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WAYNE AND’ BRYN. MAWR, PA, WE DNESDAY, MAY 6, 1925

 

DOROTHY BLACKBURN LEE
CHOSEN 25'S SUNNY JIM

Since 1905 It Has Been Awarded
in Memory of Mary Helen-Ritchie
to the Senior Most Like Her

OTHER PRIZES ALSO ANNOUNCED

“The Mary Helen Ritchie Memorial
Prize has been awarded to Dorothy
Blackburn Lee, of Philadelphia,” said

 

 

dress. Of all. the announcements the’
awarding of this prize, popularly known
as “Sunny Jim,” was the most eagerly
awaited and the most enthusiastically re-
ceived. 2

It is awarded solely on the basis of
character and personality, but the quali-

~ fications have gradually changed since it

“and therefore they have a firm conce

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Matriculation

was first awarded in 1905. In that year
Mary Helen Ritchie, an Alumna and
eraduate student of Bryn Mawr and Sec:
retary of the College from 1899-1904, died
and the scholarship wag established in
her memory to be awarded to the Senior
most like Miss Ritchie. The faculty on
the conimittee awarding this pri2
supposedly those who knew Miss Rite

  
  

tion of what this prize stands for. Under-
graduate opinion, 6n the other hand, has
passed through many phases.

At one time it was regarded as a hard-
luck prize to be given to the Senior who,
having had hardships, had borne them
bravely. Lately it was designated as a
reward for “faithfulness and efficiency.”

Dorothy Lee, ’25, was prepared at the
Irwin School in Philadelphia and began

her undergraduate career in Bryn Mawr |.

as Temporary Class Chairman: She has
been especially interested in athletics dur-
ing all her four years in college. As a
I'reshman, she was captain of the first
hockey and sw#wimming teams of her class.
In her Sophomore year, she was Secre-
tary of the Athletic Association. She
was-a membér of the executive board ofe
the Athletic Association as Swimming
Captain her Junior ‘year and also Wice
President of her class. As a Senior, she
was Varsity Hockey Captaineand Presi-
dent of the Athletic Association.

Delia Nichols Smith, ’26, was awarded
the Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship as
the student who, in the middle of her Jun-
ior year, has the highest honor point rec-
ord. She had 219 honor points on 84
hours, or 194 honor points on 75 hours...

‘Four other students were also consid-
ered for this scholarship: A. Adams, ’26,
who had 188 honor points on 75 hours;
M. Arnold, ’26, with 17614 honor points
on 7414 hours; C. Hardy, ’26, with 172%
honor points on 74% hours, and G.
Thomas, ’26, with 194 honor points on
88 hours, or 172 points on 75 hours.

Prepared by the High School,
Orange, New Jersey, D. Smith was the
Scholar for New _ York,
New Jersey-and Delaware in 1922-23, and
Alumnae Regional Scholar 1922-25. In
her Sophomore year she was the James
E. Rhoads Sophomore scholar, while this
last. year she was the James E. Rhoads
Junior scholar and the Elizabeth Duane
Gillespie scholar in American History.

. Besides the Brooke |Hall Memorial

® Scholarship, D. Smith, '26, was awarded
the

Charles §$. Hinchman Memorial
Scholarship for special ability in one or
both group subjects and the New Jersey
Regional Scholarship. Her wit is
English and History.

“Others receiving sulisterthind in the
oe year were as follows: A: rtp

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_.Miss. Park in her. May Day chapel ad-|

 

| “PIRATES” SHOW MORAL BEAUTY,
-SCORNING INTEREST FOR DUTY

Best Comic Parts Are The Deadly
Foes, Edward and the Pirate*King

®

Glee Club’s performance of “The Pirates
of Penzance” at Roberts «Hall, Haverford
College, on last. Friday and Saturday eve-
nings, was stipreme comedy. Roused by a
familiar and stirring tune in-the overture,
the audience caught the magnificent en-
thusiagm of. the actors for the. chortling
joys of Gilbert and Sullivan, and a “rare

 

good hymor” filled the theatre.
Even. pictorially considered, the pro-
duction was exciting. A native of Corn-
wall might have protested at the rather
cubistic rocky coast of thé” First Act;
but what a wild, rugged effect they
achieved! What pathos they gave to the
line, “We lay and wept upon the rocks!”
The Ruined Chapel was delightfully
Gothic in the eighteenth century sense,
with its trembling pillars and lovely rose
window. . It was very skillfully contrived
to create an impression of size and dark
hiding-places.

The costumes, too, deserve great praise

for their brilliant but harmonious color

scheme, their appropriate styles, and the
convinethg properties with which they

were equipped, real Gordon Dry bottles,
handsome pistols, and wicked knives.
The performance itself was excellent,
in spite of a lack of good, trained voices.
There was every evidence of fine training
and thorough drilling in the work of both

choruses and_ principals. With afew

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RIGHTS OF MEN MUST REPLACE
OLD THEORY OF INDIVIDUALISM

 

 

Dr. Holmes Finds God in the Spirit of
Humanity, the Group Mind

 

“Democracy is in a period of transition
from the old theory of the Rights of
Man to the new theory of the Rights of
Men; from a reign of ‘liberty’ to a reign
of ‘law’,” said Dr. John. Haynes Holmes,
lecturing in chapel last Sunday evening.

In the middle of the eighteenth century
democracy entered the world. The idea
upon which it was then based was taken
from Rousseau’s interpretation of history,
from the notion that each man is pri-
marily interested in protecting his own
rights, and that in order to do so men
formed a social contract. Rousseau’s
reading of history was entirely fallacious

‘and unscholarly from beginning to end.

This old idea of liberty may be summed.

-up as being‘the right of the indi¥idual to

live out his desires, attributes, and‘ quali-
ties free from outside intrusion. :

We are now beginning'to see that such
liberty is impossible when men live to-
gether. Moreover though a Robinson
Crusoe on-a desert island could have all
the rights of man, he§ would never think
of them. — It is. onky when we have to ad-
just our lives to the lives of other men
that we think of liberty as an aim. At
that moment, too, limitations arid restfic-
tions are necessarily put on our rights.
We can no longer enjoy liberty on our
own terms. We must enjoy liberty on
the terms imposed by rother people. In
days gone by, when a man wanted more
rights, fe used to move out to the frontier.
Because there is no longer a frontier,.
people have grown restless. There will
be popular revolt until we learn to think
of democracy in terms of the will of all
of us.

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MAY DAY IS CELEBRATED -

» IN TRADITIONAL MANNER

1926’s May Pole Most Successfully
Wound of All on the Green -

“Hark! Hark! the lark at heaven's gate
sings

 

And Phoebus ’gins to drise!”

and the rest of it waked the “good
Shakespeare-fearing” Seniors on May
first to:the delightful surprise of May

baskets at. their doors, Turning Oxonian
for a brief moment ‘(only a moment, for

sang to Phoebus and his horses on Rocke-
feller Tower as if it-were Magdalen. De-
scending to breakfast with
Song, they paused while Valinda Hill,
Sophomore. President, crowned Caroline
Remak, Senior President, Queen of the
May. In fact, one of the most Eliza-
bethan touches of the was the
magnificent carelessness with which Miss
Remak wore her wreath in the academic
gloom-of Taylor.

morn.ng

Though perhaps the most Elizabethan
tendency of the undergraduates today is a
certain frankness and vividness of speech,
May Day celebrations were in good Eng-
lish Tradition. Vigorous dancing about
May Poles, rolling of hoops (involving the
cousummation of many interesting rela-
tionships), and a great many songs about
the spring, the “lude cuckoo,” and rising
early in the morning, changed the modern
efficiency of the working day campus to
a delightful Anglo-Saxon rowdiness. Tow
often is this missing from our blighted,
intellectual youth!

 

MERION TENNIS TEAM
DEFEATS BRYN MAWR

 

Charis Denison Wins Match While
Four Others Lose

 

The Merion Cricket Club, winning four
out of five matches, easily walked away
with the honors in the tennis played
against Varsity on Saturday, May. 2.

Beatrice Pitney, '27,
one on the Varsity team, was briskly de-
feated 6-3,-6-4, by Miss Anne Townsend,
who holds the thirteenth place in the na-
tional woman’s ranking. During the first
set B. Pitney -seemed unable to adjust
herself to the slashing, infallible gaine of
her opponent. In the second set the
match was less one-sided. The Bryn
Mawr. player was able to gain the offen-
sive for a short time, winning three of
Miss Townsend’s. serves by hard drives
down the sidelines, and passing her many
times -at the net.

Playing with dynamic force and energy,
match, Mrs. John Bell defeated D. O'Shea,
'26, 10-8, 6-1 In the first set it was nip
and tuck. Mrs. Bell played pretty shots,

-but D. O’Shea, although she seldom moved,

placed beautifully and thus outwitted her
opponent. Ffom the beginning of the sec-
ond set D. O’Shea lost steadily as Mrs, Bell
atta:ked with more and morg strength.

In a long and comparatively slow
match Mrs. John Bell defeated Deidre
O'Shea, '26, 10-8, 6-1. In the first set it
was nip and tuck. Mrs. Bell played
pretty shots, but D. O'Shea, although she
seldom moved, placed beautifully and thus
outwitted her opponent. From the gbe-
ginning of the second set D. Q’ Shea lost
steadily as Mrs. Bell attacked with more
and more strength.

Charis Denison, ’26, who defeated Mrs.
Watts 7-5, 7-5, was the only member of
the Bryn Mawr team who succeeded in

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Price 10 Cents

 

‘|$200 A MINUTE! OVER
THE TOP OF THE QUOTA

Meeting of Alumnae Leaders With
Undergraduates Brings Pledges ~-
to Swell Endowment

STANDARD

 

 

ALUMNAE SET

 

7.30 on Ménday evening Angela
Johnston, 26, President of the Under-
graduate Association, introduced _ the
‘undergraduates of Bryn Mawr, «gathered

such is not natural to Bryn Mawr) they? 1 the =pymmasittm—te—Mrs.—Louis. Slade,

chairman of the successful 1920 $2,000, 000
Endowment Drive to raise professors’ sal-
1925 $400;000 Fund to
auditorium and a
music department. At 845 the under-
graduates had pledged $31,000, $4000
more than ‘the quota’ promised in Feb-
ruary. Almost $200 a minute! o

Standing before a wildly applauding
audience, Mrs. Slade told the story of
the 1920 Drive, when other colleges set-
tng out for their own funds, looked to
Bryn Mawr to lead the way.

“With million dollars in
hands,” said Mrs. Slade, “the Trustees
reaized the pewer of the Alumnae. Then
we said we wanted music at Bryn Mawr.
We got it; but the time came when we
saw we could no longer merely hold
out our empty hands every year to sup-
port the Department. I came to Miss
Park and asked her if music was really
wanted here. She said to me: ‘Since we
have had music, it is as if we had been
in a dark place and suddenly someone had
opened a window and let in the sunlight.’
So we started the Drive.”

Mrs. Slade went on to describe the sac-
rifices Alumnae all over the country are
making for the fund, even though they
will perhaps never even see the audi-
torium. | :

“An Alumna who is earning $1900 a
year is giving us $100. Othgrs are pledg-
ing small monthly amounts for the next

aries, and of the

give the college an

two our

two years. -
“But on the first of May,” continued
Mrs. Slade, “we found ourselves with ex-

playing number |.actly one-half our amount raised. Today

must
But

we have $208,000; that means we
get $50,000 a week for four weeks.
I know we will succeed!”

The same sure confidence in the friends
of the college was expressed in Mrs. Car-
rol Miller's speech. When the final day
of the spring offensive comes, according
to Mrs. Miller, Bryn Mawr’s leading
Alumna in politics, President: Park, will
stand on the steps of Taylor Hall and like
Queen Victoria in the Pennsylvania
Dutchman’s campaign speech, - exclaim
with surprise: “Mein Gott! What a quota
that was!” >

Mrs. Durfee, of Boston, spoke for the
workers there. Then Mrs. Chadwick
Collins, Head of Publicity, gave the fig-
ures of the undergraduate contributions
to date, including $18.20 from the Lomas-
Lee-Saunders Bicycle Co. and $100 from
the ‘sale of sandwiches. She explained
that the estimate of $400,000 did not take
‘nto consideration the cost of furnishing
the building. She called upon the under-
graduates present to pledge the $9000
still needed for their sum as gallantly as
they had stood by the crisis of May Day.

While — applause. and singing rang
through the gymnasium, collectors rushed
about gathering in pledges for cash sums,
for $4 a month or $2 a month for two
ytars. Frantic arithmetic followed.

“$27,000,” announced the chairman.
“Make it a good round number.”

Another rush for pledge slips. Miss

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