnae
Director. At the first election in the year 1906, and at
other elections when there is a vacancy to be filled, the
alumna receiving the highest number of votes shall be
nominated to the Trustees for the regular term of six years,
and the alumna receiving the second highest number of
votes for the term of three years.
Sec. 3. The Officers of the Association shall be nomi-
nated by the Nominating Committee, and elected by bal
lot of the whole Association. They shall hold office for
two years or until others are elected in their places. The
Board of Directors shall have power to fill any vacancy
in its own body for an unexpired term.
Sec. 4. The members of the Academic Committee shall
be nominated as follows: The Board of Directors shall
make at least twice as many nominations as there are va-
cancies in the Committee. Furthermore, any twenty-five
alumnae may nominate one candidate for any vacancy in
the Committee; provided that they sign the nomination
and file it with the Recording Secretary by December 1,
preceding the annual meetings. The members of the Aca-
demic Committee shall be elected by a ballot of the whole
Association and shall each hold office for four years or until
others are elected in their places. The Board of Directors
shall have power to fill any vacancy in the Committee,
such appointment to hold until the next regular election.
Sec. 5. (a) The Alumnae Directors shall be nominated
as follows: The Board of Directors of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation shall make at least three times as many nomina-
tions as there are vacancies among the Alumnae Directors.
It may at its discretion include in such nominations names
proposed in writing by any 25 members of the Alumnae
Association qualified to vote for Alumnae Directors.
(b) Every Bachelor of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy of
Bryn Mawr College shall be qualified to vote for Alumnae
Directors, provided that at least five years shall have
elapsed since the Bachelor's degree was conferred upon her,
and provided that she shall have paid her dues up to and
including the current year.
(c) Every Bachelor of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy
shall be eligible for the office of Alumnae Director, pro-
vided that at least five years shall have elapsed since the
Bachelor's degree was conferred upon her, and provided
that she is not at the time of nomination or during her
term of office a member or the wife of a member of the
staff of Bryn Mawr College, nor a member of the staff of
any other college.
(d) An Alumnae Director shall serve for six years or
so much thereof as she may continue to be eligible. When-
ever a vacancy shall occur among the Alumnae Directors
a nomination for such vacancy shall be made by the Board
of Directors of the Alumnae Association to the Trustees.
An Alumnae Director so nominated shall hold her office
until her successor has been voted for at the next regular
election for Alumnae Director and duly elected by the
Trustees.
(e) In case by reason of a tie it should be uncertain
which alumna has received the nomination of the Alumnae
Association for Alumnae Director, the Board of Directors
of the Alumnae Associatien shall nominate to the Trustees
one of the two candidates receiving an equal number of
votes.
Sec. 6. The members of the Conference Committee
shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors and
shall each hold office for one year or until others are ap-
pointed in their places.
Sec. 7. The members of the Students' Loan Fund Com-
mittee shall be appointed by the Board of Directors from
candidates recommended by the Loan Fund Committee.
They shall each hold office for five years or until others
are appointed in their places. One new member shall be
appointed each year to succeed the retiring member, and
no member, with the exception of the Treasurer, shall be
eligible for re-election until one year has elapsed after the
expiration of her term of office.
Sec. 8. The members of the James E. Rhoads Scholar-
ships Committee shall be appointed by the Board of Direc-
tors, and shall each hold office for three years, or until
others are appointed in their places. One new member
shall be appointed each year to succeed the retiring mem-
ber, and no member shall be eligible for re-election until
one year has elapsed after the expiration of her term of
office.
Sec. 9. The Health Statistics Committee shall be a
permanent committee, appointed by the Board of Direc-
tors in consultation with the President of Bryn Mawr
College. The Chairman of this Committee is empowered
to fill vacancies in the Committee; a vacancy in the chair-
manship shall be filled by the Board of Directors in consul-
tation with the President of Bryn Mawr College.
Sec. 10. The members of the Nominating Committee
shall be appointed biennially by the Board of Directors,
and shall each hold office for four years, or until others are
appointed in their places. Two members of the Commit-
tee shall be appointed in the year preceding an election
for officers, and three members in the year preceding the
next election for officers, and thereafter in the same order
before alternate elections.
Sec. 11. The members of the Finance Committee shall
be appointed by the Board of Directors and shall each
hold office for four years, or until others are appointed in
their places.
Sec. 12. The members of the Committee on Athletics
shall be appointed by the Board of Directors and shall
each hold office for five years, or until others are appointed
in their places. One new member shall be appointed each
year to succeed the retiring member.
Sec. 13. The appointments of the Board of Directors
for the year ensuing shall be made in time to be reported
by the Board to the annual meeting for ratification by
the Association.
Article VIII
DUTIES
Section 1. The President shall preside at all meetings
of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and shall
perform such other duties as regularly pertain to her office.
She shall be a member ex officio of all the committees of
the Association, and shall countersign all vouchers drawn
by the Treasurer before they are paid. She shall ap-
point such committees as are not otherwise provided for.
Sec. 2. The Vice-President shall perform all the duties
of the President in the absence of the latter.
Sec. 3. The Recording Secretary shall keep the minutes
of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and shall
perform such other duties as regularly pertain to the office
of clerk. She shall have the custody of all documents and
records belonging to the Association which do not pertain
to special or standing committees, and she shall be the
custodian of the seal of the Association. She shall notify
committees of all motions in any way affecting them; she
shall receive all ballots cast for the elections, and with the
Chairman of the Nominating Committee shall act as teller
for the same; and she shall be responsible for the publica-
tion of the Annual Report, which should be mailed to the
Alumnae within two months after the annual meeting.
Sec. 4. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct all
the necessary correspondence of the Association; she shall
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send out all notices, and shall inform officers and commit-
tees of their election or appointment.
Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall be the custodian of all
funds of the Association and shall pay them out only by
vouchers countersigned by the President; she shall collect
all dues and assessments, shall file vouchers for all dis-
bursements, and shall keep an account of all receipts and
expenditures. She shall report on the finances of the
Association when called upon, to the Association or to the
Board of Directors, and she shall make to the Association
at the annual meeting a full report, the correctness of
which must be attested by a certified public accountant.
Sec. 6. The Board of Directors shall prepare all busi-
ness for the meetings of the Association, and shall have
full power to transact in the interim of its meetings all
business not otherwise provided for in these by-laws. It
shall have control of all funds of the Association; it shall
supervise the expenditures of committees, and it shall
have power to levy assessments not exceeding in any one
year the amount of the annual dues. At least one month
before each annual meeting it shall send to each member
of the Association a ballot presenting nominations for the
Academic Committee in accordance with Art. VI, Sec. 4;
biennially, at least one month before the annual meeting,
it shall send to each member of the Association the ballot
prepared by the Nominating Comittee in accordance
with Art. VII, Sec. 13. Every three years, at least one
month before the last Thursday in May, it shall send to
each member of the Association qualified to vote for Alum-
nae Directors a ballot presenting nominations for Alumnae
Directors in accordance with Art. VI, Sec. 5. Through the
President and Recording Secretary, it shall certify to the
Trustees the names of persons voted for and the number
of votes received for each person in elections for Alumnae
Directors. It shall appoint before each annual meeting the
members of the Conference Committee, and fill such vacan-
cies on the Students' Loan Fund Committee, The James
E. Rhoads Scholarships Committee, the Finance Commit-
tee, and the Committee on Athletics, as may be necessary
by reason of expiration of terms of office. It shall also
appoint, in alternate years before the regular meeting
preceding the biennial election, the members of the Nomi-
nating Committee; and in case a vacancy occurs it shall
appoint, in consultation with the President of Bryn Mawr
College, the chairman of the Health Statistics Committee.
It shall report all appointments to the regidar meeting
next following for ratification by the Association. A ma-
jority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the trans-
action of business. The Board of Directors shall be at
all times responsible to the Association.
Sec. 7. The Academic Committee shall hold at least
one meeting each academic year to confer with the Presi-
dent of Bryn Mawr College on matters of interest con-
nected with the College. It shall have full power to ar-
range the times of its meetings.
Sec. 8. The Alumnae members of the Board of Direc-
tors of Bryn Mawr College shall perform such duties as
are prescribed by the laws of the Trustees and Directors
of Bryn Mawr College.
Sec. 9. The Conference Committee shall hold at least
two meetings each academic year, one in the autumn and
one in the spring, to confer with committees from the Un-
der-graduate Association and the Graduate Club at Bryn
Mawr College, on matters of interest to the three associa-
tions. It shall have power to call special meetings at its
discretion.
Sec. 10 The Students' Loan Fund Committee shall
have immediate charge of the Loan Fund, and its disburse-
ments, subiect to the approval of the Board of Directors.
It shall confer with the President of Bryn Mawr College
regarding all loans.
Sec. 11. The James E. Rhoads Scholarships Commit-
tee shall, with the President of Bryn Mawr College and
the Committee appointed by the Academic Council of the
Faculty, nominate annually the candidates for the James
E. Rhoads Scholarships to be conferred by the Board of
Trustees of Bryn Mawr College according to the provisions
contained in the Deed of Gift.
Sec. 12. The Health Statistics Committee shall collect
from the members of the Association information that may
serve as a basis for statistics regarding the health and
occupation of college women. The Committee, subject to
the approval of the Board of Directors, shall have power
to determine the best methods of carrying out the duties
assigned to it.
Sec. 13. The Nominating Committee shall biennially
prepare a ballot presenting alternate nominations for the
officers of the Association and shall file it with the Record-
ing Secretary by December 1 preceding the annual meeting.
Sec. 14. The Finance Committee may, with the ap-
proval of the Board of Directors of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, indicate purposes for which money shall be raised by
the Alumnae Association. It shall devise ways and means,
and take charge of collecting moneys for such purposes,
and when authorized by the Alumnae Association shall
prepare, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors,
the necessary agreements for the transfer of gifts from the
Alumnae Association. All collections from the Alumnae
Association shall be subject to its supervision. The Fi-
nance Committee shall have power to add to its number.
Sec. 15. The Committee on Athletics shall try to stimu-
late an interest in athletics among the members of the
Alumnae Association, and shall take official charge of all
contests that are participated in by both alumnae and
undergraduates.
Sec. 16. The Board of Directors and all Committees
shall report to the Association at the annual meeting, and
the Students' Loan Fund Committee shall report also to
the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College.
Article IX
RULES OF ORDER
The rules of parliamentary practice as set forth in
Roberts' "Rules of Order" shall govern the proceedings
of this Association in so far as they are not inconsistent
with any provisions of its charter or by-laws.
Article X
AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS
These by-laws may be amended or new ones framed by
a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular
meeting of the Association, provided that details of pro-
posed amendments and additions have been given in
writing at a previous regular meeting of the Association,
either by the Board of Directors or by five members of the
Association.
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WITH THE ALUMNAE
THE BRYN MAWR UNIT
Since the annual meeting of the Alum-
nae Association on February 3 the mat-
ter of a Bryn Mawr unit for relief work
in one of the belligerent countries has
been taken up. The Board of Directors
of the College has informed the Direc-
tors of the Association that it sees no
objection to the use of the name of Bryn
Mawr College in connection with such
a unit, and a committee is now being
appointed to proceed with the plan.
The committee will investigate the vari-
ous fields of war relief work, call for
volunteers among the members of the
Alumnae Association and organize the
volunteers into a working unit.
It will greatly facilitate the work of
the committee if any members of the
Association who are willing to volunteer
their services and pay their own ex-
penses will write as soon as possible
stating what kind of relief work they
would like to do. Since the name of the
chairman of the committee cannot yet
be announced, Miss Abigail C. Dimon,
Bryn Mawr, Pa., the secretary of the
Association, will be glad to receive any
such letters and forward them without
delay. There may be an opportunity
for rehabilitation work, or relief work in
devastated districts, or nursing work.
The character of the arrangements will
depend largely upon the nature of the
volunteers.
Members of the Class of 1917, who
become members of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation in June, are eligible to join the
Bryn Mawr unit, and will be cordially
welcomed as volunteers.
RESIGNATION OF MRS. FRANCIS
Since the alumnae meeting, Louise
Congdon Francis (Mrs. Richard Stan-
dish Francis) has resigned as Recording
Secretary of the Alumnae Association,
after six years of service. The Board
feels sure that the Association, will sym-
pathize with it in the loss of Mrs. Fran-
cis. She has given her services ungrudg-
ingly and unceasingly and has never
been slow to show interest in and give
careful consideration to all the details
of the activities of the Association.
Hilda Worthington Smith, 1910, has
been appointed by the Board to take the
place of Mrs. Francis until the next
regular election of officers.
WABANAKI
Wabanaki School is but a little over a year
old — and "children should be seen and not
heard." For this reason I have, and do, cor-
dially invite Bryn Mawrtyrs to visit Wabanaki
but have never before written of this work
which lies nearest my heart. The kindly invi-
tation of your editor is not to be resisted, how-
ever, since we who are working here look con-
fidently towards a time when schools of the
Wabanaki type will be established in many
communities. "Come over into Macedonia
and help us."
Our Macedonia is locally known as "The
Mesa" and is situated three miles from
Greenwich, Connecticut, which can be reached
in about one hour from The Grand Cen-
tral Station, New York. There are five acres
of The Mesa, and very varied acres they are,
traversed by the old deer trail, haunted by birds
and our little brothers of the woods, the squir-
rels and cotton-tail rabbits, and starred with
wild flowers every spring, glorified with gold
and scarlet leaf drifts in the fall. They com-
prise the wind-swept, sun-warmed upland from
which The Mesa derives its name and wheron
Wabanaki School stands facing the East, while
tucked away on neighboring hillsides or in
sheltering hollows, are the Craft Shop, with its
wide flung windows, Casa Penikese, our science
laboratory, and Caribou Lodge, the childrens'
play house.
Wabanaki is founded upon the premise that
the school should be a clearing house for the
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best any community has to offer. We believe
that our great men and women should be radi-
ating their genius in the school. We believe
that the fine apprentice spirit of the olden time
should be revived in education and that our
children should come in their early years under
the direction and inspiration of those who
have attained and are attaining. How can
this be brought to pass? Through the coopera-
tion of parents.
We have had cooperation and efficiency in
our great business enterprises, why should it
not be operative in the education of our chil-
dren? We parents of Wabanaki have met to-
gether in a spirit of practical and whole-hearted
cooperation to seek and secure the best for our
children. We are dedicated to this purpose
alone and are not tied to the apron string of
any educational cult or fad. We cheerfully sit
at the feet of any educator who can demon-
strate the worth of his or her ideas as applica-
ble to our problems.
We agreed at the outset that Wabanaki
should be an open-air school, that our children
should sleep and study out of doors and that
our boys and girls should be educated together.
We also agreed that the mornings of five days
in the week be given over to earnest work in
mathematics, history, English, languages and
all the things parents have the right to expect
the school efficiently to teach their children who
are making ready for college. But these sub-
jects are presented with a background of arts,
crafts, sciences and ethical instruction, and in
an intensely interesting and real way. The class
room is related to life at every point.
The other day I came upon the Spanish
class in the dining room, Senor Dominguez,
a white napkin over his arm, and an imaginary
bill of fare in hand, was playing waiter and tak-
ing the orders of members of his class, who
amid great gaiety were requesting tortillas,
tamales and what not with a fluency creditable
to the Cortina method of phonographic instruc-
tion which is in use here.
You who throve under Self-Government at
Bryn Mawr will rejoice that Wabanaki is self-
governing. We are members of The Wood-
craft League, founded by Ernest Thompson
Seton, our next door neighbor, who has called
Wabanaki "the laboratory of the Woodcraft
Movement." Every morning Wabanaki opens
with a half-hour Woodcraft Council wherein
matters pertaining to the government of the
school are discussed and administered by
the children themselves. "In these morning
Councils teachers and pupils meet on the same
plane and here all school affairs of importance
are discussed. Each child has an opportunity
to express himself and matters of moment
are settled by vote — it is a true democracy."
In these Councils are mobilized the noblest
forces of our community. Here our children
are apprenticed to the guidance of such master
craftsmen as Mr. Seton.
To our children Mr. Seton, magic play-
master of childhood, is known as "Black Wolf,"
great chief of all Woodcrafters. Often he
gathers our boys and girls about him to make
known to them the secrets of the woods, telling
them wondrous stories and teaching them the
Indian dances and songs.
The ardent enthusiasm for nature study
which Mr. Seton enkindles in the children is
carried over into exact scientific research by
Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, President of the Agas-
siz Association and Naturalist of the Boy Scout
movement. Led by him, children and teachers
go trooping through the woods in search of
treasures which are brought to the laboratory,
put under the microscope and promptly classi-
fied. Without being asked to do so the chil-
dren make many researches on their own ac-
count. Thus one lad, aged ten, remarked last
week, "I caught an ant after French class and
put it under the microscope and made sketches
of it."
Bring a child into touch with a great teacher,
apprentice him in his youth to the high-souled,
keen-thinking, beauty-loving, gifted ones of this
earth — let him know the best — he will catch
the contagion of it and astonish you. We need
a spacious humanism, and spiritual as well as
intellectual values in our schools. We need
pharos-like personalities whose fine standards
and perceptions of values will guide the frail
craft of our children's imaginings and longings
into harbors of justice, peace and attainment.
Since "mutation is heaven's first law," if one
is not changing for the better one must neces-
sarily be changing for the worse. Everyone
who has the teaching of children should be chang-
ing for the better — growing. How can you
help others to grow if you are not growing
yourself? For this reason when the master
craftsmen are with us their work is open to
teachers and children alike and often to parents
as well. *It is a pleasant thing to see Thompson
Seton, or Hamlin Garland, or Dr. Bigelow,
or J. von Wildenrath, the sculptor, at the
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heart of a deeply interested group of young
and old.
Wabanaki stands for welding of diverse in-
terests into unified and joyous endeavour — the
working with heart and hand — the recognition
of the typically American right of all to free-
dom and the pursuit of happiness. Our new
pioneer log cabin will fittingly typify these
ideals and ideas of ours.
The suggestion was made by Hamlin Gar-
land during one of his talks with the children
about Fenmore Cooper and other American
men of letters that we perpetuate the tradi-
tions of our forefathers by building and fur-
nishing a pioneer log cabin, since none authen-
tically furnished is now believed to be extant.
The Wabanaki responded with hearty good-
will. A pioneer powder horn, muskets, deers'
heads, a grizzly bear skin, appeared as if by
magic, and the work began in earnest. One
parent produced a fine old English loom; — an-
other friend, interested in fostering the making
of tapestries in this country, said that she
would send her French and Belgian workmen
twice weekly to teach us to make homespun
blankets. Patchwork quilts were planned, and
we find ourselves launched upon an enterprise
affording scope for the good-will and gifts of
all. Our cabin is to be complete even to the
leathern latch string which, needless to say,
will always be out for Bryn Mawrtyrs and for
all Wabanaki, which is an ancient word mean-
ing "Children of the Dawn."
L. Emery Dudley, '00.
THE BRYN MAWR BEDS IN THE
NEUILLY HOSPITAL
The work done by Constance Lewis, who
died November 5, 1916, with the object of es-
tablishing Bryn Mawr beds in the American
Hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, has been
described in the November and January numbers
of the Quarterly. The completion of this
work is given in the following letters — one from
Mrs. Lewis, the mother of Constance, and the
second from Mr. Hereford to Mrs. Lewis:
Indianapolis, Indiana,
February 19, 1917.
"To subscribers to the fund in name of Bryn Mawr
College for beds in American Ambulance Hos-
pital in Paris:
"The campaign for subscriptions to the fund
closed with a total of 261 subscribers giving
$1484.17. An itemized report of collections
has been sent the college.
"The letter from the American Committee,
of which copy follows will surely bring happi-
ness to all concerned in this noble endeavor
in behalf of the Great Cause.
"With congratulations on the fine result
achieved through your generous giving, I
remain,
Sincerely yours,
Mary P. Lewis."
Headquarters of the American Committee
of the American Ambulance Hospital
ln Paris
"Mrs. Charles S. Lewis,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
"My dear Mrs. Lewis:
"I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
check for $223.17 dated January 29, and signed
by you as treasurer of the Bryn Mawr Fund
for the American Ambulance Hospital.
"This amount has been deposited in the
name of Bryn Mawr College and makes, to-
gether with the checks received on November
11, and December 4 for $600 each, a total of
$1423.17, which is to be used to endow two
beds in the Hospital to bear the name of Bryn
Mawr College. In addition, I wish to acknowl-
edge checks . . making a grand total of
$1484.17 for the Bryn Mawr College Fund.
"The surplus over and above the amount
forwarded for endowing two beds, that is to
say, $284.17 will be applied to the general fund
of the American Ambulance in the name of
Bryn Mawr College.
"As the fund is now closed, I understand,
may I take this occasion again to express the
deep appreciation of this Committee for the
generous support of the alumnae of Bryn Mawr
College.
"You, who are personally familiar with the
work that is being done at the American Ambu-
lance need have no assurance that this money
could not have been devoted to a nobler or
more patriotic cause, and I wish you would
convey to those who have subscribed to the
fund, the thanks of this Committee and of the
Committee in Paris.
"May I add a word of appreciation of your
own efforts in this behalf. The work that your
daughter did is known to us all and the reso-
lutions of our Committee spread upon our
records are a testimonial of the splendid spirit
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your daughter showed in carrying on this plan
for relieving others while she, herself, was
fatally stricken.
"Bryn Mawr College, through her efforts,
will have a lasting monument in the American
Ambulance Hospital.
Sincerely yours,
[sicned! William R. Hereford."
The list of contributions is on file in the
office of the Secretary of the College.
At the request of Mr. Charles S. Lewis, the
Committee on the American Ambulance has
been asked to send any letters that may come
from occupants of the Bryn Mawr beds to the
Secretary of Bryn Mawr College. One letter
has been received and parts of it are as follows:
Le 18 Janvier, 1917
Messieurs:
C'est un petit blesse francais qui a la bonne
chance d'occuper le Bryn Mawr lit dans la
salle 67 de PAmbulance Americanine et qui
vient vous remercier bien sincerement de votre
offre genereuse en vue de mon prompt estab-
lissement.
"Je me fais en meme temps un plaisir de
vous donner ci-dessous un apercu de ma cam-
pagne ainsi que de ma blessure qui me tient
encore actuellement sur mon lit d'hopital depuis
bientot cinq mois.
"Je me nomme Maurice Burger. Je suis ne"
le 8 Janvier 1890 a Besancon ou j'y exerce la
profession de coiffeur.
* * *
"Apres le regiment reformer nous repartons
pour la Somme ou je prit encore part a plu-
sieurs attaques. Mais a l'attaque du 14 Sep-
tembre 1916 a la prise du village de Bouchaves-
nes je fut blesse par une balle de mitrailleuse
allemande qui me fractura le tibia et le perone
de la jambe gauche. Je fut relevi que 10
heures apres que j'ai fut blesse. Car les al-
lemandes 6tant devant nous il fallut attendre
la nuit pour venir me chercher ainsi que quel-
ques camarades qui etaient blesses comme
moi. Dans la nuit on vint me chercher et on
me dirigeat directement dans une ambulance
a Styneme a quelques kilometres du front.
Dans cette ambulance on m'y operat aussit6t.
Le docteur chef de cette ambulance me dit que
l'amputation de ma jambe etait necessaire
mais ayant refusS que l'on me coupe la jambe
il fit une operation pour la conserver qui reussit
a merveille. Le lendemain ie fut diriger a
l'ambulance am£ricaine a Neuilly sur Seine, ou
quelque jours apres mon arriver on m'operat
une seconde fois ou l'operations reussit aussi a
merveille. Apres ces operations j'eu le malheur
de ratrapper une bronchite pneumonie qui me
fit souffrir beaucoup et dont je manquer de
mourir. Au moment ou je vous 6crit la sant6
est asez bonne et ma jambe vas beaucoup,
mieux et que j'ai espoir de conserver. Je
remercie beaucoup les docteurs infirmiers et
infirmieres de l'Amubulance Am6ricaine qui me
soignerent et qui me soigne encore actuellement.
Ayant a peu pres fini mon petit recit, je vous
renouvelle l'expression de mon extreme recon-
naissance et je vous prie d'agreer Passu ranee
de ma consideration distinguee.
Maurice Burger,
Ambulance Amencaine, Salle 67
Neuilly-sur-Seine.
LETTER FROM MADAME CONS
The following is taken from a letter from
Madame Cons to her sister, Miss Curtis.
February 2, 1917.
"The submarine war is upon us, and I write
at once to give some instructions as to the
sending of money for my soldiers. I cannot
bear to have the work interrupted. It means
so much to the poor men, especially now, when
every one must be ready to do his utmost.
"As you know, my friend, Elizabeth White,
has done a great deal for me in the last year,
and has been sending money regularly each
month for my work. She is careful and trust-
worthy, and I have arranged with her to re-
ceive all contributions, and cable the sum total
to me once a month. She has always sent her
money through Drexel and Co., Philadelphia.
(You might tell people that she is a graduate
of Swarthmore College, Class of 1911, if anyone
wishes to investigate her character before send-
ing her money, her father is proprietor of the
Marlborough-Blenheim in Atlantic City.)
"As I cannot know by cable how much each
marraine sends for her particular soldier, ask
each one to give what she can afford for the
general fund, and all soldiers will be provided
for alike. Ask them to make this sacrifice,
and to trust me to do my very best for them
and for the men. If correspondence is inter-
rupted, I will redouble my efforts, and every
soldier shalrhave his letters regularly. I hope,
however, that aU the 'godmothers' will continue
to write, as long as any mail-ships are running.
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But I am sure the cable will be safer for the
money, and if all contributions are sent at one
time the cost will not be great. Ask people
to adress Miss Elizabeth White, The Marl-
borough-Blenheim, Atlantic City, N. J."
BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
A Boston Athletic Association of Collegiate
Alumnae has been organized by Bryn Mawr
graduates and others on the plan of the New
York organization. Meetings are held Thurs-
days in the Sargent School Gymnasium in
Cambridge.
A WANT COLUMN IN THE
QUARTERLY
The Board of Directors of the Asso-
ciation has made the suggestion that a
Want Column for the use of the alum-
nae be established in the Quarterly.
There will be a column of this descrip-
tion in the July number if enough ad-
vertisments come in to make it worth
while. The column will advertise at a
low rate positions and help wanted,
work to be done for endowment, war
relief, charity, or for private gain.
Such an exchange of needs ought to
prove convenient and advantageous for
the alumnae, as well as profitable for
the Quarterly.
Try to think of all your possible wants
— either to work or to be worked for —
and send them in the form of short
advertisements before the first of June.
All inquiries as to space, rates, etc.
will be answered by Miss Elizabeth
Brakeley, Advertising Manager, Bryn
Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
NOTE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
The following note has been approved
by vote of the faculties of Vassar,
Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Mount
Holyoke, Goucher, and Barnard and
has been signed by their respective
presidents. It has also been signed by
President Briggs on behalf of Radcliffe
College although as Radcliffe has no
faculty independent of Harvard Uni-
versity his signature could not be
authorized by faculty vote.
The note has been engrossed on parch-
ment and signed by each college presi-
dent or dean and will be presented to
President Wilson on Friday, March 30,
by his two Goucher College daughters
as representing the alumnae of the
signatory colleges.
It may interest Bryn Mawr College
Alumnae to know that the idea of the
note occurred first to President Thomas
and was written by her and President
Ellen F. Pendleton of Wellesley and
President Woolley of Mount Holyoke.
It passed the Bryn Mawr Faculty with
only one dissenting vote.
It is as follows:
"To the President of the United States,
We, the undersigned, Presidents and
Deans of the eight largest Colleges for
Women in the United States, speaking
for ourselves and authorized by vote to
speak also for the Faculties of the Col-
leges which we represent, hereby respect-
fully offer you our loyal service.
Although we believe that the settle-
ment of international difficulties by war
is fundamentally wrong we recognize
that in a world crisis such as this it
may become our highest duty to defend
by force the principles upon which
Christian civilization is founded.
In this emergency, Mr. President, we
wish to pledge you our wholehearted
support in whatever measures you may
find necessary to uphold these principles.
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Any service which we and (as far as
we can speak for them) any service
which the thousands of trained women
whom we have sent out from our col-
leges may be able to render we hereby February 23
place at the disposal of our country.
Signed on behalf of the aforesaid
Colleges."
The Bryn Mawr College Undergradu-
ate students have unanimously voted
to mobilize for preparedness work for
the five weeks after Easter. Many
students will select some one special February 24
kind of preparedness work and give to
it their free time. The Undergraduate February 25
Association is organizing various classes
in different branches of preparedness
work.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS February 26
SEMESTER 11—1916-17
February 15 Faculty Tea for Graduate Stu-
dents, Denbigh Hall, 4 to 6 p.m. March 2
February 16 Address by the Marquis of Aber-
deen and Temair, formerly
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
and Governor General of
Canada, in the chapel at 4.30
p.m. Subject: ''Canada and March 3
Her Leading Statesmen."
Lecture by Mr. Charles Theo-
dore Carruth, of Cambridge,
Mass., in the chapel at 8 p.m.
"II Beato Angelico." under March 4
the auspices of the Depart-
ment of Art.
February 17 Concert given by the Philadel-
phia Branch of the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association in the March 5
chapel at 8 p.m. Song Recital
by Miss Marcia Van Dresser March 9
of the Chicago Grand Opera
Company.
February 18 Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Howard C.
Robbins, D.D., of the Church
of the Incarnation, New York
City.
February 19 Address by Ian Hay (Captain
Beith) on "The Human Side of
Trench Warfare" in the Gym-
nasium at 8.30 p.m. for the
benefit of the Mary E. Garrett
Memorial Endowment Fund
under the auspices of the
Class of 1918.
Vocational Conference, Miss
Florence Jackson, Taylor Hall,
3 p.m. Address by Mr.
George Barr Baker, member of
the Commission for Relief in
Belgium on "Relief Work in
Belgium," illustrated by lan-
tern slides. Under the aus-
pices of the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Red Cross Committee.
Freshman Show in the Gym-
nasium at 8 p.m.
Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. John T.
Dallas, D.D., Chaplain of the
Taft School, Watertown
Connecticut.
President Thomas at home to
the graduate students. Inter-
class Water Polo Match
Games begin.
Concert by the Faculty and
Staff, assisted by Mrs. Adeline
Pepper Gibson, for the benefit
of the Bryn Mawr College
Red Cross Committee in Tay-
lor Hall at 8 p.m.
Bates Camp Party in the Gym-
nasium at 8 p.m. Dancing
by Miss Rose Hoffman of the
Newman School of Dancing,
Philadelphia.
Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Edward A.
Steiner, Ph.D., Professor of
Applied Christianity in Grin-
nell College, Iowa.
Red Cross First Aid Classes
begin.
Lecture by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Lindon Smith, of Boston,
Mass., in Taylor Hall at
4.30 p.m. Subject: "The
Children of the Frontier in
France." Illustrated with
lantern slides. On behalf of
the Franco-American Com-
mittee for the Protection of
the Children of the Frontier.
Meeting of the English Club
in Rockefeller Hall at 8 p.m.
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Address by Mr. Francis
Hackett of the "New Re-
public" on "Writing for Publi-
cation."
March 10 Concert under the auspices of the
Class of 1920 for the Mary E.
Garrett Memorial Endowment
Fund, Song Recital by Mr.
Rheinhold Warlich, Basso-
Cantante, a recital of Russian,
French, German and Shakes-
perian Songs.
March 11 Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. James O.
S. Huntington, of the Church
of the Holy Cross, West Park,
New York.
March 16 Announcement of European
Fellowships. Gymnasium
Contest in the Gymnasium at
4.30 p.m. Fellowship Dinners
Illustrated Address by La
Baronne Fluard (Frances
Wilson Huard), "With Those
Who Wait," a sequel to her
book "My Home on the Field
of Honor," in the Gymnasium
at 815 p.m., illustrated with
lantern slides. One-half the
proceeds to be given to Mad-
ame Huard's Hospital, one-
half to the Mary E. Garrett
Memorial Endowment Fund.
March' 17 Meeting of the College Settle-
ment Association. Address by
Dr. Jane Robbins, formerly
Head of the Jacob Riis Settle-
ment in New York City, on
"Settlement Work in Con-
nection with Immigration."
Under the auspices of the
Bryn Mawr Chapter of the
College Settlements Associa-
tion.
March 18 Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Charles W.
Gordon D.D. (Ralph Connor),
Chaplain in the 43rd Cameron
Highlanders of Canada.
March 19 President Thomas at home to
the Senior Class.
March 23 Faculty Tea for Graduate Stu-
dents, Radnor Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.
Christian Association Con-
ference.
March 24
March 25
March
March
April
April
April
April
26
30
March 31
April
4
12
13
14
Christian Association Confer-
ence. Alumnae- Varsity Water
Polo Game.
Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. John Mc-
Dowell, D.D., of the Brown
Memorial Presbyterian Church
of Baltimore, Maryland.
President Thomas at home to
the graduate students.
Address by Miss Marjorie Dor-
man on behalf of the Society
Opposing Woman Suffrage, in
the chapel at 4.15 p.m. Glee
Club Concert in the Gym-
nasium at 8 p.m. Performance
of W. S. Gilbert's "Patience."
Glee Club Concert, Performance
of W. S. Gilbert's "Patience,"
in the Gymnasium at 8 p.m.
Sunday Evening Service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Hugh Black,
D.D., Professor of Practical
Theology in Union Theological
Seminary, New York City.
Easter vacation begins at 1 p.m.
Easter vacation ends at 9 a.m.
Meeting of the Science Club.
Address by Professor Jacques
Loeb. Subject: "Regener-
ation and Correlation in
Plants."
Address by Dr. Katherine B.
Davis, Commissioner of Cor-
rection, New York City.
CAMPUS NOTES
The change of point of view of the Self-Gov-
ernment Association from more than ordinary
conservatism to an uncommon liberalism is
perhaps the most interesting phenomenon of
the present Bryn Mawr year. After legislating
with preposterous severity regarding the re-
lation between the men of the faculty and the
students, the Self-Government Board has re-
considered its views and now appears to medi-
tate improvements even upon former decisions
of the Association. Every one interested in
attempts to make the social relation between
men and women in small college communities
like Bryn Mawr as normal and sensible as
possible, is eagerly waiting to see how the
somewhat complicated details will finally be
worked out. The admission of men to the
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audience of 1913's "David Garrick" was a
tentative practical application of the new point
of view. On that occasion men of the faculty
and male relatives and friends enjoyed a privil-
ege hitherto extended to none but Mr. Samuel
Arthur King.
Men were of course likewise welcomed to
swell the audiences at the moving picture
performances which were introduced this year
to aid in raising money for the endowment
fund. The experiment was found profitable
for that purpose as well as very enlivening
both for those members of our community
who are already addicted to moving pictures,
and to those to whom movies were a compara-
tively rare indulgence. Indeed all the enter-
tainments which have been the outcome of the
undergraduates' praiseworthy resolve to raise
$10,000 for the endowment fund have proved
welcome additions to the gayer side of Bryn
Mawr life. This is of course with us in any case
the — relatively — gay season. With freshman
show, faculty concert, English Club lectures,
and other functions stil to come, we have
already pleasant memories of a fair number of
interesting events in the last weeks. Ian Hay,
author of The First Hundred Thousand, has told
us of trench warfare; Marcia Van Dresser has
sung to us; Mr. Carruth has discoursed, assist-
ed by colored lantern slides, on Fra Angelico;
and Mr. Walter de la Mare on magic in poetry;
and we have had Lord Aberdeen and Mr.
George Barr Baker in our midst.
The chief excitement of late days in the
graduate school has been, not the creation of a
new learned theory, nor the proving of an old
one, but the presence and final departure of
our one German scholar. The fact that her
German correspondence was profuse and ap-
parently undisturbed by international com-
plications served to raise suspicions that she was
a German spy. The possibility — I might almost
say hope — that such was her status seemed to
draw us a little out of our safe and remote
retirement from public affairs. It put us, if
not exactly into active participation with
them, at least, into theoretical and somewhat
romantic connection. For whether pacifist,
pro-German, socialist, anti-English, or what-
ever else its persuasions, all the world, if it
be honest with itself, and possessed of normal
human nature, loves a spy. We, being pacific,
— some of us — and certainly normal and very
honest with ourselves, gloated over the prospect
of having possibly sheltered a member of that
genus. That the Prussian government could
find us important enough to mark us out for
such distinction raised us in our own estimation.
In a confused way, our mediaeval history being
not altogether clear in our mind, we seemed to
ourselves to be mixed up with such interesting
things as int igues, and castles, and duels and
tournaments and high adventures — not be-
cause we were ignorant of the fact that one
can have spies without such attractive acces-
sories, but because our knowledge of spies came
mostly from certain books where, happily, the
attractive accessories have not ceased to be.
Helen Parkhurst, 1911.
' David Garrick"
The College News had the following comments
on the play "David Garrick" given by 1913
for the benefit of their class endowment fund:
"To the stage manager, M. Blaine, a great
deal of credit is due when the difficulties of
getting together an alumnae cast and rehearsing
them with any degree of regularity are consid-
ered The fascinating rendering of
the part of David Garrick by Mrs. Churchward
will not soon be forgotten. In the big scene
in the second act particularly, her acting was
powerful An admirable foil to her
vivid acting was provided by M. V. Tongue as
the stolid Mr. Simon Ingot, the city merchant.
. . . . His dinner guests
were ideally done, Mr. Smith and Miss Ara-
minta Brown making an especial hit. This
scene, with its good comedy, was the best in
the play. E. Bontecou made a humourous
Squire Chivy, the disappointed bridegroom.';'
College Athletics
The undergraduates have challenged the
alumnae to a fencing tournament.
Vassar has challenged Bryn Mawr in tennis.
In The Model School
"There are four Bryn Mawr babies in the
Model School: Lois Horn, who is the 1900
Class baby, daughter of Professor and Mrs.
Horn (Lois Anna Farnham, '00); Caroline and
Louise Gucker, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Gucker (Louise O. Fulton, '93), and
Dorothy "V^aples, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rufus Waples (Agnes Howson, '97)." — The Col-
lege News.
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The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[April
THE EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS
The whole student body assembled at chapel
on the morning March 16 to hear President
Thomas announce the names of the three
students who have won the highest honours in
the gift of the College. Each year the College
gives three fellowships each of the value of
$500, one to a graduate student who has stud-
ied for two years in the College, one to a
graduate student who has studied for one
year in the College, and one to a member of
the Senior Class who has received the highest
average grade on all the courses she has attend-
ed. The sum of $500 is to be spent in de-
fraying the expense of one year's study at
some European L^niversity. In consequence of
war conditions it is not probable that the
winners of the scholarships this year will be
able to go abroad immediately, but after the
war is over they expect to go to Europe and
continue their studies.
Hazel Grant Ormsbee, of Ithaca, New
York, is the winner this year of the Mary E.
Garrett, or Second Year, European Fellowship.
Miss Ormsbee was born in Beacon, Dutchess
County, New York, and has resided in Ithaca.
She is a graduate of Cornell University, and
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from
Cornell in 1915. She was then awarded one
of the Carola Woerishoffer Scholarships in
Social Economy and Social Research at Bryn
Mawr College, and has studied at Bryn Mawr
College for two years in Social Economy, mak-
ing a special study of labor conditions and the
choice of vocations. She has also studied
Psychology and Mental Tests in relation to
labor problems. She will probably in the
future attend the London School of Economics
and make a special study of the labor exchanges
in Great Britain. Miss Ormsbee makes the
24th holder of the Mary E. Garrett European
Fellowship. Fourteen of the previous holders
are now Doctors of Philosophy; ten of them are
teaching in colleges, one is employed in college
administration, three are teaching in schools,
three are studying, one is a private tutor.
Only four have no occupation, and of these
two are married.
Bird Margaret Turner, of Moundsville,
West Virginia, is the winner of the President's
European Fellowship open 10 students who
have studied for one year in the Bryn Mawr
College Graduate School. Miss Turner is a
graduate o' the University of West Virginia,
1915, where she was student assistant in Math-
ematics, and she taught in the summer
school o' this University in the summers of
1915 and 1916. During the last year she has
been a graduate scholar in Mathematics at
Bryn Mawr College and has received the
scholarship on the excellent work she has done
in Mathematics and Education. She makes
the 21st student to receive the President's
European Fellowship, and of the previous
twenty, ten are now Doctors of Philosophy;
eleven are now teaching in colleges, one is
engaged in college administration, one is study-
ing, and one is teaching school. Only three
have no occupation, and of these two are
married.
The remaining honors are those of the Class
of 1917. Students who have received a grade
between 85 and 90 receive their degree "magna
cum laude." These students are:
Thalia Howard Smith, Katharine Bun
Blodgett, Marjorie Josephine Milne, Mary
Robinson Hodge.
The degree "cum laude" has been won by
the following students with a grade between 80
and 85 on all their college work:
Marian Rhoads, Janet Randolph Grace,
Esther Johnson, Agnes Dorothy Shipley, Mary
Sylvester Cline, Henrietta Amelia Dixon,
Elizabeth Emerson, Ada Frances Johnson,
Amelia Kellogg MacMaster, Ruth Juliette
Levy, Margaret Scattergood, Monica Barry
O'Shea, Eugenie Donchian, Alice Beardwood,
Dorothy Macdonald.
The highest honor given in the class; that is,
the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship, has been
awarded to Thalia Howard Smith, of New
York City, who has the high grade of 88.4 on
all her college work, and has held the Bryn
Mawr Matriculation Scholarship for New York,
New Jersey and Delaware, the James E.
Rhoads Junior Scholarship, and the Maria L.
Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship
She makes the twenty-ninth holder of the
Bryn Mawr European Fellowship.
SUPPORT OF BELGIAN CHILDREN
To The Alumnae and Former Students of Bryn
Mawr College:
The Undergraduates, Graduate students and
acuity of Bryn Mawr college have pledged to
the American Commission for Relief in Belgium
the support of a Belgian village of 400 children
for one year. This support inc udes the pay-
ment of $400 a month through March, 1918,
and provides for the supplementary meal
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(costing 3 cents a day or $1 a month per child)
consisting of cocoa and white biscuit which
the Commission cannot afford to give, besides
the regular rations, unless contributions are
made especially for that purpose.
The usual rations provided by the Commis-
sion, although keeping the children alive, are
not sufficient to prevent an alarming spread of
tuberculosis nor to give them strength to grow.
There are one and a quarter million children
dependent on the Commission, who have
stopped growing owing to the lack of sufficient
food. What hope is there for a country whose
youth cannot reach a healthful maturity?
Because Bryn Mawr is the first college or
university in America to work as a community
for the Belgians, we feel that every one con-
nected with Bryn Mawr ought to have an
opportunity to share in this work. The Com-
mittee for Belgian Relief of Bryn Mawr College
does not feel thai $400 a month represents the
entire resources of the College. It feels further
that for such an end, for the future of a nation,
all resources should be employed to their ut-
most. Already Bryn Mawr is taking care of
400 children for one year — a mere beginning.
With your aid that number can be increased.
We are appealing to you as to one who has
had a share in the activities of Bryn Mawr to
help us in this work. A dollar a month, or $12 a
year, payable now, will take care of one child.
Whatever you give goes directly to the Belgians
through the American Commission for Relief in
Belgium as the expenses of this committee are
privately paid. By your generous response to
this appeal may we feel that the Undergrad-
uates have the support of those who have
gone before them in this effort, and that Bryn
Mawr is working as a whole.
[Signed| Elisabeth S. Granger, '17,
Chairman.
Fredrica B. Howell, '19,
Elizabeth Houghton, '18,
Millicent Carey, '20,
Helen Fuller, Graduate.
Checks payable to Elizabeth Houghton,
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
IN MEMORIAM
ELIZABETH MINGUS GRIFFITH
The sudden death of Elizabeth Mingus
Griffith on September 29, 1916, came as a great
shock to her many friends, and in it the cause
of secondary education for girls has suffered a
real loss. She had been associated with the
work of girls' preparatory schools since her
graduation from Bryn Mawr in 1900, having
taught successively in the Bryn Mawr School
of Baltimore, Darlington Seminary, the East
Orange Collegiate School, and Miss Church's
School, Boston, of which she had been since
1909 Assistant Principal. She was also a
member of the Headmistresses' Association.
It was her constant purpose to maintain in all
her work the uncompromising standards of
broad and sound scholarship for which Bryn
Mawr stands, and she succeeded to an unusual
degree not only in attaching her students to
her personally, but in arousing in them a
desire for worthy achievement and an enthus-
iasm for knowledge for its own sake.
She was unsparing in the demands she made
opon herself, was active in suffrage work in
Boston and New York, and was constantly
studying. She held the degrees of A.M. and
Pd.M. from Columbia, and at the time of her
death had nearly completed the requirements
for her Ph.D.
To those of us whose privilege it was to
enjoy her close personal friendship, her loss
means more than we can say, and to the large
circle of students and teachers with whom she
came in contact her memory will always be an
inspiration toward high ideals and ungrudging
service.
DR. JOSEPH W. WARREN
The news of the death of Dr. Joseph W.
Warren, former professor of physiology at
Bryn Mawr, will be deeply felt amongst a
wide circle of the alumnae. Dr. Warren came
to Bryn Mawr in the autumn of 1891, when the
biological department underwent its first great
change, and for more than twenty years he was
closely associated with the affairs of the Col-
lege, both at home and abroad. Those who
worked under Dr. Warren in the early days of
his life at Bryn Mawr know that he came there
without any great enthusiasm for the higher
education of women, but they can also testify
that as time went on, he became increasingly
convinced of women's capacity to profit by the
educational advantages then being opened to
them on all sides and also to entertain a gen-
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[April
uine respect for their activities in the work of
the world.
As the years passed by, Dr. Warren entered
more and more fully into the life of the Col-
lege and identified himself more and more
completely with its interests and pursuits. He
was a man, who, whatever his hand found to
to, did it with his might, and having once
made the interests of the College his own, he
spared no time nor effort in her service. Bryn
Mawr owes him a great deal, more, it may be,
than she has altogether realized, for his social
gifts, the wit and humor that made him such
good company and such a successful public
speaker, as well as his liberal education and
knowledge of the world, were all valuable as-
sets in her outside intercourse, while his gift
for organization and his thoroughness in
execution made his services invaluable in her
interna] administration. I think few persons
are aware, for instance, that at the time Dalton
Hall was completed, Dr. Warren gave up his
Christmas holidays and devoted all his time
during the period assigned to them to over-
seeing the establishment of the biological
department in its new quarters.
But the greatest service that Dr. Warren
rendered to the College lay in his relations with
the students, both individually and collectively.
One of his salient characteristics was his inter-
est in human nature; moreover, he was fortunate
in possessing that rare and choice gift, a genuine
interest in the individual, which, together with
his natural kindness of heart, made him as the
years went by, above all else, the students'
friend. No finer tribute can be paid to a man
than an abiding confidence in his will to help
others, and it is just this tribute that Bryn
Mawr students paid to Dr. Warren, uncon-
sciously, while he lived amongst them and that
Bryn Mawr alumnae will continue to pay to
his memory, with deliberate intention, in the
years to come. The means of help at Dr.
Warren's command increased, of course, as time
went on, and each year made the students
more secure in the knowledge that whenever
it was within his power to aid, he might be
relied upon to do so. One of them once said
to me when speaking of certain difficulties en-
countered at one period of her college life:
"If I had only gone to Dr. Warren in the be-
ginning, he would have helped me through."
Nor did his interest in the students cease
with the close of their life on the campus. An
alumna who published a little article soon after
her graduation was gratified to find a favorable
review of it soon afterwards in a prominent
magazine, but it was not until years later
that she discovered the review in question had
been written by Dr. Warren, who thus quietly
lent a hand to help her on her way into the
world.
One side of Dr. Warren's life, namely, his
work as a physician, which he carried on dur-
ing the summers at the Isle of Shoals, was
necessarily little known at Bryn Mawr.
Nevertheless, I feel that it is due to him not
to pass it by unnoticed, for he dearly loved his
profession and was one of those who stood for
all that is finest and most progressive in it. I
ought not to conclude this brief memorial,
therefore, without speaking of the respect in
which he was held by other physicians and of
the confidence reposed in him by his patients,
as well as of their warm regard for him. On
two occasions within the last year relatives of
his former patients at the Isle of Shoals have
spoken to me with deep feeling of his skill as a
practitioner and his personal kindness in illness
and sorrow.
Bryn Mawr sustained a great loss when Dr.
Warren severed his connection with it, though
it is pleasant for his friends to know that he
found his new activities interesting and congen-
ial. Those who knew something of his abil-
ities in original work hoped that the increased
opportunities and facilities at his command
might enable him to take up the investigation
of some scientific problem, and if he had lived
a few years longer the field of such research
might have been the richer by some contri-
bution at his hands. This hope, alas, can
never be fulfilled. Dr. Warren's work among
us is over, but he has left behind him a far
more valuable memorial in a life-work well done
in high ideals steadfastly maintained, and in
innumerable acts of personal kindness, the
memory of which lies warm at many hearts.
The recording angel may surely
"write him as one who loved his fellow men"
and so call him to the highest room.
Caroline Wormeley Latimer, '96.
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NEWS FROM THE CLUBS
NEW YORK
137 East 40th Street
Secretary, Isabel Peters, 33 West 49th Street.
The January gathering at the Club was
turned into a luncheon and meeting of the
New York Branch of the Alumnae Association.
It was a very interesting occasion, for Miss
Kirkbride spoke on the Reorganization of the
College, Miss Goldmark on the work of the
Social Center at Bryn Mawr, and Mrs. Charles
Dudley reported on the Endowment Fund.
In February the Club held its annual meeting
and elected the officers for the year. When
the business was over, Frances Browne, who
represented the Club at the annual meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Alumnae As-
sociation, made her report. It was interesting
that the Club as a body was able to be repre-
sented in the Alumnae Association. The
meeting was followed by a lively tea.
Plans are being made for the annual din-
ner in March at which it is hoped that Presi-
dent Thomas will be the guest of honor.
OHIO
To Alumnae and Former Students of Bryn Mawr
College:
On January 22, 1917, a second meeting of
alumnae and former students of Bryn Mawr
College, resident in Columbus, Ohio, was
called at the Columbus School for Girls, by
Miss Grace Latimer Jones (B.M. 1900), to
consider the formation of an Ohio Bryn Mawr
Club. A1 this meeting temporary officers were
elected a follows:
Chairman, Miss Grace Latimer Jones, Col-
umbus School fo • Girls.
Secretary, Miss Adeline Werner, (B.M. 1916)
1640 E. Broad Street.
The following resolutions were unanimously
passed :
Resolved That:
1. The women at this meeting form the
nucleus of an Ohio Bryn Mawr Club, to which
all Alumnae and Former Students of the Col-
lege shall be eligible.
2. The immediate object of this organiza-
tion shall be:
a To afford such alumna;- and former stu-
dents an opportunity to become better acquaint-
ed with one other.
b To make more widely known throughout
Ohio the exceptional advantages offered in the
undergraduate courses of Bryn Mawr College.
c To stimulate interest in the Bryn Mawr
Graduate School by informing women now
studying in the colleges of Ohio, of the unusual
number of scholarships and fellowships open
to advanced and research students.
3. The officers be empowered to call and
arrange a meeting of all such alumnae and
former students in April, such meeting to be
held at the Columbus School for Girls.
4. The Secretary be empowered to send a
newspaper notice of this meeting, and a copy
of these resolutions to every alumna and former
student of Bryn Mawr College who is now
resident in Ohio, and to notify these, by letter
or personal interview, a reasonable time before
the date set for the April meeting.
5. The Secretary be empowered to send a
copy of these resolutions to the President and
to the Secretary of the Alumnae Association
of Bryn Mawr College, and that she in person
present these resolutions for approval at the
February meeting of said Association.
Adeline Werner,
Temporary Secretary.
The following extracts from a letter from
Grace Latimer Jones are of interest in this
connection:
"My idea of an Ohio Club would be some-
thing like this: We could have members en-
rolled throughout the state, paying each a
small annual fee to meet printing expenses.
The first effort would be to enroll all who are
eligible, and to make all feel an enthusiasm in
belonging to the organization. We should have
an annual meeting, in Columbus the first time,
because that is the city most centrally located.
This would be an all-day meeting; and unless
great numbers come, I will be glad to bear
the expense of the first luncheon, and to "put
up" the members. Some few might have to
stay all night. You see the expense to each
member would then be only her railroad fare,
this would seem to me to be a good way to
start the organization.
Of course the real purpose of such clubs is
to stir Bsyn Mawr interest, not only in those
who have been members of the college, but
also in those who might later become students.
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[April
Bryn Mawr is little known in this state; and so
a well-defined, dignified publicity policy would
be desirable. The newspapers in Columbus
will give meetings all the space we can wish to
have. In Columbus itself a meeting will ac-
complish a great deal. I will see to it that in
the newspapers of every town in which there
is a Bryn Mawrtyr, a notice appears stating
that the meeting is to be held; and I think we
can have a notice of the meeting later. In
this way hundreds of persons who have never
heard of the college will have it brought to
their attention.
Local alumnae can do a good deal, if they
care to, to gain the interest of girls in various
schools. I mean to send to each of the local
college clubs in Columbus an invitation to
present to our pupils the attractions of the
several colleges. We mean to appoint a day
when there will be an exhibit of the college.
In the case of Bryn Mawr, we can have a
lantern slide talk at the end of the morning
service. I rather hope that you have lantern
slides to send on application — as some other
colleges have. At any rate good postcards
can be used in our projector. Then we can
have a small exhibit of lanterns, of calendars,
of magazines, and of good photographs, and
etchings. It would be very helpful if the
college might have an interesting exhibit to
send about to clubs or schools — an exhibit that
the alumnae might use to make people under-
stand what the nature of the college life and
work is. I am constantly asked to tell what
the particular attractions and excellences of
Bryn Mawr are; and this would be a tangible
way of reaching our pupils with information
that really they want. I have real hope of
creating more Bryn Mawr enthusiasm in Ohio,
now that examinations are to be insisted upon
in all the women's colleges. In our public
schools there are now no examinations of any
sort given; and so you can see that in the past
it has been difficult to rouse girls to enter a
college where there is no other method of ad-
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
The news of this department is compiled from information furnished by class secretaries, Bryn Mawr Clubs, and
irom other reliable sources for which the Editor is responsible. Acknowledgment is also due to the Bryn Mawr Coll*&«
News for items of news.
Alumnae and former students of Bryn Mawr College are earnestly requested to
send directly to the Quarterly — or if they prefer, to their Class Secretaries — for
use in these columns, items of news concerning themselves. There is a constant
demand, on the part of Quarterly readers, for abundant class news. But the
class news can be complete, accurate, and timely only if each one will take the
trouble to send in promptly information concerning herself. And the Classes that
have not secretaries willing to act as correspondents for the Quarterly are urged
to appoint such officers.
1889
Secretary, Mrs. Frank H. Simpson, Over-
look, College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ella Riegel, Legislative Chairman of the
Pennsylvania Branch of the Congressional
Union, was one of the delegates to the White
House to present the Boissevain memorials to
President Wilson.
1892
Secretary, Mrs. F. M. Ives, 318 West 75th
Street, New Y^rk City.
1893
Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Johnson, Jr., 8 Oak
Way, Hartsdale, N. Y.
Dr. Simon Flexner, husband of Helen Thomas
Flexner, has been elected Foreign Associate Mem-
ber of the French Academy of Medicine.
The College News has the following to say of
Um6 Tsuda: "In speaking to several students
after Chapel Sunday night, Bishop Lloyd, the
head of the Episcopal Board for Foreign Mis-
sions, said of Miss Tsuda,' 'There is nothing
in Japan more astonishing than Miss Tsuda.
Her steady push upwards in her little school
is an immeasurable influence for fTood.' "
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1894
Secretary, Mrs. R. N. Durfee, 19 High-
land Avenue, Fall River, Mass.
1896
"The Cultural College" was the subject of
Professor Georgiana Goddard King's address
at the luncheon of the Montclair College
Women's Club in January in which she advo-
cated the four year under-graduate course as
typified at Bryn Mawr. The vocational col-
lege was the subject of another speech, but
Miss King said that the place for vocational
work is after, not instead of, an academic
education.
"If a student wants to go into paid work,
Miss King pointed out, a cultural course gives
a fundamental training which enables her to
accomplish more and advance further in the
line she chooses; if she either does not want a
paid position or is unable to leave home on
account of responsibilities there it gives her
invaluable resources and wide fields of interest
to which to turn." — The College News.
The marriage of Dora Keen to George W.
Handy was briefly mentioned in the Quarter-
ly for July, 1916. The marriage took place
at McCarthy, Alaska, in the virgin forest,
within sight of Mt. Blackburn. Mr. and Mrs.
Handy left at once for a nine weeks' camping
trip through the wilds. They returned to
Philadelphia in October and are now living at
Beulah Farm, West Hartford, Vt. Mrs. Handy
has given lectures this winter and expects to
continue her lecturing and writing. She had
an article on climbing in the Alps in the Oc-
tober Scribner. Mr. Handy is the son of a
German army officer. He left Germany at the
age of seventeen, traveled extensively, and
has been in Alaska most of the time for the
past twelve years. Being fond of adventure,
he offered himself to be one of the second ex-
pedition to attempt Mt. Blackburn, in April,
1912, and alone out of seven men reached the
top with Miss Keen, on May 19, in an expedi-
tion that required thirty-three days continu-
ously on dangerous glaciers.
1897
Anne Lawther spoke in chapel at College
recently.
The College News of March 7, has the follow-
ing to say of Corinna Putnam Smith (Mrs.
Joseph Lindon Smith):
"In the first onrush of the war, when fighting
raged about Mons and the Marne and the
Aisne, hundreds of villages of the French
frontier were swept away and the people left
homeless; the suffering of the refugee children
of these villages, whose families if not killed
are often lost from them, will be described by
Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, ex-'97, Friday
afternoon at four o'clock in Taylor. Mrs.
Lindon Smith came back two months ago from
France, where she went to investigate the
condition of the children on behalf of the
Franco-American Committee for the Protec-
tion of Children of the Frontier.
Her appeal is not connected with the fund for
the "Fatherless Children of France," which is
in part supported by the government. In the
case of these children their fathers have been
soldiers killed in battle while those of the
'frontier' children may have been civilians lost
in the destruction of their villages.
"Mrs. Lindon Smith has the distinction of
being the only Christian ever admitted to a cer-
tain Egyptian mosque. The perfect recitation
of a chapter of the Koran in Arabic gained her
this privilege. Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith is
well known as a landscape painter. Some
bas-reliefs, copied by him from the Egyptian,
are now in the Boston Museum."
1899
Secretary, Mrs. E. H. Waring, 325 Washing-
ton Street, Glen Ridge, N. J.
Mary F. Hoyt, ex-'99, and Ellen Kilpatrick,
ex-'99, spent two weeks last summer at the
National Service School studying wireless and
signal work, and house nursing.
Amy Steiner, Mary Thurber Dennison (Mrs.
H. S. Dennison), and Sibyl Hubbard Darling-
ton (Mrs. H. S. Darlington) are acting as sub-
collectors for the Endowment Fund for Balti-
more, Boston, and Philadelphia respectively,
under Laura Peckham Waring (Mrs. E. H.
Waring) who has undertaken the collectorship
in place of Emma Guffey Miller (Mrs. Carroll
Miller), resigned.
Every one will be glad to hear that Mrs.
Miller's little boy, Joseph, is making a fine
recovery from his attack of infantile paralysis,
and that one of the Miller twins, John, who
was hurt seriously in a coasting accident in
December, *has also recovered.
Margaret Hall spent February in Cuba and
the Isle of Pines.
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[April
Frances Keay Ballard (Mrs. T. P. Ballard),
45 Hastings Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio, has
issued a circular with a list of interesting sub-
jects on which she talks. She calls it "Lec-
tures on Questions of Public Interest," and the
topics include Single Tax, the new Seaman's
Law, Suffrage and Social Service, Legal Status
of Women, Municipal Government, etc.
1900
On January 22, Robert Darrah Jenks, hus-
band of Maud Lowrey Jenks, died suddenly of
pneumonia.
Grace Latimer Jones went to Buffalo on
January 23 as a delegate from the Columbus,
Ohio, Parents' League, to the first general
Conference of the Parents' Leagues of America.
Hilda Loines is general secretary of the
Woman's National Farm and Garden Associa-
tion and has an office at 600 Lexington Avenue,
New York City.
Elsie Dean Findley (Mrs. J. D. Findley)
has a third daughter, Jane Dean Findley, born
April 17, 1916.
Clara Seymour St. John (Mrs. George C.
St. John) has a son, Francis, born July 31,
1916.
Renee Mitchell Righter (Mrs. Thomas M.
Righter) has a daughter, Gertrude, born Nov-
ember 5, 1916.
Leslie Knowles Blake (Mrs. Arthur Blake)
has a son, born last July.
A memorial to Elizabeth Griffith appears in
another part of this number of the Quarterly,
but the following notice has been sent in and
should not be omitted:
"It is with very heartfelt sorrow that the
Class of 1900 will learn of the tragic death of
Bessie Griffith on September 29. She fell
from an upper window of the school where she
was teaching and was instantly killed. Her
life was a singularly gifted one and such an
ending to its great usefulness and inspiration
is very pitiful. Elizabeth Griffith had been for
several years vice-principal of Miss Church's
School in Boston. In addition she studied
several summers at Columbia and took her
M.A. there two or three years ago. One year
ago she resigned from Miss Church's School
and spent last year studying in the School of
Pedagogy at Columbia, taking her Pd.M. in
June. Last summer she did literary work, and
this fall she had taken a position in a school in
New York."
Gertrude Ely, ex-'OO, was instrumental in
starting a pageant, given in the Philadelphia
Opera House, to rouse Philadelphia's interest in
mission work. The pageant was a religious
mask showing in allegorical form the yearning
of primitive peoples for the unknown.
1903
Secretary, Mrs. H. K. Smith, Farmington,
Conn.
Rosalie James is studying at the New York
School of Philanthropy.
1904
Secretary, Emma O. Thompson, 213 South
50th Street, Philadelphia.
Bertha C. Norris read a paper before the
Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philological
Association at Marys ville, Tenn., February 23.
Edna Aston Shearer has been made assist-
ant professor of education at Smith College.
Bertha Brown has announced her engage-
ment to Walter D. Lambert, who is in the
Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Department
of Commerce Washington, D. C.
Virginia Chauvenet, ex-'04, is playing with
Mrs. Fiske's company in "Erstwhile Susan."
Clara Woodruff Hull (Mrs. R. A. Hull) has a
second son, Lewis Woodruff Hull, born October
16, at Scran ton, Pa. Her husband has been
stationed at El Paso with the Thirteenth
Pennsylvania Infantry.
Anna Jonas had a paper " Pre-Cambrian and
Triassic Diabase in Eastern Pennsylvania" in
the Bulletin of the American Museum of Nat-
ural History for January 1917.
Esther Sinn has been appointed director of
Social Service at Gramercy Park Center, New
York City.
Maria Albee Uhl (Mrs. Charles Uhl), has a
daughter, Mary Hawes Uhl, born February
28, 1917, at New Haven, Conn.
1905
Secretary, Mrs. C. M. Hardenbergh, 3824
Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.
Alberta Warner has announced her engage-
ment to Harold Aiken of Berwyn, Pa.
Isabel Lynde Dammann (Mrs. J. F. Dam-
mann, Jr.) has a second son.
1906
Secretary, Maria Smith, St. Davids, Pa.
Helen Lowengrund Jacoby (Mrs. George W.
Jacoby), has a daughter, Kathryn Moss Jacoby,
born September 6, 1916.
1917]
News from the Classes
55
Helen Smith Brown (Mrs. Sanger Brown,
2nd ) is bringing out a book of poems, "Elan
Vital," published by Richard G. Badger of
Boston.
Ethel De Koven Hudson (Mrs. H. K. Hud-
son) has been canvassing New York offices for
signatures to be sent to President Wilson urg-
ing compulsory military service.
A Philadelphia newspaper commented as
follows on Adelaide Neall's speech at the
conference on Journalism and Publishing
House Work:
"Miss Neall is an admirable speaker. Her
voice is strong and carries her point. Her
enunciation is clear. She held her audience
and knew when to stop. Indeed she seemed
to represent the modern finished product —
self-reliant, clever, resourceful, successful;
above all, unafraid. There is nothing of the
'twining vine' of our old-fashioned youth about
her."
Alice Lauterbach has announced her engage-
ment to Roger Flint of Cambridge, Mass.
They expect to be married in June and will
live in Newtonville.
1907
Secretary, Mrs. Robert East Apthorp,
Roundy's Hill, Marblehead, Mass.
Julia Benjamin Howson (Mrs. Roger S.
Howson), has a daughter.
1908
Secretary, Mrs. Dudley Montomery, 25
Langdon Street, Madison, Wis.
Margaret Morris was married on February
20 to Elmer Ray Haskins.
Myra Elliot Vauclain (Mrs. Jacques Vau-
clain) has a third child, born in November.
Louise Congdon Balmer (Mrs. J. P. Balmer)
spent a few days in January in Madison with
Josephine Proudfit Montgomery (Mrs. Dudley
Montgomery).
Margaret Jones Turnbull (Mrs. Bayard
Turnbull) has a daughter, Francis Litchfield,
born Jan. 27.
1909
Secretary, Frances Browne, 15 East 10th
Street, New York City.
Margaret Ames, ex-'09, has announced her
engagement to Cushing Wright of St. Paul,
Minn. Miss Ames returned just before Christ-
mas from France, where she had been working
for six months with the American Red Cross,
helping to distribute supplies.
Pleasaunce Baker has been in Zellwood all
winter, except for a visit of a few weeks in
Baltimore at the end of February.
Fannie Barber has been living in New York
this winter, after three years spent in the Phil-
ippine Islands.
Marie Belleville, educational and membership
secretary of the West Side Branch of the Y.
W. C. A. in New York City, has been par-
ticularly busy of late organizing classes in
Home Care of the Sick, Camp Cooking, Food
Conservation, etc., for which there has been
great demand.
Margaret Bontecou has been working under
Dr. Smith during her three years as warden at
Bryn Mawr, and will come up for her M.A.
this spring.
Katharine Ecob has been in Portland, Oregon,
since Christmas, visiting her sister.
Katharine Branson is teaching in Miss
Beard's School, Orange.
Bertha Ehlers is warden of Radnor.
Helen Irey is teaching in the Dearborn-
Morgan School in Orange.
Emily Maurice Dall (Mrs. C. W. Dall), ex-'09,
has been spending a part of the winter on
Jekyl Island, Ga., with her two small boys.
Alice Miller, ex-'09, has announced her en-
gagement to Dr. Adam Bissell. Dr. Bissell is
a graduate of Cornell Medical School and is
now doing hospital service in the New York
Hospital.
Marianne Moore is living in Chatham, N. J.,
where her brother is minister of the Presby-
terian church.
Catharine Goodale Warren (Mrs. Rawson
Warren) is, as she expresses it, 'Somewhere
in Texas, lost in a wilderness of mesquite and
Mexicans." Lieut. Warren has been stationed
there since last summer.
Mary Nearing is warden of Rockefeller.
Anna Piatt is studying medicine at Johns
Hopkins.
May Putnam finishes her service at the
Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow,
Scotland, in April and will probably go to
either London or Paris for war relief service.
Shirley Putnam was to have sailed for Paris
and war relief work on the day that diplomatic
relations between Germany and the United
States were broken off. She refused to be a
party to the "overt act" and is therefore still
in New York.
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The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[April
Mary Rand Birch (Mrs. Stephen Birch),
ex-'09, is living in New York City at 12 East
87th Street.
Gladys Stout was married on February 20
to Robert B. Bowler. Mr. Bowler is in busi-
ness in New York, where they have taken an
apartment on East 40th Street.
Lacy Van Wagenen is studying photography
at the White School of Photography in New
York. She has already had one of her pictures
in an exhibition held at the Ehrich Galleries in
February.
Margaret Vickery, ex-'09, is very successful
in her work in the Colored Industrial School
at Calhoune, Ala.
Cynthia Wesson is in Somersetshire, Eng-
land, where she says they hear hardly any
more news of the war than we do. She is
playing golf assiduously.
Marnette Wood Chesnutt (Mrs. J. H. Ches-
nutt), has a son, James Wood Chesnutt, born
in the early part of December.
Mary Skinner is studying economics at Co-
lumbia.
1910
Secretary, Mrs. H. B. Van Dyne, Troy, Pa.
Bessie Cox Wolstenholme (Mrs. Hollis Wol-
stenholme) has a daughter, Anne, born October
18, 1916.
- Elsie Deems has announced her engagement
to Carol Kane Neilson, of New York and
Paonia, Col.
Charlotte Simonds Sage (Mrs. Nathaniel
Sage) spent some time in New York on the
way to Pomfret, Conn.
Alice Whittemore is teaching at the Stevens
School in Germantown.
1911
Secretary, Mrs. Samuel Greeley, Winnetka,
III '
Class Correspondent, Margaret J. IIobart,
Sommariva, Easthampton, N. Y.
Margery Hoffman is spending the winter in
New York studying art. She is staying with
the family of Mollie Kilner.
Mollie Kilner is in Portland, Ore., continuing
her nursing course at the Multomah Hospital.
Amy Walker Field (Mrs. James A. Field) has
been spending several weeks in New York with
her mother at the Hotel Brevoort.
Marion Scott is editing the Music Page of
the New York Evening Mail and is living at
24 East 38th Street.
Helen Henderson is engaged to Sidney Green,
of Petersburg, Va.
Marion Crane was married on April 9 to
Charles Carroll, instructor in English at Cornell.
Catherine Delano Grant (Mrs. Alexander G.
Grant) has a second son, Frederick Adams
Grant, born on Christmas day, 1916.
Margaret Prussing Le Vino (Mrs. A. S. Le
Vino) has a baby boy, Shelby, born in New
York on January 31. Mrs. Le Vino's address
is now 43 West 83rd Street.
Norvelle Browne,, ex-'ll, is spending the
spring in Boston.
Lois Lehman, ex-'ll, received her A.B. degree
from the University of California last spring,
and is now working for her A.M.
Agnes Wood was married on February 14 to
David Rupp, 3rd., at Wayne, Pa.
Henrietta Magoffin has gone to Pittsburgh
to live. She is acting as office assistant for
her brother who is a physician, and is studying
at the University.
Frances Porter was married on March 17 to
Dr. Herman Adler of New York. Dr. Adler is
head of the Psychopathic Institute of the Chi-
cago Juvenile Court, where Miss Porter had
been working since 1914.
Virginia Canan Smith (Mrs. John Harold
Smith) has a son, Caspar Howriet Smith, born
on February 22.
1912
Secretary: Mrs. John Alexander Mac-
Donald, 3227 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Indian-
apolis, Ind.
Sadie Beliekowsky studied at the University
of Pennsylvania during the first semester of
this year and took her teacher's certificate in
West Virginia on credit. In January she went
to Hinton, West Virginia, to teach in the same
school in which she taught last year.
Carmelita Chase Hinton (Mrs. Sebastian
Flinton) has a daughter, born February 14,
1917. She has named the baby Jean for Jean
Stirling.
Elizabeth Pinney Hunt (Mrs. Andrew Dick-
son Hunt) has taken a house in Haverford, Pa.,
and moved to Haverford from Staten Island on
March 24. Mr. Hunt has a position with the
Westinghouse Electric Company, and has been
transferred to the Philadelphia office of that
company.
Helen Marsh, ex-'12, is Assistant Librarian
in the New York Public Library at Fifth Ave-'
nue and Forty-second St.
1917]
News from the Classes
57
Rebecca Lewis is a graduate student in Latin
and Old French at Johns Hopkins University.
Marion Brown MacLean (Mrs. Malcolm
Shaw MacLean), ex-' 12, and her husband are
both on the staff of the Correct English Maga-
zine. Mr. MacLean is teaching in the English
department of Northwestern University and
Mrs. MacLean is doing tutoring in English.
Recently they have signed up for some in absen-
tia work in Browning with Ann Arbor. In
addition they are studying Russian as they
expect to go to Petrograd to study as soon as
the war is over.
Agnes Morrow has left the Carnegie Founda-
tion and has taken a position with the Charles
E. Merrill Co. in New York. She is secretary
of the Intercollegiate Alumnae Athletic Associa-
tion of New York.
Rachel Marshall Cogswell (Mrs. Daniel
Cogswell), ex-'12, has moved from Sedro
Wooley, Washington, to Lincoln, Kansas.
Jean Stirling spent February in Tampa,
Florida, and went from there to Miami early
in March. She expects to be married in Wash-
ington about the middle of April.
Marjorie Thompson is teaching English at
the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.
Irma Shloss, ex-'12, has announced her en-
gagement to Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer of
Des Moines.
Mary Alden Lane (Mrs Edwin Selden Lane)
has gone to Rochester to visit her mother for
some time. Her father died very suddenly
on February 27.
Ruth Akers, ex-'12, has bought a store in
Los Angeles, Cal., opposite the University of
Southern California.
Lorle Stecher is teaching psychology at
Temple University, Philadelphia.
Pauline Clarke has gone to Washington to
work with the Congressional Union. She is
editing the Suffragist, the magazine of that
organization.
Norah Cam has left the aero-engine factory
in Dumfries, Scotland and is Assistant Fitter
in an Aeroplane works near Towcester, England.
Ethel Thomas is Secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania School for Social Service.
Mary Peirce is helping to manage the Bryn
Mawr Community Savings Fund which has
recently been started for the children.
Mary Gertrude Fendall is Chairman of Litera-
ture for the Congressional Union. She is
making an analysis of the last ejection in the
suffrage states and is preparing the bi-annual
report of the Congressional Union. She acted
one week as Sergeant of the Guard for the suf-
fragists who have been picketing the White
House.
1913
Secretary, Nathalie Swift, 20 West 55th
Street, New York City.
Marjorie Murray is teaching at the Brearley
School.
Frances Ross has announced her engagement
to Irvin C. Poley, of Germantown.
Mary Sheldon has entered the Sisterhood of
St. Anne's, Boston.
1914
Secretary, Ida W. Pritchett, 22 East 91st
Street, New York City.
Elizabeth Colt sailed on January 8 for Europe
on the Espagne. She goes to Paris, where she
is to be secretary to Mr. H. A. Gibbons. Her
address is care of H. A- Gibbons, Esq., 120
Boulevard Montparnasse.
Isabel Benedict is inspecting factories in
New York for the Y. W. C. A.
Eleanor Allen is teaching at Miss Harker's
School in Palo Alto, Cal.
Margaret Blanchard is assistant warden of
Pembroke.
Rose Brandon has announced her engagement
to Ole Todderud, of Butler, Pa.
Katherine Shippen is studying at the New
York School of Philanthropy.
Katherine Dodd is living in New York and
is the County Organizer for the Women's
Suffrage party of Green County, N. Y.
Evelyn Shaw was married in Chicago on
January 26 to John McCutcheon, the cartoonist
for the Chicago Tribune.
Alice Miller has announced her engagement
to William Chester, of New York.
Caroline Allport, ex-' 14, has announced her
engagement to Malcolm Fleming, of New York.
"Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano, of this
city and Washington, D. C, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Laura Delano
to James L. Houghteling, of Chicago. Miss
Delano was presented to society here several
winters ago. Mr. Houghteling is at present at
Petrograd, where he is acting as a special assis-
tant secretary to the American Ambassador.
He is a son of the late James L. Houghteling,
and was graduated from Yale in 1905. No
date has been arranged for the wedding — The
New York Evening Post, March 16."
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[April
Josephine Niles was married on April 14 to
W. S. McClellan of Spring Grove, Pa.
1915
Secretary, Katharine W. McCollin, 2049
Upland Way, Philadelphia.
Florence Abernethy is working for the Bap-
tist Publication Company in Philadelphia.
Marjorie Fyfe is doing graduate work at
Leland Stanford University.
Harriet Bradford is Dean of Women at Le-
land Stanford University.
Ruth Hopkinson is working in Shreveport,
La.
Frances MacDonald is working in the Social
Service Department of the University Hospital,
Philadelphia.
Cecilia Sargent is teaching in the high school
at Cape May Court House, N. J.
Katherine Sheafer is taking a course at the
Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Channing Fuller (Mrs. W. P.
Fuller), ex-' 15, has a son, Thomas, born Novem-
ber 1, 1916.
Harriet Sheldon is assistant in Latin in the
Columbus School for Girls.
Marguerite Darkow is studying at Johns
Hopkins.
Eleanor Freer Wilson (Mrs. R. Wilson) has
a daughter, born in March.
Anne Hardon is working in the hospital at
St. Valery-en-Caux in Normandy.
Eleanor Dougherty, ex-'15, who sailed for
France in December, expects to give dancing
programs in the hospitals to entertain the
wounded.
1916
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 East
Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Constance Kellen and Constance Dowd are
traveling together in the West.
Lois Goodnow MacMurray (Mrs. John V. A.
MacMurray), ex-' 16, who is living in Pekin,
China, has a daughter, born January 26.
Lilla Worthington is studying at the Sargeant
School of Dramatics, New York.
Margaret Russell has announced her engage-
ment to Roger Sturtevant Kellen. Mr. Kellen
is a brother of Constance Kellen. Miss Russell
met him last summer while visiting the Kellens
on their ranch in the West.
Jessie Adams has announced her engagement
to Mr. MacDougald of Atlanta, Ga.
Katharine Trowbridge, ex-' 16, is studying at
the New York School of Philanthropy.
Nannie Gail was married to J. Reaney Wolfe,
of Baltimore, on April 10.
Margaret Mabon, ex-' 16, has announced her
engagement to Dr. David Kennedy Henderson.
Dr. Henderson is serving in the R. A. M. C.
and is at the present time at Lord Derby's war
hospital in London,
Ex-1918
Margery Smith is secretary for Houghton,
Mifflin Company.
The wedding of Elizabeth Downs to Rowland
Evans took place on April 10 at Fordhook
Farms, Three Tuns, Pa.
Elinor Lindley has announced her engage-
ment to Ward Burton, of Minneapolis. The
wedding will take place in April.
Lydia Mark Saville (Mrs. J. K. Savilie) has
a son, John Kimball Saville, born December 3,
1916.
The following names were registered at the
alumnae meeting in February:
Ph.D's
Isabel Maddison, Mary Hamilton Swindler.
1889
Lina Lawrence, Julia Cope Collins, M. G.
Thomas, Ella Riegel, Josephine Carey Thomas,
Mary Grace Worthington, Margaret Thomas
Carey, Anna Rhoads Ladd, Susan Braley Frank-
lin. Sophia Weygandt Harris.
1890
Katharine M. Shipley.
1891
Emily L. Bull, Jane B. Haines
1892
Abbv Kirk.
1893
Lucy Martin Donnelly, Lucy Lewis, Jane
L. Brownell.
1895
Marianna Janney, Elizabeth Conway Clark.
1896
Eleanor Larrabee Lattimore, Lydia T. Boring,
Elizabeth B. Jones, Hilda Justice, Tirzah L.
Nichols, Ida II. Ogilvie, Rebecca T. M. Dar-
lington, Anna Scattergood Hoag, Katharine
Innes Cook, Clara E. Farr, Hannah Cadbury
1917]
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59
Pyle, Gertrude Heritage Green, Georgiana
Goddard King, Pauline Goldmark, Abigail
Camp Dimon, E. B. Kirkbride, Caroline Mc-
Cormick Slade, Mary Crawford Dudley.
1897
Anna M. W. Pennypacker, Sue Avis Blake,
Euphemia M. Mann, Laura Niles, Mary L.
Fay, Mary E. Converse, Elizabeth W. Towle.
1898
Marion Park, Elizabeth Nields Bancroft,
Helen Williams Woodall, Mary De Haven
Bright, Rebeca Mulford Foulke Cregar, Emma
Cadbury, Jr.
1899
J. Rosalie Pooley, C. F. McLean.
1900
Edith Newlin Fell. Elise Dean Findley, Lois
Farnham Horn, Susan J. Dewees, L. Emery
Dudley, Ellen Duncan Fultz, Louise C. Francis,
Cornelia H. Kellogg.
1901
Corinne Sickel Farley, Sylvia Lee, Annie
Malcolm Slade, Eugenia Fowler Neale, Florence
J. Corbus, Marion Parris Smith, Ethel Cantlin
Buckley.
1902
Anne Hampton Todd, H. Jean Crawford,
Helen B. Trimble, Frances B. Seth, Josephine
Kieffer Foltz, Elizabeth D. Bodine.
1903
Elizabeth Snyder, Elsie Thomas McGinley.
1904
Bertha Brown, Margaret Scott, Martha
Rockwell Moorhouse, Hermine Ehlers, Emma
Fries, Miriam Frederick Holtzinger, Emma
Thompson.
1905
Elma Loines, Marcia B ready, Edith Long-
streth Wood, Alberta Warner, Theodora Bates,
Elsie Tattersfield Banes.
1906
Mary Richardson Walcott, Helen Smith
Brown, Louise Fleischmann, Helen Sandison,
1907
Alice Martin Hawkins, Marie H. Ballin,
Lelia Woodruff Stokes, Emily Cooper Johnson,
Annie A. Gendell, Ellen Thayer, Eunice Morgan
Schenck,Letitia B. Windle, Katharine Harley,
Miriam V. Ristine, Mary R. Ferguson.
1908
C. Jeannette Griffith, Mary Kinsley Best,
Helen North Hunter, Mary C. Case.
1909
Mildred P. Durand, Emma White Mitchell,
Margaret Bontecou, Frances Browne, Anna
Elizabeth Harlan, Bertha S. Ehlers, Mary
Frances Nearing, M. Georgina Biddle.
1910
Mary B. Wesner, Hilda W. Smith.
1911
Helen Emerson, Ellen E. Pottberg, Helen
M. Ramsey, Mary M. W. Taylor, Margery
Hoffman, Ruth Wells.
1912
Anna Hartshorne Brown, Lorle Stecher,
Christine Hammer, Louise Watson, Beatrice
Howson, Marjorie La Monte Thompson, Mary
Peirce.
1913
Grace Turner, Agathe Deming, Florence C.
Irish, R. Beatrice Miller, E. T. Shipley, Emma
S. Robertson.
1914
Ruth Wallerstein, Leah T. Cadbury, Marjorie
Childs, Margaret S. Williams, Janet Baird,
Helen R. Kirk, Dorothy Weston.
1915
Olga Erbsloh, Zena J. Blanc.
1916
Marian Kleps, Agnes W. Grabau, Louise
B. Dillingham, Adeline A. Werner, Kathryne
C. Batchelder, Joanna Ross.
1917
Elizabeth Emerson, Mary Robinson Hodge,
Helen Marie Harris, Eleanor Lansing Dulles.
LITERARY NOTES
All publications received will be acknowledged in this column. The editor begs that copies of books or articles by or
about the Bryn Mawr Faculty and Bryn Mawr students, or book reviews written by alumnae, will be sent to the
Quarterly for review, notice, or printing.
BOOKS REVIEWED
Greek and Roman Mythology. By Jessie
M. Tatlock. New York: The Century Com-
pany, 1917. $1.50.
The author of this new text-book has shown
singleness of purpose and an excellent sense of
proportion. While covering the range of Greek
and Roman mythology from the stories of the
creation to the founding of Rome, she has omit-
ted the less important myths and avoided all
superfluous detail. The result is a clear and
well-told account of the whole system, of which
no essential part is lacking but which can be
readily comprehended as a whole.
Part I deals with the origin and characteris-
tics of the greater and lesser gods of Olympus,
of the earth and the sea, and of the lower world.
Part II is devoted to stories of the heroes, and
to the tales of the Trojan War and the founding
of Rome. There is a thread of continuity
running through it, and it is all so well arranged
that the book can be easily used for reference;
for looking up, for instance, the kinship of one
of the heroes with the gods, or with another
hero.
The author states clearly that one object of
the book is to prove that "what is known as
classical mythology is a product of Greece,"
and has tried by her treatment to give an
honest impression of the mind of the Greeks.
She has wisely omitted all modern treat-
ment of the stories, though she has given
in the appendix an excellent list of modern
interpretations which might be very useful.
In choosing her illustrations she has for the
most part been true to her purpose, avoiding
all the modern statues and pictures of Greek
gods and heroes — so far from the classic spirit —
which disfigure so many of the works on myth-
ology. Some of the weaker Greek productions
of a late period might better have been omitted,
and it is a pity to have included any of the
inferior Roman wall-paintings. On the whole,
however, her choice has been good; and her
beautiful reproductions of the vase-paintings
add much to the charm of the book.
Altogether the book seems well adapted for
use in classes; limited in extent but sufficient
in compass, clear in style and arrangement,
it will give the pupil a good understanding of
all the Greek and Latin poetry he is likely to
read, and an excellent foundation for the study
of Greek art.
Sylvia Lee.
The Belief in God and Immortality. By
Professor James A. Leuba. Sherman, French
and Company; Boston, 1916, pp. xvii, 340.
Professor Leuba's latest book, The Belief in
God and Immortality, is an anthropological, psy-
chological, and statistical study. It is divided
into three parts: the first part is a consideration
of two conceptions of immortality — the belief of
non-civilized men, which Professor Leuba calls
the primary belief, and the modern belief; the
second part is a statistical study of the beliefs
in a personal God and in personal immortality
as they prevail in the United States; and the
third part is a discussion of the present utility
of these beliefs.
The first three chapters of Part 1 deal with
the beliefs of the non-civilized under various
headings, such as, when the primary belief in
continuation appeared, the savage's idea of soul
and ghost, survival after death and immortality,
the life of ghosts and their relations to the liv-
ing, the primary paradise, fear of ghosts, and
the relation of morality to continuation after
death. The above are the topics of chapter 1.
Chapter 2 discusses the origin of the ghost idea
in the exteriorizing of memory images under
the influence of emotion, in the "sense of pres-
ence," in dreams, and in visions. In this con-
nection are considered myths presupposing the
natural endlessness of man, reflections and
echoes, and vegetation and insect metamor-
phoses. This chapter also shows a differentia-
tion among savages of a ghost-idea and a soul-
idea; and discusses several theories concerning
the origin of the soul, such as those of Durk-
heim, Crawley, and Feuerbach. Chapter 3
describes the primary belief in continuation
after death at the beginning of the historical
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period; and chapter four traces the origin of
the modern conception of immortality through
the belief in translation to a land of immortality,
the Messianic prophecies, the recognition of
the insufficiency of national hopes, and the
consequent establishment of individual relations
with the gods. The remainder of Part 1 deals
with various attempts to demonstrate immor-
tality by deduction and by direct sensory evi-
dence and scientific induction.
In connection with all of the foregoing topics,
Professor Leuba has given most interesting and
significant explanations and generalizations,
accompanying them with many illustrative
citations from anthropological literature. In a
very general way, these may be summed up as
follows: Two conceptions of immortality have
been successively but independently elaborated,
which differ radically from each other in origin,
nature, and function. The primary belief was
forced upon men, irrespective of their wishes,
as an unavoidable interpretation of such facts
as the apparition of deceased persons in dreams
and visions: while the modern belief grew out
of a desire for the attainment of ideals. The
first is devoid of any moral significance; while
the latter is very largely the outcome of yearn-
ing for the realization of moral values. The
first came to point exclusively to a wretched
and painful existence and kept men continually
trying to avoid the dangers which ghosts might
aim against them; the second came to look for-
ward to a state of increased or completed per-
fection in endless continuation; and incited the
living to ceaseless efforts to secure to them-
selves the joys of paradise. Many endeavors
have been made to rationalize the modern
belief; but they have failed. In fact the more
it has been attempted, the more general has
become the conviction that though immortality
cannot be disproved, it cannot be proved.
When metaphysics failed, psychical research
took up the problem of demonstration. How-
ever spirit manifestations have been tested in
various ways and are now almost totally dis-
credited.
Part II describes three investigations, setting
forth the results verbally and graphically.
First personal gods are defined as those beings
who hold direct personal, that is, intellectual
and affective relations with man; personal im-
mortality is defined as the continuation after
death of the conscious individual together with
the continuation of the sense of one's identity.
To prevent misunderstanding, Professor Leuba
emphasizes that he is investigating beliefs in
personal gods and in personal immortality only.
Investigation A deals with the belief in God
among American college students. P'our ques-
tions were answered by all of the students of
a number of classes of non-technical depart-
ments of nine colleges of high rank and by two
classes of a normal school. Approximately one
thousand answers were received, of which 97 per
cent were from students between eighteen and
twenty years of age. Professor Leuba quotes
at length many answers, each of which is repre-
sentative of a large number of others. Investi-
gation B deals with the belief in immortality
in one college of high rank and of moderate
size, whose students include members of all
the Protestant denominations and a few Roman
Catholics. Ninety per cent of these students
answered the set of questions presented to
them. Finally investigation C deals with the
belief in God and immortality among American
scientists, sociologists, historians, and psychol-
ogists. For example, one thousand persons
were chosen by a rule of chance from American
Men of Science; these are divided into two
groups of five hundred each, and these again
into two subdivisions, including three hundred
persons of lesser, and two hundred, of greater
distinction. All the other groups of the inves-
tigation are also divided into lesser and greater
men. In one division of the scientists, the
answers of the biologists and the physicists are
kept separate so as to show the influence which
training in the biological and physical sciences
have upon the beliefs investigated.
It is most unfortunate that the limited space
of a review does not permit a detailed descrip-
tion of the statistical methods employed, a state-
ment of the questions asked and the results ob-
tained; for it is difficult without them to indicate
the full significance of these investigations. In
general, however, the conclusions drawn are as
follows. First the statistics are reliable; the
fractions of whole groups upon which the several
investigations bear are sufficient to make the re-
sults representative of the entire groups. Not
only do statisticians confirm this claim; but the
fact of securing similar results by taking two
chance lists of five hundred each of American
Scientists also confirms the claim. The results
shown are that, in every class of persons inves-
tigated, the number of believers in God is less,
and in most- classes very much less, than the
number of non-believers; that the number of
believers in immortality is somewhat larger
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than the number of believers in God; that
among the more distinguished, disbelief is very
much more frequent than among the less dis-
tinguished; and finally that not only the degree
of ability but also the kind of knowledge pos-
sessed is significantly related to the rejection
of these beliefs, for example, the historical and
physical sciences furnish the knowledge which
less greatly favors disbelief; the psychological,
sociological, and biological sciences furnish the
knowledge which more greatly favors disbelief.
As to students, the statistics show that they
enter college possessed of the beliefs perfunc-
torily accepted in the average home; that, as
their mental powers develop, a large percen-
tage of them lose these beliefs, so that on leav-
ing college, from 40 to 45 per cent deny or
doubt the fundamental Christian tenets. As
the cause of the increasing rejection of these
traditional beliefs, Professor Leuba assigns the
gain in independence, the individualism, that
results normally from growth and education.
Whether as a secondary sex difference or merely
as the product of education and social posi-
tion, women are more conservative than men.
Again the tendency of the more eminent to
have a greater per cent of disbelievers among
them is due not entirely or chiefly to greater
knowledge, but to intellectual and moral inde-
pendence, to those qualities which make for
eminence, such as activity, tenacity, initiative,
and self-reliance — qualities which tend to in-
crease knowledge and to resist the forces of
tradition, authority and prestige.
Part 3 shows that inasmuch as the modern
belief in immortality does not rest upon estab-
lished fact or convincing argument but upon its
seeming usefulness, so faith in the hereafter
must justify itself by its utility. Is humanity
better off with or without such a faith? The
statistics would show that in the United States
and in other equally civilized countries, the
enormous practical importance customarily as-
cribed to this belief no longer corresponds to
reality. And as to apprehension of moral dis-
aster as the outcome of the loss of belief in God
and immortality, Professor Leuba holds that
the real danger lies in a misunderstanding of
the origin of moral ideas and energy. These
have their source in social experience; they are
independent of these two beliefs. Part I has
indicated the separate origin of moral and re-
ligious ideas; Part II, instead of showing that
the morally better men are those constituting
the believing minority, discloses a correlation
between disbelief and eminence. And finally
the facts of the moral life as observed in the
family and in wider social groups illustrates
the fundamental independence of morality and
religion.
The general significance of Professor Leuba's
book lies in the fact that it to a very consider-
able extent substitutes definite information
regarding beliefs in God and Immortality among
civilized nations for the most divergent and
purely conjectural opinions which have pre-
vailed heretofore. The investigations have been
conducted in accordance with scientific prin-
ciples; instead of being empty, theoretical and
dogmatic as are most discussions of religion,
they provide the data for a scientific considera-
tion of the factors of belief and the causes of
disbelief. Constructively, by revealing the
sources from which the various religious tenets
have arisen, the book brings about a three-fold
good: "the deliverance of man from a devitaliz-
ing fear of imaginary disastrous consequences
that are to attend the loss of these beliefs; his
inspiration with renewed confidence in the relia-
ability of the forces by which he feels himself
urged onward, however ignorant of their nature
he may otherwise be; and his enrichment with
information useful for the guidance of his
efforts at reconstruction when reconstruction
shall have appeared necessary."
It is greatly to be regretted that these gener-
alizations have to be stated apart from their
richly illustrative and explanatory context; for
their full significance cannot be otherwise dis-
closed.
Angie L. Kellogg.
The Red Rugs of Tarsus. By Helen Dav-
enport Gibbons. New York: The Century
Company. 1917. $1.25.
Even in these days of wearied emotions one
is thrilled by this straightforward recital of an
earlier chapter of the Armenian horrors — the
Adana massacres of 1909.
The title prepares the reader for what is
coming, but at first one puzzles over it a little,
as the opening pages lead on pleasantly with
descriptions of Tarsus and the neighboring
country, of the Mission, of an American college
girl's reaction to a new life and experience.
The lively epistolary form, intimate and per-
sonal, accounts in part for the charm of the
narrative, but there is an added charm due to
the presence of the little details that make up
the reality of the picture. Mrs. Gibbons tells
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the things one always wants to know — that
so many writers leave out — about the cedar
wardrobes, the big stone fireplace that smoked,
the japanned medicine case, how the bath
water was heated and the Christmas dinner
cooked. And, packed in with the entertaining
narrative, are valuable observations on Armen-
ian and Turkish character, the position of
women in Turkey, and, chiefly, on the great
fact of the treatment of Armenians by the
European nations and the United States.
Suddenly red flashes out and then it is a
glowing band across all the following pages —
the red of human blood, of injustice, wrong,
murder. So vividly are those terrible days
set forth that we seem to be, not reading of
them, but liv:"ng through them.
The Red Rugs of Tarsus, with its realistic
and poignant personal touches, supplements
the writing that Dr. Gibbons has been doing
in behalf of the remnant of the Armenians.
Of the origin of this book the preface says:
"The appeal on my sympathies made by the
sufferings of the Armenians of today required
that something should be done. For this
reason I have resurrected the old and yellowed
letters which I wrote to my mother during
that agonizing time in Tarsus I now
send them out in the hope that the plain story
of one American woman's experiences will
bring home to other American women and to
American men the reality and the awfulness of
these massacres and the heroism of the Ameri-
can missionaries, who, in many cases, have laid
down their lives in defense of their Armenian
friends and fellow Christians."
NOTES
"A Literary Forerunner of Freud/' by Helen
Williston Brown, appeared in the Psychoana-
lytic Review, Vol. IV, No. 1, January, 1917.
This article is an ingenious development of the
theory that Matthew Arnold was a forerunner
of Freud.
The Masefield prize story, by M. B. O'Shea,
1917, "The Crown of Bells," was published in
the second number of The Forge.
The Gorham Press has published a book of
verse, Songs of Inexperience, by Beatrice Daw,
Fellow in English, 1914-15.
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ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
. XI
JULY, 1917
No. 2
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THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor -in-Ch ief
Elva Lee, '93
Randolph, New York
Campus Editor
Helen H. Parkhurst, 11
Englewood, N. J.
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakeley, '16
Freehold, N. J.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Address by President M. Carey Thomas 65
Address by Mr. Thomas Raeburn White. 68
With the Alumnae . . . . ' 71
News erom the Campus 78
Reunions and Class Histories 84
In Memoriam 92
News from the Clubs 92
News from the Classes 94
Literary Notes 103
Letter to Class Collectors 103
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Copyright. 1917, by the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College.
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XI
JULY, 1917
No. 2
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT M. CAREY THOMAS AT THE TWENTY-
EIGHTH COMMENCEMENT OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
IN THE GYMNASIUM, JUNE 7, 1917
It is my pleasant duty on behalf of
the Directors and Faculty to welcome
our friends and neighbors and the rela-
tives and friends of our graduating
class to the twenty-eighth commence-
ment of Bryn Mawr College which
marks the close of the thirty-second
year of our academic work. As was
the case at the commencements of
1915 and 1916 we meet today in the
shadow of the great war which is now
nearing the close of its third year. But
in spite of its horror and suffering it
has seemed to us best to hold our com-
mencement exercises because at such a
time as this it is the supreme duty of
colleges for women, superseding in im-
portance everything else, to carry on
their academic work as usual. Through-
out the civilized world it is only women
students who can continue their studies
uninterruptedly. It is women scholars
who must keep burning for the next
generation the sacred fires of learning.
It argues well for the future of American
scholarship that the five leading eastern
colleges for women have not relaxed in
any way their academic standards
during the past year and will not do so
however long the war may last. The
preparedness work in these colleges is
done in the leisure time of the students
and represents genuine personal self-
sacrifice on their part.
But although we are holding our
commencement as usual, this does not
mean, and cannot mean, that our minds
and hearts are not at this hour, as at all
hours, with the millions of our allies
on all the battle fronts who are dying
by hundreds even as I speak. Yet
today, unlike the last two commence-
ments, we can hold up our heads and
look in each others faces unashamed.
In this time of terrible stress we shall
not be found wanting. The flower of
the youth of our country, 10,000,000
strong, stand registered and counted
ready to take their places beside the
marching millions of the golden youth
of Great Britain, France, Italy, and
Belgium, many of whom are already
dead, many of whom must yet die, for a
cause greater than human life itself.
Clear as a bugle on the night
The call has come to peoples free
* * * *
We will not live if freedom die
And freedom dies not while we live
The young women of America also
are ready and eager to do all that the
women of England and France have
done — and, if possible, even more than
this. Nobly have college women in
colleges and out of colleges responded to
the call fo> service. Even before Pres-
ident Wilson's great war message, the
presidents of the seven largest colleges for
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women in the United States, authorized
by the vote of their respective faculties,
united in a patriotic note to the Presi-
dent of the United States offering the
services of their colleges and alumnae
and containing the ringing words, —
" Although we believe that the settle-
ment of international difficulties by war
is fundamentally wrong, yet it may be-
come our highest duty to defend by
force the principles upon which Chris-
tian civilization is founded."
There is no more loyal and patriotic
body of women to be found anywhere
than in Bryn Mawr College. Our
students have been untiring in giving,
raising, and making money for war
relief work and in working for the
Red Cross. In addition the College has
mobilized itself for preparedness work
of all kinds — and when the students
had undertaken to do almost more than
they could do they were so carried away
by listening to the story of the suffer-
ings of Belgium that they assumed the
support and reconstruction of a whole
Belgian village at $400 a month until
the end of the war. Will you let me
say on this somewhat public occasion,
because we may not have a more private
opportunity for some time, that I think
that I have never been so proud of our
student body as during this past year
and that I have never been more con-
vinced than I am now by your sacri-
fices and steady enthusiasm that a col-
lege education makes women as patri-
otic and as efficient to serve their
country as it does men; and furthermore
that it enlarges and heightens women's
natural sympathy with suffering and
makes more ardent their desire to alle-
viate it.
At a time like this those of us who
belong to the older generation realize
with joy and sorrow that the burden of
defending the civilization and culture
which we have tried to hand on to you
must fall primarily on you and not on us.
We realize it with sorrow because we
have found from bitter experience that
we cannot keep pace with you in the
trenches, or on the sea, or in the air, or
nursing in the base hospitals or driving
ambulances or building anew the towns
and villages of devastated France and
Belgium. We realize it with joy be-
cause you are so passionately eager, so
strong, so brave, so young, so gay, so
gallant that we are filled with joy that
you are there to defend all that makes
life worth while. We give you gladly
to your country's service — although if
this war ends right as we believe it will
and brings a lasting peace, you will
happily never know what it has cost
us to see you go.
Many of our Bryn Mawr undergradu-
ates are going to continue their patriotic
work throughout the summer. This is
made possible by the generosity of Mr.
and Mrs. Philip M. Sharpies of West
Chester who have placed at the disposal
of the college twenty ploughed, fertilized
acres of some of the richest farming
land in Chester County. Relays of stu-
dents will work there during the sum-
mer months with the help of the wardens
and other members of the staff of the
College and will can all the vegetables
that cannot be otherwise kept. We ex-
pect to supply from this patriotic farm
all the vegetables used by the College
throughout next year. Many of our
professors are also farming on the col-
lege campus and elsewhere and will
raise enough vegetables for the faculty.
Bryn Mawr College hopes then to pro-
duce the vegetables it consumes next
year.
Through the generosity of other
donors who wish for the present to re-
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main anonymous, Bryn Mawr College
is also able to do its share in investing
in the Patriotic Loan. Within a few
days $100,000 in Liberty Bonds will be
handed to the Treasurer of the College
to found a chair in English Composi-
tion. Bryn Mawr has long been noted
for the attention it gives to the teaching
of English. In successive years many
freshmen and their parents tell me that
they have selected Bryn Mawr because
of its good English course. It is there-
fore peculiarly gratifying and appro-
priate to have one of the few chairs in
English Composition in the United
States founded at Bryn Mawr. By re-
quest of the donors any surplus income
on this foundation will be used for grad-
uate scholarships in English Composi-
tion without the requirement of formal
academic work. It is hoped that in the
leisure of our quiet and beautiful cam-
pus the gentle art of literary composi-
tion may be fostered here by these
Liberty scholarships.
The College has been very happy in
having received gifts of other scholar-
ships during the past year — one, of the
value of $500 a year from the children
of the late Charles S. Hinchman, to be
known as the Charles S. Hinchman
Memorial Scholarship, is our most
valuable undergraduate scholarship and
will be awarded for excellence in scholar-
ship to a junior to be held during the
senior year.
Mrs. Frank W. Hallowell of Chestnut
Hill, Massachusetts, has given a grad-
uate scholarship in Social Economy and
Social Research to be known as the
Robert G. Valentine Scholarship, in
memory of Robert G. Valentine, to
whose expert work on the relations be-
tween capital and labor all social work-
ers owe such a great debt.
Also the three Elizabeth S. Shippen
Scholarships founded under her will
which left Bryn Mawr College a legacy
of $176,844 have come into operation
this year and are awarded today for the
first time.
Endowment of Professors' Chairs and
gifts of Scholarship and gifts to en-
dowment are almost infinitely valuable
but the value of devoted service given
to a college like Bryn Mawr is even
more inestimable. Bryn Mawr has
been served by a long line of splendid
men and women beginning with her
founder, Joseph W. Taylor, who left
the College his entire fortune; the first
president of the Board of Trustees,
Francis T. King, to whom the liberal
organization of the College is in great
part due; the first president of the Col-
lege, James E. Rhoads, who shared with
Mr. King the responsibility of organiz-
ing the College as a great undenomina-
tional institution of learning, and many
others, but the service of no one person
has extended over as many years as that
of the late John G. Johnson, the hon-
ored counsel of the College. It is im-
possible to allow the first commence-
ment after his death to pass without
putting on record the high esteem and
admiration in which the Trustees and
Directors held his great qualities of
mind and heart which have been gen-
erously devoted to the service of the
College throughout the past 35 years.
At the organization of the College,
John G. Johnson was consulted by its
founder, Joseph W. Taylor. He drew
the first Charter of the College in 1880,
the Amendment to the Charter in 1896,
the new By-Laws of the Trustees in
1912 creating the Board of Directors
of the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College
giving recognition to the Bryn Mawr
College Alumnae Association and the
accompanying By-Laws of the Board
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of Directors under which the Boards
of Trustees and Directors are now
operating.
He drew up the pledges used by the
President and Alumnae of the College
in obtaining subscriptions for the Li-
brary in 1900 and for the endowment
in 1910, by means of which the College
was secured against loss; he organized
the Low Buildings Association and the
College Inn Association and by his
legal advice and encouragement made
it possible to obtain the necessary bond-
holders. He was consulted in regard
to every legal matter that arose in con-
nection with the College and was al-
ways ready to use his great authority
and extraordinary legal skill to support
the Students' Association for Self-
Go vernment, the President of the Col-
lege and the Trustees and Directors.
Throughout this long period of time
covering more than a generation his
lucid intelligence, his accumulated stores
of legal wisdom and his lofty standards
of justice and right were always placed
at the disposal of the College as a free
gift, the value of which it is impossible
to estimate.
We cannot all serve Bryn Mawr College
like John G. Johnson; we cannot all en-
dow chairs; but each alumna and student
and each Bryn Mawr father and mother,
brother and husband can do his or her
part. At this commencement I wish to
ask as I have asked at other commence-
ments those who approve of the work of
Bryn Mawr College and wish to help
the College to continue its work, who
perhaps cannot give service or money
during their life time, to remember the
college in their wills. It will cost
nothing while you are living and nothing
while you are dead, but you will have
the satisfaction of knowing that your
legacy, however small, will help to give
the next generation of girls what we
hope is the right kind of education.
ADDRESS OF MR. THOMAS RAEBURN WHITE, OF PHILADELPHIA, ON
"INTERNATIONAL REORGANIZATION AFTER THE WAR"
Mr. WThite spoke in part as follows:
As we meet amid these beautiful
surroundings, dedicated to the Arts of
Peace, and take part in this happy
occasion with its bright promise for the
future, it is hard to remember that we
are at war.
And yet, this fact is always in the
background of our consciousness and it
is right that we should remember it and
give thought to it even here, for the
issues of this great conflict will have a
vital influence upon the future of the
Human Race.
America has suffered in common with
the rest of the world. If, as yet, we
have not felt the shock of conflict, we
have felt the shock of disillusionment.
We had believed that treaties entered
into by great nations would be honor-
ably observed; we had hoped that in
case of disputes international courts
would be made use of to settle them
peaceably; we had thought that even in
war men would be merciful to the weak
and helpless.
But, alas, what have we found? We
have seen treaties disregarded, arbitra-
tion spurned, neutral countries in-
vaded, civilians, including women and
children, slain in their own homes or on
peaceful errands, and all those restraints
of international law, so painfully built
up by centuries of effort, so solemnly
agreed to in conventions, swept aside
to make way for the rule of violence.
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We have found the world about to be
thrust back into a condition of anarchy,
and America has felt it her duty to join
with those who, in this great struggle,
stand internationally for liberty under
law. We have taken this step not only
to aid in the restraint of an aggressor,
but that we may assist in laying the
foundations of a society of nations,
which shall preserve better world order
in future. And we can do this only if
an enlightened and intelligent public
opinion shall support the President in
his declared purpose to this end. It is,
therefore, necessary that the American
people — such as are here gathered —
shall give serious thought to the ques-
tion: How shall these foundations be
laid?
Plans designed to accomplish this pur-
pose, similar, if not identical, in outline
have been proposed independently in
America, and in several European coun-
tries. Their similarity is explained by
the fact that they are the product of
events. Institutions competent to settle
international disputes had already been
devised and were in successful operation,
but the refusal of Austria to arbitrate,
when arbitration might have averted
the war, brought sharply to the atten-
tion of the world the necessity for
evolving some means of compelling a
nation to submit its quarrel to the judg-
ment of an international tribunal. This
is the central thought of all the plans
which have recently been proposed — the
enforced submission of international dis-
putes to such tribunals.
The League to Enforce Peace is the
American Society which has proposed
such a scheme for world organization.
All the other plans are similar in general
outline. They have been endorsed by
the principal statesmen of the world.
The proposal is that the powers join-
ing the League shall agree that if any
member commences hostilities against
another, before having submitted its
dispute and given time for decision, it
shall be forthwith opposed by all the
other members, first, with economic
pressure, and, if that does not suffice,
then with their united military strength.
No international army is contem-
plated; merely the joint use of eco-
nomic, military and naval power, as
these are now being used by the allied
powers.
This method of enforcing the treaty,
calling for the possible use of military
force, is opposed by some very conscien-
tious, high-minded people, who believe
that the use of force internationally,
even for suppressing disorder, is essen-
tially wrong and cannot be defended
because it involves the taking of human
life.
This objection, in view of the char-
acter of those who advance it, deserves
a thoughtful and considerate discussion.
When the objection is analyzed it is
seen to rest upon the premise that the
use of physical force to control human
conduct is wrong. This must be so, for
even the use of force by the government
of a state to preserve order necessarily
results in the destruction of human life.
A distinction is sought to be drawn
between the use of force to restrain indi-
vidual wrong-doers, which those who
object to military force generally ap-
prove, and the use of force against na-
tional wrong-doers, which they disap-
prove.
What is this distinction?
The individual wrong-doer may be
restrained without killing him by the
use of handcuffs or prison bars, the
national wjong-doer cannot be hand-
cuffed or imprisoned, but must be re-
strained, if at all, by military force which
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necessarily involves the taking of human
life.
But suppose the individual wrong-
doer refuses to be handcuffed or im-
prisoned, and resists the officer with
murderous weapons! What is to be
done with him? He cannot be allowed
to roam at large, committing further
crimes. He must, therefore, be taken
by force, and if otherwise he cannot be
taken, he must lose his life.
That most prisoners submit to arrest
does not change the principle. The
fact is, and cannot be avoided, that the
use of force against individual wrong-
doers may, and sometimes does, result
in their deaths.
It is said that the operations of an
army result in the taking of more lives
and are more directly intended for that
purpose. This is true: the difference,
however, is not in principle but only
in degree.
The position of the non-resistant who
does not believe in the force underlying
the government of a state, and who would
not oppose the taking of his goods or
his life or the life of his wife or child, is
clear and consistent. But he who be-
lieves in the preservation of order by
government must believe in the pres-
ervation of world order by cooperative
force, as did William Penn, the Quaker
and great founder of Pennsylvania, who
proposed a world parliament, whose de-
crees should be enforced by all the
nations " united as one strength."
But these are not the controlling
reasons why the United States should
join a League of Nations to Enforce
Peace. We should place our action on
higher grounds.
With this great opportunity before
us to institute legal relations between
states, to lighten the burden of man-
kind, to make possible the beginning
of a new era, and the dawning of a
brighter day — an opportunity which if
not embraced may never return, and
which without our aid will be lost alto-
gether— shall America be faithless to
her duty? Shall we withdraw when we
have secured a satisfactory arrange-
ment of our own grievances and refuse
to cooperate in the reorganization of
the world on the basis of justice and
right?
Through President Wilson we have
already announced our intention to
cooperate, and it is for us to sustain his
efforts and his declared purpose to this
end.
All the principal belligerents on both
sides have declared the main purpose
of the war to be that guarantees against
future wars may be secured. Whatever
the attitude of others may be, the
United States will be ready to make
peace the moment such guarantees have
been secured, and they can be secured
much earlier if we pledge ourselves to
assist in maintaining them.
If we declared we should withdraw
and have no hand in maintaining peace
after the war, the great tragedy would
go on much longer, and many more
thousands of young lives with their
promise for the future would go out in
darkness.
If this course seems to involve a sacri-
fice on our part, if it seems to endanger
our safety or even to imperil our na-
tional existence, let it be so.
What greater legacy should we leave
to mankind than a noble example of a
nation willing to sacrifice even its life, if
need be, that in future all nations might
live in security and in peace?
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WITH THE ALUMNAE
OFFICERS
1916-1918
President, Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs. Fred-
eric Rogers Kellogg), '00, Morristown, N. J.
Vice President, Mary Richardson Walcott (Mrs.
Robert Walcott), '06, 152 Brattle Street, Cambridge,
Mass.
Recording Secretary, Louise Congdon Francis (Mrs.
Richard Standish Francis), '00, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Corresponding Secretary, Abigail Camp Dimon, '96,
367 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y.
Treasurer, Jane Bowne Haines, '91, Cheltenham, Pa.
ALUMNAE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BRYN
MAWR COLLEGE
Elizabeth B. Kirkbrtde, '96, 1406 Spruce Street,
Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, '98 (Mrs. Wilfred
Bancroft), 29 St. Paul's Road, Ardmore, Pa.
ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Pauline Goldmark, Chairman, 270 West 94th Street,
New York City.
Esther Lowenthal, Smith College, Northampton,
Mass.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 4 Hawthorn Road,
Brookline, Mass.
Helen Emerson, 162 Blackstone Boulevard, Provi-
dence, R. I.
Ellen D. Ellis, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Mass.
Frances Fincke Hand (Mrs. Learned Hand), 142
East 65th Street, New York City.
Frances Browne, 15 East 10th Street, New York
City.
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs. F. R. Kellogg),
Morristown, N. J.
WAR WORK FOR COLLEGE WOMEN
At the annual meeting of the Boston Branch
of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae on
May 14, 1917, Mrs. Percy G. Bolster was ap-
pointed chairman of a committee to be com-
posed of five alumnae chosen by her from dif-
ferent colleges, the object being the inauguration
of a movement to establish homes and home-
like club-houses in the vicinity of camp sites
and naval bases that a wholesome atmosphere
might be brought to the enlisted men when
off duty. The following committee was chosen:
Mrs. Talbot Aldrich (Eleanor Little, A.B.,
Bryn Mawr College); Miss Florence Cushing,
A.B., Vassar College; Miss Caroline L. Hum-
phrey, A.B., Radcliffe College; Mrs. William
Noyes (Lucia Clapp, B.S., Smith College; A.M.,
Brown University); Mrs. W. Morton Wheeler
(Dora Emerson, S.B., Wellesley College; A.M.,
Columbia University); Mrs. Percy G. Bolster
(Edith Rebecca Lynch, A.B., Boston Univer'
sity), (Chairman).
Members of the Committee are already in-
vestigating possible locations near the proposed
camp sites and naval bases in New England.
A club-house need not be palatial in appearance
or expensive in maintenance. It may be merely
a cottage, provided that unoccupied land is ad-
jacent and the surroundings restful. It may be
a portable house or a portable pavilion to be
used as a central social gathering place, financed
and managed by alumnae of different colleges
working together. In addition to a club-
house near each camp site it is hoped that the
alumnae of each of the women's colleges will be
able to find some building, however small,
which it can maintain as a home for enlisted
men, financed and supervised by its members
and presided over by one of its alumnae mothers.
To carry on this work the Committee asks
for pledges of money. In addition to money,
there will be needed for the club-houses and
homes household furniture and furnishings of
all kinds — beds, bedding, towels, tables, chairs,
china, table-ware, etc., writing materials,
games, new books, current magazines, pianos,
victrolas, automobiles (given or lent for periods
stated by the owners). There will also" be
needed the personal services of college grad-
uates approved by the superintendents of the
clubs and homes who will assist for certain
periods of time, long or short, in keeping the
buildings and grounds wholesome and attrac-
tive, furnishing different kinds of amusement
and entertainment, preparing and serving re-
freshments— in short, giving the visible touches
which create that intangible thing known as a
"home-like atmosphere." This is peculiarly
woman's work and seems in every sense fitting
for college graduates to undertake. A great
opportunity is before us to show what we, as
intelligent trained women, can accomplish.
We are offered a specified task, a definite chan-
nel into which to pour our energy and enthu-
siasm and desire to serve. If we can help in
keeping the men who are to fight for us happy,
healthy and clean-souled we shall render a
real and worth-while service to our country.
Through the existing alumnae associations we
have organization and means for cooperation and
no other body is doing the work we intend to do.
The Y. M. C. A. activities are entirely within
the camp lines, the Y. W. C. A. work is for
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women near the camps and the Special Aid
Society's plans in no way conflict with ours.
Our plan, as outlined, has received the endorse-
ment of the Boston Branch of the Association
of Collegiate Alumnae, of the national secre-
tary of the National Association of Collegiate
Alumnae, of the Boston representative of the
Commission on Training Camp Activities ap-
pointed by the War Department at Washing-
ton, and of various individuals prominent in
other organizations.
This subject has been presented to the alum-
nae of Vassar, Wellesley, Smith and Radcliffe
at meetings in connection with their respective
college commencements but as the Committee
was organized too late to do this at the Bryn
Mawr Commencement the columns of the
Quarterly must do duty for the spoken word
to Bryn Mawr alumnae. We are younger and
fewer in number than the alumnae of other
colleges but let us make up for that in added
enthusiasm and let the response from Bryn
Mawr be generous in what is hoped will become
a nation-wide movement among college women.
Money or pledges of money may be sent at
once to the undersigned and any sum, large or
small, will be gratefully received. Articles
can be promised now but sent later when the
homes are ready. Correspondence, sugges-
tions and offers of service are solicited. Register
your interest now!
[signed] Eleanor L. Aldrich, '05.
Address: Mrs. Talbot Aldrich, 34 Fairfield
Street, Boston.
THE NATIONAL SERVICE COMMIT-
TEE OF BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
OF NEW YORK CITY
The National Service Committee of the Bryn
Mawr Alumnae of New York City is an infor-
mal organization formed in May, 1917, at a
meeting held at the Bryn Mawr Club, to which
as many Bryn Mawr women living in or near
New York had been invited as were suggested
by the available lists. At this meeting a small
subscription for printing and postage was col-
lected, and this subscription constitutes the
only fund so far available. In view of the ex-
treme looseness of the organization — the only
form then possible — the members present voted
to work through a small executive committee ap-
pointed at once by the chairman, Edith Pettit
Borie. The present duty of this Committee
is to keep the Bryn Mawr Women in the neigh-
borhood of New York City informed of possible
local patriotic service. So far effort has been
concentrated upon assistance in the census
taking, and in the advertisement and sale of
Liberty Bonds.
The Bryn Mawr Committee has manned with
Bryn Mawr volunteers two census booths in
the districts organized by the Woman's Suf-
frage Party, and has turned over to that organ-
ization for shifts in other booths a number of
surplus recruits; at the request of the Woman's
Committee of the Liberty Loan, it has mailed
to its own membership the statements of facts
and figures furnished by the Loan Committee
and called for volunteers to sell the Bonds at
designated booths; and it has offered the use
of the first floor of the Bryn Mawr Club dur-
ing July and August to the Red Cross Associa-
tion as extra space for clerical work, or for the
rest and refreshment of relays of nurses passing
through the city.
Only a beginning has, however, been made
towards completing what is contemplated after
the interruptions of the summer — a permanent
working unit of the New York Bryn Mawr women
operating for the greater part under the direc-
tion of established organizations such as the Red
Cross and the Mayor's Committee of Women;
and thus immediately and constantly available
for definite service in the varied tasks of civilian
and war relief imposed by the necessities of the
day.
Julia Langdon Loomis,
Chairman
Frances Arnold,
Edith Pettit Borte,
ex officio
Louise Fleischmann
Florence King,
Marjorie Murray
Edna Rapallo.
THE STUDENTS' LOAN FUND
What do you know about the Students
Loan Fund? Probably you know that such a
fund exists, but do you realize what a vital
factor it is in the life of the College, and for
how many girls it has made college-training
possible? In my own undergraduate days I
had never heard of it, and many alumnae,
to whom I have spoken of it, were quite ignor-
ant of its needs and work.
The purpose of the Students' Loan Fund is
to assist deserving undergraduates to meet their
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living expenses while at Bryn Mawr. It
stands ready to supply to a student that
comparatively small sum of money — rarely
exceeding $300 in any one year — which, in
many instances, spells the difference between
staying at college and going home. The ap-
plications for these loans are made in writing to
the Secretary of the Committee, and these
applications, after previous investigation, are
acted upon at the annual meeting of the Com-
mittee held early in May, after the announce-
ment of scholarships and honors for the com-
ing year. This time is chosen in order that the
students may know just what their needs will
be for the ensuing semester. The Committee
consists of President Thomas, the Dean of the
College, and four alumnae from four different
classes. Each application is read and carefully
discussed, and the loans are made or occa-
sionally refused at the discretion of the Com-
mittee, all such loans being kept, of course, in
strict confidence. Invariably more money is
lent than is in the treasury in May, because
invariably the money needed materializes be-
fore the fall loans are made. This year, with
the increased cost of living, the demands of the
Committee are larger than ever, so we shall
need your help to meet them!
The fund is maintained wholly by contribu-
tions, by repayments by students, and usually
by a gift from the graduating class. The con-
tributions frequently come from members of
the Faculty, from interested alumnae, and from
former students who themselves have been
helped by the Fund, and are now self-sustaining.
In 1892 a little group of people met in Pres-
ident Rhoads' office for the first meeting of the
Loan Fund Committee. That year two or
three students were helped, but the next year,
with only $92 in the treasury, all work had to
cease until more funds could be raised. With
the growth of the College, the work of this
Committee has increased until this year's report
shows an aggregate loan of $10,583.62, and some
130 students have been helped. This past
year the loans have amounted to $2985.
One splendid aspect of the work is the sense
of honorable responsibility shown by our girls.
Not a single student has ever failed to repay
something of her debt, and most of them,
within a very short time after leaving College,
have completely reimbursed the fund.
And now, dear alumnae, each and everyone
of you, here is another chance for you to "do
your bit." Your College is asking of you a
girl to the liberty of knowledge and inspiration
which you found at Bryn Mawr. What you
give will revert again and again to the fund,
and you will be helping, not one girl but many.
Any contribution, small or large, will be grate-
fully received by the Secretary of the Com-
mittee, Miss Martha G. Thomas, Whitford,
Pa.
K. L. H., 1905.
WORK FOR FRENCH BABIES
A message from Mrs. Herbert Adams Gib-
bons (Helen Davenport Brown) came too late
to be printed in the April Quarterly. But
as the need for the help she asks must still con-
tinue, this message is given here:
"One of the tragedies of the war is the large
number of babies born fatherless, for whom the
mothers are unable to provide. The hope of
the world today is the new generation. Will
you help to continue the Baby Relief Work
I have been doing in my studio in the heart of
the Latin Quarter since August, 1914? Money
is the best gift. It can come by personal check
made out to my order. Better exchange can
be secured on checks than on postal money
orders. Six dollars clothes a baby." Mrs.
Gibbons' address is: 120 Boulevard du Mont-
parnasse, Paris. She writes:
"Read in my last College News that B. M. C.
has two beds in the American Ambulance.
Elizabeth Colt, '14, is with us as Dr. Gibbons'
secretary. She and I were talking this morn-
ing in my husband's studio about the Bryn
Mawr beds. We will go very soon to see the
soldiers now being cared for by Bryn Mawr
and will write you about them. I knew Con-
stance Lewis and have been interested in the
scheme she loved so dearly.
"Through me, Bryn Mawr is caring for sol-
diers' babies. I have clothed thirteen hundred
babies since August 2, 1914. When I "get
round to it" you shall have a wee article on my
Baby Work. No use sending supplies now till
the submarines are destroyed — but money is a
fine gift and there is great need among the babies
of France."
A LONDON LETTER
I am glad and proud to send a London letter
for the Quarterly if you think the very
matter-of-fact and obvious things which I can
tell you will be of interest. Most of my friends
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are busy in really engrossing war work, but I
must confine my energies to what I can do at
home with my eyes on my own little household,
young irresponsible servants and an active
small son, and I have become expert in nothing
more exciting than hospital slippers and "com-
fort bags." My time is short too, for I want
to send this by tomorrow's post, and the five
days since your letter came have been devoted
to an old friend who was staying with me. She
is a woman who has lost three sons and her
husband in the war and has two sons still
serving.
Will you be interested in the mere external
changes — the hour of extra daylight these sum-
mer evenings and the intense darkness of our
winter evenings? From a picturesque point of
view, we shall miss this darkness when the war is
over, for the Thames has become as beautiful
by night as it must have been half a century
ago and we appreciate the stars and moon.
There is a superstition that Zeppelins never
come when there is moonlight, so people plan
accordingly for theater or dinners with friends!
A really dark evening has the inconveniences
and somewhat the same excitement as a fog;
I have had to hold my hand before me near
Burlington House at six o'clock in December
to save myself from being jostled by other
passers-by. Regulations for darkening the
windows are strict, and passengers in railway
carriages were directed to keep the blinds
drawn after sunset. This is no longer neces-
sary, for the lights of a train are to be extin-
guished in case of danger. One notices the
absence of newspaper posters recently brought
about because of the paper shortage, and the
almost complete absence of any sort of adver-
tisements. There are, however, many posters
with appeals to all sorts and conditions. In the
first year of the war splendid extracts from
Pericles' funeral oration were posted in the
carriages of the Underground. One is re-
minded not to discuss public matters lest one
give information to the enemy, and on every
side one is exhorted to help the War Loan and
National Service and to be economical. Such
legends as these meet one's eye: "What is the
value of one of your arms?" "Hands wanted
. . . National Service." "Defend your island
against the greatest danger that ever menaced it."
"Yes! Complete victory if you eat less bread."
"Extravagance in dress is bad form." A pop-
ular National Service poster shows a small boy
defended from a German who was attacking his
basket of apples, and the words, "Germany
wants to starve us."
The most constant reminder of the war how-
ever is the men — both the bronzed ones in
khaki and the feebler men in hospital blue suits
with red ties. One must grow accustomed to
many sad sights — empty sleeves and trousers
and disfigured faces, and, saddest of all, the
blind men. The best known hostel for them,
St. Dunstan's, is in Regent's Park near us.
They row on the lake or ride on the back seats
of tandem bicycles or walk; some seem full of
courage and even happiness, but the only
really despairing look I have seen here is on the
faces of some of these men. One learns to
recognize the peculiar listening poise of the
head. Wounded men are treated with re-
spect, never allowed to stand in 'buses, etc.,
but there is not so emotional a sympathy for
them as there was at first. This is so natural
that it hardly deserves comment.
When I came to London, just before the war,
the big meadow on the western side of Primrose
Hill was used for nurses and babies and cricket;
then it became the drilling ground for recruits —
first the very new and awkward ones, then the
signalling squad, and then artillery cadets with
magnificent horses. The ground was beauti-
fully torn up in this way, and this spring it is
divided into allotments for growing vegetables.
There must be — a guess — 150 to 200 of these
small plots, enthusiastically dug up and sown
by men, women and children. Women come
with their babies in perambulators, and spades,
etc., tied underneath the perambulators. Many
of the men, I am told, are policemen, so that
they are working there at any hour. This
allotment system is carried out in many parts
of London, especially on bits of land that have
been wasted near the railways. A spade is a
far commoner thing for a man to carry now than
golf clubs! Other parts of Primrose Hill are
busy with drilling now. The artillery horses
have to go to Regent's Park and Hampstead
Heath, but the cadets practice loading and firing
on the hill. And other men are drilled in less
formal fashion, trained for advancing unseen,
with a great deal of wriggling on the ground.
Housekeeping is changed from its old routine.
Servants are rare; girls of that class go into
munitions, serve in restaurants, as ticket-col-
lectors on the Underground, 'bus conductors,
carpenters, cobblers, farm hands, window-
cleaners, etc. Some of our friends have given
up trying to replace their servants, and have
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moved with nurse and children into lodgings
in some small town or into the country. This
is easier, because few men of military age are at
home. Others use vacuum cleaners and "get
along" with a daily cook. In large houses,
many rooms are shut up and in smaller ones,
since coal has been so difficult to get, the dining
room is often used as a sitting room too. Instead
of having the local tradesmen call every day for
orders and return later with what we want, we
must plan days ahead or bring home our fare
ourselves. And instead of feeling that one's
grocer is pleased with a large order, one meets
with the request, "Could you manage with
only one pound of rice and half a pound of
sugar this week?" This, I believe, is due to
inequality of distribution and not to as great
shortage as his words seem to imply. Another
week our own man has no cheese and no oats for
porridge, and we must hunt them up elsewhere.
Except for certain unusual things which the
little shops cannot supply, I have rather eiven
up dealing at the big stores, partly because I
like to support the small places, which are
badly handicapped now, and partly because I
think we shall be served more easily by a man
who knows our needs if tickets for various foods
come into use. I am suffering sadly for this
principle now with regard to sugar, for half a
pound a week is all he can sell me and it does
not go far! If the Germans have pictures of
our potato and margarine and sugar queues,
with the distorted impressions they give, they
probably gloat over our shortage of food. I
have often seen several hundred women waiting
by twos, ordered by a policeman, before a tiny
street stall for potatoes. This, when rice is
equally cheap and more available, seems like
a sacrifice of common sense to dramatic! In
these cases, only one pound of potatoes is sold
to each person and for a time, at least, chil-
dren were not served at all. Each woman takes
her own bag; one has to pay a half-penny extra
for a paper one. Everyone whom I know has
given up potatoes entirely, since we can do so
well on substitutes. But the substitutes have
to reckon with another factor than the mistress
who orders them. The English cook is not
used to innovations. Maize (cornmeal) seems
to her a "chicken food," and though she may
make scones and cakes of it, she is reluctant
to eat them herself. In fact the maize which
was first sold here in the winter was too coarse
to be palatable. Rice flour, barley flour, and fine
oatmeal are other new materials to help out
wheat flour in pastry and cakes. Everyone is
learning new recipes and devices for doing
without sugar and flour, and if a cook is inex-
perienced this means many failures and then
patient eating of failures or going without until
it is fair to start afresh on new materials. It
is quite good form to discuss both food and serv-
ants!— and it is bad form to take sugar in your
tea and to eat more than one thin half slice
of bread and butter at tea. And the butter is
likely to be margarine. Our household does very
well with bread, for we take barely half as much
as we used to, and so are far below the rations
and may have two pounds of flour a week and
still leave a margin. It was a little hard at
first and meant not only strict economy in
cutting, but some self-denial; but I think we
are quite satisfied with it now. I find no more
crusts heaped up in the bread box, and we
never can have bread pudding! The meat
limitations work well enough if there are young
children to eat less than the ration and so allow
more for the elders, but even so one must help
out with fish and there is seldom bacon for
breakfast. The tea regulations in shops and
restaurants are quite reasonable. One may
have one piece of bread and butter or one
scone or one piece of cake — but not two of
these. A more elaborate tea may be made up by
having fruit or ices or jelly. It is a satisfaction
to see that the bakers' windows have no more
unsubstantial pretty things.
As to the spirit one feels everywhere, in
meeting inconveniences and even hardships and
dangers, one is constantly impressed by the
courage which seems prepared for any emer-
gency. There are no heroics, but the attitude
well known as characteristic of the British
Tommy. It is not mere easy good-nature with
no thought for the morrow, but a combination of
good sense, free from hysteria, with unselfish-
ness. There is also a strong and pleasurable
thrill in having difficulties to surmount. I
notice how many women, for whom until now
the future has seemed as secure as any future
could be, are stimulated by our present un-
certainties. Proportions have altered. Little
conveniences and pleasantnesses, holidays and
amusements, no longer seem necessary. As far
as I can judge, most women are living far more
vitally than ever before, and are really happier.
Even those who are sad and anxious can be
busy. „ One of my friends, the widow of an
officer killed more than two years ago, is an
unpaid parlor-maid in a small hospital. An-
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other, with about fifty more of her own kind,
gives her week ends to munition work so as to
set free some of the tired girls who are working
all the week. After a few months she was pro-
moted to be forewoman of the room where she
worked and though she is thin and says she gets
so dirty that she always dreads visitors, she
says too that she has never been so happy.
In Cambridge I saw, driving a milk cart, a girl
who is, I was told, the daughter of one of the
University dons. Other friends make papier
mache" splints — a disagreeable task entailing
long soaking of one's hands and arms in water,
or they teach embroidery (!) and knitting to
convalescent soldiers, or they work in canteens
or war hospital depots. In Scotland and in
Ireland other friends of mine spend the sum-
mer gathering and drying the moss which
proves so useful for surgical dressings. We
hope — and believe — that after the war this
broader spirit will persist and that no one will
feel that any kind of work is " beneath" her.
Extremely conventional women take pride now
in telling how they scrubbed the bricks of their
garden path or stained and waxed the studio
floor. And the most humdrum task of order-
ing a simple household has a dignity now that
food stores are limited. Housekeeping be-
comes a problem and the interest dispels the
old monotony. Small economies that used to
seem too trivial to notice, have their part in
the general scheme for complete efficiency — like
the captain in Punch directed to attend to the
bones and dripping! The king's proclamation
about food, read in every church in the kingdom
through this month, is not only most impressive
to hear, but is having a distinct effect on people's
appreciation of the need of economy.
The attitude toward Zeppelins is akin to that
toward the inconveniences and uncertainties
of our food arrangements. It is inevitable
that the menace should "get on one's nerves"
to a certain extent. If one has experienced
the din and horror of a raid, with the helpless,
entrapped feeling accompanying it, any sound
like bombs or guns in the night awakes one with
a start — but after the first start, one's impulse
is to hurry to window or door to see all one can.
We don't really want Zeppelins to come, but
if they come, we don't want to miss anything.
A small boy, asked if he hadn't been afraid at
such a time, said, "I was frightened when I
thought it was a thunder-storm, but when I
found it was only the Germans, it was fun."
In early September I saw the first Zeppelin that
was brought down, to the north of us. The
firing had been loud but had almost died down
when we saw the creature pursued by search-
lights, and then flames burst out and it grad-
ually sank to earth. The sight was a wonder-
ful one, but the sound that rose when we all
understood what was happening was more
wonderful. Each little group of us had felt
as if we were quite alone in the blackness of the
unlighted city, until such a cheer as never could
have been heard before made us all one. A
fortnight later we were waked by the same sort
of cheer — recognizable at once — but we had
slept through the raid (which hadn't come near
us) and were too late to see the Zeppelin falling.
You must know that the enthusiasm over
America's coming into the war is very great,
but perhaps you cannot appreciate the change
of feeling here in the last few months. My own
English friends were too courteous to criticize
the country on its policy with any intensity,
but my dentist, when he had me firmly im-
prisoned in his chair, gave me a distressing half
hour! And I often overheard comments that
hurt, when people did not know that an Amer-
ican was present. There was a constant sense
of friction and impatience; and the great miracle
was that this disappeared, converted into en-
thusiasm, instantly after the declaration that
the state of war existed. One expected to meet
American enthusiasm — as in the meeting at
Queen's Hall on April 5, where nothing formal
was done but an opportunity was given for
expressing enthusiasm — but it is a delight to
hear applause from the English too. For in-
stance the Scala theater is showing already
pictures of the United States destroyers ar-
riving at Queenstown, and these are greeted with
cheers by the English spectators. You know
more about the great service at St. Paul's than
I could tell you. The streets were filled with
people, many wearing small American flags,
and large flags hung from most business build-
ings and with the Union Jack from the Houses
of Parliament. America was most delightfully
treated as an honored guest. Overhead the
air was patrolled by two aeroplanes, circling
over St. Paul's while the service lasted. You
know of course that "Royalty" was at the
service, and diplomats and statemen, that
Bishop Brent preached and that we sang
the "Star-spangled Banner" and the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic." We miss "America"
for in England of course the words must be
"God Save the King."
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77
Will you forgive me for having to send such
a hastily-written letter .... I hope its
very concreteness will help to give an idea as
to what London is like now, for it is only from
a multiplicity of such matter-of-fact impres-
sions that one can form for oneself a general
conception.
Elizabeth Day Seymour Angel.
A LETTER TO THE QUARTERLY
Newark, New Jersey.
June 5, 1917.
My Dear Miss Lee,
I have little doubt that mine is not the first
protest to reach you in regard to the publica-
tion, in the April number of the Alumnae
Quarterly, of Miss Kellogg's review of Dr.
Leuba's book. There must be others who, like
myself, seriously question the advisability of
the Quarterly's admitting to its pages mate-
rial of so controversial a character. The harm
that the book itself will undoubtedly do to the
good name of the College can only be increased
by the countenance thus given to a review so
favorable as to be rather propaganda than crit-
icism; and the evil effect is still further height-
ened by the reluctance you will naturally feel
to give space to such discussion as, in an ordi-
nary periodical, would be certain to follow a
bold attack on beliefs dear to many readers.
On the chance, however, that you may think
it possible to give both sides a hearing, I send
the enclosed brief comment . . . :
As summarized on pages 60 to 62 of the April
Quarterly, Professor Leuba's recent book,
The Belief in God and Immortality, cannot fail
to startle many. Closer reading of the article,
it is true, softens somewhat the first sharp im-
pression. Thus the statement that "in every
class of persons investigated the number of
believers in God is less .... than the
number of non-believers" is contradicted by
the statement, in relation to the group of col-
lege students investigated, that "on leaving
college" only "from 40 to 45 per cent deny
or doubt the fundamental Christian tenets."
Again, without questioning the accuracy of the
figures themselves, it is possible to suggest for
some of them a different interpretation. For
example, should it be true that, as seems likely,
the persons classified as of lesser distinction
in their respective groups average a lower age
than those of greater distinction, the difference
between these two classes might be an index
of age rather than of mental power. If so
taken in connection with the figures found for
college students, it would bear out the widely
prevailing impression that religious faith is on
the increase. Leaving figures behind and pass-
ing to judgments, it is not a little surprising to
read that "Part II, instead of showing that the
morally better men are those constituting the
believing minority, discloses a correlation be-
tween disbelief and eminence." At least since
August, 1914, one would have thought it im-
possible to treat scientific eminence as an index
of moral superiority.
All discounts made, however, the gravity of
the situation portrayed by Professor Leuba
cannot be denied. It gives color to all that
has been said against "godless education" and
exposes the fatuity of expecting religion to
emerge successfully from the educational mill
as a by-product. Left without training and
exercise, while the energy of the developing
life is drawn into other channels, the spiritual
function of man's nature will atrophy as will
other functions under the same conditions. In
emphasizing this truth Professor Leuba's book
has done .... Christianity a service.
Charlotte Isabel Claflin.
INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNAE
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Many Bryn Mawr alumnae living in or near
New York or planning to spend a winter in
New York would be glad of a game of basket-
ball or a swim once a week, and will therefore
be interested in hearing about the Intercol-
legiate Alumnae Athletic Association.
This Association is the result of the work of
the Committee on Athletics of the Barnard
Alumnae Association. Four years ago a group
of Barnard girls, missing the exercise of under-
graduate days, met once a week in the Teachers
College gymnasium and played basket-ball.
Other college girls heard of their fun and asked
to join them. By the next year — thanks to
the effective publicity work of the Barnard
Alumnae Committee — enough college alumnae
joined the project to permit the renting of the
whole Thompson Gymnasium (Teachers Col-
lege) for one night a week. This meant ample
room for basket-ball, dancing, gymnastics,
swimming, and bowling. This committee also
inaugurated a class in horse-back riding at the
Central Park Academy. These classes became
so popular that the work of managing them be-
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came too much for the original committee of
three and, largely because there were so many
graduates of so many colleges taking part in
them, it was decided to form an Intercollegiate
Alumnae Athletic Association.
The Association was formed a little more
than a year ago — in April, 1916 — and in its
membership of four hundred fifty-six colleges
are represented. Its purpose is to provide for
college women in and near New York the op-
portunity to exercise under healthful and con-
genial conditions at rates as low as possible.
To be eligible to membership one must be a
graduate of a recognized college or university.
Women who have had two years college train-
ing, however, may be admitted to associate
membership — with all the privileges of mem-
bership except that of holding office.
The activities are all held in the evening or
during week-ends, so that those of the members
who are working during the day time can take
part. Last winter under the management of the
Indoor Athletic Committee, classes were given
every Monday night at the Thompson Gym-
nasium in basket-ball, swimming, dancing, and
gymnastics. There are also hand-ball courts and
bowling alleys that have become very popular.
During the fall and spring and summer the
Outdoor Athletic Committee arranged hockey
practice — hikes to nearby places — and this
year week-end trips are being contemplated.
The Riding Committee during the past year
successfully carried on four riding classes at
two New York academies and at one in Brook-
lyn. These classes included work for begin-
ners, for intermediate grades, and for advanced
horsewomen. Those who were most ambitious
even rode bare-back.
Next year we want to reach every college
woman in New York. We want to have classes
in many different places and at many different
times. We want to give you just what you
want. We can do this only with your coop-
eration— and I therefore urge all of you who
live in or near New York to join the Associa-
tion. The dues are only $2.00 a year; this
covers the running expenses of the Associa-
tion. The fees for the various activities are the
actual cost prices, and they are the lowest that
can be had in New York.
At this time we are all, of course, giving as
much time and energy as we can to the cause
of our country and for that very reason we
should take every precaution to keep ourselves
in good physical condition, to increase our en-
ergy and our ability to work. The Intercol-
legiate Alumnae Athletic Association will give
you the best opportunity to keep fit.
Miss Charlotte Hand of Vassar, 373 Wash-
ington Avenue, Brooklyn, the executive secre-
tary of the Association, will be glad to give you
any further information or to forward to you
membership application blanks.
Agnes Morrow, 1912.
NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
COMMENCEMENT
The thirty-second year of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege closed on the morning of June 7 with the
conferring of degrees. Sixty-eight students
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, ten the
degree of Master of Arts, and eight the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy.
The gymnasium was crowded by the friends
of the College and friends and relatives of the
Seniors.
After the exercises closed luncheon of 160
covers was served for the friends of the Senior
Class in Radnor Hall.
The Directors and Faculty and friends of the
College were invited to luncheon at the Deanery
by President Thomas to meet Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Raeburn White and the new Dean of
the College, Miss Helen Herron Taft.
CHANGES IN THE FACULTY AND
STAFF
Professor Tenney Frank, Professor of Latin,
returns after one year's leave of absence spent t
as visiting professor in the American Academy
in Rome. Dr. Thomas DeCoursey Ruth has
acted as his substitute during the year 1916-17.
Professor Carleton Fairchild Brown, who has
spent the year 1916-17 at the University of
Minnesota on leave of absence from Bryn Mawr
College, has accepted a full professorship in
English at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Howard Rollin Patch, who has acted as
substitute for Professor Brown during his ab-
sence for the year 1916-17, has been promoted
to be Associate in English Philology.
Professor James Barnes, Associate Professor
of Physics, has been promoted to be Full Pro-
fessor of Physics.
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Professor Clarence Errol Ferree, Associate
Professor of Experimental Psychology and Di-
rector of the Psychological Laboratory, has
been promoted to be Full Professor of Experi-
mental Psychology.
Dr. Regina Katharine Crandall, Associate in
English, has been promoted to be Associate
Professor of English Philology.
Miss Edith Orlady will return after one year's
leave of absence to be Secretary and Registrar
of the College.
Professor Thomas Clachar Brown has re-
signed as Associate Professor of Geology.
Dr. Frank J. Wright, M.A., University of
Virginia, 1911, of Bridgewater College, Bridge-
water, Virginia, has been appointed Associate
in Geology.
Dr. Roger Frederic Brunei, Associate Profes-
sor of Chemistry, has been promoted to be Full
Professor of Chemistry.
Professor Matilde Castro, Phebe Anna
Thome Associate Professor of Education and
Director of the Phebe Anna Thorne Model
School, has been promoted to be Phebe Anna
Thorne Professor of Education and will devote
her time to lecturing in the Department of
Education.
Dean Eunice Morgan Schenck has resigned
the deanship of the College and will be Asso-
ciate Professor of Modern French Literature.
Dr. Albert Edwin Avey, Associate in Philos-
ophy, has resigned.
Dr. Ethel E. Sabin has been appointed Asso-
ciate in Philosophy. Dr. Sabin received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Uni-
versity of Illinois in 1916.
Dr. James Miller Leake, Associate in History,
has resigned to accept the Full Professorship
in History in Allegheny College, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Edward Carroll Day, who came to Bryn
Mawr as Lecturer in Physiology for one year,
will not return. His position has not yet been
filled.
Dr. Edward Henry Sehrt, Lecturer in Teu-
tonic Philology during the absence of Professor
Agathe Lasch, will remain at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege for 1917-18.
Dr. Ada Hart Arlitt has been appointed As-
sociate in Educational Psychology. Dr. Arlitt
received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from the University of Chicago in 1917.
Miss Esther Cloudman Dunn, Instructor in
English, has resigned to accept the Fellowship
in English at Bryn Mawr College for the year
1917-18.
Mrs. Edith Chapin Craven, Instructor in
English, has resigned.
Miss Emily Gifford Noyes, A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1915, student in the School of Jour-
nalism, Columbia University, 1915-16, and
graduate student in English, Columbia Uni-
versity, 1916-17, has accepted a half time In-
structorship in English.
Miss Eva Alice Worrall Bryne, A.B., Bryn
Mawr College, 1916, and A.M., 1917, has been
appointed Reader in English.
Miss Helen McGregor Noyes, A.B., Rad-
cliffe College, 1915, and Teacher in Dana Hall,
Wellesley, Mass., 1916-17, has been appointed
Instructor in English.
Miss Ellen Thayer, who has been Reader in
French and Teacher of French in the Phebe
Anna Thorne Model School, has resigned in
order to study for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Cornell University during the
year 1917-18.
Miss Helen Huss Parkhurst, Reader and
Demonstrator in the History of Art for 1916-17,
has resigned to accept an appointment as
Instructor in Logic in Barnard College.
Miss Jane Marion Earle, Reader in Mathe-
matics, has resigned to take up war work in
England.
Miss Marian Clementine Kleps, A.B., Bryn
Mawr College, 1916, and Bryn Mawr European
Fellow, 1916, who has been Assistant to the
Recording Secretary for the year 1916-17, will
succeed Miss Earle as Reader in Mathematics.
Miss Mary Edith Pinney, Demonstrator in
Biology, has resigned to accept a position at
Wellesley College.
Miss Sara Wooster Eno, Circulation and
Reference Librarian, has been appointed Head
of the Circulation Department in the Univer-
sity of Minnesota Library.
Miss Mary Minor Watson Taylor, who has
been Secretary to the Dean of the College dur-
ing 1916-17, has resigned to take a business
position in New York.
Miss Jean M. Wylie, who has been Manager
of Low Buildings for six years, has resigned to
take up farming. Her position will be filled
by Miss Juliet B. Lee.
Miss Sarita Crawford has been appointed
Manager of the College Inn, and Miss Frances
G. Whitney will continue as Manager of the
Tea Room.
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THE NEW DEAN OF BRYN MAWR
Helen Taft, 1915, is to be Dean of the College
next year. In making the announcement, Presi-
dent Thomas said in part:
"I have to make both a sad announcement
and one which I hope may be happy. Dean
Schenck has decided to resign as Dean of the
College and continue her work as Associate
Professor of French. I am sure you will all re-
gret as deeply as I do this decision
It is at the same time pleasant to remember
that the great loss to the Dean's office and to
the executive work of the College will be the
great gain of our French Department. I am
sure that those of you who have taken, or who
expect to take, French, will feel, as I do, that
the French Department is much to be con-
gratulated.
"Now for my happy announcement. The
Board of Directors has unanimously elected as
Dean of the College Miss Helen Herron Taft,
who is known to many of you. It seems to us
very desirable to have in the Dean's office one of
our younger alumnae, who will develop with the
College and will help the College to keep close
to modern conditions of education ....
"Miss Taft is, I think, a genuine student with
very high scholarly ideals in education. After
graduating from Bryn Mawr she entered the
graduate department of Yale University and
has been studying for two years in the depart-
ment of history, her group here having been
history and economics. She has completed all
her formal work for the degree of Ph.D. at Yale,
her thesis only remaining to be written of which
she has already presented two important chap-
ters for the degree of M.A. at Yale
"There have been four Deans of Bryn Mawr
College. I served as Dean and Professor of
English for nine years from 1885 to 1894, when
I became President. After an interval of
fourteen years Dean Reilly was elected Dean
in 1908 and served for eight years and now is a
member of our Board of Directors. Miss Taft
will succeed Dean Eunice Morgan Schenck,
Associate Professor of French, who had held
the office during the present year, but prefers
teaching to executive work and has resigned to
continue her teaching of French.
"Let us hope that Miss Taft may find she
can do more for scholarship and true learning as
Dean of Bryn Mawr College than in any other
position; and that she may become a perma-
nent Dean and worthy successor to Marion
Reilly, who was Dean of the College for eight
years and is now a member of our Board of
Directors."
CAMPUS NOTES
It cannot be said that, this semester at least
Bryn Mawr College has persisted apart, un-
touched by the events of the great world. Proba-
bly never before in its history had it come so close
to surrendering some of its precious and peculiar
privileges of maintaining academic standards
regardless of non-academic occurrences. It
was on the point of adopting, for a few last
weeks of the year, an abbreviated curriculum
to make way for work of preparedness.
Fortunately the students reconsidered their
views and voted against the contemplated
change. But they instituted preparedness
work just the same. Taylor Hall has been
populated by the patriotic at unaccustomed
hours of the morning, and been illuminated
nightly for the further instruction of the young
in first aid to the injured.
Activities induced by the alignment of the
United States with the Entente extended for
Bryn Mawr students beyond the confines of the
campus. But their Saturday labors on the
Bryn Mawr farm situated near West Chester
were designed to aid the college financially
rather than to assist in the work of belligerency.
Their continued occupation in this direction
during the summer bids fair to provide a hun-
gry college next year with a goodly supply of
turnips and potatoes.
In an even more intimate and convincing
way Bryn Mawr did its early share in giving
aid to its country. It yielded up for the officers'
training camp two professors, Dr. Savage and
Dr. Gray. To be able to send from its midst two
individuals clothed in khaki gave it a pleasing
sense of being picturesquely militaristic.
But other and more traditional activities
have gone on much as usual, though with a little
of that element of experimentation which seems
appropriate now in all things, in conformity
with the changes in the nation. It tried out
Amy Lowell as a lecturer for English Club,
and introduced a Russian pianist under an
improvised sounding board to play the piano
in the cloisters. Miss Lowell proved to be
quite as astonishing and entertaining as we
had anticipated. And Mr. Gabrilovitch gave
us some music that suffered only a little from
the bad acoustics and the distraction of black
birds feeding their young, not quietly, in the
shelter of the ivied buttresses of the library. In
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one way or another those cloisters were put to
considerable use this year, in spite of the fact
that it was not the year of a big May Day.
The classes in fancy dancing one windy night,
cold like all nights this spring at Bryn Mawr,
gave an exhibition under colored lights. And
every preparation was made to present the
plays given as part of the Garden Party enter-
tainment, under the same open sky. That
time, rain defeated the plans, however, and the
audience and caste retreated to the gymnasium.
The rain continued for commencement day,
stopping just in time to permit the academic
procession to form in the library instead of in
the swimming pool. Though the line wound
down past Merion on the sidewalk, instead of
between the trees of Senior Row, it was a nice
procession, giving the customary thrill to
everyone responsive to academic ceremonial
with its complex associations and its panoply.
The baccalaureate sermon had been preached
by the Rev. Anna Shaw; the very interesting
commencement address on the subject of re-
construction after the war was given by Mr.
White, of the Board of Directors. President
Thomas, as usual, gave a luncheon afterward at
the Deanery. The usual alumnae supper in the
evening was replaced by a tea.
The full extent of the changes contemplated
in the academic side of Bryn Mawr has not yet
been fully determined. But at least the French
and German orals have been abolished, to be
replaced by some other less nerve-racking test
of linguistic attainment. Also the entrance
examination requirements have, in a number of
respects, already been altered and improved.
The year to come will show how many changes
there will prove to be, and how radically Bryn
Mawr in one way and another, is breaking with
some of its old, but not necessarily unimprov-
able traditions. The year that is past has been
a busy and full one, with work on the endow-
ment fund as well as on the war. President
Thomas was happily able to announce on Com-
mencement day that the fund had been com-
pleted. She also made the pleasant announce-
ment that a $100,000 fund for a Professorship
in English Composition had been donated to the
College. The chair will be occupied by Miss
Crandall.
Helen H. Parkhurst.
FACULTY NOTES
Dr. Susan Myra Kingsbury has been elected
president of the Intercollegiate Community
Sendee Association.
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIP
FOR 1917-18
EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS
Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship: Hazel
Grant Ormsbee.
President's European Fellowship: Bird Mar-
garet Turner.
Bryn Maivr European Fellowship and Ship-
pen Foreign Scholarship: Thalia Howard Smith.
RESIDENT FELLOWSHIPS
Greek: Lucy Reed Powell; Latin: Louise Eliz-
abeth Whetonhall Adams; English: Esther
Cloudman Dunn; German: Olga Marx; Semitic
Languages: Beatrice Allard; Education: Nellie
Boyd Drake; History: Margaret Woodbury;
Economics: Helen Adair; Social Economy:
Carola Woerishoffer Fellows in Social Economy
and Social Research: Agnes M. H. Byrnes,
Georgia L. Baxter; Philosophy: Marguerite Wit-
mer Kehr; Psychology: Mary Ruth Almack;
Archaeology: Janet Malcolm MacDcnald; Chem-
istry: Elise Tobin; Geology: Eleanor Mary
Lorenz; Biology: Dorothy A. Sewell.
FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIPS
British: Dorothy Everett, Mabel Vaughan
Kitson, Margaret Russell Clarke, Francesca
Helen Stead, Marguerite Muriel Culpepper Pol-
lard, Ellen Mary Sanders; French: M. Schoell,
Juliette Pade, Madeleine Pouresy, M. Fabin,
Aline Chalufour.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
Greek: Marjorie Josephine Milne; Latin:
Geneva H. Drinkwater; English: Eva Alice
Worrall Bryne, Beryl Griffin Hart, Grace Ethel
Hawk; German: Mary Martha Bausch; Ro-
mance Languages: Helen Elizabeth Patch;
History: Leona Christine Gabel; Economics:
Bertha Clark Greenough; Social Economy
and Social Research: Eleanor Lansing Dulles,
Gladys Louise Palmer, Leah Hannah Feder;
Philosophy: Amelia Kellogg MacMaster, Mar-
garet Georgiana Melvin; Psychology: Istar Alida
Haupt, Mildred McCreary Willard; History of
Art: Alice Dare Franklin; Mathematics: Nora
May Mohler; Geology: Isabel F. Smith; Chem-
istry: Ryu Sato.
Susan B. Anthony Memorial Scholarship in
Social Economy and Social Research: Helen
Ross.
Robert G. Valentine Scholarship in Social
Economy and Social Research: Clare Wilhelmina
Butler.
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UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholarship,
value $500, awarded for the first time this
year, to a member of the Senior Class next in
grade to the winner of the Bryn Mawr Euro-
pean Fellowship: Katharine Burr Blodgett.
Shippen European Scholarship, value $200,
awarded for the first time this year, to the
senior winning the Bryn Mawr European Fel-*>
lowship; Thalia Howard Smith.
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship: Margaret Catherine Timpson.
Shippen Scholarship in Science, value $200,
awarded for the first time this year, to the mem-
ber of the Junior Class with majors in science
who has received the highest average grade on
courses in science: Virginia Kneeland.
Shippen Scholarship in Languages, value
$200, awarded for the first time this year, to
the member of the Junior Class with majors
in languages who has received the highest aver-
age grade on courses in languages: Therese
Mathilde Born.
Anna H. Powers Memorial Scholarship:
Marian O'Connor; James E. Rhoads Junior
Scholarship: Helen Prescott; Anna Hallowell
Junior Scholarship: Helen Coreene Karns;
Thomas H. Powers Junior Scholarship: Enid
Schurman Macdonald; Mary E. Stevens Junior
Scholarship: Alice Miriam Snavely; Special
Maria Hopper Scholarship: Edith Mary Howes;
James E. Rhoads Sophomore Scholarship:
Marie Litzinger; Maria Hopper Scholarships:
Julia Newton Cochran, Margaret Miller Dent;
Mary Anna Longs treth Scholarship: Arline
Fearon Preston; Elizabeth Duane Gillespie
Scholarship in American History: Katharine
Truman Sharpless; George W. Childs Essay
Prize: Monica Barry O'Shea; Second Prize:
Janet Randolph Grace; Mary Helen Ritchie
Memorial Prize: Constance Sidney Hall.
FOUNDATION OF NEW
SCHOLARSHIPS
Bryn Mawr College,
June 18, 1917.
The Robert G. Valentine Memorial Scholar-
ship in Social Economy and Social Research
of the value of $200, has been given by Mrs.
Frank W. Hallowell of Chestnut Hill, Mass.,
to be awarded by the President and Faculty of
Bryn Mawr College on the recommendation of
the Director of the Carola Woerishoffer Depart-
ment of Social Economy and Social Research to
a candidate approved by the donor. It is open
to graduates of Bryn Mawr College or of any
other college of good standing who desire to
work in the Department of Social Economy and
Social Research.
The Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholar-
ship : This scholarship, of the value of $500, has
been given in memory of Charles S. Hinchman
of Philadelphia, by his children. It will be
awarded for special rather than general ability
on the nomination of the Undergraduate Schol-
arship Committee of the Faculty. The Com-
mittee in making the nomination will be guided
by (1) The student's record in her group
subjects. (2) Written recommendations from
the instructors in those subjects. (3) Evi-
dence of the student's ability as shown by writ-
ten work in her group subject, together with a
written estimate of the same by the instructor
most directly concerned. This work to be sub-
mitted not later than March 15th of the year
preceding that in which the scholarship will be
held. The scholarship is open to Freshmen,
Sophomores or Juniors, but for the year 1917-18
the Committee of the Faculty recommended
that it should be given to a member of the class
of 1917 to be used in graduate work in Bryn
Mawr College.
The Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarships:
Founded as part of the legacy of Elizabeth S.
Shippen to Bryn Mawr College, will be given
as follows:
A scholarship of $200 shall be awarded each
year to the member of the senior class who is
elected to the Bryn Mawr European Fellow-
ship, and the holder of the award shall have the
title both of Bryn Mawr European Fellow and
of the Shippen Foreign Scholar.
The second bequest of $200 annually shall
be divided into two scholarships of $100 each,
to be known as the Shippen Scholarship in
Science, and the Shippen Scholarship in For-
eign Languages, respectively.
The Shippen Scholarship in Science shall be
awarded annually to the member of the Junior
class, one or both of whose major subjects shall
lie in one of the Scientific Departments, viz.,
Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, who
among those of her class so majoring shall have
attained the highest average grade in courses
taken in these departments.
The Shippen .Scholarship in Foreign Lan-
guages shall similarly be awarded annually to
the member of the Junior Class, one or both of
whose major subjects shall lie in one of the
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Departments of Foreign Languages, viz.. Greek,
Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, who
among those of the class so majoring shall have
attained the highest average grade in courses
taken in these departments.
The computation of the average grades in
the Shippen Scholarship in Science and the
Shippen Scholarship in Foreign Languages shall
be based on the grades received during Fresh-
man, Sophomore, and the first semester of the
Junior years. Grades in matriculation courses
shall not be included. No student shall be
considered eligible for the Science or Foreign
Language Scholarship who has not completed
at least fifteen hours of work in these subjects
on which the computation is based. The win-
ner of the $500 scholarship shall not be eligible
for the Science or Foreign Language Scholar-
ship.
The Pittsburgh Bryn Ma wr Club Scholarship,
of the value of $200, will be awarded each year as
an entrance scholarship to the candidate pre-
pared by a school in Allegheny County, Penna;,
for the last two years before taking her exam-
inations for matriculation who receives the
highest average grade in these examinations.
CHANGES IN ENTRANCE AND
A. B. REQUIREMENTS
The senior oral examinations having been
abolished by the faculty, written examinations
will be given next year in their place at the
time scheduled for the oral examinations and
will be conducted by two committees of three
each elected in French and in German by the
faculty, one member of the department con-
cerned being elected to act as chairman.
NEW ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Many changes have been made in the en-
trance requirements of Bryn Mawr College
which will be optional in 1918 and following
years, and obligatory from 1912. The exam-
ination in the fourth language will be done away
with. Candidates will be required to offer as
at present Mathematics, Latin, English, 4
points each; an examination in either Greek,
French, or German, counting 3 points, some-
what more difficult than the present Greek,
French, and German, the examinations being
equivalent to French A and B or German A and
B of the College Entrance Examination Board;
Ancient History, counting one point in and after
1919; Physics, counting 2 points, in and after
1919; English History, about equivalent to
four periods a week for one year, counting
1 point; American History, being permitted to
be substituted, if schools can furnish proof
that English History cannot be taught in the
school courses, optional in 1918 and following
years, obligatory in 1921; Physiology and Hy-
giene, or Chemistry, or Physical Geography, or
Botany, equivalent to about 3 periods a week
for one year, counting 1 point, optional in 1918
and following years, obligatory in 1921.
It is hoped by the faculty that by reducing
the amount of language work required for prepa-
ration and by requiring subjects like history
and science, students may enter Bryn Mawr
better prepared than at present for their college
work.
CHANGES IN A. B. CURRICULUM
Important changes have also been made in
the courses required for an A. B. degree, these
changes being in great part a consequence of
dropping the oral examinations in French and
German for seniors.
On the first Saturday of each college year
every undergraduate student must take an
hour's written examination in the foreign lan-
guage, Greek or French, or German, which she
offered at entrance. This examination must
be taken in every year of the college course until
graduation. Students entering with Greek
will be excused from the written examination
in Greek at the beginning of the year follow-
ing the year in which they have elected and
passed a minor or major course in Greek.
On the second Saturday of the junior year,
every junior must take an examination in a
language which she did not offer at entrance,
Greek, or French, or German, or Spanish, stu-
dents entering with Greek being required to
take French or German. This examination
will be elementary in character, about equiva-
lent to 5 periods a week for one year in prepara-
tory schools or to elementary Greek, French, or
German in the college, provided that only about
an hour and a half of outside preparation is
required for each hour of lecture.
Juniors who fail to pass this examination
will be required to go into tutoring classes and
pay for them at the present rates. They will
not have another opportunity to be examined
until the «econd Saturday of their senior year.
If they fail to pass this examination they must
wait over for their degree and try the same
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examination again at the beginning of the next passed the written examination in one year will
college year, this rule requiring them to defer
their degrees admitting of no exception.
Students failing to pass any one of the four
written examinations in the language offered
for entrance will in like manner be required to
go into tutoring classes and the fact of having
not save them from being put into a tutoring
class in the next year if they fail to pass. As
in the former oral examinations, eternal vigi-
lance is the price of safety. — The College News,
June 6, 1917.
REUNIONS AND CLASS HISTORIES
1892
Annie Crosby Emery (Mrs. Francis
Greenleaf Allinson): 163 George Street,
Providence, R. I.
1892-96: Graduate work at Bryn Mawr and
in Leipsic; 1895-96: Secretary to the President
of Bryn Mawr College; 1896: Ph.D., Bryn
Mawr; 1896-97: Year at home; 1897-1900:
Dean of Women, University of Wisconsin;
1900-05: Dean of the Women's College in
Brown University; 1905: Married Francis
Greenleaf Allinson, professor at Brown Uni-
versity, whose daughter, Susanne, A.B., Bryn
Mawr, '10, was for two years Warden of Rad-
nor; 1906-09: On Board of Directors, Bryn
Mawr College.
1909: Published (with husband) Greek Lands
and Letters; 1913: Published Roads from Rome.
Since 1905 has contributed to the Atlantic
Monthly, Yale Review, Unpopular Review, and
The Nation.
Spent two years abroad since 1905 — espe-
cially winters in Greece. Has done the usual
riff-raff of community chores. Just now is
president of a new club, Providence Planta-
tions Club, consisting of some 1200 members
drawn from almost as many occupations and
interests.
Helen Bartlett: Vermejo Park, Colfax
County, N. M.
1892-95 : Specialized in English and Teutonic;
Ph.D. in January, 1896; 1893-94: English Fel-
low at Bryn Mawr; 1894-95: American Fellow
of the A. C. A.; 1896-97: Head of the Modern
Language Department in Portland Academy,
Ore.; 1897-1907: Dean of Women and Head
of the Modern Language Department at Brad-
ley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, 111. This
school was endowed with about two and a half
million dollars, was affiliated with the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and its graduates were admitted
without examination to the third year of the
leading colleges and universities. While teach-
ing there, she delivered several public lectures
on such topics as Cambridge University, Berlin,
Travel in Alaska, a series of three on the Ar-
thurian Legends; also addresses before various
clubs and associations. In 1906, on the cele-
bration of the tenth Founder's Day of the Insti-
tute, she was appointed to deliver the address
for the faculty, which was made up largely of
men.
Was one of the founders and the first president
of the Peoria Woman's College Club, of which
the requirements of admission are similar to
those of the A. C. A. Is a life member of the
A. C. A., and a member of the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association.
Her published thesis for her Ph.D. was on
the "Metrical Division of theJParis Psalter."
Greatest pleasure: travel and the study of
modern languages. Since graduation has trav-
eled in Canada and Alaska, has spent three
winters in California and one in the South. In
March, 1905, was given vacation with full
salary and studied at the University of Berlin
in the German literature courses of Professors
Richard Meyer and Erich Schmidt, and was
admitted to advanced seminar courses. 1907:
Again given leave of absence and traveled and
studied abroad until October, 1910. Visited
all European countries except Russia, and gave
special attention to the study of Italian, Span-
ish, and French. 1910: Resigned position and
went to live on her brother's large ranch in
the mountains of New Mexico. 1913: Went
abroad and was obliged by the war to return in
October, 1914. Is again living in the Rockies.
Her greatest pleasure there is study of birds
and flowers. As the altitude of the ranch
ranges from 7500 to 12,000 feet, the flowers are
often rare and always very beautiful. Much
interested in the cause of the Allies and has
worked for relief organizations. She embraces
every opportunity to hear good music and in
1913, spent seven months in Munich to enjoy
the opera and concerts.
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Alice Belin (Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont):
"Longwood," Kennett Square, Pa.
Married, October 6, 1915, to Pierre S. du
Pont, president of the E. T. du Pont de Ne-
mours Co.
Elizabeth Maxwell Carroll: 212 E.
Eager Street, Baltimore, Md.
1892-1900: Teacher of Classics in the Ran-
dolph-Harrison School, Baltimore; 1900-16:
Head Mistress of the Arundell School; 1916-17:
Teacher of Latin in the Ogontz School, Ogontz,
Pa.
Member of the Executive Committee of the
Consumers' League of Maryland, 1904-08;
Vice President, 1907-08; Corresponding Sec-
retary, 1910-15; Recording Secretary, 1915-16.
Member of the Board of Directors of the
Arundell Club of Baltimore, 1914-16; Vice
President of the College Club of Baltimore,
1909-10.
Kate Holladay Claghorn: 15 Cranberry
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1912-17: Lecturer on Social Research, New
York School of Philanthropy.
Helen Theodora Clements (Mrs. Ed-
ward Cameron Kirk): 554 S. Lansdowne
Avenue, Lansdowne, Pa.
1904: M.A., University of Pennsylvania;
Married, October 6, 1892, to Dr. Edward C.
Kirk, Dean of the Dental School, University of
Pennsylvania, and Editor of the Dental Cosmos.
Children: Dorothy Clements Kirk, born July
5, 1893, married November 2, 1916, to Clarence
Hall Eppelsheimer; Marcella Cameron Kirk,
born December 6, 1905; Barbara Kirk, born
April 22, 1909.
Mrs. Kirk has taken an active part in the life
of Lansdowne and has traveled abroad a num-
ber of times with Dr. Kirk.
Edith Rockwell Hall: 35 West 82nd
Street, New York City.
"During the first fifteen years after leaving
Bryn Mawr I made teaching my business, and
I collected in the course of my 'career' many
interesting and varied experiences — as private
tutor (this took me to Washington and to Cali-
fornia) ; as teacher of history in one or two large
private schools; and for eight years, part of the
time in partnership with Louise Brownell
Saunders, as head of the Balliol School, Utica,
N. Y., which we reorganized and developed
from a moribund 'young ladies' seminary' into
one of the recognized college preparatory schools
for girls. To this day I lament the social mis-
fortune that so real a success as the school was
achieving in its academic and human develop-
ment could have been balked by so paltry a
consideration as finances! But so it was, and
the enterprise had to be abandoned as a luxury
greater than we could afford.
"Aside from the satisfaction derived from work
itself, and from its many incidental enjoyments,
much of the pleasure of these years came in the
long summer vacations that happily fall to the
lot of teachers. Several of these I spent de-
lightfully in trips abroad, the memories of
which I cherish doubly now since certain ex-
periences can never be renewed.
"But in spite of its many rewards, the life of a
teacher did not seem to me just the one I
wanted, and since 1912 I have given up teach-
ing and have been engaged in social work, part
of the time as student — first in the Training
School of the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research, and later in the School of Philan-
thropy— and part of the time in paid executive
positions. For three years I was field secre-
tary of the Civic Committee of the Woman's
Club of Orange, where I made several inter-
esting community investigations, the findings
of which were published in three reports: one
on the Milk Supply of the Oranges, one on the
Baby Saving Work of the community, and one
on its Housing Conditions. Last year I re-
turned to New York, and after serving for a
very interesting month as volunteer manager
of one of the branches of the Municipal Em-
ployment Bureau, I began work in August
as Registrar of the Committee on After Care
of Infantile Paralysis Cases. An article which
I was asked to write on the work of the Com-
mittee was recently published in the Journal
of Crippled Children.
"I am aware that this is a tame recital.
I send it forth that I may with a clearer con-
science enjoy other reports that will come from
college mates of whose more brilliant achieve-
ments I hear from time to time with pride and
congratulation."
Frances Brodhead Harris (Mrs. Rey-
nolds Driver Brown): The Oak Road, Sta-
tion Z, Philadelphia.
Married, June 4, 1895, to Reynolds D.
Brown, class of '90, Harvard, lawyer, and pro-
fessor in the Law School of the University of
Pennsylvania.
"I have lived in Germantown during the
winters sigjce graduation and during the sum-
mers since 1900 in Manchester, Vt. In 1905
we bought a farm in Manchester, which we run
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as a milk farm. As Mr. Brown's legal work
keeps him in Philadelphia a greater part of the
summer, I have to run the farm, which grows
increasingly difficult as the years go on, for the
labor question is more serious.
"Have served as: Secretary for the Ladies
Committee, Manheim Cricket Club; Secretary
and Treasurer of the Manheim Whist Club;
Secretary and Treasurer of the Junior Auxiliary
of Calvary Church, German town; at four sepa-
rate times — Secretary and Treasurer of the
Study Class of Germantown; 1916-17, Assistant
Recording Secretary of Mothers in Council,
Germantown; 1917-18, Recording Secretary,
Mothers in Council, Germantown.
" Children: Joseph Harris Brown, born Feb-
ruary 23, 1897, died March 22, 1899; Reynolds
Driver Brown, Jr., born November 14, 1903;
Delia Brodhead Brown, born October 27, 1905.
"Mr. Brown and I spent the summer of 1899
on a bicycle trip through rural England read-
ing the novels whose scenes v are laid in the
places we rode through. In the summer of
1914 we walked for 300 miles through the Aus-
trian Tyrol and the Bavarian Highlands over
the passes and valleys through which the
Italians and Austrians have recently been drag-
ging their machine guns. We found it enough
to drag ourselves but it will be a life-long pos-
session to have seen this country as we did.
At some of the little inns we were the only
Americans that had ever stopped over night
and now we should not be welcome even for
that time."
Frances Elizabeth Hunt: 1015 Gibson
Street, Scranton, Pa.
Margaret Dutton Kellum: 163 Joralemon
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Librarian for a firm of corporation lawyers in
New York City.
Abby Kirk: The Misses Kirk's School, Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
"My 'life' is easily told. Draw a circle
round Bryn Mawr — and you will find me in-
side— every year but one of the twenty-five
since '92. Six years Reader of English — then a
year away as Miss Garrett's secretary; and
from 1899 on, I've been at my present job —
putting girls into college. So you see, for
really interesting history you'll have to go to
other members of the class whose careers have
taken them farther afield. I always feel
ashamed each year when the college record
blank comes — and I've nothing to put on it —
no magazine articles — no offices in societies.
To be sure, I've managed with the help of
Emily Bull to write a Latin First- Year Book,
and we've found ourselves introduced some-
times to sub-freshmen as 'Kirk and Bull.'
This one child of ours has made its way in a
humble fashion — thanks to our friends' exer-
tions. But that is all."
Mary Elizabeth Miles, ex-'92 : 5138 Wayne
Avenue, Germantown, Pa.
1889-92, taught in private schools in Phila-
delphia; 1892-97: conducted a small school in
Germantown; 1897-1902, taught in Madison
Institute, Richmond, Ky., first in the Prepara-
tory Department, later in the Department of
Higher English; 1902-13, teacher of English in
the Stevens School; 1911-14, student in the
University of Pennsylvania; 1913-14, in resi-
dence at the University on leave of absence from
the Stevens School. A.B., University of Penn-
sylvania, 1914; Teacher of English and Asso-
ciate Principal of the Stevens School, 1914-17.
Grace Pinney (Mrs. James M. Stewart):
120 Riverside Drive, New York City.
1893: Special course at Columbia; 1894:
College settlement.
Married, April 17, 1895, to James M. Stew-
art. One child, William Robert Stewart, 2nd.,
born June 15, 1898.
"Special interests have been Social and Civic
work (unpaid). For the last five years have
worked particularly for Parks and Playgrounds,
as chairman in the Riverside Branch of the
Woman's Municipal League, and as Vice Pres-
ident of the Woman's League for the Protec-
tion of Riverside Park. In the interest of the
latter, a number of articles and letters have been
published in various newspapers. I have also
spoken before many clubs, the Board of Esti-
mate of New York City, and presided at a
number of public meetings on the topic of
Riverside."
Eliza Stevens (Mrs. N. R. Montgomery),
ex- '92: 185 Greenwood Avenue, Trenton, N. J.
Married, May 26, 1897, to Neil Robert
Montgomery.
Children: James Stevens Montgomery, born
March 22, 1898, entered Princeton October,
1916; Margaret Kernochan Montgomery, born
May 22, 1902, a student at St. Mary's Hall,
Burlington, N. J.
Served on Board of Managers of the Society of
Colonial Dames of New Jersey from 1901 to 1904.
At one time Treasurer of the Buff and Blue
Chapter, D. A. R. Member: of the Trenton
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Chapter, D. A.R.; of the Old Barracks Associa-
tion of Trenton; of the College Club of Phila-
delphia; of the College Club of Trenton.
Harriet Stevenson (Mrs. Edward G.
Pinney): 112 Riverside Drive, New York City.
"My oldest son, Edward Stevenson Pinney,
is at Plattsburgh and will receive his degree
from Yale University this month [June]. The
second, Alexander, is finishing his sophomore
year at Yale and will attend the Harvard R.
C. T. Camp this summer. The other children
are still in preparatory schools. So much for
my real professional work. I have been in-
terested in and am a member of certain social
and civic organizations, but the most serious
work that I have done is in connection with the
Women's Prison Association and the Isaac T.
Hopper Home of which I am treasurer. This is
all I have to show for those years since our
happy college days."
Mary Lewis Taylor (Mrs. Arthur Stan-
ley Mackenzie).
Married, 1895, Professor Arthur Stanley
Mackenzie. Died, 1896.
One daughter, Marjorie Taylor Mackenzie,
is now at Bryn Mawr, class of 1918.
Annie de Benneville Wagner (Mrs.
F. C. Dickey), ex-'92: 6002 Greene Street,
Germantown, Pa.
Married, 1904, to Franklin C. Dickey.
Children: Eleanor de Benneville, born 1906;
Franklin C, Jr., born 1907; Annie W., born
1911.
"The girls are surely going to Bryn Mawr and
the boy says he is going to be a farmer."
Mathilde Weil: 9 Livingston Place, New
York City.
Had an editorial position with the Macmillan
Company 1892-95. When she returned to her
home in Philadelphia, the Company offered to
send her mss. to read and have continued send-
ing them. While living in Philadelphia, she
built up a large and successful business in
photography, specializing in portraits of people
at their homes. Last winter she returned to
New York and to the work of reading for pub-
lishers, which she has always most enjoyed.
She reports on the manuscripts sent her by a
number of firms and occasionally does expert
revision.
She has always had her summers free and
has usually spent them on the Maine coast
where she has gone in especially for swimming,
canoeing, and sailing. Has been abroad often;
spent one winter in Italy. Of her summers
abroad the pleasantest were those devoted
to a coaching trip through Cornwall and
Devon, and to a walking and climbing trip
through the Dolomites and the Tyrol.
Edith Wetherill (Mrs. Frederick Mer-
win Ives): 318 West 75th Street, New York
City.
Traveled abroad in the summer of 1894 —
part of the time with Frances Harris and Alice
Belin — and with her own family for a year from
the fall of 1895-96. Did volunteer work as
Recording Secretary o{ the Civic Club of Phila-
delphia from October 1896-97; Corresponding
Secretary, 1897-1900. Elected Honorary Mem-
ber on her resignation. Married Dr. Frederick
Merwin Ives, November 15, 1900, and moved
to New York. She has five children all born
in New York City: Elizabeth Ives, born October
17, 1901. Gerard Merrick Ives, born January
7, 1903. John Wetherill Ives, born October
25, 1904. Chauncey Bradley Ives, born March
16, 1907. Margaret Newbold Ives, born June
26, 1909. Elizabeth is preparing to enter
Bryn Mawr College in the fall of 1919. Gerard
is at Groton School.
After her marriage, she spent her winters in
New York City and her summers near South-
ampton, L. I., until 1911, and since then, on a
farm near Brewster, Putnam County, N. Y.,
which she and her husband own.
For the past five years she has been Secre-
tary of the Knickerbocker Greys, a private
military drill class for boys; and for two years
a members of a Visiting Committee of the
Social Service Department at Bellevue Hos-
pital.
She has also the proud distinction of being
the only Secreta-ry '92 has had in its long and
eventful career!
She has done what little War Relief Work has
been possible with her other duties. As Dr.
Ives holds a Commission as Captain in the
Army Medical Reserve Corps and expects to
be called out in the near future, she feels she
will be doing her "bit" both directly and by
proxy.
Elizabeth Ware Winsor (Mrs. Henry
Greenleaf Pearson) : 140 Dudley Road, New-
ton Center, Mass.
"November 10, 1912, was born my third
son, Henry Greenleaf Pearson, Jr. Since then
I have become deeply interested in the new
conception of education as having for its chief
object the development of initiative, and in
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starting such education. I have worked in the
New England Montessori Association, and
have used the method with my own little bo)^s
and a few of their friends."
1902
The following account of the Class of 1902 is
in no way complete or formal. The extracts
from the letters of the forty-nine members who
replied are given in the words of the writers
as far as space would allow. From the letters
and the 1917 Register, it is possible to give the
following statistics as approximately correct.
Total number in class 90
Married 56
Married since 1912 5
Number with children 45
Total number of children 117
Children born since 1912 30
Number of boys 64
Number of girls 53
Number with paid occupation since 1912 ... 21
Number now having paid occupations 18
Number with Ph.D 1
Frances Adams (Mrs. Bascom Johnson)
lived in New York where her husband was as-
sistant counsel for the American Social Hy-
giene Association and where in 1913 her third
child, Joseph Taber Johnson, 2nd, was born.
In 1915 her husband's work took the family to
California, but they expect to return to New
York this summer. She was for three years a
director of the National Board of Camp Fire
Girls. Athletics are still her outside interest.
Alice Albertson has continued to teach in
Philadelphia. In summer she lives in Nan-
tucket, Mass., where her family are interested
in the founding and development of the Maria
Mitchell Association. The house where Maria
Mitchell was born has been made a Museum
where, besides Mitchelliana, there are collec-
tions of the flora and fauna of Nantucket and
an observatory. Alice Albertson is now curator
of the Museum.
Marguerite Allen has been for five years
visitor for the Associated Charities of Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Marion Balch took the first year's work at
the Boston School for Social Workers from
January, 1913 to January, 1914. She has no
professional position at present but many
interests.
Helen Billmeyer is still housemistress at
the Baldwin School. Her outside interests at
present are in war relief.
Corinne Blose (Mrs. H. C. Wright) lives
on Long Island and has four children. Collier
and Ann, twins, were born in 1913. Her hus-
band is connected with the Charities for the
City of New York.
Elizabeth Bodine taught from 1913 to 1916.
Now she is keeping house for her brother in
Trenton and taking active interest in many
things. She is a vice-president of the Girls'
Friendly Society in New Jersey.
Paxton Boyd (Mrs. R. M. Day) with her
husband and one child, lives in Denver, Colo-
rado.
May Brown has been keeping house for her
family in Marblehead. Next year she expects
to be housemistress at Miss Baldwin's School.
Jane Brown writes that this year she is to
do more gardening than usual and has a little
house fitted up as a canning kitchen where four
gross of jars are waiting to be filled with the sur-
plus from the garden. She is private secretary
in Boston in winter; in Petersham, N. H., in
summer.
Elizabeth Chandlee (Mrs. H. B. Forman)
was in France and Italy in 1913 and 1914. For
the first six weeks of the war she was marooned
in Austria where her husband found her with
thirty cents in her pocket book and two hungry
children. She spent five months in Italy be-
fore coming home. She has been writing poems
which have appeared in the London Nation, the
Forum and the Living Age, but she writes that
she is prouder of being the author of the lead-
ing article in Modern Language Notes (Johns
Hopkins) for May, 1917. She has been work-
ing for two years on a book she is composing
in Italian. Her eldest son (her husband's boy)
is working near Verdun in the American Am-
bulance Field Service.
Florence Clark (Mrs. H. L. Morrison)
married in 1915 Mr. Henry Lawrence Morrison
and lives in Onawa, Iowa.
Fanny Cochran with Miss Sanville directed
the "Bryn Mawr Fire Prevention Study," which
the first four classes graduated from Bryn Mawr
gave the state of Pennsylvania a year ago and
which is printed as a report of the Industrial
Board of the Department of Labor and In-
dustry. She is at present living on a farm
near Westtown, Pa., where she has ten cows
and has planted two acres of potatoes and eleven
of corn beside other crops. Each summer she
has a group of school boys come out to assist
with the farm work. They are directed by a
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student from the State College of Agriculture
and the experiment seems a success.
Elizabeth Congdon (Mrs. A. J. Barron)
writes that her interests are in her garden in
summer and in music and the Sewickley
Woman's Club in winter. Her husband is a
lawyer in Pittsburgh.
Elizabeth Corson (Mrs. Percival Galla-
gher) whose husband is a landscape architect,
lives in Brookline, Mass. Richard, the young-
est of ther three children was born in January,
1915. Her household and war relief work fill
her time.
Jane Cragin's (Mrs. D'Arcy H. Kay)
second daughter, Eleanor Violet, was born in
July, 1914, on the farm in Canada on which
the Kays lived until the outbreak of the war.
When war was declared, Jane's husband, for-
merly an officer in the English army, returned
at once to England and through the first
winter of the war drilled troops on Salisbury
Plain. He then went to the front for six
months as a staff officer. At present Jane is
with him at Grantham, England, where he is
teaching gunnery. He has the rank of Lieu-
tenant Colonel.
Claris Crane is in charge of her uncle's
farm at Timonium, Maryland.
Jean Crawford is Junior Bursar at the
College.
Lucia Davis is now in Y. W. C. A. work in
Baltimore.
Elinor Dodge has no regular occupation but
takes an active part in many local activities.
Emily Dungan (Mrs. G. W. Moore, Jr.)
lives in Woodbury, an old New Jersey town.
Her husband practices osteopathy in Philadel-
phia. She has been studying singing since
1904 and has met with considerable success.
Kate Du Val (Mrs. H. "S. Pitts), whose
husband is an architect, has been taken by his
work this year to Pittsburgh and to Mobile,
Alabama, where she is at present. She writes
that she finds Mobile like the south of France
in climate, vegetation, and even in the build-
ings. She feels almost as if she were abroad.
Her permanent address is 620 Hope Street,
Bristol, R. I.
Marion Haines (Mrs. Samuel Emlen, Jr.)
has three more daughters, Elizabeth, born in
1913, Frances born in 1915 and Marion born
in 1916. This makes a family of five children
and she writes that trying to keep a peaceful
happy home and healthy children, though it
sounds easy has at times been exciting and all
she could attempt. Her husband gives most
of his time to a farm near Railway, N. J., where
Marion herself goes in summer. This year
they are going to take over six or seven boys
from the Germantown Friends School to do
extra work. They will be under the leader-
ship of an older boy and will live somewhat
according to camping rules.
Kate Fletcher has moved to Milwaukee.
She has no definite occupation but many in-
terests.
Ethel Goff writes that though her time has
been very full it has not been so occupied as
to be of interest to the class.
Bessie Graham has been teaching for two
years at the Willian Penn High School a sub-
ject never taught before on land or sea — Book
Salesmanship. Not the training of book
agents, she writes (Heaven defend!), but of
book clerks for stores. Any one who has had
an experience similar to asking for "Leaves of
Grass" and being sent to books on gardening
will agree there is a field for her pioneer work.
Her class this year numbered thirty-five from
all the stores in Philadelphia and Earl Barnes
wrote an account of it in the Atlantic Monthly,
August, 1914, as "A New Profession for
Women."
Mary Ingham was absorbed by the Progres-
sive Party in 1912. In 1914 she joined a group
of students of social and industrial conditions
and visited with them German, French and
British cities. This party was broken up by
the war and she was interned in Switzerland
for some weeks. The next winter she helped
organize the Monday Conference which dis-
cusses matters of government. She also worked
with the Equal Franchise Society of Philadel-
phia. In June, 1915, she became manager of
the Women's Department of Wm. P. Bonbright
& Co., an Investment Banking House. This is
pioneer work, no other house having put women
in control of work with women investors. She
says that though this record may seem to show
scattering of energies each part has been of
service in educating her for the rest.
Eleanor James, who is teaching at Rye
Seminary, writes that her life history from the
outside point of view can be found in the Reg-
ister. She is much interested in the Church
General Hospital at Wuchang, China, where her
sister is a medical missionary.
Josephine Kieffer (Mrs. C. S. Foltz)
writes that her achievements in the last five
years have consisted in learning to cook better
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than the average through the ill wind of scarce
cooks; in learning to run an automobile and to
swim; in becoming more intimate with the
genus committee and in helping with war
work.
Ruth Miles' (Mrs. C. R. Witherspoon)
youngest, Robert, was born in 1914. She
writes that her four children and her household
which includes the office of her husband, a
doctor, take most of her time. She is, however,
on the Board of the Social Settlement of Roches-
ter. The last five years have been full of
health and happiness for her family. Sum-
mers are spent at their country home on Lake
Ontario.
Sara Montenegro's (Mrs. C. B. Blakey)
husband is a lawyer in Louisville, Ky. She has
two little girls, Carlotta and Sara, aged four
and one.
Frances Morris (Mrs. J. B. Orr) writes
that in the two years following our last re-
union she worked hard for suffrage. Coin-
cidently she was learning to handle oil paints
and coming to the conclusion that her two
children were better with her than with a nurse.
Running the three together resulted in a break-
down of health so that she had to give up out-
side activities. She recognizes her children
as her profession and finds painting a happy
avocation. Canvasses of hers have been hung
in the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, in club
exhibitions in Pittsburgh and in the Connecti-
cut Academy.
Edna Nebeker (Mrs. H. J. Livingston),
ex-'02, has been in Florida this winter with her
mother.
Lucy Rawson (Mrs. W. R. Collins), whose
husband is a lawyer, lives in Cincinnati and
has two children.
Elizabeth Reinhardt has continued to
teach in Philadelphia.
Anne Rotan (Mrs. T. D. Howe) had a
second son, Spencer Douglas, born in 1914.
She writes the class will appreciate that with
her predilection for the male sex she instinc-
tively has only boys! In 1916 she was bitten
by the preparedness bug and has been educat-
ing the people of Lawrence along those lines.
In the summer of 1916, her husband was in
command of a Battalion of Massachusetts Field
Artillery. He left her on fifteen minutes
notice with no instruction as to his business
(manufacturing) other than to say "I suppose
you'll have to sell out." Armed with a power
of attorney, she did not sell out, but in October
showed the best month's business the firm had
ever had. At the same time she tackled relief
work for soldiers' dependents. She had an
office in the State Armory and a payroll of
$500 a week, no money being disbursed with-
out her recommendation. At the same time
she supervised the making of surgical dressings,
etc., in the Armory and felt when the troops
returned as if an earthquake had gone over her.
Since then she has become Chairman of the
Lawrence Red Cross. She writes that though
she has taken so violently to uplift, she feels
herself to have had an overdose and yearns
for a frivolous existence.
Louise Schoff (Mrs. G. E. Ehrman) is
now settled on a cattle ranch at Woodland
Park, Colorado, eighteen miles from Denver
and is enthusiastic over the life there. Her
third child, Robert Falcon Scott, was born in
March, 1917.
Frances Seth's time at present is largely
occupied in managing the estate belonging to
her family at Windsor and in farming. She
was president of the College Club in Balti-
more for several winters and took an active
part in the Sunday campaign in that city,
Anne Shearer (Mrs. J. A. Lafore) writes
that for the last twelve years she has been
homemaking and trying to bring up her three
children to be a credit to the American Nation.
Her husband is a manufacturer. She is going
to live on a farm near Wynnewood and is
having great fun planning highly scientific
crops! She does some outside work mainly for
suffrage.
Helen Stevens (Mrs. G. D. Gregory) was
married in 1914 to George Dudley Gregory,
who is connected with the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. They live in Wash-
ington and Helen is instructor in English in
Miss Madeira's School and loves the work.
She has sold the farm she had at the time of
the last reunion. Though she got a great deal
of interest and amusement and some money
out of it, her summer vacations are now too
brief for farming.
Helen Stewart (Mrs. P. E. Huyler),
ex- '02, moved in 1914 from Syracuse to Rhine-
beck, N. Y. Her daughter, Mary Elizabeth,
was born in 1914 and died in 1915. She writes
that whatever malcontents may say of the
trials of a minister's wife, she has met noth-
ing but kindness and consideration. She does
much parish calling and finds it anything but
humdrum. She has done Red Cross and local
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relief work. Every summer she and her hus-
band get away into the woods. Rhinebeck is
on the old post road from New York to Albany
and the latch string is always out for members
of 1902.
Amy Sussman (Mrs. J. H. Stienhart) did
graduate work in Education at the University
of California in 1913. In the fall of that year
she became president of the Collegiate Alumnae
Association of California and actively engaged
in a campaign of school reform which culmi-
nated in a Federal Survey of the San Fran-
cisco Schools. In 1913 she married Jesse Henry
Steinhart, a lawyer. She has two children.
Louise Emily, born in 1915 and John Henry in
1917. She has continued her interest in edu-
cational reform and in the care of dependent
children; is a good progressive and is profoundly
convinced that suffrage or rather active par-
ticipation in public life is the best thing for
women. Bryn Mawr is very dear to her and
she hopes Emily Louise may some day enjoy
the advantages she had herself.
Miriam Thomas has been teaching in Hav-
erford.
Anne Todd writes there are no new facts to
add to her history.
Helen Tremble took her Ph.D. in Latin and
History at the University of Pennsylvania in
1912, her dissertation being on "Juvenal and
the Roman Emperors." From 1912 to 1915
she taught at Beaver College, Beaver, Pa.
In 1915 she went home to live, teaching in or
near Philadelphia until her family moved to
Edgewater, N. J., and she took a position to
teach Latin in a high school near by. She
expects to remain there next year also.
Harriet Vaille, ex-'02, writes that the list
of offices she held from 1912 to 1915 would give
the impression of a modern and detestable
Mrs. Jellaby! They were all in civic and phil-
anthropic activities. In 1915 she broke down
and has since been gripped by love of the Colo-
rado mountains. She belongs to the Colorado
Mountain Club and has been helping spread the
gospel of the Rockies. With others she brought
three Arapahoe Indians from Wyoming to Colo-
rado, where they had lived fifty years ago, in
order that their recollections might not be lost
forever. Some Washington officials want her
to write a book about this. For a year she
has been busy with a very ill mother and
the domestic cares appertaining thereto. Like
everyone she is interested in contributing to
relief across the sea.
Beatrice Weaver (Mrs. A. Reese) married
Albert Reese, a lawyer, in 1914, and has one
daughter, Margery, born in 1916. She lives
in Newburgh, N. Y., and is much interested in
suffrage.
Eleanor Wood (Mrs. J. C. Hoppin) wound
up her milh'nery business in 1912. In 1914
she went abroad with her sister; was caught
by the war in Paris and was there during
mobilization "a time so tense and exalted it
seemed almost sacramental." She expected to
work in the American Ambulance at Neuilly
but was called home by the illness of her father.
He died in March, 1915, and in April she mar-
ried Joseph Clark Hoppin, former professor of
archeology at Bryn Mawr. In March, 1916,
she went abroad with her husband. Since this
trip she has lived tamely in Boston, doing work
for Anti-Suffrage and for war charities. This
winter she had a surgical operation which she
enjoyed!
May Yeatts (Mrs. C. H. Howson) writes
that her interest and time are demanded by
her large family of eight. The three born since
1912 are Walter, 1913, May, 1914, and Mar-
garet, 1917. Time never hangs heavily on her
hands.
1907
1907 held its decennial reunion dinner on
Saturday, June 2, in Pembroke. Fifty-eight
members were present. Antoinette Cannon was
toast mistress. After the toasts Margaret
Ayer Barnes showed photographs with a lan-
tern. There were pictures of husbands and
children, of class members, both absent and
present, and some of their vocations and in-
terests.
On Saturday afternoon Eunice Schenck in-
vited the class to tea at Pen-y-groes. Part of
the class left before the final events of Com-
mencement week. Ellen Thayer spoke at the
College Breakfast and Mabel Foster Spinney
at the Alumnae Tea. On Wednesday, Betty
Remington, the Class Baby, came out for the
morning festivities.
1912
The Class of 1912 held their fifth reunion in
Pembroke West from Saturday, June 2 to
Thursday, June 7. At some time during the
reunion the following members of the Class
were present:
Rosalie Day, Gladys Edgerton, Emerson
Lamb, Lorle Stecher, Margaret Warner Smith,
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Dorothy Wolff Douglas, Catherine Thompson,
Mary Gertrude Fendall, Mary Peirce, Beatrice
Howson, Gladys Chamberlain, Martha Sheldon
Hartford, Marjorie Walter Goodhart, Marjorie
Thompson, Margaret Garrigues Lester, Mary
Alden Lane, Margaret Corwin, Anna Harts-
horne Brown, Leonora Lucas, Pearl Mitchell,
Agnes Morrow, WTinifred Scripture Fleming,
Katharine Shaw, Louise Watson, Carlotta
Welles, Clara Francis Dickson, Anna Heffern
Groton, Mary McKelvey Barbour, Elizabeth
Faries, Loraine Mead Schwable, Dorothy
Chase, Christine Flammer, Helen Lautz.
Class supper was held in Radnor Saturday
night; Mary Alden Lane was toast mistress.
The speeches were very informal, and were
made, for the most part, not by the speakers
themselves but by the whole class who blithely
argued any point that caught their fancy.
Later in the evening, by means of a magic
lantern, pictures of husbands and babies were
thrown on the screen. The class was enchanted
by its blond babies and admired the husbands
discreetly but in silence until an eager voice
in the back of the room exhorted: "Speak up
and claim your own."
The whole reunion was as informal as the
supper. Some pale blue wings were discovered
in the property room, and these, pinned pre-
cariously between j our shoulders, became our
costume. Most of the class left Monday or
Tuesday, so that by the time of the parade
there were so few of us that we did not try to
make our limp blue wings a feature. To be
back at Bryn Mawr — and to be a reunion —
seemed to be all that was necessary for our
happiness, and so we made no attempt to be
glorious.
At the alumnae tea, given this year instead
of the alumnae supper, Mary Gertrude Fen-
dall spoke for 1912, telling some of her experi-
ences while working under the Congressional
Union for the Federal amendment for woman
suffrage.
Marjorie La Monte Thompson.
IN MEMORIAM
JESSIE KELLOGG HENRY
The Class of 1903 records with great regret
the death of Jessie Kellogg Henry on May 5,
1917, at her parents' home in Philadelphia,
and extends to her family deepest sympathy.
For one year after her graduation from Bryn
Mawr College Jessie Henry was instructor in
mathematics and chemistry at Jacob Tome
Institute, Port Deposit, Md.; and from 1903
to 1904, teacher in the High School at Chelten-
ham, Pa. From 1905 until the time of her
death she taught mathematics in the Philadel-
phia High School for Girls of which institution
she was a distinguished graduate, having been
first honor girl of her class. She was also on
the honor roll of the Class of 1903 Bryn Mawr
College.
In addition to teaching she was zealous in
church activities and her loss is felt keenly
by the congregation of the Presbyterian Church
of the Tabernacle, Philadelphia.
The news of her death, a sudden one follow-
ing a short illness of less than a week, was a
great shock to her friends; for the high standard
which she maintained throughout her academic
career was manifest in every phase of her life
and her high integrity and splendid loyalty
won her the admiration and love of her friends
and associates.
THE CLUBS
NEW YORK
137 East 40th Street
Isabel Peters, 33
West 49th
Secretary,
Street.
In April the Bryn Mawr women of New
York City and vicinity held a meeting at the
Club house. They were called together by the
President of the Club to discuss what action in
the present state of war they should take as a
body. The meeting, after discussing possible
ways of giving help, organized the National
Service Committee of the Bryn Mawr Women of
New York City and an executive committee
was appointed, of which Mrs. Edward E.
Loomis became chairman. The Club house was
an active center for organizing units to serve
in taking the census. The Board of Gover-
nors have placed the living room of the Club
at the disposal of the Red Cross during July
and August.
At the last tea of the season, held in May, the
matriculation students were the invited guests.
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OHIO
The following is part of the report read at the
first inclusive state meeting of the Ohio Bryn
Mawr Club :
The resolutions [these resolutions are given
in full in the April Quarterly] were pre-
sented in person by the temporary secretary at
the annual meeting of the Alumnae Association
in Bryn Mawr on February 2. They were re-
ceived with especial enthusiasm and interest,
because for some time past the Board of Di-
rectors of the Association have felt the need of
" strengthening the system of local organiza-
tion" and they were delighted to know that
steps were being taken in Ohio to organize the
Bryn Mawr alumnae and former students.
On February 19, a third meeting was called to
report to the Columbus members of the Club
what was accomplished at the alumnae meet-
ing in Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Kellogg's letter, an extract of which had
been sent to every Bryn Mawr person in Ohio,
was read and all the important matters that
were discussed at the alumnae meeting were
put before the local members of the Club. As
a result of this meeting the local Club decided
to plan definitely for a spring meeting and have
membership cards sent to all Bryn Mawr
people in Ohio asking them to join. It was
also voted that Mrs. Clarence Perkins be made
chairman of a committee to arrange for a meet-
ing of graduate students and members of the
senior class of the Ohio State University who
might be interested in knowing about the
opportunities offered by the graduate school
of Bryn Mawr College. Mrs. Perkins arranged
a very attractive tea in her own home on the
afternoon of March 24. About 22 students
were present; Miss Jones showed lantern slides
of the Bryn Mawr buildings and campus and
explained the fellowships and scholarships that
Bryn Mawr offers. Mrs. Bloom told of the
graduate life, and Miss Werner of the under-
graduate life at Bryn Mawr.
Following out the publicity plan of the Club,
Miss Jones went to the Western College for
Women at Oxford, Ohio, and at a special meet-
ing of the senior class told its members of the
advantages of the graduate courses at Bryn
Mawr. While there she was the guest of the
president and was invited to address the whole
college.
On March 31, Miss Jones and Miss Werner
were invited to be present at a meeting in
Cincinnati, which the Cincinnati Bryn Mawrters
arranged. This meeting was very well at-
tended and a definite organization was started
by appointing a committee with Miss Marjorie
Rawson as chairman. Through this committee
the secretary of the Club may notify the local
members more directly of what is going on.
During the spring plans were slowly shaping
themselves for the State meeting; Dr. Marion
Parris Smith of Bryn Mawr consented to come
from Bryn Mawr to speak at our first inclusive
meeting; membership blanks were being sent
in with blanks filled and letters were coming to
the secretary endorsing the plans of the Club.
The Toledo group of Bryn Mawrters reported
a meeting in Toledo, at which plans for making
Bryn Mawr more widely known in the schools
and elsewhere were discussed. In Cleveland
Mrs. Samuel Strong called a meeting, and there
they too discussed plans for Bryn Mawr pub-
licity and what they could undertake to do in
Cleveland.
As a result of the cooperation of many of
the Bryn Mawr alumnae and former students
in Ohio the Club has been able to secure forty-
six members out of a possible ninety-two.
With forty-six members therefore the Ohio
Bryn Mawr Club comes into existence.
Adeline A. Werner.
Of this first meeting Miss Werner writes:
"Our first meeting we feel was a great success.
We had ten out-of-town Bryn Mawrters repre-
senting Cincinnati, Sidney, Cleveland, Youngs-
town, Athens and Portsmouth; there were
twenty-five in all. Dr. Marion Parris Smith
came from Bryn Mawr for the occasion, mak-
ing the day an unusually interesting one.
The business meeting began at twelve o'clock.
At this meeting the enclosed report was read,
and the advisability of having the Club dis-
cussed, a constitution adopted, and officers
for the coming year elected. The officers are:
President, Grace Latimer Jones, of Columbus;
Vice-President at large, Mrs. D. H. Good-
willie, of Toledo; First Vice-President, Marjorie
Rawson, of Cincinnati; Second Vice-President,
Mrs. Samuel Strong of Cleveland; Secretary-
Treasurer, Adeline Werner, of Columbus.
"There was a luncheon following the meet-
ing at which luncheon Dr. Smith spoke on
'The first year of the new plan of government
at Bryn JMawr.' This was, of course, very
interesting to all of us.
"After luncheon we had a vocational confer-
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ence at which seven Deans of Women of Ohio
Colleges were present and took part in the
Round Table discussion. Mrs. Smith opened
the meeting by a little address, 'Vocational
Opportunities for Women and where to find
them.' Informal discussion and tea fol-
lowed. . . .
"Our first attempt at a State meeting was
tremendously worth while; we feel that now
we in Ohio, organized as we are, can be of real
active service and assistance to the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association."
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
The news of this department is compiled from information furnished by class secretaries, Bryn Mawr Clubs, and
from other reliable sources for which the Editor is responsible. Acknowledgment is also due to the Bryn Mawr College
News for items of news.
Alumnae and former students of Bryn Mawr College are earnestly requested to
send directly to the Quarterly — or if they prefer, to their Class Secretaries — for
use in these columns, items of news concerning themselves. There is a constant
demand, on the part of Quarterly readers, for abundant class news. But the
class news can be complete, accurate, and timely only if each one will take the
trouble to send in promptly information concerning herself. And the Classes that
have not secretaries willing to act as correspondents for the Quarterly are urged
to appoint such officers.
1893
Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Johnson, Jr., Heath-
cote Inn, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Lillian Moser did not teach last winter but
went south with a Vassar friend, making her
longest stay in Charleston, S. C. On her re-
turn she had a very interesting experience in
visiting some of the mission stations of the
Episcopal Church among the mill-workers in
South Carolina and the mountain missions in
North Carolina. She is now keeping house
for her father, doing church and Red Cross
work.
1896
Georgiana King sailed for Spain on June 2.
She expects to continue some work in archaeology.
1899
Secretary, Mrs. E. H. Waring, 325 Wash-
ington Street, Glen Ridge, N. J.
Madeline Palmer (Mrs. Charles M. Bakewell)
has a daughter, Mildred Palmer, born June 14.
Ethel Levering (Mrs. James M. Motley) is
living permanently in Baltimore, as her hus-
band has resigned the position he held as pro-
fessor of economics at Brown University and
has accepted the position of vice-president of
the United States Fidelity and Guarantee
Company in Baltimore.
Marion Ream (Mrs. Redmond D. Stephens),
after spending the winter with her mother in
New York and in Florida, visited Dorothy
Fronheiser (Mrs. Philip T. Meredith) in Har-
risburg and then went West for the summer.
The two older daughters of Mary Thurber
(Mrs. Henry S. Dennison) are preparing for
college.
Margaret Hall has planted a large crop of
potatoes at her home in North Cohasset, and
is going to raise chickens and calves to help
increase the food supply.
Frances Keay (Mrs. Thomas P. Ballard)
gave, during the winter, lectures in law at the
Western Reserve University and at Oberlin Col-
lege. At Oberlin the title was "Legal Status of
Women;" at the Western Reserve there were
three: "Domestic Relations," "Household
Laws," "Business Laws." The "Household
Laws" was given again in May for the Wo-
man's Club of Cleveland and may be enlarged
and printed.
1900
Constance Rulison writes: "The class will be
interested to hear that Jessie Tatlock's Greek
and Roman Mythology, published in January
by the Century Company, is meeting with de-
served success, having already been adopted as
text-book by several important preparatory
schools and at least one college — the Univer-
sity of Missouri."
Sarah L. Emery (Mrs. Charles T. Dudley)
has offered her school, Wabanaki, with its
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accommodations for eighty children, to the
Government for the use of children of Army
and Navy and National Guard Officers.
1901
Emily Cross and Marjory Cheney, ex-'03,
sailed for France on June 9 to work with Dr.
May Putnam on the Franco-American Com-
mittee for the Care of Children of the Frontier.
1903
Secretary, Mrs. H. K. Smith, Farmington,
Conn.
Louise Atherton (Mrs. Samuel Dickey) has
a son, born in April.
Dorothea Day (Mrs. Asa D. Watkins) has a
son, born in March.
Charlotte Morton, ex-'03, has announced
her engagement to Frank Lanagan of Albany,
N. Y.
Martha White has gone to France to carry on
her work with the Surgical Dressings Committee.
1904
Secretary, Emma O. Thompson, 213 South
50th Street, Philadelphia.
Eleanor Bliss has passed examinations for
the position of assistant geologist of the U. S.
G. S.
Bertha Brown was married at Westtown, on
June 18, to Walter D. Lambert.
Anne Buzby (Mrs. Louis Palmer) is serving
on the committee of the Wayne Chapter of
the American Red Cross.
Maud Temple has been appointed instruc-
tor in Old French and Spanish at Mt. Holyoke.
Eloise Tremain has been appointed prin-
cipal of the Episcopal Church School, at Salt
Lake City.
Esther Sinn was married on June 16, at
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Rudolph Carl Menendorffer.
She will be at home after August 1 at 875 West
180th Street, New York City.
1905
Secretary, Mrs. C. M. Hardenbergh, 3824
Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.
Alice Meigs (Mrs. Arthur Orr) has a daugh-
ter, Alice, born in May.
Jane Ward spent part of the winter making
addresses relative to her missionary work in
China.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Quincy Dunlop (Bertha
Seeley) announce the birth of a daughter,
Evelyn Cornelia, on April 14.
Isabel Ashwell (Mrs. Edward H. Raymond,
Jr.) has a daughter, Grace Allison, born April 1.
1906
Secretary, Maria Smith, St. Davids, Pa.
Laura Boyer has recovered from a severe
attack of infantile paralysis, which developed
immediately after her return from St. Louis,
where she had lead a normal class at the Gen-
eral Convention of the Episcopal Church in
October. Her case has been a very unusual
one. She was completely paralyzed but grad-
ually regained control of all her muscles and
is now as well as ever, although still weak.
Ethel Bullock (Mrs. Harold K. Beecher) is
very active in organizing Belgian relief work in
Schuylkill County.
Louise Fleischmann spent February on a
plantation near Tallahassee, and in March,
with Alice Lauterbach, visited Laura Boyer
and Ethel Bullock Beecher in Pottsville, Pa.
Anna MacClanahan (Mrs. Wilfred T. Gren-
fell) has a daughter, born last spring.
1907
Katharine Kerr has sailed for France with
the Nurses' Unit from the New York Presby-
terian Hospital.
Elizabeth Pope has announced her engage-
ment to Edward Behr of New York.
Mary Calvert Myers, ex-'07, was married
recently to Dr. Edward Beasley of Baltimore.
Margaret Blodgett, ex-'07, has started a
business in Massachusetts as curator for private
libraries.
1908
Secretary, Mrs. Dudley Montgomery, 25
Langdon Street, Madison, Wis.
Nellie Seeds (Mrs. Scott Nearing) was elected
president of the Toledo Suffrage Association at
the spring meeting. Mrs. Nearing was active
in the campaign for Presidential Suffrage in
Ohio and spent several days lobbying at Co-
lumbus prior to the passage of the bill. She is
spending the summer at Chautauqua, N. Y.,
where her husband teaches in the summer
school.
Annie Carrere sailed for France early in June
to work with the American Fund for French
wounded.
Louise Congdon (Mrs. J. P. Balmer) has
moved to 1427 Judson Avenue, Evanston, 111.
Margaret C. Lewis is to be married this sum-
mer.
Louise Pettibone Smith received her Ph.D.
from Bryn Mawr in June.
Rose Marsh was married to the Rev. Jacob
Simpson Payton at Pittsburgh on June 16.
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1909
Secretary, Frances Browne, 15 East 10th
Street, New York City.
Margaret Ames, ex-'09, was married on April
21 to Cushing Frederick Wright of St. Paul.
Pleasaunce Baker expects to be near Phila-
delphia until the middle of August. She will
spend the latter part of the summer in New
England.
Marie Belleville expects to sail for China in
the latter part of August. She will work under
the Y. W. C. A.
Julia Doe is taking a course in College Ad-
ministration for Women at the University of
Wisconsin. At the same time she expects to
teach Latin in the summer school of the Uni-
versity and assist in the office of the Dean of
Women.
Alice Miller, ex-'09, is staying near Balti-
more this summer and hopes to do regular work
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital dispensary in
the Social Service Department.
Mary Nearing is in charge of the student
workers on the Bryn Mawr Farm. She will be
there most of the summer.
Lillian Laser (Mrs. Berthold Strauss) has
done work with the Juvenile Aid Society in
child placing. She is also chairman on the
Committee on Volunteer Service of the Phila-
delphia College Club. This Committee acts
as a clearing-house for volunteer workers and
the various organizations and agencies which
need their services. It is working out many of
the problems that are constantly arising in the
use of volunteer service. The high schools are
cooperating in the work and hoping to make
volunteer service a factor in the social educa-
tion of girls of that age in the city.
Eleanor Clifton is working in the municipal
court statistical department in Philadelphia.
Mildred Pressinger (Mrs. C. O. von Kien-
busch) is spending the summer on Long Island
with her two small boys.
Grace Wooldridge (Mrs. E. P. Dewes) has
three little girls now. Grace, the Class Baby,
is six years old, Dorothy four, and the baby
eight months.
Cynthia Wesson expects to drive a car in
France for the American Fund for French
Wounded.
Alta Stevens took a draftsman's course at
the Art Institute last winter and has been doing
some interior decorating.
Aristine Munn (Mrs* Charles Recht), M.D.,
gave a series of lectures last spring on "Defec-
tive Children and Probation" for the Woman's
Legal Education Society.
Geraldine Watson, M.D., ex-'09, is still at
Bellevue Hospital. She has joined the Belle-
vue Unit and will go with it to France pro-
vided the United States Government consents
to give the army commission to women.
Barbara Spofford (Mrs. S. A. Morgan) has
been giving a course in mental testing to
teachers of subnormal children at New York
University, and directing an experimental class
of subnormals in one of the New York public
schools. She is also assistant director of one
of the departments in the University. Her
further activities consist in work as chairman
of the Randall's Island Committee of the State
Charities Aid, as member of the Board of Gov-
ernors of the A. C. A., and in writing inci-
dental book reviews and editorials for the
magazine Unguarded.
Helen Scott has been teaching English and
French in the Peabody Conservatory of Music
in Baltimore. She is attending several Chau-
tauqua courses this summer.
Ellen Shippen is head of the research work
of Valentine, Lead and Gregg, Industrial Coun-
cillors, a work which involves an investigation
into the causes of the various phases of indus-
trial unrest which are so apparent today.
Emily Howson is associate professor of physics
in Lake Erie College, Painesville, O. She has
introduced a new course this year called House-
hold Physics which has been very popular.
She is now studying at Madison, Wis.
Leona Labold works for suffrage and is on
the Board of Library Trustees in Portsmouth, O.
Marianne Moore's latest appearance in
print is with a poem included in the Golden
Year, an anthology edited by Rufus B. Wilson
and published by Mitchell Kennerly. Her
poems have appeared in Poetry, the Egoist,
Contemporary Verse, and Bruno's Weekly, and
some will be included in the Others' Anthology
(1917).
Mary Goodwin was married in April to the
Rev. Charles Storrs in Shaown, China. She
went out to China last fall with Alice Ropes
(Mrs. E. D. Kellogg), '06, and has been teach-
ing English in the Boys' School and studying
Chinese.
Mary Herr is attending the summer school at
Teachers College in preparation for her work
next year at the Brearley School, where in addi-
tion to her work as librarian, she will teach
some classes in English.
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Frances Ferris, ex-'09, is taking courses at
the Columbia summer school.
Anna Harlan is president of the Y. W. C. A.
of Coatesville and leader of an industrial club
in the Association, president of the Century
Club (civic), chairman of a committee in the
State Federation of Pennsylvania Club Women,
and is on the Board of Managers of the Visit-
ing Nurses' Association.
Dorothy Miller is working in the Organized
Charities of New York City.
May Putnam, M.D., is physician to the
Franco-American Committee for the Care of
Children from the Frontier. She has her office
in Paris and visits the children, when neces-
sary, in their colonies which usually consist of
disused convents and chateaux in Brittany,
Burgundy, and Touraine.
Antoinette Hearne (Mrs. J. X. Farrer) has a
daughter, Jane Hearne, born in March.
Georgina Biddle has been working for her
M.A. in chemistry at the University of Penn-
sylvania.
Margaret Bontecou received her M.A. in
history and economics this spring. She has
resigned from the position of warden of Den-
bigh after having held it for three years.
Bertha Ehlers, warden of Radnor last year,
is to be warden of Denbigh.
Margaret Vickery has come North for the
summer. She will return to her work as sixth-
grade teacher in the Colored Industrial School,
Calhoun, Ala., next winter and will probably
take a course at the Teachers College, Columbia,
this summer.
Frances Browne has been appointed a mem-
ber of the War Committee of Women's Uni-
versity Club of New York.
Florence Ballin, ex-'09, has written a book
on Tennis for Girls which is published by
Spalding's American Sports Publishing Co.
Shirley Putnam sailed on the Rochambeau
on June 23 to do relief work in France.
1910
Secretary, Mrs. H. B. Van Dyne, Troy, Pa.
Susanne C. Allinson has announced her en-
gagement to Henry C. Emery, representative
of the Guaranty Trust Company in Petrograd.
Jeanne Kerr has announced her engagement
to Udo Fleischmann, of New York, a brother
of Louise Fleischmann, '06.
Frances Lord, ex-' 10, was married to the
Rev. Sidney Robbins on June 9, at Plymouth,
Mass.
Izette Taber (Mrs. A. V. de Forest) is now
living at Salt Marsh House, Shore Road, Strat-
ford, Conn.
1911
Class Correspondent, Margaret J. Hobart,
Sommariva, Easthampton, N. Y.
Helen Henderson was married to Sydney
Green, Jr., on Wednesday, April 25, in Em-
manuel Church, Cumberland, Md. Mr. and
Mrs. Green will live in Petersburg, Va.
Margaret Hobart has accepted the position
of Associate Editor for Woman's Work on the
New York Churchman. Her office address is
381 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Leila Houghteling spent several weeks in the
east in May and June. She attended the wed-
ding of Lawrence Houghteling and Laura
Delano, '14, in Washington on May 26, visited
Norvelle Browne in New York, spent commence-
ment week at Bryn Mawr, and then together
with Norvelle Browne, ex-'ll, Harriet Hough-
teling, ex-'07, and Margaret Ayer Barnes,
ex-'07, motored back to Chicago.
Helen Parkhurst received her doctor's de-
gree at Bryn Mawr at Commencement. She
has accepted the position of instructor in logic
at Barnard College.
Mary Taylor has resigned her position as sec-
retary to the Dean at Bryn Mawr and has ac-
cepted a business position in New York.
Alpine Parker was married on Saturday,
June 30, to George Bennett Filbert at the
Friends' Meeting House, Baltimore, Md.
Jeannette Allen (Mrs. F. M. Andrews) has a
son, her second child, Allen, born May 10.
1912
Acting Secretary, Mary Peirce, Haverford, Pa.
Mary Vennum has announced her engage-
ment to Bruce Van Cleve, who is studying
law at the University of Illinois.
Died, after a long illness: Dr. Walter Clark
Haupt, husband of Mary Morgan, on Sunday,
June 3, in New York.
Christine Hammer and Elizabeth Faries will
sail for China in July. Next winter Catherine
Arthurs and Elizabeth Faries expect to or-
ganize a new school near Canton in connec-
tion with the True Light Seminary. Christine
Hammer will teach English in this school.
Mary Alden's husband, the Rev. E. S. Lane,
is chaplain at Fort Niagara for the summer.
Dorothy Chase and her mother motored from
Chicago to Bryn Mawr College the end of May,
reaching Bryn Mawr in time for 1912's reunion.
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Helen Colter (Mrs. N. L. Pierson), ex-' 12,
has a son, Aaron Applegate, born March 28.
Rosalie Day is living in New York this sum-
mer, studying music and keeping house for
some friends.
Gladys Edgerton has given up her position
on the editorial staff of the Century Dictionary.
Leonora Lucas returned in May from her
trip to Australia, China and Japan. While in
Tokyo, she saw Ai Hoshino.
Winifred Scripture (Mrs. Percy C. Fleming)
is living at 891 East 14th Street, Brooklyn.
Mr. Fleming is in the Officers Training Camp
at Plattsburg.
Alice Stratton was graduated in April from
the Nurses' Training School of the University
Hospital in Philadelphia. She is still nursing
there.
Dorothy Wolff (Mrs. Paul Douglas) and her
husband have taken M. Beck's house on the
Bryn Mawr College grounds for July and
August. Mr. Douglas expects to finish his
Ph.D. thesis this summer.
Jean Stirling was married recently to Stephen
Gregory at St. John's, Washington, D. C.
Gladys Chamberlain is the social worker for
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Henrietta Runyon (Mrs. G. H. L. Winfrey)
has a daughter, Roberta Lane, born April 8.
1913
Secretary, Nathalie Swift, 20 West 55th
Street, New York City.
Agathe Deming taught last winter in the
Domestic Science Department of Drexel In-
stitute.
Marie Pinney, ex-' 13, is working as the chil-
dren's librarian in the Carnegie Library in
Bois6, Idaho.
Clara Pond is doing family history work
among the prisoners brought to the Psycho-
pathic Department of the City Police Head-
quarters in New York.
Keinath Stohr (Mrs. E. S. Davey) has a
second daughter.
Lillie Walton (Mrs. R. T. Fox), ex-'13, has a
son, Robert Thomas Fox, Jr., born June 2,
1916.
Sara Halpen is working in the office of the
Midvale Steel Company.
Katharine Williams is continuing her social
work with King's Chapel, Boston, in placing
working girls, finding them lodgings and giving
them advice and entertainment.
Elizabeth Fabian (Mrs. Ronald Webster)
has a daughter, Elizabeth Fabian, born June
22, 1916.
Marian Irwin has been doing research work
at Harvard towards a Ph.D. degree.
Margaret Blaine took a three months' nurs-
ing course in New York in the autumn. In
February she managed the revival of "David
Garrick" at Bryn Mawr.
Josephine Brown is farming in Minnesota.
Alice Ames, ex-' 13, worked in Paris for the
American Fund for French Wounded from
June to December, 1916. She has now an-
nounced her engagement to Dr. Bronson
Crothers, of Cambridge. Dr. Crothers has
sailed with the Harvard Unit for France.
Alice Hearne has announced her engagement
to Julius Rockwell of Taunton, Mass.
Helen Evans, ex-' 13, was married June 12 to
Dr. Robert M. Lewis of Baltimore.
Nora Swanzy, ex-' 13, was married in April
to George Young Bennett of Texas.
Clara Murray, ex-' 13, was married June 2 to
Auville Eager.
Lucile Shadburn (Mrs. J. B. Yow), ex-'13,
has a son, born in April.
Eleanor Bontecou was graduated at the New
York University Law School, receiving the
degree of B.L.
Ellen Faulkner is to be in Miss Spence's
School next winter.
1914
Secretary, Ida W. Pritchett, 22 East 91st
Street, New York City.
Dorothea Bechtel (Mrs. John Marshall) has
a son, John Marshall, Jr., born April 14.
Helen Shaw has announced her engagement
to William Crosby of La Crosse, Wis., instructor
in English at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Nancy Van Dyke, ex-'13, was married on
May 5 to Gilbert H. Scribner, 3rd, of Winnetka.
Lucille Thompson was married on May 29
to Francis Caldwell of Philadelphia. Mr. and
Mrs. Caldwell will live at Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
Margaret Sears (Mrs. Leonard C. Bigelow)
has a daughter, Barbara, born May 2.
Laura Delano was married to James Lawrence
Houghteling in Washington on May 26.
About thirty members of the Class were at
Bryn Mawr for some part of reunion, though
not all came to class supper. The Class Baby
did not make her appearance at this reunion.
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Leah Cadbury sailed on June 16 for Bor-
deaux. She will spend a year in England
working in the Friends' Ambulance Unit Hos-
pital in Birmingham.
Eleanor Washburn, ex-' 14, was married on
June 2 to Charles Emery of Colorado Springs.
1915
Secretary, Katharine W. McCollin, 2049
Upland Way, Philadelphia.
Mary Albertson will teach in Virginia next
winter.
Emily Noyes has been appointed an English
Reader at Bryn Mawr and will live in Pen-y-
Groes with Dean Taft.
Catharine Bryant is secretary of the Print
Club in Philadelphia.
Mary Chamberlain (Mrs. A. R. Moore) will
receive the degree of Ph.D. at Rutgers College
next year. She will be the first women to re-
ceive a degree at Rutgers.
Marguerite Darkow has been doing research
work for the Children's Bureau at Washington
on Woman and Child Labor in Europe during
the war. She is tutoring at the school which
Amy MacMaster is in charge of at Schroon
Lake.
Harriet Bradford is visiting in the East this
summer.
After reunion Olga Erbsloh had a house party
at Seabright, N. J. Ruth Tinker, Harriet
Bradford, Gertrude Emery, Ruth Hopkinson,
Vashti McCreery, and Katharine McCollin
were there.
Marjorie Fyfe is staying in Palo Alto for
the summer. She is assistant to the organizer
of the Red Cross in Palo Alto. She will return
to Stanford University next winter.
Olga Erbsloh has been making a study of
employers' welfare work for the School of Phil-
anthropy, New York.
Dagmar Perkins has lectured at Harvard on
the psychology of the dance.
Cecilia Sargent will return to Cape May
Court House to teach English and Latin next
year.
Atala Scudder was married to Dr. Townsend
Davison on June 2.
Elizabeth Smith attended the Convention
of Charities and Corrections at Pittsburgh
in June.
Isabel Smith has received a graduate scholar-
ship in geology and will return to Bryn Mawr
next winter. She will be Choir Leader as she
was in 1914-15.
Myra Richards (Mrs. K. D. Jessen) has a
daughter, Ingeborg Anna Marie, born May 28.
Angeleine Spence is assistant to the Treas-
urer of the Alumnae Association of Wellesley
College.
Margaret Bradway, Mildred Jacobs, and
Adrienne Kenyon received the degree of M.A.
at Bryn Mawr in June.
Helen Taft has been appointed Dean of
Bryn Mawr College.
Ruth Tinker has announced her engage-
ment to Daniel P. Morse, Jr. Mr. Morse is a
member of the Aviation Corps.
Amy MacMaster has received a graduate
scholarship in philosophy and will return to
Bryn Mawr next winter. She is in charge of
a tutoring school at Scroon Lake this summer.
Vashti McCreery, ex-' 15, has received the
degree of B.S. at the University of Illinois.
Ruth Hopkinson is traveling saleswoman for
a Cleveland publishing firm selling illustrated
Bibles.
Julia Harrison, ex-' 15, is taking the second
year nursing course at Johns Hopkins.
1916
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 Broad
Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Margaret Dodd was married to Paul San-
gree, May 5, in Cambridge, Mass.
Louise Dillingham has taken a position as
secretary to the business manager of the
Guanica Centrale Sugar Factory, Porto Rico.
She will sail in the fall.
Katherine Trowbridge, ex-' 16, was married in
June to George Perkins, Princeton, 1917, a son
of George W. Perkins.
Louise Wagner (Mrs. Donald Baird), ex-' 16,
has a daughter, born June 2.
1917
Frances Curtin has announced her engage-
ment to Dr. Herbert Haynes of Clarkesburg,
W. Va.
Eleanor Dulles and Margaret Henderson
sailed on the Espagne directly after Com-
mencement to work in France.
Ex-'18
Ruth Cheney has announced her engage-
ment to Thomas Winthrop Streeter of Con
cord, N. H.
LITERARY NOTES
All publications received will be acknowledged in this column. The editor begs that copies of books or articles by or
about the Bryn Mawr Faculty and Bryn Mawr Students, or book reviews written by alumnae, will be sent to the
Quarterly for review, notice, or printing.
BOOKS REVIEWED
Elan Vital. By Helen Williston Brown.
Boston: The Gorham Press, 1917.' $1.00.
This little book contains thirty-four poems
of varying merit, but all executed with such
clearness that the reader does not sigh for foot-
notes. There is nothing vague in Mrs. Brown's
work: her poetry is direct, simple, sincere,
and strikingly lucid. A few ambiguous phrases,
like "the random pavement," occur rarely.
As its name implies, the book is indeed a
"vital spark." The writer expresses her feel-
ings with a vigor and a candor unusual in a
woman. She is not afraid to describe a girl's
first love; her worship of an ideal; her final
vivid realization of true love. Here is one of
the poems that show best her clearness of
diction, her strength of feeling, and her frank-
ness.
TWO WAYS
Yours is a level, tranquil way;
I wander forth with outstretched hands
Where dumb and wild emotions sway
In dim and far volcanic lands.
But I, who fail in half I do,
And smile to see my own despair,
Perceive a glory hid from you
Tho' you should seek it everywhere.
And I, who waste my soul in strife,
In fighting blackness, catch a gleam, —
I know of love outlasting life,
That is to you an empty dream.
So yours may be the level road
Where skies are fair and fields are bright,
Serene and tranquil your abode.
I walk among the gods tonight.
Mrs. Brown can also paint a scene with the
brush of an artist. Her descriptions are power-
ful. In Dispensary, for example, contains this
vivid word-picture :
The colored lady with rheumatic pains
Of ten years' standing, and an endless row
Of ugly babies, patched with eczema.
Coffee and cabbage, and a taste of beer,
As like as not will prove to be their fare.
The little boy with the infected knee.
How his face haunts you!
Mrs. Brown's work is noticeably lacking in
images and metaphors. Her imaginative gift
is shown more in her material, in her choice
and treatment of a subject, than in her diction.
On the Origins of Romance describes the sordid,
stupid life of a cave-man and how he awakens
to "warm emotion for the magic of the moon."
The Imaginative Chauffeur sings the chauffeur's
joy in his free life in the open.
I hold all their lives in the crook of my elbow,
Like a Viking of old, who sails over the ocean,
Like a warrior of old, who rides through the wide world
I traverse the earth, a free man among free men.
Spring's Lament for Winter is another imag-
inative and beautiful poem; a difficult subject
skillfully handled.
A sense of humor is the rarest of gifts, —
which Mrs. Brown possesses in good measure.
The Army of Metchnikoff, which describes a
battle between bacilli and blood cells, is very
amusing. The hero of the piece is a "leuko-
cyte"— a personage probably received in med-
ical circles only, for the present reviewer never
met him and cannot find his name in the glos-
saries at her disposal. The Third Year Stu-
dent's Nightmare is even more mirth-provoking
and can be recommended as an antidote to
melancholy. These humorous poems are
worthy to be ranked among some of the Bab
Ballads. However, one could wish that the
author had written enough of them for a vol-
ume all to themselves, or that she had put them
in a group apart, in her book, so that the tran-
sition to or from verses of a more serious order
might not shock the reader. To be told:
The baby cried, and cried, and cried,
I put a bandage on its head
But 'twas a tape-worm instead,
If you should see a mouse at night
Would it be purple, green or white?
and then, on the very next page,
I should not know the hand of God
Unless it were in earthly guise,
is nothing short of disconcerting.
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But this is a small matter. What is much
more important is that Mrs. Brown has written
some poems of lasting beauty. Youth, com-
posed in early girlhood, shows great promise.
Elan Vital, Spring's Lament for Winter, The
Campus, Ad Astra, Of the Earth, Two Ways, On
the Origins of Romance, To Alice, To N. W. W.
are worth reading and remembering. The Cam-
pus will appeal most to all lovers of Bryn
Mawr and will be given in full at the end of this
study.
Vivid and vital though Mrs. Brown's poems
are, they are not always perfect in structure.
To Alice is marred by the last stanza, in which
the system of versification suddenly changes
and we get:
Admiringly I hear her talk,
And what I must suppose is
That, where I find a gravel walk,
She treads a path of roses.
Compare the second verse of this stanza with
the second verses of all the other stanzas, and
a foot is discovered to have been dropped.
The second verses in question are: "Who with
the eyes of faith can see," "When rightly
viewed give excellent shade," "Quite close
together, three feet high," and "Embower half
the garden wall." Then why "And what I
must suppose is?" Then there is that ques-
tion of "free verse," beloved by those poets who,
if examined in music, generally would be found
to be "tone-deaf" and utterly devoid of any
sense of rhythm. (Think how some of our
most distinguished writers of free verse must
look on a ball-room floor!) Free verse is now
the fashion; it stumbles along on its weak,
deformed legs, arriving somehow. We usually
recognize it when we see it coming. But to
the present reviewer's taste, at least, a mixture
of free verse with lyric or regular verse is con-
fusing and displeasing. Take Reunion, for in-
stance. The first half of this poem is composed
in good blank verse, the latter half in free verse.
When the present reviewer reads, in another
poem,
The light of sudden laughter in his eyes
Was sweet to me as are the flowers in May.
and a few lines farther on,
. . . . and I knew
From long and close attention,
Just what he was at,
then the present reviewer feels the way she
does when the Sixth Avenue L jolts round the
curve at Park Place. This kind of thing can
never be beautiful, and poetry — the best
poetry — ought to be beautiful.
In passing, for the sake of the second edition
of this book, a word must be said of the shock-
ingly faulty punctuation of the first edition.
The present reviewer, once having failed to
pass her entrance examination in punctuation
for Bryn Mawr, feels a little natural hesitation
about criticizing the punctuation of others.
But
He hastens to the nearest vein.
Protrudes his nose into a crack,
Then wriggles through with might and main,
Once inside, joins a motley pack!
Of stupid, bumping, red blood cells, etc.
penetrates even to her unpunctuated conscious-
ness. Yet in justice to Mrs. Brown be it said
that such startling phenomena are often due to
the vagaries of type-setters.
Because the highest type of poetry is beau-
tiful, we could wish that Mrs. Brown had omit-
ted certain colorless verses from her volume. A
poet cannot always write his best; but at least
he can refrain from publishing anything except
his best. There are poems in Elan Vital which
seem to be sketches, notes, experiments, any-
thing but expressions of moods that "will out."
Let us read The Difference:
A teacher will teach what authorities deem
You should know, nor permit you to doubt it.
A professor is so much in love with his theme
That he just has to tell you about it.
Scarcely poetry, this, and unworthy to be
placed next to The Campus on the opposite
page.
Mrs. Brown is self-confessedly a materialist.
In one of her best poems, Of the Earth, she says,
And I, with my white feet of clay,
My heart so full of earthly things,
I have no self to soar on wings
Into some pallid, unknown day.
But loving best the blue-green earth,
I turn to it with clinging hands.
Is this not all my life demands —
The light and love of the green earth?
For so my mind and heart have grown
Out of this world of time and sense,
That I should be, if taken thence,
An empty ghost of the Unknown.
Love of the dear green earth and dread of the
unknown are natural feelings, common to all.
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The present reviewer would not wish to take
exception to Mrs. Brown's views as expressed,
and expressed beautifully, in this poem. But
The Final Victor is more than the expression
of a mood; it reads like a permanent philosophy,
whose burden is "There is no god save Death
alone." This is a very powerful poem, and its
measured cadences ring clear and true as the
tolling of a bell. The last three stanzas:
The heaped up knowledge of the years
Like chaff before the wind is blown
When death with dread intent appears.
There is no god but Death alone.
Love triumphs, glorious for a while,
Thinking she may her lord disown,
Death waits with a contemptuous smile.
There is no god but Death alone.
Like one who watches children play
Who heed not how the time has flown,
He stops the game at close of day,
There is no god but Death alone.
It may be over-reaching the role of reviewer
to ask Mrs. Brown, what of Dante ....
does not he still live in the hearts of men?
. . . And is not love, like a flower, al-
ways blossoming again, — even though for some-
body else? .... And what of Kitchener
of Khartoum? Has Mrs. Brown read A. J.
Burr's poem, Kitchener's March? Here are
the last two stanzas:
There's a body drifting down
For the mighty sea to keep.
There's a spirit cannot die
While a heart is left to leap
In the land he gave his all,
Steel alike to praise and hate.
He has saved the life he spent —
Death has struck too late!
Not the muffled drums for him,
Nor the wailing of the fife.
Trumpets blaring to the charge
Were the music of his life.
Let the music of his death
Be the feet of marching men.
Let his heart a thousandfold
Take the field again!
The flower grew from the hearts of men,
In the darkness and the clay,
But its blossoms turned where God's sun burned
In the white space far away.
Because the flower grew in the clay,
Men said it was defiled,
But the Spirit above, who rules in love,
Beheld the flower and smiled.
Warm praise and thanks to the author of
Elan Vital for giving us so large a share of her
heart and brain; may she continue to produce
poems like Ad Astra and The Campus!
THE CAMPUS
In autumn when the ivy leaves turned crimson
On the grey stone buildings,
The maple trees were yellow as gold,
And the sun shone out of a deep blue sky.
How my heart leaped up to greet it in the
morning
When I ran to chapel through the frosty air.
On winter nights, when the wind blew
Across the cold white snow,
The buildings standing black against the sky
Were full of lighted windows;
The campus lights glowed yellow and round,
Leading away into the darkness,
And far above, the frosty moon
Slid swiftly behind the windy clouds.
But, oh! in the springtime,
The lawns of the campus were greener than
emerald;
Against the grey walls the ivy leaves shim-
mered;
The cherry trees bloomed, and the pink and
white dogwood;
Oh, then with the strength of my youth, how
I loved it!
E. C. F.,
June 9, 1917.
But happily Mrs. Brown's philosophy is not
entirely consistent, or she could not have writ-
ten an exquisite little lyric called Ad Astra.
Out of the sorrowing hearts of men,
Hearts with rapture and anguish wrung,
Out of the shade that sin had made,
A crimson flower sprung.
BOOKS RECEIVED
The Earliest Precursor or Our Present-
Day Monthly Miscellanies. By Dorothy
Foster. Reprinted from the Publications of
the Modern Language Association of Amer-
ica, Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 1917.
1917]
Literary Notes
103
NOTES
"An Experiment in Hours" is the title of an
article in the New Republic for June 9 by Mary
D. Hopkins.
The Friends' Quarterly Examiner of London
for January, 1917, had a poem, "The War-
Wind," by Elizabeth Chandlee Forman.
Mary Senior had a poem in the North Amer-
ican Review for March entitled, "Dream Life."
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant continues to
write for the New Republic. One sentence in a
recent article, "The Presence of Death," espe-
cially deserves quotation, as it is deeply sig-
nificant for the interpretation of the war-
tragedy: ". . . . it is certain that man's
gift for making the best of things is the out-
standing glory of this war."
A former Bryn Mawr pupil of Dr. Richard T.
Holbrook writes thus in regard to Dr. Hol-
brook's Living French, A New Course in Read-
ing, Writing and Speaking the French Lan-
guage: "I have seen the proof-sheets, and am
convinced that this grammar is the best French
text-book so far produced." This student ob-
tained permission from Ginn & Company to
publish the announcement of this book. Ex-
tracts from the announcement are: "Living
French applies to the teacher's problem a
notably fresh and vigorous point of view
. . . . It is intended for college under-
graduates and for the upper grades of secondary
schools .... it gives the richest store
of essential information as to French sounds,
forms, and syntax thus far offered for under-
graduate beginners or for advanced and review
work."
LETTER SENT TO CLASS COLLEC-
TORS AND MEMBERS OF
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Whitford, Pa., June 20, 1917.
Dear
On Wednesday evening, June 6, $5000 was
still lacking for the completion of the Mary
E. Garrett Memorial Endowment Fund of
$100,000.
By dint of hard work on the part of several
class collectors, and by sending out a number of
night letters asking for ten contributions of
$500 each, the total amount was promised just
in time to report it to President Thomas as
the procession started, so that she could make
the announcement in her commencement ad-
dress.
The Finance Committee congratulates the
collectors and all the alumnae on this remarkable
achievement in a year when they might easily
have been discouraged by the pressure of other
demands.
We may all feel unmixed satisfaction in hav-
ing completed the fund on the date originally
set by the Alumnae Association, and in having
helped at this critical time to maintain educa-
tional standards and to make some of Bryn
Mawr's teaching salaries approach more nearly
a "living wage."
The enclosed list shows that there is a margin
of about $1000, which we trust will more than
cover any errors in recording last minute re-
ports or any pledges which it may not be pos-
sible to collect before the end of the year.
The balance will of course be used to start the
next $100,000 of the Endowment Fund.
The collectors are reminded that they are
responsible for collecting pledges from their
classes — and that November 15 is the date on
which final payment of 1917 collections should
be made to the Treasurer.
Very sincerely yours,
Martha G. Thomas,
Chairman Finance Committee.
COLLECTIONS SINCE JANUARY 1, 1917
Ph.D $179.00
'89 643.00
'90 220.75
'91 500.00
'92 1,415.00
'93 493.00
'94 107.00
'95 1,021.00
'96 1,346.20
'97 5,000.00
'98 398.00
'99 852.00
'00 300.00
'01 620.70
'02 700.00
'03 643.00
'04 2,404.00
'05 952.00
'06 1,120.50
'07 - 3,184.12
'08 349.00
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'09 $1,528.00 Summary
'10 1,066.00
'11 569.00 On hand January 1, 1917 $49,371.62
'12 3,000 . 00 Total cash and pledges since January
'13 1,585.21 1, 1917 37,347.38
'14 1,097.00 Undergraduates 11,000.00
'15 2,753.90 Interest 1917 (estimated) 2,500.00
'16 1,500.00 President Thomas (pledge) 500.00
'17 500.00 Mr. Frederic R. Strawbridge
Boston Club Concert 1,300.00 (pledge) 500.00
$37,347.38 $101,219.00
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RYN MAWR
ALUMNAE
^QUARTERLY
/ Vol.
Vol. XI NOVEMBER, 1917
No. 3
Published by the Alumnae Association
of
Bryn Mawr College
Entered at the Port Office, Baltimore, Md., as second cla*» mail matter under the Act of July
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
Elva Lee, '93
Randolph, New York
Campus Editor
Mary Swift Rupert, '18
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakeley, '16
Furnaid Hall, Columbia University, New York City
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Address by President M. Carey Thomas 105
With the Alumnae 109
War Work Ill
News from the Campus 123
The Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm 128
A Summer Experience in Social Work 130
The Clubs. 133
News from the Classes , 134
Contributions to the Quarterly, books for review, and subscriptions should be sent to
the Editor-in-Chief, Elva Lee, Randolph, New York. Cheques should be drawn payable
to Jane B. Haines, Cheltenham, Pa. The Quarterly is published in January, April, July,
and November of each year. The price of subscription is one dollar a year, and single
copies are sold for twenty-five cents each. Any failure to receive numbers of the Quar-
terly should be reported promptly to the Editor. Changes of address should be reported
to the Editor not later than the first day of each month of issue. News items may be
tent to the Editors.
Copyright, 1917, by the Alumnae AjgociatioQ of Bryn Mawr College.
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XI
NOVEMBER, 1917
No. 3
ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF BRYN
MAWR COLLEGE, BY PRESIDENT M. CAREY THOMAS,
OCTOBER 3, 1917
It is always one of the greatest pleas-
ures of the whole college year to us of
the faculty to see the students returning
after the long summer vacation and
filling the silent gray buildings and the
vacant campus with movement and life.
But today we welcome you with more
pleasure and satisfaction than ever be-
fore because in times like this young
women and young men who are entering
college are an important part of that
great patriotic youthful army which
is called to serve the United States.
Many of your brothers are already train-
ing themselves for service in military
camps and will soon join the vast
citizen army which has been called by
the President of the United States "the
army of freedom" and their places will
be taken when they march away by
many others of your brothers who in
their turn will fight what I confidently
believe is "the good fight of faith and
righteousness." Your brothers of the
draft age have left, or will soon leave,
their college work, their professions,
their business, and the love and comfort
of their happy homes to bear their part
in carnage and slaughter so frightful and
so abhorrent that our imagination can-
not even conceive of it. They are going
willingly to die for a great cause. I
have crossed the continent twice this
summer and everywhere I have found
this supreme willingness to serve. At
the Grand Canyon of the Arizona so
many young men had already volun-
teered that the draft quota was already
full and there was no one left to be called
in the the draft. In Minnesota and
California it was the same. Everywhere
our drivers, guides, hotel clerks, and the
other people with whom one comes in
contact on a journey, as well as the
young professors and students whom I
met in California, seemed to be of one
mind. Even those who had not vol-
unteered seemed to be ready. I heard
over and over again the words, "If I
am called I am willing," and in these
words our American democracy seemed
to me abundantly to justify itself and
our faith in it.
All the older generation, all the women
in middle life, your mothers and elder
sisters, are helping the United States in
every way in their power and are longing
to help more. Everywhere in all the
fourteen countries that have joined to-
gether to fight Germany the women of
each country are standing behind its
men, as has been said, like a "wall of
living fire," filling in all the vacant
places, doing work that women have
never done before, and doing it extra-
ordinarily well, inspiring, sympathizing,
fighting just as hard behind the lines as
men are fighting in front of the lines,
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and fighting like them with the same in-
tense conviction of right. Never again
can it be said that women should
not vote because they will not fight.
These three years have proved that in
modern war victory cannot possibly be
won without women and that women
like men will meet the supreme test of
patriotism and will sacrifice for a great
cause all that they hold most dear.
And you, students of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege and your brothers below the draft
age who are in college, are certainly as
patriotic as if you were at the front in
France. It is your manifest duty to go
steadfastly on with your college work.
Your country's need for your trained
intelligence and your efficient service will
be as urgent in the great reconstruction
period after the war as is now its need of
women to do active war service and of
men to fight. It is the truest patriotism
to devote yourselves to study. It is
disloyal to leave college now.
Last year in the months immediately
after the United States entered into the
war almost all college students, both
men and women, felt that they must
actively fit themselves for fighting or for
ambulance and hospital service, or at
least that they must prepare material
to be used in fighting or relief work, and
we of the faculty sympathized in this
point of view. It seemed to us also that
perhaps this might be the supreme duty
and that perhaps study might be for the
moment less important. But in the
time that has elapsed since then we
have come to see things in better per-
spective. It has now become clear that
your highest duty is to dedicate your-
selves this year wholeheartedly to study
in a kind of way that in times of peace
is possible only in professional schools.
Young men who have idled through col-
lege will often sacrifice exercise, health,
and all social engagements, and work
ten or twelve hours a day at law, medi-
cine, or engineering because they know
that their knowledge is to be put to an
immediate practical test in earning a liv-
ing. In times like these all college men
and women may be sure that they will be
needed for immediate practical service.
So many men have left college never
to return to their studies, and perhaps
never to return at all, that the burden of
intelligent leadership will fall on college
women and the few college men who will
take their degrees within the next few
years. You will be called on to meet
this test immediately on leaving college.
It is therefore your highest duty to
your country to be well prepared.
I am shocked to find how many of
our last year's freshman class have left
college for reasons connected with war.
It seems to me a grave mistake of judg-
ment. Everything in life is a question of
comparative values. True wisdom con-
sists in just and fair discrimination.
Cecil Chesterton in the course of an argu-
ment against pacifism says that the
pacifists' claim that "all war is wicked
irrespective of what the war is about,"
is like saying that "all hammering is
wrong irrespective of whether you ham-
mer the head of a nail or the head of
your aunt." Now it seems to me to
show precisely such a lack of discrimina-
tion of true values for you to leave col-
lege now to do war work, or for you to
let rolling bandages or knitting soldiers'
socks interfere with your studying as
hard as you possibly can.
I asked a freshman yesterday what
she had in mind to do after she took
her degree, and she replied "war work."
She showed wisdom in waiting until she
had finished her four years' college
course to do war work but to realize
that even one Bryn Mawr freshman was
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looking forward to four years more of war
made my heart stand still. Even if the
inconceivable happens, even if there are
four years more of war, and even if all of
the ten millions of young men of draft age
are called to the front there will still remain
in the United States an abundance of
women, even women of college age, to
fill in all the vacant places. Even then
you would not be needed until you have
finished your college course. The girls
in college at the present time are (I
grieve to say) a small part (only a
little over one-third) of all the girls of
the same age not in college. Let these
less fortunate — I am going to add these
less patriotic girls — take over this im-
mediate war service. You can help
most and serve best by devoting your
whole time to your studies for four full
years. The President was speaking for
civilization and for the United States
when he urged all young people to go on
with their studies as a patriotic service.
And it is just as much the patriotic duty
of your families to spare you from home
to complete your college course as it is
their patriotic duty to send your broth-
ers to trie front. It will be a dire loss to
our country if our young women leave
college through a mistaken sense of duty.
It is for this reason that the college
has broken its fixed rule, which is, as
you know, to admit only as many stu-
dents as can be given rooms in our halls
of residence. We have this year ad-
mitted a war class of 141 freshmen, the
largest class in the history of the college,
21 of whom are living off the college
campus in a house rented to accommo-
date them. In times like these no girl
should be refused a college education.
To this large freshman class I want to
say on behalf of the faculty and older
college students that we give you a
warm welcome to Bryn Mawr College.
We all of us wish to use our best en-
deavor to help you to get the most
out of your college course. Some of yon
are the daughters of alumnae of Bryn
Mawr College, some of you are sisters
of former or present students, some of
you are daughters of mothers who longed
to come to Bryn Mawr themselves and
could not, many of you have been des-
tined for Bryn Mawr from your cradles;
as always, a large proportion of you have
chosen Bryn Mawr because of its high
standards of scholarship. I wish to ap-
peal to all of the older students to help
the faculty to justify this choice of our
freshmen. Let us in this year above all
years raise high the standards of scholar-
ship and behaviour and spiritual life at
Bryn Mawr. In times of such terrible
suffering and such supreme sacrifices or-
dinary amusements, mere gaiety and
material pleasures seem out of place.
Why not take advantage of this feeling
to advance tne Bryn Mawr standards
of pure scholarship. From 1900 to 1908
the College had to get the necessary
buildings and physical equipment.
From 1908 to 1910 it had to beg for ad-
ditional endowment to carry on its work.
Since then for the past seven years we
have been strengthening our teaching
and breaking up our large lecture
courses into smaller sections by the ap-
pointment of new professors. I believe
that the College has never been so well
equipped as now to do the best quality
of academic work. Never has our fac-
ulty been stronger or more able to help
our students to do scholarly work. Our
new plan of democratic faculty gov-
ernment which went into effect at the
beginning of last year has been a splen-
did success. We all of us believed in
it then hut it has justified itself now
even beyond our utmost expectations.
It is a world movement to associate to-
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gether in government and control every-
one who is working for the good of
an institution like a college, or a busi-
ness, or a railway, or a country. This
is what is meant by true democracy.
This is what the the United States is
fighting for. It is the most worth while
thing in all the world. It is happy for
the future of Bryn Mawr that she has
led the way in academic democracy. I
am confident that within a few years all
colleges will adopt this form of govern-
ment. This year I hope that we may
take a further step in the same direction
and associate our students more closely
with the teaching of the college. The
faculty has granted the students the
privilege of conferences with it on aca-
demic matters. I hope the students
will use this privilege.
Our sincerest gratitude and admiration
are due to Miss Martha Thomas, the
Wardens, Dean Taft, and the patriotic
students who have done such splendid
work on the twenty acres of farm land so
kindly given to us by Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Sharpies of West Chester. Our Bryn
Mawr farmers have won golden opinions
from everyone and have raised and
canned ample supplies of vegetables for
use during the year. Through their ex-
ertions the college is removed to a great
extent from the list of consumers. Our
students have freed thousands of dol-
lars worth of food for the starving Bel-
gians, Poles and Servians. I know of
no other college that has done this pre-
cise form of patriotic work.
Our college table this year will con-
form to war conditions. We shall have
one meatless day — probably on Tues-
day— and another beefless day — proba-
bly on Friday — and two other days
when as far as possible bread made
of corn and barley will be used instead
of bread made of wheat which is needed
for the starving peoples of Europe. We
are sure that this patriotic menu will
have the support of our student body.
This year as in the past two years at-
tendance at college classes will be in your
own hands. Your record of attendance
was very good last year but not as good
as in 1915-16. This was probably due
to the first distraction of war relief work.
We feel confident that this year you
will maintain and improve the record of
1915-16. Your personal conduct is as
it has been from the opening of the col-
lege your responsibility. Every indi-
vidual student must bear her full share
of this responsibility. Your self-gov-
ernment like every other kind of demo-
cratic government is a success or a failure
according as every member does or does
not do her part in attending meetings
and supporting the officers of the asso-
ciation whom she has herself elected to
represent her. This is the condition of
all successful democratic government.
I wish to close with a few words about
China. As most of you know I have
spent the summer there. China is a
wonderful country. The Chinese are a
wonderful people with a wonderful
future as well as a wonderful past.
Everyone who knows China and the
Chinese feels this. I went to China to
escape for a few weeks from the world
war but while I was there China herself
declared war on Germany. I found the
country in a death struggle against the
tyrannical prime minister in Peking rul-
ing by means of the army of the north
without parliamentary authority while
Sun-Yat-Sen,the great republican leader
and reformer, and about half of the mem-
bers of the Chinese parliament which
had been dissolved by the army of the
north were gathered together in south-
ern China carrying on parliamentary
government. All of the diplomats in
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109
Peking seemed to me to be on the wrong
side of the question. They seemed to
me to care most of all for "a strong
man in China/' with whom they could
deal. They were unable to read the
writing on the wall. Even ancient, an-
cestor-ridden China feels the struggle of
a new freedom and is determined to be
a democracy. The very coolies in the
streets are cleaning themselves up with
the aid of the policemen of the republic
and are getting rid of the worst of their
evil smells.
In China as no where else in the
world one comes face to face with
ancient and mediaeval history. When
one stands on the great Wall of China,
built 2500 years before Christ, and looks
over the Mongolian desert from which
swept over China and Asia successive
hordes of Mongols destroying civiliza-
tion before them; when one reviews the
course of history, as everyone must who
visits China, one is compelled to reach
the conclusion that in the past brutal
destruction of great and gifted nations
has terribly damaged the human race.
Such destruction scientifically planned,
with horrors undreamed of even by the
ancient Assyrians, is now being carried
out by Germany in Belgium, Northern
France, Poland, Servia and Armenia.
The normal development of nations so
crucified in the past has been arrested
for centuries, sometimes forever. It is
to arrest such overwhelming disaster,
to give freedom, to remain ourselves
free, that all our patriotism is needed.
WITH THE ALUMNAE
OFFICERS
1916-1918
President, Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs. Fred-
eric Rogers Kellogg), '00, Morristown, N. J.
Vice President, Mary Richardson Walcott (Mrs.
Robert Walcott), '06, 152 Brattle Street, Cambridge,
Mass.
Recording Secretary, Louise Congdon Francis (Mrs.
Richard Standish Francis), '00, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Corresponding Secretary, Abigail Camp Dimon, '96,
367 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y.
Treasurer, Jane Bowne Haines, '91, Cheltenham, Pa.
ALT7VNAE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BRYN
MAWR COLLEGE
Elizabeth B. Kirkbrede, '96, 1406 Spruce Street,
Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, '98, (Mrs. Wilfred
Bancroft), Slatersville, R. I.
academic committee
Pauline Goldmark, Chairman, 270 West 94th Street,
New York City.
Esther Lowenthal, Smith College, Northampton,
Mass.
Eli'abeth Shepley Sergeant, 4 Hawthorn Road,
Brookline, Mass.
Helen Emerson, 162 Blackstone Boulevard, Provi-
dence, R. I.
s Ellen D. Ellis, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Mass.
Frances Fincke Hand (Mrs. Learned Hand), 142
East 65th Street, New York City.
Frances Browne, 15 East 10th Street, New York
City.
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs. F. R. Kellogg),
Morristown, N. J.
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Following its conference last February with
a committee of the faculty at which the rela-
tions of the Alumnae Association and the faculty
under the new form of government were in-
formally discussed, the Academic Committee
sent the following letter to the faculty:
"To the Faculty of Bryn Mawr College:
The Academic Committee of the Alumnae As-
sociation of Bryn Mawr College, following the
conference held with the President and five
members of the faculty on January 27 wishes to
bring to the attention of the faculty as a whole
certain suggestions for a more direct and co-
operative relation between the Academic Com-
mittee and the faculty.
"It will be remembered that, according to its
agreement made with the Trustees of the Col-
lege in 1893, the Academic Committee has al-
ways acted as "the official means of communi-
cation between the authorities and the Alumnae
Association of Bryn Mawr College." Its duties,
however, were at first rather informally exer-
cised. But with the growth of the Association
and the lessening of direct contact between
individual alumnae and the college, its useful-
ness and responsibility have greatly increased.
It has now become not only theoretically but
in fact a clearing house of alumnae opinion; the
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accredited intermediary between the Associa-
tion and the College.
"Realizing the heavier obligations laid upon
the Academic Committee and the difficulty of
meeting them without better organization,
President Thomas in 1916 offered to broaden
the functions of the Committee by discussing
with it, "in advance, before making recommen-
dations to the Board of Directors important
matters concerning the academic management
of the College;" it being, however, understood
that the alumnae, on their side, should give the
Committee time to confer with the College
authorities before individuals or groups of alum-
nae began public agitation on the matters in
question.
"The Alumnae Association voted (January,
1916) to accept this agreement, and the present
Academic Committee has found of the greatest
value to its work during the past year the better
understanding that has followed. President
Thomas has given largely of her time and in-
terest in more frequent conferences and meet-
ings with the Committee. Various members of
the faculty have with equal generosity met in-
dividual members of the Committee in informal
conference. The alumnae have made a special
effort to bring us their problems, criticisms and
queries. We have accordingly been called upon
to interpret to many alumnae groups the re-
organization of the College under the new plan
of government; and most of our regular sub-
committee work for the year (Reports on the
Tutoring School; on the Appointment Bureau,
etc., etc.) has been undertaken at the request
of alumnae in different parts of the country.
"We believe that new developments in the
College in which the alumnae necessarily feel a
particular interest; such as changes in entrance
examinations or curriculum; such as the founda-
tion of new departments; such as the proposed
Honors degree cannot adequately be studied by
the Academic Committee and reported to the
alumnae without consultation with the faculty
while such changes are in progress. We value
highly the custom of annual conference with a
special committee of the faculty appointed by
the President of the College; we note also with
satisfaction that Section III. of the faculty
By Laws provides for a standing committee of
the faculty to confer with the Academic Com-
mittee. It is our hope that we may have an
opportunity to discuss special subjects with both
committees in future. But as neither provides
for taking up without delay with the faculty,
important business which may call for imme-
diate attention, we should like to ask further:
"That the faculty will, when desirable, author-
ize its standing or special committees to confer
formally with the Academic Committee, it being
understood, as provided in the plan of govern-
ment, that on these occasions the President of
the College shall be the presiding officer; and
further:
"That the faculty will occasionally grant, to
the sub-committees of the Academic Committee
which concern themselves with various phases
of the academic work the privilege of meeting in
informal conference with the appropriate com-
mittees of the faculty.
"The Academic Committee, on its side, wishes
to make clear that it will welcome any oppor-
tunity to meet upon request with committees
of the faculty either in formal session or in-
formally through its sub-committees; to receive
communications from the faculty on important
matters; and to cooperate with the faculty on
special pieces of work.
"The above privileges, if granted by the faculty
will, we venture to promise, be conservatively
used by the Academic Committee. We would
not burden the faculty with additional com-
mittee work or ask for privileges that would
necessitate constitutional changes in the new
plan of government. But believing earnestly
that the alumnae have an inherent interest in
the academic side of the College — that such an
interest is a necessary corollary of a high devo-
tion to the Bryn Mawr academic standard, and
a spur to the outstanding alumnae activity, the
raising of endowment — we ask you to acquaint
us as fully as possible with the academic policies
of the College. It is to the alumnae that the
college must chiefly look to present its ideals
and to interpret its needs to the outside world.
"The proposals of this Committee for a new
basis of understanding with the faculty are,
however, made in a tentative spirit; should
they not commend themselves, we hope that the
faculty will make other suggestions as to how
it and the Academic Committee may work to-
gether constructively for their common aim —
the welfare of Bryn Mawr College.' '
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,
For the Academic Committee, 1916-17."
March 13, 1917
In reply to this letter, Dr. Huff, secretary of
the faculty, transmitted the resolution which is
given below. With this generous response to
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its request, the Academic Committee can pro-
ceed with its work on a basis of understanding
that augurs well for the future.
"Resolved that the Faculty express its ap-
preciation of the desire for cooperation shown
by the Academic Committee of the Alumnae in
the letter of March 10, 1917, and its willingness
to give the Academic Committee, or its sub-
committees, opportunity for the expression of
opinion on matters of general academic interest."
From the Faculty Minutes, meeting of April
26, 1917, approved May 17, 1917.
Wm. B. Huff,
Secretary.
WAR WORK
WAR RELIEF WORK
(Prepared by Miss Dimon)
As a result of inquiries from alumnae
about war relief work of one sort or
another, I have collected some informa-
tion that may interest those who would
like to do volunteer work abroad or at
home. I have not had time to make a
systematic investigation, but have re-
ceived circulars from one or two sources
and have talked with or written to the
committees in charge. The information
obtained is summarized in the following
notes. The details of the Red Cross
Canteen Service in France were secured
after receiving Leah Cadbury's letter,
which is printed below. If the notes in
this issue prove of general interest, and
information about other organizations
is desired, it can be secured and printed
in the following issues of the Quarterly.
RED CROSS CANTEEN SERVICE IN
FRANCE
Nature of work. Maintaining canteens where
food and small articles can be purchased by the
soldiers and where they can rest and read.
For particulars see Leah Cadbury's letter.
Application should be made to Miss Florence
M. Marshall, Director, Woman's Bureau,
American Red Cross, Washington, D. C.
Requirements for Applicants
1. Must be between thirty and fifty years of
age.
2. Must speak French well.
3. Must have excellent health.
4. Must volunteer services and pay all ex-
penses if possible.
5. Must be free from all German connections.
6. Must not have a husband in army service
either here or abroad.
7. Must be willing to sign pledge for six
month's service in France or Belgium wherever
assigned.
8. Must wear uniform when on duty.
9. Must be vaccinated for smallpox and in-
oculated for typhoid and para-typhoid.
10. Must give names of four references.
In general: Applicants should be capable of
hard physical labor, adaptable to any sort of
conditions, ready to accept orders cheerfully
and to undertake whatever work is given them,
democratic in sentiment and excellent mixers.
No woman not ready to give full time con-
scientious service should apply.
NEED FOR WORKERS
September 18, 1917.
"The first call for canteen service was cabled
from Major Murphy, Red Cross Commissioner
for France and Belgium, who asked for fifty
women between the ages of thirty and fifty to
work in the army zone under orders as canteen
workers with French soldiers. That unit is com-
plete ... we are expecting further calls for
this and other service, but we have no means of
knowing when or what they will be."
Additional information. The Woman's Bureau
states that $1000 will cover all expenses for six
months, including equipment, living expenses,
and passage.
Applications received at any time will be filed
to be used when the demand comes.
At least four Bryn Mawr alumnae or former
students went with the first unit: Ellen Kil-
patrick, ex-'99, Gertrude Ely, ex- '00, Alice Mil-
ler, ex-'09, and Mary Tongue, '13.
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS' RECON-
STRUCTION UNIT
FRANCE
Nature of work. Two distinct kinds of work
exist: relief work with refugees (imigris); re-
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construction in regions evacuated by the armies
where the people (sinistres) have never left or
have returned.
At Bar-le-Duc, Troyes and other places,
Friends have given refugees employment, whole-
some recreation, medical and hospital aid, have
distributed clothing, and have housed them in
sanitary settlements of transportable houses.
At Samoens a settlement house "by the side of
the road" has been established to relieve the
intense suffering of a few of the travel-worn
refugees returning from Switzerland to Anne-
masse. An orphanage is maintained near Fon-
tette in the Aube.
Reconstruction work. The reconstruction work
has been chiefly in the regions of the Marne,
Meurthe-et-Moselle and Meuse. Houses (tem-
porary and permanent) have been built; villages
restored; clothing, household and garden sup-
plies distributed.
The agricultural problem becomes increas-
ingly serious. More and more land goes out
of cultivation each season through lack of
labor, machines and seeds, and because of the
spread of weeds. The English Committee has
started an agricultural center for the storage and
repair of machines and as an organizing point
for a staff of workers.
At Dole, in the Jura, a construction camp for
making portable houses is maintained.
Medical and hospital work. Deterioration of
health, particularly among the refugees, is be-
coming the greatest single menace to France.
Not only do the living conditions greatly con-
duce to disease, but very few doctors and hos-
pitals are available to the civil population.
Friends have established the following work,
which is hoped to greatly increase:
A Maternity Hospital at Chalons, which
cared Tor 1429 ases in two years.
A Convales ent Home and Cottage Hospital
at Sermaize, with an important out-patient
department
A Children's Convalescent Home at Bettan-
court.
A Convalescent Home at Samoens for refugees.
RUSSIA
To aid the English workers, this Committee
has recently sent a group of women, and ex-
pects to send more in the spring. The Friends'
work is in the district of Buzuluk, in the Prov-
ince of Samara. The Friends did not find a
single doctor in the whole area of 100,000 souls,
of whom one quarter are refugees, 1400 miles
from home. The people are a motley collection
of Little Russians, Poles, Lithuanians, Tartars,
Cossacks and Bashkirs, in addition to Austrian,
Turkish and German prisoners.
The work consists of general and medical re-
lief at the following centres:
Lubimofka. Hospital and out-patient de-
partment. Workroom and trades school.
Mogotovo. Settlement House for general
relief. Out-patient dispensary.
Andreafka and Bogdanofka. Centers for
district nursing and employment in simple
industries.
Application should be made to Miss Lucy
Biddle Lewis, 20 South Twelfth Street, Phila-
delphia, who can furnish any additional infor-
mation.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICANTS
1. Must be at least twenty- three years of age.
2. Must speak French readily.
3. Must volunteer for twelve months.
4. Must be in good health.
5. Must present at least four letters of recom-
mendation, one of which testifies to the appli-
cant's conversational ability in French.
Need of workers. There is no demand at the
present moment for women workers, but appli-
cations will be received and there will probably
be a call in the near future.
Additional information. The Friends Recon-
struction Unit is under the American Red Cross
and works in cooperation with the English
Friends. In France Margery Scattergood, '17,
is working under the unit, and Esther White,
'06 and Anna Jones Haines, '07 were two of the
group of seven women sent to Russia by the
unit last summer. No salary is paid the work-
ers, but their expenses are paid by the Friends'
Committee if they are not able to meet them
themselves.
NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR WOMAN'S
SERVICE
PENNSYLVANIA STATE COMMITTEE
Nature of work.
(a) Social welfare. Entertaining children at
recreational centres, day nurseries and
in hospitals. Visiting houses where
mothers have to work out of the house,
etc., etc.
(b) Canteen work. Feeding and entertain-
ing soldiers. Serving proper food in
neighborhood of factories and munition
plants.
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(c) Home Economics. Classes to teach plain
cooking and food substitutes.
(d) Motor Driving. Doing errands for Fed-
eral, state or municipal government.
Taking of welfare workers to destina-
tion, etc.
(e) Hospital Entertainment. Teaching knit-
ting or sewing; writing letters to the
Front from sick wife, sister or mother.
(f) General Service. Stenography, typewrit-
ing, switchboard, wireless.
Application. Write to 1713 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia.
Membership. Membership entails nothing
more than the signing of one's name to the en-
rollment blank, thus showing a willingness to
serve. Following this the groups under the dif-
ferent headings, Home Economics, Social Wel-
fare, etc., come together to plan work.
Additional information. Leaflets describing
the work in more detail and also giving infor-
mation about training courses preparing for var-
ious sorts of war relief work may be obtained
from 1713 Walnut Street. The National League
for Woman's Service has Committees in the other
states.
LEAH CADBURY'S LETTER
Uffculme Hospital,
Queensbridge Road,
Kings Heath, near Birmingham.
Dear Miss Dimon:
About a fortnight ago I had a chance to find
some work for our Alumnae Association. I do
hope you will take hold of the scheme.
The American Red Cross Committee in
France has been requested by the French gov-
ernment to organize a chain of canteens or
foyers at all troop railway centres in France.
Money and workers are needed at once. The
money is forthcoming but not the workers, at
least not efficient workers. A very good can-
teen is running at Bar-le-Duc, and I worked for
a week there in order to learn the details of the
system, afterwards to send you a report and ask
for volunteers.
Bar-le-Duc is a junction for troops passing to
and fro, there are barracks in the neighborhood
(within 15 or 20 miles) and one of the main mili-
tary high roads passes through the town, so
there is a steady stream of soldiers of all nations.
The canteen is always open except for one
short hour in the morning, 5-6, when the "pla-
ton, " as we call the man of all work, hoses the
whole place and cleans out the rubbish. The
canteen undertakes to give the soldiers hot and
cold food at any time, in fact it is a Child's res-
taurant always running at noonday speed. Dif-
ferent foyers have different menus but the whole
system is in general the same. We sold at
cost price, coffee (hot and cold and au lait), tea
(the same), chocolate, boullion, syrups, limon-
ade — no wines of any sort — bread in all sizes of
chunks, "tartines," ragout, steak, rosbif, pota-
toes, salad, eggs (fresh cooked or hardboiled),
ham and eggs, confitures, miscellanies such as
stamps, paper, petits gateaux, tobacco, smoked
meats, and chocolates.
We worked under very primitive conditions,
and there were many faults in our methods,
but we fed the men and cheered them a bit be-
fore they passed on. Generally for drinks and
other prepared foods the men paid direct to the
waitresses, who served behind a counter. The
men carried their food to a table and when they
finished were supposed to bring back the dishes,
For eggs and other things ordered from the
kitchen the men gave their order at the caisse
and paid there. Each order was numbered and
the man was given a duplicate number. He
then went to the other end of the counter, near
the kitchen, and waited till his number was
called. Then he too carried off his eggs in
triumph.
I liked the order work most of all. The cook
slid the plate of food through the window and
then I'd call the number, "Trent-trois; Trent-
trois; TRENT-TROIS!" No response but a
burst of laughter from the men, and perhaps
29 would offer his number. Suddenly somebody
more experienced in foreigner's French, would
understand me and repeat, with just the same
pronunciation, I'm sure. But 33 would under-
stand him and hustle up for his supper.
Of course we often made mistakes in order of
serving and some poor fellow would remonstrate.
But the poilus were always nice, even the drunk
ones who carried off the coffee jug one night!
At rush hours we generally had three workers,
one at the caisse, one at the jugs, and one at the
kitchen end of the counter! As the entrance
to the officers' room was also at this end, the
third worker had to look after them too! We
had one woman to cook and another to wash,
but frequently we had to do a bit of both ourselves.
To do all the cooking, we had one feeble stove
and six gas burners, two of which were always
in use for .coffee and chocolate. Nevertheless
we fed innumerable men.
I might have told you a bit about our build-
ings at first I suppose.
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Everything was terribly crowded but now the
foyer is to be twice as large, for an addition is
being made to the front.
The night shift from ten to five was the most
interesting. Only two of us worked then, with
two servants. About four or five rushes of
men kept us busy, you may be sure, and they
were always shivering with cold. Unfortunately
we had no decent dortoirs for them, but soon
some old hospital sheds will be fitted up with
brancards and a douche so the men can sleep
and have a bath.
The day is divided into different shifts, but
as we were very shorthanded we had to work
overtime. Our living quarters were fairly com-
fortable and clean. We had rooms in the home
of one of the inhabitants of Bar. The beds
were good and we could have all the cold
water we wanted, but not very much hot.
There are no such things as bath tubs and toi-
lets in the houses but you can manage without
too much trouble. We ate in an apartment in
which two workers lived, and shared the house-
hold expenses. Living prices vary according
to the locality. In Paris you can get board
and lodging for 7 francs up; in Bar I paid 21
francs for my board and 15 francs for lodging
for the week, a difference of 13 francs a week
compared to Paris prices. Laundry must be
considered too, but that is not a large item, for
outside clothes anyway.
And that brings me to uniform. We wore
large overall aprons with sleeves, dark brown
preferably, to hide the dirt (!), and caps of any
style, just to keep our hair clean. The air is
always blue with smoke. Strong, comfortable
shoes are most important as one is always stand-
ing or running (never walking) about. I would
suggest that any worker might bring extra shoe
soles and lots of stockings. Detachable white
collars are also useful, for collars soil much more
quickly than the rest of one's dress. Other
than these articles you can wear anything you
like, jumpers and hockey skirts would be choice!
The work is hard and your hands are very soon
in a pretty mess, and it's very easy to scrap with
the other workers. For these very reasons, or
rather difficulties, I feel that Bryn Mawrtyrs
would do the work splendidly. For there are
a lot of husky ones among us, and while we do
scrap (!) I don't think we fight for personal
advancement, do we?
The Red Cross ought not, I think, to be asked
to pay the expenses of volunteers.
What can we do? Many of our best workers
cannot afford to come if they have to pay their
own way. Is there any means by which we
could persuade individuals who could afford to
come but are tied up at home to pay for others?
Perhaps such an appeal seems preposterous,
but if only you could once realize the terrible
need for these foyers and it is a terrible need,
too — you wouldn't hesitate an instant. The
English Y. M. C. A. is looking after the Tom-
mies, and our own Y. M. C. A. is taking over
similar care of our troops, but there isn't a soul
to help the poilus on their way, so they lie
about the station, in the courtyard, or on the
platform, hungry and sick for want of sleep,
and filthy dirty, enduring discomfort until
some day they just can't endure it another
second — and someone balks, to put it mildly.
I wish we could get at least thirty workers,
not younger than twenty-five, right on the spot
inside of a month. Of course hundreds more
could be used. Please do what you can, wont
you? I feel that this is the opening we want, and
ours must be the first college on the field. Ac-
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countants and housekeepers are also needed at
this work, but especially people who wont mind
putting their hands to any old job. And the
work is wonderfully interesting. You should
see a man's face light up when he hears you are
American, or see the relief with which he pockets
his precious sous when you ask only "2 sous"
for a piece of bread instead of 10. "C'est pas
cher, ca," he says, "I'll have a cup of coffee,
too." You are asked to do many queer things,
bind up a dog's foot, or a boy's finger, or "spik
Inglish, avec. " Every night gives you a va-
riety of experiences, so that you hurry to take
your turn and are slow to leave.
If the Board is interested, will you get in
touch at once with the American Red Cross in
Washington. I don't know who will be ap-
pointed to take over the canteen work from the
United States end. The Paris man is Reginald
Foster, American Red Cross, Place de la Con-
corde. Meanwhile would you be willing to
notify individuals who have applied, that this
work is open, and if they are interested, they
can cable Foster and can get off at once.
Later on, if Bryn Mawr decides to form units
of workers, these pioneers can head them. A
unit means about 12 workers, one of whom
ought to be able to manage the housekeeping
for the Foyer, not for the workers, and some-
body, either the same person or another, ought
to be able to keep the accounts. They aren't
very complicated.
There is another opening, through the
Friends, for those of pacifist principles. French
speaking women volunteers are wanted by the
English Committee to do all sorts of relief work
in France. Henry J. Cadbury, Haverford Col-
lege, can refer you to the proper committee in
Philadelphia. The Foyer work is the most
pressing, however. Something must be done to
help the men through this winter, and it's up
to us to do it.
Yours,
L. T. Cadbury.
Received, August 28, 1917.
SMITH COLLEGE UNIT IN FRANCE
With portable houses, sewing machines,
kitchen utensils, bedding, food, shoes, clothing,
ticking, straw, and agricultural implements
eleven Smith College alumnae, who received
their passports as members of the Smith Col-
lege Relief Unit, are going to France this month
to begin practical work for the suffering French
people near Soissons. This is the first band of
women to undertake this kind of work and is
to be practical in every detail.
All the members of the unit are women more
than twenty-five years old, they have passed a
rigid physical examination, and are in condition
for hard, grinding work. They all speak French,
all drive motors and each has in addition some
special training which will fit her for valuable
individual work. Motor trucks and supplies
are already on their way.
A farewell luncheon, at which the members
of the unit will speak of the work they are to do
is to be given within two weeks at the Woman's
University Club. Dean Comstock of Smith,
with other officers of the college, will be guests
with the Presidents of Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn
Mawr, and other women's colleges. A fund has
already been raised to maintain the unit for six
months, but as there will be work to be done
for a much longer time, whether the war ends
or not, gifts will be gladly received. . . .
The personalties of the women of the unit
are interesting. Mrs. Harriet Boyd Hawes,
class of '92, of New Hampshire, is the director.
She was for several years Director of Excava-
tions for the American Exploration Society in
Crete. She did relief work in the Spanish war
and in the Balkan war. In this war, in the
early months of 1916, she did relief work for
the Serbians, among other things establishing
a diet kitchen and having barracks built for the
troops on the island of Corfu. She speaks
French, German, Italian, Greek and a few
other things.
Dr. Alice Weld Tallant, '97, is a practicing
physician in Philadelphia. With her goes her
assistant, Dr. Maude M. Kelly of England, the
only member of the unit who is not a Smith
graduate.
Marie Leonie Wolfs, '08, of New Jersey is
a Belgian who was at Liege during the siege and
did relief work there. Elizabeth M. Dana, '04,
of Massachusetts, has done social and school
work in North Carolina for a number of years.
She practically recreated a little town by teach-
ing the people cobbling. Ruth Gaines, '01, of
Michigan, is a social worker, and the other mem-
bers have qualifications of the same sort. They
are: Majorie L. Carr, '09, Ohio; Millicent
Vaughan Lewis, '07, of New York; Florence A.
Hague, '09, of New Jersey; Frances Valentine,
'02, of Massachusetts; Anne Chapin, '04, of
Massachusetts; Elizabeth Bliss, '08, of New
York; Lucy Mather, ex-'88, of Connecticut;
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Ruth Joslin, '12, of Illinois; Marion Bennett,
'06, of Massachusetts; Catherine Hooper, '11,
of New Jersey; Margaret Wood, '12, of Illinois;
Alice Teaveno, '03, of Massachusetts, and Mar-
garet Ashley, '14, of Ohio.
The New York Times, July 22, 1917.
LETTERS FROM MRS. CONS
The following letter from Miss Curtis, Mrs.
Cons's sister, makes an appeal for more help
for Mrs. Cons's work with French soldiers.
Contributions should be sent to Miss Elizabeth
White, the Marlborough-Blenheim, Atlantic
City, N. J., who cables money to Mrs. Cons.
A later letter from Miss Curtis contains further
information about Mr. and Mrs. Cons:
221 East 15th St., New York City
September 12, 1917.
Dear Friend:
I am sure that you are giving all that you can
spare to the relief work of my sister, Mme. Louis
Cons, in France.
She appreciates highly your stanch support,
and thanks you warmly in the name of the sol-
diers whom your generosity has perhaps saved
from nervous breakdown, or even insanity.
She does not ask us to increase our contribu-
tions, but feels that, owing to the steady rise in
prices, some plan must be devised to meet the
increasing cost of the monthly packages for the
soldiers.
A letter from her, dated August 10, says:
"There are so many calls from every side, I
am harassed with the difficulty of making the
monthly fund cover the month's distresses.
Unless I can get more cash, I shall have to cut
down the packages — send one where I have
been sending two — a small one in place of a
large one, 5 francs where I have given 10.
"Ten of my men are in German prison-camps,
and packages to prisoners are expensive, yet I
cannot abandon them to slow starvation. The
men at the front are desperately tired, after
these weeks of hard fighting. My youngest sol-
dier, only twenty years old, nearly fainted in
my room today.
"Another, whose furlough brought him
straight from the front, in one of the worst sec-
tors near Verdun, came in almost gasping with
exhaustion. He sat staring and half-dazed from
the strain of the last great 'push.' He was
covered with mud and blood, and kept asking
over and over, 'Am I really here? Alive?'
He never expected to come alive from that in-
ferno of shell and machine gun fire, bomb
and bayonet and poison-gas.
"One of my best soldiers, Maurice Delattre,
wearing the 'croix de guerre' and the 'fourra-
gere ' (given to each member of a regiment that
has been 'cited' three times) was at the Chemin
des Dames, which the Germans were determined
to hold at any cost. They lost it finally, after
innumerable attacks and counter-attacks, and
some of the fiercest fighting of the war. There
was no rest, day or night. The man, Maurice,
huge for a Frenchman, and brave, suddenly
lost his nerve, He has had terrible headaches
lately, and a comrade at his side had just been
struck by a shell and killed. Maurice was un-
hurt, but covered with blood, and perhaps the
shell-shock made him temporarily insane. At
any rate, it seemed to him that he could not en-
dure for another instant the horrors of the bat-
tle,— the noise, the dirt, the heat, the slaughter.
When ordered to the rear, he did not stop at
the cantonment, but kept right on, mounted a
bicycle, and rode 60 miles to Paris to see me.
"When he reached the city, however, he sud-
denly realized what he had done, and was
ashamed to come to me, but wrote a pitiful lit-
tle note telling me about it, and saying that
when he had rested a bit, he would go straight
to the military authorities in Paris, and deliver
himself up. He did this, was court-martialed
for desertion, and sent back to the front, 'pun-
ishment dsf erred' until after the war. He felt
terribly down-cast over his ' disgrace, ' but I am
sure it was the result of physical exhaustion
rather than moral weakness. One comfort came
to him while in the military prison here. He
heard that his wife and little girl are safe,
though still behind the German lines.
"Another of my men is broken-hearted to
learn that his wife has been dead for more than
a year, a victim of German cruelty. They had
been married only two months when he was
called to arms in 1914, and he had not heard
from her since. He succeeded in sending a let-
ter through the lines to her, but her attempt to
reply was discovered, and she was arrested and
imprisoned for a week or more. She was only a
girl, and not very strong, and the harsh treat-
ment she received probably caused her death.
The tragedies disclosed by the retreat of the
Germans would wring your hearts. You won-
der how anyone can live through years of such
suffering.
"And these devastated villages and human
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wrecks are the homes and the families of my
soldiers. You can imagine the mental strain
under which they labor, They are so grateful,
poor fellows, for everything that is done for
them. I cannot bear to have them miss such
comfort as we can give them. Please try to
think up some plan by which we can increase
the fund enough to meet the higher prices."
I have thought that if each one of us could
find one new contributor, the amount we send
might be almost doubled, without adding to
our own pecuniary burdens. Many people
would be glad to give, if they could be spared
trouble of writing the necessary letter and
check. We could take this upon ourselves,
and by the extra money thus added to our own,
avoid the curtailment of the work which Mme.
Cons fears will be necessary.
Trusting that some plan may occur to you,
if the one proposed does not seem practical, I
remain
Yours very sincerely,
Anna L. Curtis.
"You speak of my brother-in-law 'being in
no danger.' I suppose that is true, compara-
tively speaking. He is instructing interpreters
in technical German and examining documents
found on prisoners. He is perhaps ten miles
from the absolute front — more or less. Of
course, there is no danger there from a surprise
attack or from rifles or machine guns. But the
German air-planes are a definite danger always,
and the big guns on the German lines reach the
place easily enough, apparently. He never
mentions ordinary shells dropping in; I don't
know if that is because they are very usual or
very unusual. He did mention a gas attack,
which drove the entire population out of the
town (which lies in a hollow) to the hills around.
And where those gas shells can be thrown, of
course other shells can be, also.
"We had a very cheerful letter from my sister
this week. She has returned to Paris from the
little town of Antony where she spent part of
the summer. She says she is very much rested,
has gained in weight, and her head does not
feel so tired. So we are somewhat relieved of
our fear lest she should break down."
WAR RELIEF PLANS
How Bryn Mawr may best be repre-
sented in war relief work this year is a
question occupying the minds of all un-
dergraduates. There is a strong desire
for cooperation with the alumnae in a
single concentration of effort, which will
maintain the identity of the College in
war-work. The possibility of sending a
reconstruction unit to France, as Smith
College has done, stands out among a
number of suggestions, including an am-
bulance on the Russian or Italian front,
a Y. M. C. A. hut, or an orphan colony
in France.
The reconstruction unit offers a direct
opportunity for personal service in
France to eight or ten Bryn Mawr
women who would compose the unit, in
the capacity of nurses, social workers,
and chauffeurs, and who would have
charge of a Bryn Mawr village. The
cost of such a unit, sent through the
American Fund for French Wounded, is
$25,000. An interesting account of the
work now going on is given in the fol-
lowing letter and inclosure received by
Dean Taft from the American Fund for
French Wounded:
M^ Dear Miss Taft:
The American Fund for French Wounded, of
whose work for the small hospitals of France
you have no doubt heard, is now engaged in
helping to restore the devastated regions of
Northern France to a condition which will make
possible the return of the scattered owners of
the ruined houses.
Units of eight to ten persons have been
placed in various villages till we have eighteen
villages under our supervision. The enclosed
letter from Mrs. Dike, our chairman, and Miss
Anne Morgan will show you on what business-
like lines the work is being done. Various in-
dividuals and communities have undertaken to
rehabilitate different villages — Smith College is
doing most successful work through its unit.
We hope that you will feel it worth while to
bring this very practical way of helping the
French people to the attention of your students.
A unit of eight to ten persons with sufficient
financial backing, say $25,000 can make a
whole village again self-supporting and self-
respecting.
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There is so much to be done and you have
such a fund of well-trained, energetic, strong
workers among your alumnae and students that
we are eager to use them where fresh strength
and courage are sorely needed.
Sincerely yours
Elizabeth Scarborough,
Secretary, A.F.F. W.
EXTRACTS PROM LETTERS FROM MRS. DIKE.
CHAIRMAN OF THE CIVILIAN COMMITTEE OF
THE AMERICAN FUND FOR FRENCH WOUNDED
Blerancourt, Aisne, France,
July 20, 1917.
We are actually here in the midst of the army
and in the heart of devastated France. We
have been visited and inspected by the Red
Cross many times.
It is beyond Noyon to the North, the West and
East that one sees the mbst appalling destruc-
tion. Village after village is passed — nothing left
of them but a few empty remains, remnants of
walls, not a stick of furniture in their empty
shells, silent deserted ruins. We know that the
Germans have destroyed all the plumbing
which cannot quickly be replaced and we also
know that the unsuspicious-looking pile of sand
may contain dangerous explosives hidden there
on purpose.
As we proceed we meet with fewer and fewer
civilians, and more and more soldiers. Here
and there we pass old men, old women and
children still clinging faithfully to the gaping
walls of the former homes, and while we stop
to speak to them soldiers on the march pass us,
their faces aglow when they see the American
flag on our car.
Our quarters are primitive. For thirty
months Germans have lived in these walls.
Now ten American women have made it their
temporary home. You cannot imagine the con-
dition in which we found it. For three days,
while we were waiting for our beds to come down
from Paris via the slow railroad, and the slower
camion service from Noyon, we did some very
necessary housecleaning. We put on our blue
blouses and set to work with bits of glass to
scrape the walls and cup-boards. Then we bor-
rowed whitening from the Army and washed
down the walls of the pavilion and stables that
must for the present act as our warehouse.
Over the very fine old stone gate we placed the
sign of the Comite* Americain pour les Bless6s
Francais, Section Civile pour 1' Aisne. Then
we visited the Mayor and the prefect and the
sous-prefect, told them of our plans, and asked
for their cooperation. One and all expressed
themselves delighted to have us there on the
soil of a frontier village to work with them in
this immense task of reconstructing the home
life of reconquered France.
They welcomed the idea of our dispensary
service as there are no medicaments available
in the army zone for civilians. What this really
meant I think I first understood when an old
woman told me about her grandson — a boy of
nine years. He had been ill for several days
and finally she ventured to go to the German
Kommandatur of the District (it was while the
Germans held the village) to ask if she might
have a physician.
"No," was the answer, "we have no phy-
sician for the civilians."
In desperation the following day when a
squad of soldiers was passing through the vil-
lage, she took the boy in her arms and ran to
meet them.
"Is there a doctor among you — someone who
can help this child " she asked.
A young man stepped forward, examined the
child, and wrote out a prescription. She hur-
ried to the Kommandatur for permission to go to
the next village to have the prescription filled.
It was refused. "I'll send an officer in the
morning," was the only reply.
When the officer came it was too late. The
child was dead.
An old blacksmith living in a piggery which
marked the ruins of his splendid old farm was
made happy by an iron bellows which helps
him to restore all the wantonly destroyed agri-
cultural implements in the district. He is now
able to support his family of thirteen, all living
in the same room. We are trying to get a
small wooden house put up for them, which we
shall furnish, and perhaps be able to save the
childrens' lives.
The refugees return to their ruins, old, worn-
out with illness and suffering, dragging their
grandchildren behind them, their sons dead at
the front, their daughters in captivity.
The situation is heart-rending, but they begin
to have confidence in us, and streams of people
come all the time, often walking many miles, to
ask tor advice and help.
I wish I could take cinema pictures of it all,
of the children's classes in sewing, cooking, car-
pentry and masonry which we have established,
of the windows we have put in where there
were none, of the leaky roofs we have covered,
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of the gardens with vegetables we have started,
of the bodies we have covered with clothes, of
the daily fights in the air overhead between
German and French aviators, of the guns that
are constantly firing, and the weary troops al-
ways on the march.
Our workroom is nearly completed, we shall
be able to start an honest sewing industry here
and give them a small wage.
The dispensary and creche is almost finished —
a good deep cellar and very well built. The
soldiers who are back from the trenches for a
few days work at it constantly. Poor chaps,
they spend sixty days in the trenches and five
days of rest, and we have to use them in that
five days to build or to till the ground. But
there is no labor to be had in this country, if we
had not the irregular work of the army to help
us, we would have nothing.
In three villages where there is nothing but
ruins, we are cooperating with the Government
to put up small three-roomed houses which we
would furnish, and provide every one with
means of livelihood. And now we have three
small villages growing like mushrooms.
We are trying to get the French Government
to send us some tracteurs to till the ground and
prepare it for seeding. There are no men, so
we must organize Belgian labor if possible, and
use it in the fields. And it must be done before
September. In October we must organize more
labor to plant fruit trees.
Today has been a wonderful day. We have
opened marvellous cases containing garments of
the kind most needed at the moment — under-
wear, boots — the nice, flat-heeled, square-toed
variety, with strong leather tops — corduroy suits
for men, skirts and blouses for women. There is
an infinite number of those which will soon very
soon, disappear, but I know that they will be
replaced by others of warmer material for the
winter. And the process of unpacking, sorting
and listing goes steadily on.
Our centers in the devastated departments will
consistof a warehouse for receiving and distribut-
ing supplies; an ouvroir where our sewing-
machines will be used to great advantage, and
where the women of the district may help us
prepare mattresses and coverings; a dispensary
and small dormitory in charge of a qualified
nurse and aids; a small sterilization plant for
disinfection; rabbit hutches, chicken runs and
pasturage for cows; in other words, a small com-
munal farm, where cattle and chickens may be
kept until we have thoroughly investigated
cases in need of same.
I've been able to arrange with French Gov-
ernment for a small quantity of coal, and our
motor trucks are busy in their hours off duty
finding wood, which we ourselves saw for the
winter. We are trying to get a three horse-
power saw to cut wood for our villages, against
the winter cold.
It is so vital in France to bring the refugee
back to the soil, to provide him with seed and
instruments, food and clothing, a few cooking
utensils, a bed, a table and a stove.
The undergraduates have taken the
following steps: In place of the Red
Cross and Belgian Relief Committees
a single War Relief Committee has
been formed consisting of two mem-
bers from each class in College and
a graduate representative. This Com-
mittee has already raised $1896 from
canvassing and from the proceeds of a
lecture by Mr. Frederick C. Walcott of
the Food Administration. It is pro-
posed to raise more by lectures and en-
tertainments throughout the year. May
Day, which at first seemed the best way
of raising money for War Relief, was
given up by a vote of the Undergraduate
Association, as involving too great finan-
cial risks under the existing conditions.
We very much hope that the alumnae
will favor undertaking war work on
such a scale this year and that they will
wish to make it possible for Bryn Mawr
to send to France a reconstruction unit.
E. Houghton, '18
Chairman of the War Relief Committee.
The project of a Bryn Mawr recon-
struction unit in France seems to me to
be a splendid one. The reconstruction
work is already organized along such
lines as to give the best possible oppor-
tunity for such a unit. There would be
an opening for workers of varied train-
ing and a very considerable number of
the Bryn Mawr alumnae could give
active as well as financial support. The
task to be accomplished is one which
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cannot fail to make a strong appeal to
every graduate and undergraduate of
Bryn Mawr.
Helen Taft, '15.
WAR WORK FOR COLLEGE
WOMEN
The Committee appointed last May by the
Boston Branch of the Association of Collegiate
Alumnae to organize homes or club-houses near
the camp-sites is able to report on two specific
projects which, at the time of writing, it is
hoped will soon be actively under way. The
possibilities of the various training-camps and
militia and naval centres in New England were
investigated and Ayer was found to present the
greatest need from the point of view of numbers.
It is, however, a small town and surrounded by
even smaller rural communities with very few
houses to be rented or bought. The government
required almost everything available for its
own use and the remaining opportunities were
limited and vied for by a number of organiza-
tions like ourselves anxious to be of use. Our
Committee, after much patient search and many
discouragements and disappointments found it-
self reduced to the proposition of buying land
and building. For this we had no funds and
the project had to be reluctantly abandoned.
Now opportunity has knocked at our door.
There is to be erected in the town of Ayer, ad-
joining the camp-site, a large club-house for
drafted men — not officers as provision has al-
ready been made for them. The local com-
mittee of the War Department Commission on
Training Camp Activities is putting up this
building and planning to provide in it many
opportunities for recreation for the men and
also a place for them to meet their families.
The second floor is to be given to some women's
organization to "matronize" the social activi-
ties of the club-house. The organization of
women which undertakes this work is to pay
no rent but to contribute towards the heating
and lighting, to be responsible for keeping
clean the second floor and to board all its helpers
of whatever kind. A caterer has taken charge
of the food arrangements so that men's nor
women's committees actively interested in the
house will have any care of that department.
This work has been offered to our organ-
ization of women by the Rev. Endicott Pea-
body, chairman of the local committee and our
Committee has accepted the offer. The task
demands both service and money, but month-
ly payments rather than a lump sum. The
men's committee wishes the constant pres-
ence of cultured women as chaperones. Col-
lege women will be glad, we think, to live in the
club-house for three or four days or a week or two
at a time, paying for their meals at the restaur-
ant in the same building and furnishing the
home-atmosphere of the club-house with its op-
portunities for dances, plays and all wholesome
amusements. Our organization will be repre-
sented on the men's committee governing the
whole club-house and the amount of our finan-
cial help will be left to the discretion of our
Committee.
The second venture to be inaugurated is in
the nature of a small home or club-house at
Provincetown. There are a number of coast
patrol-boats and other naval craft either sta-
tioned in the harbor or using it as "home port"
and the town, in winter, is bleak and isolated.
Sailors are on shore several hours of each day
and have not a place of amusement or any
building into which they can go except a dismal
town-hall or the hotel where they must pay.
They roam the streets forlornly or stand about
the drug-store. The crews of the patrol-boats
consist mainly of college men who must feel
keenly the lack of comfortable and pleasant
surroundings and would appreciate even more
than the average man a home-like spot to go to.
This Committee has rented the house of a sum-
mer resident and proposes to establish in it a
college woman as matron with volunteer as-
sistants who will come and go, each staying as
long as she can conveniently to herself. The
house is fully furnished except for silver and
linen, it is steam-heated and electric-lighted and
there is a large studio with open fire-place
which will make an admirable sitting-room for
the men. The rent is moderate through the
patriotism of the owners. We wish to add a
piano, victrola, billiard table, card-tables, books,
games, writing-materials etc. for the comfort
and entertainment of the sailors and we need
bedding, and table linen and inexpensive silver-
ware. These articles we hope to have contrib-
uted out-right, either new or second-hand.
Money must be collected to defray the ex-
penses of rent, fuel, light, service, food — and we
all know what these items mean today! But
Provincetown seems to offer a splendid oppor-
tunity and one from which we Ought to get big
returns for money expended. Here and at
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Ayer — and elsewhere later — we can spend all
we receive so let no one be afraid that her con-
tribution, large or small, will not be acceptable.
Money may be pledged to be paid later if pre-
ferred and gifts of the articles enumerated above
are also desired. Then too we wish offers of serv-
ice from college women who would be willing to
go and live for longer or shorter periods of time
at these houses. Any communications may be
addressed to the Bryn Mawr member of the
Committee, Mrs. Talbot Aldrich, 34 Fairfield
Street, Boston, Mass.
[signed]
Eleanor L. Aldrich, '05.
REPORT TO WOMEN'S WAR
RELIEF CORPS, PARIS, OF
THE LAYETTE WORK OF
MRS. HERBERT ADAMS
GIBBONS
Mrs. W. G. Sharp, Chairman,
5, rue Franqais Ier,
Paris.
My Dear Mrs. Sharp:
Conforming to your request of September 1,
I beg to report as follows:
In September, 1914, I started, wholly by
myself, to provide layettes for the children of
men at the Front in my own quarter, the XIV
and the XIII and the VI and the V and the XV
Arrondissements of Paris. I secured some lay-
ettes from friends in America, and with money
sent by other friends, purchased layettes or
had them made. All cases were registered
from the beginning, but, during the first year,
little personal investigation was made before-
hand, although the cases were followed up after
the layette was given. After my fourth baby
was born in November, 1915, I took into the
layette work as associate, Madame Faucon-
Johnson, of 22, rue des Ecoles. After Madame
Johnson joined me, we were able to inscribe
cases long before the birth of the baby, and to
make, personally and with the valuable aid of
other charitable organizations and the cooper-
ation of the police, satisfactory investigation.
The layette work has been carried on during
these three years from my studio at 3, rue Cam-
pagne-Premiere, and is known to the police as
the Oeuvre "Sauvons Les Bebes!" For the
past six months, as the work outgrew my own
studio, I have hired an extra studio in the same
court. There the layettes are received, and
stored. They are distributed partly from my
studio and partly from the home of Madame
Faucon-Johnson, 22, rue des ficoles.
During the first year of the War, when there
were in my quarter many women, especially
foreign students, without resources I had, in
a room on the seventh floor of the apartment
building in which I live, 120, Boulevard du
Montparnasse, an ouvroir, known as the "Bryn
Mawr Ouvroir," and my work is registered un-
der this name at the Clearing House. I had
associated with me in the ouvroir two other
Bryn Mawr girls living in Paris, Misses Anna
and Carlotta Welles, 92, Avenue Henri-Martin.
The ouvroir did a great deal of sewing for the
baby work. In the autumn of 1915, when the
particular need of the ouvroir ceased to exist,
it was given up. But I have always followed
the policy of making my money serve a double
purpose by providing sewing work in making the
layettes for women in need, in many cases
mothers of babies, so they could nurse their
own babies. This sewing was mostly done at
home, but the cutting I did almost entirely my-
self in my studio. Women came for work just
as they did for layettes. This policy has been
continued up to the present writing.
My sources of gifts in layettes have been:
Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, and the Princeton
Red Cross Society, for most of the boxes. Boxes
have also come from Red Cross organizations,
and woman's church and community clubs in
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia (German town), East
Orange, N. J., Cornwall, N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and other places. Practically all of these
boxes have reached me through the service of
the American Relief Clearing House. I have
received also from the Clearing House, flannel,
shoes, miscellaneous garments, layettes and ma-
ternity kits, and several gifts of money for spe-
cific purposes. Other gifts in kind have reached
me from local Paris sources, Mrs. Laurence V.
Benet, Consul-General A. M. Thackara, Mrs.
Carroll Greenough, Mrs. Frank H. Mason, and
others. Mr. Rodman Wanamaker has sent, on
several occasions, thousands of yards of good
flannel.
Almost all the money I have received, about
35,000 francs, has come from members of my
family (my mother in particular), classmates
and others at Bryn Mawr College, and other
personal friends, and also churches with which
my husband or I have had connection.
My wo*k also included making up layettes
for individual cases, where the money has been
given and the layettes taken for distribution by
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the donor. The largest order of this kind was
one of 3,000 francs from the wife of the Ameri-
can Ambassador in Paris, which provided one
hundred complete layettes and a number of
flannel garments (the flannel provided from my
own stock).
In some cases, I have used my money to buy
garments for other children, in families where I
have a layette case, for providing milk and
bread during limited periods, and sending
mothers and children to the country. Although
I have made no pretention to vestiaire work,
thousands of older children have been provided
with shoes, coats, and other garments. In the
first winter of the War, I made a special trip to
Finistere to distribute clothing sent to me by
Princeton College boys and town folk.
The work has taken too much time to allow
the keeping of the detailed financial statements
or of detailed statistics. But I have registered
on cards, the names and other necessary infor-
mation of over three thousand families with
which I have been in contact.
The salient features of my work are:
(a) Seeking out cases of families that would
die rather than ask for relief;
(b) Relieving people by taking into account
their desires and not what I think they ought
to desire;
(c) Personal contact of either Madame John-
son or myself in every single case, and effort to
follow up cases afterward;
(d) Special stress on pre-natal encourage-
ment by relieving mothers in advance of haunt-
ing anxiety about having clothes for their baby
when it arrived, and reassuring pregnant women
that their suffering would not injure or influ-
ence unduly the child when born;
(e) Sympathy for fille-meres, many of whom
have been presented by their mothers, and at-
tempts, frequently successful, to bring about
marriage or at least recognition of the child by
the father.
At the present moment, I have over a thou-
sand cases ahead for this winter, for which
there is no provision, and no promise of aid to
come. For, since the American Red Cross So-
ciety made its campaign in America for funds,
my contributions have fallen off. Two of my
boxes, shipped recently from Princeton, were
lost on the Kansan.
I am not only willing, but would be glad, to
have this work taken over and developed
through your central agency, but would point
out the wisdom of having it remain in the
neighborhood of the Boulevard du Montpar-
nasse, where it is near the great maternity hos-
pitals, whose patients have learned the way to
my door. It would be splendid if Madame
Faucon- Johnson could be persuaded by you to
continue in this work. I think that no better
real aid could be given to France than to en-
courage natality, and to aid in the care of the
new-born children, who are the hope of the
future.
Respectfully submitted,
Helen Davenport Gibbons.
Paris, September 7, 1917.
NOTES FROM WAR WORKERS
ABROAD
Shirley Putnam is working in Paris under
Miss Gassette, sculptor and painter before the
war, who is now using her knowledge of anat-
omy and her genuine creative ingenuity in in-
venting and improving on splints and apparatus
used in hospitals.
"The French Government order for 2200
femur suspensions, etc., keeps us all busy doing
our turn at the various parts. Then besides
hospital cases there are the 'ambulatory' ones.
That's where the human interest comes in.
Poor old (usually about 25 or so — they are!)
poilus, with a limp arm or cramped fingers or
three vertebrae fractured! You see the hospi-
tals don't have time or patience to work out
individual and prolonged treatments for these
bad fractures. Miss Gassette works in consul-
tation with the doctors and the French ones,
at least, who've had the longest time to watch
her, are all for her. As for the men, they adore
her. One poor fellow, who is all bent double
from having been crushed under the earth
three days, was sent from the hospital as hope-
less and who is now gradually being straight-
ened up, said, the other day: 'Vous savez, pour
moi, Miss Gassette, c'est un dieu!'"
IDA PRITCHETT'S WORK ON
ANTITOXINS
In response to a request from the Quarterly,
Ida Pritchett, '14, has kindly written the fol-
lowing note concerning her work at the Rocke-
feller Institute:
"Short of a detailed account there is not
much to tell about our work at the Institute be-
yond the fact that we have been able to produce
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an antitoxin which is effective against gaseous
gangrene. Gas infection is relatively rare in
civil practice, but in this war the percentage of
wounds showing gaseous gangrene is large, and
there has been great need for some treatment
more specific than mere wound irrigation. We
believe that our antitoxin will go far toward
filling this need. It possesses both preventive
and curative properties, and we hope to be able
to raise it to such potency that it can be given
to every wounded man at the first dressing sta-
tion, as is done now with tetanus antitoxin. In
this way we hope to be able to prevent the de-
velopment of gaseous gangrene in almost all
cases, and to control and cure such cases as
have already developed. Our opportunities for
trying the antitoxin in cases of gas infection in
human beings have so far been very few, but
the results obtained have given us every hope
that we shall meet with equal success in the
treatment of war wounds. It has been an ab-
sorbing piece of work and I feel that I have been
very fortunate to have had even a small share
in it."
A REQUEST
The Quarterly has been requested,
by some of the alumnae who are doing
relief work in France, to give a list of
names and addresses of all the Bryn
Mawr alumnae and former students
now doing war relief work abroad. The
Quarterly, therefore, in turn requests
all its readers who have knowledge of
such workers to send their names, with
addresses if possible, to the Editor. We
should also be glad to print letters from,
or information about, any alumnae en-
gaged in war relief work here or abroad.
NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEMESTER I, ACADEMIC YEAR
1917-18
October 3
October 4
October 6
October 7
October 10
October 12
October 13
College opened at 8.45 a.m.
Parade Night.
Christian Association Reception
to freshmen, Gymnasium, 8 p.m.
Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Professor George A. Bar-
ton, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of
Semitic Languages and Biblical
Literature.
President Thomas's reception and
address to the entering under-
graduates at the Deanery at 3
p.m.
President Thomas's reception
and address to the graduate
students at the Deanery at 8
p.m.
President Thomas's Reception to
the Faculty. The Deanery,
8.30 to 11.30 p.m.
Th6 dansant in the Gymnasium,
4 to 6 p.m. for the benefit of
the Red Cross. Address by
Mr. Frederick A. Walcott of
the United States Food Ad-
ministration under the aus-
October 14
October 20
October 21
October 26
October 27
October 28
November 2
November 3
November 4
pices of the War Relief Com-
mittee: The Prussian System
and the Food Administration.
Sunday Evening service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Jonathan C.
Day, D.D., Pastor of the La-
bour Temple, New York City.
French senior reading examina-
tion, 9 a.m.
Banner Show.
Sunday evening service.
Faculty reception for the gradu-
ate students in Denbigh Hall,
8.30 p.m.
German senior reading examina-
tion, 9 a.m.
Moving pictures under the aus-
pices of the War Relief Com-
mittee.
Sunday evening service.
Lantern Night.
Party by the Philanthropic Com-
mittee in the Gymnasium, 8
p.m.
Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Albert Par-
ker Fitch, D.D., President
of Andover Theological Semi-
nary.
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[November
November 9 Concert under the auspiesskfcfca
the Music Committee.: . '[ vwv
November 10 Senior Reception to the Ffe^int
man Class.
November 11 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. S. C^Hugke-
son, of the Order of the Holy
Cross, West Park, N. Y.
November 12 Faculty tea for graduate 3 stu- 1
dents, Merion Hall, 4 to ,6^^, .
November 16 Meeting of the War Relief Com-
mittee. Address by Miss Anne
r
Morgan.
November 18 Sunday evening service! ' ' iSer*'
mon by Dr. Wilfred T. GrerirR
fell, Superintendent of the.;
Labrador Branch- of the.JtyU^--.
sion for Deep Sea Fishermen..
November 19 Thanksgiving collegiate and ma-
triculation condition exaniina-1
tions begin. ;'" bagJSg
November 23 Meeting of the Science Club.
November 24 Moving pictures under the aus-
pices of the War/ReT|ef ffMT
mittee.
November 25 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Rev. William Pierson
Merrill, Pastor of the Brick
Presbyterian Churcjh, ,r]N$fi
York City.
November 27 Collegiate and matriculation con-
dition examinations end.
November 28 Thanksgiving vacation<begin£ .$%
1 p.m.
December 3 Thanksgiving vacation ends at
9 a.m. • , . u !o0
December 7 Concert under the auspices p£ th^
Music Committee. Recital by
Miss Kitty Cheatham.
December 8 Senior reading examination . i^
French.
December 9 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Professor Rufus M.
Jones, Professor of Philosophy
in Haverford College. t0,
December 11 Faculty tea for graduate stu-
dents, Radnor Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.
December 14 Christmas party for the maids,
the Gymnasium, 9 p.m.
December 15 Senior reading examination in
German.
Address by Ian Hay (Captain
Beith), under the auspices of
the War Relief Committee.
Qec^ai>er^0 Sunday evening service. Ser-
ai sun yi ; i ' rnon by the Rt. Rev. Charles
lo sj'.cKi: - | Palmerston Anderson, D.D.,
bn& ,331 bI ; ; > Bishop of Chicago.
Deoerdfoeinl9, Christmas vacation begins at 1
sW .noi j; : p.m.
Jariuary iitf 3 Christmas vacation ends at 9
ovhnjyorq H a.m.
aids sd 0} j
CAMPUS NOTES
-£)z "gala?, .p;. h ;
ctEveBJK<S all when we come back we scan the
campus anxiously and see with relief that it
Has riotn changed. Whatever may have hap-
pened-during the summer, however — perhaps
errofiebusly-^we may feel ourselves to have al-
fflk&Sp the1 campus shows the same walls and ivy,
the 'same: srradows across the grass. It gives us
thfp^ante impersonal welcome. The events of
eaclh first week repeat^in small it seems — the
opting ngitfehts of one's own first year in Col-
lege:— the first chapel and President Thomas's
opening address to the freshman; the reception
atj^^^^iely-rth^alt^jioon of the reception
was rainy this year and one wondered whether
the fresrfifieki'tould'jgo 6utUo s0e the gar*
denJ:IA3Ms£i&Mv Aksbtiation? reception with its
receiving circle, btfirigSlfd mind the awful
dignity of the circle in one's freshmen year.
The d&dion" of the freshmen president, Marynia
Foot, which took place in' Miss Dimon's office,
wafe'sfeflsa'tidhal,' though perhaps less picturesque
tRafi ^hg^rifc'whe'ri th£' "president was elected
wftile living rouriid arid round' the campus in a
F^.-A^n ''•'-■ " '"'> <! '■•■ '■
^Affiaz^rigly s6on, chiefly by 'Way of the flying
rfi5ri6^&'-byr%Mcrh';iiews; travels here, we have
learned the main features of the' coming winter:
tnW tne$e3wiirbe f6urj senior1 examinations in
Fr^iicTi-^fia iour in dermal; 'that these "erst-
wrMe orals"7* are to be written 'in ordinary quiz
books, in class rooms, and that nobody is to wear
^plaM gowns; that academic work may be
rri6difie$ to1 perrhit the1 givirig of war courses;
that for 'the' first ? time in' several years, a course
in versification will be giveti; 'that five French
gradates h^ave-%f rived' he^e^tiiat we are to
''HeTp^'-^ooveV-" by'dne meatless day a week,
but that the' Biyn MaWr- Farm has furnished
th£' 'wherewithal' Of our' winter ;fare with eight
thousand cans of ' preferred vegetables and fruit;
that the freshman class numbers one hundred
arid thirty-nine students, -of- whom three are
"(College granddaughters';'"' tlriat a Red Cross
workshop will be kept operi by the undergradu-
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ates every evening; that College plays, such as
Freshman Show and Banner Show, will be
given as simply as possible and without a stage;
that the new hall, variously nick-named Sassa-
fras and "Vauxhall" is beginning to be called
by its own name of "Lysyfran" or "crows'
nest."
It is perhaps characteristic of college life that
we should be swamped b}' our interests, that
in the pressing concern with what is trivial, we
should lose sight of, or pass over too lightly,
what is important. One might say that this is
why the incidents of Parade Night, copied in
the St. Louis papers, made so little stir here.
The happy audacity of the freshmen, in writing
their song at 5.30 a.m. on senior steps, was a
matter of amused comment. The meeting of
thirty juniors and sophomores in the village was
a matter of regret. The affair must necessarily
have seemed less to us than to outsiders. Con-
cerning Parade Night, we are so thoroughly im-
bued with the "do or die" spirit, that we see
the end too large and the means too small.
The Undergraduate Association has made new
and more stringent rules for Parade Night, with
the understanding that if the custom is to con-
tinue, the example this year is to be viewed as
a warning and an example to be shunned.
Even thus early in the year we have been con-
fronted with a decision to be made. To decide is
easy. The proof of the decision rests, however,
in the carrying out. Among the questions that
this year brings again what has been for years
unquestioned, is that of May Day. Whether,
in inevitable ignorance of affairs eight months
from now, to resolve to give May Day; or
whether, in deference to changed and changing
conditions — and with regard to financial risk —
to let a time-honored custom lapse; this was
necessarily a matter of debate. To decide
against May Day has yet to be proved the part
of wisdom. It was at all events, the part of
prudence; and in its favor we may urge that May
Day has merely been deferred. Though one
class is to go through College without giving
Robin Hood and the Revesby Swordesplay, or The
Hue and Cry after Cupid in the cloisters or danc-
ing on the green, — yet there will be other classes,
and other May Days.
Mary Swift Rupert, 1918.
THE FACULTY
President Thomas has returned from China.
Miss King has returned from Spain.
Dr. James Barnes was married on July 28 to
Miss Helen Wilson of Merion.
Dr. Rhys Carpenter has been granted leave
of absence to serve in the National Army.
Dr. Savage is a first lieutenant and is now at
Fort Niagara.
Dr. Barton, Dr. Wheeler, and Dr. Huff farmed
a section of the campus last summer.
Dr. Crenshaw, who was drafted, is now first
lieutenant and is working in the Sanitary Corps
to perfect gas masks.
Dr. Florence Peebles has been made associate
professor of physiology at Bryn Mawr.
Dr. Joseph Clark Hoppin is to take Dr. Car-
penter's work in classical archaeology this year.
Dr. Barton has been chosen associate editor
of the American Journal of Semitic Languages
and Literature.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Miss Grace Hawk, a graduate student, is the
holder of a fellowship given annually at Brown
University in honor of Anne Crosby Emery,
Bryn Mawr '92, to be used for graduate work
in any college.
Miss Louise Adams, who won a special Eu-
ropean traveling scholarship while a graduate
student here two years ago, has returned to
Bryn Mawr after spending the past year in
Rome with Dr. and Mrs. Frank.
Miss Agnes Carr Vaughan, graduate student at
Bryn Mawr two years ago, took her Ph.D. last
year at the University of Michigan and has re-
turned to Bryn Mawr for further work.
The College News.
CHANGES IN THE FACULTY AND STAFF
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Professor Joseph Clark Hoppin has been ap-
pointed Professor of Classical Archaeology to
fill the vacancy caused by the drafting of Pro-
fessor Rhys Carpenter. Professor Hoppin, who
was Associate in Classical Archaeology at Bryn
Mawr College from 1899 to 1901, and Associate
Professor from 1901 to 1904, has very kindly
consented to give all the courses in Classical
Archaeology announced this year by Professor
Carpenter. After leaving Bryn Mawr he held
a professorship in the American School at
Athens, and has directed excavations in Greece.
His book OTii&reek Vases will shortly appear.
Dr. Florence Peebles, Ph.D. of Bryn Mawr
College, has been appointed Associate Professor
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of Physiology. Dr. Peebles took her degree at
Bryn Mawr College in 1900, having been a Grad-
uate Scholar in Biology at Bryn Mawr College,
1895-1896; Fellow in Biology, 1896-1897; Mary
E. Garrett European Fellow, Scholar of the
Woman's Table, and Student in Biology, Zoo-
logical Station, Naples, Universities of Mu-
nich and Halle, 1898-1899. She was Instructor
in Biology in the Woman's College of Baltimore
from 1899 to 1902, and Associate Professor of
Biology from 1902 to 1906. She studied in the
University of Bonn in,the summer of 1906, in
the Zoological Station at Naples in 1907, and as
Fellow of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
did research work in Germany and France in
1912-1913. From October to December, 1913
she was Lecturer in Biology in Bryn Mawr Col-
lege as substitute for Professor Tennent, and
was Professor of Biology and Head of the De-
partment in the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial
College, Tulane University, 1915-1917.
Miss Esther Cloudman Dunn, Instructor in
English at Bryn Mawr College from 1913 to
1917, who had resigned to accept a Fellowship
in English for this year, has been appointed
Instructor in English and Acting Director of the
work in English Composition in place of Profes-
sor Howard James Savage, who has been granted
leave of absence for war service.
Dr. Gerard van Rossen has been appointed
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry to fill the va-
cancy caused by the drafting of Dr. James
Llewellyn Crenshaw. Dr. van Rossen, who is
a native of Heerenberg, The Netherlands, re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
the University of Gottingen in 1910, and studied
at the University of Berlin 1913-1914. He was
Instructor in Chemistry in the University of
Colorado from 1910 to 1912, and Instructor in
Physical Chemistry in the University of Illinois,
1915-1917.
Miss Clara E. Mortenson has been appointed
Instructor in Labor, Economics and Politics.
She received the degree of Batchelor of Science
from the University of California in 1915, and
the degree of Master of Science in 1916. She
was Assistant Investigator of the Industrial
Relations Commission, 1914-1915, and Assis-
tant in Economics in the University of California
from 1915 to 1917.
In consequence of the increased number of
students it was necessary to appoint two in-
structors in English Composition for the first
semester:
Miss Susan Farley Nichols, A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1915, and Graduate Student Columbia
University, 1916-1917, has been appointed full
time Instructor; and Miss Cornelia Throop Geer,
A.B., Barnard College, 1917, has been appointed
half time Instructor in English.
Miss Letitia Butler Windle, A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1907, teacher of Mathematics in the
Wykeham Rise School, Washington, Connecti-
cut, 1907-1908; in the Stevens School, German-
town, 1909-1915, and in the Gordon-Roney
School, Philadelphia, 1915-1916, has been ap-
pointed Warden of Radnor Hall.
Miss Bertha Sophie Ehlershas been appointed
Warden of Denbigh Hall instead of Radnor
Hall, filling the vacancy created by the resigna-
tion of Miss Margaret Bontecou.
Miss May Morris, Ph.B., Dickinson College,
1909, and graduate Pratt Institute of Library
Science, 1917, has been appointed Assistant to
the Circulation and Reference Librarian.
Dr. M. Leola Carrico has been appointed As-
sistant Physician in Residence.
ADDRESSES UNKNOWN*
ALUMNAE
Brand, Helen Page (Mrs. Raymond I. Hall),
1903
Hann, Anna Thompson, 1907
Hecht, Blanche, 1907
Montgomery, Hazel Margaret, 1912
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS
AshbuWr, Elizabeth Atkins, 1904-06, 1908-09
Bash, Amy Ballance (Mrs. C. E. A. Dowler),
1898-99
Beyfuss, Margarete Friede Bertha, 1913-14
Downing, Maud, 1903-08
Goddard, Grace (Mrs. Corydon M. Rich), 1891-
92
Hattersley, Mabel, 1910-11
Hunnicutt, Gertrude Oren, 1895, 1895-96
King, Maude Gladys, 1908-09
Lark, Mabel Loyetta (Mrs. William George
Gies), 1897-99
Lucas, Ethel (Mrs. Eugene Stanton Nostrand),
1904-05
Rendel, Frances Elinor, 1908-09
Schmidt, Annalise, 1909-10
Steenberg, Bessie (Mrs. John E. Webster)
1895-96
* Information as to unknown or incorrect addresses will
be gratefully received by the Editor, Office of the Re-
cording Dean, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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127
FORMER UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Andrews, Eleanor Anne Fyfe, 1889-90, 1895-96
Barritt, Jessie Ellen, 1888-93
Battersby, Emma Josephine, 1886-89, 1899-
1900
Briggs, Nellie, 1890-91
Butler, Florence Harney, 1893-94
Emory, Lucretia Van Bibber, (Mrs. Frederick
Sampson), 1896-97
Goldsmith, Sara, 1906-07
Hulbert, Nellie May (Mrs. George C. Jameson),
1890-91
Iringer, Ida Laurette, 1902-04
Jones, Grace Llewellyn, 1891-93, 1894-95
Kimball, Mary Hortense, 1899
Lynch, Nora, 1903-07
Mabury, Bella, 1890-91
Mayhew, Viola Adeline, 1900-01
Moore, Ethel Belle, (Mrs. Frederick Hovey
Wheeler), 1903, 1904-05
Orvis, Gertrude Swift, 1895-96
Sollenberger, Maud, 1899-01
Upperman, Evelyn Beatrice (Mrs. Ralph E. T.
Binz), 1900-01
Willett, Josephine Lape (Mrs. Julian Badiate-
Zonca), 1893-94
Wolcott, Laura, 1894, 1894-95
ADDITIONAL ADDRESSES UNKNOWN, NOVEMBER,
1917
Mrs. Alexander Anderson (Elizabeth Carring-
ton Rand) 1912-14
Mrs. Lewis Albert Anderson (Margerethe Ur-
dahl) Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1904
Mrs. Bob Andrews (Emily Martha Hoyt) 1904-
06, 1907-08
Barnes, Aida Cromwell, 1909-11
Mrs. Braunschweiger (Sylva Lucile Reiss) 1914-
15
Briggs, Helen Gerry, 1899-1901
Cornell, Esther Stuart, A.B., Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1912
Elfreth, Anna Elizabeth, 1903-04
Gates, Fanny Cook, Fellow in Mathematics,
1896-97 Graduate Scholar in Mathematics,
1895-96
Grossman, Bella Mira, A.B., Bryn Mawr, Col-
lege, 1896. Graduate Student, 1896
Miller, Barnette, 1900-01, Hearer in English
and French
Mrs. Wilson Howard Pierce (Antoinette Louise
Bancroft) 1888-89
Ranney, Carrie Louise, Graduate Student in
English and German, 1904-05
Mrs. Aa. Levering Smith (Ethel McClellan
Bacon) A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1903
Mrs. Edward Warren Sturdevant (Louise Net-
terville Cruice) A.B., 1906, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege
Mrs. Asa M. Tyler, (Laura E. Wilkinson) A.B.,
Bryn Mawr College, 1898
VanDeman, Esther Boise, Fellow in Latin,
Bryn Mawr College, 1892
Wade, Clara Louise Whipple, A.B., Bryn
Mawr College, 1904
THE BRYN MAWR PATRIOTIC FARM
A project so much photographed in
the Sunday supplements needs no in-
troduction to the Quarterly readers,
and yet perhaps a few facts and first
hand anecdotes will not come amiss.
Shortly after Easter the idea of a college
farm was first aired on the campus and
through the generosity of Mr. P. E.
Sharpies of West Chester, Pa., it became
a reality by the first part of May. The
story goes that Mr. Sharpies thought that
farming was something that women could
not do and threw down the gauntlet in
the shape of twenty acres of good land
on an outlying part of his large estate
at Fern Hill, two miles from West Ches-
ter. Mrs. Sharpies accepted the chal-
lenge and through the interest and
efforts of Dr. Jane Baker and Miss
Martha Thomas the College was given
an opportunity to prove what it could
do in this field so foreign to its usual
activities.
What did it accomplish? Has the
experiment paid? These are the ques-
tions we meet on every side. As a be-
ginning groups of undergraduates and
alumnae spent the last three Saturdays
of May planting and preparing the
ground. This was done under the di-
rection of Professor A. D. Cromwell of
the State Normal School at West Ches-
ter, who continued to act as superintend-
ent throughout the summer. The dis-
tribution of crops was as follows: five
acres of potatoes! seven acres of sweet
corn, five acres of beans, and three acres
of general garden truck.
A house was rented in West Chester
and was occupied from June 1 to October
1 by groups of undergraduates, alumnae,
and a few outside friends. The number
of workers varied from ten to twenty-
six at a time, averaging eighteen or
twenty most oi the time. In all about
eighty individuals took part in the work,
with three of the wardens, Mary Near-
ing, '09, Bertha Ehlers, '09, and Alice
Hawkins, '07, acting as managers.
The living arrangements were simple
in the extreme, and the meals, which
were eaten at a nearby boarding-house,
neither abundant nor appetizing. Each
worker had to pay $7.50 a week for board
and lodging, and to earn this amount
she had to work thirty-seven and a half
hours a week at twenty cents an hour.
Saturday night was pay day and it was
highly diverting to see the line of girls
with their business-like time cards wait-
ing their turn in the manager's room.
Rainy weather meant a dead loss, as in-
come and expenses would not meet, but
some weeks workers actually had net
earnings as much as two dollars. Riches
indeed with few chances of dissipation
beyond movies, a soda water palace, and
an ice cream cone shop boasting more
different flavors than could be sampled
in less than a fortnight's stay unless one
was extravagant enough to eat more
than one an evening.
The day began at 6 a.m. Dressing
was a simple matter — the fewer and
briefer the garments the better for all
purposes and comforts. After a hasty
breakfast the tooting of a horn was a sig-
nal that the truck was ready to start.
The college motor truck — a Ford en-
gine with an omnibus top — played a
leading role in the farm drama. At the
beginning of the summer its name was
Pallas Athena, then reminiscences from
oral reading suggested Schwarze Zuge in
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"Frau Sorge;" by October, familiarity
had bred contempt and Tilly Superford
became the regular title. In spite of
the vituperation heaped upon it when it
simply would not crank, and had to
be pushed half a block to make it start,
or when its brakes refused to work and
it started gently down hill backward,
the truck endeared itself somehow to
its hangers-on and it is impossible to
say how much it added to the summer.
Work began about seven and lasted
until twelve. Then the truck took
every one in to luncheon in West Chester,
returning an hour later. By five work
was over for the day, and again the
truck was useful in taking the hot tired
laborers to the really beautiful little
lake on Mr. Sharples's estate, where a
swim made every one over. Even after
eight hours work with the thermometer
100° in the shade — and there was no
shade — diving contests and games of
"Follow the Leader" were in order.
The spirit of The Man with the Hoe
never showed its dark countenance
among us. Instead it was an inspira-
tion to see such an exhibition of inde-
fatigable youth. Here is a reserve re-
source for our country, tried and proved.
During those eight hours a day every
kind of agricultural labor was practiced
at one time or another. We did have the
services of one man and a horse plough
several hours a day, but there were few
girls who did not try their hand at guid-
ing that plough, and no one found it an
impossible or even an exhausting task.
Our rows of beans were one-third of a
mile long and it took 5 hours to hoe
down one row and back another. Many
a morning was spent at that — steady
unrelieved toil. Pushing a hand culti-
vator is also hard work but a lot of it
was done. Scattering fertilizer, trans-
planting in all its guises, weeding, —
these were gentle occupations for
the afternoon. Many unforeseen jobs
cropped up. The most formidable of
these was building the cannery. This
the girls actually did themselves, laying
a cement floor in neat squares, making
cement steps and ovens, building the
roof and adjustable sides of lumber,
with the direction and assistance, of
course, of Mr. Cromwell and the one
man. It was a very creditable piece of
work and was much admired by the
many visitors.
About the end of July work in the
field gave place to work in the can-
nery. Peas, beets, beans, chard, corn,
and peaches were all canned in large
quantities both in glass and in tin. One
day sixteen persons picked, prepared,
and canned 3000 ears of corn and 9
bushels of beans. It was interesting to
see people work out systems of efficiency
and little labor-saving devices. Rival
methods of snipping beans or cutting
corn off the cob gave zest to what might
have been monotonous work. Standing
three or four hours at a stretch, packing
or soldering, is no joyful task.
Too high praise cannot be given to the
spirit shown by the workers. With the
possible exception of one small group
which did not stay long, there was
absolutely no shirking and no complain-
ing, no unpleasant comparing of the
relative advantages of different tasks
assigned. The many disagreeable draw-
backs were met invariably with humor-
ous jests. They were "the right stuff."
An octogenarian in the neighborhood
who had been very much opposed to
the project — "He didn't want no gold-
braceleted, diamond-ringed girls fooling
around a farm" — capitulated after
about six weeks. He bragged all over
the country about the Bryn Mawr girls'
weedless garden. "They work harder
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than boys and they don't care how they
look, "was one day's comment, "and the
best of it is that every one's a perfect
lady."
Now what did all this accomplish?
Not so much in actual bushels, perhaps,
as we had hoped. Throughout the sum-
mer, Low Buildings, the College Inn,
and some West Chester tradespeople
were constant customers, and for the
past month the college halls have ob-
tained a large part of their fresh vege-
tables straight from the farm. Nearly
400 bushels of potatoes, a large quantity
of other root vegetables, and about 9000
quarts of canned goods are now stored
for the winter's use. Not enough for the
whole year as had been hoped, but every-
thing there is adds so much more to the
country's resources, releases so much
more to the general market and to our
soldiers at the front. It has been
therefore a genuinely successful patriotic
adventure.
Has it paid? In actual dollars and
cents, no! The scheme was financed
by about ten generous friends of the Col-
lege who lent $5000. How nearly this
can be repaid cannot be estimated until
the price to be paid by the College for
the farm products has been settled, as
all the crops are not in yet. The cost of
initial equipment must be remembered
and, of course, the unskilled labor. But
all educational adventures are expen-
sive and must be paid for by liberal-
minded people. One never really pays
the full amount for a year's tuition or
an opera ticket that they actually cost —
some one else foots the bill. Our def-
icit, we trust, will not be large, and eighty
girls have had a remarkable experience
and have become valuable agricultural
assets. No one who saw those girls work
at all kinds of dirty, disagreeable, dif-
ficult tasks in the heat of a Pennsyl-
vania summer can ever doubt that
women are able to do their part at home
if the men must go away. It is no
longer a theory, but a fact.
Alice Martin Hawkins.
A SUMMER EXPERIENCE IN SOCIAL WORK
As Bryn Mawr's undergraduate rep-
resentative, I take this opportunity
to describe to the alumnae through
these columns, my scattered impres-
sions of a unique Social Service Con-
ference of the past summer. This
conference, if I may call it such, was
conducted by the Charity Organization
Society of New York City and was in
the nature of an experiment. That is,
it was carried out for the first time last
summer and its continuance depended
upon its success. Six representatives of
women's colleges and three of men's
colleges, all from the class of 1918, were
the guests of the C. O. S. for the month
of July, and during that month were
given an idea of the scope and methods
of modern social service. The women
lived at Hartley Settlement House, the
men at Union Settlement House, and
all representatives reported each week
day for "work" at nine o'clock. This
work was all done under the direction
of Mr. Karl De Schweinitz, the head
"publicity man" of the C. O. S., and
consisted in case work in the District
Offices every other day, investigation of
institutions and welfare agencies one day
a week, lectures one day and " round
table " discussions until noon on Sat-
urday the sixth day.
The idea of this conference originated
with Mr. De Schweinitz, who first
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thought of it as a sort of advertisement
for the New York School of Philanthropy,
which is run under the auspices of the
C. O. S. He, in common with others
who are interested in the advancement
and perfection of Social Work as a pro-
fession, realized the crying need for
efficient and trained workers. College
graduates form the most promising ma-
terial, so he conceived of this conference
as a means of arousing interest in social
work among the students at the various
progressive eastern colleges. Mrs. Glenn,
the chairman of the Civilian Relief Com-
mittee of the Red Cross in New York
City, and also an ardent C. O. S. sup-
porter, became enthusiastic about Mr.
De Schweinitz's scheme as a means of
helping to educate intelligent workers
for patriotic social work. She finally ob-
tained the money for the experiment
from Miss Jennings of New York and
the conference was launched on its
course.
Bulletins announcing the conference
were sent around to Wellesley, Mt. Hol-
yoke, Wells, Smith, Vassar, and Bryn
Mawr among the women's colleges, and
Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown
and Haverford among the men's (owing
to the war only Haverford and Amherst
among the latter were represented). As
far as I could learn there was keen com-
petition almost everywhere for the honor
of representing the College. Such was
not the case at Bryn Mawr. Whereas
at Vassar with about 300 members of
the junior class there were some thirty
competitors, at Wells with a round 50
there were some twelve, at Bryn Mawr
with 60 only one or two juniors were
anxious to view Social Work at close range
under such favorable auspices. If it
were not for the growing enthusiasm
for work at the Community Centre un-
der Hilda Smith, 1910, this fact would
argue certainly a deplorable lack of
interest in Social Service among the un-
dergraduates at Bryn Mawr.
The month of July, for these nine
representatives, may be described as a
year of the School of Philanthropy in a
nut shell. We had fewer lectures in pro-
portion to the work, more visiting of
institutions, more case work. The last
was the most directly practical part
of the course. We were apportioned
among the most centrally located dis-
tricts, two or three of us in each district.
Miss Butler, the Vassar representative,
and I worked in Clinton District, the
neighborhood between 48th and 60th
Streets, on the West Side, lying in what
is known as " Hell's Kitchen." At first
we were each given quite simple " cases, "
people whose records had already been
investigated. Later on we did some of
the investigating ourselves and learned
the terrors of exploring 1 1th Avenue and
the docks in search of a drunken hus-
band's employer, and also the joys of
discovering a clean and exemplary
"past" for some of the unfortunate ap-
plicants for aid who had gained our
easily aroused sympathies. We were of-
ten discouraged by the seeming hopeless-
ness of "rehabilitating" the shiftless and
spineless families of the neighborhood
who take charity as a matter of course;
but again a tearful Irish smile of grati-
tude made a hundred flights of dark
tenement house stairs seem like the road
to Heaven — a place where there would be
no necessity of augmenting hard earned
wages by charity in order to produce a
"minimum standard of living."
Because of the long walks and climbs,
and the constant giving of our energies
and sympathies, the district work was
the most ^trying as well as the most in-
teresting part of the course . We learned
to look forward to the days when we
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went in a body to visit the various in-
stitutions selected by Mr. De Schweinitz
as illustrative of cur lectures on the de-
velopment of charitable and welfare
work. We learned the intricacies of the
city transportation system, when to take
the Bronx and when the Broadway sub-
way, as well as what hospital to send
our pet tubercular "case" to, or what
reformatory to hold up as a dreadful
alternative for a mischievous gangster
for whom a district juvenile judge held
no terrors. On some of the hottest
days trips by water to Sea-Bright Hos-
pital or to Sing Sing prison were a great
relief after the torrid streets of the city.
Among other institutions visited were
Bedford Reformatory for women, and
the Jewish Orphanage. At both of these
places we were shown by the superin-
tendants the modern trend in institu-
tional work. Among the organizations
visited because of their highly developed
system of welfare work, were the Metro-
politan Life Insurance Company, the
American Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany, and Lord & Taylor's Department
Store. In each of these companies a
high official accompanied us through the
welfare department and explained the
employer's point of view in regard to the
employees' welfare. Some of us were
ardent socialists and scornfully regarded
these laudable efforts en the part of
"capital," as weak substitutes for a
"living wage."
Lectures by leading social workers
were tucked in at odd moments. For
instance one day after visiting the head
quarters of the Joint Board of Sanitary
Control in the Cloak and Suit Trades,
we lunched at a Turkish restaurant and
heard a talk between courses by Miss
Taylor of the Child Labor Law Commit-
tee, on her work. On another day we
went through the lower East Side and
Chinatown, lunched at a Chinese restaur-
ant and discussed the immigration ques-
tion. Mr. Everson of the Criminal
Courts Committee of the C. O. S. ex-
plained the part of the C. O. S. in de-
veloping the criminal court system in
New York and then took us to a session
of the Juvenile Court and later to a
criminal court hearing. Some of the
lecturers who stand out in my mind are
Miss Van Kleek of the Sage Foundation,
who spoke about Labor Unions and
Scientific Management, Mr. Kirchwey,
former warden of Sing Sing, who gave
an informal talk on prison reform, at tea
with the School of Philanthropy people,
Mr. Frank Persons, former Secretary of
the C. O. S. who inspired us with a
talk on his work with the Red Cross,
Mr. Edward T. Devine who described
a pet project, the institution of a train-
ing school for our soldiers who may be
blinded in this war.
Perhaps a word will not be amiss about
another kind of "social" life of the
month. One of the most interesting
phases of the work was "getting ac-
quainted with each other." The round
table discussions with Mr. De Schweinitz
and our District "bosses," where prob-
lems of the week's work and topics of
general interest were brought up, soon
caused lively arguments about the fun-
damental theories behind Modern Social
Work: did we believe in Socialism or In-
dividualism; what right has a social wor-
ker to "investigate" an applicant's past
life, what is the ultimate aim of charita-
ble work; how can we educate the people
to help themselves; what is the best
way to reach the child; is the Settlement
House being replaced by the playground
association, and so on ad infinitum. Some
days we would continue our discussions
in a semi-Bohemian lunch room near the
C. O. S. main office, and perhaps would
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forget our dessert in striving to settle
the problems of the world and of the
universe. Mr. De Schweinitz was from
the beginning, "one of us" giving ear to
all of our half-baked ideas, and by his
own enthusiastic contributions to the
discussion helped us to "get somewhere "
before dispersing.
A valuable part of our training was
our life in the Settlement Houses. At
Hartly House we had the advantage of
being under the direction of Miss
Matthews, We were usually too ex-
hausted after our day's activities to be
of real service to her in her settlement
work, but found great pleasure in assist-
ing the playroom worker, helping with
"bank evening," even entertaining the
neighborhood Red Cross workers with
a musical program.
At the end of the month we were all
genuinely sorry that the course was
finished. One of our number, the Am-
herst representative, stayed on as a vol-
unteer worker in his district office, and
the rest of us were keenly desirous to
take up some form of social work as a
profession. We were especially im-
pressed with the close relation between
case work and war relief work. We
saw how the C. O. S. had taken charge
and carried through the Civilian Relief
of the Red Cross after the Mexican
trouble. We saw the value of a knowl-
edge of case work to the aspirant for
service in Reconstruction work after this
war. Now, when the nation is going to
need efficient helpers in War Relief
work, a thorough training in practical
social work is a patriotic duty for those
who have the time for it. It seems that
the day when the "willing "but untrained
worker can be of service has passed.
Each guest of the C. O. S. during the
conference, returned to college, as a
senior, fired with the desire to arouse
interest in social work, to interest their
fellow students in taking a post graduate
course at the School of Philanthropy, to
urge them to train themselves to be
of service to the country as available
relief workers. Thus the purposes of
the originators of the idea of this July
course of work have already been par-
tially accomplished. Let us hope that
the experiment was a success and that
the authorities will be encouraged to
extend the same opportunity to other
undergraduates in years to come.
Adelaide W. Shaffer, 1918.
THE CLUBS
NEW YORK
137 East 40th Street
President, Mrs. Adolphe Borie, 3rd, '95; Treasurer,
Edith Child, '90; Assistant Treasurer, Sophie Boucher,
'03; Secretary, Isabel Peters, '04, 33 West 49th Street;
Chairman of Entertainment Committee, Florence Water-
bury, '05; Chairman of House Committee, Louise Fleisch-
uann, '06; Chairman of Committee on Admissions, Mary
Herr, '09.
The Club has reopened for the winter, and Mrs. Rudolph
McCabe, the superintendent, will be glad to answer any
inquiries about rooms.
BOSTON
144 Bowdoin Street
President, Syl\ia1K. Lee, 42 Avon Street, Cambridge,
Mass.
Secretary, Anna^Fry, The Ludlow, Copley Square.
CHICAGO
President, Mrs. Cecil Barnes, 1153 N. Dearborn
Street.
BALTIMORE
President, Mrs. Heruan Mosenthal, '00, 1501 Mt.
Royal Avenue.
Secretary, Mildred McCay, Roland Park, Md.
A feeling among the older alumnae that it would be
desirable to keep in touch with college affairs and with
one another caused the reorganization of the old Bryn
Mawr Club, which had been inactive for some years.
The constitution of that Club was taken over, Mrs. Her-
man Mosenthal was made president and monthly meetings
were held at the houses of the members. Through the
courtesy of *Edith Hamilton arrangements were made for
basket ball games on Saturday mornings in the gymnasium
of the Bryn Mawr School.
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PITTSBURGH
President, Sara F. Ellis, '04, 5716 Rippey Street.
Secretary, Mrs. R. L. Crawford, 517 Emerson Street.
The $200 competitive entrance scholarship offered by
the Club was conferred this year, 1917-18, on Helen Ben-
nett. The Club offers a similar scholarship for 1918-19,
and is now preparing to send to the preparatory schools of
Allegheny County a poster to this effect.
The Club is also supporting a French orphan this year
and clothing a little girl in Pittsburgh who is a ward of the
Juvenile Court.
At the first fall meeting it was decided not to serve the
usual four o'clock tea at the monthly meetings. This was
done in compliance with the request made by Mr. Hoover.
WASHINGTON
Secretary, Henrietta S. Riggs, 131 Maryland Avenue,
N. E.
ST. LOUIS
President, Mrs. E. W. Stdc, 5112 Waterman Avenue-
CHINA
President, Mrs. A. H. Woods, Canton Christian Col-
lege, Canton.
LOS ANGELES
President, Mrs. J. H. Douglas, Jr., 523 South Painter
Street, Whittier, Cal.
Secretary, Ethel Richardson, 277 East Bellevue
Drive, Pasadena.
OHIO
President, Grace Latimer Jones, '00, 1175 East Broad
Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 East Broad Street,
Columbus, Ohio.
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
The news of this department is compiled from information furnished by class secretaries, Bryn Mawr Clubs, and
from other reliable sources for which the Editor is responsible. Acknowledgment is also due to the Bryn Mawr College
News for items of news.
Alumnae and former students of Bryn Mawr College are earnestly requested to
send directly to the Quarterly — or if they prefer, to their Class Secretaries — for
use in these columns, items of news concerning themselves. There is a constant
demand, on the part of Quarterly readers, for abundant class news. But the
class news can be complete, accurate, and timely only if each one will take the
trouble to send in promptly information concerning herself. And the Classes that
have not secretaries willing to act as correspondents for the Quarterly are urged
to appoint such officers.
1889
Harriet Randolph is spending the winter in
New York and is living with Susan Franklin.
Ella Riegel spent the summer in Spain with
Georgiana King, '96, studying French influence
upon Spanish art.
Margaret Rhoads Ladd, daughter of Anna
Rhoads (Mrs. W. C. Ladd), is a member of the
Class of 1921 and is the matriculation scholar
for Pennsylvania and the South with an average
of 85.65.
Alice Gould has a position in the espionage
department of the American Embassy in Madrid.
1892
Secretary, Mrs. F. M. Ives, 318 West 75th
Street, New York City.
1893
Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Johnson, Jr., Heath-
cote Inn, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Susan Walker (Mrs. R. Y. Fitzgerald) is
planning a reunion for '93 in 1918.
1894
Secretary, Mrs. R. N. Durfee, 19 Highland
Avenue, Fall River, Mass.
Mary Breed, after a year's leave of absence,
has returned to the Carnegie Institute of Tech-
nology where she is Dean of the Margaret
Morrison School. ;*$
Ethel Walker has given up her school in
Lakewood and is starting a new school in
Simsbury, Connecticut.
1895
Frances Swift (Mrs. H. L. Tatnall), ex-'95,
has a daughter born in May, 1917.
Susan Fowler spent part of the summer in
Randolph, N. Y., with Elva Lee, '93.
A daughter of Anna West (Mrs. W. N.jjJL.
West) is in the Class of 1921.
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1896
Lisa Converse is principal of Lakewood Hall,
a new school under the direction of a board
of trustees.
Nancy Foster Porter, a daughter of Ruth
Furness (Mrs. J. F. Porter) is in the Class of
1921.
Lydia Boring has resigned from her position
as teacher of history and Latin in the West
Philadelphia High School for Girls, on account
of ill health.
Cora Baird (Mrs. H. S. Jeanes), ex-'96, con-
ducted a tea-house on her farm near Devon
during the first two weeks in October for the
benefit of the Social Welfare Department of the
Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia.
1897
Caroline Gait has leave of absence from
Mount Holyoke College and is studying at
Columbia University.
Helen Hutchins Weist, daughter of Alice
Cilley (Mrs. H. H. Weist), is a member of the
Class of 1921.
1899
Secretary, Mrs. E. H. Waring, 325 Wash-
ington Street, Glen Ridge, N. J.
Mary Foulke (Mrs. J. W. Morrison) has a
son, James Lord, born in April. Her two oldest
sons, being too young to fight, have been
farming. Mrs. Morrison is on the Executive
Council of the Women's Board of Council of
National Defense, Illinois Division.
1901
Eugenia Fowler (Mrs. Mahlon Neale) is liv-
ing on a farm near Uniontown, Pa., where her
husband is developing a new coal property.
Her address is Brownsville, Pa., R. F. D. no. 1.
1903
Secretary, Mrs. H. K. Smith, Farmington,
Conn.
The present address of Marian Hickman (Mrs.
Francesco Quattrone) is care of American Ex-
press Co., 6 Haymarket, London, England.
Elizabeth Sergeant sailed to France on Sep-
tember 15 to study problems of reconstruction
and to write about them for the New Republic
and to do some other writing.
Mary Ingham made the great sacrifice last
summer of picketing the White House and of
serving her term in the Occoquan Work-House,
Va., for carrying a banner inscribed with a quo-
tation from President Wilson. At a meeting at
her house after her release from prison over
$8000 was raised for the campaign of the Na-
tional Woman's Party. She spent her short
vacation in Randolph, N. H.
1904
Secretary, Emma O. Thompson, 213 South 50th
Street, Philadelphia.
Helen Amy (Mrs. George Macan), ex-'04,
was visited this summer by Lucile Porter (Mrs.
B. P. Weaver), '02, Fannie Brown, '03, and
Julia Gardner, '05.
Clara Woodruff (Mrs. Robert Hull) and her
two boys are living at Augusta, Ga. Her hus-
band, Captain Robert Hull, is stationed at
Camp Hancock with the 13 th Pennsylvania
Infantry. Her address is 2229 Walton Way,
Augusta, Ga.
Maria Albee (Mrs. Edward Uhl) is living at
229 West Hortter Street, Germantown, for the
winter. Her husband has been made civilian
head of the small arms production at the Gov-
ernment arsenal, Frankford.
If anyone has any knowledge of the '04 Class
Letter, will she please notify Emma Thompson?
Eloise Tremain has leave of absence from the
Philadelphia High School this year in order that
she may act as principal of a school in Salt Lake
City.
Fanny Cochran camped in the Adirondack s
last summer.
1905
Secretary, Mrs. C. M. Hardenbergh, 3824
Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.
Catherine Utley (Mrs. George Edwin Hill),
whose husband died last year, has sold her home
in Bridgeport and is taking a graduate course in
sociology at Bryn Mawr.
Elma Loines, who is still doing scientific re-
search work with her father and who is an ar-
dent worker for suffrage, spent the summer at
their cottage on Lake George. She has been
"counsellor, publisher and agent" for the
"Handbook of Labor Laws of New York" re-
cently published.
Margaret Bates has been teaching in St.
Mary's College, Shanghai, since September,
1916.
Theodora Bates is teaching in Miss Shipley's
School.
Helen Qrifnth has a fellowship at Ann Arbor.
She is studying for a Ph.D. Her subject is
prose rhythm.
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Margaret Thurston was married in August to
Roscoe Holt. Mr. Holt is a lieutenant, until
the war ends, on the battleship Virginia — the
present naval base is Port Jefferson.
Margaret Nichols (Mrs. C. M. Hardenbergh)
has taken her brother's two small boys for the
period of the war.
Rachael Brewer has announced her engage-
ment to Ellsworth Huntington of Milton. Mr.
Huntington is a geographer. He lectures three
months of each year at Yale and travels a great
deal.
Dr. Florence Child has gone to France to do
Red Cross work.
Louise Lewis, ex-'05, spent some time at
Lake George last summer.
Helen Read, ex-'05, spent the summer at
Beach Haven, N. J.
Anna Workman (Mrs. R. M. Stinson) was in
Maine last summer.
Daisy Wilson was at Howard Eaton's Camp,
Wyo., last summer and took a trip through
Glacier National Park on horseback.
1906
Alice Lauterbach was married on June 27
to Roger Flint of Newtonville, Mass.
Esther White writes from Buzuluk, Russia,
on August 30, that with five others, including
one Russian, she is doing reconstruction work in
Poland.
Josephine Katzenstein spent the month of
August at Lake George.
Olive Eddy was married in September to Clin-
ton Arthur Carpenter of Chicago.
1907
Secretary, Mrs. R. E. Apthorp, care of Dr.
C. H. Williams, Hampstead Hall, Charles River
Road, Cambridge, Mass.
Letitia Windle has been appointed warden of
Radnor.
Ellen Thayer is studying at Johns Hopkins,
and is also teaching at the Roland Park Country
School.
Eunice Schenck is Acting Head of the French
Department at Bryn Mawr.
Margaret Ayer (Mrs. Cecil Barnes) has
moved to Washington, where her husband is
working on the Food Commission under Mr.
Hoover. After reunion she motored from
Washington to Chicago with Harriot and Leila
Hough teling and Norvelle Brown, ex-'ll.
Dr. Edward Beasley, husband of Calvert
Myers, is a member of the Medical Reserve and
sailed for England in August.
Margaret Putnam (Mrs. Max Morse) has a
third child, Daphne, born in May.
Anna Haines has gone with a Friends' Unit
to do reconstruction work in Russia. They left
Philadelphia June 25, sailed from Vancouver to
Japan, from there to Vladivostok, thence by
trans-Siberian railroad, finally reaching their
destination, Buzuluk, in Samara, a province of
Southeastern Russia, about September 1.
Esther White, '06, is in the party.
Alice Hawkins spent a month on the Bryn
Mawr Farm near West Chester last summer,
learning much about producing and canning
vegetables, as well as running the college truck
around the country filled with students or tin
cans. She is warden of Merion again this year.
Mabel O'Sullivan has a fellowship in English
at Bryn Mawr.
Esther Apthrop (Mrs. R. E. Williams) is to
spend the winter with her family as her husband
has gone to France.
Emma Sweet (Mrs. Lyman M. Tondel) has
moved from Selleck, Wash., to 514 Olympic
Place, Seattle, Wash.
1908
Secretary, Mrs. Dudley Montgomery, 115
Langdon Street, Madison, Wis.
Louise Congdon (Mrs. J. P. Balmer) has a
daughter, Cynthia, born July 18, in Evanston.
Margaret Copeland (Mrs. Nathaniel Blatch-
ford) spent the summer at St. Joseph, Mich.
Louise Hyman (Mrs. J. A. Pollak) has moved
into her new home at 927 Redway Avenue,
Cincinnati.
Margaret Lewis was married in August to
Lincoln MacVeagh, 2nd, at West Wrentham,
Mass.
Josephine Proudfit (Mrs. Dudley Montgom-
ery) is now living at 115 Langdon Street. Her
husband is a Captain in the Officers Reserve
Corps.
Margaret Vilas, ex-'08, spent the summer in
Madison, Wis. She has been working for the
Navy League in Chicago.
Mary Case is now head of the kindergarten
at the Warren Goddard House in East 34th
Street.
Nellie Seeds (Mrs. Scott Nearing) spent the
summer at Chautauqua, and in September gave
a lecture on socialism in the City Hall of
Jamestown, N. Y. A local paper commented
thus: "Mrs. Nearing's appeal, and it was a
carefully worded one, was from the standpoint
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of what she named the 'potential motherhood'
of the nation."
Ruth Hammitt, ex-'08, has an article, "The
Woman Ambulance Driver in France," in the
Outlook for October 3, 1917.
Adelaide Case is educational director at St.
Faith's House, the school for deaconnesses and
other church workers connected with the Cathe-
dral of St. John the Divine.
1909
Secretary, Francis Browne, 15 East 10th
Street, New York City.
Helen Gilroy is at Vassar this year in the
physics department.
Aristine Munn Recht, M.D. is Dean of
Women at New York University.
Katherine Branson is assistant secretary at
Miss Madeira's school, Washington, D. C.
Mildred Satterlee, ex-'09, was married in
August to Captain Dwight Wetmore of Roches-
ter, N. Y. Alta Stevens and Bertha Ehlers
were present at the wedding.
Bertha Ehlers has taken Margaret Bontecou's
place as warden of Denbigh.
Mary Nearing and Bertha Ehlers each spent
part of their summer working on the Bryn
Mawr Farm.
Mary Nearing also took an agricultural course
at the University of Pennsylvania. She is war-
den of Rockefeller again this winter.
Shirley Putnam sailed for Paris on June 25.
She has done some work with the Enfants de la
Frontiere, also canteen work for prisoners and
wounded soldiers. She and May Putnam are
living in a small apartment in the Latin Quarter.
Butter is 90 cents a pound and they are allowed
a pound and half of sugar per person a month.
Cynthia Wesson, who was one of the five
official motor drivers for the American Fund for
French Wounded, has left this Committee and
has offered herself to the Y. M. C. A. for canteen
work, which will probably take her towards the
East, at an American base.
Anna Piatt has been interne in the Johns
Hopkins Hospital this summer.
May Putnam is still serving as physician to
the Enfants de la Frontiere with headquarters
in Paris.
Catherine Goodale (Mrs Rawson Warren)
has come back to civilization! Her husband,
Major Warren, was recalled from the Texas
border this summer and stationed at Camp Dix,
Wrightstown, N. J. Mrs. Warren has since
been touring the East — much to the joy of her
friends.
Mary Ryan was married in June to Timothy
Spillane, and will live in Philadelphia.
1910
Secretary, Mrs. H. B. Van Dyne, Troy, Pa.
Dr. Dorothy Child and Dr. Florence Child,
'05, have gone to France as members of the first
medical unit for Child Welfare sent out by the
Red Cross.
Miriam Hedges has announced her engage-
ment to Alexander Russell Smith of Lossie-
mouth, Scotland. Mr. Smith is a representa-
tive of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China, and is at present stationed in Hong
Kong, China. The wedding will take place in
December.
Susanne Allinson was married at Petrograd
last summer to Mr. Henry C. Emery. Mr. and
Mrs. Emery will live in Petrograd for the present.
Constance Deming (Mrs. Willard Lewis),
with her two children, spent the summer in the
North.
Margaret James was married in October
and expects to live in San Francisco.
Jeanne Kerr was married in July to Udo
Fleischmann of New York.
Margaret Shearer has announced her engage-
ment to Jewell K. Smith, brother of Jane Smith.
Janet Howell was married in July to Adam
H. Clark.
Zip Falk was married in September to Robert
Szold of Washington, D. C.
Mary Boyd Shipley has sailed for China, to
teach in Ginling College, Nanking. Ginling
College is a union missionary college for women
established two years ago by a union committee
of five mission boards. It aims to have as high
a standard as the women's colleges in America,
and all the foreign workers there are American
college women.
Irma Bixler (Mrs. E. P. Poste) has a daughter,
born in August.
1911
Class Correspondent, Margaret J. Hobart,
Sommariva, Easthampton, N. Y.
Kate Chambers (Mrs. Laurens Seelye) has
a daughter, Dorothea Chambers, born June 6.
Mr. Seelye is at Allentown, Pa., in charge of the
Y. M. C. A. work in the ambulance camp.
Mary Taylor has a position in the Guaranty
Trust Company, New York, and is living at 160
Waverly Place.
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[November
Norvelle Brown, ex-'ll,is teaching music at
Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn. She ex-
pects to spend her week ends in New York with
her family.
Louise Russell is teaching stenography and
typewriting at one of the Brooklyn High Schools.
Esther Cornell is playing in The 13th Chair in
Chicago.
David Goodnow, husband of Margery Smith,
has enlisted.
Charles Herschel McKnight, husband of
Phyllis Rice, is stationed in New York City.
Mrs. McKnight has come to New York to be
with her husband.
The Rev. Deane Edwards, husband of Mar-
garet Dulles, ex-'ll, is in Washington doing
war work. Mrs. Edwards is living at home
with her family.
1912
Secretary, Mrs. J. A. MacDonald, 3227
Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
Leonora Lucas has announced her engage-
ment to Daniel Tomlinson. Mr. Tomlinson is
a civil engineer, a graduate of the Massachu-
setts School of Technology. At present he is
attending the second officers' training camp at
Fort Sheridan, 111. Miss Lucas and Mr. Tom-
linson expect to be married in November.
Gladys Spry is doing clerical work for the
Council of National Defence in Chicago.
Dorothy Wolff (Mrs. Paul Douglas) and her
husband have moved to Portland, Ore., where
Mr. Douglas has accepted an appointment in
Reed College.
Gertrude Llewellyn is working in the labora-
tory of the Evanston Hospital, and is taking
several courses at the University of Chicago.
Catherine Terry (Mrs. W. N. Ross) has a
son, Charles Terry, born July 14.
Mary Morgan (Mrs. W. C. Haupt) will live
in New York this winter, doing work in psychol-
ogy at Columbia.
Mary Peirce spent most of the summer in the
Canadian Rockies. She is a member of the
Junior War Council of the Philadelphia Y. W.
C. A.
Carmelita Chase (Mrs. S. Hinton) and her
little daughter Jean spent the summer at Wood-
stock, N. Y.
Irma Shloss, ex-'12, is married to Eugene
Mannheimer of Des Moines.
Christine Hammer has accepted a position in
a girls' school in Canton, China.
Pearl Mitchell studied at the University of
Pennsylvania last summer.
1913
Secretary, Nathalie Swift, 156 East 79th
Street, New York City.
Rosa Mabon was married on June 19 to Dr.
Thomas K. Davis. Dr. Davis is at present
with the New York Hospital unit in France.
Katharine Williams has announced her en-
gagement to Lieutenant Waldo Hodgedon of
Dedham, Mass.
Yvonne Stoddard was married late in October
to Henry Hayes of New York.
Louisa Haydock is doing relief work in France.
Mary Sheldon spent the spring and summer
in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Alice Hearne was married on August 2 at
Beach Haven, N. J., to Julius Rockwell of Taun-
ton, Mass.
Nathalie Swift has a position in the Circu-
lating Department of the New York Public
Library.
Katherine Page (Mrs. C. G. Loring) has a
daughter, Alice Page, born September 27.
Adelaide Simpson is Dean of Women and
Professor of Latin at Hillsdale College, Michi-
gan.
Gertrude Hinrichs has announced her en-
gagement to Samuel King of Glen Ridge, N. J.
Helen Evans, ex-'13, was married to Robert
Lewis last June.
Alice Patterson is head of the Latin depart-
ment at the Agnes Irwin School.
1914
Secretary, Ida W. Pritchett, 22 East 91st
Street, New York City.
Alice Miller was married on July 7 to William
Merrill Chester. Mr. and Mrs. Chester are
now in France.
Rose Brandon was married on July 19 to Ole
Todderud. Mr. and Mrs. Todderud will live
in Butler, Pa.
Helen Shaw was married on August 6 to Wil-
liam A. Crosby.
Helen Hinde, ex-' 14, was married in July to
John Andrews King.
Elizabeth Colt has returned to America and
is working in New York.
Isabel Benedict is working at the National
City Bank, New York, as secretary to the as-
sistant chief clerk.
Elizabeth Bryant is to be Dean Taft's secre-
tary at Bryn Mawr.
Anne White has announced her engagement
to Lieutenant Paul Harper, U. S. A.
Margaret Williams has announced her en-
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139
gagement to Captain Ray Gilman, who is sta-
tioned at Fort Totten in the Coast Artillery.
1915
Secretary, Katharine W. McCollin, Over-
brook, Pa.
(It would be very helpful if the members of
1915 would send the Secretary any news of
themselves. Very often "news" has to be left
out because it has come vaguely through various
ways from an unknown source, or it has been
printed as an authentic bit of news and has been
found afterwards to be inaccurate.)
Hazel Barnett is teaching in Dallas, Texas.
Margaret Bradway is teaching in Miss Hill's
School at Ardmore.
Laura Branson has returned to Rosemary
Hall as teacher of mathematics. She has been
made Head Teacher of the school this winter.
Marguerite Darkow is teaching mathematics
and physics at Rogers Hall, Lowell, Mass.
Olga Erbsloh is Parole Officer to the Indus-
trial State Training School for Girls at Middle-
town, Conn.
Isabel Foster was editor of the Berlin Re-
porter of Berlin, N. H., during the summer..
Anne Hardon, who is nursing in Hospital
Auxiliaire No. 43, St. Valery-en-Caux, writes
to beg any members of 1915 who can write
French at all to correspond with one or two
French soldiers. She will furnish names of
those who especially are in need of such friend-
ship. Anyone who can do this and will, please
communicate with K. W. McCollin, Overbrook,
Pa.
Frances MacDonald is secretary to the Presi-
dent and Dean of Haverford College.
Helen McFarland was married to Donald
Eliot Woodbridge August 11. Mr. Woodbridge
has joined the Aviation Corps.
Emily Noyes is instructor in English at Bryn
Mawr. She is living in Penygroes with Dean
Taft.
Dagmar Perkins lectured on the Psychology
of the Drama at the Harvard summer school un-
der the Department of Public Speaking. She
was unusually successful as a great many New
York and Boston newspapers testified. The
Boston Sunday Herald of August 12 says:
"Miss Perkins was the first woman to speak on
this subject at Harvard, and, in fact, she is a
pioneer in her chosen field. The lectures given
before large and intensely interested audiences
showed a freshness of viewpoint and a skill in
observation altogether remarkable in so youth-
ful a lecturer.
"Miss Perkins has illustrated her lectures with
a wealth of telling points gained in her own ob-
servation, and she reveals, in giving these, not
only the born psychologist, but the gifted ac-
tress as well. Lecturers are common who,
while lecturing on voice and speech, break
every rule of speech and intonation, but Miss
Perkins's manner and delivery prove an agree-
able exception to this rule."
She has also been asked by the Government
at Washington to visit the different soldiers'
camps and give programs of recitations, etc.
Clarissa Smith is assisting Miss Theodora
Butcher in the work of the Bureau of Occupa-
tions for Trained Women of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae.
Isabel Smith is at Bryn Mawr as a graduate
student in geology. She has been appointed
choir leader again.
Sara Rozet Smith was married to Lieutenant
Richard Sutton Buel of the United States Field
Artillery in Chicago on August 15.
Among those who worked on the Bryn Mawr
Farm last summer were Elsie Stelzer, Helen
Taft, and Helen McElree.
Katherine Streett was married to Captain
Henry Frederick Robb of Company G, Fifth
Maryland Regiment, on September 4 in Cum-
berland, Md.
Ruth Tinker was married to Daniel Parmelee
Morse, Jr., on June 17 at Stamford, Conn. Mr.
Morse has joined the Aviation Corps and has
sailed for France for further training.
Julia Harrison, ex-' 15 has written some suc-
cessful "movie" plays for the Clif Curtis Pub-
lishing Company, of Buffalo, N. Y.
Ruth McKelvey, ex-'15, is living in a settle-
ment house in New York as a social worker.
Vashti McCreery, ex-' 15, will receive the de-
gree of A. B. at the University of Illinois next
June. She is living in Champagne, 111., with
Polly Vennum, '12.
Lillian Mudge (Mrs. Casper Thompson),
ex-'15, has a daughter, Barbara, born in March.
Mildred Jacobs has been appointed demon-
strator in the psychology laboratory at Bryn
Mawr.
Katharine McCollin is teaching history and
English at the Haverford Friends' School.
Katherine Snodgrass is a graduate student at
Columbia.
Mary Albertson and Mallory Webster are to
teach this*year in the Homestead School, Hot
Springs, Va. They and Mary Morgan, ex-' 15,
spent part of the summer together.
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Elizabeth Bailey, ex-' 15, was married at
Eaglesmere in July to Lieutenant Henry Gross.
Adrienne Kenyon was married in November
to Benjamin Franklin of Germantown. Mr.
Franklin is in the officers' training camp at
Fort Oglethorpe, Tenn.
1916
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 Broad
Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Frances Witherbee, ex-' 16, was married to
Lieutenant Herman Kobbe in June.
Elizabeth Holliday was married to Benjamin
P. Hitz September 22.
Louise Dillingham is now in Porto Rico as
secretary to the president of the Guanica Cen-
trale Sugar factory.
Elizabeth Brakeley is doing graduate work at
Columbia.
Mary Branson is teaching at Rosemary Hall
again this year.
Agnes Smith is teaching mathematics at St.
Timothy's, Catonsville, Md.
Eleanor Hill has announced her engagement
to Professor Rhys Carpenter of Bryn Mawr.
Ruth Lautz is teaching in the Phebe Anna
Thome Model School at Bryn Mawr.
Anna Lee is teaching English in a Philadel-
phia High School.
Chloe McKeefrey, Kathryn Batchelder, Mar-
garet Chase, Helen Tyson, Elizabeth Brakeley
and Elizabeth Stark received M. A. degrees at
Bryn Mawr in June.
Helen Chase is an aid in Dr. Blake's hospital
in Paris.
Adeline Werner is teaching English in the
Columbus School for Girls.
Emilie Strauss sailed on October 13 for Porto
Rico to teach in the American school at Ensen-
ada.
Constance Kellen and Frieda Kellogg have
gone to France with a Red Cross surgical
dressing unit.
1917
Margery Scattergood is going to France as a
member of the American Friends' Reconstruc-
tion Unit.
Helen Harris is doing graduate work at Bryn
Mawr and, as College Settlements Association
Fellow, is living at the College Settlement in
Philadelphia.
Margaret HofT was married in June to Eric
Zimmerman, professor of economics at Co-
lumbia.
Dorothy Shipley is secretary of the Civic
Relief Branch of the Pennsylvania Committee
of Public Safety.
Elizabeth Granger is in Chicago acting as
Director of Supplies of the American Fund for
French Wounded for the West.
Martha Willett is in charge of the babies' ward
at the Norwood Hospital.
Eleanor Dulles is in Paris doing relief work
under Mrs. Shurtleff.
Louise Collins is studying at Teachers Col-
lege, Columbia.
Mary Andrews was assistant bacteriologist
at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, last summer.
Mary Hodge is in Haiti as secretary to the
president of the American Sugar Company.
Virginia Litchfield is working in the Boston
American Field Service office.
Margaret Henderson is an automobile driver
for the American Fund for French Wounded in
Paris.
Elizabeth Emerson is at the Johns Hopkins
Medical School.
Natalie McFaden has given up teaching this
semester because of illness.
Ex-1918
Laura Pearson was married on September 12
to Blanchard Pratt of Lowell, Mass.
Olive Bain was married to Lieutenant Percy
Kittle, U. S. R., on August 22 in St. Ambrose's
Chapel of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Ella Lindley was married to Mr. Warburton
of Minneapolis in September.
Ex-1919
Winifred Robb has announced her engage-
ment to Lieutenant William Tibbett Powers of
the Field Artillery, U. S. R.
Vivian Turrish has announced her engage-
ment to Myron Bunnell of Duluth, Minn.
Martha Watriss is taking the special training
course for nurses offered to college women at the
Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
Lucretia Peters and Marguerite Kranz are
studying at Barnard.
Ewing Adams was married in October to Ed-
win Baker, a son of Professor Baker of Harvard.
Ex-1920
Miriam Ormsby has announced her engage-
ment to Harold Workman of Chicago.
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THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
Elva Lee, '93
Randolph, New York
Campus Editor
Mary Swift Rupert, '18
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakeley, '16
Furnald Hall, Columbia University, New York City
TABLE OF CONTENTS
War Work 141
With the Alumnae 153
News From the Campus 156
The Clubs 159
News from the Classes 160
Literary Notes 166
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Copyright 1018, by the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College.
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XI JANUARY, 1918 No. 4
WAR WORK
THE WAR COUNCIL OF BRYN the college community. Moreover,
MAWR COLLEGE
The War Council of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege was formed in November, 1917.
Previous to this time there had been no
organization to centralize the war work
of the college community. There was
a committee under the Christian Asso-
ciation, known as the aWar Relief
Committee," which was operating a
Red Cross workshop, and raising money
for various relief agencies. There was
also a Liberty Loan Committee, formed
under the direction of Mrs. William
Roy Smith, appointed a captain by the
Main Line Division. The Undergradu-
ate Association was endeavoring to
arouse interest in Food Conservation.
In the summer the Bryn Mawr Farm,
which was in reality a war garden, was
operated by individuals. They had no
especial organization, and no especial
responsibility, except to those generous
donors who gave the enterprise the
necessary financial backing. The ques-
tion of arranging for speakers, and for
the dissemination of information on war
subjects was unsolved.
This was the situation in October,
1917. It became evident, particularly
in the discussion of the advisability of
giving a May Day pageant this year,
that, outside of academic work, war
work was to be the central interest of
there seemed to be many opportunities
for service which the College might very
well render, and which were not the
responsibility of any existing organiza-
tion. The need therefore, for some sort
of a clearing house for all the war ac-
tivities of the College became apparent.
The Christian Association was not in-
clusive in its membership. The other
associations did not even offer mem-
bership to three important groups, —
faculty, staff, and alumnae. If the col-
lege war work was to be a success it
must be the fruit of the united efforts of
all groups, and if the groups were to
cooperate they must be represented in
the body which was to govern and direct
the work.
The best method of forming such a
clearing house, however, was not as ob-
vious as the need of it, and the difficulty
was not solved until the College as a
whole became informed about the Wom-
an's Committee of the Council of Na-
tional Defense. This was largely
through the kindness of Mrs. Ira. C.
Wood, former Executive Secretary of the
Woman's Committee. She explained
to a small group representing the vari-
ous associations, clubs, and their com-
mittees, the working basis of the Com-
mittee,— is brief, the formation in each
locality of a branch whose members
were the heads of all the existing organi-
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zations of the locality. Such a group
could then coordinate all the activities
of the community, and apportion the
work so that there should be as little
duplication as possible. In this way
very little new machinery was created,
existing organizations were strength-
ened and used to the limit of their ca-
pacity for service, and much useless
effort was avoided.
It was on this basis then, that the
War Council was finally formed. After
several preliminary meetings of a tem-
porary council, and a joint meeting of
the Graduate Club and the Undergradu-
ate Association, the membership of
the permanent Council was determined
as follows:
Two representatives from the Faculty.
One representative from the Staff.
Two representatives from the
Alumnae.
President of the Graduate Club.
One other representative of the Grad-
uate Club.
President of the Christian Associa-
tion.
President of the Undergraduate Asso-
ciation.
President of the Self-Government
Association.
President of the Athletic Association.
Editor-in-Chief of the College News.
Presidents of the four undergraduate
classes.
The Council has no constitution and
no by-laws. Its executive officers are a
Chairman and a Secretary, who also
acts as Treasurer. Every effort is
made to avoid details of formal order
which would take time, and interfere
with the quickest handling of business.
At its first meeting the Council ap-
pointed the directors of seven executive
departments, these departments corre-
sponding to seven of the ten under the
Woman's Committee of the Council of
National Defense. The directors are
ex officio members of the Council, and
upon the advice of the Council carry on
through their departments the war
work of the College. The Depart-
ments are as follows:
I. DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION
This department has already secured
a very complete registration of students,
and a fairly complete registration of
faculty and staff. The intention is to
keep the registration cards on file, and
to use them as reference in answering
the many calls for volunteer service
which come to the college, both for the
academic year, and for the summer. In
this way the department hopes to co-
operate with existing employment agen-
cies and committees in placement work
to meet war needs.
II. DEPARTMENT OF FOOD PRODUCTION
This department has been investigat-
ing the possibility of operating the Bryn
Mawr War Garden in the summer of
1918. It seems more than probable
that land nearer the college grounds will
be available, which will make planting
and transporting of crops much more
feasible than they were last year. It
also seems probable that financial sup-
port will not be lacking, and the ques-
tion of the labor, which is of course
largely that of students, is now being
thoroughly investigated. The depart-
ment is also making careful determina-
tions of plantings, costs, crops, etc.,
and if it is decided to operate the Gar-
den, will make all the necessary arrange-
ments, and plan the schedule of labor.
It knows no reason why the enterprise
should not be a greater success this year
than last, particularly in producing at
much less cost.
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III. DEPARTMENT OF FOOD
CONSERVATION
This department has been collecting
information on the subject of Food Con-
servation, as advocated by the present
Food Administration, and is endeavor-
ing to disseminate the information
through the college. It hopes to mould
public opinion on the subject, and to see
that the college menus are in as much
accord as possible with the suggestions
offered by the Food Administration.
IV. DEPARTMENT OF MAINTENANCE OF
EXISTING SOCIAL AGENCIES
The work of this department is iden-
tical with that of the Christian Associa-
tion. It is essential that in the multi-
plicity of war activities no community
should neglect the peace time activities
which are no less important in time of
war.
V. DEPARTMENT OF LIBERTY LOAN
This department, which is the former
independent Liberty Loan Committee,
expects to continue the work which it
started so successfully before it became
connected with the War Council. It
conducts the college campaigns for sub-
scriptions to Liberty Loans which may
be floated during the college year. The
campaign for the Second Liberty Loan
resulted in a total subscription rom
those connected with the college of
$197,200. The department is also con-
ducting the sale of War Savings Stamps,
and Thrift Certificates.
VI. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
This department has two bureaus.
The Bureau of Information and Public
Speakers is to collect and make public
war information of interest to the Col-
lege, to arrange for visiting speakers on
war subjects, and to act as a publicity
agent for the War Council in coopera-
tion with the Press Bureau of the Col-
lege News. This bureau has planned a
schedule of lectures, some of which
have been given already, and has issued
a bulletin of the organization and func-
tion of the Council.
The other bureau of the Department
of Education is the Bureau of Public
Speaking. The members of this bu-
reau are the presidents of the various
clubs in College, such as the History
Club, the Suffrage Club, the English
Club, etc. President Thomas has also
consented to serve on this bureau in
connection with her work in the Asso-
ciation of Collegiate Alumnae. The in-
tention is to train those interested in
public speaking on war subjects, and to
provide material for them. It is hoped
that this will meet the need for speakers,
preferably with college training, who
will speak in public schools and other
institutions throughout the country,
and thus convey accurate information
to those ignorant of the causes of the
war and the conditions under which it
is being fought.
VII. DEPARTMENT OF RED CROSS AND
ALLIED RELIEF
This department consists of the War
Relief Committee of the Christian Asso-
ciation, released for service under the
War Council, and enlarged in its mem-
bership so as to represent all groups. It
cooperates with the local chapter of the
Red Cross, and operates a Red Cross
workshop in Merion Hall, which is open
rive evenings a week for the making of
surgical dressings, and for the distribu-
tion of wool for war knitting. So far it
has conducted a canvass for its Red
Cross and Relief work which netted
$3,000. It has also conducted a cam-
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paign for the Students' Friendship War
Fund, which resulted in a total of $2700.
It also investigated quite thoroughly the
different possibilities for the central re-
lief work of the College for the year,
which it hoped may be carried on with
the cooperation of the alumnae. The
results of these investigations were made
public at a mass meeting of faculty,
staff, alumnae, graduate and undergrad-
uate students, held under the auspices
of the Council on December 3, 1917.
At that meeting it was voted that the
final decision as to the nature of the
main object of the college war work
should be made at another mass meet-
ing to be held before Christmas. This
meeting took place on Monday, Decem-
ber 17, 1917. After reviewing the pos-
sibilities of raising and maintaining a
Y. M. C. A. Hut, or of equipping and
maintaining a Unit for Reconstruction
Work, it was the unanimous decision of
the meeting to support a Bryn Mawr
Service Corps. This Corps will not act
as a unit in any one field of service, but
will be composed of workers in various
fields. The funds raised will be used to
equip and maintain workers when and
where they are needed. Investigations
have been made as to the number of
Bryn Mawr women already in the field
abroad, who may constitute the nucleus
of such a Corps, and investigations will
also be made as to those trained in vari-
ous branches of service who might de-
sire to render it, and of the opportunities
of placing such workers through organi-
zations like the Red Cross, the Y. M. C.
A., and the Friends Reconstruction
Unit.
From December 17, therefore, until
the end of the year, all the money raised
in the College by canvasses and other
means, will contribute to the fund for
the Service Corps. It is hoped that if
the alumnae do not feel that they can
cooperate as an association with the de-
partment in this campaign, they will at
least give it their support as individuals.
Virginia Kneeland,
Chairman of the War Council
of Bryn Mawr College.
WAR WORK OF BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE
The members of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation who attended the annual meet-
ing last February and the special meet-
ing held in Bryn Mawr last June will
remember the plans discussed at that
meeting for sending a unit composed of
Bryn Mawr alumnae and former stu-
dents to France for reconstruction and
war work. At that time the Smith
College alumnae and students had raised
the required sum of $30,000 and their
unit of sixteen women has since then
been established in France. Wellesley
and Radcliffe Colleges have decided to
send a unit jointly and it will probably
sail very soon. At our meetings it was
not deemed advisable to undertake the
financing and assembling of a unit but
motions were passed allowing the Di-
rectors to consider any war work which
might seem feasible for the Association
to undertake. With the opening of the
College this year and the organization
in the college community of a Council
for War Work, composed of representa-
tives from the undergraduates, faculty,
staff and alumnae, the suggestion of
some general plan of war work to be un-
dertaken jointly by the College and the
alumnae has been definitely adopted
and for a time the idea of sending a unit
was again revived.
At its meeting in New York in No-
vember the Board of Directors of the
Alumnae Association appointed a com-
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145
mittee of three to cooperate with the
War Council. This committee is com-
posed of Miss Martha G. Thomas, Miss
Dimon and myself. In looking up pos-
sible lines of war relief work we were ad-
vised through members of the Red
Cross and the Friends Service Commit-
tee that no more units were desired in
the work in France at the present time.
There are a large number of units al-
ready working in France and the need
now and in the immediate future is for
individual workers with training and
experience who can be placed where the
need is greatest rather than for groups
of people who by their organization are
compelled to work in one locality. For
this reason the War Council has sub-
stituted for the unit originally planned
the idea of a Bryn Mawr Service Corps.
This Corps would consist of individual
alumnae and former students of Bryn
Mawr College who are able and willing
to undertake war relief and reconstruc-
tion work abroad and whose expenses,
including salary and equipment, will be
met from a special fund raised for this
purpose. It has been estimated that
the expenses of a worker in France at the
present time vary from about $2000 to
$3000. This amount tends to increase
with the rapid rise in living expenses.
To support a Service Corps of ten or
fifteen people the College and Alumnae
Association jointly should plan to raise
a sum of from $30,000 to $50,000 yearly.
The War Council hopes to raise $10,000
this year among the members of the
college community. The Alumnae
Association would then be respon-
sible for the additional funds needed.
If the plan of a Service Corps is
adopted it would be possible to send
trained women workers not only to
France but also to Italy, the Balkans,
and possibly to Russia. The advan-
tages of the Service Corps over the Unit
are that it enables us with our small
group of alumnae and former students
to place anyone applying for service
abroad in the position and in the coun-
try where there is the greatest need and
for which she can do the best work and
we can use our funds as they come in
without waiting to reach the definite
sum of thirty thousand. It is a much
more flexible form of organization and
seems from every point of view to meet
our own limitations and the real needs in
the war work of the moment.
Our Committee has made inquiries in
regard to the possibility of working un-
der or in cooperation with the general
war relief organizations. The Friends
Service Committee has very kindly ex-
pressed its willingness to take any
trained Bryn Mawr graduate whose ex-
penses would be met and whose experi-
ence would make her useful in their re-
construction and relief work. They
need especially doctors, nurses, and
trained social workers. They have at
present no place for untrained and in-
experienced workers. The American
Red Cross, through their national offi-
cers in Washington, have expressed the
greatest willingness to send members of
our Service Corps out under their or-
ganization. They will keep on file in
their office the names of those who wish
to work under the Red Cross and will
allow us to make definite recommenda-
tions for positions which are to be filled.
When we have an experienced candidate
to recommend, they will cable abroad to
see if there is a position for her to fill
and they will gladly send out under
their auspices any Bryn Mawr women
whose services may be requested by ca-
ble from Europe. The Red Cross also
desires doctors, nurses, experienced so-
cial workers, teachers for the grades,
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[January
organisers and administrators. A candi-
date must be in good physical condi-
tion, able to endure hardship and must
speak the language of the country to
which she wishes to go. We shall also
be able to establish a connection with
other organizations such as the Ameri-
can Fund for French Wounded, the Y.
M. C. A. and others with which many of
our alumnae are now working.
In looking up the possibilities for
service we are endeavoring to get in
touch with the Bryn Mawr women al-
ready working abroad. From the re-
plies to the questionnaires sent out for
the Register of Alumnae and Former
Students and from information gathered
personally from many people Miss Di-
mon has compiled the following interest-
ing list of Bryn Mawr women in Europe:
American Red Cross
TRANCE
i\ Medical and Hospital Work
Chase, Helen S., '16 — auxiliary nurse, Dr.
Blake's Hospital, Paris; Cox, Dorothy H. ex-
'14 — American Hospital Supplies Association;
Hardon, Anne, '15 — Hospital Auxiliary, No.
43 St. Valery-en-Caux, Normandy; Hoyt,
Mary, '99 — nurses' aid at American Hospital,
Neuilly; Kerr, Katharine, '07 — Nurse Unit of
New York Presbyterian Hospital, summer 1917;
Laws, Bertha M., '01 — Bureau of Tuberculosis,
Paris; Miller, Alice, ex-'09 — ambulance driver
and keeper of records for Dr. Baldwin's hospi-
tal for children in the devastated district; also
canteen work; Moore, Dorothea, '15 — labo-
ratory technician in Amercan Red Cross
Hospital, No. 2, in Paris; Putnam, Shirley, '09 —
auxiliary nurse at the American Hospital,
Neuilly; has also done canteen work and work
for the Children of the Frontier; White, Amelia
Elizabeth, '01 — hospital work.
77. Surgical Dressings
Brownell, Mary Gertrude, '15; Gardner,
Mabel, '14; Kellen, Constance, '15; Kellogg,
Fredrika, M., '16; Richards, Amelia, ex-' 18;
White, Martha, '03 — Secretary of the Surgical
Dressings Association.
III. Canteen Work
Bissell, Bessie G., '99; Egan, May, '11;
Jenks, Mrs. Robert (Maud Lowrey), '00;
Kilpatrick, Ellen, ex-'99; Tongue, Mary '12.
IV. Child Welfare Unit
Child, Florence, '05 — relief work among
children; Child, Dorothy, '09 — physician; medi-
cal relief work among children.
V. L' Atelier Reunion Comite (under Mrs.
Shurtleff)
Bixler, Rena C, '14 — reconstruction work in
Paris; Channing, Alice, ex-' 11 — war relief
work; resigned position as District Secretary
of the Boston Associated Charities to under-
take work in France; Dulles, Eleanor L., '17 —
relief work for civilians and soldiers; Sturde-
vant, Mrs. E. W. (Louise Cruice), '06 — relief
work.
American Friends Service Committee
North, Dorothy, '09 — relief work in Paris;
Scattergood, Margaret, '17 — Reconstruction
Unit with the American Expeditionary Forces.
American Fund for French Wounded
Ayer, Elizabeth, '14 — working in Paris; Car-
rere, Anna Merven, '08; Chester, Mrs. William
M. (Alice Miller), '14 — driving motor truck for
hospital supplies; El wood, Catherine Prescott,
'15 — Secretary for Mrs. Lathrop, President of
Comite Americain pour les Blesses Francais.
Mrs. Lathrop in a recent letter to the "Woman's
Club" of Minneapolis thanked them for sup-
plies sent and added "but the very best thing
you have sent us is Catherine Elwood. We
could not have gotten along without her; she is
invaluable"; Henderson, Margaret I., '17 —
relief work.
Franco-American Committee for the Care of
Children of the Frontier
Cheney, Marjorie, ex-'03 — relief work under
Dr. Putnam; Cross, Emily, '01 — relief work un-
der Dr. Putnam; Putnam, May — physician;
has her office in Paris and when necessary visits
the children in their colonies which usually are
housed in disused convents and chateaux in
Brittany, Burgundy, and Touraine; Smith,
Mrs. Joseph Lindon (Corinna Putnam), ex-
'97 — has been twice in France to gather ma-
terial for lectures on the work of the Committee.
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Y. M. C. A.
Ely, Gertrude, ex-'OO — member of the War
Council and organiser for Y. M. C. A. Canteen
Work in France; Haydock, Louisa Low, '13 —
work at port of debarkation of American troops;
also hospital work under Red Cross; Holliday,
Mary, '09 — canteen work; Wesson, Cynthia,
'09 — canteen work at an American base toward
eastern France; during the summer drove a
motor car for American Fund for French
Wounded.
Y. W. C. A.
Morriss, Margaret S., Ph.D. — granted leave
of absence from Mt. Holyoke to help establish
the work of the i\ssociation in France.
Other work
Baldwin, Elizabeth F., '14— work with "La
Roue" printing books for blind soldiers; surgi-
cal dressings and relief work. Translating for
'L'Orphelinat de la Guerre; 'Carvallo, Mrs.
Joachim L. (Anne Coleman), '95 — gave her
chateau for a hospital at the beginning of the
war; Evans, Helene, ex-' 15 — in Paris as English
secretary to Mr. Edward T. Devine, who is doing
Red Cross Civilian Relief Work; Gibbons, Mrs.
Herbert Adams (Helen Brown), ex-'06 — furnish-
ing layettes for the children of soldiers at the
front. Volunteer worker in American Sailors and
Soldiers Club. Lecturer to American Soldiers;
Sergeant, Elizabeth S., '03 — in France to study
problems of reconstruction for the New Re-
public; Watriss, Martha, ex-' 19 — relief work
under Mrs. Duryea.
Unspecified
Airport, Harriet, '17 — relief work; Hapgood,
Mrs. Norman (Elizabeth Reynolds), ex-' 14;
Lounsbery, Grace E., '97; Scudder, Atala,'15;
Kuttner, Anna, ex-' 15.
ENGLAND
Am erican Friends Service Committee
Cadbury, Leah, '14 — Uffculme Hospital,
Queens Bridge Road, King's Heath as nurse's
aid.
Other work
Cam, Norah, '12 — assistant fitter in an aero-
plane works; Douglas, Anabel, Hearer, 1889-
'90 — on Central Bureau for the Employment of
Women; Fletcher, Mrs. Henry M. (Ethel Par-
rish), '91 — member of Committee for Belgian
Relief Work of Borough of Hammersmith;
Longbottom, Gertrude Felton, 1897-98 — Secre-
tary of the South Rural District, Women's War
Agricultural Committee; and of the South
United Methodists War Saving Association;
Scott, Mrs. A. H. (Mildred Minturn), '97—
member of the Kensington War Pensions Com-
mittee, Kensington Union of Democratic Con-
trol, and London Federation Committee of the
Union of Democratic Control.
RUSSIA
American Friends Service Committee
Haines, Anna Jones, '07 — relief work in Buzu-
luk, Russia; on 15 months' leave of absence
from position as Inspector in Division of Hous-
ing and Sanitation, Philadelphia; White, Esther,
'05 — relief work among the refugees in Buzuluk.
Unspecified
Emery, Mrs. Henry C. (Susanne Allinson),
'10; Korff, Baroness Serge A. (Aletta Van Rey-
pen), '00.
ITALY
Frank, Mrs. Tenney, Graduate — nurse and
head of ward in hospital for soldiers, Rome,
May-August, 1917.
Neutral Countries
switzerland
Y. M. C. A.
Clark, Elizabeth M., ex-'94 — relief work un-
der International Y. M. C. A.
Unspecified
Erismann, Camille.
SPAIN
Unspecified
Gould, Alice, '89 — Espionage Department of
the American Embassy in Madrid.
Summary
Working in France 54
Working in England 6
Working in Russia 4
Working in Italy 1
Working in Switzerland 2
Working Jn Spain 1
Total 68
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Miss Dimon will be very glad to have
any additional information. If you
know of anyone else doing war work
abroad will you kindly send (to Miss
A. C. Dimon, Bryn Mawr College) her
name and address and the work which
she is doing. We have taken it for
granted that all Bryn Mawr graduates
resident in Europe at this time would be
doing some kind of war work even
though unspecified. Miss Dimon will
also be glad to receive the names of
those who are interested in serving in a
possible Bryn Mawr Service Corps.
In raising the fund for a Service Corps,
if it is decided upon, we have thought
that there might be applicants for the
work who could defray their own ex-
penses in part or almost wholly. The
amount which they could contribute to
their own maintenance could then be
counted as their contribution to the
Service Corps Fund.
The question of adopting a Service
Corps Fund as their War Relief Work for
the winter or (another suggestion) of
raising a fund of $30,000 for the support
of a Y. M. C. A. Hut at the front to be
called the Bryn Mawr Hut will be de-
cided upon at a mass meeting called by
the War Council for Monday, Dec. 17.
The Alumnae Association will be asked
to cooperate in whatever work is under-
taken and will discuss the matter at its
meeting in February.
In gathering information in regard to
Bryn Mawr women working abroad
Miss Dimon has also collected the fol-
lowing interesting information in re-
gard to Bryn Mawr women in War Work
at home:
Government Appointments
E. R. Fries, '04 — temporary clerk in depot of
the Quartermaster's Corps, Philadelphia — U. S.
Army: marking and grading examination papers
of Reserve Officers in Q. M. C; H. Smith
Brown, '06 — physician, lecturer on Social Hy-
giene for the Committee on Camp Activities;
M. Maynard, '08 — clerk at an embarcation
camp now under construction; M. Free, '15 —
assistant to Committee on Classification of
Personnel in the Army; F. Bradley, '16 —
French translator in the War College; C. M.
Simpson, ex-'15 — yeoman, first class, U. S. N.
R. F., Censor's Office, May 1917-October. At
present on indefinite furlough subject to recall;
H. Alexander, ex-' 18 — yeoman, censor of cable-
grams; E. C. Pugh, '16 — motor messenger; E.
C. Russell, '17, motor messenger.
Food Administration and Conservation
I. E. Lord, graduate — member of the Advi-
sory Committee U. S. Food Administration,
also of the Mayor's Committee on Food, New
York City; F. Wardwell, ex-'98 — member of the
Food Administration; R. Wallerstein, '14 —
clerk in the U. S. Food Administration; M.
Foulke Morrison, '99 — speaker in Illinois; J.
Carejr, ex-'89 — 1st lieutenant Hoover Food
Conservation Army.
State and Local Work: K. Middendorf
Blackwell, ex-'99; E. Warkentin Alden, ex-'OO;
E. Loines, '05; M. K. List Chalfant, '08; T.
Belding, ex-' 13; J. McBride Walsh, '00; M.
Kilpatrick, '00; M. B. Breed, '94.
Liberty Loan
{State and Local Work)
K. Middendorf Blackwell, ex-'99; E. Richard-
son Porter, graduate; H. B. Lyon, ex-'OO; G.
Elcock, '12; J. Brownell, '93*; E. Lee, '93; T. F.
Hooker, '06; J. Hartshorn Hack, ex-'02; M.
Foulke Morrison, '99; E. Fogg Mead, graduate;
E. Dessau, '15; M. Parris Smith, '01.
War Exemption Board Assistants
C. L. Nagel, ex-' 13; L. Lewis, ex-'05; E. L.
Porter, '16.
Work in Connection with Training Camps
H. Runyon Winfrey, ex-'12; M. Southgate
Brewster, '01; F. Stewart Rhodes, ex-' 10; H. C.
Bowerman, Ph.D.; E. Bailey Gross, ex-'15 —
hostess.
Farming and Canning
E. Loines, '05; A. M. Price, '03; C. Archer
'98; A. E. Van Horn, '16; I. Knauth Dunbar, ex-
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'17; E. Hubbard Johnston, '03; R. Danielson,
'05; M. Parris Smith, '01; A. M. Hawkins, '07;
B. S. Ehlers, '09; M. F. Nearing, '09; L. Watson,
'12; H. H. Taft, '15.
Preparation for relief work
First Aid, Home Nursing and Short Hospital
Courses
I. Goodnow Gillett, ex-'09; E. Hardin, gradu-
ate; H. N. Harrington, ex-'08; H. Carroll,
ex-'17; L. Bartlett Stoddard, ex-'05; J. Ranlet
Swift, ex-'17; I. Peters, '04; S. Palmer Baxter,
'04; C. R. Nash, ex-'14; B. Mitchell Hailey, ex-
'12; E. Y. Maguire, '13; F. Hatton Kelton, '15;
M. Thurston Holt, '05; H. A. Wilson, '03; I.
Knauth Dunbar, ex-'17; E. Downs Evans, ex-
15; E. Jackson Comey, '14; M. M. Harden-
bergh, '05; G. Pray, ex-'15.
Automobile Mechanics Course
E. Palmer Baxter, '04.
Working Under National Organizations
Council of National Defense: P. D. Goldmark,
'96, Secretary of Committee on Women in
Industry; J. C. Goldmark, '98, member of
Committee on the Study of Industrial Fatigue;
A. P. Gannett, '98, member of the Ohio State
Committee on Women and Children in Industry.
. Women's Committee Council of National
Defense
M. S. Scott, '11— in Publicity Department-
Headquarters, Washington; A. Walker Field,
'11, executive secretary of the Department of
Women in Industry.
State and Local Work
L. Norcross Lucas, '00; H. Lovell Million,
graduate; M. Ayer Barnes, '07; I. Foster, '15;
K. Tibbals, graduate; H. M. Barnett, ex-'16;
M. Stewart Dietrich, '03; E. James Smith Put-
nam, '89; B. W. Seely Dunlop, '05; S. M. San-
borne Weaver, '08; B. H. Putnam, '93; D.
Packard, '16; M. N. Hardenbergh, '05; M.
McEwen Schmitz, '05; M. Foulke Morrison, '99;
E. Fischel Gellhorn, '00; G. Dietrich Smith, '03;
R. Danielson, '05; M. T. Corwin, '12; H. Calder
Wallower, ex-'03; E. Biglow Barber, '06; H.
Waldron Wells, ex-'06; E. L. Richardson, '11;
G. Spry, '12; E. Fogg Mead, graduate; M. L.
Cady, graduate; M. B. Breed, '94.
American Red Cross
Local Officers
G. Dietrich Smith, '03; J. P. Pelton, '01, C.
A. Marsh, ex-'97; C. Baird Jeanes, ex-'97; J.
Niles McClellan, '14; M. Githens Calvert, '98;
E. de Koven Hudson, ex-'06; M. Wood Chesnutt,
09; R. Williams, '00; R. Vickery Holmes, ex-
11; C. Vail Brooks, '97; C. B. Thompson, ex-
13; F. Rush Crawford, '01; M. Murray Eiken-
berry, graduate; J. Holman Boross, ex-'96; C.
Halsey Kellogg, '00; E. Lake Hailey, hearer; E.
B. Daw, Ph.D.; K. Curtis Price, '04; E. Lee, '93;
M. Crawford Dudley, '96; M. E. Converse, '98;
S. K. Thompson, ex-'OO; P. Witherspoon, ex- '05;
F. Wood Winship, ex-'ll.
Secretaries
K. R. Schmidt, ex-'13; M. Southgate Brews-
ter, '01; H. Magee Hinkle, hearer; A. King,
'08; M. G. Fiske, ex-'19; C. Crowell, '16; V.
Bresnehen, graduate; E. Atkins Davis, '93; P.
C. Winslow, '03; M. V. Smith, ex-'18; M. B.
Macintosh, graduate; E. G. Llewellyn, '02; A.
Leffingwell McKenzie, '97; V. Daddow, ex-' 13;
B. E. Cole, ex-'12; L. H. Fry, '04; H. K. Bryan
McGoodwin, '08;A. C. Whitney, '09.
Chairmen of Committees
E. Linburg Tobin, '96; C. Colton Worthing-
ton, ex-'96; A. Buzby Palmer, ex-'04; M. Sickle
Limburg, ex-'OO; S. Powell Fordyce, ex-'99; M.
D. Jarman, graduate.
Workers under the Organization
H. Runyon Winfrey, ex-' 12; K. Middendorf
Blackwell, ex-'99; M. Miller Buckminster, ex-
98; M. C. Moore, '09; R. Morice Pooley, '99
E. W. Kelley, '16; V. Hardin, graduate; H. N
Harrington, ex-'08; R. Furman Collins, '95; J
Q. Davidson, ex-'Ol; E. Cantlin Buckley, '01
1. Bringardner, graduate; M. M. Blanchard, '89
J. Brandeis, ex-' 16; E. Warkentin Alden, ex-'OO
H. S. Sheldon, '15; E. T. Shaefer Castle, '08
J. Ranlet Smith, ex-' 17; H. M. Ramsey, '11; J
ProUdfit Montgomery, '08; A. Phillips Boiling
ex-'03; F. Hearne Brown, '10; F. Capel Schmitt
14; C. Brown, '14; H. Woods Hunt, ex-'04; S
M. Sanborne Weaver, '08; A. Patten Wilder
ex-'14.
Red Cross Work in Colleges and Institutions
E. Winsor Pearson, '92, Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology; E. H. Johnston, '12, Sweet
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Briar College; F. Lowater, graduate, Wellesley
College.
Red Cross Work in Schools
J. Beardwood, '12; R. Glenn, '15; F. M.
Glenn, '12; M. Minor, '94; A. A. Boyer, '99.
Instructors and Inspectors in Workrooms and
Classes and Organisers
E. P. Caldwell Marsh, graduate — speaker
and organiser; E. S. Hoffheimer, ex-' 10 — As-
sistant in Educational Department of Surgical
Dressings; C. B. Thompson, ex-'13; R. Strong
Strong, ex-'03; K. D. Hull, '03; E. C. Holliday,
'16, Instructors; A. Sachs Plaut, '08 — inspector
and organiser; H. Vaille Bouck, ex-02 — lecturer.
National League for Women's Service
M. Southgate Brewster, '01; J. P. Pelton, '01;
S. Reynolds Wakeman, graduate; D. W. Lyon
Bryant, graduate — Commandant Overseas Unit,
Plattsburgh; C. A. Marsh, ex-'97; A. Sussman
Steinhart, '02; G. Pray, ex-' 15; C. Baird Jeanes,
ex-'96; E. B. Wright, '00.
Y. W. C. A.
M. Pierce, '12; A. Kellogg, Ph.D.; S. F. At-
kins Kackley, '94; C. I. Crane, '02; A. Patten
Wilder, ex-'14; C. Utley Hill, '07; M. L. Cady,
graduate.
National Security League
B. H. Putnam, '93 — speaker.
American Fund for French Wounded
E. Dessau, '15; M. F. Case Pevear, ex-'ll;
E. Granger, '17; M. Wright Walsh, '91— by
means of cake and flower sales in the summer
raised $1200 for the purchase of anesthetics.
National Civic League
D. Dalzell, '08.
Relief Work for the Children of the Frontier
E. Edwards, '01.
Individual Work
M. Christie Nute, ex-'04— giving addresses
in behalf of the sufferers in Asia Minor; I.
Pritchett, '14 — Assistant in the research work
at the Rockfeller Institute which resulted in the
discovery of the anti- toxin for gas-gangrene;
L. Otis, ex-' 17 — Chemist in the Arco Company
Cleveland, O. doing research work in paints
and varnishes, taking the place of a man called
to the army; G. Jones Markle, '13 — Attending
to the correspondence and office work of her hus-
band, vice-president of the Markle Bank, dur-
ing his absence in the army; M. L. Hickman,
'16 — running a restaurant in Louisville for the
benefit of the Red Cross; C. Chase Hinton,
'12 — Play-supervisor for a group of 15-20 chil-
dren after school hours and for a tramp on
Saturday. Fifty cents per day per child and
one half goes to the Red Cross; A. Gerstenberg,
ex-'07 — Volunteer work for Women's League to
provide entertainment for the Naval Station;
E. Little Aldrich, '05 — Member of the Commit-
tee for Organising Homes and Clubhouses near
army camp-sites, Boston Branch A. C. A.;E.
Bliss, '04 — Assistant Secretary Women's Com-
mittee for Engineer Soldiers.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
M. H. Shearman, '95.
American Friends Service Committee
H. Clothier Hull, graduate; E. Donchian, '17.
A. G. Walton, '09.
Emergency Aid
S. F. Van Kirk, '94.
American Field Service
V. Litchfield, '17.
War Service Committee of the Woman's
Suffrage
C. McCormick Slade, ex-'95.
State Organizations
New York State Census
H. Hardenbergh, ex-'lO; H. Geer, graduate;
A. D. Simpson, '13; A. M. Newton, '05.
New York City — Mayor's Committee for National
Defense
F. Fincke Hand, '97; K. Ely Tiffany, '97; C.
McCormick Slade, ex-'96.
Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
D. Shipley, '17 — Secretary.
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Virginia Slate War Council
H. Henderson Green, '11.
National Service Committee of the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae of New York City
F. Arnold, ex-'97; E. Pettit Borie, '95; L.
Fleischman, '06; J. Langdon Loomis, ex-'95; F.
King, ex-'96; M. Murray, '13; E. Rapallo,
15; F. Browne, '09.
Miss Dimon has also collected some
war information in regard to husbands.
Some Occupations of Husbands
Assistant Secretary of State, Head of South-
ern Department of the National Food Adminis-
tration, Food Administrator, Executive Secre-
tary Richmond Commission on Training Camp
Activities under the War Department, Foreign
Representative of Guaranty Trust Co. in
Russia, Manager of American Prisoners Relief,
Inspector of Air planes and Airplane Engines;
Camp Manager, Y. M. C. A., Aeronautical
Mechanical Engineer U. S. A., Censor, Bureau
of Investigation, Department of Justice.
In the Army and Navy
1 Surgeon, 9 Medical Officers Reserve Corps,
2 Lieutenant Colonels, 1 Colonel, 3 Majors, 11
Captains, 18 Lieutenants, 1 Lieutenant Com-
mander, 1 Ensign, 4 in the Army rank un-
specified, 1 Ambulance Service, 1 Hospital
Service.
Alumna with Son in War Service
M. Wright Walsh, '91 — eldest son in Ameri-
can Ambulance Field Service.
War Council of Bryn Mawr College
E. Orlady, '02— for the staff; M. Parris Smith,
01 — Director of the Liberty Loan Department;
M. G. Thomas, '89— Director of Food Con-
servation; A. C. Dimon, '96 — Secretary; B. S.
Ehlers, '09; — Director of Food Production.
These statistics are naturally very in-
complete, but they give some idea of the
different lines of work with which Bryn
Mawr women are connected.
Marion Reilly.
LETTERS
Extracts from letters from Dr. Dorothy Child,
1910, who with her sister, Dr. Florence Child,
is working in a Pediatric Unit under the Chil-
dren's Bureau of the American Red Cross.
On Board S. S. Chicago,
October 20, 1917.
The trip is just about as we imagined it.
The plan of practicing French on each other is
easy to carry out because practically every
body is doing it. The employees speak only
French, and the rest of us try to follow their ex-
ample. We have a daily class in French con-
versation, led by a Mrs. Rogers, who is on her
way over with her h,usband to do canteen work.
There are about six different sets of people
going this time — our pediatrics unit with seven
women doctors, nine or ten men, and fifteen
nurses; then the Y. M. C. A. sends canteen
workers to feed and entertain the men in the
camps and in the trenches. Some men are go-
ing to drive ambulances, about thirty or forty
are going to drive Red Cross supply trucks, and
some women go to open day nurseries for the
babies of munition workers; a band of mis-
sionaries is returning to Africa; some recon-
struction workers are being sent by the French
War Relief Society, and one girl is sent by the
Friends. There are a few French officers re-
turning after recovering from wounds, one
aviator, an American, Miss Winifred Holt, who
has founded "Light Houses "for blind soldiers,
a violinist from California, an opera singer, some
ladies to do lab. work in Red Cross Hospitals,
some to do secretarial work for a students' re-
lief society in Paris, a Belgian, an Armenian,
two Chinese, a Russian, an Alsatian, an orien-
tal lapidist, a mother of one of the little secre-
taries, who is going "to write articles for her
husband's paper" (and really to take care of
little Sec). There is one "lady doctor," who
is only twenty-three and is a dentist. She is
very pretty and cute, but doesn't try to speak
French. She says all she will have to know is
"open your mouth," and "the words for that
are something like 'over the bush.' " All of the
doctors are pleasant with us. We have dis-
covered only one besides Dr. Knox that called
himself or herself a baby specialist before this
fall.
Hotel dTena, Ave. d'lena, Paris,
October 30, '17.
We just 'heard that we are to be stationed at
Evian, on Lake Geneva. It is the receiving
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station for all the refugees from the devastated
regions, and from what we hear there will be
nearly a thousand new-comers to handle and
examine every day. We will live in the hospi-
tal, and every month or two we are to come
back to Paris to meet the other workers and
department heads, and discuss plans and ex-
periences. Of course we don't know much yet
about details. We leave here in about five
days.
Yesterday F. had a chance to give up her
seat to a "mutile," a French soldier on crutches.
The streets seem full of wounded men at times.
Today we saw one that lost one hand, had only
one finger left on the other, had had something
patched up to make a lower jaw, and had ban-
dages over both eyes.
Some of the doctors in our unit are being
sent to danger zones, where air craft and shells
of all sorts axe in evidence. Our situation will
be entirely safe and perhaps very tame in com-
parison; but it will afford us plenty of good
hard work, and as I understand it, we'll have
the Alps to look at.
Hotel Chatelet,
Croix Rouge Americaine,
Evian-les-Bains,
Haute Savoie, France,
November 8, '17.
We have arrived safely and are sure now that
we'll have a splendid time. It will take years
to describe the beauties of this place where we
have been installed. The work is the most in-
teresting, as we take care of the refugees from
the border (called Rapatries).
The Red Cross has taken this estate, which
consists of a large hotel and a number of villas
built on a hillside. F. and I have a large room
with a fireplace, and a smaller dressing-room.
From our beds we can look out over Lake
Geneva on the north, and the snow-capped
Alps on the east. There is not any "central"
heat in our rooms but plenty of wood for the
fire-place. As it has been a very fine hotel in a
fashionable watering-place, you can imagine the
furnishings and woodwork are lovely. Isn't it
funny that just as we were leaving Paris we
found that May Putnam was to come with us!
She had been working with refugee children in
and about Paris and was asked to come down
here. The trip on the train was interesting.
Nobody has a sleeper; we are obliged to sit up
all night. As you can imagine, in this part of
the land we met dozens of trainloads of the
blessed Poiliis going southward.
Watch the magazines and newspapers and I'm
sure you'll read about the things we are doing,
because it is unique. Imagine two trainloads
(1000 each) a day of old people and children
entering the town, all of whom have been driven
from their homes by the war. This children's
hospital, if it could be developed, might be the
greatest one in the world.
Hopital Pour Enfants, A. R. C.
Evian, H. S., November 11, '17.
This is certainly a lovely place, and as soon
as we get used to the European way of un-
heated houses we'll be very comfortable. Last
night it was windy and the little waves of the
lake, dashing against the shore, sounded like
the roar of the ocean, as we went to sleep.
F.'s service is like a resident in our hospitals.
She has one set of sick children in the main
house and another in the measles house. I have
morning and afternoon hours for dispensary pa-
tients. A little house connecting with the gar-
age and linen rooms is being fitted up for the
permanent dispensary, but it is not finished
yet. We are to have a waiting room, a dentist
room, and two examination rooms for me. At
present the clinic is in the main building, which
makes more interruptions than you care for.
I am afraid May Putnam is going to leave.
They have given her a job that doesn't suit her
because there isn't enough to do. Naturally,
the hospital is not full, because it is only two
weeks old, but I feel sure there will be enough
for all to do when we get into full swing.
Dr. Knox stays in Paris, helping the adminis-
tration of the Children's Bureau and if Dr.
Lucas goes home, Dr. Knox will probably be
the head.
The other women of the unit are most of
them still in Paris learning French. We are
glad to be chosen to begin work. We find we
can make ourselves understood fairly well and
are learning new words every day.
It is likely we'll have a month's leave from
Dec. 15 to Jan. 15, and we may either spend it
in Paris or seeing some of the other relief work
that is being done. The reason for our vaca-
tion is that the convoys stop coming for a
month. May Putnam has told me of a number
of public health things that I'd like to see if op-
portunity offers and I get my salary
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Ilopital Pour Enfants,
Evian, H. S.
November 16, '17.
I am waiting for my morning clinic to arrive.
The patients are strangers in town and they all
meet at one place and are brought up by a
French Red Cross nurse. These French women
are very interesting persons, the most tireless
workers, and they have wonderful stories to tell.
I have already seen a lot of sweet babies that
would like Grandma Child to take care of
them, and before we are through there will be
thousands more.
Our hospital grows every day. We are still
very, very short on special equipment, espe-
cially drugs like iodine, alcohol, ether, etc. If
you would believe it, the whole works is rely-
ing for instruments on the little pocket case
that S. and E. gave me for Commencement.
Two days later.
We are having lots of fun and considerable
work, re-organizing the hospital after a number
of doctors have left. It is the most interesting
thing ever! The thing we are best equipped to
have is a place for measles and whooping cough
and mumps, so that's what we are to have.
Will tell you more when we begin to see how it
works out.
D.
AGRICULTURAL WORK FOR WOxMEN
Dean Helen Taft spoke at the Women's Uni-
versity Club of New York City, on Monday,
December 10, at a meeting held by the National
Service Committee of the Club to discuss the
needs and conditions relating to the problem of
women's agricultural work in the near future.
President McCracken of Vassar told of the Vas-
sar experiment last summer and Dean Taft
told of the work on the Bryn Mawr farm. Two
student farmers, one from Barnard and one
from Vassar, gave detailed experiences of the
work.
Miss Stevens of Barnard had spent the sum-
mer at Bedford, N. Y., working in the unit of
women farmers which Miss Ida Ogilvie managed
so successfully. There were sixty women in
this unit, mostly college students and clerks
and stenographers. Despite their inexperi-
ence they won the respect of the farmers after
two or three weeks of work and were regularly
employed all summer, at the rate of $2.00 a day,
by the farmers throughout the region, having
more demands for workers than they could
meet.
The Vassar Farm and, of course, the Bryn
Mawr Farm gave reiterated examples of the
fact that the girls were able to do the work of
the men admirably. Both Dean Taft and Presi-
dent McCracken stressed the necessity for
arousing the interest of the country at large in
the fact that women not only could but must
lend their strength to the task of Food Produc-
tion in the next few years. They brought out
the point that the college undergraduate is the
one eminently fitted to do such work through
her strength and enthusiasm and the vigor of
spirit which she brings to the task.
Miss Carey of the Land Commission of Eng-
land spoke of the experience which English
women had had in the agricultural field and
said that she had been urged by her country-
women to awaken the women of America to the
great necessity of taking up agricultural work.
It is Food that will win the war, they feel, and
without it the cause of the Allies is lost.
This meeting marks the beginning of a cam-
paign which the National Service Committee of
the Women's University Club is inaugurating
with the purpose of interesting colleges and col-
lege women everywhere in this great movement.
It asks them to help win the cooperation of
women everywhere and to be ready next sum-
mer to give themselves to this much needed
work.
Frances Browne, 1909.
WITH THE ALUMNAE
OFFICERS
1916-1918
President, Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs.
Frederic Rogers Kellogg), '00, Morris-
town, N. J.
Vice President, Mary Richardson Walcott
(Mrs. Robert Walcott), '06, 152 Brattle
Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Recording Secretary, Louise Congdon Fran-
cis (Mrs. Richard Standish Francis), '00,
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Corresponding Secretary, Abigail Camp Di-
mon, '96, 367 Genesee Street, Utica, N. Y.
Treasurer, Jane Bowne Haines, '91, Chel-
tenham, Pa.
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ALUMNAE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Elizabeth B. Kirkbrede, '96, 1406 Spruce
Street, Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft, '98 (Mrs.
Wilfred Bancroft), Slatersville, R. I.
ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Pauline Goldmark, Chairman, 270 West
94th Street, New York City.
Esther Lowenthal, Smith College, North-
ampton, Mass.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 4 Hawthorn
Road, Brookline, Mass.
Helen Emerson, 162 Blackstone Boulevard,
Providence, R. I.
Ellen D. Ellis, Mt. Holyoke College, South
Hadley, Mass.
Frances Fincke Hand (Mrs. Learned
Hand), 142 East 65th Street, New York City.
Frances Browne, 15 East 10th Street, New
York City.
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg (Mrs F. R. Kel-
logg), Morristown, N. J.
MEETING IN TAYLOR HALL
A meeting will be held in Taylor Hall
at eight o'clock on Friday, February 1,
under the auspices of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation. Four or five brief addresses
will be given by alumnae and members
of the college community on subjects of
timely interest on which they can speak
with authority. It is hoped that Presi-
dent Thomas will speak on the patriotic
educational work of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae, and Mr. Rufus
Jones on some general topic. The
alumnae speakers cannot yet be an-
nounced. The meeting will be open to
anyone interested, and it is hoped that
as many alumnae as possible will come
and bring their friends.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
At the meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Alumnae Association on
November 10, which was attended by
delegates from the Branches and com-
mittees it was suggested that a special
effort be made this year to increase
the enrollment of associate members.
Ninety-three per cent of those who have
received degrees from the College are
members of the Alumnae Association
and it would further the objects of the
Association and make it of more value
to its members if as great a percentage
of former students belonged. A printed
circular has been prepared by the Secre-
tary and has been sent to all the former
undergraduate students who are eligible
to membership, and a letter has been
sent to the class secretaries asking them
to help by calling the attention of their
classmates to the circular. If every one
helps in bringing the campaign to notice
it should result in a greatly increased
membership. The Secretary therefore
asks for as much cooperation as possible
from individual members.
Abigail Camp Dimon, Secretary.
THE FIRE PREVENTION STUDY
Last August was published the Report of the
Fire Prevention Study, conducted by Fanny
Travis Cochran, Bryn Mawr, 1902, and Florence
Lucas Sanville, Barnard, 1901; and on Novem-
ber 8, the Industrial Board of the Depart-
ment of Labor and Industry of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania took the following
action :
"Moved by Doctor Jackson and seconded by
Doctor Garver that the Board recommend for
observance the regulations and practices pro-
mulgated by the Bryn Mawr Fire Prevention
Committee in connection with the Department
of Labor and Industry. They also moved that
the Secretary be instructed to furnish copies of
the report containing such regulations to those
applying, and also be instructed to send to the
Philadelphia Fire Department a copy of this
report, conveying to that Department the re-
commendation of the Industrial Board that the
places in Philadelphia not complying therewith
be brought to the standards worked out in the
report. Further, that the Committee on Egress
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be instructed to report a code on fire protection
in factories and work-rooms including the Bryn
Mawr regulations as far as they are applicable
and also such additional regulations with regard
to fire protection as they may deem proper.
Unanimously agreed to."
The Executive Committee feels that the
authors of the report have done a good piece of
work, and that the action of the Industrial
Board insures practical results.
The report was submitted a year before it was
published, and the interval was occupied by a
discussion which may prove to be not the least
important part of our work. Mr. H. W. For-
ster, Chief Engineer of the Independence In-
spection Bureau, was a member of our Advisory
Committee. The Committee on Safety to
Life of the National Fire Prevention Associa-
tion, of which he is chairman, had prepared,
and reduced to tabular form, a rule for regulat-
ing the number of persons that can safely oc-
cupy buildings of different heights and types of
construction, based on units of stair width.
This table, representing a great deal of expert
labor and carrying the authority of Mr. For-
ster's recommendation, was approved by our
Advisory Committee for adoption in the report.
But not unanimously; there was from the first
a vigorous opposition from a minority of one,
Mr. H. Fitz John Porter, of New York City,
who has been for years an innovator in fire pro-
tection. By degrees the Executive Committee
came to have a glimmering of the principle in-
volved in the highly technical considerations
presented in the table and opposed by Mr. Por-
ter. As our education proceeded, we became
more and more sure that our troublous duty
lay in declining to adopt the table. Mr. J. O.
Hammett, Chief of the Bureau of Fire Preven-
tion of New York City, also a member of our
Advisory Committee, was also found to be in
opposition. Miss Frances Perkins, Executive
Secretary of the Committee on Safety of the
City of New York, took the same side and was
of the greatest service in educating the
Committee.
Mr. Forster's committee was to report to the
N. F. P. A. at its annual meeting in Washing-
ton last spring. Through his courtesy, I was
given a hearing at their final meeting. Mr.
Hammett kindly wrote a strong statement of
his criticisms for me to present at this meeting,
and Miss Perkins attended with me to argue the
case for the opposition. As a result of her able
argument, the committee modified their report
considerably in the direction of our contention.
Even thus, it was not what we had come to be-
lieve it should be. Miss Perkins and Mr. Ham-
mett went to the Washington meeting and op-
posed the report. It was referred back to the
committee for reconsideration, and Miss Per-
kins was added to the committee. If this re-
port had been adopted by the N. F. P. A., we
believe a mistake would have been made in
national fire prevention which it would be very
hard to correct.
Emily James Putnam,
Chairman of the Executive Committee.
The interesting and very impressive report of
the Fire Prevention Study is in three parts:
(1) a short general summary; (2) an illustrated
narrative giving a vivid picture of actual con-
ditions; (3) a convenient tabulation of the
findings of the workers with reference notes.
In a "Foreword" Mrs. Putnam says:
"In presenting this report the givers of the
Study hope to make a beginning in three differ-
ent directions. They hope, in the first place,
to lessen the risk of death by fire for the more
helpless members of the community. They
hope also to show the desirability of making
such gifts as this directly to the state, instead
of duplicating or confusing the work of the
state by private effort. And they hope to
start the habit among Bryn Mawr women, and
perhaps among college women everywhere, of
organizing themselves into groups of good citi-
zens who may be counted on at any time for
cooperative citizens' work."
Following this foreword is this statement
from Mr. D. Knickerbacker Boyd of the Ad-
visory Committee:
"At one of the later meetings of the Com-
mittee with the Advisory Board the men com-
prising the latter voted that the report would
be incomplete if it did not include some refer-
ence to their appreciation of the opportunity
which had been afforded them to act in this
capacity. It was desired by them that a para-
graph be inserted as their testimonial to the
foresight, public spirit and zeal of the women
who had made this study possible and to those
who in collaboration with them had performed
with signal courage and untiring purpose an
unusually difficult task, which will bring about
substantial benefits to the woman workers and
all the other people of this State."
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NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
ACADEMIC YEAR 1917-1918,
SEMESTER I
December 11 Faculty Tea for graduate stu-
dents, Radnor Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.
December 12 Lecture by Lieutenant Hector
McQuarrie on "Trench Life
and America's War Problems"
under the auspices of the War
Council, in Taylor Hall at 4.15.
December 14 Christmas Party for the maids,
The Gymnasium, 9 p. m.
December 15 Senior Reading Examination in
German, 8 a.m.
Lecture by Ian Hay (Major
Beith) in the Gymnasium, 8
p.m. under the auspices of the
History Club for War Relief.
The lecture will be illustrated
with lantern slides.
December 16 Sunday evening service. Christ-
mas sermon by the Rt. Rev.
Charles Palmerston Anderson,
D.D., Bishop of Chicago. (Un- •
able to come on account of ill-
ness, place taken by the Rev.
Corydon C. Tyler, Chestnut
Hill, Philadelphia.)
December 19 Christmas vacation begins at 1
p.m.
January 3 Christmas vacation ends at 9
a.m.
January 4 Reserved for War Council Lec-
ture.
January 5 Reserved for War Council Lec-
ture.
January 6 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Charles R.
Brown, D.D., Dean of the
School of Religion of Yale
University.
January 11 Lecture by Miss Helen Fraser, of
England, on "The Work of
Women in England," in the
chapel at 4.15 p.m.
Swimming Meet at 8 p.m.
January 12 Reserved for the Science Club.
January 13 Sunday evening service. Sermon
by the Rev. George L. Richard-
son, D.D., Rector of St. Mary's
Church, Philadelphia.
January 14 President Thomas at home to the
Senior Class, The Deanery,
8.30 to 10.30 p.m.
January 16 Faculty Tea for graduate stu-
dents, Merion Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.
January 17 Matriculation Examinations be-
gin.
January 18 War Council lecture in the chapel,
4.30 p.m.
Swimming Meet, 8 p.m.
January 19 Performance of George Bernard
Shaw's " Candida" in the Gym-
nasium at 8 p.m., for the bene-
fit of War Relief, by the Clif-
ford Devereux Company.
January 20 Sunday evening service. Sermon
by the Rev. John McDowell,
D.D., Pastor of Park Presby-
terian Church, Newark, N. J.
January 21 President Thomas at home to the
graduate students.
January 23 Collegiate examinations begin.
January 27 Sunday evening service.
February 2 Meeting of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation.
End of examinations.
End of First Semester.
February 6 Second Semester begins at 9 a.m.
Registration at first lecture re-
quired.
CAMPUS NOTES
If one should try to find a phrase with which
to define the difference between this year and
other years in College it might be "interest in
war- work." Though in previous years we have
been keenly interested in the war, yet never be-
fore have we been so anxious to "do our bit."
The Service Flag on Taylor is a badge of col-
legiate enthusiasm.
The desire manifests itself in ways that are
many and various. Everyone knits — sweaters,
wristers, mufflers and helmets increase and
multiply day by day. What has most caught
the popular fancy is the knitting of socks which
can be adorned with brilliant clocks or chequers
or stripes.
We have tried to organize our enthusiasm in
the forming of the present War Council. This
council was formed primarily on the model of
the Woman's Committee of the National Coun-
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cil of Defense, as explained by its executive
secretary, Mrs. Ira C. Wood. Mrs. Wood
spoke at the Deanery on October 22nd to a
meeting which included Dean Taft, the execu-
tives of the office, members of the faculty and
the heads of all student organizations. It was
at this meeting and at the smaller meeting fol-
lowing that the plan for the present War Coun-
cil was formed. This plan was definitely
authorized at a meeting of the Undergraduate
Association and Graduate Club. The Council
is composed of two representatives from the
faculty, one from the staff, two from the alum-
nae, the presidents of the Self-Government,
Undergraduate, Athletic, and Christian Asso-
ciations, and of the four classes, and the managing
editor of the News. There was some discus-
sion, pro and con, over the election of an under-
graduate chairman. Virginia Kneeland, presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Association, was
finally elected.
The change in organization from the Red
Cross and War Relief Committee of last year
was made largely with the aim of establishing a
body with which the alumnae could cooperate
easily and effectively. There might have been
difficulties in the way of such cooperation with
a sub-committee of the Christian Association;
to the plan of making the original committee
independent of any association, the objection
was raised that it would start a precedent of
sporadic committees, "straying around loose."
A Service Corps has been definitely decided
upon as the object of the war-relief work during
the second semester.
The Liberty Loan Drive achieved a success
which exactly tripled the sum which had been
set. The red, white, and blue booth, though
singularly out of place among the busts in Tay-
lor, was extremely effective. Dr. Marion Par-
ris Smith was Captain of the Team. Members
of the faculty made stump speeches on behalf
of the Liberty Loan in the hall dining-rooms.
In Rockefeller, Dr. Gray described a personal
experience in war economy, in patching an old
suit instead of purchasing a new one. The
drive netted $197,200
A sense of the undergraduate meeting was
taken with regard to instituting war economies
in food. Zeal for meatless and wheatless days
has however been somewhat mitigated by
President Thomas, who urged the practical
considerations that there is only one entirety
wheatless flour — a meal made in Rhode Island,
and unfortunately unobtainable — and that some
young calves must be killed, and might as well
be utilized as "buried in coffins."
One of the many expedients for raising money
for war relief was that of movies on the
Gymnasium on Saturday night. The first
night the "movies" failed to materialize, the
film having been censored, but since then the
College has sat enthralled before "The Desire of
the Moth" and "The Lash of Power."
The meeting which voted to give up May-
Day voted that Class plays and shows should
be given without a stage and as simply as possi-
ble. Banner Show and Senior Reception went
beyond the most modern theories in simplicity
of staging. The costumes and properties for
the skit given at Senior Reception consisted
mainly of two chairs arranged as a bed, a blue
quilt, a borrowed blue negligee and an alarm
clock. Banner Show was a vaudeville, its snap
and go making it by no means a change for the
worse from the more ambitious and laboured
attempt of last year. The social success of the
year has perhaps been Sophomore Dance, at
which the costume de rigileur was naval uniform,
and at which the Gymnasium, equipped with-
a gang-plank, life-preservers, ropes, and deck
chairs, did duty as the deck of a man-of-war.
The burst of enthusiasm that instituted pre-
paredness courses last May has lasted over the
summer, and preparedness courses are still
going on. The present courses are typewriting
and shorthand.
The "100 per cent registration" asked for by
the Women's Council of National Defense, has
been put through, and though few students
had attainments useful in the practical lines of
work asked for by the registration card yet
several signed their willingness to go "any-
where, any time."
The Red Cross Workshop has transformed
the Merion sitting-room into a scene of busy in-
dustry against a background of spotless white
oilcloth tables and vivid posters. It turns out
an average of over a thousand dressings a week.
Trench candles also are being made and paraf-
fined.
Among the extra-war activities that go on in
spite of the world crisis are Senior Orals. The
innovation of having them written this year has
been accompanied by the startling effect of
shattering all known records of failure.
Less grim, lighter it, lone, s the incident of
the Trophy CIud. After remaining quiescent
for some time, the club has been revived — a
select circle with a membership of six, all of
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whom are officers. They have undertaken the
work of mending '17's tattered banner, which
must again hang in the gymnasium for the
water-polo season. Thus does the well-mean-
ing reformer lay hands on what was once sacred.
Most of the speakers here have been men just
back from the front, among them, Ian Hay,
Francis B. Sayre, Lieutenant Hector Mac-
Quarrie, of the Royal Field Artillery, and Major
Boehm of the 169th Canadian Infantry. M.
Anatole Le Braz spoke on the French spirit and
ex-President Taft gave interesting lights on
"the way to crush kultur."
Mary Swift Rupert.
THE FACULTY AND STAFF
Dr. Frank addressed the annual meeting of
the Pennsylvania Society of the Archaeological
Institute of America on archaeological work in
Rome.
Dr. Rhys Carpenter, now a sergeant at Camp
Meade has been put in charge of a section of
drafted Italians on account of his knowledge of
their language.
Miss Hilda Smith, '10, director of the com-
munity center, and Miss Susan Myra Kings-
bury, Carola Woerishoffer Professor of Social
Economy, attended the I. C. S. A. conference
at Dennison House in Boston,
Lieutenant Howard Savage has been trans-
ferred from Fort Niagara to Camp Green,
Charlottesville, N. C.
Dean Taft attended the conference of the
Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations in New
York.
Both Dr. de Laguna and Mrs. de Laguna are
represented in a volume of philosophical essays,
compiled recently by the associates and pupils
of Professor Creighton of Cornell. Mrs. de
Laguna also has an essay, "Phenomena and
Their Determination," in the Philosophical Re-
view for November.
M. Beck has been asked by the American
Folk-lore Society to direct a critical edition of
Canadian folk-songs.
The November number of the Journal of
Theology contains an article by Dr. Barton on
"The new Babylonian Material concerning the
Creation and Paradise."
Miss Cornelia Geer, whose story, "Pearls
before Swine," appeared in the Atlantic Monthly,
has had another story, "The Irish of It" ac-
cepted by that magazine.
Dr. Fenwick lectured for three weeks at Fort
Travis and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on the
National Insurance Act.
Miss Dunn, acting head of the Department
of English Composition, has an article on "John
Rastell and Gentleman and Nobility" in the
Modern Language Review.
In Thanksgiving vacation Professor G. G.
King spoke before the Fortnightly Club of
Chicago at its annual open meeting. Her sub-
ject was, "The Way of St. James," based on
her recent travels in Spain.
Dr. Savage has been working with Lieutenant
Raflrey, Attache a la mission d 'information aux
Etats Unis, on a series of pamphlets on the tac-
tics of trench warfare. The subjects of these
pamphlets are "Grenades and Grenade War-
fare," "Infantry in Attack," "Liaison," and
"Gasses" and "Flame."
Dr. Wheeler had an article "The Plot of
Empedicus" in a recent number of the American
Journal of Philology.
Dr. Kingsbury and Miss McBride had an
article "Social Welfare in Time of War and
Disaster" in the Survey of October 27, 1917.
NEW APPOINTMENT
Agnes Rutherford Riddell, Reader in Spanish
and French, A.B., University of Toronto, 1896,
with first class honors in Modern Languages;
and A.M., 1897, Honors Ontario Normal Col-
lege, 1898; Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1916.
Teacher of French and German, Oshawa High
School, 1898-1901; Assistant Reader, Department
of English, University of Toronto, 1902-11;
teacher of English, Branksome Hall, Toronto,
1904-05; teacher of German, Latin and English,
Westbourne School, Toronto, 1906-10;
Graduate Student in Romance Languages,
University of Chicago, January 1912 to August
1913; teacher of Latin and English, West-
bourne School, Toronto, 1913-14; Fellow in
Romance Languages, University of Chicago,
1914-15; Acting Head of Kelly Hall, University
of Chicago, summers of 1913, 1914 and 1915;
Professor of Romance Languages, College of
Emporia, Emporia, Kansas, September 1915 to
December 1917; Dean of Women, College of
Emporia, 1915-17.
Dr. Riddell is giving the minor Spanish in
two sections, owing to the large number in the
class. She is also conducting the tutoring
classes in French.
Dr. de Sarauw gives the major Spanish and
conducts the tutoring classes in German.
Professor De Haan went to Holland last sum-
mer and has been unable to get a steamer back.
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THE CLUBS
NEW YORK
137 East 40th Street
President, Mrs. Adolphe Boree, 59 East
65th Street; Acting Secretary, Fannie Barber,
539 West End Avenue.
The Club, like other organizations, has been
feeling the stress of war conditions. Our secre-
tary, Isabel H. Peters, '04, sailed for France
some weeks ago in the Red Cross ship which
carried a number of Bryn Mawr graduates
among its passengers, bound for national serv-
ice on the other side. We were fortunate in
securing Fannie Skeer Barber, '09, to fill her
place, but Miss Barber is new to her duties as
yet, so that the indulgence of the readers of the
Quarterly is asked for the informal report
here submitted by the Club's Treasurer.
The year opened well. The rooms reserved
for permanent tenants are pleasantly filled, the
demand for accommodation by transients far
larger than our limited quarters can meet ade-
quately, and the restaurant, especially at
luncheon, has been most generously patronized.
The new superintendent, Mrs. McCabe, is di-
recting the house with great tact and ability,
making it homelike and attractive. The Club
is in every sense prospering and alive, though
the high cost of living is keeping our profits low.
There has been one Club luncheon, the sub-
ject of which was Food Conservation. There
was a luncheon for undergraduates the Friday
following Christmas. Other luncheons of gen-
eral interest will occur through the winter, pre-
senting speakers on subjects of vital interest.
The most timely recent activity of the Club
is the organization of the National Service
Committee, which embraces both members and
non-members. Our Committee owes a good
deal to a similar organization in the Women's
University Club. Between these two Com-
mittees there has been a profitable interchange
of ideas, and members for various kinds of
service.
In its first job, helping in the work of regis-
tration, the Bryn Mawr Club Committee worked
under the Suffrage organization, and in the
work for the Liberty Loan it enrolled itself un-
der the Women's Liberty Loan Committee.
Its later work, now well organized and in prog-
ress, will be fully reported in a later issue of the
Quarterly.
Edith Child, Treasurer.
BOSTON
144 Bowdoin Street
President, Sylvia K. Lee, 25 Chauncy Street,
Cambridge, Mass.
Secretary, Anna Fry, The Ludlow, Copley
Square.
The Bryn Mawr Club of Boston is doing a
bit of war work this winter in giving the use of
its club room to the nurses employed by the
State Child Conservation Committee for con-
ferences, rest and lodging when it is needed.
The following members of the Club are in
France doing war work: Elizabeth Ayer,
Katharine Dodd, Louise L. Haydock, Con-
stance Kellen, Elizabeth S. Sergeant, Cynthia
M. Wesson.
CHICAGO
President, Mrs. Cecil Barnes, 1153 N.
Dearborn Street.
BALTIMORE
President, Helen Irvin, '15, 1702 Park
Place.
Secretary, Mildred McCay, Roland Park,
Md.
PITTSBURGH
President, Sara F. Ellis, '04, 5716 Rippey
Street.
Secretary, Mrs. R. L. Crawford, 517 Emer-
son Street.
WASHINGTON
Secretary, Henrietta S. Riggs, 131 Mary-
land Avenue, N. E.
ST. LOUIS
President, Mrs. E. W. Stix, 5112 Waterman
Avenue.
CHINA
President, Mrs. A. H. Woods, Canton Christ-
ian College, Canton.
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LOS ANGELES
President, Mrs. J. H. Douglas, Jr., 523
South Painter Street, Whittier, Cal.
Secretary, Ethel Richardson, 277 East
Bellevue Drive, Pasadena.
OHIO
President, Grace Latimer Jones, '00, 1175
East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 East
Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
The news of this department is compiled from information furnished by class secretaries, Bryn Mawr Clubs, and
from other reliable sources for which the Editor is responsible. Acknowledgment is also due to the Bryn Mawr College
News for items of news.
1892
Secretary, Mrs. F. M. Ives, 318 West 75th
Street, New York City.
Frances Harris (Mrs. R. D. Brown) has
closed her house and is spending the winter
with her sister in Germantown, her husband,
Reynolds Driver Brown, having resigned from
the Law Faculty of the University of Pennsyl-
vania to do Y. M. C. A. war work.
Dr. Frederick M. Ives, husband of Edith
Wetherill Ives, holds a commission as captain
in the O. M. R. C. and Mrs. Ives writes that
the family has been waiting for his orders to go
on active duty since last May.
1894
"Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh, of Washington, D.
C, has announced the marriage of her daughter,
Margaretta Cameron, to Naval Constructor
Stuart Farrar Smith, United States Navy. The
ceremony, which took place on Monday, No-
vember 12, at Mrs. MacVeagh's residence, 1719
Massachusetts avenue, was very quiet, none
but members of the immediate families being
present.
"Mrs. Farrar Smith's father, the late Wayne
MacVeagh, though most of his life one of the
leading citizens of Pennsylvania and a most dis-
tinguished lawyer, was Attorney General in
President Garfield's Cabinet, and was the first
American Ambassador to Italy, having been
appointed by President Cleveland.
"Naval Constructor Smith's father, Major
General William Farrar Smith, served with dis-
tinction during the Civil War as chief engineer
of the Army of the Cumberland and as a corps
commander in the Army of the Potomac. He
was well known in Philadelphia, where he spent
the last years of his life."
The following is from a letter from Ethel
Walker: "The statement that appeared in the
last issue of the Alumnae Quarterly under
my name in the class records was inaccurate
and misleading. This statement was that I
had given up my school at Lakewood, N. J.,
and had started a new school at Simsbury,
Connecticut. I did not give up my school at
Lakewood. I gave up Lakewood because my
school had outgrown my accommodations there,
which consisted of three rented houses, and I
was not able to find or build in Lakewood a
suitable building for the school. With the
approval and cooperation of my alumnae and
the parents of the girls who were then attend-
ing the school and were entered in the school
for this coming year, I moved the school to
Simsbury, Connecticut, where I was so fortu-
nate as to procure the Stuart Dodge property,
a large and very beautiful place of four hundred
acres, admirably adapted to our purposes and
with great possibilities of development. . . .
We have a building that provides for the sixty-
two boarding pupils now in residence. The
school has increased to this number this year
as over against forty-five resident pupils last
year. It is not, however, my intention to en-
large the school beyond this point, but, rather,
gradually to reduce the numbers to about
fifty."
1898
Elizabeth Nields (Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft)
has moved from Ardmore to Slatersville, R. I.
Marion Park has gone to Boston to be regis-
trar of Simmons College in place of Evelyn
Walker, '01, resigned.
Leila Stoughton is going to France as Red
Cross nurse from the Bellevue Unit, New
York.
Alice Gannett is Headworker in the Good-
rich Social Settlement, 1420 East 31st Street,
Cleveland, Ohio.
1918]
News from the Classes
161
1899
Secretary, Mrs. E. H. Waring, 325 Washing-
ton Street, Glen Ridge, N. J.
Ellen Kilpatrick, ex-'99, is doing canteen
work with the Red Cross in France.
Mary F. Hoyt, ex- '99, is nursing in a hospital
at Neuilly.
Dorothy Fronheiser's husband, Philip T.
Meredith has enlisted in the Pennsylvania
National Guard and is at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Marion Ream (Mrs. R. D. Stephens) is
spending the winter in Washington with her
mother.
The following is taken from a Dubuque, la.,
paper:
"It will be of tremendous interest to Dubu-
quers to learn that Miss Elizabeth Bissell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bissell, has just
been notified by the National Red Cross or-
ganization in Washington, of her appointment
to work in the Canteen department in France.
She will sail early in December.
"Miss Bissell is just the type of woman to be
chosen for this service for she is a splendid
French scholar, which, of course, is one of the
essentials to qualify for service in France. For
the past several weeks she has been in Chicago,
studying conversational French, in order to be-
come perfectly familiar with the new and vari-
ous war terms.
"Like many other Bryn Mawr graduates,
she is to do this splendid service for her country,
entirely at her own expense. She is an ardent
suffragist, and her work as corresponding secre-
tary of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association has
given her office experience, and has taught her
to know how to deal with groups of organized
women workers. It will be remembered that
during the Red Cross drive last June Miss Bis-
sell was one of the most active workers, and was
also very prominent in the thrift and conserva-
tion campaign done throughout Iowa. She is
known in her home city as a great humanitarian,
being one of the workers in the Humane Society
since its organization."
1901
Evelyn Walker has resigned her position as
registrar of Simmons College.
1904
Secretary, Emma O. Thompson, 213 South
50th Street, Philadelphia.
Nannie Adaire's brother, Alexander Adaire,
is stationed at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Sadie Briggs (Mrs. Donald Logan), ex-'04,
writes that her husband left for France with the
Massachusetts State Guard last October. Mrs.
Logan has a daughter, Constance Briggs Logan,
born December, 18, 1917.
Marjorie Canan (Mrs. Lawford H. Fry) has a
daughter, Alison Marjorie Fry, born May 11,
1917, at Burnham, Pa. Mrs. Fry has been
chairman of Home and Belgian Relief Com-
mittee for two years, executive secretary of the
local Red Cross Chapter for the past year, and
chairman of a committee which raised one thou-
sand dollars for the "Hostess House " fund of the
Y. W. C. A. Her brother is an aviator in
France.
Dr. Mary James has returned from China for
a year's leave of absence. She is living in
Philadelphia and is studying in the Graduate
School of Medicine of the University of Penn-
sylvania.
Helen Amy (Mrs. G. C. Macan, Jr.), ex-'04,
is treasurer of the Intercollegiate Community
Service Association, of which Dr. Susan Kings-
bury is president.
Bertha Brown's (Mrs. Walter Lambert) hus-
band is a first lieutenant in the Engineer Officers
Reserve. He was six weeks in Engineers'
Camp at Belvoir and American University
Camps, Washington, D. C, and is now at
Camp Dix, N. J., training men. Mrs. Lam-
bert's address is care of Mrs. Henry Cadbury,
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.
1905
Secretary, Mrs. CM. Hardenbergh, 3824
Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.
Rachael Brewer was married at Milton,
Mass., on December 22 to Ellsworth Hunting-
ton. Mr. Ellsworth Huntington is a well
known geographer who has written several
books of general interest. He has made studies
of desert and semi-desert regions in various
parts of the world and found evidence of varia-
tions of climate and humidity which recur in
longer and shorter cycles and which are accom-
panied by evidence that certain of these re-
gions have been within historic times suitable
for human life. These researches throw an
interesting light on the history of the desert
regions of Asia and other parts of the world.
Avis Putnam (Mrs. Edouard Dethier) has a
second son, Charles Putnam Dethier, born in
New York on December 10.
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[January
Patsy Gardner, Ph.D., is with a canteen
"somewhere in France."
1906
Louise Cruice (Mrs. E. W. Sturdevant) is in
France and her address is care of Morgan,
Harjes and Company, Paris.
Elizabeth Townsend (Mrs. J. R. Torbert),
ex- '06, has a daughter, Margaret Torbert, born
October 13, 1917.
1907
Secretary, Mrs. R. E. Apthorp, Hampstead
Hall, Charles River Road, Cambridge, Mass.
Fourteen members of 1907 living around
New York City attended an informal luncheon
at the Bryn Mawr Club on Saturday, Decem-
ber 1, which was so successful that a repetition
in the spring was suggested.
Marion Warren (Mrs. Sanger Steele), ex-'07,
has moved to Hartsdale, N. Y.
Berniece Stewart (Mrs. C. A. Mackenzie) is
living in New York City.
Katharine Kerr is at home again after two
months' nursing in France with the Presby-
terian Hospital Unit.
Margaret Ayer (Mrs. Cecil Barnes) has
moved with her family from Chicago to 1240
Nineteenth Street, Washington D. C, in order
to be with her husband while he is working un-
der Mr. Hoover.
Grace Hutchins is in New York, teaching at
St. Faith's School. In the morning she has
classes in the New Testament, and in the after-
noon she is in charge of the athletics. She is
also studying Greek.
Ellen Graves is working in the Supply Serv-
ice Department of the Red Cross in Boston.
Margaret Blodgett, ex-'07, has just finished
an interesting piece of library work in Ply-
mouth, Mass., for the Pilgrim Society.
Margaret Morison is again teaching at the
Winsor School in Boston and is living at the
Elizabeth Peabody House Settlement.
Esther WTil>liams (Mrs. R. E. Apthorp) is
working in the Civilian Relief Department of
the Red Cross in Boston.
1908
Secretary, Mrs. Dudley Montgomery, 115
Langdon Street, Madison, Wis.
1908 is planning for its tenth reunion next
June. Members of the class are asked to send
items of interest for the reunion paper to Ade-
laide Case.
Marjorie Wallace (Mrs. Robert H. Nichols)
has a third child, a daughter Jane Hastings
Nichols, born in Binghampton, N. Y., on Sep-
tember 3.
Louise Hyman (Mrs. Julian Pollak) has a
second child, David, born in October.
Anna Carrere will remain in France until
spring working for the A. F. F. W.
Anna King is head of the Department of
Civilian Relief of the Red Cross of Boston, and
Beth Harrington (Mrs. A. H. Brooks), '06,
Marjorie Young, Emily Storer, ex-'lO, and
Mary Miller (Mrs. W. R. Buckminster), ex-'98,
are also working there.
1909
Secretary, Frances Browne, 15 East Tenth
Street, New York City.
Dr. Dorothy Child and her sister, Florence,
'05, have gone to France as members of the first
unit of women doctors to be organized in this
country for service in France. The unit num-
bers ten women army doctors, in the service of
the Red Cross. They will be stationed at a
base hospital with Pershing's army 'somewhere
in France.'
Cynthia Wesson is at the head of a Y. M. C. A.
canteen station in the American Artillery Base
in France. Dr. Cockett and two other women
are working with her. There are 4000 men at
the Base and they manage to serve from three
to four hundred a day with hot drinks, food and
amusement.
Shirley Putnam is working as nurses' aid in
the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly.
"Billy" Miller is working in a private hospi-
tal unit in the devastated region of France.
Dr. May Putnam gave up her work with the
Frontier children in Paris to join a Red Cross
Hospital Unit at Evian in Switzerland, where
the repatriated children of France and Belgium
are being taken care of as they pass through
Switzerland on their way back to their homes.
She found there a plant and staff far larger
than was necessary for the work needed at that
particular point. During her stay of two
weeks there were never more than thirty pa-
tients, only six of them really ill, as against
seventy resident doctors, nurses and staff. It
seemed a deplorable misdirection of funds and
working power, which was hard to account for.
May sent in her resignation after two weeks and
returned to Paris where she hopes to find a post
where her services can be of greater value.
1918]
News from the Classes
163
Catherine Goodale (Mrs. Rawson Warren) is
living at the Pig'n Whistle, Brown's Mills, near
Camp Dix.
Gladys Stout (Mrs. R. B. Bowler) is settled
in her apartment at 152 East 40th Street.
Katherine Ecob managed the annual Bryn
Mawr Day at the College Settlement Sale and
Tea Room in December with great success.
1909 had a small reunion on the day of the
College Settlement Sale, at which Celeste Webb,
Fannie Barber, Mary Herr, Hilda Sprague-
smith (Mrs. Victor Starzenski), Marianne
Moore, Mildred Pressinger (Mrs. C. O. von
Kienbusch), Katherine Ecob and Frances
Browne were present.
Fannie Barber is spending the winter in New
York again at 539 West End Avenue.
Helen Crane is working in the Central
Branch of the Y. W. C. A. in New York City.
Celeste Webb has been substituting in the
registrar's office of the National Training School
of the Y. W. C. A. in New York City. She is
now in Baltimore.
Marie Belleville is in Pekin, China, and is
studying at the School of Languages, prepara-
tory to doing Y. W. C. A. work. She is also
doing some teaching of physical work.
Bertha Ehlers has been elected Head of the
Food Production Department of the War
Council of the College.
Mary Herr is teaching English at the Brear-
ley School in addition to her work as librarian
of the school.
Evelyn Holt (Mrs. P. W. Lowry), ex- '09, is
spending the winter in New York. Her hus-
band, Lieutenant Lowry of the 49th Infantry,
U. S. A., has been ill with pneumonia but he
hopes to be able to join his regiment, which is
stationed at Tenafly, shortly after the first of
the year.
Mary Rand (Mrs. Stephen Birch), ex- '09,
has a daughter, Mary Marshall Rand, born
May 2, 1917.
Emily Whitney (Mrs. Allan Briggs), ex-09, is
in Paris with her three children. Her husband,
Captain Briggs, was ordered to this country
from Vienna to report and hoped to be sent
back to Europe. He is now stationed on the
Mexican border.
Barbara Spofford (Mrs. S. A. Morgan) has a
son, John Spofford, born November 13, 1917.
Isabel Goodnow (Mrs. E. K. Gillett), ex-'09,
has a second son, Frank Goodnow, born Octo-
ber 5, 1917.
Mildred Satterlee (Mrs. Dwight Wetmore),
ex- '09, is spending the winter near Camp Dix.
Wrightstown, N. J., where her husband is
stationed.
Frances Ferris, ex-'09, and Dorothy North
passed through Paris several months ago on
their way to join one of the Friends' Reconstruc-
tion units.
Janet Van Hise, ex- '09, is spending the win-
ter at home in Madison, WTis.
Lacy Van Wagenen is now a professional
photographer. Her work is considered excel-
lent and has found its way into many of the
recent photography exhibitions.
Frances Ferris is in France with the Friends
Reconstruction Unit, Anglo-American, of the
Red Cross. Her address is: Missions de la
Societe des Amis, 99 Boulevard de la Rochelle,
Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France. The last letter
received by her mother came Nov. 20, and
since then there has again been active fighting
at Bar-le-Duc. Frances is the only American
with her unit and is eager to get in touch with
other Bryn Mawr people near her. The work
of this unit has been to reclaim an old chateau
for the use of refugees and to make warm
garments. They have to take to the cellar
during air raids.
1910
Secretary, Mrs. H. B. Van Dyne, Troy, Pa.
Elsa Denison (Mrs. Dayton Voorhees) has a
son, Dayton Voorhees, Jr.
Clara Ware was married in August, 1917, to
Hubert Baker Goodrich, associate professor of
biology at Wesleyan University.
Margaret Shearer was married on January 5
to Jewell Kellogg Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
will live at 27 Charlton Street, New York.
Elsie Deems was married on December 20 to
Carol Kane Neilson.
Eleanor Anderson, ex-' 10, was married on
January 5 to Frederick Barber Campbell of
New York.
1911
Correspondent, Margaret J. Hobart, The
Churchman, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York
City.
Mollie Kilner, ex-'ll, was married on Novem-
ber 3 to William S. Wheeler in Portland, Ore-
gon. Mrs. Wheeler has been studying in the
nurses' training school of one of the Portland
hospitals for two years. Mr. Wheeler is in the
ship building business.
164
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[January
Helen Parkhurst is teaching logic and hold-
ing conferences with the students in history of
philosophy at Barnard College. She is living
at 220 Waverly Place, in Greenwich Village.
Charlotte Clafiin has completed four years
of service with the Department of Health of
Newark, N. J., as teacher of infant hygiene, and
has accepted a similar position as infant wel-
fare worker with the Civic League of Framing-
ham, Mass.
Elizabeth Taylor (Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.),
ex-'ll, is doing volunteer legal work for her
local Exemption Board. She has moved into
a new apartment at 29 West 12th Street.
Margaret Prussing (Mrs. A. S. Le Vino),
with her husband and baby, went to California
January 2. They expect to spend six months
there. Their address is: care Metro Studios,
Lillian Way, Hollywood, Cal.
Nine of the New York members of 1911 had
a reunion dinner at the Camouflage in Green-
wich Village on Friday night, December 14,
and went to the theatre (peanut gallery) after-
wards.
Hilpa Schram (Mrs. Darnall Wood) is living
in East Orange, N. J., at 75 Lennox Avenue.
1912
Secretary, Mrs. J. A. MacDonald, 3227 N.
Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
Laura Byrne is teaching English and econo-
mics at the Dominican Junior College at San
Rafael, California.
Florence Leopold (Mrs. Lester Wolf) has
moved from New York and is now living at
Elkins Park, Pa.
Irma Shloss, who was married last April to
Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer, is living at 1808
Ingersoll Avenue, Des Moines, la.
Marjorie Walter (Mrs. H. L. Goodhart) is
staying in Washington during her husband's
service there as lieutenant in the Ordnance
Department.
Leonora Lucas was married to Lieutenant D.
A. Tomlinson on December 1 at Evanston, 111.
Carlotta Welles has returned to France but
expects to spend the latter part of the winter in
California.
1913
Secretary, Nathalie Swift, 156 East 79th
Street, New York City.
Sylvia Hathaway (Mrs. Harold Evans), ex-
'13, has a son, Nathaniel Hathaway Evans,
born in November.
Clara Crocker (Mrs. Courtenay Crocker),
ex-'13, has a son, Courtenay Crocker, Jr.
Mary Tongue is doing canteen work with the
Red Cross in France.
Katherine Schmidt, ex-'13, has been taking
the course for trained attendants in New York.
1914
Secretary, Ida Pritchett, 22 East 91st Street,
New York City.
Elizabeth Ayer has gone to Paris to drive an
automobile for the American Fund for French
Wounded. Her address is care of the Credit
Lyonnais.
Evelyn Shaw (Mrs. John McCutcheon) has a
son, born in November.
1915
Secretary, Katherine W. McCollin, 2049
Upland Way, Philadelphia.
Frances Boyer is teaching Latin at the Bryn
Mawr School in Baltimore.
Margaret Free is in Washington doing psy-
chological work for the Government.
Mary Goodhue is studying at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Mildred Justice is working in the Department
of Employment of the National Bank of Com-
merce of New York. She and Catharine Simp-
son, ex-' 15, are sharing an apartment together.
The following was taken from the Philadelphia
Bulletin of November 15, 1917:
"The marriage of Miss Adrienne Kenyon,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Douglas Kenyon
of New York, and Lieutenant Benjamin Frank-
lin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Franklin
of 166 West Hortter Street, Germantown, was
quietly solemnized yesterday at the home of the
bride's parents, 322 West 100th Street, in the
presence of the immediate families. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Harry Pierce
Nichols. The bride who was given in marriage
by her father, had as her only attendant her
sister, Miss Frieda Kenyon, who was the maid
of honor. Lieutenant Franklin had as his best
man Mr. Douglas Kenyon, a brother of the
bride and a member of the United States section
of the Royal Flying Corps. Lieutenant Frank-
lin was at the first Plattsburgh camp this year
and then at Camp Oglethorpe, Ga., where he
received his commission."
Frances MacDonald was married on Novem-
ber 2 to E. Clarke Stiles of Pittsburgh. Mr.
Stiles was graduated from the Pennsylvania
State College in 1914.
Ruth Newman is in charge of all the girls'
club work at the Spring Street Settlement, New
York City.
1918]
News from the Classes
165
Susan Nichols is acting as a temporary Eng-
lish reader at Bryn Mawr College. She is living
in Penygroes with Emily Noyes and Helen Taft.
Isabel Smith is assistant warden of Pembroke.
Emily Van Horn is secretary to Mr. Sherman
of New York, a member of the United States
Shipping Board.
Julia Harrison, ex-'15, is in the second year
of the Nursing Course at Johns Hopkins.
Marjorie Tappan, ex-'15, is taking graduate
work at Columbia University.
Clarissa Smith was recently married to Henry
Ware.
1916
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 Broad
Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Margaret Mabon, ex-' 16, was married on
October 31 to Dr. David K. Henderson of the
Medical Corps of the British Army and went
abroad with him.
Joanna Ross has announced her engagement
to Murray Chism, Yale, 1916. Mr. Chism is
training at Camp Meade.
Jeanette Greenewald has announced her en-
gagement to Benjamin H. Gordon of New York.
Mr. Gordon is a graduate of Harvard, 1907,
and of the Law School, 1910.
Nannie Gail (Mrs. Reany Wolfe) has a
daughter, born in November, the Class Baby
of 1916.
1917
Natalie McFaden was married on New Year's
Day to Captain Wyndham Boiling Blanton,
M. R. C, of Richmond, Va.
Elizabeth Faulkner, ex-'17, was married on
January 3 to Walter Lacy.
Louise Collins has announced her engagement
to N. Peniston Davis, who returned recently
from Russia where he has been working for the
Y. M. C. A. in the prison camps.
Monica O'Shea's play "The Rushlight" has
been reprinted from the Lantern in The Drama.
1919
"M. Watriss, ex-'19, sailed on the Rochambeau
a few weeks ago to do reconstruction work in
France. She expects to be sent out from Paris,
where she will have her headquarters with Mrs.
Nina Duryea, on relief visits to villages in
northern and eastern France.
"From June to October she took a nurses'
training course, especially shortened for college
women, at the Presbyterian Hospital in New
York and was the first member of the class to
be entrusted with a patient.
"A post has been offered her in Mrs. Mon-
roe's Hospital at Neuilly, where she may spend
part of the winter."
The College News.
LITERARY NOTES
All publications received will be acknowledged in this column. The editor begs that copies of books or articles by or
about the Bryn Mawr Faculty and Bryn Mawr Students, or book reviews written by alumnae, will be sent to the
Quarterly for review, notice, or printing.
BOOKS RECEIVED
Manual of Good English. By H. N. Mac-
Cracken, Ph.D., and Helen E. Sandison,
Ph.D. New York: The MacMillan Com-
pany, 1917. $.90.
This compact manual contains a surprising
amount of material for its size. Its analysis of
usage is logical and clear, and the character and
large number of examples and exercisss give a
special usefulness to the book. The marginal
synopses are a great convenience.
What Makes Christmas Christmas : A moral-
ity play in one act written by Grace Latimer
Jones. Columbus, Ohio: Spahr and Glenn,
1917.
"I pine and I sigh
For no gift and no gold;
The glow in the west
Is treasure to me!"
This verse indicates the reply to the query im-
plied in the title. The play is an attractive one
for Christmas entertainments and is far superior
in setting, theme, and dialogue to the usual oc-
casional plays for girls.
Pageant Scenes. For the observance of the
Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Protes-
tant Reformation. By Marjorie Young.
Boston: The Beacon Press.
In these scenes the author has given a pic-
turesque presentment of one act in the drama
of progressing religious freedom.
The First Annual Report of the Women's
Agricultural Camp at Bedford, N. Y. 1917.
Ida H. Ogilvie is Dean of the Camp.
NOTICE
The Government Committee on Pub-
lic Information, Division of Civic and
Educational Co-operation, is making
a special effort to get its publications
into the hands of college men and women,
faculty, students and alumni alike.
Plans are being made for some person
to look after the business in each in-
stitution, and posters will be provided
calling attention to the booklets with
instructions as to where and to whom
applications should be made. Personal
applications for these booklets made to
the Committee will be welcomed. Ap-
plications for the booklets may be sent
to Mr. Guy Stanton Ford, Director,
Committee of Public Information, Wash-
ington, D. C.
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THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
Elva Lee, '93
Randolph, New York
Campus Editor
Mary Swift Rupert, '18
Rockefeller Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakeley, '16
Freehold, N. J.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Annual Report 1
War Council of Bryn Mawr College 40
Bryn Mawr Service Corps 41
Letters 47
Bulletin of the Patriotic Farm 51
Bryn Mawr College Patriotic Farm 51
Ginling College 53
News from the Campus 55
The Clubs 57
The Classes 58
Literary Notes 64
The College Woman's Plattsburg 65
Contributions to the Quarterly, books for review, and subscriptions should be sent to
the Editor-in Chief, Elva Lee, Randolph, New York. Cheques should be drawn payable
to Bertha S. Ehlers, Denbigh Hall, Bryn Mawr, Pa. The Quarterly is published in Janu-
ary, April, July, and November of each year. The price of subscription is one dollar a
year, and single copies are sold for twenty-five cents each. Any failure to receive numbers
of the Quarterly should be reported promptly to the Editor. Changes of address should
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items may be sent to the Editors.
Copyright. iqi8, by the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College.
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XII
APRIL, 1918
No. 1
TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1917-1918
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
Officers, 1918-1920
President, Louise Congdon Francis (Mrs.
Richard S. Francis), '00, Bryn Mawr, Penna.
Vice-President, Katherine Delano Grant,
(Mrs. Alexander G. Grant), '11, 31 Massa-
chusetts Ave., Boston, Mass.
Recording Secretary, Hilda Worthington
Smith, '10, West Park, N. Y.
Corresponding Secretary, Katherine McCol-
lin, '15.
Treasurer, Bertha Ehlers, '09, Denbigh
Hall, Bryn Mawr, Penna.
OFFICERS OF THE LOCAL BRANCHES
Philadelphia
November, 1916 to November, 1917
Chairman, Elizabeth Bent Clark (Mrs.
Herbert L. Clark), '95, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Vice-Chairman, Julia Cope Collins (Mrs.
William H. Collins), '89, Haverford, Pa.
Secretary-Treasurer, Agnes M. Irwin, '10,
830 South 48th Street, Philadelphia.
Directors, Jacqueline Morris Evans (Mrs.
Edward W. Evans), '08, 151 East Coulter
Street, Germantown, Philadelphia. Katha-
rine W. McCollin, '16, 2049 Upland Way,
Philadelphia.
New York
Chairman, Katherine Ecob, '09, Flushing,
Long Island, New York.
Boston
The officers of the Boston Bryn Mawr Club
act also as Branch Officers.
Baltimore
The Officers of the Baltimore Bryn Mawr
Club act also as Branch Officers.
OFFICERS OF THE BRYN MAWR CLUBS
New York
137 East 40th Street
February, 1918 to February, 1919
President, Barbara Spofford Morgan
(Mrs. Shepard Ashman Morgan), '09, 163
East 80th Street.
Vice President, Helen Howell Moorhead
(Mrs. John Joseph Moorhead), '04.
Secretary, Fannie Skeer Barber, 09,
539 West End Ave.
Treasurer, Dorothy Forster Miller (Mrs.
Rutger Bleecker Miller), '07.
Boston
144 Bowdoin Street
April, 1917 to April, 1918
President, Sylvia Lee, '01, 25 Chauncy Street
Cambridge, Mass.
Vice-President, Sylvia Scudder Bowditch
(Mrs. Ingersoll Bowditch), '01,
Corresponding-Secretary, Anna D. Fry, '99,
The Ludlow, Copley Square.
Recording Secretary, Marion C. Balch
Chairman House Committee, Hannah T.
Rowley, '01,
Chairman, Membership Committee, Eugenia
Jackson Comey (Mrs. Arthur Coleman
Comey), '14, ^
Chicago
Names of Officers not reported.
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Baltimore COMMITTEES
January, 1918 to January, 1919 academic committee
Pauline Goldmark, '96, Chairman,
President, Helen Walkley Irvin, '15, 270W. 94th Street, New York City.1916-1919
1702 Park Place. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, '03. . 1915-1919
Vice-President and Treasurer, Montgomery HeL£N Emerson? ^ 1917-1919
Arthurs Supplee (Mrs. James Franklin Ellen D. Ellis, '01 1917-1920
Supplee), '14. Frances Finke Hand, '98 1917-1921
Secretary, Mildred McCoy, 16 Roland Frances Browne, '09 1917-1921
Park, Md. Esther Lowenthal, '05 1918-1921
p.,, , , Louise Congdon Francis, '00 (ex-officio)
conference committee
May, 1917 to May, 1918
Gertrude Buffum Barrows, '08
President, Sara F. Ellis, '04, 5716 Rippey (Mrs. Richard Lee Barrows),
Street. Chairman, Haverford, Pa 1918-1919
Vice-President, Margaret J. Yost, '16. Mrs. Tenney Frank 1918-1919
Treasurer, Minnie List Chalfant (Mrs. Alice Patterson, '13 1918-1919
Frederick B. Chalfant), '08. Mary Peirce, '12 1918-1919
Secretary, Frances Rush Crawford (Mrs.
R. L. Crawford), '01, 517 Emerson Street. . loan fund committee
Martha G. Thomas, '89, Chairman,
Washington Whitford, Pa 1916-1921
„ , ,„'„ ^ , 4ntn Mary Peirce, '12 1913-1918
October, 1917 to October, 1918 Katherine L. Howell, '06 1914-1919
President, Henrietta S. Riggs, '10, 131 Mary C' Smit?> '14 J91™
Maryland Avenue, N. E. Doris Earle' °3 1917~1922
Vice-President and Treasurer, Marcia committee on athletics
B READY, '05.
Secretary, Madeleine Edison Sloane (Mrs. Maud Dessau, '13, Chairman 1915-1920
J. E. Sloane), '10. Mary G. Branson, '16
Alice Hawkins, '07
St. Louis Frederica Kellogg, '16
Not reported. james e. rhoads scholarships committee
China Marian Porris Smith (Mrs. Wil-
liam R. Smith, Chairman, Low
President, Fanny Sinclair Woods (Mrs. Buildings, Bryn Mawr, Pa 1915-1918
A. H. Woods, '01, Canton Christian College, Julia Cope Collins, '89 1916-1918
Canton. Anne Hampton Todd, '02 1917-1920
Los Angeles health statistics committee
Not reported. Dr. Katherine Porter, '94, Isabel Maddi-
son, Ph.D.; Eleanor L. Lord, Ph.D.
Ohio
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
January, 1918 to January, 1919
Elizabeth Tappan, '10, Chairman,
President, Grace Latimer Jones, '00, 1175 1419 Bolton Street, Baltimore,Md.. 1915-1919
East Broad Street, Columbus. Marion Edwards Park, '98 1917-1921
Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, Elizabeth Lewis Otey, '01 1917-1921
Adeline A. Werner, '16, 1640 East Broad Alice Hearne, '13 1917-1921
Street, Columbus. Josephine Niles, '14 1917-1921
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
Martha G. Thomas, '89, Chairman,
Whitford, Pa 1916-1921
Bertha Eiilers, '09 (ex-offlcio)
Mary Crawford Dudley, '96 1916-1921
Elizabeth B. Kirkbride, '96 1916-1921
Clara Vail Brooks, '97 1916-1921
Elizabeth Caldwell Fountain, '97 . 1916-1921
Mary Peirce, '12 1916-1921
Sibyl Hubbard Darlington, '99. . .1916-1921
Marian Parris Smith, '01 1916-1921
Elizabeth Bent Clark, '95 1916-1921
Caroline McCormick, Slade, '96. .1916-1921
Margaret Bontecou, '09 1916-1921
Margarft Ayer Barnes, '07
Louise Watson, '12, Secretary
Clara Vail Brooks, '97, Chairman
of Sub-Committee on Publicity
ALUMNAE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE
Elizabeth B. Kirkbride, '96,
1406 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
December, 1915 to December, 1921
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft
(Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft), '98
Slatersville, R. I.
December, 1915 to December, 1918
COLLECTORS
ICollectors given in special number.]
THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
February 2, 1918
Mrs. Walcott, the Vice-President, presided,
in the absence of the President.
The reading of the minutes was omitted.
Mrs. Walcott read the annual report of the
Board of Directors, which was accepted. A
rising vote of sympathy was taken for the
families and friends of members of the Alumnae
Association who have died this past year:
Ruth Gentry, Ph.D., Jessie Henry, 1903, and
Elizabeth O'Neill Montgomery, 1898.
Reports of Committees and Branches fol-
lowed.
Miss Haines read the report of the Treasurer,
her final annual report after twenty-seven years
of active service in this office. The report
showed that some of the pledges for the Endow-
ment Fund have not yet been paid in, although
the Fund has been completed.
A rising vote of thanks to Miss Haines for
her long and faithful work as Treasurer was
taken.
Miss Goldmark read the report of the Aca-
demic Committee.
Miss Bontecou read the report of the Finance
Committee.
Mrs. Bancroft and Miss Kirkbride gave
reports from the alumnae members of the
Board of Directors of the College.
As a supplement to the report of the Finance
Committee, Mrs. Brooks outlined a new scheme
for publicity among the alumnae, as a means of
interesting them and keeping them in touch
with the College. Such a plan has been tried
with great success at Yale, with the result that
class collections have tripled in the last year.
As in all advertising schemes, there must be an
initial expense, and to provide for this a motion
was made by Mrs. Bancroft: that the Board of
Directors be empowered to ask the Association for
such an appropriation as may be necessary to
put the publicity campaign of the Alumnae
Association on a business basis. The motion
was passed.
Reports from the Branches came next in
order of business. Mrs. Clark gave the Phila-
delphia report, and Frances Browne the New
York one. The Washington Branch had no
report to make, and the Boston Branch sent a
letter, printed in this issue of the Quarterly.
As A. C. A. Councillor for the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association, Miss Reilly gave an
interesting report.
The report of the Carola Woerishoffer Me-
morial Committee was read.
Mrs. Walcott asked that the Association
ratify all Committee appointments made by
the Board of Directors.
A motion was made that these appointments
be ratified. Passed.
unfinished business
In regard to the proposed amendment to the
By-Laws, tkat the Academic Committee be
increased to nine members, Miss Goldmark
recommended that this change be postponed
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until the next meeting, to give the Committee
time for further consideration of the matter.
Such a motion was made and passed.
Miss McCollin gave a report from the Con-
ference Committee, and suggested that this
Committee should be given a wider scope for
its activity, as at present there is not much for
it to do. The Academic Committee, it was
suggested, might well work in closer coopera-
tion with the Conference Committee, in order
to be in closer touch with the undergraduates.
This closer connection would give the Con-
ference Committee an opportunity to discuss
more important matters.
Miss Dimon reported the request of the
delegates at a special meeting last January for
a collection of slides, pictures, etc., of the
College to be sent on request to schools.
A motion was made that a committtee of three
be appointed to arrange for a collection of slides,
pictures, exhibits, etc., to send to schools, and
that an appropriation of $100 be made for this
purpose.
Mrs. Bancroft thought that the appropria-
tion seemed large.
Miss Dimon explained that there was a real
need for such illustrative material in the pre-
paratory schools, and that the collection might
be made with slight expense, or more elabo-
rately.
Mrs. Johnson suggested that we might
charge the schools for expenses, and so be
reimbursed for the money.
It was suggested that such an exhibit might
be part of the general publicity campaign of
the Finance Committee. Miss Reilly thought
the two should be separate things, as one is to
be among the alumnae themselves, and the
other for schools and clubs. When the A. C. A.
was arranging for college exhibits in Rhode
Island and elsewhere, Bryn Mawr had no
pictures to send. It would be worth while to
fill this demand in order to reach possible
students.
Mrs. Fountain inquired why this was not a
college matter, and asked whether the College
could not arrange to have such a collection to
be sent to schools.
Miss Maddison explained that the College has
no appropriation for such a collection. Many
requests are received for such an exhibit from
schools, but at present there are no good pic-
tures to send. The College would welcome the
cooperation of the Alumnae Association in the
matter. An appropriation of $100 would prob-
ably provide a good collection of panoramic
photographs.
Mrs. Bancroft thought that this was not a
pressing need this year when the College is so
crowded with students that there is no need of
further publicity work.
The question was called for, and the motion
was passed.
Miss Goldmark reported that the Seniors
had made a request to the faculty for a course
in Sex Hygiene, to be given under the Health
Department. Such a course will be given in
the second semester. Miss Goldmark thought
such a request an encouraging sign in the
development of the College.
The meeting adjourned for luncheon in
Pembroke. President Thomas was present at
the luncheon, and made a short speech of
welcome to the alumnae.
AFTERNOON MEETING
The Board of Directors of the Alumnae
Association of Bryn Mawr College offer the
following changes in the By-Laws:
Amend Article IV, Section 1 to read: "The
annual dues for each member of the Associa-
tion shall be two dollars," etc.
Amend Article IV, Section 2, to read "The
dues for each member that enters the Associa-
tion in June shall be one dollar," etc.
Amend Article IV, Section 3, to read "Any
member of the Association may become a
life member of the Association upon payment
at any time of thirty dollars," etc.
These amendments to the By-Laws of the
Association cannot come up for a vote of the
Association until next year. The proposed
amendment was read and put aside to be acted
on at the next annual meeting.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Clark the question
of the deed of gift to the Mary E. Garrett
Endowment Fund and the discussion of the
patriotic farm were postponed until after the
discussion of war relief work.
Miss Reilly reported for the Committee on
War Relief Work as follows:
A Committee of three was appointed late in
November to cooperate with the War Council
and the organization of the College in any work
that they might undertake for the year. The
Committee was composed of Miss Thomas,
Miss Dimon and Miss Reilly, chairman, and
had instructions to cooperate with the War
Council in whatever it undertook in every pos-
sible way, except that it could not pledge the
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Alumnae Association as a whole for any action.
The Committee has cooperated in that spirit
with the War Council of the College.
When the Committee was appointed there
were three propositions before the War Council
which had to be considered in connection with
what should be undertaken as the great war
work of the year. The War Council and the
college community desired not only to do
something which would involve a large sum
of money, but which would include the service
of Bryn Mawr women. A tremendous amount
of work has been done in the College, Red Cross,
relief and social work, and an astonishing
amount of money has been raised, considering
the size of Bryn Mawr. We cannot stress too
strongly the activities and financial support of
the College for its war work. They felt that
they could raise only a small sum to contribute
towards this large particular job which they
could undertake — $10,000, and would have to
cooperate with some association from the out-
side, preferably the Alumnae Association.
The three possibilities before them were as
follows :
LAY. M. C A. hut, which meant the rais-
ing of $30,000 to be paid over directly to the
Y. M. C. A. with the possible employment of
four to six Bryn Mawr women as canteen
workers under the Y. M. C. A.
2. A unit to be sent abroad under the aus-
pices of the Red Cross, or American Fund for
French WTounded on the lines of the Smith
unit. The initial expense of this would be
$30,000, with additional expense afterwards.
The criticism of these two propositions was
that the Y. M. C. A. hut seemed to be open to
the objection that it did not leave much room
for the service of Bryn Mawr women and in-
volved a large fixed sum of money. The criti-
cism of the Bryn Mawr unit was the question
of money and workers of definite type to be
placed in one locality. It was felt that Bryn
Mawr might not have sixteen available women
of that type for a unit and might not be able to
raise the exact amount of money required. It
also seemed that there might be a great number
of individuals who could go but could not go as
a unit. A number of units had already been
organized to go abroad and too many units
might become a burden if they could not be
used to meet changed conditions and shifting
circumstances.
3. Out of the objections grew the idea of a
Bryn Mawr Sendee Corps, a unit in the sense
that it is financed from one source and one
fund, but made up of individuals who can be
placed in those positions and sent out under
organizations to countries in which they can
be of particular service (i.e., ten good doctors
could be placed in different places under dif-
ferent organizations). The unit would be mak-
ing use of individual Bryn Mawr women of
experience and training in positions and coun-
tries where they would be of greatest use.
The Service Corps would give variety and
opportunity for any work which it seemed
might appeal to the Alumnae Association as a
whole, — reconstruction, relief work, Y. M. C. A.
canteen work and also would leave us a little
free to enter any other line of work that might
come up. Publicity work for the government
could be done under a Service Corps, and also
if educational work of definite character comes
up later on would leave scope for it. It would
also make it possible to use money as it comes
in and not have to wait until it is all collected.
It takes $2000 to $3000 to support one worker
abroad now. The Service Corps would enable
us to make use of a great variety of trained
people and the tremendous interest in work in
the foreign field now and at home in the
future. It appealed to the undergraduate
committee and to the War Council.
Two mass meetings were held at the College.
The meeting in December decided definitely
and unanimously on the Service Corps, and at
the meeting the Alumnae Committee offered
cooperation in every way, and agreed to present
it to the alumnae.
The next question was whether it was a
workable scheme and could be carried out well.
Dr. Rufus Jones, of the Friends' Reconstruc-
tion Work said that that committee would be
glad to send Bryn Mawr women. (Two Bryn
Mawr alumnae are already working with the
Friends' Reconstruction unit in Russia.) The
Red Cross officials in Washington also said
that they would be delighted to have Bryn
Mawr women sent out under these circum-
stances, and that from the pressure of public
opinion they were almost compelled to take as
workers only people who came as volunteers
and did not need salaries. They said that
there is a need for teachers as well as for doc-
tors, executives, etc. (Bryn Mawr is repre-
sented in the Y. M. C. A. by Mrs. Slade, who is
chairmarT of the Personnel Committee, and in
the Y. W. C. A. by Mrs. Robert E. Speer.)
We have working abroad at present sixty
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Bryn Mawr women, working with all sorts of
organizations. The idea is to connect up with
the Bryn Mawr women abroad and get from
them information as to whether they need
assistance, etc. and information about work
now going on abropd.
The only complication is tfot there is now
some feeling in the undergraduate body that
they might wish to take further action on the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps, and in taking any
action we ought to take it either independently
or with some view as to the action of the College
in taking back its support of the Service
Corps
About $30,000, would have to be raised
immediately as a nucleus. We hope very
much that we may cooperate with the College
because it is essential that the college com-
munity should not only have a money raising
interest in the war but should be in touch with
the great work being done, and Bryn Mawr
women working with their support could give
them this, which will be very valuable in the
future. We really want to make our trained
women count in the work of the world which is
to come, and to do this we must have women
who have worked abroad.
The Committee was authorized to cooperate
with the War Council, and as soon as they
decided on the Service Corps, it took steps
toward^ raising funds. The first pledge of
$500 came from Mrs. Alba Johnson. Other
amounts have also been promised, and a num-
ber of volunteers who could go in the immediate
future, some of whom can support themselves
in part, offered themselves. Arrangements
have been discussed for raising this fund locally
through Branches.
The Committee would make the following
recommendations in regard to the organiza-
tion of the Service Corps:
1. Funds for the Service Corps should be
raised by the Department of Red Cross and
Allied Relief of the College, and by the Alum-
nae Association.
2. That the Association appoint a committee
of three to carry on the work of collection of
funds and the enrollment for the Service Corps
among the alumnae and former students of the
College.
3. That a Committee of six be appointed as
an Executive Committee for the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps, the three members of the Alum-
nae Committee, and three members of the
College War Council. It is recommended that
the three members from the College War
Council should be the Chairman of the War
Council, the Chairman of the Committee on
Red Cross and Allied Relief, and a member from
the faculty.
4. The function of this Executive Committee
shall be to make final decisions and arrange-
ments for all members of the Service Corps
and to expend the funds.
5. That the Treasurer be empowered to
receive the moneys raised for the Service
Corps including the amount raised by the
Department of Red Cross and Allied Relief,
if they so desire.
A suggestion was made that the names of all
Bryn Mawr women working abroad be posted
at College as a sort of service list.
Mrs. Slade, representing the Personnel Com-
mittee of the Y. M. C. A. spoke in favor of
establishing a Y. M. C. A. Canteen Unit.
[Mrs. Slade's speech appears at the end of this
article.]
Miss Reilly: I think we shall eventually have
ten women for canteen work, but my idea of a
Service Corps is to use our money as soon as
we can.
Mrs. Slade: I will take Bryn Mawr women
one by one as fast as you can send them to us.
Miss Reilly: I therefore place before the
association a recommendation that they adopt
the Service Corps for War Relief Work.
Dr. Tracy: My information in regard to the
foreign work is entirely the work of medical
women. Facts are proving that the more
flexible unit is found to be the most satis-
factory form in so far as the work of medical
women is concerned. The American Women's
Hospitals Committee is an organization brought
together by the War Service Committee. Dr.
Morton presented the platform of the organiza-
tion to the authorities in Washington upon its
organization, and Dr. Morton was asked to go on
the General Medical Board. From that time as
the movement has grown, most of the women
physicians who have been sent abroad have been
sent after recommendation by this organization,
and the authorities in Washington now look to
Dr. Morton's committee for the candidates
whom they shall send abroad. That organiza-
tion now is definitely making plans to raise
$300,000 with which to send over a hospital
equipment to be placed in France, and later
one for Servia, from which they want to send
dispensary units and units for civilian relief,
doing independent work although connected
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with the hospital. In these units there will be
the greatest need not only for doctors and
nurses but also for college women who have
done social service work, and the organization
is exceedingly anxious to have affiliations with
college women who are organized for such work.
I would like to suggest that the committee shall
get in touch with Dr. Walker, of the American
Women's Hospitals Committee, so that they
may find the place for women physicians and
nurses, graduates of Bryn Mawr to place them
where they can be of greatest service.
Miss Helen Taft: The important considera-
tion in connection with the Service Corps is
that it allows so much flexibility and so much
change of plan according to change of circum-
stances. It is quite possible that at present
the greatest need for workers is in the Y. M. C.
A. in France, but we feel that the circum-
stances and reports from abroad change so
often as to what is needed that if we commit
ourselves to some one unit and some definite
undertaking things might change and we might
find ourselves left with something on our hands
which might not be the most useful thing we
might be doing, and that is why the plan for
the Service Corps was chosen instead of Recon-
struction work or a Y. M. C. A. hut. Although
we undoubtedly would want to send workers
to the Y. M. C. A. and the Red Cross if we
work in connection with them and supply them
with the best people, we would be filling their
essential need without putting ourselves in the
position of supporting a unit which might
possibly not be needed in exactly the circum-
stances under which it was started. We also
had a feeling that people ought to be willing to
serve as individuals where needed rather than
go in a group as Bryn Mawr graduates. They
should be willing to go where they were needed
and not insist on being kept together when
they get to France. There has arisen consider-
able embarrassment from the fact that units
heretofore have insisted on being kept together,
which made it difficult to use them freely and
effectively. This was really the reason why
we decided on the Service Corps and I think
that if it could be combined with the idea of
the Y. M. C. A. it would be more satisfactory
than if the Alumnae Association and College
were to pledge themselves to a definite unit
under one organization.
Miss Macintosh: Another point in favor of
the Service Corps in collecting funds is that
people might give through Bryn Mawr to
funds in which they were particularly inter-
ested. None of the objections seem to hold
good against the Service Corps. It meets the
demands of all those who are urging spec:al
cases. Anything fits in.
Mrs. Slade: I think the Service Corps is the
finest idea I have heard from any college, far
and away the finest.
Miss Reilly (In answer to a question about
including in the Service Corps Bryn Mawr
alumnae to do War Work in this country) :
Bryn Mawr alumnae are doing so much in
this country that not very much could be
added to the work of Bryn Mawr alumnae in
this country. The really great work :s to
supply the need for workers abroad.
The motion for the adoption of a Service
Corps as the form of War Relief Work was unani-
mously passed.
The motion as to the organization of such a
Service Corps was also passed unanimously.
Miss Goldmark: The question arises as to
whether we should specify that an alumnae
member be chairman of the committee as the
alumnae will be responsible for the funds and
for the work.
Miss Reilly: We felt that in this the initiative
had come from the War Council and that it
seemed that the matter of a chairman was not
of very great concern. We felt that if we had
the attitude of meeting the undergraduates on
equal terms it would be desirable. We should
not take the attitude of being more important.
All the recommendations of the Committee
as to organization were adopted unanimously.
Miss Dimon: The Board should be empow-
ered to fill vacancies on the Committee of
three.
A motion that a committee of three be appointed
by the Board of Directors was then passed with
the recommendation that the members of the
present committee shoidd remain in office: Miss
Thomas, Miss Dimon, Miss Reilly, Chairman.
The next subject of discussion was the
Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm.
Miss Goldmark: I hope that I am opening a
good deal of discussion on the question of
Bryn Mawr's participating in the great food
movement. It seems to me that Bryn Mawr
made a very remarkable showing last summer
with very little preparation and through the
energy and ability of a very few of the alumnae
without the support of the alumnae as a whole.
The farm was eminently successful. Bryn
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market this winter pretty successfully in being
able to get its vegetables directly from that
farm. It was the best agricultural experi-
ment that any college or institution has carried
on with so little preparation, It is high time
for the Alumnae Association to get back of the
proposition. It is as much our job as this
fine foreign work we are going to do. I think
that the proposition of getting funds for it,
even up to $7000 should be undertaken at once
by the Alumnae Association because that
money is going to come back this year with a
good deal more success. People last year got
back a little less than half of what they gave
as a gift. I hope very much that we shall be
able to get pledges and begin getting seeds
next week.
Miss Hilda Loines: There is great necessity
for agricultural production this year. The
food condition will probably be worse this
coming year than in the past and America
must make up for the deficiency of the rest of
the word, and we must increase our acreage.
From all parts of the country have come the
reports that the farmers are not going to in-
crease their acreage but decrease it because
they have no labor in sight at present. There
is also the transportation shortage, another
reason why it is so important for every com-
munity to be self-supporting just so far as it
can be. This is the great service which the
B ryn Mawr farm rendered last year. It released
food for the army abroad and released space in
the cars which is so valuable at the present
time. I think it will be a valuable contribu-
tion of Bryn Mawr to the work of the country
for this year.
Miss Goldmark (in answer to a question as to
where the funds were to come from) : It is alto-
gether a volunteer movement. The Alumnae
Association fund will not be called upon but
we pledge ourselves to raise the fund among
ourselves and the friends of the College and not
from the alumnae treasury.
Miss Ehlers (in answer to a question about
the use of the grounds and equipment of the
Baldwin School for the coming summer): The
Baldwin School simply offers its plant because
it has large kitchens excellently equipped for
canning, etc. Miss Johnson has offered what-
ever part of the building we wish. The school
itself takes care of the reception rooms and the
part of the building it keeps open for the sum-
mer. It gives in addition electric light, cold
storage and steam equipment. Miss Johnson
wants the plant used for patriotic purposes
and has not the time to organize such work
herself, and gives it over to the college, asking
only that alumnae and teachers of the school
who wish to work have the privilege of working
with us, and asking for the privilege of buying
surplus food, as the College did this year, at the
market prices.
Miss Kirk: I think some acknowledgement
ought to be made of this splendid offer.
Miss Ehlers: Miss Johnson also offers a
truck which makes it possible to deliver surplus
products.
We hope moreover to have enough surplus
labor as a small land squad to supply the de-
mand for workers in the neighborhood. Some-
one asked the other day whether we could
possibly supply workers in Chestnut Hill, and
I thought that it could be done. The Baldwin
School offers possibilities of indefinite expansion
and can be cut down as low as necessary.
(Miss Johnson's offer also includes 5 acres of
land for cultivation.)
The resolution that the Alumnae Association
guarantee the fund for the Patriotic Farm for
next year was passed unanimously.
Whereas food production during the period
of the war is a national service to which the
Bryn Mawr alumnae pledge their support, and
Whereas, the Bryn Mawr Farm last sum-
mer proved its value by supplying vegetables
and fruits for the College during the winter
months and thus relieved the demand on
public markets, be it
Resolved, that the Alumnae Association
authorize its Directors to appoint a Bryn
Mawr Farm Committee consisting of three
members to cooperate with the Department of
Food Production of the War Council of Bryn
Mawr College in securing the best available
farm land and in organizing and directing a
land squad of undergraduates, alumnae and
others for the cultivation of crops; be it further
Resolved, that the committee be given power
to accept the cooperation offered by the Bald-
win School in the use of its equipment and
grounds; and be it finally
Resolved, that the Alumnae Association
appeal to its members to raise a guarantee
fund of $7000 for this purpose.
A vote of thanks was then moved to Miss
Johnson for her very generous offer.
Miss Goldmark: I think that this oppor-
tunity should not go by without having alum-
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nae, who want to, make application at once in
regard to their pledges for the guarantee fund.
Miss Elders: One other suggestion about
the farm. The Farm Committee think
might very well consider not only our own
twenty acres here and the small Land Squad
to be sent out from this particular center but
the possibility of having Bryn Mawr alumnae
go into other centers as the kind of leaders
described by Miss Ogilvie last night to work
in any other sense that the Land Army of
America might include. I would suggest
that information be spread among alumnae
that alumnae are wanted just as much as
undergraduates on our own farm and in the
Land Squad.
Dr. Marion Parris Smith: May I bring to
the attention of members of the Alumnae
Association who own land that it is perfectly
possible to get plenty of the very best labor
from our own undergraduate body, students
who are not able to go to work on the Bryn
Mawr farm but could work in other parts of
the country, the possibility of small units to
work on their own places in other parts of the
country? It is not only a necessity but a duty
for every land owner to use his land to the
utmost of its capacity whether he make or
lose money by it. We will be glad to give
information about a unit of five who operated
four acre- and a cannery last summer.
Mrs. Jeanes: I am very glad that a general
appeal was made for enrollment in this work.
I know of five other units to be organized in
the neighborhood of Philadelphia, so there will
be plenty of opportunities for anv who are
interested at all in this service.
Miss Ogilvie: I hope very much that the
news will spread among the alumnae and among
those not connected with the College, and also
friends. We are going to use a great many
people on the land in different communities.
They can be used in various capacities: people
for hard work; people of executive ability to be
at the heads; book-keeping as well as expert
agricultural work.
Mrs. Johnson then presented the following
resolution.
Resolved, that the Finance Committee be
authorized, subject to the approval of the Board
of Directors, to prepare the necessary agreement
for the transfer of the Mary E. Garrett Endow-
ment Fund. This motion was passed.
Miss Kirkbride then offered resolutions for the
Finance Committee, about the Deed of Gift:
1. Whereas Section 7 of the Resolutions of
February 4, 1911, in regard to the terms of a
future deed of gift reads as follows:
Resolved, that when the next addition is made
to the Fund, the Directors of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege be asked to accept a new deed of gift for
the entire Alumnae Academic Endowment
Fund embodying these resolutions in place of
the deeds of gift of 1909 and 1910 and whereas
it seems expedient to put this resolution into
effect at the present time, therefore be it
Resolved, that the Directors of Bryn Mawr
College be asked to accept a deed for the Mary
E. Garrett Endowment Fund on the general
lines of the deed of 1909, and that the con-
sideration of a new deed for the entire fund be
postponed.
2. The Association at a special meeting held
May 7, 1910, voted to accept the offer of the
Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College to
name a professorship in recognition of each
$100,000 to enable the college to receive the
gift of the General Education Board. Over
$200,000 was given at that time, $100,000 for
Endowment and $53,000 for debt, this entitling
the Association to name two Chairs, but the
names have never been given. It is now pro-
posed to name these two Chairs in the two
departments which head the list in the program,
i.e., Greek and Latin, and to name the Mary
E. Garrett Chair for the third department in
the program, i.e., English.
Resolved, that in consideration of gifts made
to the College by the Alumnae Association in
1910 the Directors of Bryn Mawr College be
requested to name the professorships of Greek
and Latin the Alumnae Professorship of Greek,
and the Alumnae Professorship of Latin.
3. Whereas the alumnae of Bryn Mawr
College and the undergraduates of the years
1915-1917 wish to express in a fitting memorial
their gratitude for the long and generous serv-
ices of Mary E. Garrett to the College, and
whereas it was ordered by the Alumnae Asso-
ciation on January 29, 1916, that this memorial
should take the form of a professorship to be
named in honour of Mary E. Garrett and that
the next installment of $100,000 of the Alum-
nae Academic Endowment Fund be presented
to the College for this purpose, therefore be it
Resolved, that as soon as $100,000 have been
collected the Board of Directors of the Alum-
nae Association be empowered to transfer this
sum to the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College
under a deed of gift in substantially the form
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exhibited to the meeting and which was ordered
to be made a part of the minutes.
These three resolutions were passed unani-
mously.
Miss Kirkbride then read the terms of the
Deed of Gift which were accepted unanimously.
This Indenture, made this
day of A. D. 1918, between the
Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College, a
corporation organized under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, of the
first part, hereinafter called the "Donor," and
the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, a corpora-
tion organized under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of Pennsylvania, of the second
part, hereinafter calle^ the "Donee,"
Whereas, it is the intention of the Donor to
add to the Endowment of Bryn Mawr College
a fund to be known as "The Mary E. Garrett
Alumnae Endowment Fund," of which the
income may be used for Academic salaries;
And Whereas, it is the intention of Donor
in making this gift to increase salaries paid to
associate professors and professors, and not to
enable the Donee to expend for other purposes
money which but for this gift would have been
used to pay professors or associate professors;
And Whereas, the Donor, at a meeting of
its members duly called, passed a resolution as
follows:
Resolved: that as soon as $100,000 have
been collected the Board of Directors of the
Alumnae Association be empowered to transfer
this sum to the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College
under a deed of gift in substantially the form
exhibited to the meeting and which was ordered
to be made a part of the minutes.
Now This Indenture Witnesseth, That
the donor for the purposes above mentioned
has given, granted and confirmed, and by
these presents does give, grant and confirm
unto the Donee, its successors and assigns, the
sum of One- Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,-
000.) In Trust, to invest the same and keep
invested, and use the income thereof in accord-
ance with the following conditions and for the
following purposes:
1. It shall be held as a fund for the endow-
ment of a Chair to be known as "The Mary
E. Garrett Alumnae Chair of English."
2. The annual income of the fund shall be
devoted primarily to the payment of the salary
of the holder of the endowed Chair. If, in
order that disproportionate salaries in the
College shall not be paid, it is deemed inadvis-
able by the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr
College to pay the whole of said fund in any
year to the holder of the endowed Chair, the
surplus shall be used in that or any subsequent
year to increase the salaries of associate pro-
fessors (primarily those who are receiving less
than Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($2,500) a year) and second the salaries of
full professors, and, provided, that the amount
which but for this endowment would be re-
quired to be expended for the salary of the
holder of the Chair endowed, shall be used in
the same manner to increase the salaries of
associate professors and of full professors.
3. The Donee shall have full power to invest
the fund at its discretion without being re-
stricted to so-called legal securities, provided
that no part of it shall be invested in halls of
residence for students.
4. The Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr
College shall make an annual report of the
fund, showing income, expenditures, and invest-
ments, to the Board of Directors of the Donor.
5. If any of the terms of this deed are not
carried out, the fund hereby granted shall
revert to the Donor, and its successors: Pro-
vided, however, that the terms of the deed
may be changed by the mutual consent of the
Donor and Donee, upon request of the Board
of Directors of Bryn Mawr College.
6. If gifts are made for the Endowment
Fund of the College, conditional upon the
raising of other funds, it is agreed that the
gift hereby made may be treated and used as a
part of such funds to be raised by the College:
Provided, that the conditions herein contained
are not altered by the conditions imposed by
the donors of such other gifts.
7. It is mutually understood and agreed
that the terms of this deed are to bind the
successors and assigns of the parties hereto.
In Witness Whereof, the Donor, the
Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College,
has caused this Indenture to be signed by its
President, attested by its Secretary, and its
corporate seal to be hereto affixed, and the
Donee, the Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,
has caused this Indenture to be signed by its
Chairman, attested by its Secretary, and its
corporate seal to be hereto affixed the day and
year first above written.
Alumnae Association
of Bryn Mawr College,
By
President.
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Attest:
Secretary.
Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,
By —
President.
Attest:
Secretary
Miss Reilly announced an informal confer-
ence about the Service Corps in Pembroke
East at seven thirty, which all alumnae were
invited to attend.
Mrs. Esrey Johnson announced that $780
had been raised for the Farm Fund, and Miss
Reilly that $515, had been raised for the Serv-
ice Corps.
The Secretary than read the result of the
election of officers, as follows:
For President:
Louise Congdon Francis, '00 384
'Jeanne Kerr Fleischmann, '10 155
Vice-President:
Johanna Kroeber Mosenthal, '00 170
Catherine Delano Grant, '11 379
Recording Secretary
Alice M. Hawkins, '07 129
Hilda W. Smith, '10 403
Corresponding Secretary,
Margaret Bontecou, '09 380
Isabel Benedict, '14 133
Treasurer,
Bertha Ehlers, '09 558
Katharine McCollin, '15 137
Result of Election for Academic Committee
Grace Latimer Jones 267
Esther Lowenthal 271
Respectfully submitted,
Hilda W. Smith, Secretary
MRS. SLADE'S SPEECH ON Y. M. C. A.
CANTEEN WORK
I feel that the plan which I wish to present
could be done under the Service Corps, and
first let me tell you how I came to be interested
in this work. It was last spring after the entry
of the United States into war. Both the
British and the Canadian government sent men
here to tell our President what the condition
in the camps had been and what dangers troops
face before they get to the trenches. Major
Burke said that the first group of Canadian
soldiers sent over were landed and sent to
Salisbury Plain, that there was no one to look
out for them, they had all the liquor they could
possibly drink, and were open to every evil
influence with nothing to counteract it. The
majority of these men came down with venereal
disease. More of these troops were incapaci-
tated through venereal disease than through
German guns. He said we did not take in,
any of us, the frightful home-sickness that
came to those boys going abroad. Most of
them had never been across and were lost, and
he said the only answer we have found has
been through the Y. M. C. A. huts which we
place up to the edge of the trenches so that they
are the last thing the man sees before he goes
into the trench, and the first thing he sees when
he comes out. Men can not do all of the
Y. M. C. A. work. One woman can do more
than 100 men in creating an "atmosphere/*
a new word in war.
The British, Canadian and French have
found this out. The first thing that General
Pershing did was to cable over here to tell
our government that they must give the Y. M.
C. A. every possible facility and that they must
bring women over and that they must bring
them at once.
I did nothing at the time, but in August when
I was taking what I considered a perfectly
deserved holiday, Gertrude Ely walked into
camp one day. She had been working for six
weeks in a Y. M. C. A. hut on this side. She
came to talk over going to Europe for the huts
over there, and did not know really where her
duty lay. We talked all that evening and all
night, and just about sunrise she said, "Well,
I have to take the train and go back, and I
have decided that I will go, but you will have
to stand behind me." And since then it has
been my duty to find women to go over, and
find women who will stand behind her, and
behind the boys.
It is not difficult to find women to go over,
but very hard to find the best women in the
country to go, which is what they must have.
The vast majority of women who have gone
over have made good, and few have not suc-
ceeded. I come down finally to the belief that
what we have to have is a combination some-
thing like this, a trained woman who is able
to adapt herself to circumstances with great
rapidity, who can be absolutely understanding of
a situation, absolutely sympathetic, and utterly
impersonal. Now to my mind college training
does help" you in these lines. College women
seem to be able to do that particular sort of
thing. They seem to be able to throw them-
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selves whole-heartedly into a game and keep
on the outside and look at it at the same time.
For doctors and nurses to go into this work
would seem wrong, or for agriculturists, but
for women who are not needed it seems to me
the opportunity of their lives. Telegrams come
saying "Send us finer women." "Get the
best you have in America." "The oppor-
tunity here is endless." Even General Pershing
cables saying, "We must get the best women
that America has."
We need trained and educated women to do
canteen service because it is an entering wedge.
You do anything that comes along and has to
be done; you get your opportunity to hold on
to these men. It is a case of building up the
morals of the army.
My idea of a unit came about in this way.
Why do you not arrange to have the Bryn
Mawr unit sent under the Y. M. C. A. to be
put in some place where they can be used?
They are going to be asked to choose their own
leader, the one person who will be responsible
for the others. The whole thing is under army
orders and restrictions.
The plan that I made out was to ask the
other women's colleges. Let us have a group
of Bryn Mawr women, the best group that
you can give us to go over under the Y. M. C. A.
Our specific task is to take care of our boys
over there. I want a Bryn Mawr unit; I can
not go home without feeling we are going to
have it; I want a group of Bryn Mawr women
to go and work out such a high type of organi-
zation that it can be copied in the other camps.
Send me women who can teach, women who
can teach anything. Soldiers are so eager for
something to take them out of themselves.
There are two professors from Grinnell holding
classes in higher mathematics, which are so
popular that they had to repeat them to get
all the men in who wanted to attend them.
(Mrs. Slade then read a letter describing the
canteen work, a copy of which is attached.)
Now for the plan. It costs about $2000 a
year to maintain a worker for a year and pay
her expenses. A unit of ten would cost $20,000.
This money will be raised and the women will
be sent over. We can just as well ask the
friends of Bryn Mawr to give an extra $20,000
in addition to the $30,000 planned for. Money
seems the least thing. Appoint a Personnel
Committee and decide upon the women whom
you want to represent Bryn Mawr among the
American soldiers and I shall be glad to get
their passports and send them over.
LETTER
"On active service with the American
Expeditionary Force, Y. M. C. A. U. S.
Army P. O.
France, December 30, 1917.
"Dear Ann:
By this time you people may think that
and I have gone West, for I have re-
ceived no mail so far from the States, so don't
know whether my cables, etc., ever went
through. I can hardly believe that I have
been out of the United States over a month
Our canteen, crude as it would seem to you,
is one of the best camp canteens running. We
have a good-sized portable hut with mud floor
and canvas windows. The rats are so plenti-
ful that the air holes around the base of the
building are numerous. There are two small
camp stoves in the front and center of the
place and at the end are the canteen counter
and kitchen. Back of the counter we have
boards on the floor and so we don't freeze fast
when we stop moving for a minute. It's really
very comfortable and the crowd we are with
are splendid. But I must not get my cart
before the horse. To proceed, the counter
end of the hut has a camp cook stove and it is
truly marvelous what can be done on that
leaky, smoky thing, it takes in splendid fashion.
None of us ought to catch anything for the
place is so filled with smoke, tobacco and wood
that when things get under way you can't
see more than three yards before you. Never-
theless we all love it and I for one would be
completely broken-hearted if I had to come
home.
I find that running a girl's camp for three
years stands me in good stead here, otherwise I
should be simply swamped at the amount of
supplies and the large quantities of things that
must be prepared. We serve hot lemonade,
cocoa, coffee, jam, meat and cheese sandwiches,
canned peaches, pears, soups and pork and
beans. Then each day some little extra is
baked up, such as mince pies, cake, etc. . .
The canteen is open from 11.30 in the morn-
ing until 8.30 at night. We have to report at
9 to get things prepared. There are five other
women on the place with us so there is no
overwork. Each woman has one night off a
week, one day off and every three months one
week off. Sunday is my day off, hence the
letter.
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And I'd give anything under the sun, I think,
to be back in the States for just one-half hour,
be able to condense the population of the
country so that they would just about fill the
assembly hall and then get at them. Good
heavens, it drives me mad when I stop to
think of what we as a nation could do, what we
have done and what is left to be done. You
people in the States have no more idea of the
conditions over here than a mouse in your
bread tin. The spirit here is wonderful, and
we have as many French soldiers as we have
Americans so one can judge fairly well. Of
course I come more closely in contact with our
army and I am more and more impressed with
the fact that an American soldier is the biggest-
hearted thing on earth.
By the way before I forget it, I'm enclosing
a list of books that are really very much in
demand among our men. The girls' organiza-
tion could get at this as well as magazines.
They are simply wild for reading material.
. . . Warm gloves I find are another
thing badly needed. One of the boys who
drives our car for us, wears a pair of woolen
gloves out about in a day.
The Christmas mail came in in fine style both
for the canteen workers and for the boys. It
was touching to see those boys insist on having
Ruth and me share their Christmas, they knew
we wouldn't get any mail and around they
came with candy, gum and cake. The canteen
crowd looked after us in a lovely way, and as
we just landed the Saturday before Christmas
I think we appreciated it even more because
they were extremely busy and we were absolute
strangers. I suppose I ought to close, but I
must tell you a little more about our Christmas.
I have had some unusual Christmases, but
this will always stand out as the most impres-
sive, I think.
Christmas Eve we did not open until 5.30.
We divided our people into groups and with
the volunteer help of the soldiers started out
for Christmas trees, holly, mistletoe and greens.
We had three huts to trim and when we were
through it certainly did look beautiful. The
tree in the hilt was a dear, we covered the base
with moss. One of the girls had sent for
candles and trimmings from Paris so it was
finished up in true American style. Our hut
has electric lights, when they are on, each one
had a red shade so when promptly at 5.30 the
doors were open the candles lighted and the
lights turned on we were very proud of our-
selves. A French band gave us music from 5
to 6 and played, mind you, all the up-to-date
American rags. When the soldiers came in an
odd thing happened in a good many cases. It
isn't often you see a man give way to emotion
but some of the youngsters in the crowd nearly
broke down, and man after man as they came
to the counter to give their orders, thanked us
for having the trees and started to tell about
their families and how homesick they were.
One boy in particular I shall remember, a great
big baby-faced youngster had had no box as
yet, and when I told him I couldn't get any
Christmas mail because I hadn't been over
long enough so that I was just as homesick as
he, what did he do but chase out of the hut
and return in a few minutes with two German
hand grenades and six rapid fire gun cartridges,
things he had been collecting to take home.
They were for me and there was no refusing
him. I took them and gave him two pieces of
mince pie in return. Needless to say I never
had a present, nor never hope to have one,
that I shall prize as much as this particular
offering. It spoke volumes.
In the middle hut we put on an entertain-
ment, the men having built a fine stage for
us ... . Scenes from Dickens' "Christ-
mas Carol." We had some dear little French
peasant children and found enough soldiers
with talent to complete the cast, the women's
parts, of course, we easily filled from our own
group. It took very well.
One of the Captains had got together men
for a choir and they had practiced Christmas
music, so they had a part on the programme,
and they went around the camp and town
singing.
We were lucky to have with us one of the best
known of the American clergy working among
the troops in France, Bishop Israel, of northern
Pennsylvania. He conducted the Christmas
service in the middle hut Christmas morning.
I don't think I have ever attended a communion
service that carried me out of myself so much.
After the service we went down to the hospital
with the choir and sang in some of the wards,
and where we couldn't go inside we sang by
the windows. How the men who were well
enough did clap and call for more.
We couldn't have had better weather, ex-
tremely cold, ice and snow, a full moon and
more or less sunshine during the day. What
more could one ask fdr at Christmas time?
There's a heavy mist tonight so no doubt the
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Boche will try to entertain us in some way
before morning.
I'm jumping around here on topics so no
one would ever think I had once upon a time
in the dim ages tried to teach unity, coherence,
etc., in composition work. However, I'm
just putting down what comes into my mind,
when it comes for fear I'll forget it. Add
popular music to that list of things the boys
need and to be real selfish if any of you people
get hold of any good books or the Atlantic,
etc. send them along for the women. We are
destitute of reading material and can't get
any of the better magazines or books in Paris.
Best wishes to you all for a bright 1918. I
can tell you now America will never see me
until the war is over, and I'm not sure if it will
then. There is too much to be done here that
only a woman can do, and the French woman
as a class is absolutely inadequate to the
occasion.
Best love to you,
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION
We meet here today feeling more than ever
the importance of an institution such as Bryn
Mawr in its movement towards the organized
intelligence of women, in its encouragement of
patriotism and of all the activities which patrio-
tism implies. Our interest centres in the deci-
sion which this Association will make in the
afternoon in regard to War Relief Work, but
we must not lose sight of the details which make
our alumnae a force for efficiency in any kind
of work, war or peace.
I wish that Mrs. Kellogg might have been
here to lead the meeting and present the report
of the Board of Directors of the Association.
It is with regret that I most inadequately take
her place.
Our routine work has of course gone on as
usual. Through the resignation of Mrs.
Francis we were left without a recording secre-
tary, and appointed in her place Hilda Worth-
ington Smith.
In the Academic Committee there have been
many changes. Gertrude Hartman resigned
almost immediately upon her election, and was
followed in office by Esther Lowenthal. Last
month Frances Fincke Hand and Ellen Ellis
found themselves unable to continue in office,
and the Board appointed Katherine Lord and
Bertha Rembaugh.
Jane Haines on account of illness was obliged
for some months to delegate her arduous task
as treasurer of the Association and Elizabeth
Kirkbride nobly responded by giving us gene-
rously of her valuable time.
During Easter week there was a meeting of
the A. C. A. in Washington, to which the
following delegates were appointed by the
Board:
Marcia Brady, '05; Florence Hatton Kelton,
'15; Marion Parris Smith, '01; Martha Thomas,
'89; Amy Rock Ransome, '93; Aurie Thayer
Yoakam, '99; Mary Kilpa trick, '00; Cornelia
Halsey Kellogg, '00; Johanna Kroeber Mosen-
thal, '00; Lucy Lombardi Barber, '04.
Dues to the A. C. A. were reduced to $2.50 a
hundred members with a maximum of $40.00.
The five year term for which Bryn Mawr joined
the A. C. A. as an affiliated member ends this
spring, and the Board recommends that the
Alumnae Association continue its connection
with the Collegiate Organization.
News comes from Ohio that a Bryn Mawr
Club has been organized there including the
whole state, Grace Jones, President, Adelaide
Werner, Secretary, and Vice-Presidents from
the principal cities where there are groups of
alumnae. At their first annual meeting in
May the Ohio Club asked to have Marion
Parris Smith come out and talk to them, and
paid half her railroad expenses, the other half
being met by a gift to the Association. The
Club also sent a delegate to the November
meeting of the Board of Directors in New York.
This meeting has taken on an interesting
development. It started by including delegates
from the different Branch Organizations to sit
in conference, but this year there were also
present College Directors, members of Com-
mittees, and nominees for office.
Our social activities during the past year
have undergone some changes. A tea was
held in Rockefeller after the Alumnae Meeting,
and was attended by the faculty and staff of
the College as well as by the alumnae. The
alumnae supper was given up, and replaced
by a tea in Pembroke on Commencement
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afternoon. Speeches were made by President
Thomas, by the Dean-Elect, Miss Helen Taft,
and by speakers from the Re-uning Classes.
The present officers recommend to the incoming
Board that the latter consider changing the
general alumnae day to Tuesday of Commence-
ment week, and suggest that they institute a
tea instead of a supper. On account of the war
the Board has expressed a desire for a war menu
if possible at today's luncheon.
The finances of the Association are in a poor
state (poor being said advisedly), and at the
November meeting, after thorough discussion,
it was thought advisable to recommend raising
the dues of the Association to $2.00. The Board
will offer an amendment to this effect. It will
also ask for an expression of opinion as to the
advisability of asking for sustaining contribu-
tions from the members. A campaign was
carried on to increase the number of associate
members, and all former undergraduates were
circularized. Class Secretaries and Clubs and
Branches were asked to cooperate, and a notice
of the campaign was put in the Quarterly and
the College News. As a result only 18 former
students have been admitted as associate
members. Will all those present please do
their best to add to this number?
The Finance Committee will report to us how
they completed the $100,000 Mary E. Garrett
Memorial Fund by Commencement day, 1917.
$7,000 of the fund was raised in the last two
days by the untiring and enthusiastic efforts
of Martha Thomas and Elizabeth Kirkbride,
Chairman and Secretary of the Finance Com-
mittee. We must at this meeting provide for
the drawing up of a Deed of Gift.
The most important action before us is in
regard to War Relief Work. At the annual
meeting in 1917 the Association authorized
the Board of Directors to act at its discre-
tion on motions made by Leah Cadbury to
organize a self-supporting unit of Bryn Mawr
alumnae to work in one of the belligerent
countries. The Board ascertained from the
Directors of the College that they had no objec-
tion to having the name of Bryn Mawr used in
connection with such a unit; but even after two
months and a half it seemed impossible to appoint
a committee to organize the unit. With the
declaration of war the related question arose as
to what action the Alumnae Association should
take about war work at home, and after due
considerations of the problems the Board of
Directors decided to call a special meeting of
the Association in Commencement week to
consider the "attitude of the Association
toward organizing as a body for patriotic
service."
At this meeting many suggestions for home
service were made, and the question of relief
work abroad was scarcely considered. The
meeting finally passed a resolution declaring its
sense to be "That while this Association does
not see any opportunity in the present crisis to
offer active service without duplicating other
and more effective work, it holds itself ready to
do what it can when the need arises."
The question of war work arose again in
various ways. Leah Cadbury wrote urging
the sending of Bryn Mawr alumnae as Red
Cross canteen workers, and the undergraduates
began the year with an urgent desire to turn
their efforts toward raising funds for some defi-
nite object. They wished the cooperation of
the alumnae, faculty, staff, graduate students,
and all members of the College Community;
and organized the War Council of Bryn Mawr
College, of which you heard last evening. The
Board appointed Martha Thomas and Abigail
Dimon as the alumnae representatives. At
the November meeting of the Board the ques-
tion of War Relief Work was fully discussed,
and accounts given of various activities that
had been thought of for Bryn Mawr. A com-
mittee of three was appointed by the Board,
with Marion Reilly as Chairman and Martha
Thomas and Abigail Dimon as the other two
members. This Committee will report to the
Association in the afternoon.
There is one definite recommendation in the
above report, namely that the Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association continue its connection
with the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
The Board understands that the Association in
accepting this report authorizes the renewal of
membership.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary Richardson Walcott,
Acting-President.
16 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [April
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
I. Alumnae Academic Endowment Fund of January 15, 1909
Principal:
Cash and securities received January 15, 1909 $100,000.00
Net additions because of differences between par value and value at which securities were taken and
sold 1,72 1 . 14
Transferred from income account 2,235 . 08
$103,956.22
nvestments:
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rwy. Co., General Mortgage. 4% $3,000.00
New York Central and Hudson River R. R. Co. l\% 5,000.00
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. Co., Illinois Division Mtge. 4% 5,000.00
Standard Steel Works Co., 1st Mtge. 5% 5,000.00
Cost of certain improvements on the College Grounds assumed as an investment for this Fund as
agreed upon with the Alumnae Association. 4J% 25,000 . 00
Northern Pacific Railway, General Lien. 3% 3,000 . 00
Mortgage No. 7, Lombaert Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 4J% 35,000.00
Southern Pacific Co. Equipment. 41% 13,000.00
Pennsylvania General Freight Equipment. 4J% 3,000.00
Share in Mortgage No. 8, 1415 South Twenty -first St., Philadelphia. 5^% 750.00
Pennsylvania R. R Co., General Mortgage. 41% 5,000 . 00
Bryn Mawr College Inn Association, Second Mortgage. 5% 1,000.00
United States Liberty Loan. 31% 200.00
Uninvested and due from the Trustees 206.22
Total Par Value, $103,956.22
Income:
Receipts:
Balance Sept. 30, 1916 $1,815.05
Interest on investments Oct. 1, 1916 to Sept. 30, 1917 4,548.28 $6,363.33
Expenditures:
Salary of holder of endowed chair 3,000. 00
Increase in salaries of three full professors who are heads of departments 1,500.00
Balance 1,863.33 $6,363.33
Note. — The amount ($3000) which but for this endowment would have been expended for the salary of the holder of
the endowed chair was used to increase the salaries of six full professors who are heads of departments.
II. Alumnae Academic Endowment Fund of June 2, 1910
Principal:
Received from Alumnae Association $150,000.00
Net additions because of differences between par value and value at which securities were taken
and sold 6,830.02
Total par value of Fund $156,830.02
Investments:
Chesapeake and Ohio Rwy. Co., General Mortgage. 4*% $25,000.00
Mortgage No. 1, 12 acres Camden County, N. J. 6% 12,000.00
New York Central Lines Equipment. 41% 10,000.00
Norfolk and Western Railway Divisional First Lien and General Mortgage. 4% 22,000.00
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rwy. Co., First Refunding Mortgage. 4% 25,000.00
Reading Company and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co.. General Mortgage. 4% 15,000.00
Northern Pacific Rwy. Co., General Lien. 3% 2,000.00
Baltimore & Ohio Equipment Trust. 41% 2,000.00
The Virginian Railway Co., 1st Mortgage. 5% 3,000.00
New York & Erie R. R. Co. 4% 5,000.00
Lehigh Valley R. R. Co., General Consol. Mortgage. 41% 13,000.00
Pennsylvania General Freight Equipment. 41% 3,000.00
Mortgage No. 3 (share), 641/653 Buena Ave., Chicago, 111. 5% 1,100.00
Chicago Union Station Co., First Mortgage. 41% 2,000.00
Wabash R. R. Co., Second Mortgage. 5% 6,000.00
Union Pacific R. R. Co., First Lien Refunding Mortgage. 4% 4,000.00
Mortgage No. 4, 809 West Franklin St., Richmond, Va. 5% 3,500.00
Mortgage No. 5, 4281 Viola St., Philadelphia, Pa. 5T4ff% 2,100.00
United States Liberty Loan. 31% 1,100.00
Uninvested and due from the Trustees 30 . 02
Total par value $156.830.02
Income:
Receipts:
Interest October 1, 1916 to September 30, 1917 $6,825.34
Expenditures:
Academic salaries $6,825 . 34
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SUMMARY OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURES OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
For the Year October 1, 1916, to September 30, 1917
INCOME
. Securities
Founder's Endowment $21,564.29
Alumnae Endowment for Professorships
of 1909 4,500.00
Alumnae Academic Endowment Fund of
1910 6,825.34
General Endowment Fund 11,513.00
Justus C. Strawbridge Fund 421 .58
Carola Woerishoffer Endowment Fund 31,115.32
Undergraduate May Day, 1914, Endow-
ment Fund 124.45
Elizabeth S. Shippen Endowment Fund... 9,012.85
Interest $2,328.87
Less net interest received at
College 784.49 1,544.38
$86,621.21
. Productive Real Estate
Income from Founder's En-
dowment invested in Mer-
ion, Radnor, Denbigh, Pem-
broke East and West $45,036.34
Income from Founder's En-
dowment invested in Pro-
fessors' houses 3,410.99
48,447.33
Income from General Endowment Fund
invested in Rockefeller Hall 11,337.57
59,784.90
$146,406.11
Income from Special Funds:
Unexpended balances of In-
come, October 1, 1916:
A. Scholarship Funds $1,903.26
B. Memorial Funds 1,976.97
C. Other Funds 1,871.03
Received during the year:
a. For Memorial Scholar-
ships (Hooper, Rhoads,
Brooke Hall, Powers,
Gillespie, Stevens, An-
thony, Simpson, Hallo-
well, Longstreth, Ship-
pen, Kendrick, Huff) . .
b. Other Memorial Funds
(Ottendorfer Fellow-
ship; Ritchie Prize;
Rhoads, Chamberlain,
Wright and Stevens
Book Funds; Swift
Planting Fund)
5,751.26
4,394.59
868.04
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The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[April
c. Other Funds (1902 Book
Fund; Alumnae En-
dowment Fund, Smiley-
Fund) $165.60
Unexpended balances October 1, 1917:
A. Scholarship Funds
B. Memorial Funds
C. Other Funds
Students' Fees:
A. Added to College Income:
Tuition
Laboratory Fees $4,401 .80
Laboratory Supplies 170. 13
Geological Excursions 324.30
Graduation Fees 873.53
Changing Rooms Fees 185.00
Music Rooms Fees, net 78.25
Entrance Examination
Fees, net 2,368.63
B. Given to Library for Books:
Deferred and Condition Examination
Fees
Late Registration and Course Book
Fines
C. Given to Gymnasium for Apparatus:
Gymnasium Fines
$5,428.23
2,360.56
2,685.98
1,964.69
80,624.25
$11,179.49
7,011.23
$4,168.26
8,401.64
888.00
195.00
89,025.89
1,083.00
260.25
Net receipt from sale of books
Interest on College Income invested in 1905 Infirmary, Trefa, Aelwyd
and prepaid insurance, Comptroller's bank balance, etc
Net receipts from all other sources
Donations to Current Income:
Received during 1916-17 11,840.49
Unexpended balance of Donations received
during previous years 3,273.63
15,114.12
90,369.14
45.08
784.49
2,676.51
Less balance unexpended September 30,
1917
Ruth Emerson Fletcher Bequest:
Unexpended balance, Sept. 30, 1916 284.97
Unexpended balance, Sept. 30, 1917 69 . 25
Added to receipts from principal for expenditure
2,810.00
12,304.12
215.72
Total net receipts from all sources, expended for College running
expenses, from October 1, 1916, to September 30, 1917 $256,969.43
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EXPENDITURES
A.— ACADEMIC
Teaching Salaries
19 Full Professors $53,700.00
14 Associate Professors $26,800.00
Donations given for Associate Professors'
Salaries 3,028.46
29,828.46
7 Associates 11,300.00
2 Lecturers 3,700.00
6 Instructors 6,500.00
4 Readers 2,745.00
5 Demonstrators 3,800.00
Student Assistants 933 . 62
Oral Classes 235 . 14
$112,742.22
Academic Administration Salaries
(Only the portion of time given to Aca-
demic work is charged)
President, Deans, Secretaries and Stenog-
raphers (part) $13,451 .08
Comptroller's Office (60%) 2,629 . 26
Business Office (part) 2,216.36
Proctors and Student Messengers 206. 11
18,502.81
Fellowships and Scholarships
A. From College Income:
Fellowships and Gradu-
ate Scholarships $15,966.37
Foreign Graduate Schol-
arships 2,088.50
Undergraduate Scholar-
ships 2,700.00
$20,754.87
B. From Income of Special Funds:
Fellowship and Gradu-
ate Scholarships 1,150.00
Undergraduate Scholar-
ships 2,787.29
3,937.29
C. From Donations:
Fellowships and Graduate
Scholarships 3,375.85
Undergraduate Scholar-
ships 700.00
4,075.85 28,768.01
Laboratories
From College Income
Physical 1,452.35
Chemical 1,666.97
Physical Chemistry 54.47
Geological 732.81
Biological '934.80
Psychological 912 . 35
Educational Psychology 238.86
Social Economy 1,002.29
6,994.90
20
The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[April
Library
A. From College Income:
Maintenance (one-half entire cost)
Salaries
New Books Purchased
Tablets in Cloister
$3,692.07
7,019.82
7,002.22
289.74
B. From Income of Special Funds:
New Books Purchased
C. From Donations:
New Books Purchased
Gymnasium
From College Income:
Maintenance of Building.
Salaries
Apparatus
18,003.85
175.97
330.85
3,340.49
3,300.00
78.64
Religious Services
Public Lectures
College Entertaining
Subscriptions to Foreign Schools
A. Athens
B. Jerusalem
C. Rome
D. Naples
Subscription to Wood's Hole Biological Laboratory... .
Subscription to College Entrance Examination Board.
Subscription to Educational Societies
250.00
100.00
200.00
50.00
100.00
100.00
9.00
Class Room Supplies
Modern Art Equipment from Donations
Modern Art and Prize from Special Funds
Bureau of Appointments
Academic Committee of Alumnae, Travelling Expenses and Entertain-
ment
Expenses of Professors attending meetings of Professional Societies. . .
Dean's Travelling Expenses
Academic Incidentals
Travelling Expenses of Candidates for Appointment
Dalton Shop — Supplies for Instrument Maker
Oral Classes — French and German
Excess of cost over receipts
Publicity
Monographs and Supervising Ph.D. Thesis
Academic Administration Expenses
Office Expenses (60%)
Telephone (60%)
Printing
Employees' Compensation Insurance
Maintenance of Academic Buildings
(Taylor Hall, $5,975.65; Dalton Hall, $5,519.61; one-
half of Library, $3,692.08; Rent of one-half of Car-
tref, $1,000.00; Advanced Psychological Laboratory,
$149.31).
18,510.67
6,719.13
1,744.25
420.88
354.43
600.00
209.00
369.70
474.98
270.72
292.93
33.75
107.84
53.35
80.51
407.34
85.71
135.00
77.64
46.31
11,936.01
717.00
4,768.15
258.19
7,679.35
16,336.65
1918]
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Maintenance of Grounds and Fire Protection
Legal Advice
Other Teaching and Academic Expenses
Expenses paid by Treasurer
Interest
Printing
Auditing
Comptroller's Bond
Sundries
Permanent Improvements
Power Plant, (part) $413.20; grounds, $26.68; auto
service, $696.27).
Total Academic Expenditures
$3,247.85
46.75
250.00
50.00
48.62
'$14,548.09
308 00
42.00
3,643.22
1,136 15
$231,695.54
B.— NON-ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Salaries
President's, Dean's, Secretaries'
Stenographers' (part)
Comptroller's Office (40%)
Business Office (part)
Minutes of Directors (full)
and
Expenses
Office Expenses (40%)
Telephone (40%)
Employees' Compensation Insurance.
5,977.32
1,752.84
2,333.15
300.00
1,290.67
478.00
172.13
Grounds and Fire Protection.
10,363.31
1,940.80
13,455.91
1905 Infirmary
Salaries
Expenses
Interest on amount loaned to complete
building
Receipts:
Undergraduate Fees
Graduate Fees
Refunds for extra service.
All other income
$3,440.00
270.00
513.61
4.50
Quarantine (October, 1916, Poliomyelitis)
Loss on Non-Productive Real Estate
Yarrow West
Sundry Items of Non-academic Incidentals.
Christmas Donations
Taxes for 1916 and 1917
Supply Room — Increases in Supplies on hand..
Auditing Financial Report for 1916-17
$3,659.60
3,203.25
875.56
7.738.41
4,228.11
$3,510.30
279.72
197.08
11.00
216.20
296.39
690.91
105.00
1 Note — 60% of the cost of Maintenance of Grounds and 40% of Fire Protection is considered as academic, the bal-
ance as non-academic.
22 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly 'April
Expenditures from Gifts
Tablet in Memory of Mary Elizabeth
Garrett $955.00
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Garrett 579.09
Higginson Memorial in Pembroke 76.96
Screens for 1905 Infirmary 21 . 13
Repairs to Library Clock 23.65
Lantern at Rockefeller Service Door 21.00
Door Plate for Alumnae Room 7.00
Books for President's Office 8.00
Musical Recital 36.00
English Composition Prize 39.49
American Flags 46.75
Work on Campus 81 . 50
Alterations to Deanery 889.04
Extension of Deanery Garage 872.70
Alterations to Cartref 125.67
Donation to American School at Athens
for land for Women's Dormitory 450.00
Cleaning Marble Busts in Taylor Hall. .. . 161.00
$4,393.98
Permanent Improvements 1,600.89
Power plant (part) $275.46; Grounds, $17.79; Pembroke
new rooms, $94.56; Garage at Penygroes, $843.46;
Auto Service, $464.18.
Total Non-academic Expenditures $27,061.49
Total Expenditures for the year 258,757.03
Total Net Receipts 256,969.43
Deficit for Year 211,787. 60
APPENDIX A
Donations
donations for scholarships
Unexpended balances of donations given in previous years and brought forward from 1915-16.
Composed of:
Unexpend*i
Expended Balanct
Donation from Mrs. Frank L. Wesson $500.00 $500.00
Anonymous donation for scholarship 400.00 400.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, special scholarship 300.00 300.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, special scholarship 200.00 200.00
Anonymous per Dean Reilly, special scholarship 500.00 500.00
From Class 1912 for scholarships 200.00 200.00
$2,100.00 $900.00 $1,200.00
Received during 1916-17:
Scholarships.
From Alumnae Association of Girls' High and Normal Schools, one scholar-
ship 100.00 100.00
From the Board of Education of the City of Philadelphia, six scholarships. 600.00 600.00
From Alexander Simpson, Jr., special scholarship 200.00 200.00
John White Johnston, special scholarship 375 .00 375 .00
Mrs. Thomas Scattergood, special scholarship 300.00 300.00
Bryn Mawr School scholarships 700.00 700.00
Chicago Bryn Mawr Club 100.00 100.00
* Note— This figure differs from the Treasurer's Summary owing to the fact that the Treasurer has not separated the
operating expenses of the College proper from the operating expenses of the Phebe Anna Thome Model School (see pages
16 and 17). The deficit of the Phebe Anna Thome Model School is $184.99 and the College Deficit is $1,787.60. This
explains why the deficit for the year is shown as $1,972.59 in the Summary of the Treasurer.
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Annual Report of Alumnae Association
23
From Mrs. J. Campbell Harris, for one Thos. H. Powers Memorial scholar-
ship $200.00 $200.00
From Mrs. Frederick W. Hallowell for one Robert G. Valentine Memorial
scholarship 200.00
From Class 1912 for scholarships. 221.50 221.50
From Rufus M. Jones for scholarship 100.00
From T. Raeburn White for scholarships 200.00
$3,296.50 $2,796.50
$200.00
MOO. 00
•200.00
$500.00
$5,396.50 $3,696.50 $1,700.00
Unexpended donations for scholarships 1915-16 2,100.00
Donations received for scholarships 1916-17 3,296.50
Total $5,396 . 50
Expended during 1916-17 3,696.50
Unexpended balance $1,700.00
OTHER DONATIONS
[These donations represent only cash donations received at the college office. All other gifts may be found enumerated
under "'gifts" in the President's Report for 1916-17. j
Unexpended balances of donations given in previous years and amounts expended of same during 1916-17
Unexpended
Balance Expended Balance
From Tustus C. Strawbridge for lantern for service door of Rockefeller
Hall $25.00 $21.00 $4.00
From Elma'Loines, Class of 1905. for Physical Laboratory Apparatus 18.75 18.75
Balance of Donation from Dean Reilly for equipment Mathematical Depart-
ment 74.20 74.20
Balance of Donation from Class of 1903 for clock for Library Reading
Room 23 .65 23 .65
From Cynthia M. Wesson, for gymnastic apparatus 365 .00 365 .00
From Ella Riegel, Class 1889, amount reported as expended but returned to
Treasurer in 1915-16 46.22 46.22
Balance of Mary Elizabeth Garrett donation — books for the President's
office 13.33 8.00 5.33
From Class 1898, for books English Department 49.94 49.94
Class 1903, books for Library 22.61 22.61
Class 1900, for books in History 14.27 14.27
From Bryn Mawr Alumnae Club of Baltimore for books 6.77 6.77
From Class 1904 for books 402.41 197.26 205.15
From Ella Riegel for Spanish Art 50.00 50.00
From several Students for Screens for Infirmary 34.38 21.13 13.25
From S. A. King for Cartref Alteration 25.10 25.10
From Undergraduate Association for expenses of next May Day 2. 00 2. 00
Total $1,173.63 $485.95 $687.68
Donations received 1916-17 Unexpended
Expended Balance
For Library
From Lucy M. Donnelly $25 .00 $25 .00
From Mary B. Wesner 5.00 5.00
From Grace Albert 5.00 $5.00
From Class 1903 10.00 10.00
From Watson B. Dickerman for purchase of Gazette des Beaux Arts 100.00 100.00
For Art Department
From Ella Riegel 130.00 130.00
From Caroline E. Newton 5.00 5.00
From Mary Converse 15.00 12.17 2.83
For Improvements
Anonymous per Martha G. Thomas for memorial windows for Mary H.
Higginson 76.96 76.96
From Class 1911 for Pembroke Hall 7.00 7.00
From S. A. King for Cartref Alteration 100.57 100.57
For Sundry Items
Frances Merry for Alice Travers Recital 36.00 36.00
$515.53 $407.70 $107.83
PRESIDENT'S GIFT OF $5,000.00 FOR 1916-17
Unexpended
Expended Balance
For Land for Women's Building of the American School at Athens $450.00 $450.00
For Memorial Tablet in Library for Mary Elizabeth Garrett 955 . 00 955 . 00
For Gazette des Beaux Arts 400.00 231 .59 $168.41
For Portrait of Mary E. Garrett 500 . 00 500 . 00
For Framing Portrait 79.09 79.09
For Graduate Scholarships 379.35 379.35
For Cleaning marble busts in Taylor Hall 161.00 161.00
For English Essay Prize 39.49 39.49
For American Flags 46 . 75 46 . 75
For work done on Campus 81 .50 81 .50
For New Library, Deanery 889 . 04 889 .04
For enlarging Deanery Garage 872 . 70 872 . 70
For Lantern Slides for Department of Classical Archaeology * 50.00 50.00
Unexpended balance 96.08 96.08
$5,000.00 $4,685.51 $314.49
E Note — Expended $50.00 for Emergency Fees, 1917-18, for 2 and 4 students respectively.
24 The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [April
SPECIAL DONATIONS FOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS' SALARIES
1916-1917
Received Expended
E. C. Henderson $656.41 656.41
Albert Strauss 200.00 200.00
Allan Marquand 100.00 100.00
George S. Macrum 100.00 100.00
G. W. Leutkemeyer 100.00 100.00
James Timpson 250.00 250.00
Carleton Mosely 234.41 234.41
Maitland F. Griggs 100.00 100.00
Walton Clark 234.41 234.41
Winifred W. Gatling 100.00 100.00
Charlotte H. Sorchan 234.41 234.41
Margaret Scattergood 234.41 234.41
Lilian H. Casselberry 200.00 200.00
Mary Chase Clark 50.00 50.00
Mary Cams 234 .41 234 . 41
$3,028.46 $3,028.46
SUMMARY OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES
Donation Account
Unexpended balance scholarships $1,700.00
Unexpended balance of other Donations previous to 1916-17 687 . 68
Unexpended balance Donations 1916-17 107 . 83
President's Gift for 1916-17 314.49
From Undergraduates for expenses of next May Day 13 .25
$2,823.25
APPENDIX B
Phebe Anna Thorne Model School
operating account
1916-1917
Receipts:
Income from Phebe Anna Thorne Fund
received by Treasurer $7,858. 17
Other receipts by Comptroller
Tuition $9,700.00
Interest on note 7.40
Books paid for by pupils 175 .28
Supplies paid for by pupils 283 . 40
Pupils' Dress paid for by pupils 230. 75
Garden Produce sold 28.41
Luncheons paid for by Teachers 15 . 43
Refunds:
Provisions sold $5 . 02
Entertainments 35 . 41
Teachers' travelling expenses 56
Rent for rooms in Dolgelly 66.81 107.80 10,548.47
Total income $18,406 . 64
Expenditures:
Salaries paid by Treasurer $9,787 .83
Salaries paid by Comptroller $191 .44
Director's living expenses 615.58
Travelling expenses of Teachers 316.02
Special preparations for Art Teacher 300. 00
Expense for Candidates for appointment 1.17
Books for Library 77.12
Class Room Books 157.46
Class Room Supplies 210.04
Class Room Equipment 25 .91
Rental of Piano 51 .00
Health Examinations 32 . 00
Tickets for Skating Pond 48 .00
Pupils' Dress 617 . 10
Laundry 11 .22
Garden 10.53
Entertainments 39.33
Installing Clock and Bell ringing system 144.52
Office expense 27.14
Incidentals, postage, printing, etc 157.38
Telephone 54.81
Rent of Dolgelly. 1,300.00
Heating and Electric Lighting 418.05
Water Rent 38.21
Gas 50.02
Grounds 109.62
Repairs 248 . 49
Furniture 609 . 58
Insurance 45 . 04
Provisions 1,706.16
Wages 983.86 8,596.80
Total Operating Expenditure $18,384. 6i
Surplus, 1916-17 $221.0
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CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
1916-1917
Accumulated deficit on Construction to September 30, 1916 $8,347 . 15
Alterations to Dolgelly (1915-16)
Balance on Alterations to Plumbing in Basement $21 .00
Balance on Third floor Alterations 186.00
Completion of Alterations (begun in 1915-16) 207.00
Deficit on Construction to September 30th ,1917 $8,554.55
SUMMARY FOR 1916-17
Deficit on Construction $207 .00
Surplus on Operating Account 22.01
Net deficit for year $184 . 99
Deficit from previous years 11,831 .08 $12,016.07
SUMMARY OF MODEL SCHOOL DEBT
Deficit on Construction $8,554.55
Deficit on Operating Account $3,483 . 53
Surplus on Operating Account for 1916-17 , 22 .01
Net deficit on Operating Account 3,461 .52
Total deficit September 30, 1915 $12,016.07
Cost of Tuition in Bryn Mawr College for the Year 1916-1917
Students in Bryn Mawr College in year 1916-1917 — 453.
under -graduate students — 366
Graduate students — 87;
CALCULATION
100% 70%
Total Undergraduate
Number of Students 453 366
Teaching Salaries $109,713.76 $76,799.63
Academic Salaries (non-teaching) 13,775 .81 9,643.07
Academic Salaries (60% administrative and executive) 15,046 . 82 10,532 .77
Academic Expenses 76,228.88 53,360.22
Total $214,765 .27 $150,335 .69
Cost per Student $474.09 $410. 75
COST PER GRADUATE STUDENT — TUITION ONLY, $740.57
Teaching Salaries $32,914.13 $378.33
Academic Salaries (non-teaching) 4,132 .74 47 . 50
Academic Salaries Administrative 4,514 . 05 51 . 88
Academic Expenses 22,868 . 66 262 . 86
$64,429.58 $740.57
30%
Graduate
87
$32,914.13
4,132.74
4,514.05
22,868.66
$64,429.58
$740.57
COST PER UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT — TUITION ONLY, $410.75
Teaching Salaries $76,799 . 63 $209 . 83
Academic Salaries (non-teaching) 9,643 .07 26 . 35
Academic Salaries (administrative) 10,532 .77 28 . 78
Academic Expenses 53,360.22 145.79
$150,335.69 $410.75
AUDITOR'S REPORT
January 22, 1918
We have audited the accounts of both the Treasurer and Comptroller of Bryn Mawr College for the fiscal year ended
30th September, 1917, and found them to be correct, and we hereby certify that the receipts and expenditures of the Col-
lege for the year contained in this Financial Report are properly stated from the books of the Treasurer and Comptroller.
Lybrand , Ross Brothers and Montgomery
Certified Public Accountants
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REPORT OF THE A. C. A. COUNCILLOR
The Regular Biennial Convention was held in
Washington in Easter week, 1917. The con-
vention was of more than usual interest because
of the entrance of the United States into the
European War. There were present 53 repre-
sentatives from Alumnae Associations represent-
ing Barnard, Bryn Mawr, University of Michi-
gan, Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley — representa-
tives from 29 colleges out of 52 universities and
44 Branches of the 97. The representation
from all parts of the country was unusually
good.
After the regular reports of the officers and
standing committees, the Convention discussed
the work which the Association might undertake
to aid the government at this crisis. The As-
sociation offered its services unreservedly to the
government to aid in "the selection, testing,
and distribution of food supplies, and the care
of whatever is connected with the provision,
preparation and serving of food in the Commis-
sary department of training camps, and, if need
arises, of the home and expeditionary armies"
and in connection with the training camps to
introduce "adequate relaxation and amuse-
ments." A committee of five, comprised of
Miss Wooley, and Miss Pendleton as alternates,
Mrs. Mathews, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Morgan, and
President Thomas as chairman, was appointed
to carry on the War Service of the Association.
It was not afterwards found possible to carry out
this programme as other organizations had
already undertaken this work, but the War Serv-
ice has recommended to the Branches the
formation of training classes and bureaus for
speakers to carry on a campaign for patriotic
education of the communities in connection
with the problems arising from the war.
There was some discussion of the advisability
of carrying on the Journal of the Association at
a probable additional expenditure of $2000. It
was felt however, that with the large new mem-
bership of the Association and the probably
national work of the war, a paper or magazine
was essential for necessary publicity. It was
therefore continued.
A Pan-American Fellowship of the value of
$500 to be given to a student from some South
American country was decided upon and
added to the fellowships already awarded
annually by the Association.
The representation of Alumnae Associations
had been provided for by a resolution appended
to the Constitution and known as Mrs. Olin's
resolution and had been adopted for five years.
The experiment had been tried for five years
and was felt to be so entirely successful that the
terms of the resolution were inserted in the
Constitution by unanimous consent. Owing
to a recommendation which was presented by
the Conference of Alumnae Association mem-
bers, the provision for alumnae group represen-
tation was adopted in the following form:
AFFILIATED MEMBERS
Alumnae associations and other groups of
alumnae of any college or university approved
by the Committee on Recognition of Colleges
and Universities may secure affiliated member-
ship for the alumnae of their respective insti-
tutions by the payment of annual dues as
follows: For one hundred members, $2.50 a
year; for every additional one hundred mem-
bers or major fraction thereof, an additional
$2.50 a year, until the amount of $40 is reached,
which shall be the maximum sum paid by any
alumnae association or group of alumnae.
Seconded and carried by unanimous vote.
This provides for a reduction from $10 for
every 100 members to $2.50 which greatly
lessens the expense involved and a maximum
of $40 instead of $150.
It was felt that the cost of representation
kept out large groups who had not the organi-
zation to raise such a sum. For the first time
a group of women from a co-educational insti-
tution was represented. The University of
Michigan came in with a large group of its
alumnae. And the movement to form such
groups among the alumnae of our large uni-
versities has been much stimulated. It is
hoped that at the next biennial, many others
may be represented.
The Association passed resolutions endorsing
the opening of civil service examinations to
women and equal pay for equal work in all
government positions; supporting a bill pro-
viding for a women's division of the Depart-
ment of Labor; requesting the Commissioner
of Education to provide for the education and
Americanizing of immigrant women as well as
immigrant men; and endorsing the Federal
Suffrage Amendment.
The topics discussed by the Conference of
Affiliated Alumnae Associations were:
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(1) The Graduate Council— whether it is
making good or whether it is frequently
an organ of obstruction.
(2) Systems of Clubs and Branches found
most efficient by other Alumnae
Associations.
(3) Visiting Committee of Alumnae to the
Academic departments.
(4) Social training of students.
(5) University control — with special emphasis
on alumnae relationships in each
branch of the College organization and
also to the public.
(6) To what extent, if any, ought Alumnae
Associations to support or endorse
projects or causes other than their
respective colleges and alumnae
interests.
(7) Policy of regarding Alumnae Trustees
as Alumnae Delegates on the Board
and definitely instructing them.
(8) Methods of standardizing work in spoken
English, in practice in affiliated colleges.
(9) Affiliations with the A. C. A. Fee for
affiliation.
Miss Mabel Pierce, President of Wellesley
Alumnae Association was appointed chairman
of next conference.
Respectfully submitted,
Marion Reilly,
Councillor of B. M. C. Alumnae Association
Recommendation that the Association renew
its membership and affiliate regularly with the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae under the
new provisions of its constitution for affiliated
membership.
REPORT OF THE JAMES E. RHOADS SCHOLARSHIPS COMMITTEE
This year eight students applied for the
James E. Rhoads Junior Scholarship and twelve
for the sophomore scholarship. The alumnae
members of the committee interviewed per-
sonally each student, consulted her professors
and instructors concerning her ability and her
promise and in committee discussed very fully
the degree of financial need. The alumnae
members of the committee then met with
President Thomas, Dean Schenk and a com-
mittee of the faculty. The James E. Rhoads
Junior Scholarship was awarded to Helen
Prescott, grade 82.797. The James E. Rhoads
Sophomore Scholarship was awarded to Marie
P. Litzinger, grade 89.466.
President Thomas invited the alumnae mem-
bers to remain and assist the faculty members in
awarding the other undergraduate scholarships.
Do the alumnae realize that the average
student requiring financial assistance leaves
college heavily burdened with debt, that the
scholarships are neither numerous nor of
sufficient value? Today it costs a student in
residence $585 with an emergency charge of
$50. The scholarships range in amount from
$160 to $250. In other words a student must
earn or borrow between $300 and $400 a year.
Respectfully submitted,
Anne Hampton Todd,
Secretary.
REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
The first meeting of the Conference Com-
mittee for the year 1917-18 was held on Wed-
nesday, November 7, 1917, at 4.30 p.m. in
Room 4, Pembroke West. Those present were
Gertrude B. Barrows, '08, Alice Patterson, '13
and Katharine McCollin, '15, Chairman,
representing the alumnae, Virginia Kneeland,
President of the Undergraduate Association,
and the four class presidents, representing the
undergraduates, and Miss Gable, representing
the graduate students.
Miss Kneeland first spoke of the fact that
President Thomas was calling a meeting of
undergraduate representatives to talk over the
complaints which she had received from the
parents of freshmen because, they said, their
daughters were made to feel it a social duty to
stay up until all hours of the night at parties
given them by upper classmen and in conse-
quence were tired out a great part of their
time, and had to neglect their work. Miss
Kneeland asked the alumnae if, to their knowl-
edge, there had ever been a Light Rule, and if
they would be in favor of one now. The
alumnae were under the impression that there
never had been one, and decided that they
were not in favor of one now, or ever
Miss McCollin had a small criticism to make
of the College News, for its apparent attitude
toward Pacifists, as indicated in several issues,
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notably in featuring in the first column of the
front page a remark made by Mr. Walcott
when lecturing at Bryn Mawr, in answer to a
question, which showed an intolerant feeling
toward Pacifists. Miss McCollin's criticism
was only if this indicated an intolerant attitude
of the College toward a conscientious and
serious-minded group of people, an attitude
which the entire meeting considered unworthy
of Bryn Mawr. The undergraduates assured
the alumnae that no such attitude was present
in the College, and that the remark of Mr.
Walcott was merely featured as an interesting
bit of news.
One other question which the undergraduates
wished to ask the alumnae before the meeting
turned to the main question of War Work, was
whether the alumnae objected to the Senior
Class omitting to sing every class song as far
back as ten years, at Lantern Night singing.
They said that instead of singing each song,
badly as was inevitable, they merely called for
the song from the class, and then cheered the
class if the class did not respond. The alum-
nae stated that they thought this a good plan.
The meeting then turned to the question of
War Work. Miss Knee] and explained the
present plan which has just been perfected for
bringing Bryn Mawr War Work to the height
of efiiciency. As to the Bryn Mawr Unit, the
undergraduates expressed themselves as entirely
willing to leave the choice of it to the alumnae
and to cooperate with them in working for the
Unit after it was decided upon. They hoped
however that it would be decided upon imme-
diately as it would be difficult to work for the
Unit, if its purpose was unknown until Febru-
ary. Miss Patterson suggested that a joint
committee of alumnae and undergraduates be
appointed to talk over and, if possible, to
decide upon, the nature of the Unit immediately.
Since there was no further business to come
before the meeting, the meeting adjourned with
many thanks to Miss Kneeland for her hospi-
tality in allowing the meeting to be held in her
room, and for the delicious afternoon tea which
she served.
Respectfully submitted.
Katharine W. McCollin,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
COMPLETION OF MARY E. GARRETT ENDOWMENT
FUND
The class collectors and the Finance Com-
mittee have had a busy year's work in com-
pleting the Mary E. Garrett Endowment Fund.
$32,000 had to be raised at the date of the
alumnae meeting in 1917. $8839 was promised
at the meeting as the result of Mrs. Slade's
stirring appeal. The usual circular was issued
for class collectors in February. Meetings
were held monthly through the spring. In
April $11,000 was needed. Reports on June 1
showed $5000 still lacking. Hurry calls from
collectors and night letters from the Com-
mittee brought the last required pledges just
as the Commencement procession was starting
and President Thomas announced the comple-
tion of the Fund in her Commencement address.
June, 1917, was the date originally planned by
the Association when it voted to give its
next $100,000 as a memorial to Miss Garrett.
The fund has been kept closely invested in
high grade railroad securities and in United
States Liberty Bonds. Most of the pledges
have now been paid. The status of the Fund
on February 1 was as follows:
Securities at cost $90,686.87
Cash, February 1 7,003 .38
Pledges which may be counted
on early in 1918 at least. . . .
$97,690.25
1,200.00
$98,890.25
A few doubtful pledges, which the Committee
thought it could count on last June, will not be
paid, but if we wait a few months before trans-
ferring the Fund there will be sufficient interest
to make up the difference. The Treasurer of
the Board of Trustees has stated that he believes
the College will accept the securities at cost, as
the present shrinkage in market value is abnor-
mal. The provisions of the deed of gift ought
to be approved by this meeting, so that the
transfer can be made in time to have the in-
come used for next year's salaries.
FINANCES OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
The Finance Committee wishes to join the
whole Association in its appreciation of Miss
Haines' long and faithful services as Treasurer
and in its regret at her retirement. It would
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like to recommend that the Board assist the
new Treasurer, whoever she may be, by ap-
pointing a trust company as fiscal agent, thus
shifting some of the responsibility for making
investments and the care of securities.
It also concurs in the proposal for an increase
in annual dues, believing that the association
ought to have a larger fund at its disposal for
current expenses. The increased cost of the
Quarterly alone would justify raising the dues.
PLANS FOR 1918 COLLECTIONS
The 1918 collections will be made as usual
for endowment and the continued increase of
academic salaries. The collectors have already
approved a plan for linking up collections
with the next Liberty Loan Drive by asking the
classes which are interested in doing so to
buy Liberty Loans and make their gifts in
that form.
We have had during the year most valuable
advice from Mr. Henry Stanford Brooks who is
now the Chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund.
At the close of this report Mrs. Brooks will
outline some of the ways in which we hope to
profit by Mr. Brooks' remarkable success of
last year. Just as Mrs. Brooks originally
started the class collections at Bryn Mawr,
so we hope that she is now starting us on a
career of greatly increased helpfulness to the
College.
WAR WORK
The proposal to collect funds for the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps has been brought before
the Finance Committee and has met with its
cordial approval. It believes that this work
should be done by special committees formed
in the local groups of Bryn Mawr alumnae, that
it should not be on class lines and should not
be allowed to interfere with the regular class
collections.
If the question of the College's entering the
contributory insurance plan of the Carnegie
Foundation becomes urgent, as it readily may
within the next year or two, the Committee
believes that this also might be handled on a
plan to be worked out in relation to the regular
Endowment Fund Collections.
CLASS COLLECTORS
The following class collectors have been
appointed:
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft to succeed Bertha
G. Wood, '98.
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg to succeed Kate
Williams, '00.
Sylvia Lee to succeed Marion Parris Smith,
'01.
Myra Elliott Vauclain to succeed Jacqueline
Morris Evans, '08.
Respectfully submitted,
Martha G. Thomas,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ATHLETICS
On June 2, 1917, at 4.00 a p.m. very good
Water Polo Game was played between the
alumnae and the Varsity: the score being 3: 1
in favor of the Varsity. The alumnae team
were:
Forwards: L. Cox Harmon, '14; A. C. Miller
Chester, '14; G. Emery, '15.
Halfback: C. Dowd, '16.
Guards: M. Coolidge, '14; C. Kellen, '16.
Goal: E. Ayer, '14.
The Substitutes: D. Ashton, '10 (forward)
and L. Cadbury, '14 (goal).
Both played for a few minutes.
BASKET BALL
On June 6 at 10 a.m. the Annual Basket
Ball game between alumnae and Varsity was
played. The score was 18 : 2 in favor of the
Varsity. The individual players on the alum-
nae side were fairly good but their team work
was very poor. The Alumnae Team were: '
Forwards: L. Cox Harmon, '14; H. Emerson,
'11; A. C. Miller Chester '14 (each playing one
half).
Centers: M. Egan, '11; E. G. Balderston, '14;
H. Kirk, '14.
Guards: H. F. Carey, '14; B. S. Ehlers, '09.
Substitute: C. Dowd, '16.
At a meeting of the officers of the Athletic
Association of the College and of the Alumnae
Athletic Committee represented by E. M.
White and B. S. Ehlers, it was decided that a
Water Polo Match should be a regular event of
the commencement athletics and that a Fenc-
ing Match should be a regular event of the
college year — the Fencing Match to take place
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possibly at the Gymnastic Meet of the under-
graduates.
The possibility of having the Alumnae-
Varsity Hockey Match on the first Saturday
of the regular hockey season was considered —
but the question was not definitely settled.
TENNIS
The Annual Alumnae Tournament was
played during Commencement week. The
entrees were: E. Hill, '16; I. Smith, '15; H.
Kirk, '14; M. E. Warren, '14; E. Ayer, '14;
E. G. Balderston, '14; A. Werner, '16; A. C.
Miller Chester, '14; A. M. Hawkins, '07;
M. R. Moorehouse, '04.
Winner of the tournament was A. C. Miller
Chester, '14.
HOCKEY
The Alumnae Varsity game was played on
Wednesday October 31, the score 5: 4 in favor
of the Varsity. The game was close and good
in both halves. The Alumnae Team were:
Forwards: J. Katzenstein, '06; L. B. Windle,
'07, (each playing one half); B. S. Ehlers, '09;
M. Kirk, '10; M. Willard, '17; H. Kirk, '14.
Half Backs: H. Harris, '17; M. F. Nearing,
'09; A. M. Hawkins, '07.
Full Backs: M. Thompson, '17; H. Smith,
'10.
Goal: S. Jelliffe, '17.
Respectfully submitted,
Bertha S. Ehlers
for M. Dessau
REPORT OF STUDENTS' LOAN FUND COMMITTEE
The Students Loan Fund Committee has
made loans amounting to $850 to five students,
for use in the year 1917-18 and received pay-
ments on account of loans amounting to $1135
from nine students between January 1 and
December 31, 1917. The class of 1917 on its
graduation gave $100 to the fund and the class
of 1914 added the $38.50 to the $61.50 given
on its graduation thus completing the $100
promised. Gifts from four alumnae are grate-
fully acknowledged, and amounted to $142.
Two, at least of these contributions were
prompted by the reading of the article in the
Quarterly calling attention to the needs of
this Fund. The full financial report of the
Committee is to be found in the report of the
Treasurer of the Alumnae Association.
[signed] Martha G. Thomas,
Secretary.
REPORT OF THE CAROLA WOERISHOFFER MEMORIAL FUND
COMMITTEE
In accordance with the plan outlined in our
last year's report, the sum of $200, being the
income from the Carola Woerishoffer Memorial
Fund for the years 1915 and 1916, was contrib-
uted through your committee to the National
Women's Trade Union League as the nucleus
of a scholarship for a New York working girl
at the League's Training School in Chicago.
The object of the school is to train for service
as organizers and leaders in the labor move-
ment women who have already shown qualities
of able leadership in the Unions to which they
belong. The rest of the money needed for the
years scholarship of $735 was raised by the
National Women's Trade Union League, and
the scholarship was awarded to Mabel Leslie,
a young woman recommended by the New
York League.
Respectfully submitted,
Margaret Franklin,
Chairman.
February, 1918.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
December 31, 1917
BALANCE SHEET
ASSETS
Endoumient Fund Assets:
Investments at Cost:
5000 Atlantic City Ry. 5's 1919 $4,891 .00
1000 Balto. & Ohio R. R. 4^'s Equip. Tr. 1919 976.71
5500 Balto. & Ohio R. R. Prior Lien 3£'s 1925 5,047.50
2000 Beth. Steel 1st ext. 5's 1926 2,000.00
5000 Bryn Mawr College Inn Assn. 5's 1946 5,000 . 00
1000 Central Dist. Tel. Co. 5's 1943 920.00
2000 Chic, Mil. & St. Paul 4's 1925 1,880.00
5000 Chic. Rys. Co. 1st 5's 1927 5,018.75
1000 Choctaw, Okla. & Gulf G. M. 5's 1919 990.00
5000 Colorado Springs E. Co. 1st 5's 1920 4,950.00
5000 Erie R. R. Equip. 5's 1920 4,984.50
5000 Lake Shore & Mich. So. Ry. 4's 1931 4,622 .50
4000 Lansing Fuel & Gas Co. Cons. 5's 1921 3,910.00
2000 Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. Cons. 4£'s 1923 2,000 . 00
5000 Lehigh & Wilkes Barre C. Co. 4's 1925 4,700 .00
2000 New York Cent. & H. R. Deb. 4's 1934 1,802 .50
2000 New York & Erie R. R. 5's 1920 2,000.00
5000 Nor. Pac. Gt. Nor. C. B. & Q. Coll. Tr. 4's 1921 4,806. 25
2000 Penna. Co. 1st Mtg. 4£'s 1921 1,970.00
4000 Phila., Balto & Wash. 4's 1924 3,780.00
1000 Phila. R. T. Co. Eq. Tr. 5's 1923 992.40
1000 Phila. Sub. G. & E. 1st M. & R. 5's 1960 1,000.00
5000 Portland Ry. Co. 1st Ref. 5's 1930 5,000.00
2000 Schuylkill River E. side R. R. Co. 1st Mtg. 4's 1925 1,975.00
1000 Southern Pac. Equip. 4£'s 1920 973.32
2000 So. Carolina & Ga. R. R. 1st 5's 1919 1,990.00
2400 U. S. 2nd Lib. Loan 1917 4% 2,400.00
$80,580.43
Undergraduate Fund
1000 Balto. & Ohio 4|'s Equip. Tr. 1922 979.22
2000 Beth. Steel 1st ext. 5's 1926 2,000.00
1000 Georgia Ry. & E. Co. 1st Cons. 5's 1932 990.00
2000 New York & Erie 4|'s 1923 1,952.22
1000 Penna. Co. 1st Mtg. 4§'s 1921 985.00
$3200 U. S. 2nd Liberty Loan 1917 4% 3,200.00
$90,686.87
Cash Uninvested $3,365 .62
Undergraduate Fund 22 .51 3,388. 13 $94,075 .00
Loan Fund Assets:
Loans to Students fc 10,258.00
Cash " 786.32 11,044.32
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Alumnae Fund Assets:
Investments at Cost:
41 shares Lehigh Coal & Nav. Co. Stock $3,313 .48
T% rights Lehigh Coal & Nav. Co. Stock 2 . 10
Cash 2,331 .04 $5,646.62
General Fund Assets:
Cash 292.32
$111,058.26
LIABILITIES
Endowment Fund:
Balance January 1, 1917 $51,705. 12
Deduct balance due on promises — now charged off 2,325 .00
49,380.12
Contributions, subscriptions, etc., during year 44,694. 88 $94,075 .00
Loan Fund:
Balance January 1, 1917 $10,583 . 62
Donations and interest received during year 460.70 11,044.32
Alumnae Fund:
Principal Balance January 1, 1917 $3,524.86
Life memberships received during year 260 . 00
3,784.86
Interest Balance January, 1917 $1,633.24
Accretions during year 228.52 1,861 .76 5,646.62
Accumulated Fund For General Purposes 211 .97
Accounts Payable 80 . 35
$111,058.26
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS FROM JANUARY 1, 1917, TO DECEMBER 31, 1917
GENERAL TREASURY
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1917 $21.39
Dues $2,092.00
Interest on Deposits 10 . 30
Alumnae Tea 31 .94
Total receipts, 2,134.24
Total, $2,155.63
Disbursements
Dues Associated Collegiate Alumnae $130.00
Endowment Fund Expenses 139 . 35
Printing 102.90
Postage and Stationery 99 . 23
Traveling Expenses (Board of Directors) 96 . 38
Expenses of Academic Committee 294 . 32
Expenses of Athletic Committee 4.33
Typewriting and Clerical Services 191 . 39
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Miscellaneous Expenses and Alumnae Tea $ 87 . 18
Quarterly Account 718.23
Total Disbursements, 1,863 .31
Balance December 31, 1917: 292.32
Total $2,155.63
LOAN FUND
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1917 $40.62
Donations $391 .00
Repayments of Loans by Students 1,135.00
Interest on Loans 61.31
Interest on Deposits 8 . 39
Total Receipts 1,595 . 70
$1,636.32
Disbursements
Loans to Students $850.00
Balance December 31, 1917: 786.32
$1,636.32
ALUMNAE FUND
Receipts
Balance January 1, 1917 $2,044.62
Life memberships $260 . 00
Interest on Deposits 80 . 77
Income from Investments 148 .00
Total receipts 488. 77
$2,533.39
DisbttrsemenJs
Investments Purchased
4 shares Lehigh Coal & Nav. Co. Stock $200.00
T\ rights Lehigh Coal & Nav. Stock 2. 10
Commission on purchase of securities .25
Balance December 31, 1917 2,331 .04
$2,533.39
ENDOWMENT FUND
Receipts
Balance in bank January 1, 1917 $9,770.94
Donations $31,794. 13
Donations— Undergraduates 7,000.00
$38,794.13
Subscriptions paid 8 . 50
Interest on Deposits 1 239 .09
Interest on Deposits Undergraduate Fund 12 . 03 251 . 12
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Interest on Investments $2,538. 16
Interest on Investments — Undergraduate Fund 67 . 50 $2,605 . 66
Total receipts, $41,659.41
$51,430.35
Disbursements
Investments purchased:
5000 Atlantic City Ry. 5's 1919 $4,891 .00
3000 Balto. & Ohio Prior Lien 3£'s 1925 2,730.00
2000 Beth. Steel 1st ext. 5's 1926 2,000.00
1000 Choc, Okla & Gulf G. M. 5's 1919 990.00
3000 Lake Shore & Mich. So. Ry. 4's 1931 2,722 .50
2000 Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. cons. 4i's 1923 2,000 .00
5000 Lehigh & Wilkes Barre C. Co. 4's 1925 4,700.00
2000 New York & Erie R. R. 5's 1920 2,000.00
5000 Nor. Pac. Gt. Nor. C. B. & Q. Coll. Tr. 4's 1921 4,806.25
2000 Penna. Co. 1st Mtg. 4£'s 1921 1,970.00
4000 P. B. & W. 4's 1924 3,780.00
2000 So. Carolina & Ga. R. R. 1st 5's 1919 1,990.00
2100 U. S. 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 4% 2,100.00
4 00 Erie R. R. Equip. 5's 1920 4,000.00
$40,679.75
Investments purchased account Undergraduate Fund :
1000 Balto. & Ohio 4£% Equip. Tr. 1922 979.22
2000 Beth. Steel 1st ext. 5's 1926 f 2,000.00
1000 Georgia Ry. & E. Co. 1st con. 5's 1932 990.00
2000 New York & Erie 4|'s 1923 1,952.22
1000 Penna. Co. 1st Mtg. 4§'s 1921 985.00
$47,586.19
Accrued interest on bonds purchased $384.98
Account Undergraduate Fund 71 . 05 456 . 03
Total Disbursements 48,042 .22
Balance December 3 i, 1917: 3,388.13
$51,430.35
QUARTERLY" ACCOUNT FOR YEAR 1917
Receipts
Subscriptions and Sales $22 . 75
Advertising 191 .25
Refund from printers 50 . 00
Total Receipts 264.03
Balance transferred from GeneralT reasury Acct 718 . 23
Total $982.23
Disbursements
Printing $642.32
Salaries 300.00
Sundries, postage, stationery, etc 39 . 91
Total Disbursements $982 . 23
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We have audited the accounts of
THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
for the year ending December 31, 1917, and have inspected ths Endowment Fund securities and
verified the cash on hand at the close of the year, and we certify that the annexed Balance Sheet
and relative accounts are properly drawn up so as to exhibit a correct view of the financial position
of the Association at December 31, 1917, and of the operations for the year ending on that date.
Price, Waterhouse & Company.
Jane B. Haines.
Treasurer
REPORT OF THE QUARTERLY
The regular mailing list of the Quarterly
has about 1625 names; to these will be added
nearly 100 names in April for the members of
the Class of 1918 and the Ph.D's. The number
of names to be withdrawn for non payment of
dues is about equal to the number of those who
have paid up to date and have been restored
to the list. The postal regulations are very
strict in this respect and the Quarterly cannot
carry on its mailing list the names of those who
are two years behind with their association
dues.
There are about thirty subscribers outside
of the Association.
The April, July and November numbers
appeared nearly on time, but the January
number may be unusually late because of the
delay of copy and proof in the mails.
It is encouraging to be able to report again
the increasing interest of the alumnae in the
Quarterly. The Quarterly, and its place
as an Association organ, seem now to be accepted
facts.
The advertising department is in the hands
of Elizabeth Brakeley, '16, and is carefully
attended to, though the small circulation of
the Quarterly makes it almost impossible to
get any other advertisements than those sup-
plied by a few alumnae.
Respectfully submitted,
Elva Lee.
REPORT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH
The activities of the Philadelphia Branch
during 1917, and their plans for the coming
year may be summarized briefly as follows:
In the spring of 1917 a concert was given to
the College and friends of the College by the
Philadelphia Branch, at which Marcia von
Dresser was the soloist. It was a great success
both from a musical standpoint, and because it
brought more closely together the students
and the Philadelphia alumnae.
At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia
Branch on December 8, 1917, the Branch put
itself on record as approving the raising of the
annual dues of the Alumnae Association from
$1.50 to $2.00 a year, and asked to have the
matter taken up at the first possible meeting.
With the idea of linking up work for the
Endowment Fund with the Government loan
plans, a motion was passed at the annual
meeting that every member of the Philadelphia
Branch be asked to invest in a Thrift Card and
that these cards when filled out be turned over
to the Treasurer of the Alumnae Association
for the Academic Fund as a gift from the
Philadelphia Branch. This plan was carried
out, and up to the present time 26 members of
the Branch have bought from the Treasurer a
Thrift Card to be used for this purpose. This
means a sum of $107.12 now on hand, for the
Endowment Fund, which will be worth $130 on
January 1, 1923.
A motion was also passed at the annual
meeting that a Committee of three be appointed
to confer with Miss Ehlers' Committee on the
Bryn Mawr Patriotic Farm and the War
Council of the College as to the advisability of
the alumnae assuming some responsibility for
the farm another year, and the Branch put
itself on record as favoring a continuance of
the farm if it can be done on a basis that would
seem practical to the committee.
The Philadelphia Branch agrees to guarantee
the expenses of a piano recital to be given to the
College by Miss Rulison.
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The Branch also passed a motion by which it
becomes a contributing member of the Bureau
of Occupations for Trained Women, and there-
by has a corporate member on the Board of
Directors.
The members of the Branch were much
interested in Miss Kneeland's account of the
War Relief Work now being done at the College,
and in Mr. J. Henry Scattergood's talk on the
Reconstruction Work of the Friends in France.
Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth Conway Clark,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE NEW YORK BRANCH
The New York Branch has, every year, a
wider range of activities. We now have four
standing committees which undertake the
work of the Branch not directly connected with
the Alumnae Association.
The Branch contributes annually to the sup-
port of the New York Intercollegiate Bureau
of Occupations. The placement department
of the Bureau is now self-supporting, but the
research and advisory departments are depend-
ent upon the contributions of college organiza-
tions. Mrs. Percy Jackson is our director on
the Board of the Bureau.
Our representative to the College Settlement
Association is Mrs. John Gould. The New
York Branch assisted in the annual sale of the
Settlement, and succeeded, on the day assigned
to Bryn Mawr, in making a fair average, as
compared to colleges of larger size.
A committee of vocational advisers has just
been appointed, with Mrs. Shepard Morgan
as chairman. This committee will confer with
the Dean of the College, and will do anything
it can to assist in the work of the appointment
bureau at Bryn Mawr. The committee plans
for this spring, a survey of the schools of New
York, with reference to the opportunities they
offer to Bryn Mawr alumnae who wish to teach.
Perhaps our most active and important com-
mittee is the National Service Committee
which was organized last spring by Mrs. Edward
Loomis, who is now chairman. The com-
mittee took an active part in the census of
New York, in the Red Cross campaign for
funds last June, in the Liberty Loan campaign,
in the Red Cross membership drive at Christ-
mas, and is now helping in the sale of War
Savings Stamps. It has also undertaken to
supply the entertainment and refreshments
at a Y. M. C. A. hut at Camp Upton, one
Saturday afternoon every month. Through
the efforts of Mrs. Borie, the New York organi-
zations of other colleges will cooperate in this
work, and every Saturday afternoon is now
provided for. Mrs. Loomis, Miss King, Mrs.
Borie, Miss Fleischmann, and the other officers
and members of the committee have done a
tremendous amount of work. The plans for
the hut at Camp Upton included raising $125
for Bryn Mawr's share of the equipment of the
hut, (besides $25 a month for the refreshments)
and finding volunteers to act as hostesses
and entertainers.
The National Service Committee will under-
take the work of raising money for the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps, if that is decided upon,
and the New York Branch hopes to do its
share, whatever it is.
Respectfully submitted,
Katharine G. Ecob,
Chairman.
REPORT OF THE BOSTON BRANCH
There is not much to report about the Boston
Branch. The members of the Club have been
so busy as individuals in various kinds of war
and civic work that it seemed desirable not to
undertake anything as a unit. But we have
done one thing. It seemed to many of us an
extravagance to maintain a club-room for our
convenience, which should stand idle so
much of the time. We were sure that there
must be women who could help us use it; the
problem was to find them. At last, however,
we learned through Anne Strong of a need
that it seemed our place to meet. The State
Department of Health of Massachusetts has
appointed eight public health nurses to do
Child Conservation Work throughout the
state. The Chief Nurse has her office at the
State House and the nurses came to Boston
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to report there from time to time. Now our
club-room is close by the State House. So we
have offered these nurses the use of our room
for rest or for conference, or for the night;
and they share our privilege at the restaurant of
the Business Women's Club near by. They
have written very gratefully accepting our offer,
and I understand that they find the room very
useful. It is a satisfaction to help, even a
little, the women who are doing such splendid
work.
I very much regret that I cannot be present
at the annual meeting this year. Mrs. Walcott,
however, has promised to report to us on the
proceedings.
Respectfully submitted,
Sylvia Lee,
President.
BY-LAWS
Article I
MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. Any person who has received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts or of Doctor of Philosophy from Bryn
Mawr College is entitled to full membership in the Alumnae
Association of Bryn Mawr College, and to all privileges
pertaining to such membership.
Sec. 2. Former students of the College who have
not received degrees may become Associate Members of
the Alumnae Association upon unanimous election by the
Board of Directors. Applications for associate member-
ship must be made to the Board of Directors at least two
months before the annual meeting, and the names of the
applicants elected by the Board of Directors must be
presented at this meeting.
To be eligible for associate membership a former stu-
dent must have pursued courses in the College for at least
two consecutive semesters, and if a matriculated student,
at least four academic years must have elapsed since the
date of her entering the College. A return to the College
for undergraduate work shall terminate an associate
membership, and render the student ineligible for re-
election during the period of this new attendance at the
College.
Associate members are entitled to all the rights and
privileges of full membership, except the power of voting
and the right to hold office in the Board of Directors, or to
serve on standing committees.
Article II
MEETINGS
Section 1. There shall be each year one regular
meeting of the Association. This meeting shall be held
at Bryn Mawr College, on a date to be fixed annually
by the Board of Directors, preferably the Saturday of the
mid-year recess.
Sec. 2. Two weeks before the annual meeting notices
of the date and of the business to be brought before the
meeting shall be sent to each member of the Alumnae
Association. If it should be necessary to bring before the
meeting business of which no previous notice could be
given, action may be taken upon such business only by a
two-thirds vote of the members present at the meeting.
Sec. 3. Special meetings of the Association may be
called at any time by the Corresponding Secretary at the
request of the President, or of five members of the Associ-
ation, provided that notice of the meeting and of all
business to be brought before it be sent to each member of
the Association two weeks in advance.
Sec. 4. In cases demanding immediate action on
matters clearly not affecting the financial or general
policy of the Association, special meetings may be called
by the Corresponding Secretary with less than two weeks'
notice at the request of the Board of Directors or of ten
members of the Association. At special meetings called
on less than two weeks' notice action may be taken only
by a two-thirds vote of the members present.
Sec. 5. Fifteen members of the Association shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Article III
MANAGEMENT
Section 1. The Officers of the Association shall
constitute a Board of Directors, to which shall be entrusted
the management of the affairs of the Association in the
interim of its meetings.
Article IV
Section 1. The annual dues for each member of the
Association shall be one dollar and fifty cents, payable to
the Treasurer at the annual meeting. Associate members
shall pay the same dues as full members of the Association,
but shall be exempt from all assessments.
Sec. 2. The dues for each member that enters the
Association in June shall be seventy-five cents for the
part year from June to the following February, payable to
the Treasurer on graduation from the College.
Sec. 3. Any member of the Association may become
a life member of the Association upon payment at any time
of thirty dollars; and upon such payment she shall become
exempt from all annual dues and assessments.
Sec. 4. The names of members who fail to pay the
annual dues for four successive years shall be stricken
from the membership list. The Board of Directors may
at its discretion remit the dues of any member sub silentio .
Article V
BRANCH ORGANIZATIONS
Section 1. Any 25 or more members of the Bryn
Mawr College Alumnae Association may form a local
branch, the geographical limits to be submitted to the
Board of Directors of the Alumnae Association and to be
approved*by the Board of Directors.
Sec. 2. Any alumna or former student of Bryn
Mawr College who is eligible to membership in the Bryn
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Mawr College Alumnae Association may be a member of a
Branch Organization.
Sec. 3. Every Branch Organization shall report to
The Alumnae Association at the annual meeting.
Article VI
COMMITTEES
Section 1. There shall be two Alumnae members
of the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr College in ac-
cordance with the by-laws of the Trustees of Bryn Mawr
College.
Sec. 2. The Standing Committees of the Association
shall be: an Academic Committee, consisting of seven
members; a Conference Committee, consisting of four
members; a Students' Loan Fund Committee, consisting
of five members; a James E. Rhoads Scholarships Com-
mittee, consisting of three members; a Nominating Com-
mittee, consisting of five members; a Finance Committee,
consisting of three members and the Treasurer ex officio;
and a Committee on Athletics, consisting of five members.
Article VII
ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
Section 1. Elections for Officers shall be held bienni-
ally and elections for members of the Academic Committee
annually, before the regular meeting, and the results of the
elections shall be announced at that meeting; in every
case the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes
shall be declared elected. No ballot shall be valid that
is not returned in a sealed envelope marked "Ballot."
Sec. 2. The elections for the nomination of an Alum-
nae Director shall be held every three years on the last
Thursday in May. No ballot shall be valid that is not
signed and returned in a sealed envelope marked "Ballot."
The alumna receiving the highest number of votes shall
be nominated to the Trustees for the office of Alumnae
Director. At the first election in the year 1906, and at
other elections when there is a vacancy to be filled, the
alumna receiving the highest number of votes shall be
nominated to the Trustees for the regular term of six
years, and the alumna receiving the second highest number
of votes for the term of three years.
Sec. 3. The OScers of the Association shall be nomi-
nated by the Nominating Committee, and elected by ballot
of the whole Association. They shall hold office for two
years or until others are elected in their places. The Board
of Directors shall have power to fill any vacancy in its
own body for an unexpiied term.
Sec. 4. The members of the Academic Committee
shall be nominated as follows: The Board of Directors shall
make at least twice as many nominations as there are
vacancies in the Committee. Furthermore, any twenty-
five alumnae may nominate one candidate for any vacancy
n the Committee; provided that they sign the nomination
and file it with the Recording Secretary by December 1,
preceding the annual meetings. The members of the
Academic Committee shall be elected by ballot of the
whole Association and shall each hold office for four years
or until others are elected in their places. The Board of
Directors shall have power to fill any vacancy in the
Committee, such appointment to hold until the next
regular election.
Sec. 5. (a) The Alumnae Directors shall be nomi-
nated as follows: The Board of Directors of the Alumnae
Association shall make at least three times as many nomi-
nations as there are vacancies among the Alumnae Direc-
tors. It may at its discretion include in such nominations
names proposed in writing by any 25 members of the Alum-
nae Association qualified to vote for Alumnae Directors.
(b) Every Bachelor of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy
of Bryn Mawr College shall be qualified to vote for
Alumnae Directors, provided that at least five years
shall have elapsed since the Bachelor's degree was con-
ferred upon her, and provided that she shall have paid her
dues up to and including the current year.
(c) Every Bachelor of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy
shall be eligible for the office of Alumnae Director, pro-
vided that at least five years shall have elapsed since the
Bachelor's degree was conferred upon her, and provided
that she is not at the time of nomination or during her
term of office a member or the wife of a member of the staff
of Bryn Mawr College, nor a member of the staff of any
other college.
(d) An Alumnae Director shall serve for six years or so
much thereof as she may continue to be eligible. When-
ever a vacancy shall occur among the Alumnae Directors
a nomination for such vacancy shall be made by the Board
of Directors of the Alumnae Association to the Trustees.
An Alumnae Director so nominated shall hold her office
until her successor has been voted for at the next regular
election for Alumnae Director and duly elected by the
Trustees.
(e) In case by reason of a tie it should be uncertain
which alumna has received the nomination of the Alumnae
Association for Alumnae Director, the Board of Directors
of the Alumnae Association shall nominate to the Trustees
one of the two candidates receiving an equal number of
votes.
Sec. 6. The members of the Conference Committee
shall be appointed annually by the Board of Directors
and shall each hold office for one year or until others are
appointed in their places.
Sec. 7. The members of the Students' Loan Fund
Committee shall be appointed by the Board of Directors
from candidates recommended by the Loan Fund Com-
mittee. They shall each hold office for five years or until
others are appointed in their places. One new member
shall be appointed each year to succeed the retiring mem-
ber, and no member, with the exception of the Treasurer,
shall be eligible for re-election until one year has elapsed
after the expiration of her term of office.
Sec. 8. The members of the James E. Rhoads Scholar-
ships Committee shall be appointed by the Board of Direc-
tors, and shall each hold office for three years, or until
others are appointed in their places. One new member
shall be appointed each year to succeed the retiring mem-
ber, and no member shall be eligible for re-election until
one year has elapsed after the expiration of her term of
office.
Sec. 9. The Health Statistics Committee shall be a
permanent committee, appointed by the Board of Direc-
tors in consultation with the President of Bryn Mawr
College. The Chairman of this Committee is empowered
to fill vacancies in the Committee; a vacancy in the chair-
manship shall be filled by the Board of Directors in con-
sultation with the President of Bryn Mawr College.
Sec. 10. The members of the Nominating Committee
shall be appointed biennially by the Board of Directors,
and shall each hold office for four years, or until others are
appointed in their places. Two members of the Committee
shall be appointed in the year preceding an election for
officers, and three members in the year preceding the next
election for officers, and thereafter in the same order before
alternate elections.
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Sec. 11. The members of the Finance Committee
shall be appointed by the Board of Directors and shall
each hold office for four years, or until others are appointed
in their places.
Sec. 12. The members of the Committee on Athletics
shall be appointed by the Board of Directors and shall each
hold office for five years, or until others are appointed in
their places. One new member shall be appointed each
year to succeed the retiring member.
Sec. 13. The appointments of the Board of Directors
for the year ensuing shall be made in time to be reported
by the Board to the annual meeting for ratification by the
Association.
Article VIII
Section 1. The President shall preside at all meet-
ings of the Association and of the Board of Directors, and
shall perform such other duties as regularly pertain to her
office She shall be a member ex efficio of all the commit-
tees of the Association and shall countersign all vouchers
drawn by the Treasurer before they are paid. She shall
appoint such commitees as are not otherwise provided for.
Sec. 2. The Vice-President shall perform all the
duties of the President in the absence of the latter.
Sec. 3. The Recording Secretary shall keep the
minutes oi the Association and of the Board of Directors,
and shall perform such other duties as regularly pertain
to the office of clerk. She shall have the custody of all
documents and records belonging to the Association which
do not pertain to special or standing committees, and she
shall be the custodian of the seal of the Association. She
shall notify committees of all motions in any way affecting
them; she shall receive all ballots cast for the elections, and
with the Chairman of the Nominating Committee shall act
as teller for the same; and she shall be responsible for the
publication of the Annual Report, which should be mailed
to the Alumnae within two months after the annual meeting.
Sec. 4. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct
all the necessary correspondence of the Association; she
shall send out all notices, and shall inform officers and
committees of their election or appointment.
Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall be the custodian of all
funds of the Association and shall pay them out only by
vouchers countersigned by the President; she shall collect
all dues and assessments, shall file vouchers for all dis-
bursements, and shall keep an account of all receipts and
expenditures. She shall report on the finances of the
Association when called upon, to the Association or to
the Board of Directors, and she shall make to the Associa-
tion at the annual meeting a full report, the correctness
of which must be attested by a certified public accountant.
Sec. 6. The Board of Directors shall prepare all
business for the meetings of the Association, and shall
have full power to transact in the interim of its meetings
all business not otherwise provided for in these by-laws.
It shall have control of all funds of the Association; it
shall supervise the expenditures of committees, and it
shall have power to levy assessments not exceeding in any
one year the amount of the annual dues. At least one
month before each annual meeting it shall send to each
member of the Association a ballot presenting nomi-
nations for the Academic Committee in accordance with
Art. VI, Sec. 4; biennially, at least one month before the
annual meeting, it shall send to each member of the associ-
ation the ballot prepared by the Nominating Committee in
accordance with Art. VII, Sec. 13. Every three years, at
least one month before the last Thursday in May, it shall
send to each member of the Association qualified to vote
for Alumnae Directors a ballot presenting nominations for
Alumnae Directors in accordance with Art. VI, Sec. 5.
Through the President and Recording Secretary, it shall
certify to the Trustees the names of persons voted for and
the number of votes received for each person in elections
for Alumnae Directors. It shall appoint before each an-
nual meeting the members of the Conference Committee,
and fill such vacancies on the Students' Loan Fund Com-
mittee. The James E. Rhoads Scholarships Committee,
the Finance Committee, and the Committee on Athletics,
as may be necessary by reason of expiration of terms of
office. It shall also appoint, in alternate years before the
regular meeting preceding the biennial election, the mem-
bers of the Nominating Committee; and in case a vacancy
occurs it shall appoint, in consultation with the President
of Bryn Mawr College, the chairman of the Health Statis-
tics Committee. It shall report all appointments to the
regular meeting next following for ratification by the Asso-
ciation. A majority of the Board shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business. The Board of
Directors shall be at all times responsible to the Association.
Sec. 7. The Academic Committee shall hold at least
one meeting each academic year to confer with the Presi-
dent of Bryn Mawr College on matters of interest con-
nected with the College. It shall have full power to
arrange the times of its meetings.
Sec. 8. The Alumnae members of the Board of
Directors of Bryn Mawr College shall perform such duties
as are prescribed by the laws of the Trustees and Directors
of Bryn Mawr College.
Sec. 9. The Conference Committee shall hold at least
two meetings each academic year, one in the autumn and
one in the spring, to confer with committees from the
Undergraduate Association and the Graduate Club at
Bryn Mawr College, on matters of interest to the three
associations. It shall have power to call special meetings
at its discretion.
Sec. 10. The Students' Loan Fund Committee shall
have immediate charge of the Loan Fund, and its disburse-
ments, subject to the Approval of the Board of Directors-
It shall confer with the President of Bryn Mawr College
regarding all loans.
Sec. 11. The James E. Rhoads Scholarships Com
mittee shall, with the president of Bryn Mawr College and
the Committee appointed by the Academic Council of the
Faculty, nominate annually the candidates for the James
E. Rhoads Scholarships to be conferred by The Board of
Trustees of Bryn Mawr College according to the provisions
contained in the Deed of Gift.
Sec. 12. The Health Statistics Committee shall
collect from the members of the Association information
that may serve as a basis for statistics regarding the health
and occupation of college women. The Committee, sub-
ject to the approval of the Board of Directors, shall have
power to determine the best methods of carrying out the
duties assigned to it.
Sec. 13. The Nominating Committee shall biennially
prepare a ballot presenting alternate nominations for the
officers of the Association and shall file it with the Record-
ing Secretary by December 1 preceding the annual meeting.
Sec. 14. The Finance Committee may, with the
approval^ the Board of Directors of the Alumnae Associ-
ation, indicate purposes for which money shall be raised
by the Alumnae Association. It shall devise ways and
means, and take charge of collecting moneys for such
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purposes, and when authorized by the Alumnae Associ-
ation shall prepare, subject to the approval of the Board of
Directors, the necessary agreements for the transfer of
gifts from the Alumnae Association. All collections
from the Alumnae Association shall be subject to its
supervision. The Finance Committee shall have power to
add to its number.
Sec. 15. The Committee on Athletics shall try to
stimulate an interest in athletics among the members of the
Alumnae Association, and shall take official charge of all
contests that are participated in by both alumnae and
undergraduates.
Sec. 16. The Board of Directors and all Committees
shall report to the Association at the annual meeting, and
the Students' Loan Fund Committee shall report also to
the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College.
Article IX
RULES OF ORDER
The rules of parliamentary practice as set forth in
Roberts' "Rules of Order" shall govern the proceedings
of this Association in so far as they are not inconsistent
with any provisions of its charter or by-laws.
Article x
amendment of by-laws
These by-laws may be amended or new ones framed by
a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular
meeting of the Association, provided that details of pro-
posed amendments and additions have been given in
writing at a previous regular meeting of the Association,
either by the Board of Directors or by five members of the
Association.
WAR WORK
WORK OF THE WAR COUNCIL
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
In the last issue of the Quarterly the his-
tory, organization, and aims of the depart-
ments of the War Council were outlined. Some
of the departments, in particular those of
Liberty Loan and of Red Cross and Allied
Relief, had already accomplished a good deal,
but most of the work up to that time had been
organization and formulation of plans. At a
mass meeting held Monday, March 18, how-
ever, the Directors of Departments reported
much work actually done.
Miss Kingsbury, reporting for the Depart-
ment of Registration said that the filing and
classifying of the registration cards had been
completed, and that they had already been
used as reference several times. She said that
the department had arranged for a Vocational
Conference on April 13, and was hoping that
Miss Julia Lathrop would speak the evening
before on the opportunities for women in
Government service. The Conference is to
consist of small round table conferences led by
alumnae who represent the following lines of
work: Medicine, Law, Teaching, Psychology
applied to Social Work, Social Service, Business,
and Journalism. Miss Kingsbury also reported
that the department is ready to act as an
employment bureau in offering opportunities
for summer war service, for the most part
volunteer, — in three lines, — agriculture, social
service, and clerical work.
Miss Alice Hawkins, appointed Director of
the Department of Food Production in place
of Miss Ehlers who resigned, reported that the
farmer who has been engaged is starting work
immediately, and that there would be a great
deal of work for volunteers as soon as the Easter
holidays were over. As there is a full report
from the Alumnae Farm Committee elsewhere
in this issue, which deals with all that this
department has accomplished, there is no
need for further details here.
Miss Martha Thomas reported that the
Department of Food Conservation had been
meeting regularly every two weeks, and had
made public all the information it had been
able to secure in regard to the dictates of the
Food Administration. Pledge cards, concern-
ing individual economy have been distributed
and signed by a great number of the College
Community and in response to a request from
Mr. Cook, the Pennsylvania State Food Admin-
istrator, the meals in the college dining rooms
are planned in accordance with the Pennsyl-
vania State voluntary food ration.
There was no report at the meeting from the
Department of Maintenance of Existing Social
Agencies, whose work is identical with that of
the Christian Association, but in all its activi-
ties throughout the year it has been fully as
successful as usual.
There was no report from the Department of
Liberty Loan. Since the campaign for the
Second Liberty Loan, which resulted in a total
subscription of $197,200, this department has
been conducting the sale of War Savings
Stamps. It also expects to offer Liberty
Bonds of the third issue, for sale and possibly
to have another patriotic rally, but it does not
intend to conduct the exhaustive canvass for
the Third Loan that it did for the Second, as
many subscribers are still paying for their
bonds on the installment plan.
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Miss Turle, reporting for the Department of
Education, said that although the department
had been very active in getting speakers in the
early part of the year, it was now allowing
speakers to come under the auspices of the
different classes, who by charging admission
were thereby able to add to their Service Corps
funds. The department has also been busy
cataloguing the war literature, most of which it
has received through gifts, and so making this,
together with information on a bulletin board
in the New Book Room, easily available The
Bureau of Public Speaking under this depart-
ment has been meeting every week to train
speakers on war subjects, and will be able to
offer several "three minute women" for the
Thrift Stamp campaign, and for the Third
Loan.
Miss Houghton reported for the Department
of Red Cross and Allied Relief, which has been
conducting the $10,000 campaign for the
Service Corps. $7606.63 has been raised in
money and pledges to date, as follows: Faculty
$1003; Graduates $211; Varsity Fund $3049,
and the rest from the classes, 1918 being the
only class as yet to complete the quota assigned
by the department. The department plans
for two speakers for information on the subject
of Reconstruction Work, Dr. Tallant of the
Smith Unit, and Miss Wright of the American
Fund for French Wounded. In addition to
this work for the Service Corps, over $1000
worth of wool has been issued, and the Red
Cross Workshop has now reached an average
of over 2000 dressings per week.
This completes the report of the work of the
executive departments. The War Council
itself has met regularly every two weeks to
discuss matters of policy and organization, and
to apportion the work of the various depart-
ments. Through the channels offered by the
representation on the Council of all the college
organizations, through mass meetings and
through the College News, an effort has been
made to keep the College in touch with the
work. At the mass meeting on March 18, a
slight modification of the present organization,
suggested by the War Council, was ratified.
In addition to the representatives already
on the Council there are to be for the coming
year, a representative from each of the three
lower classes, elected by those classes, and the
Chairman from the Senior class to be nominated
and elected by the College. It has not been
decided as yet, whether the Director of Depart-
ments for the year 1918-1919 shall be chosen
this spring or next fall. In any case, there is
a good deal of change in the membership this
spring, since the new chairman and all the new
presidents of associations come into office.
With so much of the routine work of organiza-
tion accomplished, and with a membership
which now satisfies everyone as being repre-
sentative, there seems to be no reason why the
work of the Council in the coming year should
not be attended with all success.
Virginia Kneeland,
Chairman of the War Council of
Bryn Mawr College. 1917-1818.
THE BRYN MAWR SERVICE
CORPS
At a mass meeting held in Taylor Hall on
February 12, the Bryn Mawr Service Corps
was brought up for more complete discussion
than had been given it at earlier meetings,
and was unanimously supported by the vote
of the meeting. The plan of the Corps was
described in the January Quarterly and a
circular and appeal for its support has been
sent to every alumna and former student.
The Alumnae War Relief Committee recom-
mended to the Alumnae Association and to
this mass meeting that the administration of
the funds for the Service Corps and the deci-
sions and arrangements in regard to members
be put in the hands of an administrative com-
mittee to consist of six members, three ap-
pointed by the Alumnae Association and three
from the War Council. The Alumnae Associa-
tion appointed Marion Reilly, Martha Thomas,
and Abigail Dimon as its the three representa-
tives, but the mass meeting desired to add to the
personnel an additional undergraduate to be
elected by the Undergraduate Association.
The War Council members are the Chairman
of the War Council, Virginia Kneeland; the
Director of the Department of Red Cross and
Allied Relief, Elizabeth Houghton; and a
faculty member, Dean Taft. The undergrad-
uate Association elected Dorothea Chambers,
1919, as the third undergraduate represen-
tative. When the committee was complete it
organized by electing Marion Reilly as chair-
man and Abigail Dimon as Secretary-Treasurer.
It expects to hold regular meetings once a week
and has begun on the work of selecting the
members of the Corps.
Information as to the need and qualifications
for workers has been sent to the committee by
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three of the Bryn Mawr people abroad —
Elizabeth Sergeant, '03, Helene Evans, ex-' 15
and Cynthia Wesson, '09. The letters from
Elizabeth Sergeant and Helene Evans are espe-
cially full and are printed in part in this number
of the Quarterly. Before going to Rome
Helene Evans had been the secretary of Mr.
Devine, of the Bureau of Refugees in Paris so
that her information about Red Cross workers
is of great interest. Cynthia Wesson inclosed
a letter from Gertrude Ely, who has charge of
the women canteen workers of the Y. M. C. A.,
describing a canteen unit and the qualifications
for the workers. Carrie McCormick Slade on
this side puts the need for Y. M. C. A. canteen
workers strongly before us. The Red Cross
also tells us that it needs Italian speaking
women for Social service among the Italian
refugees. There is a strong desire among the
undergraduates to aid in Armenian Relief work
and the committee is watching for an oppor-
tunity to send a member of the Corps to such
work. One unit has recently been sent to
Palestine for work among the Greeks and
Armenians and it is quite possible that another
may be sent in the/early summer.
A number of alumnae have volunteered to
serve on the Corps and it is hoped that many
more will respond when the appeal and the
circular of information reaches them. The
committee has prepared a card for registration
which it asks to have filled out by all the volun-
teers, as well as a physician's certificate vouch-
ing for the physical condition of the volunteer.
It is to be understood that the organization
under which workers go out will have its own
registration blank and physician's certificate
in addition to the one filled out for the Service
Corps. The number of volunteers will be
much greater than the funds of the Service
Corps will permit of sending so the committee
will have to exercise careful judgment in select-
ing those workers who most fully meet pressing
need on the other side. Two members of the
Service Corps have already been designated,
Elizabeth Sergeant, an account of whose activi-
ties is given elsewhere in this number of the
Quarterly, and Margaret Bontecou, who sails
the latter part of March as a Y. M. C. A.
canteen worker in France. Both of these
members meet the larger part of their expenses.
In making the financial arrangements the
Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer of the
Joint Administrative Committee draw an
order on the Treasurer of the Alumnae Associa-
tion for a designated sum to be paid to the
member going out for service. The latter repays
in cash or gives a pledge for the amount she is
able to contribute. She is asked to sign a
receipt that includes a clause promising to
refund any surplus that may not be used for
the purposes of the Corps. She is also asked
to send a classified statement of her expenses
from time to time.
Money is coming in well for the Corps. The
Department of Red Cross and Allied Relief
collects from the College Community and
hands the sum collected to the Treasurer of
the Alumnae Association every month. The
first of March it handed in $1835.37. On
March 15 the fund collected from the alum-
nae amounted to $396.43 while the pledges
handed to the committee represented $2239
additional. Since the general appeal was not
sent out until March 11 and the local campaigns
which are to be instituted in as many districts
as possible were not then under way these sums
represent for the most part voluntary sub-
scriptions and make an encouraging beginning.
Abigail Camp Dimon,
Secretary.
The Bryn Mawr Service Corps has appointed
Elizabeth S. Sergeant, '03, its first representa-
tive in France. Miss Sergeant went abroad in
September to do a series of investigations for
the New Republic and with the plan also of
writing articles for other magazines.
"As a matter of fact," she says in a letter
of January 31, "I have been able to do no
writing of that sort. It would be very easy if
I had the time, if I took the time from the
"liaison work" (so called!) in which my knowl-
edge of France immediately involved me, and
from my researches for the New Republic.
As to the former, I have nothing whatever to
show for it but it has taken much energy and
many hours: finding this French person for
that American and vice versa, trying to bring
certain American authorities and certain
French together and help in getting their
ideas "across" to each other; listening to
French criticism and American criticism and
passing it along tactfully, etc. I have seen
quite a little of the Publicity Department of
the Civil Affairs Department of the American
Red Cross — but had to refuse an offer to give
them half-time. Yet they have taken a certain
amount of solid time! Through Gertrude
Ely and Martha McCook who are at the head
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of the woman's side of the Y. M. C. A. and
very powerful in the inner councils I have
followed their problems more or less. They
have asked me to lecture or talk to the "boys"
on French subjects, and Arthur Gleason is also
anxious to have me write an article of "con-
structive criticism." All this I surely mean to
do, want much to do, but have not yet had time
for. The speaking trips are fearfully tiring and
can't be combined with anything else. I should
like immensely to give a solid month or two to
them, and that is what they would like. . . .
"The army meanwhile has got me in its toils.
I had some letters from Washington, which
combined with the name of the New Republic
led them to offer me a trip to G. H. Q. and
through the "zone." No other women had
been allowed at G. H. Q., they said, except
through the Y. M. C. A. I think this isn't
strictly true, but pretty nearly. Anyhow
nobody else has spent several days at G. H. Q.
hearing an account of the special problems
from the chiefs of all the sections. Each one
explained his work to me, and I of course saw
General Pershing and lunched and dined at the
various messes. Then I also saw the training
camps and lunched with officers of the line
along the way. Then they (i.e., the top of
the General Staff) decided they wanted me to
see the whole thing and would send me down
the "line of communication" to the base port,
in order to be able to describe for America the
problem of the army from the sea to G. H. Q.
But at that point I picked up a purely Ameri-
can grippe germ which gave me a long siege,
partly in an army hospital; I am only just all
right again. It has lost me six or seven weeks'
work, at least effective work. I am now on the
point of starting on the delayed trip, which I
shall make partly through the good offices of
the American Red Cross, thereby getting
material for a Red Cross article: Dr. (Major)
Lambert ("medecin chef") is taking Mrs.
Borden Harriman (sent over by the Council of
National Defense) and Miss Ruth Morgan —
and me. I am very incidental but a seat in a
limousine n'est pas a refuser here and now!
The army cars are very, very cold, and the
trains are hours late and unheated. Between
the Y. M. C. A. and this very thorough official
view I'm getting I ought to know a great deal
about the army, and it is absorbingly interest-
ing. Then again, of course, half the problems
are Franco-American and need very nice inter-
pretation if they are not to offend.
"I seem to be coming last to my chief work
for the New Republic: to find out what the
loss of France has been along all lines, in men,
in agriculture, in industry, etc., — and what
America should do to help. That is the
toughest proposition of all, for facts are not
available, or confidential if obtained. Then
the interpretation is again awfully difficult,
for political reasons often, — and the whole
reconstruction question is in an absolutely
fluid state. That has meant endless talk and
sitting on doorsteps of deputies, etc., getting
horses in itself for the journeys takes forever.
The journeys are essential, I have been twice to
the "liberated" region for considerable times,
and must go back this spring. I have also been
to reconquered Alsace and to Verdun but that
was a different sort of thing. I am very much
in touch with the people who are dealing with
the liberated region, French and American Red
Cross, and feel as if I were getting somewhere —
might get somewhere if I had time enough.
Three months went nowhere, as you can per-
haps understand."
Since the above was written an admirable
article entitled "The Soil of France" has
appeared in the New Republic of March 2nd.
In December was published an article on the
liaison work of which Miss Sergeant speaks in
her letter.
Extracts from a letter from Elizabeth Sergeant,
'03, to Marion Reilly, Chairman of the Alum-
nae War Relief Committee and the Joint
Administrative Service Corps Committee:
Paris, January 31.
Dear Marion:
Your letter of January 8 reached me about
a week ago — pretty quick for these days!
I am enormously interested in the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps and feel sure you are right not to
send a "unit." The day for that has a little
passed, and even Smith, which has been doing
splendid work (much praised by the French)
has found it best to give up independence and
come under the Red Cross. I adjoin some
scratchy notes, very incomplete, but all I
have been able to manage in a particularly
busy week. I am convinced that the Bryn
Mawr woman would be invaluable here; there is
far more than enough work for the able, but the
incapable and the unserious are going perhaps
to make^ difficulties for the rest of us. I think
passports will be and should be more and
more closely watched, and anyone who comes
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should be prepared to stick to her job for
a reasonable time, like six months, whether or
not it is what she expected. Lots of women
have come supposedly for a definite society,
that society having guaranteed the passport —
and then leave the society promptly for one
they like better. Another interesting point:
American women draw back from the more
disagreeable jobs. This is asserted by the
American in charge of the Y. M. C. A. "Eagle
Hut" in London. The English women do the
6 a.m. work and the night work, etc. — the
Americans never can! Americans in the Eng-
lish Red Cross say the same thing. I haven't
heard this said often in France but there are
endless women who are not working eight
hours a day — who are here primarily for fun.
Tell your people they must be ready to convert
the American army to a belief in women by
their efficiency and seriousness.
NOTES ON WORKERS, ETC.
Living expenses and equipment. The cost of
living is very high indeed, not only food, room,
but all incidentals, such as cleaning, cobbling,
veils, gloves, washing, etc. In my opinion
nobody, even though she works in an office
from 9-6, wears a uniform (as the A. R. C.
and Y. M. C. A do) and is pretty sturdy,
should have less than 700 francs per month
and if she had no resources of her own that
would be a narrow margin. Seven hundred
and fifty would be fairer, — say $5 per day.
This is Paris and it does not mean hotels,
either, generally speaking. They cost — the
reasonable ones — anywhere from 18 to 25
francs per day. I know of just one pension
at 10 francs a day. No bathroom, unhealed,
and out of the way. Most pensions are 14 or
15 and this does not include sufficient heat
usually. That question will not be important
in the spring (heat, I mean) as it is in mid-
winter. The Red Cross building is splendidly
heated; so are most other places where Ameri-
cans work — unless they are not heated at all,
like the Alcazar d'fite where girls pack all day
in sweaters and mittens. I don't know whether
it would be possible for you to adjust your
financing to the age of the worker. But
certainly the "young and healthy and un-
trained" can get along with less, especially
if they are doing out of door or office work,
than women of more years and judgment, and
therefore responsibility and fatigue. But I
think anyone without personal resources to
supplement the Bryn Mawr money would be
worried if she had less than 25 francs a day
allowance. As an example of what things
cost, I find having my shoes soled and heeled
will cost 20 francs ($4.00). Washerwomen
charge 1,25 for a nightgown ($0.25) and other
things in proportion. A very penurious week's
wash costs at least $2.00. I am looking for-
ward with dismay to having to buy shoes for
$15 or $20! Be sure that people bring plenty
of boots, shoes, stockings, underwear, sweaters,
etc. Hard alcohol, cold cream, soap, are very
expensive here. Cleaning fluid not to be had.
Bring a little extra sugar if tea at home ever
desired, as it can't be bought by anybody
without a card, and you don't have a card if
you live in a pension or hotel. Bring type-
writer paper for personal use. No typewriters
can be bought here except with French key-
boards and at very high price and very scarce
at that.
I find Mrs. Ford of the Women's War Relief
Corps (registering all women) confirms me
that 750 francs is the right amount for Paris.
She says from 500-600 out of Paris — i.e., in
canteen towns. The A. R. C. allows 360
francs per month as bare living expenses for
workers it partially supports in canteens and
the Y. M. C. A. the same amount, but this
would not cover journeys, stops in hotels be-
tween assignments (they are changed about
and often have to wait several weeks in Paris
before being sent any where) and stops in hotels
in canteen towns before lodgings are found. A
friend who has been at one said she had to pay
8 francs a day for her room for three weeks
before getting other arrangements. The ho-
tels in the war zone are however poor, almost
as dear as Paris, because practically "officers'
clubs." Meals on trains cost 6 francs. The
friend just mentioned who has been here since
September says 600 francs a month would be
just right in canteens. But remember, both
for the 750 francs and the 600 francs, that
prices may go up still more at any moment.
Will the demand for women workers increase?
Undoubtedly, though there may be opposition
from the army. The truth is, there are many
useless and frivolous women here, not really
working, and eating up the food. I under-
stand the Intelligence Section of the army is
thinking of registering all women, and regulat-
ing things far more strictly, possibly with medi-
cal requirements. Dr. Blake thinks that all
women who come should be at least 28 and
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should be passed before coming, not by the
family doctor but by an impersonal doctor
with careful study of past history; and that
those whose energy and vitality get exhausted
should be subject to medical control and sent
home to make room for others.
There is no question that the A. R. C. and
the Y. M. C. A. are going to need women in
greatly increasing numbers and their standard
is steadily rising. Women of college training
would be most welcome to certain canteen
heads ....
Kind of woman needed
Canteen work is going to grow enormously
and is, I think, very valuable and interesting
work. There are canteens for French soldiers
and the A. R. C. is also starting many for
American soldiers. Requirements there are,
age, 25-40, preferably nearer 25; "husky"
health — used to "roughing it," to standing on
your feet; adaptability, willingness to be
bossed, circumspection, good disposition, should
speak French a little, know how to put on
bandages (First Aid Course); social gifts also
welcome if not absolutely insisted on (I think
they are). The able people here soon rise to
the top, or should, and will be put in charge of
new canteens as they are opened. There is no
cooking required — 8 hour shifts — night work.
Strict rules for social life (i.e., about dining
with officers, etc.)
Enormous demand for first rate bureau
workers. Stenographers and typewriters are
snapped up on every side, and good executive
secretaries are more precious than rubies.
Any bureau of the A. R. C. (I speak at random
but I know at least three) would absorb as
many as available — i.e., women with knowl-
edge of filing, library education, record keep-
ing, etc., as well as stenography and typewriting
and general trained intelligence.
The Refugee and Child Welfare Tubercu-
losis Departments are using social service
workers and of course nurses and doctors.
No doubt graduates of Miss Kingsbury's
would be welcome. The Child Welfare Tuber-
culosis and Housing campaign will probably
be extended greatly very soon and more work-
ers demanded. Very interesting for social
workers and sociologists.
Chaufeuses are always needed.
Dietitians will be needed.
Nurses' auxiliaries should register. There
aren't enough nurses here for the wounded
— when they begin to come in. At present
auxiliaries are treated like dirt in many places.
Laboratory experts are said to be needed but
I don't know details.
Reconstruction work is enormously interest-
ing in the field for people who know and care
for France. Here health, ability to run a car,
resourcefulness, energy, tact, practically neces-
sary, and medical or nurse's training, car-
pentry, etc., all to the good. I understand
Miss Anne Morgan wants college graduates
for her most successful work at Blerancourt.
She has done more than anyone in actual
rebuilding and has cooperated with the French
and got general respect. The Smith Unit
has been most successful also; is now coming
under the A. R. C. like everything else. The
Friends have done splendid work. Living
conditions, etc., are very Spartan with them.
Send only the strongest, and nobody with a
tendency to flirtation as they are suspicious of
women.
The Y. M. C. A. wants "women of resource
and magnetism." "Popular leader quality."
There are, or they say so many second rate
men that is all the more important for the
women to be "thoroughbreds." They will be
put in situations where no conventional laws
hold and must know how to control them.
The fairly young — 25 to 30 — will probably be
most successful with the privates and the
more attractive and good looking the better;
the more social experience the better, provided
they are serious and steady. None of those
with husbands in the army are acceptable.
Married welcome otherwise. There are no
two opinions in the rank and file of the army
as to the enormous good these women do.
The young officers and privates will tell you
that the whole tone of a camp is changed by
their presence (this is also true of A. R. C.
canteens) and the "huts" are popular just in
proportion as women are there. They need a
lot at where there will be a very large
number of men (privates) on leave every week —
girls who can walk and dance and help "enter-
tain" and amuse.
In the Y. M. C. A. the capable and excep-
tional person will undoubtedly rise to the top.
It is less certain in the A. R. C. and some heart
burning might result for canteen workers.
Knowledge of French (conversation) essential
for A. R. C. field workers; liking for the aver-
age American essential for the Y. M. C. A.
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Elizabeth White is now working for the
Y. M. C. A. (answering soldiers' letters, and
buying what they ask for from violin strings
to pajamas). Variety is not lacking in jobs;
but practically all relief and reconstruction will
be under A. R. C. and the Y. M. C. A. is the
other big opportunity
Kindest regards and my warmest thanks
again,
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant.
Croce Rossa Americana
112, Via del Plebiscito,
Rome, January 31, 1918.
Dear Miss Dimon:
This address is no longer correct, for the
office by the time this letter gets to you will
be moved into a fine old villa at the corner of
via Sicilia and via Romagno. For myself, I
have been in Rome since Saturday noon; came
in response to a telegram received in Paris
Monday afternoon and Thursday evening I
left.
I asked Mr. Devine just how to answer your
letter — which, by the way, I passed on to
Dorothea Moore for reply. I asked her to
tell you all she could about all the Bryn Mawr
girls that she knows about. Anne Hardon
came over a year ago last December. She
served as an aid in a hospital at the front for
five months, I believe; then she acted as chauf-
feur in the south of France for a number of
months, and when I left Paris she was ready to
start out to the French line to serve with a
canteen as soon as her papers could be put
through. She was to be stationed in the war
zone and papers are exceedingly difficult to
arrange.
As for myself, I came over the middle of
September and acted as secretary to Edward
T. Devine, Chief of the Bureau for Refugees,
until I left for Rome last week. Here I am
with the Publicity Department. This was
simply a means of getting to Italy; as soon as
anything turns up which will give me the
opportunity to get out and work among the
people I am going to try to get into that. I
wanted to do Reconstruction when I left U.S.A.
but most of that is absolutely volunteer, and I
must have my expenses paid.
Now, as to your letter. Mr. Devine says
that what you said about the undesirability
of college units was true some time back but
that word has now been sent to Washington
that the A. R. C. will use college units if alum-
nae want to come that way, provided the
people are willing to do what can be done by
such groups when they get here — everything is
not adapted to that variety of service. An
effort will be made to keep groups togethei
and to insure that each group should be under
the leadership of a trained, experienced per-
son— social work, reconstruction work, canteen,
medical, etc. Also each group should contain,
if possible, a person thoroughly familiar with
the medical and sanitary situation. A speak-
ing knowledge of French is strongly advisable,
although not obligatory for all forms of work.
Those who are to be sent out to work among
the rapatries, for instance, can do little without
it, for that work demands constant interrela-
tion with government officials, clergy, French
organizations already in the field, and the
people. Individuals can be used to better
advantage than groups. Persons sent should
have genuine ability, a sympathetic interest in
people, facility in getting grasp on a difficult
situation rapidly, and tact.
In many instances the A. R. C. representa-
tive has to harmonize the French agencies —
government, clerical, war societies of all kinds,
which in many places are now at enmity.
Also, A. R. C. workers and organization stand
on a precarious footing and are hampered in
their efforts to be useful at every turn. Who-
ever goes out must be prepared to meet all the
obstacles that long protracted war, — mis-
understanding, privation, and the falling off
in interest in the victims of the war which is in-
evitable after four years of their presence, — can
produce. The people must be husky, equipped
for resisting the French climate under war con-
ditions (cold, dampness, mud) and ready to
pitch in and work hard. Volunteers (expenses
paid — francs 450 to 600 a month) and espe-
cially those who can come without expense to
the A. R. C. at all are most wanted, but they
must have the needed qualifications first.
$100 to $125 a month will be paid to people
who are equal to the job if they cannot come
otherwise. Mr. W. Frank Persons, A. R. C.
Headquarters, Washington, D. C, is the
proper person to address. All of this refers to
France only; I know nothing as yet of the
Italian situation. The organization here is
small and will not develop to anything like
the proportions of the French organization
unless there should be a repetition of October's
reverses. The mushroom growth will be
avoided here, under all circumstances. In
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France whoever was on the spot, good or bad,
was impressed into the service wherever the
most pressing need was, regardless of qualifica-
tions (usually lack of them) and some of them
are still in such misfit positions, although as
they can be replaced this is being done.
Above all, send level headed people and
those who are old enough to be sensible; send
no one under 25. Difficulty has been experi-
enced in the canteen service, for instance, on
account of lack of dignity, to put it mildly.
It should be impressed on groups coming
over that each one of us in the field shoulders
a big responsibility — the A. R. C, the Ameri-
can people, and the American government are
being judged by us. At all times we are under
scrutiny, for we are all marked as attaches of
the A. R. C, and in all parts of France we are
present. Our past record as money spenders
is also against us. We have to remember con-
stantly that we are the trustees of the contri-
bution being sent to Europe, and accountable
to the American people for its most effective
use. This is not preaching. More and more
the chiefs are seeing the necessity for stressing
the points in this paragraph. Our contribu-
butions could be dispelled in countless ways if
the most careful discrimination were not
practiced. In the Bureau with which I was
formerly connected care is now being taken to
make it clear that our delegates are distributing
A. R. C. supplies and that they represent the
great masses of the United States and not only
a few wealthy people.
Farewell,
Helene R Evans.
Additional Information About Bryn
Mawr Women in Europe
FRANCE
American Red Cross
1. Canteen Work
Hardon, Anne, '15. January 31 was ready
to start out for war zone as canteen worker on
the French line.
Hoyt, Mary, '99
2. American Friends' Service Committee
Ferris, Frances, ex' 09. Relief work.
F. M. C. A.
King, Helen M., Grad.
Other Work
Lounsbury, Grace, C, '97. Content
Nichols writes she is "doing a splendid work as
head of a hospital for French soldiers suffering
from nervous lesions. It was at Piriac but is
now transferred to some other point."
Cadbury, Leah, '14. Relief work among
refugees.
Taylor, Lily Ross, Ph.D., Gave up her
fellowship at the American School of Classical
Studies, Rome, to do relief work among refugees
under the A. R. C. She is at Livorno.
LETTERS
From Mrs. Cons
January 10, 1918.
Dear Elizabeth:
Last month I was so busy getting out pack-
ages that I had no time to write. I hope that
you understood and did not think it strange
that no letter came from me. We sent out
277 packages and 57 money orders in twenty-
two days. You will realize what a job it was
when I tell of the time spent on 45 of them. It
took me two days and a half to buy the where-
withal to make them. Then I worked all the
next day from 8.30 a.m. to 9 p.m., with twenty
minutes for lunch and ten minutes for supper.
Three other persons worked five hours and a
half on them that day and the next day I
worked from 8.30 a.m. till 5 p.m. finishing the
book-keeping, tying up, addressing, sealing,
stamping, weighing, etc. — and I didn't lose
any time either. The weighing things for the
post office is a nuisance but has to be done
for the 2 pound packages. For the express
packages — we don't have to bother.
Of course this time everything was extra
nice. The packages were lovely. Elizabeth,
I wish you could have seen them. I spent
over 5000 francs but it was worth it. The St.
Nicholas packages for the Belgians were a
ginger bread St. Nicholas, a nice apple, a pretty
box of candy, nuts and figs and a little present
(pipe, cards, letter paper, game, cigarettes or
purse). The whole wrapped in white tissue
paper, tied with the Belgian colors and a
"PoulbotZ card with a message for each. I had
such fun with those cards. For a huge Belgian
with feet in proportion there was the knitting
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class. A little girl making socks gets up and
cries: "Teacher, she says that my godson has
big feet." I wrote on it "Cher Pierrot, naturelle-
ment e'est le pur hasard qui fait que je vous
envoie cette carte. Personne n'a jamais dit que
vous aviez de grands pieds et d'ailleurs vous
etes mon cousin et non mon filleuV — (he calls
me cousin.) They (the cards) were all selected
to fit and the men are still talking and laughing
about them.
The little Christmas packages for the French-
men were the same except that there were
marrons glaces instead of the St. Nicholas
and a little calendar instead of the card. The
calendars were little beauties — selected too for
the men. In addition to these small packages,
all the men, French and Belgians, had either
money or a large package of unusually nice
goodies (ham or chicken instead of beef or veal,
for instance), and all the chinks were filled
with nuts — they were most attractive.
The little families had money, 10 francs to a
person — and two bound volumes of Mon
Journal for the children, and if the father was
an ex-soldier, he had his little Christmas pack-
age, too. All the miners had money and a
The prisoners, thanks to your mother's
generous gift — had packages twice as large as
usual — about 12 pounds in one big package
(dried beans, lentils or peas, rice, beef, sugar,
cocoa, jam, tomato sauce, chocolate, coffee,
condensed milk, prunes, bouillon cubes, and a
nice cake). A small package sent separately
contained candy, nuts and a "noix de jambon
fumee" (the center of a ham smoked). I am
dreadfully afraid the Germans will take that
ham but I thought I'd risk it — the men would
enjoy it so much. I have nineteen prisoners
on my list now. I don't know how many
soldiers there are. As soon as I have time I
am going to make out my annual report — it
will be interesting to me as well as to you for
I don't really know how much I've done this
year. I know, however, that other men are
jealous of my men and stand around to see
them open their packages — which speaks well
for them, does it not? As I think things over
I feel satisfied. Several small families are
getting on their feet in addition to the soldiers —
several miners have been clothed — two in new
suits. Little by little they are being helped —
yes, I feel satisfied. It is so good to have the
money necessary but I have to be very careful
now as I get to be known more widely. People
try to get things on false pretenses, so I am not
being too "easy." I have just brought to
light one such dishonest attempt. A woman
took the addresses out of one of my soldiers'
note books and wrote to his godmother and to
me pretending to be a "rapatriee" with her
old parents. I smelled a rat — why I don't
know, but the letter did not seem sincere and I
have since gotten the facts from my soldier.
I am glad that I gave her nothing. I have
written to the godmother to warn her.
I have attended to the various things men-
tioned in your letters and those sent me — it is
useless to enumerate.
The January cable came to-day. I was
afraid it might be much smaller — but it is a
goodly one, too. Don't worry when checks
come in late — I must have 8000 or 9000 francs
now (with to-day's cable). Of course last
month was a bad one — but last month's cable
will cover this month's expenses.
I will not write more tonight for I am a little
weary. Adolphe was here to help me with the
work so I did not get sick, but I am of course a
little tired. Will write more later. With
many thanks and best New Year's wishes and
love,
Jeanette.
I know of no other way than through the
American Girls' Aid or the parcel post to
send to me.
Please excuse mistakes — I have had a hard
day and my poor brain gets fagged toward
night.
Teanette
from miss curtis
221 East 15th Street, New York City.
February 18, 1918.
Dear Friend:
Having received several inquries from former
Bryn Mawr students as to the whereabouts of
my sister and her husband, Professor Louis
Cons, it has occurred to me that other members
of their classes might be glad to hear something
of their work since the beginning of the war.
After six weeks spent at Gap, a training-
camp and mobilization center in the south of
France, Professor Cons was sent to the front
near Rheims about the middle of October,
1914. He served in the trenches without
furlough till September, 1915, eleven months
of incessant toil and constant danger. He had
many narrow escapes twice the visor of his
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cap was shot away, his pipe was broken in his
mouth by a ball, men on either side of him
were killed, and yet he suffered no injury,
until March, when he and a comrade were the
victims of the first poison-gas bomb thrown in
that sector. The bomb exploded over the
small dug-out in which the two men were
sleeping. Both were buried in the debris,
and were unconscious when rescued. For two
days the pain was intense, with violent nausea,
bleeding from nose and ears, and from the
lungs. In the case of Professor Cons, .he
treatment was successful, and he soon returned
to the trenches, though the effects of the poi-
son were felt for two or three months.
In June, 1915, his regiment was transferred
to the terrible Verdun sector where he remained
for eighteen months, and where his knowledge
of German soon caused his appointment to
special service in a "fixed post" of the first line.
In November, 1915 he received his "citation"
and his "Croix de guerre" for courage and
devotion to duty under fire.
For the past year he has been giving instruc-
tion in technical German to Chiefs of Special
Posts, and examining and analyzing for the
General Staff the documents, note-books,
letters, etc., found on German prisoners.
Thousands of documents pass through his
hands, and much valuable information is
obtained. This work is done behind the lines,
and in comparative safety, though not out of
range of shell-fire, or attacks from the air.
Early in the war, the sympathies of Professor
Cons were strongly aroused by the sight of the
poor men in the trenches whose homes in the
north of France had been buried under the
German avalanche. These men had only their
wage of a penny a day for all the small neces-
saries, and were so forlorn and uncared-for
that Professor Cons asked his wife to write to
some of them whom he knew personally, and
do what she could to cheer them, and, if pos-
sible, to supply their needs.
She had been actively engaged in relief work
of various kinds from the beginning of the war,
and was able to obtain for these friendless men
the underwear and knitted articles most needed
for their comfort and health. A friend in the
Belgian army appealed to her in behalf of
thirty men in his company who seemed to him
especia ly worthy of help. Other friends added
more names to the list, until she has now one
hundred and seventy soldiers under her care,
from homesick boys of twenty, to the anxious
fathers of lost families. But to all she is
Petit ■ Maman, whose letters and little packages
of useful articles are eagerly awaited. For-
merly their furloughs were spent in the trenches,
as their homes and friends were behind the
German lines, but now they come to her in
Paris, and find in her little parlor with its
bright fire or blooming plants, a friendly wel-
come and a touch of the home feeling which goes
far toward restoring hope and courage.
The accompanying circulars which have
been sent out from time to time, give some
further details of her work and its needs.
Very sincerely yours,
Anna L. Curtis.
The following letter from Madame Louis
Cons speaks for itself:
Paris, January 1918.
Dear :
I am sorry to hear of the coal shortage at
home. We know how to sympathize with
you, for we have shivered here through four
terrible winters. We have fire part of the day
n Paris, but in Belgium and in the parts of
France still held by the Germans we hear that
no fires are allowed in the houses, and that
every blanket and garment of wool or fur has
been taken by the Boches, except one suit for
each person. Even the children are robbed of
bedding. In an orphan asylum in Noyon, the
little beds stood close together in a long row
without a scrap of covering, no mattresses,
and no pillows The children had absolutely
nothing but the lothes they had worn day and
night, from December till April, when the
French and British troops entered the town.
Twelve thousand people were found in the
ruined houses of this place; but not a stick of
furniture or a household utensil of any kind
had been left.
To such desolation as this, many of my
soldiers have been returned to work the re-
covered mines, and it is for these men that I
am forced to make a special appeal. Men
from other districts sent back to industrial life
find their homes and families and their civilian
clothes waiting for them. But my men have
noth ng at all e cept the one old uniform
which has perhaps seen months of hard wear
in trench and battle. They are often sick,
weakened by the hardships of three years at
the fronts and they are not as well paid for
their labor as formerly, while the cost of living
is much higher.
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These men are still "mobilized," still under
military orders, but are no longer maintained
by the over-burdened government, as when
they were at the front. In cases where they
have been joined by their families their small
wage — from $1.00 to $1.50 per day — is entirely
inadequate for their needs utterly destitute as
they are.
One of my men, Floreal Devillez, is a miner
from Lens. Last June he was sent to work in
the mines, and in September his little family
was repatriated. Jeanne, his wife, has suffered
much, and is not very strong, while the chil-
dren are both small. All they could bring
from the little home was a change of underwear
for each. Floreal obtained two beds from the
military bureau, bought a stove with his savings,
and a few little things with the $20 I sent, and
wrote to me, Mon bonheur «'a plus homes
(My happiness has no bounds). He set seri-
ously to work to build up a home, but his wife
fell sick and he himself was obliged to go to a
hospital for an operation, during which time
his wife and children had but 60 cents a day to
live on.
I procured a big bundle of garments for them,
and sent money from time to time. But until
they can get on their feet again — get clothing,
and dishes and furniture, — they need regular
help every month, for Floreal earns just barely
enough for food and fuel. I should like to
lave 150 francs a month for them, for a time.
They are industrious worthy people. Jeanne
was a dressmaker, and can make a little go a
long way for clothes.
Noel Gambiez is another miner who began
work in the mines at the age of ten. He has
very little education, but is a quiet, middle-
aged man, with the natural tact and delicacy
so pleasing in many of the lower-class French.
He lived in Auby-pres-Douai, with his wife
and three little children, Jocelyn, Mireille and
Marceau, and they had a very happy home.
Noel was sober and industrious, and was getting
along well, when the war broke out, and he
was called to arms. The town was captured
by the advancing Germans, and it was two
years before he heard a word from his family,
though he tried in every way possible. In 1916
I succeeded in getting a line from them through
an office here. They were hen all living,
under the usual conditions of German military
occupation.
In one of the heavy attacks on the German
lines, Noel's section led the assault. A hand-
grenade exploded just in front of him and his
face was terribly torn and cut. He was in
hospital for some time, and though much
scarred, does not look grotesque or repulsive.
From the hospital he was sent to work in the
mines in the south of France.
Last November his three children were
brought back by a cousin. But the little
mother is dead — killed before her own door
by a fragment of shell, during a bombardment.
Noel, distracted with grief and care, hardly
knew where to turn, or what to do. All the
children were ill, — one with bronchitis, another
with an abscess back of the ear which caused
severe hemorrhages through the nose, and had
to be operated on; the third with an intestinal
trouble, brought on by privation.
Noel was nearly wild. He could not work,
because, at first, he could find no one to take
care of his children: and they could not live
on the ten cents a day per child given by the
government, and the forty cents a day Noel
receives when not working. Finally I told
him that if he could find some one to stay
with the children, I would help him pay her.
That is what he has done, and his children
have a woman's care once more. She is the
widow of a soldier, herself back from the North
with one child. She asks 5 francs a day.
I must find this money regularly, if we are to
save the children, and keep the family together.
Charles Bryckaert, from Carvin, is a miner,
chauffeur, "handy man." He is married, and
has two little boys, one of whom, three years
old he has never seen. Two years ago, he was
told that his wife and children had been killed
by a shell which fell on the house during a
bombardment. Only last month he heard
that they are in Belgium, alive but still behind
the German lines. " f\ *'■ '■■-'■■ .'■■'
Charles is very brave and sturdy, with a
good-natured face and blue eyes. He was at
Verdun for a long time and then his regiment
was sent to Greece. There he contracted
malaria, and was, in consequence, returned to
France, to work in the mines. He earns just
6 francs a day, has to pay 5 francs for rather
poor board, and in order to save 20 cents for
soap, laundry, and all little necessaries, he
sleeps on the straw in a barn, with his old
"capote" for a cover. I have clothed him,
for he had only his uniform; but should be
glad if he could sleep in a bed in a house. A
barn is no place for a man who is still often
shaken with chills and fever.
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These stories, which I have told so briefly
and inadequately, are typical cases, — the
details no more poignant than in scores of
others, — the men no more deserving. There is
a pressing need of immediate help, and I turn
to you, as I have turned before, with a special
plea for my "miners' fund." If you were
here, you would see that no words can tell the
bitter need.
As ever, gratefully yours,
JE ANNETTE CURTIS CONS.
Checks for this fund, as for the friendless
men in the trenches should be made to the
order of Elizabeth White and sent to her at
The Marlborough-Blenheim, Atlantic City,
N.J.
All contributions are cabled to Madame
Cons the first of every month by Miss White.
I shall be glad to answer any questions or
give further information regarding the work of
my sister, Madame Cons.
Yours very truly,
Anna L. Curtis,
22 East 15th Street,
New York. N. Y.
BULLETIN OF THE PATRIOTIC
FARM
The plans for the Patriotic Farm are making
satisfactory progress. Mr. W. E. Hinckle
Smith has loaned thirty acres of land within
two miles of the campus to be used for the
Farm this summer. The part of the campus
under cultivation last year will probably be
used again and the land behind the Baldwin
School is to be used for a kitchen garden, to
supply vegetables for the farmers.
A farmer has been engaged and is already at
work. Seedlings have been started under
glass and the ploughing will begin within a
few weeks. Abigail Camp Dimon, (1896) now
the Recording Secretary of the College, is to be
the director of the Farm after June 20. It is
hoped that some other alumna can be found to
take charge up to that time and relieve Alice
Hawkins, who as the head of the Food Produc-
tion Committee is at present making necessary
arrangements. Myra Elliot Vauclain has been
appointed chairman of the finance committee
which is to raise the guarantee fund of $7000
from the alumnae.
There is an opportunity for quite a number
of alumnae to enlist as farm hands. Provided
they work for as much as one month, the wages
will be 17 cents an hour for the first two weeks
and 20 cents an hour thereafter. This ought
to enable the workers to earn enough to cover
their board of $6.50 a week. The alumnae are
requested to come if possible in July, August or
September, rather than in June as the heaviest
registration of undergraduates is for the latter
month. It would be well to write at once to
Alice Hawkins, Merion Hall, for the registra-
tion is made very definite this year and only
the number of workers actually needed will be
employed at any time.
Helen Taft, 1915,
Alumnae Farm Committee.
April 1.
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE PATRIOTIC FARM
(Twenty acres lent to the College by Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Sharpless)
Expense Account
20 acres partially fertilized (seeding
and preparing under the direction
of Mr. Arthur D. Cromwell before
the farm was taken over by the
I students) $197.56
Fertilizer 95.33
Seeds, plants, spraying, etc 289.24
Ploughing with horse-plough 191 . 10
Hauling 189.16
Cannery (construction) 432 . 17
Canning supplies 1,723 . 79
Tools, etc 64.51
Telephone 3 .90
Motor truck (running expenses) 462 . 31
House for lodging students:
Rent, operating expenses. . $730.75
Furnishings of house 56.84
Board of Manager of house 84.78 872.37
Mr. Cromwell at $1.00 per hour 644.50
College students at 20 cents per
hour 1,911.02
Total expenses $7,076.96
Receipts
Farm produce:
227 bushels potatoes at $1.50 per bushel.
92 baskets tomatoes at 50 cents to $1.10 per
basket.
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124f bushels beets at 70 cents per bushel
67 bushels carrots at $1.10 per bushel.
42 baskets lima beans at 90 cents to $1.10
per basket.
2,000 heads cabbage at $25 per ton.
4 baskets kohl-rabi at 25 cents per basket.
13 baskets Swiss chard at 25 cents per basket.
26 bushels turnips at $1.20 per bushel.
2 baskets onions at 10 cents per quart.
10 endive at 5 cents each.
18 bunches parsley at 5 cents each.
10 baskets string beans 90 cents to $1.10 per
basket.
140 bunches radishes at 5 cents per bunch.
1,515 dozen ears corn at 15 to 28 cents per
dozen.
7 bushels navy beans (estimated at $8 to
$12 per bushel)
212 cans beets at contract price, April,
1917 $0.12
34 cans peas at contract price, April,
1917 18
2,312 cans tomatoes at contract price,
April, 1917 10
2,964 cans corn at contract price,
April, 1917 17
84 cans Swiss chard at contract price,
April, 1917 16
1,905 cans peaches at contract price,
April, 1917 18
126 cans cherries at contract price,
April, 1917 18
3 cans soup at contract price, April,
1917 18
2,729 cans string beans at contract
price, April, 1917 18
Cash received for all farm pro-
duce sold $2'412.24
Estimated value of pro-
duce not yet sold:
Stored at Bryn Mawr. . . $178.55
1,050 cabbages stored at
farm 40.00
Beans stored at farm 70.00 288.55
Total value of produce $2,700.79
Refunds:
Actual:
Cans sold
$5.00
Labels sold
2.69
Fertilizer sold. . .
6.68
Gasoline re-
turned
1.13
Estimated:
16,000 tin cans.
$600.00
Jars and large
cans
10.00
Canning equip-
ment, includ-
ing tools
125.00
$15.50
735.00
From students for lodging at $1.50
per week*
Interest on bank balance
750.50
364.66
13.71
Total receipts $3,829.66
Deficit on Patriotic Farm 3,247.96
$7,076.96
$7,076.96
METHOD OF FINANCING PATRIOTIC FARM
Donations:
Refund from Arthur
D. Cromwell (for
time at 50 cents
per hour) $322.25
From Alumna who
rented and oper-
ated lodging house
(loss on operating
account) 366.09
To Refund College for
depreciation on om-
nibus body truck. . 51.80
From four students,
wages refunded $41 . 52
From an Alumna 5 . 00
$786.66
Borrowed cash re-
turned $2,771.00
Balance for distri-
bution 1,589.66
$4,360.66
Donations 786.66
Cash loss excluding
donations 2,460.64
* The students paid $6.00 for meals at boarding house nearby.
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Cash Advances without Interest:
For harvesting of
crops $2,250.00
For purchase of
omnibus top to Ford
chassis (afterward
purchased by Col-
lege.) 521.00
inancing Loans:
7 loans of $500 each . .
$3,500.00
2 loans of $250 each .
500.00
1 loan of $50
50.00
4,050.00
Total cash supplied $7,607 . 66
$7,607.66
$2,771.00
On the $4,050 lent for financing the farm we have paid only 39 cents on the dollar. If these
canned goods had been sold for the market price in September, 1917, we could have paid 63 cents
on the dollar.
Note. — The price paid by the College for canned goods is the price offered at the time the Col-
lege would otherwise place its contract, in April, 1917, for the College year 1917-1918.
GINLING COLLEGE
Ginling College,
Nanking, China,
December 2, 1917.
To the Editor of the Alumnae Quarterly:
To-day as I walked home from Chinese
Church through the narrow stony streets of
Nanking with some of our students, one of
the juniors said to me, "Have you written
your Ginling letter to Bryn Mawr yet?"
And I had to confess that the long-promised
letter to my fellow-alumnae about their sister-
college here in China had been thrust aside
time after time to give way to other things
more pressing. Now that Miss Dong has
reminded me, I am sitting down at once,
because I really do want to tell you about this
new college — a real college — which only three
years ago opened its doors to the women of
the Yangtze Valley. That year it had a fresh-
man class of nine, but now by the entrance of
a class of twenty, it has doubled its second
year's enrollment and brought the total up to
thirty-five. Isn't that splendid growth by
geometrical progression a sign of the need that
is felt in this part of China for such an
institution?
When I first heard of Ginling College last
July at home, I thought it sounded like a place
of splendid possibilities, and as soon as I reached
here in October and saw the faces of the stu-
dents, I was convinced of it. You perhaps
imagine, as I used to, that Chinese faces are
stolid and unresponsive; indeed, I was quite
prepared to find them so, but to my great sur-
prise and pleasure from the very first day these
girls have seemed to me very little different
from American girls. Of course most of our
students have been prepared in Mission school
where they have overcome their first timidity
and have lost the dull look of so many of the
uneducated, non-Christian Chinese.
If you should come to visit Ginling you
would be driven from the railway station away
across to the southern part of the city of Nan-
king, to an old Chinese "gung-gwan" or official
residence built originally for the fifth son of
Li Hung-chang, and therefore of course a
very high-class dwelling. One glance at our
walls would be sufficient, for in China the
higher the rank of the family, the higher the
wall around the house. After you had pushed
open the heavy door, you would be met by the
slow old gateman who with much solemnity
would lead you through court after court, and
perhaps even through one of our ever-fascinat-
ing round doorways, back to the faculty quar-
ters in the rear court, the most honorable
part of the house. There you would notice a
balcony and a full second-story, which does not
exist in the other courts. The house is built
in two-halves lengthwise with four main courts
and four side courts on each side, and one-half
belongs to the students, the other to the faculty.
The dormitories and bed-rooms are of course
in the two rear courts. Everywhere the wood-
work is beautifully carved in intricate Chinese
patterns, which one could spend days and
weeks studying. Indeed, I should like to
spend all my time and use all my films taking
pictures of the carvings, if I knew any one who
was interested in design. And let me say here
that if any one who reads this would really
like some such pictures, I should be more than
glad to take them and send them.
As the rooms here are all along the back or
north walls of the courts, the sunshine pours
in everywhere, for the south walls of the rooms
are wooden only half-way up and the rest is
carved and filled in with glass or paper.
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From the faculty court we would take you
out through various smaller courts to our large,
walled garden, where chrysanthemums and
roses grow in profusion, and where a large
pond, a smaller lotus-pool, arched trellisses,
and a large tea-pavilion make it a favorite
spot for both students and faculty.
Through the far garden wall a gate leads into
another large enclosure which contains rows of
ne vegetables, and beyond, a good tennis-court
where we like to spend an hour or so every day.
Can you wonder that with such a setting
Ginling College is a pleasant place to live in?
But the college is growing rapidly, as I told
you, and a Chinese residence, no matter if it is
supposed to be "a house of a hundred rooms,"
is not elastic. Besides, the Li gung-gwan
lies across the city from the other foreign insti-
tutions, which makes our use of the Library of
the University of Nanking rather difficult, to
mention only one drawback. So the college
has bought land out beyond the University
and in two or three years we shall have college
buildings with all the conveniences, and a
beautiful campus of about twenty acres. You
can imagine how pleased I was when the Presi-
dent of Ginling asked me to send for pictures
of the halls at Bryn Mawr, as the long, low,
crenellated style was what she wanted for
Ginling.
Our faculty includes three Chinese — the
matron, the Chinese classics teacher, and the
American-trained doctor who gives lectures on
hygiene — and nine Americans, two of whom
are now at home on furlough. We consider
ourselves a fairly representative body as we
come from Mt. Holyoke, Goucher, the Uni-
versity of Chicago, Vassar, Oberlin, the Uni-
versity of Michigan, Bryn Mawr, and two
from Smith. Smith is giving one thousand
dollars a year to Ginling; how I wish Bryn
Mawr could lend a hand in this pioneer educa-
tional work for the women of China, at least
so that our girls would not think that Smith
is the only college in America!
The students — I have spoken about their
faces before — are such interesting girls! Many
of them have already taught for a number of
years, so that some of them are over thirty,
and also in this year's freshman class we have
one or two as young as sixteen. They are so
ambitious, so eager to learn everything they
can, so anxious to be better trained to help
their country through the years of growth
ahead! They are already at work doing what
they can right here in our neighborhood.
Every afternoon from two to five they have a
little day-school for the children who live
nearby, the fame of which has spread to such a
degree that one Chinese woman actually moved
into this section of the city so that her chil-
dren misrht come to the Ginling School. On
Sundays there is a Sunday-school with pupils
of all ages, and the mothers who come have a
class of their own. We often go in to see the
tots as they sit around their little tables listen-
ing to their teachers or pick up their little
wooden stools and trot back to the chapel for
the closing exercises.
My particular job is to teach English, and
teaching English to these Chinese girls is a
problem, certainly, but also a source of much
pleasure and amusement. As all the college
work in all the courses except the Chinese
classics is done in English, they are supposed
to be prepared in that language when they
come, but they do have the quaintest ways of
saying things. In describing the first fright
among the girls when a fire was discovered in
their dormitory one night this fall, one of the
juniors wrote, "Words ran but no action was
taken," and I had not the heart to correct such
vivid phraseology. Another said in gratitude
for the preservation of the college, "We should
be thankful for luckies in unluckies." And a
freshman, trying to make a sentence with the
verb "erect," wrote, "The turkey's tail is
erected!"
We like to look back to the days of those
first students at Bryn Mawr and the promise
of the years that lay before them, which they
are so splendidly fulfilling; how much greater
promise and possibility lies before these first
Ginling students in this great old country
which is just beginning to allow a place of
service to its womanhood. Bryn Mawr has in
the past year shown special interest in the
education of Chinese girls, and I only hope
that her interest will grow so as to include not
only those few individuals who will go to
America to study, but also the ever-growing
number who will have their higher education
in their own country, here in this new college
of Ginling.
I hope that my own friends to whom I was
unable to write last summer because of the
suddenness of my leaving home will consider
this partly as a personal letter and will know
that I am thinking often of them all.
With greetings from the college women of
China to the college women of America, I am,
Always sincerely,
Maey Boyd Shipley,
B. M. C, 1910.
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NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
ACADEMIC YEAR 1917-18, SECOND
SEMESTER
February 6 College opens for the second
semseter at 9 a.m.
First of a series of six lectures on
successive Wednesday even-
ings on Comparative Religions
by Kate Chambers Seelye
(Mrs. Laurens Hickok Seelye),
Bryn Mawr College, 1911.
February 8 Performance of the No Mai
Classic Dances by Miss Clara
Blattner, assisted by Mrs.
Elsie J. Blattner, for the bene-
fit of the Chinese Scholarship
Fund.
February 9 Performance of Ibsen's " Ghosts"
by The Clifford Devereux
Company, in the Gymnasium.
February 11 President Thomas at home to
the Senior Class.
February 14 Faculty Tea for Graduate Stu-
dents in Denbigh Hall.
February 15 Concert under the auspices of
the Music Committee. Re-
cital of lute music by Mr.
Thomas Wilford.
February 16 Lecture by Mr. Fullerton L.
Waldo, F.R.G.S. "The War
Front." Illustrated by British
Official Moving Pictures, for
the benefit of the Service
Corps.
February 17 Sermon by the Rev. William J.
Cox, Rector of St. Andrew's
Church, Philadelphia.
February 19 Lecture by M. le Chanoine B.
Cabanel, Chaplain of the 66th
Division of the Chasseurs
Alpins. Lecture under the
auspices of the French Club.
Mes Impressions de Guerre.
February 22 Carnival in the Gymnasium for
the Graduate Students' Serv-
ice Corps Fund.
February 24 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by the Rev. Father
James O. S. Huntington, of
the Order of the Holy Cross,
West Park, New York.
February 25 President Thomas at home to
the Graduate Students.
March 1 Lecture by M. le Capitaine
Paul Cande, of the First
French Engineers, Chevalier
de la Legion d'Honneur, Croix
de Guerre, under the auspices
of the Graduate Club for the
benefit of the Service Corps.
"France under Fire." Senior
Reception for Graduate stu-
dents.
March 3 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
Rabbi of the Free Synagogue,
New York City.
March 8 Freshman Show. "What's 'At."
March 9 Party for the Bates Camp, in
the Gymnasium.
March 10 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Mr. Robert Elliot
Speer, Secretary of the Presby-
terian Board of Foreign
Missions.
March 11 President Thomas at home to
the Senior Class.
March 15 Announcement of European
Fellowships at chapel at 8.45
a.m.
Gymnasium Contest, 1920 vs.
1921, 4.30 p.m.
Fellowship Dinners, 6.30 p.m.
March 16 Concert under the auspices of
the Music Committee, piano
recital by Miss Constance
Rulison, A.B., Bryn Mawr
College 1900, teacher in the
David Mannes Music School.
March 17 Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Professor Charles R.
Erdman, of Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary.
March 18 President Thomas at home to
the Graduate Students.
March 20 Address by Dr. Alice Weld
Tallant, Head of the Smith
College Reconstruction Unit
on "Reconstruction Work in
France," in Taylor Hall at
4.15 p.m.
March 21 » Christian Association Confer-
and 22 ence conducted by the Rev.
George A. Johnston Ross,
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April 18
Professor of Practical The-
ology in Union Theological
Seminary, New York City.
Faculty Tea for Graduate Stu-
dents in Radnor Hall, 4 to 6.
Address by Sergeant Ruth Far-
nam of the Crack Serbian
Cavalry on "A Nation at
Bay" under the auspices of
the Class of 1920 for the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps, in Taylor
Hall at 8 p.m.
Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by Dr. Andrew Mutch,
pastor of the Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church,
Easter vacation begins at 1 p.m.
Easter vacation ends at 9 a. m.
Address by Miss Florence H.
Wright, member of the Bleran-
court Unit of the American
Fund for French Wounded,
and a private view of the mov-
ing pictures taken by the
French Army photographers
of the work of the Civilian
Committee at Blerancourt,
Aisne, France, in the Gym-
nasium under the auspices of
the War Council.
The Dansant in the Gymnasium
for the benefit of the Silver
Bay Fund.
Silver Bay meeting in the
chapel at 8 p.m.
Sunday evening service. Ser-
mon by the Right Rev. Bishop
Rhinelander, D.D., Bishop of
Pennsylvania.
Address by Miss Julia L. La-
throp, Head of the Children's
Bureau, Washington, D. C.
under the auspices of the
Registration Committee of the
War Council at 4.30 p.m.
Reserved for the Graduate Club.
Sunday evening service.
President Thomas at home to
the Senior Class.
Meeting of the Graduate Club.
Address by Dr. Paul Haupt, of
Johns Hopkins University.
Conferences under the auspices
of the War Council with Miss
Helen Fraser, of England.
April 19 Performances of the Varsity
and 20 Play, "The Admirable Crich-
ton," for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps.
CAMPUS NOTES
After mid-years and before Easter life at
College settles into more or less of a routine.
Except for the weekly appearance of the News
and a gradual moderation of the weather we
hardly notice the passage of time. Under the
management of the Department of Education
of the War Council there have been frequent
lectures Fridays and Saturdays in Taylor, for
the most part by men "back from the front."
In this way we have heard widely varying,
personal experiences of the war. Major Beith's
bitter observation that the weather was con-
sistently pro-German, Doctor Clarence Ussher's
account of the massacre of the Armenians, M.
Cabanel's Impressions de Guerre as Chaplain of
the "Blue Devils," presented pictures not easily
effaceable. The concerts given here have been
attended by small but enthusiastic audiences.
On March 16, Miss Rulison, 1900, gave a piano
recital in Taylor.
It is perhaps because of the many lectures
that our knitting progresses so fast. The
promptness with which the second order for
low-priced wool went in to a woolen mill brought
forth a protest from the Manager. "No more
wool will be sent to Bryn Mawr," it ran, "un-
less the mills are assured that it is not being
sold for profit."
Because the great interest of the College as a
whole is the furtherance of the Service Corps,
many usual activities have been discontinued.
Not only has it become apparent how easily
they may be done without, but, on the whole,
how little they are missed. Among the things
that are not greatly mourned is the Class Book
with its somewhat insistent humori. Garden
party, one of the pleasantest festivities, will
not be given.
Varsity dramatics, so long an anticipation
in the heart of every class stage-manager, has
become a fact, and the dream of an "all star
cast" is about to be realized. The play
chosen is "The Admirable Crichton." M.
Martin, '19, is stage-manager and A. Harrison,
'20, will take the leading part. The try-outs
before the casting committee must have been
amusing. One of the chief difficulties was to
obtain a Crichton whose "English accent" did
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not betray the local peculiarities of Indiana
or Richmond. Mrs. Patch, who coached Beau
Brummel, the junior-senior supper play last
year, will coach the Varsity performance.
Freshman show was on the whole a success-
ful departure from the conventional. The plot
was a burlesque adaptation of the Cinderella
story, with a garden party instead of a ball,
and a prince in khaki.
The general desire to raise money has given
rise to the usual petty traffic in shoe-blacking,
darning, note-copying, and so forth, and to
the ever-popular insurance for merits. A new
and distinctly sensational way of raising the
fund was the " International-Interworld Letter
Company." This novel organization of which
the personnel preserved the strictest anonym-
ity, engaged for the benefit of the Service
Corps, to give written communications from
any celebrities alive or dead. Among the
spirits to speak were Giotto, Roosevelt, Vergil
and Homer.
The faculty gave a White Elephant Sale at
which Dr. De Laguna acted as auctioneer.
He secured four dollars for an imposing, al-
though false, front of books, and almost as
much for a small woolly dog answering, he
said, to the name of Ecstasy.
A singularly unsuccessful venture in behalf
of the Service Corps was the engagement of
the Clifford Devereux Company in Ghosts.
Regina, interpreted as a demure parlor-maid in
frilled cap and apron, and Oswald, who wore a
succession of brilliant smoking jackets ranging
from orange to cerise, stood out in startling
contrast to all pre-conceived ideas. The audi-
ence passed an evening at once harrowing and
hilarious.
Mary Swift Rupert.
THE EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS
In consequence of war conditions it is not
probable that the winners of the scholarships
this year will be able to go abroad immediately,
but after the war is over they expect to go to
Europe and continue their studies.
Eva Alice Worrall Bryne of Philadelphia
is the winner this year of the Mary E. Garrett,
or second year, European Fellowship.
Isabel F. Smith of Los Angeles, California*
is the winner this year of the President's Euro-
pean Fellowship open to students who have
studied for one year in the Bryn Mawr College
graduate school.
Olga Marx of New York City has been
awarded the Anna Ottendorfer Memorial
Research Fellowship in Teutonic Philology.
Margaret Catherine Tlmpson of New
York City has been awarded the highest prize
open to the Senior Class of 1918: the Bryn
Mawr European Fellowship. Her average
grade on all the courses which she has taken in
College is 89.34 per cent.
The following are the honor students of the
class of 1918. Students who have received a
grade of between 85 and 90 receive their degree
magna cum laude. These students are: Mar-
garet Catherine Timpson, Virginia Kneeland,
Therese Mathilde Born, Irene Loeb, Louise
Ffrost Hodges.
The degree cum laude has been won by the
following students with a grade between 80
and 85 on all their college work: Gladys Hagy
Cassel, Elizabeth Houghton, Ella Mary Rosen-
berg, Lilian Lorraine Fraser, Helen Whitcomb,
Katharine Truman Sharpless.
THE CLUBS
BALTIMORE
The Bryn Mawr Club of Baltimore has a
membership of sixty-five, of whom five joined
within the last year. The list, which had run
on from the former Bryn Mawr Club, was
revised and sifted last spring, and now
includes only names of those that have ex-
pressed their desire to attend meetings, etc.
The Club meets one afternoon every month
at the house of some member, and the meet-
ings have been increasingly well attended, and
have been fairly representative of older and
younger classes. Tea is served at the meetings
and the Club has continued its policy of keep-
ing them purely social in character, since
everyone seems fully occupied with patriotic
and other forms of service. During the last
few months, short addresses have been made
by Club members or other Bryn Mawrters, on
their own work, in various fields, and this has
added greatly to the interest of the meetings.
The CIuJd was very glad to be able to con-
tribute $40 to the Mary E. Garrett Endowment
Fund last spring. Through an unfortunate
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mistake the money was not sent until some
time after commencement.
The officers of the Club during 1917 were:
President: Johanna Kroeber Mosenthal;
Secretary: Mildred McCay; Treasurer: Helen
Evans Lewis (resigned in June and succeeded
by Martha Arthurs Supplee.
Report submitted by Johanna K. Mosenthal.
PITTSBURGH
The Bryn Mawr Club of Pittsburgh, besides
keeping up its $200 scholarship is still support-
ing a French orphan and has taken three of the
Second Liberty Loan Bonds.
OHIO
The Ohio Club sent Harriet Sheldon; '14, to
the meeting of Bryn Mawr women held in
New York in November.
Miss Jones went to Youngstown in the winter
and addressed a group of women on the sub-
ject of Bryn Mawr at the home of Rebecca
Fordyce, '16.
We have sent to every Bryn Mawr woman
in Ohio a War Questionnaire. In this way we
hope to get statistics as to the war activities of
Bryn Mawr women, and perhaps to help the
College in registering the war activities of the
alumnae and former students.
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
The news of this department is compiled from information furnished by class secretaries, Bryn Mawr Clubs, and from
other reliable sources for which the Editor is responsible. Acknowledgment is also due to the Bryn Mawr College New
for items of news.
The following alumnae were present at the
annual meeting
Ph.D's.
Isabel Maddison, Florence Peebles.
1889
Gertrude A. Taylor.
1890
Marian T. Macintosh.
1891
Emily L. Bull, Esther F. Byrnes.
1892
Abby Kirk.
1893
Helen Thomas Flexner, Lucy Martin Don-
nelly, Margaret Hilles Johnson.
1895
Elizabeth Conway Bent Clark, Mary Jeffers.
1896
Cora Baird Jeanes, Mary S. C. Boude Wool-
man, Gertrude Heritage Green, Mary Mendin-
hall Mullin, Lydia T. Boring, Caroline McCor-
mick Slade, Pauline Goldmark, Abigail Camp
Dimon.
1897
Mary E. Converse, Mary L. Fay, Clara Vail
Brooks, Sue Avis Blake, Grace Albert, Eliza-
beth Caldwell Fountain.
1898
Martha Tracy, Elizabeth Nields Bancroft.
1899
Sibyl Hubbard Darlington, Evetta Jeffers
Schock.
1900
Grace Campbell Babson, Louise Congdon
Francis, Margaretta Morris Scott.
1901
Elizabeth F. Hutchin.
1902
Edith T. Orlady, Anne Hampton Todd,
Emily Dungan Moore, Eleanor James, Fanny
Travis Cochran.
1903
Elizabeth Snyder, Emma D. Roberts, Emma
C. Bechtel, Virginia T. Stoddard, Doris Earle,
Margaret E. Brusstar.
1904
Margaret Scott, Emma R. Fries, Martha
Rockwell Moorhouse, Emma Osborn Thomp-
son, Mary Latimer James.
1905
Theodora Bates, Elma Loines.
1907
Athalia L. T. Crawford, Annabella E.
Richards.
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1908
Helen Cadbury Bush, Myra Elliot Vauclain,
Gertrude Buffum Barrows.
1909
Emma White Mitchell, Helen C. Irey,
Bertha S. Ehlers.
1910
Marion S. Kirk, Edith H. Murphy, M. B.
Wesner, Agnes M. Irwin.
1911
Helen M. Ramsey.
1912
Lorle Stecher, Anna Hartshorne Brown'
Mary Pierce.
1913
R. Beatrice Miller, Florence C. Irish, Agathe
Deming, Elizabeth Yarnall Maguire, Alice D.
Patterson, Alice H. Rockwell.
1915
Mary B. Goodhue, Helen Taft, Amy Mac-
Master, Katharine W. McCollin.
1916
Ruth E. Lautz, Joanna Ross.
Thalia S. Dole.
1917
PH.D'S.
Margaret Shove Morriss, Ph.D., 1911, had a
letter in the Mount Holyoke News of January
16, describing some of her experiences at a
base hospital in France. The following para-
graph is taken from this letter:
"Before I stop I must tell you about a party
I went to last night. The major at the head
of our unit is much interested in the French
Foyer des Soldats run by the town. Every
week they give a stunt party there for the
peimissionaires, run by the soldiers themselves.
Last night the hall was packed by over a
thousand poilus — so tired and dragged out they
look, but so courteous to us. They had a
number of amusing songs and stunts. First the
leader announced that the major was going to
serve white bread sandwiches to all the men
there. You know they haven't tasted white
bread for three years. Then the nurses and
the rest of us went out and got trays piled
high with sandwiches, and every man got at
least one. They cheered and clapped for the
major and for the infirmieres at a great rate,
and a most charming young fellow made a
gracious speech of appreciation. One of our
doctors sang for them too. It was a regular
Franco-American love feast, and really moving
to see. It was the most interesting thing of the
kind that I have seen since I have been here."
Ruth Gentry, Ph.D., 1896, died late in 1917.
1892
Secretary, Mrs. F. M. Ives, 318 West 75th
Street, New York City.
Abby Kirk was seriously ill with pneumonia
in February.
Edith Hall is investigating the condition of
the working children of the South under the
new Federal Child Labor Law.
On Saturday, March 16, 1918, Margaret
Newbold, daughter of Frederick M. Ives and
Edith Wetherill Ives, died, aged eight years.
1894
Abby Brayton (Mrs. R. N. Durfee) is Chair-
man of Education, Woman's Committee of
Council of National Defense; member of
Executive Committee of War Savings Stamps;
member of Executive Committee of Girls'
Patriotic League, Garment Department of
Red Cross WTork.
1896
Ida Ogilvie is at the head of the units organ-
ized in New York State for the Woman's Land
Army and has charge of organizing the units
throughout the country.
Tirzah Nichols has volunteered to take
charge of the housekeeping for the Bryn Mawr
Patriotic Farm for two months.
1897
Ida Gifford, ex-'97, who is now living in
Brookline, was a worker at the Boston Metro-
politan chapter of the Red Cross during the
last summer and fall. The Faulkner Hospital
at Jamaica Plain, of which she is a graduate
nurse, has offered beds to the Naval Reserve
Corps and is already doing its share in caring
for the United States sailors.
1899
Secretary, Mrs. E. H. Waring, 325 Washing-
ton Street Glen Ridge, N. J.
Elizabeth Bissell is at a canteen at Creil,
about 7 miles from Chantilly.
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1900
Constance Rulison gave a piano recital at
College on March 16. Among those who came
on to hear it were Renee Mitchell (Mrs. Thomas
M. Righter) and Anne Boyer, '99.
1902
Mrs. Corra Bacon-Foster, mother of Violet
Bacon-Foster, ex-'02, died in Washington in
January. The following is taken from a long
article in the Washington Evening Star: "Mrs.
Corra Bacon-Foster was prominently identified
with various patriotic societies, and was well
known as an author .... She was con-
sidered an authority on the history of the
Chesapeake ane Ohio Canal .... She
helped to organize the first woman's club in
Texas. She was a member of the Houston
Board of Trade for several years ....
A charter member of the Red Cross has this to
say about Mrs. Bacon-Foster: 'She was well
known as a fine writer and speaker, but the
crowning glory of her life was her unselfish
devotion to Clara Barton, founder of the
American Red Cross, as shown by her patriotic
study of the official records of the civil war
and the years following, for the purpose of
preserving in clear form the splendid story of
Clara Barton's work in founding and develop-
ing the Red Cross.' "
1903
Secretary, Mrs. H. K. Smith. Westward,
Farmington, Conn.
Dr. Marianna Taylor has gone to France to
join one of the reconstruction units.
Philena Winslow left in March to work in
one of the Y. M. C. A. huts in France.
Eunice Follansbee (Mrs. William Hale)
spent the winter in Washington, where her
husband is doing work for the Council of
National Defense.
1904
Secretary, Emma O. Thompson, 213 South
50th Street, Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Charles Lewis, brother of Con-
stance Lewis, is in the 26th Infantry, regulars.
They have had experience already in the front
line trenches, sallying out "over the top" and
into "no man's land." Two other brothers,
Lieutenants Philip and Edward Lewis expect
to leave for France soon.
Mary Christie (Mrs. W. L. Nute), ex-'04, is
living at 162 Anderson Avenue, Palisade, N. J.
Her husband, who returned from Turkey last
August, is studying at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York.
Helen Howell (Mrs. John Moorhead) is
doing Red Cross work in New York. Her
husband is head of a hospital in France.
Dr. Mary James spoke before the College
Club of Philadelphia on "Interior China."
She is studying medicine in New York. Her
address is 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City.
Isabelle Peters has been in France since last
November. She is at a canteen at Creil, about
7 miles from Chantilly.
Margaret Reynolds (Mrs. Shirley Hulse),
ex-'04, is living in Philadelphia. Her husband
is doing Government work at Hog Island.
1905
Secretary, Mrs. C. M. Hardenbergh, 3824
Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.
Nan Workman (Mrs. R. M. Stinson) has a
second daughter, Nancy, born in December.
Rachel Brewer (Mrs. Ellsworth Huntington)
is now living at 343 Humphrey Street, New
Haven, Conn.
Frederica Le Fevre (Mrs H. E. Bellamy)
has a rather unique war work — singing to the
soldiers and making them sing. She also
organized choirs for the Christmas Red Cross
campaign and continues in song leading for the
Red Cross. She teaches French for the Red
Cross and sang in four benefit concerts in
February.
Carla Denison (Mrs. Henry Swan) spent the
winter in Santa Barbara with her three children.
Patsy Gardner went to France in December.
She is at Criel, near Chantilly, doing canteen
work.
Bertha Seely (Mrs. Quincy Dunlop) has
moved from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to
Indianapolis.
1907
Secretary, Mrs. R. E. Apthorp, care of Dr.
C. H. Williams, Hampstead Hall, Charles
River Road, Cambridge, Mass.
Anna N. Clark has just taken her final vows
as a sister in St. Margaret's Episcopal convent,
Boston. In future she will be called Sister
Deborah.
1908
Secretary, Mrs. Dudley Montgomery, 115
Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
Louise Congdon (Mrs. J. P. Balmer) and her
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husband are spending the spring months in
California.
Anna Carrere, who has been chief shipping
clerk in the Paris office of the A. F. F. W., is
expected home in May.
Theresa Helburn spent the winter at San
Ysidro Ranch, Santa Barbara.
Margaret Lewis (Mrs. Lincoln MacVeagh)
spent the winter in Richmond, Va., to be near
her husband, Captain MacVeagh, who is at
Spartanburg.
Louise Milligan (Mrs. C. D. Herron) is at
Camp Lee, Va., with her husband, Colonel
Herron of the 313th Field Artillery.
Josephine Proudfit (Mrs. Dudley Mont-
gomery) spent part of the winter with her
husband, Captain Montgomery, who is at
Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1909
Secretary, Frances Browne, 15 East 10th
Street, New York City.
Evelyn Holt (Mrs. Philip Lowry), ex-'09,
has a son, Philip Holt Lowry, born February
20. Mrs. Lowry is staying with her mother in
New York. Her husband, Lieut. Lowry of
the 49th Infantry, is stationed at Camp Merritt,
Tenafly, N. J.
Mildred Durand was married on January 12
to Charles Burton Gordy. Mr. Gordy is in the
U. S. Navy and is stationed at League Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordy are living at Southampton
with her father.
Alice Miller, ex- '09, is still in France. She
is doing canteen work for American soldiers at
Bourg in the south of France. She and Mary
Tongue are working together.
Cynthia Wesson and May Putnam arrived
from France on March 20, bringing the latest
news from "Billy' Miller, May Egan, Shirley
Putnam and the many other Bryn Mawrters
near Paris.
Margaret Bontecou sailed about March 25
for Paris to do Y. M. C. A. canteen work.
Florence Ballin is playing tennis as much
as her health will allow. She made a splendid
showing in the tournament at Pinehurst this
winter but is still not sufficiently recovered
from her illness of a year ago to play as much
as she wishes.
Celeste Webb is continuing her work as
registrar at the National Training School of the
Y. W. C. A. in New York.
Barbara Spofford (Mrs. S. A. Morgan) was
elected president of the New York Bryn Mawr
Club at the annual meeting in February.
Fannie Barber was elected secretary of the
Club.
Mary Goodwin (Mrs. C. L. Storrs) has a
daughter, Margaret Shippen Storrs, born
January 16 at Shaown, Fukien, China.
Frances Browne is doing special work with
small children in New York. She expects to
go the first of May to Cape Cod where she will
continue her work for two months.
1910
Secretary, Mrs. H. B. Van Dyne, Troy, Pa.
The American University Courier has the
following :
"Miss A. W. Maris Boggs, Dean of the
Bureau of Commercial Economy, and student
in the American University, making a thorough
investigation in visual education, has recently
received some flattering recognition of her
work. She has been proposed for member-
ship in the Royal Geographical Society of
England. She was also asked by the Belgian
Minister of Education to join with the Baroness
Moncheur, wife of the High Commissioner of
the Belgian Mission to the United States in
1917, in translating Leon de Paeuw's "La
Re-education Professionnelle des Soldats
Mutiles et Estrophies." The author of this
work is in charge of schools for the professional
re-education of Belgian cripples, and chief of
the civil cabinet of the Belgian Minister of
War. This is a very important work, the first
of its kind to be published in this country,
and will prove valuable in planning for the
reeducation of wounded and maimed American
soldiers. The translation has been completed.
The United States War Department has had a
few hundred copies mimeographed for its use,
and the work is soon to be issued by an Ameri-
can publishing house."
1911
Secretary, Margaret J. Hobart, The
Churchman, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York
City.
Amy Walker (Mrs. James A. Field) is execu-
tive secretary of the Department of Women in
Industry of the Woman's Committee of the
Council of National Defense. She has been
identified with the labor movements of the
Chicago Women's Trade League and was for
some time editor of Life and Labor. She
began her duties at the National Headquarters
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of the Women's Committee in Washington in
the early winter.
Marjorie Hoffman was married to Ferdinand
Conrad Smith on January 9 in Portland, Ore.
The wedding was hurried because Mr. Smith,
who was stationed with the Medical Corps at
Camp Lewis, expected at any time to be sent
abroad. At the time of the wedding the
bridegroom was ill with scarlet fever. For-
tunately the bride escaped the infection.
Constance Wilbur is engaged to Sergeant J.
Frank McKeehan of Middleboro, Ky. Ser-
geant McKeehan is a graduate of Columbia
and is stationed now at Camp Dix, N. J., with
the Medical Corps.
Elizabeth Taylor (Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.)
has been elected vice-president of the New
York Bryn Mawr Club, and has been reelected
president of the Spence School Alumnae Asso-
ciation. She is on the Trades Committee for
the Liberty Loan Drive in April.
Margaret Doolittle is teaching phonetics in
the Hartford School of Missions, Hartford,
Conn., while under missionary appointment for
Syria. Of course conditions at present are too
uncertain for her to be able to proceed with her
plans.
Kate Chambers (Mrs. Laurens Seelye) has
been teaching a class in the history of religion
at Bryn Mawr this last semester. The class is
under the auspices of the Christian Association.
Phyllis Rice (Mrs. Herschel McKnight) has
gone to Washington, where her husband has
been transferred. Lieutenant McKnight is in
the Ordnance Department.
Marion Crane (Mrs. Charles Carroll) has a
son, Charles Carroll, Jr., born on January 10 in
New York City. Mrs. Carroll's address is
320 West 15th Street.
Esther Cornell played the leading part in
The 13th Chair on tour this winter. The com-
pany expects to finish its tour very soon.
Margaret Hobart is chairman of the com-
mittee on civic education of the New York
Churchwomen's Club, and is arranging for
classes on "your vote and how to use it" for
the women's and girls' societies in the New
York Episcopal churches.
Helen Emerson is in New York doing Gov-
ernment work.
Anita Stearns (Mrs. W. M. Stevens) has
moved to Charlestown, W. Va., where her
husband is engaged in ammunition work.
Ruth Vickery (Mrs. B. B. Holmes) is prob-
ably coming to Boston to live there with her
children for the duration of the war. Her
husband is a captain in the National Guard,
and has been ordered to Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
for fourteen weeks intensive training. He has
been given Battery 623. Mrs. Holmes has
rented her ranch. She has recently taken a
course at the State Normal College — "both
afternoon and evening courses with lessons to
do in the evening which make me feel quite
kittenish" she writes.
1912
Secretary, Mrs. J. A. MacDonald, 3227 N.
Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
Winifred Scripture (Mrs. Percy C. Fleming)
has a son, Peter Dawson Fleming, born January
17.
Katherine Longwell has announced her
engagement to Lieut. Frank Ristine, Field
Artillery.
Mary Vennum was married in December to
Lieut. Bruce Van Cleave, U. S. R., in Evanston,
111.
Mary Scribner (Mrs. Chapin Palmer) has a
daughter, Mary Ellen, born January 17, 1918.
Julia Houston was married to Hilton Howell
Railey on January 26 in New York. Mr and
Mrs. Railey live at 26 Jones Street, New York.
Agnes Morrow sailed for France in April as a
canteen worker under the Y. M. C. A.
1913
Secretary, Nathalie Swift, 156 East 79th
Street, New York City.
Helen Richter (Mrs. Maximilian Elser, Jr.)
is a research clerk in the Army War College.
Her husband is in the Intelligence Section of
the Army War College.
Emma Robertson is teaching at Brownell
Hall, Omaha, Nebraska.
Dorothea Baldwin is going to France to do
organization with the American Red Cross.
Gertrude Hinrichs was married to Samuel G.
King on January 21, in Glen Ridge, N. J.
Lucjnda Menendez was married in February
to Bertram Pierre Rambo, who is Assistant
Paymaster, U. S. N. R.
Clara Pond has announced her engagement
to Theodore D. Richards of Pittsburgh.
Louise Gibson is studying miniature paint-
ing in New York.
Elizabeth Shipley, ex-'13, is teaching at the
Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Moun-
tain, Ky.
Helen Evans (Mrs. Robert M. Lewis), ex-'13,
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is living in Newport, R. I., where her husband
is stationed with the U. S. Naval Reserves.
Alice Ames, ex-'13, was married to Dr.
Bronson Crothers in December.
Mary Tongue has announced her engage-
ment to Ferdinand Eberstadt of East Orange,
N.J.
1914
Secretary, Ida W. Pritchett, 22 East 91st
Street, New York City.
Anne White was married on January 21 to
Captain Paul Church Harper of the 17th U S.
Artillery.
1916
Secretary, Adeline Werner, 1640 Broad
Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Margaret Russell was married on January 12
to Roger Kellen at Plymouth, Mass.
Frances Bradley is translating French at
the U. S. Army War College, Washington
Barracks.
Buckner Kirk is taking a business course in
Baltimore.
Dorothy Packard is working in the Informa-
tion Department of the Council of National
Defense in Chicago. She has published a
pamphlet "Woman's Part in the War Work"
which is being distributed by the Council of
National Defense.
Eva Bryne is in the English Department of
Bryn Mawr College.
Mary Lee Hickman is conducting a Red
Cross Tea Room in Louisville.
Dorothy Evans, ex-'16, is studying for an
M. A. at the Ohio State University.
Adeline Werner was married in April to
Captain Webb I. Vorys, 332d Infantry, Camp
Sherman, Ohio.
1917
Thalia Smith was married in New York on
October 22 to Harold Dole, a first lieutenant
in the Aviation Corps.
1918
Amelia Richards, ex-'18, died at the Roose-
velt Hospital, New York City, February 6 of
pernicious anemia. She had sailed for France
in November to work on surgical dressings,
but was obliged to return on account of illness.
Ex-1920
Helen Bolles died of tuberculosis at Wilming-
ton, N. C, early in February.
LITERARY NOTES
All publications received will be acknowledged in this column. The editor begs that copies of books or articles by or
about the Bryn Mawr Faculty and Bryn Mawr Students, or book reviews written by alumnae, will be sent to the Quar-
terly, for review, notice, or printing
BOOKS REVIEWED
america asserts herself
The Wind in the Corn, and Other Poems.
By Edith Franklin Wyatt. D. Appleton
and Company, New York. $1.00.
Any nation — like any individual — on leaving
a comfortable isolation, must naturally wish to
consider, and make evident, just what the con-
tribution is that it is offering to Society. In a
way, life has been so easy at home. All sorts of
little tricks of manner have become usual and
unnoticed, and all sorts of slacknesses have had
the comfortable indulgence of The Home. If
one has to appear in a new, strange world, how
is one going to feel self-assured and competent?
Traditional good breeding, of course, and classi-
cal education often seem to encourage imita-
tion— discipleship — and a very modest bearing
in the presence of that great world one supposes
has the long habit of clear, distinct, well-
reasoned arrogance. The homebred person
may properly feel only modest and self-effacing.
And if he does not show confident and hopeful
vigor, perhaps it is just as well, in the interest
of good manners.
But it is lucky for any society — or person —
when it arrives at the perception that what life,
however full of amenity, really wants is char-
acter, the free self-assurance of independent
feeling. One gets let in for much crudity and
roughness, of course, but one does not suppress
and grow shamefaced about direct and sincere
experience.
And even eastern "cultivated" America is
showing signs of at last having got to the point
of counting up proudly the contribution of the
country as a whole. Not spreadeagle-wise, —
that was a very youthful schoolboy bragging,
but like a young man determined to cut a
figure in the great world by reason of his confi-
dence in his own realization of the valuable
difference of his experience from that of his
elders. And nothing after all so excites one's
pleasure as the bearing of a man quietly sur-
of his distinction, no matter where in the world.
Of course, one is speaking in the way of aes-
thetic definition, and not suffering fools gladly!
It is this bearing that "new America" is gain-
ing. He is doing his work according to his
deep valuation of his particular experience, and
not wishing that to be more like what Europe
has already weighed and affirmed as good —
though any likeness may make appreciation
seem ever so easy!
In the arts, and especially in writing, this
new proud and well-reasoned self-confidence is
expressing itself often. Every week one can
find some sincere effort to dig us up at the
roots and find us indigenous. It used to be
much harder for the average cultivated East-
erner to feel very indigenous when he read
about new America. Chicago presented as a
Moloch, for instance, had a hothouse quality.
Everything seemed to grow — and wither
promptly — from a shallow frame over a radia-
tor, West and Middle West were not given a
proper deep nourishing soil. Was he only
squeamish, the average cultivated Easterner,
or was he healthily natural, when he refused the
hothouse for his producer?
Edith Wyatt has been always a lover of the
America that has deep roots. And these, not in
the East, but in and about that Dreiserian
Moloch. She has loved the prairies, the over-
land swing of America's adventure, and the
"profound cadences of tremendous fresh
waters." She has, too, an intimate sense of
how much moving there has been in almost
every American family history — of how little
one piece of country has contained any long
family experience. This makes our domestic
quality different from Europe's — "for better or
for worse" — though one never hears from her
the depressing hint that it can be for worse.
She has collected now many of her very
winning verses, because we have been think-
ing with especial gravity of what our country
has to send overseas" and because her book
is "an attempt to express both something of
the dream of democracy — her vision of the
pursuit of happiness — and some of the over-
land ways of the living presence of our country."
It is pleasant that our primordial instinct
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of self-preservation is aroused now for our
spiritual contribution. We are rapidly grow-
ing close again to our hardy self-reliant forebears,
whose quality, too, was perhaps brought out
by wars, over a hundred years ago. The more
oncoming we are to self discovery, the cheerier
we feel.
Edith Pettit Borie.
'THE COLLEGE WOMAN'S PLATTSBURG"
To meet the National emergency in mili-
tary and public health nursing by recruiting
college women — who are especially wanted
because their previous education facilitates
intensive training and rapid advancement to
the posts of urgent need — there has been
established at Vassar College a new summer
school, known as the Training Camp for Nurses.
This Camp will open June 24 and continue
until September 13, and will be under the
auspices of the National Council of Defense
and the Red Cross.
The Camp provides an opportunity for
college graduates to fit themselves for active
service in one of the leading and most necessary
professions of today with a shorter period of
preparation than has ever been possible here-
tofore. The Plattsburg system, by giving men
of higher education intensive theoretical training
in military work has officered our army in time
to meet the emergency without lowering the
standards. The Vassar idea is its equivalent
in the nursing profession. It is designed to
overcome the shortage of nurses that now
confronts the country, when 12,000 scientifi-
cally trained women are needed for every million
soldiers, when our Allies are calling on America
for trained women to officer their hospitals,
and when the public health standards of the
country are menaced by new working and
living conditions and a growing scarcity of
doctors and nurses in civilian practice.
Although only the R.N. — the registered
trained nurse — is officially recognized as able
to perform the exacting duties required, young
women undergoing training will have plenty of
chances for actual war work. That is the very
reason why every effort is being made to obtain
nurses in the shortest possible time. In addi-
tion to the opportunity for immediate patriotic
sendee, there is the chance to enter a profession
of dignity and relatively high rewards.
In the first place, the better positions of the
nursing profession are the ones most in need! of
candidates. In the second place, even while
taking the probationary course, the nurse is at
no expense and is actually engaged in practical
work. In the next place, should the war soon
cease, opportunities would increase rather than
diminish; for the field of public health nursing,
sadly short of nurses now, is steadily widening.
Public health work is coming to be more and
more recognized as an exceptionally interesting
and dignified profession, and the only drawback
to its extension at present is the shortage of
well-educated women of the sort who can take
responsibility, act on their own initiative, and
develop the latent possibilities of their jobs.
Salaries in the nursing profession range from
$1500 to $5000 with, in most cases, maintenance
under pleasant conditions. Promotion, espe-
cially in these days of stress, comes rapidly,
and from the very start the nurse is assured of
as rapid progress as her ability justifies. . . .
The three months at the Camp will eliminate
the " drudge period" of the nurses' training,
doing away with much of the manual labor
and elementary instruction, thus permitting
the student to step right into advanced hospital
work to complete her training for the "R.N."
degree.
The trustees of Vassar have not only turned
over the four large quadrangle dormitories for
the Camp students, the newest hall for the
Camp faculty, the laboratories, infirmary and
other special buildings for instruction purposes,
but they have also made every effort to insure
the physical comfort of the new students. The
college farm will supply fresh vegetables and
milk and full maid service will be continued.
The grounds will be kept up, the lakes, athletic
fields, tennis courts, etc., in running order and
open to the Camp Workers, under supervision
of an experienced educational director. In
addition, the undergraduates have interested
themselves in the newcomers so much that they
have agreed to leave their rooms entirely
furnished with all the knick knacks and com-
forts to make the "campers" feel at home. A
recreation director will be on duty, and enter-
tainment^ will be given in the large theatre of
the "Student's Building" and in the outdoor
theatre as well.
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There will be a number of scholarships allow-
ing students to take the course entirely with-
out expense. One alumna of Vassar for
example, too old, as she says, to become a
nurse, has offered to "serve by proxy," by
paying the tuition and maintenance fees of
some younger woman. The regular fees will
amount to $95, which will cover everything,
tuition, board, lodging, and laundry — less
than a woman could live on in her own home
for the same period.
The course of study has been devised by the
National Emergency Nursing Committee of
the Council of National Defense; and het
faculty already comprises the leading medical
and nursing authorities of the country. The
acuity and advisory board together present
an array of names which no hospital or training
school in America has ever been able to show.
The Dean of the Camp is Herbert E. Mills,
professor of economics at Vassar. Dr. C.-E. A.
Winslow of Yale University will be professor
of bacteriology and hygiene; Miss Florence
Sabin, Johns Hopkins, anatomy and physi-
ology; Professor Margaret Washburn, Vassar,
psychology; Dr. Wm. H. Park, New York
Department of Health, bacteriology; Professor
Helen Pope, Carnegie Institute, dietetics.
Anyone who wishes information as to the
Camp or the opportunities for nurses should
write the Recruiting Committee, 106 East
52d Street, New York City, or courses, instruc-
tors, etc., may be obtained by addressing
Dean Mills, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
All communications for the July Quarterly should be addressed to
Miss Isabel Foster, care of the Republic, Waterbury, Connecticut.
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QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Report of the Academic Committee 67
Celebration of May Day 69
Conferring of Degrees 72
The Alumnae Supper 76
June Class Reunions 79
War Work S2
The Bryn Mawr Community Center 87
Courses in Industrial Supervision 90
News from the Clubs 91
News from the Classes 91
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THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XII
JULY, 1918
No. 2
REPORT OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
While the last college year has been marked
by no such momentous events as the year be-
fore, the Academic Committee has to report
important changes of policy instituted by the
Faculty which cannot fail to be of deep interest
to the Alumnae.
The new scheme of organization made it neces-
sary for the Committee to enter into closer con-
nection with the Faculty. As noted in the Fall
Quarterly, a very satisfactory basis of com-
munication was established. The Committee
has made a point of keeping itself as fully in-
formed as possible of the changes contemplated
at the College. It has held five meetings and
conferences during the year, viz: two members
attended the conference with the heads of pre-
paratory schools called by the Faculty to con-
sider changes in the entrance examinations. It
met the President and members of the Curricu-
lum Committee last June to acquaint itself in
detail with the new entrance requirements. The
usual spring and fall meetings were held in New
York and the yearly conferences with the Presi-
dent and Dean and with members of the Faculty
took place in January.
Three members — Elizabeth Sergeant, Frances
Hand and Ellen Ellis — were unable owing to a
variety of reasons to attend the conferences.
The Committee was fortunate, however, in
having Katherine Lord and Bertha Rembaugh
act as substitutes.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
At various times the Committee has suggested
that the Tutoring School should be discontinued
which was carried on for several years in one of
the College buildings during the month of
September. The Committee had consistently
held that hurried cramming at the last moment
should not be countenanced as a substitute for
thorough preparation. Last fall the school was
discontinued and a Summer Tutoring School
was held at an Adirondack camp without official
connection with the college. This plan appar-
ently offers a satisfactory solution of the past
difficulties.
Honors. It has not been found possible to
offer advanced work for the degree with honors
as suggested by the Committee. The Faculty
voted that it could not make the necessary ad-
justments of the curriculum, while the College,
like other institutions on a fixed income, is feel-
ing the stress of the war so acutely and cannot
consider increasing the teaching staff.
Honorary Degrees. Following a request made
at the last Alumnae meeting, the Committee
inquired whether honorary degrees could be
awarded. The original charter of the College,
it was found, makes no provision for degrees of
this kind.
PENSIONS
It will be remembered that being classed as a
denominational college, Bryn Mawr could not
participate in the original Carnegie pensions.
Now a contributory scheme of insurance is un-
der consideration, one-half of the premiums to
be paid by the College, one-half by the bene-
ficiary and the expenses of administration to be
borne by the new Carnegie Corporation. This
insurance will be open to all colleges desiring to
participate. The older members of the Faculty
cannot however, be provided for. Their "ac-
crued liabilities," on account of the prohibitive
cost, will have to be otherwise met. But for
the rest of the Faculty, Bryn Mawr should be
able to accept the plan as soon as the full details
are worked out. It is estimated that if the
retiring age is fixed between 65 and 68 years the
College appropriation will amount to about one-
fifth of"the salary budget. If other colleges
assume this obligation and Bryn Mawr is un-
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able to do so, it will obviously be left at a great
disadvantage in making new Faculty appoint-
ments.
Under the terms of office now adopted at
Bryn Mawr the Faculty is likely to become more
stationary, making the need of some form of
pension more urgent from year to year. It is
important, therefore, that the Alumnae should
understand the situation fully and be able to
give intelligent support to any future plans to
meet the need.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
The changes in the examinations are the most
far reaching that have been made in the history
of the College. They are believed to make
possible a better balanced school program than
the excessive amount of language under the old
scheme. While English and Latin remain oblig-
atory, only one foreign language is required and
a choice can be made of French, German or
Greek. Science now consists of a five point
Physics course together with a minor science.
Both ancient and English history are required,
American history being allowed, however, as a
substitute in schools which are required by law
to teach it.
New types of entrance examinations are
being introduced. The greatest divergence
from the old paper is shown in the English test.
Instead of the correction of incorrect sentences
and a long literary composition, one paper asks
for a composition on any one of four subjects, —
one drawn from the students' reading, the others
drawn from other experience. The second
paper tests the candidate's general knowledge of
the periods of literature covered by the required
reading and her power of literary appreciation.
The changes in the entrance examinations are
coupled with changes in the Orals. They are
now to be written examinations, popularly
called "written orals." The foreign language
offered at entrance is to be tested by yearly
examinations, except that students entering on
Greek and taking a course in College are ex-
cused from the written examination in Greek
the following term. A second foreign language
must be offered as a Junior oral. This may be
French, German or Spanish. If the student
has taken Greek for entrance, she must offer
either French or German.
A number of interesting questions present
themselves as to the probable effect of the
changes in the language requirements on a
student's college course. When will she pre-
pare for the Junior Oral? Will an increasing
number of students use five hours of elective in
beginning an elementary language? This may
mean the sacrifice of an elective course. On
the whole, however, the relief from the tension
and excitement of the old orals opens the way
for a more satisfactory testing of a student's
ability to read a foreign language.
INCREASE IN FRESHMAN CLASS
In view of the increase in the size of the Fresh-
man Class, 139 having entered in fall, the Com-
mittee called attention to the disadvantages of
having students live off the Campus, and sug-
gested various methods for weeding out the
weaker students now in college. It urged that
in future the merit rule be made to eliminate the
students who failed to make the required points
in their first three years. President Thomas
stated that since the merit law came into opera-
tion for the class of 1907, 62 students had been
placed on probation. Of this number only 16
or 26 per cent have graduated and 51 per cent
has left College without degrees. There can
be no question that these figures prove the need
of a more effective method of ruling out the lag-
gards, in order to make room for the stronger
students. It was also suggested that after due
warning a stricter ruling might be made regard-
ing students at the end of their first year, as
much leniency has been shown in excluding
freshmen who are manifestly incapable of doing
or disinclined to do satisfactory work.
The Committee has throughout attempted to
interpret the desires of the Alumnae in regard
to the manifold changes now taking place at
the College. It calls upon the Alumnae again,
for their sustained interest and support.
Pauline Goldmark,
Chairman.
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Celebration of May Day
CELEBRATION OF MAY DAY
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May Day was celebrated at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege on May 1 , with the usual ceremonies.
At 7 o'clock the Seniors sang on the tower of
Rockefeller Hall the Latin Hymn "Te Deum
Patrem Colimus" which has been sung on
Rockefeller tower each May Day morning since
the hall was built, taken over from the ancient
celebration at Magdalen College, Oxford, where
the choristers sing each May Day morning.
Afterwards in brilliant sunshine the four classes
danced around the four May Poles erected on
the college campus. The President of the Se-
nior Class, Miss Louise Ffrcst Hodges, was the
May Queen, and a basket of May flowers was
presented to President Thomas.
After the chapel service immediately following
President Thomas made the announcements of
Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes awarded
by the Faculty, as follows:
RESIDENT FELLOWSHIPS CONFERRED FOR 1918-19
Value $525
Greek. Marjorie Josephine Milne, of
Columbus, Ohio. A.B., Bryn Mawr College,
1917. Graduate Scholar in Greek, Bryn Mawr
College, 1917-18.
Latin. Clara Elizabeth Yntema, of Hol-
land, Michigan. A.B., Hope College, 1916;
A.M., University of Michigan, 1918. Teacher
in High School, Cass City, Michigan, 1916-17.
Graduate Student, University of Michigan,
1917-18.
English. Grace Ethel Hawk of Reading,
Pennsylvania. A.B., Brown University, 1917.
Graduate Scholar in English, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1917-18.
French. Helen Elizabeth Patch, of Ban-
gor, Maine. A.B., Mount Holyoke College,
1914. Teacher in the East Maine Conference
Seminary, Bucksport, Maine, 1914-16, and in
the High School, Bangor, Maine, 1916-17.
Graduate Scholar in French, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1917-18.
History. Leona Christine Gabel, of Syra-
cuse, New York. A.B., Syracuse University,
1915. Teacher in the High School, Canastota,
New York, 1915-17. Graduate Scholar in
History, Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Economics. Helen Adair, of Kearney,
Nebraska. A.B., Barnard College, 1914, and
A.M., Columbia University, 1916. Fellow in
Economics and Politics, Bryn Mawr College,
1917-18.
Social Economy. Georgia Louise Baxter,
of Morrison, Colorado. A.B., University of
Denver, 1914, A.M., University of California,
1917. Teacher and Matron, State Industrial
School for Girls, 1914-15. Worker in Juvenile
Court, San Francisco, 1915-17. Carola Woe-
rishofTer Fellow in Social Economy and Social
Pvesearch, Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Helen Ross, of Independence, Missouri.
A.B. and B.S., University of Missouri, 1911.
Graduate Student, University of Missouri,
1916-17. Teacher in High Schools, 1911-17.
Susan B. Anthony Memorial Scholar, Bryn
Mawr College, 1917-18.
Philosophy. Margaret Georgiana Mel-
vin, of New Brunswick, Canada. A.B., McGill
University, 1917. Graduate Scholar in Phil-
osophy, Br,vn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Psychology. Margaret Montague Monroe,
of Asheville, North Carolina. A.B., Mount
Holyoke College, 1915. Graduate Scholar in
Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, 1916-17.
Teaching in High Schools, 1915-16, 1917-18.
Education. Inez May Neterer, Seattle,
Washington. A.B., Mills College, 1916. Gradu-
ate Scholar in Social Economy, Bryn Mawr
College, 1916-18.
Mathematics. Margaret Buchanan, of
Morgantown, West Virginia. A.B., University
of West Virginia, 1916. Graduate Student in
Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College, 1912-14.
Instructor in Mathematics, University of West
Virginia, 1910-12, 1915-18.
Physics. Nora May Mohler, of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. A.B., Dickinson College, 1917.
Graduate Scholar in Mathematics, Bryn Mawr
College, 1917-18.
Chemistry. Elise Tobin, of Brooklyn, New
York. B.S., Barnard College, 1915. Graduate
Scholar in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College,
1915-17, and Fellow in Chemistry, 1917-18.
Geology. Isabel F. Smith, of Los Angeles,
California. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1915.
Teacher in Miss WTheeler's School, Providence,
R. I., 1915-17. Graduate Scholar in Geology,
Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Biology. Mary Drusilla Flather, of
Lowell, Massachusetts. Ph.B., Women's Col-
lege in Brown University, 1917. Laboratory
Assistant'in Comparative Anatomy, Brown Uni-
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versity, 1916-17. Student in Biology, Bryn
Mawr College, 1917-18.
Bryn Mawr College Intercollegiate Community
Sendee Association Fellowship. Amelia Kel-
logg MacMaster, of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, February, 1917.
Graduate Scholar in Philosophy, 1917-18.
FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED
Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship, of the
value of $500, open to a graduate student in her
second year of graduate study. Eva Alice
Worrall Bryne, of Philadelphia. A.B., Bryn
Mawr College, 1916, and A.M., 1917. Graduate
Scholar in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1916-17.
Graduate Scholar in English and Reader in
English, 1917-18.
President's European Fellowship, of the value
of $500, open to a graduate student in her first
year of graduate study. Isabel F. Smith, of
Los Angeles, California. A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1915, and A.M., 1918. Graduate
Scholar in Geology, Bryn Mawr College,
1917-18.
Bryn Mawr European Fellowship, of the value
of $500, awarded to a member of the gradu-
ating class. Margaret Catherine Timpson,
of New York City. A.B., Bryn Mawr College,
1918.
Anna Ottendorfer Memorial Research Fellow-
ship in Teutonic Philology, of the value of $700.
Olga Marx, of New York City. A.B., Barnard
College, 1915; A.M., Columbia University,
1917. Graduate student, Columbia University,
1916-17. Fellow in German, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1917-18.
AWARD OF GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 1918-19
Susan B. Anthony Memorial Scholarship,
value $450. Gwendolyn Hughes, of Lincoln,
Nebraska. A.B., University of Nebraska, 1916,
and A.M., 1917. Scholar in Political Science
and Sociology, University of Nebraska, 1916-17,
and Fellow, 1917-18.
Graduate Scholarships of the value of $200
Greek.. Edith Marion Smith, of Peoria,
Illinois. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1918.
Latin. Cora Snowden Neely, of Philadel-
phia. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1918.
English. Eva Alice Worrall Bryne, of
Philadelphia. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1916,
and A.M., 1917. Graduate Scholar in Latin,
1916-17, and Reader in English, 1917-18.
Therese Mathilde Born, of Indianapolis,
Indiana. Prepared by Tudor Hall, Indian-
apolis. Bryn Mawr Matriculation Scholar,
1914-15. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1918.
German. Olga Marx, of New York City.
A.B., Barnard College, 1915; A.M., Columbia
University, 1917. Fellow in German, Bryn
Mawr College, 1917-18.
French. Judith Hemenway, of New York
City. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1918.
Lucile Babcock, of Minneapolis, Minne-
sota. A.B., University of Minnesota, 1915.
Teacher in the West High School, Des Moines,
Iowa, 1916-18.
Semitic Languages. Beatrice Allard, of
Wellesley, Massachusetts. A.B., Mount Hol-
yoke College, 1915. Graduate Scholar in
Semitic Languages, Bryn Mawr College, 1915-
16, and Fellow, 1916-18.
History. Margaret Woodbury, of Colum-
bus, Ohio. A.B., Ohio State University, 1915.
Graduate Scholar in History, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1915-16, and Fellow, 1916-18.
Economics and Politics. Helen Graham
Bristow, of Brooklyn, New York. A.B.,
Mount Holyoke College, 1918.
Social Economy and Social Research. Leah
Hannah Feder, of Passaic, N. J. A.B.,
Mount Holyoke College, 1918.
Eleanor Copenhaver, of Marion, Virginia.
A.B., Westhampton College, 1917.
Robert G. Valentine Scholar in Social Economy.
Jane Stodder Davies, of Tufts College, Mas-
sachusetts. A.B., Jackson College, 1918.
Special Scholar in Social Economy. Irma
Caroline Lonegren, of Portland, Oregon.
A.B., Reed College, 1915. Probation Officer,
Juvenile Court, Multomah County, Oregon,
1915-18.
Philosophy. Anita Mary Furlong Flynn,
of Waterford, New York. A.B., Smith College,
1918.
Psychology. Elizabath Sohier Bryant, of
Cohasset, Massachusetts. A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1914. Student of Secretarial Work
and Secretary, 1914-17. Secretary to the Dean
of the College, Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Dorthy Theresa Buckley, of Sioux City,
Iowa. A.B., Michigan University, 1918.
Archaeology. Grace W. Nelson, of Welles-
ley, Massachusetts. A.B., Wellesley College
1917, and A.M., 1918.
Biology. Mary J. Guthrie, of Columbia,
Missouri. A.B., University of Missouri, 1916,
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and A.M., 1918. Assistant in Zoology, Univer-
sity of Missouri, 1916-18.
Hope Hibbard, of Columbia, Missouri. A.
B., University of Missouri, 1916, and A.M.,
1918. Assistant in Zoology, University of
Missouri, 1916-18.
Dorothy Austin Sewell, of Walton, New
York. A.B., Smith College, 1916. Graduate
Student, Cornell University, 1916-17. Fellow
in Biology, Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Constance Lynch Springer, of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. A.B., Dickinson College, 1918.
Earlham College Graduate Scholarship, of the
ralue of $400. Lena Hivnor, of Richmond,
Indiana. A.B., Earlham College, 1918.
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial
Scholarship, value $100. Awarded to student
with the highest average grade in all her sub-
jects by the middle of her Junior year. Francis
Blakiston Day, of Philadelphia. Prepared by
the Wissahickon Heights School, St. Martins,
Philadelphia, and by the Friends' School, Ger-
mantown.
First Charles S. Hinchman Memorial Scholar-
ship, value $500. Awarded for special ability.
Marie Litzinger, of Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Prepared by the High School, Bedford.
Second Charles S. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship, value $500. Edith Macrum, of
Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Prepared by the
Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth S. Ship pen Foreign Scholarship,
value $200. Margaret Catherine Timpson,
of New York City. Winner of the Bryn Mawr
European Fellowship.
Elizabeth S. Ship pen Scholarship in Foreign
Languages, value $100. Ernestine Emma
Mercer, of Philadelphia. Group, Greek and
Latin. Grade 90.65 in Greek.
Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship in Science^
value $100. Adelaide Landon, of New York
City. Group, Mathematics and Physics. Grade
87.7 in Physics.
Mary Anna Longstreth Senior Scholarship,
value $200. Jessie Mebane, of Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. Prepared by the Wilkes-Barre
Institute and by private tuition.
Anna M. Powers Senior Scholarship, value
$200. Margaret Gilman, of Wellesley, Mass-
achusetts. Prepared by the Misses Allen's
School, Wrest Newton, Massachusetts, and by
Dana Hall, Wellesley.
Special Senior Scholarship, value $100. Edith
Mary Howes, of Philadelphia, Pa. Prepared
by the Girls' High School, West Philadelphia,
and by private tuition.
Special Senior Scholarship, value $1 00. Helen
Coreene Karns, of Benton, Pennsylvania.
Prepared by Wilkes-Barre Institute, Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania.
Special Senior Scholarship, value $100. Enid
Schurman MacDonald, of Vancouver, B. C
Prepared by the King Edward High School,
Vancouver, and by the Broadway High School,
Seattle, Washington.
James E. Rhoads Junior Scholarship, value
$250. Arline Fearon Preston, of Fallston,
Maryland. Prepared by Belair Academy,
Belair, Maryland, and by the Hannah More
Academy, Reisterstown, Maryland.
James E. Rhoads Sophomore Scholarship,
value $100. Beatrice Norah Spinelli, of
Philadelphia. Prepared by the Girls' High
School, West Philadelphia.
James E. Rhoads Sophomore Scholarship,
value $150. Mary Helen Macdonald, of
Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Prepared by the
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, Penn-
sylvania.
Mary E. Stevens Junior Scholarship, value
$200. Margaret Dent of Philadelphia. Pre-
pared by Miss Walker's School, Lakewood, N. J.
Anna Hallo-well Junior Scholarship, value
$100. Julia Newton Cochran, of The Plains,
Va. Prepared by the Bryn Mawr School,
Baltimore.
Special Junior Scholarship, value $200. Mary
Katherine Cary, of Richmond, Virginia. Pre-
pared by The Virginia Randolph Ellett School,
Richmond, Virginia.
Special Junior Scholarship, value $200. Mary
Louise Mall, of Baltimore, Maryland. Pre-
pared by the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore.
Special Junior Scholarship, value $125.
Francis Louise von Hofsten, of Winnetka,
Illinois. Prepared by the Girton School,
WTinnetka.
Special Junior Scholarship, value $100. Hilda
Buttenwieser, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Prepared
by the University School, Cincinnati.
Special Junior Scholarship, value $300. Ruth
Jackson Woodruff, of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Prepared by the Central High School, Scranton.
Maria Hopper Sophomore Scholarship, value
$200. Henrietta Elizabeth Baldwin, of
Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Prepared by the
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High School, Williamsport, and by the Misses
Kirk's School, Bryn Mawr.
Maria Hopper Sophomore Scholarship, value
$200. Ruth Louise Karns, of Benton, Penn-
sylvania. Prepared by Wilkes-Barre Institute,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Thomas H. Powers Sophomore Scholarship,
value $200. Bessie Eunia Ostroff, of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania. Prepared by the Wil-
liam Penn High School and by the Girls' High
School, Philadelphia.
Special Sophomore Scholarship, value $125.
Louise Cadot, of Richmond, Virginia. Pre-
pared by the Randolph Ellett School, Richmond.
Special Sophomore Scholarship, value $100.
Agnes Hollingsworth, of Ardmore, Pennsyl-
vania. Prepared by the Lower Merion High
School, Ardmore.
Special Sophomore Scholarship, value $100.
Sidney Virginia Donaldson, of Ardmore,
Pennsylvania. Prepared by the Lower Merion
High School, Ardmore.
Chicago Bryn Mawr Club Scholarship, value
$100. Anna Munson Sanford, of Honey
Brook, Pennsylvania. Prepared by Hannah
More Academy, Reisterstown, Maryland, and
by private tuition.
Elizabeth Duane Gillespie Scholarship in
American History, value $60. Mary Ethelyn
Tyler, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pre-
pared by the Wissahickon Heights School, St.
Martins, Philadelphia.
George W. Childs Essay Prize for Best Writer in
the Senior Class: A watch. Mary Swift
Rupert, of Marshallton, Delaware. Prepared
by the Misses Hebb's School, Wilmington,
Delaware.
Mary Helen Ritchie Memorial Prize. A set
of Shakespeare's Works. Virginia Kneeland
of New York City. Prepared by the Brearley
School, New York City. Bryn Mawr Matri-
culation Scholar for New York, New Jersey and
Delaware, 1914-15; Elizabeth S. Shippen
Scholar in Science, 1917-18.
CONFERRING OF DEGREES ON 79 STUDENTS GRADU-
ATED AND LIST OF FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS
AND PRIZES
The Thirty- third }rear of Bryn Mawr College
closed June 6 with the conferring of degrees.
Sixty-two students received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, eleven the degree of Master of
Arts, and six the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The Gymnasium was crowded by the friends
of the College and friends and relatives of the
Seniors.
After the exercises closed luncheon of 350
covers was served for the friends of the Senior
Class in Radnor Hall.
The Directors and Faculty and friends of the
College were invited to luncheon at the Deanery
by President Thomas to meet Dean West.
Among the guests present were Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander C. Wood, of Riverton, New Jersey,
Professor and Mrs. Rufus M. Jones, of Haver-
ford College, Mr. Frederic H. Strawbridge, of
Germantown, Mrs. William Coflin Ladd, of
Bryn Mawr, Miss Elizabeth Butler Kirkbride,
of Philadelphia, Mrs. Wilfred Bancroft, of Rhode
Island, Mr. and Mrs. Abram Francis Huston, of
Coatesville, of the Board of Directors; and the
members of the Faculty of the College.
President M. Carey Thomas conferred the
degrees, scholarships and prizes and spoke as
follows:
"Education at the present time is a patriotic
duty. It is our duty to live in order to make
sure that our boys below fighting age and all our
girls shall receive an education that will enable
them after the war is over to rebuild the world
that we have permitted to be torn down on firm
foundations of international law and order and
lasting peace through international compulsory
courts of justice enforced by the police force of
the whole civilized world. We of the older
generations must see to it that all our boys and
girls understand that to stay in high school until
graduation is their patriotic duty and that it is
a still higher patriotic duty to stay in college
until graduation.
"History shows that devastating wars — and
what other war in all history has even remotely
approached this in horror! — have been followed
by years — more often by centuries — of collapse.
We have only to recall the moral, intellectual,
and physical decay of "the glory that was Greece
and the grandeur that was Rome;" the centuries
long exhaustion of Renaissance Italy, the com-
plete disappearance as a great nation of majestic
Spain; the brutal barbarism into which Germany
sank after the Thirty Years War, the effects of
which may be recognized to-day in the hideous
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savagery with which she wages war; the slow
recovery of the arts of peace in Europe after the
Napoleonic Wars; — we have only to recall the
after-effects of these and other long wars to
realize that we are facing overwhelming intel-
lectual and spiritual disaster. Already its
dark shadow is creeping over our schools and
colleges.
"Not only are boys and girls deserting their
high schools and college studies from a vague
unrest and a misplaced desire of helping to win
the war but schools are shortening their terms,
children are being drafted into industry and
farming, child labor laws are becoming a dead
letter; already in the schools there is an appall-
ing and ever increasing shortage of teachers,
men teachers altogether disappearing and
women refusing to go into the teaching pro-
fession but taking up better paid, more exciting
war jobs. Surely with all the vast resources of
men and women power in the United States, as
yet scarcely touched by the demands of war, we
can compel our school boards to save our chil-
dren from the terrible menace of illiteracy.
Surely we can make a sufficient number of the
thousands upon thousands of college women in
this country see that as teachers in the schools
they are standing shoulder to shoulder with
their brothers in Flanders and Picardy in the
performance of patriotic duty. And if we fail
to do this we must see that they are paid living
salaries and are drafted into the schools like their
brothers into the trenches."
In connection with Dean West's address on
"Our Need of the Classics," President Thomas
emphasized suggesting the forming of a National
League for the Defense of the Humanities,
whose object would be broader in scope than the
defence of the classics and would embrace Phil-
osophy, Mathematics, History and other lan-
guages. She suggested that such a league might
devote itself to studying new methods of teach-
ing classics and mathematics in order to bring
them in touch with modern things, that it might
hold conventions and send speakers to high
schools and colleges and bring over from Great
Britain and France eminent scholars to speak
on classical culture.
In introducing Dean West President Thomas
recalled the fact that the colleges of Bryn Mawr
and Princeton were the most beautiful examples
of Collegiate Gothic in the United States; that
although this style had originated at Bryn
Mawr, it had been perfected at Princeton. She
also recalled the fact that Bryn Mawr and
Princeton were among the few colleges that in-
sisted on classical training.
President Thomas said that both Bryn Mawr
and Princeton had had a hand in developing the
President of the United States; that like the
Gothic Architecture he had begun at Bryn
Mawr as Professor of History in 1885, and at
Princeton had developed from a Professor to a
President of the University, and while at Prince-
ton had been groomed for Governor of New
Jersey and President of the United States.
President Thomas spoke of Dean West's
book on "The Value of the Classics" as one of
the most convincing arguments for a liberal
education that had ever been made.
"We need the classics more than ever just
now in our higher education, not only because of
their proved value for modern thought and life;
but for special patriotic and civilized reasons
which the war compels us to consider. We need
the classics especially to combat the false theory
of a national as distinct from an international
culture and civilization. We hear it said that
'this is the twentieth century' and that Ameri-
can education should have little to do with the
past, that the centre of all our American educa-
tion should be our national language and our
national literature. It is hard to say whether
the chief feature of this theory is its plausibility,
its specious appeal to our national pride, or its
absurdity. Let us keep our heads cool and clear
and remember that this is the very argument on
which the Kaiser has based his brutally domi-
neering attempts for nearly thirty years to
establish a distinctive German Kultur, dominant
and exclusive of the old classic training and his-
tory in which the best modern civilization is so
deeply rooted and from which it derives the
priceless lesson of democratic freedom. Hear
the Kaiser's own words on this subject as taken
from the officially authorized edition of his
speech in Berlin on December 4, 1890. These
are his words: 'The trouble is, first of all, that we
lack a truly national basis. We must take Ger-
man as the foundation of the Gymnasium. We
must educate national young Germans and not
young Greeks and Romans. We must depart
from the basis which has stood for centuries, the
old monastic education of the Middle Ages, in
which Latin was the standard, and a little
Greek. This is no longer the standard. We
must make German the basis.'
"Consider what this means, it means to throw
away the*" best lessons of experience. It means
that the civilized world shall consent to forget
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what it ought to remember. It means that a
basis for international education of a high
order is destroyed and that in its place is put an
exclusive national Kultur which will be in con-
flict with all others, no matter how they are
organized, unless they tamely submit to it.
This is the question which is now being settled
on the battle front in France. Which side do
we take?"
CANDIDATES FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Master of Arts
Bertha Clark Greenough, of Rhode Island.
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1917. Scholar in
Economics and Politics, Bryn Mawr College,
1917-18.
Marion Rebecca Halle, of Ohio. A.B.,
Bryn Mawr CoUege, 1917.
Helen Marie Harris, of Pennsylvania. A.
B., Bryn Mawr College, 1917. Bryn Mawr-In-
tercollegiate Community Service Association
Fellow, 1917-18.
Istar Aldja Haupt, of Maryland. A.B.,
Bryn Mawr College, 1917. Scholar in Psy-
chology, Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Catherine Utley Hill, (Mrs. George Ed-
win Hill), of Connecticut. A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1907. Social Worker, 1905-1 7.
Sylvia Canfield Jelliffe, of New York
City. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1917.
Amelia Kellogg MacM aster, of New Jer-
sey. A.B., Bryn Mawr College, February, 1917.
Graduate Scholar in Philosophy, Bryn Mawr
College, 1917-18, and Special Scholar, second
semester, 1916-17.
Marjorie Josephine Milne, of Minnesota.
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1917. Scholar in
Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1917-18.
Ryu Sato, of Japan. A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1917. Scholar in Chemistry, Bryn
Mawr College, 1917-18.
Elizabeth Kline Stark, of New York. A.
B., Bryn Mawr College, 1916. Assistant Dem-
onstrator in Experimental Psychology, 1916-18.
Mildred McCreary Willard, of Pennsyl-
vania. A. B., Bryn Mawr College, 1917.
Scholar in Psychology, Bryn Mawr College,
1917-18.
Doctor of Philosophy
Alice Hill Byrne, of Pennsylvania. A.B.,
Wellesley College, 1908. Teacher in Prepara-
tory Schools, 1894-1917. Graduate Student in
Greek and Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1908-10;
1911-14 Graduate Scholar in Greek, 1910-11;
Graduate Scholar in Latin, 1914-16; Instructor
in Latin and Greek, Western College, Oxford,
O., 1917-18. Subjects: Latin and Greek. Dis-
sertation: Titus Pomponius Atticus. Chapters
from a Biography.
Janet Malcolm MacDonald, of Iowa. A.
B., Morningside College, 1910; A.M., Univer-
sity of Illinois, 1913. Graduate Scholar in
Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1915-17, and
Fellow in Archaeology, 1917-18. Assistant
Principal in the High School, Aurelia, la., 1911-
12; and Instructor in Latin, Morningside Col-
lege, 1913-15. Subjects: Classical Archaeology,
Oriental Archaeology and Latin. Dissertation:
The Uses of Symbolism in Greek Art.
Marion Edwards Park, of Massachusetts.
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1898, and A.M., 1899.
Holder of the Bryn Mawr European Fellowship,
1898-99, and Graduate Student, Bryn Mawr
College, 1898-99, 1912-14: Graduate Student,
Autumn Quarter, University of Chicago, 1900-
01; American School of Classical Studies,
Athens, Greece, 1901-02; Instructor in Classics
Colorado College, 1902-03, 1904-06, and Acting
Dean of Women, 1903-04; Teacher in Miss
Wheeler's School, Providence, R. I., 1906-09;
Acting Dean of the College, Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, 1911-12; Assistant Professor of Classics,
Colorado College, 1914-15; Graduate Student,
Johns Hopkins University, 1915-16, and Fellow
in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1916-17; Acting
Dean of Simmons College, 1918. Subjects:
Latin and Greek. Dissertation: The Plebs
in Cicero's Day. A study of their Provenance
and of their Employment.
Mary Edith Pinney, of Kansas. A.B.,
Kansas State University, 1908, and A.M., 1910.
Teaching Fellow in Zoology, Kansas State
University, 1909-10, and High School Instruc-
tor, Alma, Kansas, 1908-09; Fellow in Biology,
Bryn Mawr College, 1910-11; President's Eu-
ropean Fellow and Student, Universities of
Bonn and Heidelberg and Zoological Station,
Naples, 1911-12; Instructor in Zoology, Kan-
sas State University, 1912-13; Demonstrator
in Biology and Graduate Student. Bryn Mawr
College, 1913-17; Instructor in Zoology Wel-
lesley College, 1917-18. Subjects: Morphology,
Physiology, and Botany. Dissertation: A Study
of the Relation of the Behaviour of the Chro-
matin to Development and Heredity in Teleost
Hybrids.
Eleanor Ferguson Rambo, of Pennsylvania.
A.B., Bryn Mawr CoUege, 1908, and A.M., 1909.
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Scholar in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1908-09;
Graduate Student in Latin, 1909-10, and in
Archaeology, 1911-12; Teacher of Mathematics
in the Misses Kirk's School, Bryn Mawr, 1909-
10; Private Tutor, 1910-11; Teacher of Latin
in Miss Wright's School, Bryn Mawr, and Pri-
vate Tutor, 1912-16; Graduate Scholar in
Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1914-15;
Awarded Fellowship of the American Archaeolog-
ical Institute in the School of Classical Studies
in Athens, 1915; Graduate Student, 1915-16,
and Fellow in Archaeology, 1916-17; Teacher in
the Phebe Anna Thome Model School, 1917-18.
Subjects: Classical Archaeology, Ancient His-
tory, and Latin. Dissertation: Lions in Greek
Art.
Helen Emma Wleand Cole, (Mrs. Samuel
Valentine Cole), of Pennsylvania. A.B., Mount
Holyoke College, 1906, and A.M., 1908. In-
structor in Latin, Cox College, College Park, Ga.,
1906-07; Teacher of Latin and German in the
High School, Phcenixville, Pa., 1909-10; Stu-
dent in Pottstown Business College, 1910-11;
Secretary to Dean of Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy, 1911; Instructor in Wheaton Col-
lege, Norton, Mass., 1911-13, and Assistant
Professor of Latin, 1913-15; Teacher in Miss
Wright's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1915-16.
Graduate Scholar in Latin and Archaeology,
Bryn Mawr College, 1907-09, and Graduate
Student in Latin, 1915-17. Subjects: Latin
and Archaeology. Dissertation: Deception in
Plautus. A Study in the Technique of Roman
Comedy.
Bachelor of Arts.
(2 February, 1918; 6 June, 1918)
In the group of Greek and Latin: Edith
Marion Smith, of Pennsylvania; Louise Tun-
stall Smith, of Maryland.
In the group of Greek and Classical Archceology:
Henrietta Norris Huff, of Pennsylvania.
In the group of Latin and English: Anna
Martha Booth, of Philadelphia; Therese
Mathilde Born, of Indiana, magna cum laude;
Gladys Hagy Cassel, of Philadelphia, cum
laude.
In the group of Latin and French: Judith
Martha Bassett Hemenway, of Vermont;
Cora Snowden Neely, of Philadelphia.
In the group of Latin and Philosophy: Marion
O'Connor, of Massachusetts.
In the group of Latin and Classical Archaeology:
Mary Summerfield Gardiner, of New York;
Irene Loeb, of Missouri, magna cum laude.
In the group of Latin and Mathematics: Eu-
genie Margaret Lynch, of Pennsylvania.
In the group of English and German: Anna
Ethel Lubar, of Philadelphia.
In the group of English and French: Helen
Moseman Wilson, of Michigan.
In the group of English and I tali an and Spanish:
Charlotte Wright Dodge, of New York;
Lucy Evans, of New York; Katherine
Aurelia Holi.iday, of Indiana; Elizabeth
Houghton, of Massachusetts, cum laude.
In the group of English and Philosophy: Alice
Harrison Newlin, of Pennsylvania; Re-
becca Garrett Rhoads, of Delaware.
In the group of English and Psychology:
Adeline Ogden Showell, of Ohio; Mar-
garet Worch, of Rhode Island.
In the group of German and Spanish: Ella
Mary Rosenberg, of Philadelphia, cum laude.
In the group of French and Italian and Spanish:
Helen Edward Walker, of Chicago.
In the group of French and Spanish: Kathe-
rine Vermisye Dufourcq, of New York City;
Ruth Eloise Hart, of New York; Harriet
Hobbs, of New York City.
In the group of French and Modern History:
Janette Ralston Hollis, of Massachusetts.
Work for degree completed February, 1918.
Hildegarde King Kendig, of New York;
Katharine Truman Sharpless, of Pennsyl-
vania, cum laude.
In the group of French and History of Art:
Mary Swift Rupert, of Delaware; Fannie
Espen Teller, of Philadelphia.
In the group of Spanish and History of Art:
Annette Eleanor Gest, of New Jersey.
In the group of Modern History and Economics
and Politics: Eleanor Riggs Atherton, of
Pennsylvania; Mary Evelyn Babbitt, of
Pennsylvania; Martha Bailey, of Pennsyl-
vania; Mary Boyd, of New York City; Louise
Frost Hodges, of the District of Columbia,
magna cum laude; Adelalde Wallace Shaffer,
of Tennessee; Margaret Catherine Timpson,
of New York City, magna cum laude; Pene-
lope Turle, of Minnesota.
In the group of Modern History and History oj
Art: Helen Iola Butterfield, of New York
City; Helen Whitcomb, of Massachusetts,
cum laude.
In the group of Economics and Politics and
Philosophy and Psychology: Frances Buffum,
of Massachusetts; Lilian Lorraine Fraser,
of Minnesota, cum laude; James Marion
Israel, of Minnesota; Leslie Richaedson, of
Massachusetts.
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In th-e group of Economics and Politics and
Psychology: Frances Birda Curtin, of West
Virginia (work for the degree completed in Feb-
ruary, 1918) ; Marjorie Trueheart Williams,
of Texas.
In the group of Philosophy and Psychology:
Jeannette Ridlon, of Chicago.
In the group of Psychology and Biology: Mar-
garet Howell Bacon, of Philadelphia; Mary
Keesey Stair, of Pennsylvania.
In the group of Mathematics and Physics:
Beulah Helen Fegley, of Pennsylvania;
Helen Pickering Jones, of Pennsylvania;
Hester Agnes Quimby, of Philadelphia.
In the group of Physics and Biology: Mar-
garet Mall, of Baltimore.
In the group of Chemistry and Biology: Mary
Bartow Andrews, of New Jersey; Charlotte
Teresa Howell, of Baltimore; Marjorie
Sharps Jefferies, of Pennsylvania; Virginia
Kneeland, of New York City, magna cum
laude; Gertrude Reymershoffer, of Texas;
Marjorie Lord Strauss, of New York
City.
THE ALUMNAE SUPPER
After a few words of welcome from Mrs.
Francis, at Alumnae Supper, June 4, Mrs. Ban-
croft (Elizabeth Nields, 1898) was introduced as
toastmistress.
Margaret Bacon, 1918, in speaking in be-
half of the graduating class emphasized the feel-
ing of cooperation between the Alumnae Associ-
ation and the undergraduates during the past
year especially in their work for the Service
Corps.
Professor Hoppin, in commenting on the
changes in the college on returning after a num-
ber of years, spoke with regret of the fact that
the students no longer wear cap and gown to
classes and urged a return to "that extremely
wise and proper tradition." The immaturity
of the students at present and a lowering of
the standards a bit he attributed to the ten-
dency of the preparatory schools to cram up
their pupils for college and ignore general cul-
ture. He regretted the giving up of the honor
system for the present system of proctoring.
Mr. Hoppin spoke favorably of the new consti-
tution, which has resulted in an increased
harmoniousness and homogeneity in the faculty,
of the increased number of positions open to
women on the faculty, and of the friendly rela-
tions between faculty and students.
Dean Taft: I thought I would like to tell
you briefly this evening about the war work
which has been done at the college and the war
work in which we cooperated with you this winter.
When I came here in the fall there was no or-
ganization for war work peculiarly, what war
work had been done was done under the Chris-
tian Association and there was a general feeling
of dissatisfaction that it should be a sub-com-
mittee under an organization. Everyone felt
that it should be a special committee and we
were very fortunate in having with us at that
time Mrs. Wood of the Women's Committee
of the Council of National Defense, and Presi-
dent Thomas invited a number of undergradu-
ates and faculty to hear Mrs. Wood, and it was
from that talk that the War Council resulted,
an organization which could form committees
to undertake the work which might come up
during the year.
The first important thing that came up was
what should be the object, and the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps was the choice. We thought at
first of a B. M. unit of a Y. M. C. A. hut, but
we began to see that there might be division in
the college over what organization to support,
and there were difficulties about a unit. We
were fortunate in having the suggestion made
that we could send alumnae of Bryn Mawr
abroad, support them financially and allow them
to work under any organization which needed
them and which most needed help, thus giving
us an opportunity of sending alumnae to any
part of Europe where they were needed.
The other object which we have undertaken
to support is the Bryn Mawr Farm. We were
uncertain in the beginning of the year whether it
was well to try to carry on the farm this sum-
mer. However we decided that if possible we
would like to carry it on under better circum-
stances this summer and we were fortunate
enough to have land offered to us in this neigh-
borhood, and we are now embarked on an even
larger farm than last summer and it shows signs
of greater progress than this time last summer.
The planting has been done earlier this year, and
practically all the land is planted now. I do
not know what we can say about the finances of
the farm. We have almost completed the
$7000 which the Alumnae Association pledged
at the meeting in February, completed except
for $600. There is every reason to think that
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we ought to come out even. We have had
volunteer labor this spring and are very careful
about wages, and are raising only the things
which seemed profitable last year. The farm is
being run as economically as possible and with
last year's experience ought to be successful
financially.
One or two other matters I would like to men-
tion. First, the work of the Appointment
Bureau during the war. The Labor Bureau in
Washington has asked all the colleges to co-
operate with them and to give publicity to Civil
Service examinations and positions open in
Washington. It would be a great help to have
the alumnae write to me and tell me what posi-
tions they would be willing to take and what
training they have had. The more alumnae
whom I can persuade to register with the Ap-
pointment Bureau the better. Anyone willing
to take a government position may find her
peculiar needs filled through the Appointment
Bureau at any time.
A few words about the year in general at the
college, it has been a year of reorganization and
the introduction of many new things. There
was a conflict between the war work and col-
lege work but we have accomplished a good deal
in the way of organizing ourselves on a war
basis, and next year we will be able to run more
smoothly. It is hard to keep before the stu-
dents that the college work is a war service and
a patriotic duty. The War Council and the
Undergraduate Association have decided to take
a firm stand on this question. One hears com-
plaints of the students taking things up and then
dropping them but I think that everyone who
has worked in the college this year must feel how
tremendously in earnest all the college have been
about every patriotic work they have taken up.
The undergraduates are most ready to respond.
The situation in the college is most encouraging
for next year and I hope the Alumnae Associ-
ation will cooperate as completely as they have
during the last year.
Mrs. Riesmann (Eleanor Fleisher, 1903) gave
an account of the activities of her classmates at
home and abroad, many of them in active war
service.
Mr. Arthur Thomas, a trustee of the college
and the chairman of the Buildings and Grounds
Committee, told of the opportunities for national
service open to laboratory technicians in the
Medical Department of the Army, and told of the
twenty weeks course now being given at the
Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital in Laboratory
Technique and Clincial Pathology and urged
upon the alumnae consideration of preparation
for this form of service.
Mlle. Chalufour, one of the five graduate
students from France this year, spoke of her
impressions of American college life.
Marjorie Young (1908) urged on the alum-
nae the importance of not giving up their regular
class reunions, as 1908 had done this year, on
account of the war, as it is a big thing to come
back and get in touch with each other and
college again.
Dr. Huff presented the case for scientific
studies as against classics, and made a plea for
the teaching of more qualitative and less quan-
titative science in the preparatory schools.
Mrs. Loring (Katherine Page, 1913) told of
the war activities of members of the class of
1913.
Helen Harris (1917) gave an account of the
members of her class.
President Thomas: I am only going to keep
you for a very few moments. I always look for-
ward to the pleasure of welcoming you to the
college at your Alumnae Supper. You need no
welcome; the college is yours and always will
be yours. I think for the first time we have
eaten this alumnae supper in a hall other than
Pembroke. I do not remember any alumnae
supper before Pembroke was built, and it seems
to me that Rockefeller and Miss Nearing have
carried on the Pembroke tradition. They have
proved the efficiency of the Bryn Mawr gradu-
ate in furnishing such a repast as this for one
dollar.
I want to say a few words about the new en-
trance examinations for Bryn Mawr College.
Bryn Mawr has been working over the entrance
requirements and has altered them in the direc-
tion of more science and more history. We have
given up the 4th (?) foreign language, and have
got Physics from everyone who enters and
Ancient History. We are going to build on
splendid foundations, Physics and Ancient His-
tory. One point from the foreign language has
been given to Physics which now counts 2,
one to English or American History, and one for
another science. There is an option of one
foreign language.
We are going to try and see if we can't select
out of the students who pass the entrance ex-
aminations the most worthy of Bryn Mawr. I
am sure you will be glad to hear that the Under-
graduate" Association have cordially approved
the motion of the Faculty and Senate that
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juniors who have not one half their merits must
go to another college. It will be an interesting
development to watch whether, by selecting
students not only by examinations but in some
other way, we can have a college where really
first-class students could study with other first-
class students. There are about 500 colleges
where first-class students have to study with
second-class students.
Another thing that I believe is quite an inter-
esting new development is the conference
granted by the faculty to the students. The
undergraduates are able to confer with com-
mittees of the faculty on academic matters. I
have been deeply interested in those confer-
ences which I have been able to attend, in which
the students have talked over various things
that they have felt about the academic work, and
I think many of the faculty feel as I do that it is
something that will develop in the future and
bring us to a much higher academic standard if
we understand each other's point of view on
academic matters.
A few words about our great gratification that
our Carola Woerishofer Department has been
selected to train these three units to be industrial
supervisors. We feel very much gratified that
Mr. Frankfurter, the new industrial superin-
tendent, President Hopkins of Dartmouth
College, and all seem to think that the Carola
Woerishofer Department is the department in
the United States that can do this training
better than any other, and we are greatly grati-
fied that the Y. W. C. A. has set aside $5000 for
each course. It is to include scholarships of
$300 each in this department. We hope to have
36 graduates in this department next year all
through the year. I can think of few things
more important than training for these positions.
There is going to be a rush of women to industry
and we must have women to take care of them.
Dalton will be open this summer at govern-
ment request. Dr. Brunei, two graduates, one
member of the graduating class and one junior
will work there.
Few things have made me prouder than the
splendid patriotism that you have shown since
this war began. Not only the graduates but the
undergraduates have been wonderful and if their
academic work has suffered I think they have
seen that themselves and they are going to
regulate it in a very wise way by conscripting
themselves. The undergraduates and faculty
have decided not to have courses that do not
give the kind of intellectual training that we
want every course to give at Bryn Mawr.
The graduates of Bryn Mawr have done just
what I should have expected. They have felt
that this war is really a war of civilization. It
is everything we care for, and on the other side
going backward from the principles of freedom
and justice, and I know scarcely a Bryn Mawr
graduate who has not gone directly to the point
and not thrown herself enthusiastically into win-
ning this war. If you are not already engaged, I
hope you will consider the opportunities of pa-
triotic speaking. We must develop public opinion
behind this war so that people understand not
only the necessity of supporting this war but
understand what is involved. I think we can
make it a holy war, a war to end war. If you
are not already spending your whole time in
war- winning activities I hope you will add to
what you are doing patriotic education, and will
let our Patriotic Speaking Bureaus make use of
you because in a great democracy like ours we
must enlighten the people and I know no body
of women who can do it better than Bryn Mawr
women.
I feel that there are certain outside activities
that you ought to carry on. I feel that you
ought not to give up coming back to Bryn Mawr
for reunions, you ought not to sever your con-
nections with the college. We ought to place
with patriotic duty the duty of the highest kind
of education. We must bear in mind that men
and women must be fitted to do the great work
of reconstruction after the war. Your work be-
hind the lines is I think to keep up the highest
standards of education and not to relax your
interest in what we like to think is one of the
strong factors. So I want to commend your
college to you in addition to your war activities.
The election of Mrs. Hand as Alumnae Di-
rector in Mrs. Bancroft's place was announced,
and the meeting ended with the singing of "Thou
Gracious Inspiration" and "Star Spangled
Banner."
LTST OF ALUMNAE SUPPER
Martha Thomas, Anna Rhoads Ladd, Julia
Cope Collins, Katharine M. Shipley, Marian W.
Walsh, Anna E. West, Mrs. Herbert T. Clark,
Mary Jeffers, Marianna Janney, Anna S. Hoag,
Pauline Goldmark, Elizabeth B. Kirkbride,
Mary M. Mellin, A. C. Dimon, Sue Avis Blake,
Mrs. B. K. Wilbur, Bertha G. Wood, Elizabeth
N. Bancroft, Mrs. Adam Calvert, M. G. Con-
verse, Mrs. J. J. Boericke, Helen W. Woodall,
Josephine Goldmark, Anna D. Fry, Mrs. N. C.
Cregar, Louise Congdon Francis, Florence
Peebles, Lois Farnham Hone, Beatrice Mc-
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George, Mrs. H. A. Woodward, Edith T.
Orlady, Miriam Thomas, Mrs. J. C. Hoppin,
Eleanor James, Julia Pratt Smith, Margaret
S. Dietrich, Virginia T. Stoddard, Helen Met-
tler (ex) Sophie Boncher, Agnes M. Sinclair,
Elizabeth M. Utley Thomas, Elsie T. Mc-
Ginley, Eleanor Deming, Eleanor Fleisher Ries-
man, Agnes B. Austin, C. F. Wagner, Amy T.
Clapp, Gertrude B. Barrows, Mary T. James,
Emma C. Thompson, Clarah Hull, Edith T.
Wood, Catherine Utley Hill, Theodora Bates,
Anna C. Clauder, Virginia P. Robinson, M. J.
0'Sullivan; Letitia Windle, Alice M. Hawkins,
Annabella Richards, Katherine V. Harley,
Eunice M. Schenk, Margaret A. Barner, Athalia
Crawford, Grace A. Woodleton, Lydia Sharp-
less Perry, Marjorie Young, Agnes Irwin,
H. W. Smith, Leonora S. Tomlinson, Louise
Watson, Florence M. Glenn, Gladys Spry,
M. Alden Lane, Mary Pierce, Beatrice Hawson,
Elizabeth Shipley, Mrs. Hayes, K. 1). Williams,
Maud D. Holmes, Agathe Deming, F. M. Des-
san, Elsie H. Steltzer, Zena J. Blanc, K. W.
McCollin, Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Amy
McMaster, Louise Collins and Caroline Cad-
bury Shipley, Isabel Maddison Ph.D., Miriam
Thomas, Bertha Ehlers, Mary Nearing, Cynthia
Wesson, Ryu Sato, Isabel Smith, Elizabeth
Brakeley, Helen Harris, Margaret Bacon, Hope
Traver, Ph.D., Lydia Sharpless Perry, Anne
Barrett Walton, Edith Chambers Rhoads, Myra
Elliot Vauclain, Emma Loines, Eleanor F.
Rambo.
JUNE CLASS REUNIONS
1898
Twenty-two members of the class of '98
lunched together at the Cottage Tea Room,
Bryn Mawr on June 4.
The most important person at this twentieth
reunion was Sarah Ridgway who had just an-
nounced her engagement to Mr. George Howard
Bruce. Then came Rebecca Foulke Cregar with
stories of the new '98 baby — Mary Rebecca
Cregar and then Anna Dean Wilbur with photo-
graphs of her ten splendid children, five boys and
five girls.
The rest of us were: Martha Tracy, (Dr.
Tracy) , the new dean of the W7oman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania; Josephine Goldmark,
working and writing for the National Con-
sumers' League; Frances Brooks Ackermann,
our new voter from New York; Mary Sheppard
who is working with the Charity Organization in
White Plains, New York; Mary Bright; Dr.
Jennie Brown; Isabel Andrews; Esther Willi ts
Thomas; Helen Williams Woodall; Bertha
Wood; Ullericka Oberge; Edith Schorl Boe-
ricke; Cora Hardy Jarritt; Mary Githens
Calvert; Anna Haas; Helen Sharpless; Alice
Hood; Anna Fry, and Elizabeth Nields Bancroft.
Almost everyone was deep in some form of war
relief work and the different reports were very
interesting.
Letters were received from Caroline Archer,
our real farmer; Catherine Bunnell Mitchell, a
cheerful dweller in the sand dunes of California;
May Bookstaver Knoblauch; Bertha Brainerd,
director of the commercial department of the
Portland Y. M. C. A.; Hannah Carpenter, con-
valescent "rom a nervous breakdown; Grace
Clarke Wright with much news of her four fine
children and their home in Minneapolis; Mar-
gery De Armond Neill, full of joy in her study of
metaphysics and her pretty home in Corpus
Christi, Texas; Juliet Esselbom Geier, deep in
war relief work; Alice Garnett, head worker at
the Goodrich Social Settlement, Cleveland;
Elizabeth Gray; Alice Hammond and Mary
Moody, successful teachers in New Haven;
Blanche Harnish Stein who is about to send a
daughter to Bryn Mawr; Etta Herr and Agnes
Perkins, living in Wellesley where Agnes teaches;
Grace Locke who told of her experiences with
Prussianism when studying in Berlin; Katherine
Loose, our novelist; Marion Park, dean of
Simmons College, Boston and Ph.D. Bryn
Mawr this year; Ella Stones Willard, Anne
Strong who is one of the organizers of the Vassar
Summer Course in nursing and is writing for
the Red Cress courses in nursing; Florence
Wardwell, who has been working in Washing-
ton for the Food Administration; Louise War-
ren, Margaret Coughlin in San Francisco; and
Elizabeth Holstein Buckingham.
As there seemed no way to hear from Sophie
Olsen Bertelsen, we wrote to Mrs. Olsen who
replied with a charming picture of Sophie's
home and her three fine children in Roskilde,
Denmark. Her eldest child, Charlotte, 14, the
fifth of June is '98's class baby, unfortunately
she will not come to Bryn Mawr.
The cTass regalia this year was particularly
fetching as it included a large dark blue knitting
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bag. There were no festivities at Bryn Mawr
where we could show ourselves, but our own
appreciation was expressed repeatedly. We all
felt that had the times been more auspicious we
should have made a remarkedly good showing.
Elizabeth Nields Bancroft.
1903
Ninteen hundred and three celebrated its
fifteenth anniversary by a reunion supper at the
College Inn June 3, 1918. The following mem-
bers were present: Margaretta Stewart Diet-
rich, Elsie Thomas McGinley, Charlotte Moffitt
Johnston, Emma Crawford Bechtel, Julia Pratt
Smith, Agatha Laughlin, Eleanor Deming,
Elizabeth Snyder, Emma Roberts, Elsie Lowrey,
Agnes Austin, Virginia Stoddard, Elizabeth
Utley Thomas, Agnes Sinclair, Helen Fleisch-
man Mettler, Louise Atherton Dickey, Myra
Harbeson, Sophie Boucher, Charlotte Morton
Lanagan, Hetty Goldman and Eleanor Fleisher
Riesman.
Miss Patty Thomas came to the Supper to tell
of the organization and work of the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps and of the Patriotic Farm. Mar-
garetta Stewart Dietrich, acting as toastmis-
tress, called on each of those present for an ac-
count of her activities during the past years.
Eight members of 1903 are abroad.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant was sent to France
by the New Republic to write for this journal
about conditions abroad. She will remain in
France as the first member of the Bryn Mawr
Service Corps.
Philena Winslow is in Paris working with the
Y. M. C. A.
Martha White is also in Paris — she has had
charge of a surgical dressings depot.
Margery Cheney has been working for French
orphans.
Dr. Marianna Taylor is chief of a children's
hospital in France.
Amanda Hendrickson dTncisa, Edith Clothier
Sanderson, and Maud Spencer Corbett are all
married and working abroad — Amanda in Paris,
Edith and Maud in England.
Elizabeth Snyder is going over to do canteen
work with the Intercollegiate Community Serv-
ice Unit of the Y. M. C. A., representing the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps on this unit.
Dr. Grace Lynde Meigs is in charge of the
Division of Hygiene of the Children's Bureau of
the United States Department of Labor, and as
such plans the Child Hygiene and Conservation
movements all over the country.
Dr. Sally Porter Law McGlannan is taking the
place of her husband's assistant who has gone to
the Front.
Dr. Linda Lange is doing work at Johns Hop-
kins Hospital.
Agathe Laughlin is head nurse and anesthetist
at the Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia.
Hetty Goldman, after thrilling adventures in
Greece and the Balkans, in 1913 and 1914, has
been doing important but not spectacular work
for the Government.
Eleanor Deming has been conducting a girls'
camp in the Adirondacks, teaching domestic
science and food conservation and doing public
speaking under the auspices of the College
Women's Bureau.
Agnes Sinclair has been doing propaganda
work for the Liberty Loan in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Elsie Thomas McGinley has been conducting
courses in current topics in Lansdowne, Pa.
Margaret Field de Motte was married in
June to Charles Nevill Buck, being given in
marriage by her son, John Field de Motte.
Constance Leupp Todd has a second sod.
She is President of the Consumer's League of
the District of Columbia.
May Montague Guild lost her husband and a
son within a short time.
Helen Bray ton is farming on a large scale in
Connecticut.
Charlotte Moffitt Johnston is one of the or-
ganizers of the Red Cross at Harrisburg and
instructs in surgical dressings.
Gertrude Dietrich Smith is one of the leaders
in Red Cross work and in the Council of National
Defense in Connecticut.
Dorothea Day Watkins is living in Catskill,
New York, having left Spartanburg on account
of her husband's health.
Alice Lovell Kellogg is in Guaquil, Ecuador,
where her husband is in charge of large mining
operations. Her trip to South America with
four small children, the youngest, twins, but a
few months old, was full of amusing incidents.
Ethel Hulburd Johnston ran a Community
Cannery last summer which canned seven thou-
sand quarts of fruits and vegetables. Last win-
ter she was in charge of a Red Cross Packing
Committee in Chicago, which inspected and
repacked all hospital garments from the Middle
Western States, about fifty boxes-full a day.
Helen Calder Wallower is Vice-Chairman of
the Oklahoma Woman's Committee, Council
of National Defense, and as City Chairman for
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Oklahoma City, organized and started all the
Council work there. She was also in charge of
food conservation, in connection with which she
held a tremendous Food Show and is now erect-
ing a Community Market.
Mabel Norton is in charge of the workroom
for Military Relief of the Pasadena Red Cross,
working there every day all day.
Fannie Brown is teaching at the Brearley
School in New York City.
Elizabeth B ryan Parker is now living in Orange,
New Jersey.
Emily Larrabee is principal of the Pelham
Manor School.
Agnes Austin will be one of the principals of
Miss Hill's School in Philadelphia.
Julia Pratt Smith has taken Red Cross Hospital
courses, fitting her to be Nurses' Aid and is now
working in the Boston City Hospital as Dresser
in the Surgical Out-Patient Department.
Sophie Boucher conducts Red Cross work at
her summer home on Racquette Lake.
Katherine D. Bull has a large surgical dress-
ing class in Baltimore.
Myra Smartt Kruesi has organized food con-
servation work on a large scale in Chattanooga
and throughout Tennessee under the auspices of
the Council of National Defense, of which she is
County Chairman. She has been talking in all
of the schools, planning exhibitions, running war
gardens, addressing Pastor's Associations and
Farmers' Conventions, playing hostess to many
boys at Camp Oglethorpe, and in addition, tak-
ing care of her four children.
Edith Lodge Kellerman has a fifth boy.
Margaretta Stewart Dietrich has been doing
general War Propaganda work in Hastings,
Neb., as a federal speaker on food production
and conservation. She is Vice-Chairman for
Civilian Relief of the Red Cross. She has also
been teaching French to enlisted men, and most
patriotically raising sheep and pigs.
Ninteen hundred and three is represented in
the Bryn Mawr community by Martha Boyer,
who is teaching in the Baldwin School, Margaret
Brusstar, who is head of the department of
mathematics in the Shipley School, and Elsie
Lowrey, who is assistant principal at the latter
school, and in charge of the pupils' Red Cross
work.
Emma Crawford Bechtel is raising a family
and a good crop of vegetables.
Gertrude Fetterman i s running the Penn Cot-
tage, a Tea Room at Wynnewood.
Myra Harbeson is doing editorial work on
Everybody's.
Emma Roberts is teaching at the Friends'
School in Germantown.
Virginia Stoddard is teaching at the Agnes
Irwin School, Philadelphia.
Helen Ditmars Sewall, whose husband, Dr.
Sewall, is in the United States Army, is teach-
ing Latin and Spanish in the Bridge ton, New
York High School and taking care of her family
besides.
Carrie Wagner is doing excellent work with
her girls' and boys' clubs in Germantown.
Elizabeth Utley Thomas is on a committee for
the collection and distribution of surplus produce
in Haverford.
Helen Fleischman Mettler is canning and pre-
serving the vegetables that she grows on her
large estate.
Louise Atherton Dickey is teaching four
children, conducting a farm, and preserving
vegetables by the process of dehydration.
Doris Earle has been working very hard in the
Visiting Nurse Society and doing case work for
the Home Service Section of the Red Cross.
Elizabeth Eastman is in Winchester, Mass.
This spring she acted as hostess for the A. C. A.
Home Club for men in uniform at Province-
town, Mass.
Charlotte Morton, who was married last year,
to Mr. F. R. Lanagan, is interested in City War
Gardens in Albany, New York.
Edythe Clark Fairbanks has a baby daughter,
born in 1917.
Ida Langdon has been doing war work at
Elmira, New York, packing supplies, and making
speeches before all sorts of assemblies to popu-
larize the Liberty Loan.
Rosalie Jones has been studying in the School
of Philanthropy in New York.
Helen Raymond O'Connor's husband is a
Captain in the Medical Reserve Corps.
Eleanor Fleisher Reisman has been active in
the organization of the Women of South Phila-
delphia for the Liberty Loan, and is devoting
much time to Hospital Social Service Work.
She has a baby daughter, born in 1917.
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WAR WORK
THE SERVICE CORPS
By Abigail Camp Dimon, Secretary
Since the organization of the Corps and the
selection of the first two workers as reported in
the April Quarterly the Joint Administrative
Committee has considered fifty candidates for
service abroad. Of these six have not sent in
formal application blanks and therefore have not
been definitely considered as yet, twelve have
either withdrawn or the Committee has decided
that it cannot help them at present, seven cannot
obtain passports because they have brothers in
the service, four are under age, twelve are still on
the lists to be acted on later or when requests are
made for work of a special nature, and nine have
been accepted and appropriations made for their
support as follows:
1. Dr. Frederick W. MacCallum head of a
mission sent to Persia for Armenian and Syrian
Relief is to be considered a member of the Corps
and has been given a discretionary fund of $1000
to be expended in relief work and $350 which is
estimated as living expenses for six months in
Persia. The commission consists of six or seven
members, all men and sailed from Seattle about
the end of May. Dr. MacCullum is detained
by the illness of one of his sons who was with the
British army, and will join them later. One of
the members of the commission is Dr. Harry
Pratt Judson, President of the University of
Chicago, who is especially interested in the
political effect of the manifestation of good will
and sympathy on the part of the American
people towards Persia.
2. Agnes Morrow, 1912, sailed for France
about the first of May as a Y. M. C. A. Canteen
worker. The Service Corps has appropriated
$2000, which is the estimate of her expenses for
one year.
3. Laura Hatch, Fellow in Geology at Bryn
Mawr, 1912-13, sailed about the middle of June
as a Y. M. C. A. Canteen worker. The Y. M.
C. A. had arranged to pay the greater part of her
expenses and the Service Corps appropriated
$500 to complete the sum necessary for one
year's work.
4. Elizabeth Snyder, 1903, is to go as a mem-
ber of the Intercollegiate Community Service
Association unit for Y. M. C. A. Canteen work
in France. This unit is made up of members
from different colleges who go in two groups each
of which hopes to work together as a unit in
France if circumstances permit. Miss Snyder's
group is to sail about June 20th and the Service
Corps pays her full expenses, $2000.
5. Margaret Bradway, 1915, is to go abroad as
a Red Cross Canteen worker about the first of
July. Since graduating she has had an experi-
ence of several summers in Junior Chautauqua
work through the state and has been very suc-
cessful in it. The committee has appropriated
$900 towards her expenses, the rest being paid
by the Red Cross.
6. Marjorie Rawson, 1906, is making arrange-
ments to go abroad as a Red Cross Canteen
worker and has been taken as a member of the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps, paying her own
expenses.
7. Esther White, 1906, is working in Russia
under the American Friends Service Commit-
tee. She has been there since last summer,
engaged in relief work in the government of
Samara, where great numbers of refugees from
the battle front took refuge during the first two
years of the war. The Friends plan to continue
to keep her there and the Service Corps Commit-
tee has appropriated $500 towards her support.
8. Anna Jones Haines, 1907, is working in the
same unit with Esther White and the Committee
has made the same appropriation for her.
9. Mary Shenstone, 1913, has been engaged
in "family rehabilitation" work since graduating
and the Committee has appropriated $2000 to
send her abroad if it is possible to arrange. She
is a British subject and has brothers in the Brit-
ish army but it is hoped that this may not make
her going impossible.
Margaret Bontecou who sailed about the first
of April is doing Y. M. C. A. Canteen work in
France and Elizabeth Sergeant continues her
writing and liason work in Paris.
The War Council raised the $10,000 that it
aimed at before the end of the year. The alum-
nae have promised $12,000 and actually paid
$7800. Deducting the appropriation given
above and those made for Miss Bontecou and
Miss Sergeant the Committee can now count on
nearly $12,000 in cash and promises. Most of
the promises will fall due on July first. The
committee has not lost hope that the restriction
as to brothers in the service may be removed and
if it is it would like to send several of the can-
didates at once. The Y. M. C. A. had accepted
two of them and the Red Cross has cabled from
France asking for three others by name. If the
rule is given up there will be a number of other
candidates who are holding back now because
of the impossibility of obtaining passports. In
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any case there will undoubtedly be new promis-
ing applicants for membership in the Corps, calls
for additional support will come from workers
who are financed only partially or for a limited
time and workers already in the field may need
assistance in continuing the work they are
doing. The committee expects therefore to
appropriate by the end of the summer all of the
money in the treasury. It anticipates that the
work of the Corps will continue to develop and
that it will be necessary for the War Council
and alumnae to continue and even to increase
their generous support, so the Corps can meet
the demands made upon it.
CAROLINE STEVENS COM-
MENDED
Caroline Stevens '17, has been commended by
Major Moorehead, commanding officer of hos-
pital No. — in France for her bravery and atten-
tion to duty on a night when the hospital was
bombed by the Germans. The following is
taken from a report from Julia C. Stimson, chief
nurse, American Red Cross in France:
"Major Moorehead commanding office of
hospital No. — said he could not speak too
highly of the efficiency of the nurses. He made
special mention of their bravery at the time of
air raids. He particularly mentioned the excel-
lent work of Miss Turnbull, the nurse in charge,
and felt that especial praise should be given to
Miss Elmyra Bears of Cambridge, Mass. (Wal-
tham Nurses Training School, Waltham, Mass.),
who gave ether with the greatest calm, all during
the night of May 29, when bombs were cracking
all around the hospital. He spoke particularly
too, of the attention to duty and bravery of Miss
Louise Dildine of Columbus, Ohio, (Lawrence
Hospital), Miss Constance Cooke, of Berkeley,
(Children's Hospital and Alexander Maternity
Hospital, San Francisco), nurses; and Miss
Stevens, Miss Harte and Miss Ehret, nurses aids,
all of whom were on duty at this hospital that
harrowing night.
"Major Murphy reported bravery on the part
of Miss Natalie Scott, a nurse's aid, on the night
when B was so horribly raided. One
wing of the hospital was struck and several
buildings adjacent completely demolished. Al-
most all the windows were shattered. In an
annex, nearby, were several American patients
who had been part of Miss Scott's responsibility.
Immediately after the bomb fell and destroyed
the intervening houses, Miss Scott in the pitchy
darkness, crawled over the pile of bricks and
broken timbers and made her way into the annex
to sec how her patients were, and to reassure
them. A few days later, during another raid,
Miss Scott, although completely worn out, re-
mained day and night at the side of a dying
American patient."
LETTERS FROM FRANCE
Margaret Bontecou, '09, who is working with
the Y. M. C. A. at Brest as a member of the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps writes the following
letters about her work at a dry canteen.
"May 3rd.
"Almost immediately on reporting to my
chief, I was assigned to a post left vacant the
following day, and started in with my work
almost immediately. The hut contains a dry
canteen, and I can tell you that my qualifica-
tions for keeping a country store will be con-
siderably increased. I shall be doubly expert
because here I have to handle two kinds of
money, French and American, and give change
in both at one time. You'll be interested to hear
that we sell playing cards, and the men are
allowed to use them in the huts, and as for the
tobacco, I have never handled so much in my
life, from chewing plug up to Pall Malls.
"Immediately the question of living accom-
modations came up, and very fortunately, be-
fore being in the place twenty-four hours, I
found myself the joint possessor of an apartment
of three rooms and kitchenette, together with a
gem of a maid called Josephine. Josephine
cooks for us, does the marketing, and mending
and washing except for the sheets and pillow
cases, blacks our boots, corrects my French, and
all for 50 fr. a month. The apartment cost
150 fr. a month, and with everything we expect
to live on about 400 francs at the outside, apiece,
which, considering the prices here, is very
reasonable.
"There is electricity at every point in the
apartment, but the plumbing is lacking. One
faucet in the kitchenette constitutes our supply,
but it is remarkable how one can adjust oneself
to such conditions. The only things lacking
are a cat and a canary.
"The dining-sitting room contains every-
thing from a writing desk to a complete outfit
of spears and Fiji Island clubs. The Metro-
politan Museum has nothing on us as regards
Boule cabinets. We use them to keep our tooth
brushes in."
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"May 12th.
"Perhaps you would like to hear what the
day's program is. Breakfast about 8.30 —
sounds very lazy, doesn't it, but it is none too
early. Then after talking over the menu for the
day with Josephine, I start off for the hut,
reaching there about 9.30. Two parrots which
I pass on the way always call out a cheerful
good morning, which acts as a welcome diver-
sion. Usually I find the men three deep at the
canteen counter, so that means plunging in with-
out any ceremony, selling everything from shoe
strings up, making change in all kinds of money,
as any allied coin seems to be in circulation
now, talking about Newark, N. J., to a man who
comes from Roseville, listening while a man from
California tells me what a wonderful state that
is, giving information (which I often need my-
self) about everything imaginable.
"At 12 we close the canteen and take an hour
or so out for lunch, opening up again at 1.30.
This session lasts until 5. Then home again,
supper at 6, canteen at 7. Three nights a week
we have movies and two afternoons, one night,
an address of some sort, and one night informal
stunts. Once a month we are allowed to have
a dance. Wednesday night, Bible classes. Also
many French classes all through the week."
"May 31st.
"Yesterday afternoon, being Memorial Day,
we went out to the cemetery where some of our
men are buried and held a service there with the
French people. Every grave is marked with a
white cross, and has been adopted by some
French woman who keeps it most beautifully
decorated with growing plants and flowers. In
this cemetery are graves of all the allied na-
tions, to say nothing of some Germans. Even the
latter are well cared for, though the flowers are
lacking. I wish the families at home could know
about this and could know that the women here
who were asked to care for one grave have in
most cases begged for two or three."
"June 7.
"The newest addition to our hut is a soda-
water fountain, the real article with every sort
of contrivance. One of the men who was soda-
fountain clerk for three years is going to give
us lessons in its operation, and we are hoping
to start next week."
"May 18th.
"Miss Halloran returned Monday night and
her return means that I can slacken up a bit on
my work and take a little time off, much as I
hate to do it, because it is the sort of thing that
absorbs one terribly. The men are so nice and
as friendly as can be. They'd give you any-
thing they had. One man I went to see out in
the hospital last Sunday and brought him some
flowers. He has been like a dog at my heels ever
since, and has saved me many a step. Another
one brought me a jar of jam, and two very stale
doughnuts. A third snatched two pies from his
mess and presented them to us wrapped in news-
paper. Every little thing you do is so much
appreciated.
"If any one tells you again that smoking is not
allowed in the Y huts, you tell them it's a lie.
Every night my clothes are permeated with the
the smell of tobacco, and I shall have to take to
smoking in self defense. We sell more tobacco
than anything else, and what I don't know about
all brands from chewing up isn't worth know-
ing."
LETTER FROM ELIZABETH
SERGEANT
Paris, May 24, 1918.
"I am hoping my last letter reached Marion
Reilly safely. Dr. Devine cabled for three peo-
ple whose names she sent — I trust the brother
clause can be got by somehow, for it is a shame
that it should keep away the people who are
needed. Can't they be persuaded to apply it
only to the useless people?
"I have been writing very steadily for the
past two months and have sent back (if this is
interesting!) three articles on the Red Cross and
one on the Y. M. C. A. and one on the bombard-
ment of Paris plus a short sketch of the front
to the New Republic (i. e., six articles in all). I
have also been to the front (with Mr. Carter of
the Y. M. C. A. to see their work there) and to
one of the American Headquarters again. My
army articles have been delayed by the sudden
changes but I now hope to finish these up at
once.
"I have been living half in Paris half in the
country. Going back and forth is complicated
and time-devouring, but on the whole it pays
for one gets refreshed between whiles. The
country (i. e., near Paris where of course I have
to stay) is perhaps less "safe" than town be-
cause the defense is good now, and the creatures,
being driven off by the barrage, drop their bombs
outside. I have learned that a bomb dropped
on Wednesday night very close to the place I
have been living. I moved on Tuesday! So it
goes. One ceases to pay the least attention to
that sort of thing. I am now at Jong-en- Josas
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about four miles from Versailles in a little house
belonging to Mme. Halioz — the sweetest spot
you can imagine. I have it all to myself, and
the caretaker feeds me on vegetables from the
garden. My hostess will be back later. Mean-
while the sensation of being in a house, and the
pleasure of a real cold tub in the morning (of
course hot ones are unknown) all this warm
weather combine to make me feel almost as if
I were at home. I have had a cold and a rather
sharp touch of neuritis (result of sudden change
from winter to summer) and of holding a pen so
constantly) so I am taking it easily for a few
days — though heaven knows I ought not!
"I had hoped that by June I might be able
to stop writing for a while and do some canteen
work for Red Cross or Y. M. C. A. by way of a
complete change — and another kind of enlight-
enment. Possibly I still can by the middle of
June. Joseph Lindon Smith the painter, of
Medea fame, has just turned up in Y. M. C. A.
uniform to organise amateur dramatics in the
army! i.e., to make the men self-sufficing, especi-
ally at the front. He wants me to help him,
if only for a month because I know the A. E. F.
and could give suggestions about organization,
etc. It would be a very interesting experience:
Mr. Carter is all in for it, but I fear he may want
me before I am free. . . . Would the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps approve of this? I assure
you that one wishes one had a hundred lives as
never before! Because there are not enough
women here for a certain kind of responsible job.
My two days' experience with the Y. M. C. A. at
the front made me feel that canteen work by
women was vitally important, and I hope the
Y. M. C. A. may decide to use women far more
than it has yet — as I have said in my article.
There is no question of the human reward to the
woman of the work. It is enormous and im-
mediate. That is why it is tempting to the poor
scribe — one reason — besides the fact that is the
real way to understand the A. E. F.
"Whether or not I can desert my journalistic
job for a time really depends a good deal on the
next few weeks' events — we await the offensive
and know not what may come of it, though we
are confident, and morale is excellent.
"It must be lovely at college these May days.
You are not waked at three A.M. by barrage fire
and shrapnel on your roof, as I two nights ago!
But as I look out at the peaceful valley it is just
as hard for me to believe in it.
"Best wishes to you all,
E. S. Sergeant."
A WORKER AT HOME
Myra K. Smartt (Mrs. Paul John Kruesi)
ex-1903 who is chairman of the Woman's Com-
mittee of the Council of National Defense writes
from Chattanooga of her duties in the canton-
ment city and the surrounding country. The
letter reads:
"My dear Eleanor:
"About a week ago I began a letter to Ger-
trude D. Smith in answer to an appeal to send
her an account of myself for the 1903 reunion —
that letter was never finished and now at this
very last minute I am going to risk sending you
a little resume of the work I've been doing, be-
cause I have not been idle.
"My war work began a year ago when I be-
gan running a Red Cross Market, taking orders
for vegetables from my own garden, eggs and
chickens from my hen-house, and whole wheat
bread, cracker biscuits, and coffee cake, which
I myself made. Twice each week I made de-
liveries to Signal Mountain Inn colony, six
miles from here, the money I turned into our
Red Cross Auxiliary Fund. I had a busy sum-
mer as I canned enough beans, peas, tomatoes
and soup mixture for my family all winter, spent
two days each week at Red Cross, and, a half of
two more marketing my Red Cross vegetables.
All went well till my oldest daughter broke her
arm, then I had to give up my market. While I
stayed at home with her I planned a Food Con-
servation Exhibit for the Chattanooga District
Fair, October 1st. It was very interesting work,
but it was work. I had a table of war breads of
which I gave a taste of each. Also had a table
of Soy beans and soy-bean dishes, Soy bean
bread, etc., to taste. Had a table of 100 caloric
portions of everyday foods. I tried to have all
the substitutes for sugar, fats, and wheat. Two
of us stayed in the exhibit all day long, dressed
in Hoover aprons and caps, and I never answered
as many questions in my life. The exhibit was
a great success, and to my utter amazement I
found myself called upon to go out and give
talks and demonstrations.
It was just at this time that I was made
County Chairman of the Woman's Committee,
and work began in earnest. This county is
about fifty-five miles long and I've covered it
again and again these last eight months. We
had a whirlwind campaign for Food Conserva-
tion, I sp»ke in each of the 44 school houses, then
went back to each with a patriotic speaker and
had a parents' meeting. We put on bread con-
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tests, using substitutes, with special prizes for
good com bread.
"In January and February we had what is
called the Farmers' Short Course. The County
Farm Agent, the Home Demonstration Agent,
and several experts from the University of Ten-
nessee spent a whole day at every school in the
County giving, in the morning, special instruc-
tions, to fa mers, urging greater production,
hog aising, etc. In the Woman's Section we
had a cooking demonstration, a demonstration
of setting the table, a clothing demonstration, a
butter-making exhibit, a cottage cheese demon-
stration, and I gave a child welfare demonstra-
tion of bathing the baby, the care and feeding of
the baby. In the afternoon we had a joint ses-
sion always, during the last hour, and I had to
give a talk outlining the work of the Woman's
Committee, we sold thrift stamps and Liberty
Bonds as we went, and organized a Red Cross
Auxiliary wherever possible — as I was asked to
be the extension agent of the Red Cross.
Just at the end of this short course my chil-
dren all four had measles, and my second
little girl was only out one day when she
developed a desperate case of scarlet fever.
I could not get a nurse and had to take entire
care of her seven weeks. Nurses are so scarce
in this Cantonment City that I couldn't even
find a practical nur e to take care of my other
three children, so had to go in and out of my
patient's room to plan my household and c ee my
other babies at least twice a day. It was a very
trying time for all of us, but we lived through t,
all of us, and s em normal again, only I will
never catch up with those seven weeks which
got ahead of me while I was in quarantine.
"I am Agriculture Chairman of the Woman's
Service League and have had to help plan the
garden campaign for the City and County.
"One warm Spring day I was out at the new
Crittendon Home and the four acres of unfilled
ground seemed so promising that I said I would
be their Agricultural Chairman. You can
imagine the job I've had when I tell you we can
not get farm help here. I finally secured the
work house force to do my heavy plowing and
then had to start in to train i he girls to do the
work. These girls would much rather be in jail
than work, and especially than work on a farm.
I found I had to take my hoe or rake or plow and
go right with them all day long, working harder
than they.
"I decided we would have to have a working
supervisor, so we wrote to Vassar to a Miss
Campbell who was at the head of the Vassar
Farm last year. She said she would accept the
position but we would have to furnish her a farm
laborer, and some one would have to plan the
garden as she did not understand planning.
She didn't come. I tell you this because I am
sure Bryn Mawr farmerettes are not of that type.
If you ever hear of any Bryn Mawr girl who
wants to work and likes hard work please refer
her to me as my Crittendon Home Farm is a
millstone around my neck.
"This farm has taken a great deal of my time
and energy all Spring. Days when I could get
away from my hoeing I've had to make another
tour of the County. We have held an all day
patriotic meeting at most of my County Wo-
man's Committee units, outlining the work for
Childrens' Year and other plans.
"A year ago I could not make a talk before a
dozen people, today I tremble and shrink but I
go ahead, I've made over two hundred talks this
year, some Thrift Stamp, some Liberty Bond,
some Red Cross, many Woman's Committee.
I went before the Chattanooga Pastor's Associ-
ation three months ago, told them they were not
using their pulpits as they should, and asked for
a Food Conservation — or rather Wheat Con-
servation sermon.
"The next Sunday I occupied the pulpit at our
church for a fifteen minute talk, and when I
finished the minister asked how many in the
house would agree to do without wheat until
our next harvest, and every member of the
audience rose, pledging themselves. I could
go en with a long recital of the things I've under-
taken, but I only want to tell you enough to let
you know I haven't been idle.
"Three weeks ago I went up to Knoxville to
make an address before the Farmers Convention
of Tennessee Farmers. My subject was,
"Training Our Boys and Girls to Help Solve the
Labor Shortage in the Farm Home." I suppose
they felt my Crittenden Home experience would
help me to solve the problem. I'm sure all of
us were glad when my talk was over.
"This winter has been a very trying one in
Chattanooga because every few days you get a
letter from some one whose son or brother, hus-
band or sweetheart is at Oglethorpe and they
want us to hunt them up; we all of us have
kept open house all Winter, sometimes as many
as six soldiers for Sunday dinner. We love it,
love the men, love to do this little bit for them,
but the servant question is a big one. I've
always said I'd rather walk than drive my own
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car, but now I drive myself — have to, to get
there.
"I've been dictating to a stenographer until
I can scarcely manage my pen any more. Be-
fore me here is a typewriter — I'll soon be able to
type my own letters, I'm sure you are sorry I
haven't already mastered the machine.
"I do wonder if you have heard from May
Montague Guild. Her husband died this win-
ter and just seven weeks later her dream-baby
boy, his father's namesake, and May's joy, died
very, very suddenly. May packed up and took
the other two children out to California, to get
away, from herself and every one.
"Please tell the girls that I love Bryn Mawr and
1903, 1 hope that some of you still remember me,
I remember each one of you and long to be with
you this reunion time. I do need the inspiration
and wish I could be there to get it.
"My service flag bears three stars, and my
one desire is to serve my country as my three
splendid brothers are doing. Please send me any
accounts of the reunion that are available.
"I've moved my family from our town house
to our mountain home this last week, my house
girl deserted me the day of the move and I've
had only one assistant hence my delay in writing.
"Please excuse haste in writing and in com-
position.
Always Faithfully
Myra Smartt Kruesi,
Signal Mountain.
Sunday.
THE BRYN MAWR COMMUNITY CENTER
By Hilda Worthington Smith, Director
The Community Center, we are glad to be-
lieve, has at last, at the beginning of its third
year of work, passed the experimental stage.
Because it is meeting a genuine demand in the
community, the work is rapidly expanding.
From up and down Lancaster Pike, from the
tiny houses on the Italian district of Whitehall,
from the comfortable homes on the shady back
streets come the children to our playground and
kindergarten, and the older people to the lec-
tures and club meetings at the Center. One of
the volunteers, coming in on a busy Saturday
morning last year, remarked, "Why, the Com-
munity is so thick that you can't see the Center."
On that day there was a dramatic rehearsal
in one side of our large room, a meeting of the
Little Mothers' League in the other, story tell-
ing and registration of books in the reading
room, a violin lesson in the kitchen, a mandolin
lesson in the office, a lively game of quoits in the
hall, and a game of checkers on the cellar stairs.
As a climax to a busy morning, the Director
stumbled in the hall over a brown paper parcel —
which squawked — and found two live hens,
waiting to be cooked for the Italian supper that
night.
This spring it became impossible to st niggle
along in these rooms in the back of the Public
School, where thirty activities were carried on
in space only adequate for five. Our one large
room was in a state of constant transformation
from school lunch-room to kindergarten, from
kindergarten to gymnasium, from gymnasium
to Night School class room, or lecture hall. Our
books and our boys were overflowing the little
reading-room. The necessity of constantly
shifting equipment, of sorting out different
groups of people going and coming, and the
difficulty of keeping the rooms quiet for business
meetings or lectures made it impossible for the
work to develop. We asked the School Board
for more room in the building, or for permission
to alter certain unused parts of it for our own
purposes. In spite of a petition signed with
hearty endorsement by all our prominent tax-
payers and business men, our main requests
were refused, although to meet the pressure of
public opinion one more room was given to us.
This we promptly turned over our to kinder-
garten and to the Italian Night School for daily
use
In April we decided to rent a charming old
colonial house on Lancaster Avenue, one of the
first houses in Bryn Mawr, set back in its shady
yard, two blocks from the Community Center.
This house we have named "The Milestone" as
the oldest stone in the vicinity is just outside the
gate, and the house marks a definite step in our
progress. The big sunny front room is the
library, presided over now by a part-time li-
brarian. There was no public library in Bryn
Mawr, and we have made a small start, hoping
that later several collections of books may be
consolidated and eventually turned over to the
town. At present our fear is that we shall soon
have to move all our books again, as they are
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increasing so fast that one large room will no
longer hold them.
Across the hall is a smaller room with a big
fireplace, and a deep window seat, used for com-
mittee meetings, club parties and other social
occasions. Just next our pantry, it is con-
venient for serving refreshment. Comfortable
wicker chairs, water-colors, and gay cretonne
curtains all help to make this room attractive.
Here our newly organized Franco-American
Alliance, and the British Association started
this spring. The Main Line Canning Commit-
tee, the Hospital Social Service Committee, and
many others all use this room for their meetings.
Upstairs there is a larger club room for women,
a green and brown room, with a piano and gas
stoves. The girls from the laundry and from
some of the stores along the Pike come here every
day for their noon hour to eat their lunch, and
several clubs of women, white or colored, meet
in the evenings for sewing or Red Cross work.
The big office and work room is on this floor too,
furnished largely with old desks and bookcases
left stranded in the college attics. Upstairs on
the third floor the Girl Scouts, two troops of
them, have their meetings, and are helping to
furnish the rooms. Even in these two months
it has meant a great deal to the Center to have
such an attractive home for our girls' and
women's activities.
Our old rooms in the Public School still house
the little children and the boys, our Night
School, kindergarten, and any big lectures,
exhibits, plays or entertainments. Here at
noon on every school day we serve a hot lun-
cheon at three cents a dish to the eighty or more
children who march in with their bowls and
spoons to the long tables. In the afternoon our
thirty kindergarten children have no sooner left
the building than the older children are waiting
at the door for their clubs and classes — gym-
nastics and folk-dancing, handicrafts, cooking,
dramatics, story hour or playground work. A
sewing class last year included two small boys,
who sewed assiduously until they found they
were not allowed to wear a thimble on every
finger. A fairy play which was rehearsed on
the same day chosen by a cooking class threat-
ened to be broken up by one small cook, who
wept because she could not have a pair of pixie
wings pinned on her shoulders.
In the basement the boys have fitted up a
game room, with two pool tables, quoits and
boxing gloves, and a bewildering array of flags
and posters on the walls. At first the rivalry
between the four different clubs which used the
room was so intense that a daily list of broken
windows and an occasional black eye resulted.
Now an embryonic self government system is in
force, and there is comparative peace. Next
winter we hope to have our large room upstairs
altered for a gymnasium, and then it will be
more possible to provide occupation for the
crowd of older boys who haunt our doors during
the winter evenings.
The Italian Night School, with twenty-five
men, meets five times a week for instruction in
English, American history, civics, etc., in prep-
aration for their citizenship papers. After
each lesson we have an hour of singing, thor-
oughly enjoyed by teachers and pupils. The
men spell out with difficulty the words of the
American songs, but throw themselves heartily
into their own folk songs or arias. Several jolly
parties have been given by these men for their
friends, but they invariably are unwilling to
include the women. So we are starting work in
the Whitehall district, with the Italian women at
home. Ten of these women have been studying
English this winter, and now we have found a
large group of children whose mothers are eager
to have us open a second kindergarten for them
in this district.
Our usual series of fortnightly lectures and
entertainments has been continued this winter,
under the management of Miss Mary Jeffers.
Travel talks, lectures on the war, and patriotic
addresses have been varied with concerts and
food demonstrations, given to audiences varying
from fifty to two hundred and fifty people
Electricity, recently installed, will make it pos-
sible for us to operate our own lantern another
year. Outside organizations make frequent use
of our rooms. Suppers given by the Garage
Men's Association, tableaux arranged for the
Red Cross by the Sons of Italy, meetings of the
Main Line Idle Hour Croquet Club or the
Colored Debating Society are equally welcome.
This last named organization chose as the sub-
ject of a debate: "Resolved: that it is largely
the fault of men that women are so little
respected."
The summer playground is a special feature of
the work of the Center. One hundred children
on an average come every day for regular play-
ground activities, under the direction of a trained
leader. This is a branch of the work especially
appreciated by the parents, who are glad to get
children away from the hot and dusty Pike dur-
ing the long summer days. Inside the building,
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in summer, our rooms are given up to canning.
Over 8000 jars of fruit were preserved last year,
besides a large quantity of dried vegetables.
In cooperation with other Bryn Mawr or-
ganizations, the Center has taken an active part
in Community Christmas Trees, Clean-up Cam-
paigns, Baby Weeks, Child Labor Exhibits, and
other community movements. It is our hope
to develop next year a campaign for a school
nurse, and some plan of probation work for our
unruly boys. During these two years of war,
we have tried to help in every form of patriotic
work. Recently twelve girls' clubs along the
Main Line have formed a federation, on the
Patriotic League basis, with their headquarters
at the Center. Two clubs at a time arranged a
series of competitive suppers, served for one
hundred people, as demonstrations of food con-
servation. Several patriotic mass meetings for
girls have been held; at one of these Mrs. Wil-
liam Roy Smith and Dean Helen Taft were the
speakers. A special effort to start some much
needed vocational work among the girls re-
sulted in two evenings of conferences on ste-
nography, farming, salesmanship, telephone
operating and other occupations open to women.
At present this Patriotic League is canvassing
and registering girls as summer volunteers for
work with the Canning Committee, the Red
Cross and the Community Center. Two First
Aid classes have been arranged by the Center,
and it has taken part in campaigns for thrift
stamps, in patriotic song festivals and other
forms of community work.
It is with the heartiest appreciation that the
Community Center Committee thinks of the
help given us during these past two years by the
College. More than eighty students have taken
an active part this year in the work of the Cen-
ter, sixty of them giving two hours a week regu-
larly, and others doing occasional work, such as
poster making or helping with entertainments.
Although at first this help could not always be
counted on, during this past winter the students
have been very regular. Each volunteer is
asked to register at the Center for work, and is
placed according to her ability or previous ex-
perience. She is notified that she will be dropped
if her work is not regular. Students have been
acting as assistants in clubs of classes for chil-
dren— cooking, basketry, gymnastics, folk-
dancing, etc. — as dramatic coaches, library
helpers, playground workers, night school
teachers, piano players, publicity workers, cleri-
cal assistants, Girl Scout leaders, and in many
other capacities. Three of the graduate stu-
dents from the Carola Woerishoffer Department
have been doing their field work at the Center,
and have rendered valuable assistance. This
year in addition to their practical work, each
student worker has been asked to come to a fort-
nightly conference, and to do a small amount of
recommended reading following the line of her
practical work. These conferences, led often
by outside social workers, have been well
attended.
An attempt is to be made this coming winter
to standardize the practical work of the students
so that there may be regular advancement from
less skilled work, such as clerical helpers, or
class assistants, to the more skilled service of
club leaders, club organizers, and assistant super-
visors. Any break in the work of the students,
such as Christmas vacation or a long period of
quarantine, shows us in how many ways we use
their help. Indeed, it is not too much to say
that during these two years of experiment, the
work of the Center could not have been de-
veloped without it.
Many of the College staff and faculty have also
given us valuable help. Miss Reed, the Col-
lege librarian, has been Chairman of our library
committee until this spring, when it was taken
over by Mrs. David W. Horn. Members of the
faculty have given lectures and concerts at the
Center, and have served on various committees.
The Christian Association has during our two
years of work given $500 to the Center, besides its
active help through the Social Service Commit-
tee. The interest and support of the boarding
schools in Bryn Mawr has also been most en-
couraging. The Baldwin School has placed its
tennis courts and athletic fields at our disposal
for the past three summers, and teachers from
this and other schools have given of their scanty
leisure for night school teaching, lectures, or
committee work. This general interest in the
Center shown by the many different groups in
the community has made possible rapid devel-
opments. Even in war time, a request for
volunteer help has rarely been refused.
These many volunteers., however, demand
constant direction and supervision, and it is not
possible to give them this at present with our
inadequate number of regular workers. Next
year we hope for salaries for three more trained
workers— «f or the supervision of children's
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classes, for adulc activities, and for our constant
publicity work. With our increased running
expenses at the Milestone, our present budget is
far too small. The Community Center needs
the support of the Alumnae, as well as of the
present college community. Come and see the
Center in operation when you are back to Bryn
Mawr, and in the meantime, send us a contri-
bution, however, small, to meet our many needs.
We should be glad to know that many more
Alumnae were having a share in our work,
which is bringing the college in close touch with
the community of which it is a part.
NEW BUREAU AT CLEVELAND
Cleveland is making an effort to aid in meet-
ing the demand for Trained Women in all fields
of work, by the establishment of a Bureau of
Occupations for Trained Women, in the State-
City Labor Exchange. The Bureau is in a posi-
tion to give advice and assistance to college
graduates who are interested in finding positions
in or near Cleveland in business, social work,
library work, home economics and many special
branches of opportunity. No charge is made to
either applicant or employer.
Further information may be secured from the
Secretary, Miss Lucy M. Park, Room 108, City
Hall, Cleveland, Ohio.
COURSES IN INDUSTRIAL SUPERVISION OFFERED BY THE
CAROLA WOERISHOFFER DEPARTMENT
The National War Council of the Y. W. C. A.,
realizing that there are few women with sufficient
training available for positions as industrial
supervisors of women in industry, has offered to
Bryn Mawr College a sum of money to meet the
expenses of a training course to prepare women
under the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate De-
partment. The object of the course is to pre-
pare women who are college graduates for in-
dustrial positions through which they may aid
in the solution of the present industrial problems
affecting women. These problems have arisen
as a result of the increasing number of women,
both single and married, being employed either
because of the expansion of industry or because
of the drafting of men for the army. The posi-
tions for which such courses prepare them are
employment managers, industrial superin-
tendents of women's work, welfare superin-
tendants, industrial secretaries, and leaders,
investigators of industrial problems affecting
women and factory inspectors.
The plan provides for three groups of courses,
one beginning June 17, 1918, one beginning
October 1, 1918, and one February 1, 1919.
These courses will last for eight months. The
work in the summer will be for one month at
Bryn Mawr and for three months in New Eng-
land factories under the supervision of Miss
Anne Bezanson, who is to have charge of the
work in labor courses at Bryn Mawr next year.
The fall work will be the regular courses offered
under the Department and coooperating de-
partments of the college together with additional
courses in industrial hygiene and employment
management. The field work will be conducted
in the industrial establishments in and about
Philadelphia and the training in factory inspec-
tion will be carried on in cooperation with the
State Department of Labor and Industry.
Scholarships to the value of $300 are being
offered by the War Council of the Y. W. C. A.
The minimum expense will be about $400.
There is a very large demand for women to fill
the positions for which these courses will prepare
them.
The purpose of the course has the hearty en-
dorsement of Mr. Felix Frankfurter, chairman
of the United States Labor Policies Board and
effective cooperation is assured. The course is
planned with the endorsement of the office of the
Secretary of War and the general scheme is fully
approved by Dr. E. M. Hopkins, in charge of
Industrial Relations of the Quartermaster's
Department. The Commissioner of Labor and
the Department of Labor and Industry of
Pennsylvania earnestly second this endeavor to
meet the present industrial needs and will accord
the fullest cooperation and assistance in carry-
ing out the proposed training.
On the seventeenth of June the first group of
students began work at Bryn Mawr, living at
Lysyfran and taking their meals at Low Build-
ings. There are twelve students in all, among
whom are graduates of Smith, Radcliffe, Welles-
ley, Cornell, Mills, and other colleges and uni-
versities of the West and South. Some of these
have done graduate work at Bryn Mawr, Rad-
cliffe, Cornell, and the University of Pennsyl-
vania. The students are large y recruited from
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the ranks of teachers; all have been out of col-
lege two years or more. Three are graduates of
the class of 1917, two of 1916; the others are
graduates of from four to ten years standing.
One student has been in the School of Archi-
tecture at Columbia, and expects to use her
industrial training in the field of industrial hous-
ing. Two students have had secretarial ex-
perience.
During this month the field work of the stu-
dents has been in the nature of observation
visits to industrial establishments. Interesting
trips have been made to the Eddystone Muni-
tions Plant, the Miller Lock Company, the
Fayette R. Plumb Company, the General Elec-
tric Co., and others. On the thirteenth of July
the students leave for New England to spend all
their time in industrial establishments to which
we have been introduced by the office of the
Secretary of War.
The interest in the course is widespread, and
the attitude of people generally, as judged by the
number of inquiries and applications up to the
present time, is indicative of the need for such
training in the present emergency.
NEWS FROM THE CLUBS
NEW YORK
President, Mrs. Shepard Morgan; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.; secretary, Miss
Fannie Baker; treasurer, Mrs. Rutger Miller.
The annual dinner of the club was given in
honor of President Thomas who spoke on the
work of the college and of the alumnae in the
war. The other speakers were alumnae who are
especially identified with war work, Dr. Ida
Ogilvie for the land army, Miss Marion Reilly
for the service corps, Mrs. F. Louis Slade for war
savings stamps and Mrs. John F. Russell, Jr.,
for the Liberty Loan. Capt. Baldenpefer, now
exchange professor at Columbia, also spoke.
The club has established a new class of mem-
bership called associates with ones of two dollars
a year and partial privileges of the house.
During the spring and until July 1 the house
and restaurant have been unusually full. The
restaurant is closed during July and August, but
members may take rooms and have breakfast
served. The Cosmopolitan Club has very
kindly offered during these two months to the
Bryn Mawr Club.
In the spring the house committee installed
electric lights and the year has been so profitable
as to permit making improvements for the com-
fort of the house in cold weather and redecor-
ating the main floor and hallways.
PITTSBURGH
At the annual meeting of the Pittsburgh club
in May the following officers were elected: presi-
dent, Miss Helen Schmidt; vice-president, Miss
Sarah T. Ellis; treasurer, Mrs. Frederick B.
Chalpart; secretary, Miss Henrietta Magoffin.
The club has again awarded for the second
time a scholarship of $200 for the student in
Allegheny County having the highest average
in entrance examinations.
The club has adopted a French orphan, holds
Liberty Bonds, and has one star on its service
flag, as Miss Rena BLxler is now in France doing
volunteer war relief work. The club still cares
for a ward of the juvenile court, Pittsburgh.
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
1890
Marian T. Macintosh spoke in Chapel one
morning this spring on the opportunity for col-
lege women to organize women in their com-
munities for farm work this summer.
1892
Edith Wetherne Ives lost her youngest child,
Margaret Newbold Ives, who was born June
25, 1909, on March 16.
1893
Lida Adams (Mrs. Frank N. Lewis) returned
to America in May on the Shinyo Maru. Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis have spent the last eighteen
months in Japan.
1894
Edith Hamilton of the Bryn Mawr School
spoke on teaching at the vocational conference
held at Bryn Mawr on April 13.
Man- 5reed of the Carnegie Institution of
Technology also spoke at this conference.
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Ethel Walker is directing a tutoring school for
girls at Simsbury, Conn. The session is from
July 22 to September 21. The school is under
the same management as the Roxbury Tutoring
School for Boys and will have many of the same
teachers.
Abby Brayton Durfee is chairman of the de-
partment of education, Woman's Committee of
the Council of National Defense, executive com-
mittee of the War Savings Stamps and active in
Red Cross work.
Emma Bailey Speer as president of the
National Y. W. C. A. is chairman ex-officio of
the War Work Council of the Y. W. C. A.
Louise Tring Weill is Pennsylvania chairman
of the Woman's National League for the Con-
servation of Platinum.
Elizabeth M. Clark is in Switzerland in charge
of the work among the foreign women students.
1895
Susan Fowler, of the Brearley School, spoke
on teaching at a vocational conference held at
Bryn Mawr on April 13.
Elizabeth Bent (Mrs. Herbert Clark) has
accepted an honorary secretaryship in the Speak-
ing Division of the Education Department of
the Pennsylvania Women's Committee, of which
President Thomas is chairman. She will be in
her office during the summer months routing
and trying-out patriotic speakers.
Mary Ellis is about to start for France where
she will do six months' work in the Red Cross
Canteen Service.
Frances Swift Tatnall, ex-'95, has a son,
Joseph, in the army.
1897
Bertha Rembaugh spoke on law at a voca-
tional conference held at Bryn Mawr April 13.
1899
Mr and Mrs. Edward H. Waring (Laura
Peckham Waring) have within the last year
adopted two baby boys, Harold Lomas Waring
and Peter Waring now aged respectively, two
years and three months, and seven months.
Margaret Stirling ex-99 (Mrs. J. Pembroke
Thorn) has a daughter, Margaret Pembroke
Thorn, born March 30.
Mary Emma Guffey (Mrs. Carroll Miller) is
moving from Aurora, Illinois, to Pittsburgh,
for her husband has been made general manager
of the Philadelphia Gas Company of Pittsburgh.
An Aurora newspaper commenting on Mr. and
Mrs. Miller's departure from the city says that
they have both identified themselves with the
city's affairs in an enthusiastic manner. "Mrs.
Miller has been a strong worker in the Navy Aid
Association, Parent-Teacher clubs, Daughters
of the American Revolution, Country Club, etc."
1900
Maud Lowrey Jenks is in France, doing Y. M.
C. A. work somewhere near Toul.
Kate Williams has been instrumental in
starting the Civilian Relief Division of the Red
Cross in Salt Lake City.
Cornelia Halsey (Mrs. Frederic Rogers Kel-
logg) has a daughter born January 16.
Johanna Kroeber, (Mrs. Herman O. Mosen-
thal) has a son, Edward Kroeber Mosenthal,
born May 7.
Alletta Van Reypen (Baroness Serge Alexan-
der Korff) is now at 1021 Fifteenth Street, N.
W., Washington, D. C. She came to this coun-
try in the same ship with Susanne Allinson
(Mrs. Henry Emery).
Margaret Field ex-'03 (Mrs. Lawrence Wash-
burn De Motte) was married on June 20 to
Charles Neville Buck in New York City.
Mary Ingham, head of the women's depart-
ment of Bonbright and Company, investment
bankers in Philadelphia spoke on the field of
business as opened to women at a vocational
conference held at Bryn Mawr on April 13.
Col. R. C. Boiling, husband of Anna Philips,
ex-'03, was named among the missing in the
casualty list of April 15. Before the war, Colo-
nel Boiling was assistant general counsel of the
United States Steel Corporation. About a year
ago he was ordered to France as the representa-
tive there of the aircraft production board.
General Pershing later assigned him to other
duties, however, and these must have taken him
to the front. It was thought most probable at
the War Department that Colonel Boiling was
either shot down or forced to descend in enemy
territory while engaged in a flight.
1904
Alice M. Boring Ph.D., is studying at Woods
Hole this summer. She will not return to the
University of Maine but goes to the Union Medi-
cal College, Peking, China, for two years.
Dr. Mary James sailed for China on June 16.
She is returning to continue her work in the
hospital at Wuchang.
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Helen Howell Moorhead is busy doing war
work in New York. Her husband, Dr. John
Moorhear is serving on the staff of one of the
hospitals in France.
Clara Woodruff Hull is visiting her sister in
Germantown. Her husband has gone to
France with his regiment.
Martha Rockwell Moorhouse has a second
daughter, Anne Moorhouse born May 7, in
Philadelphia.
Anne Buzby Palmer has been elected vice-
president of the Saturday Club of Wayne. She
is serving on the committee of the Wayne
Chapter of the Red Cross.
Katherine Scott who is Principal of St. Hilda's
School, Wuchang, China, is recovering from a
very severe illness.
Margaret Scott and Edna Shearer are working
on the Bryn Mawr farm during the month of
July.
Eloise Tremain has been elected principal of
the Ferry Hall School at Lake Forest, Illinois.
Esther Marion Sinn (Mrs. Rudolph C. Neu-
endorf!) has a son, Joseph Alfred Neuendorff,
born February 28.
Clara Case (Mrs. A. C. Edwards) has a son,
Arthur Middleton, born in Hamadan, Persia,
late in February.
1905
Amelia Montgomery Carter and her husband,
Captain Carter of the Ordnance Department,
have come East from California to Crawford;'
New Jersey.
Catherine Hill won her M.A. in social economy
in June and sailed for France in July where she
is doing canteen work. Her address is 12 Rue
d'Agnesseau, Paris, France.
Helen Kempton has been accepted by the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps for Red Cross work
overseas.
Emma Knight is assistant head of Norfolk
House in Roxbury, Mass.
Isabel Ashwell's husband, Lieutenant E. H.
Raymond, is with the New York Presbyterian
Hospital Unit in Etretat, France.
Carrie Morrow Collins has a daughter born in
February.
Frances Hubbard Flaherty and her family are
spending the summer in Reading, Conn.
Gertrude Hartman is working at the Bureau
of Educational Experiments in New York City.
Leslie Farwell Hill has moved to Bethlehem,
Pa., where her husband has been made treasurer
of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
Elma Louies has been writing a series of three
articles for Country Life on estate management
for women in war time; also a report for the
Women's National Farm and Garden Associa-
tion on placing women on the land.
Alice Henkle has been organizing a branch of
the National Women's Party in Kansas City.
Elsie Jones attended the Social Workers' Con-
ference in Kansas City in May.
Margaret Bates was married in Shanghai,
China, on June 25 to Willard Merritt Porter-
field, Jr., who is the head of the department of
biology in St. John's University, Shanghai and
a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps,
the military organization in Shanghai repre-
senting the Allies and corresponding to the
United States National Guard.
Theodora Bates worked at the college farm
this summer.
1906
Alice Ropes Kellogg has another daughter,
Ruth Marion, born in Shaown, China, March 14.
1907
Elsie Norton was married recently.
1908
Louise Congdon Balmer (Mrs. J. P. Balmer)
spent the winter with her husband in California.
Anna Carrere returned to New York in May
after a year spent in Paris as assistant to Mrs.
Lathrop in the A. F. F. W.
Margaret Copeland Blatchford (Mrs. N. H.
Blatchford, Jr.) spent a fe7.r days in Madison,
Wisconsin, recently to see her brothei who was
on march from Camp Grant to Sparta with the
331st Field Artillery.
Helen Dudley has been a hospital supply
worker in London since 1915.
Anna Dunham Reilly (Mrs. John R. Reilly)
has a third child, a daughter born in the spring.
Adda Eldridge is an attorney in the employ of
West & Eckhart, Chicago.
Myra Elliot Vauclain (Mrs. Jacques Vauclain)
has been working for the Bryn Mawr Farm
Fund. She and her family are summering at
Atlantic City.
Helen Greeley Russell (Mrs. E. A. Russell,
Jr.) has been in Texas all winter in order to be
near her husband who is in the Army.
Theresji Helburn spent the sping in California.
Louise Hyman Pollak (Mrs. Julian Pollak)
underwent an operation in June.
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Margaret Lewis MacVeagh (Mrs. Lincoln
MacVeagh) spent the winter in Richmond to be
near her husband, Lieutenant MacVeagh, who
was stationed at Camp Lee.
Virginia McKenney was recently married to
Lieut. Robert Claiborne of the U. S. Marines.
Louise Milligan Herron (Mrs. C. D. Herron)
is in Richmond with her husband, Colonel
Herron, who is stationed at Camp Lee.
Dorothy Mort has been teaching History at
Rosemary Hall during the past winter.
Josephine Proudfit Montgomery (Mrs. Dud-
ley Montgomery) has been visiting in Rockford,
Illinois, to be near her husband, Captain Mont-
gomery, who is stationed at Camp Grant.
Eleanor Rambo is preparing to publish her
thesis for her Ph.D.
Caroline Schock Jones (Mrs. Chester Lloyd
Jones) spent the winter with her mother as her
husband was in South America doing special
work.
Ethel Vick Wallace is living with her mother
as her husband, Lieutenant-Commander Wal-
lace, is in the Navy.
Margaret Wasburn Hunt (Mrs. H. O. Hunt)
is spending the summer with her children at
South Hampton to be near her husband who is
in the Navy.
Margaret Vilas is doing work in Chicago for
the Naval Auxiliary of the American Red Cross.
Marjorie Young was at Bryn Mawr for Com-
mencement.
ARMY HUSBANDS
Virginia McKenney Claiborne, was married
in May to Robert Watson Claiborne, first
lieutenant United States Marine Corps.
Louise Milligan Herron, husband captain in
Regular Army.
Molly King Kingsley Best, husband Dr. Best
in United States Army, stationed at Camp
Gordon.
Helen North Hunter, husband Captain Medi-
cal Reserve Corps, stationed at Mineola.
Henrietta Bryant Baldwin, husband captain
in the National Guard of Georgia. Saw service
at the Mexican border and is now stationed at
Camp Wheeler.
Josephine Proudfit Montgomery, husband
captain in Military service since July, 1917.
Margaret Lewis MacVeagh, husband, captain
of Infantry in France.
Sarah Sanborn Weaver, husband, squadron
adjutant, First Brigade Texas Cavalry.
Rose Marsh Payton, husband, a Y. M. C. A.
secretary in France.
Anna Dunham Reilly, husband First Lieu-
tenant in the Ordnance Department, stationed
at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
1908
Jacqueline Morris Evans has a baby, Beth,
six months old.
Agnes Goldman has sailed for Palestine as
bacteriologist with the Palestine Commission
of the American Red Cross.
Alice Sachs Plaut has a son Nathan, five
months old.
Anna Carr&re has returned from France where
she had charge of receiving station of the Ameri-
can Fund for French Wounded.
Helen Cadbury Bush has a little girl, Anne
Head, five weeks old.
Anne Walton is the Executive Secretary for
the Office Workers Union which is now beine
organised in Philadelphia.
Margaret Maynard is doing clerical work with
the McArthur Concrete Pile and Foundation
Company.
Anne Jackson Bird has a daughter, Mary
Louise, born May 16.
Anna King is the Executive Secretary of the
Home Service Section of the Boston Metropoli-
tan chapter of the American Red Cross.
We regret to record that Myra Elliot Vau-
clain recently lost a baby son, Jacques.
Rachel Moore Warren has a new baby born
recently.
Ruth Hamitt Kaufman, ex- '08. The Times-
Advertiser of Trenton, New Jersey, in March
printed an account of her work. It said that for
several months past she has been acting as in-
terpreter for American officers, engaging houses
and servants for them, etc. She wears the uni-
form of the United States army and has been
offered a position as official interpreter. She
has been writing for several periodicals and
articles by her have appeared in the Red Cross
Magazine. After war was declared she went
abroad in 1914 as a writer for the Vigilantes, an
organization of writers, composers and artists
in this country. She has interviewed many
notables, including the King and Queen of Bel-
gium, she has lived with women munition
workers and had many other interesting
experiences.
Melanie Atherton Updergraff writes the fol-
lowing letter describing her widows' and or-
phans' home in Kolhapur.
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"Kolhapur.
"It isn't a place you'd particularly enjoy
seeing — this Widows' and Orphans' Home. In
fact, I should hesitate to have you inspect us
until you had been in India a long time, and had
become somewhat accustomed to the untidy
ways of the country. Respectability anywhere
is costly and here where water is scarce and far
away, cleanliness too, is very hard to maintain.
We are chiefly concerned in collecting pennies
enough to feed and sparsely clothe our women
and babies and thankful enough when that is
accomplished.
"But enough for the weak points of our estab-
lishment. We are very important, and one of
the most convenient institutions in the Mission.
Every missionary, many times in a year is con-
fronted with such perplexities as these — a widow
with little children and no support; a Hindu
wife fleeing from a brutal husband ; babies whose
parents have died, or maltreated and deserted
them — and so forth and so forth ad infinitum.
The Alice Home is the solution of many of the
perplexing situations, and we have women and
babies of all ages, castes and characters.
"Just now we have about twenty women and
thirty children. We allot the children to the
women, so far as we can, with a view to their
capacity as foster mothers, and put each little
family into a mud room about eight by eight.
Here the "mother" cooks and cares for the
children. Some of the women do "second
girl's" work for some of our more prosperous
Indian families living outside; some do washing
and cooking for our large Christian Boys' and
Girls' Schools. Needless to say, we arrange for
the women to help in their own support just as
much as we can.
"As you may imagine, we have many ups and
downs, and it is hard to have any smooth work-
ing systems in such a motley and ever-changing
throng; but Mrs. Goheen, who was my prede-
cessor here, really taught the women a very
practical understanding of Christianity, and as
a whole the women are neither quarrelsome nor
complaining. For many of them I have a great
admiration. Caring for some of the children
that come to our Home would seem to me almost
beyond the power of my human strength and
character. You've no idea how diseased and
terrible a little child can be until you have lived
in some such God-forsaken country as India.
Some of our women are wonderful in their gentle-
ness and care for these poor little waifs. One
old woman has cared for sixty orphan children
during her twenty years in the Home. A few
of them have died, but most of them are now
promising pupils in our school, or married, in
Christian homes of their own. Bhagubai is
thin, old, and toothless, but still she has a family
of four little children, two of whom cannot walk.
One day I suggested that I give one or two to
some one else at night, but she said, "No,
Memsaheb, the younger women don't look after
them well at night." It was true, so I did not
insist.
"Many of the women grow to love their little
charges as their own. One high-caste woman
came to us from our big hospital at Miraj; her
baby had died, her husband deserted her, she
was hopeless and desperately unhappy. Then
a little orphan baby was given her, she nursed it,
loved it, and now is a happier and more devoted
mother than many a real one I have seen. One
woman told me the other day, beaming with
pride and joy, that when her little adopted boy,
eleven months old, had been given to some one
else temporarily, he would wiggle back on his
little tummy the entire length of the court to her
room, and that he would take his food from no
one but her. Little incidents such as these make
one feel that it is worth while in spite of all the
dirtiness and trouble.
"During the last five months we have taken in
four new babies which are a great care and ex-
pense, as well as pleasure, milk being high these
days. Now I am beginning to wonder why we
were so rash as we are facing a very lean year,
and these babies take so much time and care that
fewer of our women are free to work, which cur-
tails our income. Perhaps it was foolish to take
these babies when we haven't the funds for their
support, and I expect you think it was very
foolish. But I will tell you the circumstances
fully, as the real object of this letter is the sup-
port of these children.
"The first little girl aged three months, was
brought by a poor helpless looking father, whose
wife had just died, who had no relatives to help
him, and who had two other little girls to take
care of. Three girls ! That in itself was tragedy
enough for him. He was so helpless that we felt
that the outlook for the baby was so dark that
we took it.
"Then two little babies came from the hospital
at Miraj — deserted or not wanted, illegitimate
perhaps. But they were such sweet babies and
there was nothing else to do with them, so we
took them.
"The last one, a cunning little boy about three
months old, was brought here by two white-
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haired old shepherd women from a mountain
village two days' journey off. They walked
those long, weary miles, staffs in hand, carrying
the baby in a basket on their heads (in turn, I
suppose) because someone had told them that
we would care for the child. It had no relative
save one of the old women and she had to work
all day long in the fields. As the Indians say
on all occasions, "Ky kurru" (What to do?)
We took him.
"If some kind friends in America would under-
take the support of these babies, I would be
so happy. The support of a child is $25.00 a year.
I want support for about six.
"One other great need of our Home is water.
All the water for the twenty women and thirty
children has to be carried by the women in
copper or earthen vessels from a distant well.
With all their other work, there is never time to
bring enough water, and as a result proper bath-
ing is out of the question, which means skin
diseases of distressing nature for the children.
These are very hard, sometimes almost impos-
sible, to eradicate.
"Sometime ago while visiting another mis-
sion, I saw a large number of their young charges
bathing in a small tank. On not one of them did
I see a sign of the disease, and I realized more
clearly than ever before that running water in
our Orphanage was the only real cure. The
sum of $400 would enable us to make the neces-
sary alterations at our well, install an engine and
pipes, and give this great boon to the poor folk
who so need the healing waters.
"The waste water could be used for a little
garden plot which would enable the women to
raise some vegetables of their own. In fact this
water would simply revolutionize our estab-
lishment.
Melanie Atherton Updergraff.
1909
Mary Holliday has been in France since
Christmas doing canteen work under the Y. M.
C. A.
Pleasaunce Baker has announced her engage-
ment to Arthur Parsons, Harvard 1910. She is
taking an eight months' training course in psy-
chiatric social work at the Psychopathic Hos-
pital, Boston. Mr. Parsons expects to go to
France this summer to work for the Red Cross
Civilian Relief.
Judith Boyer Springer is in Pottsville with her
little girl, Caroline Gertrude, staying with her
parents while her husband is in service with the
Y. M. C. A. in France. He was stationed in the
same encampment in which Cynthia Wesson ran
her canteen with such success during the winter.
Recently Mr. Springer has been sent to Savoie
and has been helping to establish rest camps
for American soldiers at Aix, Chambery and
Challes-les-Caux.
Dorothy North is now at Troyes doing capable
work in reconstruction.
Helen Crane has been living at home in Ti-
monium, Maryland, since January keeping
house for her family and trying many Hoover-
izing experiments.
Julia Doe has announced her engagement to
Lucius Rogers Shero, professor of Latin at
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr.
Shero is a graduate of Haverford College and was
Rhodes Scholar from Wisconsin University.
The date for the wedding is not determined
upon. Julia is teaching Latin at Milwaukee
Downer Seminary. She has six classes every
day and in addition is the head of the school
Red Cross chapter which consists of 1 1 5 members.
Emily Maurice Dall has a daughter, Priscilla
Marshall, born in January. Major Dall is
attached to the Second Battalion of the 305th
Infantry, and has been stationed at Camp
Upton, Yap Hank, Long Island.
Anna Piatt is in her third year of medical
school at Johns Hopkins. Anna is the first
member of the class to be touched closely by the
tragedy of the war. Her brother, William, was
killed while serving in the ambulance corps in
Italy. He was helping to remove the wounded
from a Red Cross hospital which the Germans
were shelling when he was killed.
1910
Susanne Allinson (Mrs. Henry C. Emery)
reached the United States in the spring after
thrilling experiences in Finland. Mr. and Mrs.
Emery went from Russia to Helsingfors and
there tried to escape to the islands on sledges
and were pursued and overtaken by the Ger-
mans, on neutral territory, the Aland Islands.
Susanne was allowed to go to Stockholm but
Mr. Emery was sent to a detention camp in
Germany. Mr. Emery was in Russia as a
representative of the Guaranty Trust Company.
Mabel Ashley has been helping in a canteen
in New York this winter.
Ruth Babcock Deems is living in Ross, Cali-
fornia, where her husband is taking the place of
a clergyman who is in France, and also working
with the seamen in San Francisco. Mrs. Deems
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has a second daughter born this spring, known
as "Betsy Ross."
Ruth Cabot has been taking a course at the
Noyes School in Boston, and is continuing her
work in educational and community dramatics
at various settlements.
Elsie Deems Neilson is living on a fruit ranch
in Paonia, Colorado.
Constance Deming Lewis has been doing
volunteer work in Augusta, Georgia, in connec-
tion with the Red Cross, a Children's Hospital
and the Social Service Department of a woman's
club.
Elsa Denison Voorhees has moved to Wash-
ington, where her husband is stationed for the
Signal Corps. Madeleine Edison Sloane has
also moved to this city and has a second son,
born April 28.
Miriam Hedges Smith is now in India. Her
husband, a lieutenant in the British Army, will
probably fight in Mesopotamia, and if she can-
not be with him, she will take hospital training
in Madras.
Janet Howell Clark is doing research at Johns
Hopkins. Dr. Clark has a commission in the
medical reserve. They have a daughter born
May 15.
Agnes Irwin has been doing secretarial work
in the School of Neurological Surgery, at the
University Hospital, Philadelphia.
Kate Rotan Drinker has a daughter, Anne
Sandwith Drinker.
Mary Boyd Shipley is teaching at Ginling
College, Nanking, China, the only woman's
college in Central China. There are twenty
this year in the Freshman class.
Frances Stuart Rhodes is living with her
parents while Dr. Rhodes is abroad, on the staff
of a base hospital in France.
Alice Whittemore has been teaching this year
in a private day school in Buffalo, New York.
Frances Hearne '10 (Mrs. R.obert Bowen
Brown) has a son, Robert Bowen, Jr., born
March 29.
1911
Constance Wilbur was married to Sergeant
J. Frank McKeehan on May 4. The wedding
was a quiet, home ceremony. Emily Caskey,
1911, Ellen Pottberg, 1911, Mildred Durand
Gordey, 1909, and Florence Wilbur Wuckoff,
1910, were the Bryn Mawr contingent.
M. W. Taylor spoke at a vocational confer-
ence at Bryn Mawr in April on openings for
women in banks, ranging from preliminary
routine work paying $1 5 a week to such positions
as head of the library or record department.
Agnes Murray has been appointed assistant
civilian relief worker for the mountain district
of the Red Cross. Her headquarters will be in
Denver, where she will live with Gordon Hamil-
ton, '13.
1912
Helen Barber was married to Paul Matteson,
of Providence, Rhode Island, on July 15 at
Rochester, New York.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Frank H. Ristine
(Katherine Longwell) are living in Louisville,
Kentucky.
Clara Francis Dickson has a daughter, Doro-
thy Francis, born May 18.
Gladys Jones Markle has a son born June 12.
Gladys Spry has been living at the College
Inn at Bryn Mawr for the last three months as
manager of the college farm.
Agnes Morrow has arrived in France where she
is working up the Y. M. C. A. canteen as a mem-
ber of the Bryn Mawr Service Corps.
Frances Hunter was married to Adolph Eiwyn
on June 20 in Newburgh, New York. Mr. and
Mrs. Elwyn will live at 434 West 120 Street,
New York City.
Lorle Stecher, psychologist at the Children's
Hospital, Randall's Island, New York City,
spoke at a vocation conference at Bryn Mawr in
April on positions in schools and children's
courts involving testing for feeble-mindedness.
1913
Mary Sheldon was married on April 17 to
Alfred MacArthur of Oak Park, Illinois.
Mary Tongue has announced her engagement
to Lieut. Ferdinand Everstadt. Mary has been
doing canteen work in France.
Adelaide Simpson is dean of women at Hills-
dale College, Michigan.
Madeline Fauvre (Mrs. Thomas Wiles) is
secretary of the speaking division of the educa-
tional department of the Woman's Committee
of the Council of National Defense of Pennsyl-
vania.
Alice Ames was married early this year to Dr.
Brown Crothers who is serving in the United
States Army.
Dorothea Baldwin is working under the Red
Cross in Fiance.
Emma Bell has been sworn into government
sendee as a stenographer to the superintendent
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of construction of the Payne aviation field,
West Point, Mississippi.
Margaret Blain is a confidential junior
examiner and assistant in the Bureau of Intel-
ligence of the War Trade Board in Washington.
Dorothy Blake is working in the Home Serv-
ice Department of the Red Cross in Boston.
Marian Irwin is continuing her scientific
research at Harvard for a Ph.D.
Katharine Schmidt who recently married Mr.
S. P. Eisenhard, has been general secretary for
her county Red Cross.
Katherine Williams was married in June to
Lieut. Waldo Hodgdon.
Gertrude Ziesing's husband, Henry Lane
Stout is a lieutenant in the Naval Aviation Corps
and has been stationed in Detroit to work on the
Liberty Motor.
Katherine Page Loring has a daughter, born
in September. Her husband, Charles Z. Loring
is a lieutenant in the Aviation Section of the
Signal Corps in France.
1914
Marjorie Southard was married to Norman
Charlock, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, on June
1, 1918.
A son was born to Lieutenant and Mrs. Gil-
bert Scribner 3rd (Nancy van Dyke), on June
1, 1918. He has been named Gilbert Scribner,
4th.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Cros-
by (Helen Shaw) on June 10, 1918. He has been
named William Shaw Crosby.
Elizabeth Ayer has completed her six months
driving a truck between hospitals in France and
is now going to work in a hospital for American
soldiers.
Alice Miller Chester is working for the Y. M.
C. A. in France.
Mabel Gardner is abroad.
Katherine Huntington and Ruth Wallerstein
have government positions in Washington.
Leah Cadbury returned to Paris in April from
Italy where she had been working for refugees
and left immediately for a canteen at Bar-le-
Duc.
Marion Camp (Mrs. Roger Newberry) has a
daughter, Mary Wolcott, born June 12.
Carolyn Bulley, ex-'14, spoke at a vocation
conference given at Bryn Mawr in April on
newspaper work.
Lucile Thompson has a daughter.
Clara Bond is a field worker in the Psychiatric
Clinic at Sing Sing Prison.
1915
Margaret Bradway has been accepted by the
Bryn Mawr Service Corps.
Laura Branson will teach mathematics at
Miss Shipley's School next winter.
Catherine Bryant is secretary of the Main
Line Citizen's Association, the office of which is
in Bryn Mawr.
Mary Chamberlain Moore received her Ph.D.
degree from Rutgers University in May. She is
the first woman to receive such a degree from
Rutgers.
Helen Irwin is president of the Bryn Mawr
Club of Baltimore.
Amy McMaster received the degree of M.A.
at Bryn Mawr in June. She was also awarded
the College Settlement Scholarship for next
year.
Susan Nichols is in France as an infirmiere at
an American Red Cross Base Hospital at
Cannes.
Dagmar Perkins has an article "The Psy-
chology of Preaching" in The Presbyterian for
April 25, 1918. She was in charge of the Bryn
Mawr Entertainment at Camp Upton for the
soldiers in one of the Y. M. C. A. huts during
the winter and will take charge of them again
next fall.
Gladys Pray has announced her engagement
to Mr. Samuel K. Trimmer, pianist, of Hacketts-
town, New Jersey. Mr. Trimmer is attached
to the U. S. Medical Corps at Allentown, Penn-
sylvania, and is also playing in concerts for the
Red Cross. Gladys Pray is a member of the
Ambulance Corps of the New Jersey State
Militia.
Isabel Smith was awarded the President's
European Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, for the
year 1918-19.
Helen Taft has an article entitled "The Six
Weeks I Spent on a Farm" in the June number of
the Ladies Home Journal.
Waldron Deaves MacLeod has a son, William
MacKenzie MacLeod, born May 12, 1918.
Marjory Meeker was married to Addison B.
Gatling, U. S. N. R., on June 4 at Saint Michael's
Church, New York City.
Enid Dessau is secretary to Mrs. Lathrop,
president of the American Fund of the French
Wounded in Paris. She is in the place of Cathe-
rine Elwood who has been ill.
Isabel Smith has been elected treasurer of the
Graduate Club at Bryn Mawr for the coming
year.
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Elizabeth Channing, ex-'15, is in Washing-
ton with her small son and her husband, Willard
Fuller, who has a commission in the aviation
corps. Her address is 3102 P Street, N. W.
Anna Brown and Marjorie Tyson, ex-'15,
studied at the Pierce Business School in Phila-
delphia this spring.
Margaret Free is assistant to the committee
of classification of the Army. She is working in
Washington.
Ruth Hopkinson is in the employment de-
partment of a large department store, the
Joseph and Feiss Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
Anna Roberts is teaching at Guilford College,
a co-educational college under the auspices of
the Progressive Branch of Friends in North
Carolina in North Carolina.
Elizabeth Smith is working in Cincinnati
for the Associated Charities and the Red Cross
Department of Home Service.
Carlotta Taber has been in Florida all winter.
She then studied agriculture in Worcester and
farmed this summer.
1916
Larie Klein has been working at The Foreign
Press Bureau in New York City.
Buckner Kirk is doing Red Cross publicity
work in Baltimore.
Lilla Worthington is working at the Brandt
Kirkpa trick Company, in New York.
Ruth Alden, Constance Dowd, Lucretia Gar-
field, and Margaret Chase are doing government
work in Washington.
Helen Chase is nursing in one of the American
hospitals in France.
Frederika Kellogg is working in a canteen
somewhere in France.
Constance Kellen was operated upon for
appendicitis in Paris where she was engaged in
war work.
Frances Bradley has been doing work as an
interpreter in Washington.
Catherine Godley has been taking a business
course this spring.
Dorothy Deneen was married on April 20 to
Mr. Almond Blow and is now making her home
in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Adeline Werner was married to Capt. Webb
I. Vorys of the 332 Infantry, N. A. on April 27.
Eleanor Hill was married to Dr. Rhys Car-
penter on April 23 at Cavalry Church, German-
town, Pennsylvania. Dr. Carpenter, associate
professor of archeology at Bryn Mawr, is now on
leave of absence for war work, and has been for
some months at the officers' training camp at
Camp Meade, Maryland. C. Hayman, 1919,
was maid of honor, Constance Dowd, 1916, and
Margaret Chase, 1916, were bridesmaids. Other
members of the wedding party were Dr. Car-
penter's two brothers, Dr. Patch and J. Hayman,
brother of Cornelia Hayman.
Buckner Kirk is working in the news service
department of the Red Cross at Washington.
1917
Margaret Hoff (Mrs. Eric Zimmerman) has
a daughter, born this spring, the class baby.
Ryu Satu will teach in the Friends' School in
Japan this winter.
Mary Andrews is assistant in the bacteriologi-
cal laboratory at Camp Dix this summer.
Amy MacMaster is conducting the college
tutoring school at Rangeley Lake from August
10 to September 23.
Monica O'Shea of the Vogue editorial depart-
ment spoke before a vocation conference at
Bryn Mawr in April on "How to Get and Live
on a Job."
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ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Vol. XII NOVEMBER, 1918
No. 3
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THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
Isabel Foster, '15
Waterbury, Connecticut
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakely, '16
Freehold, N. /.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Meeting of Directors 101
News from the Campus 101
Changes in Faculty Staff 102
French and British Scholarships 103
New Courses Offered 104
Letters from Alumnae in France 105
News from the Clubs 105
News from the Classes . 106
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The address of the secretary of the Alumnae Association has been changed. It is now,
Miss Katherine McCollin, 2213 St. James Place, Philadelphia, Pa.
Copyright. tqi8, by the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XII
NOVEMBER, 1918
No. 3
MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION AT BRYN MAWR
At a meeting of the board of directors of the
Association on September 25 at Bryn Mawr,
the resignation of the vice-president, Catherine
Delano Grant, '11, was accepted with regret,
also the resignation of Frances Fincke Hand,
'98, from the Academic Committee.
The resignation of Elva Lee, as editor of
the Quarterly, because of illness, was accepted
with much regret. Isabel Foster, '15, was ap-
pointed to take her place.
It was decided that the Mary Garrett En-
dowment Fund should be paid to Asa S. Wing
in monthly installments of $500 for eight months,
beginning October 1, 1918.
Twenty-five thousand dollars of the Alumnae
Fund was invested in Fourth Liberty Loan
Bonds through the undergraduates.
Miss Pauline Goldmark has resigned from the
Academic Committee because her time will be
fully taken by work for the United States Rail-
road Administration in Washington.
There are four new members of the Academic
Committee to be elected at the February meet-
ing of the association. Any twenty- five mem-
bers may nominate a candidate by sending in
her name before December 1 to the secretary,
Katherine McCollin, 2213 St. James Place,
Philadelphia, Pa.
ON THE RESIGNATION OF ELVA LEE
The Board of Directors of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation announces with great regret the resig-
nation of Elva Lee, '94, as editor of the Quar-
terly.
Miss Lee undertook the Quarterly at a
most difficult moment in its career. For four-
teen years it had been published as an inde-
pendent magazine with a paid circulation. It
had finally become involved in financial diffi-
culties and it was necessary either to abandon
it altogether or to find some way of financing it.
In 1914 the Association took over the Quar-
terly and made it its official organ. Miss Lee
was appointed editor by the board at this time,
although her connection with the Quarterly
dated back two years. It was difficult as well
as a most laborious task which she under-
took. But she went ahead with courage
and unfailing energy and has published a
Quarterly which has met with approval on
every hand. This last year, while seriously ill,
she has still continued her work and has given
up at last only because she thought that the
Quarterly was suffering.
With many regrets the Association must accept
her decision and wishes here to express appre-
ciation of her years of labor and self sacrifice.
NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
The thirty-fourth academic opened with
chapel on Monday, October 2. President
Thomas made an address of welcome to the old
and new students.
One British and four French scholars were
among the graduates: Miss Helen Isabella
Wilkie of Edinburgh University, master of arts,
with honors in English; Miss Denise Leredde of
Paris, student of the Lycee Fenelon and the
College Savigne; Miss Marthe Tretain of Paris,
student of the University of Paris and the Sor-
bonne; Lucie Mabille of Paris, student of the
University of Paris.
Five me'mbers of 1918 have returned as grad-
uates : Cora Neely, Harriet Hobbs, Therese Born,
Judith Hemenway and Edith M. Smith.
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Among the members of the Freshman Class
are the sisters of twelve Alumnae and under-
graduates, Virginia R. Grace, sister of Jane
Grace, '17; Lillian Wyckoff, sister of Dorothy
Wyckoff and sisters of Maud Dessau, '13, and
of Enid Dessau, '15; Mary Rupert, '18; Mary
Tyler, '19; Francis Clarke, '19; Annette Styles,
'19; Marion Butler, '20; Ruth Woodruff, '19;
Edith Stevens, '20; Monica Healea, '20; Eleanor
Bliss, '21, and Ellen Jay, '21.
All the students are preparing to do four
hours of war work, three of recreation and two of
physical development as a part of their con-
scription for war service. Each hall has a cap-
tain with seven minor officers under her, rep-
resenting the various; kinds of work, such as
Red Cross, Community Center, clerical work,
etc.
A Liberty Loan Drive was carried through
with great force and success although it is too
early at this time to give the total subscriptions
for the college.
The students were put under quarantine im-
mediately upon arriving on the campus and
little serious trouble was brought by the in-
fluenza.
A device for testing the condition of an avia-
tor's eye worked out by Dr. Clarence and Dr.
Gertrude Rand this summer has been adopted
by the United States and is being used in France.
The purpose of the test is to measure the speed
of adjustment of the eye for clearing seeing at
all distances. Dr. Ferree and Dr. Rand were
married in New York on September 28. No
engagement was announced.
CHANGES IN THE FACULTY STAFF
OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Prof. William Bashford Huff, Professor of
Physics, has been granted leave of absence for
the year 1918-19 and is doing war work in
Washington in the Bureau of Standards. His
courses will be given during his absence by Miss
Sue Avis Beake, who has been a demonstrator
in the department for a number of years. Miss
Nora May Mohler, of Dickinson College, who
was graduate scholar in mathematics last year,
has been appointed Demonstrator in Physics
for 1918-19.
Dr. Regina Katherine Crandall is promoted
to be Professor of English Composition.
Prof. James Fulton Ferguson, Associate Pro-
fessor of Ancient History and Latin, leaves the
College and will do social work in military
camps.
Prof. Howard D. Gray applied for and re-
ceived leave of absence during the summer to
do work in London for the Shipping Board.
His courses will be given during his absence by
Dr. Anna Lane Lingelbach, A.B., University of
Iowa, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1916,
formerly graduate student, Chicago University,
who has collaborated with her husband, Dr.
William E. Lingelbach, Professor of History in
the University of Pennsylvania in his recently
published book.
Dr. Anna Johnson Pell, A.B., University of
South Dakota, 1903, M.S., University of Iowa,
1904, A.M., Radcliffe College, 1905, Ph.D,
University of Chicago, 1910, Student in Mathe-
matics, University of Gottingen, 1906-07, In-
structor and Associate Professor of Mathema-
tics, Mount Holyoke College, 1911-18, becomes
Associate Professor of Mathematics.
Mde. Alice H. Beulin, Agregee des lettres,
succeeds M. Vatar as Associate in French.
Mde. Beulin is well known as a writer in Paris.
M. Vatar is working in Washington for the
French Government.
Miss Edith Hamilton Lanman will give the
courses in Chemistry previously given by Dr.
James L. Crenshaw, absent in France on war
service.
Miss Esther Cloudman Dunn continues as
Acting Director of First and Second Year Eng-
lish Composition in place of Dr. Howard J.
Savage, absent on war service.
Dr. Charles Wendell David, A.B., Oxford
University, 1911, A.M., University of Wiscon-
sin, 1912, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1918,
Instructor in History, University of Washing-
ton, 1915-18, has been appointed Associate
Professor of History.
Miss Carolina Marcial Dorado, A.B., Uni-
versity of Madrid, 1907, Graduate Student,
University of Madrid, Summers 1912, 1913;
Instructor in Spanish and Head of the Spanish
Department, Wellesley College, 1907-11; As-
sistant Professor of Spanish Literature, Uni-
versity of Porto Rico, 1911-17; Head of the
Spanish Department of Ginn & Co., 1917-18,
will lecture on Spanish.
Dr. Margaret Steel Duncan, A.B., Bryn
Mawr College, 1908, and Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania, 1918, Associate Professor of Ro-
mance Languages, Temple University, 1914-17,
will give the elementary French course, some
courses in Spanish and will conduct the French
tutoring classes.
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Dr. Mary Agnes Quimby, A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1906, Ph.D., University of Pennsyl-
vania, 1918, A.M., Cornell University, 1916,
Graduate Student Cornell University, 1915-16,
University of Pennsylvania, 1916-17, will give
the elementary German Course and conduct
German tutoring classes.
Dr. Agnes Rutherford Riddell, who taught
Spanish last year, will conduct Minor, Major and
Graduate courses in Italian.
Miss Anne Bezanzon, A.B., Radcliffe College,
1915, and A.M., 1916, Manager of Business
Firm, 1903-11, Assistant Economic Research,
Harvard University, 1916-18, Lecturer on Sta-
tistics, Wellesley College, 1917-18, will give
courses in statistics and industrial questions in
the Carola Woerishoffer Department of Social
Economy and Social Research.
Miss Marjorie Lome Franklin, A.B., Barnard
College, 1913, and A.M., Columbia University,
1916, Graduate Scholar in Economics, Bryn
Mawr College, 1913-14, and Fellow in Econom-
ics, 1914-15, Library Assistant American Tele-
graph and Telephone Co., 1916-17; Instructor
in Political Science, Vassar College, 1917-18,
will take one section of the Minor Course in
Economics and Politics and give a graduate
seminary in Municipal Government.
Miss Helen E. Fernald, A.B., Mt. Holyoke
College, 1914, Scientific Artist and Research
Assistant, Columbia University, 1915-18, has
been appointed Instructor in History of Art and
will give a new elective course in Chinese and
Japanese Art.
Mr. Malcolm Havens Bissell, Ph.B., Yale
University, 1911, and A.M., 1918, Graduate
Student and Instructor in Engineering, Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, 1913-14, Graduate Student
in Geology, Yale University, 1915-18, and As-
sistant in Geography, 1917-18, becomes Asso-
ciate in Geology, succeeding Mr. Frank James
Wright. Mr. Bissell will give an elective
course in Economic Geology with special refer-
ence to war problems and needs.
The following appointments have been made
in the Department of English: Miss Margaret
W. Watson, A.B., Barnard College, 1913, and
A.M., Columbia University, 1917; Lecturer in
German, Barnard College, 1917-18, will be In-
structor in English Composition. Dr. Esther
Parker Ellinger, A.B., Goucher College, 1915,
and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1918,
is appointed Instructor in English Composition
and will assist Professor Donnelly in the first
semester and direct a section in English Com-
position in the second semester.
Dr. Marion Hague Rea, A.B., University of
Pennsylvania, and M.D., Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania, has been appointed
Assistant Resident Physician. Dr. Rea was
Superintendent of the Woman's Hospital in
Philadelphia in 1918.
The following changes have occurred in the
Library staff: Miss Mary Isabelle O'Sullivan,
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, Graduate Scholar in
English Composition, 1917-18; Indexer of the
Estate of Stephen Girard, Philadelphia, 1909-15;
Cataloguer, New York Public Library, 1916-17,
will be Head Cataloguer. Miss H. Beatrice
Brown, B.S., Simmons College and A.B., Welles-
ley College, will be Assistant to the Circulation
and Reference Librarian, and Mrs. William T.
Lindorff will be Assistant to the Librarian.
Miss Mary Ruth Almack, A.B., and A.M.,
Ohio State University and Miss Istar Alida
Haupt, A.B. and A.M., Bryn Mawr College,
will be Demonstrators. Miss Harriet Hobbs,
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, will be Demonstrator
in Chemistry. Miss Dorothy Crane is a newly
appointed Demonstrator in Athletics and Gym-
nastics. Miss Mary Nearing, for two years
Warden of Rockefeller Hall, has resigned and
will be succeeded by Mrs. Webb I. Vorys
(Adeline Agnes Werner), A.B., Bryn Mawr
College, 1916. Miss Bertha Sophie Ehlers has
also resigned as Warden of Denbigh Hall but
the vacancy is not yet filled.
FRENCH AND BRITISH SCHOLAR-
SHIPS
One British and four French students have
been awarded scholarships, and have reached
this country to study at Bryn Mawr College.
They are as follows:
Miss Helen Isabella Wilkie of Edinburgh
University, Master of Arts with Honours in
English.
Miss Denise Leredde of Paris, student of the
Lycee Fenelon and the College Sevigne.
Miss Marthe Trotain, of Paris, student of
the University of Paris and the Sorbonne.
Miss Lucie Mabille of Paris, student of the
University of Paris.
Miss Marthe Sturm, of Paris, holder of the
Licence de Philosophie of the University of
Paris.
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NEW COURSES OFFERED IN
1918-1919
FREE ELECTIVE
History of the War of 1914. Dr. Lingelbach.
Three hours a week throughout the year. Mon-
days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 2 to 3. Pre-
requisite Minor History of Europe.
Social Betterment and Civilian Relief. Dr.
Kingsbury. Two hours a week throughout
the year. Mondays, Tuesdays, 3 to 4. This
course will present the principles and methods
used in the conduct of Civilian Relief or Home
Service under the American Red Cross. The
methods used in the Charity Organization So-
ciety will be carefully studied and opportunity
to attend case conferences will be offered to
the students. This course is open to students
who have had or are taking Minor Economics
or General Psychology.
Record Keeping and Social Investigation. Dr.
Kingsbury. Two hours a week throughout
the year. Thursdays and Fridays, 3 to 4.
The principles and methods of record keeping
and filing, applicable to municipal, state, and
federal offices, to business organizations, social
work, and investigation. This course must be
accompanied by the course in "Elements of
Statistics."
Elements of Statistics. Miss Bezanson. One
hour a week throughout the year. Wednesdays,
3 to 4. This course is recommended to students
of social economy and economics. No knowl-
edge of mathematics beyond the requirement
for matriculation is assumed.
Criticism. Dr. Crandall. Two hours a
week throughout the year. Wednesdays, 3 to
4 (one meeting weekly) . A study of the prin-
ciples of criticism and the writing of critical
expositions, the essay and kindred forms. The
course is open to students who have completed
the required course in English Composition and
obtained the grade of "Merit" in one semester
of the course.
Chinese and Japanese Art. Miss Fernald.
Two hours a week throughout the year Thurs-
days and Fridays, 2 to 3.
Greek Religion and Myths. Dr. Wright.
Two hours a week throughout the first semester.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 to 12. This
course may be counted as a Free Elective or as
part of the Minor Course in Ancient History or
in Classical Archaeology. It is followed in the
Second Semester by a course in Literary Geog-
raphy of Greece and Asia Minor. The course
will be supplementary to Greek and English
Literature and to Oriental and Classical Archae-
ology, and will treat of the development of
Greek religion, the attributes of the Olympian
gods, such as Zeus and Apollo, their ritual, and
the influence on literature of Greek myths.
History of the Far East. Dr. Barton. Two
hours a week throughout the year. Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 3 to 4. This course may be
substituted for part of the Minor Course in An-
cient History. It treats in outline the history
of China, India and Japan from the earliest
times to the present.
Biblical Literature. Dr. Barton. Two
hours a week throughout the year. Mondays
and Wednesdays, 3 to 4. One of the following
courses will be given, depending on the wishes
of the students :-01d Testament Canon; New
Testament Canon; New Testament Biography;
the History of Christian Doctrine; the Re-
ligions of the World.
Education. Dr. Castro. Two hours a week
throughout the year. Tuesdays and Thurs-
days, 10 to 11. The course discusses modern
educational problems.
Educational Psychology. Dr. Arlitt. Three
hours a week throughout the year. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 to 11. Labora-
tory, Mondays, 2 to 3. The course covers the
general field of educational psychology from the
point of view of laboratory experiments.
Courses in Classical Archaeology
These may be taken as Free Electives or as
Minor or Major Courses.
Ancient Egypt. Dr.Hoppin. Three hours a
week throughout the year. Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays, 9 to 10.
Ancient Painting. Dr. Swindler. Two
hours a week throughout the year. Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 9 to 10.
General Archaeology. Dr. Hoppin. Three
hours a week throughout the year. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 to 12.
Ancient Athens. Dr. Hoppin. Two hours
a week throughout the year. Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 11 to 12.
Economic Geology. Mr. Bissell. Two
hours a week throughout the year. Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 9 to 10. The course will con-
sist of a non-technical discussion of the Min-
eral Resources of the World; their mode of oc-
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currence, geographical distribution, extent and
uses. Special attention will be paid to the re-
lation of mineral resources to the war, and the
position of the United States will be particu-
larly emphasized.
Post Major Courses
Post Major Mathematics: Theory of Finite
Differences. Dr. Pell. One hour a week
throughout the year. Thursdays, 3 to 4.
LETTERS FROM ALUMNAE IN FRANCE
Elizabeth Snyder, a member of the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps in the Y. M. C. A. canteen
service, writes the following letter to Marion
Reilly:
The Imperial Hotel,
Russell Square,
London, August 27, 1918.
Dear Miss Reilly:
At last there is time for a few breathless
lines — if only I were allowed to tell what I have
been through lately, you might be breathless,
too! We had a very slow but interesting trip
over — a small boat with none but our people on
it. There were three units of the "Over-Seas
Theater" who entertained us and made things
lively in general. The rest were canteen work-
ers and business women, "Y" secretaries and
motor drivers. We owned the boat and when
we landed all the officers and crew turned out to
bid us good-bye and the dear captain actually
wept. He had quite adopted us and grown
much interested in our plans and work — for we
did work — setting up exercises every day,
French classes twice a day, and even a French
table in the dining room, which added to the
general confusion, for the crew was South
American for the most part and spoke Spanish
to each other and Spiggoty to us. It was odd
to hear the Captain's boy give his afternoon
invitation — "Tea in the Captain!"
There were just three of our Intercollegiate
Unit — our leader — Miss McGill of Mt. Holyoke,
and Elizabeth Osborne also Mt. Holyoke, and
myself. We came to London yesterday from
our post of landing and were at a general meet-
ing to receive welcome and instruction this
morning. Now we are waiting a call or sum-
mons from Lady Ward who is in charge of the
women workers and who will give us further
instructions. We are surely well taken care
of and very personally conducted. One meets
us and carries us on a bit and hands us over to
another — each knows just his share of respon-
sibility and we know nothing. But that is all
right, too.
Last night we went down to the Eagle Hut
on the Strand and had a glimpse of what our
work will be — oh! how glad the boys were to
see us! Most of the women go directly to
France and we were a treat. I shall write you
again when there is more paper to say it on.
My own supply has not arrived yet. Greet-
ings to B. M. and you.
Sincerely yours,
Elizabeth Snyder.
NEWS FROM THE CLUBS
PITTSBURGH
The Bryn Mawr Club of Pittsburgh has
twenty-eight members, with an average at-
tendance of about eight. This is due to the fact
that many members are employed. Rena Bix-
ler is in France. Several more are in govern-
ment service.
Meetings are held on the last Thursday of
each month at the homes of various members.
During the year 1917-1918 the club again
raised $200 for the scholarship awarded an-
nually to a member of the Freshman class at
Bryn Mawr. This scholarship was held during
the last year by Helen Bennett, '21.
It has been voted that the French orphan,
Marie de Lisle, supported by the club during
the last two years, be cared for during 1918—
1919 also. The money for the purpose has been
collected and turned over to the Fatherless
Children of France Association.
The juvenile court child, Agnes, for whom
the club has pledged itself to furnish clothing,
was cared for last year in the home of a Mrs.
Torrance. Christmas boxes were furnished for
both Marie and Agnes.
During 1917-1918 two social affairs were
held by the club: one, the annual Christmas
luncheon which was much simplified as a war
conservation measure; the other, a tea held at
the Margaret Morrison school on the occasion
of President Thomas' visit to Pittsburgh in the
autumn.
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NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
1889
1899
Alice Gould has been for some time a volun-
tary worker at the American Embassy in
Madrid.
Emily Anthony Robbins' eldest son, Frank-
lin, is serving as first lieutenant in the aviation
section of the Signal Corps. Her daughter,
Frederica, is studying at a business college in
New York in order to fit herself for secretarial
work.
Helen Coale Crew's son is at Annapolis.
Catherine Bean Cox's son, Joel Cox, is in
France as a member of the Philadelphia Friends'
Unit under the American Red Cross and is
serving without remuneration as an engineer.
He has been working on an immense sanator-
ium being built at Malabry in the Department
of the Seine.
Grace Worthington's son has been in France
in the Aviation Corps since early in the war.
Anne Taylor Simpson's son-in-law, Capt.
William Ernst is in France at the present time.
1891
Constance Lynch Springer, A.B., Dickinson
College, 1918, daughter of Gertrude Lynch
Springer, ex-'91, Bryn Mawr, will be the holder
of a scholarship in biology for the year 1918—
1919. She is the first daughter of an alumna
to enter Bryn Mawr as a graduate student.
1892
Edith Wetherill Ives will spend the winter
with her mother in Philadelphia (911 Clinton
Street). Two of her children will be with her,
the other two at boarding school. Her hus-
band is in the army medical corps and is sta-
tioned at Camp Greene, North Carolina.
1893
Lida Raymond Adams (Mrs. Frank N. Lewis)
has returned from Japan. She will spend the
winter in Indianapolis.
1897
Corinna Putnam (Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith)
ex-'97, is field secretary of the Comite Franco-
Americain pour la Protection des Enfants de la
Frontiere, while her husband is working with
the Y. M. C. A. in France.
Marion Rean Stevens is on duty in a Y. M.
C. A. canteen in Touraine, France.
Ellen Kilpatrick who was directrice of the
Red Cross canteen at Nantes during the spring
and early summer is now directrice of the Red
Cross canteen at Bordeaux.
Mary Hoyt acted for a while as interpreter-
nurse at the front line hospitals, but was re-
called in mid-summer to her old job as auxili-
ary nurse at the American Ambulance Hospital
at Neuilly, owing to the urgent need of nurses
at that time in the Paris hospitals.
Bess Bissell who went abroad to do canteen
work under the Red Cross last December has
recently been transferred to the Y. M. C. A..
service and sent to the Italian front.
1900
Aurie Thayer (Mrs. Maynard K. Yoakam)
is living in Providence. Mr. and Mrs. Yoakam
with their little daughter Lucretia and a niece,
Dorothy Thayer, spent the summer in Cum-
berland, Rhode Island.
Johanna Kroeber (Mrs. Hermann Mosenthal)
has given up her house in Baltimore and with
her four children spent the summer in Con-
necticut. Dr. Mosenthal has resigned from
the Johns Hopkins Hospital to enter the medical
corps of the United States army.
Maud Lowrey Jenks, who was in charge of the
Y. M. C. A. canteen at Toul in the spring, has
been appointed a hostess at the American rest
station of Aix-les-Bains .
Cornelia Halsey Kellogg spent the summer at
Fisher's Island. Her fourth child has been
christened Cornelia.
1901
Edith Edwards passed a part of the summer
at Cotuit, Massachusetts.
Grace Phillips (Mrs. Gardner Rogers) is an
active worker in the Red Cross in Woonsocket,.
Rhode Island.
1902
Anne Rotan (Mrs. Thorndike D. Howe) has
an apartment in Washington with her mother.
Lieutenant- Colonel Howe is now in France.
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1903
Dr. Grace Lynde Meigs was married to Dr.
Thomas Reid Crowder of Chicago on Monday,
September 9 at Keokuk, Iowa.
Anna Branson came north this summer and
took a camp on Big Moose Lake in the Adiron-
dacks. She will return to San Antonio for the
winter.
Martha White is directrice of the Red Cross
canteen at Vichey.
1903
Elizabeth Sergeant, member of the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps and writer for the New
Republic was injured by the explosion of a
German hand grenade near the French front
on October 19. The explosion caused the in-
stant death of Mile. De Vallette, head of the
American section of the press department of
the foreign office who was conducting a party
of women writers through the liberated dis-
tricts of northern France. A French officer in
the party was seriously wounded. Miss Ser-
geant who was struck in the face and other
parts of the body by bits of grenade, was taken
to a hospital near the front.
1904
Alice Boring sailed for China in August.
She has been appointed as Assistant in the De-
partment of Biology in the Premedical Depart-
ment of Union Medical College at Peking,
China. The school is a Rockefeller Founda-
tion. The members of the Faculty have been ap-
pointed for two years for the purpose of organ-
izing the school and training the Chinese stu-
dents to carry on the work, gradually building
up a faculty composed entirely of Chinese.
Mary James, M.D., has returned to her work
in the Woman's Hospital at Wuchang, China.
Bertha Norris has announced her engage-
ment to Angus Gordon Bowen of Nashville,
Tennessee. Mr. Bowen is headmaster of a
boys' school in Nashville.
Eloise Tremain is principal of Ferry Hall
School for Girls at Lake Forest, Illinois.
Daisy Ulman is working in the Supply Di-
vision of the Ordnance Department at Wash-
ington, D. C.
Maria Albee Uhl has a third child, a daugh-
ter, Madeline Ardel, born at New Haven,
Connecticut, August 7.
Bertha Norris, '04, was married October 10
to Angus Gordon Bowen. Mr. Bowen is a
graduate and postgraduate of Vanderbilt Uni-
versity and for a number of years lias been
headmaster of a boys' private preparatory-
school in Nashville. Two of the three Rhodes
Scholars from Tennessee are graduates of the
Bowen School. Mr. and Mrs. Bowen are living
at 1801 Primrose Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee.
1905
Rachel Brewer Huntington will be in Wash-
ington this winter for her husband has a com-
mission as captain in the Military Intelligence
Department. Her address is 1819 G Street,
(Apt. 507).
Helen Kempton is in New York City as
Assistant Secretary of the American Associa-
tion for Organizing Charity. Her office is at
130 East 22nd Street.
Elsey Henry Redfield took a six weeks' in-
tensive course in wireless telegraphy at Colum-
bia University this summer and successfully
passed the examinations at the end.
Margaret Bates was married to Willard M.
Porterfield, Jr., on June 25 in the Cathedral at
Shanghai, China. Mr. Porterfield is a profes-
sor of biology at St. John's University. She
writes, "At present we have only a piece of a
house as the Compound is crowded but when
somebody goes on furlough we shall have more
room. I am keeping up Chinese and have
taken one examination. I am teaching at St.
Mary's still and managing all the Book Order-
ing Department for the 250 girls."
1907
Julie Benjamin Howson has a second son and
third child, Anthony Howson, born in New
York on August 17. Her husband has been
in France with his regiment for some weeks.
Adele Brandeis has given full time volun-
teer work to the Red Cross in Louisville for a
number of months in the home service section.
Cornelia Meigs gives full time to the Red
Cross in Keokuk.
Harriet Houghteling sails in October to do
Y. M. C. A. canteen work in France.
Ellen Thayer has won a fellowship in Ro-
mance Languages at Johns Hopkins, and will
be there during the winter working for her Ph.D.
Margaret Augur will return to Rosemary Hall
in the same position that she has held for the
last two years.
Mabel O'Sullivan will be head cataloguer at
the Bryn Mawr Library this winter.
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Margaret Morison will again teach English
at Miss Winsor's School in Boston, and will
live at Norfolk House, a centre for all sorts of
social work. For six weeks in the summer she
did farming in New York State as part of the
Women's Land Army.
Anna Buxton is working for the Red Cross at
the Headquarters in Washington.
Alice Hawkins and Letitia Windle will continue
as wardens at Bryn Mawr.
Helen Smitheman Baldwin has a second
daughter, Nona Pugh Baldwin, born May 11.
Mary Ferguson has been taking a course in
Philadelphia in preparation for social service.
Rose Young, who for several years has had a
studio in Philadelphia, last winter painted a
large raange-finding map, 24 by 4| feet, which
she sent to Camp Dix by arrangement with the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The
map, which is an important adjunct to the sol-
diers' practice work in range-finding, is really
a landscape into which the artist has introduced
every possible variation of perspective and ob-
ject,— snow-capped mountains, valleys, bridges,
windmills. Colonel Stokes of the 311th Infan-
try stationed at Camp Dix, wrote the artist a
warm letter of appreciation of her services.
Suzette Stuart is working in the publicity de-
partment of the New York War Camp Com-
munity Service, New York City, and has con-
tributed articles to several magazines telling of
the work of the organization. The New York
War Camp Community Service is the local
representative of the so-called Fosdick Com-
mission (War Department and Navy Depart-
ment Commissions on Training Camp Activi-
ties), and has been organized under the govern-
ment to promote the general well-being of the
soldiers and sailors from the various training
camps near New York in their off-duty time in
the city.
Esther Williams (Mrs. R. E. Apthorp) will
be at Camp McClellan, Anniston, Alabama,
this winter. Her address will be care of Lieu-
tenant R. E. Apthorp, 36th Field Artillery.
1908
Theresa Helburn is the author of the new
play "Crops and Croppers" which is running
at the Belmont Theater, New York City.
Dorothy Strauss and Martha Plaisted Sax-
ton were present at the opening of "Crops and
Croppers."
Margaret Lewis (Mrs. Lincoln MacVeagh)
spent the summer in New Hampshire with her
husband's family.
Myra Elliot (Mrs. Jacques Vauclain) spent
the summer at Atlantic City.
Josephine Proudfit (Mrs. Dudley Mont-
gomery) accompanied her husband to New
York City in August when he sailed for France.
Margaret Washburn (Mrs. H. O. Hunt) will
continue to live at West Hampton as long as
her husband is stationed in New York.
Josephine Proudfit (Mrs. Dudley Mont-
gomery) requests that members of the class
send her news of themselves and their class-
mates for the Quarterly.
The marriage of Elsa Norton and Assistant
Paymaster James Ashbrook, 3rd, took place on
May 18, at the home of the bride's married
sister in Swarthmore, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Ash-
brook are now living at Norfolk, Virginia, where
he is stationed at the Naval Base.
1909
Mary Holliday is named in the Associated
Press reports of October 25 as being one of three
American Y. M. C. A. women who worked un-
der fire in the open, frying 10,000 doughnuts a
day for the victorious American troops through-
out the week. Miss Mary Bray of Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, and Mrs. Edith Knowles, of
Phoenix, Arizona, were the other women men-
tioned. The work was done, the dispatch
says, over an open bonfire, and when regular
supplies ran short skillful substitutions were
made.
1910
Ruth Babcock Deems has a second daughter.
She is living in Ross, California, where Mr.
Deems is in charge of the parish work, as well
as of the work for seamen in San Francisco.
Elsie Deems Neilson is living on a fruit ranch
at Paonia, Colorado.
Constance Deming Lewis has been spending
the summer in the Catskills with her family.
In Augusta she has been helping with a Com-
mittee of the Fosdick Commission and in the
Red Cross.
Elsa Denison Voorhees and Madeleine Edison
Sloane are among those who have moved re-
cently to Washington.
Zip Falk Szold has been helping to organize
a Woman's Trade Union League in Washington.
Josephine Healy is with her sister in San
Antonio, Texas.
1918]
News from the Classes
109
Miriam Hedges Smith writes: "We left Jap-
an not long after we were married and came to
India, where my husband has taken a commis-
sion in the Indian army. He is now attending
a school of instruction for officers and we are
fortunate to have been sent to a school up
in the foot-hills of the Himalayas. We have
taken a furnished bungalow and have a whole
hill of our own, with such a view over moun-
tains and valleys. Simla is just fifteen miles
from us, and we can see it very plainly, perched
up on the top of a ridge."
Elizabeth Hibben Scoon is busy with her
baby and Red Cross work in Princeton. Her
husband is in the army.
Janet Howell Clark has a daughter, Anne
Janet, three months old. She has had a cot-
tage this summer on Great Shebeague Island,
Maine, near her family. Dr. Clark has a com-
mission in the Medical Reserve, and is teach-
ing pathology at Johns Hopkins.
Annie Jones is to be married in October.
Mary Agnes Irvine hopes to go to France soon
for war work.
Agnes Irwin is secretary to the Faculty of
the School of Neurological Surgery at the Uni-
versity Hospital, Philadelphia.
Jeanne Kerr Fleischmann has been in New
York this summer in charge of a shop at 723
Fifth Avenue for the benefit of the Fund for
French Wounded.
Mary Boyd Shipley writes: "This year has
been a splendid one and I can't tell you how
glad I am that I came. To be connected with
a real college, practically the first in China
(Ginling College, Nanking), and to have a hand
in the determination of its policies is an inspira-
tion in itself. The students are fine, intelligent
girls and just as full of fun as Americans.
Next year the fourth class will enter, and we
shall have a complete college, with real Seniors,
an event to which the girls have all been look-
ing forward. I am established for the summer
in a lovely mountain summer resort, probably
the largest foreign summer resort in China.
To get here we came by steamer up the Yangtse
to Kinkiang, a trip of about forty hours, and
then across the plain in an automobile, and up
the mountain by chair. The path up the moun-
tain must be about ten miles long, almost
straight up with the path made into a regular
staircase with stone steps. How the coolies
panted as they pushed up step by step under a
sun that grew hotter every hour. Everything
that is used up here comes up the same path on
the backs of coolies, even pianos. It makes one
realize that in China men are cheaper than ani-
mals. When we reached the top we passed
through a little gap into a valley high up in the
mountains — the 'Old Cow Valley' or Kuling.
Three of us have rented a cottage here, and are
keeping house with our own servants."
Charlotte Simonds Sage has a son born last
spring.
Jane Smith expects to be back at the Bryn
Mawr Community Center this winter. She
and Dorothy Ashton visited Janet Howell
Clark and Elizabeth Tappan in Maine this
summer.
Catherine Souther Buttrick has been at
Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia, where her
husband is a lieutenant in the signal corps, de-
tailed to bomb testing at the Aviation Field.
Frances Stuart Rhodes is living with her
family while Dr. Rhodes is in France. He is
on the staff of a French Base Hospital.
Julia Thompson is on the managing com-
mittee of the Lake Forest Branch of the Fund
for French Wounded.
Clara Ware Goodrich is living in Middle-
town, Connecticut. Her husband is Associate
Professor of Biology at Wesleyan University.
Mary Wesner has had a position this summer
with the Emergency Fleet Corporation in
Philadelphia.
Florence Wilbur Wyckoff has been living in
Watertown, New York, where her husband was
chief engineer in the construction of a large
ammunition factory.
Henry C. Emery, Susanne Allison's husband
has been released from Germany and arrived
in Copenhagen the last week in October. Mr.
and Mrs. Emery were escaping from Russia
through Finland and were passing through the
Aland Islands on sledges last March when the
Germans captured them. Although this was
on neutral territory, Mr. Emery was taken
prisoner. Mrs. Emery was allowed to return
to this country. Dispatches from Copenhagen
say that Mr. Emery was kept in a dirty dugout
at a concentration camp for some time, then
sent to Lanesburg in Pomerania. In June he
was permitted to go to Berlin where he re-
mained until released.
1911
Charlotte Claflin sailed for Italy in the late
summer wjiere she will do relief work for the
American Red Cross as a member of the Bryn
Mawr Service Corps.
110
The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [November
Helen Emerson is expecting to go overseas
this autumn under the Bryn Mawr Service
Corps.
Agnes Murray is Assistant Director of Ci-
vilian Relief in the Mountain Division of the
National Red Cross. She is living in Denver,
Colorado, where her address is 1000 Coroha
Place.
Mark Taylor has left the Guarantee Trust
Company to become assistant to the vice-presi-
dent in the Griscom, Russell Company, New
York City.
Leila Houghteling, Louise Russell and Rosa-
lind Mason worked on the College Farm this
summer.
Margaret Hobart is giving lectures on "The
Use of the Drama in Education" and on "The
Church Press" at the New York Training
School for Deaconesses this winter.
Amy Walker (Mrs. James Field) has given up
her work with the Council of National Defense
in Washington and has returned to Chicago.
Helen Henderson (Mrs. Sydney Marcus
Green, Jr.) has a son born in July.
Mollie Kilner (Mrs. William Wheeler) has a
daughter born about the same time.
Kate Chambers (Mrs. Laurens Seelye) has
been living at Fort Greble, Rhode Island this
summer where her husband who is a chaplain in
the army, is stationed.
Helen Tredway (Mrs. Evarts Ambrose
Graham) and her little son have been following
Major Graham who is in the medical corps,
from one camp to another. While he was sta-
tioned at Petersburg, the Grahams lived in
Helen Henderson Green's house.
1912
Helen Barber was married to Mr. Paul Mat-
teson of Providence, Rhode Island, on July 15,
at Rochester, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Mat-
teson are living at 52 Barnes Street, Providence.
Frances Hunter, ex-'12, was married to Mr.
Adolph Elwyn of New York on June 20, at
Newburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn are living at
434 West 120th Street, New York.
Lorle Steelier is teaching at Barnard College
this winter.
Elizabeth Pinney Hunt has a son born July
19.
Gladys Jones Markle has a son born June 12.
Clara Francis Dickson has a daughter born
May 14.
1913
Katharine Williams was married to Lieut.
Waldo Hodgdon on June 22 in Dedham, Massa-
chusetts. Lieutenant Hodgdon is stationed at
present at Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts.
Louisa Hay dock who is doing Y. M. C. A.
canteen work in an aviation camp in France
has announced her engagement to Lieutenant
William H. Y. Hackett of the 90th Aero Squad-
ron, A. E. F.
Ellen Faulkner has a position in the exchange
department of the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company in New York City.
Jessie Buchanan was graduated from the law
school of the University of the City of New
York in June. She is now a clerk in a law
office in Trenton, New Jersey where she is
studying for her bar examinations.
1914
Elizabeth Balderston has been teaching at
the Frostburg State Normal School, Frostburg,
Maryland.
Janet Baird is teaching English at the South
Philadelphia High School.
Ethel Dunham, Martha Eliot (ex-' 14), and
Ella Oppenheimer all took their doctor's degrees
at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in June.
Ethel Dunham is returning to Baltimore this
winter to work in the Harriet Lane Dispensary.
Catherine Creighton is a fourth-year medical
student at Johns Hopkins this year. Kath-
arine Dodd is in her second year there.
Katherine Huntington is in Washington
working for the government as a confidential
junior examiner.
Ida Pritchett is at the Johns Hopkins School
of Hygiene and Public Health, as an assistant
in the Bacteriological Department.
Marion Camp (Mrs. Roger Newberry) was in
New York in July, with her small daughter,
Mary Wolcott Newberry, who was born June
12, 1918. Lieutenant Newberry has sailed for
France with the 5th Engineers, U. S. A.
Jean Davis is Assistant Professor of Eco-
nomics and Sociology at Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Georgia.
Mildred Baird is teaching at Beechwoc
School in Jenkintown.
Helen Shaw (Mrs. William Crosby) has a son
William Shaw Crosby, born June 10, 1918.
Mary Shipley (Mrs. Page Allison, ex-'14
has a daughter, Jeanne, bom March 31,1918-
1918]
News from the Classes
111
Lucile Thompson (Mrs. Francis M. Cald-
well) has a daughter, Josephine, born May 5,
1918.
Edwina Warren is selling life insurance for
the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
Margaret Williams was married in June to
Captain Ray Edwin Gliman, U. S. A.
Ruth Wallerstein has been working in the
Home Conservation Division of the Food Ad-
ministration in Washington, and is now with
the War Trade Board of Intelligence.
Elizabeth Colt expects to go to France soon
as a secretary in the Red Cross.
Isabel Bering substituted for Miss Ann Wig-
gin at the Spring Street Settlement in New
York during August and September. She is
staying through October and November as a
regular worker.
Elizabeth Atherton is working in the Red
Cross headquarters at Washington.
Isabel Benedict was married in October to
Lieutenant John Albert Simmons, U. S. A.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Simmons of Flat-
bush, New York.
1915
Adrienne Kenyon (Mrs. Benjamin Franklin,
Jr.) has a son, Benjamin 3rd, born September
25.
Laura Branson is to teach mathematics at
The Shipley School this winter.
Anna Brown has been helping to manage the
Brown farm in Delaware as a War Farm this
summer.
Miriam Rohrer has been working since July
1, as Historian and Librarian at the Ellis Hos-
pital in Schenectady, New York.
Angeline Robinson and Laura Branson were
among the alumnae who worked on the Bryn
Mawr Farm this summer.
Elizabeth Smith has been doing office work
for the Associated Charities and the Red Cross
Department of the Home Service League in
Cincinnati.
Hazel Barnett is working in the Emergency
Fleet in Philadelphia.
Ruth Glenn was married to Edred Pennell
of Johnstown, Pa., last spring.
Mary Morgan, ex-'15, is doing editorial work
on the Philadelphia Record.
Mary Albertson will teach at The Baldwin
School, Bryn Mawr this winter, and will live
at Pen-y-groes with Helen Taft and Emily
Noyes.
Isabel Foster is telegraph editor of The
Waterbury Republican, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Katherine Snodgrass is doing statistical work
for the War Industries Board in Washington.
Emily Van Horn is working for W. R. Grace
and Co., New York City.
1916
Adeline Werner (Mrs. Webb I. Vorys) is
warden of Denbigh Hall.
Frederika Kellogg is engaged to Major John
Hamilton Jouett, Balloon Section, Air Service,
U. S. A. Major Jouett was graduated from
West Point in the class of 1914. He is in serv-
ice in France where Frederika is continuing
her canteen work.
Frances Bradley is working at the War Col-
lege, Washington.
Ruth Alden, Constance Dowd, Margaret
Chase and Eleanor Hill Carpenter are working
in the Ordnance Department, Washington.
Margaret Chase has announced her engage-
ment to Lieutenant Robert Locke, Haverford
'14. Lieutenant Locke is now with his regi-
ment in Siberia.
Katherine Trowbridge Perkins, ex-' 16, died
on October 7 of pneumonia at the home of her
father, Major Augustus Trowbridge, Princeton,
New Jersey.
1917
Lucia Chase will drive for the Red Cross
Motor Messenger Corps in New York City this
winter.
Margaret Scattergood is working with the
American-French Reconstruction Unit in France.
Jane Kinsey has been in the Wanamaker
Book Department preparatory to opening a
book shop of her own.
Alice Beardwood is teaching at Jacksonville,
Florida.
Katherine Barrett is in the Coding Section
of Military Intelligence, at Washington.
Janet Hollis is a floor-walker in a store in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Peggy Thompson has been working in a mo-
tor repair shop in Chicago.
Helen Harris is secretary at the College Set-
tlement, Philadelphia.
Anne Davis is doing chemical research work
at the Eastman Kodak Company, at Rochester,
New Yosk.
Eleanor Granger has been at the Vassar
Training Camp for Nurses.
112
The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly [November
Emily Russell (Mrs. John Dawson) who be-
fore her marriage was in the office of the Gen-
eral Staff in Washington has gone to a southern
camp where her husband, recently returned
from France, is training men of the new draft.
Marion Halle will study English at Bryn
Mawr this winter.
Elizabeth Heminway will teach for a second
year in the primary department of the Bryn
Mawr School in Baltimore.
Elizabeth Emerson is at Johns Hopkins Med-
ical School.
Harriet Allport is still in France.
Eleanor Dulles is a worker in the " Students'
Atelier" Relief Work in Paris.
Mary Hodge is doing emergency relief work
in Germantown.
Julia Mayer, (ex-' 17), has given up her nurses'
training course in Johns Hopkins, and has
entered an Episcopal convent.
Mary Andrews has been doing bacteriologi-
cal work at Camp Dix, New Jersey.
Marian Rhoads is doing economic investiga-
tion in the Bureau of Research, War Trade
Board, Washington.
Isabella Diamond is an assistant junior ex-
aminer in the War Trade Intelligence Depart-
ment, War Trade Board, Washington.
Lovira Brown is a postal censor in New York
City.
Nathalie McFaden (Mrs. Wyndham Blanton)
is with her husband at Camp Augusta, Michigan.
Thalia Smith (Mrs. Howard Dole) will act as
secretary to President Thomas again this
wmter.
Eleanor Faulkner, ex-'17. (Mrs. Walter
Lacey) whose husband is a captain with the
Medical Corps in France, is at home in Keene,
New Hampshire.
Bertha Greenough is expecting to be in the
Department of Agriculture at Washington.
Mary Worley is an instructor in Red Cross
work in Baltimore.
Constance Hall is assisting the chief of the
Liason Department of the War Trade Board
in Washington.
Heloise Carroll is with the Associated Chari-
ties in Philadelphia.
Florence Iddings (Mrs. David Ryan) is with
her husband, Lieutenant Ryan at Fortress
Monroe.
Helen Zimmerman is teaching in Pennsyl-
vania.
Sylvia Jellife is in government work in
Washington.
Marjorie Milne is taking another year of
graduate study at Bryn Mawr.
Anna Wildman is a confidential assistant in
the Intelligence Department, War Trade
Board, Washington.
Monica B. O'Shea is with the Butterick
Publishing Company, New York City.
Gertrude Malone is doing stenographic work
with W. R. Grace and Company of New York
City.
Catherine Casselberry is taking a business
course in Chicago.
Margaret Henderson is driving an ambulance
in France.
Istar Haupt has returned to Bryn Mawr as
as demonstrator in psychology.
Eleanor Holcombe is a reporter on the Wash-
ington Herald and publicity secretary for the
Y. W. C. A. in Washington.
Elizabeth Seelye is secretary to the head of
the Chicago branch of the Fund for the French
Wounded.
Frances Curtin (Mrs. Herbert Haynes) has
returned to Clarkesburg, West Virginia. Her
husband, Dr. Haynes, is Surgeon-in-Chief of
the Maryland General Hospital Unit in France.
Caroline Stevens is in the American Red
Cross doing reconstruction work in France.
Dorothy Shipley has been at the Vassar
Training Camp and will enter the Philadel-
phia General Hospital this winter.
Virginia Litchfield has been taking a course
in handicraft, preparatory to doing rehabilita-
tion work in France.
Martha Willett is secretary to the director of
the New England Branch of Red Cross Nurses.
1918
Evelyn Babbitt is working in the National
Employment Exchange in New York City.
Frances Buffum has been at the Vassar
Nurses' Training Camp, and intends to enter
one of the army training hospitals for nurses.
Helen Butterfield is working in the valuation
office of the New York Central Railroad at the
Grand Central Station.
Charlotte Dodge has been Supervisor of
Knitting in the Rochester Chapter of the Red
Cross, and has also been doing emergency can-
teen work meeting troop trains on their way
through the city.
Lucy Evans whose engagement to Dr. Sam-
uel Claggett Chew of Bryn Mawr has been an-
nounced, and who expects to be married next
1918]
News from the Classes
113
spring, is working as proofreader in the for-
eign press bureau of the Committee on Public
Information.
Mary Gardiner worked six weeks in the Host-
ess House at Aviation Field No. 2, Garden
City.
Harriet Hobbs took a course in organic chem-
istry in the Columbia Summer School, and will
be assistant demonstrator in the chemistry de-
partment at Bryn Mawr this winter
Louise Hodges took a course in stenography
in Boston this summer, and is now working in
the Shipping Board in Washington. Her ad-
dress is the Holton Arms School, 2125 S Street,
Washington, D. C.
Katharine Holliday was married to Lieut.
Joseph Daniels in June. Her husband has
gone overseas.
Ella Lindley Burton has a son, Gale Cotton
Burton.
Teresa Howell is to teach mathematics and
physics and also to be athletic instructor at
Rosemary this winter.
Marjorie Jefferies and Virginia Kneeland
worked in war-chemistry this summer in the
chemistry department at Bryn Mawr. Mar-
jorie Jefferies has entered the Medical School
of the University of Pennsylvania and Virginia
Kneeland the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Columbia University.
Sarah Morton, Alice Newlin and Sidney Bell
were among the workers at the Bryn Mawr
farm this summer.
Marian O'Connor is a reporter on the New
York Evening Sun.
Laura Pearson, ex-'18 (Mrs. Blanchard
Pratt) has a daughter, Hildreth Pearson Pratt,
born September 25.
Leslie Richardson is assistant to the head of
a department in the Foreign Exchange Division
of the National City Bank, New York City.
Mary Rupert has been serving in the motor
corps in Wilmington, Delaware.
Helen Schwarz expects to enter an army hos-
pital for nurses' training.
Adelaide Shaffer took a course in reconstruc-
tion work in New York this summer.
Katharine Sharpless will study at the School
of Philanthropy in New York this winter.
Louise Smith has been at the Vassar Train-
ing Camp for Nurses and expects to enter
Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
Marjorie Strauss has been working in Dr.
Dakin's Laboratory this summer.
Margaret Worch is studying stenography in
Providence, Rhode Island.
NOTICE
Because of the severe illness of the former
editor of the Quarterly and because of an acci-
dent in mailing, the April issue was unavoid-
ably delayed and several copies went astray.
If any subscriber did not receive her April
number, will she kindly write to the present
editor and a copy will be sent her.
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THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
Editor-in-Chief
Isabel Foster, '15
Waterbury, Connecticut
Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Brakely, '16
Freehold, N. J.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Meeting of Alumnae Directors 115
News from Campus 116
War Work. 119
News from Clubs 128
News from Classes 128
Appointment Bureau 134
Contributions to the Quarterly, books for review, and subscriptions should be sent to
the Editor-in-Chief, Isabel Foster, The Republican, Waterbury, Conn. Cheques should be
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is published in January, April, July, and November of each year. The price of subscrip-
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to receive numbers of the Quarterly should be reported promptly to the Editor. Changes
of address should be reported to the Editor not later than the first day of each month
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The address of the secretary of the Alumnae Association has been changed. It is now,
Miss Katherine Mc Collin, 2213 St. James Place, Philadelphia, Pa.
Copyright, iqiq, by the Alumnae Association of Bryn Mawr College
THE BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE
QUARTERLY
VOLUME XII
JANUARY, 1919
No. 4
MEETING OF ALUMNAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WITH
DELEGATES FROM CLUBS AND BRANCHES, NEW
YORK, DECEMBER 7, 1918
Miss Jones, reporting for the Ohio Branch,
said that although the Branch had not met
lately, it would hold a meeting whenever it
was possible to get a good speaker from the
College. It would be easy to do some adver-
tising for the College through the members of
the Ohio Branch.
The New York Branch has three active com-
mittees: the I. C. S. A. (formerly the College
Settlement Committee) which is raising a fund
for a fellowship at the College Settlement; the
Bureau of Occupations Committee, which has
no work at present, as this Bureau has been
taken over by the government; the War Work
Committee, which has helped in the Council
of National Defense, in Red Cross drives, and
is now raising money for the Service Corps.
Miss Ecob made a motion that "the Directors
of the Alumnae Association should be asked to
consider the possibility of remitting to Branches
of more than fifty members 10 cents of the dues
of each member." Miss Ecob explained that
by this arrangement a branch, such as the New
York one, which was raising money for differ-
ent purposes, might have a small sum yearly
to use for printing expenses, etc. In the dis-
cussion which followed it was brought out that
the Philadelphia Branch charges extra for
lunches, etc., to cover local expenses, and that
the Chicago Branch too does this and has $100
extra every year for a scholarship. Miss
Ecob's plan would avoid giving the impression
that the Branches were struggling for support.
It would also mean dividing the country geo-
graphically and remitting ten cents in those
districts where Branches were located.
This motion was passed.
In regard to the advisability of arranging
for more speakers from the College to visit
different branches, Mrs Dudley made the fol-
lowing motion:
"That it be a sense of the meeting that the
Secretary of the Board shall inform herself of
any meetings to be attended by the faculty,
and notify clubs and branches and groups of
Alumnae in advance." This motion was passed.
There was discussion next about the College
News, and the possibility of making some ar-
rangement with the News to give Alumnae a
reduced rate, and to increase the list of Alumnae
subscribers. Miss Foster, the first Editor of
the College News, suggested that a column or
two of weekly Alumnae news might be sent to
the College News and that then the Alumnae
Quarterly might be reduced, or published less
frequently. This would probably mean, it
was pointed out, having an Alumnae editor on
the College News, or in some way merging the
management.
Mrs. Brooks made the following motion:
"That Miss Foster be authorized to get in
touch with the Editor of the College News,
and find out what arrangement can be made
for having more Alumnae news in the College
News, and what could be done about having
an Alumnae editor on the news board. (This
motion was later withdrawn.)
Miss Reilly moved "that the Board of Di-
rectors in the light of the present discussion
he asked to consider this question and report to
the Annual Meeting." This motion was passed.
The report of the Service Corps was next in
order of business. Miss Reilly reported on this,
and Miss Hawkins for the Farm Committee.
No formal report was given by the Academic
Committee. Miss Thomas reported for the
Finance" Committee, that a final letter had been
sent to all class collectors, asking them to send
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The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly
[January
in their money now. (These reports will be
given in full at the Annual Meeting).
Among the matters to be discussed at the
Annual Meeting is the question of raising the
dues. Miss Ehlers gave a statement of the
financial difficulties of the Association, and
urged an increase of dues.
Reporting for the Quarterly, Miss Foster
said that a business manager was badly needed.
An addressograph would be a great help in
getting the magazine out on time.
There was discussion as to whether the farm
should be run another year, and whether work
for the Service Corps should go on, or should
be changed in character. It was the general
feeling as regards the farm that it is too early
to judge as to the need for such an isolated
undertaking in food production as the College
can organize. Further discussion of both the
Farm and the Service Corps was postponed till
the Annual Meeting. The meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Hilda W. Smith, Recording Secretary.
NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS
MRS. RUSSELL SAGE LEAVES BRYN
MAWR LEGACY OF $500,000
Margaret Olivia Sage, who died on November
4th in her ninety-first year, left Bryn Mawr
College one fifty-second share of her residuary
estate, which is estimated by the newspapers
as between $700,000 and $800,000, but by
Mrs. Sage's executor, Mr. Robert W. de Forest
as about $500,000, in a telegram sent to Pres-
ident Thomas. Other shares go to foreign and
home missions, aid, tract and Bible societies,
hospitals, museums, libraries, Hampton, Tus-
kegee, and fourteen other colleges in addition
to Bryn Mawr — Troy Polytechnic, Union,
Hamilton, New York University, Syracuse,
Yale, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Prince-
ton, and four women's colleges, Vassar, Wel-
lesley, Smith and Barnard.
All these bequests are free from any restric-
tion except the request that they shall be used
in some way that shall commemorate the name
of her husband, E.ussell Sage, who left her this
great fortune to dispose of. These splendid
charitable and educational gifts, amounting
roughly to $40,000,000, place Mrs. Sage next
to John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie
among American benefactors. It is generally
thought that the Trustees will add this legacy
to the general endowment funds of the college,
and it is hoped that the income of about $200,-
000 of the legacy will be set aside to enable the
college to join in the new professors' pension
plan of the Carnegie Foundation.
It is interesting to recall that during her
husband's lifetime Mrs. Sage attended com-
mencement at Bryn Mawr and took such a
fancy to President Thomas's garden party hat
that she ordered an exact duplicate and wore
it for several years, as Mr. Sage gave her a very
small dress allowance. Soon after his death
she gave President Thomas $20,000 for suffrage
work, and let her present the terrible financial
straits of the five women's colleges — Mount
Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith and Bryn
Mawr. After this interview President Thomas
sent Mrs. Sage a carefully written statement
of what an additional endowment of $1,000,000
apiece given to these five colleges would mean
for women's education. This statement was
never acknowledged and President Thomas
says that she feared that she had displeased
Mrs. Sage and probably damaged Bryn Mawr's
chance of being remembered in her will. Hap-
pily this proves not to have been the case;
and it may be that President Thomas's pres-
entation of the needs of the women's colleges
influenced Mrs. Sage to include four of the five
colleges among her residuary legatees. At the
time that Mrs. Sage's will was made a fifty-
second share would have amounted to about
$1,000,000 for each college, but gifts of prin-
cipal during her lifetime considerably reduced
the residuary estate. Bryn Mawr is grateful
to Mrs. Sage for its legacy and will always
revere her memory. — The College News.
FRESHMAN STATISTICS SHOW DE-
SIRE TO TAKE UP DEFINITE
OCCUPATIONS
Statistics of the present Freshman Class,
compiled by the college, show that 92 out of
the class of 100 intend to take an A.B. Degree,
and that 73 have in mind a definite occupation
which they wish to enter on leaving college.
Eleven plan to teach, 9 to do reconstruction
work, 8 social work, 7 medicine, 3 research
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work in science, and 3 law. Others wish to
take up Journalism, Writing, Secretarial Work,
Bacteriology, Horse Farming, Nursing, Scien-
tific Agriculture, Art, Music, Architecture,
Banking, Interpreting, Vocational Psychology,
Juvenile Court Work, Acting, and Work in the
Orient to better the economic conditions of
women. Twenty-seven are undecided, but
want to do something, and 3 do not wish to do
paid work.
The chief reasons why Freshmen selected
Bryn Mawr College are: Recommended by
School, 19; High Standard, 14; Friendship with
Alumnae or present students, 13; Mother con-
sidered Bryn Mawr the best college, 11; Sister
at Bryn Mawr now or formerly, 7. Other
reasons given were: Mother on Alumna, Father
considered Bryn Mawr the hardest college;
Admiration for Bryn Mawr graduates; Difficult
entrance examinations; Small college; Near
home; Nice climate; Interested in Model School;
Friendship with Trustees of the College.
Sixty-seven have always intended to attend
college, the others having decided in the last
five years.
The nationalities of Freshmen's families are:
Both parents American, 73; parents Scotch
and American, 6; English and American. 3;
Irish and American, 3 ; Canadian and American,
2; German and American, 2; Welsh and Amer-
ican, 1; Swiss and American, 1; Austrian and
American, 1; English and Irish, 1; English and
Danish, 1; Austrian and Russian, 1; both par-
ents German- Austrian, 1; Chinese, 1; German,
1; English, 1; Russian, 1. — The College News.
r. h., P. Bronson, '16; 1. f., L. Windle, '07; r. f.,
Ecorstevt, graduate student; g., A. Werner
Vorys, '16.
Varsity was undefeated throughout the sea-
son, winning from All-Philadelphia with a
score of 6 to 3 on November 22.
MISS DONNELLY ELECTED
The income of the Mary Elizabeth Garrett
Memorial fund of $100,000, raised by alumnae
and undergraduates, has become available this
year and the principal will be handed over later
to found a chair of English. The directors of
the college have elected Lucy Martin Donnelly,
'93, the head of the department of English,
Mary Elizabeth Garrett professor of English.
VOLUNTARY TESTS
Voluntary general information tests will be
given after Christmas. President Thomas is
offering prizes to the best informed. The Com-
mittee in charge is: Professor Donnelly, chair-
man, Professor Fenwick and Professor Frank,
SCIENCE CLUB DIES
The Science Club, founded in 1905, will be
given up by vote of the meetings. It was said
that it was too difficult to arouse interest in
science in general with the competition of the
Philosophy and Doctors' Clubs in active
competition.
ROLLER SKATING REVIVED
VARSITY PLAYS CHOSEN
"Rosalind" by J. M. Barrie, "A Maid of
France" by Harold Brighouse and "The Merry
Death" by Evreinov have been chosen for the
Varsity Dramatics program on March 7 and 8.
The Glee Club will give "Pirates of Penzance''
by Gilbert and Sullivan on May 2 and 3.
ALUMNAE DEFEATED BY VARSITY
Varsity failed to score in the first half of the
game with the alumnae team this year, but in
the second half made 3 points. The playing
was clean and swift.
Polly Branson, '16, captained the Alumnae
Team which was composed of: 1. w., J. Kat-
zenstein, '06; 1. i. H. Schwartz, '18; c. f., M.
Kirk, '10; r. i., M. Willard, '17; r. w., H. Kirk,
'14; 1. h. A. Hawkins, '07; c. h , M. Bacon, '18;
Roller skating, lapsed in popularity since the
spring of 1913, has been revived by a vote of
the Athletic Association. One hour of roller
skating will count as a period of exercise under
the rules of the Gymnasium Department.
CONNELLY NEW BOSS
"Barbo," the head Italian workman on the
campus, has left the college. Joseph Connelly
who has been employed by the college since the
opening year, 1884, is in charge of the workmen
on the athletic fields.
NORMAL CLASS IN DANCING
Miss Applebee will give a normal class in
the theory of folk dancing, apparatus and
games. All in the class will give lessons at
the Community Center.
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DICKENS CHRISTMAS AT DENBIGH
Denbigh gave the most novel Christmas party
of any hall on the campus this year. It took
the form of a Dickens Christmas, with jester,
waits and Santa Claus before the blazing Yule-
log.
AVIATORS AT BRYN MAWR
Two aviation officers from Mineola have been
receiving instruction in the psychology labo-
ratory in the use of the apparatus devised by
Dr. Ferree for testing the speed of adjustment
of aviators' eyes. They are Major W. B. Lan-
caster, commander of the Ophthalmological
Division of the Medical Research Laboratory
at Mineola and Capt. J. M. Wheeler.
Dr. Ferree's apparatus was sent to France
last summer and a duplicate is now in use at
Mineola.
GREAT LOSS OF BOOKS
More books were lost in 1918 from the college
library than ever before, 267 in all, Miss Reed
says in her annual report. More than $5000
has been spent on books in the year and the
total in the collection now is 86,709. The
circulation has been 24,000. The students
have borrowed 54 per cent of this number from
the loan desk, the faculty and staff 23 per
cent and 23 per cent were given out in the
reserve room.
NEW PICTURE IN CHAPEL
David Roberts' painting of St. Mark's Plaza,
as it was before the falling of the Campanile,
from the gallery of Miss Garrett's house in
Baltimore has been hung in the Chapel by Pres-
ident Thomas. Five other paintings have
been placed in the sitting room at the Deanery
and several marble busts will be placed in the
Library corridors in the Christmas vacation.
BRYN MAWR WOMEN IN POLITICS
Mrs Oliver Strachey (Rachel Conn Cos-
tello) who attended Bryn Mawr in 1908-09
ran for the British Parliament for the Brent-
ford and Chiswick division of Middlesex.
She was defeated by Lieut.-Col. Grant Morden,
a Canadian and a Coalition Unionist who polled
9077 votes. Mrs. Strachey won 1263. W.
Haywood, the Laborite candidate in this con-
test had 2620 votes.
Mrs. Strachey is a step-daughter of Bernhard
Berenson, the art critic and is also related to
President Thomas.
Bertha Rembaugh, '97, has been elected to
the city committee of the Citizens Union of
the City of New York.
AnnaB. Lawther, '97, state suffrage president,
presided at a mass meeting in celebration of
the recent victories in Michigan, South Dakota
and Oklahoma, given at Dubuque.
BRYN MAWR SONGS BRING DOWN
AIR RAID IN FRANCE
Reuning in France, Bryn Mawrters sang so
hard that they brought down an air raid, Shirley
Putnam, '09, told the undergraduates in a speech
at chapel just before she returned to France
last month.
Miss Putnam returned to this country last
August after serving at first as a nurse's aide
and later as a searcher for missing men among
the wounded in the hospitals. She was as-
signed to a hospital in Lorraine, while Mary
Gertrude Brownell, '15, her companion searcher,
went on to Toul.
Cynthia Wessen, '09, had such a fine can-
teen, Miss Putnam said that General Pershing
had sent for pictures of it to exibit as a model.
QUESTIONNAIRES SENT MEMBERS
Service members abroad have been sent
questionnaires concerning their work and their
plans for the future. A motion to this effect
was passed at a meeting on November 26.
RECOMMENDATION OF HELEN
EMERSON, '11,
Helen Emerson, '11, has been recommended
for a worker with the Y. M. C. A. The Red
Cross will not send out any more workers.
The Y. M. C. A. wants persons willing to go
to Germany, the Balkans and Russia.
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CHILDREN OF FRONTIER ARE
SERVED BY BRYN
MAWRTERS
The Franco-American Committee for the
Care of the Children of the Frontier has been
called the standard organization engaged in re-
lief work among children by Dr. Lucas, Head of
the Children's Bureau of the Red Cross. So
well appreciated has its work been that its
President, Mr. Jaccaci, has recently been made
a member of the Legion of Honor by the French
government. And this is of particular interest
to Bryn Mawr because the Committee has found
some of its ablest assistants in Bryn Mawr
women.
Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith, ex-'97, Field
Secretary, is again in France, collecting mate-
rial for further lectures. This is her third visit.
Last winter she returned at New Year's and
spent the spring and nearly all of the summer
speaking in the Middle West and in New Eng-
land. Many of the largest donations to the
Franco- American Committee, such as the $15,-
000 from the Columbus War Chest, come as
direct response to her appeals.
In France, Marjorie Cheney, ex-'03, and Dr.
May Putnam, '09, have worked for sometime
with these refugee children. Dr. Putnam has
had an office in Paris, visiting the children in
their colonies in the country. Marjorie Cheney
has had charge of a colony of boys at Presles.
Emily R. Cross, '01 has been serving on the
Executive Committee in Paris and has had
under her special care a colony of one hundred
girls at Grandbourg and another of one hundred
and fifty boys at Issy-les-Moulineux (Seine).
In this country, the work, of collecting funds
and necessary supplies, is in the hands of an
Executive Committee in New York and several
sub-committees located in various sections of
the United States. One of these, in Rhode
Island, under the chairmanship of Edith Ed-
wards, '01 , has been cited for its excellent results.
It may be added that all the clothes worn by
the Children of the Frontier are made in the
United States and transported free by the
French government. Since January 1, 1918,
their total is 82,000. The list of Bryn Mawr
women who have here contributed their needle-
work, their dollars and their influence is, one
feels confident, worthy of Bryn Mawr.
FROM BEHIND THE FRONT
Margaret Hall, '99, who is doing Red Cross
work in a French canteen at Chalons, right be-
hind the front lines, writes of her experiences
under fire, of nights in caves below the ruined
town and of highways packed with soldiers
going to battle and wounded and prisoners re-
turning. Her letter reads in part:
"Our crossing was uneventful — we started in a
medium sized convoy, but towards the end of
the trip were left all alone to the mercies of any
submarine which happened to be about, as we
were a slow old tub and could only crawl along.
Our most patient companion the Lorraine fi-
nally got tired of waiting for us and sailed off, and
I must say that after having as much company
as we started out with it did seem lonely those
last days, and the day before we landed we
hailed our little French escort with joy. We
slept out with life preservers always under our
hands, and a searchlight and brandy flask and
malted milk tablets under my head — prepared
for the worst. The decks at night were so dark
that one of .the girls got her nose broken by
bumping into someone else. I'll never forget
the horror of trying to find my steamer chair
in the dark, and getting fixed in it.
I assure you that with the exception of the
days in Paris one of the most trying things I
have had to contend with ever since I left home
has been deciding where I am to sleep. To-
night I am in bed regularly, properly dressed
for the night — the first time in a long line that
I have been so, and I am so because it is dark
and raining. For the last week my clothes have
not been off except twice for the decency of a
bath in a hand basin.
We had a dreadful night trip up to Paris, no
sleeping possible, so by the time I got to the
Red Cross office instead of being hale and hearty
I was a worn out frazzle of my former self.
There were two awfully nice Smith unit girls
on the boat. Ruth Gaines who wrote the book
A Picardy Town or something of the sort and
Geogiana Read — Mrs. Andrews (the head) Sec-
retary, a perfect brick. Of course I heard a
great deal about the doings of the unit, and how
they consider themselves the shock troops as it
were. I felt they were very grand when I heard
they had to have 'tin helmets,' but I'm as
grand as that myself, and trot off for shelter
almost nightly with mine on my arm. It is
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nearly as constant a companion as my life
preserver was. I seem to switch off on side
tracks every once in a while, don't I?
Lets see — in Paris — I did lots of things all con-
nected with war. Went to all the hospitals I
could — saw more dreadful face wounded in one
ward which I'll never forget. Went to Isadora
Duncan's palace, rented by her to the Red
Cross or Government for $1000 a month. Saw
arms and legs by the thousands suspended in
harness having the Dakin treatment. Saw
hundreds of gassed men who could not speak
above a whisper, and saw seven at once taken
out of a pneumonia ward in their flag covered
coffins. I also went to the American soldiers'
cemetery, and saw the great tenderness and rev-
erence with which the French men and women
take care of our boys' graves. They adopt
them, put a brass plate on the white cross with
their own name (which is much more conspicu-
ous than the boys' little identification disk which
is tacked on to the side of the cross), and see
that the flowers are always kept fresh and the
grass if they have succeeded in making any
grow, is kept green. There was a whole trench
open, waiting for occupants. I guess Ameri-
cans almost never go there, I wanted to though
and felt repaid for the difficulty in finding it.
HELPING THE WOUNDED
Then I helped give coffee, etc., to a train of
wounded being evacuated from Paris, and to an-
other one of wounded coming in — a most difficult
thing to do as it is a French army post, and they
don't care to have Americans there. It was a
train of our boys. First the walking cases came
hobbling out, some in uniforms, and some in
dressing gowns, then the stretcher cases were
brought into a big room and put down in rows.
We had to get pillows for their heads, blankets
for them if they were cold, and after the doctors
had given them each a number card which
showed which hospital they were to be taken to
we went round and gave chocolate or coffee to
all except those who had No. 8. They were
fever cases, and could not have food. It was
an all night's performance for Mrs. Earle and
me, as we started down at 9.30 p.m., and the
train didn't come in until 2 a.m. We were in-
vited to sleep on hospital beds in the nurses'
quarter, and as there seemed to be some friction
in the officers' rooms, and a very cross lieutenant
in charge of the American Red Cross I decided
to get out of the way and accepted the invita-
tion.
There is a great bombardment just started
now this minute, at the front. They start all
of a sudden! Another interesting thing we did
was to see the refugees at a canteen in one of
the stations. How sick and worn and emaci-
ated they looked. Something- started them
crying, and the old men even joined in. One
poor pale woman had a little baby of eleven
months, so thin and pathetic looking, and a
husband who had gone crazy and was in an in-
stitution at Lyon. None of them had anything
left in the world. One was getting a nice French
woman — a lady — you don't see many French
ladies working about — to write to the mayor of
her town to let her come back. The woman
said she knew he wouldn't, but wrote the letter
just the same. (Politics enter very much into
refugee work.) I almost joined in the weeping
chorus, and had many misgivings as to the value
I'd be over here. Then we went to St. Sulpice
to see the refugee quarters there. Fifteen hun-
dred live there permanently, and 10,000 more
used to spend the nights there during the Ger-
man drive. Whole towns would come in at
once, check their belongings and be sent out by
9 the next morning. One woman came in with
93 bundles, and went out with the same number
— quite a feat they considered it. All the babies
were scrubbed in tubs, and given new clothes
before they started off.
PARIS IN A RAID
We were in Paris during a pretty good raid,
and Mrs. Earle and I watched it breathless with
excitement from her window, while all the others
were in the cellar. They sent for us but we
never heard them, so had a great time watching
the whole thing. The exploding shrapnel look
like flashing stars. We heard the Boche's ma-
chines right over our heads — I don't know how
many. They started a big fire so that added
to the spectacularness of the raid. The first
lasted one and one-half hours, and soon after we
were settled in bed after the berloque sounded
we were called up by a second alerte which was
not bad. The Germans could not get through
the barrage that time. The next morning we
went to see the ruins, and decided the cellar
was the place to stay after all. I was on tenter-
hooks all the time I was in Paris for fear I should
not really be able to get up here. No untrained
workers are supposed to come, and only those
whose service deserves a reward get the place.
I wasn't especially anxious to do hospital hut
work, nor searchers either, which means inter-
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viewing all the dying men in a hospital, and
sending their last words and all the news one
can collect about them back to their families.
It would be interesting, but too harrowing, so
I went to see Mrs. Vanderbilt to see if she would
take me for canteen. She was out, and I saw
her secretary, a Miss Burnett — very nice. I
must have heard somewhere that the only can-
teens the Red Cross have near the front are
French ones, so I very innocently said I'd like
to go in a French canteen if possible. Miss B.
immediately said 'We've had a call for more
workers for Chalons and I think you can go
there, but come in and see Mrs. Vanderbilt
Monday.' I did and told her that Miss Bur-
nett said I could go to Chalons, so Mrs. Vander-
bilt with the wind taken a little out of her sails
— hummed and hawed and said finally yes I
could go. I never felt until I got there though
that I would make it, and I can't believe it is I
who am here seeing all these wonderful things,
hearing the guns from the front as I am at this
moment, seeing the flashes in the sky, and being
so near to this terrible but fascinating horror.
Anything that is used in war has gone by me
in procession, from a little caravan of carrier
pigeons to the biggest of the big guns, all in
camouflage. It has been a long endless pro-
cession of camions, ambulances, artillery, truck-
carrying everything you can think of — a pro-
cession in both ways — wounded being rushed
back, and thousands of German prisoners, little
worn out bent German boys, so young as the
French say that there was no hair on their faces.
Almost two hundred aviators going by within
a few minutes, all going to the front. Battle
planes with their little scouts flying high over
and round them — each group flying in battle
formation coming from different directions out
of the sky, and going on in the same direction
as the Boche lines.
THE GREAT OFFENSIVE BEGINS
Yesterday President Poincare and General
Petain came up and decorated the mayor and
bishop of long suffering — and hard suffering too
— hard suffering you would realize by a walk
about the town where in some parts nothing but
ruins are to be seen — and then again by the
procession which begins about dusk every night
of inhabitants going to the wine cellars to sleep.
Old bent over women hobbling along carrying
their possessions done up in sheets swung over
their backs, some wheeling their precious be-
longings in wheel barrows, and others in baby
carriages or push carts; some leading little
children by their hands, others using their hands
for their canes which help them make the same
trip night after night, you feel a great physical
weariness yourself as you watch it all, and when
you go visit them in the caves as I did at 3 a.m.
one night you feel a greater one. It was the
second night I was here. The first one was
exceedingly disturbed for the great offensive
began at 11 p.m. like a thunder storm not far
away — continuous lightning and a constant roll
of thunder from then until 7 a.m. That with
visits from every kind of vermin except cooties
made my night a rather disturbed one, and
when I told my untidy but pretty French land-
lady about it she just said 'Oh! did they sortie.'
The next place I found somewhat cleaner, in
fact clean, but the room I had at first had no
glass in the windows. That I've remedied by
moving into another one which has all the glass
in — a most unusual state of affairs for this town.
Well sometime about the middle of my second
night at war I was wakened by 'Mme. get up
quickly — an alerte — you'll be hurt.' So Mme.
flew up and into her clothes and together with
Mme. and Mile. Hennogue — a charming French
woman and her young daughter who are staying
here doing canteen — they have no home (she
has lost two sons, and her husband is a famous
cavalry general in the army) — rushed into the
back garden and over to the canteen by the
back way which the enemy have very kindly
opened up by dropping a bomb on an iron fence
which shut us off before. The street was full of
black shadows rushing in the opposite direction
to the town wine cellars — caves they call them —
we went to our little abri at the canteen made by
the French army after a trip Mr. Davidson made
to the city, or town or whatever it is. These we
stayed listening to our own especials 75s, and
machine fire rat-tat-tats, and occasional dull
booms, which they said were Boche bombs.
SEEING THE TOWN CAVES
After the thing quieted down Mme. Hennogue
asked me if I would like to see the town caves,
so we went there, and no one at home can ever
have an idea of what I saw unless they came
themselves. We went in through the court of
the wine fabrique and then through a gate of
stone masonry built in the hill, and in a few sec-
onds turned and looked down an endless gallery
lined on both sides with beds put as close to-
gether as they could be, with little night lamps
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burning at intervals all the way down, giving
just enough light to keep the place from being
absolutely black. There were some elaborate
wooden beds, some just little iron ones, some
people even had no bedsteads bat just mat-
tresses on the damp grounds, others were
wrapped up sitting in 'folding chairs,' and others
whom I took to be the town paupers were
simply stretched out on top of the great wine
vats with no covering at all. All the beds were
occupied either by one or more persons, all in
different degrees of soundness of sleep, and dif-
ferent degrees of loudness of breathing, and all
had beside them piles of their most precious
possessions. Children with their toys, women
with bundles which I took to be their linen —
some of their choice household furnishings were
there even. Mme. H. took me up and down
some of the galleries. We could not talk, and
she told me only to use my flash light pointed
down so not to disturb the people.
Off the main galleries (long passageways) are
little short blind ones called 'Chambres sepa-
rees/ and used perhaps for only one family.
Some of the canteen workers go every night into
one of these in a not very populous part of one
cave — last night they had rats pattering round
beside them. We went through some of the
passageways or galleries of two different caves —
both the same — one almost three miles in length.
There are five of these wine cellars in all here,
and all crowded. They say it is nothing like
what it was in the March offensive of the Ger-
mans. Then there was scarcely room to move.
One old woman — sixty-eight years old — keeps
her 'Chaise pliant' and pillow constantly be-
side the front door ready to snatch up at a mo-
ment's notice and fly to the shelter of the caves.
That night was an experience for me I'll never
forget, and when they say 'Mile, we have suf-
fered— C'est une vie de misere' one can well
believe it. It has been a life of excitement for
me I can assure you. To stand in one spot on
top of a railroad bridge is the most entrancing
thing I've ever done. That is where everything
goes over and under. The military procession
on top, the military procession of trains under-
neath. The railroad platforms change every
five minutes — sometimes they are blue — all blue
with that heavenly horizon blue of the poilu —
then they are olive green with Italian troops,
and again brown with our own khaki — some-
times even they are mixed — one platform of
each color when the different troop trains hap-
pen in at the same time. Then sanitary trains
come through and we have to fly out to them
with coffee and cigarettes — men from the first
dressing stations — practically right from the
trenches — some Germans often with them.
MEETING GERMAN PRISONERS
The Germans get coffee for the kindly old
French infirmiers say 'Mile, they are all wounded
French and Boche alike,' but when it comes to
cigarettes it is a little different. Sometimes we
ask the French wounded whether to give them
to the Boche or not. Sometimes we pass them
by which even now I don't like to do, and some-
times they say 'German' to us as we pass by and
more are apt to get them as a reward for what
may be honesty, or perhaps only is haughtiness.
Then over the bridge I've seen a bluish green
line passing — a very long one — often there are
little groups of them — in fact all the time, but
for two days it was very long, and all the popu-
lation came out to watch it — for the most part
silently. One prisoner was heard to remark
'What a lot of people in this place.' They
looked tired and foot-sore, one even was carry-
ing his boots tied together over his shoulder.
They were fagged and looked so forlorn stripped
of their equipment and decorations. Their es-
cort was mounted — going at regular intervals on
each side of the line — some with guns and bay-
onets fixed pointing straight ahead of them —
some with long medieval like lances — carried
straight up and down, and some with swords
drawn and held at 'attention.'
Our very most warlike horror happened over
a week ago. We'd had an alerte while I was at
dinner, or supper rather, across the river at a
place where 6 or 8 of us eat, and did not have
time to go to a shelter before the barrage began.
After that it is not safe to venture out, so we
went down to the cellar of the house. Neither
of the girls I was with seemed satisfied with our
position, but we couldn't help it. We stayed
there while a terrific firing went on — 75s ma-
chine guns and others, and heard the German
machines and the bombs they dropped. Finally
it calmed down and we thought things were over
so I went home and I was sitting on my bed
later writing a letter when the front door rattled
terribly, also the windows, and then boom-
boom-boom, and M. H. found herself on her
feet with her hair standing on end. The old
woman downstairs had come back from the
caves, thinking the excitement of the night
over. She screeched up to me to come down
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quickly, got me in her room and shut the door,
and wailed and moaned and kept crying 'Oh
I'm so frightened — why did I ever come home
from the cave.' First she would run to one
corner of the room — then to another and all
the time outside there was the terrific explosion
of shrapnel and bombs going on. You feel a
little helpless at such a time. I tried to calm
her down, but couldn't. After a while the thing
stopped and we heard people walking or run-
ning rather down the street, and she said 'They
are going to the caves' and like a flash she
grabbed her chair and pillow and was gone.
SHRAPNEL WOUNDS WORKER
That left me alone in the house — a thing I
didnt' care any too much about, so I rushed up-
stairs, opened my windows — I'd risk my life
any time to save my window glass — grabbed my
papers and money and helmet and flew for the
canteen. There they were down in the abri.
At every 'alerte' the canteen is cleared, and
soldiers are made to go to their abri, and every
one of the workers go down into the abri made
for the women. I hadn't been there very long
when the rumpus began again. We could hear
the Germans very plainly, and whenever the ser-
geant and other men who look out for the can-
teen came right into the room with us and shut
the door — a very heavy affair — we knew they
were feeling a little nervous. They always gave
us an excuse for shutting the door (which made
us airless) that the candles smoked when it
was open, but we knew better. Two of the can-
teen workers — the two I had been in the cellar
with earlier in the evening — were supposed to be
on duty all night, but got caught on the street
when those bombs fell which brought me to my
feet, and had thrown themselves on the side
walk against a house head to head, and stayed
there until that excitement was over — then af-
ter the next one which they had spent in a shel-
ter on the other side of the river they came to
the canteen and brought the news that we had
one war bless£e. One of the women had had
her finger cut to the bone by shrapnel on the
way from the house to a little abri in the garden
— only a few steps. They had seen these three
first bombs fall whjch came from a clear sky
with no alerte to give warning that Germans
were about.
About 3 a.m. M. Hennogue and I started to go
home when we heard rumors that eight bombs
had fallen as near to where I was sitting on my
bed as our stable is to our house at the beach,
and had caused terrible havoc. We went down
there — it was a hospital and the bombs had
fallen on the cinema room where the wounded
were crowded in waiting to be evacuated that
night. There were ambulances all about — a
hushed excitement — no one would say anything,
said we wouldn't help. There were stretchers
about. I couldn't make out whether they were
the wounded from the front or the dead and
dying from what the French insist upon calling
the 'accident.' We were not allowed to go
near the place where the thing had fallen. The
outside looked intact, but entrance was for-
bidden us so we came home.
The next day Mme. H. and I went over. My
Red Cross admitted us, but when we got to the
door of the cinema the doctor in charge said
'Madam, it is no sight for a woman to see —
nor for a man either.' This woman didn't want
to see it, I can tell you. I watched the perfectly
rude coffins being taken in, and I saw one or
two poor men brought out on stretchers, and
the men try to straighten them out so that they
could put the lid on. I did not look at them.
First they shovelled reddish sand into the bot-
toms of the coffins, then took them just inside
the door and collected what they thought might
belong together. Two American officers came
out and said they were glad they had been in
for now they were thoroughly mad. I thought it
had taken quite a while to make them mad.
The doctor said that in all his four years at
the front he'd never seen anything equal that.
They say he is almost crazy now. He had
written the day before to the Paris authorities
saying his hospital should be evacuated in the
day time, and that he would take no responsi-
bility of the result if it were not, and had had
no answer, nothing but the 'result.' I rather
think it the worst thing that has happened of
the sort.
FUNERAL FOR MURDERED BOYS
The next day I went to a military funeral —
63 or 64 coffins all covered neatly with white
cloth and flowers on the top, arranged in front
of the monument in the military cemetery.
The bishop, mayor and the big general of this
section came down to the service. The general
brought news from the front that the important
hill near the martyred city had been taken, and
that everything was going on magnificently
there. I shook hands with him. He had only
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one arm — lost the other in the war. Since that
night of the three attacks I haven't taken off
my clothes at all. The members of the canteen
have either gone out to the country in our little
camions for the night or gone to the public caves,
or stayed as I did at the canteen for I was on
night duty and couldn't leave. The canteen
was ordered closed by the general from 8 p.m.
to 4 a.m., so I slept either down under ground
or on a couch in the office of the canteen ready
to descend at a moment's notice. I am always
too tired to have the alerte wake me up. The
guns when they go all night make me feel restless
and nervous a little, but the alerte has no effect
at all. I don't wonder the workers here are a
little on edge so to speak.
The canteen is fascinating — very large — with
reading room — moving-picture hall — shower
baths — barber shop — dormitory, and officers'
quarters — the biggest canteen here I imagine
therefore not at all 'in time.' I never have
time to raise my eyes from whatever I am doing,
and my best friends might go through and be
given chocolate by my hand and I'd never know
it. Such a mob and movement has never been
known here before. The interior of the canteen
has been decorated by French artists, and if any
artist wants a sight to delight his eyes and soul
let him step inside of the counter for a few min-
utes and watch the faces and the whole moving
scene. The first time I saw it the room was
packed — the background — the horizon blue —
the most truly heavenly color I've ever seen —
of the poilu — against that stand out Algerians
with their red Turk like looking caps with gold
stars and half moons on them, great big tall
Singalese — black as coal with shining faces and
shining white teeth. Amavedes (don't know
what they are or where they come from — but
they look like little Chinamen and chatter in
high voices and put you at your wits end in no
time) — Indo Chinaman — Italians in their olive
green — Italian Gendarmes with neat big Napo-
leon hats on — and our boys in khaki — all push-
ing and stretching towards the counter waiting
to be fed. I don't have any of the hard clean-
ing or cooking labor to do — but standing up for
six hours, steadily pouring out coffee, chocolate
or dishing out soup and handing out 'repas'
or consigning 'converts' (renting out spoons,
and cups for one-half franc each article) or
sitting in the 'caisse' is wearing in the end be-
cause of the impatience with which you are
viewed if you don't serve each individual the
moment he appears on the scene — good na-
tured impatience generally, but still you are
aware something is expected of you which you
can't for the moment accomplish.
PASSING OVER BATTLEFIELDS
I must stop now — I've given you lots of my
time and hope you won't be bored to death
trying to make out what I'm talking about.
I don't believe you'll ever get another letter of
this length from me — but if I won't write very
much please do keep on writing to me. There
is really no comfort in the living conditions.
We live as Mme. says under war conditions.
Four years ago she walked out of her house and
the town as the Germans walked in, and ever
since her life has been like this, and besides she
has lost her two sons, killed, and never can see
her husband. She is sick now too. Everyone
is more or less. It is a killing life I guess to
those who are not of a cast iron make-up.
I am finishing this in bed the next morn-
ing. It seems so good to be really in bed that
I am staying in until I have to go to dinner
at 12.
I hope the Bodies have been pushed back so
far now that they will let us alone here. The
American troops are adored by the French.
The Italians who come into the canteen seem
sullen for the most part. I suppose they want
to go home.
Yours ever,
Margaret Hall."
"P.S. — I forgot to tell you that coming up we
went through the devastated country. We saw
towns in half ruins and whole ruins — railroad
bridges blown up — old pontoons pulled up any
old way on the shores of the M. — wire entangle-
ments high and low — abris for the men in the
sides of hills — old rugs and parts of uniform
lying around in the debris — trenches zigzagging
across fields — fields pitted with shell holes so
close together that there was scarcely anything
but holes — little graves along the railroad em-
bankment with little crosses marking them and
the steel helmet laid carefully on top, also many
mangled masses of trees. They say we did not
pass through the real battle field, but if that
wasn't a battle field I must say that my imagi-
nation fails me, for I can't picture anything
more like one — not possibly — with it all are
little bits of boys helping old women prepare
the fields for next summer's crop.
M. H."
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SOLDIERS FIND NIGHT'S LODG-
ING IN LITTLE GRAY HOME
Helen Davenport Brown Gibbons ex- '06
writes from A Little Gray Home in France de-
scribing her work for the American soldiers last
summer. Extracts of a letter to her mother
follow:
"My work here amounts to a brisk business,
I cannot compass it all. Certain lads go by
here every day with the supply trucks 'stead-
ies.' Then there are the convoys; and many
individual lads from camps within walking dis-
tance. Sunday is my great day. Homesick
chaps walk seven miles — one way — to see an
American mother and to hear American children
laugh and chatter. Boys that had started to
'make a regular day of it' in some village cafe
get switched off and find they had wanted home
folks — not drinks. In the course of the sum-
mer boys from no less than one hundred and
eight organizations have stopped for a chat or
a meal or a night's lodging at the Little Gray
Home. More than four hundred have had
meals here and seven hundred have stopped to
call. As the song goes: 'only a tumble down
nest/ but to the boys — a corner of home.
Many a man has told me 'this is my best day
in France.' They write their names in my
guest-book with the address of their organiza-
tion, and on the next line — the address of some-
one I can send a postal card to in the States, a
postal card of the house and a word saying John
was here today, looks and is well, and sends
love. Mother's address appears the most fre-
quently. Every now and then the name is that
of Miss Somebody — and underneath is written :
'Sweetheart.'
There is a sign on my gate Little Gray Home
— and an American flag a good Major gave me.
A colored soldier came on his one free day and
put up a pole for the flag. This way the boys
passing learn that there are Americans here.
They come in and — next time bring their
'buddy.' What they get here is so simple!
Just the welcome — and the cup of coffee that is
'without money and without price' — must be
that way or the house would deny its sweet
name.
Day before yesterday — Sunday — seventy
boys dropped in. Thirty-nine were in a con-
voy. A truck convoy going north, whales of
trucks that looked like battleships that arrived
at nine at night, a stormy night. The pilot
knew my house and brought them here to camp
for the night. We had wood fires going and
plenty of cigarettes to smoke.
The thirty-nine were told by the sergeant to
come into the drawing-room. They crowded
in wonderingly, lugging their bundles with
them. I had just a little candle light burning
on the desk. I made a wee speech explaining
what it has meant to me this summer to see so
many American boys — how fine it is for me af-
ter many years abroad. Told them about the
beds and bed-sacks in the barn and promised
coffee for the morning. Such quick response
and understanding, I stood at the barn door
and shook hands good-night with every man.
The officers had my two guest-rooms. A
few of the men had the sofas in the drawing
room.
Yesterday morning we made a fire in the gar-
den, put an old-fashioned tripod over it and made
coffee in a huge preserving kettle. Before they
left they hunted round to find something to
give me as a present. In came a Philadelphia
boy with four loaves of bread.
And now summer is flying away. The Little
Gray Home will not shut its doors I hope, for
the Y. M. C. A. thinks I have 'started some-
thing' and will probably take it over when I go
home to Paris the first of October."
STARTS CANTEEN IN ITALY
Amanda Hendrickson, '03, now Marchese
Cesare G. Molinari d'lncisa, writes:
"Although we live in France, my heart is with
the Italians and the retreat last October was a
terrible blow to me. I have always been con-
vinced that if the Italian soldier had had as
much attention and care as the French soldier,
caparetto, as the Italians call that terrible mo-
ment, from the point where the line broke,
would never have happened.
From that moment I determined to have a
canteen for Italian soldiers in Italy.
With suggestions and help from Bertha Laws,
'01, I finally found through the American Red
Cross office in Geneva what I was hunting for,
a need for a canteen for Italian soldiers. It was
at the British base, where some 1000 to 1500
Italian soldiers are working in a most inclement
climate.
The Catholic chaplain, a Benedictine monk,
who is Italian by birth and blood and English
by education had his heart set on this canteen,
but had no means of getting funds for running
it, so that is where I came in.
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The English command was very much pleased
with the idea and gave materials for the hut,
a public spirited citizen gave the ground and
the soldiers themselves did the building. It was
inaugurated in August with all the proper cere-
mony and is an enormous success. The type of
soldiers' canteen is classic now, so it is needless
to describe it, but you can well understand that
my canteen is the spoiled darling of all my war
work interests; my great regret is that I cannot
stay there to run it. That, however, is being
more efficiently done by an English woman.
We witnessed an American invasion on its
way to Germany, and this sleepy little village
(Beaugaillard) where I am passing the summer
is on the American highway to Berlin !
A. MOLINARI D'lNCISA."
WAR TIMES IN PERSIA
Clara Cary Case Edwards, '04, writes last
April from Hamadan, Persia, describing her
life in the midst of war and famine.
"Hamadan, April 23, 1918.
Dear Alice: — I have your last letter before
me, and it is dated March 12, 1917! I wonder
when you will receive this of mine. All our
regular mails have ceased coming, since Russia
got into such a condition that no posts go
through. The most recent letter I have had
from America was dated September 29. I
have given up writing regular weekly bulletins
to my family, and content myself with getting
ready occasional letters which I send when I
have the opportunity by someone going down to
Bagdad.
I wonder if you happen to think when you
saw that Bagdad was taken by the British a
year ago, that this fact would have an immedi-
ate effect upon our lives here. For nine months
before that event, the Turks had been in occu-
pation of Hamadan, and Cecil and I had been
homeless wanderers over the deserts and moun-
tains of Persia (enjoying our wanders very
much, by the way). But the Turks could not
stay in Hamadan and keep their communica-
tion with their base when the British were in
Bagdad, so they trotted off home as fast as they
could, all that were left of them after typhus
and cholera had done their work in this country.
We got back to our own house here a year ago
last March, and wonderful to relate, we have
stayed in it ever since. It is by far the longest
period I have spent in one place since 1910!
For us personally, the most important event
of this period occurred ten weeks ago, when
Arthur Middleton Edwards, a wee mite of six
and a half pounds, made his appearance. He
apparently realized that his size was not quite
what would be expected in the son of a Bryn
Mawr graduate, so he has been doing his best
ever since to make up his deficiencies in that line,
until by now he is as plump and comfortable a
little body as one would wish to see. So far, he
is quite a model baby; sleeps like a top every
night for six or seven hours at a stretch, and
only cries enough to convince us that he really
has an excellent pair of lungs. There is no
telling how long this behavior will continue, so
I feel I had better boast of it while I can. He
is going to make life in Hamadan much more
interesting for both Cecil and me. The climate
here is splendid for children, I am glad to say.
WHAT PERSIA LACKS
But, sometimes I think I could put up with a
less excellent climate for the sake of living in a
place where I could! what do you think? hear
music? see good pictures? go to the theater? study
at some graduate school? be with my family and
old friends? All of these pleasures I miss, but
what my heart most longs for is just, only, to go
shopping! Perhaps if you had not seen a shop
for two years and a half, you might feel the
same. And just now there are so many nice
baby things that I want. Besides which, my
own wardrobe is rapidly approaching complete
dissolution. One article I have particularly
wished to have during the last few days is a
thing that I never saw but once, and then your
Eunice was wearing it; it is a pair of ball-shaped
aluminum mittens to keep a baby from sucking
its thumb. Arthur has only just discovered
the pleasure to be got from thumb sucking but
he sucks now with tremendous energy and en-
thusiasm. A flannel bag tied over his hands
does not deter him in the least, and I am afraid
I shall have to put a splint on his right arm to
keep him from raising that hand to his mouth.
A little aluminum ball would be so much easier
for me and pleasanter for him.
FAMINE STALKS ABROAD
A more important thing which I wish I had
for the baby is vaccine. There is no fresh vac-
cine to be had in Hamadan, and in a place where
smallpox is as common as measles at home, and
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contagion from it is not guarded against at all,
vaccination is an extremely important ceremony.
To show how far the isolation of smallpox cases
is from the minds of the Persians: — an American
woman doctor has told me that frequently a
mother would come to the dispensary, carrying a
baby underneath her long black 'chader.' The
mother would sit for an hour or more in the
waiting room with the other women, and when
her turn came, she would produce the baby;
' My child has smallpox, please cure it.' I have
myself seen cases of smallpox in children who
were begging in the street.
You wrote a year ago that you were paying
war prices for all sorts of foodstuffs. Here in
Hamadan real famine prices prevail. I never
knew anything about famine before, but now I
am getting far too intimate a knowledge of it.
Ordinarily, this country produces just enough
wheat, barley, etc., for its own use; it does not
export at all. Now, for the last three years it
has had to feed Turkish and Russian armies, as
well as its own people and last summer there
was so severe a drought that the crops were not
more than a third as much as usual. As a
consequence, hundreds and thousands of people
are dying of starvation. One can not walk for
fifteen minutes in the streets of Hamadan with-
out passing the dead and dying. Almost every
day my servants tell me of some one I know who
has succumbed. Redjek, who used to come
to cut the alfalfa died, yesterday. Sheer Ali's
uncle died this morning. Some of them die of
actual starvation, others of dysentery brought
on by eating bad and insufficient food. At any
minute I can look over my garden wall and see
people dotted all about the fields, eating green
alfalfa or barley or whatever is growing. Yes-
terday I counted nineteen people at once eating
alfalfa here on our own place.
STARVING BABIES RESCUED
A big subscription has come from America for
relief work in Persia, and the British are doing
even more than the Americans. But money
counts for little, the food is not here to be
bought and the few rich Persians who have
wheat, keep it in their store-houses, doling out
a little at a time at prices which bring them four
thousand per cent profit!
Cecil is chairman of a British Relief Com-
mission, and has received £20,000 as a first in-
stalment to use for the poor of Hamadan. His
plan is to buy wheat and open bakeries where
the poor can buy bread at reasonable prices.
But there is an anti-British movement in Persia
just now and the Persians are not willing to sell
foodstuffs to the British even to be used for the
relief of their own people. They say they be-
lieve that the British really want the wheat for
the British Army, not for the poor of Hamadan,
but the real reason is that they prefer to
have their own people die rather than that the
British should get the credit of having saved
them.
Three months ago we were childless; today
we have no less than three boys to feed and
clothe and educate! Two of them are acquired
because of the famine. Just before Christmas
Cecil found a baby, almost naked, creeping
over the snow covered pavement in front of his
office; its mother had abandoned it there. He
brought the child home and we have given it to
a Persian woman to take care of, we paying a
monthly stipend for its keep. We named the
baby Iskander, which is the Persian form of
Alexander. We reckoned that he was about
eighteen months old when we got him, although
he was so starved that he was very tiny and
small. Now, after four months, he is just be-
ginning to pick up. Even now, at twenty- two
months, he weighs only 16£ pounds, and my
own eleven weeks old baby weighs nearly 11
pounds!
The third boy Cecil brought in two weeks
ago. He picked him up from the street, where
he was nearer death than he is ever likely to be
again without passing over. When the child
was brought in, it was impossible to feel any
pulse or heartbeat, and his teeth were with dif-
ficulty forced open to receive a spoonful at a
time of warm milk. His body was icy cold.
Cecil sent for an English doctor who worked
over the child for three hours. At the end of
that time, owing to strychnine, two hot water
bottles, and doses of hot milk or soup every
ten minutes, the boy had recovered conscious-
ness and was holding out a trembling little claw
for bits of bread soaked in milk. This was a
plain case of starvation alone. If the child had
lain in the street half an hour longer, he would
have been dead. We guess that this boy's at
least three years old. He weighed 21^ pounds.
So far, we have not been able to find his mother,
so have handed him over to Iskande's foster
mother. If we can find his own mother, we will
give him back to her and provide a 'mother's
pension.' Such a lot of new responsibilities all
at once.
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I have used up my time and my paper and
have told you nothing about the British being
in Hamadan. We swarm with khaki, and it is
awfully good to see a lot of Englishmen here.
This will be a gayer place than it ever was be-
fore. Already a sports committee has been
formed to arrange for tennis, polo, football, golf,
horseracing and weekly concerts!
With kindest remembrances to your husband
and strictly sanitary kisses to the children (on
the tops of their heads) . Affectionately,
Cary."
NEWS FROM THE CLUBS
BOSTON
The Bryn Mawr Club of Boston has given up
its club room this winter and is holding its
business meetings and monthly teas at the Col-
lege Club, 40 Commonwealth Avenue.
NEW YORK
Evelyn Holt Lowry, ex-'09, serving out the
remainder of Miss Berber's term as secretary
of the New York Bryn Mawr club writes
of two luncheons held by the club so far this fall.
The first luncheon was on October 15 when
Lieutenant de Coup, of the French High Com-
mission addressed the members on his experiences
in the war. Miss Adee and Miss Shirley Put-
nam, '09, told of their activities in France at
the second club luncheon held on November 15.
Owing to the absence of so many of the club
members who are doing war work over seas it
was decided to remit the dues of such members
as were away for a year or more, if they so
desired.
The club expects to entertain all the under-
graduates who are in New York for the Christ-
mas vacation at a luncheon to be held on
December 31.
PITTSBURGH
The club is now the proud owner of four Lib-
erty bonds. An addition, one having been
bought at the last issue. There is another sta
on the service flag for Miss Helen Schmidt, who
has entered the Army Nurses Training Corps.
Miss Mary Breed was appointed by the execu-
tive committee to fill out Miss Schmidt's unex-
pired term as president of the organization.
The monthly teas have been rather more largely
attended than last year.
Henriett F. Magoffin, Sec.
PHILADELPHIA
Dr. Dorothy Child, '10, described her exper-
iences in the children's dispensary of a Red
Cross hospital at Evian-les-Bains at the annual
meeting of the Philadelphia Branch of the
Alumnae Association held on December 14.
President Thomas, Mme. Reviere, Marion
Reilly, '01, Alice Hawkins, '07, and Frances
Ferris, ex-'09.
Miss Reilly reported that fourteen service
corps members are already in the field abroad
and that several reconstruction workers would
probably sail before Easter. The funds in the
treasury amount to $8,000.
President Thomas told of letters she had
received from service corps workers and Miss
Hawkins gave an account of the work of the
Bryn Mawr farm this year.
NEWS FROM THE CLASSES
1893
Harriet Robbins died of influenza on October
21, at her home in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
93's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Gift to the
College, offered as a memorial to Ruth Emer-
son Fletcher, has reached a total of $936 with
some little more promised.
Jane Brownell is spending part of the winter
in Providence, Rhode Island.
Gertrude Taylor Slaughter and her husband
went to Italy last spring to do relief work with
the Italian Red Cross. The North American
Review for December contains an interesting
article of hers, "Venice at War."
Lucy Donnelly spent six weeks of the summer,
motoring with President Thomas in Colorado,
Wyoming, and Montana.
Helen Thomas Flexner has written an article,
"The Marsaillaise,"for The New Republic, issue
of October 26.
Lida Adams Lewis has returned to Indianap-
olis after a long stay in Japan.
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Susan Walker FitzGerald has bought a farm
of 240 acres, thirty miles from Jamaica Plain,
with the intention of raising on it enough food
for her hearty family.
Grace Elder Saunders is teaching mathematics
in the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia, while
her two children are away at school, and Mr.
Saunders is in Washington, doingwork of a
scientific nature for the War Department.
Elva Lee had a hip badly fractured last April.
After pluckily enduring three months in a plaster
cast and more months of illness, she is in New
York, undergoing further treatment.
Lucy Lewis was one of the Fourth Liberty
Loan workers; she also arranged meetings in
factories, at which representatives of the Food
Administration explained the best methods of
using and of conserving food.
Louise Fulton Gucker is busy superintending
the education of her four children, finding time
besides to help with Liberty Loans and to work
for the Red Cross. Her son Frank was about
to join the Navy Unit of the University of
Pennsylvania when the Armistice was declared.
Susan Frances Van Kerk is on the French
Committee of the Emergency Aid of Pennsyl-
vania, and is teaching a Latin Class in the Agnes
Irwin School.
Emma Hacker has been very seriously ill for
three years and is not recovering.
1896
Pauline Goldmark has a position in Washing-
ton under Mr. McAdoo, director general of
railroads.
Eleanor Watkins Reeves, ex-'96, is living in
Germantown and has a son in the Navy.
Ruth Furness Porter spent the summer with
her family on Great Spruce Head Island off the
coast of Maine; her daughter, Nancy, B. M.
1921, worked on the college farm through the
month of September.
Edith Wyatt, ex-'96, spent a month this fall
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a married
sister.
1899
Amy L. Steiner expects to sail overseas shortly
to do Red Cross work.
1902
Grace Douglas Johnston has been serving as
associate director of the Chicago Red Cross can-
teen for a year. She has given practically her
whole time to this, even staying in Chicago,
through the summer in order to stay by the
work. Enormous numbers of troops pass
through Chicago and are served by this can-
teen.
Harriet Spencer Pierce moved from Syracuse
to Ashland, Kentucky in April, 1918, where she
now lives.
Kate DuVal Pitts is living this winter at 1925
I Street, Washington, D. C, where she and
Helen Howell Moorhead, '03, are keeping house
together. Colonel Moorhead is in command of
a base hospital in France. Capt. H. S. Pitts is
in the construction department of the Ordnance.
Ann Rotan Howe has been associate director
of the bureau of personnel, Potomac Division of
the Red Cross since July 10, 1918. A number
of Bryn Mawr alumnae have applied for service
overseas with the Red Cross and Mrs. Howe
says most of them have been sent. Within the
last six months, her office alone examined 5250
women applying for service overseas. Her hus-
band, Col. Thorndike Howe, is chief of the pos-
tal express service of the United States Army
with headquarters in Paris.
1903
Agnes B. Austin is associate principal of Miss
Hill's School for Girls in Philadelphia.
Dr. Grace Lynde Meigs was married in Au-
gust to Dr. Thomas Reid Crowder and is living
in Chicago.
Dorothea Day Watkins had a daughter born
in September.
Margretta Steward Dietrich is the chairman
of the program committee for the Nebraska
Federation of Women's Clubs, also one of the
state speakers for the United War Work Drive.
1906
Catharine Anderson is doing Y. M. C. A.
work in France. Her address is care of Morgan,
Harjes Company, Paris.
Beth Harrington Brooks has twins born on
November 29, John Robinson and Harriet, so
that she now has three boys and a girl. The
twins are showing true Bryn Mawr energy by
each gaining a pound weekly.
Alice Lauterbach Flint went abroad with the
Y. M. C. A. last summer.
Anna MacClanahan Grenfell is at St. An-
thony, New Foundland for the winter.
Adelaide NealPs address is now Mount Airy,
Pennsylvania. She and her family have bought
an interesting house not far from their former
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home. It was built in 1775 by an Englishman
who had come there to train troops.
Lucia Ford Rutter during the summer ran
her husband's large farm at Pine Forge, Berks
County, Pennsylvania. She was very success-
ful in spite of many vicissitudes with farmers
and live stock. Her husband was adjutant at
Camp Greene and received his majority in Sep-
tember. Lucia returned to Winetka in October.
Louise Cruice Sturdevant has a daughter,
born last June in Paris. She was fortunate in
getting abroad when her husband went in June,
1917, and has been there ever since. Her hus-
band went over as a captain, but was made
major nearly a year ago and has seen much
service.
Elizabeth Townsend Torbert's husband is a
captain in the medical reserve corps and is now
serving at Base Hospital 55 near Toule, France.
1907
Helen Roche Tobin has a third child and sec-
ond daughter, Jeanne Lorraine born on Bastile
Day, July 14.
Margaret Reeve Cary has another daughter,
Sarah Comfort, born in October.
Bertinia Hallowell Dickson, ex-'07, has a
daughter Bertinia born in October.
Julie Benjamin Howson has a third child and
second son born in September. Mr. Howson is
with the A. E. F. in France.
Esther William Apthorp is with her husband
at Camp McClellan, Alabama, where Captain
Apthorp after a year of service with the artillery
in France has been training recruits.
May Ballin has a position in the American
Foreign Exchange Bank in New York where
Arthur Mackenzie, Bernice Stewart's husband
is treasurer.
Edna Brown Wherry because of her great
success in selling Liberty Bonds on the Women's
Committee of Newark, has been asked to accept
a responsible position in the bond department
of one of the large banks in Newark.
Margaret Putnam Morse is living in Morgan-
town, West Virginia, where her husband is
professor of biology at the university of West
Virginia.
Mary Tudor Gray is chairman of the execu-
tive board of the School of the Open Gate in
Hollywood, California, an open air model
school for young children.
Eunice Schenck, Letitia Winder and Alice
Hawkins are at Bryn Mawr again this year.
1908
Theresa Kelburn's play "Crops and Crop-
pers," recently produced in New York had to be
withdrawn after a two weeks' run, because of
the illness of the producer.
Anna M. Carriere is doing government work
in Washington and is living at 1919 19th Street.
Louise Congdon Balmer and her husband are
planning to go to California after Christmas.
Josephine Montgomery would be glad if mem-
bers of the class of 1908 would send her news of
themselves which would be interesting for the
Quarterly.
1909
Pleasance Baker has announced her engage-
ment to Arthur Bowker Parsons, B.A. and A.M.
of Harvard College. He is at present in charge
of the department of education and employ-
ment of the Young Men's Christian Association,
Providence, Rhode Island. His intention is to
go to France shortly for War Relief Work.
Pleasaunce has been taking an eight months
course in training for social work with nervous
and mental cases at the Psychopathic Hospital
in Boston. She is now working in the Home
Service Section of the American Red Cross
in Philadelphia in the after care department.
Helen Crane is working in the educational
department of the Young Women's Christian
Association, New York City.
Frances Ferris has returned from France.
Leona Labold has been doing suffrage and
political work in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Alta Stevens, Grace Woolridge Dewes and
Gertrude Congdon Crampton gave a great deal
of time and energy to work on the Fourth Lib-
erty Loan and sold $23,000 worth of bonds at
their booth in the Stevens store.
Julia Doe Shero was married on June 26 to
Lucius Rogers Shero in Milwaukee.
Fanny Barber spent the summer working as
a probationer in the Walter Reed Hospital,
Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
May Putnam is one of the resident physicians
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Mary Nearing is taking a course in Landscape
Architecture at Harvard,
Lacy Van Wagenen is living in New York and
taking a course in physical reconstruction
therapy.
Margaret Vickery, ex-'09, is a probationer in
the Presbyterian Hospital training school for
Nurses on East 71st Street, New York City.
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Georgina Biddle is working in the medical
department of the Home Service Section of the
American Red Cross in New York City.
Mildred Pressinger Kienbusch has a daughter,
Mildred, born November 19. She is living in
Forest Hills, Long Island, where her address is
55 Olive Place.
Alice Miller, ex- '09, has just returned from
France where she has been in service under the
Red Cross since October, 1917. Her first work
was in a dispensary and children's hospital at
Nesle in the Somme district. After five months
at Nesle she was sent to Bourg en Bresse where
she and Mary Tongue worked in a Red Cross
Canteen. Later she did the same work in
Dijon and at Is-sur-Til and her last port was
emergency canteen work in hospitals near
Verdun.
Cynthia Wesson took a course in physical re-
construction therapy in Boston this summer and
is now stationed as a reconstruction workers
aide in General Hospital No. 9, Lakewood, N. J.
Shirley Putnam is sailing December 16, under
the library war service of the American Library
Association, the overseas work of which is car-
ried on in conjunction with the American Red
Cross and the Y. M. C. A. Her work will prob-
ably be in hospitals. She returned to this coun-
try in August after 14 months of war sevice in
France, the last four months having been spent
as a Red Cross searcher in the base hospital at
Neuf chateau, Lorraine.
Marianne Moore is living at 14 St. Lukes
Place.
Dorothy North has been the American Red
Cross delegate to the district of Aube in France
about 100 miles southeast of Paris, since the
middle of the summer she has helped to create
a new sanatorium there and has had charge of
all linens and hospital supplies in that district.
Last year she assumed the responsibility for three
little French children who were tubercular.
They have had the best of care and are now well.
Little Theresa has been adopted by some French
family and is living in the country, well and very
happy. Dorothy North is expected home in
January to rest for a few months before return-
ing to her work in France.
Eugenia Miltenberger has completed the
course in occupation therapy at Hull House,
Chicago and has just finished several months
practical training at the Illinois State Institute.
She is ready at just the right time to take up the
work of helping the returning disabled soldiers.
A son was born to Antoinette Hearne Farrar
on October 28. He has been named John
Farrar, Jr.
1910
The class of 1910 regrets the death of one of
their loyal members, Dorothea Cole. She died
in the early part of October of pneumonia con-
tracted while nursing her brother.
Annie Jones, ex-' 10, was married October 9 to
John Mahard Rosborough. Mr. and Mrs.
Rosborough will live at 2020 South Twenty
fifth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dr. Katherine Rotan Drinker has been ap-
pointed one of the managing editors of The
Journal of Industrial Hygiene, which is just be-
in«g launched by the department of Industrial
Hygiene of the Harvard Medical School.
Mary Boyd Shipley writes from Nanking,
China, announcing her engagement to Samuel
John Mills of Shanghai, China. Mr. Mills is at
present traveling secretary for the Chinese Stu-
dent Volunteer Movement for the ministry.
She tells of meeting four Bryn Mawr alumnae,
— Kathrina Van Wagenen Bugge, Katherine
Scott, '04, Anne Russell Sampson Taylor, and
Mary James, '04.
1911
The engagement of Ellen Pottberg to Rev.
Alfred Hempstead is announced. Rev. Mr.
Hempstead is a Congregational minister and is
at present on ambulance duty in France.
Agnes Wood's husband, Captain David Rupp,
3rd, was killed in action October 1, at Mont-
faucon near Verdun. His regiment, the 313th
Infantry, was almost wiped out; 75 out of 80
officers were killed or wounded.
Christine Depew's husband, Stanley Blake
Williams, died October 31 at Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
Blanche Cole's brother, Jewett, and sister,
Dorothea, died of pneumonia in October.
Leila Houghteling's brother, Frank, died of
pneumonia in October.
Catherine Delano Grant is spending the
winter with her husband and children in Coro-
nado, California, where she went to be near
her husband who was in camp, but has now
been returned to civilian life.
1912
Mary Pierce has been superintendent of vol-
unteer-hospital workers at the Montgomery
Inn converted hospital in Bryn Mawr.
Ruth Akers is living in Adin, California.
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Gladys Spry sailed December 1 for France as
a Red Cross worker.
Elizabeth Johnston is research chemist in the
administration laboratory of the Hercules Pow-
der Company at Nitro, West Virginia.
Laura Byrne is teaching economics at the
Dominican Junior College at San Rafael, Cali-
fornia and is also a graduate student at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley.
Dorothy Wolff Douglas is research assistant
for the Consumer's League of Eastern Penn-
sylvania.
Ai Hoshino is studying at Columbia this
winter.
1913
Frances Ross Poley died of pneumonia fol-
owing influenza on October 12.
Ellen Faulkner has a position in the Paris
office of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Com-
pany, of New York.
Louisa Haydock was married in the American
church in Paris on October 1 to William H. Y.
Hackett, lieutenant in the 90th Air Squadron.
Mary Shenstone was married in October to
Donald Fraser of Toronto, Canada.
Marjorie Murray is studying medicine at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University.
Yvonne Stoddard Hayes has a son born in
November.
Alice Hearne Rockwell has a son, Julies
Rockwell, Jr. born last August.
Maude Dessau is in New York this winter
doing secretarial work for her father.
Mary Tongue is in Paris doing canteen work
for the Red Cross.
Dorothea Baldwin has been working for the
American Red Cross in France near Toulouse.
Louisa Henderson, ex-' 13, is living in East
Orange, N. J. and is taking a secretarial course
at Miss Conklin's school in New York.
Agnes O'Connor Rossell, ex-' 13, has a son.
Zelma Corning Brandt, ex-'13 is living in
Newport, Rhode Island, where her husband is
stationed.
Grace Bartholomew, '13, is head of the de-
partment of English at Miss Mills' School,
Philadelphia.
1914
Dorothy Godfrey Wyman, ex-' 14, is living in
Japan with her husband and her two little
boys. Her address is P. O. Box 198 Yokohama,
Japan. Mr. Wyman is engaged in the steel im-
porting business.
Christine Brown and Edwina Warren have
sailed for France to work in the Y. W. C. A.
Julia Tappan has given up her secretarial
position at Johns Hopkins and has gone to Wash-
ington to work in the department of health.
Elizabeth Colt is working in New York with
the National Bank of Haiti. Later she may go
to France with the Red Cross.
A daughter was born to Dorothy Bectel Mar-
shall on September 27. She was named Delia
Page Marshall.
1915
Catharine Bryant is a Y. M. C. A. worker in
France representing the Chicago Junior League.
Ethel Buchanan Hughes has twin daughters a
year old, Elizabeth and Ann.
Amy Martin is teaching at Riverhook School,
Nyack, New York.
Louise Hollingsworth is teaching in Athens,
Georgia.
Eleanor Freer Willson is living with her family
while her husband is in France with the Foyer
du Soldat.
Katharine Shaefer is working in the radium
department of the Jefferson Hospital in Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Mary Chamberlain Moore is professor of
chemistry of the Women's College of New Jer-
sey at New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is also
president of the equal suffrage league of New
Brunswick.
Gladys Pray has been active in many of the
New Jersey Motor Corps, she had charge of
arrangements for machines to take wounded
soldiers around to make speeches for the last
Liberty Loan. Her engagement to Samuel K.
Trimmer was broken last summer.
Mary Marjorie Thomson is doing settlement
work in New York and vicinity.
Dagma Perkins has been very active in war
work in New York City, where she has been
captain of many winning teams in the numerous
war drives.
The engagement of Mary Gertrude Brownell
to Dr. Douglas Murphy is announced. Dr.
Murphy is a brother of Edith Pat Murphy, '10.
Ruth Newman has left Spring Street Settle-
ment, New York City and is with the Suffolk
County Agent for dependent children of the
New York State Charity Association.
A son was born to Elizabeth Channing Fuller
on October 19. He has been named Willard
Fuller, Jr.
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133
Ruth Morse, Jr., is a reconstruction aide at
U. S. General Hospital No. 3, Rahway, New
Jersey. Her husband is in the aviation in
France.
Dorothea Moore who worked for a year as
laboratory technician in a base hospital in Paris
is now studying medicine at JohnsHopkins.
Lucile Davidson had a position last spring
with the New York State Food Commission.
Her husband, Scudder Middleton, author
of the collection of poems Streets and Faces
has recently published in the Boston Transcript
hree interesting sonnets entitled "1918."
Atala Scudder Davidson has been in France
with her husband since the summer of 1917.
Alice Humphrey has attended the course in
Psychiatry at Smith College. She has been
taking the practical training in New York this
autumn preparatory to entering the recon-
struction work with soldiers whe are wounded
or suffering from shell-shock.
Florence Hatton Kelton was councilor and
chairman of the Red Cross last summer at
Camp Bolder Point for girls, in the Adirondacks.
She is now teacher of English and assistant
resident adviser for the out of town pupils at
the Columbus School for girls. Her husband,
Major Kelton, Corps of Engineers has been in
France for more than a year.
Helen Everett who for the last few years has
been studying at Harvard, worked Incognito
this autumn in a machine shop as preliminary
training for taking charge of conditions of fore-
women in the Watertown Arsenal under the
ordinance department.
Russell Willson, husband of Eleanor Freer
Willson is in Y. M. C. A. work abroad.
Gertrude Emery is studying at the Boston
School of Physical Education, and is also taking
the course for medical reconstruction aids.
Ruth Hopkinson has been working for more
than a year in the employment and service
department at the "Clothcraft Shop" in
Cleveland.
Vashti McCreery has been cashier and book-
keeper for the Benton Hardware & Furniture
Co. since October 15.
Emily Van Horn is continuing as secretary
to Mr. L. H. Shearman, Vice-president of W.
R. Grace & Co., Wall Street.
Ethel Robinson has announced her engage-
ment to Lieut. Louis B. Hyde, U. S. N.
1916
Margaret Chase has announced her engage-
ment to Lieut. Robert Locke, who is serving
with the American Army in Siberia.
Mary Branson is teaching Mathematics and
Physics at the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr,
Catherine Godley is doing government work in
Washington.
Juliet Branham, ex-'16, is at the Presbyterian
Hospital, New York, taking a nurses training
course.
Ruth Lautz has a job with the Emergency
Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia.
Constance Kellen has announced her engage-
ment to Lieut. Robert Brenham, who is with
the American Army in France.
1917
Virginia Litchfield is in France as a recon-
struction aide in occupational therapy.
Caroline Stevens has returned from France
because of her father's illness.
Alice Beardwood is teaching Latin and Math-
ematics at the Flagler School, Jacksonville,
Florida.
Mary B. Andrews announces her engagement
to William Pitt Mason, Jr., of Troy, New York.
Mr. Mason is a graduate of William College,
'13, and has studied at Columbia Law School.
He is a trooper in Squadron A and holds a
commission as captain in the United States
Army.
1918
Evelyn Babbitt is a secretary in the Federal
Board for Vocational Education, Division of
Rehabilitation in New York City.
Margaret Bacon is training to be a Y. W. C. A.
Secretary. Thus far her work has been in the
Industrial Department, making surveys.
Anna Booth is taking a graduate seminary in
English at Bryn Mawr College.
Therese Born is holder of a graduate scholar-
ship in English and is studying at Bryn Mawr.
Gladys Cassel is working with N. U. Ayre and
Son, Advertising Agency, Philadelphia.
Mary Cordingly, ex-' 18, has been doing Red
Cross work in the Volunteer Service Bureau,
Metropolitan Chapter, in Massachusetts. She
was accepted by the Army School of Nursing
and waiting a call to Camp Devens.
Katherine Dufourcq has been in the United
States Postal Censorship, New York City.
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When this work ends she hopes to enter a
publishing house.
Lucy Evans has set the date of her wedding
to Dr. Samuel C. Chew of Bryn Mawr College
for December 21. She and her husband will
live in Bryn Mawr after January 1.
Ruth Hart is a statistical clerk at the
Food Administration Grain corporation, New
York.
Annette Gest is living in New York.
Elizabeth Houghton is working in the machine
shop of the Simplex Electric Heating Company,
Cambridge; a nine-hour day at $12.00 per week.
Laura Heisler, ex-' 18, is in her Senior year at
the University of Pennsylvania. She worked in
the Franklin National Bank from June until De-
cember, and did volunteer hospital work during
the influenza epidemic.
Judith Hemenway is holder of a graduate
scholarship in French at Bryn Mawr.
Augusta Dure, ex-' 18, is married to Lieut.
Nathaniel W. Howell and is living in Wilming-
ton, Delaware.
Helen Jones is employed in the Actuarial De-
partment of the Connecticut Mutual Life In-
surance Company in Hartford, Connecticut.
She is studying to take examinations for admis-
sion to the Actuarial Society of America.
Anna Lubar is preceptress and assistant to
Principal, East Worcester High School, East
Worcester, New York. She is also studying
singing and piano in Albany.
Irene Loeb is doing volunteer work as a secre-
tary of state and city relations, Federal Food Ad-
ministration for St. Louis, Missouri.
Sarah Morton, ex-' 18, is living in New York.
Cora Snowden Neely is a Latin scholar, Bryn
Mawr College.
Hester Quimby, is teacher of mathematics
and science in Tudor Hall School Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Frances Richmond, ex-' 18, is a Secretary of
the War Department Committee on Education
and Special Training.
Ella Rosenberg is working as probation officer
in the Juvenile Division of the Municipal Court,
Philadelphia.
Marjorie Strauss is a junior gas chemist, Re-
search Division, Chemical Warfare Service, War
Department, Washington, D. C.
Gertrude Reymershoffer is studying medicine
at the University of Texas Medical School.
Helen Schwarz has been accepted for the
Army School of Nursing but not called.
Penelope Turle has been doing volunteer war
work of all kinds. She hopes to study at the
Art League in New York this winter.
Marion Smith is graduate scholar in Greek at
Bryn Mawr College.
Margaret Timpson has been doing volunteer
work in the New York County Chapter of the
Red Cross.
Helen Walker is planning to study music at
the Chicago Musical College.
Helen Whitcomb has been doing volun-
teer work in the Food Administration in
Massachusetts.
Marjorie Williams is engaged.
Louise Tunstall Smith died of Spanish influ-
enza while in Nurses' Training in Bellevue
Hospital, New York City.
Henrietta Huff who has been running a comp-
tometer in a munitions factory at Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, has enlisted in the Student Nurses'
Reserve and expects to be called soon.
The engagement of Marjorie T. Williams to-
Lieut. John Warick McCollough has been an-
nounced. No date has been set for the wedding
as Lieut. McCollough is in France.
APPOINTMENT BUREAU
The Appointment Bureau during the last
year has been cooperating to the best of its abil-
ities with the Department of Labor in Washing-
ton and with the Civil Service Commission. A
very large number of requests have come from
Washington for candidates for every kind of
position, clerical, technical, scientific, and man-
ual. The Bureau has of course been able to fill
only a small number of these positions. This
work has now been completed owing to the
termination of the war and during the coming
year we shall probably hear of comparatively
few government positions.
The Bureau will devote itself as in previous
years principally to filling teaching positions in
the schools and colleges. Circulars are now
being sent to schools and colleges as well as to
Bryn Mawr alumnae and former students and it
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is probable that a very large number of desirable
teaching positions will come to the attention of
the Bureau in the course of the year.
For the success of the Appointment Bureau,
it is absolutely essential that we should be in
communication with a large number of alumnae
who have had training and successful experience
and who can be recommended immediately
when vacancies occur. All alumnae who would
consider promising positions are urged to write
to the Dean of the College even if they are not
definitely planning a change for next year. A
formal registration with the Bureau is not nec-
essary in order that notice should be sent when
a position is open which would appeal especially
to some alumna or former student of Bryn
Mawr.
The Appointment Bureau is very glad to
handle positions other than teaching which may
come in its way. A certain number of firms, fac-
tories and publishing companies have written
to Bryn Mawr in the last year in order to find
promising young women to fill clerical or other
positions. The Bureau is therefore glad to have
a good registration of candidates for positions
other than teaching. As has always been the
case no charge of any kind is made for the
services of the Appointment Bureau.
Helen Taft,
Dean of Bryn Mawr College.
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