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THE, COLLEGE NEWS







Miss ‘Thomas At 25th Anniversary



The inspiring genius and dynamic
personality of the late President-
emeritus M.-Carey Thomas have been
felt and recognized not only by Bryn
Mawr, but by the world. So strong
has been the influence of her character
upon the lives of her friends,. her ‘col-
leagues and her students that through
them her greatness has been trans-
mitted to every walk of life.

At the celebration or Bryn Mawr’s
Twenty-fifth Anniversary on October

posure of her own intellect, she has

made us supremely desire the truth.!

But-to her personal power over us she
has been indiffexent., This combina-
tion of the will to drive us on .and
the gift of leaving us free has.made
her the greatest woman college presi-
dent of her day.”

The unknown graduate student
voiced the sentiment of thousands
with the-words: “Her character and
personality have been, from the first
so marked, so vital, and so Vigorous
that she was bound to become one of
the forces of her day, and it is a
blessing to the women of her country

21 and 22, 1910, Presidents Mary E.}that she should haveybecome a force

Woolley, of Mount. Holyoke. College,
said of Miss Thomas: “Bryn Mawr
College, its place in the educational
world, is to an unusual. degree the
_ work of the woman whose name has
been identified with it from the begin-
ning. One can hardly think of the
college without’ its president, or its
president without a vision of the col-
lege.”

Miss Caroline Hazard, president of
Wellesley College, 1899-1910, showed
her appreciation of Miss Thomas’ in-
valuable work at Bryn Mawr with the
words: “(Even) while President
Thomas was Dean, it was well under-
stood that her foresight and judgment
were greatly relied upon by the ad-
ministration, and that her hand has
been upon the wheel which guided this
ship into its present port.”

Mrs. Louise © Sheffield Brownell
Saunders, chairman of the Academic
Committee of the Alumnae, some-
time Warden of Sage College of Cor-
nell University, speaking for Miss
Thomas’ own students, said: ‘This
is her supreme inspiration for us—
she has poured into every one of us
some measure of her own passion for
work,”

On November 2, 1935, at the cele-
bration of Bryn Mawr’s Fiftieth An-
niversary, the contribution of Miss
Thomas in her work and in her per-
sonality was as highly praised as it
had been twenty-five years before.
Miss Ada Louise Comstock, president
of Radcliffe College, said: “For all
college and university women this is
a festival day. If this great army of
women might be conceived of as con-
verging upon Bryn Mawr today, laden
with garlands and chanting praises,
there would be, I venture to say, an
image of a person as well as of an
institution in their eyes—-the image
of thewoman—who-_ for twenty-eight
years served as its president. . . . In
honoring Bryn Mawr today we honor
also a woman whose mark upon the
higher edycation of women is charac-
teristic and ineffaceable.”

Among the most heartfelt and re-
vealing tributes made to Miss Thomas
are the words of an anonymous alum-
na and of a formey graduate student,
also unnamed which were read in her
honor on her retirement on June 8,
1922. The alumna could give no high-
er praise than when she wrote: “By
every. means open to a courageous and
resourceful will, by rigid standards set
“up for the students, by insistent de-
mands upon the faculty, by the ex-





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Revi Mawr Is*Chief
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* Continued from Page One



the testatrix and to eleven alumnae
of the college. The alumnae men-
tioned, several of whom are faculty
members, are Isabel Maddison, of
Wayne; Mrs. Slade, Hilda Worthing-
ton Smith, of Washington; President
Marion Edwards Park, Lucy Martin
Donnelly, Dean Helen Taft Manning,
Caroline Morrow Chadwick-Collins,
Georgiana Goddard King, Susan M.
Kingsbury, Abby Kirk and Alice G.
Howland, of Bryn Mawr.
Trust Fund Comes First

Taking precedence over all offer
funds and bequests is a trust fund of
$200,000, to which the executors are
to apply, if necessary,
estate.
ties to servants and relatives are to
be paid from this.

Miss Thomas directed that after the
death of the annuitants the balance
of the trust fund, estimated at $170,-
000, was to be combined with an addi-
tional $110,000, if available,

ment Fund, to be divided as follows:

A fund of $170,000, from which a
$5000 annuity is to be paid to the
deanery committee as a first charge.

A fund of $30,000 to be known as
the Professor Lucy Martin Donnelly
Memorial Fund in tribute to her
friend, Professor Donnelly, of the
{nglish Department. The income is
to be paid to Professor Donnelly for
life.

A fund of $10,000 to be known as
the President M. Carey Thomas Eng-
lish Prose and Poetry Prize Fund, the
income to be used annually in the
award of two prizes, one to the best
writer in the senior class and the
other to the student in the senior class
who has written the best poem,

A fund of $60,000 to be known as
the Mary Elizabeth Garrett and the
M. Carey Thomas Bryn Mawr Wom-

all of the!
. Sees Pi |
Several legacies and annui-'

to form|
the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Endow-|







Undergraduate Election

The -Undergraduate-Assoei-
ation announces the election of
Nancy Toll, ’39, as freshman
member of the board.







en’s Order of Merit Fund, the income
to be awarded every five years for

distinguished merit and as an aid to,

further achievement. The recipients
are to hold a Bryn Mawr degree and
to have been members of the college’s
faculty or academic staff, who are
acknowledged to have made impor-
tant contributions to knowledge or
won positions of influence and author-

: ity.

A fund of $10,000 to be known as
the Mary Elizabeth Garrett and. the
M. Carey. Thomas - Supplementary
Bryn Mawr Women’s Order of Merit
Fund, to be used to meet traveling
expenses of the members of the com-
mittee and for publication.

Miss Thomas bequeathed $5000 to
the Johns Hopkins Hospital for a
Mary _ Elizabeth ‘Garrett Memorial
Room Fund and $3000 to the Green
Mount Cemetery Company, the income
to be. used for the care of Miss Gar-
rett’s tomb.

Should additional funds be available
she bequeathed $100,000 to the Bryn
Mawr School for Girls of Baltimore,
to be known as the Mary Elizabeth
Garrett Bryn Mawr School Endow-
ment Fund.

Miss Thomas requested the Bryn
Mawr College trustees to permit
burial: of her ashes in The Cloisters
on the campus, with a. memorial brass
in the floor and a Jacobean or Gothic
collegiate baroque wall tablet of ap-
propriate design; she suggested as a
model a tablet in the: Cathedral at
Rimini, Italy. She left directions for
a memorial service, which will be held
at the college on: December 19.



Clifton Fadiman Lists
Best Seller’s Appeals



Continued from Page Three

dent Wilson and Stanley Baldwin
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of the works of certain authors by a
casual statement of preference for
their works. As for titles, good ones
like Bad Girl and The Private Life of
Helen of Troy can easily give books
such a head start as to precipitate
them almost immediately into the best-
seller class.

In spite of a knowledge of details
like the above. which can influence
book sales tremendously, publishers
have no way of predicting a book’s
success with any degree of accuracy.
Mr. Fadiman has drawn up question-
naires and evaluative charts in three





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proved of little or no value. Even the
instinct and opinion of the publishers
themselves cannot be relied upon. A
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| Dr. Fenwick Says:



Mr. Hoover tells us that he wants
to keep America American. It would
be interesting to inquire what kind
of an America he would consider an
“American America.” Should we
abolish green and red traffic lights as
being a restraint upon liberty? Or
abolish anti-trust laws as an interfer-
ence with the laws of economic
erowth? Or abolish banking laws as
4. restraint upon individual initiative,
or insurance laws, or food and drug
laws? None of ‘these laws were
known to the Founding Fathers of
1787.



Mr. Borah’s hat is in the ring for
the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent,—and then he has to go and de-
nounce monopolies and price-fixing
trusts. Has he his eye on the farmer
and small business man of the. Mid-
dle and Far.’ West, or is he letting
Eastern Republicans know that they
can not count on him to play their
game? The address is, as is usual
with Mr. Borah, more an attack upon
what others ‘are: doing than an at-
tempt to put forth a constructive pro-
gram, something that seems to be
beyond Mr. Borah’s reach.

The National Association of Man-
ufacturers delivers another broadside
against.the New Deal and puts. forth
a plan which it calls the “American
System.” It is largely denunciatory
of “interference” with business, and
it insists that if the New Deal would
only let business alone “private initi-
ative” would succeed in putting the
unemployed back to work. The Asso-
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Both Secretary Hull and Sir Sam-
uel Hoare have made strong’ state-
ments about the Nine Power Treaty
and the obligations it entails with
regard to the integrity. of China.
Japan announces, that the treaty is
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