The GULLEGE NEWS VOL. XLV, NO. 25 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1949 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn Mawr College,1945 PRICE 15 CENTS Beverly m Levin Awarded European Fellowship Dr. Machregor Named to Hold R. Jones Chair Philosopher, Minister_ To Offer Three New Courses The announcement of the ap- pointment of Dr. ‘Geddes Mac- Gregor to the Rufus M. Jones Chair in Philosophy and Religion was made by Miss McBride this morning, during the course of the Commencement ceremonies. Mr. MacGregor, who holds the degrees of B.D. and L.L.B. from the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, and D. Phil. from Oxford, is a Minister of the Church of Scotland, and has, at present, his own church in Glas- gow. At the same time he holds an appointment as Assistant in Philosophy. and Religion at the University of Edinburgh. Mr. MacGregor will give three full courses, or the equivalent, next year. He is scheduled to take on one section of the first year course in History of Philosophy, which will be given in five sections for the first time. He will give two semester courses in the second year group: Philosophy and Re- ligion in the first semester, and Comparative Religion in the sec- ond. The third course Mr. Mac- Gregor will give will probably al- ternate from year to year between a seminary and an advanced course: next year, he will give an advanced course in Mediaeval Phil- osophy. Mr. MacGregor has studied at the Sorbonne as well as at Ox- ford and Edinburgh, and is ac- quainted with the leading French Philosophers of the day. Earlier this year, he was flown from Scot- land to Bryn Mawr between Sun- day services, to interview the ad- ministration. The NEWS hopes to publish a-full interview with Mr. MacGregor in its first fall issue. Beverly Ann Levin, European Fellow Jean Helene Ellis, Catherwood Fellow a yy SBS eae Nancy Martin, Burch Fellow 3-Year Drive Reaches $2,200,400; Slade Announces Succesfui The news that the Drive has not only been completed but overrun by the welcome margin of ten per- cent, bringing the total to $2,20,- 000, was announced by Mrs. F. Louis Slade, Chairman of the Alumnae Fund for the primary purpose of increasing academic salaries and also for the increase of scholarships and certain special projects. Of the 4712 contributors 3816 or over 81% are alumnae. The Fiftieth Reunion Class, 1899, has contributed through the Fund $29,700. The districts into which the alumnae are divided made contvi- butions as follows: District I, .$247,800; District II, $1,331,400; _District_ITI, $91,400; District IV, $87,700; District V, $259,000; District VI, $27,000; Dis- trict VII, $31,300; District VIII, $15,100; Foreign, $6,600; and Un- allocated, $102,700. The first two gifts to the Fund were: $26,000 for the Paul Shorey Chair of Greek collected by Evan- geline Walker Andrews and Susan Walker Fitz Gerald of the Class of 1893, and $30,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Swope for the in- crease of academic salaries. Mrs. Slade also announced the Dachshund, Trunk, Bibulous Bird Brighten B. M.’s Fond Farewells by Paula Strawhecker, °52 and Emily Townsend, ’50 Across from a huge, extremely attractive, red balloon dachshund swaying elegantly between the li- brary towers, the round of senior humor and_nostalgic singing which make up the annual Class Day pro- gram began. Even the dachshund admirers were forced to pay atten- tion as the seniors sank down in front of a large red trunk repos- ing mysteriously on the top step. _ Bumpings and scratchings gave way to the eventual emergence cf Gale ‘Minton, in a surprisingly im- maculate state. One of ,the few people to look even semi-decent in a Bryn Mawr tank suit, Gale was also chicly accoutred in a pocket comb and a cigarette. The high point of her speech was the auction of her bicycle, which she refused to sell to her sister but finally got rid of for thirteen dollars. On: the way, however; she managed to slip in enough disrespectful references ito Freshman Comp to keep the audience satisfied, and furnished a useful topic sentence for future essayists: “Last summer several friends of mine and I went on a picnic...” From there, she claim- ed, politics, religion, sex, anything could be worked in. A politics major, Gale explained the two kinds-of. courses. offered by-her-de- partment: theory and practice, and “The higher level—the third floor of Taylor.” Offering a few ex- planations of the presence of the Library Dog, Gale suggested a man with an autogyro and retreat- ed, with some difficulty, into her trunk once more. | * Kathy Geib. dunking her head rhythmically and abstractedly into an-enormous bucket of suds on an upper window sill of Dalton wel- comed the audience that persisted in the round instead of waiting un- der the Library tree for the last speech. Her resemblance to Welles a la Martin was, of course, entire- ly unintentional. Discussing Su- perstition at Bryn Mawr, the “bibulous bird who burped” men- tioned briefly the red lanterns in the cloisters—an ancient custom Continued on Page 3 n present standings and _ various academic projects: the Rufus M. Jones Chair of Philosophy and Religion, which will be inaugurated in September, now has $154,000; the Theresa Hel- burn Chair of the Drama _ will continuing Bryn Mawr’s work in that field and for which funds will be further collected; the Eunice Morgan Schenck Chair in French has received an addition of $17,- 900; the Georgiana Goddard King Fund in the Department of Art and Archaeology, $59,200; the Eloise Ruthven Tremain Instruc* Continued on Page 5 Warburg Receives M. Thomas Prize Geraldine Warburg won the an- nual M. Carey Thomas Essay prize, awarded to a senior for the’ best creative or critical work sub- mitted for the contest. Gerry’s paper was a critical essay entitled “Charles Lamb and Sir Thomas Browne,” and was chosen as the best entry by unanimous decision of the three English Department judges, Professors Linn, Meigs, and Stapleton. Past Activities Gerry has done a good deal of writing during her college career, joining the board of the Title last spring and being the first Editor in Chief of the new Counterpoint. She has also been active in the Drama Guild, of which she was Vice- President this year; her sophomore year she played in The Skin of Our Teeth, her junior year in The Sea Gull, and this year she played the title. role in Anouilh’s. Antigone. President of her class her fresh- man year, she was also a member of the Chorus, and received a var- sity owl for riding. This year she has been active on the Chapel Committee. Gerry is an English major, graduating magna cum laude. Permanent Officers of 1949 The permanent officers of the Class ,of 1949 were recently elected. Nancy Martin was chos- en as the class president, Ally Lou Hackney as collector and treasurer, Edie La Grande as secretary and class editor for the Alumnae Bulletin, and Mary Rose Beetlestone as reunion manager for next year. Jean H. Ellis Wins Catherwood Award Jean Helene Ellis was awarded the Catherwood Foundation Fel- lowship, awarded by the college for the first time this year; she plans to use it for further study at Oxford, where she has already been accepted. She is a history major and plans to continue in Mediaeval History. She did honors this year with Dr. Cuttino, on “The Process of Perigueux.” She has been very active extra-curricularly, as Copy Editor of the NEWS ani Chairman of the Curriculum Com- mittee; she was business manager of the Junior Prom, and a member of the French and Philosophy Clubs; she took one comprehensive in French. N. Martin Gets Burch Fellowship (Nancy Martin has been awarded the Burch Fellowship for study in England, given last year for tw? years by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burch, whose daughter Helen graduated last year. Nancy is a politics major, graduating cum laude; she has held the Alumnae Regional Scholarship and the Ed- win Gould Foundation Scholarship Continued on Page 5 5 New Members To Join Faculty Miss McBride and the Board of Directors have announced several additional appointments to the fac- ulty for the academic year 1949- 50. In English, Miss Isabel Gamble has ben appointed instructor; she is now an-assistant-in.English--at Radcliffe, and tok her A. B. at Swarthmore. Mr. John Pruett, M.S. and Ph.D. at Indiana, will be an Assistant Professor in Physics; during the war he did experimental research for the Manhattan Project. In Chemistry, Mr. Harold Kwart, Ph.D. Harvard,.will become an Assistant Professor; he, too, work- ed on the Manhattan Project and has been Research Fellow at Har- vard since 1947. ‘Mrs. Maxine Woolston, a mem- ber of the City Planning Commis- sion, has been appointed part-time lecturer in Economics; Miss Cyn- thia Gee, B. A. University of Bris- tol and graduate student at Bryn Mawr, will be part-time lecturer in Greek. putes ss gor a Bi i Faculty Name Bachner As Alternate Fellow The award to Beverly Ann Levin of the European Fellowship, the highest honor in the gift of the college, was announced this morn- ing during the Commencement Ex- ercises. Beverly is a philosophy graduating summa cum laude, who plans to take her M.A. major, degree at the University of Penn- sylvania next year. Her academic career at Bryn Mawr has been noteworthy: last year she received the Hinchman Memorial Scholar- ship, in conjunction with Anne Hunt Thomas, for work of special excellance in her major field. Bev- erly was Ann Hallowell Memorial Scholar-in 1946-47; last year, apart from the Hinchman, she held the Anna Margaret and Mary Sloan Scholarship. She was prepared by the High School in Charleston, West Virginia. Beverly wrote her honors paper in philosophy on “The Connexity of Experience,” dealing with Kant and Hume; the method of handling was an explation of various prob- lems to be discovered in Hume, and an attempt at their solution through an interpretation of Kant. She worked with Dr. Nahm. Beverly is being married in June to Leon Robbins, Haverford ’48 and now a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania; she hopes to live in Bryn Mawr next year while attending Penn. Her chief interests in philosophy are British Epiricism and Logical Pos- itivism: she plans to work in the Logical Positivist School in the future: Jackson Sue Bachner Alternate ~ Suzanne Bachner, named ‘the al- ternate to the European Fellow- ship, is a history major who did honors with Dr. Gilbert in Russian History: the subject of her paper was the Russian Decembrist Rev- olution.of 1925. She has completed her college course in three years, accelerating from the sophomore to the senior class; her average at every point has been summa cum laude. She comes from New York, where she was prepared by the Hunter College High School; she plans to be married soon, and do graduate work at Columbia. ENGAGEMENT Gale Minton, ’49 to Francis Xavier Critchlow.