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7 Scholariidis of Women
Merits Lafger Reward

(Excerpts: from. the speech of M.
Carey Thomas, President-emeritus of
Bryn Mawr College.)

It is fifty-seven years ago this No-
vember that I was aSked by the
founder of Bryn Mawr whether I
thought that women professors would
be as willing toteach in co-educational
colleges or annexes as in women’s col-
leges. He said that young women
should study under. women of high at-
tainments holding responsible posi-
tions. He:was then considering mak-
ing his new college an annex to the
Johns Hopkins. Having just--gradu-
ated from Cornell and having seen no
women employed by the university ex-
cept charwomen, I innocently replied
that I\did not think that women, even
if they wanted to, would be permitted
to teach anywhere except in women’s
colleges. What I said was true then
and it is true now, fifty-seven years
later,

AG will be fifty-one years in Decem-
ber since the thirteen Quaker trustees
named in the will of our founder ap-
pointed Dr. James E. Rhoads presi-
dent of the college and at the same
time appointed me Dean of the Fac-
ulty and Professor of English. It was
agreed between President Rhoads and
myself that as the college was to open
in nine months he should give his
whole time to completing the) build-
ings and I should give mine to plan-
ning the curriculum, nominating the
professors and selecting the students.
From that time until he resigned be-
cause of ill health in 1894 we worked
together in perfect harmony, although
there was a difference of thirty years
in our ages. He made my educational
policies his own and supported them
with unflinching determination in the
Board of Trustees. Every anniver-
sary of Bryn Mawr must recognize
and honor his great qualities. He was
consumed by the flame of a great love
for the best as he knew it. Had he
not been what he was during those
first nine critical years, from 1885
to 1894, Bryn Mawr College could not
be what it is today. We owe him a
debt of gratitude and admiration that
can never be repaid.

The next nine months were like a
dream of the Arabian Nights. I was
twenty-seven years old. I had just
returned from four years’ study in
‘France, Germany and Switzerland
with one of the then brand-new Ph. D.
degrees in my pocket. I had studied
in two American and four foreign uni-
versities. I thought I knew what we
did not want in Bryn Mawr. But
how to get what we did want—the
right students, the right professors,
the right course of study? How to or-
ganize our new college with its tiny
endowment (reduced to about $731,000
when the college opened in 1885) so as
to create women scholars, women re-
searchers, women writers, women
thinkers? Alone I could never have
found the answer had not everyone
helped—President Gilman and _ his
splendid group of Hopkins professors,
my German, French and Swiss pro-
fessors (who recommended six of our
early faculty, including Jacques Loeb,
who was called from Germany to open
our department of physiology), and
many individual American professors
whom I consulted, including of course
the presidents and professors of
Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley,
Smith and the remarkable group of
women then organizing Radcliffe. ’.
““Y ean perhaps best explain what
Bryn Mawr did by telling you what
Bryn Mawr did first. This is not as
conceited as it sounds. It was much
easier to do things first in 1885 than
. in 1935. Bryn Mawr solved the prob-
\lem of getting able students by mak-

\ing her. entrance examinations the

ost difficult in the United States,
ahd she kept them unchanged for
thirty-six years. We solved the prob-
lem of’ professors by appointing only
holders of the new Ph. D. degree.

Woodrow Wilson was the only excep-

tion. \He had published his thesis and

done all the work, but he took his ex-
aminations later. There were then,
as far as§ we could find out, only four
women Ph. D.’s in the world, two of
them in mathematics; and we ap-
pointed. three. Our early professors



were called\away so rapidly to other

universities \at double their Bryn
_»Mawr §salari
youth in the

kind of ‘teaching.

that youth taught
st three decades of the
college, which \I believe is the ideal
_Btyn Mawr opened
with, and has always maintained, one

where else outside of foreign univer-
sities. Every teacher of undergradu-
ates gives at least three hours of her
or his time to conducting graduate
work. -Only so, I believe, i is inspiring
teaching possible.

Bryn Mawr opened with a three

-years graduate school and resident

fellowships soon increased to:one for
every department... In 1892 -Bryn
Mawr } was-the first American college
oY University to offer resident fellow-
ships for foreign women scholars, ten
in all. Shé was then, and is now, the
only college to award a European. fel-
lowship for foreign study to the best
student in each senior class. The
Self-Government Charter. granted in
1892 by the Trustees is the most com-
plete ever given and it has worked
well for over forty years. I have left
to the last the plan of undergraduate
study adopted by the college which
worked so well that it was not altered
for thirty-six years.
Of all the many letters I have re-
ceived from Bryn Mawr graduates
‘there is one that pleases me most, al-
though like many other such letters it
is a two-edged sword: “Dear President
Thomas, I have forgotten everything I
raion at Bryn Mawr, but I still see
cou standing’ in chapel and telling
us to believe in women.” In two
months from today I shall be three
score and eighteen years old, and this
is probably my last’ speech. I find
that I cannot close it without asking
the alumnae here today and the much

‘greater number of alumnae and form-

er students listening over the radio
not only “to believe” in women (which;
of course you all do), but also to do
what you can to help women scholars
in their dire need.

The late Dr. William H. Welsh, the
head. of the Johns Hopkins Medical
Faculty from the opening of the Med-
ical School in 1898 until his death a
year ago, gave the commencement ad-
dress on my retirement at sixty-five
in 1922. Before speaking he had made
a scientific ‘study such as only he
could make of the Higher Education
of Women. He was one of the most
brilliant thinkers I have ever met. He
said to me before leaving: “Bryn
Mawr is committing a crime against
women scholars and women scientific
investigators. Women, like me, can
never become truly eminent unless
they receive the reward of their labors.
TI am shocked to find even at Bryn
Mawr that at least one-half of your
full professors are men and that _in
the hundreds of co-educational colleges
in the United States there are prac-
tically no women professors and that
even in some of the few separate col-
leges for women, men are presidents
instead of women. How long,” he
asked indignantly, “are women going
to permit women scholars to be asked
to make bricks without straw? No
men could be expected to do. distin-
guished work in teaching or research
under such conditions.”

I realized then as never before that
my generation had given women only
opportunity to study. We had not
opened to them the rewards of study.
Your generation must come to their
rescue. My generation has given you
political power. One-half of the votes
in the United States are or can be
cast by women. You have also finan-
cial power. Statistics show that one-
half of the invested wealth of the
United States is controlled by women.
When you or your husbands or fathers
make large memorial gifts to co-edu-
cational universities, why not request
that women’s scholarly and teaching
abilities be recognized by professor-
ships? When you give large sums to
hospitals, why not make it a condi-
tion that women medical students
shall be allowed to compete for in-
terneships and women physicians for
medical and surgical professorships?
The Johns Hopkins Medical School
was persuaded by a gift of $406,977
raised or given entirely by women to
admit women when its Medical School
opened in 1893.

In the United States, all state-sup-
ported schools and universities, includ-
ing all their graduate and professional
schools, are now open to women stu-
dents. They are managed by elected
or appointed boards of control. It
will not be difficult for you in your
home towns to, see to it that. broad-



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boards. They: will then’ elect broad-
minded presidents and principals and
will insist that the ability of women
teachers shall be rewarded by head-
ships of departments, school principal-
ships and university professorships.
Before closing I wish to express
again Bryn Mawyr’s great academic
debt to the Johns Hopkins University
and to its great first president, Daniel
C. Gilman, and to the first large don-
ors who came to Bryn Mawr’s support
when she could not H&ve developed
without such _hélp—to Mr. John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., who asked his father
to give us a power plant with light
and heat for, all our buildings, Rocke-
feller Hall,and td pay the deficit on
the Library; to Mary Elizabeth Gar-
rett, who gave us the great Saupe
Classical Library, rebuilt the Deanery,
created the Deanery Garden, made up
anonymously the annual deficits year
after year until the college income was
large enough to meet the annual ex-
penses, and then every year until her
death gave the college $10,000 a year
for the president’s emergency fund
and was always ready to help college
departments in which she was inter-
ested; to Carola Woerishoffer, an
alumna who left the college $750,000;
to our splendid Bryn Mawr alumnae
and former students who in four mag-
nificent drives have enabled the col-
lege that they love to give a better
and ever better education—our alum-
nae have given us in the 1900 drive
new buildings costing $732,273; in the
1910 drive an additional endowment
of $517,276 and $154,789 tvfognd fhe
Phebe Anna Thorne Expe tal
School; in the 1920 drive $2,221,784
endowment for raising the salaries of
professors; in the 1925 drive $457,000
for the Marjorie Walter Goodhart
Hall and an endowment of $200,000
for a Music Department, and now we
are to hear the result of the Fiftieth
Anniversary Alumnae Drive from
the wonderful chairman of the last
three alumnae drives who, if any one
can in this period of depression, will
have performed a miracle on behalf
of the Bryn Mawr College.



Bryn Mawr, Haverford |
To Put On “The Swan”

Continued from Page One



The Messiah, which will be presented
the week-end immediately following
the performance of The Swan, the
Players’ Club has made some tem-
porary changes in ‘its board of gov-
ernment. Ann Fred has been chosen
chairman, Julia Grant continues as
secretary, Ethel Mann is to be in
charge of lighting, and Isabelle Selt-
zer is chairman of the costume com-
mittee.



Rosemont Swamped 6-1;
Three Forwards Score



Bryn Mawr, November 4.—Sec-
ond varsity hockey team buried a
slow Rosemont second team under an
avalanche of 6 goals to 1. Three of
second team’s forward line shared the
scoring honors, Ballard accounting for
three of the points, Carpenter, two,
and Raynor, one,.to make up the
grand. total.

At the opening whistle Bryn Mawr
broke into the attack, where she
stayed throughout the first half ex-
cept for one short moment.
of this we were afraid during the first



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OR: AO AEE OBIE AE LTTE.

There is an unusually varied

collection of dresses in black

at the shop of Jeanne Bett’s,
underneath the Country Book-
shop. They have searched
carefully to find the answer to
“preferably black,” that dis-
criminating requirement. It
may be a suit for shopping, a
woolen or silk for under a coat,
a street length cocktail dress, a
dinner or an evening gown— -
the variety in prices puts them
all within the realms of. possi-

bility.

In spite

five AE we were going to be
beset by our-old trouble of. not being
able to pe The three inside for-
wards muddled, and ‘seemed to hinder
rather than help each other in, the
circle.- Also the Rosemont goalie was
quick, though she did not clear very
well,

Jane. Garcenan, however, soon got
into the seoring column to start. Bryn
Mawr on her upward way. Raynor
almost immediately cqunted again
with a beaytiful drive from left wing.
This score was followed by one from
Ballard, a follow-in shot, and-another
from Carpenter, ending the first half
with the score 4-0 in Bryn’ Mawr’s
favor.

The second half started in much the
same vein; and Ballard tallied twice
more.
put in endless.substitutes and the play
became somewhat more even. In one
quick dash Wenger, substituting for
Flannigan, scored Rosemont’s only
point of the day.

As Bryn Mawr was so rarely on the
defence, the backs had a very restful
time until the last ten minutes of the
second half. Though she had little
to do, it gave us a certain feeling of
assurance to have Seltzer back in her
old position. The halfback line
played a beautiful game. Delia Mar-
shall at left half backed up the for-
ward line nicely; Peggy Martin, at
center half, kept the play well dis-
tributed, and Mary Whitmer displayed
some lovely stickwork. The forwards
also we congratulate on playing a
good fighting game.

On the whole the second team did
nicely. We see that they can play
well when they are on the top. Now
we must find out whether they can cow
a team that has already beaten them
and wreak vengeance on Merion next
week.

Line-up:
BRYN MAWR ROSEMONT
Pel or TOW a ee Smith

Rosemont, however, began: to}



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Fitzpatrick, Bonniwell.



Peace Demonstration Planned

- Information has been received from
Eleanor’ Sayre, the president of the
International Relations Club, that a
mass-meeting of the college is being
planned for some time -on Armistice
Day, November 11. It is hoped that
the peace demonstration can be held
at 11 o’clock, as this is the time when
Armistice Day will be observed
throughout the nation. This decision
rests with the faculty and announce-.
ments of the exact time of the meet-
ing will be announced after the de-
cision 6f the faculty is known. It is
planned to have speakers from both
the faculty and undergraduate body.
None of the speeches will be very long
and the whole occasion will not oc-.
cupy more than an hour. A large at-
tendance is desired to demonstrate
Bryn Mawyr’s peace sentiment at this
time of crisis in Africa.





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