Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-10
BRYN MAWR DENIlS
GIRL HIT GERMANY
President Thomas's Assist.
ant Says Miss Stappert
Made No Criticism
N. Y. PROFESSOR ACCUsEp
Chums Also Dispute Allegatio,
Student Scored Her
Fatherland

Densls were made at Bryn Mawr r..
lege today that Miss Muara Alexandra s,,.
pert of Germany, had made deropa,,..
statements about her Fatherland whils 4.
was a student at Bryn Mawr.
The denials came from Miss isabel u,.
Olson, assistants TO Dr. NJ. Carey Thoma,
president OF the institution, and from ~,
chums of the German student, fol,ov,,.
charges that Dr. John A. Mandel, heaa 4,
the department Of chemistry at New yo,..
University, had reported to a ministerial Al.
rector in Berlin that Miss Stappert had
made statements detrimental TO the Ger.
man cause"
40 PUBLIC CRITICISM it
80 far as know" said Miss Maddson
Miss Stappert never made any statements
that could he construed as being antaeo.
nstic TO Germany. OF course I 60 not
know what views were expressed in her
private conversation"
Bryn Mawr girls who knew Miss Stan
pert during the six months that she was
student a. the college said that none Of
Miss Stapperts opinions were detrimental
to Germany on the other hand, they said
she was ardently pro-German.
The letter of Doctor Mandel was written
January 5 to Direktor Schmidt of Berlin
the day after a lecture which Miss stap
pert delivered before German society in
New York, describing cconomis conditions
in Germany.
Miss Stappert, who now is living on
Forty-third street between Ninth and Tenth
avenues, New York, left Bryn Mawr mme.
diately after diplomatic relations were
severed with Germany. She told her girl
friends that she could not accept tuitioa
from a college in a country with which her
nation was not on good terms. l
HERE on SCHOLARSHIP
Miss Stappert was a student here on 4
German scholarship awarded by this col.
lese," said Miss Madison. She was a
graduate of the University of Frankfort
coming here last October. The scholarship
which amounts to $40 a year, is one Of
our European scholarships Application
for it is made through the Minister Of Edu-
cation in Berlin and the German consul
here. Miss Stappert, who was a young
| quiet girl and fair student. resigned her
scholarship and went to New York to try
| to take passage for her home in Germans.'
The girl-s remembered by her friends
| in Denbigh Hall, her dormitory, as
| vivacous and popular student, whose dff-
| ficuties with the English language and
| American customs were humorous. She
| followed the international situation closely
as an adjunct to her studies In politics
| and political science. When diplomatic re.
| lations were severed. students said, she
| rushed into a room occupied by some OF
| her pro-Ally friends and exclaimed dra,
| matically
"I greet my enemies ~
| Doctor Mandel who is I'm charge Of the
| Carnegie Laboratory, declared that his
letter was purely personal one, based on
what he had heard about Miss Stapperts
| statements. N
On being told that the young woman said
| II was under an American and not German
| foundation that she was sent here an ex-
change scholar, Doctor Mande said he sent
| the information in the belief that the funds
| for her instruction were provided from Ger
man sources.
| Doctor Mandel asked several times how
! the letter had been procured He stated tna'
| it was the only letter he. had sent TO a
| German official conveying any information
Doctor Mandel said that he had never
| received money from the German Govern.
ment or any of its officials and denied
emphaticaly that he had anything to 90
with the German propaganda in this coun.
| try. He was not a German, he SAID, put
| had spent a number of summers there ana
had many friends in Germany. He saio
that he had no connection with any Ger
| mans, ofcal or otherwise. in this country
| but admitted that he had formerly Decn
well acquainted with Doctor Bertling'
| The young woman was highly indignan'
| at Professor Mandel's letter and said !!
| misrepresented the facts. She had deliveieu
| only one public lecture In this country ny
said. In that she declared she spoke IN tn'
| highest terms of Germany ana the economic
| conditions she told of were only those
| already we'll known i'm ,nIs country. Tne
| lecture, she said was delivered on !an.
| uary 4, the day before Professor Nance.
letter was written. before German soce'.
| In New York Miss Stappert said tns'
things she had uttered in the lectul. ir.
| had also been said In the Prussian p,e' ,s
| and sent to this country in news dls'
| patches. The letter OF Professor Mahoe'
| she feared would place herself ana nv
family in a very bad light in Germany
BROTHERS IN ARMY
II would like Doctor Mandel TO read ny
| copy of the lecture, which ] have here =
| he thinks said anything that should NJ no'
| have been sad.'' she asserted with mag
| nation, in slightly accented Ehgllsh. ~
| of her brothers, she said, are lighting y
the German army. Her family lives y
Sterkrade, near Dusseldorf, and Is we,
known. Miss Stappert herself graduaieo
from the German University at Frankion
before coming to America.
II hated to leave Bryn Mawr," she ssio
for the people there were all very gov
to me. l am very fond of America ana
Americans. Tell me, IL things get any woIs.
between the two countries, will be piS'