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Tuesday, May 31, 1949

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three

 

Incunabula, James, Pigmy Cicero
Now Shown in Rare Book Room

by Joan McBride, ’52 ~

The Rare Book Room exhibit
now consists of recent gifts from
alumnae and friends of the library.
Among the books displayed are a
collection of first editions by
Henry James, contributed by Mary
Miller Buckminster, and two vol-
umes of La Sainte Bible, heav-
ily bound in richly embossed
leather, given by Mrs. Ethel J. E.
Hadas. Howard Lv Goodhart do-
nated from his private collection
two inctinabula of medieval manu-
scripts, and two of several Japan-
ese books given by Miss Anne Vau-
clain are exhibited.

Several French books were con-
tributed by Miss Margaret Gilman,
and ‘Mary Winsor donated a leath-
er-bound edition of the works of

ten by authors closely connected
with the college are Swans and
Amber, a free translation of Greek

“Among” the ‘books writ-|

 

lyric poetry by Dorothy Burr
Thompson, an alumnae; The Boy
Jesus and His Companions, by
Rufus M. Jones; and Party Poli-
tics in the Age of Caesar, by Miss
Taylor, Dean of the Graduate
School.

One of the most interesting of
the contributions to the Rare Book
Room is a minute volume of
Cicero’s works, scarcely more than
three inches high: De Officiis, De
Senectute, and De Amicitia, given
by Mrs. Henry Bonnell. An edition
of Goethe was donated to the li-
brary by Fraulein Friede Horst-
hemke, “in gratitude for a pair of
shoes given her by a Bryn Mawr
alumna.”

Also in the exhibit are Volume
I of a set of Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
given by Mrs. John J. Boericke;

‘Princeton Portraits, contributed by

Mrs. A. Marquand; and Indian Art
in the United States, contributed
by Mrs. Thomas E. Drake.

 

Class Day Speeches Reveal Inner Meaning
Of Selfus Governum, Bryn Mawr Chastity

Continued from Page 1

which has caused many a mama to
raise her eyebrow—and the re-
sponsibilities attached to the post
of vestal virgin. She referred in
awed accents to the high priestess
of Selfus Governum, and the initia-
tory fire of chastity which is
known euphemistically to the ad-
ministration as Parade Night.
Translating the words to the soph-
omore lantern night hymn as
meaning: “Make us look twenty-
one,” she fell back into her bucket
of suds to avoid the malignant ten-
dencies of Friday the thirteenth.
At the Gym, Jane Ellis, looking
more buxom than usual, proceeded
to classify Bryn Mawr products,
not by their minds as Life has al-
ready done, but by their Bodies.
Jane distinguished four categories:
the nobody, the somebody, the all-
body, and the sublimated body. The
nobody, a synonym for the Bryn
Mawr Intellectual Body, is shape-
less and flabby, with remarkable
hip development, and is to be
found in the library; “she will
always be an asset in her local
library.” The somebody has
“muscles where they count’’—ade-
quately illustrated by Jane who
had reached the gym-tunic stage
in her progressive strip-tease from
gown to leotard—the somebody,

she declared, is destined to end up,

on the Planned Parenthood Board
of her community. “The all-body,
on the other hand, is more adapt-
able: she loves both Ford’s and
the Rumpus Room, she takes arch-
ery to develop herself where it
does the most good, and she is
always “handy around the home.”
The sublimated body is the soul of
Bryn Mawr—she loves art and
clinging leotards; she is also a

 

 

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thorough realist: she accepts her
body as part of her.

At the Library, the last and
most amusing stop, after the Good-
bye Song had made the rounds of
the faculty, Margo Vorys discussed
the serious problem facing every
modern Bryn Mawr undergradu-
ate: whether to be co-ed or sterile.
Men or Professors—Which? cried
Margo—Haverford was defined as

}a species of its own, created by

God, not out of dust, but out of the
flower-bed. Professors can give us
satisfaction, but they never let us
at them. Immediate remedies: do
away with that silly old five dol-
lar fine, and review the curricu-
lum. Free hours common to both
student and professor must be
Mr.
Bachrach must be allowed his beer

and Mr.

more carefully worked out,

Broughton his tennis

 

Between the Leaves

Visitors Find Theatres,
Pandas, Wallabies
In Guidebook

by Irina Nelidow, ’50

Good and ,inexpensive restau-
rants in New York are “like love,
something you must find out for
yourself and then don’t tell more
than 40 or 50 of your closest
friends.” So maintains Carl Maas,
author of How to Know and En-
joy New York, a handbook of in-
side information on what to do and
where to do it in New York City.

Mr. Maas is bursting with help-
ful advice to those as yet uniniti-
ated into New York night life. He
reveals to the out-of-towmer ail
the artful tricks and dodges of
maitres d’hotel and waiters in the
various night clubs, warning that
“many gilded. saloons have assum-
ed the status of private clubs ‘and
the welcome mat is rarely set out
for strangers.”

Music, the theater, the dance,
art, sports, hobbies, transportation,
and shopping are only a few of
the topics on which Mr. Maas prof-
fers suggestions. He takes the
shopping question lightly, for as
he says, “some character has fig-
ured out that New York has a
store for every 66 inhabitants, so
the problem of taking something
nice and unusual to the folks back
home is a cinch—that is, unless
you’re shopping for a live giant
panda or a wallaby.”” The author
even suggests where the latter
purchases might be made.

‘While enlightening the prospec-
tive theater goer on how to get
tickets, ‘Mr. Maas advises him not
to use inside pull; even “if you

 

shorts, Mr. Goodale must be made
to take out a different freshman
every night to relieve the tension
in chorus, and women are to be un-
conditionally abolished from the
faculty. Liberal education, with
professors, not co-education with
men, must be the happy theme-
song of the future.

 

 

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Is Part of the Party

Plus 1¢
State Tax

 

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UNDER AUTHORITY, OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
The Philadelphia Coca Cola Bottling Company

 

 

Geraldine Warburg, winner
of the M. Carey Thomas Essay
Prize.

 

know a girl in the chorus of Annie
Get Your Gun, or even Annie, don’t
ask the impossible.” However, “if
anyone tries to sell you tickets for
a-radio-show;-spit-in his eye. They,
unlike ‘some of the other best
things in life, are really free.”

Of real value to all who may
visit New York, and indeed to all
New Yorkers also, is a chart which
explains how to determine the
street location of numbers on the
avenues. —Mr. Maas’ explanation
of the mysteries of New York sub-
ways is likewise excellent, and his
description’ of the geographical
layout of Manhattan Island is as
illuminating to native islanders as
to visitors.

 

1899 Congregates
For 50th Reunion

The 50-year Class, the class of
1899, held its reunion at Rhoads
North during the weekend of May
28 to 31.

Forty-six members of the orig-

/ inal sixty-nine took their A.B.s at

Bryn Mawr. Of this number, ap-
proximately twenty-five alumnae
from all over the United States re-
turned this weekend.

Among the outstanding members
of this 50-year class is Cora Hardy
Jarrett, author of The Ginko Tree
and The Silver String. Mrs. Jar-
ret is currently working on an-
other novel.

One physician, a few Ph.D.s, and
several M.A.s are included among
1899’s alumnae. Other graduates
are occupied in teaching, writing,
politics and public speaking, lec-
turing.and—-book-reviewing;--and-
the class was well represented by
a large share of former suffrage
workers, members of the League
of Women Voters, Garden Club
Presidents, and American Red
Cross Volunteers.

Miss McBride entertained the class
at a luncheon at her home on Sat-
urday, May 28; and that evening
the 50th Reunion Dinner was held
at the home of Miss Gertrude Ely.

With other reunion classes, '99
attended a picnic in the Deanery
Garden on Sunday afternoon.

 

 

 

 

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