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Lo MATCH GAMES
- FROM MONDAY TILL EASTER
"Captains Draw Lots To-night
The ‘schedule for the water-polo match,
games, , which begin next ee night,



_ is as follows:

First Teams

Monday, March 11.—8.30 and 9.00.

Thursday, March 14.—8.30 and 9.00.

Monday, March 18.—9.00 (if necessary,
8.30.)

Thursday, March 21.—9.00.

Friday, March 22.—9.00 (if necessary).

Monday, March 25.—9.00 (if necessary).

The second team games come in every
case on the day following the first team
games, at the same hours.

The captains will draw lots to-night to
see which classes meet in the prelimi-
naries. ‘



SPORTING NOTES

H. Weist ’21 has been elected wand
drill captain in place of M. Morton
’21, who resigned.

Ten cents will be charged for ad-
mission to the Gymnasium Contest on
March 15th. The money taken in will
go to the Freshman and Sophomore
Service Corps Funds.

E. Cecil '21 is temporary manager
of the Freshman first team in place of
W. Worcester ’21, who is in the In-
firmary.

A mock swimming meet is planned
to take place in May for the benefit
of the Service Corps.

DANCING FESTIVAL PLANNED
FOR LIBRARY CLOISTER THIS MAY

Ballet and Solos on Program

A dancing festival in the cloisters has
been planned for May for the benefit of
the Varsity Service Corps Fund. “Ely-
sian Fields” will be the ballet by Miss
Kirk’s Senior and Junior dancing classes.
M. Boyd °17, who danced in the festival
last year and has been studying this year
at the Newman School of Dancing in
Philadelphia, will give a solo. Folk danc-
ing will be managed by J. Peabody ’19.

Miss Rand has been secured to run the
lighting. Last year she and Dr. Ferree
used flood lighting for the festival. Miss
Kirk is director, and the Festival Com-
mittee of the Red Cross and Allied Relief
Department is M. Littell ’20, chairman, J.
Ridlon ’18, I. Loeb '18, A. Moore '19, C.
Hayman ’19, Z. Boynton ’20, and E. Kim-
brough °21,



YALE SOLDIERS MAY GRADUATE

New arrangements concerning the
award of wartime degrees at Yale, pro-
viding for every contingency, have been
approved by the Yale Corporation, ac-
cording to the New York Times.

A student entering the service within
two months of a term’s end may apply for
special examinations in any or all of his
subjects provided his previous record is
complete, and will receive credit for the
unfinished term. A student who has com-
pleted the junior year work and then en-
ters the service may have his name
printed in the commencement program of
his class as that of a member “absent in
service”,

“The regulations provide ways in which
a student, serving as a commissioned offi-
cer, may become a candidate for a degree
at any subsequent commencement.”



GERMAN WOMEN
SACRIFICE PEARLS

An appeal to German women to give
their pearls for the Fatherland is made
in this advertisement, “inserted in the
press,” says the New York Times, “by
the jewel hunting officials of the Reichs-
bank:

“Bring in Your Jewels!

“‘Pearls mean tears. But pearls can
also dry tears if you sacrifice them on
the altar of the Fatherland!’

“German papers recently received in
London show that no effort is being
spared to induce the German people to
turn over its jewery for sale abroad to
stiffen the mark exchange rate which is
running so heavily against Germany.”



THE COLLEGE NEWS



" Serious Workers Wanted, Writes First Member of Corps From France



Americans Shirk Hard Jobs, She Says”

“ Gidibk i iaheate of tel Geieics

Corps Committee we print the following

extracts from a letter from Elizabeth

| Shepley Sergeant '03 to Marion Reilly ’01,

Chairman of the Alumne War Relief
Committee and the Joint Administrative
Service Corps Committee.

Miss Sergeant is one of the first two
members of the Service Corps and is
working in France, writing war articles
for the New Republic. Her letter, dealing
with living expenses, equipment, and the
activities of canteen and hut, describes
in unusual detail the qualifications for
war work in France. The letter will be

continued in a subsequent issue of the
News.



Paris, January 31.
My Dear Marion:

Your letter of January 8th reached me
about a week ago—pretty quick for these
days. I am enormously interested in the
B. M. 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 in
valuable here; there is far more than
enough work for the able, but the inca.
pable and the unserious are going per-
haps to make difficulties for the rest of
us. I think passports will be and should
be more and more closely watched, and
any one who comes 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 pass-
port—and then leave the society prompt-
ly for one they like better. Another in-
teresting 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, ete—
the Americans never can. Americans in
the English 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 con-
vert the American army to a belief in
women by their efficiency and serious-
ness, |

Expenses High—Must Have $5 a Day —

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 to 6, wears a uniform (as the A. R. C.
and Y. M. C. A do), and is pretty sturdy,
should have less than 700 frs. 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—any-
where from 18 to 25 frs. per day.. I know
of just one pension at 10 frs. a day. No
bathroom, unheated, and out of the way.
Most pensions are 14 or 15 frs., and this
does not include sufficient heat usually.
That question will not be as important in
the spring (heat, I mean) as it is in mid-
winter. The Red Cross building is splen-
didly heated; so are most other places
where Americans work—unless they are
not heated at all, like the Alcazar d’Eté,
where girls pack all day in sweaters and
mittens.

ing to the age of the worker. But cer-
tainly the “young and healthy and un-
trained” can get along with less, espe
clally if they are doing out-of-door or
office work, than women of more years

IN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION



I don’t know whether it would |
be possible for you to adjust your financ- |

and judgment, and therefore canna
ity and fatigue. But I think any one

without personal resources to supple-

ment the B. M. money would be .worried
if she had less than 25 frs. a day allow-
ance. As an example of what things cost,
I find having my shoes soled and heeled
will cost 20 frs. ($4.00). Washerwomen
charge 1.25 for a nightgown ($0.25) and
other things in proportion. A very pe-
nurious week’s wash costs at least $2.00.
I am looking forward 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 and soap
are very expensive here.
not to be had. Bring a little extra sugar
if tea at home is 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 type-
writers can be bought here except with
French keyboards, and at a 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 frs.:is the right
amount for Paris. She says from 500
to 600 out of Paris—i. e., in canteen
towns. The A. R. C. allows 360 frs. per
month as bare living expenses for work-
ers it partially supports in canteens and
the Y. M. C. A the same amount, but this
would not cover journeys, stops in hotels
between assignments (they are changed
about and often we 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 frs. a day for her room for three
weeks before getting other arrange-
ments. The hotels in the war zone are,
however poor, almost as dear as Paris,
because practically “officers’ clubs.”
Meals on trains cost 6 frs. The friend
just mentioned, who has been here since
September, says 600 frs. a month would
be just right in canteens. But, remem-
her, both for the 750 frs. and the 600 frs.,
that prices may go up still more at any
moment.

(To be Continued in Next Week’s News.)



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IN PHILADELPHIA
Adelphi—“The Man Who Came Back”.
Broad—‘“General Post”. ~
‘Chestnut Street Opera Wacee—"Over

the Top”.
Forrest—“Toot-T
Land of Joy’.
Garrick—“Blind Youth”, with Lou Tel-
legen.
‘Lyric—“Odds and Ends of 1917”. Next
week, “Lord and Lady Algy”, with Wil-
liam Faversham and Maxine Elliott.

t”. Next week, “The -





MRS. SLADE, HEAD OF wW. S. S. IN
NEW YORK, TO SPEAK ON
THRIFT STAMPS



Mrs. Francis Slade (Caroline McCor-
Mick e#*96), head of the War Savings
Stamps campaign in New York, has been
secured by the Suffrage Club to speak in
April on Thrift Stamps. Mrs. Slade was
prominent in the suffrage campaign in
New York last fall, and has done a great
deal of welfare work there. She spoke
on Woman's Suffrage at the Alumne
meeting here last month.

“SCH ° oO —
THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL

Preparatory to Bryn Mawr College

BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA

Principals

Eleanor O. Brownell Alice G. Howland





THE HARCUM SCHOOL

FOR GIRLS—BRYN MAWR, PA.

For Girls wanting college preparation
a thorough course is offered.

For Girls not going to college the school
offers special opportunities to pursue
studies suited to their tastes and needs.

For Girls desiring to specialize in Music
or Art, there are well known artists as
instructors, Catalog on request.

MRS. EDITH HATCHER HARCUM, B.L.
(Pupil of Leschetizky), Head of the School
BRYN MAWR PENNSYLVANIA









THE MISSES KIRK’S COLLEGE
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Bryn Mawr Avenue and Old Lancaster Road
BRYN MAWR, PA.

Number of boarders limited. Combines advantages
of school life with private instruction. Individual
schedule arranged for each pupil.

Gymnastics and outdoor games.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
OF NURSING

Nursing offers to women an opportunity
for patriotic service, a splendid preparation
for life and a profession of broad social use-
fulness.

Washington University gives a three years’
course in Nursing. Theoretical instruction
is given in the University, clinical instruc-
tion in the wards of the Barnes and St. Louis
Children’s Hospitals, Washington University
Dispensary and Social Service Department.
Six months credit is offered to applicants
having a A.B. or B.S. degree from this col-
lege.

"abe inquiries to Superintendent of -
Nurses, Barnes Hospital, 600 S. Kingshigh-
way, St. Louis, Mo.





any time.

Especial attention



“THE COLLEGE NEWS”

The Little Riding School

BRYN MAWR, PA.
TELEPHONE: 68 BRYN MAWR
Mr. William Kennedy desires to announce that he has

opened a Riding School for general instruction in Horse
Back Riding and will be pleased to have you call at

iven to children.
ring, suitable for riding in inclement weather.

In connection with the school there will be a training
stable for show horses (harness or saddle).

A large indoor



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