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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,
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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



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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.







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which did not mar for the early
students ‘its architectural beauty

that will ever -give an agreeable
aspect tq .the college premises.”
Despite the barrenness, to the mod-
ern eye, of the three early build-
ings and the three frame _hoises,
called the Deanery, the Scenery, and
the Betweenery, the college flour-
ished from the beginning and in-
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student body. many eminent scholars
and ‘prominent women. It has grown
and developed, involving many
changes in ‘the. process, but none :
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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. The

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