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webs. in. purely ‘creative writing
Maseratedsit>, supplement the
hen Freshman Eng-
lish was differentiated from this gen-

  

  

a study of contemporary literature,
and in this way acquired a movement
and vitality not possible before. At!
the same time, however, the rest of '
the general course was compressed’

 

which a general survey of English
literature was made. As- President
Thomas, President Nielson and sev-

’ eral other instructors first gave this |

survey, and as Miss Donnelly took it
up after them, it allowed time for in-
dividual literary works as well as for
general trends and periods; but with
the reduction of time, it lost in depth
and richness. By touching merely!
the high points Miss Donnelly strove |
to overcome this deficiency, and when.
she gave up the teaching of it after
directing it for thirty years, she still
felt its value. She suggests that it
might now be used experimentally as!
a final rather than a preliminary
course in the case of English majors,
since it would then provide excellent |
preparation for their comprehensive
examinations by filling in gaps and
giving a general framework to the
whole subject.

It is because of such a general shap- |

 

“ing which the comprehensives give to)

knowledge, and because of their ten-|
dency to make students think of their
work as a whole rather than as a
series of separate courses, that Miss

tions. During the last years when
Miss Thomas was president, Miss
Donnelly worked to introduce them at!
least into her own department, but it’
was not until Miss Park rearranged |
the faculty schedule, allowing profes-
sors necessary extra time and becom-
ing interested in the comprehensives |
herself, that they became possible.
A few disasters occurred among Eng»
lish students because of them, but on;
the whole the work in English has’
been improving consistently _ since
their institution.

Besides originating the movement
for comprehensives, Miss Donnelly
has_begun many other experiments
now embodied in the college life. Hav-
ing seen the wonderful work done in
Japan by Miss Tsuda, a_Bryn Mawr
student, she desired to “set the ball
rolling” in China too. With the help
of several friends she therefore:
founded the Chinese Scholarship in
1918. She founded also the New Book
Room in the Library. She was one of
the original committee for the Bryn
Mawr Summer School, ard she has
continued to be intensely interested in
this organization because of the deeper
eagerness and sincerity of the stu-
dents there and the challenge which
their independent thinking gives to
any teacher.

Miss Donnelly does not disapprove
of the regular Bryn Mawr students
who simply take their education more
as a matter of course. In answer to
the laments so many alumnae make
that students are not so brilliant nor
so earnest as they formerly were, she
replies that they are just as good as
-ever.. Perhaps they have less time for
and writing in

well-organized and crowded life

 

‘interest in Bryn Mawr and her own
department, she is an experienced

friends from all over the world. The
change and stir of travel she’ believes
are vital to a fresh intellect. They
allow a return to one’s own work with
greater love and energy than before.

 

Dean Schenck was the speaker at
Beaver College in Jenkintown, for
their Honors Day on Wednesday, May
20.

a a

jbased on Shelley’s life, called Many-

‘much more efficient than the fight

‘lieve that disease will ever be abol-

‘must fight with all their powers.

‘evil, we may really succeed in con-

 

M. Coxe, ’34, Has Play Produced _
Kit Marlowe, a play by Maria Coxe,
Bryn Mawr, ’34, was produced May 29
and 30 by the Hedgerow Theatre.

teen years old. The-séts @md costumes
for the Hedgerow production were de-
signed by the author, and she also
assisted in its direction.

In 1935 the Theatre Alliance in
Philadelphia produced another play
of Miss Coxe’s, If Ye Break Faith;
and she has just completed a third,

Colored Glass. In’ 19338, while still an
undergraduate, Miss Coxe won a
scholarship from. the New York

Drama League. A,

 

War and Disease Akin,
Says Dr. A. Hamilton

~ Continued from Page One
Des

 

against war. Physicians do not be-
ished, but they feel that it is an
unmitigated evil and one that they

“When our statesmen are as fully
convinced that war is evil as physi-
cians are convinced that disease is

trolling it, as we are on the way to
controlling disease.”

The members of the Health Com-
mittee of the League of Nations are
not appointed by their governments,
nor do they represent any country,
although their selection is influenced
by the desire to have the membership
widely scattered over the world. All
are chosen because they are experts
in. some field of .public health.

In its early days, after the war,
the committee was occupied chiefly
with restoring public health work in
the older countries and initiating it
in the newer, and in bringing malaria
under control after it had spread far
and wide. The most stricken coun-
tries were visited by members of the
committee, who gave advice accord-
ing to the conditions in the individual
countries and in consideration .of the
amount of money available for such
work. Sleeping sickness and tubercu-
losis control are also among the par-
ticularly successful projects of the
committee. a
It is noteworthy that by 1925 the
committee, which had at first asked
permission of the various countries to
make its investigation, was now be-
sieged by inquiries and pleas for help
from all parts of the world. Such
investigations have spread widely of
recent years, and have been conducted
in Persia, Latin America, Turkey and
the Far East, in addition to Europe.

 

Drexel Institute Changes Name
Philadelphia, May 30—Drexel. In-
stitute of Art, Science and Industry—
the only college which has adopted the
cooperative plan of technical educa-
tion in the Philadelphia area—is now
officially Drexel Institute of Technol-
ogy, according to an announcement
made by the Trustees of the Institute.
Drexel Institute was founded in
1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, Philadel-
phia financier and philanthropist, as
a technical college for men and wom-
en, open for day and evening sessions.
The college offers courses in four
schools—Engineering, Home Econom-
ics, Business Administration and Li-
brary Science.
Both the Engineering and Business
Administration Schools offer five-year
cooperative courses. The cooperative
college system is based on the coordi-
nation of theory and practice. After
the freshman year, the student spends
half his time in college and the other
half in a carefully selected position
with some progressive business or in-
dustrial firm—alternating in three-
month periods between the college and
his outside position. Because his prac-
tical work is coordinated with his
classroom studies, his entire college
course is well balanced.

 

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Hurst Receives Tutorship

Martha Hurst, Fellow. in
Philosophy here, has been given
a tutorship at Lady Margaret’s
Hall, Oxford, for the coming
year.

 

 

 

Meeting A pproves of
New Plan of Marks

Continued from Page One

 

arate cards as rapidly as_ possible.
The grades in hygiene and physical
education will be posted in the Gym-
nasium.

The most frequent criticism which
has been made of the proposed change
is that students will not be able to
know their comparative standing in
any class. This criticism was made
in the faculty discussion, but the ma-
jority of the faculty apparently felt
that the sense of competition between
undergraduate students had been un-
duly stimulated by the posting of
grades. There will, of course, be no
change in the award of honors, and
individual members of the faculty will
be entirely at liberty to discuss the
comparative merits of examination pa-
pers and reports if it seems desir-
able. There has been a very general
feeling in the faculty that many stu-
dents were placing a false emphasis
on grades, and it was the hope of
the committee which made the recom-
mendation that the new system of an-
nouncing the grades would eliminate
much of the excitement and misinter-
pretation which has followed the post-
ing of grades in Taylor. There will
inevitably be a certain amount of de-
lay in the new system, but it is to be
hoped that real inconvenience can be
avoided by furnishing necessary in-
formation from the Dean’s office.

 

Alternate Fellow is
Horace Prize Winner

 

Continued from Page One

course during the summer.

Her chief interest outside her work
is music. She has studied: piano for
two years under Mr. Alwyne, besides
taking several music courses here.
Next year Miss Holzworth returns
to Bryn Mawr as Graduate Scholar
in Latin, to work in that subject and
in Greek. The following year she
will use the thousand-dollar Horace
prize for study at the American Acad-
emy in Rome.

 

 

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BOOK REVIEW
We in Captivity. presents a side of
Irish life other than that favored by
Donn Byrne and his followers; Kath-
leen Pawle deals here straightfor-
wardly with the abortive rebellion of

1916 under the _leadership of the
dreamer, Padraic Pearse. The chief
character, Ignatius Proudfoot, is in-
geniously presented first as a very
hungry acolyte, but the story of the
full years of his youth is a powerful
one.

His life at the College of Rochenoir
in Dublin is one of the most interest-
ing phases of the book, and the char-
acters of the-priests who administer
the work there :are especially well
drawn, for the author stresses their
doubts and emotions rather than
their ecclesiastical personalities. The
friends Ignatius makes there are dealt
with consistently throughout, and their
interrelations are all-important for an
undertanding of their actions. . At the
end of the book one cannot but be
struck with the horrifying injustice of
their destinies, as Healy, who was
born to be a demagogue, wrecks the
life of each, and yet, absolutely unre-
lenting, goes on to higher things.

As in so many of ‘the novels of this
day, the minor characters are the most
clear and forceful. Danny Finnigan
deserves a place beside some of Dick-
ens’ best creations, and. the members
of Ignatius’ family are brilliantly done.
Miss Pawle is particularly good at giv-
ing quick sketches of the backgroynd
of each of her characters.

Yet there is a strange paucity of
general atmosphere in the novel. The
theme of the sleeping Old Woman,
that is; Ireland, is strong enough, and
this book may represent a reaction

Non-Residents Give Tea
Common Room, May 19.—Evelyn
Hansell, ’86, acted as hostess for. the
last non-resident tea of the year, at
which about twenty non-resident stu-

dents entertained friends and mem-
bers of the faculty.

 

E. Wyckoff is Major
In Ancient Classics

 

Continued from Page One

lege would express itself a little more.
' Although Miss Wyckoff: has been
interested in Greek ever since her
first training in that subject in the
Brearley School, and although she has
enjoyed her courses in the Greek de-
partment here, a:liking to write and
study English has always rivalled
her inclination toward the classical
languages. Her Freshman English
with Miss Glen was as exciting and.
delightful as any research she has
made since then into the tragedies of
Aeschylus or the poetry of Pindar,
while the two courses she most regrets
having missed while she was here are
English courses too—the Elizabethan
Drama and the Seventeenth Century
Literature which Miss Glen has al-
ways taught.

The winning of the European Fel-
lowship, is not the first honor which
Miss Wyckoff. has gained at Bryn
Mawr. As a sophomore and as a
junior she held the James Rhoads
Memorial Scholarship, while at the
end of her junior year she was award-
ed the Maria Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship for having the .
highest average in her class and the
Hinchman Scholarship, the most
coveted of all undergraduate awards,
given to the junior who has done the

 

from the imagist writing of Donn
Byrne; but the stories that Maureen
MaCarthy tells to Ignatius, for ex-
ample, might well have been expanded
to make the motive for the actions
even more powerful.

The love story of Norah Proudfoot
and Dick Finlay diverges abruptly
from the main theme. It offers, how-
ever, strong contrast to the story of
Ignatius and, Maureen, for the one be-
gins in great happiness and ends in
sorrow, while the other is never free
from doubt and torment till the end,
when the final hope shows in the West,
as the lovers look to America.

 

best work in her major subject.

 

Service Held in Ely Garden

| Miss Gertrude Ely gave the college

the use of her garden for the outdoor
chapel service Sunday evening, May
twenty-fourth. Reverend John W.
Suter, Jr., of the Church of the
Epiphany, New York City, conducted
the service.

 

 

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