—— ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS i ‘Colorful Ceremonies’: Honor Festive Day o Continued from Page One * quarreled, praised, blamed, worked with, Bryn Mawr.” - After the four speeches of the morn- ing (the © texts. of which ‘are given elsewhere), Mrs. F. L. Slade, of New York, chairman of the Fiftieth Anniversary Fund and a director of Bryn Mawr College, made her an- nouncement concerning the alumnae gift and promised completion of the million-dollar fund by June. She an- nounced that the alumnae have raised to.date three-quarters of the money promised, $750,000, and that the library will be called the M. Carey Thomas Library. An inscription to that effect has been. placed over the entrance. Her report included sires special gifts, two of them memorials: the Marjorie Jefferies Wagoner Memorial of $50,570, the Quita Woodward Memorial of $90,000 and an anony- mous gift of $50,000 by a member of the class of 1889. “When the drive first began, the class of 1918 asked to be allowed to give a room in the proposed new building in memory of one of its members, Marjorie Jefferies Wagoner, who died at the end of the academic year of 1934, after ten years of skillful and devoted service to the college as its physician. In consulta- tion with Dr. Wagoner’s family, the - library of the new Science Building was chosen and with the president of the class of 1918 as chairman a com- mittee was formed to raise the sum of $50,000 to be used for this room. The fund is now complete and repre- sents contributions from Dr. Wagon- er’s classmates, from her other friends and from her family, from the faculty and staff: of the college, from every undergraduate in the college in the year 1934-35 and from the classes of 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 arid 1933. ; “The gift of $90,000 made by Dr. and Mrs. George Woodward, of Chest- nut Hill, Philadelphia, in memory of the daughter, Quita, who graduated from Bryn Mawr.in 1932 and who died in 1933, was increased by the contributions of her own class of 1932 and of the sister class of 1934, as well as individual gifts. From her freshman year until she graduated she held not only the respect but the love of everyone who knew her. Her fine_sportsmanship,_her gentleness, her courage,; her scholarship—all marked her as an outstanding under- graduate. It is especially gratifying to the college to have her family honor it by .signifying with this gift the fact which her father stated that she spent four of the happiest years of her all too short life at Bryn Mawr. The foundation stone laid by ‘her father and mother assure the building of this much-needed’ wing to the library for Art and Archaeology, to be known as the Quita Woodward wing, as: soon as the fund is suf- ficient. “A third gift, one which will touch the heart of everyone present, is $50,- 000 given anonymously *y a member of the class of 1889—$1000 for each year of Bryn Mawr College in tribute to President-emeritus M. Carey Thomas.” ‘ President Park received the gift and expressed the deep thanks of the college. A gift from the graduates of a college, however, is a gift from the college itself. A large university: ex- ists in part to pass on treasures of learning, but a small college like Bryn Mawr is founded to offer certain op- portunities. It is “fine, but it is also natural’ for its graduates to renew and aid these opportunities. “The new resources you offer us will allow us to open more doors to your successors. AS far as. Bryn Mawr can dissociate itself from you, I express its deep and lasting grati- tude.” The M. Carey Thomas’ Prize was awarded to Dr. Florence Rena Sabin in the afternoon program. In pre- senting it President Park explained the history of the award. It “was established at the time of Miss Thomas’ retirement from the presi- dency of Bryn Mawr College in 1922. - The givers, her ows students and her friends, in turning the fund over to \ oe committee, directed that from time ‘a second time on a memorable occasion four years ago to Miss Jane Addams. In the last months the committee has | been. considering its third award. “T:s choice has fallen oh a scientis: and a teacher of scientists—one whose work then is to extend beyond her own lifetime. -A graduate of Smith College, the Johns Hopkins . Medical School, Professor of Anatomy at Johns Hopkins for twelve years and Professor of Histology for eight more, for the past ten years member of the Rockefeller Institute, in 1924- 26 President of the American Asso- ciation of Physiologists, the first and only woman member of the National Academy of Science, Dr. Sabin has de- voted her own: research first to the development of the lymphatic’ system, then to the histology of the blood, the development and functions of the blood forming organs, the embryology of the blood vessels, and since 1929 to tuberculosis. At Johns Hopkins and at the Institute she has been a bril- liant and admired teacher and her pupils are in important positions in medical schools -and __ laboratories throughout the country.” After the speech by Dr. Flexner, the newly-retired head of the Rocke- feller Institute for Medical Research and the man with whom Dr. Sabin has been associated in the last period of her work, President Park gave Dr. Sabin the prize. Dr. Sabin’s pu- pils, she said, have praised her imagi- nation and skill. “And all of us whose experiences and ways of living -are affected directly or indirectly by such work as you and your fellow-workers have done need to recognize our debt. This award to you is in small measure a symbol of such payment.” Dr. Sabin’s speech of acceptance is published on page 5. Dr. Flexner’s speech is on page 5. In her introductory speech for the morning exercises President Park out- lined the history of the college. The Dr. Joseph Wright Taylor, a Quaker. His purpose, to found “an institution to. give young -women the opportuni- ties for education Offered so freely to young men” was carried on by the Quaker Board of Trustees, and espe- cially by the first President, Dr. James E. Rhoads. The second President, M.. Carey Thomas, had, as dean, helped to organize those plans before the college opened, and she carried them out in her long years of presi- dency. She was succeeded in 1922 bythe present president. Bryn Mawr still provides for the needs .of women graduate students, and the graduate school has sent out 388 M. A.’s and 190 Ph. D.’s. Four- teen are deans in women’s colleges and universities, and many teach on university and college faculties. The heavy demands on instruction, library, and laboratory this work makes are gladly met, arid they help raise the standard of the undergraduate work. 2782 students have been graduated from Bryn Mawr, and everywhere they take their share in community responsibilities. It is, however, not by virtue of these facts that Bryn Mawr celebrates the end of fifty years of her work. “It is because that work has seemed to her graduates worthwhile, to have given them an education which has enabled them as individuals to earn a living, to enjoy leisure, to work with other people in a family or a community, to prize the things of the mind, to have some notion of what civilization should mean and some interest in con- tributing to it. which are few but our debt_to her which is great that we commemorate today.” President Conant was the first speaker in the morning program. In introducing him, President Park said that he spoke for the great community of American colleges and universities into which Bryn Mawr is only a late comer. There are many likenesses between Bryn Mawr and Harvard, both in. admission and curriculum. * GREEN HILL FARMS . City Line and Lancaster Ave. Overbrook-Philadelphia A reminder that we would like to take care of your parents and friends, whenever they come to visit yom ote ELLSWORTH MET CALF, ‘ : ne money for its founding was given by}: It is not her years]: Bryn Mawr, and six faculty members have recently left Bryn Mawr to teach | there. In introducing President Ada' Comstock President Park said that the colleges for women have shown to the’ academic world.the ease and power! of codperation. It is fitting that, sented-here by President. Comstock, | the long-time.dean of Smith, and President of Radcliffe College since 1923. There has always been close codperation between Johns Hopkins and Bryn Mawr, President Park ex-' plained in her introduction of Isaiah Bowman, President of Johns* Hopkins University. Fifty years ago, Daniel Gilman, President of that institution, spoke at the formal. opening of Bryn Mawr, and twenty-five years ago at the celebration his successor President. Rumsen renewed this close connection, Rockefeller Students . Bravely Endure Exile Continued from Page One president was a lady. Convulsively they .seized each other and rushed from the forbidden territory. Not all the guests were so com- pletely unacquainted with their sur- roundings. Some had even. inhabited the halls several decades ago, but they found them strange and new. To! them the service and conveniences about which the present students so incessantly complain were luxury and perfection. What must have been those dark and dreary days. before the twentieth century dawned! The contrast raised the spirits of these alumnae to a pitch far exceeding youthful exuberance. When the Rock-| efeller maids met these beaming faces and swept their excessively neat rooms, they sighed to think of the im- minent return of Rockefeller’s every- day inhabitants. But for two days at least these in- Twelve Harvard graduates teach at women’s colleges should be repre-| Wild tales citculated concerning the , unappetizing Pembroke food, yet all _the exiles managed to consume what was given them. Their only just com- , plaints were those relating to the scar- city of supplies and the vulgar prac- tice, long outgrown in Rockefeller, of 'serving mak in bottles. When the ‘wanderers returned to itheir own abodes, they eagerly searched nook. and cranny for the fabled flowers and candy which they had fondly believed would reward their sacrifice. Alas, one "lone and|} fortunate girl could boast a gift of roses. One more could display to hungry eyes a-box of chocofates. Still another exhibited with, more amaze- ment than pride a can of Johnson’s baby power. These trophies were the only ones. Many kind notes, however, , showed that the vistors had not been | |, Wnappreciative. ~ | Since we mentioned faculty dogs in the opening paragraph, we must per- force mention them again before our |close. They were conspicuously no- ticeable by their absence. In this fact is shown the wisdom of the masters, 'but in the behavior of the dogs when they did appear is shown their un- tutored’ wisdom, too. They walked with tails between their legs, with subdued ears and puzzled eyes. They ignored squirrels. Miss Park Traces History of College Continued from Page One Mawr at its best holds definite re- flections. This was true fifty years ago and again today. The Quaker in us makes us advance cautiously, often to keep old and new together for a long time. Partly that caution has kept the end of Bryn Mawr’s first fifty years close to their be- ginning. But more important is the fact that in a college deliber- ately kept small, deliberately unified habitants were exiles wandering in foreign halls. The luckier of them, | it is true, took refuge with nearby | friends and relatives; nevertheless, | many found themselves driven ‘from home with only a tooth brush and sometimes not even that to sustain them. One martyr who was sent to Denbigh refused to speak more than the following of her experiences there: “T couldn’t face breakfast; and I went out for lunch; but I had to eat dinner there. Ye gods!” Taciturnity can in preparation and’ scheme of work, with Miss Thomas’ vigor and cer- tainty to direct it all, the carefully articulated plans for entrance re- quirements and degree requirements worked successfully enough to need no major changes,” The only: grave mistake in *Bryn Mawr’s history that Miss Park ad- mitted in her address was the shameful lack of closets in the building of Merion, a fact, however, thus be eloquent. As for Merion, one caustic comment will suffice. A drowsy | “Sleep? Do you expect me to sleep! with the dining room on one side of me and a bathroom on the other?” | Pembroke received most praise and blame; and since it came from home- sick hearts, the blame’ predominated. The distance of the bathrooms from the bedrooms, and the relatively public equipment_as compared with the mod- est privacy of Rockefeller aroused bit- ter disgust, although one girl admit- ted that she enjoyed the opportunity thus provided for social intercourse. < NEW YORK’S MOST EXCLUSIVE RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN NEW YORK BOUND... 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It has grown and developed, involving many changes in ‘the. process, but none : heve changed the basic work and of’ 2 wzan‘zation of the life on the campus. The comical lantern siides early undergraduates which Miss Park showed at’ theconclusion of her address were given life and color in the second half of the pro- gram by Miss Skinner, Mrs. Flex- ner, who was in charge of that part of the evening, and twenty-four members of the college choir. The monologue, A Campus Idyll, was a splendid contribution to the histori- cal sketches by one of Bryn Mawr’s most gifted alumnae, Miss’ Skinner. The young girl of the eighties, en- tering Bryn Mawyr’s first class, who loved her. fiancé enough to give up college but would not. give it up, was acted on Friday with the finesse and grace that only Miss Skinner can attain. In her absence on Sat- urday night, Mrs. Flexner assumed the difficult role with a realism and expertness that charmed the alum- nae and student’ audience. In bright and colorful costumes loaned in part by alumnae, under- graduates sang in the drooping group attitudes of the period the first class song, Manus Bryn Mawr- ensium, written by Dr. Paul Shorey. ‘The second skit was the hilarious athletic song of ’97, We're the finest type of twentieth century woman, which celebrated the first Bryn Mawr basketball team. The famous oral song For; we - ‘read French and German at’ sight was laid on Taylor steps; and a mock Lantern Night ceremony with real lanterns was performed with splen- did singing of Pallas Athene and moving realism. But the light of learning extended to women, which Lantern Night in part symbolizes, took years in “the patient work of preparation,” into which Miss Park gave the audience a_brief ‘glimpse in her address. 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